October 31, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Our inflatable pumpkins are flying away & the World Series!
- Mailbag!
- NY Times unreal article on inflation
- Katie Green's Headlines
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
and Jettie and he armsranget live from studio. See Sayson,
(00:33):
You're a dimly let room deep with on the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Hey y'all, today Halloween,
we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Your los
angele listen, dudors, honorary honorary general manager. Garbage. That's you,
your garbage. Oh wow, we're still talking about that. Hell yes, hell, yes,
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we're talking about it. Awesome, greatest gaff in the history
of politics in I am ho, I am h O.
I love when you're talking online textees, that's right. And
nacronyms or whatever you call that acronyms, that's funny. I
(01:20):
finally went and got some tense steaks to stake down
my giant inflatable jack lantern in the front lawn because
it kept blowing down the street and the neighbors seemed
to be horrified by this. So I went and got
some tent steaks. I got that thing nailed down so
it shouldn't go anywhere, no matter how windy it gets.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, yes, Katie, I feel like you impacted my life
somehow because I came home from the gym yesterday and
my inflatable Jack o' lantern was at the end of
my Drivewax.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I blame you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Those inflatable stakes very susceptible to wind apparently. Let's see,
you've seen it in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade where
Snoopy gets out of control and hoists some people to
their death. Dangerous exactly. So I'm ready for Halloween. I've
got full sized candy bars. I eat way too many
of the bite sized candy bars last night. Man, if
you have bags of those around there, I mean, good
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for you if you're the sort of person that can
walk by them. But I'm not. That's funny. My bride
and I were walking our dog and reminiscing about when
Halloween meant something to us as young parents and living
in a different neighborhood and all, and she said, boy,
but I don't miss having that candy left home. Oh,
no kidding. So watching the World series last night, and
you know every time I go by it, tell it's
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not even a full bite of a Snickers. I mean,
come on, it's like a fimble full of Snickers. It's
gonna got hurt to pop one of those in my mouth. Sure,
what is that twelve calories? Pay thirty of those later. Oh,
feel so good. I felt better than the Yankees did
after the worst inning in the history of the World
(02:53):
Series by a team, The New York Yankees inning five
of Game five of the World Series will be remembered
forever by baseball fans. Yeah, I felt like I was
watching Little League again, speaking of my younger days. It
was they if you weren't watching the game, the Yankees
committed no less than three horrific physical endormenttal errors and
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let the Dodgers back from a five hotes. Yeah. That
a sign is you do that you deserve to lose,
you do. The headline is the inning started five nothing Yankees.
The inning ended five to five, all five unearned runs,
which is amazing. Oh, it was incredible. Garrett called a
pitcher who contributed to the stupidity by the way committing
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one of the more egregious mental errors in the history
of the World Series. He had to be homicidal. Yeah,
at the end of that to uh. I won't belabor
this for you non sports fans, but as I read
somebody in the New York Post last night, one rider
said it would have been much less humiliating to lose
in a sweep the night before. Much less humiliating. Oh wow,
(04:01):
that's a take. Here's another take, and then we'll move on.
Since the Japanese superstar failed to materialize in the World Series,
now I call him no show. Hey o Tani. Wow
that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, he was a non factor
the biggest star in all baseball. So, as I texted
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somebody last night, it's nice to see a plucky little
team that has one hundred million. Their payroll is one
hundred million more than the league average. The one hundred
million more than the league average under dugs, they were
playing against the team with even a higher payroll, so
it didn't really matter of the two teams. I mean,
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this is just kind of interesting for pro sports. Six
of the ten baseball players in the world were on
the field last night, the highest paid best statistically. Oh
I see, okay, Yeah, they bought all the best players.
Yeah okay, And so you know that's what Yankees and
Dodgers have always done. But just you know, it sucks
(05:03):
if you're like a Royals fan or an A's fan,
or a Brewers fan or anything else trying to get
a sniff of anything. How do we feel about Donald
Trump donning the orange vest getting into them? Dumb trick?
Maybe the greatest pr move in the final week of
a campaign ever. It is one of the most effective
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fun capitalizations on a gaff. I have ever seen Joe
Biden that ahead a kef care handed his opponents not
a hammer to hit him with, but a machine gun
of a rhetorical opportunity. Whether the senile old fellow deserves
to be kicked for it or not, it was one
of the greatest gaffes in the history of presidential politics.
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And the Trump campaign is going nuts with the The
only garbage I see is his followers a clip we
need to hear fifty times today. By the way, Uh yeah,
let's make sure we have that at our fingertips. But
I know you're busy, Michael, but we got to have
the whole Biden calling people trash thing, the short one
ready to go all time, thousand times a day, including now,
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if we happen to have it. It's these that we
hold these truths to be self evidence of the twenty
first century. There's something or Puerto Rico where I'm in
my home state of Delaware.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
flowed down there is his supporters.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So I missed this yesterday. We missed this yesterday on
the show. So Tim Walls before they even got to
Kamala was on ABC this week with George Stephanopoulos, and
we played that clip. But I'm so used to the
mainstream media with this bias between Republicans and Democrats. When
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there's a bad thing on the Republican side, for instance,
Sunday night in Madison Square Garden, it's the horrible thing
that someone said about Puerto Ricans. When a Democrat says
something bad, it is Republicans pounce on this thing always,
once you become aware of it. It's omnipresent. And so
(07:13):
George Stephanoppolis asks it, says to Tim Walls, Republicans are
already trying to utilize the president's comments. It was a
disruption of Kamala's message, wasn't it. And then Tim Walls
gets to restate their message as opposed to that was
a hateful thing to say. Tell me how you don't
hate all Puerto Ricans and put them in a difficult situation.
(07:34):
Why do you hate all Puerto Ricans? You hating Nazi
like they did with every Trump surrogate who had to
defend that comment. For Democrats, it was, this is an
interruption of your message of hope and justice and everything wonderful.
Let's get back to that. It's just it's incredible. I mean,
the level of bias that I don't even think they
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know they do. It's just so ingreat. Like I said,
I missed it yesterday because I'm so used to it.
I'm just so used to the double standard. Yeah, yeah, well,
may they fail. May they continue to see declining ratings
and revenue and go away forever. I think both scandals
are stupid, but they do exist, and they're being treated
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completely differently by the media. Of course, we should start
the show officially just to give you a little flavor
of how Trump handled this yesterday. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, Halloween. It's our
special Halloween show, regular show with occasionally some Halloween music
and probably me eating Snickers bars during commercial breaks. Oh,
(08:36):
this is what did I say? Halloween the thirty first year,
twenty twenty four. We are armstrong and getting we approve
of this program. All right, let's begin booting rhetorical fly
balls precisely according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we
go at mark as they get me my jacket.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But if you did, you know it actually makes you
look thinner, I said, got me, I said I want
to wear it on stage.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
When they said I looked thinner, I said, in that case,
I'll wear an I'm set.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I may never wear a blue jacket again. I may go,
I may go in this They said that that was
my that was the word.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was the key. So you look thinner. So Trump
did like an entire comedy routine around his orange dump
truck vest or a garbage truck vest that he wore
last night. And it was really good. I mean, it
was Trump at his best right. They had to make
America great again dump truck referring, of course, to the
Biden gaff calling his supporter's garbage or did he the
(09:43):
apostrophe heard around the world? But man, they made Hay
with it quick and brilliantly. You know what's interesting, I
heard a podcast talking about this the other day. They
turned garbage into gold. Jackage out there is his supporters.
I'm clicking today. Everybody stay tuned. Who knows what you're
gonna hear? Turn no show. Hey, Atana the garbage and
(10:06):
I just turning garbage into gold. You are rolling. I
heard some strategists talking the other day, like people who
have worked on presidential campaigns before, talking about how you
never put your candidate in the apron, You never put
them in the hat, you never want to put them
into whatever, because they always end up looking ridiculous. The
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most famous one, if you're old enough to remember it,
is Michael Ducaccus in the tank. He puts on the
tank helmet, he gets in the tank and for whatever reason,
he looked ridiculous and they thought it was a campaign killer.
So especially ever since then, they never put a candidate
in an apron or something like that. For whatever reason,
Trump puts on the McDonald's apron and it's it's perfectly fine.
(10:47):
I mean it's a combination of funny and cool. Same
thing with the dump truck or him doing the rally
last night in the best you could see For many, many,
many candidates who weren't TV stars their whole life. He
was the host of the number one TV show in
America for years. I mean, he's got, you know, a
talent for this that makes a difference. But you can
imagine so many candidates trying to wear the garbage truck
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vest at the rally and it coming off as so lappable.
People talk about it for decades. Right. A couple of things.
Number One, he's got the undercover CEO thing going. It's
just fun to see a rich real estate developer wearing
the garb of the working man, working woman, et cetera.
And and this is you cannot you cannot teach this.
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He has fun with it without disrespecting the people who
do that for a living for a minute. The fun
is at his expense. Us makes me look thinner, or
you know, the whole prize untouched by human hands. I mean,
it's never about disparaging the workers. I don't know, but
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I was watching his whole comedy routine we'll play more
of it later at the rally last night, and I thought,
I know, there's a big chunk of America that hates this,
but this is really really good. I mean, it just
makes me insane and I supported DeSantis, but he has
an incredible gift for connecting with working people that we
may never see again. Oh man, it was something, Yes, Michael,
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I always go back.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
People want to be entertained, not informed, and this will
entertain a lot of people and get votes.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
There's a lot of truth to that, Michael. I hate
for that to be true, especially when it comes to
debates and stuff like that. I don't want that to
be true, but it is. How does mailbag look? Oh,
it's terrific. One of my favorite notes of the last
six months. What are we five days out? Now? Our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
(12:45):
I just read the strategy. It's all about fifty three percent,
fifty three percent, fifty three percent. Kamala Harris can get
three percent? All right. If Kamala can get fifty three
percent turnout among women, I guess she can't be beaten. Mathematically.
It's impossible. And that's so that's what they're trying to drive.
(13:08):
That's what the commercials about. HUSB. Don't you don't have
to vote that way just because your mean husband makes
you go in the booth and then lie to him.
You can do it that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay, ay, right, I requested yesterday after Dad, I think
it was off the air, I said, can I be
put pleased into a medically induced coma and woken up
on Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Just tell me what happened, including we don't know yet.
That's fine, I just I can't take another minute of this.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, and I
think that sentiment is shared by many many Americans. Can
we get this? Oh please? This is an odd moment,
the freedom loving quote of the day. In that D said, guys, Joe,
yesterday you dropped the truth grenade that resonated with me,
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which I'm paraphrasing and is paraphering paraphrasing of it. Something
of the effect of well, one of the feelings of
democracy is you can't hurt people's feelings. I will remember,
you're talking about the high cost of childcare, and we
can't talk about the skyrocketing rate of single parenthood, specifically
women who decide to have a kid without a marriage
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or stable relationship, and then they find themselves in a
situation where they need childcare but their job maybe doesn't
pay enough. And that's fine, we can talk about that
is a body politic, but to not recognize why it's
such a crisis now because the rearranging of the American
families just you can't talk about that because people don't
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want to hear it anyway. Paraphrasing myself, I worked on
this for a couple of minutes. Now, this is the
freedom of quote of the day for me, Joe getting
The great weakness of democracy is that it depends in
large part on an electorate that can handle the truth.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know, I collect these. I'm going to write me
under that the saying that wherever it came from is
clearly true, is just one thousand percent true. The hard
times make tough people. Tough people make good times. Good
times make weak people. Yeah, and weak people make weak times.
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That is one thousand percent true. And we're in that
pendulum swing and unfortunately we're really making for hard times.
Is usually phrased, Yeah, Yeah, we're in the hard times
being made by soft people phase. And it's frustrating. If
you're you can recognize it. Yeah, Mailbag, our email address
(15:35):
is mail Bag at Armstrong and getty dot com. I'm
not sure there's anything that can be done about it.
It's is unavoidable to sunrise, sunset, and the ripening of fruit. Yeah, anyway,
this note from Aaron uh, somebody may have suggested that
some of the reaction to various gaffes in the late
stage of the campaign is either fake or people with
(15:57):
their panties wanted and Aaron Rice handies aren't watted. I
was just calculating my taxes when that story dropped about
what Biden said. Now, I don't appreciate a coffin case
head of the government calling one hundred and fifty million
people garbage when we're paying eighteen or more percent forty
five grand a year of our combined income to a
government that calls us trash, because we don't want our
children taught by some drag queen that they were born
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in the wrong body and that bacon is unaffordable. Subway
sanders cost fifteen dollars in the Secretary of Health looks
like Rick Moratus on estrogen. Look when they say stuff
like that, I start to hear the menacing sound of
fifes and drums in my head. Wow, oh there you go, baby,
huh three. I'm not calling anybody, I'm calling that a
great email. You got one of those angry maga people
(16:41):
that I hear so much about.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The only garbage I see floating down there is just supporters.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I got more on why. He probably said that
from a prominent Democratic strategist coming up that I congratulate
them for being honest. We're almost out of time. What
the heck? John m and San Diego sent this Happy Halloween.
Now our who fears razor blades and drugs and their
kids hallowing candy? It submits something possibly worse. My friends
sent me this picture. It appears to be super high
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end chocolates wrapped in foil with a little sticker on it.
But what this friend does is wraps Brussels sprouts to
look like candy. No, remember you got to get the
nerds gummy clusters. It's the most popular candy in America,
the most delicious candy in America, according to the Wall
Street Journal, Get those for your picks. Brussels sproutch.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
President Biden and First Lady Doctor Jill Biden hosted a
Hallo Read event today at the White House, which included
a Spooky Storytime corner. Incidentally, spooky story time is just
what they call it anytime President Biden makes unscripted remarks,
hooray everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I don't want to write this down. So how about
him sticking all the baby's feet in his mouth? Have
you seen that montage? I haven't. Oh so creepy for
babies now, it's it's a perfectly nice grandpa sort of
thing to do with their own grandkid. Oh yeah, but
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intimate thing. But an old stranger baby after baby putting
their bare feet in his mouth is weird. I think.
I don't know. I thought the video was weird, and that,
by the way, not a real doctor. She was dressed
as a panda, which is kind of funny. Joe Biden,
(18:32):
we got a text that just said I'm nonplussed, which
is a word I need to use more often. Non
plus excellent of a person surprised and confused so much
that they're unsure. I'll react. There you go. That's what
we got. So I'm angry about well, I don't know
if I'm angry. Yeah, I'm angry, and I apologize if
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you're tired of hearing me say this, because I've been
saying it now for three years, but it still amazes me.
Here's a headline in the New York Times, their latest
polling on people's attitudes about the economy, which is what
the number two issue in America behind immigration. Right now,
inflation is basically back to normal. Why do voters still
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feel blah, wow, wow, that is just profoundly ignorant. I
don't understand. I couldn't believe that reporters didn't get this
at the beginning of the conversation. I don't even know.
I'm nonplussed about how they can still not get this.
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Let me read the opening paragraph from the New York
Times economic person. Grocery inflation has been cooling sharply, but
Tamra Flamer twenty seven, she hasn't noticed. What she knows
is that paper plates and meat remained more expensive than
they were a few years ago. Yes, you freaking morons.
You don't notice a deep increase in the increase of prices.
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It would be impossible. Nobody could do of the rate. Yes,
nobody would notice a slowing of the rate of inflation.
It's impossible to notice. It's just a it's a dumb concept. Yeah,
oh yeah, it goes on. Voters say they are very
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focused on the economy as they head the polls, yet
surveys suggest they feel relatively glum about its recent track record.
The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, says The
New York Times. Is it? Is it? Really? Do you
know a single normal human being? You must not, or
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you would hear people say I went to Wendy's last
night and it cost sixty bucks for me and the kids.
Or I filled up with gas yesterday. I don't know
how people do it. Or let me stop you there, Jim,
let me stop you there. Now Wendy's went from fifty
two dollars to sixty dollars in the course of seventeen months.
Now it's only gone from sixty to sixty two dollars
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in the course of the last nine months. So as
you can see, inflation is cooling a Jamner Hamburger right
in your face. If you tried that to somebody. What
did band these people? Where do they live? Mars? I
don't know. And like I said, do you not have
a single normal friend? Not one in your circle? Whoever
walks in and you know, at a party and says man,
I stopped by the liquor store. I got this bottle
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of wine. It used to be eight bucks, now it's fifteen.
I can't believe it. That's reality for everyone, but people
who write economics stuff, it's not. There's more on this.
The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, which makes
you a moron. The job market has been chugging along,
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overall growth has been healthy, and inflation is back to normal.
It says here. How is that a puzzle? Things cost more,
way more than they did not very long ago. Period,
you morons, And let me speak for thousands and thousands
of people listening right now. The job market is hot. Okay,
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I've still got one job, or I used to have one.
I still have one, and my money, my wages have
not kept up with inflation, not even close. So and
then I'll shut up about this because it's you know,
I'm belaboring the point, but I just it's I actually
can't believe it. I find it difficult to believe that
the journalists who cover the economy are still saying this
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crap five days out from a presidential election that Trump
is set to win, maybe mainly because of the price
of stuff, and they don't get it. I don't understand
inflation's back to normal. God, you're so dumb. I don't
even know where to start with you? Here you are
belaboring the point which points to arise in the belaboring
statistics any like that, the labor market. You just can't
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be stopped today with your workplay anyway. You just a
non stop fountain wordplay like a Nigo Montoya over here
of my words. Yes, I don't know what you call
the subheadline halfway through an article that's in bold or
what what do you call those things? But anyway, it
says here consumers may focus more on price levels than
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price changes. Okay, al right, well that's that's correct. Yes, yes,
it is correct and obvious to anyone over the age
of five. Yes, good look, I can't. I'm reeling from
that one. You know, I thought it was the beating
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was about over, and you caught me right in the
jyms with that, I mentioning consumers worry more about fing
prices than the rate of efing change, which they can't
observe day to day because they're busy with they're real lives.
Oh it's so funny. So I mentioned as a target.
The other day, I get my normal allotment of stuff
and it's two one hundred dollars. This is the first
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time it's ever open over to dollars, and I said
to the guy, two hundred dollars. He said, yeah, I
know everybody reacts that way. And I should have said
to the guy, Hey, whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Well, back off, buddy.
The rate of change is lower, all right. The percentage
increases lower than it was before, so you take it
down a notch. I guess I should be happy that
it's two hundred dollars because it's totally gone up two
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percent in the last month, as opposed to the you know,
between three and nine percent for the previous three years.
I think that that that illustrates this case so beautifully.
I mean, that would be absurdest humor for you to
say that to the cashier. And yet that is essentially
the inverse of what they're claiming with the straight face
in the New York Times. Oh, speaking of which, I'm
so glad you brought this up, because I've been sitting
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on this for a while. Dave in Baltimore, I think, yeah,
Dave and Baltimore sent us this and the title of
the New York Times article speaking of the Old Gray Lady,
is which appears to be a senilist Joe Biden, when
it writes about economics, is wages heaven outpaced? I'm sorry,
let me do this again. The words are important. Wages
have outpaced inflation, but not for everyone. And here is
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one of my favorite couple of sentences in the history
of my reading newspapers. The bottom line, most American workers
are probably making more money today adjusted for inflation than
they were in twenty nineteen, but not all have seen
their pay keep up with their own cost of living,
and many, perhaps most, are lagging behind where they would
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be if pre pandemic trends had continued unabated. These complications
may help explain why so many Americans believe they have
fallen behind. They've fallen behind. Wow. The New York Times
is saying most Americans are making more money today adjusted
for inflation than they were pre pandemic. I have seen
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that statistic nowhere. No, I don't see how that's possible.
They're wrong on the fact. But the second part, which
I've read a couple of times so I will parse
for you, is claiming that in spite of that fact,
that y'all and we are making more money adjusted for inflation.
Bacon is easier to buy for us than it was
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pre pandemic. We're going out to eat and spending less
relative to our incomes than we were a while ago.
But in spite of that, because we have somehow projected
in our heads where we would be twenty nineteen to
twenty twenty four if the inflation hadn't been so high
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for several years, we're coming up with some sort of
fanciful Yes, bacon is easily affordable right now, but it
would be even more easily affordable if not for the
inflation of twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four. And
I'm thinking, well, back to your question, do you know
any human beings have you spoken with them? That is?
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That is blindness that goes beyond onto galling and is
absolutely in the realm of amazing, And I would like
to hear scientists explain it. Here's a director of consumer
surveys at the University of Michigan in the same New
York Times article. It's not that consumers have lost touch
with reality. It's just at high prices continue to weigh
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down their personal finances. Thank you for Adam, you're a professor.
I'm glad you're a university professor because none of us
regular people could figure that out at all. And then
they beIN of medicine at the University of Michigan said,
don't jam sharp objects into your eye. Where was your
article from your nonsensical article? New York Times, New York Times. Yeah,
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so this says wages have climbed faster than prices for
many consumers. Okay, how many? Not very I don't know
anybody who got enough of a raise over the last
several years to put them even even, let alone ahead.
I don't know anybody. Yeah, this is the first time
I've ever heard anybody that, And it's a couple of
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times in the New York Times when you had to
that's the narrative. Wouldn't you had to have gotten like
a twenty percent race since twenty nineteen to keep up
with the overall prices stuff? That's crazy. Yeah, I mean
we could go on, because they quote a couple of
more Harvard economists who study how people experience inflation. You
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need you all, all of you, all, all y'all, as
they say in the South, all y'all need to hang
around any normal human beings, go down to your corner
bar and have a conversation with some people, or turn
to someone at a you know, a high school basketball game.
Talk to any normal human being. All right, somebody who
doesn't work for the New York Times live in Manhattan,
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is a childish catwoman with an advanced degree. And see
what they think about prices. I tell you what, If
you can bag this rare game, it would be rarer
than having a panda head on your wall. Okay, wow,
you you find me walk into your house and you
got a panda head on your wall? Do I pretend
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I don't see it? Right? I say, Hey, Jim, I
can't help, but notice that I'm I'm wondering what others
that person's up to. I mean, was that they'll do anything?
Was that Penda live? At one point? This is rarer game. Still,
you go down to the corner bar to this the
soccer game, waiting for kids in line at school, and
you find the person who says, in response to my god,
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prices are so high. It's still shocking. They say, yes,
but the rate of increase has slowed, and that's what's important.
You bag that rare game, and I will salute you
a mighty hunter. Or the person who reacts with Yeah,
but my wages are up even more than inflation, so
I'm happy. Oh please, that's like an albino panda head.
I mean, to forget it. You're never gonna find one
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much of miss killing with six toes on each boot.
I mean, it's rare. That's the point. We've got Katie.
We've got Kate. These headlines on the way stay here.
So this is the Eagles, witchy woman. It's Halloween. We're
trying to get a theme going here. People. We have
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talking about scary. We have some witch legs stuck in
our bushes. Looks like a witch fell in the bushes
or dove in the bushes or something like that. I
guess that's just an elderly woman with the curious taste
and stockings. Yes, I love those.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Those witch legs are the ones that are just flown
into the.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
House right ours are in the bushes. Speaking of scary,
alert listener Edge just sent this along. It's a video
of a new kind of drone that does not have
propellers and a loud engine. It it is a bird.
It looks exactly like a red tailed hawk or a
or a you know, a similar raptor like a falcon
maybe and it flaps its wings to fly. Oly crap.
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If it flies, it's spine right, exactly like the owns.
That's right. Anyway, We'll post this at Armstrong and geddy
dot com. Check it out. I mean it blew me away.
That's the same fabulous site where you can pick up
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around you insisting that trans women are women. Hot Dogs
or Dogs Armstrong and getdy dot com. Let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Katie starting with The New York Times.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Biden's gaps complicate Harris's final stretch and is worrying Democratic insiders.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's a gaff if he says it, If Trump or
anyone says it on their side, it's their stated position
and their deep core belief right right that we will
hold them too.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
From the Washington Post, more than fifty eight million early.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Votes have been cast so far.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Wow, So they're expecting the total to on the high
end to be one fifty. So we might We almost
certainly are gonna have half the votes cash before election day.
It's becoming a more common than not thing to vote
before election day. Yeah, I think early voting in Saturday
most places, and then you gotta wait till Tuesday. But yeah,
it's it's an astounding number.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
ABC Israel deploys forces along eastern border with Jordan, according
to IDF, why do we know?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Just the caution, Okay, I'll look into that. Jordan.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
They're protecting the eastern border, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, I remember there are a couple of attacks launched
by some scumback group or another from Jordan. A few
days ago.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
From NBC, LA hit by looting and chaos, submid Dodgers
World Series celebration.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And a bus Yes I win. Somebody texted me last night.
I had somebody in LA and I texted a nice game,
and they time for the fireworks and looting to me
and I set in a bus on fire. And there's
a bus on fire in the picture, big giant bus.
You got to set a city bus on fire. If
your team wins, it's just part of the deal, or
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if they lose. I'm exactly, I'm being sarcastic. Of course,
I've never understood why we put up with this for
a second, and why we don't have the harshest of
physical or monetary penalties for this, to where nobody would
even dare to set a bus on fire because their
team wins that the taxpayers then have to pay for. Yeah,
we will address this more thoroughly. Next hour. We have reports,
(33:36):
live reports, helicopter footage, all sorts of good stuff for
you about the LA riots. Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
You guys touched on this, but it's too funny to ignore.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Daily Mail. Biden bites four.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Babies, including one dressed as.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
A chicken at White House Halloween party.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Not sure how the kids costume matters, but is it
because the kid was dressed as a chicken. There's some
belief that the dementia ridden old man was hungry and
thought that it was a meal fla bat. I just
think he was trying to rejuvenate himself by eating the
young From the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Ohio officer quote attacked by giant runaway pumpkin months after
Turkey's chased him down during a traffic.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Stop and viral video. Wow, the guy cannot win.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
He can't win this.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
This inflatable pumpkin is huge, and the video the thing
just bounces over and lands on his head.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Don't disappointing. They don't teach you that what to do
with that?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
In the Academy and your mem of the day, it's
clearly some kids that are trigger treating outside of the
White House. And one kid asked the other what'd you get?
One kid goes a bill for thirty five trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Uh, I don't know, but I.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Think it's unconstitutional. And then another one asks, what's a
student loan deferment?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
He wants something scary. That's scary.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And finally, the Babylon Bee wife breathed sigh of relief
after voting for Trump and the privacy of her voting
away from the watchful eye of her creepy feminist husband.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
There you go. Wow, Wow, We got one note from
a listener whose husband there The man is afraid to
tell the wife that he's not voting for Kamala. This
is a real life example that mem reminded me of.
Russia has fined Google twenty decillion dollars? Have you ever
(35:24):
heard that term before? No? Decillion dollars. We'll have to
talk about that later too. That's a number of nationality.
It's a number Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
and Jettie and he armsranget live from studio. See Sayson,
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You're a dimly let room deep with on the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Hey y'all, today Halloween,
we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Your los
angele listen, dudors, honorary honorary general manager. Garbage. That's you,
your garbage. Oh wow, we're still talking about that. Hell yes, hell, yes,
(00:56):
we're talking about it. Awesome, greatest gaff in the history
of politics in I am ho, I am h O.
I love when you're talking online textees, that's right. And
nacronyms or whatever you call that acronyms, that's funny. I
(01:20):
finally went and got some tense steaks to stake down
my giant inflatable jack lantern in the front lawn because
it kept blowing down the street and the neighbors seemed
to be horrified by this. So I went and got
some tent steaks. I got that thing nailed down so
it shouldn't go anywhere, no matter how windy it gets.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, yes, Katie, I feel like you impacted my life
somehow because I came home from the gym yesterday and
my inflatable Jack o' lantern was at the end of
my Drivewax.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I blame you.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Those inflatable stakes very susceptible to wind apparently. Let's see,
you've seen it in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade where
Snoopy gets out of control and hoists some people to
their death. Dangerous exactly. So I'm ready for Halloween. I've
got full sized candy bars. I eat way too many
of the bite sized candy bars last night. Man, if
you have bags of those around there, I mean, good
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for you if you're the sort of person that can
walk by them. But I'm not. That's funny. My bride
and I were walking our dog and reminiscing about when
Halloween meant something to us as young parents and living
in a different neighborhood and all, and she said, boy,
but I don't miss having that candy left home. Oh,
no kidding. So watching the World series last night, and
you know every time I go by it, tell it's
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not even a full bite of a Snickers. I mean,
come on, it's like a fimble full of Snickers. It's
gonna got hurt to pop one of those in my mouth. Sure,
what is that twelve calories? Pay thirty of those later. Oh,
feel so good. I felt better than the Yankees did
after the worst inning in the history of the World
(02:53):
Series by a team, The New York Yankees inning five
of Game five of the World Series will be remembered
forever by baseball fans. Yeah, I felt like I was
watching Little League again, speaking of my younger days. It
was they if you weren't watching the game, the Yankees
committed no less than three horrific physical endormenttal errors and
(03:16):
let the Dodgers back from a five hotes. Yeah. That
a sign is you do that you deserve to lose,
you do. The headline is the inning started five nothing Yankees.
The inning ended five to five, all five unearned runs,
which is amazing. Oh, it was incredible. Garrett called a
pitcher who contributed to the stupidity by the way committing
(03:37):
one of the more egregious mental errors in the history
of the World Series. He had to be homicidal. Yeah,
at the end of that to uh. I won't belabor
this for you non sports fans, but as I read
somebody in the New York Post last night, one rider
said it would have been much less humiliating to lose
in a sweep the night before. Much less humiliating. Oh wow,
(04:01):
that's a take. Here's another take, and then we'll move on.
Since the Japanese superstar failed to materialize in the World Series,
now I call him no show. Hey o Tani. Wow
that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, he was a non factor
the biggest star in all baseball. So, as I texted
(04:22):
somebody last night, it's nice to see a plucky little
team that has one hundred million. Their payroll is one
hundred million more than the league average. The one hundred
million more than the league average under dugs, they were
playing against the team with even a higher payroll, so
it didn't really matter of the two teams. I mean,
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this is just kind of interesting for pro sports. Six
of the ten baseball players in the world were on
the field last night, the highest paid best statistically. Oh
I see, okay, Yeah, they bought all the best players.
Yeah okay, And so you know that's what Yankees and
Dodgers have always done. But just you know, it sucks
(05:03):
if you're like a Royals fan or an A's fan,
or a Brewers fan or anything else trying to get
a sniff of anything. How do we feel about Donald
Trump donning the orange vest getting into them? Dumb trick?
Maybe the greatest pr move in the final week of
a campaign ever. It is one of the most effective
(05:27):
fun capitalizations on a gaff. I have ever seen Joe
Biden that ahead a kef care handed his opponents not
a hammer to hit him with, but a machine gun
of a rhetorical opportunity. Whether the senile old fellow deserves
to be kicked for it or not, it was one
of the greatest gaffes in the history of presidential politics.
(05:49):
And the Trump campaign is going nuts with the The
only garbage I see is his followers a clip we
need to hear fifty times today. By the way, Uh yeah,
let's make sure we have that at our fingertips. But
I know you're busy, Michael, but we got to have
the whole Biden calling people trash thing, the short one
ready to go all time, thousand times a day, including now,
(06:11):
if we happen to have it. It's these that we
hold these truths to be self evidence of the twenty
first century. There's something or Puerto Rico where I'm in
my home state of Delaware.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
flowed down there is his supporters.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So I missed this yesterday. We missed this yesterday on
the show. So Tim Walls before they even got to
Kamala was on ABC this week with George Stephanopoulos, and
we played that clip. But I'm so used to the
mainstream media with this bias between Republicans and Democrats. When
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there's a bad thing on the Republican side, for instance,
Sunday night in Madison Square Garden, it's the horrible thing
that someone said about Puerto Ricans. When a Democrat says
something bad, it is Republicans pounce on this thing always,
once you become aware of it. It's omnipresent. And so
(07:13):
George Stephanoppolis asks it, says to Tim Walls, Republicans are
already trying to utilize the president's comments. It was a
disruption of Kamala's message, wasn't it. And then Tim Walls
gets to restate their message as opposed to that was
a hateful thing to say. Tell me how you don't
hate all Puerto Ricans and put them in a difficult situation.
(07:34):
Why do you hate all Puerto Ricans? You hating Nazi
like they did with every Trump surrogate who had to
defend that comment. For Democrats, it was, this is an
interruption of your message of hope and justice and everything wonderful.
Let's get back to that. It's just it's incredible. I mean,
the level of bias that I don't even think they
(07:54):
know they do. It's just so ingreat. Like I said,
I missed it yesterday because I'm so used to it.
I'm just so used to the double standard. Yeah, yeah, well,
may they fail. May they continue to see declining ratings
and revenue and go away forever. I think both scandals
are stupid, but they do exist, and they're being treated
(08:14):
completely differently by the media. Of course, we should start
the show officially just to give you a little flavor
of how Trump handled this yesterday. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, Halloween. It's our
special Halloween show, regular show with occasionally some Halloween music
and probably me eating Snickers bars during commercial breaks. Oh,
(08:36):
this is what did I say? Halloween the thirty first year,
twenty twenty four. We are armstrong and getting we approve
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balls precisely according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we
go at mark as they get me my jacket.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But if you did, you know it actually makes you
look thinner, I said, got me, I said I want
to wear it on stage.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
When they said I looked thinner, I said, in that case,
I'll wear an I'm set.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I may never wear a blue jacket again. I may go,
I may go in this They said that that was
my that was the word.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was the key. So you look thinner. So Trump
did like an entire comedy routine around his orange dump
truck vest or a garbage truck vest that he wore
last night. And it was really good. I mean, it
was Trump at his best right. They had to make
America great again dump truck referring, of course, to the
Biden gaff calling his supporter's garbage or did he the
(09:43):
apostrophe heard around the world? But man, they made Hay
with it quick and brilliantly. You know what's interesting, I
heard a podcast talking about this the other day. They
turned garbage into gold. Jackage out there is his supporters.
I'm clicking today. Everybody stay tuned. Who knows what you're
gonna hear? Turn no show. Hey, Atana the garbage and
(10:06):
I just turning garbage into gold. You are rolling. I
heard some strategists talking the other day, like people who
have worked on presidential campaigns before, talking about how you
never put your candidate in the apron, You never put
them in the hat, you never want to put them
into whatever, because they always end up looking ridiculous. The
(10:26):
most famous one, if you're old enough to remember it,
is Michael Ducaccus in the tank. He puts on the
tank helmet, he gets in the tank and for whatever reason,
he looked ridiculous and they thought it was a campaign killer.
So especially ever since then, they never put a candidate
in an apron or something like that. For whatever reason,
Trump puts on the McDonald's apron and it's it's perfectly fine.
(10:47):
I mean it's a combination of funny and cool. Same
thing with the dump truck or him doing the rally
last night in the best you could see For many, many,
many candidates who weren't TV stars their whole life. He
was the host of the number one TV show in
America for years. I mean, he's got, you know, a
talent for this that makes a difference. But you can
imagine so many candidates trying to wear the garbage truck
(11:11):
vest at the rally and it coming off as so lappable.
People talk about it for decades. Right. A couple of things.
Number One, he's got the undercover CEO thing going. It's
just fun to see a rich real estate developer wearing
the garb of the working man, working woman, et cetera.
And and this is you cannot you cannot teach this.
(11:34):
He has fun with it without disrespecting the people who
do that for a living for a minute. The fun
is at his expense. Us makes me look thinner, or
you know, the whole prize untouched by human hands. I mean,
it's never about disparaging the workers. I don't know, but
(11:54):
I was watching his whole comedy routine we'll play more
of it later at the rally last night, and I thought,
I know, there's a big chunk of America that hates this,
but this is really really good. I mean, it just
makes me insane and I supported DeSantis, but he has
an incredible gift for connecting with working people that we
may never see again. Oh man, it was something, Yes, Michael,
(12:16):
I always go back.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
People want to be entertained, not informed, and this will
entertain a lot of people and get votes.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
There's a lot of truth to that, Michael. I hate
for that to be true, especially when it comes to
debates and stuff like that. I don't want that to
be true, but it is. How does mailbag look? Oh,
it's terrific. One of my favorite notes of the last
six months. What are we five days out? Now? Our
text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
(12:45):
I just read the strategy. It's all about fifty three percent,
fifty three percent, fifty three percent. Kamala Harris can get
three percent? All right. If Kamala can get fifty three
percent turnout among women, I guess she can't be beaten. Mathematically.
It's impossible. And that's so that's what they're trying to drive.
(13:08):
That's what the commercials about. HUSB. Don't you don't have
to vote that way just because your mean husband makes
you go in the booth and then lie to him.
You can do it that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Okay, ay, right, I requested yesterday after Dad, I think
it was off the air, I said, can I be
put pleased into a medically induced coma and woken up
on Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Just tell me what happened, including we don't know yet.
That's fine, I just I can't take another minute of this.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, and I
think that sentiment is shared by many many Americans. Can
we get this? Oh please? This is an odd moment,
the freedom loving quote of the day. In that D said, guys, Joe,
yesterday you dropped the truth grenade that resonated with me,
(13:50):
which I'm paraphrasing and is paraphering paraphrasing of it. Something
of the effect of well, one of the feelings of
democracy is you can't hurt people's feelings. I will remember,
you're talking about the high cost of childcare, and we
can't talk about the skyrocketing rate of single parenthood, specifically
women who decide to have a kid without a marriage
(14:12):
or stable relationship, and then they find themselves in a
situation where they need childcare but their job maybe doesn't
pay enough. And that's fine, we can talk about that
is a body politic, but to not recognize why it's
such a crisis now because the rearranging of the American
families just you can't talk about that because people don't
(14:33):
want to hear it anyway. Paraphrasing myself, I worked on
this for a couple of minutes. Now, this is the
freedom of quote of the day for me, Joe getting
The great weakness of democracy is that it depends in
large part on an electorate that can handle the truth.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know, I collect these. I'm going to write me
under that the saying that wherever it came from is
clearly true, is just one thousand percent true. The hard
times make tough people. Tough people make good times. Good
times make weak people. Yeah, and weak people make weak times.
(15:11):
That is one thousand percent true. And we're in that
pendulum swing and unfortunately we're really making for hard times.
Is usually phrased, Yeah, Yeah, we're in the hard times
being made by soft people phase. And it's frustrating. If
you're you can recognize it. Yeah, Mailbag, our email address
(15:35):
is mail Bag at Armstrong and getty dot com. I'm
not sure there's anything that can be done about it.
It's is unavoidable to sunrise, sunset, and the ripening of fruit. Yeah, anyway,
this note from Aaron uh, somebody may have suggested that
some of the reaction to various gaffes in the late
stage of the campaign is either fake or people with
(15:57):
their panties wanted and Aaron Rice handies aren't watted. I
was just calculating my taxes when that story dropped about
what Biden said. Now, I don't appreciate a coffin case
head of the government calling one hundred and fifty million
people garbage when we're paying eighteen or more percent forty
five grand a year of our combined income to a
government that calls us trash, because we don't want our
children taught by some drag queen that they were born
(16:19):
in the wrong body and that bacon is unaffordable. Subway
sanders cost fifteen dollars in the Secretary of Health looks
like Rick Moratus on estrogen. Look when they say stuff
like that, I start to hear the menacing sound of
fifes and drums in my head. Wow, oh there you go, baby,
huh three. I'm not calling anybody, I'm calling that a
great email. You got one of those angry maga people
(16:41):
that I hear so much about.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The only garbage I see floating down there is just supporters.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I got more on why. He probably said that
from a prominent Democratic strategist coming up that I congratulate
them for being honest. We're almost out of time. What
the heck? John m and San Diego sent this Happy Halloween.
Now our who fears razor blades and drugs and their
kids hallowing candy? It submits something possibly worse. My friends
sent me this picture. It appears to be super high
(17:08):
end chocolates wrapped in foil with a little sticker on it.
But what this friend does is wraps Brussels sprouts to
look like candy. No, remember you got to get the
nerds gummy clusters. It's the most popular candy in America,
the most delicious candy in America, according to the Wall
Street Journal, Get those for your picks. Brussels sproutch.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
President Biden and First Lady Doctor Jill Biden hosted a
Hallo Read event today at the White House, which included
a Spooky Storytime corner. Incidentally, spooky story time is just
what they call it anytime President Biden makes unscripted remarks,
hooray everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I don't want to write this down. So how about
him sticking all the baby's feet in his mouth? Have
you seen that montage? I haven't. Oh so creepy for
babies now, it's it's a perfectly nice grandpa sort of
thing to do with their own grandkid. Oh yeah, but
(18:09):
intimate thing. But an old stranger baby after baby putting
their bare feet in his mouth is weird. I think.
I don't know. I thought the video was weird, and that,
by the way, not a real doctor. She was dressed
as a panda, which is kind of funny. Joe Biden,
(18:32):
we got a text that just said I'm nonplussed, which
is a word I need to use more often. Non
plus excellent of a person surprised and confused so much
that they're unsure. I'll react. There you go. That's what
we got. So I'm angry about well, I don't know
if I'm angry. Yeah, I'm angry, and I apologize if
(18:53):
you're tired of hearing me say this, because I've been
saying it now for three years, but it still amazes me.
Here's a headline in the New York Times, their latest
polling on people's attitudes about the economy, which is what
the number two issue in America behind immigration. Right now,
inflation is basically back to normal. Why do voters still
(19:14):
feel blah, wow, wow, that is just profoundly ignorant. I
don't understand. I couldn't believe that reporters didn't get this
at the beginning of the conversation. I don't even know.
I'm nonplussed about how they can still not get this.
(19:38):
Let me read the opening paragraph from the New York
Times economic person. Grocery inflation has been cooling sharply, but
Tamra Flamer twenty seven, she hasn't noticed. What she knows
is that paper plates and meat remained more expensive than
they were a few years ago. Yes, you freaking morons.
You don't notice a deep increase in the increase of prices.
(20:02):
It would be impossible. Nobody could do of the rate. Yes,
nobody would notice a slowing of the rate of inflation.
It's impossible to notice. It's just a it's a dumb concept. Yeah,
oh yeah, it goes on. Voters say they are very
(20:23):
focused on the economy as they head the polls, yet
surveys suggest they feel relatively glum about its recent track record.
The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, says The
New York Times. Is it? Is it? Really? Do you
know a single normal human being? You must not, or
(20:43):
you would hear people say I went to Wendy's last
night and it cost sixty bucks for me and the kids.
Or I filled up with gas yesterday. I don't know
how people do it. Or let me stop you there, Jim,
let me stop you there. Now Wendy's went from fifty
two dollars to sixty dollars in the course of seventeen months.
Now it's only gone from sixty to sixty two dollars
(21:05):
in the course of the last nine months. So as
you can see, inflation is cooling a Jamner Hamburger right
in your face. If you tried that to somebody. What
did band these people? Where do they live? Mars? I
don't know. And like I said, do you not have
a single normal friend? Not one in your circle? Whoever
walks in and you know, at a party and says man,
I stopped by the liquor store. I got this bottle
(21:26):
of wine. It used to be eight bucks, now it's fifteen.
I can't believe it. That's reality for everyone, but people
who write economics stuff, it's not. There's more on this.
The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, which makes
you a moron. The job market has been chugging along,
(21:47):
overall growth has been healthy, and inflation is back to normal.
It says here. How is that a puzzle? Things cost more,
way more than they did not very long ago. Period,
you morons, And let me speak for thousands and thousands
of people listening right now. The job market is hot. Okay,
(22:08):
I've still got one job, or I used to have one.
I still have one, and my money, my wages have
not kept up with inflation, not even close. So and
then I'll shut up about this because it's you know,
I'm belaboring the point, but I just it's I actually
can't believe it. I find it difficult to believe that
the journalists who cover the economy are still saying this
(22:31):
crap five days out from a presidential election that Trump
is set to win, maybe mainly because of the price
of stuff, and they don't get it. I don't understand
inflation's back to normal. God, you're so dumb. I don't
even know where to start with you? Here you are
belaboring the point which points to arise in the belaboring
statistics any like that, the labor market. You just can't
(22:53):
be stopped today with your workplay anyway. You just a
non stop fountain wordplay like a Nigo Montoya over here
of my words. Yes, I don't know what you call
the subheadline halfway through an article that's in bold or
what what do you call those things? But anyway, it
says here consumers may focus more on price levels than
(23:16):
price changes. Okay, al right, well that's that's correct. Yes, yes,
it is correct and obvious to anyone over the age
of five. Yes, good look, I can't. I'm reeling from
that one. You know, I thought it was the beating
(23:37):
was about over, and you caught me right in the
jyms with that, I mentioning consumers worry more about fing
prices than the rate of efing change, which they can't
observe day to day because they're busy with they're real lives.
Oh it's so funny. So I mentioned as a target.
The other day, I get my normal allotment of stuff
and it's two one hundred dollars. This is the first
(23:58):
time it's ever open over to dollars, and I said
to the guy, two hundred dollars. He said, yeah, I
know everybody reacts that way. And I should have said
to the guy, Hey, whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Well, back off, buddy.
The rate of change is lower, all right. The percentage
increases lower than it was before, so you take it
down a notch. I guess I should be happy that
it's two hundred dollars because it's totally gone up two
(24:21):
percent in the last month, as opposed to the you know,
between three and nine percent for the previous three years.
I think that that that illustrates this case so beautifully.
I mean, that would be absurdest humor for you to
say that to the cashier. And yet that is essentially
the inverse of what they're claiming with the straight face
in the New York Times. Oh, speaking of which, I'm
so glad you brought this up, because I've been sitting
(24:42):
on this for a while. Dave in Baltimore, I think, yeah,
Dave and Baltimore sent us this and the title of
the New York Times article speaking of the Old Gray Lady,
is which appears to be a senilist Joe Biden, when
it writes about economics, is wages heaven outpaced? I'm sorry,
let me do this again. The words are important. Wages
have outpaced inflation, but not for everyone. And here is
(25:06):
one of my favorite couple of sentences in the history
of my reading newspapers. The bottom line, most American workers
are probably making more money today adjusted for inflation than
they were in twenty nineteen, but not all have seen
their pay keep up with their own cost of living,
and many, perhaps most, are lagging behind where they would
(25:28):
be if pre pandemic trends had continued unabated. These complications
may help explain why so many Americans believe they have
fallen behind. They've fallen behind. Wow. The New York Times
is saying most Americans are making more money today adjusted
for inflation than they were pre pandemic. I have seen
(25:49):
that statistic nowhere. No, I don't see how that's possible.
They're wrong on the fact. But the second part, which
I've read a couple of times so I will parse
for you, is claiming that in spite of that fact,
that y'all and we are making more money adjusted for inflation.
Bacon is easier to buy for us than it was
(26:11):
pre pandemic. We're going out to eat and spending less
relative to our incomes than we were a while ago.
But in spite of that, because we have somehow projected
in our heads where we would be twenty nineteen to
twenty twenty four if the inflation hadn't been so high
(26:31):
for several years, we're coming up with some sort of
fanciful Yes, bacon is easily affordable right now, but it
would be even more easily affordable if not for the
inflation of twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four. And
I'm thinking, well, back to your question, do you know
any human beings have you spoken with them? That is?
(26:58):
That is blindness that goes beyond onto galling and is
absolutely in the realm of amazing, And I would like
to hear scientists explain it. Here's a director of consumer
surveys at the University of Michigan in the same New
York Times article. It's not that consumers have lost touch
with reality. It's just at high prices continue to weigh
(27:18):
down their personal finances. Thank you for Adam, you're a professor.
I'm glad you're a university professor because none of us
regular people could figure that out at all. And then
they beIN of medicine at the University of Michigan said,
don't jam sharp objects into your eye. Where was your
article from your nonsensical article? New York Times, New York Times. Yeah,
(27:39):
so this says wages have climbed faster than prices for
many consumers. Okay, how many? Not very I don't know
anybody who got enough of a raise over the last
several years to put them even even, let alone ahead.
I don't know anybody. Yeah, this is the first time
I've ever heard anybody that, And it's a couple of
(28:01):
times in the New York Times when you had to
that's the narrative. Wouldn't you had to have gotten like
a twenty percent race since twenty nineteen to keep up
with the overall prices stuff? That's crazy. Yeah, I mean
we could go on, because they quote a couple of
more Harvard economists who study how people experience inflation. You
(28:23):
need you all, all of you, all, all y'all, as
they say in the South, all y'all need to hang
around any normal human beings, go down to your corner
bar and have a conversation with some people, or turn
to someone at a you know, a high school basketball game.
Talk to any normal human being. All right, somebody who
doesn't work for the New York Times live in Manhattan,
(28:45):
is a childish catwoman with an advanced degree. And see
what they think about prices. I tell you what, If
you can bag this rare game, it would be rarer
than having a panda head on your wall. Okay, wow,
you you find me walk into your house and you
got a panda head on your wall? Do I pretend
(29:07):
I don't see it? Right? I say, Hey, Jim, I
can't help, but notice that I'm I'm wondering what others
that person's up to. I mean, was that they'll do anything?
Was that Penda live? At one point? This is rarer game. Still,
you go down to the corner bar to this the
soccer game, waiting for kids in line at school, and
you find the person who says, in response to my god,
(29:30):
prices are so high. It's still shocking. They say, yes,
but the rate of increase has slowed, and that's what's important.
You bag that rare game, and I will salute you
a mighty hunter. Or the person who reacts with Yeah,
but my wages are up even more than inflation, so
I'm happy. Oh please, that's like an albino panda head.
I mean, to forget it. You're never gonna find one
(29:53):
much of miss killing with six toes on each boot.
I mean, it's rare. That's the point. We've got Katie.
We've got Kate. These headlines on the way stay here.
So this is the Eagles, witchy woman. It's Halloween. We're
trying to get a theme going here. People. We have
(30:14):
talking about scary. We have some witch legs stuck in
our bushes. Looks like a witch fell in the bushes
or dove in the bushes or something like that. I
guess that's just an elderly woman with the curious taste
and stockings. Yes, I love those.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Those witch legs are the ones that are just flown
into the.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
House right ours are in the bushes. Speaking of scary,
alert listener Edge just sent this along. It's a video
of a new kind of drone that does not have
propellers and a loud engine. It it is a bird.
It looks exactly like a red tailed hawk or a
or a you know, a similar raptor like a falcon
maybe and it flaps its wings to fly. Oly crap.
(30:55):
If it flies, it's spine right, exactly like the owns.
That's right. Anyway, We'll post this at Armstrong and geddy
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That's the same fabulous site where you can pick up
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(31:19):
around you insisting that trans women are women. Hot Dogs
or Dogs Armstrong and getdy dot com. Let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Katie starting with The New York Times.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Biden's gaps complicate Harris's final stretch and is worrying Democratic insiders.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's a gaff if he says it, If Trump or
anyone says it on their side, it's their stated position
and their deep core belief right right that we will
hold them too.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
From the Washington Post, more than fifty eight million early.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Votes have been cast so far.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Wow, So they're expecting the total to on the high
end to be one fifty. So we might We almost
certainly are gonna have half the votes cash before election day.
It's becoming a more common than not thing to vote
before election day. Yeah, I think early voting in Saturday
most places, and then you gotta wait till Tuesday. But yeah,
it's it's an astounding number.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
ABC Israel deploys forces along eastern border with Jordan, according
to IDF, why do we know?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Just the caution, Okay, I'll look into that. Jordan.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
They're protecting the eastern border, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, I remember there are a couple of attacks launched
by some scumback group or another from Jordan. A few
days ago.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
From NBC, LA hit by looting and chaos, submid Dodgers
World Series celebration.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
And a bus Yes I win. Somebody texted me last night.
I had somebody in LA and I texted a nice game,
and they time for the fireworks and looting to me
and I set in a bus on fire. And there's
a bus on fire in the picture, big giant bus.
You got to set a city bus on fire. If
your team wins, it's just part of the deal, or
(33:12):
if they lose. I'm exactly, I'm being sarcastic. Of course,
I've never understood why we put up with this for
a second, and why we don't have the harshest of
physical or monetary penalties for this, to where nobody would
even dare to set a bus on fire because their
team wins that the taxpayers then have to pay for. Yeah,
we will address this more thoroughly. Next hour. We have reports,
(33:36):
live reports, helicopter footage, all sorts of good stuff for
you about the LA riots. Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
You guys touched on this, but it's too funny to ignore.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Daily Mail. Biden bites four.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Babies, including one dressed as.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
A chicken at White House Halloween party.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Not sure how the kids costume matters, but is it
because the kid was dressed as a chicken. There's some
belief that the dementia ridden old man was hungry and
thought that it was a meal fla bat. I just
think he was trying to rejuvenate himself by eating the
young From the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Ohio officer quote attacked by giant runaway pumpkin months after
Turkey's chased him down during a traffic.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Stop and viral video. Wow, the guy cannot win.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
He can't win this.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
This inflatable pumpkin is huge, and the video the thing
just bounces over and lands on his head.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Don't disappointing. They don't teach you that what to do
with that?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
In the Academy and your mem of the day, it's
clearly some kids that are trigger treating outside of the
White House. And one kid asked the other what'd you get?
One kid goes a bill for thirty five trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Uh, I don't know, but I.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Think it's unconstitutional. And then another one asks, what's a
student loan deferment?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
He wants something scary. That's scary.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And finally, the Babylon Bee wife breathed sigh of relief
after voting for Trump and the privacy of her voting
away from the watchful eye of her creepy feminist husband.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
There you go. Wow, Wow, We got one note from
a listener whose husband there The man is afraid to
tell the wife that he's not voting for Kamala. This
is a real life example that mem reminded me of.
Russia has fined Google twenty decillion dollars? Have you ever
(35:24):
heard that term before? No? Decillion dollars. We'll have to
talk about that later too. That's a number of nationality.
It's a number Armstrong and Getty
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