January 23, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Costco booze & the NY Times tries to get athletes to bash Trump
- No spend January
- The little boy "detained" by I.C.E.
- AI - Amazing & horrifying
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty twice in New
(00:25):
York Times, trying to get our tennis players to bad
mouth the United States. Why we know why. But we'll
get to that in just a second. So here's a
conversation that came up for one of our local segments
that I didn't know anything about. So locally, where the
Armstrong and Getty Show broadcasts from the Capitol of California, Sacramento, California.
There's a bunch of people waiting in line in the
(00:46):
dark and the cold, not cold by your standards rest
of the country, but cold by our standards, waiting in
line for a new costco to open up. And I
was mocking it. I always mock people who wait in
line for things to open up. I just think the
whole you'd be the first one to try this new
coffee shop or whateverything is just seems odd to me.
Don't you have better things to do with your life?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But I guess that's not just the sort of status
I've never craved.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I just say that no, but apparently when a Costco
opens up, when we got a bunch of texts about this,
when a new Costco opens, they stock up on hard
to get bourbons. Ah, and I mentioned three and fifty
dollars bottle of bourbon that was gonna sell for thirty
five dollars. I don't know that that's happening. This is
not an ad, don't hold me to it. It's just
(01:31):
a text we got, but a couple that you're trying
to rings a bell. Yeah, I'd never heard that before.
It's interesting so Costco. I'm a Costco member. They obviously
have internal data that leads them to believe they've got
enough people in that crowd to generate buzz that will
(01:51):
get them on the local news, so everybody will know
there's a new Costco open over here. I mean, well, right,
and just a.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Visual of people lined up for days to get into
your stuff. I mean, I don't care what you're selling.
That's great, that's great marketing. But yeah, that does ring
a bell, honestly, because there are certain bourbons, and honestly,
you know, I like bourbon fine. I belong to a
bourbon club. It's an excuse to get together with the fellas. Honestly,
do you drink bourbon at the Bourbon Club? I do,
indeed I did last night, very very judiciously.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Do you swallowed or spit it out like when people
face wine? Oh? Good lord, how am I going to
forget my problems if I spit it out? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I will tell you this though, there is rampant fetishization
of certain bourbons in the world of bourbon, and it
is a perfect example of scarcity being like its own thing,
you know. And I'll get drummed out of the society
for saying this, but people like, gosh over how, oh
my god, it's so incredible, that's so wonderful. It might
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be incrementally better than something a tenth of its price,
but because it's rare and because you having it elevate
blah blah blah. There's a lot of that in wine too, obviously,
and all the scarcity.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And I've learned recently as a non drinker coffee coffee beans,
people go nuts over these limited edition coffee beans from
small growers in various places.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, you know me, if it didn't come out of
a civit cat's butt, I won't drink it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh, that's right. I promised I was going to try that.
I got to get some of the civit cat coffee.
Do it, hell, I'll pay for it. I want to
hear about it. Okay, So this story is annoying. There
are four big tennis tournaments every single year. They're Grand Slams,
and the Australian Open is one of them, and it's
going on right now. And our top tennis players and
I don't know the names of these people, and it
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doesn't matter, but our top tennis players were playing yesterday.
And then when you get done playing any sport, you
go into this room, you sit down a microphone, and
reporters ask you questions. Well, for some reason, the reporter
from the Athletic, which is the sports spin off wing
of the New York Times, and I thought it, Yeah,
I hate the fact that I have to subscribe to
(03:59):
it separately, Like there'll be a sports headline. I subscribe
to the New York Times the sports headline, and I'll
click on it. I want to read it, and says
if you'd like to read the whole story for another
twenty dollars, what I subscribe to the New York Times.
I don't get your sports stuff. The hell anyway, The
athletic reporter for the New York Times was there grilling
our US tennis players on politics. Let's hear the first one.
(04:21):
Congrats on the wind.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know, I'm asking all the American players this. And
there's a lot happening back home in the US and
kind of has been for a lot of last year,
and I'm just kind of wondering how you're feeling about
all of them.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, I'm not sure what we're like specifically talking about,
but there.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Is there is a lot going on in uh in
the US, and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I feel like.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Whatever I say here is gonna you get put in
a headline.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And it's it's that's true. I'm gonna get taken out
of context. So that's the point. So why I ask
really rather.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Not do something that's gonna cause a big distraction for
me in the middle of the tournament.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What's the name of that reporter? He's an ass hat.
He is the biggest of asses and ass hats. What
a jerk. I hate this person. We're about to hear
more of these. I hate that guy so much. You
take these young people who've dedicated their lives to playing
tennis or aut a tennis tournament and try to put
them in an awkward position, hoping they'll say something that
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you can exploit. God, you're a friend person.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Not only that, As young Taylor Fritz put it there,
he was the tennis player. He said, Look, I'm in
the middle of a tournament. I'm trying to earn a living.
This could cause an enormous distraction of me trying to
earn a living. So no, take your you know, your
muck raking elsewhere. I'm a tennis guy. What a dick?
I hate that guy. You got more He's asking Amanda
(05:52):
and a Samova.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I've been asking a lot of the American players just
how it feels to play under the American flag right now,
and I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Curious how you feel.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, I mean I was born in America, so I'm
always proud to represent my country.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Just to clarify a little, I mean sort of in
the context of the last year of everything that's been
happening in the in the US, does that complicate that feeling?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I just say, Trump, you wheeze.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I don't think that's relevant.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What a dick. God, I hate this guy. I agree
with you completely. Wow. God, that is so out of
line New York Times. If you don't fire that guy
and apologize he.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Was following their marching orders, I'll bet hey get some
comments about Trump from the players and apparently don't mention
Trump just a hint around at it.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
How do you feel about playing under the American flag?
How do you feel about me punching you in the nose?
He needs to go to that Al Salvador prison. I
want to see him in the T shirt with the
white sox, bent over, holding his head down, marching around
that Alsauvno prison. I see your cure for a lot
of thing is. I think that'll fix a lot that ills. Yeah,
here's another one.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The US is a year into the second Trump administration
now and a lot of people are suffering, and sports
were wondering how you're feeling about things back home personally
and specifically what the mood is like in Florida.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, that's a tough question, I feel, do you know?
I don't know. I don't like to kind of dabble
too much into politics just because it's just not the
space that I really want to say that much on Good.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
For you, Jessica, Jessica Pegula is that how you said
your name? Yeah, and these people are young too, but
all three of them so far savvy enough to say,
all right, I know what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And then finally tennis player Madison Keys, which I know
this is interesting for one of my best friends who
has a daughter named Madison Keys. That's our actual name.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
How do you feel personally about what the Trump administration
has been doing and how has it fell to you
when you've spent time in the US.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I think my stance has been pretty obvious. I think
it's pretty obvious where I stand, and I am hopeful
that we as a country can come together and get
back to the values that I think make our country great.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Yeah, some of those values would be not asking teenage
sports phenoms political questions with the only goal of trying
to turn it into a blown.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Up controversy, right right, that's awful, It really really is awful.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, and just the whole injecting politics into everything right
all the time, would just stop. Please get it out
of your book reviews, get it out of your your
freaking recipes. Literally is a new your time still doing that.
At one point you could not read a recipe without
some sort of comment about how ugly the totalitarian US
(09:09):
is becoming, how oppressive to bipos and LPG T p
q r S, t u v S, A meat low
recipe that will comfort you during the Trump administration, that
sort of thing. And I'm not joking, but a lot
of those times. Just get the politics out of that stuff.
Oh my god, that's annoying. What is that reporter's name?
(09:30):
I want to name, I want to name a name.
We need a name, Hansen man if he is not
in El Salvador soon.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So here are the things that I suffer from that
cause me pain. I tweeted a really good tweet and
there's a typo in it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, you can't fix it. It's too late to edit it. Yeah,
you gotta, you gotta. You can delete it. You gotta
delete it and then reap and then ate it. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, And the irony is the sentence was supposed to
be this is beyond stupid, but it came out as
this beyond stupid. So I sound like a caveman, a
Tonto or something short stupid. So not that Tonto was stupid,
he was just an English as a second language learner.
I don't want to offend any of our Native American friends.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You got a name for the asset.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Uh yeah, the reporter named Owen Lewis. This is what
I'm saying, couldn't hate you more, Owen Lewis. May you
get an awful rash?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Wow? Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I was searching for something involving whacking fuzzy balls since
it's a tennis tournament, right.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I just tried. I couldn't come up with anything that
wasn't distaste to tie it in trying to title together exactly, bastard. Oh,
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Speaker 1 (12:02):
Did you actually make a typo or did it like
self correct the thing? I don't understand, and this seems
to be happening more on my iPhone or whatever. I
voice text a lot. It gets it right the first
time and then changes it to something wrong. Why does
that happen so often?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I just tried to voice text stumps something and I'm
singing from your hymn book here, but it's getting worse.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like aggressively bad. But it would be one thing
if it doesn't understand me, but it did understand me,
then changed it to something that doesn't. That is not
what I said. What it's the AI thinking this fool
doesn't know what he wants to say, we'll tell him
what to say. Yeah, I find that really annoying. Whenever
that happens, I think. I don't think AI has taken
(12:45):
over the world anytime soon. But I realize that doesn't
have anything to do with anything. What was the other
thing I wanted to tease to catch up on. I
don't remember. I'm sure it's good, it's coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
A fifteen year old A fifteen year old dog was
recently returned to his family more than ten years after
he went missing.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
So good news, kids, and then almost immediately terrible news.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Kids. So I got a big winter storm going on,
and like I loathe national weather, that's a news story
most of the time because it's it's just a normal weather.
Unless you live there, you don't care. But this is
(13:28):
one of the bigger storms in a very very long time,
covering such a giant portion of the country, amount of
snow and cold, but I just looked up the ten
coldest temperatures predicted today in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where my
brother was born. It's going to be forty below. Oh
that's the temperature with the wind show, Oh the windshill.
(13:50):
That is As a guy from South Dakota, that's not unusual.
I mean, it's very, very cold, but it's not like,
oh my god, I can't believe this is happening if
you live there, but it's dangerous cold. Of course equipped
for it. Yeah, Milwaukee's gonna have minus thirty five with
the wind chill, Chicago, your hometown, minus thirty, Bismarck, North Dakota,
minus fifty with the wind shill. Counting up. Duluth, Minnesota
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is expecting minus fifty five with the windshield, and then
Grand Marius, Minnesota, they're expecting minus sixty with the windshield.
Frostbite in minutes. Although I did one time as a
kid in Wisconsin we had school. It was minus seventy
five with the wind child minus seventy five. That is cold.
Then you went to school. Yeah, they did have school.
And the day I was born, I told the story
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all the time. The day I was born in here
in South Dakota. Mom says, I think we need to
go to the hospital, and my dad has to go
out and start the car in the middle of the night.
I can't believe that a car in the mid sixties started.
Of course, you plugged a man, you had heater on.
If you're from cold weather, you know that it was
minus thirty two straight out, not with the wind shill.
That was the actual temperature. And my parents used to
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talk about that, and I thought, could that be true?
And I looked up went back to look at the records.
That actually was that night thirty two below without the wind. God,
that's cold. I don't know if that's insane. I don't
know what's the coldest I've been in in like recent memory.
But there is a there is there's kind of a difference.
But at some point my experience has been it's pretty
(15:16):
hard to tell the difference between ten and zero. Even
though there's a ten degree gap, it's just.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Freaking cold, right right, once you get into that I'm
dying zone, right, the incremental difference is just don't make
that much difference. Yeah, yeah, it was a there was
a flood the night our son was born. That was
that was quite the dramatic evening. But uh yeah, ah right,
what were we talking about? Oh weather, Oh the big
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freeze and the chill and wind chill and that sort
of thing. Yeah, well, God, bless y' all. I hope
you get through it okay and your power stays on. Yeah, yeah,
I'm interested. This is a Michael, you might want to
jop this down. This is a red letter day. I,
Joe Getty, have come across an internet trend that I
think is great. Uh, and it's an actual trend. It's
got a silly name, of course that sounds trendy. No,
(16:03):
by January. It is people who like this family. It's
family of five. And Dad explains the idea. He's locked
up the family credit card. Anyone who wants to make
a purchase, including gas, well, fast food, or any other
potential items, you need to make the case for why
this is necessary. And he said, essentially, it's just become
(16:27):
so easy to buy things, and it's and we buy,
and we buy, and we buy, and we don't think
about it. Then we reckon with the bills and all
they do. They set aside one month to say, all right,
is this really necessary?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And is it necessary now? Or this much of this.
It would be my case. This often my paying with
my watch, which I love from a practical standpoint, with
the Apple Watch. Just you know, they tell me what
something is, I just go put my wrist there bing
not the door, I go and y. It is really
not much of a process there for keeping track of
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how often you do this or that, how much you're spending.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I don't know how seriously to take this, but the
folks at nerd Wallet did a survey of more than
two thousand US adults and found that more than a
quarter have tried no spend January, with twelve percent joining
the trend this year.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
No spend January. So that is the idea of I
assume not spending anything beyond your basic needs.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
H Yes, I think you know, you customize the rules
to yourself. I mean, obviously you have to eat, but
you don't beat out right. Yeah, exactly, you put caveats
like that on it. I think that's great because.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It wasn't very long ago.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Here's my old time you got any old timey banjo
music to play, Michael, It wasn't very long ago.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We were entirely cash society. Credit was extremely rare. If
you didn't have ten dollars, you wouldn't spend ten dollars. Yeah,
my parents didn't have a credit card at all until
the society got to the point that you really can't.
You can't run a car, you can't get hotel room,
blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, and they finally got one in frozen broken half. They
had to move out of South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Try again. We got more on the way. If you
missus Secone, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Armstrong and Getty. I mentioned this yesterday. You hear about
some of these abuses of ice, and I'm sure some
of them are true, but I also I am sure
not all of them are true. And on each individual basis,
(18:28):
I don't know. When I hear I think maybe that's true,
maybe it's not, And I'm not going to take the time.
Maybe I'm a bad person for that, but I'm not
going to take the time to dig into trying to
figure it out. I also think, like Trump said the
other day, I just I just I think it's if
you let in fifteen million people or whatever illegally, and
then the population votes for a guy who says he's
going to get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He's going to be pretty hard to do it without
ugly things happening. Any of y'all ever done the wrong
thing for a real long time and then I had
to sort it out? Yeah, it frequently has some bumps
and painful spots.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
For sure. Right wing talk right wing talk show host
calls violating people's constitutional rights a bump. I'm Jack Armstrong.
That was good. I like that. That fired me up.
That's the thing we do in uh on Blue Sky
(19:22):
is that it ye sweet? How cool you are? That's
an ongoing joke in my house with my kids for
some reason, like when I almost do something or think
about doing something or whatever, and we do the headline
for it'll be known radio host and Trump supporter, like
last night as a of a the grocery store parking
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lot and I didn't see a woman, Thank god, I
did see he, but well known talk show host and
Trump supporter runs over woman holding baby. My kids get
to kick out of that for some reason. Oh well,
and then you ask her.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I presume she survives, but ask her who she voted for,
and now she says Kamala Harris. Then they get to
say tasho a houst and Trump supporter runs over Kamala
Harris supporter with baby right, hinting that it was pure malice.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So I didn't know the details on this. This is
one of the memes of the last like twenty four hours.
You got this cute little kid. It's like an extra
cute picture of a five year old little Hispanic boy
wearing a cute blue like cartoonish knit cap, just looking
as cute and as adorable as a five year old
kid kid standing behind a chain link fence alone, looking
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very very sad, and it is. It's a rough picture.
I mean, that's a kid who misses, misses anybody they know,
stutting behind a chain link fence. And so the narrative
was for the last twenty four hours, Well, well let's play.
Here's ABC News last night.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
On it, we spoke with school officials who were there,
saying that they consoled the boy's sobbing mother after Ice
agents took her husband and son away from her after
they returned.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Home from school that day.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
A lawyer for the family says they're being held at
the Dilly Family Detention Center that's down in Texas, and
it's difficult to hear from them across state lines.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So the story originally was and then we're going to
get into what DHS is saying today, But the story
originally was that, you know, the evil ice people separated
this little kid from the kid's parents, and now they're
horribly said, you know, all this is such a mess.
Like we just said, you let in fifteen million people
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and families and everything like that, and then you got
different rules for kids can be in this facility or parents,
and it's going to get ugly. So the best way
to handle it is don't let the fifteen million people
in in the first place. That's the best way to
handle it. Right. Of course, of course, once that happened,
I'm so oh reminded.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And I don't even have anything but the cursory knowledge
of the story, but I'm reminded so much of the
kids with I'm sorry, kids in cages during the first
Trump administration, where they were at the very same facilities
being used in the very same ways, is when Obama
was president. And it turns out, yeah, it was chainlink
to keep any adults away from the kids so the
kids were safe.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It was utterly fictionalized. Here's ABC News' version of the story.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
School officials who claimed to witness the incident say agents
essentially used the five year old as bait, directing him
to knock on the door to see if anyone else
was home before taking him away, and witnesses claim multiple people,
including the boy's mother, offered to take him. The school
district says Liam is among four students recently detained. He
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and his father were flown to a detention facility in Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So I don't know what actually happened. But DHS is
out this morning saying, look, what happened is the parents
fled and left this kid alone, and so we took
the kid into custody, and then what do we do?
And then you end up with a behind chain link
fence to keep the kid protected from other So that
whole situation. So I don't know, I don't know what
the right way to handle this is, if that if
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that's what happened, but he'd like to.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Get hand I'd like to get a handle on the
facts before I start talking about you know, rights and wrongs, all.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Right, I don't. I don't. I don't know either. But
the image, which some people say is worth many words, hundreds,
maybe even a thousand words. A picture of this little
kid looking there, standing there, super sad, all alone with
the little knit hat on is you know, pretty powerful.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So the higher ups and ICE are now addressing the situation.
We want to hear their explanations. Okay, Michael, start with
the first one.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
While other officers apprehended his father. After conducting the arrest,
my officers stayed with the child. They cared for him,
took him to get something to eat from a drive
through restaurant, and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of. Again,
my officers did that, not his father. My officers did
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everything they could to reunite him with his family. Tragically,
when we approached the door of his residence, the people
inside refused to take.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Him in and open the door.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Let me say it again, they saw the young boy
and they refused to open the door and take him back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, so now I get it.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I was looking at the Washington Post column by some
flaming lefty and again I don't know the bedrock truth
of this, but the whole they used him as bait.
The Border Patrol is saying, we're trying to get him
back to his family, and the family thought something was
going on, and wouldn't open the door and take the
damn kid back.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That will not be heard by many people, will be
seen by many, many millions.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And again, I don't know that what that gentleman said
is I don't mean.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
True saying things that aren't true all around.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
On this story, it did not sound like a lie
to me. It had the ring of truth. Let's hear
Greg Bovino, the head uniformed officer and ICE.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Many American citizens are separated when they're arrested, say by
Minneapolis Police Department or any other police department. They are
separated from their children when they're arrested. So take a
look at what's happening here with this particular case. They're
not being separated. That child is in the least restrictive
setting possible. When I say that, we're experts both board
(25:30):
Up Patrolled and ICE in dealing with immigration cases that
involve children, probably the most experienced anywhere in the United
States by any domestic law enforcement agency.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
This is an ugly situation.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
See better get there and stare at that kid tearfully
in a photo op.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Quick. This is an ugly situation we've created, and it's
gonna be hard to uncreated. Yeah, I would agree. I
would agree. I keep using as an example our national
debt of thirty five trillion dollars. When the rubber finally
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hits the road and we have to cancel all kinds
of programs, some of them actually good that I might
even like, and cut back on Social Security money and
raise the age on. It's going to be horrible, but
we created a really bad situation and now the result,
the fixing it cleaning up, is going to be ugly.
That's what happens. And you create bad situations.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, the longer you let them go dot dot dot
sttch in time saves nine ancients saying we all know it.
One more note from this is Marco Charles of Ice.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Let me debunk a couple more lies.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Cornaha, Audius was not walking to school with his child,
and we did not target the child. Audios fled from
law enforcement officers and left his child behind.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
In middle of winter in a car.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, the truth is only one player on the scene.
I can just see the progressives of the world, including
the journalists, saying, well, yes, he saw the Trump Gestapo
coming at him and he ran for his life.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
He panicked. Who can blame him for that. You know, well,
I'm not gonna leave my kid behind no matter what, No, no,
can you imagine? Good luck kid, feats don't fail me. Now.
More than sixteen hundred flights have already been canceled for
tomorrow ahead of this giant storm manace. So I hope
(27:38):
you aren't traveling this weekend. I'm glad I'm not, because
the airports are going to be a disaster all over
the country even if you got good weather. Do you
either book a flight today or just give up? Do
you have any rooting interest for the games this weekend?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's tough as an NFC West guy, a big Niners fan.
I hate the Seahawks, and what's the Seahawk anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The Osprey's.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I've rooted again aninst the Rams with great enthusiasm. The
Donkeys lost their quarterback, and the Patriots have won too
many Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So this is auto new people though, same owner, but
it's all new. It's not like Tom Brady again. Drinke
May my guy, Drinke May. Yeah, I'll probably be rooting
for him, or you know, I'll be rooting for the
Broncos to pull off a miracle win that kid who
to pass in three years, that would be cool. Yeah,
and if that started to happen, I would be on
the side of the Broncos definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, he was actually going to be the heir apparent
to Tom Brady from what I understand, but they told
him hit the road, you're a loser.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So now he's got vengeance on his mind. Yeah, why
didn't ship on his shoulder? Oh, I was going to
bring this up. I meant to bring this up the
other day. Do you feel like, because Joe and I
are old, so we've been watching the sport for a
long time, I feel like the athleticism is just on
a different level than it was when we were watching
we were kids. The things these receivers do and everything,
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it's just like nothing like that ever happened maybe once
a year. Now it's ten times a game. Yeah. There
are a couple of reasons for that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
One of the reasons is the rules have been changed
so that it's much less likely you get crippled as
a receiver or paralyzed or brain dead, so they can
risk their bodies in ways that they wouldn't have dared.
With Darryl Stingley patrolling the defensive backfir or Chris Collins,
right right, Ah, so yeah that's changed. Plus you know
(29:25):
fitness and training, year round training, nutrition, and blah blah blah.
These guys are miracles of athletic strength and speed.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
The you are a different sort of beast if you're
like the cornerback or wide receiver and you got that
ball coming, and they do these millisecond decisions on how
to twist their bodies and everything like that and either
deflectaball or catch a ball. Ware It's just stunning. I mean,
you see them in slow motion. I think that that
had to be done in real time. It's like a
(29:55):
different beast. It's like and I can't even relate to
it right right, and listen. I don't want to turn
this racial because it isn't in a way. But we
shared the New York Times ridiculous Scott Adams, not biography.
What's when you die? They have your obituary.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
The headline, which is a popular cartoon is until he
said something gracious in this podcast, and I actually went
back to what he said, and it was racially provocative,
and I understand why some people would not like it,
but it had to do with differences between races and
stuff like that, and Douglas Murray can tell you how
incredibly dangerous in minefield.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He It is not Douglas who wrote the Bell Curve.
Charles Murray. Charles Murray, Yeah, different Murray. Not Bill Murray either.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
He did not write the Bell Curve, although he could
certainly start in the movie version of it and that'd
be fantastic. But anyway, you watch an NFL game, if
there are two white dudes on the defense, that's pretty
good ratio white dudes. The idea that we cannot talk
about out, you know, differences on average between racial groups
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without it being quote unquote racist.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It's just silly.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's something no adults should, you know, an attitude no
adults should accept. And yet it's everywhere to the point
that a beloved artist dies and he said something you
thought was rude years ago, so that's in the headline
of his obituary. Come on, I think to me, that
perpetuates racism. It doesn't stop it.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I think I'm going rams Patriots un less Denver quarterback
starts to do. Well, that's what I'm doing. That's my
official line. I better go on price picks and do
my thing. Go feel free have had it. I never
know what to tease. What flavor do we want coming in?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Oh, I've actually got something really good, totally uncontroversial.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
At some point Zelensky, president of Ukraine, is weighing in
on how the negotiations are going. This is the biggest
yet between Russia, the United States and Ukraine to try
to solve this thing. I don't think it's gonna work,
but we can get an update on that, among other things.
Stay here.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
The dramatic police chase and shootout in northern California police
cornering a carjacking suspect in downtown San Jose. I thought
he say, the suspect tried to steal a squad car.
The suspect was killed. An officer was also wounded.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Trying to steal a squad car. Bad plan? What is
that You always say if you're contemplating a life of crime,
that means you're too stupid for a life of crime. Yeah,
it's proof.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, yeah, So I just had a realization about AI
coming up. Oh, I'm looking at the clock. There's no
freaking way we can do this in the time we had.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh that was a bad plan. I will tell you.
We got up to the line of scrimmage, like eight second,
what are we doing this?
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Never?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
This effing, never effing works, to quote Patrick Mahomes, actually
an hour four of the show.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's right, we do a fourth hour. We get it
subscribed to the podcast Armstrong and getting demand. Why was
I not informed? I want to get to the you're
better off not knowing. We're gonna get to the why
your brain does so much better remembering things and learning
things in some situations than others. I have been tortured
by this question my entire life, and now I have
(33:16):
the answer. We'll get to it next out. I love
that sort of thing. I know, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But the AI thing I was about to say the
other day, Ben Affleck said AI can't make a film
that is considered art. I just saw an AI generated
short film of Harry Potter as a GI in the
Vietnam War. Yeah. I tweeted that out over the weekend.
Oh did you yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh my god? Oh that's it's on our Twitter feed. Yeah,
it's amazing, though, it's stunning.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Have you seen a katy Terry Potter in You need
to know Apocalypse now to really enjoy it. But it's
Terry Potter and Apocalypse Now and it's really believable. Well,
and it's set.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
To a song that is hilariously jivy. That's kind of
telling you this story. That was really enhance my enjoyment.
But I realized my attitude about AI is a lot
like what was famously said of John Randolph, the Statesman,
who described Henry Clay thus, the great Henry Clay.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
The awful Henry Clay.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt.
He shines and stinks like a rotten mackerel by moonlight.
It's one of my favorite couple of sentences in the
history of the English language.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And that's what you think of AI.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I am astounded and awe struck by it and horrified
by it.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, it shines and it stinks. Yeah. Ben Affleck's point though,
was creating. I mean, you are creating something if you
make a spoof of a famous Vietnam War movie and
have Harry Potter and obviously, but it's not the same
as writing a new thing. He had no wand just
(34:56):
an M sixteen goes the song oh in the different
characters from Harry Potter playing in the famous roles from
apocalypse now right, It's just it's pretty.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
It's pretty, it's pretty good, it's it's pretty amazing. But
you're thinking like a story from scratch. Yeah, boy meets
girl overcomes difficulties.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Blah blah blah. Still working on that novel rising to
the level of art.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You don't think it will because so much of quote
unquote art is just commercial formulate crap.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
You gotta got a protagonist.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Gonna gonna gonna overcome some hardship? Is he?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Maybe some learn some lessons along the way. A few
more of my favorite sentences have ever uttered in the universe.
Language that from the Family Guy. Of course. If you've
never seen that, go to YouTube and look for Stewy
Still were Bryan about his novel? Still working on that novel.
Oh my god, there's three episodes. I just watched him
the other day with my son. It's so funny. And
(35:56):
then move on to over Under. Yeah, we do do
four hours. Joe did not Lie And if you missed
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Speaker 2 (36:10):
Why did you learn something so quickly at times and
then struggle at other times. Science has the answer and
it's not age or anything like that. Really stay with us.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Fascinating Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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(00:25):
York Times, trying to get our tennis players to bad
mouth the United States. Why we know why. But we'll
get to that in just a second. So here's a
conversation that came up for one of our local segments
that I didn't know anything about. So locally, where the
Armstrong and Getty Show broadcasts from the Capitol of California, Sacramento, California.
There's a bunch of people waiting in line in the
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dark and the cold, not cold by your standards rest
of the country, but cold by our standards, waiting in
line for a new costco to open up. And I
was mocking it. I always mock people who wait in
line for things to open up. I just think the
whole you'd be the first one to try this new
coffee shop or whateverything is just seems odd to me.
Don't you have better things to do with your life?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But I guess that's not just the sort of status
I've never craved.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I just say that no, but apparently when a Costco
opens up, when we got a bunch of texts about this,
when a new Costco opens, they stock up on hard
to get bourbons. Ah, and I mentioned three and fifty
dollars bottle of bourbon that was gonna sell for thirty
five dollars. I don't know that that's happening. This is
not an ad, don't hold me to it. It's just
(01:31):
a text we got, but a couple that you're trying
to rings a bell. Yeah, I'd never heard that before.
It's interesting so Costco. I'm a Costco member. They obviously
have internal data that leads them to believe they've got
enough people in that crowd to generate buzz that will
(01:51):
get them on the local news, so everybody will know
there's a new Costco open over here. I mean, well, right,
and just a.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Visual of people lined up for days to get into
your stuff. I mean, I don't care what you're selling.
That's great, that's great marketing. But yeah, that does ring
a bell, honestly, because there are certain bourbons, and honestly,
you know, I like bourbon fine. I belong to a
bourbon club. It's an excuse to get together with the fellas. Honestly,
do you drink bourbon at the Bourbon Club? I do,
indeed I did last night, very very judiciously.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Do you swallowed or spit it out like when people
face wine? Oh? Good lord, how am I going to
forget my problems if I spit it out? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I will tell you this though, there is rampant fetishization
of certain bourbons in the world of bourbon, and it
is a perfect example of scarcity being like its own thing,
you know. And I'll get drummed out of the society
for saying this, but people like, gosh over how, oh
my god, it's so incredible, that's so wonderful. It might
(02:51):
be incrementally better than something a tenth of its price,
but because it's rare and because you having it elevate
blah blah blah. There's a lot of that in wine too, obviously,
and all the scarcity.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And I've learned recently as a non drinker coffee coffee beans,
people go nuts over these limited edition coffee beans from
small growers in various places.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, you know me, if it didn't come out of
a civit cat's butt, I won't drink it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh, that's right. I promised I was going to try that.
I got to get some of the civit cat coffee.
Do it, hell, I'll pay for it. I want to
hear about it. Okay, So this story is annoying. There
are four big tennis tournaments every single year. They're Grand Slams,
and the Australian Open is one of them, and it's
going on right now. And our top tennis players and
I don't know the names of these people, and it
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doesn't matter, but our top tennis players were playing yesterday.
And then when you get done playing any sport, you
go into this room, you sit down a microphone, and
reporters ask you questions. Well, for some reason, the reporter
from the Athletic, which is the sports spin off wing
of the New York Times, and I thought it, Yeah,
I hate the fact that I have to subscribe to
(03:59):
it separately, Like there'll be a sports headline. I subscribe
to the New York Times the sports headline, and I'll
click on it. I want to read it, and says
if you'd like to read the whole story for another
twenty dollars, what I subscribe to the New York Times.
I don't get your sports stuff. The hell anyway, The
athletic reporter for the New York Times was there grilling
our US tennis players on politics. Let's hear the first one.
(04:21):
Congrats on the wind.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You know, I'm asking all the American players this. And
there's a lot happening back home in the US and
kind of has been for a lot of last year,
and I'm just kind of wondering how you're feeling about
all of them.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I mean, I'm not sure what we're like specifically talking about,
but there.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Is there is a lot going on in uh in
the US, and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I feel like.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Whatever I say here is gonna you get put in
a headline.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And it's it's that's true. I'm gonna get taken out
of context. So that's the point. So why I ask
really rather.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Not do something that's gonna cause a big distraction for
me in the middle of the tournament.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What's the name of that reporter? He's an ass hat.
He is the biggest of asses and ass hats. What
a jerk. I hate this person. We're about to hear
more of these. I hate that guy so much. You
take these young people who've dedicated their lives to playing
tennis or aut a tennis tournament and try to put
them in an awkward position, hoping they'll say something that
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you can exploit. God, you're a friend person.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Not only that, As young Taylor Fritz put it there,
he was the tennis player. He said, Look, I'm in
the middle of a tournament. I'm trying to earn a living.
This could cause an enormous distraction of me trying to
earn a living. So no, take your you know, your
muck raking elsewhere. I'm a tennis guy. What a dick?
I hate that guy. You got more He's asking Amanda
(05:52):
and a Samova.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I've been asking a lot of the American players just
how it feels to play under the American flag right now,
and I'm.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Curious how you feel.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, I mean I was born in America, so I'm
always proud to represent my country.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Just to clarify a little, I mean sort of in
the context of the last year of everything that's been
happening in the in the US, does that complicate that feeling?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I just say, Trump, you wheeze.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I don't think that's relevant.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What a dick. God, I hate this guy. I agree
with you completely. Wow. God, that is so out of
line New York Times. If you don't fire that guy
and apologize he.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Was following their marching orders, I'll bet hey get some
comments about Trump from the players and apparently don't mention
Trump just a hint around at it.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
How do you feel about playing under the American flag?
How do you feel about me punching you in the nose?
He needs to go to that Al Salvador prison. I
want to see him in the T shirt with the
white sox, bent over, holding his head down, marching around
that Alsauvno prison. I see your cure for a lot
of thing is. I think that'll fix a lot that ills. Yeah,
here's another one.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The US is a year into the second Trump administration
now and a lot of people are suffering, and sports
were wondering how you're feeling about things back home personally
and specifically what the mood is like in Florida.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, that's a tough question, I feel, do you know?
I don't know. I don't like to kind of dabble
too much into politics just because it's just not the
space that I really want to say that much on Good.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
For you, Jessica, Jessica Pegula is that how you said
your name? Yeah, and these people are young too, but
all three of them so far savvy enough to say,
all right, I know what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And then finally tennis player Madison Keys, which I know
this is interesting for one of my best friends who
has a daughter named Madison Keys. That's our actual name.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
How do you feel personally about what the Trump administration
has been doing and how has it fell to you
when you've spent time in the US.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I think my stance has been pretty obvious. I think
it's pretty obvious where I stand, and I am hopeful
that we as a country can come together and get
back to the values that I think make our country great.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Yeah, some of those values would be not asking teenage
sports phenoms political questions with the only goal of trying
to turn it into a blown.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Up controversy, right right, that's awful, It really really is awful.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Well, and just the whole injecting politics into everything right
all the time, would just stop. Please get it out
of your book reviews, get it out of your your
freaking recipes. Literally is a new your time still doing that.
At one point you could not read a recipe without
some sort of comment about how ugly the totalitarian US
(09:09):
is becoming, how oppressive to bipos and LPG T p
q r S, t u v S, A meat low
recipe that will comfort you during the Trump administration, that
sort of thing. And I'm not joking, but a lot
of those times. Just get the politics out of that stuff.
Oh my god, that's annoying. What is that reporter's name?
(09:30):
I want to name, I want to name a name.
We need a name, Hansen man if he is not
in El Salvador soon.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So here are the things that I suffer from that
cause me pain. I tweeted a really good tweet and
there's a typo in it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, you can't fix it. It's too late to edit it. Yeah,
you gotta, you gotta. You can delete it. You gotta
delete it and then reap and then ate it. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, And the irony is the sentence was supposed to
be this is beyond stupid, but it came out as
this beyond stupid. So I sound like a caveman, a
Tonto or something short stupid. So not that Tonto was stupid,
he was just an English as a second language learner.
I don't want to offend any of our Native American friends.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You got a name for the asset.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Uh yeah, the reporter named Owen Lewis. This is what
I'm saying, couldn't hate you more, Owen Lewis. May you
get an awful rash?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Wow? Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I was searching for something involving whacking fuzzy balls since
it's a tennis tournament, right.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I just tried. I couldn't come up with anything that
wasn't distaste to tie it in trying to title together exactly, bastard. Oh,
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Speaker 1 (12:02):
Did you actually make a typo or did it like
self correct the thing? I don't understand, and this seems
to be happening more on my iPhone or whatever. I
voice text a lot. It gets it right the first
time and then changes it to something wrong. Why does
that happen so often?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I just tried to voice text stumps something and I'm
singing from your hymn book here, but it's getting worse.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like aggressively bad. But it would be one thing
if it doesn't understand me, but it did understand me,
then changed it to something that doesn't. That is not
what I said. What it's the AI thinking this fool
doesn't know what he wants to say, we'll tell him
what to say. Yeah, I find that really annoying. Whenever
that happens, I think. I don't think AI has taken
(12:45):
over the world anytime soon. But I realize that doesn't
have anything to do with anything. What was the other
thing I wanted to tease to catch up on. I
don't remember. I'm sure it's good, it's coming up. Stay here.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
A fifteen year old A fifteen year old dog was
recently returned to his family more than ten years after
he went missing.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
So good news, kids, and then almost immediately terrible news.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Kids. So I got a big winter storm going on,
and like I loathe national weather, that's a news story
most of the time because it's it's just a normal weather.
Unless you live there, you don't care. But this is
(13:28):
one of the bigger storms in a very very long time,
covering such a giant portion of the country, amount of
snow and cold, but I just looked up the ten
coldest temperatures predicted today in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where my
brother was born. It's going to be forty below. Oh
that's the temperature with the wind show, Oh the windshill.
(13:50):
That is As a guy from South Dakota, that's not unusual.
I mean, it's very, very cold, but it's not like,
oh my god, I can't believe this is happening if
you live there, but it's dangerous cold. Of course equipped
for it. Yeah, Milwaukee's gonna have minus thirty five with
the wind chill, Chicago, your hometown, minus thirty, Bismarck, North Dakota,
minus fifty with the wind shill. Counting up. Duluth, Minnesota
(14:13):
is expecting minus fifty five with the windshield, and then
Grand Marius, Minnesota, they're expecting minus sixty with the windshield.
Frostbite in minutes. Although I did one time as a
kid in Wisconsin we had school. It was minus seventy
five with the wind child minus seventy five. That is cold.
Then you went to school. Yeah, they did have school.
And the day I was born, I told the story
(14:35):
all the time. The day I was born in here
in South Dakota. Mom says, I think we need to
go to the hospital, and my dad has to go
out and start the car in the middle of the night.
I can't believe that a car in the mid sixties started.
Of course, you plugged a man, you had heater on.
If you're from cold weather, you know that it was
minus thirty two straight out, not with the wind shill.
That was the actual temperature. And my parents used to
(14:55):
talk about that, and I thought, could that be true?
And I looked up went back to look at the records.
That actually was that night thirty two below without the wind. God,
that's cold. I don't know if that's insane. I don't
know what's the coldest I've been in in like recent memory.
But there is a there is there's kind of a difference.
But at some point my experience has been it's pretty
(15:16):
hard to tell the difference between ten and zero. Even
though there's a ten degree gap, it's just.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Freaking cold, right right, once you get into that I'm
dying zone, right, the incremental difference is just don't make
that much difference. Yeah, yeah, it was a there was
a flood the night our son was born. That was
that was quite the dramatic evening. But uh yeah, ah right,
what were we talking about? Oh weather, Oh the big
(15:42):
freeze and the chill and wind chill and that sort
of thing. Yeah, well, God, bless y' all. I hope
you get through it okay and your power stays on. Yeah, yeah,
I'm interested. This is a Michael, you might want to
jop this down. This is a red letter day. I,
Joe Getty, have come across an internet trend that I
think is great. Uh, and it's an actual trend. It's
got a silly name, of course that sounds trendy. No,
(16:03):
by January. It is people who like this family. It's
family of five. And Dad explains the idea. He's locked
up the family credit card. Anyone who wants to make
a purchase, including gas, well, fast food, or any other
potential items, you need to make the case for why
this is necessary. And he said, essentially, it's just become
(16:27):
so easy to buy things, and it's and we buy,
and we buy, and we buy, and we don't think
about it. Then we reckon with the bills and all
they do. They set aside one month to say, all right,
is this really necessary?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And is it necessary now? Or this much of this.
It would be my case. This often my paying with
my watch, which I love from a practical standpoint, with
the Apple Watch. Just you know, they tell me what
something is, I just go put my wrist there bing
not the door, I go and y. It is really
not much of a process there for keeping track of
(17:00):
how often you do this or that, how much you're spending.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I don't know how seriously to take this, but the
folks at nerd Wallet did a survey of more than
two thousand US adults and found that more than a
quarter have tried no spend January, with twelve percent joining
the trend this year.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
No spend January. So that is the idea of I
assume not spending anything beyond your basic needs.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
H Yes, I think you know, you customize the rules
to yourself. I mean, obviously you have to eat, but
you don't beat out right. Yeah, exactly, you put caveats
like that on it. I think that's great because.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It wasn't very long ago.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Here's my old time you got any old timey banjo
music to play, Michael, It wasn't very long ago.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We were entirely cash society. Credit was extremely rare. If
you didn't have ten dollars, you wouldn't spend ten dollars. Yeah,
my parents didn't have a credit card at all until
the society got to the point that you really can't.
You can't run a car, you can't get hotel room,
blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, and they finally got one in frozen broken half. They
had to move out of South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Try again. We got more on the way. If you
missus Secone, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Armstrong and Getty. I mentioned this yesterday. You hear about
some of these abuses of ice, and I'm sure some
of them are true, but I also I am sure
not all of them are true. And on each individual basis,
(18:28):
I don't know. When I hear I think maybe that's true,
maybe it's not, And I'm not going to take the time.
Maybe I'm a bad person for that, but I'm not
going to take the time to dig into trying to
figure it out. I also think, like Trump said the
other day, I just I just I think it's if
you let in fifteen million people or whatever illegally, and
then the population votes for a guy who says he's
going to get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He's going to be pretty hard to do it without
ugly things happening. Any of y'all ever done the wrong
thing for a real long time and then I had
to sort it out? Yeah, it frequently has some bumps
and painful spots.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
For sure. Right wing talk right wing talk show host
calls violating people's constitutional rights a bump. I'm Jack Armstrong.
That was good. I like that. That fired me up.
That's the thing we do in uh on Blue Sky
(19:22):
is that it ye sweet? How cool you are? That's
an ongoing joke in my house with my kids for
some reason, like when I almost do something or think
about doing something or whatever, and we do the headline
for it'll be known radio host and Trump supporter, like
last night as a of a the grocery store parking
(19:42):
lot and I didn't see a woman, Thank god, I
did see he, but well known talk show host and
Trump supporter runs over woman holding baby. My kids get
to kick out of that for some reason. Oh well,
and then you ask her.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I presume she survives, but ask her who she voted for,
and now she says Kamala Harris. Then they get to
say tasho a houst and Trump supporter runs over Kamala
Harris supporter with baby right, hinting that it was pure malice.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So I didn't know the details on this. This is
one of the memes of the last like twenty four hours.
You got this cute little kid. It's like an extra
cute picture of a five year old little Hispanic boy
wearing a cute blue like cartoonish knit cap, just looking
as cute and as adorable as a five year old
kid kid standing behind a chain link fence alone, looking
(20:36):
very very sad, and it is. It's a rough picture.
I mean, that's a kid who misses, misses anybody they know,
stutting behind a chain link fence. And so the narrative
was for the last twenty four hours, Well, well let's play.
Here's ABC News last night.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
On it, we spoke with school officials who were there,
saying that they consoled the boy's sobbing mother after Ice
agents took her husband and son away from her after
they returned.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Home from school that day.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
A lawyer for the family says they're being held at
the Dilly Family Detention Center that's down in Texas, and
it's difficult to hear from them across state lines.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So the story originally was and then we're going to
get into what DHS is saying today, But the story
originally was that, you know, the evil ice people separated
this little kid from the kid's parents, and now they're
horribly said, you know, all this is such a mess.
Like we just said, you let in fifteen million people
(21:40):
and families and everything like that, and then you got
different rules for kids can be in this facility or parents,
and it's going to get ugly. So the best way
to handle it is don't let the fifteen million people
in in the first place. That's the best way to
handle it. Right. Of course, of course, once that happened,
I'm so oh reminded.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
And I don't even have anything but the cursory knowledge
of the story, but I'm reminded so much of the
kids with I'm sorry, kids in cages during the first
Trump administration, where they were at the very same facilities
being used in the very same ways, is when Obama
was president. And it turns out, yeah, it was chainlink
to keep any adults away from the kids so the
kids were safe.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It was utterly fictionalized. Here's ABC News' version of the story.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
School officials who claimed to witness the incident say agents
essentially used the five year old as bait, directing him
to knock on the door to see if anyone else
was home before taking him away, and witnesses claim multiple people,
including the boy's mother, offered to take him. The school
district says Liam is among four students recently detained. He
(22:45):
and his father were flown to a detention facility in Texas.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So I don't know what actually happened. But DHS is
out this morning saying, look, what happened is the parents
fled and left this kid alone, and so we took
the kid into custody, and then what do we do?
And then you end up with a behind chain link
fence to keep the kid protected from other So that
whole situation. So I don't know, I don't know what
the right way to handle this is, if that if
(23:09):
that's what happened, but he'd like to.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Get hand I'd like to get a handle on the
facts before I start talking about you know, rights and wrongs, all.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Right, I don't. I don't. I don't know either. But
the image, which some people say is worth many words, hundreds,
maybe even a thousand words. A picture of this little
kid looking there, standing there, super sad, all alone with
the little knit hat on is you know, pretty powerful.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So the higher ups and ICE are now addressing the situation.
We want to hear their explanations. Okay, Michael, start with
the first one.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
While other officers apprehended his father. After conducting the arrest,
my officers stayed with the child. They cared for him,
took him to get something to eat from a drive
through restaurant, and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of. Again,
my officers did that, not his father. My officers did
(24:03):
everything they could to reunite him with his family. Tragically,
when we approached the door of his residence, the people
inside refused to take.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Him in and open the door.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Let me say it again, they saw the young boy
and they refused to open the door and take him back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, so now I get it.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I was looking at the Washington Post column by some
flaming lefty and again I don't know the bedrock truth
of this, but the whole they used him as bait.
The Border Patrol is saying, we're trying to get him
back to his family, and the family thought something was
going on, and wouldn't open the door and take the
damn kid back.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
That will not be heard by many people, will be
seen by many, many millions.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And again, I don't know that what that gentleman said
is I don't mean.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
True saying things that aren't true all around.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
On this story, it did not sound like a lie
to me. It had the ring of truth. Let's hear
Greg Bovino, the head uniformed officer and ICE.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Many American citizens are separated when they're arrested, say by
Minneapolis Police Department or any other police department. They are
separated from their children when they're arrested. So take a
look at what's happening here with this particular case. They're
not being separated. That child is in the least restrictive
setting possible. When I say that, we're experts both board
(25:30):
Up Patrolled and ICE in dealing with immigration cases that
involve children, probably the most experienced anywhere in the United
States by any domestic law enforcement agency.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
This is an ugly situation.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
See better get there and stare at that kid tearfully
in a photo op.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Quick. This is an ugly situation we've created, and it's
gonna be hard to uncreated. Yeah, I would agree. I
would agree. I keep using as an example our national
debt of thirty five trillion dollars. When the rubber finally
(26:12):
hits the road and we have to cancel all kinds
of programs, some of them actually good that I might
even like, and cut back on Social Security money and
raise the age on. It's going to be horrible, but
we created a really bad situation and now the result,
the fixing it cleaning up, is going to be ugly.
That's what happens. And you create bad situations.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, the longer you let them go dot dot dot
sttch in time saves nine ancients saying we all know it.
One more note from this is Marco Charles of Ice.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Let me debunk a couple more lies.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Cornaha, Audius was not walking to school with his child,
and we did not target the child. Audios fled from
law enforcement officers and left his child behind.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
In middle of winter in a car.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, the truth is only one player on the scene.
I can just see the progressives of the world, including
the journalists, saying, well, yes, he saw the Trump Gestapo
coming at him and he ran for his life.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
He panicked. Who can blame him for that. You know, well,
I'm not gonna leave my kid behind no matter what, No, no,
can you imagine? Good luck kid, feats don't fail me. Now.
More than sixteen hundred flights have already been canceled for
tomorrow ahead of this giant storm manace. So I hope
(27:38):
you aren't traveling this weekend. I'm glad I'm not, because
the airports are going to be a disaster all over
the country even if you got good weather. Do you
either book a flight today or just give up? Do
you have any rooting interest for the games this weekend?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
It's tough as an NFC West guy, a big Niners fan.
I hate the Seahawks, and what's the Seahawk anyway?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
The Osprey's.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I've rooted again aninst the Rams with great enthusiasm. The
Donkeys lost their quarterback, and the Patriots have won too
many Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So this is auto new people though, same owner, but
it's all new. It's not like Tom Brady again. Drinke
May my guy, Drinke May. Yeah, I'll probably be rooting
for him, or you know, I'll be rooting for the
Broncos to pull off a miracle win that kid who
to pass in three years, that would be cool. Yeah,
and if that started to happen, I would be on
the side of the Broncos definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, he was actually going to be the heir apparent
to Tom Brady from what I understand, but they told
him hit the road, you're a loser.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
So now he's got vengeance on his mind. Yeah, why
didn't ship on his shoulder? Oh, I was going to
bring this up. I meant to bring this up the
other day. Do you feel like, because Joe and I
are old, so we've been watching the sport for a
long time, I feel like the athleticism is just on
a different level than it was when we were watching
we were kids. The things these receivers do and everything,
(28:56):
it's just like nothing like that ever happened maybe once
a year. Now it's ten times a game. Yeah. There
are a couple of reasons for that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
One of the reasons is the rules have been changed
so that it's much less likely you get crippled as
a receiver or paralyzed or brain dead, so they can
risk their bodies in ways that they wouldn't have dared.
With Darryl Stingley patrolling the defensive backfir or Chris Collins,
right right, Ah, so yeah that's changed. Plus you know
(29:25):
fitness and training, year round training, nutrition, and blah blah blah.
These guys are miracles of athletic strength and speed.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
The you are a different sort of beast if you're
like the cornerback or wide receiver and you got that
ball coming, and they do these millisecond decisions on how
to twist their bodies and everything like that and either
deflectaball or catch a ball. Ware It's just stunning. I mean,
you see them in slow motion. I think that that
had to be done in real time. It's like a
(29:55):
different beast. It's like and I can't even relate to
it right right, and listen. I don't want to turn
this racial because it isn't in a way. But we
shared the New York Times ridiculous Scott Adams, not biography.
What's when you die? They have your obituary.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
The headline, which is a popular cartoon is until he
said something gracious in this podcast, and I actually went
back to what he said, and it was racially provocative,
and I understand why some people would not like it,
but it had to do with differences between races and
stuff like that, and Douglas Murray can tell you how
incredibly dangerous in minefield.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He It is not Douglas who wrote the Bell Curve.
Charles Murray. Charles Murray, Yeah, different Murray. Not Bill Murray either.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
He did not write the Bell Curve, although he could
certainly start in the movie version of it and that'd
be fantastic. But anyway, you watch an NFL game, if
there are two white dudes on the defense, that's pretty
good ratio white dudes. The idea that we cannot talk
about out, you know, differences on average between racial groups
(31:04):
without it being quote unquote racist.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It's just silly.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It's something no adults should, you know, an attitude no
adults should accept. And yet it's everywhere to the point
that a beloved artist dies and he said something you
thought was rude years ago, so that's in the headline
of his obituary. Come on, I think to me, that
perpetuates racism. It doesn't stop it.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I think I'm going rams Patriots un less Denver quarterback
starts to do. Well, that's what I'm doing. That's my
official line. I better go on price picks and do
my thing. Go feel free have had it. I never
know what to tease. What flavor do we want coming in?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Oh, I've actually got something really good, totally uncontroversial.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
At some point Zelensky, president of Ukraine, is weighing in
on how the negotiations are going. This is the biggest
yet between Russia, the United States and Ukraine to try
to solve this thing. I don't think it's gonna work,
but we can get an update on that, among other things.
Stay here.
Speaker 12 (32:11):
The dramatic police chase and shootout in northern California police
cornering a carjacking suspect in downtown San Jose. I thought
he say, the suspect tried to steal a squad car.
The suspect was killed. An officer was also wounded.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Trying to steal a squad car. Bad plan? What is
that You always say if you're contemplating a life of crime,
that means you're too stupid for a life of crime. Yeah,
it's proof.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, yeah, So I just had a realization about AI
coming up. Oh, I'm looking at the clock. There's no
freaking way we can do this in the time we had.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Oh that was a bad plan. I will tell you.
We got up to the line of scrimmage, like eight second,
what are we doing this?
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Never?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
This effing, never effing works, to quote Patrick Mahomes, actually
an hour four of the show.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's right, we do a fourth hour. We get it
subscribed to the podcast Armstrong and getting demand. Why was
I not informed? I want to get to the you're
better off not knowing. We're gonna get to the why
your brain does so much better remembering things and learning
things in some situations than others. I have been tortured
by this question my entire life, and now I have
(33:16):
the answer. We'll get to it next out. I love
that sort of thing. I know, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
But the AI thing I was about to say the
other day, Ben Affleck said AI can't make a film
that is considered art. I just saw an AI generated
short film of Harry Potter as a GI in the
Vietnam War. Yeah. I tweeted that out over the weekend.
Oh did you yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Oh my god? Oh that's it's on our Twitter feed. Yeah,
it's amazing, though, it's stunning.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Have you seen a katy Terry Potter in You need
to know Apocalypse now to really enjoy it. But it's
Terry Potter and Apocalypse Now and it's really believable. Well,
and it's set.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
To a song that is hilariously jivy. That's kind of
telling you this story. That was really enhance my enjoyment.
But I realized my attitude about AI is a lot
like what was famously said of John Randolph, the Statesman,
who described Henry Clay thus, the great Henry Clay.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
The awful Henry Clay.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt.
He shines and stinks like a rotten mackerel by moonlight.
It's one of my favorite couple of sentences in the
history of the English language.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And that's what you think of AI.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I am astounded and awe struck by it and horrified
by it.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, it shines and it stinks. Yeah. Ben Affleck's point though,
was creating. I mean, you are creating something if you
make a spoof of a famous Vietnam War movie and
have Harry Potter and obviously, but it's not the same
as writing a new thing. He had no wand just
(34:56):
an M sixteen goes the song oh in the different
characters from Harry Potter playing in the famous roles from
apocalypse now right, It's just it's pretty.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
It's pretty, it's pretty good, it's it's pretty amazing. But
you're thinking like a story from scratch. Yeah, boy meets
girl overcomes difficulties.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Blah blah blah. Still working on that novel rising to
the level of art.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
You don't think it will because so much of quote
unquote art is just commercial formulate crap.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
You gotta got a protagonist.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Gonna gonna gonna overcome some hardship? Is he?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Maybe some learn some lessons along the way. A few
more of my favorite sentences have ever uttered in the universe.
Language that from the Family Guy. Of course. If you've
never seen that, go to YouTube and look for Stewy
Still were Bryan about his novel? Still working on that novel.
Oh my god, there's three episodes. I just watched him
the other day with my son. It's so funny. And
(35:56):
then move on to over Under. Yeah, we do do
four hours. Joe did not Lie And if you missed
a segment or now you can get the podcast. Just
subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand and then you
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Speaker 2 (36:10):
Why did you learn something so quickly at times and
then struggle at other times. Science has the answer and
it's not age or anything like that. Really stay with us.
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