September 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour one of the Monday September 8, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Pres. Trump's provocative comments about The Department of War...
- Jensen Rader brings us Headlines...
- Why "pay later" plans may point to some economic headwinds...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy arm Strong and
Jackie and now He Armstrong and Daddy live from Studio C.
(00:24):
Say say you're welcome to a brand.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
New week deeper in the bowels of the Armstrong and
Getting Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, this is gonna be a big weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager
going with buy now, pay later. Okay, Americans are up
to their eyeballs in debt.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Unlike any period except the Great Crash of two thousand and.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Eight, really for no apparent reason.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh right, yes, he's right well, and so is the
government for that matter.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want to hear the DAIS on that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And you didn't go with chicopolys chypocalypse chapocalypse R.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
How do you say it? I tried five times and couldn't,
so I gave it up.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh shook shippocalypse chippocalypse from Trump's tweet or truth over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I feel like you got to.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Have like two syllables from Chicago Chicagolypse.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Chicago lips.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It was a take off on apocalypse now with Chicago. Yes,
and somebody a eyed him into the character from Apocalypse
Now where he is uh, very excited, great Robert Duval,
right with the Robert Duval character.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes, I love the smell of deportations.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
In the morning, which is right, relatively provocative. I'm looking
at the picture right now, and underneath it Chicago's about
to find out why it's called the Department of War,
which is very provocative.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
If anybody took it the least bit seriously, I mean,
it would be one of the great crises that have
ever confronted the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, right, but nobody really does, no, But so we'll
talk about that a little bit later and whether or
not that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yes, oh my god. We live in such crazy times.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And I'm just reading about that that South Korean plant
in the Georgia, the Savannah area. You know, three hundred
and seventy five South Koreans have been not deported just
as politely. If you might return to your homeland, that
would be delightful, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And what was going on there? Odd odd story, Okay,
I want to hear that. The most interesting thing I've
heard today. So the trial starts for the second attempt
to assassinate Donald Trump as the guy that was laying
in the bushes at the golf course. Oh yeah, thank
god it was the Secret Service got him then, and
not five minutes later after he'd already put a bullet
(03:01):
through the chest of the President of the United States.
Horrifying situation. Anyway, that trial starts today. The guy's representing
himself because he's completely fruit loops. But his demands to
the court were, I need strippers, I need a putting green,
which is an interesting combo. I don't know what he
(03:23):
thinks a criminal trial is. Uh, is he taking a
guy's trip to Myrtle.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Beach or something? What's happening here?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And he challenged the president to an eighteen hole golf
match in which if he loses, the president gets to
execute him, but if he wins, he gets the president's job.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Wow, seems reasonable. That explains the need for the putting green.
Obviously he wants to get his stroke in shape. The
stripper's still a bit of a mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, it seemed to be like something you just kind
of an ad in at the end there, and why
not some strippers?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Anyway, so that guy appears to be completely nuts. It'll
be quite the circus to watch that unfold, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm surprised the judge is letting him defend himself because
usually they say, no, you're two nuts.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh really, I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
And then you sit there glowering at the court appointed
lawyer and maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They will look back, and maybe they will at some
point then maybe they can bond over I don't know,
a night at the strip club or something. Hey, captain Nutsoe,
why don't you sit down and we'll get a lawyer
in here.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, could face life in prison if they determined that
he actually was tempting to sassinate the president, which I
think they probably will, although he might get some sort
of I'm crazy stipulation in there.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I would enjoy the putting green if I was in prison,
but the strippers, I think I would just get horned
up and I'm in prison thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I might go with a pizza.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oven instead a putting green and a pizza of it
and the ingredients of course, right, Michael, something useful. Plus
i'd be very popular on the cell block. So here's
the question. Since it's being threatened within days, do you
think Trump is going to ac actually send National Guard
troops to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So far he hasn't. Yes, so far, he has not
gone against any court orders. Right he will.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I suspect he will find a way using threats to
federal personnel and or property to be the pretext. What
the scenario that a number of folks have pointed out
is entirely possible is ice will go in there and
do their jobs, and they will be harassed and assaulted,
and that will be a suitable pretext for bringing the
(05:33):
National Guard in to protect the federal personnel.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, but protests yesterday they kept him pretty peaceful, So
that helps the argument toward not having troops there if
you've got peaceful protests. Obviously, when he sent troops into
Los Angeles, Los Angeles was completely out of control.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, yeah, which is a different situation.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I would think that people of Chicago would be more
concerned with the fact that their mayor has an IQ
of seventy one.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And you want to talk about a crisis.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And the largest attack on Ukraine Saturday night of the
entire war from Russia. If you're wondering how the peace
talks are going, Prutin invited Zelensky to Moscow for a
one on one meeting. Zelensky said, how about you come
to Kiev and that's where that stands?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Right? Yeah, what the hell? Oh? And so who is
this for? Who's pretending? Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
European leaders are coming to the White House today or tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To discuss what the next steps are going to be.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Trump City's very unhappy with the attack from Saturday night
and vowed something, we'll see if anything happens. Although you know,
with Iran, nothing happened, nothing happened, then everything happened really fast,
so right, so who knows. Although maybe we're too busy
about to invade Venezuela as we have more and more
(06:59):
of a an armada down there off the coast.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Right when you know, commentators, including myself, for discussing our
ability to take on a two front war. I don't
think the fronts we were thinking about were Ukraine and Venezuela,
no kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So how about the back and forth between jd Vance
and Ran Paul over the weekend over bombing that boat?
Did you follow that? I really didn't know. I just
saw I had lines.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So jd Vance had a post reacting to people who
are complaining about killing all those drug dealers in the boat.
Part of the argument, of course, is alleged drug dealers.
There was no trials, so we don't know exactly who
was in the boat, and there's a possibility that they
were not drug dealers. And so jd. Vance's pushback to
(07:49):
that was, I don't give an s. I think that's
what it was. It was an S bomb, and that
was the highest use of our military. And then ran Paul,
very unhappy out said, calling it the highest use of
our military to extra judiciary judicial, without a trial, execute
(08:09):
a bunch of people in a boat not knowing who
they are is an.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Awful thing to say.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Such a pretty interesting breakdown between two US senators, both Republican,
former senator for JD. Vanceman, right, and some of my
favorite conservative thinkers are highly uncomfortable with the act of
snuffing those fellows from above.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, I don't know if saying I don't give an ass,
I mean, performative wise, it probably gets you more votes
than the loses. I just wish we were a little
higher level of h We have full confidence that the military,
you know, did a legal blah blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, j D. I think has some pretty
well formed, very how would I put this, just intellectually,
carefully developed principles. I also think he understands very well
populist politics in this moment and lets it go right
(09:16):
what the he unleashes it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
My point was going to be the theme seems to
be that the Trump vance administration thinks that enough people
just kind of pay attention to the news.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That alvel here is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I love the smell of deportations in the morning, and
I don't give an ass about killing drug dealers. We
got to kill him and that that is a win,
and it might very well be politically.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
If I was Joe Sixpack, literally my name is Joe
and I drink beer, I would react that way. If
I wasn't particularly paying attention, I'd think, great, good, finally
we're doing something about the border. And you got these
freaking drug cartiles which are scary and Trump's snuffed them.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Right, all right, cool, Yeah, there you go. That's interesting.
I'm Jack Armstrong. We're going to start the show officially
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Speaker 1 (10:02):
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Monday, September eighth,
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Speaker 3 (10:13):
As the clock runs down, Trader lines up for a
gam with in field goal.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
From thirty two years Trader.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
On the Bills in their final season in this stadium
where they studying.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
So that has been declared already the game of the
season between fable maybe maybe the two best teams in
all of the NFL, the Ravens and the Bills, and
very exciting ending there and comeback.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So that's certainly maybe true.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Having the game of the year already over is a
bit frustrating as a fan.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Happened last year Bills Chiefs was Bill's Jeeps was the
game of the year, and it was like the third
week of the season last year.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You know, it's you know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I had a conversation about the football with a buddy
of mine who said, you know, I was watching the
US Open. He's a forty nine Ers fan like I am,
and he said, you know, it's the first game of
the year. So it's just you know, those Bills fans
there that you could hear are fully cognizant of the
fact that that was the first day, first game of
the year, and they went absolutely ape nuts with joy
(11:22):
and an exhilaration and craziness.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The NFL is something, well.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's because the season is short enough that the game
actually matters. It makes a difference whether you win the
It's not like baseball or basketball, where it really absolutely
freaking doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It matters in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You can if you can lose thirteen in a row
in Major League Baseball and end up winning your division.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Going to the World Series.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yes, Mike the field goal kicker, he had just joined
the team and didn't even know most of his teammates' names,
and all of a sudden he go kick a game winner.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Wow. Yeah, he had just joined the team like ten
hours ago.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's a sod position in all of sports in the world,
where you just you are.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You're a lonely man out there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Speaking of which, and this will be my final football note.
If that guy hasn't signed a contract yet, perhaps the
forty nine ers could call him. Yeah, yeah, your first
place San Francisco forty nine ers as opposed to me,
you're rooting for a last place Chiefs team.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well, as I said, we're out of time. That's my
last comment.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
But it was a shaky win, although it was on
the hostile green of the Seattle Seahawks Stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
We do have headlines on the way and a bunch
of other stories to catch you up on.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's gonna be a lot of fun. I hope you
can stick around here. Armstrong, Hetty, here's the major headline,
Jins And what did you just tell me?
Speaker 6 (12:43):
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Getty subreddit page and it has been banned.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Our reddit page has been banned. Anybody have any idea why?
Hate speech, racism, anti Semitism. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
There's a lot of lunatics on there. Every once in
a while I check it out. Tremendous amount of normal
listeners that you all are, and then some real lunatics.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Jeff passes, who would ban it read it itself?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And God, the Senate two thirds vote, I don't even
know how that works. A second two thirds of the states.
I'm on Reddit a lot.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
There's some crazy, disc disgusting, violent, horrifying crap all over Reddit.
What happened on our page to get it banned? They
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Speaker 1 (13:30):
That's wild.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Does anybody know or have a serious theory? Please drop
us note mail bag at armstrong and yetty dot com.
Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
this morning with Jenson Raider.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Jensen, Hey, yeah, good morning. We're gonna start with the
New York Post. Trump goes off on reporter for asking
if he's going to war with Chicago.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, well he said he was basically, so that's why
they ask him.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But he's not.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
And number two Huff Post Gavin Newso torches Trump's Rose
Garden Club with a vicious two word nickname, predator Patio.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What now?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
This is from the Press Office parody account that tries
to mimic and make fun of Trump's social media presence.
They did a bunch of memes over the weekend with
Hunger Game style memes admission prove you're on the Epstein
list making fun of.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So the predator Patio is an Ebstein shot, Yes, because.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He held that Rose Garden club. So that Knews some
spelling it now, Okay, that's interesting, right.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
And number three from CNN, Carlos Acutest is now nicknames
God's influencer, becoming the first millennial saint.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Our first snarky saint. Who can you know? Tweet have memes? Yeah,
the first saint with memes.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
And this coming from page six, Jessica Simpson confuses f
with tight face at VMA's twenty twenty five, people, saying
she looks like she had an allergic reaction.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I saw way too many clips of things from the
VMA's last night as I was going to bed.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I didn't even know they were on number one. The
VMAs are still on number two. Jessica Simpson's name just
came up. How odd? Number three? What's to be confused by?
She had too much work clearly.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
And lastly, I got some departments that are being renamed
this according to the Babylon Bee. I'll hit you with
one first. The Social Security Administration is going to be
re christened the Charles Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I love that. Yeah, I want to hear all of those.
I came across kind of a cerebral version of that.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I think it was the National Review or something like that,
but I'd like to hear the babylon Be's version.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's very good, Thank you Jensen.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You I actually heard an explanation of so it was
the Department of War up until roughly after World War Two.
Then they changed at the Department and Defense, and I
heard an explanation for why that happened, which is kind
of interesting, actually, way more interesting than just changing a name.
It became a completely different department, but it's back to
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the Department of War kind of. They put up the
signs on Hegzett's door and letterhead and all that sort
of stuff, even though Congress has to declare it for
it to be official, right, right, I'd like to hear that.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I mocked the idea of it being the Department of
Defense last week, since virtually every reference to everything it
does all the time includes the word war or a
warrior or that sort of thing, as opposed to you know,
the US put five new defense ships out to see today.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I mean, people just don't say that, right, that's a
very good point their warships.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
There's a fair amount of news for us to get to,
and we will. If you miss a segment it the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Borders our Tom Holman saying that Chicago should expect a
surge and ICE enforcement operations and adding that using the
National Guard to protect these kinds of missions, well it's
not off the table. DHS confirming ICE operations will expand
in Chicago, and already we're seeing activity. On Sunday evening,
News Nation cameras captured this ICE van returning to the
(17:18):
Broadview ICE facility unloading six detainees. At least one man
was detained over in the Archer Heights neighborhood by federal
agents and unmarked cars.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, we'll talk more about that later, but there you go.
I don't think there are going to be National Guard troops.
There will be a surgeon, ice agents. Trump will get
all the credit among voters who just kind of pay
attention for sending troops in everywhere without defying any court orders.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And again, it's possible if things get ugly there against
the ICE guys, then you know, then you might send
in troops to protect them.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Then you'd have a reason. Yet, yeah, I don't see
that happening. I don't either.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Chicago's a very different place than la in terms of
the ethnic mix and just the feel of the place.
So interesting story. We will hit that later. Also, why
do I verbally abuse Brandon Johnson so much? I will
explain And.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Coming up the rest of the Babylon Bees list of
the departments that have changed names in addition to the
Department of War love it kind of funny from the
Department of Why does nobody recognize we're driving toward a
cliff at one hundred miles per hour?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Alicia Finley of The Wall Street Journal pointing out that
America's buy now, pay later economy is showing signs of
an emerging debt crisis everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't like this story. I'm not doing that. I
don't buy it until like an afford it sort of guy.
But we all get brought down by a financial collapse.
We all realize that, right right. The word inclusive is
very hot these days. There certainly was a couple of
years ago. That's the brilliant thing about a financial crash.
It includes virtually everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So, anyway, so, she points out that serious credit card
and auto loan delinquencies have climbed to the level of
the twenty eighth nine recession. Okay, so rousing right after
that giant crash. Not surprising that lots of people all
of a sudden were in trouble and not quite making
their payments on time and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What is the reason now? Nobody's sure we like spending money,
she says. The housing market shows cracks. Well, the labor
market is weakening, but you wouldn't know it from the
poyant stock market and consumer spending. America is buy now,
pay later economy, and atle increasingly fueled by leverage. As consumers, investors, businesses,
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and the government are all taking on more debt, which
she points out, and there's always one person like this
at the party, she points out, you have to pay
for debt later with interest.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Thank you for that. What a drag man.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
As Americans max out their credit cards after years of inflation,
by now, pay later offers are popping up everywhere, from
concert tickets to vacations to grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Boy oh boyl boyl boy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I could see how it would be appealing if I'm
twenty one year old Jack and they'll never tour again
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's their farewell tour man to not.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Buy your concert tickets on I can't afford it now,
but I'll magically have more money six months from now.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
No, don't do that. I guess.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
There are now apps where you can split the cost
of your purchases into installment payments over weeks or months.
Some are currently interest free for now.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Just to include fees. Here's what you do. You borrow
against your used car.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is that still a thing that people are doing where
you take out equity from your used car?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yees?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, And unlike credit cards, a lot of these services
don't report the loans to the credit bureaus, so folks
are in much more debt than their credit rating might indicate.
But so these all these different entities that are giving
people these deals must feel like they're going to get
paid back.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, certainly in the short term.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And they have carefully calculated their default rates and you know,
price their services excuse me accordingly. And you know, if
somebody ends up not being able to pay, they just
put them their name on the blacklist.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Boy, my oldest son has got a life lesson coming on.
I don't even remember what it was now, it's been
so long, and something he really really wanted and.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Kind of fronted him.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The monk kind of fronted him the money on that
with the idea that you will owe me and I
will be keeping track of it, and I have been
keeping track of it, and he still owes me. And
Christmas might just be here. I've wiped off hot half
your debt. Merry Christmas. That would be a lesson in
how that old thing works. That would be a great
gift in a way.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yeah, sure, not to be appreciated at the time. According
to recent survey, about half of consumers have used a
buy now, pay later service.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
This is not a niche, This is half I've reskewed
toward the young.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Concert tickets, your vacation, I mean everybody kind of does
that a vacation, right because you put everything on your
credit card, whether you pay it off that month or
over a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Good point.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, let's see Federal Reserve paper last December found such
users are more likely to have low credit scores, carry
a balance on credit cards, have incurred checking overdraft fees,
and have more delinquent credit accounts. Financially vulnerable consumers maybe
over extending themselves. Let's see one of the bigger buy
(22:50):
Now Pay Later services announced an IPO, which is expected
to be one of the biggest of the year. Such
services make money by capitalizing on financially stretched consumers, especially
young people who don't want to tighten their belts.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
According to the Babylon b As we told you, the
Social Security Administration is going to be renamed the Charles
Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan, which I like. That is great.
The Department of Justice will be changed to the Department
of Revenge and all losers and haters.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't think that's appropriate.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Ah, and yet somewhat accurate in these days of law fair,
this is one that hurts.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The Department of the Treasury will be changed to the
Chinese Loan Office.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oooh oh.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
One more that I liked, how Housing and Urban Development
will retitle is Department of the Pores.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
The Pores. Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
By the way, we got a text from somebody who
said they always appreciate when I do my porky pig
routine not being able to pronounce.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Hey, I got another statistic for you. That's enough fun.
Back to the misery. So in twenty twelve, mortgage you know,
holders had debt to income ratios considered risky, right, twenty
eight percent of people had a debt to income ratio that.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Was pretty risky. Twenty eight percent. Last year sixty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh my god, man, Freddy mckew was thirty eight percent,
up from sixteen percent in twenty twelve. Seven out of
ten of ya, Yeah, I don't think I do have
a risky debt to.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Income ratio.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
And if I haven't driven you to buy gold and
bury it in your backyards yet, how much? How about
one more? The FAHA Federal Housing Association.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
We have a fancy new name for them from the
Babylon b too bad.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
They've waived a reduce used to monthly payments on one
point two million mortgages over the past two years. It's
about fifteen percent of the total that they hold, and
without that forgiveness passed during the Biden administration, delinquencies would
be near the level of the twenty eight to nine meltdown.
Fanny and Freddy have also been slashing in deferring payments
on hundreds of thousands of mortgages.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I walked into the studio. Jensen was in here and
it smelled nice. I hope that doesn't get me in
trouble with hr. But it reminded me of how bad
my house smells, which I'll tell you about after a
note here. Maybe if somebody broke into my house, they'd
think this place stinks too bad, I'll leave. They won't
break into my house because I've got the whole Simply
Safe system with everything that goes with it. And I
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love when I drive away from my house knowing I
got the cameras, the censors, the everything that goes with
the Simply Safe situation. I joined more than four million
Americans who trust Simply Safe with their home security every day.
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And one of the most notable differences between simply and
the old systems is that the old systems and alarm
goes off after somebody breaks into your house and smashes
stuff up and is probably long gone with your stuff.
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Smart AI powered cameras identify threats lurking outside your home,
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Speaker 1 (26:37):
There's no safe like simply safe. So I go into
my son's room last night.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
To talk to him, which is one of the groovyest
high schooler bedrooms I've ever seen in my life. He's
put a lot of effort into it, and it's very
cool and dark. It's always very dark in there. But anyway,
I go into my high schooler's room last night and
did not smell pleasant. I said, what is the deal
in here? And he must have taken that to heart,
because now the entire house smells like high school boy cologne.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And I said, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And he said, we used to sit at smell bed
So I sprayed around some of my cologne.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I thought that would help some of your colone.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Oh, it smells like you're on a date with four
high school sophomore boys right now in my house. Wow,
way too much, way too important. To ascertain the source
of the funk. First, it's not funny. I don't know
what it is about the scent, but it just it
smells like if you had to name the smell, you'd say,
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I'm on a date with a boy who's about old
enough to get his driver's license.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's what it smells like, its own scent. You wow
X bedroom spray or something like that. Among the stores,
I hope you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Bought it for cash and didn't borrow the money here,
you know, break up the payments. Among the stories we
have to get to is a terrible attack on a
bus in Jerusalem by somebody who hates Jews, shooting up
a bunch of people, which ain't gonna help any peace
negotiations or the two state settlement or any of that crap.
Is Netnya who is rolling through Gaza trying to wipe
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out the last of humas. So that's yet another story
we get to talk to you about. And again European
leaders coming to the White House today to talk about Ukraine.
We've got a mail bag on the way to a
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
He and Bremmer on his Twitter feed, friend of the
Armstrong Engetti show has been pretty accurate so far on
what's going on in Venezuela, and he says that the
United States is preparing to escalate against Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, we will see you.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Got dirty commis running the countries that ought to be
successful and happy in our hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's our turf.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
We did a beach landing exercise in Puerto Rico over
the weekend, like we're getting ready to you know, invade
a country and maybe raising us.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Or on that to come. Here's your freedom moment. Court
of to Day, continuing our.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Series of Frits based on Murraw, inspired by my recent
trip to England.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Audrey Hepburn, who apparently was British. I guess, I don't know.
Here's she was an actress back one hundred years ago.
That's true, skinny cute. Anyway, here's Audrey Hepburn. I thinking
of Catherine Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn, very cute.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yes, yes, yes, anyway, nothing is impossible. The word itself
says I'm possible. Now if you hear something like that
and you think, wow, that's great, changed my wife.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You're just a soft head.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
That is Audrey Hepburn is the breakfast at Tiffany's girl. Yes, correct,
that's the woman right there. Let's see. So I decided
to weigh about ninety pounds. I decided to go with
this instead. Uh Ja Shetty pronounced his name carefully.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Knowledge is power and it can help you overcome any
fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more
awareness through the process and you know what it falls
to look for as you get ready to transition to.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The next level. Cool. Knowledge is power. I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, mail Bags out to us, mail Bag and Armstrong
and getty dot. Instead of saying impossible, just say I'm possible.
You're right, if you're if that makes a difference in
your life. Your head is soft. Nothing is impossible. The
word itself says I'm possible. Okay, eat a bowling ball.
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I'll give you every dime.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Of my impressive networks if you can ingest a bowling
ball right now, then we'll discuss again whether nothing is impossible.
Autrator gee little thing Johnson owoocha, all right, I got this,
saw this meme.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
One to pass it along.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I'm sure the March of Dimes needs a new cause.
It's a new ribbon. It's an orange ribbon with a
shock of yellow hair, and it says find a cause.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Trump derangement syndrome, which is good.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It also resets the fact that charities whether it's the
March of Dimes or the NAACP or Southern Poverty losson
or whatever. After they've satisfied what they were originally built
to do, they just find a new cause and morph.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The point is they collect money. That's why they exist.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Not that the March of Dimes hasn't done wonderful things,
but it's kind of interesting how they've evolved. Let's see
Jonathan from San Diego regarding California schools in equity and education,
which we were discussing last week. The school Board's really
onto something. If you think about it. Math is rife
with inequities. It's always bothered me that six is less
value than seven. It isn't six's fault that it will
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never equal seven. The answer seems clear to me. All
numbers should be the same. I like one because it
is so sleek and easy to write for those who
don't know how to write cursive. From now on, only
his one for all numbers. That's what equity is all about.
Out problem solved. That's beautiful. How much time do we
have I start this?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I sensed sarcasm, Ah, very very very well observed this
is Chris who will lead us.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Interestingly, oddly into a discussion of Portland, Oregon and why
the cops have been standing down there in spite of
the eighty some nights of violence in a row and
noise and law breaking. But Chris writes, good morning. We
escaped California three years ago, moved to a small city
in the North Georgia Mountains. It's in the heart of
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Trump Country, former Cherokee Lands. The only comment you'll get
wearing a mega hat here is did you get that
at the Trump store? Yes, we have a Trump store.
In our schools. They don't teach about the genderbread person pronouns,
or any woke garbage. They have a moment of silence
for reflection and prayer, then recite the Pledge of Allegiance
every morning. You aren't asked to write land statements. You
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taught that America is the greatest country on Earth, et cetera.
Our Walmart does not have anything locked up, no scales
on self checkout, and they don't bother checking the receipts,
et cetera. These places still exist in America. The fight
now is to keep the lefties from bringing what they're
running from here.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You know that is that is the fight.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yes, policy matters now under the topic of Oregon. The POS.
That's an unfortunate acronym there POS. Portland DA won't prosecute
any arrest the Portland Police make It's been doing that
for years, effectively neutering local law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, Portland PD and riots. This is Justin. I've been
a listener since twenty eighteen. Thanks Justin.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
From what I've been hearing, the Portland PD wants so
badly to go in and help diffuse the insanity and
chaos in the city neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The mayor and the city council just won't won't let them,
and if they do, then not only get.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Fired, but the Portland city brass is threatened to take
away their pension benefits. If I were a Portland cop,
I'd be looking for employment opportunities like so many cops
in other places.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Got this. I can't imagine doing your job as a cop.
If you arrest bad guys and then they're never prosecuted
and they're let out right away, and then you see
them committing other crimes, it would be so disheartening. Why
would you.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Literally risk your neck going Some of the people are dangerous.
I think in a lot of cases. You stop right
right e fit you think, let's see, this is from Tea.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I live in Portland. What's even more infuriating than the
police just letting the riots continue is that this is
in a very nice, expensive area of town. About ten
years or so ago, the city decided to develop an
undeveloped portion of land along the river. The change zoning
laws built it put up high rises with beautiful, multimillion
dollar condos.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
There were views of the river.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Many restaurants open on the main floors of these buildings.
It was meant to be a walking neighborhood area. I've
actually spent time there. There are paths along the river.
You could take a short half mile walk into town
for more restaurants.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Blah blah.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Now, after all this money has been poured into the neighborhood,
it's become a hellhole because they will not control the
junkies that camp out along the river steps away from
these condos, the ice buildings just blocks away from some
of these buildings. Quite a few of the restaurants have
had to close. Nobody can sell their condos if they
want to leave there, you go.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
And then here's Jeff who's been traveling to and working
in Portland for decades, talks about when I first visited
it blew me away. Oh, it was one of my
favorite places on Earth. And it's just awful. And he's
interviewed through his work Portland cops, many retired because of
frustration over work, et cetera. Employers, business owners, downtown workers,
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even a few homeless folks. It's so interesting and there's
more to this, and I wish we could get to it.
But you would think those constituencies would be in charge
of city governments, but in left these cities it's not.
It's the loudest, angriest in Portland, most violent, young completely
unmoored from reality dreamers and Antifa types that drive governance.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
You should find the episode to the show where I
described what the woman did on the street in front
of me and my son in Portland that was disgusting,
like a horse.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Armstrong and Getty
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Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Kaddy arm Strong and
Jackie and now He Armstrong and Daddy live from Studio C.
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Say say you're welcome to a brand.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
New week deeper in the bowels of the Armstrong and
Getting Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh, this is gonna be a big weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager
going with buy now, pay later. Okay, Americans are up
to their eyeballs in debt.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Unlike any period except the Great Crash of two thousand and.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Eight, really for no apparent reason.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Oh right, yes, he's right well, and so is the
government for that matter.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want to hear the DAIS on that.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And you didn't go with chicopolys chypocalypse chapocalypse R.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
How do you say it? I tried five times and couldn't,
so I gave it up.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Uh shook shippocalypse chippocalypse from Trump's tweet or truth over
the weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I feel like you got to.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Have like two syllables from Chicago Chicagolypse.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Chicago lips.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It was a take off on apocalypse now with Chicago. Yes,
and somebody a eyed him into the character from Apocalypse
Now where he is uh, very excited, great Robert Duval,
right with the Robert Duval character.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes, I love the smell of deportations.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
In the morning, which is right, relatively provocative. I'm looking
at the picture right now, and underneath it Chicago's about
to find out why it's called the Department of War,
which is very provocative.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
If anybody took it the least bit seriously, I mean,
it would be one of the great crises that have
ever confronted the United States.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, right, but nobody really does, no, But so we'll
talk about that a little bit later and whether or
not that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yes, oh my god. We live in such crazy times.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And I'm just reading about that that South Korean plant
in the Georgia, the Savannah area. You know, three hundred
and seventy five South Koreans have been not deported just
as politely. If you might return to your homeland, that
would be delightful, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And what was going on there? Odd odd story, Okay,
I want to hear that. The most interesting thing I've
heard today. So the trial starts for the second attempt
to assassinate Donald Trump as the guy that was laying
in the bushes at the golf course. Oh yeah, thank
god it was the Secret Service got him then, and
not five minutes later after he'd already put a bullet
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through the chest of the President of the United States.
Horrifying situation. Anyway, that trial starts today. The guy's representing
himself because he's completely fruit loops. But his demands to
the court were, I need strippers, I need a putting green,
which is an interesting combo. I don't know what he
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thinks a criminal trial is. Uh, is he taking a
guy's trip to Myrtle.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Beach or something? What's happening here?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And he challenged the president to an eighteen hole golf
match in which if he loses, the president gets to
execute him, but if he wins, he gets the president's job.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Wow, seems reasonable. That explains the need for the putting green.
Obviously he wants to get his stroke in shape. The
stripper's still a bit of a mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, it seemed to be like something you just kind
of an ad in at the end there, and why
not some strippers?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Anyway, so that guy appears to be completely nuts. It'll
be quite the circus to watch that unfold, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm surprised the judge is letting him defend himself because
usually they say, no, you're two nuts.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh really, I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
And then you sit there glowering at the court appointed
lawyer and maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They will look back, and maybe they will at some
point then maybe they can bond over I don't know,
a night at the strip club or something. Hey, captain Nutsoe,
why don't you sit down and we'll get a lawyer
in here.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, could face life in prison if they determined that
he actually was tempting to sassinate the president, which I
think they probably will, although he might get some sort
of I'm crazy stipulation in there.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I would enjoy the putting green if I was in prison,
but the strippers, I think I would just get horned
up and I'm in prison thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I might go with a pizza.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oven instead a putting green and a pizza of it
and the ingredients of course, right, Michael, something useful. Plus
i'd be very popular on the cell block. So here's
the question. Since it's being threatened within days, do you
think Trump is going to ac actually send National Guard
troops to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So far he hasn't. Yes, so far, he has not
gone against any court orders. Right he will.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I suspect he will find a way using threats to
federal personnel and or property to be the pretext. What
the scenario that a number of folks have pointed out
is entirely possible is ice will go in there and
do their jobs, and they will be harassed and assaulted,
and that will be a suitable pretext for bringing the
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National Guard in to protect the federal personnel.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, but protests yesterday they kept him pretty peaceful, So
that helps the argument toward not having troops there if
you've got peaceful protests. Obviously, when he sent troops into
Los Angeles, Los Angeles was completely out of control.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, yeah, which is a different situation.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I would think that people of Chicago would be more
concerned with the fact that their mayor has an IQ
of seventy one.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And you want to talk about a crisis.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And the largest attack on Ukraine Saturday night of the
entire war from Russia. If you're wondering how the peace
talks are going, Prutin invited Zelensky to Moscow for a
one on one meeting. Zelensky said, how about you come
to Kiev and that's where that stands?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Right? Yeah, what the hell? Oh? And so who is
this for? Who's pretending? Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
European leaders are coming to the White House today or tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
To discuss what the next steps are going to be.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Trump City's very unhappy with the attack from Saturday night
and vowed something, we'll see if anything happens. Although you know,
with Iran, nothing happened, nothing happened, then everything happened really fast,
so right, so who knows. Although maybe we're too busy
about to invade Venezuela as we have more and more
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of a an armada down there off the coast.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Right when you know, commentators, including myself, for discussing our
ability to take on a two front war. I don't
think the fronts we were thinking about were Ukraine and Venezuela,
no kidding.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So how about the back and forth between jd Vance
and Ran Paul over the weekend over bombing that boat?
Did you follow that? I really didn't know. I just
saw I had lines.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
So jd Vance had a post reacting to people who
are complaining about killing all those drug dealers in the boat.
Part of the argument, of course, is alleged drug dealers.
There was no trials, so we don't know exactly who
was in the boat, and there's a possibility that they
were not drug dealers. And so jd. Vance's pushback to
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that was, I don't give an s. I think that's
what it was. It was an S bomb, and that
was the highest use of our military. And then ran Paul,
very unhappy out said, calling it the highest use of
our military to extra judiciary judicial, without a trial, execute
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a bunch of people in a boat not knowing who
they are is an.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Awful thing to say.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Such a pretty interesting breakdown between two US senators, both Republican,
former senator for JD. Vanceman, right, and some of my
favorite conservative thinkers are highly uncomfortable with the act of
snuffing those fellows from above.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, I don't know if saying I don't give an ass,
I mean, performative wise, it probably gets you more votes
than the loses. I just wish we were a little
higher level of h We have full confidence that the military,
you know, did a legal blah blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, j D. I think has some pretty
well formed, very how would I put this, just intellectually,
carefully developed principles. I also think he understands very well
populist politics in this moment and lets it go right
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what the he unleashes it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
My point was going to be the theme seems to
be that the Trump vance administration thinks that enough people
just kind of pay attention to the news.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That alvel here is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I love the smell of deportations in the morning, and
I don't give an ass about killing drug dealers. We
got to kill him and that that is a win,
and it might very well be politically.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
If I was Joe Sixpack, literally my name is Joe
and I drink beer, I would react that way. If
I wasn't particularly paying attention, I'd think, great, good, finally
we're doing something about the border. And you got these
freaking drug cartiles which are scary and Trump's snuffed them.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Right, all right, cool, Yeah, there you go. That's interesting.
I'm Jack Armstrong. We're going to start the show officially
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I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Speaker 3 (10:13):
As the clock runs down, Trader lines up for a
gam with in field goal.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
From thirty two years Trader.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
On the Bills in their final season in this stadium
where they studying.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
So that has been declared already the game of the
season between fable maybe maybe the two best teams in
all of the NFL, the Ravens and the Bills, and
very exciting ending there and comeback.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So that's certainly maybe true.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Having the game of the year already over is a
bit frustrating as a fan.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Happened last year Bills Chiefs was Bill's Jeeps was the
game of the year, and it was like the third
week of the season last year.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You know, it's you know, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I had a conversation about the football with a buddy
of mine who said, you know, I was watching the
US Open. He's a forty nine Ers fan like I am,
and he said, you know, it's the first game of
the year. So it's just you know, those Bills fans
there that you could hear are fully cognizant of the
fact that that was the first day, first game of
the year, and they went absolutely ape nuts with joy
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and an exhilaration and craziness.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The NFL is something, well.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's because the season is short enough that the game
actually matters. It makes a difference whether you win the
It's not like baseball or basketball, where it really absolutely
freaking doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It matters in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You can if you can lose thirteen in a row
in Major League Baseball and end up winning your division.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Going to the World Series.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yes, Mike the field goal kicker, he had just joined
the team and didn't even know most of his teammates' names,
and all of a sudden he go kick a game winner.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Wow. Yeah, he had just joined the team like ten
hours ago.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
That's a sod position in all of sports in the world,
where you just you are.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You're a lonely man out there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Speaking of which, and this will be my final football note.
If that guy hasn't signed a contract yet, perhaps the
forty nine ers could call him. Yeah, yeah, your first
place San Francisco forty nine ers as opposed to me,
you're rooting for a last place Chiefs team.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well, as I said, we're out of time. That's my
last comment.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
But it was a shaky win, although it was on
the hostile green of the Seattle Seahawks Stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
We do have headlines on the way and a bunch
of other stories to catch you up on.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's gonna be a lot of fun. I hope you
can stick around here. Armstrong, Hetty, here's the major headline,
Jins And what did you just tell me?
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I was trying to go on to the Armstrong and
Getty subreddit page and it has been banned.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Our reddit page has been banned. Anybody have any idea why?
Hate speech, racism, anti Semitism. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
There's a lot of lunatics on there. Every once in
a while I check it out. Tremendous amount of normal
listeners that you all are, and then some real lunatics.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Jeff passes, who would ban it read it itself?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
And God, the Senate two thirds vote, I don't even
know how that works. A second two thirds of the states.
I'm on Reddit a lot.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
There's some crazy, disc disgusting, violent, horrifying crap all over Reddit.
What happened on our page to get it banned? They
can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That's wild.
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Does anybody know or have a serious theory? Please drop
us note mail bag at armstrong and yetty dot com.
Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
this morning with Jenson Raider.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Jensen, Hey, yeah, good morning. We're gonna start with the
New York Post. Trump goes off on reporter for asking
if he's going to war with Chicago.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, well he said he was basically, so that's why
they ask him.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But he's not.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
And number two Huff Post Gavin Newso torches Trump's Rose
Garden Club with a vicious two word nickname, predator Patio.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What now?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
This is from the Press Office parody account that tries
to mimic and make fun of Trump's social media presence.
They did a bunch of memes over the weekend with
Hunger Game style memes admission prove you're on the Epstein
list making fun of.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So the predator Patio is an Ebstein shot, Yes, because.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He held that Rose Garden club. So that Knews some
spelling it now, Okay, that's interesting, right.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
And number three from CNN, Carlos Acutest is now nicknames
God's influencer, becoming the first millennial saint.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Our first snarky saint. Who can you know? Tweet have memes? Yeah,
the first saint with memes.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
And this coming from page six, Jessica Simpson confuses f
with tight face at VMA's twenty twenty five, people, saying
she looks like she had an allergic reaction.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I saw way too many clips of things from the
VMA's last night as I was going to bed.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I didn't even know they were on number one. The
VMAs are still on number two. Jessica Simpson's name just
came up. How odd? Number three? What's to be confused by?
She had too much work clearly.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
And lastly, I got some departments that are being renamed
this according to the Babylon Bee. I'll hit you with
one first. The Social Security Administration is going to be
re christened the Charles Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I love that. Yeah, I want to hear all of those.
I came across kind of a cerebral version of that.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I think it was the National Review or something like that,
but I'd like to hear the babylon Be's version.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's very good, Thank you Jensen.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You I actually heard an explanation of so it was
the Department of War up until roughly after World War Two.
Then they changed at the Department and Defense, and I
heard an explanation for why that happened, which is kind
of interesting, actually, way more interesting than just changing a name.
It became a completely different department, but it's back to
(16:13):
the Department of War kind of. They put up the
signs on Hegzett's door and letterhead and all that sort
of stuff, even though Congress has to declare it for
it to be official, right, right, I'd like to hear that.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
I mocked the idea of it being the Department of
Defense last week, since virtually every reference to everything it
does all the time includes the word war or a
warrior or that sort of thing, as opposed to you know,
the US put five new defense ships out to see today.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I mean, people just don't say that, right, that's a
very good point their warships.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
There's a fair amount of news for us to get to,
and we will. If you miss a segment it the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Borders our Tom Holman saying that Chicago should expect a
surge and ICE enforcement operations and adding that using the
National Guard to protect these kinds of missions, well it's
not off the table. DHS confirming ICE operations will expand
in Chicago, and already we're seeing activity. On Sunday evening,
News Nation cameras captured this ICE van returning to the
(17:18):
Broadview ICE facility unloading six detainees. At least one man
was detained over in the Archer Heights neighborhood by federal
agents and unmarked cars.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, we'll talk more about that later, but there you go.
I don't think there are going to be National Guard troops.
There will be a surgeon, ice agents. Trump will get
all the credit among voters who just kind of pay
attention for sending troops in everywhere without defying any court orders.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And again, it's possible if things get ugly there against
the ICE guys, then you know, then you might send
in troops to protect them.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Then you'd have a reason. Yet, yeah, I don't see
that happening. I don't either.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Chicago's a very different place than la in terms of
the ethnic mix and just the feel of the place.
So interesting story. We will hit that later. Also, why
do I verbally abuse Brandon Johnson so much? I will
explain And.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Coming up the rest of the Babylon Bees list of
the departments that have changed names in addition to the
Department of War love it kind of funny from the
Department of Why does nobody recognize we're driving toward a
cliff at one hundred miles per hour?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Alicia Finley of The Wall Street Journal pointing out that
America's buy now, pay later economy is showing signs of
an emerging debt crisis everywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't like this story. I'm not doing that. I
don't buy it until like an afford it sort of guy.
But we all get brought down by a financial collapse.
We all realize that, right right. The word inclusive is
very hot these days. There certainly was a couple of
years ago. That's the brilliant thing about a financial crash.
It includes virtually everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So, anyway, so, she points out that serious credit card
and auto loan delinquencies have climbed to the level of
the twenty eighth nine recession. Okay, so rousing right after
that giant crash. Not surprising that lots of people all
of a sudden were in trouble and not quite making
their payments on time and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What is the reason now? Nobody's sure we like spending money,
she says. The housing market shows cracks. Well, the labor
market is weakening, but you wouldn't know it from the
poyant stock market and consumer spending. America is buy now,
pay later economy, and atle increasingly fueled by leverage. As consumers, investors, businesses,
(19:45):
and the government are all taking on more debt, which
she points out, and there's always one person like this
at the party, she points out, you have to pay
for debt later with interest.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Thank you for that. What a drag man.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
As Americans max out their credit cards after years of inflation,
by now, pay later offers are popping up everywhere, from
concert tickets to vacations to grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Boy oh boyl boyl boy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I could see how it would be appealing if I'm
twenty one year old Jack and they'll never tour again
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's their farewell tour man to not.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Buy your concert tickets on I can't afford it now,
but I'll magically have more money six months from now.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
No, don't do that. I guess.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
There are now apps where you can split the cost
of your purchases into installment payments over weeks or months.
Some are currently interest free for now.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Just to include fees. Here's what you do. You borrow
against your used car.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is that still a thing that people are doing where
you take out equity from your used car?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yees?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, And unlike credit cards, a lot of these services
don't report the loans to the credit bureaus, so folks
are in much more debt than their credit rating might indicate.
But so these all these different entities that are giving
people these deals must feel like they're going to get
paid back.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, certainly in the short term.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
And they have carefully calculated their default rates and you know,
price their services excuse me accordingly. And you know, if
somebody ends up not being able to pay, they just
put them their name on the blacklist.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Boy, my oldest son has got a life lesson coming on.
I don't even remember what it was now, it's been
so long, and something he really really wanted and.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Kind of fronted him.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The monk kind of fronted him the money on that
with the idea that you will owe me and I
will be keeping track of it, and I have been
keeping track of it, and he still owes me. And
Christmas might just be here. I've wiped off hot half
your debt. Merry Christmas. That would be a lesson in
how that old thing works. That would be a great
gift in a way.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yeah, sure, not to be appreciated at the time. According
to recent survey, about half of consumers have used a
buy now, pay later service.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
This is not a niche, This is half I've reskewed
toward the young.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Concert tickets, your vacation, I mean everybody kind of does
that a vacation, right because you put everything on your
credit card, whether you pay it off that month or
over a couple of months.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Good point.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, let's see Federal Reserve paper last December found such
users are more likely to have low credit scores, carry
a balance on credit cards, have incurred checking overdraft fees,
and have more delinquent credit accounts. Financially vulnerable consumers maybe
over extending themselves. Let's see one of the bigger buy
(22:50):
Now Pay Later services announced an IPO, which is expected
to be one of the biggest of the year. Such
services make money by capitalizing on financially stretched consumers, especially
young people who don't want to tighten their belts.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
According to the Babylon b As we told you, the
Social Security Administration is going to be renamed the Charles
Ponzi Memorial Retirement Plan, which I like. That is great.
The Department of Justice will be changed to the Department
of Revenge and all losers and haters.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't think that's appropriate.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Ah, and yet somewhat accurate in these days of law fair,
this is one that hurts.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
The Department of the Treasury will be changed to the
Chinese Loan Office.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oooh oh.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
One more that I liked, how Housing and Urban Development
will retitle is Department of the Pores.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
The Pores. Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
By the way, we got a text from somebody who
said they always appreciate when I do my porky pig
routine not being able to pronounce.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Hey, I got another statistic for you. That's enough fun.
Back to the misery. So in twenty twelve, mortgage you know,
holders had debt to income ratios considered risky, right, twenty
eight percent of people had a debt to income ratio that.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Was pretty risky. Twenty eight percent. Last year sixty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh my god, man, Freddy mckew was thirty eight percent,
up from sixteen percent in twenty twelve. Seven out of
ten of ya, Yeah, I don't think I do have
a risky debt to.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Income ratio.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
And if I haven't driven you to buy gold and
bury it in your backyards yet, how much? How about
one more? The FAHA Federal Housing Association.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
We have a fancy new name for them from the
Babylon b too bad.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
They've waived a reduce used to monthly payments on one
point two million mortgages over the past two years. It's
about fifteen percent of the total that they hold, and
without that forgiveness passed during the Biden administration, delinquencies would
be near the level of the twenty eight to nine meltdown.
Fanny and Freddy have also been slashing in deferring payments
on hundreds of thousands of mortgages.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I walked into the studio. Jensen was in here and
it smelled nice. I hope that doesn't get me in
trouble with hr. But it reminded me of how bad
my house smells, which I'll tell you about after a
note here. Maybe if somebody broke into my house, they'd
think this place stinks too bad, I'll leave. They won't
break into my house because I've got the whole Simply
Safe system with everything that goes with it. And I
(25:45):
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got the cameras, the censors, the everything that goes with
the Simply Safe situation. I joined more than four million
Americans who trust Simply Safe with their home security every day.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And one of the most notable differences between simply and
the old systems is that the old systems and alarm
goes off after somebody breaks into your house and smashes
stuff up and is probably long gone with your stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
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Speaker 1 (26:37):
There's no safe like simply safe. So I go into
my son's room last night.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
To talk to him, which is one of the groovyest
high schooler bedrooms I've ever seen in my life. He's
put a lot of effort into it, and it's very
cool and dark. It's always very dark in there. But anyway,
I go into my high schooler's room last night and
did not smell pleasant. I said, what is the deal
in here? And he must have taken that to heart,
because now the entire house smells like high school boy cologne.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And I said, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And he said, we used to sit at smell bed
So I sprayed around some of my cologne.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I thought that would help some of your colone.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Oh, it smells like you're on a date with four
high school sophomore boys right now in my house. Wow,
way too much, way too important. To ascertain the source
of the funk. First, it's not funny. I don't know
what it is about the scent, but it just it
smells like if you had to name the smell, you'd say,
(27:38):
I'm on a date with a boy who's about old
enough to get his driver's license.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's what it smells like, its own scent. You wow
X bedroom spray or something like that. Among the stores,
I hope you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Bought it for cash and didn't borrow the money here,
you know, break up the payments. Among the stories we
have to get to is a terrible attack on a
bus in Jerusalem by somebody who hates Jews, shooting up
a bunch of people, which ain't gonna help any peace
negotiations or the two state settlement or any of that crap.
Is Netnya who is rolling through Gaza trying to wipe
(28:16):
out the last of humas. So that's yet another story
we get to talk to you about. And again European
leaders coming to the White House today to talk about Ukraine.
We've got a mail bag on the way to a
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
He and Bremmer on his Twitter feed, friend of the
Armstrong Engetti show has been pretty accurate so far on
what's going on in Venezuela, and he says that the
United States is preparing to escalate against Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, we will see you.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Got dirty commis running the countries that ought to be
successful and happy in our hemisphere.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's our turf.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
We did a beach landing exercise in Puerto Rico over
the weekend, like we're getting ready to you know, invade
a country and maybe raising us.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Or on that to come. Here's your freedom moment. Court
of to Day, continuing our.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Series of Frits based on Murraw, inspired by my recent
trip to England.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Audrey Hepburn, who apparently was British. I guess, I don't know.
Here's she was an actress back one hundred years ago.
That's true, skinny cute. Anyway, here's Audrey Hepburn. I thinking
of Catherine Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn, very cute.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yes, yes, yes, anyway, nothing is impossible. The word itself
says I'm possible. Now if you hear something like that
and you think, wow, that's great, changed my wife.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You're just a soft head.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
That is Audrey Hepburn is the breakfast at Tiffany's girl. Yes, correct,
that's the woman right there. Let's see. So I decided
to weigh about ninety pounds. I decided to go with
this instead. Uh Ja Shetty pronounced his name carefully.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Knowledge is power and it can help you overcome any
fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more
awareness through the process and you know what it falls
to look for as you get ready to transition to.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The next level. Cool. Knowledge is power. I like that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, mail Bags out to us, mail Bag and Armstrong
and getty dot. Instead of saying impossible, just say I'm possible.
You're right, if you're if that makes a difference in
your life. Your head is soft. Nothing is impossible. The
word itself says I'm possible. Okay, eat a bowling ball.
(30:40):
I'll give you every dime.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Of my impressive networks if you can ingest a bowling
ball right now, then we'll discuss again whether nothing is impossible.
Autrator gee little thing Johnson owoocha, all right, I got this,
saw this meme.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
One to pass it along.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I'm sure the March of Dimes needs a new cause.
It's a new ribbon. It's an orange ribbon with a
shock of yellow hair, and it says find a cause.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Trump derangement syndrome, which is good.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It also resets the fact that charities whether it's the
March of Dimes or the NAACP or Southern Poverty losson
or whatever. After they've satisfied what they were originally built
to do, they just find a new cause and morph.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The point is they collect money. That's why they exist.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Not that the March of Dimes hasn't done wonderful things,
but it's kind of interesting how they've evolved. Let's see
Jonathan from San Diego regarding California schools in equity and education,
which we were discussing last week. The school Board's really
onto something. If you think about it. Math is rife
with inequities. It's always bothered me that six is less
value than seven. It isn't six's fault that it will
(31:46):
never equal seven. The answer seems clear to me. All
numbers should be the same. I like one because it
is so sleek and easy to write for those who
don't know how to write cursive. From now on, only
his one for all numbers. That's what equity is all about.
Out problem solved. That's beautiful. How much time do we
have I start this?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I sensed sarcasm, Ah, very very very well observed this
is Chris who will lead us.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Interestingly, oddly into a discussion of Portland, Oregon and why
the cops have been standing down there in spite of
the eighty some nights of violence in a row and
noise and law breaking. But Chris writes, good morning. We
escaped California three years ago, moved to a small city
in the North Georgia Mountains. It's in the heart of
(32:37):
Trump Country, former Cherokee Lands. The only comment you'll get
wearing a mega hat here is did you get that
at the Trump store? Yes, we have a Trump store.
In our schools. They don't teach about the genderbread person pronouns,
or any woke garbage. They have a moment of silence
for reflection and prayer, then recite the Pledge of Allegiance
every morning. You aren't asked to write land statements. You
(32:58):
taught that America is the greatest country on Earth, et cetera.
Our Walmart does not have anything locked up, no scales
on self checkout, and they don't bother checking the receipts,
et cetera. These places still exist in America. The fight
now is to keep the lefties from bringing what they're
running from here.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You know that is that is the fight.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yes, policy matters now under the topic of Oregon. The POS.
That's an unfortunate acronym there POS. Portland DA won't prosecute
any arrest the Portland Police make It's been doing that
for years, effectively neutering local law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Okay, Portland PD and riots. This is Justin. I've been
a listener since twenty eighteen. Thanks Justin.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
From what I've been hearing, the Portland PD wants so
badly to go in and help diffuse the insanity and
chaos in the city neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The mayor and the city council just won't won't let them,
and if they do, then not only get.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Fired, but the Portland city brass is threatened to take
away their pension benefits. If I were a Portland cop,
I'd be looking for employment opportunities like so many cops
in other places.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Got this. I can't imagine doing your job as a cop.
If you arrest bad guys and then they're never prosecuted
and they're let out right away, and then you see
them committing other crimes, it would be so disheartening. Why
would you.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Literally risk your neck going Some of the people are dangerous.
I think in a lot of cases. You stop right
right e fit you think, let's see, this is from Tea.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I live in Portland. What's even more infuriating than the
police just letting the riots continue is that this is
in a very nice, expensive area of town. About ten
years or so ago, the city decided to develop an
undeveloped portion of land along the river. The change zoning
laws built it put up high rises with beautiful, multimillion
dollar condos.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
There were views of the river.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Many restaurants open on the main floors of these buildings.
It was meant to be a walking neighborhood area. I've
actually spent time there. There are paths along the river.
You could take a short half mile walk into town
for more restaurants.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Blah blah.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Now, after all this money has been poured into the neighborhood,
it's become a hellhole because they will not control the
junkies that camp out along the river steps away from
these condos, the ice buildings just blocks away from some
of these buildings. Quite a few of the restaurants have
had to close. Nobody can sell their condos if they
want to leave there, you go.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
And then here's Jeff who's been traveling to and working
in Portland for decades, talks about when I first visited
it blew me away. Oh, it was one of my
favorite places on Earth. And it's just awful. And he's
interviewed through his work Portland cops, many retired because of
frustration over work, et cetera. Employers, business owners, downtown workers,
(35:35):
even a few homeless folks. It's so interesting and there's
more to this, and I wish we could get to it.
But you would think those constituencies would be in charge
of city governments, but in left these cities it's not.
It's the loudest, angriest in Portland, most violent, young completely
unmoored from reality dreamers and Antifa types that drive governance.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
You should find the episode to the show where I
described what the woman did on the street in front
of me and my son in Portland that was disgusting,
like a horse.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
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