February 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- FBI employee jobs, Joe's perfection & fake Apple products
- More deaths from selfies than shark attacks!
- AI blows Jack's mind, enrollment in school & kid's slang today
- 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, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty enough He Armstrong and Getty The Sandwich Chain.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Subway has begun offering an Oreo foot long cookie, which
features a chocolate cookie top with vanilla cream and crushed oreos.
So if you see that at subway, order it, and
if you see it on the subway.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Wait for the next train. The foot long. They got
a foot long churro and they get a foot long pretzel.
Both very very good at the subway if you need
one of those chero's. This cinnamony spice to fried. I
don't eat stuff like that anymore because I gave up
(00:58):
big goods. But yes, Katie confused, No.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That was my that was going to be my question,
And I thought you swore those off.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
For the year breaking news this sort of thing, because
this story is getting a fair amount of attention. I
was a little worried about this clarification letter from the
acting Deputy Attorney General. By the way, Pam Bondi was
just sworn as the Attorney General, but the Deputy Attorney
General just put out a letter let me be clear,
(01:25):
No FBI employee who simply followed orders and carried out
their duties and an ethical manner with respect to the
January sixth investigations is at risk of termination or other punishment.
That's good. Yeah, so I'm glad they put that out.
That's good. Yeah, some people were concerned about that one
(01:46):
other thing. I wanted to get on because I can't.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Believe I'm BONDI according to historians, America's hottest attorney general
by like fifty miles.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
For people who keep track of that sort of thing.
According to historians, I wanted to get this on. Should
have mentioned earlier. We've got a bunch of text saying
why haven't you mentioned this yet? Our sect deaf pete hegsath,
who's who wants one? Who's ready for another? You're ready
for another? Pete sect death said in December twenty twenty four.
This is after Trump's election. The US Army had its
(02:16):
best recruiting number in twelve years in January of twenty five.
The next month, the Army hit its best recruiting number
in fifteen years. Wow. Bottom line, America's youth want to
serve under the bold strong America First leadership of at
real Donald Trump. I don't know how else you would
interpret this. I'd like to see those numbers play out.
But it's a great sign.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I was just reading today about how miserable our recruiting
is gone in recent years.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, it'd been bad.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Speaking of bad, I've come up with a new definition
of perfection. I thought of this last night. I was
doing a little cleaning up around the house. Now, everybody
has their own definition of perfection. Maybe it's a baby's laugh,
maybe it's the will of God.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I see what you mean. Here's my description of perfection.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
If you could use obsolete computer chords to cure cancer, that.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Would be perfection. Oh my god, all of the I.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Don't even remember the name of the ends now, the
lightning chord and the USB B and the.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
A for everything. Now, I tell you what you could.
He's got a few pair of headphones he loves that
has the little trapezoid shape that like nobody else has.
It's like, what is this? Oh right, the trapezoid. I
got some of those too. I got a couple of
devices that take them.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
But I mean, if I'm liking a twelve floor apartment
and there's a fire, I'm just gonna like tie together
all my obsolete cords and climb down.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The side of the building because I think I have enough.
I want to be buried with all of them like
mummies used to be. You need him in the afterlife.
That's the only time we're going to need them. This.
So I mentioned earlier I had been on Facebook Marketplace
to look for an Apple Vision Pro because I want
(04:10):
to buy a used one because almost everybody who well
I shouldn't say this, but a lot of people who
bought them decided they weren't going to use it, so
they're selling them for like half price, which is perfect
for me. But there are a ton of them on there.
They're like unopened, new and unopened, and then people say like, yeah,
I bought this never to use it. Really, that seems weird.
(04:30):
We got this text a lot of those Apple products
on Facebook Marketplace are fake, and I said, I was
also seeing not just applevision pros, but Apple watches, a
ton of Ultra twos. I have the Ultra one. I thought, well,
maybe I'll get an ultratru if I can get a
used one for two hundred bucks or whatever, and ear
pods and all your Apple stuff a lot of those
(04:52):
Apple products are fake. I received a set of air
pods that were legit. Air pods had a serial number
and everything. They worked. Obviously. When I finally had a problem,
I took them into the Apple store, they ran a
system test, turned me away, saying they were fake. They
wouldn't fix or replace them because they weren't real. China
is making duplicates from factories and selling them for cheap. Apple,
(05:14):
doesn't they? He said, pro tip, Apple doesn't wrap their
packages in plastic. That's not true. I've opened lots of
Apple stuff that were in plastic. Lots of things, like
maybe every iPhone I've ever purchased at plastic around the
box anyway. Really, yeah, lots of them. They've all been fake.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, so let me understand, Fine, for years, that's okay.
Are they like Chinese folks are Are they like stealing
them for the factory or making them in the factory
and saying to Apple, yeah, we made eight hundred of
them today. Yeah, it's a pretty good day. And they
actually made nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And you know more about this than I do. But
like how good they are at making Nike golf clubs
that are fake that look exactly like the real thing.
Their knockoffs are really good.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Like all of the technical data and expertise and just
making a factory next door.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, and they're making knockoffs good enough that when this
guy got him and received him, obviously he thought they
were real and he used them until they quit. Yeah. So, man,
so where does that leave you? Because even the not
in a box used ones, I have to wonder if
it's fake. Does that mean you just can't buy used
Apple products anymore, or unless it's from somebody you trust somehow? Yeah,
(06:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I'm so new to this. I really don't have any
idea quick, a tangent question. I know, for a very
very long time you weren't on Facebook anything because it's
so insidious of figuring out everything you like, your life
and all your connections and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And I still hate that. I've got remember we set
up an account years ago, all of us to try
to We thought that'd be a good way to communicate,
but then we abandoned it. I still have that. It's
under a gnome to plume. I don't use it for anything.
I have no friends, I have no posts, but it
allows me to get on Facebook marketplace, which I was,
and I have since realized that's the only place to
(07:03):
buy and sell stuff. I mean, compared to Craigslist, the
options of buyers and sellers is not even close.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
At one point, they were like crazy hardcore rooting out
accounts that used a nom diplume. I remember because they
killed mine. But I don't know what would happen, Woul Zuckerberg,
come up, it's working, okay. What would happen though? If
they rooted me out? What would that look like? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They just cantle the account.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Feel free.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I've been trying to cancel it for like fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
It's impossible, but so but it hasn't figured out who
you are and everybody you know, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Don't know it has. Yeah, but I don't have a
name on there, and so it doesn't hurt me any
I don't think, okay, okay, because I don't have any
information on there at all, So I don't think it's
hurting me. But yeah, it's I still don't like it.
And those of you who do love Facebok and most
people I know do, but it's disturbing to me the
way you know worlds are colliding, Jerry, it brings together.
(08:01):
I mean, I've seen pictures of people that I had
forgotten about thirty years ago bringing together with next door
neighbors that I don't even know. It's weird how it
gets this information. I have no information on my new neighbors,
and there's their family, and now I know everything about him.
And yeah, I don't like that sting. Yeah, yeah, I
(08:22):
find it weird. Here's an interesting thing about my neighbor
that because I did talk to you from Facebook, no,
that I learned from christ convicted. He's some sort of
computer expert. It's weird that, you know, I suppose in
the old way the way you should do it, as
you go over and get to know your neighbor and
you invite him over for dinner and you learn about
it that way. But instead I can creep on Facebook
(08:43):
and see where he went to college and what does
wedding pictures look like, and what his degrees in and
all that sort of stuff. I know, isn't that interesting,
seems weird. But he's a super computer nerd expert guy
that's worked for like all the best, biggest tech everything.
And so I went over to his house right before
(09:06):
we went on vacation. To d C. Or's got to
be gone for a week. And I got my simply
safe system set up and everything like that, and I
had a sitter coming in now today, but I just
told him. I said, hey, we're gonna be gone for
a week. So I mean, if you see a u
aul backed up to my house on Wednesday, it ain't me.
And he gave him my number, and he gave me
his number and everything like that, because I'm new in
this neighborhood. And he said, what are you gonna do?
(09:28):
And I said, I'm going to d C. He said, yeah,
he said, you know, I was there one time. I
hate museums. So I thought that's interesting. How not my
town for a guy who's like successful education, highly educated
to say I hate museums. Heard anybody say I don't
(09:49):
think I've ever heard anybody say that either other than
like a high school again on a field trip. Yeah,
I see people kind of act like they do clearly.
But uh, that struck me as interesting and good for
you to have the guts to say that. More people
should have the guts to say things like that out aloud.
I hate museums, I hate the Super Bowl, I hate
you know, other popular things, trying to think what I
(10:12):
would say, you've empowered me. I just I don't have
anything and my fingertips. If you got any tips for
how you root out fake stuff online, because I'm sure
if China's making fake apple stuff, they're making all kinds
of fake stuff. Yeah. Is it going to kill off
(10:34):
the ability to sell things used?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I know, it's a huge quote unquote problem that I
cannot even pretend to care about in the world of fashion,
because the knockoffs are so incredibly good. Well, it takes
like the authentication expert for and brand of purse.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
To identify and what's the problem with that? Obviously? All right,
if you can't tell the difference between a fake two
thousand dollars bag and you know when that was fifty bucks,
then what were you doing in the first place. It's
a little different with the electronics, though, you know, you want,
oh yeah, the thing to actually function, clearly, But if
the function of the thing is to have the name
(11:12):
of the brand on it so everybody knows you're rich
or whatever you're trying to accomplish, that's, you know, fine,
who cares if it's fake or real? Why do you
want to own it? Okay, this will fulfill that next Right,
the better question is why'd you buy a real one?
Not how did you get duped into a fake one?
Why'd you buy the real one when you could get
the fake one that looks just like it? Right, much
(11:34):
better question, So.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Jack, the scourge confronting many Americans, the widespread, the huge,
high disturbing death toll from selfies. We'll talk about the
number of people who die taking the ultimate selfie?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Coming up? Cool? How about those recruiting numbers for the Army,
highest number at a dozen years in December, highest number
in fifteen years in January. That is amazing. Is there
something a missing there? Or is it all about feeling
better about your country and your government? I don't know.
It's a really intriguing question. Yeah, I'd say if you
(12:09):
have any guesses, our text line is four one five
two nine five kftc Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Researchers tell me this is about nanoparticles of decades old
plastic only visible under a microscope, that have somehow made
it into the food and water supply, now being found in.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The human body.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
New research of the University of New Mexico finds alarmingly
high levels of that plastic in human brains at much
higher concentrations compared to the liver and kidney, and the
concentrations appear to be increasing over time by fifty percent
from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty four. These researchers still
don't know the full health impact that they're calling for
(12:51):
new policies around the use and disposal of plastic.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I feel like there's a certain because I don't care
about climate change at all at all. I never think
about it a second. This I worry about, and it
concerns me that I feel like, because we're so climate
changes in our face all the time, those of us
who are on the right side of politics have kind
of rejected anything environmental. I would agree there is a
(13:18):
bit of that. Yeah, and this plastics thing seems like
a really big deal.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Yeah, microplastics or more significantly nanoplastics, although I think people
will just start going with microplastics, which is fine. Yeah,
and they're unlike climate change. I mean, I say all
the time, cell your park and buy some shorts. And
obviously I'm trying to be amusing, but mitigation is one
hundred percent what we need to be doing. If the
climate indeed keeps changing in the direction that it is,
(13:45):
and it may not. I mean, it's just a no brainer.
The other strategies are idiotic, self defeating, and incredibly expensive.
The micro or nanoplastics thing different. There's nothing you can
do about breathing in eating these microscopic fragments and molecules
of plastic all the freaking time, and then getting into
(14:06):
all of your organs and the organs of your unborn
child and everything else. I fried up a two liter
coke bottle last night with ranch dressing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Pretty good. I put a lot of dressing on that
to make it taste good. But anyway, yeah, it worries me.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
And yeah, that knee jerk rejection of anything that says, hey,
there's a thing that can hurt you in the environment.
You're right, that's one of the costs of ridiculous overreach
by activists who, as you pointed out many times through
the years, they can't just stick with what is true
because they think that doesn't that's not going to get
enough people's attention. Let's just go ahead and wildly inflate
(14:43):
all those numbers and pretend that, for instance, a woman
who died in Texas died because somebody outlawed abortion or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
They just got to twist the truth so much.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Anyway, I think you're absolutely right, and I hope science
is studying this at a feverish pace. Perhaps Donald Jay
Will instead of funding transgender comic books.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
For Peruvians or whatever. There the f was on that list.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
So you know, it's funny when you're talking about how
more people are aware of this and talking about it.
I thought you might even say that, you know, you
hope it's not the shark attacks of this year, and
then it'll just kind of go away and all, And
it's funny. I was just in the middle of reading
something that far more people die from taking selfies than
shark attacks.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Wow, that's not that doesn't surprise me. I've thought of it.
But yeah, good one, good one. Not even close.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
It's not a ton of people, but it's probably five
six hundred since the selfie thing really took off in
two thousand and eight. Usually a cliff, uh yeah, many,
many cliffs and waterfalls.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
And they point out in this article that naturally most
of these incidents occur in the world's most picture x
spots Esque Spots is by Popular TV shows or movies.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
We should die in some place pretty.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, indeed, yeah, tumbling and screaming and thinking, oh God,
in a lovely setting. God, that would be a rough
couple of seconds. I'll tell you what we were at.
What's the seventy Falls. That's the big one that you
go up, And there's a fence right there at the
very top, just stunning and beautiful. And there's signs all
over the place which kind of mar of the view.
(16:27):
Do not cross the fence line, do not step out,
very slippery.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
People die.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
You will die, people will You will be squashed on
the rocks below, for God's sake. And I think it
was two days after we were there, somebody did it slip.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I got some pictures of me on the other side
of the fence at the Grand Canyon, getting a good picture.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You know. My only objection to that is if some
impressionable kid sees that right and plunges to their death.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But adults who do that, by the ticket, take the
ride looking at it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
A picture of a eye on this impossibly thin, wobbly
looking rock formation taking a beautiful selfie.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Good luck, sir, It's gonna be a nice picture if
it turns.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Out good Luck, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Only one third of New York City fourth graders were
deemed proficient in math, which is great for me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I can now charge twice as much when I buy
them beer. That's a good joke. That's pretty day. Should
We got something funny about young people in slang coming up.
But I'm gonna hit you with some serious stuff here. First,
we've mentioned this. I don't know how many times. I
(17:44):
don't think it can be mentioned enough. I would love
to hear the pushback against this. I don't even know
what it would be. People talk about how much money
we spend on schools, and anytime you try to cut back,
you're gonna try to cut education. Freaking moronic argument. For
the millionth time, let us hit you with these statistics,
(18:05):
because these are the latest. What is my phone doing?
No idea, It's trying too hard, Tanya.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
It accidentally bought a knockoff since Apple is felled with
two p's, not one.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Look at it. I accidentally touched the picture and it
was starting to do the AI figuring out I did that.
The other day. Somebody sent me a picture and said,
could you take this out of the background because they
don't have the latest iPhone. I just touched it with
my finger. I did that. I took a great picture
the other day, the picture of pup that I posted
on Twitter that people liked at a shoe box in
the background ruined the picture touched with my finger. Shoe
box gone incredible, just incredible. It's like you're Harry Potter.
(18:42):
It's amazing, or it's like it's like I'm somebody who
has a skill that is worth something that used to
be worth something that is no longer worth anything because
everybody can do it. But education, this drives me nuts.
What is your argument for this occurring? In eighteen seventy,
Enrollment in schools has increased eight percent, that's students. Total
(19:07):
educating staffing has risen eighty four percent. Most notably, non
teaching staff has increased one hundred and thirty eight percent.
I know we've done demonstrators a million times, but I
can't ever get over it when I see it onograph.
So the number of kids is got who was looking
back on nineteen seventy and thinking like our schools were failing?
(19:29):
Was that a big thing? And of course not, And
to the extent that you weren't happy with your school.
Did you think more non teaching staff was the answer.
So the number of kids has gone up eight percent,
the number of non teaching staff has gone up one
hundred and thirty eight percent. What's the argument for that?
Government schools are a giant jobs program for you? Gibsess
(19:50):
period freaking loutely yep.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I saw Randy Weingarten live on CNN, I think it
was the other day, explaining what Trump is evil with
what he's trying to do with you know, charter schools
and reform and getting.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Rid of the Education Department. It was like seeing Satan
on the screen trying to recruit souls and drag them
down to hell. It is disgusting with those numbers alone,
even without even if they were reading and doing math
at proficiency, which they're not. But even if you were
getting a good outcome, that's outrageous.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Just from a sport, if rise had coincided indeed with
a plunging results curve, it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It really is makes me mad.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Government has become a gigantic for profit industry with all
of its offshoots, anything that anything the government pays for.
It's really it's it's well it's unpatriotic, it's horrible speaking
of the young people. Jack has brought to this topic
to us more than once. My kids are growing out
of the house, thank god, so I'm only aware of
this stuff peripherally, but not thank god that they're out
(20:53):
of the house. But thank god I don't have to
deal with this. And that is the dizzying speed with
which slang sprouts, becomes omnipresent, changes, then goes away, and
how parents are trying to keep up with it just
so they know what their kids are saying.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And obviously the speed of it coming and going is
so much faster in the modern era than it was
back when we were young, where a cool word would
come along and it might hang around for a decade.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I think cool for instance, probably coined by jazz musician musicians.
Probably that's there, and then it's still around. And they
talk to a linguist in this piece that he says,
there's not more of it. It just changes so much
more quickly that you're more aware of it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But yeah, they start with this gal who's got text
change going with. Other parents try to stay up to
speed on the words and phrases, catching on with their
kids and her. She got a nine year old, and
she's taken aback after hearing the word mewing coming out
of her.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Nine year old's mouth. I've heard that from my son.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I didn't know what it meant, so I had to
google it. I had to ask my friend Emily a
reference check. Turns out they're just referring to a type
of facial exercise. You look at yourself in the mirror
and you mew. It's supposed to enhance your jaw line.
Oh with the girls, funny you had mentioned that. Yeah,
I just learned that like a week YOUO.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I'd already forgotten it because it's not important to me,
But yeah, Henry brought that up. It makes your jaw
line better. I'm like, I thought, why do you know
anything about jaw lines and their importance and attractiveness? How
has that entered your world? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Yeah, And they go into the speed of the change
blah blahlah trickle down effect among siblings as children as
young as four declaring that something is sus.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
As in suspect or suspicious.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Phil Lindsey middle school teacher he flags and defines the
words that pop up in his classroom on social media
your fun account to follow as a parent.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
In a recent video, he rattled off thirty one phrases
he'd heard in a single week.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, I used sus. Recently, my son said, damn, nobody
says that.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Okay, theda, maxing, get gigachad baddie, Sigma, skimbo dy. The list,
even the definitions and spelling iterations goes on and on,
freaking skivity toilet. Uh so what uh one of those
in there? I wanted to know Sigma what sigma? Oh gosh,
I'm not sure they get in. They don't define them all. Yeah,
(23:23):
let's see here, here's what I liked. Uh, where is it?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Kim thirty eight.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Recently, Purchady purchased a set of colored pencils for her niece.
Upon opening the gift, instead of saying thank you, the
ten year old responded with slay girl, slay.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I assumed it was good, said Kim. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Then you got a dad teasing his kid by insisting
he had RIZ, which you may be familiar with. Sure
for Christmas, essentially, let's see his his daughter. Somebody give
him a look and said, no, you have no riz
and started putting him down with all the insults she
had in her toolbox. She went on to tell Kim
(24:09):
that she was Beta and her husband was omega. Okay,
it's just the Greek alphabet. That's like out of a
brave new world.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We don't have a definition on that.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I hear beta a lot. Yeah, it's it's less. It's
like being a midbrain Katie. Feel free to jump in
at any point here.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I was just because I know you guys are dying
to know what sigma is.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
It is used mostly among young men and referring to
someone who is self assured or independent or kind of
replacing the lone wolf.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Yeah, Beta is just not alpha, and Omega, on the
other hand, is like the last place, you're the worst
of the worst.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
That's a big slam among men. I've noticed right now
is calling somebody a beta male.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's got a different Yeah,
that's pop Suty calls me.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
That is that that?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah? Yeah, when you're in the page or the mask
or whatever they do whatever years you people.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Do down in our dungeon. Yeah yeah, too longer and
was more expensive than we thought it'd be. But isn't
that always the way, but it was worth it.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You know, I'm as loss as when Jack described bitcoin
right now, right, Yeah, So beta has got political connotations
for that crowd, but then it's slightly different but similar
texture for the high school kids.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah. I think political in that there's a crowd of
Maldom and I'm at least tangentially sympathetic to it that
hates that the left is constantly trying to provoke femininity
as a great trait for men, and that you ought
to be passive, stay in your place, Let the authorities
(25:57):
tell you what to do. Let the smart women and
they're your uh, your your white guilt trainer tell you
what to do.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It would be a good beta male. So there's always
there's always a version of like something being great, because
that's important when you're young. Music's great, movies, great close
are great, so cool, awesome, epic. Bustin', as my son
says sometimes that that's always a word that has to exist,
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comes and goes quickly. Sure, bustin'.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
But what about these other terms? The middle school teacher
has brought us deeve preshe, glazing, phenom, tax per and
one phrase he says isn't fit to print He recently
is sus in a work meeting, but draws the line
at skibbitty that one seems very nebulous. He says, I
can't figure out what it means, so I give up.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Oh my god, don't go down, well do if you
want to kill some time, go down the YouTube skibbity hole.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Oh it's I. I have disliked you since the day
you told me to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, And that's well and just dumb. So it
just makes you wonder. It's fine. One of the reasons
my son is homeschool thing just can't handle lots of
things is the whole skibbity thing took off, and to
be part of the crowd, you had to talk skibbity
talk all the time, and he saw the videos and
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we just thought it was so stupid. He just couldn't participate,
and by not participating in the hot verbiage of the
day was difficult.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
It is an animated head spinning down a toilet bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
That is exactly right. He is so your son.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Phantom tax refers to a running gag and part of
a Twitch streamer Phantom's streams, in which he taxes other
members when they're eating food, taking a small part of
their meal.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There's a phrase you need to learn get a job. Wow,
damn well. And you know, if we had an anthropologist
with us, he would say, well, you realize all this.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Stuff is just tribal signaling. It's just status seeking and
saying I'm part of the group and part of the group.
Don't drum me out, don't make me an outsider.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, I don't mind. We all participate in. It's the
it's the judgment from the younger crowd where I wish
they understood this. Look, I understand what's going on. Doesn't
bother me. I don't need to know your words. I
don't feel less cool that I don't know your words.
It has no effect on me.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, that's because you're a dev or. You you've deeved,
or you're heading for a real deed.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I don't let's give it. The phantom tax one was
just mystifying. Let me, let me figure out if I
can figure out what deve means.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
The one that's driving me nuts is eight like, hey, Joe,
you ate this segment.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
That's a form of praise. Yeah, yeah, yes, I did.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I ate two giant plates of spaghetti last night. Is
that the similar sort of thing. No, two totally different things. Jack.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
You know, I don't care enough to actually continue down
this rabbit hole. I'll leave the rabbit alone. There's Nscibti
himself right into you know, the wolf's mouth or something.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I don't know. Yeah, but it changing so fast now
is definitely a newer thing.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Yeah, because.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
You've got to re signal that tribal affiliation and that
insider status.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Over and over and over and over again, like in
a more frantic way. I mean, just again.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
In previous generations, the slang would come in, it would
mutate fifteen percent in five years.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And you didn't have to be quite so enthusiastic about it. Yeah,
it changes within the school year. I'm completely aware of
that right now.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
It disgusted me as a teenager. Yeah, so that's obviously
a personality type.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, we will finish strong. Next Trump announcing the United
States is gonna take over Gaza, which it's not, and
he has no intention of. I'm sure will this be
even remembered in a week, I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Yes, yes it will, think so because it signals a
major shift in policy. I don't know what exactly BB
and Donnie J came up with or what they're thinking.
But it's a signal that the status quo is over
in the Middle East. The old policies, the old methods
of trying to maintain peace, they're done.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, we'll be here to let you know. The amount
of news every single day is stunning. You know.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I was just going through the tabs of stuff that
I wanted to talk about today. Rubio in El Salvador
talking about shipping all of our illegal immigrant bad criminals
and some of our domestically produced criminals are fine American
made criminals and putting them in their giant supermax prison.
(30:56):
They're like, hey, we could do it a lot cheaper
than you can in the US. It'd be win for us,
win for you guys. Let's let's do this. And Marco's like, hmm,
that's a tempting deal. Didn't even get to that huge
story on any normal week.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So I don't know why. I get dressed in the
dark more or less every day, and I sleep alone
so I could flip on the lights. Doesn't hurt an
interesting habit, uh. But I wore jeans today that are
the same shade as my blue shirt. They're exactly the
same color. So it looks like I'm wearing a uniform
(31:31):
of some sort, like I'm gonna deliver a package or
or or flowers or change you oil in your car
or something. And it's just I'm unhappy with the whole look.
Little inmatey. Yeah, yeah, it's got a very inmatey look
to it. Yeah, that's exactly what I look like. I
look like an inmate in the prison. What are you
gonna do? That's not I'll tell you what you're gonna do.
You're gonna flip on your light when you get dressed.
(31:52):
You can wear jeans that are a slightly different shade
than your shirt. Does your color blindness factor into that
at all? I'm not color blind, you're not. No, Oh,
that's right. You found out. It was when I got
my lenses replaced. Uh, I can see color again, which
(32:12):
is absolutely fantastic. Lasier Laser Vision Center of Silicon Valley
is where I got that done. I thought it was
color blind. I'm not. You do not get color blind
with age. If you think you're getting color blind with age,
that is cataracts. Wow, that is a handy hint. I
Center of Silicon valleys. Sorry, how much time do we have?
(32:36):
Just a minute? That's too bad. Eh, maybe everybody just
talks to themselves for a minute. Here's something I learned
last night too. I bought the most expensive spaghetti sauce
at the grocery store. That stuff was great. It costs
twice as much as the other. I don't know how
some old Italian mom even takes the time to make
come made spaghetti sauce anymore. You buy the good spaghetti
(32:58):
sauce in the jar. It's really good, kind of chunky style.
It was chunky ish and the ingredients on it were tomatoes, oregano, garlic.
There was like three things. It wasn't a long list
of chemicals or anything like I thought. I feel bad
for anybody who who's learned how to make a really
good spaghetti. So this is good. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I hate to come off as fancy pants, but the
the cheap stuff that everybody knows the brands of.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I can't choke it down. Partly because it's made for children.
It's made to be appealing to the whole fan. Oh,
that's only like five six dollars more for the good stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Right, strong, strong, you're ready.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Strong. That's one of the all time best of those
we've ever had. Here's your host for the final thoughts,
Joe Getty. Let's get a.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Final thought from everybody on the crew wrap up the show.
There is our technical director, Michael Agelong. Michael, final thought.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
I got a prediction.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Elon Musk buys an NBA team and moves it to Gaza.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
They expand to the Middle East. You got to come
up with the name before the show's over, Mike. Those team,
those back to backs on the road are gonna be rough.
You're Gaza tonight, San Antonio tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yay.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Katie Greener is themed to Newswoman As a final thought, Katie,
all right, behind the scenes, I have been working again
on Katie's Corner.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I've got some great videos up there.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
And since you guys screamed at me yesterday, yes it
is Katie's Corner with a K.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I was gonna say, I'm not looking at it until
two k's. It's not cute enough with the c Jack.
Do you have a final thought? Yeah? I did, but
I lost it. Dang it, where did it go?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
It?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Just flip it out of my mind. I'm sorry. I'll
think of it while you're doing yours. First of all, Michael,
do you have the name of the team yet?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
They rubble a Gaza rubble Michaelangelo for the win.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
That is too good, fantastic, that's rough Jack, you got
one yet? No, this is disappointing. Yeah, good thoughts too.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
My final thought is just to repeat what I said earlier.
Perfection would be if you could use obsolete computer cure
ords to cure cancer.
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Speaker 6 (35:53):
Taking it to a much higher level?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers. It's like, well,
we're on the brink, it's sure. Yeah, it seems like
there's a few kings in that slinky.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
For those of you that don't understand you, have.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
A little hard time understanding you.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And listen, you know, we really need to pace ourselves
if we're going to freak out.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Give me a joke.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So we have to fight this in the Congress.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
We have to fight this in the streets.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
I know.
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Subway has begun offering an Oreo foot long cookie, which
features a chocolate cookie top with vanilla cream and crushed oreos.
So if you see that at subway, order it, and
if you see it on the subway.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Wait for the next train. The foot long. They got
a foot long churro and they get a foot long pretzel.
Both very very good at the subway if you need
one of those chero's. This cinnamony spice to fried. I
don't eat stuff like that anymore because I gave up
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big goods. But yes, Katie confused, No.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
That was my that was going to be my question,
And I thought you swore those off.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
For the year breaking news this sort of thing, because
this story is getting a fair amount of attention. I
was a little worried about this clarification letter from the
acting Deputy Attorney General. By the way, Pam Bondi was
just sworn as the Attorney General, but the Deputy Attorney
General just put out a letter let me be clear,
(01:25):
No FBI employee who simply followed orders and carried out
their duties and an ethical manner with respect to the
January sixth investigations is at risk of termination or other punishment.
That's good. Yeah, so I'm glad they put that out.
That's good. Yeah, some people were concerned about that one
(01:46):
other thing. I wanted to get on because I can't.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Believe I'm BONDI according to historians, America's hottest attorney general
by like fifty miles.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
For people who keep track of that sort of thing.
According to historians, I wanted to get this on. Should
have mentioned earlier. We've got a bunch of text saying
why haven't you mentioned this yet? Our sect deaf pete hegsath,
who's who wants one? Who's ready for another? You're ready
for another? Pete sect death said in December twenty twenty four.
This is after Trump's election. The US Army had its
(02:16):
best recruiting number in twelve years in January of twenty five.
The next month, the Army hit its best recruiting number
in fifteen years. Wow. Bottom line, America's youth want to
serve under the bold strong America First leadership of at
real Donald Trump. I don't know how else you would
interpret this. I'd like to see those numbers play out.
But it's a great sign.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I was just reading today about how miserable our recruiting
is gone in recent years.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, it'd been bad.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Speaking of bad, I've come up with a new definition
of perfection. I thought of this last night. I was
doing a little cleaning up around the house. Now, everybody
has their own definition of perfection. Maybe it's a baby's laugh,
maybe it's the will of God.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I see what you mean. Here's my description of perfection.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
If you could use obsolete computer chords to cure cancer, that.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Would be perfection. Oh my god, all of the I.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Don't even remember the name of the ends now, the
lightning chord and the USB B and the.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
A for everything. Now, I tell you what you could.
He's got a few pair of headphones he loves that
has the little trapezoid shape that like nobody else has.
It's like, what is this? Oh right, the trapezoid. I
got some of those too. I got a couple of
devices that take them.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
But I mean, if I'm liking a twelve floor apartment
and there's a fire, I'm just gonna like tie together
all my obsolete cords and climb down.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The side of the building because I think I have enough.
I want to be buried with all of them like
mummies used to be. You need him in the afterlife.
That's the only time we're going to need them. This.
So I mentioned earlier I had been on Facebook Marketplace
to look for an Apple Vision Pro because I want
(04:10):
to buy a used one because almost everybody who well
I shouldn't say this, but a lot of people who
bought them decided they weren't going to use it, so
they're selling them for like half price, which is perfect
for me. But there are a ton of them on there.
They're like unopened, new and unopened, and then people say like, yeah,
I bought this never to use it. Really, that seems weird.
(04:30):
We got this text a lot of those Apple products
on Facebook Marketplace are fake, and I said, I was
also seeing not just applevision pros, but Apple watches, a
ton of Ultra twos. I have the Ultra one. I thought, well,
maybe I'll get an ultratru if I can get a
used one for two hundred bucks or whatever, and ear
pods and all your Apple stuff a lot of those
(04:52):
Apple products are fake. I received a set of air
pods that were legit. Air pods had a serial number
and everything. They worked. Obviously. When I finally had a problem,
I took them into the Apple store, they ran a
system test, turned me away, saying they were fake. They
wouldn't fix or replace them because they weren't real. China
is making duplicates from factories and selling them for cheap. Apple,
(05:14):
doesn't they? He said, pro tip, Apple doesn't wrap their
packages in plastic. That's not true. I've opened lots of
Apple stuff that were in plastic. Lots of things, like
maybe every iPhone I've ever purchased at plastic around the
box anyway. Really, yeah, lots of them. They've all been fake.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, so let me understand, Fine, for years, that's okay.
Are they like Chinese folks are Are they like stealing
them for the factory or making them in the factory
and saying to Apple, yeah, we made eight hundred of
them today. Yeah, it's a pretty good day. And they
actually made nine hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And you know more about this than I do. But
like how good they are at making Nike golf clubs
that are fake that look exactly like the real thing.
Their knockoffs are really good.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Like all of the technical data and expertise and just
making a factory next door.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, and they're making knockoffs good enough that when this
guy got him and received him, obviously he thought they
were real and he used them until they quit. Yeah. So, man,
so where does that leave you? Because even the not
in a box used ones, I have to wonder if
it's fake. Does that mean you just can't buy used
Apple products anymore, or unless it's from somebody you trust somehow? Yeah,
(06:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I'm so new to this. I really don't have any
idea quick, a tangent question. I know, for a very
very long time you weren't on Facebook anything because it's
so insidious of figuring out everything you like, your life
and all your connections and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And I still hate that. I've got remember we set
up an account years ago, all of us to try
to We thought that'd be a good way to communicate,
but then we abandoned it. I still have that. It's
under a gnome to plume. I don't use it for anything.
I have no friends, I have no posts, but it
allows me to get on Facebook marketplace, which I was,
and I have since realized that's the only place to
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buy and sell stuff. I mean, compared to Craigslist, the
options of buyers and sellers is not even close.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
At one point, they were like crazy hardcore rooting out
accounts that used a nom diplume. I remember because they
killed mine. But I don't know what would happen, Woul Zuckerberg,
come up, it's working, okay. What would happen though? If
they rooted me out? What would that look like? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They just cantle the account.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Feel free.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I've been trying to cancel it for like fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
It's impossible, but so but it hasn't figured out who
you are and everybody you know, and I.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Don't know it has. Yeah, but I don't have a
name on there, and so it doesn't hurt me any
I don't think, okay, okay, because I don't have any
information on there at all, So I don't think it's
hurting me. But yeah, it's I still don't like it.
And those of you who do love Facebok and most
people I know do, but it's disturbing to me the
way you know worlds are colliding, Jerry, it brings together.
(08:01):
I mean, I've seen pictures of people that I had
forgotten about thirty years ago bringing together with next door
neighbors that I don't even know. It's weird how it
gets this information. I have no information on my new neighbors,
and there's their family, and now I know everything about him.
And yeah, I don't like that sting. Yeah, yeah, I
(08:22):
find it weird. Here's an interesting thing about my neighbor
that because I did talk to you from Facebook, no,
that I learned from christ convicted. He's some sort of
computer expert. It's weird that, you know, I suppose in
the old way the way you should do it, as
you go over and get to know your neighbor and
you invite him over for dinner and you learn about
it that way. But instead I can creep on Facebook
(08:43):
and see where he went to college and what does
wedding pictures look like, and what his degrees in and
all that sort of stuff. I know, isn't that interesting,
seems weird. But he's a super computer nerd expert guy
that's worked for like all the best, biggest tech everything.
And so I went over to his house right before
(09:06):
we went on vacation. To d C. Or's got to
be gone for a week. And I got my simply
safe system set up and everything like that, and I
had a sitter coming in now today, but I just
told him. I said, hey, we're gonna be gone for
a week. So I mean, if you see a u
aul backed up to my house on Wednesday, it ain't me.
And he gave him my number, and he gave me
his number and everything like that, because I'm new in
this neighborhood. And he said, what are you gonna do?
(09:28):
And I said, I'm going to d C. He said, yeah,
he said, you know, I was there one time. I
hate museums. So I thought that's interesting. How not my
town for a guy who's like successful education, highly educated
to say I hate museums. Heard anybody say I don't
(09:49):
think I've ever heard anybody say that either other than
like a high school again on a field trip. Yeah,
I see people kind of act like they do clearly.
But uh, that struck me as interesting and good for
you to have the guts to say that. More people
should have the guts to say things like that out aloud.
I hate museums, I hate the Super Bowl, I hate
you know, other popular things, trying to think what I
(10:12):
would say, you've empowered me. I just I don't have
anything and my fingertips. If you got any tips for
how you root out fake stuff online, because I'm sure
if China's making fake apple stuff, they're making all kinds
of fake stuff. Yeah. Is it going to kill off
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the ability to sell things used?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I know, it's a huge quote unquote problem that I
cannot even pretend to care about in the world of fashion,
because the knockoffs are so incredibly good. Well, it takes
like the authentication expert for and brand of purse.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
To identify and what's the problem with that? Obviously? All right,
if you can't tell the difference between a fake two
thousand dollars bag and you know when that was fifty bucks,
then what were you doing in the first place. It's
a little different with the electronics, though, you know, you want,
oh yeah, the thing to actually function, clearly, But if
the function of the thing is to have the name
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of the brand on it so everybody knows you're rich
or whatever you're trying to accomplish, that's, you know, fine,
who cares if it's fake or real? Why do you
want to own it? Okay, this will fulfill that next Right,
the better question is why'd you buy a real one?
Not how did you get duped into a fake one?
Why'd you buy the real one when you could get
the fake one that looks just like it? Right, much
(11:34):
better question, So.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Jack, the scourge confronting many Americans, the widespread, the huge,
high disturbing death toll from selfies. We'll talk about the
number of people who die taking the ultimate selfie?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Coming up? Cool? How about those recruiting numbers for the Army,
highest number at a dozen years in December, highest number
in fifteen years in January. That is amazing. Is there
something a missing there? Or is it all about feeling
better about your country and your government? I don't know.
It's a really intriguing question. Yeah, I'd say if you
(12:09):
have any guesses, our text line is four one five
two nine five kftc Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Researchers tell me this is about nanoparticles of decades old
plastic only visible under a microscope, that have somehow made
it into the food and water supply, now being found in.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
The human body.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
New research of the University of New Mexico finds alarmingly
high levels of that plastic in human brains at much
higher concentrations compared to the liver and kidney, and the
concentrations appear to be increasing over time by fifty percent
from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty four. These researchers still
don't know the full health impact that they're calling for
(12:51):
new policies around the use and disposal of plastic.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I feel like there's a certain because I don't care
about climate change at all at all. I never think
about it a second. This I worry about, and it
concerns me that I feel like, because we're so climate
changes in our face all the time, those of us
who are on the right side of politics have kind
of rejected anything environmental. I would agree there is a
(13:18):
bit of that. Yeah, and this plastics thing seems like
a really big deal.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Yeah, microplastics or more significantly nanoplastics, although I think people
will just start going with microplastics, which is fine. Yeah,
and they're unlike climate change. I mean, I say all
the time, cell your park and buy some shorts. And
obviously I'm trying to be amusing, but mitigation is one
hundred percent what we need to be doing. If the
climate indeed keeps changing in the direction that it is,
(13:45):
and it may not. I mean, it's just a no brainer.
The other strategies are idiotic, self defeating, and incredibly expensive.
The micro or nanoplastics thing different. There's nothing you can
do about breathing in eating these microscopic fragments and molecules
of plastic all the freaking time, and then getting into
(14:06):
all of your organs and the organs of your unborn
child and everything else. I fried up a two liter
coke bottle last night with ranch dressing.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Pretty good. I put a lot of dressing on that
to make it taste good. But anyway, yeah, it worries me.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
And yeah, that knee jerk rejection of anything that says, hey,
there's a thing that can hurt you in the environment.
You're right, that's one of the costs of ridiculous overreach
by activists who, as you pointed out many times through
the years, they can't just stick with what is true
because they think that doesn't that's not going to get
enough people's attention. Let's just go ahead and wildly inflate
(14:43):
all those numbers and pretend that, for instance, a woman
who died in Texas died because somebody outlawed abortion or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
They just got to twist the truth so much.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Anyway, I think you're absolutely right, and I hope science
is studying this at a feverish pace. Perhaps Donald Jay
Will instead of funding transgender comic books.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
For Peruvians or whatever. There the f was on that list.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
So you know, it's funny when you're talking about how
more people are aware of this and talking about it.
I thought you might even say that, you know, you
hope it's not the shark attacks of this year, and
then it'll just kind of go away and all, And
it's funny. I was just in the middle of reading
something that far more people die from taking selfies than
shark attacks.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Wow, that's not that doesn't surprise me. I've thought of it.
But yeah, good one, good one. Not even close.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
It's not a ton of people, but it's probably five
six hundred since the selfie thing really took off in
two thousand and eight. Usually a cliff, uh yeah, many,
many cliffs and waterfalls.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
And they point out in this article that naturally most
of these incidents occur in the world's most picture x
spots Esque Spots is by Popular TV shows or movies.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
We should die in some place pretty.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Yeah, indeed, yeah, tumbling and screaming and thinking, oh God,
in a lovely setting. God, that would be a rough
couple of seconds. I'll tell you what we were at.
What's the seventy Falls. That's the big one that you
go up, And there's a fence right there at the
very top, just stunning and beautiful. And there's signs all
over the place which kind of mar of the view.
(16:27):
Do not cross the fence line, do not step out,
very slippery.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
People die.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
You will die, people will You will be squashed on
the rocks below, for God's sake. And I think it
was two days after we were there, somebody did it slip.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I got some pictures of me on the other side
of the fence at the Grand Canyon, getting a good picture.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
You know. My only objection to that is if some
impressionable kid sees that right and plunges to their death.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But adults who do that, by the ticket, take the
ride looking at it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
A picture of a eye on this impossibly thin, wobbly
looking rock formation taking a beautiful selfie.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Good luck, sir, It's gonna be a nice picture if
it turns.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Out good Luck, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Only one third of New York City fourth graders were
deemed proficient in math, which is great for me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I can now charge twice as much when I buy
them beer. That's a good joke. That's pretty day. Should
We got something funny about young people in slang coming up.
But I'm gonna hit you with some serious stuff here. First,
we've mentioned this. I don't know how many times. I
(17:44):
don't think it can be mentioned enough. I would love
to hear the pushback against this. I don't even know
what it would be. People talk about how much money
we spend on schools, and anytime you try to cut back,
you're gonna try to cut education. Freaking moronic argument. For
the millionth time, let us hit you with these statistics,
(18:05):
because these are the latest. What is my phone doing?
No idea, It's trying too hard, Tanya.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
It accidentally bought a knockoff since Apple is felled with
two p's, not one.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Look at it. I accidentally touched the picture and it
was starting to do the AI figuring out I did that.
The other day. Somebody sent me a picture and said,
could you take this out of the background because they
don't have the latest iPhone. I just touched it with
my finger. I did that. I took a great picture
the other day, the picture of pup that I posted
on Twitter that people liked at a shoe box in
the background ruined the picture touched with my finger. Shoe
box gone incredible, just incredible. It's like you're Harry Potter.
(18:42):
It's amazing, or it's like it's like I'm somebody who
has a skill that is worth something that used to
be worth something that is no longer worth anything because
everybody can do it. But education, this drives me nuts.
What is your argument for this occurring? In eighteen seventy,
Enrollment in schools has increased eight percent, that's students. Total
(19:07):
educating staffing has risen eighty four percent. Most notably, non
teaching staff has increased one hundred and thirty eight percent.
I know we've done demonstrators a million times, but I
can't ever get over it when I see it onograph.
So the number of kids is got who was looking
back on nineteen seventy and thinking like our schools were failing?
(19:29):
Was that a big thing? And of course not, And
to the extent that you weren't happy with your school.
Did you think more non teaching staff was the answer.
So the number of kids has gone up eight percent,
the number of non teaching staff has gone up one
hundred and thirty eight percent. What's the argument for that?
Government schools are a giant jobs program for you? Gibsess
(19:50):
period freaking loutely yep.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I saw Randy Weingarten live on CNN, I think it
was the other day, explaining what Trump is evil with
what he's trying to do with you know, charter schools
and reform and getting.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Rid of the Education Department. It was like seeing Satan
on the screen trying to recruit souls and drag them
down to hell. It is disgusting with those numbers alone,
even without even if they were reading and doing math
at proficiency, which they're not. But even if you were
getting a good outcome, that's outrageous.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Just from a sport, if rise had coincided indeed with
a plunging results curve, it's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It really is makes me mad.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Government has become a gigantic for profit industry with all
of its offshoots, anything that anything the government pays for.
It's really it's it's well it's unpatriotic, it's horrible speaking
of the young people. Jack has brought to this topic
to us more than once. My kids are growing out
of the house, thank god, so I'm only aware of
this stuff peripherally, but not thank god that they're out
(20:53):
of the house. But thank god I don't have to
deal with this. And that is the dizzying speed with
which slang sprouts, becomes omnipresent, changes, then goes away, and
how parents are trying to keep up with it just
so they know what their kids are saying.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And obviously the speed of it coming and going is
so much faster in the modern era than it was
back when we were young, where a cool word would
come along and it might hang around for a decade.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I think cool for instance, probably coined by jazz musician musicians.
Probably that's there, and then it's still around. And they
talk to a linguist in this piece that he says,
there's not more of it. It just changes so much
more quickly that you're more aware of it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But yeah, they start with this gal who's got text
change going with. Other parents try to stay up to
speed on the words and phrases, catching on with their
kids and her. She got a nine year old, and
she's taken aback after hearing the word mewing coming out
of her.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Nine year old's mouth. I've heard that from my son.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I didn't know what it meant, so I had to
google it. I had to ask my friend Emily a
reference check. Turns out they're just referring to a type
of facial exercise. You look at yourself in the mirror
and you mew. It's supposed to enhance your jaw line.
Oh with the girls, funny you had mentioned that. Yeah,
I just learned that like a week YOUO.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I'd already forgotten it because it's not important to me,
But yeah, Henry brought that up. It makes your jaw
line better. I'm like, I thought, why do you know
anything about jaw lines and their importance and attractiveness? How
has that entered your world? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Yeah, And they go into the speed of the change
blah blahlah trickle down effect among siblings as children as
young as four declaring that something is sus.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
As in suspect or suspicious.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Phil Lindsey middle school teacher he flags and defines the
words that pop up in his classroom on social media
your fun account to follow as a parent.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
In a recent video, he rattled off thirty one phrases
he'd heard in a single week.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, I used sus. Recently, my son said, damn, nobody
says that.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Okay, theda, maxing, get gigachad baddie, Sigma, skimbo dy. The list,
even the definitions and spelling iterations goes on and on,
freaking skivity toilet. Uh so what uh one of those
in there? I wanted to know Sigma what sigma? Oh gosh,
I'm not sure they get in. They don't define them all. Yeah,
(23:23):
let's see here, here's what I liked. Uh, where is it?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Kim thirty eight.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Recently, Purchady purchased a set of colored pencils for her niece.
Upon opening the gift, instead of saying thank you, the
ten year old responded with slay girl, slay.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I assumed it was good, said Kim. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Then you got a dad teasing his kid by insisting
he had RIZ, which you may be familiar with. Sure
for Christmas, essentially, let's see his his daughter. Somebody give
him a look and said, no, you have no riz
and started putting him down with all the insults she
had in her toolbox. She went on to tell Kim
(24:09):
that she was Beta and her husband was omega. Okay,
it's just the Greek alphabet. That's like out of a
brave new world.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We don't have a definition on that.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I hear beta a lot. Yeah, it's it's less. It's
like being a midbrain Katie. Feel free to jump in
at any point here.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I was just because I know you guys are dying
to know what sigma is.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
It is used mostly among young men and referring to
someone who is self assured or independent or kind of
replacing the lone wolf.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Yeah, Beta is just not alpha, and Omega, on the
other hand, is like the last place, you're the worst
of the worst.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
That's a big slam among men. I've noticed right now
is calling somebody a beta male.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's got a different Yeah,
that's pop Suty calls me.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
That is that that?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah? Yeah, when you're in the page or the mask
or whatever they do whatever years you people.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Do down in our dungeon. Yeah yeah, too longer and
was more expensive than we thought it'd be. But isn't
that always the way, but it was worth it.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You know, I'm as loss as when Jack described bitcoin
right now, right, Yeah, So beta has got political connotations
for that crowd, but then it's slightly different but similar
texture for the high school kids.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah. I think political in that there's a crowd of
Maldom and I'm at least tangentially sympathetic to it that
hates that the left is constantly trying to provoke femininity
as a great trait for men, and that you ought
to be passive, stay in your place, Let the authorities
(25:57):
tell you what to do. Let the smart women and
they're your uh, your your white guilt trainer tell you
what to do.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It would be a good beta male. So there's always
there's always a version of like something being great, because
that's important when you're young. Music's great, movies, great close
are great, so cool, awesome, epic. Bustin', as my son
says sometimes that that's always a word that has to exist,
(26:27):
comes and goes quickly. Sure, bustin'.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
But what about these other terms? The middle school teacher
has brought us deeve preshe, glazing, phenom, tax per and
one phrase he says isn't fit to print He recently
is sus in a work meeting, but draws the line
at skibbitty that one seems very nebulous. He says, I
can't figure out what it means, so I give up.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Oh my god, don't go down, well do if you
want to kill some time, go down the YouTube skibbity hole.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Oh it's I. I have disliked you since the day
you told me to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, And that's well and just dumb. So it
just makes you wonder. It's fine. One of the reasons
my son is homeschool thing just can't handle lots of
things is the whole skibbity thing took off, and to
be part of the crowd, you had to talk skibbity
talk all the time, and he saw the videos and
(27:19):
we just thought it was so stupid. He just couldn't participate,
and by not participating in the hot verbiage of the
day was difficult.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
It is an animated head spinning down a toilet bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
That is exactly right. He is so your son.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Phantom tax refers to a running gag and part of
a Twitch streamer Phantom's streams, in which he taxes other
members when they're eating food, taking a small part of
their meal.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There's a phrase you need to learn get a job. Wow,
damn well. And you know, if we had an anthropologist
with us, he would say, well, you realize all this.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Stuff is just tribal signaling. It's just status seeking and
saying I'm part of the group and part of the group.
Don't drum me out, don't make me an outsider.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, I don't mind. We all participate in. It's the
it's the judgment from the younger crowd where I wish
they understood this. Look, I understand what's going on. Doesn't
bother me. I don't need to know your words. I
don't feel less cool that I don't know your words.
It has no effect on me.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, that's because you're a dev or. You you've deeved,
or you're heading for a real deed.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I don't let's give it. The phantom tax one was
just mystifying. Let me, let me figure out if I
can figure out what deve means.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
The one that's driving me nuts is eight like, hey, Joe,
you ate this segment.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
That's a form of praise. Yeah, yeah, yes, I did.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I ate two giant plates of spaghetti last night. Is
that the similar sort of thing. No, two totally different things. Jack.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
You know, I don't care enough to actually continue down
this rabbit hole. I'll leave the rabbit alone. There's Nscibti
himself right into you know, the wolf's mouth or something.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I don't know. Yeah, but it changing so fast now
is definitely a newer thing.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Yeah, because.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
You've got to re signal that tribal affiliation and that
insider status.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Over and over and over and over again, like in
a more frantic way. I mean, just again.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
In previous generations, the slang would come in, it would
mutate fifteen percent in five years.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And you didn't have to be quite so enthusiastic about it. Yeah,
it changes within the school year. I'm completely aware of
that right now.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
It disgusted me as a teenager. Yeah, so that's obviously
a personality type.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, we will finish strong. Next Trump announcing the United
States is gonna take over Gaza, which it's not, and
he has no intention of. I'm sure will this be
even remembered in a week, I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Yes, yes it will, think so because it signals a
major shift in policy. I don't know what exactly BB
and Donnie J came up with or what they're thinking.
But it's a signal that the status quo is over
in the Middle East. The old policies, the old methods
of trying to maintain peace, they're done.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, we'll be here to let you know. The amount
of news every single day is stunning. You know.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I was just going through the tabs of stuff that
I wanted to talk about today. Rubio in El Salvador
talking about shipping all of our illegal immigrant bad criminals
and some of our domestically produced criminals are fine American
made criminals and putting them in their giant supermax prison.
(30:56):
They're like, hey, we could do it a lot cheaper
than you can in the US. It'd be win for us,
win for you guys. Let's let's do this. And Marco's like, hmm,
that's a tempting deal. Didn't even get to that huge
story on any normal week.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So I don't know why. I get dressed in the
dark more or less every day, and I sleep alone
so I could flip on the lights. Doesn't hurt an
interesting habit, uh. But I wore jeans today that are
the same shade as my blue shirt. They're exactly the
same color. So it looks like I'm wearing a uniform
(31:31):
of some sort, like I'm gonna deliver a package or
or or flowers or change you oil in your car
or something. And it's just I'm unhappy with the whole look.
Little inmatey. Yeah, yeah, it's got a very inmatey look
to it. Yeah, that's exactly what I look like. I
look like an inmate in the prison. What are you
gonna do? That's not I'll tell you what you're gonna do.
You're gonna flip on your light when you get dressed.
(31:52):
You can wear jeans that are a slightly different shade
than your shirt. Does your color blindness factor into that
at all? I'm not color blind, you're not. No, Oh,
that's right. You found out. It was when I got
my lenses replaced. Uh, I can see color again, which
(32:12):
is absolutely fantastic. Lasier Laser Vision Center of Silicon Valley
is where I got that done. I thought it was
color blind. I'm not. You do not get color blind
with age. If you think you're getting color blind with age,
that is cataracts. Wow, that is a handy hint. I
Center of Silicon valleys. Sorry, how much time do we have?
(32:36):
Just a minute? That's too bad. Eh, maybe everybody just
talks to themselves for a minute. Here's something I learned
last night too. I bought the most expensive spaghetti sauce
at the grocery store. That stuff was great. It costs
twice as much as the other. I don't know how
some old Italian mom even takes the time to make
come made spaghetti sauce anymore. You buy the good spaghetti
(32:58):
sauce in the jar. It's really good, kind of chunky style.
It was chunky ish and the ingredients on it were tomatoes, oregano, garlic.
There was like three things. It wasn't a long list
of chemicals or anything like I thought. I feel bad
for anybody who who's learned how to make a really
good spaghetti. So this is good. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
I hate to come off as fancy pants, but the
the cheap stuff that everybody knows the brands of.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I can't choke it down. Partly because it's made for children.
It's made to be appealing to the whole fan. Oh,
that's only like five six dollars more for the good stuff.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Right, strong, strong, you're ready.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Strong. That's one of the all time best of those
we've ever had. Here's your host for the final thoughts,
Joe Getty. Let's get a.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Final thought from everybody on the crew wrap up the show.
There is our technical director, Michael Agelong. Michael, final thought.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
I got a prediction.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Elon Musk buys an NBA team and moves it to Gaza.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
They expand to the Middle East. You got to come
up with the name before the show's over, Mike. Those team,
those back to backs on the road are gonna be rough.
You're Gaza tonight, San Antonio tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yay.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Katie Greener is themed to Newswoman As a final thought, Katie,
all right, behind the scenes, I have been working again
on Katie's Corner.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I've got some great videos up there.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
And since you guys screamed at me yesterday, yes it
is Katie's Corner with a K.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I was gonna say, I'm not looking at it until
two k's. It's not cute enough with the c Jack.
Do you have a final thought? Yeah? I did, but
I lost it. Dang it, where did it go?
Speaker 5 (34:40):
It?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Just flip it out of my mind. I'm sorry. I'll
think of it while you're doing yours. First of all, Michael,
do you have the name of the team yet?
Speaker 5 (34:47):
They rubble a Gaza rubble Michaelangelo for the win.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
That is too good, fantastic, that's rough Jack, you got
one yet? No, this is disappointing. Yeah, good thoughts too.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
My final thought is just to repeat what I said earlier.
Perfection would be if you could use obsolete computer cure
ords to cure cancer.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah. If you suffer from fobo fear of what is it?
I forgot? That is anyway you cur it by getting
podcast see tomorrow. God bless America. Did anybody both for
Armstrong and geta is.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Taking it to a much higher level?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers. It's like, well,
we're on the brink, it's sure. Yeah, it seems like
there's a few kings in that slinky.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
For those of you that don't understand you, have.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
A little hard time understanding you.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
And listen, you know, we really need to pace ourselves
if we're going to freak out.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Give me a joke.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So we have to fight this in the Congress.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
We have to fight this in the streets.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
I know.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Good luck, live in peace, Armstrong and Getty
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