October 28, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Amazon layoffs, Ai & democrats running for office
- Prunella Scales dies & cleaning for the super rich
- DEI examples & Biden's secret service
- Workout trends
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jetty and Hey Armstrong and Eddy Looming layoffs at Amazon.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The tech giant plans to announce as many as thirty
thousand corporate job cuts this week. That would be roughly
ten percent of their corporate workforce. It comes as Amazon
looks to cut costs and ramp up spending on artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Whoa up to thirty thousand corporate jobs at Amazon?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, the fourteen thousand announced today is the first move,
the first round.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Huh So the way that was presented was that just
they need to free up money to invest in AI
as opposed to AI is like replacing these people or
is that what's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's the former the first one to quote their journal.
Reductions of the latest cost cutting move for the tech giant,
which is seeking to slim down conserve cash which it
will then spend on AI. The plan cuts are expected
to amount to roughly ten percent of the online Giants
giants corporate workforce. But did they not need these people? Well?
(01:25):
According to their letter to employees, the workforce reductions way
to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers,
and shifting resources to ensure we're investing in our biggest
bets and what matters most to our customers current in
future needs. In other words, we're slimming down everywhere. But
AI betting big on AI.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, as everybody is, which makes you think they know
what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, one of my kids is struggling to find a
job in the Seattle Tacoma area and it's already terrible there.
This is going to make it even worse.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Anyway, And then is AI going to create more jobs
in it eliminated eventually as most technology throughout history has.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I doubt it, but yeah, I know, I hate to
be that guy, but I'm having difficulty picturing it. But uh,
you know that makes me, you know, the latest in
a long line of Luddites who lacked imagination, the cotton gin.
We don't destroy employment in America, right, Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah. So what's Amazon's getting in on AI?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Though?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Are they going to have They're not going to have
their own chatbot or whatever? Bezos isn't it isn't is he?
Or is AI just going to be doing a lot
of the Amazon work.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh. Earlier this month, Amazon showed off how investments in
robots and AI could help drive down costs, boosting sales
without the need for any human workers. A robot arm
called blue Jay is expected to enable Amazon to build
smaller warehouses and urban areas. So I think they're both
going to be investing in AI systems and benefiting from them.
(03:14):
Let's see, I'm trying to figure out because I'm not
really familiar. Amazon chief executive Andy Jasse has been on
a year's long campaign to cut expenses. The company ramped
up spending on AI amid increased competition for its cloud
computing business. H Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I was driving to work to this morning and I
asked groc in my car. I said, Hey, how many
pitches and pitchers were there last night? And she said
six hundred and nine pitches nineteen pitchers? And how about
that Freddie Freeman home run? What Matt Something she says
to me, And one of the most amazing things to
(03:56):
me was like, I didn't say in the World Series
game or anything like that. I just said how many
pitches were there last night?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She just knows.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
She my son gets mad at me when I call her,
she just because he's got a female voices.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Dad, That's right, didn't I say? Once a week? I
was going to ask you, you realize this is a computer, right,
But the fact that that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
She throws in how about Freeman's Home Run? Wasn't that's something?
I mean, it's like, it's so weird.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I don't want that. Yeah, I hear you. That
is absolutely poison. And I know that sounds paranoid, but
as longtime listeners, no, I believe firmly that people are
in through Internet connectedness, getting a drug that feels like
actual human connectedness, but isn't it's not nourishing them, and
(04:46):
they're dying of loneliness. This will just make it all
the more alluring. They've improved that drug.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And then, speaking of groc my brother sent me a
picture yesterday and I thought, why am I getting this picture?
It's a picture of him and my dad standing out
front of where my parents live, and so it's just
a nice My brother went to visit my parents and
it's my nearly ninety year old dad and my brother's
standing in there, and all of a sudden, they jump
up and leap into acrobatics. And high fighting and dancing
(05:15):
around because it's a rock video and it's like, what
the hell.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, I've started to play around with
that too, but I just I don't know how it feels weird.
It feels like dancing with the devil. Yeah, as your
dad been doing that. New fitness craze of primalism. Is
that what they call it? Where you walk like a
dog for fitness.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yes, I'm reading up on this and I'll get into
it a little bit later. It's it's basically like if
you ever in sports or whatever they make you do
the bear crawl across the football field or something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I remember it well.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know, it's really hard and it uses all kinds
of muscles you don't normally use, but everything.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Because we've been walking erect for a million years.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But what bothers me is how, yeah I know this
bothers you too, How everything has to be turned into
a craze. It can't just be a trend and an
idea or a thing. It's got to be a Some
people are no it's a trend, or it might be
a good idea to add this into your workout routine.
Everything's got to be a trend and have a name
and then like spectral workout gear and maybe a music.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Video or whatever. I shut up. I just shut up.
Would you shut up?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Maybe I got no patience because I was up in
the middle of the night watching the world's longest World
Series game. But I just don't need any more trends
in my life. Hey, back to the question of jobs
and labor and that sort of thing. Interesting wrinkle on
the whole government shutdown thing. Yesterday, as the head guy
of the Federal Workers Labor Union said it's time to
(06:47):
end it. He said, this week Congress pushed our nation
to a fourth week of full government shut down, an
avoidable crisis that is harming families, communities, and the very
institutions that hold our country together.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Quit pretending you just want what's best for your workers.
But anyway, both political parties have made their point. There's
no clear end in sight. Today I'm making mind. It's
time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this
shut down today. No half measures, no gamesmanship. Put every
single federal worker back on the job with full back
pay two day, which is enormous pressure ratcheted up on
(07:17):
the Democrats. We'll have to see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, I saw some headline out of National Review yesterday
that some lefty publications are starting to push Democrats, put
pressure on the Democrats to ye get enough people to
vote for the resolution to get it to pass, to
get the government back open again.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So when that happens, I suppose if that has happened.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
If the Republicans lose the messaging war on the shutdown
when they're voting to open the government every day, right,
you just need what six Democrats and they can only.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And they get no coverage for it, no real coverage
on the news media. So it's amazing they ever win
one of these messaging warse you know, it just occurred
to me, I'm thinking this is going to be really
devastating for the Chuck Schumer branch of the Democratic Party,
kind of the traditionalist, old schoolly Democrats. And it occurred
to me that the Zorn Mumdani Andrew Cuomo race is
(08:19):
a microcosm of this. The woke left, nut job crowd
versus old corrupt nobody likes some Democrats like Chuck Schumer
and Nancy Pelosi and company. The only reason the AOC
wing is ascendant is because their opponent sucks that there's
got to be a third you know, incarnation or a
(08:42):
third I don't know, branch lane of the Democratic Party
that emerges. But quick, I got to imagine the Josh
Shapiros of the world are holding frantic meetings with I
don't know, Little mayor Pete or whomever else. They better
get their act together.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
But quick, probably ought to hit you with this breaking
new before we take a break. This is from Bill
Malusion is probably the best reporter on anything immigration in
America of Fox Breaking. According to for senior DHS and
Trump administration sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around
the country is underway, with up to twelve with up
(09:19):
to twelve ICE field office chiefs being removed and reassigned
in an effort to increase deport into it an effort
to increase deportation numbers.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ah, they weren't down with the plan.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I'm told the move is spearheaded by some of your
other So that's interesting. I thought as I was reading it,
the breaking news it was going to be and maybe
we've gone too far. We're starting to get some negative
pr No, no, no, no, no. They're removing these people because
we ain't going far enough, fast enough interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We'll be following that. And again your headline is the
move was spearheaded by somebody or other. Well I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Care, some name I don't know, and it doesn't make
it different, but that is something they wanted to go
farther and faster and make more noise.
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Speaker 3 (11:11):
That guy with the horrible looking beard for the Dodgers
last night, that came in and pitched four innings, never
pitched more in two innings in his whole life in
Major League Baseball, in four last night to win the game.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
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Speaker 3 (11:22):
I was sure why beard comes in for a kicking band.
I don't know why you'd grow that unfortunate beard. I'm
wearing a Dodger's hat, but I was rooting for Toronto.
We do have a Latest workout craze, a Latest dating craze,
among other things. And then we got to take a
little bit look at Trump's trip to Asia and what's
probably going to be happening with China later this week.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
In a moment or two, a tribute to one of
the funniest women who's ever existed on the planet. Maybe
you know we're in name, Maybe you don't. She just
passed away and we're both big fans, so we'll do that.
Cool all on the way, stay here, arm Strong. Idea
with this spasm? I'm dealing with it, I dear, that's
all right now?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You wanted to sing?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
What should I deal with it? Do you mind hearing
about it? Look? I was here first. I thought the
Korean boy you know I killed. He was in the
catering core. He used to poison. That is John Clees, who,
if there is a mount rushmore of comedy should absolutely
(12:27):
be one of the guys up there. And Brunella Scales,
who if you're a brit you know her. She was
in a bunch of really successful TV shows and stage
plays and stuff like that. But she was Sybil Faulty
on Faulty Towers, which was voted the greatest or named
the number one British television show of all time by
the British Film Institute a number of years ago, on
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the Best British Sitcom of all Time by Radio Times.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Anyway, I remember watching that as a kid with my dad.
He liked that show Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I laughed until I cried multiple times the first time
I saw that series. I watched it many times. I
need to watch it again. I've put it aside for
a few years so I can enjoy it again. Here
here's Basil and Sybil one more time. Well, you want
to get to put some moall splits in the bar?
I don't expect Polly we'll forget Basil. I I don't.
I'll tell you really well, it sounded like it to me.
(13:19):
You don't have to worry that Polly forgetting anything important? Basil?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You do?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh God, that's splendid. No, she doesn't forget things? Well,
can you remember the last time she did?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No, I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
My memory isn't very good.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You can say that again.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I forgot what it was Basil forgets their anniversary in
that episode. Classic. So I've asked this question before.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Why are British comedies so much smarter than American comedies?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And I always use the example of the Office. The
Office started as a British show, was much more sophisticated
and nuanced than ours version.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Our version is.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Great, and I liked it, but theirs was much higher
level of sophistication, and why is that?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know, and disappoints.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Me that you have, like you have something as good
as the officer, like Faulty Towers or whatever. You gotta
dumb it down if you wanted to make it work
in America, though why I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Maybe it's because we're a super giant country and you've
got the potential to get an enormous number of viewers,
but you gotta dumb it down a little bit. I
don't know if that argument makes sense, because it would
be as true on a smaller scale in Britain, you'd sink.
I don't know. I don't know. She's brilliant, though, absolutely brilliant.
If you've never watched Faulty Towers, watch just want to
(14:40):
watch watch the one with the when the Germans come
to their seaside hotel. Some of Bee's Basil's favorite and
nicknames for his wife included my little piranha fish and
my little nest of vipers. And he said her brain
laugh sounded like someone gunning a seal. Now that's comedy, friends, Anyway,
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moving along, I thought this was interesting partly because none
of us can relate to it. I don't think. But
an article from Bloomberg that becoming a cleaning person for
the super rich is now a solid six figure job,
and how the reason for it is. When she started
(15:30):
the profile, Genu makes six figures, she cleaned houses with
run of the mill rich person stuff, porcelain vase's, creaky
wood tables, plush silk couches. Now she's in homes where
the furniture is considered art, with prices to match super
high end, all sorts of different materials. I have to
research everything before I even touch it. And then they say,
(15:51):
if someone's buying a Jean Royeer type sofa for a
million dollars, a million, whatever they're going for, I think
they're buying a part of history, says this person is
a co founder of a New York based design gallery.
People know there's going to be maintenance on a different level.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I am not Bernie Sanders, but some people have too
much money. A million dollar sofa, Yeah, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I know. There's a couple more examples of that. Let's
see uh above a ba a notion that a well
appointed home could include an addition to four hundred and
fifty six thousand dollars Wendel Castle chair that costs more
than the median sales price of a single family American home.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
So a million dollar couch and a half million dollar
chair next to it. And that's gotta be so your friends,
although you have it or something, I mean, it can't
be your own personal enjoyment. I wouldn't think.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And here's a cabinet in the shape of a rhinoceros
by Franzois Xavier Lalan from nineteen sixty four, sold for
a record breaking nineteen point four million dollars. Well, and
you just, oh, you don't want your housekeeper to use
the lemon pledge on that thing. You're twenty million dollar
rhino shaped cabinet lower pledge. Anyway, Oh, we're almost out
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of time. Uh so uh Ikea and this is so clever.
Knowing that people doom scrolling as they're trying to go
to sleep at night or as they get into bed
is such a terrible idea. They've introduced a line of
miniature beds for your phone. It is a scale model
of an Ikea bed. You have to put it together
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with little tools and then they have little sheets and
little little you know, comforters and in little pillow, and
you tuck your phone into the bed and it like
can charge it. And if you leave it in there
for seven straight hours, you get coupons to spend an
Ikea or something. What I know, you.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Don't have kids, shy little beds. You don't have kids,
so you're tucking your phone in at night? They sleep tight,
little Samsung.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Sammy.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Oh that hurt my heart. Okay, we got a lot
more on the way. If you missed a second, get
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Speaker 1 (18:12):
Armstrong and Getty Switching gears.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
According to a new report, millions of Gmail passwords were
recently stolen.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
In a massive data breachy.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Millions of users are like, hey, if you know my password,
can you remind me what of is?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wow? Can you go on the dark web and get
the passwords that you can't find and you can't reset?
I'm sorry, an account already exists for that.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh that is one of my least favorite things I
ever see on a screen. Oh this, this email already
has an account. I did I got an account for this.
I kind of maybe remember that.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't know. You've tried too many times to sign
in you were locked out.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
We mentioned one stupid fitness craze. You got a real
fitness craze that is just came across yesterday. It's been
around for a while, but I want to talk about
it more.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Hick. I think it's Hicks the hick.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I'll find it to tell it's it's an acronym. We'll
get to that coming up next segment.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Okay, So a couple of examples of DEI absolute madness
and just a proof of what Jack and I and
James Lindsay and others I've been saying for the longest time.
The DEI thing, it's a tool of takeover. It has
nothing to do with what it claims it is. Here
are a couple examples. This is just great stuff from
the editors of the National Review. They're talking about how
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academics try to have it both ways. They claim to
support diversity and robust debate on campus right, but then
they exclude any views that challenge the left wing orthodoxy.
And now an influential academic publication is abandoning all pretense.
The American Association of University Professors, who in their very
bylaws state that they aim to champion academic freedom, advanced
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shared governance, and organize all faculty to promote education for
the common good. Well, their magazine just published an article
seven theses against viewpoint diversity by this lady professor at
Johns Hopkins.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Wow, just flat out coming out against viewpoint diversity.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Wow. And she's the president of her university's AAUP chapter,
the American Association of University Professors. She is at Johns Hopkins,
which is a prominent university, so she's a super heavyweight
among professors.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I like John's. I feel like Hopkins is a bit
much anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So there's been plenty of criticism of her article, but
in an attempt to defend the article, the AAUP responded
with the following quote, Fascism generally doesn't do great under
peer review, but perhaps it's the intellectual values of academia,
which emphasizes critical inquiry and challenges traditional norms that may
be inherently less appealing to those with a more conservative worldview.
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In other words, academia skews way left because fascism doesn't
survive intellectual scrutiny. So they're saying anyone who isn't sufficiently
progressive and woke is a Nazi who needs to be
ejected from our education, as the National Review guys say,
could there be a more stark confirmation of the public's
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perception of universities as ideological hubs unaware of their own internal,
you know, one sidedness. They use a lot of fancy words,
but it is absolutely stunning coming out and saying no,
we don't have intellectual diversity because anybody who doesn't agree
with us is a fascist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I butted up against this fairly recently, in a way
I don't want to get into.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
But the crowd that.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Actually equates the term conservative with something incredibly evil, like
it's not a political philosophy that's always existed and always
will exist and needs to exist. That's intention with you know,
the other side, whatever you want to call it, it's
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just it's flat out evil and should be given no
air whatsoever, which.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Is not Yeah, it is. It is divorced from all reality,
all wisdom. I would never say to the experience everything
should be to the right forever and never looked at
in any other way. I think that'd be that makes
you a weird sort of person. Yeah, it's an aspect
of radical leftism and revolutionary movements in general. They are
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utterly intolerant of dissent. I mean, that's kind of common.
How do you how do you.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Ever come come to the conclusion, though maybe it's just
the way I'm built, that you're right about everything, always right, always,
How do you get that way?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't know. I don't know. And the idea that
I mean, the idea that there is a Marxist professor
who believes everything to the right of Marxism is fascism.
The fact that there's a professor who believes that, I'd think,
all right, you know, that's fine to all kinds. But
the idea that there's nothing but that on American universities
or those who are not that are terrified to even speak,
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that's I mean, folks, that's a serious, serious problem. And
now they're just saying it openly, the lead organization for
professors saying, no, we don't want diversity of opinion because
you're fascists. Anyway. On a much much lighter note, Real
clear politics, with an article out lately about how Biden's
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Secret Service was so steeped in diversity, equity and inclusion
DEI practices that it could hardly function. Boy, did we
see any examples of that during Biden's reign. I don't
know teenage or twenty year old jackass near dwells getting
clear shots at the president for instance. Anyway, Real Clear
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Politics noted the former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle had
pushed an initiative under Biden quote to make the federal
government a DEI for the nation, so that lady who's
going to lead the Secret Service one the whole federal
government to be a model of DEI, which means more
radical progressives. It's not diversity, it's more progressives. Anyway. She
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resigned from her post in July twenty four after being
unable or unwilling to answer questions from lawmakers on how
the agency failed to prevent the assassination attempt against Trump.
As he spoke in Butler, Pennsylvania, that we all remember
and keeping in mind, Real Clear Politics is a pretty
down the middle ish, typical slightly left journalism outfit. They
offered further insight into the DEI push at the agency
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during Biden's years, highlighting a reported overweight female agent who
was also a plus sized model, and I read from
Real Clear Politics. Under Cheetle's leadership, DEI had becomes so
normalized that an overweight female agent who never passed her
physical fitness tests was not only retained on the staff,
she was allowed to moonlight as a model. The agent
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who is featured in a magazine profile traded on her
job in federal law enforcement and hinted at her Secret
Service position in a photoshoot labeled undercover but never underdressed god.
The female agent who bills herself as a nationally published
curve model, plus size fashion and fitness influencer and body
positivity advocate.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I I feel like, even if she could do the
physical fitness stuff, that's not the sort of person you
want as a Secret Service agent. Who's a model influencer type.
That just seems like a weird personality type to be
in the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
What other side hustles are allowed for secret Service agents? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Could you gi me a strip club DJ? Or is
there any limit to the sort of right?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Could you write like angry editorials for I don't know,
Breitbart or something like that. I don't know, I don't know. Anyway,
here's a little more. The gal the Big Galloy, never
passed or test at all, was assigned to protect Kamala
Harris's stepdaughter Lama Off in New York. After several failed
attempts to pass a physical fitness test. The agent was
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placed in the Special Services Division, which handles support functions
for the agency, including the maintenance of the armored vehicle
fleet and the screening of mail and packages for the
White House Complex. According to four sources in the Secret
Services community, you.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Know there'd be so many people that want those jobs
in the Secret Service. There'd be so many candidates, and
you go ahead and let somebody who can't pass the
physical fitness test be on the team.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I mean, that's so weak.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Right next, right, you got two shots. Next, Sorry, you
can't do all the push ups or setups or whatever
you had to do.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Go back to being a nationally published curve model and
influencer and body positivity activist. Then they go into several
other scandals during the Biden years. But you get the idea.
DEI is insidious. It's a tool of Marxist takeover, and
it devalues every person of color, minority or woman or
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whatever who gets a gig because they're suspected of being
a DEI higher. It's awful. End it everywhere now writing
three two one, end it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
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Speaker 3 (28:30):
If you've taken any news in video of any kind
on the Internet or on TV, whatever, you've seen the
video of the high speed chase with the motorcycle, and
it bothers me that it's getting so much attention because
it's kind of sexy, cool, interesting, A high speed chase
with the motorcycle and the crash, the guy freaking murdered
a young deputy sheriff murdered. The guy shot him in
the head, killed him. Dude has a two year old
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daughter and a pregnant wife. Oh lord, we shouldn't be
enjoying the Wow. Look how fast that motorcycles going part
of it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And I don't like that. It rubs me the wrong way.
I hear you a cop killer, cold blooded cop killer.
It's disgusting anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I gotta hear your cage, you piece of crap, No kidding.
Got a fitness craze for you, We'll hit you with
a highlight from last night. It's amazing World Series game,
among other things. On the way, stay here, old Toddy.
(29:37):
I've been rotten for Toronto and I thought they were
gonna win that game. Little did I know in the
sixth inning when Toronto went ahead that we had like
another four hours of baseball to go, and I watched
the whole thing. But show hey Otani with a couple
of home runs. Then they walked him five times because
he was so incredibly unbelievable last night, got on base
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nine times.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's got to be the all time, right it is
the Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, it's a well no, sir,
nobody ever had free multi base hits before.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Because he went double home run, double home run in
a game. Nobody had ever done that before. I'd walked
him too after that. Yeah, it's just incredible. God, I
thought the throw to get Freddy Freeman out was gonna
be the highlight of the game. Was one of the
best throws I've ever seen from an outfielder. Was so
freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But final final note for me that Bizarro incident involving
the umpire calling a strike of a ball that was
not a strike and nobody heard him and one of
the one of the runners got tagged out because he
thought it was walking. He's walking a second base. I mean,
that could have turned the tide and saved everybody about
six hours of their life. That was That was awful, terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
My relationship with sports has always been tough because there
are times in my life where I watched way too
much sports and a waste of my life. And I
haven't watched hardly any sports in like the last dozen
years since I had kids.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But I watched the whole game last night.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
That was as enjoyable as anything I've done, and I
don't know how long From a pure entertainment standpoint, I
just freaking loved it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, bases loaded.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You bring in Kershaw on the last week of his
Hall of Fame career because he's retiring. You bring him
in bases loaded in the twelfth and he gets out
of it. I mean, that is some seriously cool baseball.
Any a script, you'd say that's too much.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I got to think a lot of people that tried
tape in the game and want to watch it this morning.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It cut off right.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I was worried about that myself, because I was behind
for a lot of the game, and when it went
into extra innings, I said, oh, came across this yesterday.
So first of all, we had this workout craze. People
are walking like dogs and getting in shape or whatever
you need to bit more like a dog. Something to
do with the gym where you do the bear crawl
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or the dog walk or the kiddy jump or something,
and it's good for your legs.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
But mllery a big fan of that work out. And
then you have to make that noise.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Every time I do the bare crawl, I look at
my coach and I go, I have never felt cooler.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I get right now, no loss of dignity here, right.
But I know we've talked about this before. I just
had never seen the acronym. I guess I came across
it yesterday. And as somebody saying, I'm super into.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Hi in all caps, hi, Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's what you do is the high intensity interval training,
which I've done a lot of reading about that is
supposed to be biologically so good for us.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's just the way we're built, which makes sense.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
That we were built to like kind of walk along
the Serengetti there in Africa, and all of a sudden
there's an animal.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Run as fast as we can with our spirit to
get it.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Then walk for a while, and it just seems like
the way we're builting. So that's you exercise it maximum
or near maximum effort for a short period, typically twenty
to ninety seconds, then you rest or do low intensity
movement for a recovery period, and then you repeat that
cycle multiple times, and can be sprinting or biking or
whatever that's swimming, whatever the heck it is you want
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to do.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But there are a bunch of different stuff too.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
As I've read, there's all kinds of stuff that it's
supposed to be help with the brain too, that it's
really beneficial for the brain, which I worry more about
than my body.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Maybe it's because my body is doing okay and my
brain is failing, but well, I find that.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I don't know if they used to talk about this
a lot or not, but I certainly in recent years
there are way more articles about working out things, lifting weights,
this high intensity thing or whatever stuff then the effect
on the brain than they used to talk about. Getting
in the gym used to be just for your your
love handles or your arms or whatever you're trying to do.
I work out purely for vanity. I wish I worked
out to make myself healthier be around for my kids.
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But nope, that's not the reason. It's a purely vanity
and help me being a single person, that's the only
that's what gets me in the gym every day. It
should be because I don't want to have a heart
attack and leave my kids without a dad. Nope, it's
because I want to look better for days.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
That's the whole reason. And whatever gets you there, I
suppose whatever gets you out of thatt the door.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
But you don't get a mental boost from the gym.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh, I absolutely do. But I don't think I wouldn't
be getting in there otherwise.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's one of those honest Yeah that happens because you went,
you didn't go because of that, or yeah, if I
got the metal boost to get me in, that might work.
But yeah, that's I agree. You give me guilt. I've
been so lazy lately.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
After I work out, and I go almost every day,
I rarely miss me getting in the gym, and I
always feel fantastic afterwards. I've never you know, whoever leaves
the gym and think, oh I wish I wouldn't have
done that.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You always leave the.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Gym thinking it feels fantastic, and you think, I got
to try to remember this for tomorrow when I'm struggling
to motivate myself.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
How good I feel afterwards. That's not the way human
body are.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
An object at rest tends to stay at rest, said Newton,
and he was right.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
He was a big fat slob. Actually he was not. Katie,
I need you to call me every afternoon two thirty. Okay,
so you'd feel great. You'd feel great, you'd be proud
of yourself, you'd be happy. You got it. You can
have maybe an extra glass of wine.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Huh huh, little feeling a little less murdery today because
you went to the gym.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I go because it's like my class is my dedicated
time of the day where I focus one hundred percent
of myself because I'm always doing you know, I have
the show and then I'm cleaning the house, doing laundry
or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
So you also damn near died once though, so that's
a pretty good motivator.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Ah, Yeah, that's true. Death will do it.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, they almost die and can the doctor tells you,
if you don't work out enough, you're going to die,
and that'll help, I think, although I don't know if
it would have worked for me.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Well I look better, That's what I would say to
the doctor. Well, you've asked God to send you like
a minor heart attack to motivate you. Although now or
vanity has become your your motivation. Vanity has become my motivation. Yeah,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And then finally someday I end up in a relationship
and then just see how fat I get, which is horrible.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
You know, it occurs to me. They have magazine articles
every you know, a newspaper, articles, websites whatever that tell
you exercises you can do in line at target and
then and then you hold it for fifty seconds. But
I'm gonna start doing the dog walk to your target
at the grocery store. I'm going to balance this little
basket on my back and because that had helped my
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stability right go.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Through the parking lot like that. Walking like I'm gonna
have to wear gloves probably be a good idea. A
bit more like a doll, you'd look a little right.
Coachould be excellent exercise. People would talk fantastic show Hawtani.
He's gonna get like four hour break between the game
ending and him starting being the starting pitcher for tonight's game,
which will be very exciting. Will there be any fans
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in the stands or is everybody gonna be like, I
can't do this again. I got I got stuff to do. Please,
might be an empty stadium things exactly. Baseball games are
pretty long anyway. I don't know if I need two
of them at once. Yeah, I want to talk about
Trump's trip to Asia. He was in Japan yesterday and
meeting with their new prime minister, and it's all the
(37:07):
big setup for the big China meeting which is Thursday,
and all the talk around that with trade deals and
TikTok and Taiwan and everything else. We'll get into that
in hour three.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jetty and Hey Armstrong and Eddy Looming layoffs at Amazon.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The tech giant plans to announce as many as thirty
thousand corporate job cuts this week. That would be roughly
ten percent of their corporate workforce. It comes as Amazon
looks to cut costs and ramp up spending on artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Whoa up to thirty thousand corporate jobs at Amazon?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, the fourteen thousand announced today is the first move,
the first round.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Huh So the way that was presented was that just
they need to free up money to invest in AI
as opposed to AI is like replacing these people or
is that what's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It's the former the first one to quote their journal.
Reductions of the latest cost cutting move for the tech giant,
which is seeking to slim down conserve cash which it
will then spend on AI. The plan cuts are expected
to amount to roughly ten percent of the online Giants
giants corporate workforce. But did they not need these people? Well?
(01:25):
According to their letter to employees, the workforce reductions way
to get even stronger by further reducing bureaucracy, removing layers,
and shifting resources to ensure we're investing in our biggest
bets and what matters most to our customers current in
future needs. In other words, we're slimming down everywhere. But
AI betting big on AI.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah, as everybody is, which makes you think they know
what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, one of my kids is struggling to find a
job in the Seattle Tacoma area and it's already terrible there.
This is going to make it even worse.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Anyway, And then is AI going to create more jobs
in it eliminated eventually as most technology throughout history has.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I doubt it, but yeah, I know, I hate to
be that guy, but I'm having difficulty picturing it. But uh,
you know that makes me, you know, the latest in
a long line of Luddites who lacked imagination, the cotton gin.
We don't destroy employment in America, right, Yeah, not so much.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah. So what's Amazon's getting in on AI?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Though?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Are they going to have They're not going to have
their own chatbot or whatever? Bezos isn't it isn't is he?
Or is AI just going to be doing a lot
of the Amazon work.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh. Earlier this month, Amazon showed off how investments in
robots and AI could help drive down costs, boosting sales
without the need for any human workers. A robot arm
called blue Jay is expected to enable Amazon to build
smaller warehouses and urban areas. So I think they're both
going to be investing in AI systems and benefiting from them.
(03:14):
Let's see, I'm trying to figure out because I'm not
really familiar. Amazon chief executive Andy Jasse has been on
a year's long campaign to cut expenses. The company ramped
up spending on AI amid increased competition for its cloud
computing business. H Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I was driving to work to this morning and I
asked groc in my car. I said, Hey, how many
pitches and pitchers were there last night? And she said
six hundred and nine pitches nineteen pitchers? And how about
that Freddie Freeman home run? What Matt Something she says
to me, And one of the most amazing things to
(03:56):
me was like, I didn't say in the World Series
game or anything like that. I just said how many
pitches were there last night?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
She just knows.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
She my son gets mad at me when I call her,
she just because he's got a female voices.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Dad, That's right, didn't I say? Once a week? I
was going to ask you, you realize this is a computer, right,
But the fact that that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
She throws in how about Freeman's Home Run? Wasn't that's something?
I mean, it's like, it's so weird.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I don't want that. Yeah, I hear you. That
is absolutely poison. And I know that sounds paranoid, but
as longtime listeners, no, I believe firmly that people are
in through Internet connectedness, getting a drug that feels like
actual human connectedness, but isn't it's not nourishing them, and
(04:46):
they're dying of loneliness. This will just make it all
the more alluring. They've improved that drug.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And then, speaking of groc my brother sent me a
picture yesterday and I thought, why am I getting this picture?
It's a picture of him and my dad standing out
front of where my parents live, and so it's just
a nice My brother went to visit my parents and
it's my nearly ninety year old dad and my brother's
standing in there, and all of a sudden, they jump
up and leap into acrobatics. And high fighting and dancing
(05:15):
around because it's a rock video and it's like, what
the hell.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, I've started to play around with
that too, but I just I don't know how it feels weird.
It feels like dancing with the devil. Yeah, as your
dad been doing that. New fitness craze of primalism. Is
that what they call it? Where you walk like a
dog for fitness.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yes, I'm reading up on this and I'll get into
it a little bit later. It's it's basically like if
you ever in sports or whatever they make you do
the bear crawl across the football field or something like that.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I remember it well.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You know, it's really hard and it uses all kinds
of muscles you don't normally use, but everything.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Because we've been walking erect for a million years.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But what bothers me is how, yeah I know this
bothers you too, How everything has to be turned into
a craze. It can't just be a trend and an
idea or a thing. It's got to be a Some
people are no it's a trend, or it might be
a good idea to add this into your workout routine.
Everything's got to be a trend and have a name
and then like spectral workout gear and maybe a music.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Video or whatever. I shut up. I just shut up.
Would you shut up?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Maybe I got no patience because I was up in
the middle of the night watching the world's longest World
Series game. But I just don't need any more trends
in my life. Hey, back to the question of jobs
and labor and that sort of thing. Interesting wrinkle on
the whole government shutdown thing. Yesterday, as the head guy
of the Federal Workers Labor Union said it's time to
(06:47):
end it. He said, this week Congress pushed our nation
to a fourth week of full government shut down, an
avoidable crisis that is harming families, communities, and the very
institutions that hold our country together.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Quit pretending you just want what's best for your workers.
But anyway, both political parties have made their point. There's
no clear end in sight. Today I'm making mind. It's
time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this
shut down today. No half measures, no gamesmanship. Put every
single federal worker back on the job with full back
pay two day, which is enormous pressure ratcheted up on
(07:17):
the Democrats. We'll have to see how it goes.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yeah, I saw some headline out of National Review yesterday
that some lefty publications are starting to push Democrats, put
pressure on the Democrats to ye get enough people to
vote for the resolution to get it to pass, to
get the government back open again.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So when that happens, I suppose if that has happened.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
If the Republicans lose the messaging war on the shutdown
when they're voting to open the government every day, right,
you just need what six Democrats and they can only.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
And they get no coverage for it, no real coverage
on the news media. So it's amazing they ever win
one of these messaging warse you know, it just occurred
to me, I'm thinking this is going to be really
devastating for the Chuck Schumer branch of the Democratic Party,
kind of the traditionalist, old schoolly Democrats. And it occurred
to me that the Zorn Mumdani Andrew Cuomo race is
(08:19):
a microcosm of this. The woke left, nut job crowd
versus old corrupt nobody likes some Democrats like Chuck Schumer
and Nancy Pelosi and company. The only reason the AOC
wing is ascendant is because their opponent sucks that there's
got to be a third you know, incarnation or a
(08:42):
third I don't know, branch lane of the Democratic Party
that emerges. But quick, I got to imagine the Josh
Shapiros of the world are holding frantic meetings with I
don't know, Little mayor Pete or whomever else. They better
get their act together.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
But quick, probably ought to hit you with this breaking
new before we take a break. This is from Bill
Malusion is probably the best reporter on anything immigration in
America of Fox Breaking. According to for senior DHS and
Trump administration sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around
the country is underway, with up to twelve with up
(09:19):
to twelve ICE field office chiefs being removed and reassigned
in an effort to increase deport into it an effort
to increase deportation numbers.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ah, they weren't down with the plan.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I'm told the move is spearheaded by some of your
other So that's interesting. I thought as I was reading it,
the breaking news it was going to be and maybe
we've gone too far. We're starting to get some negative
pr No, no, no, no, no. They're removing these people because
we ain't going far enough, fast enough interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We'll be following that. And again your headline is the
move was spearheaded by somebody or other. Well I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Care, some name I don't know, and it doesn't make
it different, but that is something they wanted to go
farther and faster and make more noise.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
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Speaker 3 (11:11):
That guy with the horrible looking beard for the Dodgers
last night, that came in and pitched four innings, never
pitched more in two innings in his whole life in
Major League Baseball, in four last night to win the game.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Done it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I was sure why beard comes in for a kicking band.
I don't know why you'd grow that unfortunate beard. I'm
wearing a Dodger's hat, but I was rooting for Toronto.
We do have a Latest workout craze, a Latest dating craze,
among other things. And then we got to take a
little bit look at Trump's trip to Asia and what's
probably going to be happening with China later this week.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
In a moment or two, a tribute to one of
the funniest women who's ever existed on the planet. Maybe
you know we're in name, Maybe you don't. She just
passed away and we're both big fans, so we'll do that.
Cool all on the way, stay here, arm Strong. Idea
with this spasm? I'm dealing with it, I dear, that's
all right now?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
You wanted to sing?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
What should I deal with it? Do you mind hearing
about it? Look? I was here first. I thought the
Korean boy you know I killed. He was in the
catering core. He used to poison. That is John Clees, who,
if there is a mount rushmore of comedy should absolutely
(12:27):
be one of the guys up there. And Brunella Scales,
who if you're a brit you know her. She was
in a bunch of really successful TV shows and stage
plays and stuff like that. But she was Sybil Faulty
on Faulty Towers, which was voted the greatest or named
the number one British television show of all time by
the British Film Institute a number of years ago, on
(12:49):
the Best British Sitcom of all Time by Radio Times.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Anyway, I remember watching that as a kid with my dad.
He liked that show Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I laughed until I cried multiple times the first time
I saw that series. I watched it many times. I
need to watch it again. I've put it aside for
a few years so I can enjoy it again. Here
here's Basil and Sybil one more time. Well, you want
to get to put some moall splits in the bar?
I don't expect Polly we'll forget Basil. I I don't.
I'll tell you really well, it sounded like it to me.
(13:19):
You don't have to worry that Polly forgetting anything important? Basil?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
You do?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh God, that's splendid. No, she doesn't forget things? Well,
can you remember the last time she did?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
No, I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
My memory isn't very good.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
You can say that again.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I forgot what it was Basil forgets their anniversary in
that episode. Classic. So I've asked this question before.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Why are British comedies so much smarter than American comedies?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
And I always use the example of the Office. The
Office started as a British show, was much more sophisticated
and nuanced than ours version.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Our version is.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Great, and I liked it, but theirs was much higher
level of sophistication, and why is that?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know, and disappoints.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Me that you have, like you have something as good
as the officer, like Faulty Towers or whatever. You gotta
dumb it down if you wanted to make it work
in America, though why I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Maybe it's because we're a super giant country and you've
got the potential to get an enormous number of viewers,
but you gotta dumb it down a little bit. I
don't know if that argument makes sense, because it would
be as true on a smaller scale in Britain, you'd sink.
I don't know. I don't know. She's brilliant, though, absolutely brilliant.
If you've never watched Faulty Towers, watch just want to
(14:40):
watch watch the one with the when the Germans come
to their seaside hotel. Some of Bee's Basil's favorite and
nicknames for his wife included my little piranha fish and
my little nest of vipers. And he said her brain
laugh sounded like someone gunning a seal. Now that's comedy, friends, Anyway,
(15:06):
moving along, I thought this was interesting partly because none
of us can relate to it. I don't think. But
an article from Bloomberg that becoming a cleaning person for
the super rich is now a solid six figure job,
and how the reason for it is. When she started
(15:30):
the profile, Genu makes six figures, she cleaned houses with
run of the mill rich person stuff, porcelain vase's, creaky
wood tables, plush silk couches. Now she's in homes where
the furniture is considered art, with prices to match super
high end, all sorts of different materials. I have to
research everything before I even touch it. And then they say,
(15:51):
if someone's buying a Jean Royeer type sofa for a
million dollars, a million, whatever they're going for, I think
they're buying a part of history, says this person is
a co founder of a New York based design gallery.
People know there's going to be maintenance on a different level.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I am not Bernie Sanders, but some people have too
much money. A million dollar sofa, Yeah, what the hell?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I know. There's a couple more examples of that. Let's
see uh above a ba a notion that a well
appointed home could include an addition to four hundred and
fifty six thousand dollars Wendel Castle chair that costs more
than the median sales price of a single family American home.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
So a million dollar couch and a half million dollar
chair next to it. And that's gotta be so your friends,
although you have it or something, I mean, it can't
be your own personal enjoyment. I wouldn't think.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And here's a cabinet in the shape of a rhinoceros
by Franzois Xavier Lalan from nineteen sixty four, sold for
a record breaking nineteen point four million dollars. Well, and
you just, oh, you don't want your housekeeper to use
the lemon pledge on that thing. You're twenty million dollar
rhino shaped cabinet lower pledge. Anyway, Oh, we're almost out
(17:14):
of time. Uh so uh Ikea and this is so clever.
Knowing that people doom scrolling as they're trying to go
to sleep at night or as they get into bed
is such a terrible idea. They've introduced a line of
miniature beds for your phone. It is a scale model
of an Ikea bed. You have to put it together
(17:34):
with little tools and then they have little sheets and
little little you know, comforters and in little pillow, and
you tuck your phone into the bed and it like
can charge it. And if you leave it in there
for seven straight hours, you get coupons to spend an
Ikea or something. What I know, you.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Don't have kids, shy little beds. You don't have kids,
so you're tucking your phone in at night? They sleep tight,
little Samsung.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Sammy.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Oh that hurt my heart. Okay, we got a lot
more on the way. If you missed a second, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Armstrong and Getty Switching gears.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
According to a new report, millions of Gmail passwords were
recently stolen.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
In a massive data breachy.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Millions of users are like, hey, if you know my password,
can you remind me what of is?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wow? Can you go on the dark web and get
the passwords that you can't find and you can't reset?
I'm sorry, an account already exists for that.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh that is one of my least favorite things I
ever see on a screen. Oh this, this email already
has an account. I did I got an account for this.
I kind of maybe remember that.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I don't know. You've tried too many times to sign
in you were locked out.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
We mentioned one stupid fitness craze. You got a real
fitness craze that is just came across yesterday. It's been
around for a while, but I want to talk about
it more.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Hick. I think it's Hicks the hick.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I'll find it to tell it's it's an acronym. We'll
get to that coming up next segment.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Okay, So a couple of examples of DEI absolute madness
and just a proof of what Jack and I and
James Lindsay and others I've been saying for the longest time.
The DEI thing, it's a tool of takeover. It has
nothing to do with what it claims it is. Here
are a couple examples. This is just great stuff from
the editors of the National Review. They're talking about how
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academics try to have it both ways. They claim to
support diversity and robust debate on campus right, but then
they exclude any views that challenge the left wing orthodoxy.
And now an influential academic publication is abandoning all pretense.
The American Association of University Professors, who in their very
bylaws state that they aim to champion academic freedom, advanced
(19:56):
shared governance, and organize all faculty to promote education for
the common good. Well, their magazine just published an article
seven theses against viewpoint diversity by this lady professor at
Johns Hopkins.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Wow, just flat out coming out against viewpoint diversity.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Wow. And she's the president of her university's AAUP chapter,
the American Association of University Professors. She is at Johns Hopkins,
which is a prominent university, so she's a super heavyweight
among professors.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I like John's. I feel like Hopkins is a bit
much anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So there's been plenty of criticism of her article, but
in an attempt to defend the article, the AAUP responded
with the following quote, Fascism generally doesn't do great under
peer review, but perhaps it's the intellectual values of academia,
which emphasizes critical inquiry and challenges traditional norms that may
be inherently less appealing to those with a more conservative worldview.
(20:53):
In other words, academia skews way left because fascism doesn't
survive intellectual scrutiny. So they're saying anyone who isn't sufficiently
progressive and woke is a Nazi who needs to be
ejected from our education, as the National Review guys say,
could there be a more stark confirmation of the public's
(21:15):
perception of universities as ideological hubs unaware of their own internal,
you know, one sidedness. They use a lot of fancy words,
but it is absolutely stunning coming out and saying no,
we don't have intellectual diversity because anybody who doesn't agree
with us is a fascist. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I butted up against this fairly recently, in a way
I don't want to get into.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
But the crowd that.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Actually equates the term conservative with something incredibly evil, like
it's not a political philosophy that's always existed and always
will exist and needs to exist. That's intention with you know,
the other side, whatever you want to call it, it's
(22:03):
just it's flat out evil and should be given no
air whatsoever, which.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Is not Yeah, it is. It is divorced from all reality,
all wisdom. I would never say to the experience everything
should be to the right forever and never looked at
in any other way. I think that'd be that makes
you a weird sort of person. Yeah, it's an aspect
of radical leftism and revolutionary movements in general. They are
(22:31):
utterly intolerant of dissent. I mean, that's kind of common.
How do you how do you.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Ever come come to the conclusion, though maybe it's just
the way I'm built, that you're right about everything, always right, always,
How do you get that way?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't know. I don't know. And the idea that
I mean, the idea that there is a Marxist professor
who believes everything to the right of Marxism is fascism.
The fact that there's a professor who believes that, I'd think,
all right, you know, that's fine to all kinds. But
the idea that there's nothing but that on American universities
or those who are not that are terrified to even speak,
(23:08):
that's I mean, folks, that's a serious, serious problem. And
now they're just saying it openly, the lead organization for
professors saying, no, we don't want diversity of opinion because
you're fascists. Anyway. On a much much lighter note, Real
clear politics, with an article out lately about how Biden's
(23:28):
Secret Service was so steeped in diversity, equity and inclusion
DEI practices that it could hardly function. Boy, did we
see any examples of that during Biden's reign. I don't
know teenage or twenty year old jackass near dwells getting
clear shots at the president for instance. Anyway, Real Clear
(23:50):
Politics noted the former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle had
pushed an initiative under Biden quote to make the federal
government a DEI for the nation, so that lady who's
going to lead the Secret Service one the whole federal
government to be a model of DEI, which means more
radical progressives. It's not diversity, it's more progressives. Anyway. She
(24:15):
resigned from her post in July twenty four after being
unable or unwilling to answer questions from lawmakers on how
the agency failed to prevent the assassination attempt against Trump.
As he spoke in Butler, Pennsylvania, that we all remember
and keeping in mind, Real Clear Politics is a pretty
down the middle ish, typical slightly left journalism outfit. They
offered further insight into the DEI push at the agency
(24:38):
during Biden's years, highlighting a reported overweight female agent who
was also a plus sized model, and I read from
Real Clear Politics. Under Cheetle's leadership, DEI had becomes so
normalized that an overweight female agent who never passed her
physical fitness tests was not only retained on the staff,
she was allowed to moonlight as a model. The agent
(25:01):
who is featured in a magazine profile traded on her
job in federal law enforcement and hinted at her Secret
Service position in a photoshoot labeled undercover but never underdressed god.
The female agent who bills herself as a nationally published
curve model, plus size fashion and fitness influencer and body
positivity advocate.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I I feel like, even if she could do the
physical fitness stuff, that's not the sort of person you
want as a Secret Service agent. Who's a model influencer type.
That just seems like a weird personality type to be
in the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
What other side hustles are allowed for secret Service agents? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Could you gi me a strip club DJ? Or is
there any limit to the sort of right?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Could you write like angry editorials for I don't know,
Breitbart or something like that. I don't know, I don't know. Anyway,
here's a little more. The gal the Big Galloy, never
passed or test at all, was assigned to protect Kamala
Harris's stepdaughter Lama Off in New York. After several failed
attempts to pass a physical fitness test. The agent was
(26:09):
placed in the Special Services Division, which handles support functions
for the agency, including the maintenance of the armored vehicle
fleet and the screening of mail and packages for the
White House Complex. According to four sources in the Secret
Services community, you.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Know there'd be so many people that want those jobs
in the Secret Service. There'd be so many candidates, and
you go ahead and let somebody who can't pass the
physical fitness test be on the team.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I mean, that's so weak.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Right next, right, you got two shots. Next, Sorry, you
can't do all the push ups or setups or whatever
you had to do.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Go back to being a nationally published curve model and
influencer and body positivity activist. Then they go into several
other scandals during the Biden years. But you get the idea.
DEI is insidious. It's a tool of Marxist takeover, and
it devalues every person of color, minority or woman or
(27:05):
whatever who gets a gig because they're suspected of being
a DEI higher. It's awful. End it everywhere now writing
three two one, end it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I'm mad about something in the news. So let's do
something good. First, I want to tell you how much
we're happy to be once again part of the whole
annual Warrior Foundation Freedom Station Givethon, which is coming up
on Thursday, November sixth, that's this next Thursday.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, the givethon is going to be live for folks
in the San Diego area. Freedom Station three a beautiful
new transitional housing community made possible by the sport of
folks like you, where warriors find hope, healing, and home.
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For twenty one years now, Warrior Foundation Freedom Station has
been a lifeline for our ill and injured warriors, those
battling post traumatic stress, traumatic brain injuries, and the challenges
of transitioning to civil life. Civilian life sorry, and doing
the whole home for the Holidays thing where they fly
warriors home so they can be in their own.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Bed and be with their family on the holidays. Yep.
Everyone deserves to be with the ones they love on
the holidays, especially those who've sacrificed so much for our country,
and your tax deductible donation is more than a gift.
It's a powerful way to say thank you to warriors
who would never ask for help, but they need it,
So Thursday the Sex let's create a huge storm of
giving for this incredible cost. To learn more and donate,
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Speaker 3 (28:30):
If you've taken any news in video of any kind
on the Internet or on TV, whatever, you've seen the
video of the high speed chase with the motorcycle, and
it bothers me that it's getting so much attention because
it's kind of sexy, cool, interesting, A high speed chase
with the motorcycle and the crash, the guy freaking murdered
a young deputy sheriff murdered. The guy shot him in
the head, killed him. Dude has a two year old
(28:52):
daughter and a pregnant wife. Oh lord, we shouldn't be
enjoying the Wow. Look how fast that motorcycles going part
of it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And I don't like that. It rubs me the wrong way.
I hear you a cop killer, cold blooded cop killer.
It's disgusting anyway.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I gotta hear your cage, you piece of crap, No kidding.
Got a fitness craze for you, We'll hit you with
a highlight from last night. It's amazing World Series game,
among other things. On the way, stay here, old Toddy.
(29:37):
I've been rotten for Toronto and I thought they were
gonna win that game. Little did I know in the
sixth inning when Toronto went ahead that we had like
another four hours of baseball to go, and I watched
the whole thing. But show hey Otani with a couple
of home runs. Then they walked him five times because
he was so incredibly unbelievable last night, got on base
(29:59):
nine times.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's got to be the all time, right it is
the Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, it's a well no, sir,
nobody ever had free multi base hits before.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Because he went double home run, double home run in
a game. Nobody had ever done that before. I'd walked
him too after that. Yeah, it's just incredible. God, I
thought the throw to get Freddy Freeman out was gonna
be the highlight of the game. Was one of the
best throws I've ever seen from an outfielder. Was so
freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But final final note for me that Bizarro incident involving
the umpire calling a strike of a ball that was
not a strike and nobody heard him and one of
the one of the runners got tagged out because he
thought it was walking. He's walking a second base. I mean,
that could have turned the tide and saved everybody about
six hours of their life. That was That was awful, terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
My relationship with sports has always been tough because there
are times in my life where I watched way too
much sports and a waste of my life. And I
haven't watched hardly any sports in like the last dozen
years since I had kids.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But I watched the whole game last night.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
That was as enjoyable as anything I've done, and I
don't know how long From a pure entertainment standpoint, I
just freaking loved it.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, bases loaded.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You bring in Kershaw on the last week of his
Hall of Fame career because he's retiring. You bring him
in bases loaded in the twelfth and he gets out
of it. I mean, that is some seriously cool baseball.
Any a script, you'd say that's too much.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I got to think a lot of people that tried
tape in the game and want to watch it this morning.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It cut off right.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I was worried about that myself, because I was behind
for a lot of the game, and when it went
into extra innings, I said, oh, came across this yesterday.
So first of all, we had this workout craze. People
are walking like dogs and getting in shape or whatever
you need to bit more like a dog. Something to
do with the gym where you do the bear crawl
(31:49):
or the dog walk or the kiddy jump or something,
and it's good for your legs.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
But mllery a big fan of that work out. And
then you have to make that noise.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Every time I do the bare crawl, I look at
my coach and I go, I have never felt cooler.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I get right now, no loss of dignity here, right.
But I know we've talked about this before. I just
had never seen the acronym. I guess I came across
it yesterday. And as somebody saying, I'm super into.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Hi in all caps, hi, Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's what you do is the high intensity interval training,
which I've done a lot of reading about that is
supposed to be biologically so good for us.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's just the way we're built, which makes sense.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
That we were built to like kind of walk along
the Serengetti there in Africa, and all of a sudden
there's an animal.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Run as fast as we can with our spirit to
get it.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Then walk for a while, and it just seems like
the way we're builting. So that's you exercise it maximum
or near maximum effort for a short period, typically twenty
to ninety seconds, then you rest or do low intensity
movement for a recovery period, and then you repeat that
cycle multiple times, and can be sprinting or biking or
whatever that's swimming, whatever the heck it is you want
(33:02):
to do.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But there are a bunch of different stuff too.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
As I've read, there's all kinds of stuff that it's
supposed to be help with the brain too, that it's
really beneficial for the brain, which I worry more about
than my body.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Maybe it's because my body is doing okay and my
brain is failing, but well, I find that.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I don't know if they used to talk about this
a lot or not, but I certainly in recent years
there are way more articles about working out things, lifting weights,
this high intensity thing or whatever stuff then the effect
on the brain than they used to talk about. Getting
in the gym used to be just for your your
love handles or your arms or whatever you're trying to do.
I work out purely for vanity. I wish I worked
out to make myself healthier be around for my kids.
(33:47):
But nope, that's not the reason. It's a purely vanity
and help me being a single person, that's the only
that's what gets me in the gym every day. It
should be because I don't want to have a heart
attack and leave my kids without a dad. Nope, it's
because I want to look better for days.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
That's the whole reason. And whatever gets you there, I
suppose whatever gets you out of thatt the door.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
But you don't get a mental boost from the gym.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh, I absolutely do. But I don't think I wouldn't
be getting in there otherwise.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's one of those honest Yeah that happens because you went,
you didn't go because of that, or yeah, if I
got the metal boost to get me in, that might work.
But yeah, that's I agree. You give me guilt. I've
been so lazy lately.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
After I work out, and I go almost every day,
I rarely miss me getting in the gym, and I
always feel fantastic afterwards. I've never you know, whoever leaves
the gym and think, oh I wish I wouldn't have
done that.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
You always leave the.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Gym thinking it feels fantastic, and you think, I got
to try to remember this for tomorrow when I'm struggling
to motivate myself.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
How good I feel afterwards. That's not the way human
body are.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
An object at rest tends to stay at rest, said Newton,
and he was right.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
He was a big fat slob. Actually he was not. Katie,
I need you to call me every afternoon two thirty. Okay,
so you'd feel great. You'd feel great, you'd be proud
of yourself, you'd be happy. You got it. You can
have maybe an extra glass of wine.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Huh huh, little feeling a little less murdery today because
you went to the gym.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
I go because it's like my class is my dedicated
time of the day where I focus one hundred percent
of myself because I'm always doing you know, I have
the show and then I'm cleaning the house, doing laundry
or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
So you also damn near died once though, so that's
a pretty good motivator.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Ah, Yeah, that's true. Death will do it.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Yeah, they almost die and can the doctor tells you,
if you don't work out enough, you're going to die,
and that'll help, I think, although I don't know if
it would have worked for me.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Well I look better, That's what I would say to
the doctor. Well, you've asked God to send you like
a minor heart attack to motivate you. Although now or
vanity has become your your motivation. Vanity has become my motivation. Yeah,
whatever it takes.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And then finally someday I end up in a relationship
and then just see how fat I get, which is horrible.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
You know, it occurs to me. They have magazine articles
every you know, a newspaper, articles, websites whatever that tell
you exercises you can do in line at target and
then and then you hold it for fifty seconds. But
I'm gonna start doing the dog walk to your target
at the grocery store. I'm going to balance this little
basket on my back and because that had helped my
(36:24):
stability right go.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Through the parking lot like that. Walking like I'm gonna
have to wear gloves probably be a good idea. A
bit more like a doll, you'd look a little right.
Coachould be excellent exercise. People would talk fantastic show Hawtani.
He's gonna get like four hour break between the game
ending and him starting being the starting pitcher for tonight's game,
which will be very exciting. Will there be any fans
(36:46):
in the stands or is everybody gonna be like, I
can't do this again. I got I got stuff to do. Please,
might be an empty stadium things exactly. Baseball games are
pretty long anyway. I don't know if I need two
of them at once. Yeah, I want to talk about
Trump's trip to Asia. He was in Japan yesterday and
meeting with their new prime minister, and it's all the
(37:07):
big setup for the big China meeting which is Thursday,
and all the talk around that with trade deals and
TikTok and Taiwan and everything else. We'll get into that
in hour three.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
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