October 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & NBA scandal
- DUI training & sports betting stats
- Joe closes his tabs & snobs
- 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 Show, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So the best sports show of any kind of sports
show is the NBA Tonight Thing whatever channel it's on now,
that has Kenny Smith and Shack and Charles Barkley on
it because they want it's funny, but too they get
into conversations that no other sports show does.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I wish the NFL had something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They just and they got into the whole gambling scandal
last night and disagreed a lot, and we'll play that
for you and get into that conversation come up, because
I thought it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. They're great for a
couple of reasons, including the fact that there are so
many sports shows that they're only dimly aware of, like
politics and societal norms and what's okay to say and
what's not, and so they always defer to the woke
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notions sports shows, which are often very guy oriented. You'd
think it'd be pretty reckless. No, a lot of them
are like super politically correct because they just don't want
to get in trouble, and they don't really. They've heard
something about black lives matter or transgender rights or something,
and so they're very, very safe. The great thing about
these guys, they don't give a damn that panel.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Also, it's the only sports show where you'll have usually
Charles say, God, this game sucks.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Fun there, I'm walking to my car. I got better
things to do, right right, Yeah, love it all right,
So we're going to talk about that. Also, I haven't
done this for a very long time. Later in the hour,
Joe closes his tabs with a new theme song for
Very Excited Oh among other fair But first, it's the
Friday tradition. Let's take a fund look back at the
week it was. It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Cons the week, construction on President Trump's vast new ballroom
gets underway.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Surprise, Donald Trump is literally destroying the People's House.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
In order to do it properly, we had to take
down the existing structure.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
So if people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up,
stop sending drugs to the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, we're going to kill them. You know, they're going
to be like dead. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
The White House revealing the second summit with Vladimir Putin
won't happen anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
As a fragile cyes fire faced. It's most serious test Sunday.
You know they're going to be very good.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
They're gonna behave, they're gonna be nice, and if they're not,
we're going to go and we're going to eradicate them
if we have to.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I will be the mayor who doesn't just protect Jewish
New Yorkers but also celebrates and cherishes them.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Our pleasure leadion to the flag of the United States, Americans,
the Republic for which is fans.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Wipe that smile off your face. Andrew, you didn't leave.
You fled from being impeached.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Chauncey Phillips, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The scheme targeted victims known as quote fish. These operatives
included capos and multiple soldiers from the Banano, Gambino, lu
Casey and Genevieve's crime families. This is the insider trading
saga for the NBA.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Anytime you say anything about Bron, people call you and say, hey,
leave Lebron alone.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Filed horizon.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
But this is a beautiful pork job, and a lot
of people know about it. Nobody can cook them like
I do. We have a blackstone in the white House.
They call me a racist. We have a blackstone in
the white House, and we make fantastic pork jobs.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So I'm going to assume you know this story more
or less. Big Gambling Bus. Thirty one people or thirty
more than that arrested yesterday, including an NBA head coach
and some players, including some players that were losing on purpose,
taking themselves out of games or missing shots or whatever.
And they were involved in card games and all that
sort of stuff. So last night on the Big NBA
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show that we mentioned that has Charles Barclay and Kenny
Smith on it, both NBA Hall of Famers, they got
into a discussion about this sort of thing that I
find very interesting.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
All these guys knew what was at stake, and I'm
just a shame that they put themselves and put their
family and put the NBA in this position.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Gambling is an addiction, So the addiction of it is
what makes you make illogical decisions. Man, this ain't got
none to do it, damn gambling addiction. This ain't got
none to do with addiction. These dudes are stupid? Why
are they stupid? You under no circumstances? Can you fix
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basketball games under no circumstances?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Now we're gonna play a little more of their argument,
which I just think is interesting because I think Charles
Barkley is almost certainly a gambling addict, with the gazillions
of dollars he spent on gambling, and he's saying it's
not an addiction, it's stupidity.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
They go on, he took himself out of games on
prop bets. How much money is he gonna make? Well,
if he did that, you're proving my point.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
What do you mean that means that logical process?
Speaker 7 (05:55):
If you're making twenty six million dollars to try to
win fifty thousand, like, that's illogical, So that you're proving
my point that's not an addiction. That's true the same
reason though someone goes and uses drugs when they are
drugs are addiction, they are gambling addition. But the notion
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that you're trying to make sure for these guys be
an addiction you can't fix.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You cannot.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's enough, Michael, I think the point there. I think
I agree with Kenny Smith character that is proving the
point they're doing something incredibly illogical. It makes no sense whatsoever,
because the gambling is more important to them than the money.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, they can they can count. It's not stupidity, it's
a compulsion.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think if you're a gambling addict, like Charles probably is.
You don't don't want to credit anything the gambling addiction.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, yeah, I guess I think there's room to say
losing control of your gambling is stupid as a warning
to people. But yeah, if you're yeah, if you're risking everything,
including your you know, twenty million dollar paycheck, twenty six
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million dollars a year to make fifty grand, No, that's
that's psychosis. These guys can count. They have people who
can count. If they can't, they count for them.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, it's because you're you're getting a bigger thrill, temporary thrill,
out of being involved in gambling than apparently you are
out of collecting twenty six million dollars a year playing basketball. Now,
he was probably pulled himself out of the game and
faked an injury because he owed a bunch of money.
Isn't that what we're assuming?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah? Yeah, and he was compelled to uh, not go
past a certain number of points the mobster's bet the under.
But yeah, how much was it money that he owed?
Or were they blackmailing him? Or how can you owe money.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Unless you and you'd have to know you have to
owe a lot. I think his total life earnings is
one hundred and thirty million. Now you got taxes, he
got agents, you got your lifestyle. How much he's got left,
I don't know, but I think it'd be enough to
cover whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
He owed, right right. I mean he could pay play
a million dollar a hand blackjack and lose ten hands
in a row and pay the guy back by the
end of the year, and he'll never make another cent.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And who knows, there might not be some sort of
lawsuit where they go back and say, hey, we're not
going to pay him for we want.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We are our money back from the years we're paying him.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Who knows what their contract is, But he will never
make another cent as an NBA player, certainly. So, it's
from a logical standpoint, not the best move. Wow, it's
amazing the things that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
People will do. Yeah, it is. Hey, speaking of sports, Michael,
the world serious kicks off tonight. Indulge me. Won't you.
This is my musical hero, Geddy Lee of Rush talking
about throwing out the first pitch at a Blue Jays game.
He's a maniac baseball player. He's also forner. He is Canadian, Yes,
and he's one of the world's leading collectors of baseball memorabilia.
(09:14):
It's still insane his collection. Oh yeah, he could open
up a museum easily. It's it's amazing. Go ahead, I
can throw a pitch. The Blue Jays asked me to
throw the home opener first pitch. I practiced like hell
as you can imagine. He's a Canadian music icon. He
is the vocalist, bassist and keyboardists with the Toronto rock
(09:37):
band Rush.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
John has been welcoming to the Beatle to throw out
the ceremonial first pitch.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Kenny Lee. I threw a perfect curveball for a stripe. Wow,
ndies and gentlemen, girls and boys. Kenny Lee.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
One with the breaking pitch controversial, Yeah, no kidding? And
is he doing it again tonight?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I don't know. So that was back in thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
First of all, his English is pretty good for foreigner,
right you like we've been talking about Wait till you
hear the rain of booze on the national anthem in Canada?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
What if the main chances they're not going to air that.
They always air the national anthem, but maybe they won't tonight.
I don't know that. Yeah, I think they hear it,
And in fact, if they were planning not to air it,
I'd bump a commercial or two to air it because
that will get tremendous attention to the next telecast. WHOA.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So, then does that make Americans angry and like go
all in on rooting for the Dodgers in a way
that they might not normally? It becomes more of a
USA versus Canada thing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, I don't. Will dodgertchet up Americans dislike of Canada?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I don't know if he can't either, And Dodger hate
for people who don't like the Dodgers runs pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Deeps a long time San Francisco Giants fan, No is
the answer. No, right, yeah, I'm gonna watch chance first
pitch if the game starts at five o'clock West Coast time,
eight Eastern more on the waist to hear Heydie.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
This is what they call a wet lab. They get
a bunch of volunteers to come in and drink.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Terry, I need you to go have a double And.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
So they get a double drink until they have the
right VAC level according to the breathaweiser. And now we'll
see if any of the people who are drinking can
pass the sobriety test. The guy who had the most
to drink had fourteen drinks over.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
About two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, he didn't pass the test.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Neither did anybody else.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The cadets said that they would have arrested every single
person who was in that room drinking if they were
stopped on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Don't drink and drive. That's the important message the cops
can tell. I don't know what the message was there.
Joe and I have done that a couple of different
times where we got all drunked up with the highway patrol. Yeah,
this was a different program where they get people drunk
and then they like unleash him on cadets to see
if to give him practice and giving sobriety tests to drunks.
(12:03):
Have you done that before, Katie on the air, where
you get drunk? I have. It's a good time.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You ever gotten drunk alone? Just to make your problems
go away.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah. Last night and tonight, yeah, it was it. Actually,
it was crazy fun while it lasted. This is back
in Jack's Drink of days. Obviously, I was very proud
of the fact that my time's kept getting better until
it's a lot like my golf game until I, you know,
obviously crossed the line till it doesn't. Yeh. Felt like
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crap that afternoon though we did it during the morning drive. Yeah.
Same here makes the day kind of long, I'd say, well,
it makes the day go away. You sleep for the
rest of it usually.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Hey, I meant to get to these stats on sports
gambling that are kind of interesting. Rich Lowry, writing in
the New York Post about he's he thinks it was
a mistake the Supreme Court legalizing gambling. So thirty eight
states jumped on board immediately with sports betting that we
(13:08):
didn't have before because of a Supreme Court ruling that
basically the government doesn't have the right to not let
you do that is basically in But so the most
recent year, they have numbers for twenty twenty three, people
waged one hundred and fifty billion dollars nationwide.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Wow, just in America, one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Fifty billion on the Super Bowl, the most bet on activity,
seventy thousand wagers a minute. Now, this is all, you know,
getting toward the how much pressure there could be on
there's so much money involved, there could be pressure on
referees or players or coaches or whatever to do something
untoward and getting in on a little of the betting
seventy thousand wagers a minute during the Super Bowl. An
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article in The Atlantic, a guy studying at this all
for the Manhattan Institute wrote, the rise of sports has
caused a wave of financial and familial misery, one that
falls disproportionately on the most economically precarious households. Well, that's
true for obvious reasons. You lose ten thousand dollars in
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your poor does a lot more damage than if you're rich.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So there's got to be a term for this among
people who study it. But the concept that prostitution is illegal,
everybody knows there's escorts, and you know, there's a certain
amount of prostitution, and they have a bust, rubb and tugs.
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They have a couple of busts a year. Everybody goes
through the motions and it all looks all looks a
little bit silly, but that keeps a from like just
blatant street walking hose from walking by elementary schools and
it becoming rampant, and it gives the cops an excuse
to contact people who they suspect being trafficked or exploited
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or underage or that sort of thing. In the same
way that the speed limit is seventy, they don't expect
you to go seventy. They just don't want you to
go ninety. There's and there was always lots and lots
of betting when gambling was quote unquote illegal, but it
held back the tide a little bit. And that's difficult
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to explain in a way that is constitutional in the
face of a good lawyer's argument. You have to have
like really consistent moral codes among a society. You gotta
have a homogenous society.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
And where it always gets complicated in a welfare state
is like, I personally have zero problem with you having
the freedom to ruin your life gambling as long as
I ain't got to pay for you and your kids.
But that ain't the way it works. That is not
the way it works. If you end up on hard
times or can't have a dignified retirement when you reach
old age, because you've been gambling your whole life, I'm
expected to pick up the tab. So that's where it
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becomes a problem. This is an interesting number. This is
similar to drinking. Everyone's well, you see the stats where
it's like and I was one of these people, like
ten percent of drinkers by ninety percent of the alcohol
or something like that, because there's so many people that
have a beer a weekend. Well, the rest of us
are doing the heavy lifting. But for sports betting, it's similar.
About five percent of betters spent seventy percent of the
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money over a two year period, five percent of the
betters did seventy percent of the spending.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Not surprised.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, and again, do what all you want, as long
as I'm not sending you snap money for your kids
because you can't afford to feed them.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Right, and as long as it doesn't screw up my
favorite sports because it's everywhere all the time, and the
temptations to do the unthinkable or you know, ever present
for the players and coaches and referees and the rest
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Remind me about I bought some gourmet coffee and EBT
snap money I want to. I want to tell that story.
I just came across yesterday. I thought it was kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You're on Snap thinks, all right, you need some help. No, No,
I'm not on Snap. Oh okay yet I am in
the radio industry. We got a lot more of the
ways to hear.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Armstrong and Getty and all.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I tell you. You hear people say all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know, you can't buy junk food with food stamps,
so that sort of thing. Boy, I came across a
lie that that is the other day.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, it's a huge flaming lie. My god. It's one
of the few things I agree with Doctor Ozbont. Anyway,
once in a while we'll do this. I get to
the end of the week, I Jo Suph, Getty get
to the end of the week, and I've got so
many articles and tabs open that are really interesting and
I'd love to get to them on the show, but
I'm just not going to. So we just will buzz
(17:51):
through a bunch of them. Jack, any of them intrigue you,
in particular, we can go into some detail. It's called
Joe closes as tabs. We haven't done this for a
long time, and I decided that it needed theme music.
So Hanson, working his AI magic, has come up with
some options. First, we need to pick the theme music.
Everybody gets a vote, Michael. Number one, please, Joey closes
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is tag. That'll be hard to beat this one, showing
me it's a little long. It's way too long. I
like the style though, all right. Number two, Michael, Joey.
(18:41):
For our purposes, that's better. Yeah, it's pretty good too, right.
Number three? I like that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I like that one the best. I think for what
for what we're using it for? I might be number
three myself.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Mm hm. I got to hear number two again, Michael Joy. Okay,
I'm glad I tasted that again.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'm getting hints of berries and I had a bit
of a chocolate flavor at the end.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, okay, well we'll probably go with number three if
that's which one do you like? I like both two
and three, but either one. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Anyway, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Schools are accommodating Michelangelo, not wanting to anger either of
the people's names on the show.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's what that was. You caught me checking for craps.
I have none to give which one, students are accommodating
student anxiety. I'm sorry, schools are accommodating student anxiety and
making it worse. The authors of the study say, having
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kids avoid that which makes them anxious makes their anxiety
about a particular thing worse. I don't doubt that a
bit like test taking your public speaking, which speaking is
a great idea.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I know it's very common. Like you, if you're really
nervous speaking in public, they'll let you give your speech
alone after school to just the teacher. You think that's
gonna help you in the future when you have to
finally speak in public, which you will at some point.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And this is a study, and they use a bunch
of data, but some of their conclusions are just intuitive.
Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they
imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous, right when
it's not at all. Public speaking, testing, lunch with classmates
are too risky. For the lunch with classmates, that's rough. Second,
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they suggest that the student can't students can't withstand the distress.
Those messages increase anxiety. I mean, I'm supposed to the
more dad like you'll be fine, Go ahead, I'd be great.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I can speak to that one perfectly. So I didn't
have problem with public speaking or tests or anything like that.
I did have the lunch with classmates, probably because I
moved schools a lot, and I know exactly what it
feels like to walk out into that lunch room and
know you're gonna go sit on a table by yourself,
all right, with everybody looking at you.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I know that feeling exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But if the teachers had accommodated me by you, you
can eat in here with us by yourself, you think
that would have made me a better, more resilient human
being or less?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I mean, good Lord, right right? So many of the
woke policies that you know we've said all longer terrible ideas,
or just at least people are saying it out loud
now they're terrible ide Wow. The most wanted fentanyl producer
is extradited to the US after a brazen escaped. This
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guy's name. He's Chinese, Jidong Ziang. He was the big
go between between the Chinese fentanyl precursor chemical producers and
the Mexican cartels. Evidently, he escaped from house arrest in
Mexico house arrest or. He was set to be extradited
(22:02):
to the US. He hopped on a private jet to Cuba,
then tried to fly to Russia. They wouldn't have him,
send him back to Cuba. Now Cuba's extraditing him to
Mexico and from there he was delivered to the US.
So we have him now. Never heard of this guy.
He's one of the most important drug dealers on the
planet and he's a Chinese national. I'll be damned. Another
(22:24):
headline with the owner if he is mostly run in fentanyl. Oh,
see headline is most wanted fentanyl producer. Yeah, that was
his gig.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I remember having an argument with somebody who thought I
was a conspiracy theory nut for saying China was trying
to get fentanyl in the United States.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Jang is accused of smuggling tons of chemical precursors to
make fentanyl for Mexico's top two criminal organization, the Sinelo
and Hollisco cartels, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Man,
people believe some strange stuff. Federal judge strikes Biden near
a Bay on transgender care discrimination, saying that no you
can add I feel like a girl to actual sex
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related civil rights protection. What I thought was interesting is
this writer in the hill. I'm sure some twenty four
year old woke half wit wrote the following sentences. Where
was it? Did I scroll too far? The decision is
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a significant loss for the transgender community, which has faced
a wave of state and federal policies and court decisions
rolling back previously established rights. Do you mean rolling back
insane fifteen minutes ago departures from all sanity, previously established rights? Man,
(23:53):
you're dressing up some pretty thin rulings in some pretty
fancy clothes there. Moving along. Testosterone is giving women back
their sex drive, but risk side effects women are if
and it's tough to find a doctor to prescribe this.
But women are taking testosterone even a little more than
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their body would ever produce on their best day, and
it's turning them into sex maniacs. Okay, I have personal
experience with this New York Times with this story.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I know someone who does the testosterone cream thing. He
was using the testosterone cream, believes some of it was
rubbing off on his wife who is getting more testosterone,
and they became like a.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Rabbit with four kids in the house. These people are
in the sex.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
This is people in their fifties, been married for thirty years,
having sex every single day.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Why crean and he thinks that it's the testosterone. Anybody
got forty in their early forties, four kids in the house,
sex six times a week? Up from how about never? Okay,
she says, they're doing the biblical thing and taking Sunday off.
That's what they're doing. Even God, that's probably good. Well,
I don't know if it's good exercise. But isn't that interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Though, that the only thing that needed to get the
lady going is a little testosterone. Yeah, you're gonna have
a mustache and maybe grow testicles. But hey, there's a
downside to everything. Yeah, actually, facial hair is downside. She
was a little less emotional, a little less sentimental than
she used to be, but she didn't have time for
that kind of thing anyway. It's more like, get stuff done,
handle business, work out unbelievable, And they got a bunch
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of bunch of examples.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I mean, one woman in her fifties told me that
after years of revulsion at so much as the thought
of her husband's breath, Wow, she now looked forward to
having sex with him almost every night. Even in the
middle of sex, she was thinking about the next time
they could have sex. Wow, wow, night after night, night
after night. Wow. Interesting. Just as estrogen is a crucial
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hormone for men, testosterone is an important hormone hormone for women.
It just is in different palaces in the two sexes.
And guess what, they are only two sexes.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So you get some tests cream, and then when you
come home from work and you hug your wife, you
just rub a little behind your ear.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You keep doing exactly I got this new hand cream anyway.
Oh God, seen a few minutes mustache by the way,
How it's nothing a little wax can't handle. Huh. How
about this one from from laughing in sex to make
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you want to pound somebody? Get Joe Getty cold Warrior ready, Michael.
How China cheats its way into US law schools. China's
l SET Prep l SAT Prep companies are utterly crooked
with letting other people take the test for them all
sorts of cheating technologies, screen captures of test questions then
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fed to their clients. And Chinese communist nationals are getting
into all of our elite law schools to learn American law.
You want to guess why they're doing that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know, that is really smart by China. That is
really clever. Why wouldn't you do that? Why wouldn't you
spend as much money as you can to get your
smart Chinese kids into the best law schools. Help them
out with the score. Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They Then you can subvert the United States because you
have a whole of society effort to take down the
US and raise China up. And I for one ain't
sitting still for it. Jo Getty cold Warrior, Yeah, I
heard that. That was good. I like that one kind
of chilling. Anyway, moving along, Joe closes tabs. What do
(27:59):
we have? Oh boy? And maybe we want to talk
about this Monday. Hamas has calculated it can survive in
Gaza and rule, and I read a piece by Kevin
Williamson the Dispatch. I think he's right. Donald Trump's Middle
East plan might have been a smashing success, except that
it is missing two elements, one piece and two a plan.
(28:24):
But we can talk about that more on. He hates
Trump so much though it's difficult for him to see straight. Well,
that's it maybe, but his reasoning is perfectly sound. Uh.
Tesla earnings profits drop thirty seven percent thirty seven percent
in the third quarter despite growing vehicle sales because of
the end of certain subsidies. Plus, he has emphasized that
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it's now about robot cars. That's his thing. It's not
about making high quality electrical vehicles at various price ranges
for American consumers and consumers worldwide. No, he's obsessed with
the self driving software. You know what visionaries do. Yeah,
(29:12):
I wonder if he wants to sell it to all
the car companies and that's how he's going to make
his money.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He's still saying that in twenty six Tesla will go
fully self driving.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You don't have to pay attention. I just I just
don't think it's gonna happen. But yeah, he says, blah
blah blah. My fundamental concern he's talking about his relationship
with the board of directors is pay but his control.
My fundamental concern with how much voting control I have
at Tesla, is if I build this enormous robot army,
can I just be ousted in the future. I don't
feel comfortable building that robot army. If I don't have
(29:46):
at least influence over it. He says, it'll be like
a shockwave. Wow, when they're successful. Oh boy, we don't
need any more shock waves. Too many shock waves. And
then finally want to dig in a little more into
the article I mentioned yesterday, surveillance cameras pointed the wrong
way to allow the Louver heist.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's so funny. Installed your security cameras pointing the wrong direction?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, and you know, I don't want to come off
as sexist. No chicks did it, but absolutely everybody involved
in this, the director of the Louver, the director of security,
of security, the I believe the uh, what is the
(30:35):
what is the Minister of culture? I think involved is
a woman. They have known for years that they needed
to upgrade their security system, including their camera system, and
they declared that it was time to do it right now,
four years ago. But it's been tied up in French
(30:57):
bureaucracy that whole time, and they haven't replaced a single
damn camera. How emblematic is that of what France is now?
No kidding, Wow, that's why it's a national embursement. Yeah,
no kidding. Look, our security system is paltry. It's terrible.
We've got to at least get modern cameras. Okay, we'll
(31:20):
study it in half a decade goes by. And that
was And I have so many more I want to
get to. I'm gonna hit you with one more. I
don't care. We're running late. And I've been wanting to
talk about this for a long time. A Jewish lawyer
(31:42):
was arrested for wearing a Star of David on a
London street because he was getting close to a pro
Palestinian protest, and they called the wearing the star of
David provocative. Wow. Yeah, more on that next week.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I'm glad that our hungry are getting government helped to
buy them most expensive gourmet coffee that exists, among other
things on the waist here. You got different kinds of snobs.
You got wine snobs, obviously, and there are chocolate snobs
and cheese snobs and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But I saw this the other day.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
The worst snobs, the snobbyist of snobs, are coffee snobs,
espresso snobs. And I'm going to try not to become
one of those. As I mentioned earlier in the week,
I bought a fancy, expensive coffee machine.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I get it. Today. I've already bought my beans. I'm
really excited about. I've been doing these.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Rabbit hole deep dives on all these grinding and all
these different sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
We'll see how that turns out.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
One thing I noticed when I was looking for some
good coffee was some of the most expensive stuff on Amazon,
this Illy whole Beam intensil Bold roast. It's a ninety
bucks for this couple of packets of stuff or whatever.
Snap and EBT eligible for a lot of these super
expensive roasts.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So you can take your wealth redistribution money because you
know you're just struggling to put food on the table,
and by ridiculously overpriced you wouldn't be able to tell
the difference. Neither would I, neither would anybody else, difference
in the taste espresso beans. Well, where is it written
that the pool only the rich can enjoy ultra luxury products?
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Jack?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
That's so crazy, like everywhere, that is so crazy. Man.
It is a rabbit hole though.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
And I'm sure you've done this with wine, or you
can do it with all kinds of things, but oh
my god, the spoon, the cup, the grinder, the how
long after roasting you let it air out for how long?
And just all this bs that there's no way you
can possibly tell the difference in the flavor.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
You know, everybody needs their passions, but other people's passions
seems so dumb. They really do. Jack Armstrong loves coffee. Bye,
there you go. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
All right, let's get a final thought to from everybody
to wrap up the show for the week. Michael Angelow
(34:04):
lead us off. Watch your final thought. I am fascinated
by how the announcers are going to handle the national anthem.
If they show it, will they acknowledge it? Or just
too you don't think it want to be silent. I
don't know what they'll say, though, I'll bet they're talking
about that right now. They'll say you're hearing some booze
as tensions have increased over trade talks between the US
(34:26):
and Canada. Anyway, Oh and two Katie Green are esteemed
to Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, I'm gonna stick
with my food final thought theme.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies last night.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I want one right now. They're so good. Oh, I
need one, I need it. I don't want to get.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Them away, so I stop eating them Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Final thought for us, I am excited about the World Series.
I'm warning a Dodger's hat. I bought a Dodger stadium
this year at a game. But I'm going to be
written for Toronto. I love a good underdog store. I
just had this weird thought.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We're going to hear that the NBA is don't needed
forty million dollars to Trump's new ballroom and all of
a sudden cash Pateel is going to lose his enthusiasm
for the investigation because I have a feeling the revelations
have just be gone.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Really, I'm excited. Yeah, Trump will commute your sentences. Oh boy,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Armstrong, you Yetta rapping up another ruling. Four hour workday.
So many people who thinks so little time go to
Armstrong Getty dot com for the following reasons. Number one,
the hot links are fabulous. If we talked about it,
the link is probably there. You ought to check out
the Armstrong and Getty on demand podcast, particularly the twenty
first hour two the Great Feminization of America discussion. Drop
(35:42):
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send along mail bag at Armstrong Getty dot com and
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AG fan. Christmas is approaching rapidly. You had to know.
I'm getting notes of citrus with the chocolate aftertaste. No,
you're not taste like coffee to me.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
We'll see him Monday. God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
It was another crazy week only Armstrong and Getty show,
but thank.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
The Lord that we have Jack and Joel plus Katie,
Katie the News Lady and Michaelangel. Tune in next week
for more.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Police partial
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Bye bye Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So the best sports show of any kind of sports
show is the NBA Tonight Thing whatever channel it's on now,
that has Kenny Smith and Shack and Charles Barkley on
it because they want it's funny, but too they get
into conversations that no other sports show does.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I wish the NFL had something like that.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They just and they got into the whole gambling scandal
last night and disagreed a lot, and we'll play that
for you and get into that conversation come up, because
I thought it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. They're great for a
couple of reasons, including the fact that there are so
many sports shows that they're only dimly aware of, like
politics and societal norms and what's okay to say and
what's not, and so they always defer to the woke
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notions sports shows, which are often very guy oriented. You'd
think it'd be pretty reckless. No, a lot of them
are like super politically correct because they just don't want
to get in trouble, and they don't really. They've heard
something about black lives matter or transgender rights or something,
and so they're very, very safe. The great thing about
these guys, they don't give a damn that panel.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Also, it's the only sports show where you'll have usually
Charles say, God, this game sucks.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Fun there, I'm walking to my car. I got better
things to do, right right, Yeah, love it all right,
So we're going to talk about that. Also, I haven't
done this for a very long time. Later in the hour,
Joe closes his tabs with a new theme song for
Very Excited Oh among other fair But first, it's the
Friday tradition. Let's take a fund look back at the
week it was. It's cow clips of the Week.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Cons the week, construction on President Trump's vast new ballroom
gets underway.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Surprise, Donald Trump is literally destroying the People's House.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
In order to do it properly, we had to take
down the existing structure.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
So if people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up,
stop sending drugs to the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, we're going to kill them. You know, they're going
to be like dead. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
The White House revealing the second summit with Vladimir Putin
won't happen anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
As a fragile cyes fire faced. It's most serious test Sunday.
You know they're going to be very good.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
They're gonna behave, they're gonna be nice, and if they're not,
we're going to go and we're going to eradicate them
if we have to.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I will be the mayor who doesn't just protect Jewish
New Yorkers but also celebrates and cherishes them.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Our pleasure leadion to the flag of the United States, Americans,
the Republic for which is fans.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Wipe that smile off your face. Andrew, you didn't leave.
You fled from being impeached.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Chauncey Phillips, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The scheme targeted victims known as quote fish. These operatives
included capos and multiple soldiers from the Banano, Gambino, lu
Casey and Genevieve's crime families. This is the insider trading
saga for the NBA.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Anytime you say anything about Bron, people call you and say, hey,
leave Lebron alone.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Filed horizon.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
But this is a beautiful pork job, and a lot
of people know about it. Nobody can cook them like
I do. We have a blackstone in the white House.
They call me a racist. We have a blackstone in
the white House, and we make fantastic pork jobs.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So I'm going to assume you know this story more
or less. Big Gambling Bus. Thirty one people or thirty
more than that arrested yesterday, including an NBA head coach
and some players, including some players that were losing on purpose,
taking themselves out of games or missing shots or whatever.
And they were involved in card games and all that
sort of stuff. So last night on the Big NBA
(04:43):
show that we mentioned that has Charles Barclay and Kenny
Smith on it, both NBA Hall of Famers, they got
into a discussion about this sort of thing that I
find very interesting.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
All these guys knew what was at stake, and I'm
just a shame that they put themselves and put their
family and put the NBA in this position.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Gambling is an addiction, So the addiction of it is
what makes you make illogical decisions. Man, this ain't got
none to do it, damn gambling addiction. This ain't got
none to do with addiction. These dudes are stupid? Why
are they stupid? You under no circumstances? Can you fix
(05:26):
basketball games under no circumstances?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Now we're gonna play a little more of their argument,
which I just think is interesting because I think Charles
Barkley is almost certainly a gambling addict, with the gazillions
of dollars he spent on gambling, and he's saying it's
not an addiction, it's stupidity.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
They go on, he took himself out of games on
prop bets. How much money is he gonna make? Well,
if he did that, you're proving my point.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
What do you mean that means that logical process?
Speaker 7 (05:55):
If you're making twenty six million dollars to try to
win fifty thousand, like, that's illogical, So that you're proving
my point that's not an addiction. That's true the same
reason though someone goes and uses drugs when they are
drugs are addiction, they are gambling addition. But the notion
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that you're trying to make sure for these guys be
an addiction you can't fix.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You cannot.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's enough, Michael, I think the point there. I think
I agree with Kenny Smith character that is proving the
point they're doing something incredibly illogical. It makes no sense whatsoever,
because the gambling is more important to them than the money.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, they can they can count. It's not stupidity, it's
a compulsion.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think if you're a gambling addict, like Charles probably is.
You don't don't want to credit anything the gambling addiction.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, yeah, I guess I think there's room to say
losing control of your gambling is stupid as a warning
to people. But yeah, if you're yeah, if you're risking everything,
including your you know, twenty million dollar paycheck, twenty six
(07:12):
million dollars a year to make fifty grand, No, that's
that's psychosis. These guys can count. They have people who
can count. If they can't, they count for them.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, it's because you're you're getting a bigger thrill, temporary thrill,
out of being involved in gambling than apparently you are
out of collecting twenty six million dollars a year playing basketball. Now,
he was probably pulled himself out of the game and
faked an injury because he owed a bunch of money.
Isn't that what we're assuming?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah? Yeah, and he was compelled to uh, not go
past a certain number of points the mobster's bet the under.
But yeah, how much was it money that he owed?
Or were they blackmailing him? Or how can you owe money.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Unless you and you'd have to know you have to
owe a lot. I think his total life earnings is
one hundred and thirty million. Now you got taxes, he
got agents, you got your lifestyle. How much he's got left,
I don't know, but I think it'd be enough to
cover whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
He owed, right right. I mean he could pay play
a million dollar a hand blackjack and lose ten hands
in a row and pay the guy back by the
end of the year, and he'll never make another cent.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And who knows, there might not be some sort of
lawsuit where they go back and say, hey, we're not
going to pay him for we want.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
We are our money back from the years we're paying him.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Who knows what their contract is, But he will never
make another cent as an NBA player, certainly. So, it's
from a logical standpoint, not the best move. Wow, it's
amazing the things that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
People will do. Yeah, it is. Hey, speaking of sports, Michael,
the world serious kicks off tonight. Indulge me. Won't you.
This is my musical hero, Geddy Lee of Rush talking
about throwing out the first pitch at a Blue Jays game.
He's a maniac baseball player. He's also forner. He is Canadian, Yes,
and he's one of the world's leading collectors of baseball memorabilia.
(09:14):
It's still insane his collection. Oh yeah, he could open
up a museum easily. It's it's amazing. Go ahead, I
can throw a pitch. The Blue Jays asked me to
throw the home opener first pitch. I practiced like hell
as you can imagine. He's a Canadian music icon. He
is the vocalist, bassist and keyboardists with the Toronto rock
(09:37):
band Rush.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
John has been welcoming to the Beatle to throw out
the ceremonial first pitch.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Kenny Lee. I threw a perfect curveball for a stripe. Wow,
ndies and gentlemen, girls and boys. Kenny Lee.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
One with the breaking pitch controversial, Yeah, no kidding? And
is he doing it again tonight?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I don't know. So that was back in thirteen.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
First of all, his English is pretty good for foreigner,
right you like we've been talking about Wait till you
hear the rain of booze on the national anthem in Canada?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
What if the main chances they're not going to air that.
They always air the national anthem, but maybe they won't tonight.
I don't know that. Yeah, I think they hear it,
And in fact, if they were planning not to air it,
I'd bump a commercial or two to air it because
that will get tremendous attention to the next telecast. WHOA.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So, then does that make Americans angry and like go
all in on rooting for the Dodgers in a way
that they might not normally? It becomes more of a
USA versus Canada thing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, I don't. Will dodgertchet up Americans dislike of Canada?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I don't know if he can't either, And Dodger hate
for people who don't like the Dodgers runs pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Deeps a long time San Francisco Giants fan, No is
the answer. No, right, yeah, I'm gonna watch chance first
pitch if the game starts at five o'clock West Coast time,
eight Eastern more on the waist to hear Heydie.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
This is what they call a wet lab. They get
a bunch of volunteers to come in and drink.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Terry, I need you to go have a double And.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
So they get a double drink until they have the
right VAC level according to the breathaweiser. And now we'll
see if any of the people who are drinking can
pass the sobriety test. The guy who had the most
to drink had fourteen drinks over.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
About two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, he didn't pass the test.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Neither did anybody else.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The cadets said that they would have arrested every single
person who was in that room drinking if they were
stopped on the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Don't drink and drive. That's the important message the cops
can tell. I don't know what the message was there.
Joe and I have done that a couple of different
times where we got all drunked up with the highway patrol. Yeah,
this was a different program where they get people drunk
and then they like unleash him on cadets to see
if to give him practice and giving sobriety tests to drunks.
(12:03):
Have you done that before, Katie on the air, where
you get drunk? I have. It's a good time.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You ever gotten drunk alone? Just to make your problems
go away.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah. Last night and tonight, yeah, it was it. Actually,
it was crazy fun while it lasted. This is back
in Jack's Drink of days. Obviously, I was very proud
of the fact that my time's kept getting better until
it's a lot like my golf game until I, you know,
obviously crossed the line till it doesn't. Yeh. Felt like
(12:34):
crap that afternoon though we did it during the morning drive. Yeah.
Same here makes the day kind of long, I'd say, well,
it makes the day go away. You sleep for the
rest of it usually.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Hey, I meant to get to these stats on sports
gambling that are kind of interesting. Rich Lowry, writing in
the New York Post about he's he thinks it was
a mistake the Supreme Court legalizing gambling. So thirty eight
states jumped on board immediately with sports betting that we
(13:08):
didn't have before because of a Supreme Court ruling that
basically the government doesn't have the right to not let
you do that is basically in But so the most
recent year, they have numbers for twenty twenty three, people
waged one hundred and fifty billion dollars nationwide.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Wow, just in America, one hundred and.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Fifty billion on the Super Bowl, the most bet on activity,
seventy thousand wagers a minute. Now, this is all, you know,
getting toward the how much pressure there could be on
there's so much money involved, there could be pressure on
referees or players or coaches or whatever to do something
untoward and getting in on a little of the betting
seventy thousand wagers a minute during the Super Bowl. An
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article in The Atlantic, a guy studying at this all
for the Manhattan Institute wrote, the rise of sports has
caused a wave of financial and familial misery, one that
falls disproportionately on the most economically precarious households. Well, that's
true for obvious reasons. You lose ten thousand dollars in
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your poor does a lot more damage than if you're rich.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So there's got to be a term for this among
people who study it. But the concept that prostitution is illegal,
everybody knows there's escorts, and you know, there's a certain
amount of prostitution, and they have a bust, rubb and tugs.
(14:37):
They have a couple of busts a year. Everybody goes
through the motions and it all looks all looks a
little bit silly, but that keeps a from like just
blatant street walking hose from walking by elementary schools and
it becoming rampant, and it gives the cops an excuse
to contact people who they suspect being trafficked or exploited
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or underage or that sort of thing. In the same
way that the speed limit is seventy, they don't expect
you to go seventy. They just don't want you to
go ninety. There's and there was always lots and lots
of betting when gambling was quote unquote illegal, but it
held back the tide a little bit. And that's difficult
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to explain in a way that is constitutional in the
face of a good lawyer's argument. You have to have
like really consistent moral codes among a society. You gotta
have a homogenous society.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
And where it always gets complicated in a welfare state
is like, I personally have zero problem with you having
the freedom to ruin your life gambling as long as
I ain't got to pay for you and your kids.
But that ain't the way it works. That is not
the way it works. If you end up on hard
times or can't have a dignified retirement when you reach
old age, because you've been gambling your whole life, I'm
expected to pick up the tab. So that's where it
(15:59):
becomes a problem. This is an interesting number. This is
similar to drinking. Everyone's well, you see the stats where
it's like and I was one of these people, like
ten percent of drinkers by ninety percent of the alcohol
or something like that, because there's so many people that
have a beer a weekend. Well, the rest of us
are doing the heavy lifting. But for sports betting, it's similar.
About five percent of betters spent seventy percent of the
(16:22):
money over a two year period, five percent of the
betters did seventy percent of the spending.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Not surprised.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, and again, do what all you want, as long
as I'm not sending you snap money for your kids
because you can't afford to feed them.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Right, and as long as it doesn't screw up my
favorite sports because it's everywhere all the time, and the
temptations to do the unthinkable or you know, ever present
for the players and coaches and referees and the rest
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Remind me about I bought some gourmet coffee and EBT
snap money I want to. I want to tell that story.
I just came across yesterday. I thought it was kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You're on Snap thinks, all right, you need some help. No, No,
I'm not on Snap. Oh okay yet I am in
the radio industry. We got a lot more of the
ways to hear.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Armstrong and Getty and all.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I tell you. You hear people say all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You know, you can't buy junk food with food stamps,
so that sort of thing. Boy, I came across a
lie that that is the other day.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, it's a huge flaming lie. My god. It's one
of the few things I agree with Doctor Ozbont. Anyway,
once in a while we'll do this. I get to
the end of the week, I Jo Suph, Getty get
to the end of the week, and I've got so
many articles and tabs open that are really interesting and
I'd love to get to them on the show, but
I'm just not going to. So we just will buzz
(17:51):
through a bunch of them. Jack, any of them intrigue you,
in particular, we can go into some detail. It's called
Joe closes as tabs. We haven't done this for a
long time, and I decided that it needed theme music.
So Hanson, working his AI magic, has come up with
some options. First, we need to pick the theme music.
Everybody gets a vote, Michael. Number one, please, Joey closes
(18:19):
is tag. That'll be hard to beat this one, showing
me it's a little long. It's way too long. I
like the style though, all right. Number two, Michael, Joey.
(18:41):
For our purposes, that's better. Yeah, it's pretty good too, right.
Number three? I like that.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I like that one the best. I think for what
for what we're using it for? I might be number
three myself.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Mm hm. I got to hear number two again, Michael Joy. Okay,
I'm glad I tasted that again.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'm getting hints of berries and I had a bit
of a chocolate flavor at the end.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, okay, well we'll probably go with number three if
that's which one do you like? I like both two
and three, but either one. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Anyway, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Schools are accommodating Michelangelo, not wanting to anger either of
the people's names on the show.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
That's what that was. You caught me checking for craps.
I have none to give which one, students are accommodating
student anxiety. I'm sorry, schools are accommodating student anxiety and
making it worse. The authors of the study say, having
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kids avoid that which makes them anxious makes their anxiety
about a particular thing worse. I don't doubt that a
bit like test taking your public speaking, which speaking is
a great idea.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I know it's very common. Like you, if you're really
nervous speaking in public, they'll let you give your speech
alone after school to just the teacher. You think that's
gonna help you in the future when you have to
finally speak in public, which you will at some point.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And this is a study, and they use a bunch
of data, but some of their conclusions are just intuitive.
Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they
imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous, right when
it's not at all. Public speaking, testing, lunch with classmates
are too risky. For the lunch with classmates, that's rough. Second,
(20:41):
they suggest that the student can't students can't withstand the distress.
Those messages increase anxiety. I mean, I'm supposed to the
more dad like you'll be fine, Go ahead, I'd be great.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I can speak to that one perfectly. So I didn't
have problem with public speaking or tests or anything like that.
I did have the lunch with classmates, probably because I
moved schools a lot, and I know exactly what it
feels like to walk out into that lunch room and
know you're gonna go sit on a table by yourself,
all right, with everybody looking at you.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I know that feeling exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But if the teachers had accommodated me by you, you
can eat in here with us by yourself, you think
that would have made me a better, more resilient human
being or less?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I mean, good Lord, right right? So many of the
woke policies that you know we've said all longer terrible ideas,
or just at least people are saying it out loud
now they're terrible ide Wow. The most wanted fentanyl producer
is extradited to the US after a brazen escaped. This
(21:41):
guy's name. He's Chinese, Jidong Ziang. He was the big
go between between the Chinese fentanyl precursor chemical producers and
the Mexican cartels. Evidently, he escaped from house arrest in
Mexico house arrest or. He was set to be extradited
(22:02):
to the US. He hopped on a private jet to Cuba,
then tried to fly to Russia. They wouldn't have him,
send him back to Cuba. Now Cuba's extraditing him to
Mexico and from there he was delivered to the US.
So we have him now. Never heard of this guy.
He's one of the most important drug dealers on the
planet and he's a Chinese national. I'll be damned. Another
(22:24):
headline with the owner if he is mostly run in fentanyl. Oh,
see headline is most wanted fentanyl producer. Yeah, that was
his gig.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I remember having an argument with somebody who thought I
was a conspiracy theory nut for saying China was trying
to get fentanyl in the United States.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Jang is accused of smuggling tons of chemical precursors to
make fentanyl for Mexico's top two criminal organization, the Sinelo
and Hollisco cartels, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Man,
people believe some strange stuff. Federal judge strikes Biden near
a Bay on transgender care discrimination, saying that no you
can add I feel like a girl to actual sex
(23:08):
related civil rights protection. What I thought was interesting is
this writer in the hill. I'm sure some twenty four
year old woke half wit wrote the following sentences. Where
was it? Did I scroll too far? The decision is
(23:29):
a significant loss for the transgender community, which has faced
a wave of state and federal policies and court decisions
rolling back previously established rights. Do you mean rolling back
insane fifteen minutes ago departures from all sanity, previously established rights? Man,
(23:53):
you're dressing up some pretty thin rulings in some pretty
fancy clothes there. Moving along. Testosterone is giving women back
their sex drive, but risk side effects women are if
and it's tough to find a doctor to prescribe this.
But women are taking testosterone even a little more than
(24:14):
their body would ever produce on their best day, and
it's turning them into sex maniacs. Okay, I have personal
experience with this New York Times with this story.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I know someone who does the testosterone cream thing. He
was using the testosterone cream, believes some of it was
rubbing off on his wife who is getting more testosterone,
and they became like a.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Rabbit with four kids in the house. These people are
in the sex.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
This is people in their fifties, been married for thirty years,
having sex every single day.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Why crean and he thinks that it's the testosterone. Anybody
got forty in their early forties, four kids in the house,
sex six times a week? Up from how about never? Okay,
she says, they're doing the biblical thing and taking Sunday off.
That's what they're doing. Even God, that's probably good. Well,
I don't know if it's good exercise. But isn't that interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Though, that the only thing that needed to get the
lady going is a little testosterone. Yeah, you're gonna have
a mustache and maybe grow testicles. But hey, there's a
downside to everything. Yeah, actually, facial hair is downside. She
was a little less emotional, a little less sentimental than
she used to be, but she didn't have time for
that kind of thing anyway. It's more like, get stuff done,
handle business, work out unbelievable, And they got a bunch
(25:43):
of bunch of examples.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I mean, one woman in her fifties told me that
after years of revulsion at so much as the thought
of her husband's breath, Wow, she now looked forward to
having sex with him almost every night. Even in the
middle of sex, she was thinking about the next time
they could have sex. Wow, wow, night after night, night
after night. Wow. Interesting. Just as estrogen is a crucial
(26:10):
hormone for men, testosterone is an important hormone hormone for women.
It just is in different palaces in the two sexes.
And guess what, they are only two sexes.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So you get some tests cream, and then when you
come home from work and you hug your wife, you
just rub a little behind your ear.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You keep doing exactly I got this new hand cream anyway.
Oh God, seen a few minutes mustache by the way,
How it's nothing a little wax can't handle. Huh. How
about this one from from laughing in sex to make
(26:45):
you want to pound somebody? Get Joe Getty cold Warrior ready, Michael.
How China cheats its way into US law schools. China's
l SET Prep l SAT Prep companies are utterly crooked
with letting other people take the test for them all
sorts of cheating technologies, screen captures of test questions then
(27:11):
fed to their clients. And Chinese communist nationals are getting
into all of our elite law schools to learn American law.
You want to guess why they're doing that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You know, that is really smart by China. That is
really clever. Why wouldn't you do that? Why wouldn't you
spend as much money as you can to get your
smart Chinese kids into the best law schools. Help them
out with the score. Yeah, that's where.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They Then you can subvert the United States because you
have a whole of society effort to take down the
US and raise China up. And I for one ain't
sitting still for it. Jo Getty cold Warrior, Yeah, I
heard that. That was good. I like that one kind
of chilling. Anyway, moving along, Joe closes tabs. What do
(27:59):
we have? Oh boy? And maybe we want to talk
about this Monday. Hamas has calculated it can survive in
Gaza and rule, and I read a piece by Kevin
Williamson the Dispatch. I think he's right. Donald Trump's Middle
East plan might have been a smashing success, except that
it is missing two elements, one piece and two a plan.
(28:24):
But we can talk about that more on. He hates
Trump so much though it's difficult for him to see straight. Well,
that's it maybe, but his reasoning is perfectly sound. Uh.
Tesla earnings profits drop thirty seven percent thirty seven percent
in the third quarter despite growing vehicle sales because of
the end of certain subsidies. Plus, he has emphasized that
(28:52):
it's now about robot cars. That's his thing. It's not
about making high quality electrical vehicles at various price ranges
for American consumers and consumers worldwide. No, he's obsessed with
the self driving software. You know what visionaries do. Yeah,
(29:12):
I wonder if he wants to sell it to all
the car companies and that's how he's going to make
his money.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He's still saying that in twenty six Tesla will go
fully self driving.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You don't have to pay attention. I just I just
don't think it's gonna happen. But yeah, he says, blah
blah blah. My fundamental concern he's talking about his relationship
with the board of directors is pay but his control.
My fundamental concern with how much voting control I have
at Tesla, is if I build this enormous robot army,
can I just be ousted in the future. I don't
feel comfortable building that robot army. If I don't have
(29:46):
at least influence over it. He says, it'll be like
a shockwave. Wow, when they're successful. Oh boy, we don't
need any more shock waves. Too many shock waves. And
then finally want to dig in a little more into
the article I mentioned yesterday, surveillance cameras pointed the wrong
way to allow the Louver heist.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's so funny. Installed your security cameras pointing the wrong direction?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, and you know, I don't want to come off
as sexist. No chicks did it, but absolutely everybody involved
in this, the director of the Louver, the director of security,
of security, the I believe the uh, what is the
(30:35):
what is the Minister of culture? I think involved is
a woman. They have known for years that they needed
to upgrade their security system, including their camera system, and
they declared that it was time to do it right now,
four years ago. But it's been tied up in French
(30:57):
bureaucracy that whole time, and they haven't replaced a single
damn camera. How emblematic is that of what France is now?
No kidding, Wow, that's why it's a national embursement. Yeah,
no kidding. Look, our security system is paltry. It's terrible.
We've got to at least get modern cameras. Okay, we'll
(31:20):
study it in half a decade goes by. And that
was And I have so many more I want to
get to. I'm gonna hit you with one more. I
don't care. We're running late. And I've been wanting to
talk about this for a long time. A Jewish lawyer
(31:42):
was arrested for wearing a Star of David on a
London street because he was getting close to a pro
Palestinian protest, and they called the wearing the star of
David provocative. Wow. Yeah, more on that next week.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I'm glad that our hungry are getting government helped to
buy them most expensive gourmet coffee that exists, among other
things on the waist here. You got different kinds of snobs.
You got wine snobs, obviously, and there are chocolate snobs
and cheese snobs and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But I saw this the other day.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
The worst snobs, the snobbyist of snobs, are coffee snobs,
espresso snobs. And I'm going to try not to become
one of those. As I mentioned earlier in the week,
I bought a fancy, expensive coffee machine.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I get it. Today. I've already bought my beans. I'm
really excited about. I've been doing these.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Rabbit hole deep dives on all these grinding and all
these different sorts of things.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
We'll see how that turns out.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
One thing I noticed when I was looking for some
good coffee was some of the most expensive stuff on Amazon,
this Illy whole Beam intensil Bold roast. It's a ninety
bucks for this couple of packets of stuff or whatever.
Snap and EBT eligible for a lot of these super
expensive roasts.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So you can take your wealth redistribution money because you
know you're just struggling to put food on the table,
and by ridiculously overpriced you wouldn't be able to tell
the difference. Neither would I, neither would anybody else, difference
in the taste espresso beans. Well, where is it written
that the pool only the rich can enjoy ultra luxury products?
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Jack?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
That's so crazy, like everywhere, that is so crazy. Man.
It is a rabbit hole though.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
And I'm sure you've done this with wine, or you
can do it with all kinds of things, but oh
my god, the spoon, the cup, the grinder, the how
long after roasting you let it air out for how long?
And just all this bs that there's no way you
can possibly tell the difference in the flavor.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
You know, everybody needs their passions, but other people's passions
seems so dumb. They really do. Jack Armstrong loves coffee. Bye,
there you go. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
All right, let's get a final thought to from everybody
to wrap up the show for the week. Michael Angelow
(34:04):
lead us off. Watch your final thought. I am fascinated
by how the announcers are going to handle the national anthem.
If they show it, will they acknowledge it? Or just
too you don't think it want to be silent. I
don't know what they'll say, though, I'll bet they're talking
about that right now. They'll say you're hearing some booze
as tensions have increased over trade talks between the US
(34:26):
and Canada. Anyway, Oh and two Katie Green are esteemed
to Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, I'm gonna stick
with my food final thought theme.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies last night.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I want one right now. They're so good. Oh, I
need one, I need it. I don't want to get.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Them away, so I stop eating them Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Final thought for us, I am excited about the World Series.
I'm warning a Dodger's hat. I bought a Dodger stadium
this year at a game. But I'm going to be
written for Toronto. I love a good underdog store. I
just had this weird thought.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We're going to hear that the NBA is don't needed
forty million dollars to Trump's new ballroom and all of
a sudden cash Pateel is going to lose his enthusiasm
for the investigation because I have a feeling the revelations
have just be gone.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Really, I'm excited. Yeah, Trump will commute your sentences. Oh boy,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Armstrong, you Yetta rapping up another ruling. Four hour workday.
So many people who thinks so little time go to
Armstrong Getty dot com for the following reasons. Number one,
the hot links are fabulous. If we talked about it,
the link is probably there. You ought to check out
the Armstrong and Getty on demand podcast, particularly the twenty
first hour two the Great Feminization of America discussion. Drop
(35:42):
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AG fan. Christmas is approaching rapidly. You had to know.
I'm getting notes of citrus with the chocolate aftertaste. No,
you're not taste like coffee to me.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
We'll see him Monday. God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
It was another crazy week only Armstrong and Getty show,
but thank.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
The Lord that we have Jack and Joel plus Katie,
Katie the News Lady and Michaelangel. Tune in next week
for more.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Police partial
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Bye bye Armstrong and Getty
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