September 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Joe answers polling questions, and needs help...
- RFK's approval rating...
- We call it "Bingo Bango Bongo", a bunch of stories..
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong and
Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. I'm talking a
lot lately about how if you blow your credibility, it
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takes a very very long time to build it back up,
if if you ever can. And like the CDC blew
all their credibility during COVID and so nowbody nobody believes them.
I have blown all my credibility on knowledge of big
cities in Brazil, and I don't know if I'll ever
be able to build my credibility back up again, as
I have been in my mind confusing Rio and St.
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San Paulo clearly, which is sopolo.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, you're talking about credibility, and you're calling New York
New Mork, so credibility I got.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I got no credibility, and I don't ever plan to
have any credibility on the big cities of Brazil. So well,
I well, low bar, yes, low bar. Yes, this is
not my wheelhouse and I don't intend to ever be.
But the big giant statue is in Rio, yes, and
that's where Taylor Swift played, So I don't know anything
about the crime situation in saw Poulo, sal Polo, Sao.
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Americans say, Sao, okay, but that's where the football game
is tonight, Chiefs Chargers, and it's well, they're both very,
very large cities, and they're probably similar crime wise, I
would guess.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh probably, yeah, roughly, Uh yeah, But did we ever
come up with a population for sal Polo? I remember
being shocked that it's one of the biggest cities on Earth, Sao.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And what's the population of sal Polo, Brazil? You know who?
I asked? Who do you ask? If you ask want
to know anything, you ask chat GPT and the answer is, uh,
twelve million people. That's big city, a very big city.
Damn big city, plus the beautiful suburbs. Oh no, but
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they're doing the whole city limits thing. They should only
ever give your entire urban area or whatever you call it.
We metro area, metro area, we call it market size
and radio because that's what matters. What's within the city
limits makes no difference whatsoever. The metro area is twenty
two million.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Right, whoa mind boggling Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So this is funny.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
A number of times through years we've been talking about polling,
and people say I've never been pulled. I have been
several times, mostly because if they ask, I say yes.
To the significant polling organizations, and the good folks at
Emerson University Polling have reached out to me and I
just clicked that yes, I would answer their poll. They
do it via text these days because it's practically impossible
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to get somebody to pick up phone call.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And I'm stuck on the first question, like you can't answer.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It, I don't know how to answer it, and I
need help. I need counsel. Question number one, would you
say things in the United States today are generally headed
in the right direction or the wrong track?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You know, it's funny. I've always wondered about that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Some are like super great, some are ultra disasters.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And where do you so anytime you go wrong track?
Right track with anything, whether it's your marriage, your weight,
your kids, you got what's my starting point? Is my
starting point? From birth? Is my starting point from you know,
when I'd say, compared to November of last year, right direction,
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but overall, starting in January fourth, seventeen seventy six, I
think wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Direction sociologically, people's happiness, education, well I economically.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
What's my favorite saying, name one thing that's getting better?
I always say I can't think of anything. So I'm
a wrong direction, but probably for different reasons than a
lot of people would answer, which Trump of course, everything
to go in the wrong direction, everybody. That's the thing
I don't want to be.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I don't want my check mark to be interpreted in
that way.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'm agonizing over this. I'm uh, I'm a wrong direction.
I you know, maybe I'm a pessimist, but how would
you claim the United States is not going in the
wrong direction as opposed to the right direction.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Honestly, thank you for asking, doctor. It all goes back
to my childhood. Oh it's because I am.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I am so.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Adamant, dedicated, serious about the whole woke mind virus, decay
of American education, Haitian thing, the idea of indoctrinating our
young people to despise their own country. I am so
completely consumed by that fight, and it's starting to go
in the right direction, thanks in large due in large
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part to uh Donald J who has been able to
implement what a lot of us have been yelling about
for a long time. So I'm very encouraged on that front,
although to quote Churchill, for the millions of time, it's
not the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It might be the end of the beginning. But you know,
and that's perfectly reasonable to look at it that way.
But if I wanted to make the argument wrong direction
on national debt h and neither party even pretends to
care anymore, Nope, you win. Wrong track. I mean, now
he's going to add a couple more to that, but
I think I could just stop there.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah you had me at debt? Yeah, wow, Okay, Well,
I'll plunge on. If anything else interesting comes up, I
will let you know.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But first, hey, we're probably worth pointing out that the
average person who answers polls does not put one one
thousandth of that much thought into their answer. They're lazy bastards.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Wrong track, got it all right, Let's take a fun
look back at the week that was.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's cow clips of the Week and now clips of
the week. Chicago is a hellhole right now, the White
House sticking to its plans after a violent labor d
eight weekend in Chicago where eight people were killed.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald
Trump again.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No federal troops in the city of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
A new world order is forming the beaches of China, India,
and Russia tonight hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A defiant show of force. China flexing its military might
with its largest ever parade and four legged robot wolves
designed to locate mines and hunt down soldiers. Human organs
can be continuously transplant.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The longer you live, the younger you become, and can
even achieve immor talent. You accept the fact that a
million Americans died from COVID. I don't know how many died, Senator,
You've said in that chair for how long, twenty twenty
five years, while the chronic disease and our children went
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up to seventy six percent, and you said nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All we know is open to the residence upstairs, and
somebody has thrown a big bag out of the window.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Have you seen this.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
If something happens, it's really bad, maybe I'll have to
just blame AI.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We all know that it was his administration throw it
a bag full of the Epstein files out of the
window at the orders of the Pope and the Jews, right.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But it's really a Democrat hoax for him to say
what he's saying is beyond me. We will confidentially compile
the names we all know who are right in the
Epstein world. Tonight's speculation mounting over whether Taylor Swift will
perform at the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying
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maybe his name is Zorn Mandanien. Counting all the way
to Amenian would literally take days. Oh my god, looks
says you quite male covered in mud and underwear. Was
Osborne who just died or he was all over the
TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy in nonsense,
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He just wanted to sniff my feet, and I didn't
feel comfortable with that costable. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Be seen as being critical of victims of sexual abuse exactly.
But that press conference by the gals on the Capitol
steps talking about the Epstein deal had a couple of
very like uncomfortable minutes, moments like that one that we
are we will at some point in the future. I
(09:05):
guess compile confidentially a list. Okay, because people are talking
about a list of the abusers of people who were
regular in the Epstein world. What does that even mean?
I mean, the guy knew everybody well and why are
you holding it back if you have, well, right, that's
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another one. And and if it is a guy like
you know, Alan Dershowitz or something, hi, he says, yeah, yeah,
I was part of that social circle. I had no
idea he was sex and up young girls. And the
minute I found out, I disassociated myself from him.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So what do you mean a list of people who
are regulars in that world? We're not.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
We're talking about victimizers of child sex. It's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And then the beginning there, that stuff with China and
Russia meeting earlier this week. If you combine our national
debt with the changing world order, man, I don't want
to be, you know, a pessimist. I mean those those
are two Well, I don't know, I'm I am Debbie Downer.
I'll shut up now. Nobody wants a realist. Nobody wants.
But you don't have to be a realist on a Friday.
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You can be a realist the other days of the week.
You don't have to face all the biggest problems in
your life on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Always, right, when do you start being a realist again,
like Sunday evening?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, Well, we all do after dinner. What's that called
the Sunday scariest Sunday scaries?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, it's called that by people who say that sort
of thing. I would never let those words pass my
lips other than to mock them, But that is a feeling.
I remember saying that to my dad when I was young. God,
when Sunday night comes, I just look at the week
and then he said, I've been doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
My whole life. I am, It's just part of the deal. Man.
Jerry Seinfeld's bit about the weekend is so dang true
and always has been. Friday, you get off work, and
it seems the weekend seems like it's a year long.
It seems like summer vacation when you're a kid, and
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even on Saturday you feel like you got so much
time to do whatever you want. Then Sunday it lands,
and where did it all go? Here the clock a ticket,
here the clock ticket. I didn't get done half the
things I wanted to do, fun or productive. Every weekend your.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Whole get the weekend, Willies, Right, it's the day off depression.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Uh, never mind, we'll just play music the rest of
the hour. I don't think we should talk about anything.
We're only going to do harm. We gotta have a
hipocratic oath on the show. First, do no harm. And
if we feel like we're going to talk about things
that make people unhappy, we'll play music.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Got this email from Cascade. Johnny calls himself. Just read
your national news link about the rabies increase in wild animals.
Now picture the chi coms infect the robot wolves with rabies.
Oh boy, rabid Chinese robot wolves.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Man, if you didn't see those Chinese robots, that's wrong
track for sure. Okay, we got more on the ways.
Here's one of your reality checks that we like to
do here on The Armstrong Ngetty Show. The world has
seen through mainstream media versus reality the news. You take
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in an RFK Junior, you would assume he's got an
approval rating of about one percent. Oh, it's forty five.
According to the latest poll that came out yesterday, RFK
Junior as a forty five percent approval rating. Now he's
fifty five percent disapproved. But forty five percent is not
horrible these days. No, no, these days, you probably it's
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about high as you're gonna get in any administration. So
you watched the media, you would think nobody likes him,
So power balls up to one point seven billion dollars,
Thank you some, and there is a drawing tomorrow night.
And I have long been fascinated by the psychology around
the whole thing. We've talked about it a whole bunch
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of times. How if it's at four hundred million, you
don't buy a ticket, but it gets to one point
seven billion dollars and you do buy a ticket. I mean,
obviously that makes no that's correct, logical sense whatsoever. But
lots of says you, I.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Got to rush out and get a couple of tickets
that'll double my chances.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, it's it's interesting how that happens. And then there's
also the phenomenon of stores that us Today. Day's got
a big article about it today. Stores that have sold
winning lottery tickets in the past have lines around the block. Again,
makes no sense at all, whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, the first one is kind of a semi understandable
odd cork of human behavior. The second one is just stupid. Oh,
they've sold two winning tickets in the last twenty years.
I'm going to that store.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You're right, I could see me buying a lottery ticket
today and I never buy lottery tickets from some weird
It's got to be an evolutionary thing, some weird I'm
missing out on an asset thing that gets you. But
I'm not going to figure out.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
There's just more awareness of it, so you think of
it more. So you think of what the all I
might as well.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
If I do, I'll just buy it at whatever place
is handy on the way home. Noth someplace that sold
a winning the lottery ticket once.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That people who do that should not be allowed to vote.
No offense if that's you.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
According to according to a Cambridge University study, players tend
to choose numbers that have a personal connection, like birthdays
of them and their kids. Very good. Yeah, I mean
you got to choose something. It doesn't make any difference
whether you base it on your birthdays or favorite NFL
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players numbers or whatever. I mean, you're guessing no matter what.
So frequent players avoid winning numbers from recent draws, whereas
infrequent players choose the birthdays and everything like that. So
if you've played numbers before and didn't win, you stay
away from home numbers. Okay, again, that makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't think you understand probability combinations.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
For numbers, according to the study, are regularly formed with
an eye for esthetics, and players tend to spread their
numbers relatively evenly across the possible range. She'd have like
a single double, single double or something like that, just
because it looks more even.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, yeah, if it's a random collection of numbers from
one to whatever it is, fifty, say, yeah, I've done
that because I used to play once in a while.
But yeah, I would tend to like distribute them fairly.
I wouldn't have one and two, even though those two
numbers are as likely to be chosen as any other two.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Uh sure, Yeah, that's like it's kind of like the
whole If you flip a coin a million times and
it's had a million times in a row, what's the
chance of it being heads or tails on the one
million to one time, it's still fifty to fifty, fifty
to fifty. So it's kind of like that. It never
points out in any of these articles. I'm not exactly
sure why that. I think it's true that most people
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their lives get worse when they win these big giant
pots of money.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Do you think that's true or is it notability bias?
One of my favorite biases in the news media. God,
it's much more interesting when it goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
So hard for me to imagine most people winning a
billion dollars and not having it ruin their lives, where
you end up estranged from your kids or your your
siblings or your friends, whatever. It's just hard to imagine
that not happening.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Just give him each a million bucks and tell him
to go to hell, and then that's save the relationship.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wait a million, he gave me a million. You want
a billion dollars and you give me a million? Thanks
a old flip your books of both what what would
you do? Text line four one KFTZ Armstrong and getty.
Joe claims it's a pressuredicial term. Joe claims he has
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some interesting breaking news. Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, indeed, they had a big immigration raid on a
Hyundai plant in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And uh and uh, let's see what's the official number.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Nearly five hundred people were arrested at this Hyundai motor
battery plant under construction.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh, it's under construction in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
It's part of a criminal investigation into employment practices at
the site. More than three hundred of the arrested were
South Korean nationals. According to an official from Thery, those
arrested it illegally across the border, entered through a visa
waiver program that prohibited them from working or had overstayed
their visas. And evidently the South Koreans are a little
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bit unhappy about this or concerned or something.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But they were here illegally. Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But what's interesting and slightly uncomfortable is that the carmaker
had pledged twenty six billion dollars in US investments in
recent weeks at the behest of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well wait, Hyundai's a South Korean car right, oh, okay? In company? Interesting,
So what kind of deal was being made there? Well, see,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They obviously brought in a bunch of their own people.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
To get the work done.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What was the I read a really interesting piece about Oh,
I can't remember if it was South Koreans. I think
it was a South Korean company that had pledged a
huge investment in the United States, in the Phoenix area,
I want to say, say, and they ran into enormous
cultural problems with trying to manage the construction and running
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of the facility because of the difference in norms between
South Korea and workers and how they approach work and
rest and their rights and their time off and the
rest of it. And it was breaking down because they
would bring in South Korean managers who could not relate
it all to the American workers and couldn't find out why.
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They couldn't figure out why they weren't working like South Koreans.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But this happens occasionally, and I've always wondered how exactly
it comes together. So where a specific nationality ends up
in large numbers with some new business or some business
a particular part of the country, and they must be
working out something at the top level of the business,
and is it I'll use this example. When I was
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young in Western Kansas, a what was the business that
opened up, I don't remember what it was, rendering plants
something like it. Some unpleasant manual labor work opened up
in this tiny little town in western Kansas, and it
was all Vietnamese workers. Now, this is a part of
the country where there were lots of illegal Mexicans, but
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all of a sudden, for this plan, it was all
people from Vietnam. So it had to be they had
to work out something right that the business must have
worked out something with Vietnam or I don't know how
house that would happen. And I've seen this happen. Clearly
something is going on, right, And I've seen this happen
with like Russians or in this case here is South
Koreans or whatever. So some deal is made and part
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of it might be well, we need to have people
of one language is our only shot at making this work.
So we can have managers who speak Vietnamese, not Vietnamese,
and Spanish and Russian and you know whatever else right,
just randomly, and.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
In this case, I could picture I'm saying, and we're
going to bring in the people who built our last
three plants because they know what they're doing. That's if
you can do it in half the time and half
the expense. If we do that, here's an interesting nugget.
The raid and arrests come after months of tense negotiations
between the US and South Korea over tariffs and investments.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Wow, and this is the hiring end of illegal immigration
that we've always been soft on, and the Republican Party
doesn't want to deal with this. You could snuff out
illegals working in hotels and restaurants all got really easy
if you went after the businesses, but there's never been
much political will do that. Yeah, I wonder, and I'm
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just wondering.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't have any specific information, it's just circumstantial, but
I wonder if there was a wink and a nod
from the Trump administration about building this giant new investment
in Georgia, but then when the tariff negotiations got a little.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Ugly, forget it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Then there's a little hardball being played, no push back pitch.
I'm not saying that's good foreign policy or economic policy,
but it could be what was happening.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Speaking of Russians. So I mentioned part of this earlier.
European countries got together yesterday. Macrome came out of the
meeting and said, there are twenty six European countries that
have pledged troops boots on the ground for Ukraine, as
you know, a trigger mechanism. Basically, it's a and Putin
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came out and said, any European troops, any NATO troops
in Ukraine, I will consider legitimate targets. That's some pretty
hardball right there. I mean, I don't know where this
is going to go, because either you back down to
that or you don't, and then then and you're hoping
assuming that he'll back down. No way, He's going to
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fire on French and British troops and start a war
with NATO. But I mean, that's I don't know why
this hasn't gotten more news in the last twenty four hours.
It seems like a big deal to me. Yeah, I
would agree.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't think if he says, yeah, well, then I'll
shoot at you and you say okay, never mind.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
That is ah, that is a gesture that will be
heard throughout history.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It will echo through history. Also, Putin said he's willing
to meet with Zelensky one on one, but only in Moscow,
to which Zelensky said, what are you kidding? And I
didn't like the way Peter Doosey put it on Fox
last night, He said, Zelensky. Now the hold up to
having a meeting between Putin and Zelensky as he says
he will not meet in Moscow, Well, of course he's
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not going to. The guy has spent every day of
the last three years, actually longer than that, trying to
kill him on is he gonna show up in Moscow?
He would be arrested as an illegitimate at the least,
he'd be arrested as an illegitimate president and a Nazi
if not. Just snuffed right there, well right, and.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Oh, for gosh sake, sorry, my computer is doing something weird.
So oh they did a very poor job. Just threw
it in as an after thought of translating Zelensky saying, yeah,
he's he said we can have the meeting in Moscow
to make sure the meeting doesn't take place, because he
knows I can't do.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That right, right, right, But obviously that's the key. Yeah,
of course, Lee's Hitler invited FDR to the bunker. I
want to come over here.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
We'll talk, right, yeah, huh, all right, so uh, Jack,
and know you love New York City.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I do. I really like New York.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I don't love it quite like you do, but I
don't know it as well as you do. Have you
taken one of the rat tours? I have not, though
this is the hot new thing the rat tourism industry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And it's funny just hear that phrase.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's not clear to me whether you have like rats
lugging sorretcases, or were going on vacations or or what
but oh.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Rats, it's okay, I get it. There's a rat tourism
industry market.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It is ideal if you like to dig beneath the surface,
wild traveling. How many times can you go to the
damn Empire State Building?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
After all? Right, this is a new twist? Can I
tell my son up there? When we were there a
couple months ago? He enjoyed that so much. We went
at night. I'd never been at night before. Wow, what
of you that is? From up there? Holy crap.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I went to the top of the Sears Tower in
Chicago handful of times at night with friends. We would
just be in Chicago and thinks that'd be fun. Often
fueled by the grape and or the leaf and and
that's it's pretty spectacular at night. Yeah, and New York
has such an amazing skyline. Anyway, Uh, multiple, that's the tower.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, that's the tower that now has the glass that
you you can it's all glass and you can lean
up against it and then it like falls forward, so
you're kind of laying out over the city street. I
didn't really, I didn't do that. That looked horrifying to me.
You're leaning up against glass and then it just like,
not not real steep, but enough that you're like lean
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out over the street looking like you're falling. Yeah, that
that would weird me. Yeah, I'm not doing that now.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And you know it's funny the London Eye, which is
not a ferris wheel, it is a cantilever something or other.
But I was afraid in London I would freak out
because I got to think about heights and precipices and
stuff on the London Eye.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
But no, it's just pure in wonder. Its like you're
in a room or something.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yes, like somebody described it as the size of a
train car, which is a slight exaggeration, but yeah, it's
as secure as can be.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And just the views breathtaking anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Speaking of breathtaking views, multiple tours now lead visitors to
rat infested hotspots, with tickets going as much as fifty
dollars a pop. One two and a half hour tour
takes visitors through grimy Lower Manhattan. Five star reviews online
saw lots of rats, big juicy rats. Really good rat
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tour Highly recommend. You know what they promised? I'd they
did not lie?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
What what did I get out of that?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I got to admit I have a grim fascination with
big urban rats. Oh God, speaking of my youth in Chicago.
I saw rats one time in Chicago that I swear
to God were the size of tabby cats.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I mean they were impressive.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They were If they somebody told me, look raccoons, I
just said, oh, but no, they were rats, with their
bald tails and their gleaming eyes and their teeth that
bite you. Kenny Bolwark, who's the founder of a viral
TikTok series called rat Talc, heads up another tour. The
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rat tour is the new trendy thing, he says, is it?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He actually moved to New York from Missouri in twenty nineteen,
and he grew frustrated, frustrated by the lack of anybody
giving it damn in the city, so he began live
streaming the vermin problem to get attention for it. The
followers came quickly, and soon he began charging for tours
and selling merchandise.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's the most American thing I've ever heard, it really is.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So he arms himself with a reflective vest, peppermint spray
to repel the rats, and a headlamp to spotlight them
in the dark.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And if that's what rats are like in the year
twenty twenty five, with all the modern traps, poisons, city restrictions,
you know, you got to get to be up to
code of your restaurants and building and stuff like that.
If the rats are still like that, imagine what it
was like in like nineteen twenty five, one hundred years ago. Yeah, God,
(28:47):
it must have just been incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Although they make the point that the city infrastructure, like
the subway tunnels and other things are old and a
little crumbly, and there are a million nooks and crannies
for rats to hide in, and so nobody even knows
what the population is. It's in the millions, and it's
just it's a total Eradication has been deemed impossible by
most rat experts because the rodents reproduced too quickly and
(29:13):
thrive on the abundant food and shelter. They've tried everything
they can think of. Also, now the big push is
rat birth control, getting them to put on the condoms.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
As top this thing, I can't get the package open,
ruins a sensation. Okay, we will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I read that uber eats is now offering delivery. Is
from Best Buy. Yeah, it's perfect if you want to
do a little shopping in two thousand and six. Now
instead of a few French fiser driver takes a bite.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Of your HDMI cable. So is Best Spike seen as
like old Tiny? I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I think their hate day has past them. But I've
been in the Best Buy once a month last several months.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
If I need a quarter. I go there fairly regularly
me and for stuff with me and my kids. But
I did see a delivery thing the other day. I
didn't watch the whole story, but I saw the tease
of a drone delivering a Chipotle meal like their burritos
and chips and salsa. Dropped the bag and it floated
(30:31):
down to where they were something. I still can't imagine
how that's gonna work, But maybe we'll talk about that
next week. What I wanted to talk about is Nike's
new slogan. So they've had the same slogan since the
late eighties. It's a very long time, almost forty years.
It's been just do it. It's been pretty successful. They
are in a hot competition with all the other shoemakers
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to have the most popular show shoe among kids, and
now they've changed their slogan or they're still gonna have
just do it, But they're also have a big new
ad campaign emphasizing why do it? And according to Nike's
Chief marketing Officer, Nicole Graham, explains that young athletes today
face an intense pressure cooker of comparison, trying to be perfect,
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fear of failing, and fear of even trying in many cases,
So we decided to come up with why do it?
Why should you even try to do something? Also, they
said that the ad campaign combats cringe culture, where earnest
effort is often seen as uncool. You know what? I
(31:36):
like that?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I like that while I'm locking somebody for trying, look
at that fat guy running, who's he kidding?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's just rotten. Well, I like trying to turn the
tide on that the fact that the tide needs to
be turned is disturbing. It's so commonplace the whole It's
uncool to be seen trying. That's awful. What have we become?
I don't know where does? How does that develop? And
(32:07):
often that is because I've done this myself with various things.
Often it's a I'm worried about I'm not going to
do very well if I try, so I'll pretend it's
uncol to try, right, right. Yeah, I've gosh, how many
times did I talk to my kids about that it's
okay to be bad at something. In fact, it's necessary.
Embrace it. It's it's fine, you gotta get through it.
(32:29):
We all do it. Don't be embarrassed, give it a try.
It's terrible to me that they need to have the
slogan why do it?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Speaking of terrible, As soon as you said it was
a woman who is the chief marketing officer, I thought,
uh oh, And I don't think it's sexism. It's because
every single one of the recent like Woke horrible missteps
in marketing and PR has been just a gal at
the helm. But the women are much more likely to be,
(33:00):
you know, far lefties than men. So I just think
it's a matter of numbers. Obviously, there are plenty of
brilliant conservative women in the world.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And I'll have to see the ads if they're crafted
kind of the way you're thinking, I could. I could
end up really liking this as a message. Yeah. I
love the spirit of it, the way it's described the
athletes that'll be involved in the ads include Sequon Barkley,
who ran for over two thousand yards last year, Lebron James,
Caitlin Clark, who announced last night she's out for the season.
She will not come back this year from her injury.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So boy, the rest of the season. So that's another
week or six months or something I have.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
For No season's over and they had their championship last
night and we don't know it right, Yeah I don't.
I'm sorry. That's very dismissive. But see that was sexism
and I resent it. Hey, kids, it's that time again
with Armstrong and Getty. Here's your host for final thoughts,
(33:55):
Joel Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
There he is our technical director, Michael Angelo. Michael laid
us off which title.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I'm just looking over my list here to start the
NFL season. I want to make sure I got my
letter D I've got my little fence, I've got a
foam finger, and I've got my NFL Copyright Enforcement eight
hundred number I always keep at, you.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Know, just a base excellent idea sounds good. I think
I've set for the season. There you go, Katie Green
is off. We'll be back sooner. Ish Jack has a
final thought for us. Yeah, So I'm in a Newish neighborhood.
I've been there a year, but they're having their yearly
I guess culled the sack neighbor lee barbecue at five
o'clock this afternoon. And I'm actually gonna go me and
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my kids with all my neighbors and their kids, and
I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna get to know
them and They're going to get to know me. And
I don't do this very often, and I think it's
a good idea. And here we go. Yes, take a
deep breath and jump at the pool. You'll be glad
you did it.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I am almost every time I do that sort of thing.
My final thought is a very silly one. But a
friend dropped off like a big bagel sandwich this morning
that I ate locks cream, cheese, onions cucumber.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Which I had never had, and it was great. It
was about nine hundred calories.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And I've spent the rest of the show guzzling coffee
and trying to stay awake.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Food coma is a thing, man, Wow, you did like
Thanksgiving dinner to start the show.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh I didn't think it was gonna be that hearty meal,
but my gully it was. It was delicious. But oh
so I just want to sleep.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday,
can't fire a feel of a limbs. Hey, let's get
a final thought.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I'm sorry Armstrong Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
So many people, thanks so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and Getty dot com, would you please? We got
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Drop some note mail bag at Armstrong Getty dot com
and a.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Lot of things will happen this weekend and we'll talk
about them on Monday. See you then, God bless America.
I'm strong and gecke. It was another busy week on
The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
From Murders in Chicago on the way to Sniff from.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
That, Gal's told join us song when we'll do this.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Thing again.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Unless those dang come robot wolves show up to do
a sill the Armstrong and Getty Shop The Conscience of
the Nation.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong and
Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. I'm talking a
lot lately about how if you blow your credibility, it
(00:25):
takes a very very long time to build it back up,
if if you ever can. And like the CDC blew
all their credibility during COVID and so nowbody nobody believes them.
I have blown all my credibility on knowledge of big
cities in Brazil, and I don't know if I'll ever
be able to build my credibility back up again, as
I have been in my mind confusing Rio and St.
(00:45):
San Paulo clearly, which is sopolo.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, you're talking about credibility, and you're calling New York
New Mork, so credibility I got.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I got no credibility, and I don't ever plan to
have any credibility on the big cities of Brazil. So well,
I well, low bar, yes, low bar. Yes, this is
not my wheelhouse and I don't intend to ever be.
But the big giant statue is in Rio, yes, and
that's where Taylor Swift played, So I don't know anything
about the crime situation in saw Poulo, sal Polo, Sao.
(01:22):
Americans say, Sao, okay, but that's where the football game
is tonight, Chiefs Chargers, and it's well, they're both very,
very large cities, and they're probably similar crime wise, I
would guess.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh probably, yeah, roughly, Uh yeah, But did we ever
come up with a population for sal Polo? I remember
being shocked that it's one of the biggest cities on Earth, Sao.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And what's the population of sal Polo, Brazil? You know who?
I asked? Who do you ask? If you ask want
to know anything, you ask chat GPT and the answer is, uh,
twelve million people. That's big city, a very big city.
Damn big city, plus the beautiful suburbs. Oh no, but
(02:04):
they're doing the whole city limits thing. They should only
ever give your entire urban area or whatever you call it.
We metro area, metro area, we call it market size
and radio because that's what matters. What's within the city
limits makes no difference whatsoever. The metro area is twenty
two million.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Right, whoa mind boggling Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
So this is funny.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
A number of times through years we've been talking about polling,
and people say I've never been pulled. I have been
several times, mostly because if they ask, I say yes.
To the significant polling organizations, and the good folks at
Emerson University Polling have reached out to me and I
just clicked that yes, I would answer their poll. They
do it via text these days because it's practically impossible
(02:52):
to get somebody to pick up phone call.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And I'm stuck on the first question, like you can't answer.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It, I don't know how to answer it, and I
need help. I need counsel. Question number one, would you
say things in the United States today are generally headed
in the right direction or the wrong track?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You know, it's funny. I've always wondered about that.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Some are like super great, some are ultra disasters.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And where do you so anytime you go wrong track?
Right track with anything, whether it's your marriage, your weight,
your kids, you got what's my starting point? Is my
starting point? From birth? Is my starting point from you know,
when I'd say, compared to November of last year, right direction,
(03:47):
but overall, starting in January fourth, seventeen seventy six, I
think wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Direction sociologically, people's happiness, education, well I economically.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
What's my favorite saying, name one thing that's getting better?
I always say I can't think of anything. So I'm
a wrong direction, but probably for different reasons than a
lot of people would answer, which Trump of course, everything
to go in the wrong direction, everybody. That's the thing
I don't want to be.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I don't want my check mark to be interpreted in
that way.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'm agonizing over this. I'm uh, I'm a wrong direction.
I you know, maybe I'm a pessimist, but how would
you claim the United States is not going in the
wrong direction as opposed to the right direction.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Honestly, thank you for asking, doctor. It all goes back
to my childhood. Oh it's because I am.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I am so.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Adamant, dedicated, serious about the whole woke mind virus, decay
of American education, Haitian thing, the idea of indoctrinating our
young people to despise their own country. I am so
completely consumed by that fight, and it's starting to go
in the right direction, thanks in large due in large
(05:14):
part to uh Donald J who has been able to
implement what a lot of us have been yelling about
for a long time. So I'm very encouraged on that front,
although to quote Churchill, for the millions of time, it's
not the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It might be the end of the beginning. But you know,
and that's perfectly reasonable to look at it that way.
But if I wanted to make the argument wrong direction
on national debt h and neither party even pretends to
care anymore, Nope, you win. Wrong track. I mean, now
he's going to add a couple more to that, but
I think I could just stop there.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah you had me at debt? Yeah, wow, Okay, Well,
I'll plunge on. If anything else interesting comes up, I
will let you know.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But first, hey, we're probably worth pointing out that the
average person who answers polls does not put one one
thousandth of that much thought into their answer. They're lazy bastards.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Wrong track, got it all right, Let's take a fun
look back at the week that was.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's cow clips of the Week and now clips of
the week. Chicago is a hellhole right now, the White
House sticking to its plans after a violent labor d
eight weekend in Chicago where eight people were killed.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald
Trump again.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No federal troops in the city of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
A new world order is forming the beaches of China, India,
and Russia tonight hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A defiant show of force. China flexing its military might
with its largest ever parade and four legged robot wolves
designed to locate mines and hunt down soldiers. Human organs
can be continuously transplant.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
The longer you live, the younger you become, and can
even achieve immor talent. You accept the fact that a
million Americans died from COVID. I don't know how many died, Senator,
You've said in that chair for how long, twenty twenty
five years, while the chronic disease and our children went
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up to seventy six percent, and you said nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
All we know is open to the residence upstairs, and
somebody has thrown a big bag out of the window.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Have you seen this.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
If something happens, it's really bad, maybe I'll have to
just blame AI.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
We all know that it was his administration throw it
a bag full of the Epstein files out of the
window at the orders of the Pope and the Jews, right.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But it's really a Democrat hoax for him to say
what he's saying is beyond me. We will confidentially compile
the names we all know who are right in the
Epstein world. Tonight's speculation mounting over whether Taylor Swift will
perform at the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying
(08:07):
maybe his name is Zorn Mandanien. Counting all the way
to Amenian would literally take days. Oh my god, looks
says you quite male covered in mud and underwear. Was
Osborne who just died or he was all over the
TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy in nonsense,
(08:33):
He just wanted to sniff my feet, and I didn't
feel comfortable with that costable. I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Be seen as being critical of victims of sexual abuse exactly.
But that press conference by the gals on the Capitol
steps talking about the Epstein deal had a couple of
very like uncomfortable minutes, moments like that one that we
are we will at some point in the future. I
(09:05):
guess compile confidentially a list. Okay, because people are talking
about a list of the abusers of people who were
regular in the Epstein world. What does that even mean?
I mean, the guy knew everybody well and why are
you holding it back if you have, well, right, that's
(09:27):
another one. And and if it is a guy like
you know, Alan Dershowitz or something, hi, he says, yeah, yeah,
I was part of that social circle. I had no
idea he was sex and up young girls. And the
minute I found out, I disassociated myself from him.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So what do you mean a list of people who
are regulars in that world? We're not.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
We're talking about victimizers of child sex. It's just exhausting.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And then the beginning there, that stuff with China and
Russia meeting earlier this week. If you combine our national
debt with the changing world order, man, I don't want
to be, you know, a pessimist. I mean those those
are two Well, I don't know, I'm I am Debbie Downer.
I'll shut up now. Nobody wants a realist. Nobody wants.
But you don't have to be a realist on a Friday.
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You can be a realist the other days of the week.
You don't have to face all the biggest problems in
your life on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Always, right, when do you start being a realist again,
like Sunday evening?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, Well, we all do after dinner. What's that called
the Sunday scariest Sunday scaries?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, it's called that by people who say that sort
of thing. I would never let those words pass my
lips other than to mock them, But that is a feeling.
I remember saying that to my dad when I was young. God,
when Sunday night comes, I just look at the week
and then he said, I've been doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
My whole life. I am, It's just part of the deal. Man.
Jerry Seinfeld's bit about the weekend is so dang true
and always has been. Friday, you get off work, and
it seems the weekend seems like it's a year long.
It seems like summer vacation when you're a kid, and
(11:09):
even on Saturday you feel like you got so much
time to do whatever you want. Then Sunday it lands,
and where did it all go? Here the clock a ticket,
here the clock ticket. I didn't get done half the
things I wanted to do, fun or productive. Every weekend your.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Whole get the weekend, Willies, Right, it's the day off depression.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Uh, never mind, we'll just play music the rest of
the hour. I don't think we should talk about anything.
We're only going to do harm. We gotta have a
hipocratic oath on the show. First, do no harm. And
if we feel like we're going to talk about things
that make people unhappy, we'll play music.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Got this email from Cascade. Johnny calls himself. Just read
your national news link about the rabies increase in wild animals.
Now picture the chi coms infect the robot wolves with rabies.
Oh boy, rabid Chinese robot wolves.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Man, if you didn't see those Chinese robots, that's wrong
track for sure. Okay, we got more on the ways.
Here's one of your reality checks that we like to
do here on The Armstrong Ngetty Show. The world has
seen through mainstream media versus reality the news. You take
(12:31):
in an RFK Junior, you would assume he's got an
approval rating of about one percent. Oh, it's forty five.
According to the latest poll that came out yesterday, RFK
Junior as a forty five percent approval rating. Now he's
fifty five percent disapproved. But forty five percent is not
horrible these days. No, no, these days, you probably it's
(12:53):
about high as you're gonna get in any administration. So
you watched the media, you would think nobody likes him,
So power balls up to one point seven billion dollars,
Thank you some, and there is a drawing tomorrow night.
And I have long been fascinated by the psychology around
the whole thing. We've talked about it a whole bunch
(13:14):
of times. How if it's at four hundred million, you
don't buy a ticket, but it gets to one point
seven billion dollars and you do buy a ticket. I mean,
obviously that makes no that's correct, logical sense whatsoever. But
lots of says you, I.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Got to rush out and get a couple of tickets
that'll double my chances.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, it's it's interesting how that happens. And then there's
also the phenomenon of stores that us Today. Day's got
a big article about it today. Stores that have sold
winning lottery tickets in the past have lines around the block. Again,
makes no sense at all, whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, the first one is kind of a semi understandable
odd cork of human behavior. The second one is just stupid. Oh,
they've sold two winning tickets in the last twenty years.
I'm going to that store.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You're right, I could see me buying a lottery ticket
today and I never buy lottery tickets from some weird
It's got to be an evolutionary thing, some weird I'm
missing out on an asset thing that gets you. But
I'm not going to figure out.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
There's just more awareness of it, so you think of
it more. So you think of what the all I
might as well.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
If I do, I'll just buy it at whatever place
is handy on the way home. Noth someplace that sold
a winning the lottery ticket once.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That people who do that should not be allowed to vote.
No offense if that's you.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
According to according to a Cambridge University study, players tend
to choose numbers that have a personal connection, like birthdays
of them and their kids. Very good. Yeah, I mean
you got to choose something. It doesn't make any difference
whether you base it on your birthdays or favorite NFL
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players numbers or whatever. I mean, you're guessing no matter what.
So frequent players avoid winning numbers from recent draws, whereas
infrequent players choose the birthdays and everything like that. So
if you've played numbers before and didn't win, you stay
away from home numbers. Okay, again, that makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I don't think you understand probability combinations.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
For numbers, according to the study, are regularly formed with
an eye for esthetics, and players tend to spread their
numbers relatively evenly across the possible range. She'd have like
a single double, single double or something like that, just
because it looks more even.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, yeah, if it's a random collection of numbers from
one to whatever it is, fifty, say, yeah, I've done
that because I used to play once in a while.
But yeah, I would tend to like distribute them fairly.
I wouldn't have one and two, even though those two
numbers are as likely to be chosen as any other two.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Uh sure, Yeah, that's like it's kind of like the
whole If you flip a coin a million times and
it's had a million times in a row, what's the
chance of it being heads or tails on the one
million to one time, it's still fifty to fifty, fifty
to fifty. So it's kind of like that. It never
points out in any of these articles. I'm not exactly
sure why that. I think it's true that most people
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their lives get worse when they win these big giant
pots of money.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Do you think that's true or is it notability bias?
One of my favorite biases in the news media. God,
it's much more interesting when it goes wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
So hard for me to imagine most people winning a
billion dollars and not having it ruin their lives, where
you end up estranged from your kids or your your
siblings or your friends, whatever. It's just hard to imagine
that not happening.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Just give him each a million bucks and tell him
to go to hell, and then that's save the relationship.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wait a million, he gave me a million. You want
a billion dollars and you give me a million? Thanks
a old flip your books of both what what would
you do? Text line four one KFTZ Armstrong and getty.
Joe claims it's a pressuredicial term. Joe claims he has
(17:27):
some interesting breaking news. Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, indeed, they had a big immigration raid on a
Hyundai plant in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And uh and uh, let's see what's the official number.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Nearly five hundred people were arrested at this Hyundai motor
battery plant under construction.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh, it's under construction in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
It's part of a criminal investigation into employment practices at
the site. More than three hundred of the arrested were
South Korean nationals. According to an official from Thery, those
arrested it illegally across the border, entered through a visa
waiver program that prohibited them from working or had overstayed
their visas. And evidently the South Koreans are a little
(18:11):
bit unhappy about this or concerned or something.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
But they were here illegally. Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But what's interesting and slightly uncomfortable is that the carmaker
had pledged twenty six billion dollars in US investments in
recent weeks at the behest of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well wait, Hyundai's a South Korean car right, oh, okay? In company? Interesting,
So what kind of deal was being made there? Well, see,
that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
They obviously brought in a bunch of their own people.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
To get the work done.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What was the I read a really interesting piece about Oh,
I can't remember if it was South Koreans. I think
it was a South Korean company that had pledged a
huge investment in the United States, in the Phoenix area,
I want to say, say, and they ran into enormous
cultural problems with trying to manage the construction and running
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of the facility because of the difference in norms between
South Korea and workers and how they approach work and
rest and their rights and their time off and the
rest of it. And it was breaking down because they
would bring in South Korean managers who could not relate
it all to the American workers and couldn't find out why.
(19:29):
They couldn't figure out why they weren't working like South Koreans.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But this happens occasionally, and I've always wondered how exactly
it comes together. So where a specific nationality ends up
in large numbers with some new business or some business
a particular part of the country, and they must be
working out something at the top level of the business,
and is it I'll use this example. When I was
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young in Western Kansas, a what was the business that
opened up, I don't remember what it was, rendering plants
something like it. Some unpleasant manual labor work opened up
in this tiny little town in western Kansas, and it
was all Vietnamese workers. Now, this is a part of
the country where there were lots of illegal Mexicans, but
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all of a sudden, for this plan, it was all
people from Vietnam. So it had to be they had
to work out something right that the business must have
worked out something with Vietnam or I don't know how
house that would happen. And I've seen this happen. Clearly
something is going on, right, And I've seen this happen
with like Russians or in this case here is South
Koreans or whatever. So some deal is made and part
(20:39):
of it might be well, we need to have people
of one language is our only shot at making this work.
So we can have managers who speak Vietnamese, not Vietnamese,
and Spanish and Russian and you know whatever else right,
just randomly, and.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
In this case, I could picture I'm saying, and we're
going to bring in the people who built our last
three plants because they know what they're doing. That's if
you can do it in half the time and half
the expense. If we do that, here's an interesting nugget.
The raid and arrests come after months of tense negotiations
between the US and South Korea over tariffs and investments.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Wow, and this is the hiring end of illegal immigration
that we've always been soft on, and the Republican Party
doesn't want to deal with this. You could snuff out
illegals working in hotels and restaurants all got really easy
if you went after the businesses, but there's never been
much political will do that. Yeah, I wonder, and I'm
(21:36):
just wondering.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't have any specific information, it's just circumstantial, but
I wonder if there was a wink and a nod
from the Trump administration about building this giant new investment
in Georgia, but then when the tariff negotiations got a little.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Ugly, forget it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Then there's a little hardball being played, no push back pitch.
I'm not saying that's good foreign policy or economic policy,
but it could be what was happening.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Speaking of Russians. So I mentioned part of this earlier.
European countries got together yesterday. Macrome came out of the
meeting and said, there are twenty six European countries that
have pledged troops boots on the ground for Ukraine, as
you know, a trigger mechanism. Basically, it's a and Putin
(22:27):
came out and said, any European troops, any NATO troops
in Ukraine, I will consider legitimate targets. That's some pretty
hardball right there. I mean, I don't know where this
is going to go, because either you back down to
that or you don't, and then then and you're hoping
assuming that he'll back down. No way, He's going to
(22:49):
fire on French and British troops and start a war
with NATO. But I mean, that's I don't know why
this hasn't gotten more news in the last twenty four hours.
It seems like a big deal to me. Yeah, I
would agree.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't think if he says, yeah, well, then I'll
shoot at you and you say okay, never mind.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
That is ah, that is a gesture that will be
heard throughout history.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It will echo through history. Also, Putin said he's willing
to meet with Zelensky one on one, but only in Moscow,
to which Zelensky said, what are you kidding? And I
didn't like the way Peter Doosey put it on Fox
last night, He said, Zelensky. Now the hold up to
having a meeting between Putin and Zelensky as he says
he will not meet in Moscow, Well, of course he's
(23:34):
not going to. The guy has spent every day of
the last three years, actually longer than that, trying to
kill him on is he gonna show up in Moscow?
He would be arrested as an illegitimate at the least,
he'd be arrested as an illegitimate president and a Nazi
if not. Just snuffed right there, well right, and.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Oh, for gosh sake, sorry, my computer is doing something weird.
So oh they did a very poor job. Just threw
it in as an after thought of translating Zelensky saying, yeah,
he's he said we can have the meeting in Moscow
to make sure the meeting doesn't take place, because he
knows I can't do.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That right, right, right, But obviously that's the key. Yeah,
of course, Lee's Hitler invited FDR to the bunker. I
want to come over here.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
We'll talk, right, yeah, huh, all right, so uh, Jack,
and know you love New York City.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I do. I really like New York.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I don't love it quite like you do, but I
don't know it as well as you do. Have you
taken one of the rat tours? I have not, though
this is the hot new thing the rat tourism industry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And it's funny just hear that phrase.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's not clear to me whether you have like rats
lugging sorretcases, or were going on vacations or or what
but oh.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Rats, it's okay, I get it. There's a rat tourism
industry market.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
It is ideal if you like to dig beneath the surface,
wild traveling. How many times can you go to the
damn Empire State Building?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
After all? Right, this is a new twist? Can I
tell my son up there? When we were there a
couple months ago? He enjoyed that so much. We went
at night. I'd never been at night before. Wow, what
of you that is? From up there? Holy crap.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I went to the top of the Sears Tower in
Chicago handful of times at night with friends. We would
just be in Chicago and thinks that'd be fun. Often
fueled by the grape and or the leaf and and
that's it's pretty spectacular at night. Yeah, and New York
has such an amazing skyline. Anyway, Uh, multiple, that's the tower.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, that's the tower that now has the glass that
you you can it's all glass and you can lean
up against it and then it like falls forward, so
you're kind of laying out over the city street. I
didn't really, I didn't do that. That looked horrifying to me.
You're leaning up against glass and then it just like,
not not real steep, but enough that you're like lean
(26:00):
out over the street looking like you're falling. Yeah, that
that would weird me. Yeah, I'm not doing that now.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And you know it's funny the London Eye, which is
not a ferris wheel, it is a cantilever something or other.
But I was afraid in London I would freak out
because I got to think about heights and precipices and
stuff on the London Eye.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
But no, it's just pure in wonder. Its like you're
in a room or something.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yes, like somebody described it as the size of a
train car, which is a slight exaggeration, but yeah, it's
as secure as can be.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And just the views breathtaking anyway.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Speaking of breathtaking views, multiple tours now lead visitors to
rat infested hotspots, with tickets going as much as fifty
dollars a pop. One two and a half hour tour
takes visitors through grimy Lower Manhattan. Five star reviews online
saw lots of rats, big juicy rats. Really good rat
(26:57):
tour Highly recommend. You know what they promised? I'd they
did not lie?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
What what did I get out of that?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I got to admit I have a grim fascination with
big urban rats. Oh God, speaking of my youth in Chicago.
I saw rats one time in Chicago that I swear
to God were the size of tabby cats.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I mean they were impressive.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They were If they somebody told me, look raccoons, I
just said, oh, but no, they were rats, with their
bald tails and their gleaming eyes and their teeth that
bite you. Kenny Bolwark, who's the founder of a viral
TikTok series called rat Talc, heads up another tour. The
(27:44):
rat tour is the new trendy thing, he says, is it?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
He actually moved to New York from Missouri in twenty nineteen,
and he grew frustrated, frustrated by the lack of anybody
giving it damn in the city, so he began live
streaming the vermin problem to get attention for it. The
followers came quickly, and soon he began charging for tours
and selling merchandise.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's the most American thing I've ever heard, it really is.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So he arms himself with a reflective vest, peppermint spray
to repel the rats, and a headlamp to spotlight them
in the dark.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And if that's what rats are like in the year
twenty twenty five, with all the modern traps, poisons, city restrictions,
you know, you got to get to be up to
code of your restaurants and building and stuff like that.
If the rats are still like that, imagine what it
was like in like nineteen twenty five, one hundred years ago. Yeah, God,
(28:47):
it must have just been incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Although they make the point that the city infrastructure, like
the subway tunnels and other things are old and a
little crumbly, and there are a million nooks and crannies
for rats to hide in, and so nobody even knows
what the population is. It's in the millions, and it's
just it's a total Eradication has been deemed impossible by
most rat experts because the rodents reproduced too quickly and
(29:13):
thrive on the abundant food and shelter. They've tried everything
they can think of. Also, now the big push is
rat birth control, getting them to put on the condoms.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
As top this thing, I can't get the package open,
ruins a sensation. Okay, we will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I read that uber eats is now offering delivery. Is
from Best Buy. Yeah, it's perfect if you want to
do a little shopping in two thousand and six. Now
instead of a few French fiser driver takes a bite.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Of your HDMI cable. So is Best Spike seen as
like old Tiny? I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I think their hate day has past them. But I've
been in the Best Buy once a month last several months.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
If I need a quarter. I go there fairly regularly
me and for stuff with me and my kids. But
I did see a delivery thing the other day. I
didn't watch the whole story, but I saw the tease
of a drone delivering a Chipotle meal like their burritos
and chips and salsa. Dropped the bag and it floated
(30:31):
down to where they were something. I still can't imagine
how that's gonna work, But maybe we'll talk about that
next week. What I wanted to talk about is Nike's
new slogan. So they've had the same slogan since the
late eighties. It's a very long time, almost forty years.
It's been just do it. It's been pretty successful. They
are in a hot competition with all the other shoemakers
(30:52):
to have the most popular show shoe among kids, and
now they've changed their slogan or they're still gonna have
just do it, But they're also have a big new
ad campaign emphasizing why do it? And according to Nike's
Chief marketing Officer, Nicole Graham, explains that young athletes today
face an intense pressure cooker of comparison, trying to be perfect,
(31:15):
fear of failing, and fear of even trying in many cases,
So we decided to come up with why do it?
Why should you even try to do something? Also, they
said that the ad campaign combats cringe culture, where earnest
effort is often seen as uncool. You know what? I
(31:36):
like that?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
I like that while I'm locking somebody for trying, look
at that fat guy running, who's he kidding?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's just rotten. Well, I like trying to turn the
tide on that the fact that the tide needs to
be turned is disturbing. It's so commonplace the whole It's
uncool to be seen trying. That's awful. What have we become?
I don't know where does? How does that develop? And
(32:07):
often that is because I've done this myself with various things.
Often it's a I'm worried about I'm not going to
do very well if I try, so I'll pretend it's
uncol to try, right, right. Yeah, I've gosh, how many
times did I talk to my kids about that it's
okay to be bad at something. In fact, it's necessary.
Embrace it. It's it's fine, you gotta get through it.
(32:29):
We all do it. Don't be embarrassed, give it a try.
It's terrible to me that they need to have the
slogan why do it?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Speaking of terrible, As soon as you said it was
a woman who is the chief marketing officer, I thought,
uh oh, And I don't think it's sexism. It's because
every single one of the recent like Woke horrible missteps
in marketing and PR has been just a gal at
the helm. But the women are much more likely to be,
(33:00):
you know, far lefties than men. So I just think
it's a matter of numbers. Obviously, there are plenty of
brilliant conservative women in the world.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And I'll have to see the ads if they're crafted
kind of the way you're thinking, I could. I could
end up really liking this as a message. Yeah. I
love the spirit of it, the way it's described the
athletes that'll be involved in the ads include Sequon Barkley,
who ran for over two thousand yards last year, Lebron James,
Caitlin Clark, who announced last night she's out for the season.
She will not come back this year from her injury.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So boy, the rest of the season. So that's another
week or six months or something I have.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
For No season's over and they had their championship last
night and we don't know it right, Yeah I don't.
I'm sorry. That's very dismissive. But see that was sexism
and I resent it. Hey, kids, it's that time again
with Armstrong and Getty. Here's your host for final thoughts,
(33:55):
Joel Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
There he is our technical director, Michael Angelo. Michael laid
us off which title.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I'm just looking over my list here to start the
NFL season. I want to make sure I got my
letter D I've got my little fence, I've got a
foam finger, and I've got my NFL Copyright Enforcement eight
hundred number I always keep at, you.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Know, just a base excellent idea sounds good. I think
I've set for the season. There you go, Katie Green
is off. We'll be back sooner. Ish Jack has a
final thought for us. Yeah, So I'm in a Newish neighborhood.
I've been there a year, but they're having their yearly
I guess culled the sack neighbor lee barbecue at five
o'clock this afternoon. And I'm actually gonna go me and
(34:38):
my kids with all my neighbors and their kids, and
I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna get to know
them and They're going to get to know me. And
I don't do this very often, and I think it's
a good idea. And here we go. Yes, take a
deep breath and jump at the pool. You'll be glad
you did it.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I am almost every time I do that sort of thing.
My final thought is a very silly one. But a
friend dropped off like a big bagel sandwich this morning
that I ate locks cream, cheese, onions cucumber.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Which I had never had, and it was great. It
was about nine hundred calories.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
And I've spent the rest of the show guzzling coffee
and trying to stay awake.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Food coma is a thing, man, Wow, you did like
Thanksgiving dinner to start the show.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh I didn't think it was gonna be that hearty meal,
but my gully it was. It was delicious. But oh
so I just want to sleep.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday,
can't fire a feel of a limbs. Hey, let's get
a final thought.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I'm sorry Armstrong Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 1 (35:52):
Lot of things will happen this weekend and we'll talk
about them on Monday. See you then, God bless America.
I'm strong and gecke. It was another busy week on
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