December 11, 2017 • 38 mins
Jack & Joe talk about Governor Moonbeam's 60 Minutes interview. Plus, Stories We Won't Be Covering with Positive Sean, Marshall's News, and Jack's guilt over cutting down a Christmas Tree
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Self talk six fifty kst seventy nine is not thirty six.
(00:33):
One check one, am I on who's trying to silence
me them? Who was that? We just heard? Play that again?
Would you seventy nine is not thirty six. Jerry Brown,
the ancient governor of California who was a contemporary of Archimedes,
argue with that. Yeah, he's talking about his experiences, his
twin experiences of being gumber of California thirty years apart.
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Four young be just governor in the States history atty
six oldest now at a hundred and four, And that's
that's really quite a life accomplishment. I mean, you've got
to be amazed by that. That is something somebody google
and you gotta wonder about. Democracy is wild to me.
I mean, you wouldn't think that would happen. Well, and
don't forget he was governor of the first time, right
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after his father. Yeah, that shouldn't happens after that shouldn't happen.
We we shouldn't almost had a Bush versus Clinton when
both of them and you know, other family members being
I mean, that just shouldn't happen, but it happens. It's
clearly we we like royal families more than we like
just picking citizens out of the crowd to run things.
That's just obviously the way we're built. Well, And seriously,
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you got one person you've heard of, one person you haven't.
If you spent sixty seconds reading or listening to some
sort of digestive what they think, you'd be fine in
terms of which one you'd be more prone to vote
for sixty seconds. But the American voter, generally speaking, will
not do that, and they'll vote for the name they
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know or the California voter apparently right. Yeah, sure, um,
but a lot of people like Jerry Brown what he
does in the way that's fine. I don't care how
much you like him. The idea that a father son
youngest son oldest should ever happen in a democracy seems
crazy to me. Yeah, it's a little odd anyway. So
Jerry was on sixty minutes last night, number one, blaming
the wildfires on Donald Trump, which I mean, you can
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blame Donald Trump for the wildfires in twenty six if
you want. Now. I get that he doesn't swing the
way you swing on climate policy and the rest of it.
Maybe he's wrong, but that is a mother of a stretch.
So let's listen to some of the things Jerry said.
Let's do one more lighthearted one. Give me number two, Sean,
I worked with mother Teresa. I've spent six months doing
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zen meditation, just just to give you an idea of
how he came to the wisdom that he displays in
the following clips. All right, number three, it seems it
Telforn is way out of step with the rest of
the country. What I'd say, we're more in tune with
the future than than many parts of the rest of
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the country. Do you think the country is going to
look more like California in the future. I think it
will because I was asking myself, why did Democrats in Ohio,
in Wisconsin and Michigan, Pennsylvania, why they vote for Trump?
Not a lot of them did, but enough to give
them those states electoral votes. Your answer, there's more confidence here,
there's less fear. People are looking to the future. They're
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not scared, they're not going inward. They're not scapegoating, not
blaming um Mexican immigrants, they're not blaming the stranger. Just
the opposite. It's a place that's alive, it's dynamic, it's
a culture that's on the move, uh, not pulling up
the drawbridge out of fear and economic insecurity. How about
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that He's right about a couple of issues in the
in the past, the California has been way out of
step and turns out the rest of the country catches
up like your gay marriage stuff, your marijuana stuff. Yeah,
those are pretty big issues. Yeah, California led the way
the direction of the rest of the country is going.
I hope he's not right about some of this other stuff.
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I think the buckets condescension towards Democrats who voted for
Trump in the Rust belt was fairly ridiculous. I mean,
some are scapegoating various people. Many are not um. And
you know, if if it were not for Silicon Valley,
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the state would be in terrible fiscal trouble. Um. But
now let's play a couple more um. Go ahead. Number four.
The Republicans have this cult. Just like they believe there's
no claimate problem. They believe that cutting corporate taxes without
any money to pay for it, they think it's magic.
It'll make everything wonderful, very irresponsible, very dangerous. Okay, that's
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back to a progressive suddenly concerned about the deficit, which
is just so cute. I am actually concerned about the deficit.
I actually agree with you, but I don't want you
over here. Go back to your own table, um, because
because you're insincere. Um, California's America's economic engine. He talks
about California, Well, go ahead and play it. It's not paradise.
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We we have lots of problems. California is the engine
of American I like to remind my fellow citizens when
you got to look a scance at this state. You're
looking at one of the not the only one, but
a major contributor to the well being of the whole country. Well,
I'll tell you what that. You know, like Joe has
been pointing out all morning long, almost all of that
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hinges on the fact that Steve Jobs was adopted and
brought to the Bay Area. If he had been in Ohio,
completely different story. All those companies bubble up all around Apple,
you know, and you got to pay Pal and and
Yahoo and everything else around, there be a completely different story.
That's just that was just luck. You don't believe it.
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Look at picks Picksburg, Pittsburg right now, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is
big and growing high tech capital. But this is not
People have been doing this in states forever. I mean,
this is Texas talking about how great their economy is
off of oil for decades. You just happen to have
a state that has oil under it, so you've got
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a lot of good news. Now California is doing the
same with tech. Yeah. Yeah, um. I liked this stuff
about taxes. It was absolutely hilarious. Go ahead, and number six,
you gotta pay some taxes. You have to invest. We
need to invest in the technologies of tomorrow or somebody
else will. And that somebody is China, India and other countries.
You're not gonna pourmouth yourself to the future. And roads
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cost money. It's called taxes. UM, R and D cost money.
Colleges cost money, a school's childcare, all of that. We're
a rich country and we can so. Jerry Brown's technique
has been to narrow the tax base as much as
humanly possible. Jerry Brown the Democrat party in California, so
that the fewest possible number of people are paying income tax,
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which is a huge, huge driver of state revenue. There
before he and his cronies can hand out money to
their cronies and classic crypto crap style, and nobody can
vote it out because you've got one group that's paying
all of it, but their numbers are small, and you've
got a huge other group. It doesn't give it damn
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because it isn't their money. So it is an absolutely
beautifully designed pipeline of graft masquerading his public works. Witness
the Crony, the Crony Express, the bullet train, which is
a regular train that will cost a hundred billion dollars
when train travel is declining. Isn't it a perfectly legitimate
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question though, because they ended the feature on Jerry Brown
going to is just unbelievable ranch and watching him drive
around this huge spread in the mansion that he's building
there and everything like that with his wife. Isn't it
a question we're asking You're been a public servant your
your entire life, at that that's what you tout regularly.
You've dedicated your life to public service. Where'd you get
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the money to buy that? That is unbelievable? I think
that's a reasonable question as a taxpayer man. You got
a nice house, where'd your money come from? Well he's
been a lawyer, Well yeah, almost politicians, They say, of
four million dollars, is it his wife? It's not crazy rich.
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That's pretty wealthy, pretty damn wealthy for being in public
service her whole life. Whould you make your money? I'd
like to know. I think anybody who spends more than
I don't know. Well, first of all, if you ever
call yourself a public servant, you immediately have to tell
me where your money came from. And if you have
a reasonable explanation, Yeah, I started a bakery or or
you know what the darrel Iza Darrel I said, Yeah,
I invented this thing for lum the step away from
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the and I made a gazillion dollars. Say, but I
want to hear a reasonable explanation why you have a
giant house and uh fancy car and live the life
you live when you've been in government for so long. Yeah? Yeah,
And we got hit with a couple of texts. People
point this out all the time. Is this verified that
the road to his place in the middle of nowhere
got paved when none of the other roads around there
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have been newly paved. Yes, there is no money in
that county? Is it Calusa County? His dog's name is
Colusa probably is um. Yeah. In fact, I have it
from the folks there that there is no money for roads,
none except for Jerry Brown's road, and the state went
ahead and kicked in. But that's fine. He's he's California's putin.
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But he's not nearly as rich. He's just But again,
I don't I don't particularly care if Jerry Brown has
four million dollars. I do if he if he made
it all as a public servant, I'd like to know
what he was doing to make all that money. He's
doing something that ain't cool, that needs to be changed
or fixed or outlawed. Oh let's see what else do
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we have. You know, I don't hate his message on
climate change or renewable let's put it renewable fuels. A
lot of out there kind of reject that stuff in
a knee jerk fashion because you don't like the exaggerations
of Jerry Brown and al Gore, how they constantly are
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trying to say. You know, if if there's a hurricane,
it was global warming. If there's an eight year lull
and hurricanes, you don't hear anything about it, then you know,
at the ninth year, there's another hurricane, and your year.
It's global warming, climate change. I get that that's so annoying,
but that doesn't mean I'm against renewable fuels. You know,
if we could get solar so that it really is
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super efficient and powers mostly great or or something else,
nuclear fusion, I don't know what's gonna be A that's great.
I'm in favor of all that stuff, but you just
there's so much horsecrap. They just they passed tax after
tax after tax to the roads. The roads still suck.
And then then he says, we get we gotta raise taxes.
Roads aren't cheap. But the people of California. You know,
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a lot of the people who drive this green stuff
get really really rich, like Al Gore. Now I don't
know that Jerry Brown did, but a lot of people do.
Who get super into the green world and are all
about stopping these carbon emissions, they somehow end up gazillionaires. Well,
they know where the subsidies are going to go, and
they know where the state mandates are going to buy,
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and don't buy mandates. Um Ah, that reminds me. It's funny.
I have the article somewhere, but I lost it. California
now has like travel bands to twenty three states because
of their various policies about transgender this or gay that,
or or race the other, or immigration the other, and
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soon you, just as a California government official, you're not
gonna be able to go anywhere. I'm gonna have to
build a walls, Jerry, build a wall to keep those
damn Nebraskins out. So we've got stories we won't be
covering with Sean coming up. I also have to run
through some of these texts because they're super good. At
four two, nine, five k f TC. You wouldn't believe
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how many texts we got on the Bikini barris the
story they're still coming in. Why was that such a
hot topic because it feeds it's an important constitutional issue.
You don't see that. No, No, that's what I should say.
Stay tuned to the arms Strong and Getty show a
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few texts from the text line, which is really perfect
place to get them before we get to Sean's stories
we won't be covering. But um, I'm starting a Hooters
based restaurant called Plumb Smugglers. I think you get the idea.
We're talking about the Bikini Barristas and it's women in
bikini serving coffee and you get more customers that way
of a certain kind of guess um Ah. I live
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in Everett, Washington, which is where the court case originated
with the bikini barristas. All the bikini barrist t kiosks
are drive throughs. They have mirrored glass or other restricted
viewing from the street unless you are at the window,
and the girls never hang out based on my experience.
First of all, it's December and this is Washington. Um,
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you don't see the eighteen year olds hanging up McDonald's.
It's not that easy to lean out the window. Okay,
I don't know about them, but they've never seen that.
But the reason that I don't hate the bosom and
hate the braw that's kind of funny, Burris. I want
to do the Texas the textas is. I wanted to
read this one. I don't normally go to coffee shops.
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If they had girls with big boobs at the coffee shop,
I would go out of my way. The girls with
the big boobs are best. Wow. Thank you for your comments, sir.
Glad to see that my texts have not been blocked yet.
I like the very short, to the point Hemingway like
sentences the girls with the big boobs are the best. Yes, period,
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short declarative sentences, exact, try it. I know exactly what
you think and where you're coming from. On that you
want to try to impress people with your speech. Don't
go for fancy, go for clarity. I like the ones
with big boobs. Big boobs are best. Big boobs are fine.
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Classic Michelangelo story which maybe we'll tell again someday, an
embarrassing gaff. You got more you want to do over?
There no time for stories. We won't be covering featuring
positive sean covering your headline. We will start off with
now simple. Jack will tell you he is out of
modern man. He does not go to the cinema plex.
(15:02):
But there is a movie that was nominated for a
Golden Globe that Jack has seen. If memory is serving,
I maybe it was taken, but I'm almost certain you
have seen this movie. It is from the animated film category.
Can you guess an animated film that you saw in
the theater? I took my kids to see a couple
of things Well got nominated, Boss Baby, Oh Yeah, nominated
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Best Animated Feature. The likes of none other than Alec
Baldwin has said Boss Baby. I'm actually it's the first
time in years I've seen one of the nominated movies. Yeah,
how do you think it stands up against The Breadwinner, Coco, Ferdinand,
and Loving Vincent. I didn't see those, but I can
remember the day after I took my kids to see
Boss Baby, I declared it was an instant classic because
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it was it was It was really, really good and
had a great you know, the kind of thing that
you want in kids movies where at the end there's
like a moral and it all ties together and it's
about being nice to people in fantastic good all the
way through. Now, like Baldwin's hilarious and the major nominations
from the the Drama Best Picture, just go through this
and the comedy is real quick. We don't need to
go into the the other categories. We have Called Me
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by Your Name, which is your obligatory, obligatory gay love story.
You have dun Kirt, the Christopher Nolan war movie, obligatory
evacuation movie, The Post, which is the Steven Spielberg directed
Washington Post, a movie. It's got to be great. It's Spielberg,
it's Tom Hankson's Meryl Streep. It's a great story, but
(16:28):
just they're obviously putting it out to talk about the
Washington Post role and uncovering Nixon like presidents and just
heard Trump's just like Nixon and Hitler. It's just so obvious.
I'm sort of Hitler Nixon. But but it's a great movie.
Germo del Toro is the Shape of Water and three
billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri. Round out your five nominations
for Best Picture Drama, Best Picture, Comedy or Musical. Why
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those are the same category? I will never know. Nobody
understands The Disaster Artist, which is much like an Edwood movie.
This is a movie about a man who was horrible
at making movie. Right he was? Which which dude was this?
So I the guy's name escaped me. But the movie
that he made is called The Room. It is hysterically bad.
It has a kind of um rocky horror picture show
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style called following. There'll be special screenings and they're they're
packed and everybody shouts the lines back and my son
is so into it. Yeah, very funny movie. Can't wait
to see this. I'll see that this week. I'll let
you guys know get out the Greatest Showman A, Tanya
and Ladybird are your five nominations for that? I love
Lady Bird. I hope it wins everything. Moving on, Finally,
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pizza recognized officially as an art form. The City of
Naples has been added. The UNESCO, the United Nations Educational
and Services of Creative Something Something Something has added the
art of Neapolitan pizza making or PiZZ aulo to its
list of intangible cultural Heritages of humanity that is important
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to the world. So pizza making in Italy now officially
recognized as an art form. We have a Finally, well,
you can't have pizza anymore though, according to Oberlin College,
we talked about this last hour because that's cultural appropriation
from Italians. I call it cultural appreciation. Nice. What technology
did San Francisco say no to? Not? Every innovation is great,
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said San Francisco supervisor Norman Ye. Now San Francisco has
put a bit of the brakes on delivery robots. San
Francisco long been a petri dish for disruptive innovations. UH
this week's lawmakers pass strict regulations to reduce the number
of delivery robots that tech startups have introduced to the
city Sidewalks said. Ye, if we don't value our society,
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if we don't value getting the chance to go to
the store without being run over by a robot, what
is happening? Wow, that's interesting. Robot permits will be capped
at three per company and a nine total at any
given time for the entire city. But I've been saying
for a long time everybody's talking about when they talk
about drones and robots and all these different things. We're
gonna have some rules on this at some point, And
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and they're gonna come sooner rather than later. See, you're
not just gonna be able to send your robot to
the grocery store whenever you want. They'll be crashing into
each other. Right, the robots drone wherever the hell they want.
Hey give the entire collision robot technology. Why are you
standing in the way of science the robots? Like to
send my robot to the grocery store. How great would
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that be? He'd have he'd have the grocery the map
in his memory banks, and and he just zipped straight.
I tried to find the snow of the sugar snap
piece yesterday. Uh, General Joe's so walk this way. It
was open last night, and I couldn't find him narrow.
I thought they were over here. They're over there, and
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it took me five minutes to find him. Robot could
have gone right to him. Robot robots only be allowed
to operate within certain industrial neighborhoods and must be accompanied
by a human chaperone at all time. I just wanted
to give you this one quote from a local. I
canna walk along with my road. But what's the point.
What's the point of a roman? George Wooding? If you
do not need a robot to deliver a ham sandwich,
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if you want it that badly, you can just go
get it yourself. That's that sucks, the ruining robots. What's
coming up to your news, Marshall, Well, women charging President
Trump with past sexual misconduct want Congress to investigate. You
got California's new higher gas tax still not enough to
cover road repairs, so they've come up with another way
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to tax you or drivers in your state. And the
increasingly unfriendly skies behaved or be restrained. Coming up medicine now,
I'm strugging getting hey. By the way, speaking of movies,
that new Winston Churchill movie with Gary Oldman. Have you
Oh my god, that looks great. I suppose that will
be for next year's awards. I hope he hasn't grabbed
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anybody or anything. We got Marshall's news up in just
a few minutes. You're listening to the arms Strong and
the Getty Show. It's gonna pass along this text. Guys,
(21:12):
look into light Coin. I bought a handful last week
when they were a hundred dollars each. Now they're almost
two hundred dollars each and expected to go up. Light
Coin new cryptocurrency on the scene. I heard of another
one too. Yeah, you're getting a bunch of these bunchet
coin companies are coming out with their I c o
s initial coin offerings. This is these are the people
latching onto the They very well may be successful. I
(21:33):
don't know. I'm not I'm not a fortune teller, don't
ask me, but there are a ton of these popping
up now. I haven't got the slightest idea how any
of that works. I tried to look into it a
little bit over the weekend, just kind of you can
and it involved you have to go to it like
some weird third party site, and then you have to
get which is almost certainly a Russian scam, to get
your account number, and then you have to get some
(21:53):
some crypto wallet on your smartphone and try for the
funds from the crypto an app to steal all the
information from phone. Are the anti Russian bias bro to
your coin? White eyes, I'm out don't news now with
Marsha Phillips. Well, the suspect you had a pipe bomb
strapped to him that exploded this morning in New York
Sports Authority bus terminal is in police custody. The bomb
(22:14):
either malfunctioned or went off prematurely inside a subway platform entrance.
This woman was running for the subway when boom, do
sech smoke and then right after the smoke, I just
ran upstairs. I mean the people who was walking to today.
Just four people hurt, including the twenty seven year old
male suspect. Terrorists last turn yelling don't saying clearly did
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not work at all the way he wanted to write,
not unless he just intended to burn his belly. Several
women who have accused President Trump a sexual misconductor now
calling for a congressional investigation into his alleged behavior. As Americans,
we can put aside our political inclinations and admit that
some things, in fact do transcend politics, that we will
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hold Mr Trump to the same standard as Harvey Weinstein
and the other men who were held accountable for their
reprehensible behavior. Not a news counts. Okay, all right, listen,
I think going with Harvey is a little heavy handed. Well,
Trump's accused of, you know, gropings, and is there one
woman who accused him of out and mount rape? There
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was there was one woman that said he did force
himself on her. Yes, well, but at the same time,
trying to say we need to use the same standards
for a sitting president in terms of a congressional investigation
as a Hollywood mogul who was fired by his brother
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who's running the company. What do you I mean? Okay,
all right, there aren't any standards for any of this
is the problem. At the press conference today, Rachel Crooks
and Jessica Leeds were kind of episodes which they say
Trump forcibly kissed or grope them. Samantha Holby described an
instant in which Trump entered a changing room for Miss
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USA contestants. You remember that story, the woman who spoke
out before Trump's elections said their claims fell on deaf
ears until the me too movement gain traction in recent months.
I don't know if they fell on deaf ears. They
got a fair amount of attention several weeks there during
the campaign. I remember going through a lot of these stories.
They reached my ears, which are non deaf, but for
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whatever reason, they didn't stick. But this is a different time.
We'll see where this goes. Largest wildfire burning in southern
California now tout in thirty acres, it's only fifteen percent contained.
Now the fifth largest wildfire in state's history. This burning
away in Ventura, threatening parts of Santa Barbara County, And
today you see Santa Barbara's chancellor postponed final exams at
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the school until next month because of that fire. Some
of these areas hadn't burned in a hundred years, so
that that's not part of nature's plan ever, just to
have areas that haven't been cleared out like that. So,
by the way, we just have more on the I
was just gonna say, as a guy who's flying up
and down the coast of California a lot these days,
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there's a spectacular amount of smoke coming out of that fire.
I mean, it's just mind boggling. We got this text.
There are over cryptocurrencies currently. Light light coin has been
around for about five years. How do you choose which
one is gonna be the next big one? It turns
out it's not gonna be enough. Even with California drivers
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showing out more for gas and diesel fuel thanks to
those new tax hikes, a new caltrans studies said the
state really needs to switch to a road use tax
to ensure long term money for highway repairs. The reports
warning that revenues from gas and diesel fuel taxes are
going to continue to shrink as cars and trucks become
more and more fuel efficient, and as Californians drive more
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electric vehicles. So they got research hundred and forty. So
they've got researchers working on ways to remotely model that
or how many miles you drive every year to figure
out your tax bill. Inevitable, inevitable that you get charged
based on how much you drive. I hate it, but
it's inevitable. Got a new study for the International Air
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Transport Association that says there was a fifty percent spike
this year and the number of passengers forcibly restrained for
bad behavior. Wow passengers actions ranging from verbal abuse to
life threatening situations. Alcohol it is set off and plays
a role in these incidents. Look for a banning of
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selling booze on planes. Bring your own. A third of
them involving drunk passengers. Oh boy. And in another interesting
stat more than half of all the cases involved passengers
smoking on board, either in the main cabin or more
often in the bath. In the main cabin, I've been
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on a plane in fifty years. Changed, you can't What
do you mean you can't? What? Hey, sweetheart, get me
all light from my cigarette. Over the last year, a
hundred and seventy passengers had to be forcibly restrained. Or
are the airlines just getting more in the head cracking business?
They don't put up with anything anymore. You've seen United
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having all that funny We're gonna get in on trying
to take off your shoes and socks, put your feet
up and have a decent smoke when they get exactly thiculous.
My favorite joke was United Airlines fight or flight We
de that's a rap, that's your dus. I'm Marshall Philips,
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I'm struck a Getty show The Voice of the West
got this for you wouldn't got We went and got
a Christmas tree yesterday with kids. Very charming, just cute.
They had a Santa Claus there, So I got that
out of the way. Um, that's some fine attitude. Father Christmas.
Oh my god, did you have to get out and
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go shopping? You just slow down to about five you
want somebody went got Christmas tree, Christmas tree farm. I
thought most people did that. What percentage of people have
fake trees this year? Pitch you with that stat Also,
the polling on the Republican tax plan, which affects every
single person listener right now, stay tuned for that coming
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up on the Armstrong and Getty Show. This texter says,
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we already have a tax based on miles driven. That's
what the ass taxes. You pay more tax based on
how many miles as you drive. But they yeah, yeah,
and they spent all that the various other taxes through
the years on other stupid crap. It all went away
because it goes into the general fund. Than they don't
fix the roads. But a couple of things I want
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to finish. Bitcoin made a huge leap over the weekend,
I didn't see this. Trading on bitcoin. Bitcoin futures began
through the CBOE Futures Exchange, a major futures exchange, actually
began six pm Eastern time today begins. Uh, so we'll
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trade under the symbol XBT, etcetera, cetera. So that's a
big leap in terms of becoming legitimate something or other.
So that only what it was before, where it was
just completely out there on its own for a long time.
The knowledge that this was coming around the corner people
were saying was a reason for a lot of the
inflation that in the weeks before. Makes sense. But man,
it fluctuated a lot. You gotta have a either a
(30:02):
lot of money or or a steady nerve to deal
with this. So where's the numbers there? Um? Oh there
is uh. Thursday through Friday, it fluctuated between fourteen grand
and nineteen grand per bitcoin. It's pretty big fluctuation in
a couple of days. I don't know how many of
those bitcoins you got. I ain't got any. It will
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be interesting to see if the futures market helps stabilize
the price for reasons that nobody wants to hear. But um,
decorated Christmas tree last night, or at least got a
good start on it with the kids. Couldn't have been
cuter and more wholesome. Playing Kiss Christmas music off of
the digital channel on the TV, and the kids were
dancing to the music, decorating, and we had a hot
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chocolate and just the whole thing. It was just so
dan cute. I missed those days. And we went and
cut down a tree yesterday. I actually sawed it down
at the Christmas tree farm. Actually went to a neighbor's yard.
I thought they had a good looking trade. I thought,
that's blocking their picture window anyway. But you told your
kids it was a Christmas tree farm, so they enjoyed it.
He said, why are we doing this in the middle
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of the night. I said, it just seems like a
good idea. Yes, we set up our tree and the
dog looked at it. Then we all walked out of
the room. Back to you. Yeah, well yeah. I texted
a picture of my kids sitting on Santa's lap yesterday
to UM to a friend of mine, I said, how
many of these years I got left? He said a couple,
not many more? Yeah, handful? But what percentage million? American
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households with Christmas trees this year? What percentage are fake?
Much higher than I would have guessed. I thought most
people got real trees. Not even close. Four out of
five trees are fake people have in their living rooms.
I'd missed that one. They're out of five or phony.
I'll storm out of your house. How did you get in?
I'm not letting you in. If you're gonna criticize my tree.
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You're trying to pull one over on me, and I
won't stand for You're trying to rape the earth, and
I won't stand for that earth rapist. The first thing
Jack does, he goes over to the tree, pulls off
a little pine thing, make sure it's real, smells it's yeah,
that's really good. I have gotten so soft living on
the West Coast, apparently because I thought that I would
have never had earlier in my life. Actually occurred to
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me yesterday as as the kids were helping me put
the tree up and putting the little green juice in
there that keeps it alive, and putting the water into it,
and they're asking me why and is explaining how well
we cut it down and it got the water out
of the ground. Of course, so now to keep it alive.
And as I kept talking about keeping it alive and
how it will die and everything, I started to feel
like I've done something awful, rape the earth. It was
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perfectly happy up there in the wilderness, the forest, if
you will, growing. I couldn't see the tree for the
forest there was growing, and I cut it down, killed
it right for my own amusement. Well, it'll die slowly,
held captive in your home. Does that juice do anything?
Or is that just the greatest scam anyone ever invented,
selling those white bottles at six dollars a bottle? Of course,
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who am I talking to? You all have fake trees
for out of five years. Yeah, we don't. We don't
know what you're talking about. Listen to the sucker over
here buying green juice. You know, the fake tree thing.
If anybody ever did that for environmental reasons, and I'm
sure in the on the left coast it does happen. Uh.
That is probably a like a parallel to the plastic
bag paper bag thing, where they got rid of the
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paper bag because it cut down trees. Then it turns
out manufacturing the plastic cost five times as much damage. Blah,
blah blah. I'll bet my my environmental artificial tree. The
manufacturing of it probably unleashed all sorts of godless toxins
into the air and the rivers and streams and the
rest of the biodegrade under any circumstances. Exactly exactly how
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many minutes have I got, Michael? About a minute thirty
air that's long enough to hit this. So the GOP
tax bell is not very popular. This is huge legislation, right,
this is there. See we can get together since we
run all of the government and accomplish something big. Well,
it's not very popular current support according to the USA
Today Pole, which is the lowest public support for major
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piece of legislation in the last thirty years, including Obamacare.
A majority barely, but a majority fifty. Now, some of
this is perception versus reality, but this is what people think.
Fifty percent say their own families taxes will go higher
or stay the same. Mine are gonna go higher. I
think fifty pcent say it won't help the economy in
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any way. I think that's a perception. But you've got
a problem. If that's the perception, it's a different problem.
But yeah, who wins from the tax cut bill, and
they broke it down by the poor, the middle class,
or the wealthy. UM. Six percent say it will help
the poor, Seventeen percent believe it will help the middle class.
Sixty four percent believe it will help the wealthy. That's
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definitely either a reality or perception problem. That's people believe
this is just gonna help the wealthy. UM. One percent
said uh nobody, Eight percent said everybody. It's gonna help everybody. Actually,
I think it's going to help the economy a lot.
I agree with the Wall Street Journal because I think
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they know what they're talking about, and that will help everybody.
If the whole economy takes off, We're growing at four
percent plus for the next hour many years. Seven percent
refused to answer the question. I love it. I will
answer that question, and you can't make me. Seriously, who
do you think it will help? I'm not saying why not.
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I'm not saying that none of your business. None of
your business. Then they mace you in the face exactly.
And now final thoughts from m Strong and Getty. God,
if I can talk like that, I'd never stopped. Here's
your host, Joe Getty. All right, let's do the final thoughts.
Everybody positive. Sean final thought. Yeah, taking my car and
to get a little bit of service. So this is
the time time within my life where I get to
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pretend like I know stuff about cars. Oh yeah, it's
kind of leaning a little bit on the turn there.
Maybe it's say, you might want to check the carburetor.
Good stuff. I'll click on that. Marsha Phillips final thought.
Gotta be starting off the new year with a wedding.
My friends, one of our co workers, has asked me
to preside over their son's wedding. Really, yes, you're gonna
be the efficient, the official. Indeed, I will be wearing
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a rope of many colors, looking for a lot of
merriment and exciting video. Awesome, terrific. Michael Agelo final thought,
Hey Jack, Joe, I consider you friends, and because I
care about you and your family's I beg you to
invest your life savings in bitcoin. That's the right thing
to do. I'm on it. Thank you, Michael. Jack Your
final thought. Joe and I, for for strange reasons, are
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traveling the like three different places in one week. That
really made me understand what you the business traveler does.
Man or a woman out there who's on the road
all the time. I don't know how you do it.
I don't know how you get any sleep. I don't
know how you keep from being four hundred pounds and
stressed out and miserable traveling all the time. I can't
do it. I'm not good at It's a skill you
have to learn, I guess. My final thought is that
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charges of indecency has been dropped against twenty four women
in Sudan. They're arrested. We're wearing trousers, wearing pants at all.
I'm I'm I'm against this, a loosening of the morals,
you know, rules of Sudan. I'll tell you what you
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allow pants soon that will lead the socks. Before you know,
women will be walking around and you just can't have that.
So what do they want to you know? Yeah? Yeah,
the formless, shapeless gown. So they were covered up, but
to mail, well, you could see that they have two legs,
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and you know what if you got two leggs, you
know what you got. Huh. I thank you know, Okay,
I'm strong and getty. I have two kids. I must
know I'm strong and gett Rapping up another grueling before
our work to so many people will thanks so much,
said a little time good. I'm strong and Getty radio
dot com are contact infos. There would be glad to
hear from you. You can email us, tweet at us, whatever.
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Who will see you tomorrow. If mars a big election
in Alabama, you won't hear much about that. Beth, God
bless America. This is a historic act of devastating incompetence.
I will not sugarcoat this. This is a disappointing day
for us. Big mistake, but not too bad. The fun
level in this room is at an eleven right now,
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and that brought it down. The right is over. The
time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing
bears has passed. You're a wacome here, get get We
apologize for our stupidity, and we really hope you forgive
us for what we've done. Thank you, Bye bye. You
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don't see that. Armstrong and Getty the voice of the West.
Self talk six fifty kst seventy nine is not thirty six.
(00:33):
One check one, am I on who's trying to silence
me them? Who was that? We just heard? Play that again?
Would you seventy nine is not thirty six. Jerry Brown,
the ancient governor of California who was a contemporary of Archimedes,
argue with that. Yeah, he's talking about his experiences, his
twin experiences of being gumber of California thirty years apart.
(00:58):
Four young be just governor in the States history atty
six oldest now at a hundred and four, And that's
that's really quite a life accomplishment. I mean, you've got
to be amazed by that. That is something somebody google
and you gotta wonder about. Democracy is wild to me.
I mean, you wouldn't think that would happen. Well, and
don't forget he was governor of the first time, right
(01:21):
after his father. Yeah, that shouldn't happens after that shouldn't happen.
We we shouldn't almost had a Bush versus Clinton when
both of them and you know, other family members being
I mean, that just shouldn't happen, but it happens. It's
clearly we we like royal families more than we like
just picking citizens out of the crowd to run things.
That's just obviously the way we're built. Well, And seriously,
(01:43):
you got one person you've heard of, one person you haven't.
If you spent sixty seconds reading or listening to some
sort of digestive what they think, you'd be fine in
terms of which one you'd be more prone to vote
for sixty seconds. But the American voter, generally speaking, will
not do that, and they'll vote for the name they
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know or the California voter apparently right. Yeah, sure, um,
but a lot of people like Jerry Brown what he
does in the way that's fine. I don't care how
much you like him. The idea that a father son
youngest son oldest should ever happen in a democracy seems
crazy to me. Yeah, it's a little odd anyway. So
Jerry was on sixty minutes last night, number one, blaming
the wildfires on Donald Trump, which I mean, you can
(02:26):
blame Donald Trump for the wildfires in twenty six if
you want. Now. I get that he doesn't swing the
way you swing on climate policy and the rest of it.
Maybe he's wrong, but that is a mother of a stretch.
So let's listen to some of the things Jerry said.
Let's do one more lighthearted one. Give me number two, Sean,
I worked with mother Teresa. I've spent six months doing
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zen meditation, just just to give you an idea of
how he came to the wisdom that he displays in
the following clips. All right, number three, it seems it
Telforn is way out of step with the rest of
the country. What I'd say, we're more in tune with
the future than than many parts of the rest of
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the country. Do you think the country is going to
look more like California in the future. I think it
will because I was asking myself, why did Democrats in Ohio,
in Wisconsin and Michigan, Pennsylvania, why they vote for Trump?
Not a lot of them did, but enough to give
them those states electoral votes. Your answer, there's more confidence here,
there's less fear. People are looking to the future. They're
(03:31):
not scared, they're not going inward. They're not scapegoating, not
blaming um Mexican immigrants, they're not blaming the stranger. Just
the opposite. It's a place that's alive, it's dynamic, it's
a culture that's on the move, uh, not pulling up
the drawbridge out of fear and economic insecurity. How about
(03:51):
that He's right about a couple of issues in the
in the past, the California has been way out of
step and turns out the rest of the country catches
up like your gay marriage stuff, your marijuana stuff. Yeah,
those are pretty big issues. Yeah, California led the way
the direction of the rest of the country is going.
I hope he's not right about some of this other stuff.
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I think the buckets condescension towards Democrats who voted for
Trump in the Rust belt was fairly ridiculous. I mean,
some are scapegoating various people. Many are not um. And
you know, if if it were not for Silicon Valley,
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the state would be in terrible fiscal trouble. Um. But
now let's play a couple more um. Go ahead. Number four.
The Republicans have this cult. Just like they believe there's
no claimate problem. They believe that cutting corporate taxes without
any money to pay for it, they think it's magic.
It'll make everything wonderful, very irresponsible, very dangerous. Okay, that's
(05:00):
back to a progressive suddenly concerned about the deficit, which
is just so cute. I am actually concerned about the deficit.
I actually agree with you, but I don't want you
over here. Go back to your own table, um, because
because you're insincere. Um, California's America's economic engine. He talks
about California, Well, go ahead and play it. It's not paradise.
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We we have lots of problems. California is the engine
of American I like to remind my fellow citizens when
you got to look a scance at this state. You're
looking at one of the not the only one, but
a major contributor to the well being of the whole country. Well,
I'll tell you what that. You know, like Joe has
been pointing out all morning long, almost all of that
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hinges on the fact that Steve Jobs was adopted and
brought to the Bay Area. If he had been in Ohio,
completely different story. All those companies bubble up all around Apple,
you know, and you got to pay Pal and and
Yahoo and everything else around, there be a completely different story.
That's just that was just luck. You don't believe it.
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Look at picks Picksburg, Pittsburg right now, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is
big and growing high tech capital. But this is not
People have been doing this in states forever. I mean,
this is Texas talking about how great their economy is
off of oil for decades. You just happen to have
a state that has oil under it, so you've got
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a lot of good news. Now California is doing the
same with tech. Yeah. Yeah, um. I liked this stuff
about taxes. It was absolutely hilarious. Go ahead, and number six,
you gotta pay some taxes. You have to invest. We
need to invest in the technologies of tomorrow or somebody
else will. And that somebody is China, India and other countries.
You're not gonna pourmouth yourself to the future. And roads
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cost money. It's called taxes. UM, R and D cost money.
Colleges cost money, a school's childcare, all of that. We're
a rich country and we can so. Jerry Brown's technique
has been to narrow the tax base as much as
humanly possible. Jerry Brown the Democrat party in California, so
that the fewest possible number of people are paying income tax,
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which is a huge, huge driver of state revenue. There
before he and his cronies can hand out money to
their cronies and classic crypto crap style, and nobody can
vote it out because you've got one group that's paying
all of it, but their numbers are small, and you've
got a huge other group. It doesn't give it damn
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because it isn't their money. So it is an absolutely
beautifully designed pipeline of graft masquerading his public works. Witness
the Crony, the Crony Express, the bullet train, which is
a regular train that will cost a hundred billion dollars
when train travel is declining. Isn't it a perfectly legitimate
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question though, because they ended the feature on Jerry Brown
going to is just unbelievable ranch and watching him drive
around this huge spread in the mansion that he's building
there and everything like that with his wife. Isn't it
a question we're asking You're been a public servant your
your entire life, at that that's what you tout regularly.
You've dedicated your life to public service. Where'd you get
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the money to buy that? That is unbelievable? I think
that's a reasonable question as a taxpayer man. You got
a nice house, where'd your money come from? Well he's
been a lawyer, Well yeah, almost politicians, They say, of
four million dollars, is it his wife? It's not crazy rich.
(08:37):
That's pretty wealthy, pretty damn wealthy for being in public
service her whole life. Whould you make your money? I'd
like to know. I think anybody who spends more than
I don't know. Well, first of all, if you ever
call yourself a public servant, you immediately have to tell
me where your money came from. And if you have
a reasonable explanation, Yeah, I started a bakery or or
you know what the darrel Iza Darrel I said, Yeah,
I invented this thing for lum the step away from
(08:59):
the and I made a gazillion dollars. Say, but I
want to hear a reasonable explanation why you have a
giant house and uh fancy car and live the life
you live when you've been in government for so long. Yeah? Yeah,
And we got hit with a couple of texts. People
point this out all the time. Is this verified that
the road to his place in the middle of nowhere
got paved when none of the other roads around there
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have been newly paved. Yes, there is no money in
that county? Is it Calusa County? His dog's name is
Colusa probably is um. Yeah. In fact, I have it
from the folks there that there is no money for roads,
none except for Jerry Brown's road, and the state went
ahead and kicked in. But that's fine. He's he's California's putin.
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But he's not nearly as rich. He's just But again,
I don't I don't particularly care if Jerry Brown has
four million dollars. I do if he if he made
it all as a public servant, I'd like to know
what he was doing to make all that money. He's
doing something that ain't cool, that needs to be changed
or fixed or outlawed. Oh let's see what else do
(10:03):
we have. You know, I don't hate his message on
climate change or renewable let's put it renewable fuels. A
lot of out there kind of reject that stuff in
a knee jerk fashion because you don't like the exaggerations
of Jerry Brown and al Gore, how they constantly are
(10:24):
trying to say. You know, if if there's a hurricane,
it was global warming. If there's an eight year lull
and hurricanes, you don't hear anything about it, then you know,
at the ninth year, there's another hurricane, and your year.
It's global warming, climate change. I get that that's so annoying,
but that doesn't mean I'm against renewable fuels. You know,
if we could get solar so that it really is
(10:46):
super efficient and powers mostly great or or something else,
nuclear fusion, I don't know what's gonna be A that's great.
I'm in favor of all that stuff, but you just
there's so much horsecrap. They just they passed tax after
tax after tax to the roads. The roads still suck.
And then then he says, we get we gotta raise taxes.
Roads aren't cheap. But the people of California. You know,
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a lot of the people who drive this green stuff
get really really rich, like Al Gore. Now I don't
know that Jerry Brown did, but a lot of people do.
Who get super into the green world and are all
about stopping these carbon emissions, they somehow end up gazillionaires. Well,
they know where the subsidies are going to go, and
they know where the state mandates are going to buy,
(11:30):
and don't buy mandates. Um Ah, that reminds me. It's funny.
I have the article somewhere, but I lost it. California
now has like travel bands to twenty three states because
of their various policies about transgender this or gay that,
or or race the other, or immigration the other, and
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soon you, just as a California government official, you're not
gonna be able to go anywhere. I'm gonna have to
build a walls, Jerry, build a wall to keep those
damn Nebraskins out. So we've got stories we won't be
covering with Sean coming up. I also have to run
through some of these texts because they're super good. At
four two, nine, five k f TC. You wouldn't believe
(12:12):
how many texts we got on the Bikini barris the
story they're still coming in. Why was that such a
hot topic because it feeds it's an important constitutional issue.
You don't see that. No, No, that's what I should say.
Stay tuned to the arms Strong and Getty show a
(12:50):
few texts from the text line, which is really perfect
place to get them before we get to Sean's stories
we won't be covering. But um, I'm starting a Hooters
based restaurant called Plumb Smugglers. I think you get the idea.
We're talking about the Bikini Barristas and it's women in
bikini serving coffee and you get more customers that way
of a certain kind of guess um Ah. I live
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in Everett, Washington, which is where the court case originated
with the bikini barristas. All the bikini barrist t kiosks
are drive throughs. They have mirrored glass or other restricted
viewing from the street unless you are at the window,
and the girls never hang out based on my experience.
First of all, it's December and this is Washington. Um,
(13:39):
you don't see the eighteen year olds hanging up McDonald's.
It's not that easy to lean out the window. Okay,
I don't know about them, but they've never seen that.
But the reason that I don't hate the bosom and
hate the braw that's kind of funny, Burris. I want
to do the Texas the textas is. I wanted to
read this one. I don't normally go to coffee shops.
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If they had girls with big boobs at the coffee shop,
I would go out of my way. The girls with
the big boobs are best. Wow. Thank you for your comments, sir.
Glad to see that my texts have not been blocked yet.
I like the very short, to the point Hemingway like
sentences the girls with the big boobs are the best. Yes, period,
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short declarative sentences, exact, try it. I know exactly what
you think and where you're coming from. On that you
want to try to impress people with your speech. Don't
go for fancy, go for clarity. I like the ones
with big boobs. Big boobs are best. Big boobs are fine.
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Classic Michelangelo story which maybe we'll tell again someday, an
embarrassing gaff. You got more you want to do over?
There no time for stories. We won't be covering featuring
positive sean covering your headline. We will start off with
now simple. Jack will tell you he is out of
modern man. He does not go to the cinema plex.
(15:02):
But there is a movie that was nominated for a
Golden Globe that Jack has seen. If memory is serving,
I maybe it was taken, but I'm almost certain you
have seen this movie. It is from the animated film category.
Can you guess an animated film that you saw in
the theater? I took my kids to see a couple
of things Well got nominated, Boss Baby, Oh Yeah, nominated
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Best Animated Feature. The likes of none other than Alec
Baldwin has said Boss Baby. I'm actually it's the first
time in years I've seen one of the nominated movies. Yeah,
how do you think it stands up against The Breadwinner, Coco, Ferdinand,
and Loving Vincent. I didn't see those, but I can
remember the day after I took my kids to see
Boss Baby, I declared it was an instant classic because
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it was it was It was really, really good and
had a great you know, the kind of thing that
you want in kids movies where at the end there's
like a moral and it all ties together and it's
about being nice to people in fantastic good all the
way through. Now, like Baldwin's hilarious and the major nominations
from the the Drama Best Picture, just go through this
and the comedy is real quick. We don't need to
go into the the other categories. We have Called Me
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by Your Name, which is your obligatory, obligatory gay love story.
You have dun Kirt, the Christopher Nolan war movie, obligatory
evacuation movie, The Post, which is the Steven Spielberg directed
Washington Post, a movie. It's got to be great. It's Spielberg,
it's Tom Hankson's Meryl Streep. It's a great story, but
(16:28):
just they're obviously putting it out to talk about the
Washington Post role and uncovering Nixon like presidents and just
heard Trump's just like Nixon and Hitler. It's just so obvious.
I'm sort of Hitler Nixon. But but it's a great movie.
Germo del Toro is the Shape of Water and three
billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri. Round out your five nominations
for Best Picture Drama, Best Picture, Comedy or Musical. Why
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those are the same category? I will never know. Nobody
understands The Disaster Artist, which is much like an Edwood movie.
This is a movie about a man who was horrible
at making movie. Right he was? Which which dude was this?
So I the guy's name escaped me. But the movie
that he made is called The Room. It is hysterically bad.
It has a kind of um rocky horror picture show
(17:13):
style called following. There'll be special screenings and they're they're
packed and everybody shouts the lines back and my son
is so into it. Yeah, very funny movie. Can't wait
to see this. I'll see that this week. I'll let
you guys know get out the Greatest Showman A, Tanya
and Ladybird are your five nominations for that? I love
Lady Bird. I hope it wins everything. Moving on, Finally,
(17:33):
pizza recognized officially as an art form. The City of
Naples has been added. The UNESCO, the United Nations Educational
and Services of Creative Something Something Something has added the
art of Neapolitan pizza making or PiZZ aulo to its
list of intangible cultural Heritages of humanity that is important
(17:56):
to the world. So pizza making in Italy now officially
recognized as an art form. We have a Finally, well,
you can't have pizza anymore though, according to Oberlin College,
we talked about this last hour because that's cultural appropriation
from Italians. I call it cultural appreciation. Nice. What technology
did San Francisco say no to? Not? Every innovation is great,
(18:20):
said San Francisco supervisor Norman Ye. Now San Francisco has
put a bit of the brakes on delivery robots. San
Francisco long been a petri dish for disruptive innovations. UH
this week's lawmakers pass strict regulations to reduce the number
of delivery robots that tech startups have introduced to the
city Sidewalks said. Ye, if we don't value our society,
(18:42):
if we don't value getting the chance to go to
the store without being run over by a robot, what
is happening? Wow, that's interesting. Robot permits will be capped
at three per company and a nine total at any
given time for the entire city. But I've been saying
for a long time everybody's talking about when they talk
about drones and robots and all these different things. We're
gonna have some rules on this at some point, And
(19:04):
and they're gonna come sooner rather than later. See, you're
not just gonna be able to send your robot to
the grocery store whenever you want. They'll be crashing into
each other. Right, the robots drone wherever the hell they want.
Hey give the entire collision robot technology. Why are you
standing in the way of science the robots? Like to
send my robot to the grocery store. How great would
(19:25):
that be? He'd have he'd have the grocery the map
in his memory banks, and and he just zipped straight.
I tried to find the snow of the sugar snap
piece yesterday. Uh, General Joe's so walk this way. It
was open last night, and I couldn't find him narrow.
I thought they were over here. They're over there, and
(19:46):
it took me five minutes to find him. Robot could
have gone right to him. Robot robots only be allowed
to operate within certain industrial neighborhoods and must be accompanied
by a human chaperone at all time. I just wanted
to give you this one quote from a local. I
canna walk along with my road. But what's the point.
What's the point of a roman? George Wooding? If you
do not need a robot to deliver a ham sandwich,
(20:07):
if you want it that badly, you can just go
get it yourself. That's that sucks, the ruining robots. What's
coming up to your news, Marshall, Well, women charging President
Trump with past sexual misconduct want Congress to investigate. You
got California's new higher gas tax still not enough to
cover road repairs, so they've come up with another way
(20:27):
to tax you or drivers in your state. And the
increasingly unfriendly skies behaved or be restrained. Coming up medicine now,
I'm strugging getting hey. By the way, speaking of movies,
that new Winston Churchill movie with Gary Oldman. Have you
Oh my god, that looks great. I suppose that will
be for next year's awards. I hope he hasn't grabbed
(20:49):
anybody or anything. We got Marshall's news up in just
a few minutes. You're listening to the arms Strong and
the Getty Show. It's gonna pass along this text. Guys,
(21:12):
look into light Coin. I bought a handful last week
when they were a hundred dollars each. Now they're almost
two hundred dollars each and expected to go up. Light
Coin new cryptocurrency on the scene. I heard of another
one too. Yeah, you're getting a bunch of these bunchet
coin companies are coming out with their I c o
s initial coin offerings. This is these are the people
latching onto the They very well may be successful. I
(21:33):
don't know. I'm not I'm not a fortune teller, don't
ask me, but there are a ton of these popping
up now. I haven't got the slightest idea how any
of that works. I tried to look into it a
little bit over the weekend, just kind of you can
and it involved you have to go to it like
some weird third party site, and then you have to
get which is almost certainly a Russian scam, to get
your account number, and then you have to get some
(21:53):
some crypto wallet on your smartphone and try for the
funds from the crypto an app to steal all the
information from phone. Are the anti Russian bias bro to
your coin? White eyes, I'm out don't news now with
Marsha Phillips. Well, the suspect you had a pipe bomb
strapped to him that exploded this morning in New York
Sports Authority bus terminal is in police custody. The bomb
(22:14):
either malfunctioned or went off prematurely inside a subway platform entrance.
This woman was running for the subway when boom, do
sech smoke and then right after the smoke, I just
ran upstairs. I mean the people who was walking to today.
Just four people hurt, including the twenty seven year old
male suspect. Terrorists last turn yelling don't saying clearly did
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not work at all the way he wanted to write,
not unless he just intended to burn his belly. Several
women who have accused President Trump a sexual misconductor now
calling for a congressional investigation into his alleged behavior. As Americans,
we can put aside our political inclinations and admit that
some things, in fact do transcend politics, that we will
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hold Mr Trump to the same standard as Harvey Weinstein
and the other men who were held accountable for their
reprehensible behavior. Not a news counts. Okay, all right, listen,
I think going with Harvey is a little heavy handed. Well,
Trump's accused of, you know, gropings, and is there one
woman who accused him of out and mount rape? There
(23:21):
was there was one woman that said he did force
himself on her. Yes, well, but at the same time,
trying to say we need to use the same standards
for a sitting president in terms of a congressional investigation
as a Hollywood mogul who was fired by his brother
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who's running the company. What do you I mean? Okay,
all right, there aren't any standards for any of this
is the problem. At the press conference today, Rachel Crooks
and Jessica Leeds were kind of episodes which they say
Trump forcibly kissed or grope them. Samantha Holby described an
instant in which Trump entered a changing room for Miss
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USA contestants. You remember that story, the woman who spoke
out before Trump's elections said their claims fell on deaf
ears until the me too movement gain traction in recent months.
I don't know if they fell on deaf ears. They
got a fair amount of attention several weeks there during
the campaign. I remember going through a lot of these stories.
They reached my ears, which are non deaf, but for
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whatever reason, they didn't stick. But this is a different time.
We'll see where this goes. Largest wildfire burning in southern
California now tout in thirty acres, it's only fifteen percent contained.
Now the fifth largest wildfire in state's history. This burning
away in Ventura, threatening parts of Santa Barbara County, And
today you see Santa Barbara's chancellor postponed final exams at
(24:46):
the school until next month because of that fire. Some
of these areas hadn't burned in a hundred years, so
that that's not part of nature's plan ever, just to
have areas that haven't been cleared out like that. So,
by the way, we just have more on the I
was just gonna say, as a guy who's flying up
and down the coast of California a lot these days,
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there's a spectacular amount of smoke coming out of that fire.
I mean, it's just mind boggling. We got this text.
There are over cryptocurrencies currently. Light light coin has been
around for about five years. How do you choose which
one is gonna be the next big one? It turns
out it's not gonna be enough. Even with California drivers
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showing out more for gas and diesel fuel thanks to
those new tax hikes, a new caltrans studies said the
state really needs to switch to a road use tax
to ensure long term money for highway repairs. The reports
warning that revenues from gas and diesel fuel taxes are
going to continue to shrink as cars and trucks become
more and more fuel efficient, and as Californians drive more
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electric vehicles. So they got research hundred and forty. So
they've got researchers working on ways to remotely model that
or how many miles you drive every year to figure
out your tax bill. Inevitable, inevitable that you get charged
based on how much you drive. I hate it, but
it's inevitable. Got a new study for the International Air
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Transport Association that says there was a fifty percent spike
this year and the number of passengers forcibly restrained for
bad behavior. Wow passengers actions ranging from verbal abuse to
life threatening situations. Alcohol it is set off and plays
a role in these incidents. Look for a banning of
(26:33):
selling booze on planes. Bring your own. A third of
them involving drunk passengers. Oh boy. And in another interesting
stat more than half of all the cases involved passengers
smoking on board, either in the main cabin or more
often in the bath. In the main cabin, I've been
(26:56):
on a plane in fifty years. Changed, you can't What
do you mean you can't? What? Hey, sweetheart, get me
all light from my cigarette. Over the last year, a
hundred and seventy passengers had to be forcibly restrained. Or
are the airlines just getting more in the head cracking business?
They don't put up with anything anymore. You've seen United
(27:17):
having all that funny We're gonna get in on trying
to take off your shoes and socks, put your feet
up and have a decent smoke when they get exactly thiculous.
My favorite joke was United Airlines fight or flight We
de that's a rap, that's your dus. I'm Marshall Philips,
(27:37):
I'm struck a Getty show The Voice of the West
got this for you wouldn't got We went and got
a Christmas tree yesterday with kids. Very charming, just cute.
They had a Santa Claus there, So I got that
out of the way. Um, that's some fine attitude. Father Christmas.
Oh my god, did you have to get out and
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go shopping? You just slow down to about five you
want somebody went got Christmas tree, Christmas tree farm. I
thought most people did that. What percentage of people have
fake trees this year? Pitch you with that stat Also,
the polling on the Republican tax plan, which affects every
single person listener right now, stay tuned for that coming
(28:20):
up on the Armstrong and Getty Show. This texter says,
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we already have a tax based on miles driven. That's
what the ass taxes. You pay more tax based on
how many miles as you drive. But they yeah, yeah,
and they spent all that the various other taxes through
the years on other stupid crap. It all went away
because it goes into the general fund. Than they don't
fix the roads. But a couple of things I want
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to finish. Bitcoin made a huge leap over the weekend,
I didn't see this. Trading on bitcoin. Bitcoin futures began
through the CBOE Futures Exchange, a major futures exchange, actually
began six pm Eastern time today begins. Uh, so we'll
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trade under the symbol XBT, etcetera, cetera. So that's a
big leap in terms of becoming legitimate something or other.
So that only what it was before, where it was
just completely out there on its own for a long time.
The knowledge that this was coming around the corner people
were saying was a reason for a lot of the
inflation that in the weeks before. Makes sense. But man,
it fluctuated a lot. You gotta have a either a
(30:02):
lot of money or or a steady nerve to deal
with this. So where's the numbers there? Um? Oh there
is uh. Thursday through Friday, it fluctuated between fourteen grand
and nineteen grand per bitcoin. It's pretty big fluctuation in
a couple of days. I don't know how many of
those bitcoins you got. I ain't got any. It will
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be interesting to see if the futures market helps stabilize
the price for reasons that nobody wants to hear. But um,
decorated Christmas tree last night, or at least got a
good start on it with the kids. Couldn't have been
cuter and more wholesome. Playing Kiss Christmas music off of
the digital channel on the TV, and the kids were
dancing to the music, decorating, and we had a hot
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chocolate and just the whole thing. It was just so
dan cute. I missed those days. And we went and
cut down a tree yesterday. I actually sawed it down
at the Christmas tree farm. Actually went to a neighbor's yard.
I thought they had a good looking trade. I thought,
that's blocking their picture window anyway. But you told your
kids it was a Christmas tree farm, so they enjoyed it.
He said, why are we doing this in the middle
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of the night. I said, it just seems like a
good idea. Yes, we set up our tree and the
dog looked at it. Then we all walked out of
the room. Back to you. Yeah, well yeah. I texted
a picture of my kids sitting on Santa's lap yesterday
to UM to a friend of mine, I said, how
many of these years I got left? He said a couple,
not many more? Yeah, handful? But what percentage million? American
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households with Christmas trees this year? What percentage are fake?
Much higher than I would have guessed. I thought most
people got real trees. Not even close. Four out of
five trees are fake people have in their living rooms.
I'd missed that one. They're out of five or phony.
I'll storm out of your house. How did you get in?
I'm not letting you in. If you're gonna criticize my tree.
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You're trying to pull one over on me, and I
won't stand for You're trying to rape the earth, and
I won't stand for that earth rapist. The first thing
Jack does, he goes over to the tree, pulls off
a little pine thing, make sure it's real, smells it's yeah,
that's really good. I have gotten so soft living on
the West Coast, apparently because I thought that I would
have never had earlier in my life. Actually occurred to
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me yesterday as as the kids were helping me put
the tree up and putting the little green juice in
there that keeps it alive, and putting the water into it,
and they're asking me why and is explaining how well
we cut it down and it got the water out
of the ground. Of course, so now to keep it alive.
And as I kept talking about keeping it alive and
how it will die and everything, I started to feel
like I've done something awful, rape the earth. It was
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perfectly happy up there in the wilderness, the forest, if
you will, growing. I couldn't see the tree for the
forest there was growing, and I cut it down, killed
it right for my own amusement. Well, it'll die slowly,
held captive in your home. Does that juice do anything?
Or is that just the greatest scam anyone ever invented,
selling those white bottles at six dollars a bottle? Of course,
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who am I talking to? You all have fake trees
for out of five years. Yeah, we don't. We don't
know what you're talking about. Listen to the sucker over
here buying green juice. You know, the fake tree thing.
If anybody ever did that for environmental reasons, and I'm
sure in the on the left coast it does happen. Uh.
That is probably a like a parallel to the plastic
bag paper bag thing, where they got rid of the
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paper bag because it cut down trees. Then it turns
out manufacturing the plastic cost five times as much damage. Blah,
blah blah. I'll bet my my environmental artificial tree. The
manufacturing of it probably unleashed all sorts of godless toxins
into the air and the rivers and streams and the
rest of the biodegrade under any circumstances. Exactly exactly how
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many minutes have I got, Michael? About a minute thirty
air that's long enough to hit this. So the GOP
tax bell is not very popular. This is huge legislation, right,
this is there. See we can get together since we
run all of the government and accomplish something big. Well,
it's not very popular current support according to the USA
Today Pole, which is the lowest public support for major
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piece of legislation in the last thirty years, including Obamacare.
A majority barely, but a majority fifty. Now, some of
this is perception versus reality, but this is what people think.
Fifty percent say their own families taxes will go higher
or stay the same. Mine are gonna go higher. I
think fifty pcent say it won't help the economy in
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any way. I think that's a perception. But you've got
a problem. If that's the perception, it's a different problem.
But yeah, who wins from the tax cut bill, and
they broke it down by the poor, the middle class,
or the wealthy. UM. Six percent say it will help
the poor, Seventeen percent believe it will help the middle class.
Sixty four percent believe it will help the wealthy. That's
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definitely either a reality or perception problem. That's people believe
this is just gonna help the wealthy. UM. One percent
said uh nobody, Eight percent said everybody. It's gonna help everybody. Actually,
I think it's going to help the economy a lot.
I agree with the Wall Street Journal because I think
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they know what they're talking about, and that will help everybody.
If the whole economy takes off, We're growing at four
percent plus for the next hour many years. Seven percent
refused to answer the question. I love it. I will
answer that question, and you can't make me. Seriously, who
do you think it will help? I'm not saying why not.
(35:25):
I'm not saying that none of your business. None of
your business. Then they mace you in the face exactly.
And now final thoughts from m Strong and Getty. God,
if I can talk like that, I'd never stopped. Here's
your host, Joe Getty. All right, let's do the final thoughts.
Everybody positive. Sean final thought. Yeah, taking my car and
to get a little bit of service. So this is
the time time within my life where I get to
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pretend like I know stuff about cars. Oh yeah, it's
kind of leaning a little bit on the turn there.
Maybe it's say, you might want to check the carburetor.
Good stuff. I'll click on that. Marsha Phillips final thought.
Gotta be starting off the new year with a wedding.
My friends, one of our co workers, has asked me
to preside over their son's wedding. Really, yes, you're gonna
be the efficient, the official. Indeed, I will be wearing
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a rope of many colors, looking for a lot of
merriment and exciting video. Awesome, terrific. Michael Agelo final thought,
Hey Jack, Joe, I consider you friends, and because I
care about you and your family's I beg you to
invest your life savings in bitcoin. That's the right thing
to do. I'm on it. Thank you, Michael. Jack Your
final thought. Joe and I, for for strange reasons, are
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traveling the like three different places in one week. That
really made me understand what you the business traveler does.
Man or a woman out there who's on the road
all the time. I don't know how you do it.
I don't know how you get any sleep. I don't
know how you keep from being four hundred pounds and
stressed out and miserable traveling all the time. I can't
do it. I'm not good at It's a skill you
have to learn, I guess. My final thought is that
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charges of indecency has been dropped against twenty four women
in Sudan. They're arrested. We're wearing trousers, wearing pants at all.
I'm I'm I'm against this, a loosening of the morals,
you know, rules of Sudan. I'll tell you what you
(37:13):
allow pants soon that will lead the socks. Before you know,
women will be walking around and you just can't have that.
So what do they want to you know? Yeah? Yeah,
the formless, shapeless gown. So they were covered up, but
to mail, well, you could see that they have two legs,
(37:37):
and you know what if you got two leggs, you
know what you got. Huh. I thank you know, Okay,
I'm strong and getty. I have two kids. I must
know I'm strong and gett Rapping up another grueling before
our work to so many people will thanks so much,
said a little time good. I'm strong and Getty radio
dot com are contact infos. There would be glad to
hear from you. You can email us, tweet at us, whatever.
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Who will see you tomorrow. If mars a big election
in Alabama, you won't hear much about that. Beth, God
bless America. This is a historic act of devastating incompetence.
I will not sugarcoat this. This is a disappointing day
for us. Big mistake, but not too bad. The fun
level in this room is at an eleven right now,
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and that brought it down. The right is over. The
time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing
bears has passed. You're a wacome here, get get We
apologize for our stupidity, and we really hope you forgive
us for what we've done. Thank you, Bye bye. You
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