October 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Women's dating preferences & learning approaches
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- The government shut down & playoff baseball
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and now he arm Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Jetty Lifelong friends of the man police say carried out
the deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan say
he dated a Mormon woman and descended into heavy methamphetamine
youse while living in Utah. Peter and Francis Tercini say
after alleged gunman Thomas Jacob Sandford's relationship ended with the
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woman and he returned to Michigan he had changed. Peter
Tercini says Sandford went on rants about Mormon's Francis Tercini
writing in a Facebook post that man that came back
from Utah wasn't the same.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
He was a puppet and the puppeteer was Satan. So
he gets dumped by a woman who's Mormon, which makes
him angry, and he's a heavy matthewser, what are you
supposed to take from that in terms of some sort
of societal meaning anything.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Angry guy committing suicide and taking people with him, right horrible.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'd say a couple of different things. Want to get
to here. First of all, there's a new book out
about Senator Bob Menendez. If you remember him, he was
a prominent senator. I mean he was a chair of
some of your big committees and all that sort of thing.
Gold bar Menindez. You remember when he got busted with
him and his wife. They were taking gold bars from Egypt,
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among other things. He'd been a crook forever and gotten
away with it, got in trouble a couple of times,
he got away, but finally gold bars with direct connections
to Egypt were just too much.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But his wife, Mercedes Boobooman, she was something else.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, Ni Nidine Menndez. She's doing four and a half
years in prison for bribery in corruption also, And this
segment of the book that I was reading about was
all about when he met her. And it's just what's
interesting to me is that kind of woman. And maybe y'
all know some or maybe some of you are that, uh,
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you're I was gonna say, a hot woman, but it's
often not like the hottest of the hot it's just
you're you're pretty attractive, and you decide to make your
way through the world on that by attaching yourselves to
politicians or rock stars or successful businessmen or whatever in
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the most like transparent way. But you you attach yourselves
to the kind of guys that don't care that it's transparent,
that they're only with you for the fact that you're
a rock star or a senator or have a lot
of money. Both both of you know what you're doing,
and I find that just so disgusting all the way
around the fact that you both know exactly what you're
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doing and are okay with it. It's one thing to
be fooled like you're you're you're a US senator and
an attractive woman and you think she loves you and
everything like that. But it's clear from this relationship and
all the people she'd gone through. The excerpt was so interesting.
She'd been with so many different rich or powerful people,
and it seems like everybody knew exactly what was going
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there all the time. Nobody's pretending anything else. It's just
it's also slimy. Her and her friends were all that
kind of woman.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah. I have a friend who has an ex who
turned out to be that sort of person, and he
told me, uh, her her mom was too, and that
was just the model. See, there's nothing in my background
that would make me think, hey, I've got an idea. Right,
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we have this nakedly transactional you're hot, I'm rich thing.
But if you grew up with I didn't have a
cynical view of marriage, I guess you'd have to have that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But there are a lot of you women who are
very attractive, who who just like go through life like normal,
and our attraction churche is aside part of your life
or personality or whatever, but you don't make that your
This is how I'm going to end up being with
a senator. And if this thing with the senator, if
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he gets tired of me, I'll go to a rock star.
Just just sounds like such an exhausting life for a
CEO or something. Yeah, yeah, And that's exactly what she does.
She would go to parties. Well, well, this happens all
the time when the somebody becomes aware in the news
and you find out that she dated you know, five
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different people you've heard of because they just they hang
out at those kind of parties.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I guess, yeah, yeah, Well, you know, if you were
going to make a counter argument, and it's not like
I'm doing this personally, but the accounter. Argument would be,
and you certainly know this, that getting together marrying for
love and having it not go well is crushing. It's
it's horrible, true to ask. So how about I just
get into a relationship. We're both happy, we both know
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what to expect, and yeah, I mean, we're not crazy
in love. But what the hell, it's a nice lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh man, I don't know, Like, I can't arguing.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
In favor of that. I just think that's probably the
point of view.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I get the guy who thinks it's love, but the
guy who knows I'm a troll. She's only with me
because I'm a senator. Ah, that just seems like a
heck of a thing to wake up and think every day.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
No friends with benefits? What are the benefits? Let's talk.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
We got the gold bars coming in from Egypt. Don
That's that's the cool thing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, they're just explaining in that book how she and
her friends would go to parties and they would know
who is going to be there, and they would spot
them have a discussion amongst themselves. So who is going
to approach whom? You know, kind of split him up. Okay,
you go, you go with the CEO. I'm going to
go talk to the Senator horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
My daughter, who interned with a couple of different organizations
that included the very powerful in Washington.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
D C.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
At one point she said to me, it's all really
interesting and exciting, but you can feel your soul dying.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm sure. And then somebody like sender Menindez, because I
assume he didn't start a crook in his life, is
sold deadened throughout the whole many many many years of
being around government, and probably got cynical enough where he thought, hey,
everybody's getting rich. I' might just rich who cares sure.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Being a powerful man in New Jersey. Forget about it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's all a game. Yeah, something more uplifting. I want
to read a little bit of this. Richard Lowry writing
in the New York Post about the Mississippi Miracle, and
he's very annoyed by that term that people have attached
to it, as he writes, there's nothing miraculous. We're talking
about the education thing. We've talked about a lot. The
Mississippi went from last in the country to like top
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five first in some categories.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
A couple other states too.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
The Mississippi Miracle and he said, there's nothing miraculous about
a state that adopts phonics and sets high standards for
its kids getting better results in reading instruction. This to
the country is a predictable outcome, not a miracle. It's
exactly what you would expect to happen, and a replicable one,
as other Southern states have taken up similar policies and
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are getting the same results. I think that's a very
good point to make.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh it's frustrating, though, isn't it. I mean, it's a
good story, but that you have to explain to people
how they did it and how successful it is, and
then talk them out of continuing to pursue exactly the
wrong policies.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I like the idea quick call it a miracle.
I don't know what would be a good name the
Mississippi going back to what has always worked towards the
little cumbers obvious. I don't know, but that's a much
better point to make. We started doing what has always
worked for like two thousand years.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, went back to it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's not a miracle.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's a good point and a solid point. I just
I think calling it to Mississippi miracle gets people's attention.
I suppose it all this shiny object.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It all came out of a piece written in two
thousand and two called illiteracy is a policy choice that
actually came out of Florida, and that's where it all started.
I Unfortunately for my kids, and thank god, my older son,
who really dealt with this is can read fine. But
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he landed in kindergarten right at the time where they
did away with phonics and they no longer believed in
phonics and they went with sight words. And looking back
on it, I'm horribly embarrassed that I went along with it.
But as my first kid in first year school and Okay,
this is what we're doing now, and we would practice
the site words at home and it never really worked.
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Of course it didn't. The idea that you just taken
the word as a whole as opposed to sound it
out with phonics, it's just a dumb idea on its face.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
There are too many effing words for one thing. Yeah,
the creative spelling, the whole language approach, it was a
fad adopted by those layers of PhD administrators to justify
their existence. If you come to the school board and
say I've got an innovative, great new policy. It's to
do what we've always done because it works really, really well.
Then what the hell are you doing there? So education
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has these fads every so often.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
If you're unfamiliar with this, because I sat through the
lecture about it before we started teaching our kids this way. Uh,
there was this new theory that people don't actually learn
to read through sounds. You take in a word as
a whole. That's the way the brain works. And then
they would throw around some mumbo jump up and looking
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back on it, and I should have thought at this time,
it doesn't make any sense. No, who has ever picked
up a word like that? I mean, when you come
across a word, you don't know, you're just taking it
all at once. No, of course you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, especially because writing is really just it's a it's
a way to record spoken language. And kids learn spoken
language way way way before they learn to read. Sure,
they know what see Jane run means long before they
can read those words. So you've just got to help
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them learn how to identify in print sounds that they've
heard before. And you get older, you learn new words
through reading. But that's you know, a different phase in
your life. But to see again, the part that makes
me insane and wants to make me want to pummel
people with both my fists is that there was never
any problem with the old approach. The phonics approame with
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math worked great one hundred years ago, fifty years ago,
and twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Same with math, the same with the math. Math was fine,
there was there was nobody. Nobody was having any trouble
with the way we always learned math. You didn't need
to develop a new way to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
A cure in search of a disease, as the old
saying goes.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Has that gone away because my kids are out past
that age where they're learning math at that But that
was horrible?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh my good progressive places, they are still fighting tooth
and nail against reinstituting phonics, even as they fight to
have secretly guide your son into becoming a girl.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So I think phonics is just part of it. I
think maybe the most important part of what Mississippi is
doing in those other southern states is having standards and
holding people to them. They've done away with I forget
what the soft phrase they use when I was young,
Did you hear Jimmy flunked, he's gonna have to take
fourth grading over again. They went from flunked to hell
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back to just did away with the policy completely. Wich
is terrible. We're gonna move on a kid who's not
ready for the next grade so he doesn't feel bad
about himself. Oh, he's gonna feel great being in that
fifth grade class and not understanding anything and being in
embarrassing himself every day. That's gonna be great for his
self esteem, and even better when he gets the sixth
grade and he's still behind because he couldn't pick up
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the fifth grade stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And if you're not quite at the point of wanting
to join me in beating on people, here's one more
for you. Keep in mind. At the same time, any
programs for exceptionally bright and capable kids were eliminated, all right,
because that's not equity. Both if anyone excels that, the
other kids feel bad. So let's take our best and brightest,
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our future leaders and scientists and innovators and crush their spirits.
That's equity.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But Mississippi brought back holding kids back a year if
they aren't ready yet, which just you know, seems like
the obviously best thing to do for the kid.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, it's not a miracle. It's the obvious stuff we
always used to do. But yes, Michael, we.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Have politicians that aren't quite ready for hess.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
She grew up in the software of Philadelphia. Any thoughts
on this text line four one five ftc.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Armstrong? Heety, we know about you. You get up.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
How about you break out those moves for your two
biggest fans.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's the charming Netflix show Coco Melon Lane. Think about
the visual? Is a little boy dancing with his two
gay dads in address.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
He's in a dress, or the dad he's in a dress.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
The little boys dance around in address with his gay fathers.
They're on Netflix. So listen of the show Coco Melon Lane.
Why is he in address because he's a little transgender boy.
I'm sure that's beautiful and that's good and he should
be transgender and everybody should. Uh anyway, then you've got
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this everybody should.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Hey, put Caro on him? Yo?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You see this person right here?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Is this him?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Would it be crazy if we actually found the guy
right now? Because we saw a person who was literally
fitting the description, who just walked down walk by her camera.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
A man suspected of committing multiple robberies in Colorado was
caught by TV news crews while they were filming a
segment about him. This guy wandered into the live shot
and the uh. One of the anchors did a double
take after seeing this scumbag walk across the street behind him.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Can I hear it again now that I know what
it is?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yo? Hey put caro on him? Yo?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You see this person?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
My hair? Is this him? Would it be crazy if
we actually found the guy right now because we saw
a person who was literally fitting the description, who just
walked down walked by her camera.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Actually asked?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Crew quickly called nine one one, alerted the police to
is the guy's presence. Within ten minutes he'd been arrested. Yeah,
that's some good law enforcement. A little more what's that, Michael? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
A little more.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Pot pourrie propos of nothing. Guitarist Ronnie Woods said the
Rolling Stones have a new album that's done in coming
out for some reason, for some reason, and he also
suggested they could be heading back out on tour soon.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Goudy's reading about the way they recorded the last one,
and like you know, Keith Richards is in the Bahamas
and mixing Paris, and they don't. They they are never
in the same room together until the first time they
do a concert, and then they're briefly in the same
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room wherever they're doing the concert, and then they get
into different limos and go to different hotels. It's a
very weird thing they got going on.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, and it's funny. It's easy to be cynical about this, obviously,
but they're all richer than God, especially Keith and Mick.
They must just really really love it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You you'd have to. But so you've always said that.
I've always always said that. I always assumed that if
you love it so much, why wouldn't you take the
time to get together in a studio and like put
some effort into it if you like it so much,
Because they treat it like it's a task that somebody's
making them do.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I mean, I guess Keith, at whatever age is,
is pushing Ady if he isn't there already, just has
some musical ideas that he really really wants to get down.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Really, dude, can't you jump on a private plane like
it's not a lot of work and we'll meet I'm
aware and do this stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Together, right, Look, there's the drummer right here with us.
Isn't that fun? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
How are you? How are you all weathering the government
shutdown so far? Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well? Leieve it or not. I have a couple of
interesting points about the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I know it's a tough day for a lot of
us Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Well, guys, Congress failed to reach an agreement on a
spending deal.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
That crazy feeling when your phone batter is at one percent?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's our government right now.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That's where you're like, Yeah, this will be the first
government shutdown since twenty eighteen, not including Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
At the debate.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I yeah, So that's one of my two things I'm
willing to say about the government shutdown. One do you
remember we had one that lasted over a month in
twenty eighteen? Do you remember it at all? I don't,
not at all, And it lasted over a month, And
this one probably won't. This one will probably in this
afternoon or Friday morning or Sunday, and it'll never be
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bamba one right, first Trump term twenty eighteen?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh right, right, yeah, huh, I'll be damned. Yeah, the
memories the memories.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The government shut down for over a month, and like,
I have no memory of it at all.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The only really interesting part of this to me is
the Democrats strategy, because it's not over a specific policy
or bill or anything. It's just this really kind of
sad effort to be seen as fighting against Trump. And
they're making claims about medicare or is it medicare medicaid,
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I can never remember which one we're talking about. But
what they're claiming about how it would cut the Affordable
Care Act isn't even close to true. And I've got
a bunch of statistics about how I mean, if you're
like not even close to poor, your cost for the
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Obamacare is fifty two dollars a week. If you're two
hundred and fifty percent of the poverty line, two hundred
and fifty percent, taxpayers pick up more than two thirds
of year premium. Wow, people are anywhere close to poor
pay nothing, I mean almost nothing, and that will continue.
This is just a little trimming of the so called
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Inflation Reduction Act super bonus extras that the Democrats themselves
set twenty twenty five expiration date on, and the Republicans
are saying, yeah, it's expiring, and it ought to expire,
so let's move on with our lives. And for that
they're trying to brand the Republicans is somehow gutting Obamacare
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and kicking poor people out on the street. And the
other part, I'm sorry, did you have a comment on that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The other part that I find really really interesting and
what I wanted to get to is they're also trying
to eliminate the free plans where people have no skin
in the game. The Republicans are. And here's why. Making
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these plans free has allowed insurers to get paid for
people who don't even know they're enrolled. Forty percent of
those in the fully subsidized plans that's the Freebee plans
had zero claims in twenty twenty four. And that number
cannot be explained by well, they're healthy, because you have
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all sorts of statistical data on how often people go
to the doctor and make claims in that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And so.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
These insurance companies that are part of the Obama Care
swirling ocean of cash that Craig Gottwaltz warned us about
at the very beginning of it, and he's been right
about everything. Uh, the companies that are making such huge
profits off these plans are just like enrolling people who
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
They're enrolled, that is why, and.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Getting paid for it. And the Republicans are just trying
to stop that. And for that, Hakeem Jefferies with his
newly grown dark black mustache, really good look.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And and Chuck, I have no soul, Shumer are trying
to pretend like you know, Mike Johnson is scissor kicking
pregnant poor ladies in the mouth if they try to
go to the doctor. It's just horrible. So shut it down.
I'm sure to lend just great for you.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Chuck, Well, it's uh. They somehow believe that voters go
to the polls for the next election and vote on
the shutdowns. They don't. We don't, we don't know. I
don't think about it at all.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No, not the moment it ends, and hardly during.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Right, and so now it's the until it ends, which
again it'll probably be in the next couple of days.
Until it ends. It's the pr battle with the help
of the mainstream media to try to spin it as
a something awful. The Republicans did.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Whatever, knock yourself have a good time. Hey, can we
run my favorite clip of the day again? I love
this clip. It's number fifteen, Michael. So this is in Portland.
The FEDS who are protecting the federal buildings and workers
there in Portland and finally standing up against the Antifa
scumbags and radicals and jackasses in Portland that have ruined
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that well, you know, at Portland's having a bit of
a comeback, but that have made so much of Portland unpleasant.
They're warning them through a megaphone that they have to
get off the sidewalks clear to the streets, et cetera.
They're in violation, blah blah blah. But listen carefully to
the voice.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
In the moment.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
To allow for meticular traffic remain on the sidewalk across
the street.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Everyone this restricted area or risk for the restricted area.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So they've used AI to have Donald Trump pread that
warning to everybody through the megaphone to troll them Trump.
That's right, hilarious. I love that.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And so when they send the National Guard to Portland,
are there going to be fat generals there?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
More?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
There won't the more fat generals. We are done with that,
That's right.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Fat admirals sinking their ships through their sheer, blubbery girth.
You can't have it not with China is lean and mean.
To strike a serious note, they are literally lean and
literally mean. And if we want to have a chance
in the next half century, we got to get leaner
and meaner.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm surprised you're not all about the Cubs being in
the playoffs. Usually you are throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, I have been, but I you know, I became
a Giants fan, a big Giants fan when many many
moons ago we moved to California and then uh and
I just kind of drifted away. It was when the
Giants hired that America hating jackass and they rectified that.
They got rid of them and hired some good baseball
people who they just fired I think, but the habit
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was gone.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah. Yeah, that happens once you get out, because I
did that with the NFL when my kids were born
and I was a huge NFL fan. I got out
and if you're if you stay out for a couple
of years, it's it's worked to get back in because
you don't know who anybody is and it's hard to
get back into it again. I've always been somewhat consistent
on baseball I was noticed in last night. This is
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just kind of interesting from that whole scandal a couple
of years ago when the Houston Astros had the they
were stealing and then sending Morris Code by banging a
bat on a trash can to signal simple and brilliant. Yeah,
and that's that's known, right, that's not just a theory.
That's they nailed that down.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I think, oh yeah, they got hammered for it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Regardless. Watching playoff Baseball last night several different games, there
are a lot of those players that are on teams
now and carry the teams. They were really good players,
so they were cheating and they're really good players. Oh yeah, yeah,
you gotta be both. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So I mean, tell me precisely what major league pitch
is coming at me. I ain't hitting it. You got
to be really, really good.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That dude that was pitching for the Red Sox last night,
they left him in as opposed to other pitchers that
got pulled out yesterday. Because the pitch counts such a
big deal in the modern world. You don't go over
a certain number. Back in the day, they'd left you
out there until your arm fell off, but the dude
they left in for the Red Sox through his hardest
pitch of the night on his last pitch, he had
retired seventeen in a row, struck out a guy with
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one hundred point two mile an hour fastball. His fastest
pitch of the night was his one hundred and seventeenth pitch,
most he'd ever pitched in one game. That was awesome.
The Yankees had bases loaded bottom of the night at
the Yankee Stadium, which is like your movie scenario, no out.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
How far were they behind?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It was three to one I think at the time
basis loaded, I mean absolutely in it. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah,
I mean and then then they ended up straying all three.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
God, I love baseball so much.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It is weird. The playoff baseball is awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
What other check it back in?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Apparently Troy Aikman bad mouth the broadcast the other night
for Sunday Night Football. I wasn't watching it, but it
was a blowout game and there were a bunch of
flags being thrown and he was complaining about it, saying,
this is just a terrible product we're offering here. What
are they doing? So do you think that that makes
sense like if a game's a blowout, stop throwing flags.
Just let the thing get over with. I don't know
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what I think about that.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I could loosening it up a little bit, so, you know,
getting back to baseball, I have it on pretty good
authority that if it's seventeen to one, that strike zones
getting big. Oh really, because we've all got places to go.
Have Both teams want it, the Umps want it, the
hot dog vendors want it. The fans are already gone.
(27:21):
Let's get this beach over.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
With Corey Well, who's enjoying this. This is a terrible.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Product talking about We're gonna go under the hood and
this stinking blowouts. Stop it.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Well.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Speaking yesterday about the cost of higher education, Governor A.
Round De Santis promoted the new College of Florida to
parents nationwide and added quote, would you rather visit your
kid in January in Michigan or Sarasota? Does this guy
even know how college works? Nobody visits their kid in January?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
They were just for.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Hm hmmm. It wasn't a show stopper, but it's certainly
slowed it down. Yeah, uh, Jack, I have and you
will dispute this, but I stand ready to defend myself.
I have a fascinating note on the shutdown. Okay, fascinating
might oversell it. Can I have a second take? I
(28:25):
have a mildly interesting note on the shutdown. So I'm
going through this checklist on uh, you know, will social
Security checks go out? Will national parks close?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Baba?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
How could the shutdown affect travel? Transportation Security Administration employees
and air traffic controllers would work without pay, but travelers
could see longer security lines or delays, especially if employees
skip on paid work. Wait a minute, you're telling me
the TSA is going to be surlier and less engaged,
the TSA is going to be in a bad mood,
(28:58):
and air traffic controllers are going.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
To be resentful. Now you've got my attention. They eventually
get paid. We all know this, right, You've been through
enough of these shutdowns to realize they eventually get paid.
So and and and unless it goes for a while,
you get your check exactly the same time you always
get your check, so uh, it rarely means anything. So
that's way over. So I was listening news this morning,
(29:21):
and they use the example of for instance, this Friday,
the inflation numbers are supposed to come out, and with
the government shut down, those numbers may not come out
on time. And I thought, if that's the best you
can do for how horrific the shutdown is for America,
and I think we'll be all right. That's your that's
your best example, Mommy.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
What's the current inflation?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I just don't know, honey, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Did you see this story that there's another Jeffrey Epstein
out there and he's even worse what This guy Howard
ruben X new York City financier with not as rich
as Epstein, not worth billions, but worth many tens of millions,
well known in the Big Apple. He just got arrested
the other day. And there's a lot of similarities with Epstein.
(30:14):
He had been trafficking and torturing playboy models and other
women in his Midtown Manhattan penthouse sex dungeon for many, many,
many years, good god like, including beating them and electrocuting them.
I mean, so he was a degree worse than Epstein.
(30:36):
But the interesting thing to me is they've also arrested
this woman just like Gislaane Maxwell. He had a pretty
attractive woman who worked with him that apparently they had
no sexual relationship between them, but she was the one
that would find the women and bring him to them,
and he paid for everything that she did. He financed
(30:59):
her life, her and her husband. She was the you know, assistant.
Apparently that's what these people do.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, you know, I've been aware of some really troubling
uh sex trafficking rings, including child sex trafficking rings, and
there's some utterly brutal, soulless women involved in those rings.
Almost always, that's our goal, is to gain the trust
of the victims.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
WA's their job because this is usually portrayed as a
dude thing obviously, but they have these women helpers that
can go out and get the chicks for them. God
dang it got and some of the texts that they
had in between the two of them in the New
York Post were rough because he would he was into
(31:47):
the whole hitting people thing, and like one of his
texts he sent, I went, I went pretty far on
this one. We're gonna have to work really hard to
give her enough money for her to keep her mouth shut. Wow,
I mean, like, yeah, it's brutal. Oh, my ma is
super well known, you know, man about town. What is
wrong with people?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Man?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Money can buy a lot, including that lifestyle. I guess
for a while, God, yeah, I guess. Sick.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
How much time do we have?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Michael A minute at thirty minute thirty? You know, I've
got believe it or not, some really interesting follow up
stuff on Charlie Kirk and his assassination and the reaction
to it. Probably don't have time to get into it exactly,
but the way I was going to get into it was,
I was talking to a friend yesterday. I'll just leave
(32:37):
it at that. We have an association, we deal with
each other. But he was dealing with a person very bright, personable,
likable fella political lefty, and this guy was at this
point and it was I think earlier this week, guy's
completely convinced, be on a shadow of doubt that the
(33:00):
young man who assassinated Charlie Kirk was a MAGA enthusiast
who thought Charlie Kirk didn't go far enough. That hole
completely convinced of that still, and then went on a
rant and the irony police are going to lay down
their arms and retire. Then went on a rant about
(33:22):
how people are brainwashed by Fox News and how it
is so one sided. And my friend was like, what
do you say to somebody? Like he was not in
a position to say anything to the guy for reasons
of commerce. But it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, I'd say, I don't know how society works when
he got that completely different set of facts out there.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The president of the College Professors Association in America is
still claiming Charlie Kirk's assassin was a right wing kid.
It's amazing. Down strong, it's.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Strong.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're ready. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the day. There is Michelangelo pressing the
buttons in the controller. Michael, what's your final thought? You
know what I love about playoffs baseball is that there's
always the role players that become superstars, and then you
have the superstars that shrink.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, true, it happens, Katie Green are esteemed to use
woman as a final thought. Katie, I've already informed my
husband that we will be referring to it as a
shower poof from here on. There you go. It's the
proper term.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Jacka final thought for us yeah, show Hey with Tani
did not shrink last night. Two home runs in Game
one for the Dodgers. But it's hard to root for
a team with the payroll that they've got. I mean,
it's so close to buy in a World Series and
just I don't know, I have trouble getting on board
with that.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh near a longtime band wagon jump or two.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, that's what one feels extra dirty.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
My final thought is echoing something we discussed earlier in
the show. Ask if they're teaching phonics at your kids' schools,
and if they're not, get them out of there. The
crazes that took hold in American education over the last
twenty years, the Woke period and screwed up these kids'
ability to learn is just unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, maybe even talk to people in your school boarder,
teachers or whatever about the Hey you heard about the
Mississippi miracle. What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah? Bring it up a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
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Speaker 5 (35:54):
Dring.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It's difficult times.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Now we're getting close enough to Christmas too, you might
want to start thinking about that. You will see them.
Oh God, bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
They see gender is only a construct and sex is
assigned in birth, and they say.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
We are done with that.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Transing kids by self diagnosis with no age limit, no
parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagent.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
We are done with that. Homelessness is a lifestyle, Done
with that. Whiteness is toxic. Don henuses in.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Women's prison, done welcoming me intofada.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
We are done, done, done with that. Armstrong and Getty,
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and now he arm Strong and.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Jetty Lifelong friends of the man police say carried out
the deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan say
he dated a Mormon woman and descended into heavy methamphetamine
youse while living in Utah. Peter and Francis Tercini say
after alleged gunman Thomas Jacob Sandford's relationship ended with the
(00:39):
woman and he returned to Michigan he had changed. Peter
Tercini says Sandford went on rants about Mormon's Francis Tercini
writing in a Facebook post that man that came back
from Utah wasn't the same.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
He was a puppet and the puppeteer was Satan. So
he gets dumped by a woman who's Mormon, which makes
him angry, and he's a heavy matthewser, what are you
supposed to take from that in terms of some sort
of societal meaning anything.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Angry guy committing suicide and taking people with him, right horrible.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'd say a couple of different things. Want to get
to here. First of all, there's a new book out
about Senator Bob Menendez. If you remember him, he was
a prominent senator. I mean he was a chair of
some of your big committees and all that sort of thing.
Gold bar Menindez. You remember when he got busted with
him and his wife. They were taking gold bars from Egypt,
(01:36):
among other things. He'd been a crook forever and gotten
away with it, got in trouble a couple of times,
he got away, but finally gold bars with direct connections
to Egypt were just too much.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But his wife, Mercedes Boobooman, she was something else.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, Ni Nidine Menndez. She's doing four and a half
years in prison for bribery in corruption also, And this
segment of the book that I was reading about was
all about when he met her. And it's just what's
interesting to me is that kind of woman. And maybe y'
all know some or maybe some of you are that, uh,
(02:16):
you're I was gonna say, a hot woman, but it's
often not like the hottest of the hot it's just
you're you're pretty attractive, and you decide to make your
way through the world on that by attaching yourselves to
politicians or rock stars or successful businessmen or whatever in
(02:40):
the most like transparent way. But you you attach yourselves
to the kind of guys that don't care that it's transparent,
that they're only with you for the fact that you're
a rock star or a senator or have a lot
of money. Both both of you know what you're doing,
and I find that just so disgusting all the way
around the fact that you both know exactly what you're
(03:02):
doing and are okay with it. It's one thing to
be fooled like you're you're you're a US senator and
an attractive woman and you think she loves you and
everything like that. But it's clear from this relationship and
all the people she'd gone through. The excerpt was so interesting.
She'd been with so many different rich or powerful people,
and it seems like everybody knew exactly what was going
(03:25):
there all the time. Nobody's pretending anything else. It's just
it's also slimy. Her and her friends were all that
kind of woman.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah. I have a friend who has an ex who
turned out to be that sort of person, and he
told me, uh, her her mom was too, and that
was just the model. See, there's nothing in my background
that would make me think, hey, I've got an idea. Right,
(03:53):
we have this nakedly transactional you're hot, I'm rich thing.
But if you grew up with I didn't have a
cynical view of marriage, I guess you'd have to have that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But there are a lot of you women who are
very attractive, who who just like go through life like normal,
and our attraction churche is aside part of your life
or personality or whatever, but you don't make that your
This is how I'm going to end up being with
a senator. And if this thing with the senator, if
(04:26):
he gets tired of me, I'll go to a rock star.
Just just sounds like such an exhausting life for a
CEO or something. Yeah, yeah, And that's exactly what she does.
She would go to parties. Well, well, this happens all
the time when the somebody becomes aware in the news
and you find out that she dated you know, five
(04:47):
different people you've heard of because they just they hang
out at those kind of parties.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I guess, yeah, yeah, Well, you know, if you were
going to make a counter argument, and it's not like
I'm doing this personally, but the accounter. Argument would be,
and you certainly know this, that getting together marrying for
love and having it not go well is crushing. It's
it's horrible, true to ask. So how about I just
get into a relationship. We're both happy, we both know
(05:12):
what to expect, and yeah, I mean, we're not crazy
in love. But what the hell, it's a nice lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh man, I don't know, Like, I can't arguing.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
In favor of that. I just think that's probably the
point of view.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I get the guy who thinks it's love, but the
guy who knows I'm a troll. She's only with me
because I'm a senator. Ah, that just seems like a
heck of a thing to wake up and think every day.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
No friends with benefits? What are the benefits? Let's talk.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
We got the gold bars coming in from Egypt. Don
That's that's the cool thing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, they're just explaining in that book how she and
her friends would go to parties and they would know
who is going to be there, and they would spot
them have a discussion amongst themselves. So who is going
to approach whom? You know, kind of split him up. Okay,
you go, you go with the CEO. I'm going to
go talk to the Senator horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
My daughter, who interned with a couple of different organizations
that included the very powerful in Washington.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
D C.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
At one point she said to me, it's all really
interesting and exciting, but you can feel your soul dying.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm sure. And then somebody like sender Menindez, because I
assume he didn't start a crook in his life, is
sold deadened throughout the whole many many many years of
being around government, and probably got cynical enough where he thought, hey,
everybody's getting rich. I' might just rich who cares sure.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Being a powerful man in New Jersey. Forget about it.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
It's all a game. Yeah, something more uplifting. I want
to read a little bit of this. Richard Lowry writing
in the New York Post about the Mississippi Miracle, and
he's very annoyed by that term that people have attached
to it, as he writes, there's nothing miraculous. We're talking
about the education thing. We've talked about a lot. The
Mississippi went from last in the country to like top
(07:05):
five first in some categories.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
A couple other states too.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
The Mississippi Miracle and he said, there's nothing miraculous about
a state that adopts phonics and sets high standards for
its kids getting better results in reading instruction. This to
the country is a predictable outcome, not a miracle. It's
exactly what you would expect to happen, and a replicable one,
as other Southern states have taken up similar policies and
(07:29):
are getting the same results. I think that's a very
good point to make.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh it's frustrating, though, isn't it. I mean, it's a
good story, but that you have to explain to people
how they did it and how successful it is, and
then talk them out of continuing to pursue exactly the
wrong policies.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I like the idea quick call it a miracle.
I don't know what would be a good name the
Mississippi going back to what has always worked towards the
little cumbers obvious. I don't know, but that's a much
better point to make. We started doing what has always
worked for like two thousand years.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, went back to it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's not a miracle.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's a good point and a solid point. I just
I think calling it to Mississippi miracle gets people's attention.
I suppose it all this shiny object.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It all came out of a piece written in two
thousand and two called illiteracy is a policy choice that
actually came out of Florida, and that's where it all started.
I Unfortunately for my kids, and thank god, my older son,
who really dealt with this is can read fine. But
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he landed in kindergarten right at the time where they
did away with phonics and they no longer believed in
phonics and they went with sight words. And looking back
on it, I'm horribly embarrassed that I went along with it.
But as my first kid in first year school and Okay,
this is what we're doing now, and we would practice
the site words at home and it never really worked.
(09:05):
Of course it didn't. The idea that you just taken
the word as a whole as opposed to sound it
out with phonics, it's just a dumb idea on its face.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
There are too many effing words for one thing. Yeah,
the creative spelling, the whole language approach, it was a
fad adopted by those layers of PhD administrators to justify
their existence. If you come to the school board and
say I've got an innovative, great new policy. It's to
do what we've always done because it works really, really well.
Then what the hell are you doing there? So education
(09:38):
has these fads every so often.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
If you're unfamiliar with this, because I sat through the
lecture about it before we started teaching our kids this way. Uh,
there was this new theory that people don't actually learn
to read through sounds. You take in a word as
a whole. That's the way the brain works. And then
they would throw around some mumbo jump up and looking
(10:01):
back on it, and I should have thought at this time,
it doesn't make any sense. No, who has ever picked
up a word like that? I mean, when you come
across a word, you don't know, you're just taking it
all at once. No, of course you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, especially because writing is really just it's a it's
a way to record spoken language. And kids learn spoken
language way way way before they learn to read. Sure,
they know what see Jane run means long before they
can read those words. So you've just got to help
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them learn how to identify in print sounds that they've
heard before. And you get older, you learn new words
through reading. But that's you know, a different phase in
your life. But to see again, the part that makes
me insane and wants to make me want to pummel
people with both my fists is that there was never
any problem with the old approach. The phonics approame with
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math worked great one hundred years ago, fifty years ago,
and twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Same with math, the same with the math. Math was fine,
there was there was nobody. Nobody was having any trouble
with the way we always learned math. You didn't need
to develop a new way to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
A cure in search of a disease, as the old
saying goes.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Has that gone away because my kids are out past
that age where they're learning math at that But that
was horrible?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh my good progressive places, they are still fighting tooth
and nail against reinstituting phonics, even as they fight to
have secretly guide your son into becoming a girl.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So I think phonics is just part of it. I
think maybe the most important part of what Mississippi is
doing in those other southern states is having standards and
holding people to them. They've done away with I forget
what the soft phrase they use when I was young,
Did you hear Jimmy flunked, he's gonna have to take
fourth grading over again. They went from flunked to hell
(11:55):
back to just did away with the policy completely. Wich
is terrible. We're gonna move on a kid who's not
ready for the next grade so he doesn't feel bad
about himself. Oh, he's gonna feel great being in that
fifth grade class and not understanding anything and being in
embarrassing himself every day. That's gonna be great for his
self esteem, and even better when he gets the sixth
grade and he's still behind because he couldn't pick up
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the fifth grade stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And if you're not quite at the point of wanting
to join me in beating on people, here's one more
for you. Keep in mind. At the same time, any
programs for exceptionally bright and capable kids were eliminated, all right,
because that's not equity. Both if anyone excels that, the
other kids feel bad. So let's take our best and brightest,
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our future leaders and scientists and innovators and crush their spirits.
That's equity.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
But Mississippi brought back holding kids back a year if
they aren't ready yet, which just you know, seems like
the obviously best thing to do for the kid.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, it's not a miracle. It's the obvious stuff we
always used to do. But yes, Michael, we.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Have politicians that aren't quite ready for hess.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
She grew up in the software of Philadelphia. Any thoughts
on this text line four one five ftc.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Armstrong? Heety, we know about you. You get up.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
How about you break out those moves for your two
biggest fans.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's the charming Netflix show Coco Melon Lane. Think about
the visual? Is a little boy dancing with his two
gay dads in address.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
He's in a dress, or the dad he's in a dress.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
The little boys dance around in address with his gay fathers.
They're on Netflix. So listen of the show Coco Melon Lane.
Why is he in address because he's a little transgender boy.
I'm sure that's beautiful and that's good and he should
be transgender and everybody should. Uh anyway, then you've got
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this everybody should.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Hey, put Caro on him? Yo?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You see this person right here?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Is this him?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Would it be crazy if we actually found the guy
right now? Because we saw a person who was literally
fitting the description, who just walked down walk by her camera.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
A man suspected of committing multiple robberies in Colorado was
caught by TV news crews while they were filming a
segment about him. This guy wandered into the live shot
and the uh. One of the anchors did a double
take after seeing this scumbag walk across the street behind him.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Can I hear it again now that I know what
it is?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yo? Hey put caro on him? Yo?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You see this person?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
My hair? Is this him? Would it be crazy if
we actually found the guy right now because we saw
a person who was literally fitting the description, who just
walked down walked by her camera.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Actually asked?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Crew quickly called nine one one, alerted the police to
is the guy's presence. Within ten minutes he'd been arrested. Yeah,
that's some good law enforcement. A little more what's that, Michael? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
A little more.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Pot pourrie propos of nothing. Guitarist Ronnie Woods said the
Rolling Stones have a new album that's done in coming
out for some reason, for some reason, and he also
suggested they could be heading back out on tour soon.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Goudy's reading about the way they recorded the last one,
and like you know, Keith Richards is in the Bahamas
and mixing Paris, and they don't. They they are never
in the same room together until the first time they
do a concert, and then they're briefly in the same
(16:07):
room wherever they're doing the concert, and then they get
into different limos and go to different hotels. It's a
very weird thing they got going on.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, and it's funny. It's easy to be cynical about this, obviously,
but they're all richer than God, especially Keith and Mick.
They must just really really love it.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You you'd have to. But so you've always said that.
I've always always said that. I always assumed that if
you love it so much, why wouldn't you take the
time to get together in a studio and like put
some effort into it if you like it so much,
Because they treat it like it's a task that somebody's
making them do.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I mean, I guess Keith, at whatever age is,
is pushing Ady if he isn't there already, just has
some musical ideas that he really really wants to get down.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Really, dude, can't you jump on a private plane like
it's not a lot of work and we'll meet I'm
aware and do this stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Together, right, Look, there's the drummer right here with us.
Isn't that fun? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
How are you? How are you all weathering the government
shutdown so far? Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Well? Leieve it or not. I have a couple of
interesting points about the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I know it's a tough day for a lot of
us Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Well, guys, Congress failed to reach an agreement on a
spending deal.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
That crazy feeling when your phone batter is at one percent?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's our government right now.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That's where you're like, Yeah, this will be the first
government shutdown since twenty eighteen, not including Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
At the debate.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I yeah, So that's one of my two things I'm
willing to say about the government shutdown. One do you
remember we had one that lasted over a month in
twenty eighteen? Do you remember it at all? I don't,
not at all, And it lasted over a month, And
this one probably won't. This one will probably in this
afternoon or Friday morning or Sunday, and it'll never be
(18:06):
bamba one right, first Trump term twenty eighteen?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh right, right, yeah, huh, I'll be damned. Yeah, the
memories the memories.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The government shut down for over a month, and like,
I have no memory of it at all.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The only really interesting part of this to me is
the Democrats strategy, because it's not over a specific policy
or bill or anything. It's just this really kind of
sad effort to be seen as fighting against Trump. And
they're making claims about medicare or is it medicare medicaid,
(18:43):
I can never remember which one we're talking about. But
what they're claiming about how it would cut the Affordable
Care Act isn't even close to true. And I've got
a bunch of statistics about how I mean, if you're
like not even close to poor, your cost for the
(19:05):
Obamacare is fifty two dollars a week. If you're two
hundred and fifty percent of the poverty line, two hundred
and fifty percent, taxpayers pick up more than two thirds
of year premium. Wow, people are anywhere close to poor
pay nothing, I mean almost nothing, and that will continue.
This is just a little trimming of the so called
(19:28):
Inflation Reduction Act super bonus extras that the Democrats themselves
set twenty twenty five expiration date on, and the Republicans
are saying, yeah, it's expiring, and it ought to expire,
so let's move on with our lives. And for that
they're trying to brand the Republicans is somehow gutting Obamacare
(19:49):
and kicking poor people out on the street. And the
other part, I'm sorry, did you have a comment on that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
The other part that I find really really interesting and
what I wanted to get to is they're also trying
to eliminate the free plans where people have no skin
in the game. The Republicans are. And here's why. Making
(20:17):
these plans free has allowed insurers to get paid for
people who don't even know they're enrolled. Forty percent of
those in the fully subsidized plans that's the Freebee plans
had zero claims in twenty twenty four. And that number
cannot be explained by well, they're healthy, because you have
(20:40):
all sorts of statistical data on how often people go
to the doctor and make claims in that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And so.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
These insurance companies that are part of the Obama Care
swirling ocean of cash that Craig Gottwaltz warned us about
at the very beginning of it, and he's been right
about everything. Uh, the companies that are making such huge
profits off these plans are just like enrolling people who
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
They're enrolled, that is why, and.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Getting paid for it. And the Republicans are just trying
to stop that. And for that, Hakeem Jefferies with his
newly grown dark black mustache, really good look.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And and Chuck, I have no soul, Shumer are trying
to pretend like you know, Mike Johnson is scissor kicking
pregnant poor ladies in the mouth if they try to
go to the doctor. It's just horrible. So shut it down.
I'm sure to lend just great for you.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Chuck, Well, it's uh. They somehow believe that voters go
to the polls for the next election and vote on
the shutdowns. They don't. We don't, we don't know. I
don't think about it at all.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No, not the moment it ends, and hardly during.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Right, and so now it's the until it ends, which
again it'll probably be in the next couple of days.
Until it ends. It's the pr battle with the help
of the mainstream media to try to spin it as
a something awful. The Republicans did.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Whatever, knock yourself have a good time. Hey, can we
run my favorite clip of the day again? I love
this clip. It's number fifteen, Michael. So this is in Portland.
The FEDS who are protecting the federal buildings and workers
there in Portland and finally standing up against the Antifa
scumbags and radicals and jackasses in Portland that have ruined
(22:37):
that well, you know, at Portland's having a bit of
a comeback, but that have made so much of Portland unpleasant.
They're warning them through a megaphone that they have to
get off the sidewalks clear to the streets, et cetera.
They're in violation, blah blah blah. But listen carefully to
the voice.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
In the moment.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
To allow for meticular traffic remain on the sidewalk across
the street.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Everyone this restricted area or risk for the restricted area.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
So they've used AI to have Donald Trump pread that
warning to everybody through the megaphone to troll them Trump.
That's right, hilarious. I love that.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And so when they send the National Guard to Portland,
are there going to be fat generals there?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
More?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
There won't the more fat generals. We are done with that,
That's right.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Fat admirals sinking their ships through their sheer, blubbery girth.
You can't have it not with China is lean and mean.
To strike a serious note, they are literally lean and
literally mean. And if we want to have a chance
in the next half century, we got to get leaner
and meaner.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm surprised you're not all about the Cubs being in
the playoffs. Usually you are throughout the years.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, I have been, but I you know, I became
a Giants fan, a big Giants fan when many many
moons ago we moved to California and then uh and
I just kind of drifted away. It was when the
Giants hired that America hating jackass and they rectified that.
They got rid of them and hired some good baseball
people who they just fired I think, but the habit
(24:29):
was gone.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah. Yeah, that happens once you get out, because I
did that with the NFL when my kids were born
and I was a huge NFL fan. I got out
and if you're if you stay out for a couple
of years, it's it's worked to get back in because
you don't know who anybody is and it's hard to
get back into it again. I've always been somewhat consistent
on baseball I was noticed in last night. This is
(24:53):
just kind of interesting from that whole scandal a couple
of years ago when the Houston Astros had the they
were stealing and then sending Morris Code by banging a
bat on a trash can to signal simple and brilliant. Yeah,
and that's that's known, right, that's not just a theory.
That's they nailed that down.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I think, oh yeah, they got hammered for it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Regardless. Watching playoff Baseball last night several different games, there
are a lot of those players that are on teams
now and carry the teams. They were really good players,
so they were cheating and they're really good players. Oh yeah, yeah,
you gotta be both. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So I mean, tell me precisely what major league pitch
is coming at me. I ain't hitting it. You got
to be really, really good.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That dude that was pitching for the Red Sox last night,
they left him in as opposed to other pitchers that
got pulled out yesterday. Because the pitch counts such a
big deal in the modern world. You don't go over
a certain number. Back in the day, they'd left you
out there until your arm fell off, but the dude
they left in for the Red Sox through his hardest
pitch of the night on his last pitch, he had
retired seventeen in a row, struck out a guy with
(26:01):
one hundred point two mile an hour fastball. His fastest
pitch of the night was his one hundred and seventeenth pitch,
most he'd ever pitched in one game. That was awesome.
The Yankees had bases loaded bottom of the night at
the Yankee Stadium, which is like your movie scenario, no out.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
How far were they behind?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It was three to one I think at the time
basis loaded, I mean absolutely in it. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah,
I mean and then then they ended up straying all three.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
God, I love baseball so much.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
It is weird. The playoff baseball is awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
What other check it back in?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Apparently Troy Aikman bad mouth the broadcast the other night
for Sunday Night Football. I wasn't watching it, but it
was a blowout game and there were a bunch of
flags being thrown and he was complaining about it, saying,
this is just a terrible product we're offering here. What
are they doing? So do you think that that makes
sense like if a game's a blowout, stop throwing flags.
Just let the thing get over with. I don't know
(26:57):
what I think about that.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I could loosening it up a little bit, so, you know,
getting back to baseball, I have it on pretty good
authority that if it's seventeen to one, that strike zones
getting big. Oh really, because we've all got places to go.
Have Both teams want it, the Umps want it, the
hot dog vendors want it. The fans are already gone.
(27:21):
Let's get this beach over.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
With Corey Well, who's enjoying this. This is a terrible.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Product talking about We're gonna go under the hood and
this stinking blowouts. Stop it.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Okay, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Well.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Speaking yesterday about the cost of higher education, Governor A.
Round De Santis promoted the new College of Florida to
parents nationwide and added quote, would you rather visit your
kid in January in Michigan or Sarasota? Does this guy
even know how college works? Nobody visits their kid in January?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
They were just for.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Hm hmmm. It wasn't a show stopper, but it's certainly
slowed it down. Yeah, uh, Jack, I have and you
will dispute this, but I stand ready to defend myself.
I have a fascinating note on the shutdown. Okay, fascinating
might oversell it. Can I have a second take? I
(28:25):
have a mildly interesting note on the shutdown. So I'm
going through this checklist on uh, you know, will social
Security checks go out? Will national parks close?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Baba?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
How could the shutdown affect travel? Transportation Security Administration employees
and air traffic controllers would work without pay, but travelers
could see longer security lines or delays, especially if employees
skip on paid work. Wait a minute, you're telling me
the TSA is going to be surlier and less engaged,
the TSA is going to be in a bad mood,
(28:58):
and air traffic controllers are going.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
To be resentful. Now you've got my attention. They eventually
get paid. We all know this, right, You've been through
enough of these shutdowns to realize they eventually get paid.
So and and and unless it goes for a while,
you get your check exactly the same time you always
get your check, so uh, it rarely means anything. So
that's way over. So I was listening news this morning,
(29:21):
and they use the example of for instance, this Friday,
the inflation numbers are supposed to come out, and with
the government shut down, those numbers may not come out
on time. And I thought, if that's the best you
can do for how horrific the shutdown is for America,
and I think we'll be all right. That's your that's
your best example, Mommy.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
What's the current inflation?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I just don't know, honey, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Did you see this story that there's another Jeffrey Epstein
out there and he's even worse what This guy Howard
ruben X new York City financier with not as rich
as Epstein, not worth billions, but worth many tens of millions,
well known in the Big Apple. He just got arrested
the other day. And there's a lot of similarities with Epstein.
(30:14):
He had been trafficking and torturing playboy models and other
women in his Midtown Manhattan penthouse sex dungeon for many, many,
many years, good god like, including beating them and electrocuting them.
I mean, so he was a degree worse than Epstein.
(30:36):
But the interesting thing to me is they've also arrested
this woman just like Gislaane Maxwell. He had a pretty
attractive woman who worked with him that apparently they had
no sexual relationship between them, but she was the one
that would find the women and bring him to them,
and he paid for everything that she did. He financed
(30:59):
her life, her and her husband. She was the you know, assistant.
Apparently that's what these people do.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, you know, I've been aware of some really troubling
uh sex trafficking rings, including child sex trafficking rings, and
there's some utterly brutal, soulless women involved in those rings.
Almost always, that's our goal, is to gain the trust
of the victims.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
WA's their job because this is usually portrayed as a
dude thing obviously, but they have these women helpers that
can go out and get the chicks for them. God
dang it got and some of the texts that they
had in between the two of them in the New
York Post were rough because he would he was into
(31:47):
the whole hitting people thing, and like one of his
texts he sent, I went, I went pretty far on
this one. We're gonna have to work really hard to
give her enough money for her to keep her mouth shut. Wow,
I mean, like, yeah, it's brutal. Oh, my ma is
super well known, you know, man about town. What is
wrong with people?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Man?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Money can buy a lot, including that lifestyle. I guess
for a while, God, yeah, I guess. Sick.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
How much time do we have?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Michael A minute at thirty minute thirty? You know, I've
got believe it or not, some really interesting follow up
stuff on Charlie Kirk and his assassination and the reaction
to it. Probably don't have time to get into it exactly,
but the way I was going to get into it was,
I was talking to a friend yesterday. I'll just leave
(32:37):
it at that. We have an association, we deal with
each other. But he was dealing with a person very bright, personable,
likable fella political lefty, and this guy was at this
point and it was I think earlier this week, guy's
completely convinced, be on a shadow of doubt that the
(33:00):
young man who assassinated Charlie Kirk was a MAGA enthusiast
who thought Charlie Kirk didn't go far enough. That hole
completely convinced of that still, and then went on a
rant and the irony police are going to lay down
their arms and retire. Then went on a rant about
(33:22):
how people are brainwashed by Fox News and how it
is so one sided. And my friend was like, what
do you say to somebody? Like he was not in
a position to say anything to the guy for reasons
of commerce. But it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, I'd say, I don't know how society works when
he got that completely different set of facts out there.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
The president of the College Professors Association in America is
still claiming Charlie Kirk's assassin was a right wing kid.
It's amazing. Down strong, it's.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Strong.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're ready. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the day. There is Michelangelo pressing the
buttons in the controller. Michael, what's your final thought? You
know what I love about playoffs baseball is that there's
always the role players that become superstars, and then you
have the superstars that shrink.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, true, it happens, Katie Green are esteemed to use
woman as a final thought. Katie, I've already informed my
husband that we will be referring to it as a
shower poof from here on. There you go. It's the
proper term.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Jacka final thought for us yeah, show Hey with Tani
did not shrink last night. Two home runs in Game
one for the Dodgers. But it's hard to root for
a team with the payroll that they've got. I mean,
it's so close to buy in a World Series and
just I don't know, I have trouble getting on board
with that.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Oh near a longtime band wagon jump or two.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, that's what one feels extra dirty.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
My final thought is echoing something we discussed earlier in
the show. Ask if they're teaching phonics at your kids' schools,
and if they're not, get them out of there. The
crazes that took hold in American education over the last
twenty years, the Woke period and screwed up these kids'
ability to learn is just unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, maybe even talk to people in your school boarder,
teachers or whatever about the Hey you heard about the
Mississippi miracle. What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah? Bring it up a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
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Speaker 5 (35:54):
Dring.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
It's difficult times.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Now we're getting close enough to Christmas too, you might
want to start thinking about that. You will see them.
Oh God, bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
They see gender is only a construct and sex is
assigned in birth, and they say.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
We are done with that.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Transing kids by self diagnosis with no age limit, no
parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagent.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
We are done with that. Homelessness is a lifestyle, Done
with that. Whiteness is toxic. Don henuses in.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Women's prison, done welcoming me intofada.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
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