August 14, 2026 • 36 mins
The A&G Replay Hour 3 on Friday, August 14, 2026 contains:
- Concrete Creep (depression vs sadness)
- Gay Cats & Joe the Usher
- NYC No Pay Rent & Left Mind Psychology
- Ghost Tapping
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Getty, Armstrong and Jetty Hee, Armstrong and Getty Strong, Armstrong
and Getty, except we're not actually here. We're home.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh, I hope you enjoy this carefully curated Armstrong and
Getty replay.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So this guest essay in the New York Times about
how we've never focused more on our mental health and
it's making our mental health worse as opposed to making
it better, and there might be a connection between the two,
and it fits in with something really smart guy told me.
I'm glad it came up in conversation because it really
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really helped me at the time. So when my wife
told me she wanted a divorce, I was very, very
very unhappy about that. I'm still very unhappy about that,
but like extremely unhappy about it at that moment, having
a couple of young kids and particularly what it was
going to do to them.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I was talking to a.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Guy about how down I was about it, and he said, well,
don't pathologize grief. In other words, something bad happened, you're
supposed to feel bad. Maybe for quite a while. That's
the normal reaction to something bad happening. If you don't
feel bad after something real bad happens, that's the weird thing.
You're supposed to feel bad after something bad happening.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Again, maybe for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You don't have depression, You're sad exactly, two very different things,
and it's not.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Something to fix. It's just something you have to go through.
It's part of being a human being. Differentiating the difference
between the two, you know, isn't always easiest. But we're
clearly getting it wrong in modern society with some of
these numbers they have in the New York Times that
you are amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A third of American.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Adults have given themselves a diagnosis of a mental illness
based on information that they got online.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A third for gen Z.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Half half of gen Z thinks they have a mental illness,
usually anxiety or depression.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Obviously that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, you throw in ADHD and they are legitimate
cases of all of them.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Of course, they call it concept creep in New York Times.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And how we've.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Just just kept expanding the definition of depression, anxiety, all
these different things toward it encompasses pretty much just being
a human being.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Human experience, yeah, but human experience.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Right, And I believe that we did not pay enough
attention to mental health issues back in the day or
treated them poorly.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
But like everything else in life, there's a sweet spot.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I mean, let's put this aside, because you know, if
people say, look, Joe, you're talking like you know everything.
I've got anxiety, terrible anxiety. This drug has helped me,
blah blah blah. That may be true. But if you
obsess over your physical health, it will hurt your health.
You will make yourself insane, you will become or are
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a hypochondriac. That's not to say you shouldn't pay attention
if you have chest pains or whatever. There's a sweet spot.
But if you obsess over this stuff, and I've got
enough hypochondria to be an authority on this topic, you
can't obsess over it or it will convince you you
know you've got the malady.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Well, I would guess, having gotten to this point where
we are, that we were better off leaning toward the
underappreciating it than the overappreciating it, the soldiering on the
you know whatever, get over it lifestyle, because this is
it's just it's such a crazy way to be a society,
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right the way it is right now, listen to this experiment.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, go ahead, let me find it here.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
The problem isn't just that many people give themselves incorrect diagnoses.
It's also that these diagnoses can put people on the
path developing poor mental health, a kind of self fulfilling prophecy.
When people in one study were encouraged to adopt a
very broad view of what constitutes trauma, you sit them
down and say, no, no, no, did you ever have
a dog die?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay, then you've.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Had trauma, you know that sort of thing, So you're
suffering from trauma. You broaden the definition of trauma with people,
They reported greater levels of distress after watching a film
clip with disturbing content and were more likely to describe
the experience as personally traumatic. Yeah, so you broaden the
definition of trauma, then you're more likely to say bad
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things that happened to you were traumatic, and you're suffering
from trauma.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right, not surprising.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And again I'm all for the sweet spot, not the extremes.
But I'm struck by a discussion we've had the appropriateness
of a discussion we've had several times on you know,
slightly different topics, the mommy effect and the daddy effect.
When the kid falls down and scrapes their knee at
the playground, often mommy will say oh no, oh no,
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come to me, oh oh, with hugs and stuff, and
dad will say, ah, you're fine, go play, and we
can all picture, certainly those of us who've raised kids,
we can picture the kid in scenario one really steers
into the trauma of the skinned knee, with blubbering and
cries and getting hogs and stuff which feel nice. Whereas
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the kid, the dad says, now you look okay to
be as you'll be fine, go play. I mean, it's
not hard to extrapolate that phenomenon to I'm feeling some anxiety.
I'm feeling some depression. I'm unsure of myself, I have
imposter syndrome. I'm not sure people like me. Whatever. If
the people around you say yeah, me too, and you
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go on with your day, you're going to have a
different attitude than oh no, no, you probably have anxiety.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That's just the way we're made as beasts.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Well, in terms of being too far one direction or
the other, just looking at society as opposed individual people.
If the s hits the fan, and you got a
society that's, you know, under the cover, suffering from anxiety
and depression over every single thing that happens in their lives,
versus self obsessed patty wastes versus a society where they
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suck it up.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, which society is going to prevail? Yeah, I'm going heavily.
I'm betting heavily on society number two. It's not much
of a question.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, anyway, I think the fact that an article like
that's saying we've gone way too far showing up in
the New York Times is definitely a sign that we've
gone too far.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh, it's a touchy, touchy subject, isn't it. Friends?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Don't we all have and maybe it's you yourself. Don't
we all have folks loved ones who are in this
world dealing with this stuff, perhaps taking medications, et cetera, and.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Who clearly have something wrong with them. It's not even debatable.
I shouldn't say something wrong. That's not the right term.
But oh I think it's the right term. Okay, fine,
but it's clear. I mean, it's not even a question.
I've got one in my life, which I've talked a
lot about. I mean, it's not even a question that
something isn't functioning the way it's supposed to do in
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terms of emotional regulation and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, I was actually talking about the opposite kind of
the borderline cases. I would like to put that piece
in front of some people and find a way to say,
I'm not suggesting you're not legit, or you're faking it
or or whatever. I just want you to keep these
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thoughts in mind as you look.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
At your own mental health.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's a difficult needle to thread, but I feel like
I'm going to thread it.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I don't know, people are so touchy feely soft in
this modern world.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Maybe everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I was about to say, everybody's had this experience, but
maybe you haven't. I was going to say, hasn't everybody
had the experience where you're like down about this or
scared about that or whatever, and somebody just like says,
get over it or come on, or you don't have
a choice or whatever, and.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You snap out of it, You're fine. Hasn't everybody had
that experience?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I have, yes times in my life, or a friend
tells you whatever, it happens, to everybody, or something right.
Somebody says something that you could construy is mean, but
it ends up helping a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I mentioned this on the show a couple of weeks ago.
I think it was that Tom Brady told the story
to the Kelsey Brothers that he had a terrible attitude
is first. I think a couple of years in college.
It's a college quarterback, and he had coach take him
aside and chew him out and tell him, you know
your problem. It's your attitude. You're so negative, you're so
self indulgent. How about you approach it this way instead?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And Brady thought, oh my god, he's right, and it
changed his brain, chemistry and his entire emotional approach to
what he did.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
God, it's impossible to picture Tom Brady having a negative attitude.
I know, well, we're bind by two touchdowns. There's no
catching up in this game. I mean, that is not
the way Tom Brady performed.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Coaches are calling running plays because they don't think I'm
good enough. They never gave me a fair chance.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You know that sort of thing, which I think the
reason he is the way he is now is he's
like it's the fervor of the converted. He saw the
change it made in his life to approach things in
a positive way, and so he's just he's brimming with
enthusiasm for it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
What's that Shakespeare line? I came across it and hammel
it the other day. I promised I was gonna memorize it,
but I haven't. I took the notes on it. Nothing
is either good or bad.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No one takes one, no one exactly. That's what it was.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I could find it in like two seconds. It's worth
it's worth finding because it's so dang good. Alas poor Yoric.
Why you gotta be such a dick? Why why are
you such a dick? Maybe I can't find it as
fast as I thought to.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Be or not to be. What is the apartment number?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh oh? Here it is from Hamlet? Uh there. Nothing
is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so Yes. Wow,
that is that is so true. Wow. Nothing spears shakes
me to the core.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And talking about you know, being in prison. You can
have a good attitude about being in prison, or you
can focus on all the negative and be miserable.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But it's just you know, your choice.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Oh my god, the uh uh Hannah Aren't and uh
oh who wrote such brilliant stuff about being in concentration camps.
The name escapes me, but yeah, yeah, there's some absolutely
wonderful stuff that's been written about that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And the worst of circumstances, some.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Human beings say all right, I am going to make
the most of this and I am going to survive it,
and here's how I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It, and yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Monock and Begum was in solitary confinement for a very
long time and bad like dirt, floor rats, that sort
of thing, and he said, in many ways it was
the happiest he ever was in his life in that
and he was focusing on God and positive attitudes and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Interesting. Wow, that is interesting. Nothing is either good or bad.
It's just thinking that makes it so.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And you know, I've been in that situation where I
have to stop myself. Here's my example I use all
the time because I love it. One time, going into
San Francisco to work.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This was years ago, I rode.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
My motorcycle into San Francisco and for whatever reason, I
was in a really bad negative mood and I'm driving
across the bridge and I thought, for some reason I
popped into my head. You're riding a really cool motor
cycle into one of the greatest cities on earth to
do a job you love, and you're in a bad mood,
and it's just like, what, Yeah, how could you not
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be happy with your circumstance right at this moment?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I would be tempted to say to Shakespeare, Look, I
get your premise. Nothing is good or bad. It's thinking
that makes it so. I just stepped on a nail
and I need your help with this. Let's see you
learn to appreciate your feet or your skin when it's unpunctured.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm not buying it, Barred, you gotta do better than that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Think about all the times when you didn't have a
hole in your foot you've acquired the wisdom to avoid
stepping on nails in the future.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Still not buy it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'm bengetti shot.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Did we give you the viral sensation the song? Do
I have gay cats? I wanna know if my cats
are game, if they are brothers. I wanna know if
they love each other, if they are lovers. Do I
happy cats? I wanna know if my cats are gay?
(13:22):
They have gay cats? That's okay? Do you gay cat.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Gay cats. Yes, you made the point. That was better
than I imagine it would be pretty good. Yeah, I
hadn't heard it. That's great. I hate to analyze humor
because you know, it kills the humor. That was precisely
dumb enough. It's so funny. Oh, that's great. Oh, speaking
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of music, I had a lovely experience. I'd forgotten it
was the State of the Union last night, not that
it matters. They record them these days, and Judy and
I had waited too long to buy tickets to see
the Vienna Boys Choir, Oh, which is in my part
of the world right now.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And Vienna Boys Choir, I've heard of it. I don't
actually know what it is. Yeah, yeah, it's it's musically
it's amazing. It's these little fellows who are ages I
don't know you to thirteen. You makes these days, No,
we don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
But they have these amazing voices and they sing just
wonderful music, from like Austrian folk songs to classical pieces
to their Their encore song was hilarious. It was spoiler
earlier was it just?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Did we have gay katz song? They say it was,
and everybody bus no.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It was actually the song I Want to Be Like
You from the Jungle Book movie, the original Disney movie,
which they accompanied themselves with kazoos and reminding you that
they are little kids, and it was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
How many people is it in the Vienna Boy Square it?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Oh my gosh, they actually have four performing groups of
a couple of dozen. Okay, but anyway, the really interesting
part of it was we'd waited too long to buy tickets,
and so a friend of us who's a member of
the organization that sponsored it, said, hey, we need ushers.
Why don't you volunteer to be an usher and then
you can watch the show from like the back row,
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which is fine in a big church, not like a
mega church, but a big church.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And so Judy and I we went to a meeting.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Then we showed up an hour and a quarter early
and got our marching orders in our sections and blah
blah blah, and we were ushers for the whole night
before and after, and it ended up being great, helping
people to their seats, helping lots of old folks to
their seats, Folks who had walkers and I would help
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them to their seats, and my mom had Parkinson's for years,
and helping her up and down and in and out,
and that sort of thing I got pretty good at.
And it reminded me very much of caring for my mom.
Helping some of these old gals, especially to their seats.
And then I would put a quick right out of
tag on the walker, and the walkers couldn't stay in
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the auditorium for fire safety reasons, bubbah, so I'd run
them out to the lobby and put them in a
special storage here. You were a conscientious rusher, then I
would have to run back after and get it for
them and stuff like that. And they seemed touched, which
is nice. But Judy loved it too, and it reminded
us this is not original wisdom by any means. There's
much more joy in serving others than serving yourself. It's
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hard to describe why it was so much fun and
just satisfying, but it was. It was lovely.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So are you going to continue this whole Usher career,
you think now that you've kind of taken a liking
to it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, I'm just going to turn up places. Because we
got a badge that said Usher. I sent it out
to the crew. I'll tweet it in my black pants
and my white shirt. I'm just going to start showing
up at places well, just in ushering general.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
If you don't have tickets movie theaters, what other menial
labor would you be willing to do if something is
sold out? Would you clean ash trays or take the
trash out afterwards?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Or I'd rather not clean the toilets just because you know,
getting up and down for my knees is kind of tough.
At this point in my life, I relate that concert
sold out. I'll clean the toilets for you. Yeah right,
what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh? Sell popcorn as long as I can go and
watch it. But I'm gonna go to.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Movie theaters and just in my my black and white
outfit and my usher pin say, folks, where you say?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
What section are you in there? Like it's a movie theater?
What are you doing here? I have experience Armstrong, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Both parties are in really interesting times. We definitely have
a realignment going on. How this is going to shake out,
how long it'll take to shake out.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't know. Same things happening over in Britain.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I was just gonna say, interesting enough it's kind of well,
it's halfway shaken out in that they don't have two
parties anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
The two party systems crumbling.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh yeah, and Emmanuel McCrone, who's been Prime Minister for
quite a while now in Francs he was from an
out of nowhere third party that had never won anything ever,
It only had been two parties their entire history of
the republic And then along comes this because people are unsatisfied.
So I'm just like, for instance, getting into this discussion
about the Democrats and the left. But Tucker Carlson announced
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yesterday he will no longer support the Republican Party because,
in his view, the party has abandoned the interests of
ordinary Americans, become too willing to support foreign wars, powerful
special interests, et cetera, et cetera. And you know where
the whole working class left the Democratic Party came to
the Republican Party. Followed a lot of people follow Tucker
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and candae where they're going to end up.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And then on the Democratic side, you got today a
bunch of socialist candidates running against other Democrats in the primaries.
This didn't used to happen, Man, when we first got
into talk radio. That's not where the action was. Not
in the primaries. The guy or woman who already had
the seat, they didn't get challenged. In the primaries, it
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was all about whether or not you got beat by
somebody from the other party. But now it's all about
losing to somebody in your own world, generally to your
left on the left, or to you're right on the right,
or I even define that, I'm not exactly sure in
some way two year maga on the right and to
your socialist on the left. As you got a bunch
of socialist candidates today running against more mainstream Democrats that
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are likely to win. The socialists are likely to win
in some cases, and we'll be talking about that a
lot tomorrow, whether or not they can. I would assume
these are mostly safe Democratic seats, So the social it's
the way AOC became a House member. You challenge the
mainstream Democrat and a safe Democrat area and you end
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up win in the election. We could have a bunch
of socialists in the next next House of Representatives. Just
trouble wow, will Democrats go ahead and vote for them?
So far it seems now it's better than an evil Republican.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
To that point.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Some of the reality on the ground, rent collections are
down in New York and no one's sure why. There
are some theories, one of the theories being that during
COVID and then it got extended under Kum Dummy, the
idea of not making people pay their rent.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
In other words, you can't. You're supposed to pay your rent.
You have to pay your rent. You got to pay
your rent.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But we can't rent.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
It's too damn if the landlord is not allowed to
evict you. So if the landlords not if the landlord
is not allowed to evict you, if you don't pay
the rent, guess what, you don't actually have to pay
your rent.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Turns out to be the case.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
They've got some housing complexes where twenty five percent of
the people are not paying rent. Apparently the cutoff is
around I hope to hear get you the actual numbers here,
because this is higher than you would think. But last
year rent collections were at about eighty nine percent according
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to data on the Affordable Properties this is your lower
income properties in New York City. The dip from ninety
five percent pre COVID to eighty nine percent might not
sound like much, but all these properties operate on a
very tiny margin, and that is enough to make it
so you can't get the doors open. I mean, it
just it doesn't work money wise anymore. And there's a
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lot of pushback against the crowd that says, well, it's
because if you can't evict people, they're not going to
pay their rent, and there's a big pushback to that. No,
that's not the reason people are not choosing not to
pay their rent just out of selfishness. It's because things
have gotten too expensive. I can't afford it the rent,
it's too damn which obviously obviously could be true in
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some people's cases. But I'd like to see if you've
got a knife, phone, or what you did for vacation
last year, how often you eat out, or all kinds
of kind of shoes you're wearing. I'd like to know
all kinds of things before I buy the whole. You're
not not paying your rent just because you know there's
nothing anybody can do to you.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And come on, what happened when it became clear in
say California, that would you you would not be prosecuted
for shoplifting, including up to large amounts. Did that cause
a decrease in shoplifting or e fing B a huge
increase in it efing B?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yes, So cancel rent became a big thing during COVID
because during COVID there was an eviction moratorium that was
from March twenty twenty to early twenty twenty two, and
the activist class in New York worked really hard to
try to get cancel rent going, like, you don't have
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to pay your back rent?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
And the state then came up with a four billion
dollar pot a taxpayer money to pay the landlords all
that rent, so people didn't have to pony up the
rent that they were behind on. But one condition of
the landlords getting that money was they would no longer
be able to pursue an eviction case for at least
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a year, so the people weren't paying their rent already
taxpayers bailed out those people didn't pay the rent, but
it came along with the stipulation you weren't allowed to
effect anybody for another year, So was another.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Year of people not paying rent. Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism. This person, this lefty person, actually is
smart enough to say or fair enough to say, we
have to consider what the unintended consequences are of public
policies or practices where there are no immediate consequences for
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someone who falls behind. Unrintink, you have to come up
with a policy for people who got extended to anything.
You're supposed to pay for the food at this restaurant,
but we won't do anything to you if you just
come in and eat it. Lots of people would come
in and just eat it and leave it, not pay
It's just stop paying your dues at the gym. You
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can still work out here. Yeah, use whatever example you want. Sure, please,
one hundred percent of the time you'll get the same results.
You can come by this car. You don't actually have to.
We'd really like you to make the car payment. You're
supposed to make the car payment, but if you don't,
we're not going to confiscate your car.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, we're not allowed to.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I don't know what percentage of people would take advantage
of that stuff. I wouldn't, but there's enough people that
would that throw the whole system upside down.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I'll never My biggest problem with all of this stuff
has always been what is your life experience as a lefty? Now,
some of these people are Marxists. You always point out
they want the system to collapse to build something new.
But I know enough people who aren't Marxists who actually
believe everybody's trying their hardest.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Those are the useful idiots.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Everybody's honest and trying their hardest, and if somebody's not
doing well, the system screwed them because they're working as
hard as they can, and they're paying their bills on
time and they always will. If they didn't pay their
bills on time, it's only because they can't. It's not
because they're mismanaging their money or anything like that or
their selfish come here.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Yeah, In short, what is your life experience of that.
Didn't you ever have roommates or friends that you saw
take advantage of systems and realize, oh, okay, there's some
people that will do that, or co workers? You didn't
have co workers when I worked at UPS. It was
one of my first experiences with this sort of thing
when I was in my early twenties. There's a bunch
of people that wouldn't come to work on Friday night.
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We were teamsters, so you couldn't get fired. We were
all in our early twenties. I would come to work
on Friday night, have to work my ass off to
try to keep up with the flow of boxes because
like half the people wouldn't show U because they wanted
to go out to the bars on a Friday night
and they couldn't be fired. What is your life experience.
You've never come across these people?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, it's amazing. I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
It's a frequently what they call a luxury belief. I've
got the weirdest example of a luxury belief I've ever
come across. Maybe next segment, speaking of the way of
thinking on the left. I'm not familiar with this guy's work, really,
but I found this to be such a concise everybody
can understand it. Explanation of the of left wing psychology.
Thought we'd run it for you as start with seventy Michael,
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there is a.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Core part of left wing psychology you need to understand
so that you could even just wrap your head around
how anybody could ever vote.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
For these freaks.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Above all, the type of person who votes Democrat is
desperately vulnerable to peer pressure. Let me give you two
examples that illustrate this right off the bat. Number one,
many Blue states were locked down because of the bad
Cold COVID for over a year. When I was in Portland,
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Oregon in April twenty twenty one, there was zero in
person dining happening at restaurants, not the wearing the mask
and then sit down and take it off and you're
magically okay.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Not reduced capacity. Nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
There was a chicken wing restaurant down the road from
me that had this sign about how you can wear a.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Mask or you can get it out.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
There is aggressive in group social policing that happens on
the left in a way that is not comparable on
the right or amongst more independent minded people. Even though
none of it made sense, and it was completely just
security theater, you must wear the mask, you must socially distance.
These people would wear masks outside alone, you guys, because
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they have an extreme vulnerability of being labeled as a
member of the outgroup.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So I thought he went a little far with the
bad Cold COVID. It was more than that, but the
rest of it was right. And there he gets to
the point, and we've always said, what the F is
the matter with you. You're wearing a mask outside alone.
It is a frantic symbol of loyalty to the group.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
He goes on. The other one is the trans nonsense.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
You guys, There is one peer reviewed research study with
a control group, large sample size, and long term that
has ever been conducted on this topic.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Only one wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You're willing to go full crazy and believe the wildest
thing that you could possibly believe that a male can
be a woman when there is no credible science that
supports any of it. But it doesn't matter, because even
though they see themselves as like we're the Party of
science and we respect the process of science, they are
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incapable of breaking from in group orthodoxy.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I ask people all.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
The time who train at me, can a mailby a woman?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
And at this point in twenty twenty six, none of
them answer the question because they know it's insane, they
know it's discrediting, they know it's unpopular, but they are
so afraid of their own peers, the social group that
they chose, that they can't bring themselves to disavow the
insane position. And then, in summary, at the end of
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the day, These are people who choose their political beliefs
based off of what is popular, not what is right
or why. It's very easy and fun to say healthcare
for everybody, Right, that's easy. What's not necessarily easy, but
way more prudent, is to say, how do we pay
for it? What are the trade offs? And so these
people default to the path of least resistance because they're weak.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Again, I found him a little over the top. I
don't have any need to own the libs. I would
just like to understand what's going on. But we had
the quote not long ago about how and this gal
was writing. She said, a lot of women in low
testosterone males look at issues through the lens not of truth,
but of acceptability. Will I be accepted for holding this opinion?
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Will my peers reward me for it?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Then? That is my belief.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That's the ad change of being a misanthrope with no friends. Yeah,
I couldn't give an ass. Well, who would judge me?
Nobody hangs out with me?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Well, I was just looking up at a video they
had on Fox of a fifth grade class in New
York City. I couldn't catch whether it was like a
private school or a public school. Looked like I had
the looks of a public school, but I don't know. Anyway,
fifth grade class doing a dance where they dance around
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and pantomime being shot by the cops and then collapse
because of all the police shootings target well there was
a variety of people colors in the dance. Well that's
what you got to get the white kids to convince
be convinced that yes, they are bad because so many
people are being gunned down by police, that you have
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your fifth graders. I have a dance routine about it.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So quick. Note on lux are weird freaking times.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Many things are already weird and they're getting weird or
fast elon anyway more to come.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Huh without AI, our politics were getting weird, and AI
is going to put it on just astro blue blast
or something.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
We're doomed, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
An attacker doesn't even need to have to have it out.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
They can simply just bump against your wallet and just
automatically steal the information through essentially a wireless radio frequency.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I what, huh, what was that?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
They call it ghost tapping jack. They can charge your
card without you even leave in your pocket.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Wait a second, I tap stuff all the time, so
obviously take I use my watch, but I could use
my card. Are's lots of us do or you just
trapped your card on there, so so somebody can come
up and tap my card in my pocket.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
That makes sense according to the written account, they can
use cheap, easy to read card readers. Thieves can trigger
small wireless transactions just by getting close enough to your
wallet or phone.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
No swipe, no pin, no warning.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yes, Katie, that is why all of my loved ones
and myself have what's called an RFI D wallet. It
actually has a protectant in the outside layer that can
block anybody from doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I was just at a outlet store which will remain nameless,
although if you traveled to Columbia you might see their clothes,
and that was like all they sold in the wallet department.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I thought, necessarily it's very popular. But how bulky are they?
I wore very tight pants.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Stop stop, that's my answer to that query. I tried
to just like go right by that, you know what
I mean, Just keep power through it. They're not mosteen
cannot be unseen. I'm a single man. I need to
have everything on display.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
A baby gap, okay, very good, No, no, So the
scam relies on crowded spaces like transit, concerts, busy sidewalks
where uh you never realize the charge is happening. Better
better business bureaus out and saying when you think about
how convenient commonplace payment has been common it is, it's
just a matter of time before somebody takes advantage of it.
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Uh oh, And they do really small transactions. That's an
interesting aspect of this.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Just to see if it goes through.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Then what attackers are doing is adding that to their
digital wallets and essentially buying gift cards and doing other
types of scams to make a quick transaction out of it,
but to take as many dollars as it can the
shortest period of time possible.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'm one of those people.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I mean, I know I should be like my mom
always was or adults are, but I'm not where you know,
I go through my credit card bill every month because
there's eight thousand things and I don't go through them.
It would be very easy to milk me fifteen or
twenty two dollars at a time, A big one, I
would notice, but yeah, because you know, there's so many
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charges on there.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So if you, if you like the utilities and phone
companies do y mystery charges, you never notice and they
steal steal, steal exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
And you just roll your eyes and think on whatever,
and you go on and pay it. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
And then they go through an r if ID blocking card,
which is a dollar apiece that's the cheapest option and
does not work. A blocking sleeve, which is like twenty
cents per piece. One card fits inside each sleeve, so
you need one for each item, and your wallet sleeve
work for both the plastic and metal cards, but was
slightly inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You got your Faraday pouch, which worked very well. However,
your cell.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Phone services also need sleek and then RFID blocking wallet
phone case combo extra sleek for the aging low thario.
The wallet feature worked, the cards could not be charged
while inside it.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I should just not carry my card. I really only
need my watch to live my life. At this point.
It's long that I got my watch on. I can
do whatever I want. Yeah, okay, uh, you.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Had another thing to worry about. That's what we all needed.
That's what we do every day. Here's a list of
things to worry about. Come back tomorrow for another list
of things to worry about, Shock, Getty Shop, Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Getty, Armstrong and Jetty Hee, Armstrong and Getty Strong, Armstrong
and Getty, except we're not actually here. We're home.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh, I hope you enjoy this carefully curated Armstrong and
Getty replay.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So this guest essay in the New York Times about
how we've never focused more on our mental health and
it's making our mental health worse as opposed to making
it better, and there might be a connection between the two,
and it fits in with something really smart guy told me.
I'm glad it came up in conversation because it really
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really helped me at the time. So when my wife
told me she wanted a divorce, I was very, very
very unhappy about that. I'm still very unhappy about that,
but like extremely unhappy about it at that moment, having
a couple of young kids and particularly what it was
going to do to them.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I was talking to a.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Guy about how down I was about it, and he said, well,
don't pathologize grief. In other words, something bad happened, you're
supposed to feel bad. Maybe for quite a while. That's
the normal reaction to something bad happening. If you don't
feel bad after something real bad happens, that's the weird thing.
You're supposed to feel bad after something bad happening.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Again, maybe for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You don't have depression, You're sad exactly, two very different things,
and it's not.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Something to fix. It's just something you have to go through.
It's part of being a human being. Differentiating the difference
between the two, you know, isn't always easiest. But we're
clearly getting it wrong in modern society with some of
these numbers they have in the New York Times that
you are amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A third of American.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Adults have given themselves a diagnosis of a mental illness
based on information that they got online.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A third for gen Z.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Half half of gen Z thinks they have a mental illness,
usually anxiety or depression.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Obviously that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, you throw in ADHD and they are legitimate
cases of all of them.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Of course, they call it concept creep in New York Times.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And how we've.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Just just kept expanding the definition of depression, anxiety, all
these different things toward it encompasses pretty much just being
a human being.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Human experience, yeah, but human experience.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Right, And I believe that we did not pay enough
attention to mental health issues back in the day or
treated them poorly.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
But like everything else in life, there's a sweet spot.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I mean, let's put this aside, because you know, if
people say, look, Joe, you're talking like you know everything.
I've got anxiety, terrible anxiety. This drug has helped me,
blah blah blah. That may be true. But if you
obsess over your physical health, it will hurt your health.
You will make yourself insane, you will become or are
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a hypochondriac. That's not to say you shouldn't pay attention
if you have chest pains or whatever. There's a sweet spot.
But if you obsess over this stuff, and I've got
enough hypochondria to be an authority on this topic, you
can't obsess over it or it will convince you you
know you've got the malady.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Well, I would guess, having gotten to this point where
we are, that we were better off leaning toward the
underappreciating it than the overappreciating it, the soldiering on the
you know whatever, get over it lifestyle, because this is
it's just it's such a crazy way to be a society,
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right the way it is right now, listen to this experiment.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, go ahead, let me find it here.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
The problem isn't just that many people give themselves incorrect diagnoses.
It's also that these diagnoses can put people on the
path developing poor mental health, a kind of self fulfilling prophecy.
When people in one study were encouraged to adopt a
very broad view of what constitutes trauma, you sit them
down and say, no, no, no, did you ever have
a dog die?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay, then you've.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Had trauma, you know that sort of thing, So you're
suffering from trauma. You broaden the definition of trauma with people,
They reported greater levels of distress after watching a film
clip with disturbing content and were more likely to describe
the experience as personally traumatic. Yeah, so you broaden the
definition of trauma, then you're more likely to say bad
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things that happened to you were traumatic, and you're suffering
from trauma.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right, not surprising.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And again I'm all for the sweet spot, not the extremes.
But I'm struck by a discussion we've had the appropriateness
of a discussion we've had several times on you know,
slightly different topics, the mommy effect and the daddy effect.
When the kid falls down and scrapes their knee at
the playground, often mommy will say oh no, oh no,
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come to me, oh oh, with hugs and stuff, and
dad will say, ah, you're fine, go play, and we
can all picture, certainly those of us who've raised kids,
we can picture the kid in scenario one really steers
into the trauma of the skinned knee, with blubbering and
cries and getting hogs and stuff which feel nice. Whereas
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the kid, the dad says, now you look okay to
be as you'll be fine, go play. I mean, it's
not hard to extrapolate that phenomenon to I'm feeling some anxiety.
I'm feeling some depression. I'm unsure of myself, I have
imposter syndrome. I'm not sure people like me. Whatever. If
the people around you say yeah, me too, and you
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go on with your day, you're going to have a
different attitude than oh no, no, you probably have anxiety.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That's just the way we're made as beasts.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Well, in terms of being too far one direction or
the other, just looking at society as opposed individual people.
If the s hits the fan, and you got a
society that's, you know, under the cover, suffering from anxiety
and depression over every single thing that happens in their lives,
versus self obsessed patty wastes versus a society where they
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suck it up.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, which society is going to prevail? Yeah, I'm going heavily.
I'm betting heavily on society number two. It's not much
of a question.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, anyway, I think the fact that an article like
that's saying we've gone way too far showing up in
the New York Times is definitely a sign that we've
gone too far.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh, it's a touchy, touchy subject, isn't it. Friends?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Don't we all have and maybe it's you yourself. Don't
we all have folks loved ones who are in this
world dealing with this stuff, perhaps taking medications, et cetera, and.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Who clearly have something wrong with them. It's not even debatable.
I shouldn't say something wrong. That's not the right term.
But oh I think it's the right term. Okay, fine,
but it's clear. I mean, it's not even a question.
I've got one in my life, which I've talked a
lot about. I mean, it's not even a question that
something isn't functioning the way it's supposed to do in
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terms of emotional regulation and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, I was actually talking about the opposite kind of
the borderline cases. I would like to put that piece
in front of some people and find a way to say,
I'm not suggesting you're not legit, or you're faking it
or or whatever. I just want you to keep these
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thoughts in mind as you look.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
At your own mental health.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's a difficult needle to thread, but I feel like
I'm going to thread it.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I don't know, people are so touchy feely soft in
this modern world.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Maybe everybody.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I was about to say, everybody's had this experience, but
maybe you haven't. I was going to say, hasn't everybody
had the experience where you're like down about this or
scared about that or whatever, and somebody just like says,
get over it or come on, or you don't have
a choice or whatever, and.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You snap out of it, You're fine. Hasn't everybody had
that experience?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I have, yes times in my life, or a friend
tells you whatever, it happens, to everybody, or something right.
Somebody says something that you could construy is mean, but
it ends up helping a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I mentioned this on the show a couple of weeks ago.
I think it was that Tom Brady told the story
to the Kelsey Brothers that he had a terrible attitude
is first. I think a couple of years in college.
It's a college quarterback, and he had coach take him
aside and chew him out and tell him, you know
your problem. It's your attitude. You're so negative, you're so
self indulgent. How about you approach it this way instead?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And Brady thought, oh my god, he's right, and it
changed his brain, chemistry and his entire emotional approach to
what he did.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
God, it's impossible to picture Tom Brady having a negative attitude.
I know, well, we're bind by two touchdowns. There's no
catching up in this game. I mean, that is not
the way Tom Brady performed.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Coaches are calling running plays because they don't think I'm
good enough. They never gave me a fair chance.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You know that sort of thing, which I think the
reason he is the way he is now is he's
like it's the fervor of the converted. He saw the
change it made in his life to approach things in
a positive way, and so he's just he's brimming with
enthusiasm for it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
What's that Shakespeare line? I came across it and hammel
it the other day. I promised I was gonna memorize it,
but I haven't. I took the notes on it. Nothing
is either good or bad.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No one takes one, no one exactly. That's what it was.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I could find it in like two seconds. It's worth
it's worth finding because it's so dang good. Alas poor Yoric.
Why you gotta be such a dick? Why why are
you such a dick? Maybe I can't find it as
fast as I thought to.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Be or not to be. What is the apartment number?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh oh? Here it is from Hamlet? Uh there. Nothing
is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so Yes. Wow,
that is that is so true. Wow. Nothing spears shakes
me to the core.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And talking about you know, being in prison. You can
have a good attitude about being in prison, or you
can focus on all the negative and be miserable.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But it's just you know, your choice.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Oh my god, the uh uh Hannah Aren't and uh
oh who wrote such brilliant stuff about being in concentration camps.
The name escapes me, but yeah, yeah, there's some absolutely
wonderful stuff that's been written about that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And the worst of circumstances, some.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Human beings say all right, I am going to make
the most of this and I am going to survive it,
and here's how I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It, and yeah, I do.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Monock and Begum was in solitary confinement for a very
long time and bad like dirt, floor rats, that sort
of thing, and he said, in many ways it was
the happiest he ever was in his life in that
and he was focusing on God and positive attitudes and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Interesting. Wow, that is interesting. Nothing is either good or bad.
It's just thinking that makes it so.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And you know, I've been in that situation where I
have to stop myself. Here's my example I use all
the time because I love it. One time, going into
San Francisco to work.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This was years ago, I rode.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
My motorcycle into San Francisco and for whatever reason, I
was in a really bad negative mood and I'm driving
across the bridge and I thought, for some reason I
popped into my head. You're riding a really cool motor
cycle into one of the greatest cities on earth to
do a job you love, and you're in a bad mood,
and it's just like, what, Yeah, how could you not
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be happy with your circumstance right at this moment?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I would be tempted to say to Shakespeare, Look, I
get your premise. Nothing is good or bad. It's thinking
that makes it so. I just stepped on a nail
and I need your help with this. Let's see you
learn to appreciate your feet or your skin when it's unpunctured.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I'm not buying it, Barred, you gotta do better than that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Think about all the times when you didn't have a
hole in your foot you've acquired the wisdom to avoid
stepping on nails in the future.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Still not buy it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I'm bengetti shot.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Did we give you the viral sensation the song? Do
I have gay cats? I wanna know if my cats
are game, if they are brothers. I wanna know if
they love each other, if they are lovers. Do I
happy cats? I wanna know if my cats are gay?
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They have gay cats? That's okay? Do you gay cat.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Gay cats. Yes, you made the point. That was better
than I imagine it would be pretty good. Yeah, I
hadn't heard it. That's great. I hate to analyze humor
because you know, it kills the humor. That was precisely
dumb enough. It's so funny. Oh, that's great. Oh, speaking
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of music, I had a lovely experience. I'd forgotten it
was the State of the Union last night, not that
it matters. They record them these days, and Judy and
I had waited too long to buy tickets to see
the Vienna Boys Choir, Oh, which is in my part
of the world right now.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And Vienna Boys Choir, I've heard of it. I don't
actually know what it is. Yeah, yeah, it's it's musically
it's amazing. It's these little fellows who are ages I
don't know you to thirteen. You makes these days, No,
we don't do that anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
But they have these amazing voices and they sing just
wonderful music, from like Austrian folk songs to classical pieces
to their Their encore song was hilarious. It was spoiler
earlier was it just?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Did we have gay katz song? They say it was,
and everybody bus no.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It was actually the song I Want to Be Like
You from the Jungle Book movie, the original Disney movie,
which they accompanied themselves with kazoos and reminding you that
they are little kids, and it was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
How many people is it in the Vienna Boy Square it?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Oh my gosh, they actually have four performing groups of
a couple of dozen. Okay, but anyway, the really interesting
part of it was we'd waited too long to buy tickets,
and so a friend of us who's a member of
the organization that sponsored it, said, hey, we need ushers.
Why don't you volunteer to be an usher and then
you can watch the show from like the back row,
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which is fine in a big church, not like a
mega church, but a big church.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And so Judy and I we went to a meeting.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Then we showed up an hour and a quarter early
and got our marching orders in our sections and blah
blah blah, and we were ushers for the whole night
before and after, and it ended up being great, helping
people to their seats, helping lots of old folks to
their seats, Folks who had walkers and I would help
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them to their seats, and my mom had Parkinson's for years,
and helping her up and down and in and out,
and that sort of thing I got pretty good at.
And it reminded me very much of caring for my mom.
Helping some of these old gals, especially to their seats.
And then I would put a quick right out of
tag on the walker, and the walkers couldn't stay in
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the auditorium for fire safety reasons, bubbah, so I'd run
them out to the lobby and put them in a
special storage here. You were a conscientious rusher, then I
would have to run back after and get it for
them and stuff like that. And they seemed touched, which
is nice. But Judy loved it too, and it reminded
us this is not original wisdom by any means. There's
much more joy in serving others than serving yourself. It's
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hard to describe why it was so much fun and
just satisfying, but it was. It was lovely.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
So are you going to continue this whole Usher career,
you think now that you've kind of taken a liking
to it.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, I'm just going to turn up places. Because we
got a badge that said Usher. I sent it out
to the crew. I'll tweet it in my black pants
and my white shirt. I'm just going to start showing
up at places well, just in ushering general.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
If you don't have tickets movie theaters, what other menial
labor would you be willing to do if something is
sold out? Would you clean ash trays or take the
trash out afterwards?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Or I'd rather not clean the toilets just because you know,
getting up and down for my knees is kind of tough.
At this point in my life, I relate that concert
sold out. I'll clean the toilets for you. Yeah right,
what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh? Sell popcorn as long as I can go and
watch it. But I'm gonna go to.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Movie theaters and just in my my black and white
outfit and my usher pin say, folks, where you say?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
What section are you in there? Like it's a movie theater?
What are you doing here? I have experience Armstrong, The
Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Both parties are in really interesting times. We definitely have
a realignment going on. How this is going to shake out,
how long it'll take to shake out.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't know. Same things happening over in Britain.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I was just gonna say, interesting enough it's kind of well,
it's halfway shaken out in that they don't have two
parties anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
The two party systems crumbling.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh yeah, and Emmanuel McCrone, who's been Prime Minister for
quite a while now in Francs he was from an
out of nowhere third party that had never won anything ever,
It only had been two parties their entire history of
the republic And then along comes this because people are unsatisfied.
So I'm just like, for instance, getting into this discussion
about the Democrats and the left. But Tucker Carlson announced
(18:28):
yesterday he will no longer support the Republican Party because,
in his view, the party has abandoned the interests of
ordinary Americans, become too willing to support foreign wars, powerful
special interests, et cetera, et cetera. And you know where
the whole working class left the Democratic Party came to
the Republican Party. Followed a lot of people follow Tucker
(18:51):
and candae where they're going to end up.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
And then on the Democratic side, you got today a
bunch of socialist candidates running against other Democrats in the primaries.
This didn't used to happen, Man, when we first got
into talk radio. That's not where the action was. Not
in the primaries. The guy or woman who already had
the seat, they didn't get challenged. In the primaries, it
(19:14):
was all about whether or not you got beat by
somebody from the other party. But now it's all about
losing to somebody in your own world, generally to your
left on the left, or to you're right on the right,
or I even define that, I'm not exactly sure in
some way two year maga on the right and to
your socialist on the left. As you got a bunch
of socialist candidates today running against more mainstream Democrats that
(19:38):
are likely to win. The socialists are likely to win
in some cases, and we'll be talking about that a
lot tomorrow, whether or not they can. I would assume
these are mostly safe Democratic seats, So the social it's
the way AOC became a House member. You challenge the
mainstream Democrat and a safe Democrat area and you end
(19:59):
up win in the election. We could have a bunch
of socialists in the next next House of Representatives. Just
trouble wow, will Democrats go ahead and vote for them?
So far it seems now it's better than an evil Republican.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
To that point.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Some of the reality on the ground, rent collections are
down in New York and no one's sure why. There
are some theories, one of the theories being that during
COVID and then it got extended under Kum Dummy, the
idea of not making people pay their rent.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
In other words, you can't. You're supposed to pay your rent.
You have to pay your rent. You got to pay
your rent.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But we can't rent.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
It's too damn if the landlord is not allowed to
evict you. So if the landlords not if the landlord
is not allowed to evict you, if you don't pay
the rent, guess what, you don't actually have to pay
your rent.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Turns out to be the case.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
They've got some housing complexes where twenty five percent of
the people are not paying rent. Apparently the cutoff is
around I hope to hear get you the actual numbers here,
because this is higher than you would think. But last
year rent collections were at about eighty nine percent according
(21:19):
to data on the Affordable Properties this is your lower
income properties in New York City. The dip from ninety
five percent pre COVID to eighty nine percent might not
sound like much, but all these properties operate on a
very tiny margin, and that is enough to make it
so you can't get the doors open. I mean, it
just it doesn't work money wise anymore. And there's a
(21:44):
lot of pushback against the crowd that says, well, it's
because if you can't evict people, they're not going to
pay their rent, and there's a big pushback to that. No,
that's not the reason people are not choosing not to
pay their rent just out of selfishness. It's because things
have gotten too expensive. I can't afford it the rent,
it's too damn which obviously obviously could be true in
(22:06):
some people's cases. But I'd like to see if you've
got a knife, phone, or what you did for vacation
last year, how often you eat out, or all kinds
of kind of shoes you're wearing. I'd like to know
all kinds of things before I buy the whole. You're
not not paying your rent just because you know there's
nothing anybody can do to you.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
And come on, what happened when it became clear in
say California, that would you you would not be prosecuted
for shoplifting, including up to large amounts. Did that cause
a decrease in shoplifting or e fing B a huge
increase in it efing B?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yes, So cancel rent became a big thing during COVID
because during COVID there was an eviction moratorium that was
from March twenty twenty to early twenty twenty two, and
the activist class in New York worked really hard to
try to get cancel rent going, like, you don't have
(23:01):
to pay your back rent?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
And the state then came up with a four billion
dollar pot a taxpayer money to pay the landlords all
that rent, so people didn't have to pony up the
rent that they were behind on. But one condition of
the landlords getting that money was they would no longer
be able to pursue an eviction case for at least
(23:26):
a year, so the people weren't paying their rent already
taxpayers bailed out those people didn't pay the rent, but
it came along with the stipulation you weren't allowed to
effect anybody for another year, So was another.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Year of people not paying rent. Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
warmth of collectivism. This person, this lefty person, actually is
smart enough to say or fair enough to say, we
have to consider what the unintended consequences are of public
policies or practices where there are no immediate consequences for
(24:06):
someone who falls behind. Unrintink, you have to come up
with a policy for people who got extended to anything.
You're supposed to pay for the food at this restaurant,
but we won't do anything to you if you just
come in and eat it. Lots of people would come
in and just eat it and leave it, not pay
It's just stop paying your dues at the gym. You
(24:28):
can still work out here. Yeah, use whatever example you want. Sure, please,
one hundred percent of the time you'll get the same results.
You can come by this car. You don't actually have to.
We'd really like you to make the car payment. You're
supposed to make the car payment, but if you don't,
we're not going to confiscate your car.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, we're not allowed to.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I don't know what percentage of people would take advantage
of that stuff. I wouldn't, but there's enough people that
would that throw the whole system upside down.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I'll never My biggest problem with all of this stuff
has always been what is your life experience as a lefty? Now,
some of these people are Marxists. You always point out
they want the system to collapse to build something new.
But I know enough people who aren't Marxists who actually
believe everybody's trying their hardest.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Those are the useful idiots.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Everybody's honest and trying their hardest, and if somebody's not
doing well, the system screwed them because they're working as
hard as they can, and they're paying their bills on
time and they always will. If they didn't pay their
bills on time, it's only because they can't. It's not
because they're mismanaging their money or anything like that or
their selfish come here.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Yeah, In short, what is your life experience of that.
Didn't you ever have roommates or friends that you saw
take advantage of systems and realize, oh, okay, there's some
people that will do that, or co workers? You didn't
have co workers when I worked at UPS. It was
one of my first experiences with this sort of thing
when I was in my early twenties. There's a bunch
of people that wouldn't come to work on Friday night.
(25:57):
We were teamsters, so you couldn't get fired. We were
all in our early twenties. I would come to work
on Friday night, have to work my ass off to
try to keep up with the flow of boxes because
like half the people wouldn't show U because they wanted
to go out to the bars on a Friday night
and they couldn't be fired. What is your life experience.
You've never come across these people?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, it's amazing. I just don't get it.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
It's a frequently what they call a luxury belief. I've
got the weirdest example of a luxury belief I've ever
come across. Maybe next segment, speaking of the way of
thinking on the left. I'm not familiar with this guy's work, really,
but I found this to be such a concise everybody
can understand it. Explanation of the of left wing psychology.
Thought we'd run it for you as start with seventy Michael,
(26:41):
there is a.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Core part of left wing psychology you need to understand
so that you could even just wrap your head around
how anybody could ever vote.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
For these freaks.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Above all, the type of person who votes Democrat is
desperately vulnerable to peer pressure. Let me give you two
examples that illustrate this right off the bat. Number one,
many Blue states were locked down because of the bad
Cold COVID for over a year. When I was in Portland,
(27:12):
Oregon in April twenty twenty one, there was zero in
person dining happening at restaurants, not the wearing the mask
and then sit down and take it off and you're
magically okay.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Not reduced capacity. Nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
There was a chicken wing restaurant down the road from
me that had this sign about how you can wear a.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Mask or you can get it out.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
There is aggressive in group social policing that happens on
the left in a way that is not comparable on
the right or amongst more independent minded people. Even though
none of it made sense, and it was completely just
security theater, you must wear the mask, you must socially distance.
These people would wear masks outside alone, you guys, because
(28:00):
they have an extreme vulnerability of being labeled as a
member of the outgroup.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So I thought he went a little far with the
bad Cold COVID. It was more than that, but the
rest of it was right. And there he gets to
the point, and we've always said, what the F is
the matter with you. You're wearing a mask outside alone.
It is a frantic symbol of loyalty to the group.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
He goes on. The other one is the trans nonsense.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
You guys, There is one peer reviewed research study with
a control group, large sample size, and long term that
has ever been conducted on this topic.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Only one wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You're willing to go full crazy and believe the wildest
thing that you could possibly believe that a male can
be a woman when there is no credible science that
supports any of it. But it doesn't matter, because even
though they see themselves as like we're the Party of
science and we respect the process of science, they are
(29:02):
incapable of breaking from in group orthodoxy.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I ask people all.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
The time who train at me, can a mailby a woman?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
And at this point in twenty twenty six, none of
them answer the question because they know it's insane, they
know it's discrediting, they know it's unpopular, but they are
so afraid of their own peers, the social group that
they chose, that they can't bring themselves to disavow the
insane position. And then, in summary, at the end of
(29:34):
the day, These are people who choose their political beliefs
based off of what is popular, not what is right
or why. It's very easy and fun to say healthcare
for everybody, Right, that's easy. What's not necessarily easy, but
way more prudent, is to say, how do we pay
for it? What are the trade offs? And so these
people default to the path of least resistance because they're weak.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Again, I found him a little over the top. I
don't have any need to own the libs. I would
just like to understand what's going on. But we had
the quote not long ago about how and this gal
was writing. She said, a lot of women in low
testosterone males look at issues through the lens not of truth,
but of acceptability. Will I be accepted for holding this opinion?
(30:21):
Will my peers reward me for it?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Then? That is my belief.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
That's the ad change of being a misanthrope with no friends. Yeah,
I couldn't give an ass. Well, who would judge me?
Nobody hangs out with me?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Well, I was just looking up at a video they
had on Fox of a fifth grade class in New
York City. I couldn't catch whether it was like a
private school or a public school. Looked like I had
the looks of a public school, but I don't know. Anyway,
fifth grade class doing a dance where they dance around
(30:55):
and pantomime being shot by the cops and then collapse
because of all the police shootings target well there was
a variety of people colors in the dance. Well that's
what you got to get the white kids to convince
be convinced that yes, they are bad because so many
people are being gunned down by police, that you have
(31:18):
your fifth graders. I have a dance routine about it.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So quick. Note on lux are weird freaking times.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Many things are already weird and they're getting weird or
fast elon anyway more to come.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Huh without AI, our politics were getting weird, and AI
is going to put it on just astro blue blast
or something.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
We're doomed, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty the Armstrong and
Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
An attacker doesn't even need to have to have it out.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
They can simply just bump against your wallet and just
automatically steal the information through essentially a wireless radio frequency.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I what, huh, what was that?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
They call it ghost tapping jack. They can charge your
card without you even leave in your pocket.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Wait a second, I tap stuff all the time, so
obviously take I use my watch, but I could use
my card. Are's lots of us do or you just
trapped your card on there, so so somebody can come
up and tap my card in my pocket.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
That makes sense according to the written account, they can
use cheap, easy to read card readers. Thieves can trigger
small wireless transactions just by getting close enough to your
wallet or phone.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
No swipe, no pin, no warning.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yes, Katie, that is why all of my loved ones
and myself have what's called an RFI D wallet. It
actually has a protectant in the outside layer that can
block anybody from doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I was just at a outlet store which will remain nameless,
although if you traveled to Columbia you might see their clothes,
and that was like all they sold in the wallet department.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I thought, necessarily it's very popular. But how bulky are they?
I wore very tight pants.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Stop stop, that's my answer to that query. I tried
to just like go right by that, you know what
I mean, Just keep power through it. They're not mosteen
cannot be unseen. I'm a single man. I need to
have everything on display.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
A baby gap, okay, very good, No, no, So the
scam relies on crowded spaces like transit, concerts, busy sidewalks
where uh you never realize the charge is happening. Better
better business bureaus out and saying when you think about
how convenient commonplace payment has been common it is, it's
just a matter of time before somebody takes advantage of it.
(34:03):
Uh oh, And they do really small transactions. That's an
interesting aspect of this.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Just to see if it goes through.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Then what attackers are doing is adding that to their
digital wallets and essentially buying gift cards and doing other
types of scams to make a quick transaction out of it,
but to take as many dollars as it can the
shortest period of time possible.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'm one of those people.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I mean, I know I should be like my mom
always was or adults are, but I'm not where you know,
I go through my credit card bill every month because
there's eight thousand things and I don't go through them.
It would be very easy to milk me fifteen or
twenty two dollars at a time, A big one, I
would notice, but yeah, because you know, there's so many
(34:45):
charges on there.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So if you, if you like the utilities and phone
companies do y mystery charges, you never notice and they
steal steal, steal exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
And you just roll your eyes and think on whatever,
and you go on and pay it. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
And then they go through an r if ID blocking card,
which is a dollar apiece that's the cheapest option and
does not work. A blocking sleeve, which is like twenty
cents per piece. One card fits inside each sleeve, so
you need one for each item, and your wallet sleeve
work for both the plastic and metal cards, but was
slightly inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
You got your Faraday pouch, which worked very well. However,
your cell.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Phone services also need sleek and then RFID blocking wallet
phone case combo extra sleek for the aging low thario.
The wallet feature worked, the cards could not be charged
while inside it.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
I should just not carry my card. I really only
need my watch to live my life. At this point.
It's long that I got my watch on. I can
do whatever I want. Yeah, okay, uh, you.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Had another thing to worry about. That's what we all needed.
That's what we do every day. Here's a list of
things to worry about. Come back tomorrow for another list
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