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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, arm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Strong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Getty Strong
and Well, you thought.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We went through the motions in twenty twenty five, We're
really going to phone it in in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Meanwhile, let's look back on when we used to try.
It's a carefully cult selection of best of highlights, et cetera.
It's the Armstrong and Giddy replay.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The Sherry Peppini that's out there.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's not me, She's not real.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's just this version of me that has been created
to fit the narrative for the media's version of what happened.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh dang, Sherry Peppini is a victim of the media.
I was afraid of the media. I don't know if
you remember the Sherry Peppini story. We're gonna gonna lay
that out for you again. We talked about it a
little lot when it happened here in the Armstrong in
Getty Show. For one reason, because when she was found,
it was like a mile from my house on County
Road seventeen north of Woodland, California, near I five. I
(01:12):
mean it was really close to me. So it was like, what,
this abducted woman got dropped off by my house, held
by castiers for four days or however long it was,
including two Hispanic women. So let's hear a little more.
There's I guess there's a documentary coming out. I'm guessing
the documentary does not treat her well. This is the
(01:34):
documentarian and Sherry Peppini, the.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
ID series Sherry Peppini caught in the line the so
called supermom sharing another version of that infamous twenty sixteen
kidnapping hoax that captivated the country.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The story that the world thinks they know is that
I am a master manipulator who's fooled everyone. That's my
magic one. Sorry, I'm gonna do ridiculous things because some.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Of this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, we're listening to a c Yeah, gesticulating for the
camera and like being over dramatic, then admitting she was
faking it. Yet, no, we don't think you're a master manipulator.
We think you're a pinhead who thought she could get
away with something dumb, like.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Within moments of you showing up in the ditch near
my house. The story came out with the details, and
everybody that that don't sound right.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, the cops were like, wait a minute, so called
super mom, she's married with two kids.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Let's roll on.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
In April of twenty twenty two, Peppeni pleading guilty to
lying to federal investigators about her disappearance. She's done a
plea deal, saying she knowingly planned and participated in her
own hoax kidnapping. Now Pepita changing her story yet again,
claiming she really was abducted and assaulted by James.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
There was no master plan, there was no Pope's kidnapping.
There was a cover up of what happened, and I
participated in.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The cover up.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Rayes had previously told investigators the Peppini caused her own
injuries and that, at her request, he branded her with
a wood burning tool. Investigators say he passed a polygraph
test and was duped by Peppini.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, if you don't know this story and the details
are being filled in, and I'll get to a little, uh,
some of the background here in a segment. Yeah, she
she her hair was cut, she'd been branded. Was she
did herself or she's claiming this guy did or whatever
at her request. I mean, that's some that's some commitment
to your hoax branding yourself. M you gotta admire that,
(03:45):
huh do I do? I? She didn't just go halfway
on her made up story. She went all the way
and then a pretty decent question, why would we believe you?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I was can just for the plot that that's her
ex boyfriend who she went to spend a couple of
days with because she was tired of being wife and
mom super mom, right, and he let her in because
it was his hot ex girlfriend. He was thinking, you know,
I don't know, maybe she's back or no, you know,
but yeah, But now she's saying.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
No, maybe she's back. She's kind of crazy, but yeah,
I'm a little lonely.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So uh, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It was pretty good when the last did And now
two years however, many years later, she's saying no, no, no, no,
Wait a minute, wait a minute, Now here's the real truth.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
He A'm not dead. Wow. Wow, let's hear her explain herself.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You're a convicted liar, so tell me why we should
believe you?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Haven't you ever lied? Have you ever lied? In your
history of existence?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And then has that lie been blown up and broadcast
around the world. It's so much more complex.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Than just pointing the finger and saying you're a liar.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
And I wish, I wish more than anything, I could
have been more truthful.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh my god, it was worth it. It was worth
it bringing it up, bringing this up, to play that clip.
I gotta play that for my kids at home. Oh,
never get I cut up with a chick who sounds
like this.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's your takeaway. It's a good takeaway. Oh my god. Wow,
wow a hot mess. So yeah, no kidding, Well that's
another one. Ah. So I'm guessing she got.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Some money out of this or was convinced by these
filmmakers that this is your chance to set the record straight,
because that's how you dupe somebody into doing this. But
from the Department of stop digging, right, Yes, another.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Round with this guest. She's crazy though, she's It's like
the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Every four years she comes around and entertains us with
her her craziess.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
She's like the Olympics. Every four years we get an update.
Oh yeah, I like gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh yeah. The Shery Peppini story.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
The real story is I wasn't This is you know,
dateline twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I was not abducted by my ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was space aliens and they probed my anus.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That'll be the hook, all right, So let me.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Read a little from the Wikipedia. Sherry's husband, Keith Peppini,
first became concerned when he returned from his job at
Best Buy.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Poor son of a gun and his kids, let's not forget.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That two kids in November second, twenty sixteen, so this
is shortly before Thanksgiving, which plays a role in this,
and could not find his wife at home. He eventually
used the fine My iPhone application to locate her cell
phone and earbuds at the intersection of Sunrise Driving Old
Oregon Trail, about a mile from their home. Okay, that's
up by reading California know where that is, which is
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like a two and a half hour drive from where
she ended up, according to Shasta County Sheriff. In interviews,
Peppini said she was held by two Hispanic women who
took steps to keep their faces hidden from her, either
by wearing masks or keeping Peppini's head covered. Peppini was
branded on her right shoulder during her purported captivity with
the word exodus. When investigators questioned Sherry at a later date,
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she claimed that it looked like a verse from the
Book of Exodus. According to a statement by her husband,
Sherry was physically abused during their captivity, had her nose
broken and her hair cut off, and weighed eighty seven
pounds when she was released.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, she was only gone for four days. How much
weight can you lose in four days? Was it just
four days? Wasn't that long? Was it was Thanksgiving? Maybe
it was longer? Okay, all keep pried. Even that's something.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
At the time, the sheriff said it was still an
active investigation and authorities were looking for a dark colored
SUV with two Hispanic females armed with a handgun.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I remember when we were talking about this all the time.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Detectives had authored close to twenty search warrants, including some
in Michigan, and said they were examining cell phone records,
bank accounts, e mails, social media profiles. The FBI was involved.
Peppinie was found with both male and female DNA on her,
neither of which matched her or her husband. The FBI
ran the samples blah blah blah in March oh The
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DNA found on her clothing, they eventually figured out matched
her ex boyfriend, James Reese, who she now says is
the guy that branded her and held her, who confirmed
the Peppinie stayed with him at his residence in southern
California during the time she was allegedly kidnapped. Have we
heard much from him about what that was like the
week or so that they spent together. Was that just
(08:45):
you know, loving bliss with the sex, holding hands and
watching Netflix? Or was she as crazy as she seems
to be that whole time and he was like, how
do I get her out of here?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm guessing the second, because everybody said they did not
have sex at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Wow, what did they do there the whole time? That
flicks anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
In March of twenty twenty two, she was arrested by
the FBI, accused of wrying to fade her allegiance, faking
her kidnapping to spend time with her ex boyfriend away
from her husband and family. Which makes you a very
very bad person. Although I think she is completely crazy,
got thirty three counts of male fraud and all kinds
of different things because of the way the Law Works
(09:30):
in September twenty second. This is probably all in the documentary.
She apologized and accepted full responsibility at her sentencing hearing,
accept full responsibility.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
As opposed to who else?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Really, you're taking responsibility for the whole disappearing on your family,
cutting your hair, branding yourself, claiming some Hispanic women abductive you.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You're taking excusing the good name of Hispanic women everywhere,
you monster.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Did we ever believe this had happened? Or were we first? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But as soon as the facts of her abduction came out,
it was like, come on, Which is how that poor
couple of Pedaluma so many people suspected them.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
If you remember this case in Petaluma, California.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Who were alleging this bizarre, utterly illogical, really stupid kidnapping,
and it turns out it was a mentally ill former
marine who did all.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The exactly what they claim he did. But it was
so stupid and illogical it sounded like the Sherry Peppini thing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
At the time of her kidnapping, her disappearance was featured
extensively in national news true crime programs, the front cover
of People magazine, the outlets continue to cover the story
after the hoax was confirmed, including multiple true crime documentaries,
news magazine and news magazine, Whooping Cough, and podcasts. There
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have been lifetime shows, been Netflix shows, There's been this Cruel.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Byac Is a cottage industry.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Who Who's a limited documentary series Perfect Wife, The mysterious
disappearance of Sherry Peppini not that mysterious. Eminem references the
kidnapping hoax and his song Houdini.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I heard that on the radio just the other day,
and I heard that, and I thought, I wonder how
many people get that line with the line caught sleeping
and see the kidnapping never did happen, like Sherry Peppini,
Harry Houdini, I vanished in the thin air as I'm
leaving yet.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So I heard that just the other day, and I thought,
how many people get that? I understand we have a
new cut.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's the husband in an interview from last year when
he first saw her at the hospital.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
When you first encountered her in the hospital, what was
your first instinct? I saw the look in her eyes.
I felt in that moment that she was lying. And
it wasn't until when I really got close and I
could just see the amount of injuries bruises, burns to
her body, and it was a shock to me. And
I remember thinking how horrible it me to even think
(12:04):
that she could have done this to herself.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I wonder how quickly he got to.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Reality and then if he was ever in like a
period of jealous anger over the fact that she went
to see an ex boyfriend, or if he just immediately
was able to go to she's completely mentally ill. I
can't be angry at a mentally ill person. She's completely crazy.
I mean, to brand yourself, give yourself bruises, I mean,
(12:32):
you're completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I don't you're making a bigger deal of the
branding yourself because somebody likes that. I mean, you press
something hot to yourself, it will scar you immediately and
it'll hurt. But I mean it's not like it's a
sizzling cattle brand or something.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Now, you know, Joe soft peddling. Self branding is a
well the work of nut jobs.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And I think it could have been harder for this guy,
because I mean, as you said, she's completely crazy. Now,
she's not a babbling psychotic, she's a manipulative, narcissist. And
that's a slower road to travel than Oh my god,
my wife has lost a grip on reality because she hasn't.
(13:15):
She's not psychotic, she's just you know, back in the
day they call it, would have called her extremely neurotic.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
She's some borderline personality disorder. Again, I'm going to play
that one clip for my kids. If you ever meet
a woman who sounds anything like this, none.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
No, what if she's hot?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Dad doesn't Matt in fact extra no, yes, yes, run
run run, Just get us thirty five agin Michael to
wrap it up and we'll go to break the sherry.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Peppini that's out there. It's not me, she's not real.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It's just this version of me that has been created
to fit the narrative for the media's version of what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
All right, Cuckoo farms strong and Getty strong and Getty strong.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And I mentioned earlier my neighbors are making me feel
bad about myself and super super nice people in this
new neighborhood that I live in. But my picture of
(14:20):
them from my driveway is I've only had a couple
of conversations with them, A few conversations met their kids.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That sort of stuff really nice.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But my picture of them for my driveway, it's like
seeing their Facebook page with all the achievements and everything
that all the time, they're always up earlier than me
and my kids. They're always out exercising, like with the kids,
bike rides and all this different sort of stuff. On
Sundays they're up early and the kids are all dressed
(14:48):
up and they get to church. Every time I go
to the gym, he's there. It's like, are there two
of you?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
How do you do this? I don't understand how you
do this? Washing their cars in the drive It's just
like they're constantly.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Doing productive things and like being just so productive and happy,
and it's just instant.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I need to move.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Somewhere where the people are like just laying around. They're
in super fit. I need I need to I need
to live. I need to live next to people who
are like bees laying around and even crap, their cars
are dirty, their.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Kids look right. Yeah yeah, okay, well you have you
have three choices to me, all right. Number one, there's
that choice, very attractive. Number two. Number two, you could
up your game and be as good or better than
your neighbors. Let's just put that one aside. Right, Let's
table that at best, third, undermine their efforts. Now here's
(15:43):
the option. I'm interested in exploring. What can you do
to undermine that family their good habits and their happiness?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right? The best offense is a good defense.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Watching the NCAA tournament, shack.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
God, admit, I'm looking for some downside to make myself
feel better. It's like, there's gotta be something going on
over there that's not perfect because it looks perfect. Yeah,
and I feel like they're doing it just to mock me.
That's their main motivation. Well, that's yeah, that's the key
is to take it personally. Yes, that only makes sense.
Their excellence is an insult to you.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, it's a very productively great attitude to have.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, when I when I walk out and I see
them with their kids all dressed up.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Headed the Sunday school, and I think my kids are
still in bed, and I just got up myself. Oh
my good.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right, you've got to resent them for that. You're gonna
come home from church and then wash your cars and
then you're going to the gym. Okay, that's not exactly
what my plan is wow, wow, have you read He'll
Bill Elegy? You really should, or we're gonna read it.
We're gonna eat too much bad food and go back
to sleep as sort of our plan, but eats their
own exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I saw some going to push back there in Venice
about the Bezos and his wife wedding. There's a lot
of protesters. They unfurled a giant sign in the middle
of whatever square that was there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Did it say how much work is too much? With
the picture of her face?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, Now there's a giant sign that said, if you
can afford this wedding, you can afford to pay more taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Anyway, So some fairly shocking economic numbers out about the
purchasing the spending of eighteen to twenty four year old adults.
It fell thirteen percent year over year, thirteen percent a lot.
It's a huge drop. Spending my older groups is still
(17:43):
on the rise, but has slowed significantly. They mentioned a
combination of economic challenges. Young grads are having a much
tougher tougher time finding jobs. Student loan payments are restarting
for millions of borrowers.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That for that crowd, I know a few people in
that situation, and it has been quite the shock to
their system because I know some people with some pretty
big nuts, if you'll pardon the expression, that they've got
to be able to meet. And all of a sudden,
you have a five hundred dollars a month bill that
you didn't have before, and you somehow were convinced by
an ancient president you were never gonna have to pay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Right, little AOC and the mummy president convinced you that
you shouldn't have to pay those It's unjust. Yeah, people
they believe that stuff, which is why I warned my kids.
Don't believe it. Man.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This could be and that could be a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You are not spending money on going out to eat,
in concerts and maybe travel, if all of a sudden
you're paying an extra five hundred to one thousand dollars
a month.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
No need to speculate. I have those numbers. You're absolutely right. Plus.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Over the roughly of the past year, credit card delinquency
rates have risen the highest points since pre pandemic levels,
highest for those eighteen to twenty nine years of age.
They quote a bunch of experts and economists expenditures this
is among eighteen to twenty four year olds on video
games is down twenty four percent, twenty three percent year
(19:06):
over year. We're the rest of those numbers. Apparel is
down eleven percent. Accessories is down eighteen percent. Oh, they
don't get how important it is to accessorize well accessories.
I Technology is down fourteen percent. Small appliance is down
almost twenty percent. Now I was gonna get a toaster,
but I guess I won't small appliances. I like those
(19:30):
kind of statistics, but like my own anecdote dose evidence,
and this is completely anecdotal. I live in a wealthy
college town.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
The gout.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
These college kids are out to eat all the.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Time, dressed cool, talking on thousand dollar phones. That's not
what I was doing when I was in college. I
was eating Beanie Wheeni's five cans for a dollar from
the food club to get by. I wasn't going out
to eat every day at expensive restaurants, which is what
happens in my college tent.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But again, that's anecdotal. But yeah, I would say that
is that is the anecdote that misleads.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Honestly, Well, you can't deny that there are a lot
of people living lifestyles. You shouldn't lead at that age
or income level, and that's why you're in financial trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
He's the credit card language. Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Yeah,
it's all part of the same too. I was just
thinking about the shocking number of foreign students paying full
tuition and snapping up spots that American students could have
in university after university.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I saw some of those statistics recently.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And they're unbelievable anyway, So take a look look for
that as a continuing.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Maybe I should add into my commentary. I know, and
this is taking anecdotal to another level, but I know
at least a half a dozen people that are in
that group who tell me how broke they are all
the time, or how they could use more hours if
they could get them, because they're really in tough financial straits.
I think you live like you're a forty five year
old with a really good job and you're twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, so maybe you wouldn't be in a bind if
you didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Actually, that is the part of the article I should
have told you. The headline is Goodbye fancy bar, Hello
at home pizza party. Young Americans cut back. Yeah, okay, yeah,
and they have to obviously. So let's let's talk about
the super rich Jack the other end of the economic scale,
the rich and their prenuptial agreements. Attorneys say prenups are
only becoming more common for people of all wealth levels,
(21:36):
but for those with net worths that are nine figures
or larger that would be one hundred million bucks, right,
nine figures? Wow? Okay, Those agreements become sophisticated legal instruments
to protect assets, business, vampires, and finally, family dynasties.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I don't know what I think about prenups. I really don't.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I've gone back and forth on my I personally would
be much better off if I had done it, but
I don't ever really think that I wish I had.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So I know a little bit about prenups, but not
very much, having been married since we're eleven years old.
But here's some examples. Prenups can dictate who gets up
that's Kanye. Ah, Yes, that's the great philosopher Kanye. Prenups
can dictate who gets access to the private jet, how
the thoroughbred horses are cared for, and who gets to
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say what about the divorce on social media. The embedded
confidential reality agreement can even prohibit disclosing the existence of
the prenup itself.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You have to have a prenup that includes who gets
to say what on social media, as Kanye would say,
because when she leaves your ass, she's gonna leave with at.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh, well said yay.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Ultra wealthy prenups must address assets that can't be easily
split or sold. Don't worry, we'll get caddy in a second,
such as startup equity that can't be traded in public markets,
carry the interest in private equity funds, royalty streams from
intellectual property, and family trusts with complex distribution rules, and
if you don't have like crazy planning, the distributing those
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assets can lead to painful trade offs, to financial tradeoffs,
not to mention years, if not decades, long legal battles,
and everybody in the family ending up hating each other.
It's tough to generate too much sympathy for the ultra wealthy,
But eh, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
She says she's gonna buy tych Goo with your money,
but she only gets light bulb with your money. Money money,
Who has listened to gold Digger one thousand times.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I have that's who Oh well it's a catchy too,
and I understand the appeal. So where is the where's
my favorite part? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Here you go.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Prenups can lay out who in a divorce supervises the
packing of personal belongings.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wow, God, that would be awful.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Can you imagine anything worse than getting down to those
details of argument or or.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Require a spouse to move out within thirty days? So
before your nuptials, you are saying you're negotiating. All right, Look,
when and if we get divorced, I will be in
charge of hiring the company that packs up all of
your belongings to move them out, because I don't once
(24:19):
you're stealing anything.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Ah right, And you're gonna have that conversation while you're
all in love, Ryan, Right, I love you. I love
you too.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Let me look deep into your eyes while you look
deep into my eyes. You know, if we ever split up,
and I think there's a decent chance we do, I
think you'd probably steal. So I got this piece of
paper that says somebody needs to watch you, and.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I'll need you to move out within two weeks. Two weeks.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I gotta find a place to live, all right, four weeks, Look,
make it a month, make it thirty days, all right,
I know, all right, you gotta be out within thirty days.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Here's a good one.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I know someone who got hit with the prenup, like
just two weeks before the wedding, had never come up
in conversation before the idea of it, and then they
got to I'm gonna want you to sign this, and.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Then it was like too late to pull the plug.
I mean you could, obviously, but it's a lot harder
to sure. Yeah, some clients demand that their prenups. Here
we go, stipulate that a spouse maintain a specific weight,
you say, within twenty pounds of what it was on
the wedding day.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Oh, that's fantastic a prenup weight agreement. Honey, I'm gonna
need you to come on and step on the scale.
It's can like it might be breaking some rules. It's
an excellent point, Katie, to enforce the prenup. If anybody's
getting close, somebody's got to say, all right, we need
to have a way I put in the pre nup.
(25:49):
I would never do this, but if you were going
to The only way to make this less contentious was
part of the prenup is we have to have weekly
weigh in both of us.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, Well, one thing is you've go ahead, otherwise.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You end up with a situation. Hey, katie's talking about Hey,
I just noticed when we were at the pool on vacation.
Look like you a little porky there, street heart.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
One common thing is you've got to stay within twenty
pounds of what you are on the wedding day or what.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I don't know me.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I saw you come out of the sauna and if
you're not two ten, my name's Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I mean so I think we should get the scale out.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, and if you're looking for a trophy wife or
husband or something, I mean that just that ends. Is
she just or is he just marrying me because I'm
young and hot? Well, yes, yes, it's being made very
very clear here. If you gain twenty one pounds, you're
in violation of the prenup and you lose your rights
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to god knows, I don't know the house, the car, money,
whatever or it says you've got. Well, for instance, here's
another one a prenups. There's one predup says you agree
to exercise four times a week during the marriage.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That one seems hard to enforce.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, there's got to be a subclause about if you
have the flu or a similar disease.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Others want financial penalties for cheating.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
One attorney described a client seeking a million dollar payment
for each affair.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
See that's you know, some states have that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
That's one of the problems that you get into the
So if one person cheats and then you go through
the divorce laws where they are and you're gonna get
lose half your stuff for somebody who violated the vows,
that just seems so incredibly uncool to me.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
But on the other side of it, here's an Atlanta attorney, Well,
go ahead, did you have one more point on that?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, I'm not a misogynist like you, so I wanted
to point out that it could be the other direction
for the weight gain. I've known a number of women
who are very unhappy that they got married in their
husband's game, like fifty pounds, Eh.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
You can work anyway. Here's an Atlanta based divorce attorney.
He alreadycounts a professional basketball player client who insisted his
prenup acknowledge that quote. NBA players are known to have affairs,
so cheating could not trigger costly content. It was a
get out of jail free, or you know I'm going
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to have affairs clause in the prenup.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well why even get married?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I know I got no success to lean on as
a but I just yeah, I can't imagine you get
all that taking care of and now you're walking down
the aisle storry eyed and happy with each other. Happiest
day of my life now that we've worked out that
you can't gain more than ten pounds, or I'll put
you on the scale and hold you to it, or
you know all these other different things. Well, I need
to be watched while I pack boxes if we do
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split up, because I can't be trusted.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, where's the magic.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Nothing says love like getting the lawyers involved. And here's
a New York to Forrest attorney, a woman who says
every prenuptial agreement is a power play. It's exciting for
them to have this control, but the leverage goes to
whoever cares less about the marriage. If you're willing to
walk away, you hold all the cards. Wow, Wow, that's wrong.
(29:12):
That is so foreign to my life experience. Yeah, I know,
I'm so lucky. Whoever cares less about the marriage holds
all the cards.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yes, I think. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I think because it what I agree. But you know,
I'm not married, so I haven't pulled it off. I
think you got to sneak it in. You do, Like
I wait, my truck the other day on a truck scale.
I don't know if you've ever been on a truck scale,
but it just it looks like the driveway. It's just
that the driveway floats. And so you got to do
that under their chair at the table, or like their
easy chair where they watch television.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You make that a scale.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I have a digital readout on the back of it
or on you you know, yeah, ip an app on
your phone.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So they sit in their chair and think one ninety five. Okay, man,
he's two pounds away. Yeah, digital read out on your couch.
Here you go. You need to secretly weighim. That's my point.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
She sits down.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh, you know, I found the salad recipe for dinner.
It's gonna be great. I can't believe a weight guarantee
in the prenup. That's a funny one. Wow oof love.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
More on the waisty here, the Armstrong and Getdy show,
more Jack your show podcasts, and our hot lakes.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Wow, So my investigative journalism is paid off. Yet another
key fact that makes the hot, self important drunk chicks
in Rhode Island story even more hilarious.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Oh okay, I wasn't sure in what order.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
To list those adjittives hot drunk self important chicks.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I think the hot part because you only get traction
at all because you're a hot chick with this sort
of behavior, right, militant, loud, nasty looking chick, or exhibits
this sort of behavior too.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
In political settings lately, it's the angry uh grad school
lunatic screaming at the cops.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Why are you arrested? That's some you know, pro Hamas
rally or something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It's kind of a cousin to the drunk, self important
hot chick syndrome.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Anyway, So here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
First of all, you know more about drunks in general
than I did. These women, particularly the special Assistant Attorney
General name of Devon Hogan Flanagan, who who's.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Busted by the cops. You know what, I'll ask my
question after we play the tape.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Go ahead, Michael, this is what it sounded like, the
cops trying to get them to leave a restaurants, So
we gotta leave now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Number one, you're not going to arrest us. Number two,
I'm an aging. Good for you, let's go leaving hands off.
I'm an aging.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The fact that she apparents can I buy those cops
a drink place? I would like to sit down and
enjoy a libation with you, fellas well done.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
The fact that she literally seems to believe that as
the attorney general, the.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Topestional assistant attorney general. But well, she's saying, I'm the
I'm an age anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Uh, you're part of the top cop office, that the
laws don't apply to you.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I mean, that's what you're saying. That's a it's a
heck of a thing to say, how loud.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Well, and here's my favorite part of it, other than
that they tried to show that they indeed were the
reasonable ones by trying to kick out the windows in
the cop car, the cops that.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Told them repeatedly, I don't want to arrest you. All
you have to do is go. They've asked you to leave,
Just go. I don't want to arrest you. You're not
going to arrest us, Okay, so let's leave.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
We gotta go, We gotta go. The officer replies, no,
you can't make us. You can't arrest us. I don't
want to arrest you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Just leave. See the no, No, they had to sit there.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
The normal drunken reaction to that would be, WHOA, I
have really lucked out here that all they're doing is
asking me to leave.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I am going to get out of here to avoid
any further problems.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Well, and just to give you a sense of how
it was inside the restaurant, the following exchange took place.
The cop can be heard on the camera asking a
restaurant employee do you just want them out? Do you
want them trespassed? The employee says, anything we can do trespass.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes. So here's the question for you.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
As a guy who's somewhat familiar with overm bibers, these
two hobbies will take complete responsibility quote unquote and say
I have a problem with alcohol.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I am an alcoholic. It is a disease.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You wouldn't you wouldn't fire somebody for having a disease.
Would you if I had COVID, would you fire me? No,
it's a disease. Is the primary problem that they're drunks
or is it hard to separate?
Speaker 6 (34:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No, no, it's not. Or is it that they're a holes.
It's their a holes. I've known thousands of drunks.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
There's only a certain personality that ever acts The Armstrong
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
We went through the motions in twenty twenty five, We're
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Look forward to it.
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Meanwhile, let's look back on when we used to try.
It's a carefully cult selection of best of highlights, et cetera.
It's the Armstrong and Giddy replay.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The Sherry Peppini that's out there.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's not me, She's not real.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's just this version of me that has been created
to fit the narrative for the media's version of what happened.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh dang, Sherry Peppini is a victim of the media.
I was afraid of the media. I don't know if
you remember the Sherry Peppini story. We're gonna gonna lay
that out for you again. We talked about it a
little lot when it happened here in the Armstrong in
Getty Show. For one reason, because when she was found,
it was like a mile from my house on County
Road seventeen north of Woodland, California, near I five. I
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mean it was really close to me. So it was like, what,
this abducted woman got dropped off by my house, held
by castiers for four days or however long it was,
including two Hispanic women. So let's hear a little more.
There's I guess there's a documentary coming out. I'm guessing
the documentary does not treat her well. This is the
(01:34):
documentarian and Sherry Peppini, the.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
ID series Sherry Peppini caught in the line the so
called supermom sharing another version of that infamous twenty sixteen
kidnapping hoax that captivated the country.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
The story that the world thinks they know is that
I am a master manipulator who's fooled everyone. That's my
magic one. Sorry, I'm gonna do ridiculous things because some.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Of this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, we're listening to a c Yeah, gesticulating for the
camera and like being over dramatic, then admitting she was
faking it. Yet, no, we don't think you're a master manipulator.
We think you're a pinhead who thought she could get
away with something dumb, like.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Within moments of you showing up in the ditch near
my house. The story came out with the details, and
everybody that that don't sound right.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, the cops were like, wait a minute, so called
super mom, she's married with two kids.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Let's roll on.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
In April of twenty twenty two, Peppeni pleading guilty to
lying to federal investigators about her disappearance. She's done a
plea deal, saying she knowingly planned and participated in her
own hoax kidnapping. Now Pepita changing her story yet again,
claiming she really was abducted and assaulted by James.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
There was no master plan, there was no Pope's kidnapping.
There was a cover up of what happened, and I
participated in.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The cover up.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Rayes had previously told investigators the Peppini caused her own
injuries and that, at her request, he branded her with
a wood burning tool. Investigators say he passed a polygraph
test and was duped by Peppini.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, if you don't know this story and the details
are being filled in, and I'll get to a little, uh,
some of the background here in a segment. Yeah, she
she her hair was cut, she'd been branded. Was she
did herself or she's claiming this guy did or whatever
at her request. I mean, that's some that's some commitment
to your hoax branding yourself. M you gotta admire that,
(03:45):
huh do I do? I? She didn't just go halfway
on her made up story. She went all the way
and then a pretty decent question, why would we believe you?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I was can just for the plot that that's her
ex boyfriend who she went to spend a couple of
days with because she was tired of being wife and
mom super mom, right, and he let her in because
it was his hot ex girlfriend. He was thinking, you know,
I don't know, maybe she's back or no, you know,
but yeah, But now she's saying.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
No, maybe she's back. She's kind of crazy, but yeah,
I'm a little lonely.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So uh, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It was pretty good when the last did And now
two years however, many years later, she's saying no, no, no, no,
Wait a minute, wait a minute, Now here's the real truth.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
He A'm not dead. Wow. Wow, let's hear her explain herself.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You're a convicted liar, so tell me why we should
believe you?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Now?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Haven't you ever lied? Have you ever lied? In your
history of existence?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
And then has that lie been blown up and broadcast
around the world. It's so much more complex.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Than just pointing the finger and saying you're a liar.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
And I wish, I wish more than anything, I could
have been more truthful.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh my god, it was worth it. It was worth
it bringing it up, bringing this up, to play that clip.
I gotta play that for my kids at home. Oh,
never get I cut up with a chick who sounds
like this.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That's your takeaway. It's a good takeaway. Oh my god. Wow,
wow a hot mess. So yeah, no kidding, Well that's
another one. Ah. So I'm guessing she got.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Some money out of this or was convinced by these
filmmakers that this is your chance to set the record straight,
because that's how you dupe somebody into doing this. But
from the Department of stop digging, right, Yes, another.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Round with this guest. She's crazy though, she's It's like
the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Every four years she comes around and entertains us with
her her craziess.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
She's like the Olympics. Every four years we get an update.
Oh yeah, I like gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh yeah. The Shery Peppini story.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
The real story is I wasn't This is you know,
dateline twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I was not abducted by my ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It was space aliens and they probed my anus.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
That'll be the hook, all right, So let me.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Read a little from the Wikipedia. Sherry's husband, Keith Peppini,
first became concerned when he returned from his job at
Best Buy.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Poor son of a gun and his kids, let's not forget.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That two kids in November second, twenty sixteen, so this
is shortly before Thanksgiving, which plays a role in this,
and could not find his wife at home. He eventually
used the fine My iPhone application to locate her cell
phone and earbuds at the intersection of Sunrise Driving Old
Oregon Trail, about a mile from their home. Okay, that's
up by reading California know where that is, which is
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like a two and a half hour drive from where
she ended up, according to Shasta County Sheriff. In interviews,
Peppini said she was held by two Hispanic women who
took steps to keep their faces hidden from her, either
by wearing masks or keeping Peppini's head covered. Peppini was
branded on her right shoulder during her purported captivity with
the word exodus. When investigators questioned Sherry at a later date,
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she claimed that it looked like a verse from the
Book of Exodus. According to a statement by her husband,
Sherry was physically abused during their captivity, had her nose
broken and her hair cut off, and weighed eighty seven
pounds when she was released.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, she was only gone for four days. How much
weight can you lose in four days? Was it just
four days? Wasn't that long? Was it was Thanksgiving? Maybe
it was longer? Okay, all keep pried. Even that's something.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
At the time, the sheriff said it was still an
active investigation and authorities were looking for a dark colored
SUV with two Hispanic females armed with a handgun.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I remember when we were talking about this all the time.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Detectives had authored close to twenty search warrants, including some
in Michigan, and said they were examining cell phone records,
bank accounts, e mails, social media profiles. The FBI was involved.
Peppinie was found with both male and female DNA on her,
neither of which matched her or her husband. The FBI
ran the samples blah blah blah in March oh The
(08:25):
DNA found on her clothing, they eventually figured out matched
her ex boyfriend, James Reese, who she now says is
the guy that branded her and held her, who confirmed
the Peppinie stayed with him at his residence in southern
California during the time she was allegedly kidnapped. Have we
heard much from him about what that was like the
week or so that they spent together. Was that just
(08:45):
you know, loving bliss with the sex, holding hands and
watching Netflix? Or was she as crazy as she seems
to be that whole time and he was like, how
do I get her out of here?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm guessing the second, because everybody said they did not
have sex at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Wow, what did they do there the whole time? That
flicks anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
In March of twenty twenty two, she was arrested by
the FBI, accused of wrying to fade her allegiance, faking
her kidnapping to spend time with her ex boyfriend away
from her husband and family. Which makes you a very
very bad person. Although I think she is completely crazy,
got thirty three counts of male fraud and all kinds
of different things because of the way the Law Works
(09:30):
in September twenty second. This is probably all in the documentary.
She apologized and accepted full responsibility at her sentencing hearing,
accept full responsibility.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
As opposed to who else?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Really, you're taking responsibility for the whole disappearing on your family,
cutting your hair, branding yourself, claiming some Hispanic women abductive you.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You're taking excusing the good name of Hispanic women everywhere,
you monster.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Did we ever believe this had happened? Or were we first? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But as soon as the facts of her abduction came out,
it was like, come on, Which is how that poor
couple of Pedaluma so many people suspected them.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
If you remember this case in Petaluma, California.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Who were alleging this bizarre, utterly illogical, really stupid kidnapping,
and it turns out it was a mentally ill former
marine who did all.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
The exactly what they claim he did. But it was
so stupid and illogical it sounded like the Sherry Peppini thing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
At the time of her kidnapping, her disappearance was featured
extensively in national news true crime programs, the front cover
of People magazine, the outlets continue to cover the story
after the hoax was confirmed, including multiple true crime documentaries,
news magazine and news magazine, Whooping Cough, and podcasts. There
(10:57):
have been lifetime shows, been Netflix shows, There's been this Cruel.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Byac Is a cottage industry.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Who Who's a limited documentary series Perfect Wife, The mysterious
disappearance of Sherry Peppini not that mysterious. Eminem references the
kidnapping hoax and his song Houdini.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I heard that on the radio just the other day,
and I heard that, and I thought, I wonder how
many people get that line with the line caught sleeping
and see the kidnapping never did happen, like Sherry Peppini,
Harry Houdini, I vanished in the thin air as I'm
leaving yet.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So I heard that just the other day, and I thought,
how many people get that? I understand we have a
new cut.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's the husband in an interview from last year when
he first saw her at the hospital.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
When you first encountered her in the hospital, what was
your first instinct? I saw the look in her eyes.
I felt in that moment that she was lying. And
it wasn't until when I really got close and I
could just see the amount of injuries bruises, burns to
her body, and it was a shock to me. And
I remember thinking how horrible it me to even think
(12:04):
that she could have done this to herself.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I wonder how quickly he got to.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Reality and then if he was ever in like a
period of jealous anger over the fact that she went
to see an ex boyfriend, or if he just immediately
was able to go to she's completely mentally ill. I
can't be angry at a mentally ill person. She's completely crazy.
I mean, to brand yourself, give yourself bruises, I mean,
(12:32):
you're completely crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I don't you're making a bigger deal of the
branding yourself because somebody likes that. I mean, you press
something hot to yourself, it will scar you immediately and
it'll hurt. But I mean it's not like it's a
sizzling cattle brand or something.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Now, you know, Joe soft peddling. Self branding is a
well the work of nut jobs.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And I think it could have been harder for this guy,
because I mean, as you said, she's completely crazy. Now,
she's not a babbling psychotic, she's a manipulative, narcissist. And
that's a slower road to travel than Oh my god,
my wife has lost a grip on reality because she hasn't.
(13:15):
She's not psychotic, she's just you know, back in the
day they call it, would have called her extremely neurotic.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
She's some borderline personality disorder. Again, I'm going to play
that one clip for my kids. If you ever meet
a woman who sounds anything like this, none.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
No, what if she's hot?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Dad doesn't Matt in fact extra no, yes, yes, run
run run, Just get us thirty five agin Michael to
wrap it up and we'll go to break the sherry.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Peppini that's out there. It's not me, she's not real.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It's just this version of me that has been created
to fit the narrative for the media's version of what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
All right, Cuckoo farms strong and Getty strong and Getty strong.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And I mentioned earlier my neighbors are making me feel
bad about myself and super super nice people in this
new neighborhood that I live in. But my picture of
(14:20):
them from my driveway is I've only had a couple
of conversations with them, A few conversations met their kids.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That sort of stuff really nice.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But my picture of them for my driveway, it's like
seeing their Facebook page with all the achievements and everything
that all the time, they're always up earlier than me
and my kids. They're always out exercising, like with the kids,
bike rides and all this different sort of stuff. On
Sundays they're up early and the kids are all dressed
(14:48):
up and they get to church. Every time I go
to the gym, he's there. It's like, are there two
of you?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
How do you do this? I don't understand how you
do this? Washing their cars in the drive It's just
like they're constantly.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Doing productive things and like being just so productive and happy,
and it's just instant.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I need to move.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Somewhere where the people are like just laying around. They're
in super fit. I need I need to I need
to live. I need to live next to people who
are like bees laying around and even crap, their cars
are dirty, their.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Kids look right. Yeah yeah, okay, well you have you
have three choices to me, all right. Number one, there's
that choice, very attractive. Number two. Number two, you could
up your game and be as good or better than
your neighbors. Let's just put that one aside. Right, Let's
table that at best, third, undermine their efforts. Now here's
(15:43):
the option. I'm interested in exploring. What can you do
to undermine that family their good habits and their happiness?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Right? The best offense is a good defense.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Watching the NCAA tournament, shack.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
God, admit, I'm looking for some downside to make myself
feel better. It's like, there's gotta be something going on
over there that's not perfect because it looks perfect. Yeah,
and I feel like they're doing it just to mock me.
That's their main motivation. Well, that's yeah, that's the key
is to take it personally. Yes, that only makes sense.
Their excellence is an insult to you.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, it's a very productively great attitude to have.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, when I when I walk out and I see
them with their kids all dressed up.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Headed the Sunday school, and I think my kids are
still in bed, and I just got up myself. Oh
my good.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Right, you've got to resent them for that. You're gonna
come home from church and then wash your cars and
then you're going to the gym. Okay, that's not exactly
what my plan is wow, wow, have you read He'll
Bill Elegy? You really should, or we're gonna read it.
We're gonna eat too much bad food and go back
to sleep as sort of our plan, but eats their
own exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I saw some going to push back there in Venice
about the Bezos and his wife wedding. There's a lot
of protesters. They unfurled a giant sign in the middle
of whatever square that was there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Did it say how much work is too much? With
the picture of her face?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, Now there's a giant sign that said, if you
can afford this wedding, you can afford to pay more taxes.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Anyway, So some fairly shocking economic numbers out about the
purchasing the spending of eighteen to twenty four year old adults.
It fell thirteen percent year over year, thirteen percent a lot.
It's a huge drop. Spending my older groups is still
(17:43):
on the rise, but has slowed significantly. They mentioned a
combination of economic challenges. Young grads are having a much
tougher tougher time finding jobs. Student loan payments are restarting
for millions of borrowers.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
That for that crowd, I know a few people in
that situation, and it has been quite the shock to
their system because I know some people with some pretty
big nuts, if you'll pardon the expression, that they've got
to be able to meet. And all of a sudden,
you have a five hundred dollars a month bill that
you didn't have before, and you somehow were convinced by
an ancient president you were never gonna have to pay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Right, little AOC and the mummy president convinced you that
you shouldn't have to pay those It's unjust. Yeah, people
they believe that stuff, which is why I warned my kids.
Don't believe it. Man.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This could be and that could be a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You are not spending money on going out to eat,
in concerts and maybe travel, if all of a sudden
you're paying an extra five hundred to one thousand dollars
a month.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
No need to speculate. I have those numbers. You're absolutely right. Plus.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Over the roughly of the past year, credit card delinquency
rates have risen the highest points since pre pandemic levels,
highest for those eighteen to twenty nine years of age.
They quote a bunch of experts and economists expenditures this
is among eighteen to twenty four year olds on video
games is down twenty four percent, twenty three percent year
(19:06):
over year. We're the rest of those numbers. Apparel is
down eleven percent. Accessories is down eighteen percent. Oh, they
don't get how important it is to accessorize well accessories.
I Technology is down fourteen percent. Small appliance is down
almost twenty percent. Now I was gonna get a toaster,
but I guess I won't small appliances. I like those
(19:30):
kind of statistics, but like my own anecdote dose evidence,
and this is completely anecdotal. I live in a wealthy
college town.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
The gout.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
These college kids are out to eat all the.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Time, dressed cool, talking on thousand dollar phones. That's not
what I was doing when I was in college. I
was eating Beanie Wheeni's five cans for a dollar from
the food club to get by. I wasn't going out
to eat every day at expensive restaurants, which is what
happens in my college tent.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But again, that's anecdotal. But yeah, I would say that
is that is the anecdote that misleads.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Honestly, Well, you can't deny that there are a lot
of people living lifestyles. You shouldn't lead at that age
or income level, and that's why you're in financial trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
He's the credit card language. Yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Yeah,
it's all part of the same too. I was just
thinking about the shocking number of foreign students paying full
tuition and snapping up spots that American students could have
in university after university.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I saw some of those statistics recently.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And they're unbelievable anyway, So take a look look for
that as a continuing.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Maybe I should add into my commentary. I know, and
this is taking anecdotal to another level, but I know
at least a half a dozen people that are in
that group who tell me how broke they are all
the time, or how they could use more hours if
they could get them, because they're really in tough financial straits.
I think you live like you're a forty five year
old with a really good job and you're twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, so maybe you wouldn't be in a bind if
you didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Actually, that is the part of the article I should
have told you. The headline is Goodbye fancy bar, Hello
at home pizza party. Young Americans cut back. Yeah, okay, yeah,
and they have to obviously. So let's let's talk about
the super rich Jack the other end of the economic scale,
the rich and their prenuptial agreements. Attorneys say prenups are
only becoming more common for people of all wealth levels,
(21:36):
but for those with net worths that are nine figures
or larger that would be one hundred million bucks, right,
nine figures? Wow? Okay, Those agreements become sophisticated legal instruments
to protect assets, business, vampires, and finally, family dynasties.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I don't know what I think about prenups. I really don't.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I've gone back and forth on my I personally would
be much better off if I had done it, but
I don't ever really think that I wish I had.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So I know a little bit about prenups, but not
very much, having been married since we're eleven years old.
But here's some examples. Prenups can dictate who gets up
that's Kanye. Ah, Yes, that's the great philosopher Kanye. Prenups
can dictate who gets access to the private jet, how
the thoroughbred horses are cared for, and who gets to
(22:27):
say what about the divorce on social media. The embedded
confidential reality agreement can even prohibit disclosing the existence of
the prenup itself.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
You have to have a prenup that includes who gets
to say what on social media, as Kanye would say,
because when she leaves your ass, she's gonna leave with at.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh, well said yay.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Ultra wealthy prenups must address assets that can't be easily
split or sold. Don't worry, we'll get caddy in a second,
such as startup equity that can't be traded in public markets,
carry the interest in private equity funds, royalty streams from
intellectual property, and family trusts with complex distribution rules, and
if you don't have like crazy planning, the distributing those
(23:12):
assets can lead to painful trade offs, to financial tradeoffs,
not to mention years, if not decades, long legal battles,
and everybody in the family ending up hating each other.
It's tough to generate too much sympathy for the ultra wealthy,
But eh, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
She says she's gonna buy tych Goo with your money,
but she only gets light bulb with your money. Money money,
Who has listened to gold Digger one thousand times.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I have that's who Oh well it's a catchy too,
and I understand the appeal. So where is the where's
my favorite part? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Here you go.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Prenups can lay out who in a divorce supervises the
packing of personal belongings.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wow, God, that would be awful.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Can you imagine anything worse than getting down to those
details of argument or or.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Require a spouse to move out within thirty days? So
before your nuptials, you are saying you're negotiating. All right, Look,
when and if we get divorced, I will be in
charge of hiring the company that packs up all of
your belongings to move them out, because I don't once
(24:19):
you're stealing anything.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Ah right, And you're gonna have that conversation while you're
all in love, Ryan, Right, I love you. I love
you too.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Let me look deep into your eyes while you look
deep into my eyes. You know, if we ever split up,
and I think there's a decent chance we do, I
think you'd probably steal. So I got this piece of
paper that says somebody needs to watch you, and.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I'll need you to move out within two weeks. Two weeks.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I gotta find a place to live, all right, four weeks, Look,
make it a month, make it thirty days, all right,
I know, all right, you gotta be out within thirty days.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Here's a good one.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I know someone who got hit with the prenup, like
just two weeks before the wedding, had never come up
in conversation before the idea of it, and then they
got to I'm gonna want you to sign this, and.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Then it was like too late to pull the plug.
I mean you could, obviously, but it's a lot harder
to sure. Yeah, some clients demand that their prenups. Here
we go, stipulate that a spouse maintain a specific weight,
you say, within twenty pounds of what it was on
the wedding day.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Oh, that's fantastic a prenup weight agreement. Honey, I'm gonna
need you to come on and step on the scale.
It's can like it might be breaking some rules. It's
an excellent point, Katie, to enforce the prenup. If anybody's
getting close, somebody's got to say, all right, we need
to have a way I put in the pre nup.
(25:49):
I would never do this, but if you were going
to The only way to make this less contentious was
part of the prenup is we have to have weekly
weigh in both of us.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, Well, one thing is you've go ahead, otherwise.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You end up with a situation. Hey, katie's talking about Hey,
I just noticed when we were at the pool on vacation.
Look like you a little porky there, street heart.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
One common thing is you've got to stay within twenty
pounds of what you are on the wedding day or what.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I don't know me.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I saw you come out of the sauna and if
you're not two ten, my name's Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I mean so I think we should get the scale out.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well, and if you're looking for a trophy wife or
husband or something, I mean that just that ends. Is
she just or is he just marrying me because I'm
young and hot? Well, yes, yes, it's being made very
very clear here. If you gain twenty one pounds, you're
in violation of the prenup and you lose your rights
(26:52):
to god knows, I don't know the house, the car, money,
whatever or it says you've got. Well, for instance, here's
another one a prenups. There's one predup says you agree
to exercise four times a week during the marriage.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
That one seems hard to enforce.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, there's got to be a subclause about if you
have the flu or a similar disease.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Others want financial penalties for cheating.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
One attorney described a client seeking a million dollar payment
for each affair.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
See that's you know, some states have that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
That's one of the problems that you get into the
So if one person cheats and then you go through
the divorce laws where they are and you're gonna get
lose half your stuff for somebody who violated the vows,
that just seems so incredibly uncool to me.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
But on the other side of it, here's an Atlanta attorney, Well,
go ahead, did you have one more point on that?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Well, I'm not a misogynist like you, so I wanted
to point out that it could be the other direction
for the weight gain. I've known a number of women
who are very unhappy that they got married in their
husband's game, like fifty pounds, Eh.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
You can work anyway. Here's an Atlanta based divorce attorney.
He alreadycounts a professional basketball player client who insisted his
prenup acknowledge that quote. NBA players are known to have affairs,
so cheating could not trigger costly content. It was a
get out of jail free, or you know I'm going
(28:15):
to have affairs clause in the prenup.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well why even get married?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I know I got no success to lean on as
a but I just yeah, I can't imagine you get
all that taking care of and now you're walking down
the aisle storry eyed and happy with each other. Happiest
day of my life now that we've worked out that
you can't gain more than ten pounds, or I'll put
you on the scale and hold you to it, or
you know all these other different things. Well, I need
to be watched while I pack boxes if we do
(28:42):
split up, because I can't be trusted.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, where's the magic.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Nothing says love like getting the lawyers involved. And here's
a New York to Forrest attorney, a woman who says
every prenuptial agreement is a power play. It's exciting for
them to have this control, but the leverage goes to
whoever cares less about the marriage. If you're willing to
walk away, you hold all the cards. Wow, Wow, that's wrong.
(29:12):
That is so foreign to my life experience. Yeah, I know,
I'm so lucky. Whoever cares less about the marriage holds
all the cards.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yes, I think. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I think because it what I agree. But you know,
I'm not married, so I haven't pulled it off. I
think you got to sneak it in. You do, Like
I wait, my truck the other day on a truck scale.
I don't know if you've ever been on a truck scale,
but it just it looks like the driveway. It's just
that the driveway floats. And so you got to do
that under their chair at the table, or like their
easy chair where they watch television.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You make that a scale.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I have a digital readout on the back of it
or on you you know, yeah, ip an app on
your phone.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So they sit in their chair and think one ninety five. Okay, man,
he's two pounds away. Yeah, digital read out on your couch.
Here you go. You need to secretly weighim. That's my point.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
She sits down.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh, you know, I found the salad recipe for dinner.
It's gonna be great. I can't believe a weight guarantee
in the prenup. That's a funny one. Wow oof love.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
More on the waisty here, the Armstrong and Getdy show,
more Jack your show podcasts, and our hot lakes.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Wow, So my investigative journalism is paid off. Yet another
key fact that makes the hot, self important drunk chicks
in Rhode Island story even more hilarious.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Oh okay, I wasn't sure in what order.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
To list those adjittives hot drunk self important chicks.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I think the hot part because you only get traction
at all because you're a hot chick with this sort
of behavior, right, militant, loud, nasty looking chick, or exhibits
this sort of behavior too.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
In political settings lately, it's the angry uh grad school
lunatic screaming at the cops.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Why are you arrested? That's some you know, pro Hamas
rally or something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It's kind of a cousin to the drunk, self important
hot chick syndrome.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Anyway, So here's a question for you.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
First of all, you know more about drunks in general
than I did. These women, particularly the special Assistant Attorney
General name of Devon Hogan Flanagan, who who's.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Busted by the cops. You know what, I'll ask my
question after we play the tape.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Go ahead, Michael, this is what it sounded like, the
cops trying to get them to leave a restaurants, So
we gotta leave now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Number one, you're not going to arrest us. Number two,
I'm an aging. Good for you, let's go leaving hands off.
I'm an aging.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The fact that she apparents can I buy those cops
a drink place? I would like to sit down and
enjoy a libation with you, fellas well done.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
The fact that she literally seems to believe that as
the attorney general, the.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Topestional assistant attorney general. But well, she's saying, I'm the
I'm an age anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Uh, you're part of the top cop office, that the
laws don't apply to you.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I mean, that's what you're saying. That's a it's a
heck of a thing to say, how loud.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Well, and here's my favorite part of it, other than
that they tried to show that they indeed were the
reasonable ones by trying to kick out the windows in
the cop car, the cops that.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Told them repeatedly, I don't want to arrest you. All
you have to do is go. They've asked you to leave,
Just go. I don't want to arrest you. You're not
going to arrest us, Okay, so let's leave.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
We gotta go, We gotta go. The officer replies, no,
you can't make us. You can't arrest us. I don't
want to arrest you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Just leave. See the no, No, they had to sit there.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
The normal drunken reaction to that would be, WHOA, I
have really lucked out here that all they're doing is
asking me to leave.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I am going to get out of here to avoid
any further problems.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Well, and just to give you a sense of how
it was inside the restaurant, the following exchange took place.
The cop can be heard on the camera asking a
restaurant employee do you just want them out? Do you
want them trespassed? The employee says, anything we can do trespass.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yes. So here's the question for you.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
As a guy who's somewhat familiar with overm bibers, these
two hobbies will take complete responsibility quote unquote and say
I have a problem with alcohol.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I am an alcoholic. It is a disease.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You wouldn't you wouldn't fire somebody for having a disease.
Would you if I had COVID, would you fire me? No,
it's a disease. Is the primary problem that they're drunks
or is it hard to separate?
Speaker 6 (34:41):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No, no, it's not. Or is it that they're a holes.
It's their a holes. I've known thousands of drunks.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
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