August 12, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour One of the Wednesday August 12, 2026 edition of the Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Joe admits that he may have been wrong about Jackie (stay tuned)...
- Katie Green has The Lead Story...
- Joe's new feature, "Dollars & Nonsense"...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Kaddy Armstrong and Jody
and No Pee arm Drawn yet live from Studio C
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Signor eight within the bowels of the Armstrong a Giddy
Information Complex, this Wednesday, twelfth of August, the Year of
Our Lord, twenty twenty six. This morning, the show will
be presented under the title well, at least people are
finally paying attention to the WNBAH. If you prefer, I
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was wrong about the Eagle. Dammit Hanson, I need you
to figure out exactly when I talked about Jackie the
Eagle and mocked it yesterday, because for those of you
who listened to the show live on the radio somewhere
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in America, I think we're just on America online overseas.
For those of you who listen live, I want to
address the topic at the same time of day, so
I'm most likely to convey my maya kulpa to the
people who heard it yesterday. Okay, the very short version,
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and Katie, I know you get this. I realized, and
we got a couple of emails about this, very nice,
very nice. I realized there is a raptor cam that's
not far from my house that has focused on a
couple of different sorts of birds nests, but including some
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bald eagles. And and I was really rooting for them
to hatch and the babies to be okay, and and
and so, and I know nature is cruel, and maybe
they will, maybe they won't. But I get people who
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are like invested in hoping the eagles would be okay
and didn't want to see Jackie the eagle. Eagles don't
have names. That part I'm still right about. Okay, Jackie here,
where's Jackie? Oh my god, mister president again again? Yet No, No,
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Biden's right, I'm sorry, Michael's right. So anyway, what I
was objecting to, and I realize now I have a
bit of a problem. And and Jack does this too,
and I yell at him for it. I hate David
Muir so much. The bent knows jackass, who's the anchor
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of ABC Evening News. Nobody watches the Evening News. His
cloying therapy simpleton fixation on the story prejudiced me against
the story. Yeah, and it got my back up. And
I apologize to eagle lovers everywhere. Your affection for rooting
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for the Eagles is perfectly natural. Not the Philadelphia Eagles.
I still hate them and will till I die. But
the bald Eagles, it's it's perfectly understandable. And I'm sorry
the nice eagle lady is dead. But nature is nice
eagle lady. But nature is cruel. Nature is really cruel.
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But I'm rooting for the Eagles, of course I am.
I'm not a monster. Just hate David mu Or. He's
a monster, all right. So that's out of the way,
although I will reads yep in a few words. That's
what I'm trying to say. Thank you, mister former Attorney General.
Who is that Michael again? John Ashcroft? John Ashcroft? That's right, wow, man.
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Time flies, So that that takes care of that at
least for now. Loo. Somebody figure out when I slandered
eagle lovers yesterday, and we'll take care of that. As
I said, I want to start the show officially according
to FCC rules and regulations for which we are bleeping sticklers.
We are armstrong and giddy, and we approve this message.
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The show starts at mark.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
My understanding is that is that Francesca Hang has made
clear her present stances.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
To her lectures moved away from right.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
She's moved away from it. And I have a local
city councilman that has this saying woke one was crazy one.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Okay, we'll get out of the way. That fact that
Francesca Hong lost in Wisconsin by the narrowest of losses,
as narrow as a piece of Soviet toilet paper, which
she would usher back in if she got her way.
But I wanted to address AOC laughing about woke one
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was crazy. And she went on to say, and I
think what's important is that we have to assess what
a candidate is saying. Now, wait a minute, I'm with
you on woke one was crazy. And I'm gonna quote
Charles C. W. Cook a little bit. He's one of
my favorite writers on this topic, and we've back and
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forth between me and him. But she's implying that woke
one was something that happened to us and to to her,
like an earthquake or a heavy rain or something, rather
than something that was contrived and enforced by her. She
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was one of the leaders of it and her ideological buddies. Yes,
it was crazy, but it wasn't crazy. You are crazy
you and the people who did this to us are crazy.
You can't laugh that off. And then Charles points out
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there are two explanations as to why a person might
have fallen for crazy woke. One. Number one that they
have poor judgment and are thus liable at any moment
to fall prey to the most destructive ideas available, or
certainly the most dradical leftist ideas, which are destructive. All right,
so if mss what's her face, it doesn't matter anymore.
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She's done at least from now. But all of these people,
if they are so liable to be swept away by
like the latest ideological fashion like color of lipstick, or
the hot summer read or who's the hot new pop starlet,
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but ideas that like proposed to do away with the constitution,
you get swept up in that you don't have the
judgment to serve in any office at any level. You
have terrible judgment. You are a woman child or a
man child, and you have no business governing or you know.
Choice number two is you're a coward. Is that a
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little judgmental? Eh, yeah, it is a little judgmental. I'm
gonna go with coward. Though we don't have too much
shaming in America, we have too little. I recognize that
certain sorts of people, and it's probably genetics. They make
their decisions through the lens of acceptability, not truth. They
have opinions based on whether those opinions are going to
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make them more popular or less popular, gains social acceptance
or social a stigma. And I think a lot of
folks who are like that didn't choose to be I
don't know, And I think maybe you can get more
towards the same end of things if you try really hard.
But anyway, having said that, if you are the sort
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of person who picks policies up to and including the
destruction of the Constitution, loading the courts, ending the Senate,
and I'm going to get into that some of more
of the craziness in a second or two. But if
if you pick your policies that way, you were unqualified
for public office. Either way, either explanation, you're unqualified and
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unlike AOC and her brethren whom she's defending, tens of
millions of Americans did not fall for woke one. Hello,
A lot of us fought back against it, some of
you at great personal and professional cost. Some of you
who were in blue professions and blue places. Man, you
took it in the face, and I salute you. I mean,
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I truly to my soul salute you for your courage.
A lot of folks couldn't. They had mouths to feed,
they had careers to manage, and you know, I get it,
but when we're looking at future leaders, we're not going
to choose them from those who screamed at the people
who turned out to be right, like they were in
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some sort of cult. And you know what, the one
more aspect of this, AOC doesn't even say yeah, sorry,
They just laugh it away. Okay, here are some questions.
Which parts of Woke One were crazy? And why specifically,
give us two or three which people were wrong about it?
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And why who was what positions did they take that
made them right? And why do you think, unlike you,
they didn't fall into the Woke One being crazy? All right?
And finally, what practical steps have you taken to ensure
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that you'll oppose future replays of this garbage? But of
course you know they're not going to answer those questions.
And then to get to what Charles Cook said, and
I think this is really a the important part. I
doubt that AOC could answer these questions. Heck, I doubt
she's thought about them for more than a couple of minutes. Rather,
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I suspect that, like many progressives, she believes that she
and her friends are entitled to the occasional world breaking meltdown,
and that the proper role of everyone else is to
go along with it, as they might with the tantrum
of a small child. Well I will not, he writes, Yeah,
I mean neither. We held an election during Woke one,
and the senators who elected at that crazy time are
still serving in Congress. What happens today matters tomorrow, even when,
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as it appears to be the case here, it eventually
becomes inconvenient to discuss it. Ha ha ha. The crazy demands
of Woke one were not for a two percent increase
in the capital gains rate, but for the wholesale rejection
of racial equality under the law. Remember that critical race
theory and systemic racism, and the only way to cure
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racism is with racism ibramex Kenny Robin DiAngelo. These people
were given millions of dollars to train people, both in
government and in private companies, that white people must be
discriminated against, which is so blatantly clearly unconstitutional, I feel
silly even pointed out than it is. It was the
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wholesale rejection of racial quality under the law. It was
the government led reorganization the American economy, the abolition of
the police he leaves out, the emptying of prisons, which
is already born horrible results, the provision of sex change
operations for children, and the erasure of the United States border.
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That's what the crazy was. Again. It wasn't a slight
change in the tax rate. It was that stuff. That's madness.
And as Charlie Cook points out, great if the people
who made those demands and push those policies recognize the
error of their ways. But you got to give us
more than oops before we're gonna trust you again, good Lord.
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And there are plenty of folks who, for the reasons
we've just been discussing, they see the world not through
the lens of truth but lens of acceptability, who will
go along with the Haha, that was crazy. This is
our new crazy, and we're going to ruin you if
you resist this crazy. There are a lot of people
who vote that way, so uh, stay tuned, participate in
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the process and uh, don't go away.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Heyetty, we're running just a little bit late, so let's
dive right into who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Katie take it away, all righty, Well, the Alphabet networks
are covering inflation this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We'll just say ABC's.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Inflation eases but stays above pre I w I ran
war level.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Mister President, Please stop saying we're bringing prices down because
people go to the freaking grocery store.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah. Politico David Crowley defeats Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in
Wisconsin governor primary.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, this guy had fled the race and the the
current guy dragged him back in and he won by
an knows so good. Hopes for Republicans to take the
state House or at least the governor's office. In November New.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
York Times, Trump's tariffs force some Canadian companies to consider
moving south.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I hate so many of the tariffs. The ones specifically
about defense and self alliance I get, But like lumber
that's jacking up housing prices. We need Canadian lumber, all right,
We've been buying it forever it's sheep.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
From the Wall Street Journal, flight tracking platform Sue's KLSHI
over flight cancellation prediction markets.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, I've got an even better prediction market story. It's
part of a segment I'm gonna call dollars and nonsense.
You see what I did there, Katie? You I like it? Yeah?
Oooh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
From NPR are hacks of the US water facilities a
new front for the Iran war.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's good to left. The journalists are paying attention to this,
whatever it turns out to be, and I think it
is are on, but that our vulnerability there needs to
not be coded right or left. We all have to
understand it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Study finds heavy drinking during pregnancy has nearly tripled since
twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh boy, oh boy, that's crazy to me. Yeah, for
real child abuse.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You're gonna tell me to stop it after this one too,
Brace yourself. Joe Oh from The New York Post, World's
smallest Pennis patient sets date for crowd funded enlargement operation.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
These guys raised almost fourteen k to make it bigger.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, you know, if you've got the micro thing, that's
a really tough way to go through life. If you
are you know, well if you're heterosexual orgy, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I feel it's a deformity. I feel that.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And finally the babylon Bee Democrats announce you aren't allowed
to remember what they did just.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
A few years ago. Exactly. Yeah, that's the AOC thing.
I think. What's important is to listen to what people
are saying today. Oh no, look, if you're talking about
an eleven year old who's now fourteen, yeah, okay, I
get it. Yeah, even maybe a sixteen year old who's
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now nineteen. But a forty five year old it was
forty two or you know whatever age you would No, No,
you were calling for the end of the United States Constitution,
the end to our well, you were coming out in
favor of racism few years and you just get to
get out of jail free pass. No, you're unfit for office,
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as we are discussing. So, in spite of the JIV name,
I've given the next segment to dollars and nonsense. I
came across a handful of stories that are all My
reaction to all of them was, Wow, that's the way
that works. And I think you will be surprised and
enlightened two got some great guests will tell you about
in a couple of minutes, says, well, see Armstrong and
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Getty shows stay with.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Really excited about conversation we're going to have at the
bottom of our two halfway through hour two with the
great James Lindsay, one of my favorite thinkers, one of
the people who's been the most effective and eloquent while
being mostly like really understandable to all of us, calling
out critical theory and the neo Marxist movement, what some
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people call the woke movement. But the mistake they make
is thinking these are just you know, maybe well meaning
simpletons with some bad policy ideas, and we should talk
them out of it, but don't understand that there's a
serious philosophical underpinning to this, and it's everywhere in our
schools and universities. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
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We want to talk about what's under the water that
you might not be aware of with this way of
thinking the whole where's this crazy woke thing coming from?
So again, we're gonna do that next hour and I'm
really looking forward to it. Love James been following him
since he first emerged as a professor Portland State. I
think it was. And one of the early moments of
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his war against this insanity was there's this online feud
saying two plus two does not necessarily equal four. In
some cultures it isn't. So no, you can't say that.
That's racist to say that. And he was like, wait
a minute, what is this philosophy? And he dug into it.
He's become an expert on it. So anyway, next hour,
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welcome to a brand new feature. I'm calling it Dollars
and nonsense. Oh that was a nice touch at the
end there. Yeah, that's good. Putting aside the JIV name.
I thought this was also interesting. A handful of stories
about money. I can't believe this. This is an exclusive
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investigation by the Wall Street Journal. They looked like they
were getting rich on poly market, but none of it
was real. And I've seen a couple of these videos
they were the prediction market is flooded social media with
deceptive video, deceptive videos by paid creators. Here's how it works.
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Here's this guy, George, George Makehara. In case you're into
this and you've seen these videos, he appears to have
a lucrative side hustle making bets on poly Market. In January,
this guy's at college student. He posted a video that
showed him winning one hundred grand on Polymarket on a
bet that President Trump would publicly say the word McDonald's
that month. Was one of one hundred and forty five
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that Makihara appeared to place on Polymarket's website between January
and mid May, based on his videos, bets adding up
to almost four hundred and ten thousand dollars. But according
to the Wall Street Journal investigation, none of those bets
were real, and he's one of dozens of mostly college
aged creators Polymarket paid to film themselves making fake trades
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and sometimes scoring fake wins. According to an analysis of
more than eleven hundred videos that the journal took in,
along with instructional materials and interviews with creators who've worked
with the company on the actual site. For what it's worth,
more than fifty accounts made that McDonald's bet in January,
and all of them lost. So they didn't even go
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real far down the line of covering their tracks to
make sure these were bets that actually paid off in
that month, or what have you, and I watched. I
departed from the text of this article to watch one
of the videos, and I'm like, wait a minute, but
this dude's like, there's Polymarket on his screen. There's the
thing happening, there's the amount I mean is videoing his
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using of the website. So I go back to the
text and it explains and his push to draw users
to its unregulated platform. Polymarket is flooded social media with
videos like machihars, which appear genuine at first glance. In reality,
Polymarket built near perfect copies of its own website, then
instructed creators to make simulated trades on those dummy sites
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and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket. Then
to get the videos to go viral, polymarket is recruited
a social media army to copy and repost those creators
footage so they would go viral for sure. Though the
New York based company has been banned from offering its
crypto its primary crypto platform in the US since twenty
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twenty two, the social media creators are paid to specifically
target US users who can still access the site with
a Virtual Private network of VPN, which is a decent
idea If you don't like to be tracked on the Internet.
Of course, the polymarket spokeshole said in a statement that
it was committed to maintaining any accurate, fair and transparent markets.
We are part of a rapidly growing industry and are
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constantly evaluing ways, evaluating ways to improve how we're engaging
in earning the trust of our audience. So anyway, holy cow,
that is uh, well, just to understand how serious and
sophisticated these people are about misleading you. I mean, I
got to admit, if I'm watching a commercial for some
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sort of I don't know, counter cleaner spray that makes
your counter shiny and clean and smell like lemons, I
know that chick in the ad is not actually a
woman cleaning your own counters at home. Okay, I get that.
But to have those videos be that detailed and that
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deliberately fraudulent and not disclosed any of it, well, you
know what's going on, and I don't need to explain
it to you. Story number two, how the bond market
inflated Powerball, and we had somebody tried to explain this
to us once, and I remember being mystified a bit. Tonight,
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there's a billion dollar powerball drawing and Bob plays the powerball.
We all want it, Michael, We're all hoping he's looking
for Okay anyway, But if you win the power ball
and take the cash payout, it's only four hundred and
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thirty three million dollars. It's less than half of the
billion dollars now. Five and a half years ago, there
was a super big prize in January twenty one. The
jackpot was seven hundred and thirty one million, so about
a quarter smaller. Yet the lump sum payment if you
chose chose that was five hundred and forty seven million dollars.
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So how the hell do you have a the jackpot
be you know, a third bigger, up to a billion dollars,
But the payout is what is that one hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars less? It has to do with what's
what's the correct term the bond yield, and this is
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what's in the small print. Powerball and Mega Millions both
offer the option for a winner to take thirty checks
that grow by five percent annually. The lotteries take no
financial risk offering that annuity, since they buy zero coupon
treasury bonds maturing on those dates. Much the way a
corporate pension fund might. Because inflation and the lure of risk,
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your assets like stocks are higher than in twenty twenty one.
If you follow the market at all, you know it's
been sky high are the yields because to get you
to buy bonds, they've got to give you better rates,
better returns. Otherwise you just go to stocks. So anyway,
the upshot is a bigger difference between the lump sum
versus the annuity. The cash value is seventy five percent
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of the advertised prize in twenty twenty one. Now it's
forty three percent. So it has to do with bond yields.
And the small print is, yeah, if you if you
don't take the cash thing, you get an annuity that's
based on bond yields, and so that the cash payout
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the lump sum, I should say, is all based on
that math, which I had no idea of moving along
another dollar. That's right. The Powerball, Son just gives me
your remote after you watch the power Ball. That's right.
Interesting article here StubHub customers who battled for tickets and
(25:54):
battle harder for a refund. Article starts with the story
of it's three hours before the US played Paraguay in
the World Cup in June. And this dude is standing
outside Sofi Stadium in England, California, LA, essentially with his
dad and no tickets. Now this is June. Right in March,
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he'd gone on stub hub and paid twenty two hundred
dollars for a pair of seats as a birthday gift
for his dad. Four days earlier, he'd called stub Hub
to say his tickets were still not on the FIFA app.
Where are they? Company said, yeah, we'll have replacements by
noon tomorrow. Never showed up. He spoke with StubHub at
least ten times and calls that spend nearly three hours
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in the days leading up to the game. Each time
he was told not to worry he had kickoff, he
was still without tickets. He approached the stadium's guest services window.
Stadium employee said you're here because of stub Hub, right,
and he's like, wow, yeah, She gestured at a crowd
of forty people standing to the side. You're not the
only one. All of these people are here because of
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stub Hub. So there's been a huge a number of
folks who've faced this sort of thing not just for
the World Cup, but a bunch of other stuff and
apparently and a Knicks game, Hamilton performance, George Strait concert,
you name it, and bunches of StubHub customers are getting
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stiff like this, and then sometimes they get nothing. Sometimes
they're sent replacements that were worse than what they paid for,
Like you're in the waybacks instead of upfront that's paid for,
and you have to spend months fighting stub Hub for refunds,
including refunds that said yep, you're right, you got screwed.
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We'll get your refund and you got to spend months
fighting for Many resolutions came only after they hired lawyers
or complained in the press, and that ain't cool. Complaints
about StubHub to the Better Business Bureau rose forty seven
percent forty seven percent from twenty twenty four to twenty
twenty five, and climbed sixty three percent in the eight
months leading up to the company September twenty twenty five
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initial public offering. Hmmm, I'm not saying the vast majority
of folks don't get what they paid for, but buyer
beware final story dollars and nonsense. This is as political
as it is anything else. Who here has bought a house?
Show of hands, a lot of us. Okay, what do
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you do when you're looking for a house. Maybe you
go on your favorite real estate site, you look at
the house self, you get the pictures, you look at
the map, Oh, that's real close to the main road
or whatever. And then if you're a savvy buyer, you
look at the school's ratings, right, and maybe you even
look at crime rates and that sort of thing. Do
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you check out Meghan's list for blue dots for child
molesters in the neighborhood? Whatever. If you're a savvy home buyer,
you do all those things. Six days after Joe Biden
was sworn into office, he issued a directive establishing enforcement
priorities for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD
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aimed at scaring real estate companies and real estate agents
into not disclosing crime and school information in real estate
listings because it might hurt diversity. Diversity and inclusive communities
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strengthen our democracy. The executive memorandum began, But you know
who wants their community to be inclusive of failing schools?
And who wants diversity to mean armed criminals along with
innocent people. And what's crazy about this is, you know,
black families don't want to live in dangerous neighborhoods with
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bad schools. Either. Nobody does, but many progressives believe racial
equalities best achieved by demolishing standards for everyone. So the
effect of Biden's memo, which may made clear that racial
politics and the doctrine of disparate impact would guide HUD's
enforcement of federal housing laws, and the major online real
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estate companies immediately understood what was being demanded of them. Realtor,
dot Com and Zillow immediately stopped providing crime data, while Redfinn,
going out of its way to embrace the party line,
posted a blog proclaiming neighborhood crime data doesn't belong on
real estate sites. National Association of Realtors put up a
web page in early twenty three titled how to Handle
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Client Questions about schools and neighborhood Neighborhoods, which told realtors
to point home buyers to other sources of information, don't
give them the facts yourself. And the page is absolutely
stuffed with dei jargon, but it also testifies it makes
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clear that the real Estate Association worried the fair housing
laws would be interpreted aggressively in realtors who did tell
their clients about schools in crime would run the risk
of punishment by the federal government. Okay, how many ways
is this horrible? I mean number one, there's a huge
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free speech issue here. Huge. Secondly, the idea that the
Dei cult would deny you this information because they thought
it might disproportionately lead you to not buy a house in
a black Hispanic neighborhood or something. Man, these people are sick.
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The Biden administration were enthusiastically on board. Mailbag is next.
We don't have a lot of times. Let's get right
to our freedom loving quote of the day, continuing our
series from Nikita Khrushchev, one of the most critical figures
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in communism in the twentieth century. I'll give you a
trio of them today. We do not have to invade
the United States. We will destroy you from within. The
United States will eventually fly the communist red flag. The
American people will hoist it themselves. And finally, the press
is our chief ideological weapon. Mailbag says me, uh uh,
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you can drop us note mail Bag at Armstrong Yetti
dot com Michael writes, the problem I see with AOC
saying that woke one was crazy is that she thinks
there's going to be a woke too. Well, there absolutely is. Absolutely,
It's really it's just an adjustment of strategy. That's one
of the things we're going to talk to James Lindsay
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about in in about forty Let's see this is Anna
Louisa and Sunny lamesa frequent correspondent. When you shared the
story of Senator grass Lane is Hoover Vacuum, it made
me think of the late Senator Harry Reid, who told
a story about growing up in a small, very poor
town in Nevada. The legal house of prostitution had the
only swimming pool in town. That's where his mom worked.
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By the way, I think she did laundry there. Gross
the owner felt bad for the kids, so in the summer,
one afternoon each week he'd kick out the prostitutes and
let the town's kids have the pool. Call me silly
in old fashioned, but I'll take the vacuum story, the
pool story, or even Biden's corn pop story over the
DSA's crazy communist, anti Semitic, anti American rants any day. Yeah,
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that's a that's a really good point. That's funny. I
enjoyed the Chuck Grassley thing is cute. But then this
from Bill from Michigan. And Bill, let me say in advance,
this is a very well searched, researched and intelligent note.
You're obviously a man of substance. But seriously, dude, here's
his note, Joe, your comments on Center to Grassley seemed biased?
(33:53):
Are you? Obviously he's old and trying to navigate social media.
Some may find it that endearing, othersmocrats. Of course, he
used it as evidence he's over the hill and you're
not helping. He will likely retire at the end of
the term. Hope we could backfill him with someone as productive,
given the fights we find ourselves in. If you're going
to speak and laugh about what his opposition is posting,
you might also include some of what he's recently accomplished.
(34:15):
He and his team also worth blasting out over the radio. Otherwise,
what is your goal? And he lists a bunch of
Chuck Grassley's legislative accomplishments, which again are considerable and lovely
and of fairly solid conservative stuff. Bill, your radio show
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would be so boring you would have no listeners. Wow, Wow,
lighten up. Francis the topic of the WNBA. Patty Wright,
so using the logic a critical theory, why have the
WNBA at all? If there's no difference between the sexes,
the LGBT crowd could just join the NBA. You never
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hear about a a woman wanting to join a man's team.
And then, in a little more detail, Poolo writes no
point speculating about the WNBA's trans problem, but it's fun,
so I'll indulge WNBA's policies that you have to be
a woman to play, but doesn't define what a woman is.
I don't think they will define what a woman is
because they can't. They know. They're supposed to believe that
a person in a male body can be a woman.
They're supposed to be inclusive, that's all they know. Remember
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how hard it was for that gender professor when Matt
Walsh asked him what a woman was. Yet, we'll be
playing a little bit of that coming up. They will
come up with a way to tap dance around the issue,
but we're gonna call them on it, and it's gonna
be fun to watch Armstrong and Getty
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be presented under the title well, at least people are
finally paying attention to the WNBAH. If you prefer, I
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was wrong about the Eagle. Dammit Hanson, I need you
to figure out exactly when I talked about Jackie the
Eagle and mocked it yesterday, because for those of you
who listened to the show live on the radio somewhere
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in America, I think we're just on America online overseas.
For those of you who listen live, I want to
address the topic at the same time of day, so
I'm most likely to convey my maya kulpa to the
people who heard it yesterday. Okay, the very short version,
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and Katie, I know you get this. I realized, and
we got a couple of emails about this, very nice,
very nice. I realized there is a raptor cam that's
not far from my house that has focused on a
couple of different sorts of birds nests, but including some
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bald eagles. And and I was really rooting for them
to hatch and the babies to be okay, and and
and so, and I know nature is cruel, and maybe
they will, maybe they won't. But I get people who
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are like invested in hoping the eagles would be okay
and didn't want to see Jackie the eagle. Eagles don't
have names. That part I'm still right about. Okay, Jackie here,
where's Jackie? Oh my god, mister president again again? Yet No, No,
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Biden's right, I'm sorry, Michael's right. So anyway, what I
was objecting to, and I realize now I have a
bit of a problem. And and Jack does this too,
and I yell at him for it. I hate David
Muir so much. The bent knows jackass, who's the anchor
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of ABC Evening News. Nobody watches the Evening News. His
cloying therapy simpleton fixation on the story prejudiced me against
the story. Yeah, and it got my back up. And
I apologize to eagle lovers everywhere. Your affection for rooting
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for the Eagles is perfectly natural. Not the Philadelphia Eagles.
I still hate them and will till I die. But
the bald Eagles, it's it's perfectly understandable. And I'm sorry
the nice eagle lady is dead. But nature is nice
eagle lady. But nature is cruel. Nature is really cruel.
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But I'm rooting for the Eagles, of course I am.
I'm not a monster. Just hate David mu Or. He's
a monster, all right. So that's out of the way,
although I will reads yep in a few words. That's
what I'm trying to say. Thank you, mister former Attorney General.
Who is that Michael again? John Ashcroft? John Ashcroft? That's right, wow, man.
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Time flies, So that that takes care of that at
least for now. Loo. Somebody figure out when I slandered
eagle lovers yesterday, and we'll take care of that. As
I said, I want to start the show officially according
to FCC rules and regulations for which we are bleeping sticklers.
We are armstrong and giddy, and we approve this message.
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The show starts at mark.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
My understanding is that is that Francesca Hang has made
clear her present stances.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
To her lectures moved away from right.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
She's moved away from it. And I have a local
city councilman that has this saying woke one was crazy one.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Okay, we'll get out of the way. That fact that
Francesca Hong lost in Wisconsin by the narrowest of losses,
as narrow as a piece of Soviet toilet paper, which
she would usher back in if she got her way.
But I wanted to address AOC laughing about woke one
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was crazy. And she went on to say, and I
think what's important is that we have to assess what
a candidate is saying. Now, wait a minute, I'm with
you on woke one was crazy. And I'm gonna quote
Charles C. W. Cook a little bit. He's one of
my favorite writers on this topic, and we've back and
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forth between me and him. But she's implying that woke
one was something that happened to us and to to her,
like an earthquake or a heavy rain or something, rather
than something that was contrived and enforced by her. She
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was one of the leaders of it and her ideological buddies. Yes,
it was crazy, but it wasn't crazy. You are crazy
you and the people who did this to us are crazy.
You can't laugh that off. And then Charles points out
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there are two explanations as to why a person might
have fallen for crazy woke. One. Number one that they
have poor judgment and are thus liable at any moment
to fall prey to the most destructive ideas available, or
certainly the most dradical leftist ideas, which are destructive. All right,
so if mss what's her face, it doesn't matter anymore.
(06:47):
She's done at least from now. But all of these people,
if they are so liable to be swept away by
like the latest ideological fashion like color of lipstick, or
the hot summer read or who's the hot new pop starlet,
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but ideas that like proposed to do away with the constitution,
you get swept up in that you don't have the
judgment to serve in any office at any level. You
have terrible judgment. You are a woman child or a
man child, and you have no business governing or you know.
Choice number two is you're a coward. Is that a
(07:32):
little judgmental? Eh, yeah, it is a little judgmental. I'm
gonna go with coward. Though we don't have too much
shaming in America, we have too little. I recognize that
certain sorts of people, and it's probably genetics. They make
their decisions through the lens of acceptability, not truth. They
have opinions based on whether those opinions are going to
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make them more popular or less popular, gains social acceptance
or social a stigma. And I think a lot of
folks who are like that didn't choose to be I
don't know, And I think maybe you can get more
towards the same end of things if you try really hard.
But anyway, having said that, if you are the sort
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of person who picks policies up to and including the
destruction of the Constitution, loading the courts, ending the Senate,
and I'm going to get into that some of more
of the craziness in a second or two. But if
if you pick your policies that way, you were unqualified
for public office. Either way, either explanation, you're unqualified and
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unlike AOC and her brethren whom she's defending, tens of
millions of Americans did not fall for woke one. Hello,
A lot of us fought back against it, some of
you at great personal and professional cost. Some of you
who were in blue professions and blue places. Man, you
took it in the face, and I salute you. I mean,
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I truly to my soul salute you for your courage.
A lot of folks couldn't. They had mouths to feed,
they had careers to manage, and you know, I get it,
but when we're looking at future leaders, we're not going
to choose them from those who screamed at the people
who turned out to be right, like they were in
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some sort of cult. And you know what, the one
more aspect of this, AOC doesn't even say yeah, sorry,
They just laugh it away. Okay, here are some questions.
Which parts of Woke One were crazy? And why specifically,
give us two or three which people were wrong about it?
(09:55):
And why who was what positions did they take that
made them right? And why do you think, unlike you,
they didn't fall into the Woke One being crazy? All right?
And finally, what practical steps have you taken to ensure
(10:16):
that you'll oppose future replays of this garbage? But of
course you know they're not going to answer those questions.
And then to get to what Charles Cook said, and
I think this is really a the important part. I
doubt that AOC could answer these questions. Heck, I doubt
she's thought about them for more than a couple of minutes. Rather,
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I suspect that, like many progressives, she believes that she
and her friends are entitled to the occasional world breaking meltdown,
and that the proper role of everyone else is to
go along with it, as they might with the tantrum
of a small child. Well I will not, he writes, Yeah,
I mean neither. We held an election during Woke one,
and the senators who elected at that crazy time are
still serving in Congress. What happens today matters tomorrow, even when,
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as it appears to be the case here, it eventually
becomes inconvenient to discuss it. Ha ha ha. The crazy demands
of Woke one were not for a two percent increase
in the capital gains rate, but for the wholesale rejection
of racial equality under the law. Remember that critical race
theory and systemic racism, and the only way to cure
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racism is with racism ibramex Kenny Robin DiAngelo. These people
were given millions of dollars to train people, both in
government and in private companies, that white people must be
discriminated against, which is so blatantly clearly unconstitutional, I feel
silly even pointed out than it is. It was the
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wholesale rejection of racial quality under the law. It was
the government led reorganization the American economy, the abolition of
the police he leaves out, the emptying of prisons, which
is already born horrible results, the provision of sex change
operations for children, and the erasure of the United States border.
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That's what the crazy was. Again. It wasn't a slight
change in the tax rate. It was that stuff. That's madness.
And as Charlie Cook points out, great if the people
who made those demands and push those policies recognize the
error of their ways. But you got to give us
more than oops before we're gonna trust you again, good Lord.
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And there are plenty of folks who, for the reasons
we've just been discussing, they see the world not through
the lens of truth but lens of acceptability, who will
go along with the Haha, that was crazy. This is
our new crazy, and we're going to ruin you if
you resist this crazy. There are a lot of people
who vote that way, so uh, stay tuned, participate in
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the process and uh, don't go away.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Heyetty, we're running just a little bit late, so let's
dive right into who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Katie take it away, all righty, Well, the Alphabet networks
are covering inflation this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We'll just say ABC's.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Inflation eases but stays above pre I w I ran
war level.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Mister President, Please stop saying we're bringing prices down because
people go to the freaking grocery store.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah. Politico David Crowley defeats Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in
Wisconsin governor primary.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, this guy had fled the race and the the
current guy dragged him back in and he won by
an knows so good. Hopes for Republicans to take the
state House or at least the governor's office. In November New.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
York Times, Trump's tariffs force some Canadian companies to consider
moving south.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I hate so many of the tariffs. The ones specifically
about defense and self alliance I get, But like lumber
that's jacking up housing prices. We need Canadian lumber, all right,
We've been buying it forever it's sheep.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
From the Wall Street Journal, flight tracking platform Sue's KLSHI
over flight cancellation prediction markets.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh, I've got an even better prediction market story. It's
part of a segment I'm gonna call dollars and nonsense.
You see what I did there, Katie? You I like it? Yeah?
Oooh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
From NPR are hacks of the US water facilities a
new front for the Iran war.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's good to left. The journalists are paying attention to this,
whatever it turns out to be, and I think it
is are on, but that our vulnerability there needs to
not be coded right or left. We all have to
understand it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Study finds heavy drinking during pregnancy has nearly tripled since
twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Oh boy, oh boy, that's crazy to me. Yeah, for
real child abuse.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
You're gonna tell me to stop it after this one too,
Brace yourself. Joe Oh from The New York Post, World's
smallest Pennis patient sets date for crowd funded enlargement operation.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
These guys raised almost fourteen k to make it bigger.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, you know, if you've got the micro thing, that's
a really tough way to go through life. If you
are you know, well if you're heterosexual orgy, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I feel it's a deformity. I feel that.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And finally the babylon Bee Democrats announce you aren't allowed
to remember what they did just.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
A few years ago. Exactly. Yeah, that's the AOC thing.
I think. What's important is to listen to what people
are saying today. Oh no, look, if you're talking about
an eleven year old who's now fourteen, yeah, okay, I
get it. Yeah, even maybe a sixteen year old who's
(16:36):
now nineteen. But a forty five year old it was
forty two or you know whatever age you would No, No,
you were calling for the end of the United States Constitution,
the end to our well, you were coming out in
favor of racism few years and you just get to
get out of jail free pass. No, you're unfit for office,
(16:59):
as we are discussing. So, in spite of the JIV name,
I've given the next segment to dollars and nonsense. I
came across a handful of stories that are all My
reaction to all of them was, Wow, that's the way
that works. And I think you will be surprised and
enlightened two got some great guests will tell you about
in a couple of minutes, says, well, see Armstrong and
(17:21):
Getty shows stay with.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Really excited about conversation we're going to have at the
bottom of our two halfway through hour two with the
great James Lindsay, one of my favorite thinkers, one of
the people who's been the most effective and eloquent while
being mostly like really understandable to all of us, calling
out critical theory and the neo Marxist movement, what some
(17:49):
people call the woke movement. But the mistake they make
is thinking these are just you know, maybe well meaning
simpletons with some bad policy ideas, and we should talk
them out of it, but don't understand that there's a
serious philosophical underpinning to this, and it's everywhere in our
schools and universities. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
(18:11):
We want to talk about what's under the water that
you might not be aware of with this way of
thinking the whole where's this crazy woke thing coming from?
So again, we're gonna do that next hour and I'm
really looking forward to it. Love James been following him
since he first emerged as a professor Portland State. I
think it was. And one of the early moments of
(18:33):
his war against this insanity was there's this online feud
saying two plus two does not necessarily equal four. In
some cultures it isn't. So no, you can't say that.
That's racist to say that. And he was like, wait
a minute, what is this philosophy? And he dug into it.
He's become an expert on it. So anyway, next hour,
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welcome to a brand new feature. I'm calling it Dollars
and nonsense. Oh that was a nice touch at the
end there. Yeah, that's good. Putting aside the JIV name.
I thought this was also interesting. A handful of stories
about money. I can't believe this. This is an exclusive
(19:15):
investigation by the Wall Street Journal. They looked like they
were getting rich on poly market, but none of it
was real. And I've seen a couple of these videos
they were the prediction market is flooded social media with
deceptive video, deceptive videos by paid creators. Here's how it works.
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Here's this guy, George, George Makehara. In case you're into
this and you've seen these videos, he appears to have
a lucrative side hustle making bets on poly Market. In January,
this guy's at college student. He posted a video that
showed him winning one hundred grand on Polymarket on a
bet that President Trump would publicly say the word McDonald's
that month. Was one of one hundred and forty five
(20:01):
that Makihara appeared to place on Polymarket's website between January
and mid May, based on his videos, bets adding up
to almost four hundred and ten thousand dollars. But according
to the Wall Street Journal investigation, none of those bets
were real, and he's one of dozens of mostly college
aged creators Polymarket paid to film themselves making fake trades
(20:23):
and sometimes scoring fake wins. According to an analysis of
more than eleven hundred videos that the journal took in,
along with instructional materials and interviews with creators who've worked
with the company on the actual site. For what it's worth,
more than fifty accounts made that McDonald's bet in January,
and all of them lost. So they didn't even go
(20:45):
real far down the line of covering their tracks to
make sure these were bets that actually paid off in
that month, or what have you, and I watched. I
departed from the text of this article to watch one
of the videos, and I'm like, wait a minute, but
this dude's like, there's Polymarket on his screen. There's the
thing happening, there's the amount I mean is videoing his
(21:11):
using of the website. So I go back to the
text and it explains and his push to draw users
to its unregulated platform. Polymarket is flooded social media with
videos like machihars, which appear genuine at first glance. In reality,
Polymarket built near perfect copies of its own website, then
instructed creators to make simulated trades on those dummy sites
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and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket. Then
to get the videos to go viral, polymarket is recruited
a social media army to copy and repost those creators
footage so they would go viral for sure. Though the
New York based company has been banned from offering its
crypto its primary crypto platform in the US since twenty
(21:55):
twenty two, the social media creators are paid to specifically
target US users who can still access the site with
a Virtual Private network of VPN, which is a decent
idea If you don't like to be tracked on the Internet.
Of course, the polymarket spokeshole said in a statement that
it was committed to maintaining any accurate, fair and transparent markets.
We are part of a rapidly growing industry and are
(22:17):
constantly evaluing ways, evaluating ways to improve how we're engaging
in earning the trust of our audience. So anyway, holy cow,
that is uh, well, just to understand how serious and
sophisticated these people are about misleading you. I mean, I
got to admit, if I'm watching a commercial for some
(22:40):
sort of I don't know, counter cleaner spray that makes
your counter shiny and clean and smell like lemons, I
know that chick in the ad is not actually a
woman cleaning your own counters at home. Okay, I get that.
But to have those videos be that detailed and that
(23:01):
deliberately fraudulent and not disclosed any of it, well, you
know what's going on, and I don't need to explain
it to you. Story number two, how the bond market
inflated Powerball, and we had somebody tried to explain this
to us once, and I remember being mystified a bit. Tonight,
(23:23):
there's a billion dollar powerball drawing and Bob plays the powerball.
We all want it, Michael, We're all hoping he's looking
for Okay anyway, But if you win the power ball
and take the cash payout, it's only four hundred and
(23:44):
thirty three million dollars. It's less than half of the
billion dollars now. Five and a half years ago, there
was a super big prize in January twenty one. The
jackpot was seven hundred and thirty one million, so about
a quarter smaller. Yet the lump sum payment if you
chose chose that was five hundred and forty seven million dollars.
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So how the hell do you have a the jackpot
be you know, a third bigger, up to a billion dollars,
But the payout is what is that one hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars less? It has to do with what's
what's the correct term the bond yield, and this is
(24:29):
what's in the small print. Powerball and Mega Millions both
offer the option for a winner to take thirty checks
that grow by five percent annually. The lotteries take no
financial risk offering that annuity, since they buy zero coupon
treasury bonds maturing on those dates. Much the way a
corporate pension fund might. Because inflation and the lure of risk,
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your assets like stocks are higher than in twenty twenty one.
If you follow the market at all, you know it's
been sky high are the yields because to get you
to buy bonds, they've got to give you better rates,
better returns. Otherwise you just go to stocks. So anyway,
the upshot is a bigger difference between the lump sum
versus the annuity. The cash value is seventy five percent
(25:14):
of the advertised prize in twenty twenty one. Now it's
forty three percent. So it has to do with bond yields.
And the small print is, yeah, if you if you
don't take the cash thing, you get an annuity that's
based on bond yields, and so that the cash payout
(25:34):
the lump sum, I should say, is all based on
that math, which I had no idea of moving along
another dollar. That's right. The Powerball, Son just gives me
your remote after you watch the power Ball. That's right.
Interesting article here StubHub customers who battled for tickets and
(25:54):
battle harder for a refund. Article starts with the story
of it's three hours before the US played Paraguay in
the World Cup in June. And this dude is standing
outside Sofi Stadium in England, California, LA, essentially with his
dad and no tickets. Now this is June. Right in March,
(26:16):
he'd gone on stub hub and paid twenty two hundred
dollars for a pair of seats as a birthday gift
for his dad. Four days earlier, he'd called stub Hub
to say his tickets were still not on the FIFA app.
Where are they? Company said, yeah, we'll have replacements by
noon tomorrow. Never showed up. He spoke with StubHub at
least ten times and calls that spend nearly three hours
(26:37):
in the days leading up to the game. Each time
he was told not to worry he had kickoff, he
was still without tickets. He approached the stadium's guest services window.
Stadium employee said you're here because of stub Hub, right,
and he's like, wow, yeah, She gestured at a crowd
of forty people standing to the side. You're not the
only one. All of these people are here because of
(26:58):
stub Hub. So there's been a huge a number of
folks who've faced this sort of thing not just for
the World Cup, but a bunch of other stuff and
apparently and a Knicks game, Hamilton performance, George Strait concert,
you name it, and bunches of StubHub customers are getting
(27:19):
stiff like this, and then sometimes they get nothing. Sometimes
they're sent replacements that were worse than what they paid for,
Like you're in the waybacks instead of upfront that's paid for,
and you have to spend months fighting stub Hub for refunds,
including refunds that said yep, you're right, you got screwed.
(27:40):
We'll get your refund and you got to spend months
fighting for Many resolutions came only after they hired lawyers
or complained in the press, and that ain't cool. Complaints
about StubHub to the Better Business Bureau rose forty seven
percent forty seven percent from twenty twenty four to twenty
twenty five, and climbed sixty three percent in the eight
months leading up to the company September twenty twenty five
(28:02):
initial public offering. Hmmm, I'm not saying the vast majority
of folks don't get what they paid for, but buyer
beware final story dollars and nonsense. This is as political
as it is anything else. Who here has bought a house?
Show of hands, a lot of us. Okay, what do
(28:24):
you do when you're looking for a house. Maybe you
go on your favorite real estate site, you look at
the house self, you get the pictures, you look at
the map, Oh, that's real close to the main road
or whatever. And then if you're a savvy buyer, you
look at the school's ratings, right, and maybe you even
look at crime rates and that sort of thing. Do
(28:44):
you check out Meghan's list for blue dots for child
molesters in the neighborhood? Whatever. If you're a savvy home buyer,
you do all those things. Six days after Joe Biden
was sworn into office, he issued a directive establishing enforcement
priorities for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD
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aimed at scaring real estate companies and real estate agents
into not disclosing crime and school information in real estate
listings because it might hurt diversity. Diversity and inclusive communities
(29:25):
strengthen our democracy. The executive memorandum began, But you know
who wants their community to be inclusive of failing schools?
And who wants diversity to mean armed criminals along with
innocent people. And what's crazy about this is, you know,
black families don't want to live in dangerous neighborhoods with
(29:47):
bad schools. Either. Nobody does, but many progressives believe racial
equalities best achieved by demolishing standards for everyone. So the
effect of Biden's memo, which may made clear that racial
politics and the doctrine of disparate impact would guide HUD's
enforcement of federal housing laws, and the major online real
(30:09):
estate companies immediately understood what was being demanded of them. Realtor,
dot Com and Zillow immediately stopped providing crime data, while Redfinn,
going out of its way to embrace the party line,
posted a blog proclaiming neighborhood crime data doesn't belong on
real estate sites. National Association of Realtors put up a
web page in early twenty three titled how to Handle
(30:31):
Client Questions about schools and neighborhood Neighborhoods, which told realtors
to point home buyers to other sources of information, don't
give them the facts yourself. And the page is absolutely
stuffed with dei jargon, but it also testifies it makes
(30:53):
clear that the real Estate Association worried the fair housing
laws would be interpreted aggressively in realtors who did tell
their clients about schools in crime would run the risk
of punishment by the federal government. Okay, how many ways
is this horrible? I mean number one, there's a huge
(31:13):
free speech issue here. Huge. Secondly, the idea that the
Dei cult would deny you this information because they thought
it might disproportionately lead you to not buy a house in
a black Hispanic neighborhood or something. Man, these people are sick.
(31:36):
The Biden administration were enthusiastically on board. Mailbag is next.
We don't have a lot of times. Let's get right
to our freedom loving quote of the day, continuing our
series from Nikita Khrushchev, one of the most critical figures
(31:57):
in communism in the twentieth century. I'll give you a
trio of them today. We do not have to invade
the United States. We will destroy you from within. The
United States will eventually fly the communist red flag. The
American people will hoist it themselves. And finally, the press
is our chief ideological weapon. Mailbag says me, uh uh,
(32:25):
you can drop us note mail Bag at Armstrong Yetti
dot com Michael writes, the problem I see with AOC
saying that woke one was crazy is that she thinks
there's going to be a woke too. Well, there absolutely is. Absolutely,
It's really it's just an adjustment of strategy. That's one
of the things we're going to talk to James Lindsay
(32:46):
about in in about forty Let's see this is Anna
Louisa and Sunny lamesa frequent correspondent. When you shared the
story of Senator grass Lane is Hoover Vacuum, it made
me think of the late Senator Harry Reid, who told
a story about growing up in a small, very poor
town in Nevada. The legal house of prostitution had the
only swimming pool in town. That's where his mom worked.
(33:07):
By the way, I think she did laundry there. Gross
the owner felt bad for the kids, so in the summer,
one afternoon each week he'd kick out the prostitutes and
let the town's kids have the pool. Call me silly
in old fashioned, but I'll take the vacuum story, the
pool story, or even Biden's corn pop story over the
DSA's crazy communist, anti Semitic, anti American rants any day. Yeah,
(33:30):
that's a that's a really good point. That's funny. I
enjoyed the Chuck Grassley thing is cute. But then this
from Bill from Michigan. And Bill, let me say in advance,
this is a very well searched, researched and intelligent note.
You're obviously a man of substance. But seriously, dude, here's
his note, Joe, your comments on Center to Grassley seemed biased?
(33:53):
Are you? Obviously he's old and trying to navigate social media.
Some may find it that endearing, othersmocrats. Of course, he
used it as evidence he's over the hill and you're
not helping. He will likely retire at the end of
the term. Hope we could backfill him with someone as productive,
given the fights we find ourselves in. If you're going
to speak and laugh about what his opposition is posting,
you might also include some of what he's recently accomplished.
(34:15):
He and his team also worth blasting out over the radio. Otherwise,
what is your goal? And he lists a bunch of
Chuck Grassley's legislative accomplishments, which again are considerable and lovely
and of fairly solid conservative stuff. Bill, your radio show
(34:36):
would be so boring you would have no listeners. Wow, Wow,
lighten up. Francis the topic of the WNBA. Patty Wright,
so using the logic a critical theory, why have the
WNBA at all? If there's no difference between the sexes,
the LGBT crowd could just join the NBA. You never
(34:59):
hear about a a woman wanting to join a man's team.
And then, in a little more detail, Poolo writes no
point speculating about the WNBA's trans problem, but it's fun,
so I'll indulge WNBA's policies that you have to be
a woman to play, but doesn't define what a woman is.
I don't think they will define what a woman is
because they can't. They know. They're supposed to believe that
a person in a male body can be a woman.
They're supposed to be inclusive, that's all they know. Remember
(35:22):
how hard it was for that gender professor when Matt
Walsh asked him what a woman was. Yet, we'll be
playing a little bit of that coming up. They will
come up with a way to tap dance around the issue,
but we're gonna call them on it, and it's gonna
be fun to watch Armstrong and Getty
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