October 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The government shutdown, Middle East ceasefire & diseased monkeys
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Jack's Dodgers hat, jobs cut & the tech economy
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arms Strong
and Jeddie and Key arms Wrong live from studio see
(00:34):
see Senor. It's a Tiddley litt room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound in midweek
pump days. So there's a camel in the studio. We're
under the two ledge of our general manager. Mom, Donnie's
beleaguered aunt like as his as in his dad's sister.
(00:56):
That's sort of ant.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes, I'm not a no Easterner, so I can't bring
myself to pronounce it aunt.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, no, no, no, no no. My son, one of my
kids said that the other day. I said, we are
not onto people. No, we are and people. We are
not onto people. You're no mound. Right, get out of
his house with your aunt. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
If you oh, hello, oh that's his son leaving, I
get theater of the mind.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yes ah, yes.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If you're not familiar with that story, Mom, Donnie trying
to pitch himself and his family as victims of Islamophobia
and just one of the many reasons he should be
voted for and cooked up this completely phony story about
his poor aunt who is afraid to ride on the
subways because she was a Muslim after nine to eleven,
just completely ridiculous, typical lefty woven from a whole cloth crap.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I don't know this story, Oh, unbelievable. We got that
coming up later. That's excited.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, he pretended to break down and shed tears even
thinking about the horrors.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I've come across this twice today. I think. Did we
have a clip like this from Gavin Newsom, the governor
of California yesterday? I think he's talking something about the
the hunger is the point the government shut down and
the fact that the whole snap ebt food benefits thing
is coming to an end here soon for a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, and our secret meetings, we conservatives, we just plot
on how to starve people. So that's our real goal.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Keeping in mind now that I'm a fancy coffee person
with my fancy coffee machine, my fancy coffee that I
mentioned on Friday, I was shopping for fancy coffee on
Amazon and with your aunt and the fancy coffee on there,
like the expensive stuff though that I'm like, I don't
know if I should buy. This qualifies for EBT Snap.
You can use your Snap benefits to buy ridiculously expensive
(02:53):
hole being coffee, which means you've got some sort of
machine that grinds be right, So what is what is that? Anyway?
I found that kind of odd. If I'm a Snap
benefit to a person, I'd say, how about we don't
that's not a good look. Yeah, let's make it so
as Mum.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Donnie my hero would say, so in your world, only
the rich can afford super expensive premium coffees.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In my world, yes, yes, yes, exactly. In my world.
If you, if you following such hard times you need
help from other people to give you money to eat,
it doesn't include gourmet coffee, right right, It seems crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Anyway, Jack's old only the ritual drive, eight series BMW's
and one yachts here. M Jack loves coffee, you know,
if I'm being honest with myself, because I had some
at home and then I came here. I'm not sure
after all the money I spent that it's better than
the stuff out of the machine here.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh no, I'm not positive. Oh no, anyway, So Gavin
Newsom said something about, you know, the hunger is the point.
Then I came across this, this career nutrition analyst in
one of your big papers New York Times, Washington Post,
I remember which one called it an intentional policy of
hunger that the president has created. How crazy is that?
(04:14):
This idea that, I mean, you joked about it a
few minutes ago. That right, that's the whole conservative things.
We want people who aren't doing very well to be hungry,
maybe starve. That's the policy. That's the whole point of
the shutdown. How long can we hold us out until
people are starving? How could you say that with a
straight face?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That has got to just be for eighteen to twenty
four year old IVY League grads or Earth college students.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
What a ridiculous thing to say.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mean, it's like a parody of itself, and so
it's got to be intended for aimed at the soft headed,
super enthusiastic progressive youths.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, you know it's in one of the major newspapers.
They found some career nutritionist who would say that sort
of crap so they could quote him that it's a
policy of hunger. So the whole trying to get away
from violence and politics all the time. If you've got
each side saying there will be no more elections after
this one, or their policy is starvation, Yes, yeah, you
(05:19):
could get people pretty worked up.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
With that sort of crap, A totalitarian regime that purposely
starves at citizens to death. Yes, I would commit acts
of violence against that way, Sure of.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Course you would. Yeah. The shutdown is both sides thinking
there's good. Every time there's a shutdown, it's both sides
thinking they're going to get some sort of political leverage
out of this, and then they're often wrong. It's just
how this looks and how it makes people feel. This
is rarely a policy, certainly not a policy of hunger.
It's an intentional policy of hunger.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Can you believe we get together at our secret meetings
with Count Dracula and the Texas shooter guy in the Simpsons?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Who else was always in those meetings?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Bob milter Burn obviously, Oh and Bob dole inexplicably and
and oh Krusty clown or right Homer, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But Gavin Newsom actually said that the hunger is the point. Okay,
So I guess that's still where we are with our politics.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He ay Gavy, just private between you and me, because
I know you think I'm an a whole I'm not. Actually,
I just think you're a terrible, terrible governor, and I
say so with glee on a daily basis. Uh, it's
got to be kind of a drag to have to
court people so stupid that they would fall for that.
(06:37):
To your side, I mean, because I know you're not
a stupid guy at all, So it's got to just
be kind of I don't know, you're slumming it, throwing
stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's that stupid, But that's the business you're in. We'll
have to talk about later. Because overnight Israel pounded the
crap out of Gaza, the whole bunch of bomb and
then that sort of thing. Where do you think the
ceasefire is currently?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh, they it's back on. They bombed the crap out
of them and then said, all right, cease fires back on.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well do you think it'll.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Do?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You think it'll hold or no? I think the same thing.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I've always thought, unfortunately, that Hamas has zero interest in peace,
and I'm really beginning to believe that the Arab States
are not willing to bring the pressure to bear it
would take to get the dead enders to give up fighting.
So Israel's back to it's only alternative, which is just
decimate Hamas to whatever extent is possible so they get
(07:30):
whatever costs Hamas.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Somebody with Hamas killed an IDF soldier on Tuesday. That's
what Israel was responding to. They're also angry about one
of the hostages remains that were returned having been murdered
and or tortured to death. They have videostarved, actual starvage
they have video of and I don't know what they
(07:52):
were up to here. Hamas had taken the body to
a location, dug a hole, put the body in the hole,
then call the Red Cross and said, hey, we found
a body. What was that all about, boy, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But they also one of them they were trying to
turned over. They had already turned over another part of them.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But they're trying to cover it up for some reason
or maybe that maybe that's what it was. Maybe it
was trying to make it seem like two bodies, so
it was two locations. Maybe that's what was going on there.
But Israel was very upset about that for obvious reasons
because you're not, you know, honoring your indo the deal
if you're doing that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, Hamas, for their part, was just buying enough time
to somehow reconstitute their forces. They're being just obliterated, and
so said, we got to agree to anything to buy
buy ourselves some time, including returning hostages, and that's what
they did. We need to get to probably the world's
lead story, which will be in our opening clip by
starting the show officially.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is Wednesday.
We'd been camel in the studio. Seemed like a funny
idea at first. Every Wednesday we'll have a camel in
the studio. But I'm telling you I'm not liking it anymore.
I told you, don't sign the three year lease. You said, oh,
but it's japer. I said, you're not gonna want to
sign the three year deal on Campbell in the studio Wednesday,
October twenty ninth, to you twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong
(09:11):
and getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Let's begin officially then, according to f SEC rules of regulations,
here we go at market the.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Urgent search for dangerous research monkeys that escaped from the
wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway. We got
heavily armed officers responding to the scene.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here's one of the monkeys right here. There's one sitting
right there.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
At least six monkeys escaping, officials warning they might be
aggressive towards people and were potentially infected with hepatitis, ce herpes,
and COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh okay, yeah, sure, so a whole bunch of monkeys
escaped from a truck. I mean, you heard the tongueless
guy there explain what happened, toungueless backwoodsman. Now, I don't
think we should hire truck drivers that are illegals and
cat pass the test. But just because you were born
without the tongue doesn't mean you can't drive a truck.
And that guy right there, and he said something about
(10:05):
a bunch of monkeys, and the truck crashes and the
monkeys escape and then they thrown at the end. Oh,
by the way, they might have HIV and COVID and hepatitis.
And hey, Joe, you don't sound good. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
God, I got attacked by this monkey that was carrying
HEPSI and COVID and herpes, and I just feel like crap.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I bought this monkey. It was super cheap. I thought,
how can I afford not to it bit me?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Turns out, yeah, it didn't look real healthy, but the
guy who sold it to me assured me it was fine.
That's my new bat. Plus, I couldn't understand much of
what he was. I speak, my monk, you are I
(10:52):
speak tongueless. Luckily, so he said, there are twenty one
monkeys on this truck, fifty dollars from my vulgar. But
I'll go on to you for who One of.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The diseased monkeys probably yanked his tongue out, and he
was but he's still persevered and called the cow. I'm sorry, sir,
it sounded like you said. And my new band, the
Coffin Monkeys, were playing this Friday night. That's a lot
of stuff for a monkey to have. You got the HEP,
(11:27):
you got the HIV for some of them, you got COVID.
You gave him COVID with a horrible HERP. Please some
of these diseases, okay, but you gave him COVID.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
What are we doing there, monkeys running around with some
weird lab created monkey COVID. What is it doctor Fauci
in charge of Was it Fauci trucking carrying those monkeys?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah? Okay, all right, I was I've got five run. Wow.
The police showed up heavily armed, and they said there's
a monkey crouching right over there, and they're ready to
do what they had to do to protect themselves. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm told that they actually euthanize the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Bluey, Bluey. Well, I'm sure they do. Yeah. I live
really close to a big monkey research center and so
are always on the lookout for that sort of thing. Ever, vigilant,
that's the way to be. I was watching Fox and
Friends this morning and Brian kill me and said, this
is the only story worth following as far as I'm concerned. Oh,
(12:31):
I love kill me. He is a funny guy. The
HIV monkey's on the loose. Okay, we got Katie's headlines
on the way. We've got a lot of news to
catch up on. Stay here on the way, kyo yo.
Trump is still in Asia, building up to tomorrow's big
meeting with President she which could have seriously global historic
(12:55):
long term results. Obviously, with the two biggest economies and
where are tariffs are going to land and all that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Something to look forward to. Excellent, all right, lot to
talk about today. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Greening and Katie So.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The police pull over this guy and say to him,
where were you between five and six? He says, first grade?
The police went to beating on him with a wand
what it turns darker than I expected?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Uh, good grief? All right.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Starting with the Fox News, US intelligence agencies see no
sign that Russia is ready to compromise on Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Neither do I Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
From the Free Beacon, a potent replacement for fetanol is
emerging in the United States, and experts say.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
That China is behind it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
These things are called niazines.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
They're opioid that's forty three percent stronger than fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I can't handle these new percentages of eight hundred times
worse than this or that? What are we getting to?
At some point you just take one drop of something
and die, don't you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So is she gonna say, yeah, all right, we'll crack
down on the fentanyl for you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Meanwhile, they're shipping this crap to kill our people and
tournament a junkies.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He was bringing her whole of society attack. See they
meant what time, where were you between five o'clock and
six o'clock? But the guy was being a smart ass.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Oh for that, Oh thank you for clearing that up.
New York Post. UPS acts is.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Forty eight thousand workers in sweeping cost cut push, sparking
a stock surge.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I was wondering about the timing of that. Did they
wait till Amazon made their announcement and thought, Okay, we'll
slip this in end of the day and hopefully it
won't land quite as badly.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, A couple of headlines today related to that story.
Tens of thousands of layoffs now because of AI white
collar jobs and also UPS is hiring gig workers to
do a lot of their deliveries to cut costs.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, we got to talk more about that, come ou.
I got some more details on that.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
JD Vance confirms that US troops will be paid.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
During the Schumer shutdown.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, we haven't talked about that billionaire dude who stepped
in and said he's going to cover the check for
the troops pay on his own and he wanted to
do it anonymously, but Trump put his name out there.
Some guy I hadn't heard of, some dude Trump knows
who's a patriot and wanted to make sure that troops
got paid. And he's cutting a check himself for like
one hundred and fifty million dollars. Holy caw. Yeah, yeah,
(15:32):
I'd missed that story. That's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
From the New York Post as well, Americans are getting
self conscious about their valley girl voice, so like, here's
what they can do about it, okay, eactly. There is
a trend going on right now, of course. It's called
the no filler words trend, where Americans are challenging each
other to record themselves speaking for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
About using like or um hmmm, that's a good idea.
I love that idea. Yeah, it's uh there you go.
I udd it's worth doing.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There was actually a groovy morning radio game that they
used to play sometimes called Don't Say uh Oh, and
you would just have to speak for thirty seconds on
a topic and not say uh at all.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It's hard coming back from ABC.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Dictionary dot Com reveals six seven is its twenty twenty
five word of the Year.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Six seven the word of the year. Wow, I hate it.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Stationary dot com needs to be shut down by the government.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, if they're having to alter rules at school because
of a particular word that elevated pretty high.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
No, no, no, exactly wrong one hundred and eighty degrees wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You ignore it.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Resistance, don't give in study fines.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Average American spends forty eight percent of their paycheck within
forty eight hours of receiving it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Wow, that's an interesting stat. Okay, let's put that in
our stuff about all the layoffs coming up. It all
fits together.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
And finally the Babylon Bee heartbreaking terrorist shares how we
got dirty looks while boarding a subway and a suicide best.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
After nine to eleven. Ha ha. That's into the Mandani's
ant story that Joe brought us.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Ryan who wasn't his aunt and none of that happened,
and he faked crime under him Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
The World Series, the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays in
an incredible game that went eighteen innings, lasting six hours
and thirty nine minutes. Oh yeah, it's one of the
longest World Series games ever. That might explain some of
the signs that fans were holding up towards the end
of the game.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh shure, what I mean?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
This one said, well, I've officially gone from drunk to hungover.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
His next one.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Said, I'm a Dodger fan, but at this point I'll
river whoever ends this. Then this one said, when this started,
the White House still had an east wing.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I was talking to a guy yesterday who had been
at the last Dodgers game playoff game that went eighteen innings.
He was there and stayed the whole time. That was
in what twenty eighteen, And that was before the pitch clock,
and it lasted like an hour and a half longer, right,
So that makes a huge difference having the pitchclock in there.
Toronto won last night. By the way, I'm continuing to
wear of my Dodgers hat because I think it's giving
(18:23):
Toronto luck. I'm rooting for the Blue Jays. I can't
believe how many people I've run and ran into yesterday
bleary eyed talking about having stayed up and watched that game.
So you're and this has been our trademark through the years,
angering everyone yes by wearing a Dodgers hat, annoying non
Dodgers fans and then rooting against the Dodgers, which has
got to be profoundly annoying to Dodgers fans as you
(18:45):
were there. I like that plucky Blue Jays team. I
think they're awesome. Many Who series is tied and it
will be going back to Canada, which my son is
very angry about. Canada can't win our World series makes
it very angry, which I understand completely. Yes, So we
mentioned yesterday the Amazon announcing fire and a whole bunch
of people, and then later in the day there was
stuff came out about Target and then this ups story
(19:06):
where they're getting what a forty eight thousand something like that,
just a huge number of layoffs that they're gonna have
come across a number of stories. And then I've got
a personal anecdote that fits in with this. So a
couple of different articles I've read in reaction to this
where experts economists are like huddling together, gathering trying to
(19:27):
figure out what exactly is happening this week, what is
going on? There's not a clear cut, simple explanation for
why this has happened all the time, all of a sudden,
for most of twenty twenty five, the job market was
described by an economist as a no hire, no fire
job market, and they expected it to last for a while,
a stretch of time where you probably couldn't find a
(19:49):
job if you're looking for one, but if you got one,
you're probably gonna be able to hang on to it.
And then all of a sudden, that fragile balance has
been shifting, and they're not consensus as to why, at
least a to the MarketWatch article that I'm looking at
right here, and they're kind of in a h They
weren't expecting this to happen over the last seventy two hours,
these announcements to be made, and so they're trying to
(20:10):
figure out exactly what is going on that combined with this.
Anidote anecdote not an antidote. An antidote is what you
need if those diseased monkeys get a hold of you.
Any need that quick? Yes. An anecdote is a singular
story that may or may not represent a larger theme,
such as this somebody who works in a variety. It's
(20:33):
a complicated I'm not sure I quite understand, but it's
a retirement planning sort of thing where you got your
full one K and you're deciding how to use it,
or some people taking money out of the four kay anyway,
person texted me and said, people are panicked right now
that their job is really stressful because there's so many
people that are like really in a panic looking to
dip into their four oh one K because they're coming
up short in a variety of places. Oh and looking
(20:55):
at again and they're having to try to talk them
into talk them out of the idea of doing that,
but they're stuck they come up short. Then you combine
that with that story that Katie had in her headlines
just a few minutes ago. And I don't know where
this fits in historically, but right now, about half of
the average American paycheck is spent within forty eight hours
(21:19):
of payday, with over a third gone in twelve hours. Millennials,
not surprisingly, they're spending the fastest, burning through forty percent
of their earnings within the first twelve hours, which is
more than any of the other generations. That's not surprising
that the younger end is doing that, But that sounds
like catching up on bills to me. Of course, it is, yeah, absolutely,
(21:40):
it is. It's like I gotta spend I gotta make
my car payment, my rent, my credit card, whoever you
owe money, I got to pay them like right now
because I'm behind and penalties are adding up and whatever
else the situation is. And then we had that stat
not that many weeks ago where the number of people
sixty or ninety days behind on their car payment was
a high. It's ever been all of those things together,
(22:04):
you know, trying not to be the radio show you
tune into to make you feel scared and miserable every
single day. But I got a bad feeling. I mean, well,
first of all, my life experience is when the stock
market setting a record every single day, buckle up, something
is about to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, especially when everybody is admitting, yeah, it's really just
AI companies driving the rise in the stock market. Everything
else is kind of stagnant, including consumer spending. I mean,
that's just it's so obvious what's going on here. I
read a big analysis or try to very in depth
(22:40):
analysis of the AI boom, bubble or boom, and nobody's sure.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A couple of economies there are. There are two economies.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's the tech economy right now and the rest of us,
and the tech economy is surging the rest of us
not so much.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Reading from CBS News quoting a couple of different financial publications,
the announcements from Amazon and ups and Target could be
signaling that the Fed has good reason to be worried
about the job situation across the country. No question, this
is a shift. No hire, no fire is a thing
of the past. I like the way things come and
(23:22):
go so fast. You know, a week ago, you get
no it's a no hire, no fire economy, and then
a week later it's a thing of the past. All right.
I hadn't even heard the term. And it's over right,
I know, I didn't even get to enjoy saying it,
and it's over These are major layoffs, the kind of
which we only see in periods of real change in
the economy. Okay, again, maybe buckle up. Maybe I don't.
(23:46):
That's that about half of people spend half their paycheck
within forty eight hours. Broh, I know it's always that way.
I don't. It didn't get into comparing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It to the past, Yeah, which kind of takes the
fun out of exactly. So my question about your last
sentence A couple of sentences ago. You only see these
sorts of layoffs and periods of great change. Is this
just another period of great change the sort of which
we're kind of used to, or is this mostly AI
(24:15):
driven change.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't know the UPS. It's a whole bunch of
drivers and people like I used to do for UPS
stacking boxes as many tens of thousands of the forty
eight thousands. But that doesn't mean it's not AI related.
I mean, if you're getting hit by something AI, you
might have to cut costs everywhere, right.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah. The article in the journal why UPS is increasingly
turning to gig drivers for deliveries. The company has cut
thousands of drivers as it tries to improve profitability. Instead
of the iconic brown trucks, UPS has been funneling smaller,
lower value parcels to gig drivers who use their personal
vehicles to make deliveries, part of a push by the
(24:56):
company to reduce expenses that's involved, excuse me, buyouts and
layoffs thirty four thousand drivers and warehouse workers.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
As you mentioned, the only possible advantage of getting older,
and I'm telling you you gotta search to try to
find any upside to getting older, is you have been
through a number of things before, and I remember the
big crash two thousand and five was the housing market crash,
and then two thousand and eight the whole bailout crash.
(25:24):
But I remember a guy we worked with, a very
successful guy, owned a big business, and he said, I
got a whole bunch of employees buying houses. I know
what they make. They shouldn't be able to buy a house.
Something's going on here. I just my point being that
these little anecdotal things you come across in your life
can be pretty good indicators ahead of the giant front
(25:48):
page Wall Street Journal alerts you to it story. Like
this person I know who works in four to one
cases said, people are panicked, and it's an unusual situation
where people are all of a sudden and like I
need to dip into my four to one K to
make payments. That means something.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh that's exactly the same sort of beast as our
old friend, the business owner saying that, Yeah, I remember
that these people are buying big houses and I know
what they make. There's something odd happening. Yeah, yeah there is.
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Speaker 1 (27:31):
I have long said that the worst reporting that exists
is economic reporting, and if you dig into it much,
it's they love to run with headlines and then you
get into the details and it's like one guy said, maybe.
And I remember a friend of mine who is getting
his graduate degree in economics, and I just asked him
something about it and he said, yeah, tell me something.
(27:52):
He said, it's all theory, and it's always stuck in
my head because it is. It's all theory, and often
backward looking theory. Something happens nobody predicted, and then they
come up with a theory for why it happened, but
not for predicting the next big thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I remember being so frustrated as I almost had a
double major in economics in college, but it was the
equivalent of a minor where I went and class after
class I would take and think, I'm not going to
remember a lick of this, and even if I did,
it's useless. What are we doing here? The dismal science,
as they say, you still got the whole supply and demand.
(28:30):
Oh that that part quite useful, Yes, that is very
has and why rent control is utterly idiotic and price
controls always have been, always will be. Yeah, that sort
of thing, although you know every generation needs to relearn
that one.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, Mark Mark Kalpernois does the jokes. There's only two
economists that understand the global economy, and unfortunately they disagree, right,
is very true.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
One more interesting note from the UPS story. I did
not know this UPS. This is a logistics expert on
former UPS executive ups Achilles Heel is lightweight residential packages
that don't offset the labor expense because everything's priced by
weight and size and everything. So that's interesting. Well, that's
(29:18):
what they're farming out to these gig workers.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, they're not keeping up with Amazon and FedEx Amazon,
which you know, the gigworker thing. Amazon has had to
have a huge effect on shipping with their model of
We're going to hire sketchy people in crappy cars to
drive into your neighborhood, dig through their trunk and find
a box and put it on your porch. That's not
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always my experience, but.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Sometimes it is, as you you know, dead vault your
door as you see them approach in your house.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh oh, they're an Amazon driver. Oh okay by the
final final, final note.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
The push to lower labor costs at UPS not going
down well with the International Brotherhood of Omamsters, who represents
three quarters the UPS is four hundred thousand employees in
the US.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The buyouts.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
According to union guys, the buyouts were aimed at replacing
older and higher paid drivers who make forty five bucks
an hour with younger drivers who make twenty three dollars
an hour. It's Hamster's General President Sean O'Brien, the combative.
Sean O'Brien said, UPS is trying to weasel its way
out of creating good union jobs here in America and
particularly that's in particularly. That's one way to look at it, Sean.
(30:31):
The other way is now your bloated freaking contracts are unsustainable.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, or the competition came along and somehow they're doing
it cheaper, so you can't pay people forty five dollars
an hour anymore. Those days are over, which happens in
in Free particularly. I used to lift boxes for UPS.
It has a good paying job. The benefits were amazing,
absolutely amazing, best benefits I ever had, one hundred percent
no deductible on all my medical It's too bad. I
(30:56):
was young and healthy. I should have gotten all my
teeth polled or a new pancreas or something or both both.
Get the teeth and pancrease combo package mail bag on
the way, and a bunch of other stuff. Stay here.
We're very pro free market around here. For some reason,
(31:17):
the kind of downer economic news we're just talking about
drove me to the Reddit anti work site that I
like to check in on regularly, with the numb nuts
and their numb nut ideas about not having to work.
I've already got a couple of great posts I want
to share with you in an hour two. I'm glad
you thought of that. It's been too long.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Also, I went with kind of a silly general manager today.
At the beginning of the show, we always appointed an
honorary general manager. I really should have gone with Maria
Corina Machado, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, the
democracy activist from Venezuela. What she has said about Trump
blasting the Venezuelan drug boats out of the water will shot.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I can't wait to hear this. And I didn't fully
appreciate her until sixty minutes pointed out what she's been
doing the other night.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, she is a person of enormous courage. Yeah, yeah,
really fantastic. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day
in her honor. Today we start a series of quotes
about dictators and dictatorships, This one from Churchill. You see
these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of
their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in
(32:28):
their hearts there is an unspoken fear. They are afraid
of words and thoughts. Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home,
all the more powerful because forbidden, they terrify them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Had some good Churchillian stuff, gives it out your blood.
Go get them with me mailbag.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Truviason note won't you mail bag at Armstrong and Getty
dot com Ryan from Euston Rights, Dear cold Warrior and
old simple Jack. Old simple Jack has said he wants
a car with the air conditioning. You just slide the
blue slide to get colder, in the red side to
get warmer, and Emmanuel crank for the windows. But what
(33:10):
does he buy a cyber truck? Then he goes out
and buys a fancy coffee maker. I claim old simple
Jack needs to come clean and admit he is old
fancy Jack.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The cyber truck is a good blast the coffee thing, though.
That is simple. That's like basic. The most basic coffee
making you can get is starting with the being grinding
and up hot water, et cetera. Figuring out how to
do it yourself. Yeah. Maybe, but yeah, the cyber truck
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Eric for Mosa, last name from beautiful Astoria, Oregon. Right,
So that's the former name of Taiwan, Formosa.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Way back in the day.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Guys, When it comes to the idea of defending Taiwan
against the predations of the PRC, I believe it is
worth emphasizing that the Republic of China, aligned with the
US since its formation in nineteen eleven, is more important
than a supplier of high tech chips. Taiwan is virant
liberal democracy, vibrant liberal democracy that deserves protection from not
just US, but it's friends in Asia as well.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Japan. Korea.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Well, we no longer have an official devents treaty with Taiwan.
If you get a chance to visit there, you'll understand
we have no better friends than that country. Whoops, did
I call the island of Taiwan a country. Darn tootin
I did. No.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I agree with you, but I think the reality, at
least right now is the world is not willing to
fight China for it. Yeah, just like the world is
not willing to fight Russia for Ukraine. I'm afraid you
are correct. Frequent correspondent Paolo says, Guys, I'm not sure
if you've mentioned this. Bill Gates is changing his tune
on climate change. No, we've been wanting to get to
(34:48):
that store. We haven't yet to cover up his Epstein files. Oh,
for God's sake, let's see polar rights. Bill Gates is
a pretty influential voice on climate change. He now suggests
that we're too narrowly focused on reducing emissions, that we
should spend more time on mitigation, on adopting adapting to
a warmer world, and on improving the lives of those
most affected. You know, Bill Gates, as a young garage.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Geek, was super crazy smart about writing software, and he
built Microsoft and became for a while the world's richest men.
Certainly still one of the world's most rich men still.
But he could have asked me, and I'd have told
him that five years ago, you've just come around to
that bill, that all of the yelling and marching and
(35:32):
chanting and stupid laws and stupid blue cities has not
put a dent in global emissions, and then a slight
rise in temperature is a reality we just have.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
To deal with.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Welcome. We've been wondering when you would get here. But
more on what he said, and why'd you visit the
island so many times? Oh boy, oh boy, sell your parka,
buy some shorts. That's my climate change policy. It's simple,
it's effective and inexpensive.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
It's not very expensive.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay, sweetheart, aren't you on the you're demonstrating for Hamas.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Now right, that's your new gig video just hit a
stock market record that I find frightening. Among other things,
we've got to talk about an hour or two all
in the way. If you missed a secondent, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arms Strong
and Jeddie and Key arms Wrong live from studio see
(00:34):
see Senor. It's a Tiddley litt room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound in midweek
pump days. So there's a camel in the studio. We're
under the two ledge of our general manager. Mom, Donnie's
beleaguered aunt like as his as in his dad's sister.
(00:56):
That's sort of ant.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes, I'm not a no Easterner, so I can't bring
myself to pronounce it aunt.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, no, no, no, no no. My son, one of my
kids said that the other day. I said, we are
not onto people. No, we are and people. We are
not onto people. You're no mound. Right, get out of
his house with your aunt. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
If you oh, hello, oh that's his son leaving, I
get theater of the mind.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yes ah, yes.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If you're not familiar with that story, Mom, Donnie trying
to pitch himself and his family as victims of Islamophobia
and just one of the many reasons he should be
voted for and cooked up this completely phony story about
his poor aunt who is afraid to ride on the
subways because she was a Muslim after nine to eleven,
just completely ridiculous, typical lefty woven from a whole cloth crap.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I don't know this story, Oh, unbelievable. We got that
coming up later. That's excited.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, he pretended to break down and shed tears even
thinking about the horrors.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I've come across this twice today. I think. Did we
have a clip like this from Gavin Newsom, the governor
of California yesterday? I think he's talking something about the
the hunger is the point the government shut down and
the fact that the whole snap ebt food benefits thing
is coming to an end here soon for a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, and our secret meetings, we conservatives, we just plot
on how to starve people. So that's our real goal.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Keeping in mind now that I'm a fancy coffee person
with my fancy coffee machine, my fancy coffee that I
mentioned on Friday, I was shopping for fancy coffee on
Amazon and with your aunt and the fancy coffee on there,
like the expensive stuff though that I'm like, I don't
know if I should buy. This qualifies for EBT Snap.
You can use your Snap benefits to buy ridiculously expensive
(02:53):
hole being coffee, which means you've got some sort of
machine that grinds be right, So what is what is that? Anyway?
I found that kind of odd. If I'm a Snap
benefit to a person, I'd say, how about we don't
that's not a good look. Yeah, let's make it so
as Mum.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Donnie my hero would say, so in your world, only
the rich can afford super expensive premium coffees.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In my world, yes, yes, yes, exactly. In my world.
If you, if you following such hard times you need
help from other people to give you money to eat,
it doesn't include gourmet coffee, right right, It seems crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Anyway, Jack's old only the ritual drive, eight series BMW's
and one yachts here. M Jack loves coffee, you know,
if I'm being honest with myself, because I had some
at home and then I came here. I'm not sure
after all the money I spent that it's better than
the stuff out of the machine here.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh no, I'm not positive. Oh no, anyway, So Gavin
Newsom said something about, you know, the hunger is the point.
Then I came across this, this career nutrition analyst in
one of your big papers New York Times, Washington Post,
I remember which one called it an intentional policy of
hunger that the president has created. How crazy is that?
(04:14):
This idea that, I mean, you joked about it a
few minutes ago. That right, that's the whole conservative things.
We want people who aren't doing very well to be hungry,
maybe starve. That's the policy. That's the whole point of
the shutdown. How long can we hold us out until
people are starving? How could you say that with a
straight face?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That has got to just be for eighteen to twenty
four year old IVY League grads or Earth college students.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
What a ridiculous thing to say.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mean, it's like a parody of itself, and so
it's got to be intended for aimed at the soft headed,
super enthusiastic progressive youths.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, you know it's in one of the major newspapers.
They found some career nutritionist who would say that sort
of crap so they could quote him that it's a
policy of hunger. So the whole trying to get away
from violence and politics all the time. If you've got
each side saying there will be no more elections after
this one, or their policy is starvation, Yes, yeah, you
(05:19):
could get people pretty worked up.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
With that sort of crap, A totalitarian regime that purposely
starves at citizens to death. Yes, I would commit acts
of violence against that way, Sure of.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Course you would. Yeah. The shutdown is both sides thinking
there's good. Every time there's a shutdown, it's both sides
thinking they're going to get some sort of political leverage
out of this, and then they're often wrong. It's just
how this looks and how it makes people feel. This
is rarely a policy, certainly not a policy of hunger.
It's an intentional policy of hunger.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Can you believe we get together at our secret meetings
with Count Dracula and the Texas shooter guy in the Simpsons?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Who else was always in those meetings?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Bob milter Burn obviously, Oh and Bob dole inexplicably and
and oh Krusty clown or right Homer, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
But Gavin Newsom actually said that the hunger is the point. Okay,
So I guess that's still where we are with our politics.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He ay Gavy, just private between you and me, because
I know you think I'm an a whole I'm not. Actually,
I just think you're a terrible, terrible governor, and I
say so with glee on a daily basis. Uh, it's
got to be kind of a drag to have to
court people so stupid that they would fall for that.
(06:37):
To your side, I mean, because I know you're not
a stupid guy at all, So it's got to just
be kind of I don't know, you're slumming it, throwing
stuff out there.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's that stupid, But that's the business you're in. We'll
have to talk about later. Because overnight Israel pounded the
crap out of Gaza, the whole bunch of bomb and
then that sort of thing. Where do you think the
ceasefire is currently?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh, they it's back on. They bombed the crap out
of them and then said, all right, cease fires back on.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well do you think it'll.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Do?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
You think it'll hold or no? I think the same thing.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I've always thought, unfortunately, that Hamas has zero interest in peace,
and I'm really beginning to believe that the Arab States
are not willing to bring the pressure to bear it
would take to get the dead enders to give up fighting.
So Israel's back to it's only alternative, which is just
decimate Hamas to whatever extent is possible so they get
(07:30):
whatever costs Hamas.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Somebody with Hamas killed an IDF soldier on Tuesday. That's
what Israel was responding to. They're also angry about one
of the hostages remains that were returned having been murdered
and or tortured to death. They have videostarved, actual starvage
they have video of and I don't know what they
(07:52):
were up to here. Hamas had taken the body to
a location, dug a hole, put the body in the hole,
then call the Red Cross and said, hey, we found
a body. What was that all about, boy, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
But they also one of them they were trying to
turned over. They had already turned over another part of them.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But they're trying to cover it up for some reason
or maybe that maybe that's what it was. Maybe it
was trying to make it seem like two bodies, so
it was two locations. Maybe that's what was going on there.
But Israel was very upset about that for obvious reasons
because you're not, you know, honoring your indo the deal
if you're doing that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, Hamas, for their part, was just buying enough time
to somehow reconstitute their forces. They're being just obliterated, and
so said, we got to agree to anything to buy
buy ourselves some time, including returning hostages, and that's what
they did. We need to get to probably the world's
lead story, which will be in our opening clip by
starting the show officially.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this it is Wednesday.
We'd been camel in the studio. Seemed like a funny
idea at first. Every Wednesday we'll have a camel in
the studio. But I'm telling you I'm not liking it anymore.
I told you, don't sign the three year lease. You said, oh,
but it's japer. I said, you're not gonna want to
sign the three year deal on Campbell in the studio Wednesday,
October twenty ninth, to you twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong
(09:11):
and getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Let's begin officially then, according to f SEC rules of regulations,
here we go at market the.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Urgent search for dangerous research monkeys that escaped from the
wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway. We got
heavily armed officers responding to the scene.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Here's one of the monkeys right here. There's one sitting
right there.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
At least six monkeys escaping, officials warning they might be
aggressive towards people and were potentially infected with hepatitis, ce herpes,
and COVID.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh okay, yeah, sure, so a whole bunch of monkeys
escaped from a truck. I mean, you heard the tongueless
guy there explain what happened, toungueless backwoodsman. Now, I don't
think we should hire truck drivers that are illegals and
cat pass the test. But just because you were born
without the tongue doesn't mean you can't drive a truck.
And that guy right there, and he said something about
(10:05):
a bunch of monkeys, and the truck crashes and the
monkeys escape and then they thrown at the end. Oh,
by the way, they might have HIV and COVID and hepatitis.
And hey, Joe, you don't sound good. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
God, I got attacked by this monkey that was carrying
HEPSI and COVID and herpes, and I just feel like crap.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I bought this monkey. It was super cheap. I thought,
how can I afford not to it bit me?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Turns out, yeah, it didn't look real healthy, but the
guy who sold it to me assured me it was fine.
That's my new bat. Plus, I couldn't understand much of
what he was. I speak, my monk, you are I
(10:52):
speak tongueless. Luckily, so he said, there are twenty one
monkeys on this truck, fifty dollars from my vulgar. But
I'll go on to you for who One of.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The diseased monkeys probably yanked his tongue out, and he
was but he's still persevered and called the cow. I'm sorry, sir,
it sounded like you said. And my new band, the
Coffin Monkeys, were playing this Friday night. That's a lot
of stuff for a monkey to have. You got the HEP,
(11:27):
you got the HIV for some of them, you got COVID.
You gave him COVID with a horrible HERP. Please some
of these diseases, okay, but you gave him COVID.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
What are we doing there, monkeys running around with some
weird lab created monkey COVID. What is it doctor Fauci
in charge of Was it Fauci trucking carrying those monkeys?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah? Okay, all right, I was I've got five run. Wow.
The police showed up heavily armed, and they said there's
a monkey crouching right over there, and they're ready to
do what they had to do to protect themselves. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm told that they actually euthanize the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Bluey, Bluey. Well, I'm sure they do. Yeah. I live
really close to a big monkey research center and so
are always on the lookout for that sort of thing. Ever, vigilant,
that's the way to be. I was watching Fox and
Friends this morning and Brian kill me and said, this
is the only story worth following as far as I'm concerned. Oh,
(12:31):
I love kill me. He is a funny guy. The
HIV monkey's on the loose. Okay, we got Katie's headlines
on the way. We've got a lot of news to
catch up on. Stay here on the way, kyo yo.
Trump is still in Asia, building up to tomorrow's big
meeting with President she which could have seriously global historic
(12:55):
long term results. Obviously, with the two biggest economies and
where are tariffs are going to land and all that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Something to look forward to. Excellent, all right, lot to
talk about today. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Greening and Katie So.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The police pull over this guy and say to him,
where were you between five and six? He says, first grade?
The police went to beating on him with a wand
what it turns darker than I expected?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Uh, good grief? All right.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Starting with the Fox News, US intelligence agencies see no
sign that Russia is ready to compromise on Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Neither do I Wow.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
From the Free Beacon, a potent replacement for fetanol is
emerging in the United States, and experts say.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
That China is behind it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
These things are called niazines.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
They're opioid that's forty three percent stronger than fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I can't handle these new percentages of eight hundred times
worse than this or that? What are we getting to?
At some point you just take one drop of something
and die, don't you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So is she gonna say, yeah, all right, we'll crack
down on the fentanyl for you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Meanwhile, they're shipping this crap to kill our people and
tournament a junkies.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
He was bringing her whole of society attack. See they
meant what time, where were you between five o'clock and
six o'clock? But the guy was being a smart ass.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Oh for that, Oh thank you for clearing that up.
New York Post. UPS acts is.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Forty eight thousand workers in sweeping cost cut push, sparking
a stock surge.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I was wondering about the timing of that. Did they
wait till Amazon made their announcement and thought, Okay, we'll
slip this in end of the day and hopefully it
won't land quite as badly.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, A couple of headlines today related to that story.
Tens of thousands of layoffs now because of AI white
collar jobs and also UPS is hiring gig workers to
do a lot of their deliveries to cut costs.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, we got to talk more about that, come ou.
I got some more details on that.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
JD Vance confirms that US troops will be paid.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
During the Schumer shutdown.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, we haven't talked about that billionaire dude who stepped
in and said he's going to cover the check for
the troops pay on his own and he wanted to
do it anonymously, but Trump put his name out there.
Some guy I hadn't heard of, some dude Trump knows
who's a patriot and wanted to make sure that troops
got paid. And he's cutting a check himself for like
one hundred and fifty million dollars. Holy caw. Yeah, yeah,
(15:32):
I'd missed that story. That's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
From the New York Post as well, Americans are getting
self conscious about their valley girl voice, so like, here's
what they can do about it, okay, eactly. There is
a trend going on right now, of course. It's called
the no filler words trend, where Americans are challenging each
other to record themselves speaking for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
About using like or um hmmm, that's a good idea.
I love that idea. Yeah, it's uh there you go.
I udd it's worth doing.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
There was actually a groovy morning radio game that they
used to play sometimes called Don't Say uh Oh, and
you would just have to speak for thirty seconds on
a topic and not say uh at all.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
It's hard coming back from ABC.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Dictionary dot Com reveals six seven is its twenty twenty
five word of the Year.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Six seven the word of the year. Wow, I hate it.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Stationary dot com needs to be shut down by the government.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, if they're having to alter rules at school because
of a particular word that elevated pretty high.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
No, no, no, exactly wrong one hundred and eighty degrees wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You ignore it.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Resistance, don't give in study fines.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Average American spends forty eight percent of their paycheck within
forty eight hours of receiving it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Wow, that's an interesting stat. Okay, let's put that in
our stuff about all the layoffs coming up. It all
fits together.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
And finally the Babylon Bee heartbreaking terrorist shares how we
got dirty looks while boarding a subway and a suicide best.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
After nine to eleven. Ha ha. That's into the Mandani's
ant story that Joe brought us.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Ryan who wasn't his aunt and none of that happened,
and he faked crime under him Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
The World Series, the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays in
an incredible game that went eighteen innings, lasting six hours
and thirty nine minutes. Oh yeah, it's one of the
longest World Series games ever. That might explain some of
the signs that fans were holding up towards the end
of the game.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh shure, what I mean?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
This one said, well, I've officially gone from drunk to hungover.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
His next one.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Said, I'm a Dodger fan, but at this point I'll
river whoever ends this. Then this one said, when this started,
the White House still had an east wing.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I was talking to a guy yesterday who had been
at the last Dodgers game playoff game that went eighteen innings.
He was there and stayed the whole time. That was
in what twenty eighteen, And that was before the pitch clock,
and it lasted like an hour and a half longer, right,
So that makes a huge difference having the pitchclock in there.
Toronto won last night. By the way, I'm continuing to
wear of my Dodgers hat because I think it's giving
(18:23):
Toronto luck. I'm rooting for the Blue Jays. I can't
believe how many people I've run and ran into yesterday
bleary eyed talking about having stayed up and watched that game.
So you're and this has been our trademark through the years,
angering everyone yes by wearing a Dodgers hat, annoying non
Dodgers fans and then rooting against the Dodgers, which has
got to be profoundly annoying to Dodgers fans as you
(18:45):
were there. I like that plucky Blue Jays team. I
think they're awesome. Many Who series is tied and it
will be going back to Canada, which my son is
very angry about. Canada can't win our World series makes
it very angry, which I understand completely. Yes, So we
mentioned yesterday the Amazon announcing fire and a whole bunch
of people, and then later in the day there was
stuff came out about Target and then this ups story
(19:06):
where they're getting what a forty eight thousand something like that,
just a huge number of layoffs that they're gonna have
come across a number of stories. And then I've got
a personal anecdote that fits in with this. So a
couple of different articles I've read in reaction to this
where experts economists are like huddling together, gathering trying to
(19:27):
figure out what exactly is happening this week, what is
going on? There's not a clear cut, simple explanation for
why this has happened all the time, all of a sudden,
for most of twenty twenty five, the job market was
described by an economist as a no hire, no fire
job market, and they expected it to last for a while,
a stretch of time where you probably couldn't find a
(19:49):
job if you're looking for one, but if you got one,
you're probably gonna be able to hang on to it.
And then all of a sudden, that fragile balance has
been shifting, and they're not consensus as to why, at
least a to the MarketWatch article that I'm looking at
right here, and they're kind of in a h They
weren't expecting this to happen over the last seventy two hours,
these announcements to be made, and so they're trying to
(20:10):
figure out exactly what is going on that combined with this.
Anidote anecdote not an antidote. An antidote is what you
need if those diseased monkeys get a hold of you.
Any need that quick? Yes. An anecdote is a singular
story that may or may not represent a larger theme,
such as this somebody who works in a variety. It's
(20:33):
a complicated I'm not sure I quite understand, but it's
a retirement planning sort of thing where you got your
full one K and you're deciding how to use it,
or some people taking money out of the four kay anyway,
person texted me and said, people are panicked right now
that their job is really stressful because there's so many
people that are like really in a panic looking to
dip into their four oh one K because they're coming
up short in a variety of places. Oh and looking
(20:55):
at again and they're having to try to talk them
into talk them out of the idea of doing that,
but they're stuck they come up short. Then you combine
that with that story that Katie had in her headlines
just a few minutes ago. And I don't know where
this fits in historically, but right now, about half of
the average American paycheck is spent within forty eight hours
(21:19):
of payday, with over a third gone in twelve hours. Millennials,
not surprisingly, they're spending the fastest, burning through forty percent
of their earnings within the first twelve hours, which is
more than any of the other generations. That's not surprising
that the younger end is doing that, But that sounds
like catching up on bills to me. Of course, it is, yeah, absolutely,
(21:40):
it is. It's like I gotta spend I gotta make
my car payment, my rent, my credit card, whoever you
owe money, I got to pay them like right now
because I'm behind and penalties are adding up and whatever
else the situation is. And then we had that stat
not that many weeks ago where the number of people
sixty or ninety days behind on their car payment was
a high. It's ever been all of those things together,
(22:04):
you know, trying not to be the radio show you
tune into to make you feel scared and miserable every
single day. But I got a bad feeling. I mean, well,
first of all, my life experience is when the stock
market setting a record every single day, buckle up, something
is about to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, especially when everybody is admitting, yeah, it's really just
AI companies driving the rise in the stock market. Everything
else is kind of stagnant, including consumer spending. I mean,
that's just it's so obvious what's going on here. I
read a big analysis or try to very in depth
(22:40):
analysis of the AI boom, bubble or boom, and nobody's sure.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A couple of economies there are. There are two economies.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
There's the tech economy right now and the rest of us,
and the tech economy is surging the rest of us
not so much.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Reading from CBS News quoting a couple of different financial publications,
the announcements from Amazon and ups and Target could be
signaling that the Fed has good reason to be worried
about the job situation across the country. No question, this
is a shift. No hire, no fire is a thing
of the past. I like the way things come and
(23:22):
go so fast. You know, a week ago, you get
no it's a no hire, no fire economy, and then
a week later it's a thing of the past. All right.
I hadn't even heard the term. And it's over right,
I know, I didn't even get to enjoy saying it,
and it's over These are major layoffs, the kind of
which we only see in periods of real change in
the economy. Okay, again, maybe buckle up. Maybe I don't.
(23:46):
That's that about half of people spend half their paycheck
within forty eight hours. Broh, I know it's always that way.
I don't. It didn't get into comparing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It to the past, Yeah, which kind of takes the
fun out of exactly. So my question about your last
sentence A couple of sentences ago. You only see these
sorts of layoffs and periods of great change. Is this
just another period of great change the sort of which
we're kind of used to, or is this mostly AI
(24:15):
driven change.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I don't know the UPS. It's a whole bunch of
drivers and people like I used to do for UPS
stacking boxes as many tens of thousands of the forty
eight thousands. But that doesn't mean it's not AI related.
I mean, if you're getting hit by something AI, you
might have to cut costs everywhere, right.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah. The article in the journal why UPS is increasingly
turning to gig drivers for deliveries. The company has cut
thousands of drivers as it tries to improve profitability. Instead
of the iconic brown trucks, UPS has been funneling smaller,
lower value parcels to gig drivers who use their personal
vehicles to make deliveries, part of a push by the
(24:56):
company to reduce expenses that's involved, excuse me, buyouts and
layoffs thirty four thousand drivers and warehouse workers.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
As you mentioned, the only possible advantage of getting older,
and I'm telling you you gotta search to try to
find any upside to getting older, is you have been
through a number of things before, and I remember the
big crash two thousand and five was the housing market crash,
and then two thousand and eight the whole bailout crash.
(25:24):
But I remember a guy we worked with, a very
successful guy, owned a big business, and he said, I
got a whole bunch of employees buying houses. I know
what they make. They shouldn't be able to buy a house.
Something's going on here. I just my point being that
these little anecdotal things you come across in your life
can be pretty good indicators ahead of the giant front
(25:48):
page Wall Street Journal alerts you to it story. Like
this person I know who works in four to one
cases said, people are panicked, and it's an unusual situation
where people are all of a sudden and like I
need to dip into my four to one K to
make payments. That means something.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Oh that's exactly the same sort of beast as our
old friend, the business owner saying that, Yeah, I remember
that these people are buying big houses and I know
what they make. There's something odd happening. Yeah, yeah there is.
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Speaker 1 (27:31):
I have long said that the worst reporting that exists
is economic reporting, and if you dig into it much,
it's they love to run with headlines and then you
get into the details and it's like one guy said, maybe.
And I remember a friend of mine who is getting
his graduate degree in economics, and I just asked him
something about it and he said, yeah, tell me something.
(27:52):
He said, it's all theory, and it's always stuck in
my head because it is. It's all theory, and often
backward looking theory. Something happens nobody predicted, and then they
come up with a theory for why it happened, but
not for predicting the next big thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I remember being so frustrated as I almost had a
double major in economics in college, but it was the
equivalent of a minor where I went and class after
class I would take and think, I'm not going to
remember a lick of this, and even if I did,
it's useless. What are we doing here? The dismal science,
as they say, you still got the whole supply and demand.
(28:30):
Oh that that part quite useful, Yes, that is very
has and why rent control is utterly idiotic and price
controls always have been, always will be. Yeah, that sort
of thing, although you know every generation needs to relearn
that one.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, Mark Mark Kalpernois does the jokes. There's only two
economists that understand the global economy, and unfortunately they disagree, right,
is very true.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
One more interesting note from the UPS story. I did
not know this UPS. This is a logistics expert on
former UPS executive ups Achilles Heel is lightweight residential packages
that don't offset the labor expense because everything's priced by
weight and size and everything. So that's interesting. Well, that's
(29:18):
what they're farming out to these gig workers.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, they're not keeping up with Amazon and FedEx Amazon,
which you know, the gigworker thing. Amazon has had to
have a huge effect on shipping with their model of
We're going to hire sketchy people in crappy cars to
drive into your neighborhood, dig through their trunk and find
a box and put it on your porch. That's not
(29:42):
always my experience, but.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Sometimes it is, as you you know, dead vault your
door as you see them approach in your house.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh oh, they're an Amazon driver. Oh okay by the
final final, final note.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
The push to lower labor costs at UPS not going
down well with the International Brotherhood of Omamsters, who represents
three quarters the UPS is four hundred thousand employees in
the US.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The buyouts.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
According to union guys, the buyouts were aimed at replacing
older and higher paid drivers who make forty five bucks
an hour with younger drivers who make twenty three dollars
an hour. It's Hamster's General President Sean O'Brien, the combative.
Sean O'Brien said, UPS is trying to weasel its way
out of creating good union jobs here in America and
particularly that's in particularly. That's one way to look at it, Sean.
(30:31):
The other way is now your bloated freaking contracts are unsustainable.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, or the competition came along and somehow they're doing
it cheaper, so you can't pay people forty five dollars
an hour anymore. Those days are over, which happens in
in Free particularly. I used to lift boxes for UPS.
It has a good paying job. The benefits were amazing,
absolutely amazing, best benefits I ever had, one hundred percent
no deductible on all my medical It's too bad. I
(30:56):
was young and healthy. I should have gotten all my
teeth polled or a new pancreas or something or both both.
Get the teeth and pancrease combo package mail bag on
the way, and a bunch of other stuff. Stay here.
We're very pro free market around here. For some reason,
(31:17):
the kind of downer economic news we're just talking about
drove me to the Reddit anti work site that I
like to check in on regularly, with the numb nuts
and their numb nut ideas about not having to work.
I've already got a couple of great posts I want
to share with you in an hour two. I'm glad
you thought of that. It's been too long.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Also, I went with kind of a silly general manager today.
At the beginning of the show, we always appointed an
honorary general manager. I really should have gone with Maria
Corina Machado, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, the
democracy activist from Venezuela. What she has said about Trump
blasting the Venezuelan drug boats out of the water will shot.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I can't wait to hear this. And I didn't fully
appreciate her until sixty minutes pointed out what she's been
doing the other night.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, she is a person of enormous courage. Yeah, yeah,
really fantastic. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day
in her honor. Today we start a series of quotes
about dictators and dictatorships, This one from Churchill. You see
these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of
their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in
(32:28):
their hearts there is an unspoken fear. They are afraid
of words and thoughts. Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home,
all the more powerful because forbidden, they terrify them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Had some good Churchillian stuff, gives it out your blood.
Go get them with me mailbag.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Truviason note won't you mail bag at Armstrong and Getty
dot com Ryan from Euston Rights, Dear cold Warrior and
old simple Jack. Old simple Jack has said he wants
a car with the air conditioning. You just slide the
blue slide to get colder, in the red side to
get warmer, and Emmanuel crank for the windows. But what
(33:10):
does he buy a cyber truck? Then he goes out
and buys a fancy coffee maker. I claim old simple
Jack needs to come clean and admit he is old
fancy Jack.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The cyber truck is a good blast the coffee thing, though.
That is simple. That's like basic. The most basic coffee
making you can get is starting with the being grinding
and up hot water, et cetera. Figuring out how to
do it yourself. Yeah. Maybe, but yeah, the cyber truck
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Eric for Mosa, last name from beautiful Astoria, Oregon. Right,
So that's the former name of Taiwan, Formosa.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Way back in the day.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Guys, When it comes to the idea of defending Taiwan
against the predations of the PRC, I believe it is
worth emphasizing that the Republic of China, aligned with the
US since its formation in nineteen eleven, is more important
than a supplier of high tech chips. Taiwan is virant
liberal democracy, vibrant liberal democracy that deserves protection from not
just US, but it's friends in Asia as well.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Japan. Korea.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Well, we no longer have an official devents treaty with Taiwan.
If you get a chance to visit there, you'll understand
we have no better friends than that country. Whoops, did
I call the island of Taiwan a country. Darn tootin
I did. No.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I agree with you, but I think the reality, at
least right now is the world is not willing to
fight China for it. Yeah, just like the world is
not willing to fight Russia for Ukraine. I'm afraid you
are correct. Frequent correspondent Paolo says, Guys, I'm not sure
if you've mentioned this. Bill Gates is changing his tune
on climate change. No, we've been wanting to get to
(34:48):
that store. We haven't yet to cover up his Epstein files. Oh,
for God's sake, let's see polar rights. Bill Gates is
a pretty influential voice on climate change. He now suggests
that we're too narrowly focused on reducing emissions, that we
should spend more time on mitigation, on adopting adapting to
a warmer world, and on improving the lives of those
most affected. You know, Bill Gates, as a young garage.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Geek, was super crazy smart about writing software, and he
built Microsoft and became for a while the world's richest men.
Certainly still one of the world's most rich men still.
But he could have asked me, and I'd have told
him that five years ago, you've just come around to
that bill, that all of the yelling and marching and
(35:32):
chanting and stupid laws and stupid blue cities has not
put a dent in global emissions, and then a slight
rise in temperature is a reality we just have.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
To deal with.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Welcome. We've been wondering when you would get here. But
more on what he said, and why'd you visit the
island so many times? Oh boy, oh boy, sell your parka,
buy some shorts. That's my climate change policy. It's simple,
it's effective and inexpensive.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
It's not very expensive.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay, sweetheart, aren't you on the you're demonstrating for Hamas.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Now right, that's your new gig video just hit a
stock market record that I find frightening. Among other things,
we've got to talk about an hour or two all
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