July 23, 2024 • 35 mins
In hour 4 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
- Trump never closer to losing than now?
- Meta blew out its workforce
- Lebron the China lover carrying the US flag and more Olympic memories
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. I'm excited for that meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And let me say this that Vice President Kamala Harris
has excited the community, she's excited the House Democratic Caucus,
and she's exciting the country.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, I don't know about the country, but she is
certainly excited half the country who had nothing to be
excited about for quite a while there with the polling
and their candidate getting worse on a day by day basis.
At least now they've got a shot. I was reading
this comment from Alex Castellanos, who is a a big
time influencer, pundits, fundraiser, dude in the Republican Party who
(01:06):
I've been watching for many, many years. I'll always remember
seeing him on Meet the Press at one of those
shows in twenty fifteen saying, well, let me tell you
this one thing is true, Donald Trump will not be
our candidate in the year twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Good call, Alex. That's always stuck in my head.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But anyway, he's he's part of the elite power structure
that tried to keep Trump out and then he's gone
full on and Trump and he believes Trump can win
and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But he said this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
He tweeted out Trump has never been closer to losing
than at this moment, which is probably true yesterday. The
bottom line being if Harris rises to the occasion, buckle up.
If she doesn't, she might not get this race to
a competitive place. But at this moment, I think that
probably is true that Trump's closer to losing than he
has been at any point.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, it's so difficult to say. The egg of her
candidacy is just hatched, and you know, her terror track
record would suggest that it's not going to go very far,
very successful.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But and it's all it's an old saying that you were.
You never have a higher water mark than the day
you announce. I mean, that is that is, that's that's
the best things ever are. And then the slings and
arrows start coming in in reality and you start answering
things and it all starts to unfold. However it's going
to unfold, then nobody knows if she's gonna rise to
(02:22):
the aka. I thought she looked super confident and comfortable yesterday,
And I'm not sure everybody would be who all of
a sudden was in a presidential race with a chance
of being president of the United States, and she she
looked pretty damn confident yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, I would say the energy she gave off was
very good. I was impressed by that, you know, a
quick aside, not to get too specific for reasons of
professionalism and decency, but on media road there at the RNC,
we could hear a lot of shows doing what they do,
podcasts and radio shows and that sort of thing. And
(02:57):
and amongst some certainly was a what they do for
a living is worshipfulness of Trump. I mean, Trump is
America's Churchill, He is America's Hitler, America's lion. We must
put our trust in Trump. Trump will lead us to
the tomorrow that we need and deserve. I mean, it
(03:18):
was like quasi religious and interesting, and some people want that.
It's fine. It's free country. You listen to whatever you
want to. We don't really do that around here. Well,
I agree with Trump on a hell of a lot
of things. I was asked by a guy in an airport,
so what do you make of the R and C.
What's your takeaway? He said, I'm kind of a liberal,
but I'm just curious what you thought, And I said,
I said, it was an incredibly excited and unified party,
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to the point that they're forgetting what a flawed candidate
they have. And having said that, it's really really difficult
to call which way this one is going to go
because Trump is limited in his appeal. He's hit his ceiling,
I think, and he was fortunate to be up against
(04:03):
a guy in Joe Biden, who is just utterly careening
backward with no breaks. Kamala is definitely a less known quantity.
She's been incompetent and insufferable and utterly unlikable. So again,
if I were a betting man, we got an unlikable guy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Misogyny, that's what they say about women candidates.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, and racist too, don't don't forget racist. Got a
note from a guy and he took my advice, thank you,
I love you too, and a guy from who took
my advice that Biden wouldn't be on the ballot, and
bet and he won four thousand dollars. I never bet
a dime on the proposition. I've been utterly confident. I
need somebody to tell me what to do anyway. So
(04:45):
it's really hard to figure out which way this one
is going to go because you have a couple of
candidates that definitely have limited upsides. Could be a who
screws up the least. But oh, speaking of sexism, racism,
I wanted to get this on. This is timber Cheat
of Tennessee clip number sixty talking to Manu Raju of CNN.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Biden said, first off, he said he's going to hire
a black female for vice president, and that not he
just skipped over what about what about white females, what
about any other group? Just when you go down that route,
you you you take mediocrity, and that's what they have
right now as a vice president.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Are you suggesting she's she was a dee.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I hire, she was a Heei hired.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
People are absolutely more willing to say that openly, and
I think that's good, that's good. How how would you.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Not look at it that way? Given the fact that
Biden said out loud, I'm going to hire a black
woman then he picked, I mean, it was it was
unfair to her to set it up that way because
she was in a no win situation.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Then all right, yeah, yes, I've said many times, as
Thomas Soul and John mcgwerter and a bunch of great
black intellectuals have said, Jason Riley that Hey, the problem
with this stuff is if I do achieve it on
my own, people are gonna suspect that I got the
artificial hand up. It discredits what I've done and any
other black people to come. So it's a terrible disservice
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to all people of all colors and creeds, and I
hate it.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But she officially has the number of delegates you need
to get the nomination. So the whole contested possibility is
out the door forty eight hours after Biden announced he's
not run.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right, that didn't take long.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
She said yesterday, I wanted to be a contest. I
want to earn this. Okay, I don't think this is
a story. I don't think anybody cares. I don't think
it matters at all. But they just completely subverted their
own process.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And picked somebody. Okay, fine, Yeah, I'm following some of
the commentary on the right that it was a coupe
to Todd or a push and it's Hannity. Actually, do
we have that clip of Hannity ranting about this. I
don't remember if we actually had a clip or if
I just read it. Where's Hannity, Do we have any Hannity, Hannity,
Jean John, where are you? He was saying, essentially, this
(07:11):
is a betrayal of democracy and they've they've proved that
they don't care about democracy and blah blah blah. And
I'm rejecting that out of hands forcefully, partly because I
want everybody to remember. The political parties are not the Constitution,
They're not the country. This is not voting sacred voting
rights is protected by the First Amendment. Blah blah, blah blah.
(07:34):
These are private enterprises doing what they want to cough
up the candidate they want. And I want people to
understand the distinction, because the confusion about those two things
leads people in bad directions. The Republican Party can cook
up a foot race or a wrestling match or a
draw straws that'd be weird.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And here's our fastest candidate, so this might be your
next president. A man nine to eight and one hundred
meter dash. That's some pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, right, exactly. They could come up with any plan
they wanted to choose their candidate, and that would just
be fine under the constitution. Because the Constitution doesn't give
a damn what political parties do. They can do anything
they want. Well, or foot race might be better.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
At this point, each party has their most activist, not
like the rest of the country, members choose who.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The candidate is. Right, that seems like a weird way
to do it. Well, it has not yielded the greatest results.
With all due respect to Trump's great strengths and how
He's broken out of the what is expected in the
status quo in a way that I think is really
(08:48):
really positive.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So for our show purposes, is maybe for the mental
health of the country. With one hundred and five days
to go, obviously we know, buddy, I can't keep up
this pace that we've all had with presidential politics over
the last week has been perfectly excusable. You hadn't nearly
(09:11):
successful assassination, followed days later by the convention with him
speaking for the first time. You had the current president
losing his mind and wandering off blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But we can't sustain this. I can't sustain it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So what do you think is gonna want to Well
I don't want to either, But what do you think
is gonna happen as a country? Do you think the
country is? I think there's gonna be a lull. They
keep talking about one hundred and five day sprint. It's
gonna be intense, is it? Or are we gonna go through?
I keep thinking maybe the Olympics will be a break.
The Olympics last two weeks, and maybe we all watch
that and talk about swimming and racing for a while
instead of this.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, that would be great. I think next week it
dies down, you're gonna have a little burblin up during
the Democratic convention, Scott, Let's just live our lives, folks,
Let's talk about other things. Let's talk about policy and
governance and social trends. And then people who get into
a fistfight McDonald's and the video goes viral. Rice whatever, Right,
(10:10):
that's good stuff. Fist fighter McDonald's. Huh oh, that reminds me.
Go ahead, yeah, go ahead. I was gonna say, I've
been sitting on this for a little while. Uh. There's
a huge problem in Silicon Valley with laid off tech workers.
The Great boom has been a bust in certain sectors
and uh and and the headline that got a lot
of attention. Laid off tech workers advised to sell plasma
(10:32):
in their personal belongings to survive. That's from the San
Francisco Chronicle. You sell your plasma.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
If your boss comes in and says, look, I think
your best bet is to sell bodily fluids.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Here's a flyer for the local plasma bank. Jim, why
are you giving me this? Well, I've got some hard news.
Why you're so lightheaded, Joe? My car payment was due.
I lied about the last time I gave. I'm flying
to Beijing to donate my final kidney exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Now. You mentioned McDonald's, and I was going to bring
up i've got a no country for old men issue
happening with McDonald's. Is that McDonald's the other day, and
at least the one local to me has gone full
touch screen ordering, no person there to take your order.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Way to go, Gavin, You eliminated those people's jobs. Good job,
and I find it you laugh? I laughed.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I find it to be so time consuming and pain
in the ass to order my burger and pick all
the different things I want on it or off it
or whatever and then go to the next screen and
blah blah blah. I'm just not gonna eat there anymore.
I thought, well's, I told my kids that this is
the last time I come into a McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
If this is the director going.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
They like it because they're from the generation of touch
screens are awesome and dealing with human beings is bad,
so they think it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I might just be the wrong generation. But I'm done.
I'm done with that. Why don't you just order the
burger stock. They're picky mcpickerson. Come on, it's McDonald's. This
is an institution. They know what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Even if you just get a big mac price coke,
you gotta go through a bunch of screens and lots
of choices and all the.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Different I just I don't want to. I just don't
want to, I hear you. But the next generation will
because they do everything that way, I guess. Go down
to the in and out where a plucky youngster with
a bright future will with excellent manners take your your
order for you.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Exactly if I say new onions, they say cool, and
they don't put onions on it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
V are fishing on the oculus, I'm told is really
really good if you like to fish, really virtual fishing.
So maybe I'll check that out today.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Surprises me. It sounds stupid, but I can absolutely believe
that it's not right. Sure, it's sometimes these things are counterintuitive. Yeah, wow,
interesting speaking to tech. So the problem with Mark Berzerkerberg
deciding he's going to spend ten billion dollars on virtual
reality or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Is that people can fish from the comfort of their home, living.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Exactly finally and dream has come true. The problem with
that is, you know, you hire twenty thousand people to
make that a reality, and then you pull the plug
on it and you get twenty thousand people out of work.
San Francisco Chronicle with a big piece about the tens
of thousands of people let loose recently in the Bay
Area alone. Over the past two years, major tech companies
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in the Barrier have hemorrhaged high salaried workers, sending a
chill throughout the industry that once seemed untouchable. Meta that's
Mark Zuckerberg's outfit has let go of at least twenty
one thousand workers whoa I didn't realize it was that many.
Oh yeah, Google has handed pink slips to hundreds of
employees across San Francisco, Cinnyvale, on Mountain View. Multiple people
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who spoke with SFGate painted a bleak picture. And here's
this poor gal who is how old is she? She's
fifty five years old, has two decades in tech, but
she is unhirable at her age. They want young, go
go energetic workers who work insane hours for much less money.
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They want someone young and cheap, she says. During your
current search, she's sent out around one hundred applications, and
she has advice for the hundreds, maybe thousands of people
in her exact situation. Set aside your ego and work
whatever job will keep you from bleeding dry. Don't cave
it a pressure by signing up for high volume, low
paying work. It'll only burn you out. Sell your belonging,
sell your plasma, whatever it takes to keep money in
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the bank.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well, I might start with, don't live in one of
the most expensive areas in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, things get tough.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Gosh, dang, this is such a frustration for me. There
are certain people who are on the younger end of
things who I know very well and care about a
great deal, and the idea I'm going to pick up
and move four states away because that's where the opportunities are.
It seems to have gone completely out of vogue. Some
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folks act as if that is just completely beyond the pale.
It's like asking them to shoot themselves or something, and I.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Just, yeah, it's interesting to get it. I understand both
ends of it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
My dad was a guy who moved for better opportunities.
That's why I was visiting my childhood home in Wisconsin
and then I ended up high school in Kansas and
that sort of stuff, because that's where the opportunity was.
And some people don't under any circumstances. But you certainly have, like,
you know, family ties that I envy. Sure, but at
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some point you got to feed yourself and make a
house payment.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, yeah, you do. So they've got this other tech lady.
Irene was laid off in March of twenty three. She
was quote immediately transported to the world of being poor.
Since then, she's worked a variety of survival jobs, ranging
from catering to online retail blah blah blah. So she
applied for a nonprofit recruiting job. She found that fourteen
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hundred people had applied already first significantly less money than
the role usually pays. It's the opposite of people like
saying this fifteen hundred dollars a month apartment, I'll give
you seventeen fifty a month for It's the opposite. They're people.
They're underbidding each other. Well, yeah, and why wouldn't that happen.
I mean, it's flat out supply and demand. We have
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a supply of fourteen hundred people willing to work here. Yeah, yeah,
who will do the adequate job for the least money?
And do I hear eighty thousand? How about seventy five?
Seventy five, seventy thousand? We have a bid in the back.
I have six roommates. I'll do it for fifty five
So fifty five thousand dollars. So the poor belagued man
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who just sold this plasma down the street. As soon
as I get enough red blood cells to stand up,
I'll come into work. Oh unfortunately, laugh out of sympathy.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
A lighter side of poverty. I have applied for jobs
and had that stare of ween never gonna call you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's it's tough, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
President Biden decided to drop out of the twenty twenty
four presidential race. Typically on Sundays, everyone thinks about quitting
their job, but Biden is the.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
First person to actually go through with him. I quit.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
You know, it would be nice if we could have
one weekend in July where our entire political.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
World isn't thrown into chaos.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Yeah, it was one of the rare times every cable
newsgraphics had breaking news, and it was breaking news.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And following the big.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
News, Biden supporters gathered outside the White House to thank
him for dropping out of the race.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Bid.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
It's not quite sure how to feel, you know, I mean,
thanks for leaving. It's not really a compliment, That's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That is the greatest most Joe Bideny thing that's ever happened.
The greatest praise of his career came from him leaving.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
The only real breaking news today is that the director
of the Secret Service, Kim Cheatle, has resigned. Joan Goldberg
tweeted out the only way it could have been more
obvious that Cheatle was doomed would have been if all
the members of that committee dressed like the grim Reaper
and just sat there silently pointing at her.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That would be quite the gag. Yeah, it was remarkable.
You had AOC and Jim Jordan and Jamie rankin all
or asking all singing from the same hymn book. Has
that ever happened on any topic? I mean, if you
ask them, do you enjoy being bitten by a dog?
There would have been a bitter partisan argument over it,
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but now they agreed on got to go.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Well in the ranking Republican and Democrat both signed a
letter saying she needed to resign.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I don't remember the last time that happened, right right,
Speaking of arguments, Jack and I have had a mild
disagreement over whether Lebron James is a good choice to
carry the Olympic flag into the stadium there in Paris,
and Jack saying it's well, you can explain why if
you like her. I got her first of all.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
This is this is one of those things you discussed
that like, you have so little skin in the game
or interest.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean, it's like a really low tier well at
the conversation in case I'm fired up about this argument now,
just morning.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Lebron James was named the flag bear for the US,
the entire US.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
A limit team.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
When they march into the Big Stadium next week there
in Paris, it'll be Lebron James, and I thought I
liked it because this will be his fourth Olympics. And
I mean, he ranks among the highest in history of
people who didn't need to do that. And so many
of your pro everybody baseball players, basketball.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Players, tennis players, all different.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You use the excuse of I might get hurt, or
it's the off season, I need to rest or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And he's played in four Olympics, which I thought was cool.
All right, Well, here's my problem. I've often said I
never hold a grudge because I can't remember who I'm
supposed to be mad at, And this is a great
example of it. We had somebody send us a couple
of lengths say, are you guys kidding on this? Lebron James, outspoken,
Black Lives matter, defund the police guy. When Houston Rockets
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general manager Darryl Moury stood up for the Hong Kong protesters,
Lebron James, who valued profit in China way over anybody's freedom,
criticized Maury, saying, I just think when you're misinformed or
you're not educated about something. You never know the ramifications
that can happen. We'll all see what that did, not
only for our league, but for all of us in America,
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for people in China as well. Telling Moury to shut
up with his support for the Hong Kong protesters. He's
a feeling America hating dope.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
He takes a sacrifice to his time off and money
to play for the Olympic basketball team.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So I like that. How about how about one of
those guys who was dead to dictated the whole life
to the to an Olympic sport, a sport, and hasn't expressed,
you know, up with China, down with the US.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, no, I get that. It's also cool when you
have some nobody get to carry the flag.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But yeah, nobody. That was judgmental wealth the China lover
votes for Lebron James. Uncle Sam over here, says one
of the plucky youngsters. We'll let you decide. I'll bet
he's your vote. I'll bet he's the argument dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'll bet over the years, I mean, in the prime
of his career he was playing on the Olympic team.
I'll bet his teammates, his coaches, his agent, his business manager, everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'll bet everybody was telling him don't do this. Hell
are you doing? I'll mention that to the people in
the Chinese political prisons.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
The most amazing thing is that we almost lost to
South Sudan the other day, to Lebron.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's not even the ritzy part of Sudan. That's the
other side of the tracks in Sudan. And when when
South Sudan plays North Sudan, they're not in the game.
Usually it took a Lebron steal and lay up with
two seconds left to win the game. Boy, the other
team was probably playing for food. You guys win, you
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get one meal next week. We're hoping to defect or something.
They're attempted to eat the basketball. They're so hungry in
South Sudan, and the American superstars barely beat them. Please
give me a damn rower carrying the flag or a leaper,
skipper jumper, the guy who hurls the discus. Literally, anybody
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but the cobby loving up with PLM Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
How did they get down fourteen points to South Sudan.
I'm not talking about from like a sports talk standpoint.
It just you think they're bored or have trouble getting
their energy going or paying attention.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, I honestly I suspect that they were just going
through the motions, learning the offense that the coach wanted,
thinking there's no way we lose this game, and then
all of a sudden, you know, a couple of shots
fall for the other guys and they're down ten. You
press a little bit, you're having an off day, you're
missing your shots, and all of a sudden you're down twelve.
And yeah, well and they came back. But I've seen
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it before. Oh sure, big time sports teams think now
we'll turn it on and get them at the end,
and it just doesn't quite happen. Yeah, they had the mic.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You could hear the hot mic when Lebron was walking
through the tunnel after winning it at the buzzer basically
and him saying, I love games like that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I love that. That's way better than to blow out.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I love the challenge, which I'm sure he does, but
it would have been horrifying and embarrassing to lose because
I think that game mattered. It had something to do
with the getting in metal round fingy.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Or whatever something something elimination. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, we have the fastest woman in the world, we think,
and she is hot and already has like her Vogue
layout going. I should know her name by now. She'll
be a household name in a week. And I don't
know her name right now, but unce she stumbles out
of the gate, pulls a hammy, clutches the back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Of her leg. Oh that's disappointment. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I saw a good video the other day of her.
She did stumble out of the gate. She still ran
by everybody else. She's one of those people. No, no
Hussein Bolt this time around, he retired, right, Yeah, world's
fast man.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He was fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So I guess all all of a sudden care about
the ten meter diving, the size of the splash.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Chinese will win.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
They always win, whether or not you can stick the
landing on the vault will become important again for like
a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Everybody'll know, Oh that's a tenth deduction, right, and everybody
becomes an expert.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I saw an ad where who's who's got the Olympics? NBC?
Is it? It doesn't matter? I think so it was
really whip trying to whip up interest in it. Super
show busy, high production value, hype, like it's a Hollywood movie.
And I thought, you didn't have to You didn't used
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to have to do them. But then I realized, oh, well,
there's fifty times more entertainment options now than there were
back in the day. Back in the day, we were starved.
It was all in the family reruns in the summertime.
With all due respect to the innovative Norman Lear hit series,
We're desperate for something new.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Was there was practically zero entertainment options in the summer
right back.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Man, do I have fond memories of watching the Olympics
with family and friends? Yeah, me too, good stuff. That's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I thought about that going to my childhood home in
Wisconsin last Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
When I looked at that house, I had a memory
of sitting in there watching the Olympics, and if you think.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
About my head, yeah, that is kind of funny. Yeah, yeah,
I think of my grandmother's house in t Neck, New Jersey.
I was just chatting with a guy from New Jersey
the other day who I ran into it at the convention,
And that's one of my memories sitting in the living
room watching the Olympics on some little TV.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The lack of shared experiences is bad. There's nothing you
can do about it. There are way more great options
for all kinds of entertainment and stuff like that. So
I suppose that, but the lack of shared experiences, it's
just not good. Yeah, and I don't there's nothing you
(26:35):
can do about it. I think it's definitely I don't
think this. I firmly believe that this is true. One
of the reasons that we pay so damn much attention
to politics now in the whole presidential races, it's a
shared experience.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
It's a TV show we're all watching because there aren't
any others, so we can't come in on a I
use this example all the time, Knot's Landing, which was
a stupid nighttime soap opera in the ninety eighties. But
we'd come into work on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And everybody would talk about last night's episode, everybody because
there were like three channels and that's what everybody's watching.
There's nothing like that now except for the presidential election.
So that's our share experience, and it's not a good one.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And you're not going to church, and you're not part
of a civic organization, and you know, you're not playing
on your company softball team or whatever. We're bowling alone,
as they say. Although thinking back to the Olympics back
in the day, you got to credit the East Germans,
the women's swimmers who had penises, who struck an early
blow for the transgender movement. I don't think they had penises.
They did have testes. Nazi Germany, they some.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Of their parts were wildly out of proportion. Have they
nailed that down yet, Like, if you have internal testes,
you're still a woman, right with no penis?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't remember. It has to do with your testosterone levels.
Is that a thing? Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, it's
it's exceedingly rare. Yeah yeah, but no fellas who claim
to be girls. That would be absurd on any level.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah that Hey, hey, uh, Connecticut high school track or
lots of different organizations around the Washington State, the biggest
amateur Olympic event in the world, thinks no.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Of course not. It's utterly out of the question.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
So why are you doing it at Penn's swimming or
your local high school girls basketball? Game walk soft headed idiots.
Why don't you just use the same standards the Olympics uses.
I would think that'd give you cover. H Well, are
they're cultists? Yeah, they've fallen for this, this gender bending
cult of woarkness.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We will finish strong next. The country is going straight
into the dump.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
It is so good to hear our president's voice.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Joe.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I know you're still on the on the call, and
we've been talking every day. You probably you guys heard
it from Doug's voice. We love Joe and Jill, we
really do. They truly are like family, and we do
everybody here though.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I know you're still there.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
You're not going anywhere at Joe.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'm watching. I love you, Joe. What a weird spectacle. No,
eat your jell o, Joe, eat it. It's good for you.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
The president who has not been seen at all in
four days, five days, I mean, not even walking across
a lawn or sitting there, sitting in a chair on
the beach, nothing right, and he calls in, I think,
to squash the rumors that he might be dead or incapacitated.
He calls in and the press, who who's completely gone
(29:55):
back to being the resistance and lost all interest. We
could go in a different circumstances, have been saying why
did he call in? Why is he not on video?
Where is he why haven't we seen him in four days?
What the hell's going on? I mean, they'd have been
all over this story.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's tough to argue with the cynics who said, yeah,
the reason the left wing media is waking to woking
up to Joe Biden's enilities because they want him out.
It's difficult to, you know, argue against that at this
point because now they've lost any interest in the topic
or his condition. He's out now, it's fine. It's all
about the kamala.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I was reading this piece in the Dispatch during the commercials.
It's really good, blowing up some of the crazy narratives
that have caught hold right now. This guy says it intoxication,
it turns out, is almost as bad for punditry as
is for driving. Here are four bad takes I've seen circulating,
and like he tears apart the whole Joe Biden is
a patriot for doing this. He was forced into what
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he had no choice, you know, that sort of stuff
that the media is like willingly well, they're they're the
ones that started it. It makes no sense to anyone anyway,
but this angle, Kamala Harris is a decent, maybe even
solid candidate. She's an objectively bad candidate, below replacement level,
as baseball nerds might say. And then he goes into
(31:10):
why in the dispatch, Kamala Harris is on the hook
for all of Joe Biden's record as president, all of
it inflation, Afghanistan, a gross dereliction of duty at the
border that's turned America into a nation of immigration hawks.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
She's the answer to the question, what if.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
We took everything voters dislike about Joe Biden and solved
only the age problem. I think that's true, And she
doesn't even fully solve that. While Biden has been quietly
deteriorating behind the scenes, Harris spent the past three years
repeatedly defending his cognitive wherewithal in interviews and it's got
links to all the times. Now behind the scenes, he's
a dynamo hee smarter than me. I can't keep up
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with him. Blah blah blah. If the polling is right
that voters are deeply distrustful of electric officials who vouch
for the president's medal capacity. How much will they come
to distrust Harris once these old sound bites of her
vouching for Biden start airing in Republican ads. You know
those ads are coming with a lots of times in
her interviews saying oh, he was fine, showing her just
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to be another political liar and not some sort of
savior of the country. Since becoming Vice president, Harris has
distinguished herself as an unusually hapless retail politician, so much
so that she reportedly felt moved to rehearse her attendance
at a dinner. Have you followed that story that came
out yesterday?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I did hear about that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Which they had some sort of her pretending at a
dinner to be nice to people and congenially congenial and
like a politician. She was rehearsing how to act at
a dinner.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
They'd even considered serving her a glass of wine or
two so she'd know, you know, what it would feel
like to be there. I don't know. I thought she
was pretty good yesterday.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But there's a chance she's going to be exposed for
the same kamalo that ran in twenty nineteen in the
coming days.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Is already set fight.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Man, more of that, not less. I say, here's your
host for final thoughts? Did they have that on Spotify?
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I'm sure you could get throats singing essentials and get
all the big hits one after the other. Yeah. Hey,
let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day that he is
pressing the buttons. Our technical director Mike Langelow, Michael final thought.
I do wonder who's running this country until January. That's
all I'm saying. This is somebody else besides Biden's running
the country. I thin think. Well, I think they actually
stated out loud.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Back when we thought he was going to stay the
dominee even that well, there's a group of smart people
around him that make the decisions.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well, that's not the way it's supposed to work. Yeah.
I think what they said was, you're not voting for
a person, you're voting for a team. The team is there,
Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I just want to wake wish Jack best of luck
in the.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Pie eating contest. Later day at the California State Fair.
Oh yeah, go get it. Bring a glory to the program. Jack.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Final thought for us, Yeah, they do have a piating
contest today, which I might actually enter if it weren't
for the fact that I'm on the beam diet wise,
dieting is so weird that if you're on the beam,
it seems like you'll be there forever, and that then
you're just solid as a rock, and when you're off
the beam, it's impossible to get on.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
My final thought is, like so many of my fellow Americans,
I am thirsty for a moment two a week where
we can just not focus on presidential politics. Finally, can
we please anything anything? I am fine with that. Armstrong
in Pro Bowling League playoffs, I don't care what anything.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm strong in Giddy wracking up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So many people, thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
I'm strong and getty. It's something happening that's hard to quantify.
It's been a masterclass. This is the thing is a farce.
It's cool and everyone knows that. Are you sure, oh
dead Shore Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
This has to stop, and it has to stomp like
the day before yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Let's not act like children.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I think there's a form of elder abuse going on
here that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
You know, he knows so long that I love you
that high note. Thanks you all very much, Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. I'm excited for that meeting.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And let me say this that Vice President Kamala Harris
has excited the community, she's excited the House Democratic Caucus,
and she's exciting the country.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, I don't know about the country, but she is
certainly excited half the country who had nothing to be
excited about for quite a while there with the polling
and their candidate getting worse on a day by day basis.
At least now they've got a shot. I was reading
this comment from Alex Castellanos, who is a a big
time influencer, pundits, fundraiser, dude in the Republican Party who
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I've been watching for many, many years. I'll always remember
seeing him on Meet the Press at one of those
shows in twenty fifteen saying, well, let me tell you
this one thing is true, Donald Trump will not be
our candidate in the year twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Good call, Alex. That's always stuck in my head.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But anyway, he's he's part of the elite power structure
that tried to keep Trump out and then he's gone
full on and Trump and he believes Trump can win
and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But he said this yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
He tweeted out Trump has never been closer to losing
than at this moment, which is probably true yesterday. The
bottom line being if Harris rises to the occasion, buckle up.
If she doesn't, she might not get this race to
a competitive place. But at this moment, I think that
probably is true that Trump's closer to losing than he
has been at any point.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, it's so difficult to say. The egg of her
candidacy is just hatched, and you know, her terror track
record would suggest that it's not going to go very far,
very successful.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
But and it's all it's an old saying that you were.
You never have a higher water mark than the day
you announce. I mean, that is that is, that's that's
the best things ever are. And then the slings and
arrows start coming in in reality and you start answering
things and it all starts to unfold. However it's going
to unfold, then nobody knows if she's gonna rise to
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the aka. I thought she looked super confident and comfortable yesterday,
And I'm not sure everybody would be who all of
a sudden was in a presidential race with a chance
of being president of the United States, and she she
looked pretty damn confident yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, I would say the energy she gave off was
very good. I was impressed by that, you know, a
quick aside, not to get too specific for reasons of
professionalism and decency, but on media road there at the RNC,
we could hear a lot of shows doing what they do,
podcasts and radio shows and that sort of thing. And
(02:57):
and amongst some certainly was a what they do for
a living is worshipfulness of Trump. I mean, Trump is
America's Churchill, He is America's Hitler, America's lion. We must
put our trust in Trump. Trump will lead us to
the tomorrow that we need and deserve. I mean, it
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was like quasi religious and interesting, and some people want that.
It's fine. It's free country. You listen to whatever you
want to. We don't really do that around here. Well,
I agree with Trump on a hell of a lot
of things. I was asked by a guy in an airport,
so what do you make of the R and C.
What's your takeaway? He said, I'm kind of a liberal,
but I'm just curious what you thought, And I said,
I said, it was an incredibly excited and unified party,
(03:43):
to the point that they're forgetting what a flawed candidate
they have. And having said that, it's really really difficult
to call which way this one is going to go
because Trump is limited in his appeal. He's hit his ceiling,
I think, and he was fortunate to be up against
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a guy in Joe Biden, who is just utterly careening
backward with no breaks. Kamala is definitely a less known quantity.
She's been incompetent and insufferable and utterly unlikable. So again,
if I were a betting man, we got an unlikable guy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Misogyny, that's what they say about women candidates.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, and racist too, don't don't forget racist. Got a
note from a guy and he took my advice, thank you,
I love you too, and a guy from who took
my advice that Biden wouldn't be on the ballot, and
bet and he won four thousand dollars. I never bet
a dime on the proposition. I've been utterly confident. I
need somebody to tell me what to do anyway. So
(04:45):
it's really hard to figure out which way this one
is going to go because you have a couple of
candidates that definitely have limited upsides. Could be a who
screws up the least. But oh, speaking of sexism, racism,
I wanted to get this on. This is timber Cheat
of Tennessee clip number sixty talking to Manu Raju of CNN.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Biden said, first off, he said he's going to hire
a black female for vice president, and that not he
just skipped over what about what about white females, what
about any other group? Just when you go down that route,
you you you take mediocrity, and that's what they have
right now as a vice president.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Are you suggesting she's she was a dee.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I hire, she was a Heei hired.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
People are absolutely more willing to say that openly, and
I think that's good, that's good. How how would you.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Not look at it that way? Given the fact that
Biden said out loud, I'm going to hire a black
woman then he picked, I mean, it was it was
unfair to her to set it up that way because
she was in a no win situation.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Then all right, yeah, yes, I've said many times, as
Thomas Soul and John mcgwerter and a bunch of great
black intellectuals have said, Jason Riley that Hey, the problem
with this stuff is if I do achieve it on
my own, people are gonna suspect that I got the
artificial hand up. It discredits what I've done and any
other black people to come. So it's a terrible disservice
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to all people of all colors and creeds, and I
hate it.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But she officially has the number of delegates you need
to get the nomination. So the whole contested possibility is
out the door forty eight hours after Biden announced he's
not run.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right, that didn't take long.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
She said yesterday, I wanted to be a contest. I
want to earn this. Okay, I don't think this is
a story. I don't think anybody cares. I don't think
it matters at all. But they just completely subverted their
own process.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
And picked somebody. Okay, fine, Yeah, I'm following some of
the commentary on the right that it was a coupe
to Todd or a push and it's Hannity. Actually, do
we have that clip of Hannity ranting about this. I
don't remember if we actually had a clip or if
I just read it. Where's Hannity, Do we have any Hannity, Hannity,
Jean John, where are you? He was saying, essentially, this
(07:11):
is a betrayal of democracy and they've they've proved that
they don't care about democracy and blah blah blah. And
I'm rejecting that out of hands forcefully, partly because I
want everybody to remember. The political parties are not the Constitution,
They're not the country. This is not voting sacred voting
rights is protected by the First Amendment. Blah blah, blah blah.
(07:34):
These are private enterprises doing what they want to cough
up the candidate they want. And I want people to
understand the distinction, because the confusion about those two things
leads people in bad directions. The Republican Party can cook
up a foot race or a wrestling match or a
draw straws that'd be weird.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And here's our fastest candidate, so this might be your
next president. A man nine to eight and one hundred
meter dash. That's some pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, right, exactly. They could come up with any plan
they wanted to choose their candidate, and that would just
be fine under the constitution. Because the Constitution doesn't give
a damn what political parties do. They can do anything
they want. Well, or foot race might be better.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
At this point, each party has their most activist, not
like the rest of the country, members choose who.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The candidate is. Right, that seems like a weird way
to do it. Well, it has not yielded the greatest results.
With all due respect to Trump's great strengths and how
He's broken out of the what is expected in the
status quo in a way that I think is really
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really positive.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So for our show purposes, is maybe for the mental
health of the country. With one hundred and five days
to go, obviously we know, buddy, I can't keep up
this pace that we've all had with presidential politics over
the last week has been perfectly excusable. You hadn't nearly
(09:11):
successful assassination, followed days later by the convention with him
speaking for the first time. You had the current president
losing his mind and wandering off blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But we can't sustain this. I can't sustain it.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So what do you think is gonna want to Well
I don't want to either, But what do you think
is gonna happen as a country? Do you think the
country is? I think there's gonna be a lull. They
keep talking about one hundred and five day sprint. It's
gonna be intense, is it? Or are we gonna go through?
I keep thinking maybe the Olympics will be a break.
The Olympics last two weeks, and maybe we all watch
that and talk about swimming and racing for a while
instead of this.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, that would be great. I think next week it
dies down, you're gonna have a little burblin up during
the Democratic convention, Scott, Let's just live our lives, folks,
Let's talk about other things. Let's talk about policy and
governance and social trends. And then people who get into
a fistfight McDonald's and the video goes viral. Rice whatever, Right,
(10:10):
that's good stuff. Fist fighter McDonald's. Huh oh, that reminds me.
Go ahead, yeah, go ahead. I was gonna say, I've
been sitting on this for a little while. Uh. There's
a huge problem in Silicon Valley with laid off tech workers.
The Great boom has been a bust in certain sectors
and uh and and the headline that got a lot
of attention. Laid off tech workers advised to sell plasma
(10:32):
in their personal belongings to survive. That's from the San
Francisco Chronicle. You sell your plasma.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
If your boss comes in and says, look, I think
your best bet is to sell bodily fluids.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Here's a flyer for the local plasma bank. Jim, why
are you giving me this? Well, I've got some hard news.
Why you're so lightheaded, Joe? My car payment was due.
I lied about the last time I gave. I'm flying
to Beijing to donate my final kidney exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Now. You mentioned McDonald's, and I was going to bring
up i've got a no country for old men issue
happening with McDonald's. Is that McDonald's the other day, and
at least the one local to me has gone full
touch screen ordering, no person there to take your order.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Way to go, Gavin, You eliminated those people's jobs. Good job,
and I find it you laugh? I laughed.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I find it to be so time consuming and pain
in the ass to order my burger and pick all
the different things I want on it or off it
or whatever and then go to the next screen and
blah blah blah. I'm just not gonna eat there anymore.
I thought, well's, I told my kids that this is
the last time I come into a McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
If this is the director going.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
They like it because they're from the generation of touch
screens are awesome and dealing with human beings is bad,
so they think it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So I might just be the wrong generation. But I'm done.
I'm done with that. Why don't you just order the
burger stock. They're picky mcpickerson. Come on, it's McDonald's. This
is an institution. They know what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Even if you just get a big mac price coke,
you gotta go through a bunch of screens and lots
of choices and all the.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Different I just I don't want to. I just don't
want to, I hear you. But the next generation will
because they do everything that way, I guess. Go down
to the in and out where a plucky youngster with
a bright future will with excellent manners take your your
order for you.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Exactly if I say new onions, they say cool, and
they don't put onions on it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
V are fishing on the oculus, I'm told is really
really good if you like to fish, really virtual fishing.
So maybe I'll check that out today.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Surprises me. It sounds stupid, but I can absolutely believe
that it's not right. Sure, it's sometimes these things are counterintuitive. Yeah, wow,
interesting speaking to tech. So the problem with Mark Berzerkerberg
deciding he's going to spend ten billion dollars on virtual
reality or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Is that people can fish from the comfort of their home, living.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Exactly finally and dream has come true. The problem with
that is, you know, you hire twenty thousand people to
make that a reality, and then you pull the plug
on it and you get twenty thousand people out of work.
San Francisco Chronicle with a big piece about the tens
of thousands of people let loose recently in the Bay
Area alone. Over the past two years, major tech companies
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in the Barrier have hemorrhaged high salaried workers, sending a
chill throughout the industry that once seemed untouchable. Meta that's
Mark Zuckerberg's outfit has let go of at least twenty
one thousand workers whoa I didn't realize it was that many.
Oh yeah, Google has handed pink slips to hundreds of
employees across San Francisco, Cinnyvale, on Mountain View. Multiple people
(13:52):
who spoke with SFGate painted a bleak picture. And here's
this poor gal who is how old is she? She's
fifty five years old, has two decades in tech, but
she is unhirable at her age. They want young, go
go energetic workers who work insane hours for much less money.
(14:14):
They want someone young and cheap, she says. During your
current search, she's sent out around one hundred applications, and
she has advice for the hundreds, maybe thousands of people
in her exact situation. Set aside your ego and work
whatever job will keep you from bleeding dry. Don't cave
it a pressure by signing up for high volume, low
paying work. It'll only burn you out. Sell your belonging,
sell your plasma, whatever it takes to keep money in
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the bank.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well, I might start with, don't live in one of
the most expensive areas in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, things get tough.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Gosh, dang, this is such a frustration for me. There
are certain people who are on the younger end of
things who I know very well and care about a
great deal, and the idea I'm going to pick up
and move four states away because that's where the opportunities are.
It seems to have gone completely out of vogue. Some
(15:07):
folks act as if that is just completely beyond the pale.
It's like asking them to shoot themselves or something, and I.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Just, yeah, it's interesting to get it. I understand both
ends of it.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
My dad was a guy who moved for better opportunities.
That's why I was visiting my childhood home in Wisconsin
and then I ended up high school in Kansas and
that sort of stuff, because that's where the opportunity was.
And some people don't under any circumstances. But you certainly have, like,
you know, family ties that I envy. Sure, but at
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some point you got to feed yourself and make a
house payment.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, yeah, you do. So they've got this other tech lady.
Irene was laid off in March of twenty three. She
was quote immediately transported to the world of being poor.
Since then, she's worked a variety of survival jobs, ranging
from catering to online retail blah blah blah. So she
applied for a nonprofit recruiting job. She found that fourteen
(16:04):
hundred people had applied already first significantly less money than
the role usually pays. It's the opposite of people like
saying this fifteen hundred dollars a month apartment, I'll give
you seventeen fifty a month for It's the opposite. They're people.
They're underbidding each other. Well, yeah, and why wouldn't that happen.
I mean, it's flat out supply and demand. We have
(16:25):
a supply of fourteen hundred people willing to work here. Yeah, yeah,
who will do the adequate job for the least money?
And do I hear eighty thousand? How about seventy five?
Seventy five, seventy thousand? We have a bid in the back.
I have six roommates. I'll do it for fifty five
So fifty five thousand dollars. So the poor belagued man
(16:46):
who just sold this plasma down the street. As soon
as I get enough red blood cells to stand up,
I'll come into work. Oh unfortunately, laugh out of sympathy.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
A lighter side of poverty. I have applied for jobs
and had that stare of ween never gonna call you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It's it's tough, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
President Biden decided to drop out of the twenty twenty
four presidential race. Typically on Sundays, everyone thinks about quitting
their job, but Biden is the.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
First person to actually go through with him. I quit.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
You know, it would be nice if we could have
one weekend in July where our entire political.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
World isn't thrown into chaos.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Yeah, it was one of the rare times every cable
newsgraphics had breaking news, and it was breaking news.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And following the big.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
News, Biden supporters gathered outside the White House to thank
him for dropping out of the race.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Bid.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
It's not quite sure how to feel, you know, I mean,
thanks for leaving. It's not really a compliment, That's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That is the greatest most Joe Bideny thing that's ever happened.
The greatest praise of his career came from him leaving.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
The only real breaking news today is that the director
of the Secret Service, Kim Cheatle, has resigned. Joan Goldberg
tweeted out the only way it could have been more
obvious that Cheatle was doomed would have been if all
the members of that committee dressed like the grim Reaper
and just sat there silently pointing at her.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
That would be quite the gag. Yeah, it was remarkable.
You had AOC and Jim Jordan and Jamie rankin all
or asking all singing from the same hymn book. Has
that ever happened on any topic? I mean, if you
ask them, do you enjoy being bitten by a dog?
There would have been a bitter partisan argument over it,
(18:58):
but now they agreed on got to go.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Well in the ranking Republican and Democrat both signed a
letter saying she needed to resign.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I don't remember the last time that happened, right right,
Speaking of arguments, Jack and I have had a mild
disagreement over whether Lebron James is a good choice to
carry the Olympic flag into the stadium there in Paris,
and Jack saying it's well, you can explain why if
you like her. I got her first of all.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
This is this is one of those things you discussed
that like, you have so little skin in the game
or interest.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean, it's like a really low tier well at
the conversation in case I'm fired up about this argument now,
just morning.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Lebron James was named the flag bear for the US,
the entire US.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
A limit team.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
When they march into the Big Stadium next week there
in Paris, it'll be Lebron James, and I thought I
liked it because this will be his fourth Olympics. And
I mean, he ranks among the highest in history of
people who didn't need to do that. And so many
of your pro everybody baseball players, basketball.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Players, tennis players, all different.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You use the excuse of I might get hurt, or
it's the off season, I need to rest or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And he's played in four Olympics, which I thought was cool.
All right, Well, here's my problem. I've often said I
never hold a grudge because I can't remember who I'm
supposed to be mad at, And this is a great
example of it. We had somebody send us a couple
of lengths say, are you guys kidding on this? Lebron James, outspoken,
Black Lives matter, defund the police guy. When Houston Rockets
(20:31):
general manager Darryl Moury stood up for the Hong Kong protesters,
Lebron James, who valued profit in China way over anybody's freedom,
criticized Maury, saying, I just think when you're misinformed or
you're not educated about something. You never know the ramifications
that can happen. We'll all see what that did, not
only for our league, but for all of us in America,
(20:53):
for people in China as well. Telling Moury to shut
up with his support for the Hong Kong protesters. He's
a feeling America hating dope.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
He takes a sacrifice to his time off and money
to play for the Olympic basketball team.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So I like that. How about how about one of
those guys who was dead to dictated the whole life
to the to an Olympic sport, a sport, and hasn't expressed,
you know, up with China, down with the US.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah, no, I get that. It's also cool when you
have some nobody get to carry the flag.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But yeah, nobody. That was judgmental wealth the China lover
votes for Lebron James. Uncle Sam over here, says one
of the plucky youngsters. We'll let you decide. I'll bet
he's your vote. I'll bet he's the argument dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'll bet over the years, I mean, in the prime
of his career he was playing on the Olympic team.
I'll bet his teammates, his coaches, his agent, his business manager, everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I'll bet everybody was telling him don't do this. Hell
are you doing? I'll mention that to the people in
the Chinese political prisons.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
The most amazing thing is that we almost lost to
South Sudan the other day, to Lebron.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's not even the ritzy part of Sudan. That's the
other side of the tracks in Sudan. And when when
South Sudan plays North Sudan, they're not in the game.
Usually it took a Lebron steal and lay up with
two seconds left to win the game. Boy, the other
team was probably playing for food. You guys win, you
(22:31):
get one meal next week. We're hoping to defect or something.
They're attempted to eat the basketball. They're so hungry in
South Sudan, and the American superstars barely beat them. Please
give me a damn rower carrying the flag or a leaper,
skipper jumper, the guy who hurls the discus. Literally, anybody
(22:51):
but the cobby loving up with PLM Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
How did they get down fourteen points to South Sudan.
I'm not talking about from like a sports talk standpoint.
It just you think they're bored or have trouble getting
their energy going or paying attention.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, I honestly I suspect that they were just going
through the motions, learning the offense that the coach wanted,
thinking there's no way we lose this game, and then
all of a sudden, you know, a couple of shots
fall for the other guys and they're down ten. You
press a little bit, you're having an off day, you're
missing your shots, and all of a sudden you're down twelve.
And yeah, well and they came back. But I've seen
(23:33):
it before. Oh sure, big time sports teams think now
we'll turn it on and get them at the end,
and it just doesn't quite happen. Yeah, they had the mic.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You could hear the hot mic when Lebron was walking
through the tunnel after winning it at the buzzer basically
and him saying, I love games like that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I love that. That's way better than to blow out.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I love the challenge, which I'm sure he does, but
it would have been horrifying and embarrassing to lose because
I think that game mattered. It had something to do
with the getting in metal round fingy.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Or whatever something something elimination. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, we have the fastest woman in the world, we think,
and she is hot and already has like her Vogue
layout going. I should know her name by now. She'll
be a household name in a week. And I don't
know her name right now, but unce she stumbles out
of the gate, pulls a hammy, clutches the back.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Of her leg. Oh that's disappointment. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I saw a good video the other day of her.
She did stumble out of the gate. She still ran
by everybody else. She's one of those people. No, no
Hussein Bolt this time around, he retired, right, Yeah, world's
fast man.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
He was fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
So I guess all all of a sudden care about
the ten meter diving, the size of the splash.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Chinese will win.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
They always win, whether or not you can stick the
landing on the vault will become important again for like
a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Everybody'll know, Oh that's a tenth deduction, right, and everybody
becomes an expert.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I saw an ad where who's who's got the Olympics? NBC?
Is it? It doesn't matter? I think so it was
really whip trying to whip up interest in it. Super
show busy, high production value, hype, like it's a Hollywood movie.
And I thought, you didn't have to You didn't used
(25:19):
to have to do them. But then I realized, oh, well,
there's fifty times more entertainment options now than there were
back in the day. Back in the day, we were starved.
It was all in the family reruns in the summertime.
With all due respect to the innovative Norman Lear hit series,
We're desperate for something new.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Was there was practically zero entertainment options in the summer
right back.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Man, do I have fond memories of watching the Olympics
with family and friends? Yeah, me too, good stuff. That's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I thought about that going to my childhood home in
Wisconsin last Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
When I looked at that house, I had a memory
of sitting in there watching the Olympics, and if you think.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
About my head, yeah, that is kind of funny. Yeah, yeah,
I think of my grandmother's house in t Neck, New Jersey.
I was just chatting with a guy from New Jersey
the other day who I ran into it at the convention,
And that's one of my memories sitting in the living
room watching the Olympics on some little TV.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The lack of shared experiences is bad. There's nothing you
can do about it. There are way more great options
for all kinds of entertainment and stuff like that. So
I suppose that, but the lack of shared experiences, it's
just not good. Yeah, and I don't there's nothing you
(26:35):
can do about it. I think it's definitely I don't
think this. I firmly believe that this is true. One
of the reasons that we pay so damn much attention
to politics now in the whole presidential races, it's a
shared experience.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
It's a TV show we're all watching because there aren't
any others, so we can't come in on a I
use this example all the time, Knot's Landing, which was
a stupid nighttime soap opera in the ninety eighties. But
we'd come into work on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And everybody would talk about last night's episode, everybody because
there were like three channels and that's what everybody's watching.
There's nothing like that now except for the presidential election.
So that's our share experience, and it's not a good one.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
And you're not going to church, and you're not part
of a civic organization, and you know, you're not playing
on your company softball team or whatever. We're bowling alone,
as they say. Although thinking back to the Olympics back
in the day, you got to credit the East Germans,
the women's swimmers who had penises, who struck an early
blow for the transgender movement. I don't think they had penises.
They did have testes. Nazi Germany, they some.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Of their parts were wildly out of proportion. Have they
nailed that down yet, Like, if you have internal testes,
you're still a woman, right with no penis?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't remember. It has to do with your testosterone levels.
Is that a thing? Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, it's
it's exceedingly rare. Yeah yeah, but no fellas who claim
to be girls. That would be absurd on any level.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah that Hey, hey, uh, Connecticut high school track or
lots of different organizations around the Washington State, the biggest
amateur Olympic event in the world, thinks no.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Of course not. It's utterly out of the question.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
So why are you doing it at Penn's swimming or
your local high school girls basketball? Game walk soft headed idiots.
Why don't you just use the same standards the Olympics uses.
I would think that'd give you cover. H Well, are
they're cultists? Yeah, they've fallen for this, this gender bending
cult of woarkness.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We will finish strong next. The country is going straight
into the dump.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
It is so good to hear our president's voice.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Joe.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I know you're still on the on the call, and
we've been talking every day. You probably you guys heard
it from Doug's voice. We love Joe and Jill, we
really do. They truly are like family, and we do
everybody here though.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I know you're still there.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
You're not going anywhere at Joe.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'm watching. I love you, Joe. What a weird spectacle. No,
eat your jell o, Joe, eat it. It's good for you.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
The president who has not been seen at all in
four days, five days, I mean, not even walking across
a lawn or sitting there, sitting in a chair on
the beach, nothing right, and he calls in, I think,
to squash the rumors that he might be dead or incapacitated.
He calls in and the press, who who's completely gone
(29:55):
back to being the resistance and lost all interest. We
could go in a different circumstances, have been saying why
did he call in? Why is he not on video?
Where is he why haven't we seen him in four days?
What the hell's going on? I mean, they'd have been
all over this story.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's tough to argue with the cynics who said, yeah,
the reason the left wing media is waking to woking
up to Joe Biden's enilities because they want him out.
It's difficult to, you know, argue against that at this
point because now they've lost any interest in the topic
or his condition. He's out now, it's fine. It's all
about the kamala.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I was reading this piece in the Dispatch during the commercials.
It's really good, blowing up some of the crazy narratives
that have caught hold right now. This guy says it intoxication,
it turns out, is almost as bad for punditry as
is for driving. Here are four bad takes I've seen circulating,
and like he tears apart the whole Joe Biden is
a patriot for doing this. He was forced into what
(30:50):
he had no choice, you know, that sort of stuff
that the media is like willingly well, they're they're the
ones that started it. It makes no sense to anyone anyway,
but this angle, Kamala Harris is a decent, maybe even
solid candidate. She's an objectively bad candidate, below replacement level,
as baseball nerds might say. And then he goes into
(31:10):
why in the dispatch, Kamala Harris is on the hook
for all of Joe Biden's record as president, all of
it inflation, Afghanistan, a gross dereliction of duty at the
border that's turned America into a nation of immigration hawks.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
She's the answer to the question, what if.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
We took everything voters dislike about Joe Biden and solved
only the age problem. I think that's true, And she
doesn't even fully solve that. While Biden has been quietly
deteriorating behind the scenes, Harris spent the past three years
repeatedly defending his cognitive wherewithal in interviews and it's got
links to all the times. Now behind the scenes, he's
a dynamo hee smarter than me. I can't keep up
(31:48):
with him. Blah blah blah. If the polling is right
that voters are deeply distrustful of electric officials who vouch
for the president's medal capacity. How much will they come
to distrust Harris once these old sound bites of her
vouching for Biden start airing in Republican ads. You know
those ads are coming with a lots of times in
her interviews saying oh, he was fine, showing her just
(32:09):
to be another political liar and not some sort of
savior of the country. Since becoming Vice president, Harris has
distinguished herself as an unusually hapless retail politician, so much
so that she reportedly felt moved to rehearse her attendance
at a dinner. Have you followed that story that came
out yesterday?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I did hear about that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Which they had some sort of her pretending at a
dinner to be nice to people and congenially congenial and
like a politician. She was rehearsing how to act at
a dinner.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
They'd even considered serving her a glass of wine or
two so she'd know, you know, what it would feel
like to be there. I don't know. I thought she
was pretty good yesterday.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
But there's a chance she's going to be exposed for
the same kamalo that ran in twenty nineteen in the
coming days.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Is already set fight.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Man, more of that, not less. I say, here's your
host for final thoughts? Did they have that on Spotify?
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I'm sure you could get throats singing essentials and get
all the big hits one after the other. Yeah. Hey,
let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day that he is
pressing the buttons. Our technical director Mike Langelow, Michael final thought.
I do wonder who's running this country until January. That's
all I'm saying. This is somebody else besides Biden's running
the country. I thin think. Well, I think they actually
stated out loud.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Back when we thought he was going to stay the
dominee even that well, there's a group of smart people
around him that make the decisions.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well, that's not the way it's supposed to work. Yeah.
I think what they said was, you're not voting for
a person, you're voting for a team. The team is there,
Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I just want to wake wish Jack best of luck
in the.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Pie eating contest. Later day at the California State Fair.
Oh yeah, go get it. Bring a glory to the program. Jack.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Final thought for us, Yeah, they do have a piating
contest today, which I might actually enter if it weren't
for the fact that I'm on the beam diet wise,
dieting is so weird that if you're on the beam,
it seems like you'll be there forever, and that then
you're just solid as a rock, and when you're off
the beam, it's impossible to get on.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
My final thought is, like so many of my fellow Americans,
I am thirsty for a moment two a week where
we can just not focus on presidential politics. Finally, can
we please anything anything? I am fine with that. Armstrong
in Pro Bowling League playoffs, I don't care what anything.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm strong in Giddy wracking up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So many people, thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
I'm strong and getty. It's something happening that's hard to quantify.
It's been a masterclass. This is the thing is a farce.
It's cool and everyone knows that. Are you sure, oh
dead Shore Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
This has to stop, and it has to stomp like
the day before yesterday.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Let's not act like children.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I think there's a form of elder abuse going on
here that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
You know, he knows so long that I love you
that high note. Thanks you all very much, Armstrong and
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