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January 24, 2025 36 mins

Hour 4 of A&G features...

  • C.O.W. Clips of the Week & Trump keeping it real
  • FriYay is banned on the show forever & the cost of pets
  • People have no savings & Jack's horrible pet idea
  • Final Thoughts!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jat Katie and He Armstrong and Yeddy.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Sir.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Trump has specifically said he wants states, not FEMA, to
run disaster response, which is definitely not a crazy idea
because I've heard many times over the years people talk about,
you know they're doing something, they're doing fine, you need
the money from the federal government where you're doing fine,
and then the FEMA people coming in bigfoot you and
all of a sudden you can't.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Ah, Okay.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I thought we were talking about maybe not having federal
funding for disaster relief because I've heard the argument that, look,
if you choose to live in whatever, you know, Hurricane Island, Florida,
why am I paying for that here in placid weather
in Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Perfectly good question, and that should be worth interesting, especially
if you rebuild over and over in places where it
either catches on fire or falls into the sea. Why
are the people in Nebraska paying to rebuild your house
on a regular basis.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
But I'm not ready to advocate one point of view
or another. I just think it's an interesting question because
then you might get into well, wait a minute, the
state of Florida with its imports yields you know, one
point seven times as many dollars of taxes blah blah
blah than any other states, and so what are you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
But it's definitely not hard to imagine that your state response,
because you got state agencies that deal with these sorts
of things on a smaller level. A big one happens,
and you know, you're laying the ground working, you got
somebody in charge, and you're working with people and you
know the people better in the area and everything like that,
and a bunch of federal people show up and then
just another layer of this and that slows it down

(01:52):
by a lot. I guarantee you that's what happens. AnyWho,
We'll see how that goes. Couple interesting things that have
out of Davos yesterday.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Davos, Switzerland, where the elites gather every year to control
the world. But a couple of interesting things that were
said yesterday, including Trump's Our boss actually, Bill told me,
he said, man, you want to watch that Trump speech
from Davos yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
He didn't go He did it via zoom. But he
he gave quite the speech, and people seem to be
He's getting treated like the leader of the world this
time around.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Interesting and he wasn't last time I got to talk
to our postman. My invitation at Davos got lost somehow
on the way to my mailbox.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
But flying, I'm not in a lying on your private jet. Yeah,
and then complain.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
About Bilbil warming. Right.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh yeah, Hey, we got a lot to squeeze in
the final hour of the week. But first, let's take
fun look back at the week that was. It's cow
clips of the week.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Please get that.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Let's gone there.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, whips of the week. Just days after getting pardoned
by President Trump, send some January six defendants, katsoon return
to the scene of the crime.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I know that today feels like a gut punch, and
it's going to get worse.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
This is not Fox, Congressman.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
You can't just spin a tail and pull the wall
out of people's eyes.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Now, this is CNN, this is the news.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
And that's why more people are watching the cartoon network
spongebobber reruns.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Right now, Jim, there are gay, lesbian, and transgender children
in Democratic, Republican and independent families.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
These Woscopalians or Episcawochians or whatever they're calling themselves today.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
This is ridiculous. This was terrible.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Two reasons, you're stupid, and I don't think they're stupid.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
I think anybody that cheats that much in that well,
it's not.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
So good you.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Fire breaking out in Los Angeles along the four to
five Freeway, Flames at Everson shooting up the hillside, so.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
There were still from Tallahoe de Pensacola.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Children were voluntarily being swallowed by alligators.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Just to say war.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Trump announcing a five hundred billion dollar artificial intelligence project
one of the most exciting things we're working on to
cancer vacccene.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
This is the promise of AI and the promise of
the future.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
For the people who are concerned about AI, what do
you say to them.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I think people are really good and people will do,
on balance, incredible things with this technology. Musk now saying
the money isn't there. The White House now saying listen
to Trump, not Musk. Let me hear you.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
All saying he owes, yes, Meg.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
We don't promise perfection.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'm so happy that I never have, especially after I
couldn't spell eagles, right.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Good luck to going on under there under the wool cap.
You're thinking about your side booms. What does this do
for I assume it gives me an erection, a better erection,
and even one more wonderful erection. No, yes, just living

(05:12):
alone got me crazy. Hey.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
A quick follow up on one of the stories of
the week, and that's when Trump announced It was that
Sam Altman saying about AI.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
People are good, so it'll be fine. The balanced man.
If you're lying, I'm worried. And if you believe that
I'm worried, I'm worried both ways. If you believe that,
I'm even more worried. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean the
one is just a salesman. The other would be a psycho.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
Right.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
But so Trump announces half a trillion dollars for AI.
Elon says they don't have the money. The Trump was
asked about that yesterday, and this is what he said, that.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Elon Musk criticized the deal that you made publicly, that
he said.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
That he treated that.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
No, he hates one of the people in the deals.
And then no, no, well I spoke, but I've spoken
to all of them. Actually, not the people in the
deal of very very smart people. But Elon one of
the people he happens to hate. But I have certain
hatreds of people too.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
That's hate speech, right there, folks. That is hate speech.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
But that was awesome.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
People. They should say that out loud more often. Why didn't?
What is the problem here? That guy hates that guy.
That's right. So yeah, he's just not going to be
nice about it. I get it. That's you're right too.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
That is so out of the norm because I can
just hear the hemming and hang and stammering, and it
would be unfortunate if the criticism were to get in
the way of appropriate.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
No.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Look, the two of them been fighting like cats for years.
That's what all is. Well, we'll be fine, all right now.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
There's great congeliatity on the committee, and we're working well together,
and everybody has differences now and then, but we work
these out.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Elon hates that guy, so okay, and Trump so I
hate people too.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
So yeah, I got people I hate to here's the
list Katie has breaking Trump news, Katie.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, speaking of people Trump hates, Well, we've got a
little shift kicking just a place.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
In North Carolina. Yeah, Senator from California.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yeah, yes, I was told the shift was going to
travel with us to uh California. I wasn't thrilled, to
be honest with you, And I saw him last night
on television. It looks like he got hit with a
baseball bat or something.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
What happened to him?

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Something happened to him. It looked like he had hit.
It looked like he got Peter Rams. But but uh,
I'll ask Caroline to find out what happened to him.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
What of all the things he could have said about
Adam Schiff, what happened? It looks like you got hit
with a bat. He's gonna go to California with us.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I wasn't thrilled.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
That part was great, Well, how would you be? Guy
went on TV every single day completely lion out his
ass about we have the The American people will see
the fact soon the Trump working with Vladimir Putin to
overthrow the election never paid off any of his promises.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
He's been the proof. This is the beginning of the
end of the Trump presidency. Oh yeah, over and over again.
What a scumbag he is.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Now Speaking of.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Katie in her headlines, she is wearing an utterly charming
dog themed hoodie Beyond has.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
It has several different photos of Frankie on it.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
My little dog dog is Frankie's photo. Yeah, this is
This is actually my dog.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
He's a little Havenese. We think he's a rescue.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm not to have an eese. What is that? A
very dogs having these? What's the matter to you? Are they?
Are they an alley of the United States or a
far Are they with China? The Havebenese?

Speaker 3 (09:07):
They're from Cuba. Actually, Oh okay, yeah, oh as an Havana.
That's where the Havenese. Okay, I got my eye on
your dog. Where does his loyalties lie?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Huh? That's funny. I've never even heard that name as
a breed before.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I had neither until we got him.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Okay, cute little fella.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, and he's hypoallergetic.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
He has hair not for since we're wow, so do I.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Since we're talking about pets, I know you had a
pet thing and I was going to talk about how
we're too into pets in this country right now.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Pets.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yes, maybe we get to that coming up. I had
one other thing I wanted to jam in here, but
that fits in with that.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Oh uh.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
This economic news that just came out. A record fifteen
thousand chain stores are expected to close across the United
States this year for a variety of reasons, and they
list a whole bunch of them, and they are the
kind of places you'd expect Parties, Big Lots, Walgreens, Boots Alliance.
I don't know what that is, seven to eleven Macy's,

(10:07):
but fifteen thousand chain stores a record by a lot.
They blame online decrease in shopping period and then switch
to online shopping for people who are shopping online.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, I remember talking about this. I guess it was
last fall.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
That there are a number of economic trends the way
the curves work that could really end up being super
unfortunate for Trump, because all presidents get too much credit,
too much blame for the economy, and there are certain
things you can see coming. Things peak and then they

(10:44):
go down and then they go up again, and yeah,
he might catch a handful of down curves.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, tough to deal with.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I don't have the numbers on if this would mean
anything like that, because it might just be people switching
to online and just maybe this is the year the
reality finally hits of something that had been building for
quite a while. Twenty four was a really bad year,
although not even close to the same number less than
two thousand discount chains, but also big lots Family Dollar

(11:12):
ninety nine cents. I mean, like stuff at Family dollar
ninety nine cents store unless you need it in the
next five minutes. You can go on Amazon and order
whatever cheap Chinese made piece of plastic crap you're gonna
get at that store and have it delivered to you
tomorrow morning, and you know, not take the time to
stop by the strip mall and take an hour out

(11:33):
of your day.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
And that's what people do, and that's what I do, right, Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Sure what its effect will be on local jobs though,
Oh yeah, I'm like significant, it ain't gonna be all good.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Nothing's all good, but that right. I I kick myself
when I do this all the time. It's just too convenient.
My local music store that had been around forever went
out of business, and it would bother me.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I would try to I need some guitar strings. Wait
till I go to be in that.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Area town, stop by, park my car, walk in, grab
the strings. Maybe they don't have the exact ones they want.
Go up to the desk, wait in line, pay with
a credit card just to keep them open, or one
click on my phone done. Sometimes I have it this
afternoon and just it's just reality.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I know, I hate it. I hate that you said
that out loud, Yet there it is. Yeah, I do.
All changes not progress. All progress is not progress. I
don't the modern world.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
One more financial note, and it fits in with Joe's
pet story. I think, so that's coming upstairs. So I
walked in late to work today and Katie just alerted
me of this before I got in the room. Joe
unleashed an executive order Trump style outlawing the use of

(12:56):
Fryya on the show.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yes, Yes, And.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
I had been concerned for quite some time, as I
opened every Friday morning with it's Frye, that I wasn't
doing it with enough inflection of I think that's a
Jivy ridiculous tone. And I was being taken seriously because
it is not the sort of thing that I would say.
But perhaps I wasn't as often happens with my kids,

(13:22):
where I say, well that is sus, dad, Please don't
say sus I'm only saying it like mockingly of jiv
teenage language, hild me.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Well, right, exactly.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
No.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I am not the kind of guy who says frye. Yeah,
I thought you were a fraye guy. No, no, well,
and yet you are. Oh wow, that is philosophically deep
things about it.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yes, even if you're pretending that's what you are. That's
the theme of one of our favorite Kurt Vonnegut novels.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Absolutely, you is right? Right, you or yourself? What are
your priorities? What you do are your priority and not
what you say You're priory and your priority evidently saying
fry ye.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
But I'm perfectly okay with a banding it if it
is not clear that I'm mocking the sort of person
that would say frye.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Two thousand and eighty five dollars and sixty cents. That
is the average cost of pets last year, according to
a comprehensi the survey of two thousand.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Dog and cat owners for one year. Little over two
thousand dollars for one year, that is the average cost.
So perfect for an economic piece of news to to
add into this story, but go on.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
That will combine standard veterinary care, emergency care, food medications,
that sort of thing. It arises and falls year to year. Obviously,
sometimes your dog has something. I'm a dog guy. But
my daughter who's in lost school right now, has two
cats that she adopted last year.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Loves them very much. Fabulous cats. What, Katie, what? What's
so funny?

Speaker 2 (15:00):
They'll have to listen to the One More Thing podcast
where you gave them my name. I can't hear anything
about cats, especially out of you, Joe.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
After that's right, that's right, that that is funny my
daughter's term for their unclean pause. She was accurate. Yeah, yeah,
it rhymes with spit mittens.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
That's what they have when they come walking out of
that litter box. They're walking with their spit mittens across
your carpet.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah you know, I called one of my friends spit mittens.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
And then they jump up on your counter and walk
across with their spit mittens where you're later going to
uh cut up your bread.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
So she adapted adopted, rather not adapted.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
She adopted these two fabulous cats that are very charming,
uh and and I've grown fond of. But one of
them that was certified healthy by the adoption agency had
a pre existing medical condition that they absolutely knew about
oh jez anyway, but so the one sneezing blood and

(16:03):
she's got to go and pay, you know, four figures
worth of and she does not have that sort of money.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Dolls according to the latest statistics.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
But back to you, right right, So anyway, it's around
twenty one hundred dollars average per year for pets, and
I remember, are the greatest disparity I've ever witnessed a
twenty dollars rabbit was It cost me six hundred and
fifty dollars like a year and a half later my daughter,

(16:33):
same daughter just love this rabbit so much. So it
was one of those situations where, oh my god, I
swear you pushed it to like the very last dollar
I would spend a doctor. Oh boy, they probably have
some sort of brain scanner that says, this guy has
a net worth of X, he likes animals this much,
we can get him for six hundred and forty eight, No,

(16:53):
six hundred and forty nine dollars.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
So statistics that are out today on how much save
the average person has. I'm going to tie this into
the pet thing, and then I will say probably very hurtful,
mean things about people I like, and then.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
We'll go on with our conversation.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Is the way that will work, the coming together of
the stat about how much savings people have and how
much people spent on pets.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh my god, Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating
the pets of the people that live there. They're eating
the dogs, They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets
of the people that live there. People love Springfield tease

(17:44):
done eat my cat?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Why would you do that?

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Eat something else? People love Springfield Pease done eat man dog.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Here's a cat log of other things.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Two eats. They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
We had to get it at least threw me on me,
on me on me mouth.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
We're talking about how expensive it does is that pets,
and I decided I would temper my comments to avoid
trouble since it's loved ones involved here. But uh, it's
pretty clear that people are spending more money on pets
than they ever have in the past.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
I've had a pet in my house for NonStop for.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Twenty five years now anyway, so it's not like I'm
anti pet or something like that.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
But how do we simultaneously have what did you say.
The number was up near two thousand a year.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
God, it it's a lot higher than that for a
lot of people, I know, for people who don't have
the money. Survey out today almost sixty percent of Americans
don't have savings to cover a one thousand dollars emergency.
How do we simultaneously spend more money on dogs and
cats than we've ever spent ever and people have no savings,

(19:07):
or or the never ending conversation about rents too high.
I can't afford a house Canada, you can't get ahead
now the American dream is over. How can you have
all those conversations at the same time you're spending more
money than ever before on pets.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, right, all of those conversations are almost exclusively used
to justify some political redistribution of wealth. I mean, all
of those complaints about the cost of this or the
price of that.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I just.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Those are almost all taken from the world to politics,
like I said, to justify some redistribution. And if there
were no income redistribution, you would see very different patterns
of spending.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Rights. Yeah, I was gonna make that point. If as
long as we're not socialist, I don't care. Why would
I care how much money you spent on your pet?
Why you complain that you can't buy a house. But
if there is going to be some redistribution of wealth
around those issues.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
I do care, right, right.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
If you're the sort that would rather keep your money
than have the companionship of a pet, that's fine too.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't care what anybody
does as long as it's not going to affect my situation.
It's a For.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Instance, I was hearing a story from some people who
were talking about how they wish they could buy a
house but it's too expensive, and what they were spending
per month to have their pets on rent.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I thought, wow, that adds up to a lot of money.
But the connection here, do whatever you want?

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, indeed, yeah, absolutely, do whatever you want. But I'm concerned,
and this has been deliberate by certain political actors. I'm
concerned that the idea that this, that, and the other
thing that I enjoy is a right has really caught
hold in the American consciousness that that which I prefer

(21:06):
I have a right to, as opposed to all these
are choices and trade offs that we make. You don't
have a right to have a house. But if you work,
you know a reasonable amount, or take on a roommate,
or get married or whatever.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
You will have hay house. It's a choice, it's a
trade off. It's not a right.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Donald Trump's good at staying in the news. I don't
know if you've ever noticed that. He just did a
press conference in North Carolina. He was there to visit
the hurricane of victims. But anytime you start taking questions
from the press, you're gonna get questions about.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
All kinds of different things. And he does it every day.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
To his credit, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wouldn't answer
a question from anybody ever. Trump does it multiple times
per day, every single day. But he was asked about
yanking people's security details, as he has done with the
number of people, and he has yanked doctor Fauci's taxpayer

(22:04):
funded security detail, President Trump announced during the press conference
a day he said, I think when you work for
the government, at some point, your security deal detail comes off,
and you know what, you can't have him forever. Trump
told a reporter who would ask about this, which is true.
Everybody who's in government at a high level, I don't
see why you get security for the rest of your life.
But doctor Fauci lightning rob lots of death threats. I

(22:28):
didn't I don't agree with all the things he said.
He brought a lot of it on himself.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
But I don't know. This is an interesting one.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Trump went on to say, Yeah, he's not a good
test case because he is so clearly evil and dishonest.
But like John Bolton, who, whatever you think of his
foreign policy, was executing the job that the President of
the United States asked him to in a way that
the President approved of at the time and brought on
the anger of the Iranian Mullah's an evil, evil regime.

(22:54):
John Bolton absolutely, if the threat remains, his security should remain.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I don't like Trump doing that.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
We took some other people off, too, Trump noted, referring
to John Bolton, as Joe said, and former Secretary of
State Mike Pumpel. They can hire their own security I
can give them some good numbers of very good security people.
Fauci made a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
They all did very Trump attitude.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah, I'm surprised that that sort of thing is subject
to the President's whims.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
I am, honestly, Yeah, I am too. M what did
what did your rabbit cost to get fixed and it
had a problem.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's a tough one when it's a kid's pet, because
I mean I am much quicker to pull the trigger
on Uh yeah, I ain't paying that much for my
dog to get fixed.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Then my kids might be. So then that's right. That's
the X factor there, well, right, of course, and so
much of it.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
I mean, if you like, if something's easily treatable and
you have the money and you don't do it, I
think that makes you a bad person.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
But that the sliding.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Scale of morality and expenditure and what's justified and the
rest of it. We brought this up on the air once,
you know, years and years and years ago, when we
used to take phone calls and we talk to people
who would literally spend their entire life savings to get
their dog another year of life. They would render themselves

(24:22):
destitute and considered anybody who wouldn't some sort of monster.
Jack and I both grew up and I don't know,
a different time, different place where relationship with animals.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Is viewed a little bit differently. That to me seems insane.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, you've got the fifteen thousand dollars to save a
cat crowd, and then you've got Christi Noman.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm closer to Christi Noman than the other one. Yeah. Yeah.
I live in a town where the world's best vet
school is best vet school in the entire world, and
people regularly take their pets there to get fixed, and
they charge accordingly, and it is really a blessing and
a curse.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
A good close person to me went through a situation
where her dog was very, very sick, and the good
folks that you see Davis said, you know, we could
do this.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
We're the only facility on earth that can do this.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
And she loved her dog very much and was milked,
not dishonestly or fraudulently, I'm not claiming anything like that,
but was separated from a huge amount of money just
because it was possible. And you know, depending on the
way you're made emotionally, I get that, but yeah, that

(25:37):
you know. The eternal question to me is always are
you doing this for the pet or are you doing
it for you? If it's for you, because you'll miss
it very much, because you love the dog, the cat, whatever,
think about.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
That, Katie, are you ready to hear my least popular theory. Ever,
I probably shouldn't even repeat it. This is the least
popular theory I've ever had around pet Why would you
do this? It was going so well career Lise, and
I've never understood the really the pushback on it. Okay,
given the fact that the shelters are full of dogs
and cats that would love to be your pet and

(26:11):
are going to be euthanized this week or next week
because there aren't enough people to adopt them, why wouldn't
it make sense to if you have a dog, it's
your dog, you need to go it's sick, or you
got to go on vacation or whatever.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
You put it down, and then when you come back
you get another one from a pound. You're you know
jack o.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah, the sick thing, I'll discuss the I'm going on vacation.
I could either pay for a pet sitter or wait
a minute, or kill execute my dog and get a
new one.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I logically think I'm on solid ground here bringing a
dog out of the shelter who's going to be executed.
So one of these dogs is going to die. So
I just flipped the script. Now it's this dog that's
been living in my house is going to die. The
other one at the shelter is now going to live. No,
what's the difference. Net number of dogs saved is the same.

(27:07):
It's taken I know, versus one I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
You've taken an animal into your home, gained its trust,
and because you want to go to Disneyland, you're gonna
put it down and then get.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
A new one that will also get my trust. Logically speaking,
you're correct. On the other hand, if you do that,
that makes you a psychopath.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
I think it makes if you're comfortable with psychopathy, and
please enact this plan nine from outer space of yours.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
So you're okay, okay, pretending all these dogs at the
shelter don't exist, aren't cute and lovable, and aren't gonna
be put to sleep.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Nobody said that, not one person on this show. Way
to knock down a straw dog. I just don't understand
the difference. There's a huge two difference. I can put
the two dogs upon me. This one's from the shelter,
this is the one that's lived in my house for
the last year. One of them has to die, might
as well full of going. I mean, what difference does
it mean, oh, you're just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Now I get the new dog in the shelter that
we have attachment issues here that really need years of
couch time. Now I get the new dog from the shelter,
and it might say to the old dog that's headed,
that went to the shelter while I went on vacation,
it might say, hey, get a calendar circle June six,
two weeks. Wow that's how long you got.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow. Wow. So okay, I'm going to go down this
road with you, just just for the sake.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
I would like to say, I have not done this,
but I just like to hear the logical fallacy in this,
because I don't think there is one.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I really don't want to get these emails. I really
don't wait too late to want. So if I were to,
in a loyally.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Fashion argue your side of the argument, I would think,
all right, dogs don't like say I never went to Paris,
you know, in their final days. The nature of dogs,
you can either give one dog many years of happiness,

(29:08):
or multiple dogs some exact of an affection before they
go to doggy heaven.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Which means nothing to them. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Well, no, no, no, I'm not advocating it. I have
the ability, Katie, Oh my god, I almost said something.
It would get me even more emails than Jack is
going to get. I have the ability to examine an
argument that I don't agree with, to see how reasonable it.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Is and what its strengths and weaknesses are.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Just I think it's monstrous. After you do that the
third time, you would be so like weirdly numbed by
the experience. You would you would go through the rest
of your life a gibbering psychopath.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
The weird part would be because you do get attached
to animals. The weird part would be putting down the
dog you're attached to and gatting get a new dog.
Will you get attached to the new dog.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
And then you'd put it down again when you have
another family vacation. I don't like the cycle.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Everybody wants to exactly and that's what I'm I'm doing
a poor job of conveying it. But you would have
to numb yourself, Yeah, total attachment to an extent that
would make you mentally just completely cuckoo nuts.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
And the dog says I thought I had till June.
You say, I am my buddy, of mine got concert tickets,
so wow, wow, oh, this has been a joy. Is
there another podcast looking for a co host? I gotta
look at my contract. I've i've I've played in this
band too long.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
I will read the tagle when the band you're in
starts playing different tunes.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Hey, pink Floyd, huh okay, we will we will finish strong.
Next good breaking.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
News, the FBI has arrested a suspect in the killing
of that more patrol agent from recently. I don't remember
that story, but they have arrested somebody but US, so
it will be interesting. Oh, FBI ss HA arrested a
twenty one year old Washington State woman in the fatal
shooting of US Border Patrol agent. Really Washington State woman? Well, okay,

(31:16):
who knows the writing on that? They might be trying
to fudge the fact that the person's here illegally.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I don't know. I don't have any idea.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Could have been some ideologue, could be a US citizen
ID weirdo, here's a well, I don't know. Do we
want to go back down this road? We did get
this text. White pets are costly in the state of California.
They won't allow you to get vaccines, rabies, et cetera,
or flea meds, worm meds, any of that stuff unless
you have a well check appointment every year for your pet.

(31:43):
So you have to do one full appointment. That's just
kind of because somebody wrote legislation to get that in.
To add to the cost, they also have a seven
dollars disposal fee for each needle used in any shots,
which is whatever the hell. Well, and I remember looking
into whether I could buy some drugs for a dog.

(32:04):
I think it was just just chop around and go
buy it somewhere, buye through the mail or what. Oh no, no, no,
no way, not taking from the vet with the mark up.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
It's right, okay, well I need cool.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
And I remember some listener wrote in and said, no, no,
claim you have a hog and order it from this
place in Nebraska, and I was like, whatever.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
We got a decent pushback on my argument, but maybe
it's too grim to even contemplate. Does your idea apply
to kids too? Would you take your kids to wait
a minute, oh zero to sixty, not put them down,
but would you take your kids to a foster home
and get new ones upon return? With the idea that hey,

(32:50):
what's the difference some kids going to have a happy
home life.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Some days I'd like to do that. That's a great idea.
Was that a thing that Wednesday noon? Yeah, that's funny answer.
Obviously that would be horrific.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
And so then you get into the hole my kids
are like my my pets are my kids attitude which many.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Many people have, which is how we get through spending
so much money. I guess I have a book full
of this sort of moral conundrum. I got to figure
out where it is.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Maybe i'll bring it in that asks all these like
extremely morally difficult and questionable, you know, questions or difficult
to anyway, They're difficult moral questions, and the point is
to think about them.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, the point is not that you're about to do them.
Use it. No, no, no, it's not right right, Yeah, yeah,
you know what.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
And I could go further down this road, but I
want the hatred to go to you and not me,
So I for will, for selfish reasons, recuse myself from
the rest of this are and troubling conversation.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Perfect time saved by the boy few. It is now my.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
Incredible privilege to present final thoughts with.

Speaker 7 (34:18):
He's Moron Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Here's your host for final Thought's Joe getting thank you,
mister President, one hundred percent authentic. Let's get a final
thought from everybody in the crew. Mike Lagelow has the
day off. Executive producer Mike Hanson is filling in Hanson.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Final song. Four thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
That was my personal biggest expense, single one time expense.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
On my dog Jackson. Jackson, four thousand dollars. We thought
he was gonna die. He wasn't. Son of a He
should have died at that moment, but he needed a
spinal tap and then h everything after that was just fine.
Four thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Grand financing financing zero percent jack That's another thing that's
have come up with his financing and pet insurance and
then you can up the prices because he got insurance.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Just like it works, you know for people. Big Vet
tell you what watch out for him.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman, loves her dog and as a
final thought, Katie.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
My dog Bailey needed a tooth pulled. Went to go
pick her up after the procedure thirty two hundred dollars later,
because they decided to pull fourteen of them.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Wait, thirty two hundred dollars. Wait, I'll you those teeth pack.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
I'll take him jack.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
A final thought, Trump's making a lot of friends by
going to North Carolina. Man, the people there are digging
his appearance.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, I'm sure they are. It's brilliant politics. My final
thought is thanks for listening. We'll see on Monday. Geez,
it's gotta be a slower week than this week. Almost
killed me. Armstrong and Getty wracking up another grueling four
hour workday. Armstrong angetdy dot com.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
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drop us a note whatever.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Oh, it's like the Willy Wonka chocolate factory.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Just go on.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Armstrong and Getty dot com. See you Monday. God bless America.
Armstrong and Getty. There's a freaking war going Onless Well,
you're being a wise guy with me a little bit.
I think that you may be overagging the pudding. Enough talk,
it's a little too much, docky dog. I haven't said
a word, so stop yelling at me.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
We must together, work together.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Come on, whip up animus. The left against the right,
the right against the left. Animals, peep, animus Great Friday,
Mother Armstrong and Geeddy
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