July 29, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of the Monday July 29, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay features our other podcast, Armstrong & Getty One More Thing!
- Godzilla Minus 1...
- Stop Raising Pansy Ass Kids...
- Hypocrisy in Beverly Hills...
- A Song Parody & Cubicle Rock!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
I went to Godzilla minus one over the weekend. Had
y'all heard of that? Kt?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Joe Michael, anybody have you ever even heard of that?
I never heard of it. I missed that one.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, it's not getting the publicity that normally a blockbuster
movie like a Godzilla or King Kong would get because
it's not that kind of a movie at all. I
just heard that there actually is. Our friend Tim Sanderfer,
who is a man of letters twenty twenty six of
them had impressive, had tweeted out that this is the
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this is finally a great monster movie Godzilla. Mines one thought,
oh okay, cool, and I was still just picturing like
a regular, like we've seen all the god Zilla movies,
the modern ones, all the King Kong movies. We've seen
Godzilla versus King Kong. We've seen Megaladon one and two,
which are the stupidest movies ever made. They're they're they're
they're basically Sharknado with a giant shark. More expensive cast, yeah,
(01:22):
more expensive actors. But that's I was kind of picturing that,
but like maybe better, but no, it's not at all.
Godzilla minus one is a Japanese movie subtitles black and white,
and it's a hardcore art film. It's like the sort
of thing they would make you watch in a college
class and then you'd have to write a paper about it.
It's way closer to that than a than a blockbuster movie,
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and so you don't hear as much about it. And
it was huge in Japan. It's doing pretty well in
the United States. It has had some Oscar nominations. Uh.
I don't know how to explain minus one. I guess
it's a translation thing. It means Japan was so far
(02:06):
beaten down at the end of World War Two that
they were like blow world something.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's what the minus one means.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And this movie is featured at the very end of
World War two and the and the aftermath, when we
had just reduced it to rubble, even before we dropped
to the atomic bombs. It was rubble and it's featured
in Tokyo mostly, and they're just people living like cavemen,
the people that are still alive, scrounging for food, trying
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to push some boards and rocks together to have something
to keep you out of the rain. You know, you're
by yourself because your whole family's dead, and you team
up with some old lady who the rest of her
family's dead and you try to make a go of it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Is this a comedy.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It's a comedy sort of in line with like sort
of The Three Stooges meets Jim Carrey. Yeah, yeah, No,
it is not a comedy obviously, and starring Will Ferrell
exactly a lot of Will Ferrell makes a cameo. Jack
Black plays a prominent role.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's a very heavy movie and uh long, parts of
it are silent. There's not a sound, no music, nobody talking,
no nothing, and it's so quiet in the theater.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's just like weird.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't think I've ever been to a movie that
got silent for that long before.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow. Wow's that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And I'm not going to try to describe it because
I couldn't, but just making the point that by the
climactic scene where, like with all Godzilla King Kong movies,
you know it's time to finally, like really confront the
monster with your best plan to bring him down and
save humanity. You know that has featured in all of
those Megaladon or Jaws or whatever. When it gets to
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that final scene, you feel way more like you're watching
Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers or something.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Then you do a monster movie.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I mean, like the director managed to make it like
you don't even think about it being Godzilla in a
giant radioactive creature that can stomp on people in crushed
buildings somehow, like that doesn't even matter anymore. It's all
about humanity in wartime and sticking together and overcoming adversity
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and just you know, it's just it's hard to explain.
I thought it was phenomenal, and no longer eything seems.
It doesn't even seem weird that you're like tugging at
my heartstrings in a Godzilla movie.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I don't know. Yeah, wow, that's such an interesting like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Union of being invested in characters and how that affects
your willingness to suspend disbelief.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right, Yeah, yes, that is exactly it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think that was like the Harry Potter formula, though
that's obviously fantasy and everybody knows it well.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And this was as gritty, realistic as any movie I've
ever seen. And it featured a giant monster that can
crush buildings under its feet, which doesn't seem like it'd
be possible in terms of the theater going experience. And
there's hardly anybody at that this Saturday night, seven o'clock.
I think there were a total of ten people in there. Wow,
because nobody's heard of it, and that's an art film.
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And my youngest kid didn't like it much. He didn't
like the reading. There's a lot of reading really fast
and his reading is not quite up to and a
lot of really hard words, so he just couldn't quite
keep up with it. But my eighth grader loved it,
thought it was really really good. It was it was
a powerful movie. But the whole movie going experience in
the modern world, everybody's got such a great TV with
(05:51):
a cool sound system, you got that whole thing. Although
I've noticed this before, I have walked out of many
movie theaters and my life like rattled in some way.
Either like you know, down emotionally or inspired emotionally, or
fired up emotionally, or something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I don't know if that ever happens when I
watch on TV. I think it probably does.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think being at home you get back to your
set point a lot more quick.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I think that's it.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Well, and you have control to turn it off and
change it. But I always feel like leaving.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I always feel like a walk out of movie theaters
and everybody's quiet because they're just like so affected by
what you saw in.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
One way or another. And I never feel that way
at home. H Really, I don't think anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Maybe there's a I think there's something about and I
think I was right the first time. When you leave
a movie, other than like zipping up your jacket, all
you're doing is walking to your putting on.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
My shoes, putting on my shoes, because I take off
my shoes and socks put them on the seat in
front of me.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That guy, No, I do not. But that's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So even if you're checking your phone or whatever, you
have three to five minutes where you're doing nothing but
thinking about what you've just said.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Whereas you know you turn off the TV at home
and then you would go.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Do something and get the kids to bed or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Right, yeah, yeah, But the dude, dude, when your kids
were younger, did you buy them treats.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
To go to the movie occasionally? See?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I grew up in a family where we never did.
It wasn't even a consideration. It's like, we're not getting
that stuff because it's too expensive. That's fine, ye already eight,
I'm not thirsty. If I'm thirsty, I'll go get a
drink of water at the drinking vun.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I knew a family that would hide the treats and
moms purse.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But yeah, you know I used to bring out we'd
smuggle in h popcorn in our pockets.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I used to bring beer to the movies all the time.
You gotta wait for a loud part. You gotta wait
for God'szilla to scream before you open your beer. If
you open your beer during the silence, is the baby
gonna die or not seen?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Your girl has mastered opening a bottle of champagne in
a movie.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Nice style points.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I remember one time when I kicked over my empty
bottle of beer and it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Rolled all the way down.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Click clicking it click, oh yeah, and then what you
do is you start looking around like what is that?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If you're just gonna used who is doing that?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Somebody brought in some unauthorized food or drink and.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I can't believe somebody would do that, and I'll see it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I think we should pause the movie and go through
everybody's pockets since we can find out who this mystery
into is. But I think I am gonna tell my kids,
mostly for the noise reason, partly for the money reason. No,
we're not doing this next time. Let's eat before we go.
We can even stop and get a treat, but we're
not gonna buy stuff at the theater.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
One. I don't want to listen to you eating and drinking.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh right, if I took the drink away from one
of my kids, like doneenough, because he kept doing the
at the bottom, you know, trying to get the last
two SIPs through the ice thing like quit, I took
it out of his hand and put it in my couple.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You blessed every other person with the same sound issue
in that in that theater.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That right, So between the noise.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The cost, we spent fifty bucks at the concession stand.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Jeez, that's nuts. With the modern inflation. Yeah, two kids.
I got swolves, but I got in the largest.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I had to get a loan.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I had to apply for a loan and somebody would
had to be there to fill up my paperwork and
look at my credit score.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So if this movie is successful, they've got to, you know,
continue the theme. And I you know, on the radio show,
I it's throughout the idea King Kong. It anteat them then,
I don't know, maybe sas Squatch at a house fire
where a family loses their house and he takes them
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in or eats them.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Or I don't know, Frankenstein's list, if Frankenstein had done
Shindler's List.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
There you go. Now you're thinking, yeah, i'd watch it.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, I told people, and I got a dad. I said,
it's way closer to Dos Boot than it is to
King Kong.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Count Dracula is a gifted cancer doctor, but he has
a blood addiction.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Right, But he's noble, but he just can't he's a junkie. Yeah, exactly,
something like that. Yeah, that'd be a hit.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Mummy in Philadelphia, So you got the dying AIDS
guy in the Mummy.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, they're hanging out together. Yeah, plot twist solving crimes
or something. They're actually lovers, Who's solve crimes?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
My wife and I tried to sneak fahitas into the
theater at one time.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Really hot and I forgot the hot pants which really really.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yea and it was sizzling and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast
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Speaker 3 (11:07):
The tease was too many pansy ass kids. This is
referring to this particular mom who went on the screed
in her kitchen with a glass of wine in her hand.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I got a call from my kid's assistant principal today
because he and his other friend were playing soccer with
this other kid at recess. The other kid happened to
want to be the goalie and apparently he sucked, and
so he got really upset because the other boys kept
scoring goals on him.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
And there was no teasing involved. I verified, it was.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Just he was so upset that the kids kept scoring
goals that he went to the teacher and cried about it,
and my kid and the other kid.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Got brought to the principal's office.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Do not call me because some soft ass kids feelings
got hurt because some kid is better than him at sports.
Stop coddling your kids, especially your sons.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Because let me tell you right now, what no.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Woman wants someday is to have to coddle their husband.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Stop raising pansy ass kids.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Teach your kids how to be confident in themselves and
how to emotionally freaking figure their out, and stop with
the bs.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
We got this text in response to play in that
earlier Oh my god, I love that recording you just played.
This is so true. Mike kids school has a no
running on the playground rule.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Wow. Always what Mike de.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Spy is that I could I could throw on the
black bandana and slit throats to quote H. L.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Menkin over that what. No, I'm just missing something. No,
you're not too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
My kids' school they don't have it all the time,
but if it has rained anytime in the last week,
you're not allowed to run because the grass could be
do it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think I'm a fascist for even talking about this.
According to something I read, But when we conduct the
great experiment of conservatives get half the country and progressives
get the other half, and we see how it goes,
there's going to be all the run, and you've I
almost dropped an f bom, which I can't, I suppose,
but I'd prefer not too. You can run all the
f and much you want. In conservative America, kids go
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out there, play soccer, skin your knees, get sweaty, get
to blow off steam. Then we'll get back to school
and learn. Well, we'll compare test scores at the end
of it. Bitches.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Huh. We used to.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Love the play soccer on wet fields and we would
slide in the hit.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That was part of the fun, even after it would
rain on the on the cement outside.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
We used to run and pretend we were skateboarding and
try to see who.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Could slide the farthest. Oh, I got my I hurt
myself so many times doing that. But it was a
blood none of that. None of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Good lord, think of the liability, Katie, you maniac god.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And we played kill the man with the ball and
the porn rain all the time, and I mean that
was a violent game.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I realized people are self selecting, and not to some
extent anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And I'm not exactly a Navy seal, nor I please what.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Uh but uh, people are self selecting to some extent anyway.
But I so want to figure out a way to
do this because they're like schools, charter schools, like the
John Adams Academy, and there are other examples that like
do school the way school ought to be done, and
you can run all you want at recess and you
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learn and you learn the important stuff and you behave
in class and the kids come out all smart and educated.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
It works. It works.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And the fact that government union schools now don't work,
as you know, an indictment on them. But I would
love to start some sort of I don't know, colony
or outpost.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I guess it's called idoh.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Conservatania, and there would be no ugliness, no racism, no,
you know, it would not be some sort of you
know Mika Brazinski's fever dream of what a conservative place
would be. Everybody would get their constitutional rights, and by God,
we would enforce that and if you break anybody's rights,
we break your neck.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Anyway, I would so love to conduct that experiment. Yeah,
I would like to see it play out.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Also, so she finishes up, my son got sent to
the office and received a citation for running on the playground.
So there's that issue that's mostly to do with lawyers
and the way our court system works and juries. So
I don't even know what to do about that because
the school would tell you. Look, I think it's freaking
stupid too, But we are just told we're going to
lose our insurance policy if we let kids run on
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the school in school and get to anybody gets hurt.
So what are you going to do so that I
hate that for that's own thing, then you have this
different topic. The school also told the kids they are
no longer allowed to play kickball because the kids spent
so much time arguing about the kids cheating. Way to
teach the kids, not how to work through conflict. That's
not the lawyers or the insurance company. That's the We
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think conflict is always bad, and so we're going to
solve the conflict by not letting them play.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
They do this at my kid's school too.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Like when I was a kid, a lot of us
would bring our own nerve, football, our own glove or
ball or bad or whatever. You're not allowed to bring
any sporting equipment because one kids might fight over it,
or you might have a nicer football than the other
kid does, and.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That make them feel bad and all that sort of stuff.
I know, we're doomed, Katie, We're doomed as the society.
So they have a liarded number.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
They have a limited number of balls and there's like
three and whoever gets to them first gets to play
during recess with him, and nobody else gets to.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Okay, I apologize for taking it back to this place.
But so all of this is going on. But these
kids can decide to identify as something else or right all.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, you can. You can change into a
different sex. The secret be can't run in the yard.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, you can make moves to mess them up hormonally
for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
But don't you run on that wet grass.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing that those two things are happening
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You know. Speaking of which, and here's a preview of
a screed you'll hear on the air in the next
day or two, there are some fairly high profile lawsuits
that are going to go the right way against the
gender bending cruel experiments on kid's crowd.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They're going to bring them to their knees, and.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We need more and more and more of that these
And I don't mean to seem like I'm gloating because
it's a tragedy, but some of the victims of these
ideological lunatics are starting to move into adulthood and realize
what's been done to them and are not happy about it.
It can't happen fast enough.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Jack, Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Hey, we're Armstrong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast one
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Speaker 1 (17:41):
This was so funny.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I've been wanting to bring this to the radio show,
but it just haven't gotten around to it. It's a
story that is ostensibly about a judge in Beverly Hills
who got pissed off that they're not cooperating with the states'
laws for affordable housing. And the headline is in Beverly Hills,
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no kitchen remodels or pool grottos, as judge orders building
moratorium over lack of affordable housing. Essentially, he blocked the
city from issuing any building permits for anything, no matter
how necessary or silly or mundane or whatever, until they
approved a sufficient blueprint for affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So I got a nice piece of property. I got
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
But a judge's saying, you don't need a grotto until
we have more housed poor people.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Right, Lets you expand your garage or remodel your kitchen
or put.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
In a pool or anything. Wow, And that's what it gets done. Yeah,
Now that's freedom the property I own.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Somehow me taking my money and getting a grotto next
to my pool has anything to do with poor people
getting more housing.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That is really a weird world you live in. Well,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Clearly an activist judge who's taking politics into his own
hands and trying to make a point. And it's it's
in terms of property rights. It's an absolute nightmare, absolute nightmare.
That's just a terrible way to look at the world though.
I mean, that's just if you.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
If somebody I don't even know gets a nicer stuff
that makes me less happy, that's just weird.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think it's just leverage.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It's purely leverage, and it's it's indefensible, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
But if I were going to defend it, I would
hit you with the rest of the story.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay, Can the late Paul Harvey sue me for that
or his or his kin folk. That was parody anyway,
So they quote various people about how outrageous it is
and the rest of it. But then they get into
that Beverly Hills where entrepreneurs and entertainers from Jeff Bezos
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to Leonardo DiCaprio and Taylor Swift own mansions, opulent hotel
attract well heeled visitors and glamorous boutiques make rodeo dry
blah blah blah shopping.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Blah blah blah, and so okay, great.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
We all know that, but I hadn't realized. I'm only
dimly aware of the fact that there's a fifty year
old state law that requires local governments to plan for
a growing population and allow people of all incomes to
live in every community. It's like an anti Nimby law
(20:30):
not in my backyard.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Passed in nineteen seventy ish seventy.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Five ish to make sure that the growing population would
be would be accommodated everywhere in California, and like rich
Enclaves couldn't keep people out. Maybe you like that idea,
maybe you don't, But Beverly Hill's efforts to evade that
are hilarious, hilarious and that's the part of the article.
(20:57):
I'm glad I read the whole thing, because you'd never
know it from the first you know, quite a few paragraphs.
So in nineteen seventy, the population of Beverly Hills was
thirty three thousand, four hundred thirty three thousand, four hundred.
Today it is thirty two thousand and four hundred, so
it's declined by a thousand people. Over the same period,
the number of California residents has nearly has doubled to
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nearly forty million people. So while the population of California's doubled,
Beverly Hills found a way to kick out a hundred
one thousand people and become even more exclusive.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I didn't know Beverly Hills itself was that small. And aside,
having just read the Charlie Chaplin autobiography, his good friend
Douglas Fairbanks, famous actor, had a ranch there, and he
go out to Douglas Fairbanks ranch and they would ride horses.
They love being in Beverly Hills because it was so
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far from Los Angeles and the roads were so bad,
just one rutted dirt road that nobody would come out
there to visit. So they are all alone. Isn't that
interesting to picture? Yeah, near early twentieth century?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And who was who was the actor I read about?
He was kind of Fred McMurray. I think it was
who was the dad on my three sons? And you
know he'd play the stiff, upstanding, stoic guy in movies,
or maybe a cowboy or something like that. But here
was his fine actor, but not a big star.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But I think it was him, And don't as sue
me if I'm wrong, But he said, wow, La Metro
seems to be growing out in this direction.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I'll bet it'd be a good investment to.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Buy a load of land out in Beverly Hills and
San Fernando Valley wherever it was.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And he became like mind boggling wealthy through that and
was like.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
An institution in that area just because he had foresight
about real estate.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Anyway, so we've gotten a little off track, but it
doesn't matter who cares.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So anyway, they have been incredibly effective, having no population growth,
no poor people know nothing, in defiance of all state law,
says Thomas White, chair of the Municipal League, a sixty
year old civic organization. We have intentionally created a desirable
environment by deliberately avoiding over development and over densification.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, that's what we all want.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, So over densification is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So under the law state every eight.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Years, the state of cal Unicornea, which is of course
where realism goes to die, tells all cities how many
new homes they need to accommodate every eight years. In
the cycle before this one, Beverly Hills total was three,
an amount so miniscule given the depths of California's housing
problems that it invited national attention. So in an effort
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to combat widespread housing affordability, reduce carbon emissions, blah blah blah,
there have been a series of unrealistic laws passed in California.
No longer would wealthy enclaves get a pass, citing the
discriminate to effects of low density zoning laws and research
showing better economic and health outcomes for low income families
that can move to richer areas. So in the current period,
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Beverly Hills target under the housing plan jumped to thirty
one hundred and four homes.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
So from what was it before two three?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So from three to thirty one hundred homes you've got
to build them, and three quarters of them have to
be affordable to low and middle income residents.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That, yeah, how old hey do that?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Well, So Beverly Hills, which of course has lots and
lots of super rich lawyers there and can can figure
out a way around these laws, kept putting forth plans
for how they're going to provide, you know, thousands of
new affordable housing units, and the state has rejected five
in a row now, most recently in December. California Housing
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Department officials the city is overestimating how many of its
commercial properties could add residential development and criticize the plan
on fair housing grounds because it wasn't putting housing in
the cities wider and more affluent areas.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
All right, I know this seems kind of dry to you.
Here's what I'm working up to.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
The judge after they rejected the latest plan, pointed out
that Beverly Hills is counting on medical office buildings and
car dealerships to convert to housing, despite the city's own
concession that it's unlikely to happen. For instance, in their plan,
they set an audi dealership on Wilshire Boulevard that was
(25:35):
just renovated as a car dealership. It could be turned
into forty one apartments.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And of course you go to the Audi dealer and
he's like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And so Beverly Hills is cooking up these utterly fictional
plans to the state. Yes, we're going to turn the
Audi dealer into forty one affordable apartments.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And the I was gonna say, McDonald's. I don't suppose.
There's probably McDonald's in Beverly Hills. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But and of course this grocery store is going to
become three hundred units.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And again you go to the.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Grocery store owner and they're like, I have no idea
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
This is a profitable grocery store. We have no plans
to change it. And so the.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Super rich, who I guarantee you if you pulled them,
would be left of Obama, right, they'd be left of
Bernie Sanders. They haven't voted for an R in one
hundred and ten years, are doing are going to extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Lengths to evade all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
This is the sort of thing Tucker Carlson Noyse used
to talk about that I was early on board with
is how a lot of your powerful lefties are in
favor of all these policies that don't affect them. They're
fine with it affecting everybody else, Like ninety nine point
nine percent of people just not that top wrong. We
don't want a legal immigration to get into our neighborhood,
(26:56):
We don't want to have you know, low housing, income
housing and our neighbors, but all of the rest of
the state should.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I mean, it's classic socialism. Really, the very people, the
very top like all this equality. As long as long as.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I get more than everybody else, there should be plenty
of equality beneath me, right right, freaking maddening.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
It's like when you see those Man on the Street
videos where the guy goes up to the people participating
in the Sanctuary city protest where everybody gets a home
and they're welcome, and goes, okay, we'll let them come
to your house. I'm like, uh, well, I don't have room,
and no, it's everybody else's problem.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I would love to see a list of Gavin Newsom's
top one hundred donors and then see a map of
their homes and how close any affordable housing is to
them or even like a house that the median income
earner in California could afford. I'll bet it's like miles
to the nearest house that's under a million bucks, I
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mean for a million.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, I hate this sort of law in general, but
if you're gonna let the super wealthy and connected getaway
with not having to obey it, it's like ten times worse.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, you know, there's plenty I disagree with Tucker on
these days, but that point he makes, it's what, Oh gosh,
who's Peggy Noonan. We're talking about her editorial recently that
was so good about why Trump has as much support
as he does, and she was talking about the protected.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Class and the unprotected class.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You can unleash whatever stupid ass policies or decisions or
economic moves or whatever. The protected class isn't going to
suffer an iota. They'll be perfectly fine. And that's what
we're talking about here, the protected class that has gone
to lengths that are utterly comedic to make sure their
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neighborhoods remain exclusively enclaves of the super rich and powerful,
even while demanding the rest of us, you know, go
through whatever gyrations they demand.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
To do the good that they think a happening.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Do they know how hypocritical they are when they are
on stage getting their oscar and talking about equality in
the downtrodden, but they won't let any lower income housing
in their neighborhood. I mean, do they realize that or
do they somehow do some mental gymnastics to get.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Out of that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think, in my experience, including my personal experience inside
my own head, human beings have an unbelievable capacity to
shove something out.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Do they actually believe they're of like a different cast that.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Doesn't I think they again, they have like a lurking guilt.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But they keep it at bay or I donate so
much to charity that it's fine. That doesn't allow Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Well, and and the drop and property values would be
absolutely catastrophic, and you just you can't ask. I would
not ask somebody in you know, the San Fernando Valley,
name your you know, your your suburb. I would not
ask somebody to have that sort of burden personally. And and
so then they get to portray themselves as I'm I'm
(30:12):
actually I'm not standing up for me. I'm standing up
for middle class people who who don't want to see it.
So it needs to be done carefully. I'm in favor
of affordable housing, but it needs to be done in
a way that's smart and efficient. And and wait a minute,
what else would oh And recognizes environmental imperatives as right, right, right,
And we have a.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Great deal of green space here in Beverly Hills, and
I employ so many people.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I employ gardeners and pool people and a grotto scrubber.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Jeez, grotto scrubber ever ruined the word grotto? Yeah, exactly.
Grottos are no longer enjoyable.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
You used to like to go to the Fisherman's Grotto
in San Francisco when it was still open.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Never again, it's ruined. You get mild owing, your mildew
and your grotto.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Rush cross. Usually you're the one that keeps the class
in the operation. What are you doing? Yeah, I don't know.
I've given up Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
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Speaker 3 (31:30):
So this song, do enough people know the original song
for this to I guess we're assuming so it was a.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Big hi and if you don't you know grab it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
It was about a kid going over to his friend's
house and he recognizes that his friend's mom is kind
of hot and he wishes he could get with her.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, yeah, specifically he's going over to his girlfriend's house
thinking I don't want to be with you, I want
to be with your.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Mom, sortid. And so we've got that. I haven't heard
this thing other setup requird king.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
This is it's basically talking about how now.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That we're older, this song is okay, gotcha, Okay.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I have so many questions now for Stacy's mom. Stacy's mom,
like why did she come out with just a towl?
That's a good question, towel on when she knew that
kid was gone and low her grass, low her grass.
(32:32):
Stacy's mom is like the people Chris Hansen would have
dancing with name and I know growing up it was
a fantasy, but he's a little different now then I'm
thirty three. Stacy's she put some clues hesus and pease
(32:54):
so wrong.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Stac cancy s it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Be a feeling me.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Something that's a pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That's funny. I missed that one line in the middle
that you guys thought was so funny being caught by
Chris Hansen, the guy who does the Predator. Yeah, that
is funny.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
You're seeming like one of the people Chris Hansen would
ca a hatch answer would catch.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
He goes on and one of the things he goes
could you imagine if it was Stacy's dad, how bad?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's Oh yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You got your daughter's teenage boyfriend at the house.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
You don't come out and just a towel and flaunt it.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
That makes you a weirdo, could be a felony.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I'm thirty three seems kind of weird. Something's wrong with
Stacy's mall.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I always the thing I liked about Fountains of Wayne
was how they were willing, did not take themselves seriously
at all with like pooh ooh ooh. Nobody nobody would
sing that like pooh ooh ooh, no no, And then
it's perfect, incredibly well crafted pop music.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I mean really good.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
My son, my twelve year old's favorite song from that album,
he just loves it so much, as that one about
I'm Gonna get my together.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh I can't live like this forever? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Mountains of Wayne, may they flow forever in our hearts.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I was actually surprised, and then I'll be done talking
about fountains wayn because I don't know how many people
know who that band is. But they have several songs,
quite a few songs that are about modern life, about
like the modern workplace. And I thought, Okay, that's gonna
become a thing because it's so relatable for young people,
you know, in their experiences with modern workplace.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
But it hasn't.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And I don't know why, but I thought that would
become a genre of music, you know, just modern cubicle life,
cubical rock.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, that does sound attractive. Wow, Well, they have several
songs that are great about it.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
But that's actually brilliant because think about the show The Office,
How that took coffee?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Ye did that musically exactly? Also known as cashier pop,
dead end job? Yeah, what does bts? The Korean kids
sing about love and of.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Course nobody's in nobody has sex in Korea, so why.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Bother right crushes?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
They all have crushes and giggle about it, I guess,
but never actually get to see there, you know, they
never get to hit it like a Champif you do
know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Saying, yeah, which is tragic.
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
I went to Godzilla minus one over the weekend. Had
y'all heard of that? Kt?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Joe Michael, anybody have you ever even heard of that?
I never heard of it. I missed that one.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, it's not getting the publicity that normally a blockbuster
movie like a Godzilla or King Kong would get because
it's not that kind of a movie at all. I
just heard that there actually is. Our friend Tim Sanderfer,
who is a man of letters twenty twenty six of
them had impressive, had tweeted out that this is the
(00:55):
this is finally a great monster movie Godzilla. Mines one thought,
oh okay, cool, and I was still just picturing like
a regular, like we've seen all the god Zilla movies,
the modern ones, all the King Kong movies. We've seen
Godzilla versus King Kong. We've seen Megaladon one and two,
which are the stupidest movies ever made. They're they're they're
they're basically Sharknado with a giant shark. More expensive cast, yeah,
(01:22):
more expensive actors. But that's I was kind of picturing that,
but like maybe better, but no, it's not at all.
Godzilla minus one is a Japanese movie subtitles black and white,
and it's a hardcore art film. It's like the sort
of thing they would make you watch in a college
class and then you'd have to write a paper about it.
It's way closer to that than a than a blockbuster movie,
(01:44):
and so you don't hear as much about it. And
it was huge in Japan. It's doing pretty well in
the United States. It has had some Oscar nominations. Uh.
I don't know how to explain minus one. I guess
it's a translation thing. It means Japan was so far
(02:06):
beaten down at the end of World War Two that
they were like blow world something.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
That's what the minus one means.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And this movie is featured at the very end of
World War two and the and the aftermath, when we
had just reduced it to rubble, even before we dropped
to the atomic bombs. It was rubble and it's featured
in Tokyo mostly, and they're just people living like cavemen,
the people that are still alive, scrounging for food, trying
(02:34):
to push some boards and rocks together to have something
to keep you out of the rain. You know, you're
by yourself because your whole family's dead, and you team
up with some old lady who the rest of her
family's dead and you try to make a go of it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Is this a comedy.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It's a comedy sort of in line with like sort
of The Three Stooges meets Jim Carrey. Yeah, yeah, No,
it is not a comedy obviously, and starring Will Ferrell
exactly a lot of Will Ferrell makes a cameo. Jack
Black plays a prominent role.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's a very heavy movie and uh long, parts of
it are silent. There's not a sound, no music, nobody talking,
no nothing, and it's so quiet in the theater.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's just like weird.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I don't think I've ever been to a movie that
got silent for that long before.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow. Wow's that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And I'm not going to try to describe it because
I couldn't, but just making the point that by the
climactic scene where, like with all Godzilla King Kong movies,
you know it's time to finally, like really confront the
monster with your best plan to bring him down and
save humanity. You know that has featured in all of
those Megaladon or Jaws or whatever. When it gets to
(03:57):
that final scene, you feel way more like you're watching
Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers or something.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Then you do a monster movie.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I mean, like the director managed to make it like
you don't even think about it being Godzilla in a
giant radioactive creature that can stomp on people in crushed
buildings somehow, like that doesn't even matter anymore. It's all
about humanity in wartime and sticking together and overcoming adversity
(04:26):
and just you know, it's just it's hard to explain.
I thought it was phenomenal, and no longer eything seems.
It doesn't even seem weird that you're like tugging at
my heartstrings in a Godzilla movie.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I don't know. Yeah, wow, that's such an interesting like.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Union of being invested in characters and how that affects
your willingness to suspend disbelief.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right, Yeah, yes, that is exactly it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think that was like the Harry Potter formula, though
that's obviously fantasy and everybody knows it well.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And this was as gritty, realistic as any movie I've
ever seen. And it featured a giant monster that can
crush buildings under its feet, which doesn't seem like it'd
be possible in terms of the theater going experience. And
there's hardly anybody at that this Saturday night, seven o'clock.
I think there were a total of ten people in there. Wow,
because nobody's heard of it, and that's an art film.
(05:26):
And my youngest kid didn't like it much. He didn't
like the reading. There's a lot of reading really fast
and his reading is not quite up to and a
lot of really hard words, so he just couldn't quite
keep up with it. But my eighth grader loved it,
thought it was really really good. It was it was
a powerful movie. But the whole movie going experience in
the modern world, everybody's got such a great TV with
(05:51):
a cool sound system, you got that whole thing. Although
I've noticed this before, I have walked out of many
movie theaters and my life like rattled in some way.
Either like you know, down emotionally or inspired emotionally, or
fired up emotionally, or something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I don't know if that ever happens when I
watch on TV. I think it probably does.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think being at home you get back to your
set point a lot more quick.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I think that's it.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Well, and you have control to turn it off and
change it. But I always feel like leaving.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I always feel like a walk out of movie theaters
and everybody's quiet because they're just like so affected by
what you saw in.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
One way or another. And I never feel that way
at home. H Really, I don't think anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Maybe there's a I think there's something about and I
think I was right the first time. When you leave
a movie, other than like zipping up your jacket, all
you're doing is walking to your putting on.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
My shoes, putting on my shoes, because I take off
my shoes and socks put them on the seat in
front of me.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That guy, No, I do not. But that's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So even if you're checking your phone or whatever, you
have three to five minutes where you're doing nothing but
thinking about what you've just said.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Whereas you know you turn off the TV at home
and then you would go.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Do something and get the kids to bed or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Right, yeah, yeah, But the dude, dude, when your kids
were younger, did you buy them treats.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
To go to the movie occasionally? See?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I grew up in a family where we never did.
It wasn't even a consideration. It's like, we're not getting
that stuff because it's too expensive. That's fine, ye already eight,
I'm not thirsty. If I'm thirsty, I'll go get a
drink of water at the drinking vun.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I knew a family that would hide the treats and
moms purse.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But yeah, you know I used to bring out we'd
smuggle in h popcorn in our pockets.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I used to bring beer to the movies all the time.
You gotta wait for a loud part. You gotta wait
for God'szilla to scream before you open your beer. If
you open your beer during the silence, is the baby
gonna die or not seen?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Your girl has mastered opening a bottle of champagne in
a movie.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Nice style points.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I remember one time when I kicked over my empty
bottle of beer and it.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Rolled all the way down.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Click clicking it click, oh yeah, and then what you
do is you start looking around like what is that?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If you're just gonna used who is doing that?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Somebody brought in some unauthorized food or drink and.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I can't believe somebody would do that, and I'll see it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I think we should pause the movie and go through
everybody's pockets since we can find out who this mystery
into is. But I think I am gonna tell my kids,
mostly for the noise reason, partly for the money reason. No,
we're not doing this next time. Let's eat before we go.
We can even stop and get a treat, but we're
not gonna buy stuff at the theater.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
One. I don't want to listen to you eating and drinking.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh right, if I took the drink away from one
of my kids, like doneenough, because he kept doing the
at the bottom, you know, trying to get the last
two SIPs through the ice thing like quit, I took
it out of his hand and put it in my couple.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
You blessed every other person with the same sound issue
in that in that theater.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
That right, So between the noise.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The cost, we spent fifty bucks at the concession stand.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Jeez, that's nuts. With the modern inflation. Yeah, two kids.
I got swolves, but I got in the largest.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I had to get a loan.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I had to apply for a loan and somebody would
had to be there to fill up my paperwork and
look at my credit score.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So if this movie is successful, they've got to, you know,
continue the theme. And I you know, on the radio show,
I it's throughout the idea King Kong. It anteat them then,
I don't know, maybe sas Squatch at a house fire
where a family loses their house and he takes them
(09:52):
in or eats them.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Or I don't know, Frankenstein's list, if Frankenstein had done
Shindler's List.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
There you go. Now you're thinking, yeah, i'd watch it.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, I told people, and I got a dad. I said,
it's way closer to Dos Boot than it is to
King Kong.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Count Dracula is a gifted cancer doctor, but he has
a blood addiction.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Right, But he's noble, but he just can't he's a junkie. Yeah, exactly,
something like that. Yeah, that'd be a hit.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The Mummy in Philadelphia, So you got the dying AIDS
guy in the Mummy.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, they're hanging out together. Yeah, plot twist solving crimes
or something. They're actually lovers, Who's solve crimes?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
My wife and I tried to sneak fahitas into the
theater at one time.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Really hot and I forgot the hot pants which really really.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yea and it was sizzling and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast
one more thing, get it wherever you like to get podcasts.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
The tease was too many pansy ass kids. This is
referring to this particular mom who went on the screed
in her kitchen with a glass of wine in her hand.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I got a call from my kid's assistant principal today
because he and his other friend were playing soccer with
this other kid at recess. The other kid happened to
want to be the goalie and apparently he sucked, and
so he got really upset because the other boys kept
scoring goals on him.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
And there was no teasing involved. I verified, it was.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Just he was so upset that the kids kept scoring
goals that he went to the teacher and cried about it,
and my kid and the other kid.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Got brought to the principal's office.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Do not call me because some soft ass kids feelings
got hurt because some kid is better than him at sports.
Stop coddling your kids, especially your sons.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Because let me tell you right now, what no.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Woman wants someday is to have to coddle their husband.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Stop raising pansy ass kids.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Teach your kids how to be confident in themselves and
how to emotionally freaking figure their out, and stop with
the bs.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
We got this text in response to play in that
earlier Oh my god, I love that recording you just played.
This is so true. Mike kids school has a no
running on the playground rule.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Wow. Always what Mike de.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Spy is that I could I could throw on the
black bandana and slit throats to quote H. L.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Menkin over that what. No, I'm just missing something. No,
you're not too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
My kids' school they don't have it all the time,
but if it has rained anytime in the last week,
you're not allowed to run because the grass could be
do it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I think I'm a fascist for even talking about this.
According to something I read, But when we conduct the
great experiment of conservatives get half the country and progressives
get the other half, and we see how it goes,
there's going to be all the run, and you've I
almost dropped an f bom, which I can't, I suppose,
but I'd prefer not too. You can run all the
f and much you want. In conservative America, kids go
(13:06):
out there, play soccer, skin your knees, get sweaty, get
to blow off steam. Then we'll get back to school
and learn. Well, we'll compare test scores at the end
of it. Bitches.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Huh. We used to.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Love the play soccer on wet fields and we would
slide in the hit.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That was part of the fun, even after it would
rain on the on the cement outside.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
We used to run and pretend we were skateboarding and
try to see who.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Could slide the farthest. Oh, I got my I hurt
myself so many times doing that. But it was a
blood none of that. None of that anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Good lord, think of the liability, Katie, you maniac god.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
And we played kill the man with the ball and
the porn rain all the time, and I mean that
was a violent game.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I realized people are self selecting, and not to some
extent anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And I'm not exactly a Navy seal, nor I please what.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Uh but uh, people are self selecting to some extent anyway.
But I so want to figure out a way to
do this because they're like schools, charter schools, like the
John Adams Academy, and there are other examples that like
do school the way school ought to be done, and
you can run all you want at recess and you
(14:19):
learn and you learn the important stuff and you behave
in class and the kids come out all smart and educated.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
It works. It works.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And the fact that government union schools now don't work,
as you know, an indictment on them. But I would
love to start some sort of I don't know, colony
or outpost.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I guess it's called idoh.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Conservatania, and there would be no ugliness, no racism, no,
you know, it would not be some sort of you
know Mika Brazinski's fever dream of what a conservative place
would be. Everybody would get their constitutional rights, and by God,
we would enforce that and if you break anybody's rights,
we break your neck.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Anyway, I would so love to conduct that experiment. Yeah,
I would like to see it play out.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Also, so she finishes up, my son got sent to
the office and received a citation for running on the playground.
So there's that issue that's mostly to do with lawyers
and the way our court system works and juries. So
I don't even know what to do about that because
the school would tell you. Look, I think it's freaking
stupid too, But we are just told we're going to
lose our insurance policy if we let kids run on
(15:27):
the school in school and get to anybody gets hurt.
So what are you going to do so that I
hate that for that's own thing, then you have this
different topic. The school also told the kids they are
no longer allowed to play kickball because the kids spent
so much time arguing about the kids cheating. Way to
teach the kids, not how to work through conflict. That's
not the lawyers or the insurance company. That's the We
(15:47):
think conflict is always bad, and so we're going to
solve the conflict by not letting them play.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
They do this at my kid's school too.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Like when I was a kid, a lot of us
would bring our own nerve, football, our own glove or
ball or bad or whatever. You're not allowed to bring
any sporting equipment because one kids might fight over it,
or you might have a nicer football than the other
kid does, and.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That make them feel bad and all that sort of stuff.
I know, we're doomed, Katie, We're doomed as the society.
So they have a liarded number.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
They have a limited number of balls and there's like
three and whoever gets to them first gets to play
during recess with him, and nobody else gets to.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Okay, I apologize for taking it back to this place.
But so all of this is going on. But these
kids can decide to identify as something else or right all.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, you can. You can change into a
different sex. The secret be can't run in the yard.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah, you can make moves to mess them up hormonally
for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
But don't you run on that wet grass.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing that those two things are happening
at the same time.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You know. Speaking of which, and here's a preview of
a screed you'll hear on the air in the next
day or two, there are some fairly high profile lawsuits
that are going to go the right way against the
gender bending cruel experiments on kid's crowd.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They're going to bring them to their knees, and.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We need more and more and more of that these
And I don't mean to seem like I'm gloating because
it's a tragedy, but some of the victims of these
ideological lunatics are starting to move into adulthood and realize
what's been done to them and are not happy about it.
It can't happen fast enough.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Jack, Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Hey, we're Armstrong and Getty. We're featuring our podcast one
more Thing. Find it wherever you find all your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
This was so funny.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I've been wanting to bring this to the radio show,
but it just haven't gotten around to it. It's a
story that is ostensibly about a judge in Beverly Hills
who got pissed off that they're not cooperating with the states'
laws for affordable housing. And the headline is in Beverly Hills,
(18:03):
no kitchen remodels or pool grottos, as judge orders building
moratorium over lack of affordable housing. Essentially, he blocked the
city from issuing any building permits for anything, no matter
how necessary or silly or mundane or whatever, until they
approved a sufficient blueprint for affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So I got a nice piece of property. I got
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
But a judge's saying, you don't need a grotto until
we have more housed poor people.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Right, Lets you expand your garage or remodel your kitchen
or put.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
In a pool or anything. Wow, And that's what it gets done. Yeah,
Now that's freedom the property I own.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Somehow me taking my money and getting a grotto next
to my pool has anything to do with poor people
getting more housing.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That is really a weird world you live in. Well,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Clearly an activist judge who's taking politics into his own
hands and trying to make a point. And it's it's
in terms of property rights. It's an absolute nightmare, absolute nightmare.
That's just a terrible way to look at the world though.
I mean, that's just if you.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
If somebody I don't even know gets a nicer stuff
that makes me less happy, that's just weird.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think it's just leverage.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It's purely leverage, and it's it's indefensible, I think.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
But if I were going to defend it, I would
hit you with the rest of the story.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay, Can the late Paul Harvey sue me for that
or his or his kin folk. That was parody anyway,
So they quote various people about how outrageous it is
and the rest of it. But then they get into
that Beverly Hills where entrepreneurs and entertainers from Jeff Bezos
(19:55):
to Leonardo DiCaprio and Taylor Swift own mansions, opulent hotel
attract well heeled visitors and glamorous boutiques make rodeo dry
blah blah blah shopping.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Blah blah blah, and so okay, great.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
We all know that, but I hadn't realized. I'm only
dimly aware of the fact that there's a fifty year
old state law that requires local governments to plan for
a growing population and allow people of all incomes to
live in every community. It's like an anti Nimby law
(20:30):
not in my backyard.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Passed in nineteen seventy ish seventy.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Five ish to make sure that the growing population would
be would be accommodated everywhere in California, and like rich
Enclaves couldn't keep people out. Maybe you like that idea,
maybe you don't, But Beverly Hill's efforts to evade that
are hilarious, hilarious and that's the part of the article.
(20:57):
I'm glad I read the whole thing, because you'd never
know it from the first you know, quite a few paragraphs.
So in nineteen seventy, the population of Beverly Hills was
thirty three thousand, four hundred thirty three thousand, four hundred.
Today it is thirty two thousand and four hundred, so
it's declined by a thousand people. Over the same period,
the number of California residents has nearly has doubled to
(21:20):
nearly forty million people. So while the population of California's doubled,
Beverly Hills found a way to kick out a hundred
one thousand people and become even more exclusive.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I didn't know Beverly Hills itself was that small. And aside,
having just read the Charlie Chaplin autobiography, his good friend
Douglas Fairbanks, famous actor, had a ranch there, and he
go out to Douglas Fairbanks ranch and they would ride horses.
They love being in Beverly Hills because it was so
(21:52):
far from Los Angeles and the roads were so bad,
just one rutted dirt road that nobody would come out
there to visit. So they are all alone. Isn't that
interesting to picture? Yeah, near early twentieth century?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And who was who was the actor I read about?
He was kind of Fred McMurray. I think it was
who was the dad on my three sons? And you
know he'd play the stiff, upstanding, stoic guy in movies,
or maybe a cowboy or something like that. But here
was his fine actor, but not a big star.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But I think it was him, And don't as sue
me if I'm wrong, But he said, wow, La Metro
seems to be growing out in this direction.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I'll bet it'd be a good investment to.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Buy a load of land out in Beverly Hills and
San Fernando Valley wherever it was.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And he became like mind boggling wealthy through that and
was like.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
An institution in that area just because he had foresight
about real estate.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Anyway, so we've gotten a little off track, but it
doesn't matter who cares.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So anyway, they have been incredibly effective, having no population growth,
no poor people know nothing, in defiance of all state law,
says Thomas White, chair of the Municipal League, a sixty
year old civic organization. We have intentionally created a desirable
environment by deliberately avoiding over development and over densification.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, that's what we all want.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, So over densification is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So under the law state every eight.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Years, the state of cal Unicornea, which is of course
where realism goes to die, tells all cities how many
new homes they need to accommodate every eight years. In
the cycle before this one, Beverly Hills total was three,
an amount so miniscule given the depths of California's housing
problems that it invited national attention. So in an effort
(23:46):
to combat widespread housing affordability, reduce carbon emissions, blah blah blah,
there have been a series of unrealistic laws passed in California.
No longer would wealthy enclaves get a pass, citing the
discriminate to effects of low density zoning laws and research
showing better economic and health outcomes for low income families
that can move to richer areas. So in the current period,
(24:09):
Beverly Hills target under the housing plan jumped to thirty
one hundred and four homes.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
So from what was it before two three?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So from three to thirty one hundred homes you've got
to build them, and three quarters of them have to
be affordable to low and middle income residents.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That, yeah, how old hey do that?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Well, So Beverly Hills, which of course has lots and
lots of super rich lawyers there and can can figure
out a way around these laws, kept putting forth plans
for how they're going to provide, you know, thousands of
new affordable housing units, and the state has rejected five
in a row now, most recently in December. California Housing
(24:59):
Department officials the city is overestimating how many of its
commercial properties could add residential development and criticize the plan
on fair housing grounds because it wasn't putting housing in
the cities wider and more affluent areas.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
All right, I know this seems kind of dry to you.
Here's what I'm working up to.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
The judge after they rejected the latest plan, pointed out
that Beverly Hills is counting on medical office buildings and
car dealerships to convert to housing, despite the city's own
concession that it's unlikely to happen. For instance, in their plan,
they set an audi dealership on Wilshire Boulevard that was
(25:35):
just renovated as a car dealership. It could be turned
into forty one apartments.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And of course you go to the Audi dealer and
he's like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And so Beverly Hills is cooking up these utterly fictional
plans to the state. Yes, we're going to turn the
Audi dealer into forty one affordable apartments.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And the I was gonna say, McDonald's. I don't suppose.
There's probably McDonald's in Beverly Hills. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But and of course this grocery store is going to
become three hundred units.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And again you go to the.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Grocery store owner and they're like, I have no idea
what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
This is a profitable grocery store. We have no plans
to change it. And so the.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Super rich, who I guarantee you if you pulled them,
would be left of Obama, right, they'd be left of
Bernie Sanders. They haven't voted for an R in one
hundred and ten years, are doing are going to extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Lengths to evade all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
This is the sort of thing Tucker Carlson Noyse used
to talk about that I was early on board with
is how a lot of your powerful lefties are in
favor of all these policies that don't affect them. They're
fine with it affecting everybody else, Like ninety nine point
nine percent of people just not that top wrong. We
don't want a legal immigration to get into our neighborhood,
(26:56):
We don't want to have you know, low housing, income
housing and our neighbors, but all of the rest of
the state should.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I mean, it's classic socialism. Really, the very people, the
very top like all this equality. As long as long as.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I get more than everybody else, there should be plenty
of equality beneath me, right right, freaking maddening.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
It's like when you see those Man on the Street
videos where the guy goes up to the people participating
in the Sanctuary city protest where everybody gets a home
and they're welcome, and goes, okay, we'll let them come
to your house. I'm like, uh, well, I don't have room,
and no, it's everybody else's problem.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I would love to see a list of Gavin Newsom's
top one hundred donors and then see a map of
their homes and how close any affordable housing is to
them or even like a house that the median income
earner in California could afford. I'll bet it's like miles
to the nearest house that's under a million bucks, I
(27:52):
mean for a million.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, I hate this sort of law in general, but
if you're gonna let the super wealthy and connected getaway
with not having to obey it, it's like ten times worse.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, you know, there's plenty I disagree with Tucker on
these days, but that point he makes, it's what, Oh gosh,
who's Peggy Noonan. We're talking about her editorial recently that
was so good about why Trump has as much support
as he does, and she was talking about the protected.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Class and the unprotected class.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You can unleash whatever stupid ass policies or decisions or
economic moves or whatever. The protected class isn't going to
suffer an iota. They'll be perfectly fine. And that's what
we're talking about here, the protected class that has gone
to lengths that are utterly comedic to make sure their
(28:50):
neighborhoods remain exclusively enclaves of the super rich and powerful,
even while demanding the rest of us, you know, go
through whatever gyrations they demand.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
To do the good that they think a happening.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Do they know how hypocritical they are when they are
on stage getting their oscar and talking about equality in
the downtrodden, but they won't let any lower income housing
in their neighborhood. I mean, do they realize that or
do they somehow do some mental gymnastics to get.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Out of that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think, in my experience, including my personal experience inside
my own head, human beings have an unbelievable capacity to
shove something out.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Do they actually believe they're of like a different cast that.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Doesn't I think they again, they have like a lurking guilt.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But they keep it at bay or I donate so
much to charity that it's fine. That doesn't allow Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Well, and and the drop and property values would be
absolutely catastrophic, and you just you can't ask. I would
not ask somebody in you know, the San Fernando Valley,
name your you know, your your suburb. I would not
ask somebody to have that sort of burden personally. And and
so then they get to portray themselves as I'm I'm
(30:12):
actually I'm not standing up for me. I'm standing up
for middle class people who who don't want to see it.
So it needs to be done carefully. I'm in favor
of affordable housing, but it needs to be done in
a way that's smart and efficient. And and wait a minute,
what else would oh And recognizes environmental imperatives as right, right, right,
And we have a.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Great deal of green space here in Beverly Hills, and
I employ so many people.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I employ gardeners and pool people and a grotto scrubber.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Jeez, grotto scrubber ever ruined the word grotto? Yeah, exactly.
Grottos are no longer enjoyable.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
You used to like to go to the Fisherman's Grotto
in San Francisco when it was still open.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Never again, it's ruined. You get mild owing, your mildew
and your grotto.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Rush cross. Usually you're the one that keeps the class
in the operation. What are you doing? Yeah, I don't know.
I've given up Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show, featuring our podcast
one more Thing, get it wherever you like to get podcasts.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
So this song, do enough people know the original song
for this to I guess we're assuming so it was a.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Big hi and if you don't you know grab it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
It was about a kid going over to his friend's
house and he recognizes that his friend's mom is kind
of hot and he wishes he could get with her.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Well, yeah, specifically he's going over to his girlfriend's house
thinking I don't want to be with you, I want
to be with your.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Mom, sortid. And so we've got that. I haven't heard
this thing other setup requird king.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
This is it's basically talking about how now.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
That we're older, this song is okay, gotcha, Okay.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
I have so many questions now for Stacy's mom. Stacy's mom,
like why did she come out with just a towl?
That's a good question, towel on when she knew that
kid was gone and low her grass, low her grass.
(32:32):
Stacy's mom is like the people Chris Hansen would have
dancing with name and I know growing up it was
a fantasy, but he's a little different now then I'm
thirty three. Stacy's she put some clues hesus and pease
(32:54):
so wrong.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Stac cancy s it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Be a feeling me.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Something that's a pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That's funny. I missed that one line in the middle
that you guys thought was so funny being caught by
Chris Hansen, the guy who does the Predator. Yeah, that
is funny.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
You're seeming like one of the people Chris Hansen would
ca a hatch answer would catch.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
He goes on and one of the things he goes
could you imagine if it was Stacy's dad, how bad?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's Oh yeah, but you're right.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You got your daughter's teenage boyfriend at the house.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
You don't come out and just a towel and flaunt it.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
That makes you a weirdo, could be a felony.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I'm thirty three seems kind of weird. Something's wrong with
Stacy's mall.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I always the thing I liked about Fountains of Wayne
was how they were willing, did not take themselves seriously
at all with like pooh ooh ooh. Nobody nobody would
sing that like pooh ooh ooh, no no, And then
it's perfect, incredibly well crafted pop music.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I mean really good.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
My son, my twelve year old's favorite song from that album,
he just loves it so much, as that one about
I'm Gonna get my together.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh I can't live like this forever? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Mountains of Wayne, may they flow forever in our hearts.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I was actually surprised, and then I'll be done talking
about fountains wayn because I don't know how many people
know who that band is. But they have several songs,
quite a few songs that are about modern life, about
like the modern workplace. And I thought, Okay, that's gonna
become a thing because it's so relatable for young people,
you know, in their experiences with modern workplace.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
But it hasn't.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And I don't know why, but I thought that would
become a genre of music, you know, just modern cubicle life,
cubical rock.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, that does sound attractive. Wow, Well, they have several
songs that are great about it.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
But that's actually brilliant because think about the show The Office,
How that took coffee?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Ye did that musically exactly? Also known as cashier pop,
dead end job? Yeah, what does bts? The Korean kids
sing about love and of.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Course nobody's in nobody has sex in Korea, so why.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Bother right crushes?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
They all have crushes and giggle about it, I guess,
but never actually get to see there, you know, they
never get to hit it like a Champif you do
know what I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Saying, yeah, which is tragic.
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