December 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week, how people spend at Christmas & Chinese crap
- Blocking pot initiatives
- Drunken monkeys & marijuana
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty
and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We've got a couple of little things for you after
we get through clips of the week.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
A book recommendation.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The question about the whole bombing drug boats Trump is
as we speak, as we record this podcast or do
this radio show live attending the.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
FIFA World Cup draw. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That's a soccer critical moment, right, he said, a draw
the various teams and things to set the you know,
the lineup and such.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The reason he's there live the Kennedy Center in Washington
is he's receiving the FIFA World Peace Prize, which I
guess is a not a Nobel peace prize, but a
secondary peace prize that they're giving to do from a.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Soccer outfit, a hilariously corrupt soccer organization.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Correct, correct, All right?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, is the un Assembly given out soccer awards too
or what? This is?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Very odd?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Like your skepticism, Please, it's not skepticism.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's contempt for soccer or.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Peace, the idea that freaking FIFA and it's bribe bribing money, sucking,
caviar eating, private jet flying denizens. Would confer a peace
prize on Trump for any reason other than to kiss
his ass is absolutely hilarious. I have a feeling they
give this prize to whatever country is hosting every time
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because the country usually gets it for corrupt reasons.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Also, writing needs something from right, Yeah, exactly, that's hilarious.
All right, there's lots of squeeze in the final hour of
the week. But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take
fun look back at the week it was. It's cow
clips of the weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Ming by part is an alarm over President Trump's escalating
military campaign in the Caribbean fee This is called the
fog of war.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What I saw in that.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Room was one of the most troubling things I've seen
in my time in public service.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, I didn't say anything disturbing about it. You've only
just begun striking narcoto boats. How Republicans launch an investigation
into widespread COVID era fraud involving some members of Minnesota's
large Somali community. Omar is garbage garbage.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The president's obsession with me is really unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's creepy.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's a raw deal for the brother.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
He divorced his first wife, which was probably a goat,
and wound up marrying a pig in Ilanoma.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
She's a nasty person, very nasty. Jerebody talks about this
place man a dad gum swamp. It's not a swamp.
This is a sewer. This is created by man.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Burd Don't say anything crazy man, you burnt my house down.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
As I have said before.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
If the judge picks through all of that hair and
finds only one eye, he's got the.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wrong end of the door. An animal control officer says
the raccoon was found Saturday, passed out next to the
store's toilet.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Oh my god, what the she's that way more doing
forty seven yard trya by young way Coody stumbled.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Patriots gone like I've ever seen that. Because they're in
a constant state of dopamine with Jerald School, they behave
like addicts.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them up.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Hey, if the panties fit where I'm wow, that's right.
Misogyny Friday in the Armstrong. No, no, it's an accuracy.
Truth is an absolute defense against you.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's clips of the.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Week, cavalcade of fun. I'd say, yeah, a couple things
for you. This is on a discussion we had last
hour about corruption in Turkish soccer. Way, aren't you sorry
you miss that?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's another Turkish Soccer Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We take a deep look into Turkish professional soccer an
hour three.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's a podcast for the kids.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Actually did the players, the coaches, the owners, the refs
and the announcers.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Are all corrupt in Turkish soccer.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But anyway, Joe said something about want to know more
about Turkey and it reminded me of one of my
favorite books I've ever read in my entire life. It's
literature by this guy who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I don't know how to pronounce his name, orin Pamuk
something like that. Anyway, wrote this book called Snow that
I read several years ago. Every time somebody wins the
Nobel Prize for Literature, I try to read one of
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their books, and they're always amazing, I mean just amazing.
But it's about a poet. It returns to Turkey, political
Islam and secular tensions collide.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Et cetera, et cetera. But it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Fiction very often is better at describing something than any
sort of real book. Gamby right, and this is one
of those great recommendations. Snow By unpronounceable. Yeah, Nobel prize
winning Turkey guy. Did he get me prizes from FIFA
soccer people? So I saw this from our friend Tim Sandfer,
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and this. I don't think this argument completely works, but
it's worth mentioning. The argument that we're bombing these drug
boats because they're sending all these drugs to America that
kill tens of thousands of Americans. Alcohol kills on average
over the last several decades, about one hundred thousand people
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a year, and we bombining distilleries. That's always been an
interesting thing about how alcohol is grandfathered in as a
drug we accept and are okay with. It's less ridiculous
now that pot is legal practically everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But when pop is illegal, meeting Massachusetts might become the
first state.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To go back to Wow. I wondered about that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So currently I think it's thirty eight states where pot
is legal, which makes it very easy to get anywhere
in the United States, because even if you live in
a state where it's not legal, you probably live next
to a state where it is.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I was quite amazed my kids.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It became kind of a running joke as we did
a road trip driving all the way to Kansas eighteen
hundred miles or something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
How big the whole pot shop thing is.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You drive through some of these small towns and they
have two or three giant dope stores in tiny towns.
You think, are there enough people buying dope to keep
three big shops alive in this town? Apparently there are?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah? Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Massachusetts is the first, and several others are taking a
serious look at it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
With the thinking being what.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The positives have not been nearly what was promised, and
the negatives were.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
More than we'd guess they would be.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
What were the positive To get into that a little
bit longer or a little bit more later in the hours.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh yeah, I would love to hear more about that.
That's really interesting. I'd like to know what positives they
were hoping for that didn't materialize. Can I answer another
question you've had this week?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Who is responsible for all these really encouraging consumer spending
numbers of late, when so much of America is saying
I'm terrified and or behind on all their payments, according
to the Wall Street Journal, and you'd think they would know.
Two different consumers are fueling this holiday shopping season, high
end luxury shoppers and deal hunters making everyday spending trade
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offs to keep the gifts flowing.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's weighted to the high end and the low end.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So the stat has been that the top ten percent
of wag journers are doing half of consumer spending, so
obviously that distorts the numbers quite a bit. And then
you got the people that we're willing to stand in
line on Black Friday to get a eighty dollars blender
or whatever you're opening it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That crowd.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, so I thought this was a pretty good description too.
Even with holiday shopping off to robust start, consumers, especially
those from less affluent households, are pulling back on routine
purchases as they get priority to gifts and holiday meals.
Sales on things that can wait, like haircuts, priceier raisers,
fast casual lunches are slipping, notably. Spending on clothing, toys,
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and seasonal items, on the other hand, is strong, so
they're just cutting back in other ways.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So you're long haired parents having not had money for
a haircut. We'll give you something for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Right right, they're unshaven, long hair, unfed parents buying you toys.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
God bless them.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Here's a decent place for me to throw in one
of my many screeds about Chinese crap. It's been driving
me crazy for many, many years now. I don't know
if there's any turning this around. Basically, my complaint has been,
why don't we all just spend a little more on
a bunch of stuff that's much higher quality, lasts longer
than buying the cheapest Chinese crap out there. Our parents
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used to spend more on lots of different items, but
they were much better items, and in the long run
you spent less money and are hunger for Chinese crap.
Here's my latest example.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Pencils. My kids go through pencils. They're just crap.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They're practically for like, you can buy a box of
number two pencils at the dollar store for like a
dollar and a half. And their crap. I mean, you
can't sharpen, the lead breaks, the erasers are useless. Wow,
And they're just crap. So I came across the New
York Times. One of my favorite things in New York
Times is wirecutter. Their suggestion for products, I use it
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all the time. And they suggested these pencils. They said,
if you want pencils like the kind you had as
a kid, these are your pencils. And they're made in Germany,
and they're more expensive. They're like a dollar a pencil, which,
by the way, is about what pencils cost when we
were kids, adjusting for inflation.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But people were willing to pay a little more for.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Something that wasn't crap right anyway, these dollar a pencil pencils.
As soon as I got them in the mail, I
mean you can just as soon as you pulled out
of the box like, oh yeah, this is what a
pencil used to be. They look different, they feel different.
I give them my kids and they're like, Dad, the
eraser works. It doesn't just rip a hole in the page.
It actually erases the.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Lead feat the French.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
With these pencils hello, and you can sharpen it up
and write for.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
A long time. And it's amazing what German.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
German word for pencil is the hobbin dobbin herban hangun
a shoft. It's like seventy three letters long.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I just wish we'd go back to spending a little
more on things that last longer. It's actually cheaper in
the long run, So it's not a you gotta be
rich to do it. Just demand more quality. Number two
pencils or number two that's what I say. Oh, now,
here's here's a thought. Here's a counter argument. I have
no counter argument for pencils. You know, washers and dryers
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and that sort of thing. Durable goods ought to be adorable.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Ronics, Oh my god, yeah, place stuff so cheap tools,
Chinese tools are worthless.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It should make it'st the law to selp them China.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, no, kidding, crap. You know, I got a big
China segment prepared. I've had it ready all week. We
haven't gotten to it just because the fact that China
is a giant hostile power that seeks every single second
of every day to overthrow us and ruin our society.
I mean, it's just nobody wants to hear it anymore anyway.
But here's my argument.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
For toys.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Your kid is gonna play with the toy for a
very short time, then forget about it anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, the toys doesn't really bother me.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I suppose better to you know, I think that the
Tonka trucks I got as a kid, I mean I
was playing with those things for years.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and then you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Give them to your own kids, will give them to
their kids unless you leave it out in the rain
too much. Just unbelievably good. But with toys, yeah, maybe
we're better off little cheap. Do you need a tinker
toy set that you could literally like build a back
porch with it and have barbecues on there? Really if
it's gonna just collect dust anyway, I know that yere atjihat,
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I'll let.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You work that desk. Yeah, I think we'd all be
better off.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then it would also it would allow a lot
of these products to be made in the United States
because we would demand a little higher quality and be
willing to pay a little more for it.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I think other than fans of Dave Ramsey, is there
any I don't use credit subculture in America really that
you've heard about, because that's such a good idea, but
only Amish probably, Well, I don't see homage guys whipping
out their credit cards, pull it right out of their beard.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Here, I couldn't it you, Jake Classic. Of course you
pull it out of your beard. Of course that's the
way it would work. Okay, we got more on the
waist here.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
This is the first year college football playoffs will feature
twelve teams, which haven't been named yet. I think they
get named next weekend. But twelve team playoff for college football.
Very exciting looking forward to it. They don't crown a
champion until almost February. You know what I hadn't realized
un till I came across an article about it today,
was that high school football they're highlighting southern California. High
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school football is now full on the nil money thing,
with boosters paying big money to little kids to come
to their high schools.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Wow to play football. Wow. I know a little bit
about that. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, in this one kid that they highlight, who's now
he's going to be playing in the Big Ten championship
game for Ohio State, a receiver. The story opens with
him tearfully calling his grandmother, begging her to come get
him because his drug addict mother had sold him to
a team ooh in southern California to go play receiver
there unbelievable, speaking of the evils of modern society. A
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couple of days ago, Massachusetts voters took a major step
to repeal the legalization of recreational marijuana in the state.
The Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts submitted more than seventy
four thousand signatures required to put the question on the
twenty twenty six state ballot. Once, the measure will go
to the state legislature for consideration. If they declined to
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pass it, organizers must collect more signatures to put it
to a statewide vote next year. But Massachusetts is in
alone and Idaho, where marijuana is currently Italy illegal, a
measure to block for future voter initiatives the legalize the
drug is on the ballot for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So what led them to want to do this? What
were they thinking was going to happen when it was
legalized that hasn't occurred, or the reverse?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I guess there are a bunch of unforeseen effects. Number One,
it was believed by a lot of people that the
rate of marijuana use wouldn't change much. It would just
be out in the open and could be regulated and blah.
Blah blah, but freely legal weed and the fact that
it's practically laughable the idea that the cops would talk
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to somebody who has marijuana to make sure it's legal
weed or whatever. And in the legalized states, it's just
it's not happening. So lots and lots of more people
are smoking pot. The promised tax revenues have not materialized.
The black market for pot hasn't gone anywhere because the
like in California, it's so taxed and regulated it's legal.
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Pot is pretty expensive, and though plenty of people consume it,
a lot of people just keep going to their neighborhood
dealer they've always gone to.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
But so back to the conversation of you know, well,
and it's really really bad for kids' brains. Eighty to
one hundred thousand people die from drinking every year. So
is pot worse than drinking?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I don't know. I think that's probably an unanswerable question.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Or drinking just got grandfathered in and it doesn't need
to make sense.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It's just the thing you happen to be out dealing
with important stuff. When we were talking about the drunken
monkey hypothesis and a brand new study that's come out
that shows that chimps in the wild take in one
to two drinks worth of alcohol every day in fermented fruits,
like right after lunch, well sometimes just in the evening
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to take the edge off even peeling. But anna's all day.
You got your wife and you just you know how
it goes, peeling bananas old And.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We can touch on that a little bit later. I
want to talk about that right when we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I didn't get to get in on this conversation that
is my wheelhouse, Drunken Monkeys, Stay.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The whole drugs and alcohol thing is really interesting in
a lot of different ways. So we're kind of all
over the place on this conversation about you know, we're
droning people in boats because they're sending drugs to the
United States and considering them committing acts of war. Well,
at the same time, I got one hundred thousand people
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that drink themselves to death every single year, and that's legal,
And we legalized pot and a whole bunch of different states,
and now at least a couple of states are looking
at making it illegal again for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Just pretty interesting. I wonder if that's going to become
a trend.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
One of the leaders in this trend, he talks about
how in the style of the cigarette companies, especially and
to some extent the alcoholic companies, it's a business that
promotes addiction. Their entire business model is they need more addiction.
I mean, there's unquestionably an addiction, whether psychological or physical,
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to marijuana. To just be on displayed. A lot of
people deny that they're wrong, and there you have a
five times greater chance of psychosis developing serious psychotic conditions
if you're a heavy marijuana smoker. And it's funny whenever
we talk about this, we get the one stoner who
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says that, why don't you guys do some research.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's totally not true. I've been smoking dope for twenty
years and it hasn't affected me. Yeah, Okay, apparently you've
smoked too much dope to understand what five times more
likely means.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So thanks for the note.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Anyway, I've also known a few stoners who had really
sad lives. We talked about out hadn't hurt that many.
I've known a few in my life. You don't do
anything you sit on the couch as an overweight person
with no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you
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talk about it has had no effect on your life.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, it's possible, but hmmm, sad.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
So apparently, when the University of California at Berkeley isn't
busy in doctrinating your kids to despise their country and
become Marxists, they actually still do some science, and in
this case drunken monkey science. Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts
of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit, and careful measurement shows
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that their typical fruit diet can equal one to.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Two human drinks each day.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now, aside from being just interesting and somewhat amusing on
its face, it supports the idea that alcohol exposure is
not a modern human invention, but an ancient primate habit.
The work strengthens the drunken monkey hypothesis and opens new
question about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.
So the equivalent of a human drink, because they're smaller
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than us, aren't they one to two?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah? What's a chimpanzee way? That's forty pounds? I don't know. Oh, Actually,
the bigger than that. Yeah, I think they are.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Standard drink in the US contains fourteen grams of ethanol
irrespect of the consumer's body size, although in much of
Europe's standards tan grams.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Learn to drink Euros. Do you have any adult drinks
around here? Trying to enjoy myself?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, Well, what they don't know is whether chimpanzees
deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels to take the
edge off. Those tend to be riper and richer in
sugar that can for men, so they might just taste better. However,
many of the fruit species they regularly contain measurable ethanol,
indicating that alcohol is routine part of their menu and
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probably present in the diets of our human ancestors as well.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
A number of texts on the whole. We're not bombing distilleries,
but we are bombing drug traffickers. You know, fentanyl, marijuana
versus booze thing a couple of them being that fentanyl
pretty decent change you keep messing around. Fentanyl's gonna kill you,
very unlikely. That booze is gonna kill most people.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Right, nobody's ever cracked open a Miller light and died
because Miller put you know, seven thousand times the alcohol
in that can.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
There's also the we tried banning booze once and it
didn't go well. The fact that you just can't is
part of it. Irmagird, I totally forgot.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Today is the anniversary of the twenty first Amendment that
repealed the Was it the twenty first or twenty second?
I can never remember. I'd probably drink too much that
repealed prohibition. Today is the anniversary.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's the twenty second because I've known a few bars
called the twenty second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And liquor store is right, Yeah, that's why, you know,
I clicked in my head. But anyway, Yeah, it was
passed just in time for the holidays, really to the
delight of many, and today is the anniversary, so cheers
to that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
The worst part of that whole thing, of course, being
it's kind of like the way COVID was, the important
and powerful did whatever the hell they wanted. The rules
only applied to you, and that's the way it was
with booze, and that's really really maddening. You know that
politicians are the rich or whoever they were drinking as
much as they ever drank. It's just that you regular
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working class people can handle it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I can, right, right.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And one other aspect of this that's always bothered me,
and it's funny we haven't talked about this for a
long time, is that if you have a society that
becomes overlegal, overly legalistic, where the only question is is
it illegal or not illegal, lawful or not, as opposed
to is it a good idea or not? Is it
moral or not? Does it make me a better person
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or not? I would much rather have things. I would
much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use
its guns to to get people to live better live.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, that's one of the things I really hated about
when marijuana really caught on as illegalizing, it was just
the non stop, here we go, one hundred percent, this
is fantastic without any you know, smoking pot on a
regular basis might not be the best thing for your life.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Let's keep that in mind. It's practically guaranteed not to be.
And that says a guy who used to smoke a
substantial amount of pot. Looking back, it didn't do me
any good. I enjoyed it at the time. It made
movies kind of more entertaining, etc. The grass was greener,
blah blah blah. Music sounded really great. But I love
music anyway. I still love music. It's just, yeah, you're
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right to act as if it's an unambiguous good and
harmless is just dishonest.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
For some reason, I keep thinking of Todd Snyder, one
of my favorite musicians of all time. There's a punchline
to this. Here had some song where he talked about
people like drugs. They're gonna do drugs, and it's not
which drugs, it's which drugs the companies.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Allow you to do, or blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
He had this very cynical attitude about people trying to
regulate drugs and everything, like he's dead now at age
fifty nine, as of a couple of weeks ago, as
a guy who just couldn't ever wrap his head around
drinking and doing drugs, always thought it was hilarious that
anybody would try to make him quit, And now he's
dead as a fifty nine year old.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Because yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Well that was much more
serious than my drunken chimp characterizations of a few minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
One thing we talked about do the monkeys drink to excess.
Do they ever get drunk? That's an interesting thing because
they have what ninety ninety percent of our biology. Do
they ever drink too much and wake up and think,
whoa wow, Well, I gotta gotta take a I gotta
do a dry january or something.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Thanks for a half. Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Actually, it's very very rare according to the scientists, because
because they feed on fruit throughout the day, and it's
the fermented fruit that gets them a buzz on. But
to actually feel intoxicated, the chimp would need to eat
so much fruit that it would be painful.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well that see, that's interesting. That gets back to that's
kind of like with the weed thing. You know, your
old time hippies will say now that this weed that
you're buying at the store is nothing like what I
was smoking at Woodstock, where you could smoke it all
day long and you know, stay on your feet and
keep your mind. And it's the same with a lot
of booze. Our founding fathers drank all day every day,
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beer that just barely had alcohol in it. Similar to monkeys.
To get drunk enough to cause yourself any problems, you did,
you've thrown up to drink that much of the beer
that they had at the time. We should just have
less potent booze. Certainly, there's an argument there, Yeah, in
less potent.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Pot just kind of keeps a light buzz going.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
That's what you want, well, right, exactly, Yeah, stay on
top of the wave. So what would stress chimps out
that they need a couple of drinks at the end
of the day. Probably the whole mating thing or I
don't know, the whole mating thing. It's a pretty big
deal for all beasts. Yes, well, mating thing, but that's
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not stressful.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
That's more like, hey, baby, why you why don't we
have a couple of fermented mangoes and and you sit
on my lap and.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You wake up with an orangutang. Yeah. What do chimps
do all day? They just gather food, right, They peeled
bananas upside down and.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Mate and uh tend of their little cute little chimp kids.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Monkeys peel their bananas from the bottom, unlike humans, And
I've tried to do that.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's not easy. I don't know if you have to
have the monkey fingernails or grip strength, right, like not
the stem end. No, the other end.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, that's the way they peel bananas, and I would
think they've got a better handle on it, right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
No, I was joking earlier that perhaps the chimps had,
you know, a henpecking wives and they had a couple.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Of drinks to take the edge off. But Long was irresponsible,
Long day in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
God, I told you, I will strip the leaves off
this stick and turn it into a tool this weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Can I watch the game? Oh, that's my new chimp sitcom,
Chee Cheese.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Plays right, and when she has a couple of drinks
every day like a human exactly?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, we will that's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We will finish strong next.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has filed to run for
governor of Minnesota, up against Tim Waltz.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Turn about his fair play.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Tim Waltz is now launching his own line of Obgyptian
cotton hypoallergenic tampons.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I got a no pillow last night, once again recommended
by the New York Times Wirecutter, which I trust and
really really like.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
But this is the first pillow I've ever come across.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I've been struggling to find just the right I've spent
a lot of money on pillows, and a lot of
my not still don't like.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But this one.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You you take stuffing out until you get to just
the right amount. So I'm letting an unfluff like for
twenty four hours. Then you can sleep on it. If
it's too fat, unzip it, take some of it out,
smooth it out, then try it. Take a little while
until you get just the right them out. That's always
my problem, is a pillow being a little too fat
or too thin. M I have my favorite pillow of
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my entire life right now. We discovered it whilst shopping
for mattresses.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
What's the brand? Fantastic? I don't remember. I'd have to look.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
But the amazing thing about it is a super supportive
I'm a side sleeper, so I wont my head up,
but it's got the most amazing cooling properties.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I've ever got a hot head plugged in? Oh please,
Number one, My head's immense.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Number two. It runs hot, as you know, a bit
of a hothead.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I sleep on my stomach. I think that's why it
makes getting a pillow.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I need to.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Develop my bed. Have you ever heard my idea for
a bed? And I can't believe that this is copyrighted.
I think this would work so well for people like me,
side sleepers or stomach sleepers.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
There's a hole in the bed that you can put
your arm through.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Because the arm is always in the way, It's like,
where do I put this arm to be comfortable? If
I could put my arm through a hole in the
bed and then it's just completely out of the way.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I think Simpson invents something like that. No, he put
the little things behind the chair like Thomas Edison.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh, and the toilet recliner too, so you don't have
to get up while you're watching the game.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Right now, the arm hole through the bed is mine,
and I really think that would work. I don't know
why I haven't made a prototype yet and tried to
sell it to somebody. I could be like, I should
have talked to Mike Lindell when I saw him at
the convention. Hey, I got an idea for a bed
you and I could go in together. So here's a question,
only semi related. Why is odd punishing the people of
Minnesota by giving them the choice between Mike or wal
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Tim Waltson Mike Lindell, Right, good lord, Hey, we have
a little break democracy has failed. We have a little
breaking news thing I wanted to get on just because
it's so dumb.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
We talked earlier about the Netflix deal. They're going to
try to buy HBO and something else and become some
even bigger behemoth in that world.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Elizabeth Warren doesn't like it.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I just love the fact that certain politicians hate any
this sort of thing. Weiit in on Netflix's proposed purchase
of Warner Brothers, describing it as a nightmare that would
lead to higher subscription prices and fewer choices for consumers.
Threatening to force threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices,
fewer choices over what and how they watch, while putting
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American workers at risk sounds not a warror path. Jack
American workers at risk? How about that the template that
exists for that crowd, Everything puts American workers at risk?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Shut up, Yeah, no kidding. I'm so tired of politics.
I'd rather talk about chimps drinking.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Don't you have hold on a second, I'm gonna get
me up here. Don't sure have my ape? Friend? There
you go, Michael, don't you have a deer hide to
Tan or something. Don't you have to.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Load your TP up on horseback as Congress's session is ending?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Ride home? How much time we got, Michael? You got
about a minute and half? Oh, we have a minute
and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Okay, we gotta figure out what we want to do
for the One One More Thing podcast, which we record
every single day after the show. It's one extra segment
that does not air on the radio. If you haven't
been listening to it, you should get back, go back
and listen to all of them we've recorded for the
past several years. Are really really good. Wherever you find podcasts. Oh,
I wanted to mention that one of my favorite all
time podcasts. Jo always tries to claim there are no
more podcasts, and then I ask coract if you're not
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into the rest is history? As a history buff. That
is such a great podcast and it just won Apple's
twenty twenty five Podcast of the Year award, which it's
won several years in a row or whatever. It is
so freaking good, and they got episodes going back for
years and years and years and only they are like
World War two, ur Queen Elizabeth, or whatever the hell
they do.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
These sometimes multi part features.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Tom Holland is one of the guys, and then I
forget that the dame of the other guy. They're funny,
they're historians that just oh, it's if you like history,
it's the best thing ever. Give that as a gift
to somebody, because I think you have to actually pay
for it or subscribe or something. I'd be a good
gift if you know a history buff instead of a book,
give them that podcast.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Endlessen wait to promote the competition. Thanks pod slapping food
out of my kid's mouths. My kids are grown, they
get their own food.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Podcasting is one of the greatest things that's ever happened.
If you're interested in will anything, there's a podcast out there.
And some of these people aren't making really any money.
They're just like you know, you're like a chemist who
would love to tell people about some specific thing you
know a lot about, and you do for a couple
of podcasts, and you can find.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Them and listen to them. It's awesome, right, There's never been.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
A greater time to get knowledge, and you don't need
to go to college to do it. All the knowledge
is out there in all kinds of different forms, books.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Podcasts, YouTube videos, whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Any knowledge you want about anything is out there and
you can get it for free.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
It's right here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I've wout a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show in the week. Michaelislower, technical director,
will lead the way.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Michael, Yeah, I was just thinking, if I'm around a
drunk monkey, I want him to be a happy drunk,
not an angry drunk, especially if I just got a
new haircut.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Wow, well said, never forget Katie Green are esteemed to
use woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Katie Jack, I'm perplexed about your bedhole, like with the
arm just hang there.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I hear a side sleep.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think you'd want to go it like into like
at a right angle, and it could fit into the
mattress because.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
It just if you like roll over in the night
without waking up, and you might tear all sorts of attendance.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Well, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Final thoughts, Jack, Yes, I bid on ten pounds of
homemade toffee at a high school band fundraiser last night
and won it, and I got it and it is
so delicious. How many of the ten pounds of toffee
will be left Monday morning if I keep it around
the house, because I put a pretty good den in
it last night.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
My final thought, I was so excited yesterday I received
my f yollikin T shirt, my Armstrong and Getty T shirt,
and never been more in the mood to wear it
than I am right now. You can pick up some
great A G swag you might get in time for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Roll that ice? Come on, where's that American spirit?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Armstrong and Getty dot com?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Who knows you're gonna have crying children to don't get
presents if then show up there on time?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Dandy, you told me I was getting A and G
swag Way exactly right.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another ruling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
So many people thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong
and Getty dot com. Pick up some swag, check out
Katie's corner the hotlinks. Drop us a note if you
see something over the weekend we ought to be talking about,
send it along mail bag at Armstrong Geeddy dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
As usual, there are a bunch of big stories out
there that I can't wait to see how they resolve.
Or get a little more resolved over the weekend and
we'll have you all be updates on that month. So
don't pay attention to the news this weekend and enjoy yourselves.
We'll do it for you. We'll see you on Monday.
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I'm strong and getty all Wes and thanks for tagging along.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
We'll be back on Monday to bomb the lie and
the cheats boo and to the store.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Our demotracy. They all stop, Man, Gaddy, Sun, the Armstrong
and Geeddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty
and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We've got a couple of little things for you after
we get through clips of the week.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
A book recommendation.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The question about the whole bombing drug boats Trump is
as we speak, as we record this podcast or do
this radio show live attending the.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
FIFA World Cup draw. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
That's a soccer critical moment, right, he said, a draw
the various teams and things to set the you know,
the lineup and such.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The reason he's there live the Kennedy Center in Washington
is he's receiving the FIFA World Peace Prize, which I
guess is a not a Nobel peace prize, but a
secondary peace prize that they're giving to do from a.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Soccer outfit, a hilariously corrupt soccer organization.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Correct, correct, All right?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well, is the un Assembly given out soccer awards too
or what? This is?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Very odd?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Like your skepticism, Please, it's not skepticism.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
It's contempt for soccer or.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Peace, the idea that freaking FIFA and it's bribe bribing money, sucking,
caviar eating, private jet flying denizens. Would confer a peace
prize on Trump for any reason other than to kiss
his ass is absolutely hilarious. I have a feeling they
give this prize to whatever country is hosting every time
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because the country usually gets it for corrupt reasons.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Also, writing needs something from right, Yeah, exactly, that's hilarious.
All right, there's lots of squeeze in the final hour of
the week. But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take
fun look back at the week it was. It's cow
clips of the weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Ming by part is an alarm over President Trump's escalating
military campaign in the Caribbean fee This is called the
fog of war.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What I saw in that.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Room was one of the most troubling things I've seen
in my time in public service.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, I didn't say anything disturbing about it. You've only
just begun striking narcoto boats. How Republicans launch an investigation
into widespread COVID era fraud involving some members of Minnesota's
large Somali community. Omar is garbage garbage.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The president's obsession with me is really unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's creepy.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's a raw deal for the brother.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
He divorced his first wife, which was probably a goat,
and wound up marrying a pig in Ilanoma.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
She's a nasty person, very nasty. Jerebody talks about this
place man a dad gum swamp. It's not a swamp.
This is a sewer. This is created by man.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Burd Don't say anything crazy man, you burnt my house down.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
As I have said before.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
If the judge picks through all of that hair and
finds only one eye, he's got the.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wrong end of the door. An animal control officer says
the raccoon was found Saturday, passed out next to the
store's toilet.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Oh my god, what the she's that way more doing
forty seven yard trya by young way Coody stumbled.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Patriots gone like I've ever seen that. Because they're in
a constant state of dopamine with Jerald School, they behave
like addicts.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
They're super emotional, like the smallest thing sets them up.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Hey, if the panties fit where I'm wow, that's right.
Misogyny Friday in the Armstrong. No, no, it's an accuracy.
Truth is an absolute defense against you.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It's clips of the.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Week, cavalcade of fun. I'd say, yeah, a couple things
for you. This is on a discussion we had last
hour about corruption in Turkish soccer. Way, aren't you sorry
you miss that?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's another Turkish Soccer Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
We take a deep look into Turkish professional soccer an
hour three.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
That's a podcast for the kids.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Actually did the players, the coaches, the owners, the refs
and the announcers.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Are all corrupt in Turkish soccer.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But anyway, Joe said something about want to know more
about Turkey and it reminded me of one of my
favorite books I've ever read in my entire life. It's
literature by this guy who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I don't know how to pronounce his name, orin Pamuk
something like that. Anyway, wrote this book called Snow that
I read several years ago. Every time somebody wins the
Nobel Prize for Literature, I try to read one of
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their books, and they're always amazing, I mean just amazing.
But it's about a poet. It returns to Turkey, political
Islam and secular tensions collide.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Et cetera, et cetera. But it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Fiction very often is better at describing something than any
sort of real book. Gamby right, and this is one
of those great recommendations. Snow By unpronounceable. Yeah, Nobel prize
winning Turkey guy. Did he get me prizes from FIFA
soccer people? So I saw this from our friend Tim Sandfer,
(05:56):
and this. I don't think this argument completely works, but
it's worth mentioning. The argument that we're bombing these drug
boats because they're sending all these drugs to America that
kill tens of thousands of Americans. Alcohol kills on average
over the last several decades, about one hundred thousand people
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a year, and we bombining distilleries. That's always been an
interesting thing about how alcohol is grandfathered in as a
drug we accept and are okay with. It's less ridiculous
now that pot is legal practically everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But when pop is illegal, meeting Massachusetts might become the
first state.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To go back to Wow. I wondered about that.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So currently I think it's thirty eight states where pot
is legal, which makes it very easy to get anywhere
in the United States, because even if you live in
a state where it's not legal, you probably live next
to a state where it is.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I was quite amazed my kids.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It became kind of a running joke as we did
a road trip driving all the way to Kansas eighteen
hundred miles or something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
How big the whole pot shop thing is.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You drive through some of these small towns and they
have two or three giant dope stores in tiny towns.
You think, are there enough people buying dope to keep
three big shops alive in this town? Apparently there are?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah? Yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Massachusetts is the first, and several others are taking a
serious look at it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
With the thinking being what.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The positives have not been nearly what was promised, and
the negatives were.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
More than we'd guess they would be.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
What were the positive To get into that a little
bit longer or a little bit more later in the hours.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh yeah, I would love to hear more about that.
That's really interesting. I'd like to know what positives they
were hoping for that didn't materialize. Can I answer another
question you've had this week?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Who is responsible for all these really encouraging consumer spending
numbers of late, when so much of America is saying
I'm terrified and or behind on all their payments, according
to the Wall Street Journal, and you'd think they would know.
Two different consumers are fueling this holiday shopping season, high
end luxury shoppers and deal hunters making everyday spending trade
(08:13):
offs to keep the gifts flowing.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's weighted to the high end and the low end.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So the stat has been that the top ten percent
of wag journers are doing half of consumer spending, so
obviously that distorts the numbers quite a bit. And then
you got the people that we're willing to stand in
line on Black Friday to get a eighty dollars blender
or whatever you're opening it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That crowd.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, so I thought this was a pretty good description too.
Even with holiday shopping off to robust start, consumers, especially
those from less affluent households, are pulling back on routine
purchases as they get priority to gifts and holiday meals.
Sales on things that can wait, like haircuts, priceier raisers,
fast casual lunches are slipping, notably. Spending on clothing, toys,
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and seasonal items, on the other hand, is strong, so
they're just cutting back in other ways.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So you're long haired parents having not had money for
a haircut. We'll give you something for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Right right, they're unshaven, long hair, unfed parents buying you toys.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
God bless them.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Here's a decent place for me to throw in one
of my many screeds about Chinese crap. It's been driving
me crazy for many, many years now. I don't know
if there's any turning this around. Basically, my complaint has been,
why don't we all just spend a little more on
a bunch of stuff that's much higher quality, lasts longer
than buying the cheapest Chinese crap out there. Our parents
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used to spend more on lots of different items, but
they were much better items, and in the long run
you spent less money and are hunger for Chinese crap.
Here's my latest example.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Pencils. My kids go through pencils. They're just crap.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They're practically for like, you can buy a box of
number two pencils at the dollar store for like a
dollar and a half. And their crap. I mean, you
can't sharpen, the lead breaks, the erasers are useless. Wow,
And they're just crap. So I came across the New
York Times. One of my favorite things in New York
Times is wirecutter. Their suggestion for products, I use it
(10:20):
all the time. And they suggested these pencils. They said,
if you want pencils like the kind you had as
a kid, these are your pencils. And they're made in Germany,
and they're more expensive. They're like a dollar a pencil, which,
by the way, is about what pencils cost when we
were kids, adjusting for inflation.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But people were willing to pay a little more for.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Something that wasn't crap right anyway, these dollar a pencil pencils.
As soon as I got them in the mail, I
mean you can just as soon as you pulled out
of the box like, oh yeah, this is what a
pencil used to be. They look different, they feel different.
I give them my kids and they're like, Dad, the
eraser works. It doesn't just rip a hole in the page.
It actually erases the.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Lead feat the French.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
With these pencils hello, and you can sharpen it up
and write for.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
A long time. And it's amazing what German.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
German word for pencil is the hobbin dobbin herban hangun
a shoft. It's like seventy three letters long.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I just wish we'd go back to spending a little
more on things that last longer. It's actually cheaper in
the long run, So it's not a you gotta be
rich to do it. Just demand more quality. Number two
pencils or number two that's what I say. Oh, now,
here's here's a thought. Here's a counter argument. I have
no counter argument for pencils. You know, washers and dryers
(11:37):
and that sort of thing. Durable goods ought to be adorable.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Ronics, Oh my god, yeah, place stuff so cheap tools,
Chinese tools are worthless.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It should make it'st the law to selp them China.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, no, kidding, crap. You know, I got a big
China segment prepared. I've had it ready all week. We
haven't gotten to it just because the fact that China
is a giant hostile power that seeks every single second
of every day to overthrow us and ruin our society.
I mean, it's just nobody wants to hear it anymore anyway.
But here's my argument.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
For toys.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Your kid is gonna play with the toy for a
very short time, then forget about it anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, the toys doesn't really bother me.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I suppose better to you know, I think that the
Tonka trucks I got as a kid, I mean I
was playing with those things for years.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and then you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Give them to your own kids, will give them to
their kids unless you leave it out in the rain
too much. Just unbelievably good. But with toys, yeah, maybe
we're better off little cheap. Do you need a tinker
toy set that you could literally like build a back
porch with it and have barbecues on there? Really if
it's gonna just collect dust anyway, I know that yere atjihat,
(12:49):
I'll let.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You work that desk. Yeah, I think we'd all be
better off.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And then it would also it would allow a lot
of these products to be made in the United States
because we would demand a little higher quality and be
willing to pay a little more for it.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I think other than fans of Dave Ramsey, is there
any I don't use credit subculture in America really that
you've heard about, because that's such a good idea, but
only Amish probably, Well, I don't see homage guys whipping
out their credit cards, pull it right out of their beard.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Here, I couldn't it you, Jake Classic. Of course you
pull it out of your beard. Of course that's the
way it would work. Okay, we got more on the
waist here.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
This is the first year college football playoffs will feature
twelve teams, which haven't been named yet. I think they
get named next weekend. But twelve team playoff for college football.
Very exciting looking forward to it. They don't crown a
champion until almost February. You know what I hadn't realized
un till I came across an article about it today,
was that high school football they're highlighting southern California. High
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school football is now full on the nil money thing,
with boosters paying big money to little kids to come
to their high schools.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Wow to play football. Wow. I know a little bit
about that. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, in this one kid that they highlight, who's now
he's going to be playing in the Big Ten championship
game for Ohio State, a receiver. The story opens with
him tearfully calling his grandmother, begging her to come get
him because his drug addict mother had sold him to
a team ooh in southern California to go play receiver
there unbelievable, speaking of the evils of modern society. A
(14:43):
couple of days ago, Massachusetts voters took a major step
to repeal the legalization of recreational marijuana in the state.
The Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts submitted more than seventy
four thousand signatures required to put the question on the
twenty twenty six state ballot. Once, the measure will go
to the state legislature for consideration. If they declined to
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pass it, organizers must collect more signatures to put it
to a statewide vote next year. But Massachusetts is in
alone and Idaho, where marijuana is currently Italy illegal, a
measure to block for future voter initiatives the legalize the
drug is on the ballot for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So what led them to want to do this? What
were they thinking was going to happen when it was
legalized that hasn't occurred, or the reverse?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I guess there are a bunch of unforeseen effects. Number One,
it was believed by a lot of people that the
rate of marijuana use wouldn't change much. It would just
be out in the open and could be regulated and blah.
Blah blah, but freely legal weed and the fact that
it's practically laughable the idea that the cops would talk
(15:51):
to somebody who has marijuana to make sure it's legal
weed or whatever. And in the legalized states, it's just
it's not happening. So lots and lots of more people
are smoking pot. The promised tax revenues have not materialized.
The black market for pot hasn't gone anywhere because the
like in California, it's so taxed and regulated it's legal.
(16:11):
Pot is pretty expensive, and though plenty of people consume it,
a lot of people just keep going to their neighborhood
dealer they've always gone to.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
But so back to the conversation of you know, well,
and it's really really bad for kids' brains. Eighty to
one hundred thousand people die from drinking every year. So
is pot worse than drinking?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I don't know. I think that's probably an unanswerable question.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Or drinking just got grandfathered in and it doesn't need
to make sense.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
It's just the thing you happen to be out dealing
with important stuff. When we were talking about the drunken
monkey hypothesis and a brand new study that's come out
that shows that chimps in the wild take in one
to two drinks worth of alcohol every day in fermented fruits,
like right after lunch, well sometimes just in the evening
(16:58):
to take the edge off even peeling. But anna's all day.
You got your wife and you just you know how
it goes, peeling bananas old And.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We can touch on that a little bit later. I
want to talk about that right when we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I didn't get to get in on this conversation that
is my wheelhouse, Drunken Monkeys, Stay.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The whole drugs and alcohol thing is really interesting in
a lot of different ways. So we're kind of all
over the place on this conversation about you know, we're
droning people in boats because they're sending drugs to the
United States and considering them committing acts of war. Well,
at the same time, I got one hundred thousand people
(17:41):
that drink themselves to death every single year, and that's legal,
And we legalized pot and a whole bunch of different states,
and now at least a couple of states are looking
at making it illegal again for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Just pretty interesting. I wonder if that's going to become
a trend.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
One of the leaders in this trend, he talks about
how in the style of the cigarette companies, especially and
to some extent the alcoholic companies, it's a business that
promotes addiction. Their entire business model is they need more addiction.
I mean, there's unquestionably an addiction, whether psychological or physical,
(18:17):
to marijuana. To just be on displayed. A lot of
people deny that they're wrong, and there you have a
five times greater chance of psychosis developing serious psychotic conditions
if you're a heavy marijuana smoker. And it's funny whenever
we talk about this, we get the one stoner who
(18:38):
says that, why don't you guys do some research.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's totally not true. I've been smoking dope for twenty
years and it hasn't affected me. Yeah, Okay, apparently you've
smoked too much dope to understand what five times more
likely means.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So thanks for the note.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Anyway, I've also known a few stoners who had really
sad lives. We talked about out hadn't hurt that many.
I've known a few in my life. You don't do
anything you sit on the couch as an overweight person
with no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you
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talk about it has had no effect on your life.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, it's possible, but hmmm, sad.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
So apparently, when the University of California at Berkeley isn't
busy in doctrinating your kids to despise their country and
become Marxists, they actually still do some science, and in
this case drunken monkey science. Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts
of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit, and careful measurement shows
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that their typical fruit diet can equal one to.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Two human drinks each day.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Now, aside from being just interesting and somewhat amusing on
its face, it supports the idea that alcohol exposure is
not a modern human invention, but an ancient primate habit.
The work strengthens the drunken monkey hypothesis and opens new
question about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.
So the equivalent of a human drink, because they're smaller
(20:09):
than us, aren't they one to two?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah? What's a chimpanzee way? That's forty pounds? I don't know. Oh, Actually,
the bigger than that. Yeah, I think they are.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Standard drink in the US contains fourteen grams of ethanol
irrespect of the consumer's body size, although in much of
Europe's standards tan grams.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Learn to drink Euros. Do you have any adult drinks
around here? Trying to enjoy myself?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, yeah, Well, what they don't know is whether chimpanzees
deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels to take the
edge off. Those tend to be riper and richer in
sugar that can for men, so they might just taste better. However,
many of the fruit species they regularly contain measurable ethanol,
indicating that alcohol is routine part of their menu and
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probably present in the diets of our human ancestors as well.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
A number of texts on the whole. We're not bombing distilleries,
but we are bombing drug traffickers. You know, fentanyl, marijuana
versus booze thing a couple of them being that fentanyl
pretty decent change you keep messing around. Fentanyl's gonna kill you,
very unlikely. That booze is gonna kill most people.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Right, nobody's ever cracked open a Miller light and died
because Miller put you know, seven thousand times the alcohol
in that can.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
There's also the we tried banning booze once and it
didn't go well. The fact that you just can't is
part of it. Irmagird, I totally forgot.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Today is the anniversary of the twenty first Amendment that
repealed the Was it the twenty first or twenty second?
I can never remember. I'd probably drink too much that
repealed prohibition. Today is the anniversary.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
It's the twenty second because I've known a few bars
called the twenty second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And liquor store is right, Yeah, that's why, you know,
I clicked in my head. But anyway, Yeah, it was
passed just in time for the holidays, really to the
delight of many, and today is the anniversary, so cheers
to that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
The worst part of that whole thing, of course, being
it's kind of like the way COVID was, the important
and powerful did whatever the hell they wanted. The rules
only applied to you, and that's the way it was
with booze, and that's really really maddening. You know that
politicians are the rich or whoever they were drinking as
much as they ever drank. It's just that you regular
(22:26):
working class people can handle it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I can, right, right.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And one other aspect of this that's always bothered me,
and it's funny we haven't talked about this for a
long time, is that if you have a society that
becomes overlegal, overly legalistic, where the only question is is
it illegal or not illegal, lawful or not, as opposed
to is it a good idea or not? Is it
moral or not? Does it make me a better person
(22:52):
or not? I would much rather have things. I would
much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use
its guns to to get people to live better live.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, that's one of the things I really hated about
when marijuana really caught on as illegalizing, it was just
the non stop, here we go, one hundred percent, this
is fantastic without any you know, smoking pot on a
regular basis might not be the best thing for your life.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Let's keep that in mind. It's practically guaranteed not to be.
And that says a guy who used to smoke a
substantial amount of pot. Looking back, it didn't do me
any good. I enjoyed it at the time. It made
movies kind of more entertaining, etc. The grass was greener,
blah blah blah. Music sounded really great. But I love
music anyway. I still love music. It's just, yeah, you're
(23:42):
right to act as if it's an unambiguous good and
harmless is just dishonest.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
For some reason, I keep thinking of Todd Snyder, one
of my favorite musicians of all time. There's a punchline
to this. Here had some song where he talked about
people like drugs. They're gonna do drugs, and it's not
which drugs, it's which drugs the companies.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Allow you to do, or blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
He had this very cynical attitude about people trying to
regulate drugs and everything, like he's dead now at age
fifty nine, as of a couple of weeks ago, as
a guy who just couldn't ever wrap his head around
drinking and doing drugs, always thought it was hilarious that
anybody would try to make him quit, And now he's
dead as a fifty nine year old.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Because yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Well that was much more
serious than my drunken chimp characterizations of a few minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
One thing we talked about do the monkeys drink to excess.
Do they ever get drunk? That's an interesting thing because
they have what ninety ninety percent of our biology. Do
they ever drink too much and wake up and think,
whoa wow, Well, I gotta gotta take a I gotta
do a dry january or something.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Thanks for a half. Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Actually, it's very very rare according to the scientists, because
because they feed on fruit throughout the day, and it's
the fermented fruit that gets them a buzz on. But
to actually feel intoxicated, the chimp would need to eat
so much fruit that it would be painful.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well that see, that's interesting. That gets back to that's
kind of like with the weed thing. You know, your
old time hippies will say now that this weed that
you're buying at the store is nothing like what I
was smoking at Woodstock, where you could smoke it all
day long and you know, stay on your feet and
keep your mind. And it's the same with a lot
of booze. Our founding fathers drank all day every day,
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beer that just barely had alcohol in it. Similar to monkeys.
To get drunk enough to cause yourself any problems, you did,
you've thrown up to drink that much of the beer
that they had at the time. We should just have
less potent booze. Certainly, there's an argument there, Yeah, in
less potent.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Pot just kind of keeps a light buzz going.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
That's what you want, well, right, exactly, Yeah, stay on
top of the wave. So what would stress chimps out
that they need a couple of drinks at the end
of the day. Probably the whole mating thing or I
don't know, the whole mating thing. It's a pretty big
deal for all beasts. Yes, well, mating thing, but that's
(26:16):
not stressful.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
That's more like, hey, baby, why you why don't we
have a couple of fermented mangoes and and you sit
on my lap and.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You wake up with an orangutang. Yeah. What do chimps
do all day? They just gather food, right, They peeled
bananas upside down and.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Mate and uh tend of their little cute little chimp kids.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Monkeys peel their bananas from the bottom, unlike humans, And
I've tried to do that.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's not easy. I don't know if you have to
have the monkey fingernails or grip strength, right, like not
the stem end. No, the other end.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, that's the way they peel bananas, and I would
think they've got a better handle on it, right.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
No, I was joking earlier that perhaps the chimps had,
you know, a henpecking wives and they had a couple.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Of drinks to take the edge off. But Long was irresponsible,
Long day in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
God, I told you, I will strip the leaves off
this stick and turn it into a tool this weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Can I watch the game? Oh, that's my new chimp sitcom,
Chee Cheese.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Plays right, and when she has a couple of drinks
every day like a human exactly?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay, we will that's funny.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We will finish strong next.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has filed to run for
governor of Minnesota, up against Tim Waltz.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Turn about his fair play.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Tim Waltz is now launching his own line of Obgyptian
cotton hypoallergenic tampons.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I got a no pillow last night, once again recommended
by the New York Times Wirecutter, which I trust and
really really like.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
But this is the first pillow I've ever come across.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I've been struggling to find just the right I've spent
a lot of money on pillows, and a lot of
my not still don't like.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But this one.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You you take stuffing out until you get to just
the right amount. So I'm letting an unfluff like for
twenty four hours. Then you can sleep on it. If
it's too fat, unzip it, take some of it out,
smooth it out, then try it. Take a little while
until you get just the right them out. That's always
my problem, is a pillow being a little too fat
or too thin. M I have my favorite pillow of
(28:39):
my entire life right now. We discovered it whilst shopping
for mattresses.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
What's the brand? Fantastic? I don't remember. I'd have to look.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
But the amazing thing about it is a super supportive
I'm a side sleeper, so I wont my head up,
but it's got the most amazing cooling properties.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I've ever got a hot head plugged in? Oh please,
Number one, My head's immense.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Number two. It runs hot, as you know, a bit
of a hothead.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I sleep on my stomach. I think that's why it
makes getting a pillow.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I need to.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Develop my bed. Have you ever heard my idea for
a bed? And I can't believe that this is copyrighted.
I think this would work so well for people like me,
side sleepers or stomach sleepers.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
There's a hole in the bed that you can put
your arm through.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Because the arm is always in the way, It's like,
where do I put this arm to be comfortable? If
I could put my arm through a hole in the
bed and then it's just completely out of the way.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I think Simpson invents something like that. No, he put
the little things behind the chair like Thomas Edison.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh, and the toilet recliner too, so you don't have
to get up while you're watching the game.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Right now, the arm hole through the bed is mine,
and I really think that would work. I don't know
why I haven't made a prototype yet and tried to
sell it to somebody. I could be like, I should
have talked to Mike Lindell when I saw him at
the convention. Hey, I got an idea for a bed
you and I could go in together. So here's a question,
only semi related. Why is odd punishing the people of
Minnesota by giving them the choice between Mike or wal
(30:06):
Tim Waltson Mike Lindell, Right, good lord, Hey, we have
a little break democracy has failed. We have a little
breaking news thing I wanted to get on just because
it's so dumb.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
We talked earlier about the Netflix deal. They're going to
try to buy HBO and something else and become some
even bigger behemoth in that world.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Elizabeth Warren doesn't like it.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I just love the fact that certain politicians hate any
this sort of thing. Weiit in on Netflix's proposed purchase
of Warner Brothers, describing it as a nightmare that would
lead to higher subscription prices and fewer choices for consumers.
Threatening to force threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices,
fewer choices over what and how they watch, while putting
(30:48):
American workers at risk sounds not a warror path. Jack
American workers at risk? How about that the template that
exists for that crowd, Everything puts American workers at risk?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Shut up, Yeah, no kidding. I'm so tired of politics.
I'd rather talk about chimps drinking.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Don't you have hold on a second, I'm gonna get
me up here. Don't sure have my ape? Friend? There
you go, Michael, don't you have a deer hide to
Tan or something. Don't you have to.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Load your TP up on horseback as Congress's session is ending?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Ride home? How much time we got, Michael? You got
about a minute and half? Oh, we have a minute
and a half.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Okay, we gotta figure out what we want to do
for the One One More Thing podcast, which we record
every single day after the show. It's one extra segment
that does not air on the radio. If you haven't
been listening to it, you should get back, go back
and listen to all of them we've recorded for the
past several years. Are really really good. Wherever you find podcasts. Oh,
I wanted to mention that one of my favorite all
time podcasts. Jo always tries to claim there are no
more podcasts, and then I ask coract if you're not
(32:00):
into the rest is history? As a history buff. That
is such a great podcast and it just won Apple's
twenty twenty five Podcast of the Year award, which it's
won several years in a row or whatever. It is
so freaking good, and they got episodes going back for
years and years and years and only they are like
World War two, ur Queen Elizabeth, or whatever the hell
they do.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
These sometimes multi part features.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Tom Holland is one of the guys, and then I
forget that the dame of the other guy. They're funny,
they're historians that just oh, it's if you like history,
it's the best thing ever. Give that as a gift
to somebody, because I think you have to actually pay
for it or subscribe or something. I'd be a good
gift if you know a history buff instead of a book,
give them that podcast.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Endlessen wait to promote the competition. Thanks pod slapping food
out of my kid's mouths. My kids are grown, they
get their own food.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Podcasting is one of the greatest things that's ever happened.
If you're interested in will anything, there's a podcast out there.
And some of these people aren't making really any money.
They're just like you know, you're like a chemist who
would love to tell people about some specific thing you
know a lot about, and you do for a couple
of podcasts, and you can find.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Them and listen to them. It's awesome, right, There's never been.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
A greater time to get knowledge, and you don't need
to go to college to do it. All the knowledge
is out there in all kinds of different forms, books.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Podcasts, YouTube videos, whatever.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Any knowledge you want about anything is out there and
you can get it for free.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
It's right here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I've wout a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show in the week. Michaelislower, technical director,
will lead the way.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Michael, Yeah, I was just thinking, if I'm around a
drunk monkey, I want him to be a happy drunk,
not an angry drunk, especially if I just got a
new haircut.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Wow, well said, never forget Katie Green are esteemed to
use woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Katie Jack, I'm perplexed about your bedhole, like with the
arm just hang there.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I hear a side sleep.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I think you'd want to go it like into like
at a right angle, and it could fit into the
mattress because.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
It just if you like roll over in the night
without waking up, and you might tear all sorts of attendance.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Well, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Final thoughts, Jack, Yes, I bid on ten pounds of
homemade toffee at a high school band fundraiser last night
and won it, and I got it and it is
so delicious. How many of the ten pounds of toffee
will be left Monday morning if I keep it around
the house, because I put a pretty good den in
it last night.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
My final thought, I was so excited yesterday I received
my f yollikin T shirt, my Armstrong and Getty T shirt,
and never been more in the mood to wear it
than I am right now. You can pick up some
great A G swag you might get in time for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Roll that ice? Come on, where's that American spirit?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Armstrong and Getty dot com?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Who knows you're gonna have crying children to don't get
presents if then show up there on time?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Dandy, you told me I was getting A and G
swag Way exactly right.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another ruling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
So many people thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong
and Getty dot com. Pick up some swag, check out
Katie's corner the hotlinks. Drop us a note if you
see something over the weekend we ought to be talking about,
send it along mail bag at Armstrong Geeddy dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
As usual, there are a bunch of big stories out
there that I can't wait to see how they resolve.
Or get a little more resolved over the weekend and
we'll have you all be updates on that month. So
don't pay attention to the news this weekend and enjoy yourselves.
We'll do it for you. We'll see you on Monday.
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I'm strong and getty all Wes and thanks for tagging along.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
We'll be back on Monday to bomb the lie and
the cheats boo and to the store.
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