May 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo!
- CA freezing Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants
- Belichick's girlfriend & giant socks!
- MLB players unbanned & Honey Boo Boo
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Kim Kardashian's chilling testimony about being bound, gagged, and held
at gunpoint when masked men burst into her hotel room
in Paris. Kardashian in Paris facing the suspects in court
they're accused of stealing more than six million dollars in
jewelry during the heist in twenty sixteen. She told the
court she absolutely thought she was going to die.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, that did.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That didn't get as much attention as it probably should
have at the time, I guess because a lot of
people have kind of a knee jerk dislike of Kim
Kardashian in that whole thing, or.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Assume everything they do is a publicity stunt, right, But
she should remember that was one of the questions at
the time.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
She legit had a gun to her head and thought
she was going to die and had every reason to think.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So that's rough. AnyWho, I travel with very few jewels,
practically none, no, exactly none.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Isn't that something here in Paris, but you gotta bleak
bring six million dollars worth of jewels with you so
you can go out to eat at night.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's some lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
The other big trial going on, that one's going on
in Paris. The other big one that's getting so much
attention is going on in New York today. And p
Diddy's girlfriend is back on the stand no longer. They're
a strange I believe at this point your.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Friend married and has soon to be two kids with
her husband.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, she's on the stand again. And some of the
testimony from that we'll get from Katie Green a little
bit later as that all comes out.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Also a couple of presidential retrospectives. I'm excited about. A
list of foreign gifts to the president, from elephants to
in line skates, which we briefly referenced yesterday. And also
a history of presidents getting played by Vladimir Putin embarrassing.
And there's a one more. Oh, the whole the plain
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thing is not going to happen, as we'll discuss going forward,
but a handful of stories affectionately known as bengo bango
bongo behind the scenes, just stuff that's worth touching on.
If not talking about at lengths, but the headline women
are drinking more and doctors are worried. Women are experiencing
rising alcohol related deaths at a much faster clipped than men.
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Men's drinking is more or less stayed the same, but
women who turned thirty five between twenty eighteen and twenty
nineteen were nearly sixty percent more likely to report recent
binge drinking or alcohol use disorder symptoms than women who
turned similar age in the nineties, according to a twenty
twenty three report published in the journal Addiction, So more
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liver disease suspected. This could be contributing to rising rates
of breast cancer and other cancers. Why would that be
not having kids? You think that's it? Yeah, I don't.
I don't know that to be true. If I just.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Amzer change in that from I mean, like we were
comparing it to the fifties, sure, but compared to the nineties,
has there been a major change in that? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You well, yeah, birth rates are declining and when you
have children is getting older and older. I don't have
the numbers in front of me, but that's indisputable, I think,
And just you know, as a dad who my kids
are grown, but I'm having to deal with children. Is
a disincentive to get hammered in a lot of cases
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at a lot of times a day, you know, and
just you can't if you're you know, doing what you're
supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think it's culturally changed a lot too. It would
have been insane. I think, like, not that many years
ago for moms at a Little league game to have
some drinky poohs in their cups while they're watching, And
now I think it's kind of expected.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I've hanness. I got to admit as a cocktail enthusiast,
I'm astounded by that. I'm shocked by it. And my kids,
you know, we're playing sports seven to twenty years ago,
so it's not like I had kids in the nineteen thirties. Yeah,
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the idea of boozing at a game, I would be
shocked by. But maybe I'm naive. Beer, spirit and wine
companies have worked to bring in more women customers for
the obvious reasons. Some research said the alcohol industry is
marketing directly toward women country music. Maybe you blame country music, hm,
I certainly do, But are are they marketing toward women
because they are a market or did the industry create
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a market. Probably a bit of both. Anyway, Gal's be careful.
It's bad for your health, but it makes marginal looking
guys better looking, trust me, and more interest makes annoying
people less annoying. Now, I want to get to the
ongoing budget negotiation stuff briefly. A quick note. Yeah, the
judge has reduced these sentence for the Menendez brothers. Their
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life sentence is now fifty years to life, making them
eligible for parole. And indeed, uh, there's some belief that
the judge is gonna turn them loose. They've served thirty
five years of a fifty year to life sentence. Now
with the new sentence, have been doing lots of volunteer work.
You've kept their noses clean, have helped other people find
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themselves in prison. Blabba, haven't murdered any parents zero zero.
Well there's technicality there, but yeah and so and they've
had family members come and testify. Yeah, they're good fellows.
You out to turn them live. I saw that yesterday
on the news.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So yeah, family members who had lived there in the house,
a new mom and dad. Really, well, who are now testifying?
You gotta let them out? Let them out. Our family
has been wrecked by this. Who would be good for
the family? Let them out? What an interesting story. I
haven't watched any of the Netflix stuff or been following this,
so I haven't gotten pulled the Menndez brother thing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I just kind of had been assuming all along they weren't.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Going to get out. But Gavin Newsom's got a decision
to make. From what I understand from the news last night,
Well here's bad news.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Eric and Lyle. First of all, thanks for listening to
the Armstrong and Getty show, and thanks for not shotgunning
anybody lately. But Fellas, his decision will be based on
one thing and one thing only. Will it help him
get into the White House or hurt his chances to
get elected president. It will have nothing to do with you,
your crimes, your reform, the Lord Jesus Christ, California's laws
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and traditions, nothing but his lust for the Oval Office.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Interesting. You're probably right. So do you think this helps
him nationally or hurts him? Probably not a huge deal
either way.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I haven't thought about
this case much. I haven't watched the documentaries, partly because
it's become increasingly clear to me, having followed the saga
of a handful of documentaries, and like super popular podcasts,
you can by selectively editing and shading and leaving once
this end, leaving that out, you can wildly mislead people. Yeah,
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and I don't particularly feel like getting misled.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So anyway, So you brought up a little bit ago
that Republicans are becoming Democrats around this whole medicaid thing
in the budget and everything that's going.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
On among other programs. Yeah, so it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Today the New York Times is a big battle going
on in the opinion pages. This is in just Today's
New York Times. There's a guest essay by Josh Howley,
the very trumpy senator from Missouri. Don't cut Medicaid. Republicans
should embrace their working class voters.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And then there's a guest essay from Robert F. Kennedy,
doctor OZ and a couple other people in the Trump
White House.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
If you want welfare and can work, you must.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare
programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become
a trap of dependency. So you got that side coming
out of the Trump crowd on that, and then this
guest essay, what medicaid cuts would do to my rural
hospital small town America depends on healthcare systems like mine.
I'm not sure we'll be able to keep our doors
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open if the Republican Congress cuts Medicaid.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I need to come up with a name for that argument,
because I bring it up semi regularly. The last argument
is the argument that we have become so dependent on
a bad, perverse program you can't end it. We must
continue a bad perverse policy, right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
That's what I was thinking yesterday when I was watching
the governor of New Mexico on one of the Sunday shows.
Because they have the most people on Medicaid in New
Mexico of any state for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, because it's wildly liberal. So embrace the Obamacare expansion
of Medicaid wholeheartedly, which then brings in lots and lots
of federal dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
My angle is just this happens a lot with government programs.
You come up with the worst case scenario and then
feel like that needs to apply to everyone forever because.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Of the worst case scenario. Yeah, that's not the way
to make a policy. Yeah, what do we call it
the heroin addiction argument? It's easier to give up heroin
than it is to give up a giant program that
is funding you know, a lot of your critical medical
institutions right just because you let it and it's handy,
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it's great.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It frees up money to hand out to other cronies.
But your overall point is definitely right. If Josh Howley
and in his crowd gets a way of look, the
Republican Party is now the party of the working class
and the lava working class.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They want the free the medicare.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Then there's nobody fighting for go out there and get
a job that supplies you with health insurance. Nobody's pushing
that idea or even just to because a lot of
the Republican proposals right now are a little half asked.
From my point, you so to even touch it risk
somebody being able to demogog it and saying you're.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Trying to take a food out of the mouths of
starving children. So let's not even touch it. In fact,
let's grow it. It would help with the working class.
What do you think And you've touched on this before,
there are no political parties. Now, the so called parties
are just an expression of whoever is at their head
at that point. So you can have a complete switcheroo.
(10:26):
Are we, like, I don't know, four years away from
the Democrats being hardcore physical conservatives could be if they
think that's the way to take power. Nobody has any principles,
right hmmm? I think now you know what I would
like to announce my retirement today. I'm retiring from the
world of talk radio because ideas don't matter anymore. My
(10:48):
retirement will commence on a date nonspecific in the future.
I announced that I am quitting at some point because
there's no point I am despairing. I've just Michael, make
a note, make a note of the time and the date. Okay,
Joe despaired on May the fourteenth, twenty twenty five. It's
a Wednesday. That's a good day to despair on, isn't it. Eh?
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You know?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Or you could just not talk about medicare leave that
out of your conversation, which probably seems like a good
idea to.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Me, and pretend we're not spending our children and grandchildren
into debtors prison. All right, fine, fine, oh whatever, Michael
make the note Jack also despairs, apparently about a minute later.
(11:40):
One minute later. Well, despairing does tend to drag people
with you, you know, it's it's a vortex of gloom. True. True.
You hang around people like that, they will suck you down. Right.
We got more in the Waista here.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So, according to a new book, Joe Biden couldn't even
recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser last June, leaving the.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Star quote shaken to his core. But don't worry, George.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
When Joe ran into Obama, he told him he loved
him in driving Miss Daisy.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
By the way. George Clooney then wrote an op and
about that. We all remember that. So yet I'm yet
to hear one even slightly surprising nugget from that book,
anything that even brushes up against new information coming up
from The New York Times, The Three Secrets to Falling
in Love with exercise.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
This could change your life, Oh please? First of all,
breaking news, breaking news, The news breaks the Donkey Breeze.
In one of the most violent political texts towards the
center in American history, Gathy Newsome, the oily one says
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he wants the state of California to stop enrolling low
income I legal immigrants in a state funded health care program.
Newsom reverses course on taxpayer funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
How bold, how bold to come out against free health
care for illegals.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Good lord, yeah, a lowe in cal Unicornia. That's shocking. Well,
I remember when he.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Kind of hinted that maybe he thought dude shouldn't be
in girls' sports, and the left wing went nuts. I'll
be interested to see what the uh if he gets
attacked for this.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Under Newsom's oily new plan, the state would not end
coverage for illegal immigrants who are already enrolled in medical However,
the state would begin charging adults with quote unsatisfactory immigrant status.
It's so cute, a monthly premium of one hundred dollars
beginning in twenty twenty. Wow, So two years from now,
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if you have quote unquote unsatisfactory immigrant status, two years
from now, you'll be charged a monthly one hundred dollars premium.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Good luck running for president on illegals should get free healthcare.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So you perform that program. We're taking on the challenges,
we're leading the nation.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Okay, So to have time for this, Michael, it's kind
of about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Their headline is the opposite of kind of what they
say right in the article three secrets to falling in
love with exercise, and one of the secrets is don't
expect to be in love with exercise, so not a
minute that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Don't try to love every moment.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Many people think you should reach a point where you
just love each and every second of every exercise, and
you love every exercise, the idea that everybody who's exercising
loves it all the time. I exercise very regularly, especially
when I don't have whooping cough.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I hate it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I've hated every second of running I've ever done in
my life. I've never one step ever. You're doing it
for other reasons, so don't expect to love it or
I guess their point is, don't think that everybody else
that's doing it loves it and there's something wrong with you.
Strive for momentum, not motivation. Don't wait for the motivation
to come along. Just do it on a daily basis
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until it becomes a habit, and then you've got momentum
and it'll just carry you along as opposed to is
I just don't feel like it today. Well that's just
you know, Yeah, that's a bad emotion. We all hate that.
Oh my god, I need to, but I don't want to.
And you get past that. Has anybody ever regretted when
they overcame that feeling, whether it's for exercising or finally
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cleaning the kitchen or mowing the lawn or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It is, No, absolutely not right.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And man it takes once you get over the hump
and gets started, it's so easy. Yeah, but that hump, man,
it's quite the hump. And then this one, sorry mel
Brooks reference there. This one doesn't apply to me. Maybe
it applies to you. Find a community. One reason that
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exercise makes us happy is that Foster's connections others. So
join a running club or a zoomba class or whatever
it is. You do it, and do it with other people.
That'll bring you happiness.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Don't look at me, don't talk to me, all right,
to pretend I'm the hareplace.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
When I show up to the gym and it's completely empty,
I think awesome. I don't think oh darna, I wish
I had more people to hang out with. Where's my community?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Well, the title of that article shouldn't be how to
fall in love with exercising. It ought to be how
to deal with the arranged marriage of exercise. Look, he's
a decent enough guy. No, I don't love him. I'm
not really attracted to him, but my parents and his
parents have decided it'd be a good match. So here
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we are, where the where are the freeways?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Trump gave an astounding foreign policy speech yesterday that got
zero coverage because I guess the media takes him seriously.
We can touch on that at some point, among other things.
I hope you can stick around if you miss a
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson came in third in the
Miss main pageant. She lost points during the Q and
A when she mentioned her charity work taking care of
the elderly.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh, the shots just keep on coming. So plenty of
really serious, fair important to consider coming up, including well,
this isn't that serious, but this is my favorite lead
of an article I've come across in a long time.
Lead sentence. Michael Royer has been secretly tossing his wife's
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socks into the trash for.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Years, secretly tossing his wife socks in the trash for years.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
He throws away your socks, clandestine sock chuck her because
she's wearing socks that are all worn out and he
it's about clutter in general. Yeah, I thought it was
pretty interesting. But anyway, back to Bill Belichick. In is
incredibly young pageant queen gold digging or whatever she's up to.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Girlfriend really states something or other because she has a
eight million dollars in real estate.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Now at age twenty four. How'd that happen?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Oh, anyway, so she is rapidly becoming a national figure,
a universally known figure who is mostly on the receiving
end of jokes, which is interesting. Andrew Styles, who writes
with a pen dipped in sarcasm, I'm afraid for the
Free Beacon. His headline is Jordan Hudson outshined and outclassed
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by a historic transgender contestant. It's so called beauty pageant.
Jordan Hudson, the widely despised girlfriend of cheating NFL coach
Bill Belichick's despised, That's what I'm saying. I do a
despiser well, you're not widely You're just you. She's the
punchline of jokes that I get. Yeah, I think despised
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might be a little strong. I think. So I see
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You wrote with a gypton sarcasm. Doesn't everybody see what's
going on here? Seems like a trade off on both ends. Yeah, yeah,
this is pretty funny, though. The widely despied play state
humiliating third or over the weekend at the so called
beauty pageant in Maine, one of America's least attractive states. Well, like,
I'll let you yesterday and then I promise I will
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shut up so you can.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Get to the writing. But like, shut up, don't. I
don't care. Like I mentioned yesterday, I found it interesting as.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I read a little about the whole pageant world and
how you can All you have to do is like
get a post office box for a certain amount of time,
and you can compete in that state as if you're
from that state and there's a a bunch of women
that are constantly like you finished second in Maine. Next year,
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you know, you establish a post office box in Indiana
and compete there and hope that you win, so that
you can go to the and it's just you know that,
that's just that world.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, it reminds me of like the your amateur championships
in golf. The guy who wins the California State am
might be from Missouri, for instance. Yeah, it's not always
that way. I remember when I when I was in.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
College, the local girl from Colby, Kansas, she won Miss
Colby set down with the seven thousand people, she won
the county fair thing, and then the state and then
became Miss American.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It was a really big deal. So every once in
a while that does happen. Back when there was purity
to American beauty pageants, Well that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Seem incredibly tawdry. I mean, beauty pageants are dumb anyway. Anyway,
back to your story, Howell.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
In second place contestant, the winner, even Benjamin are significantly
class year and more attractive than Hudson. According to a
Washington Free Beacon analysis, the top two finishers were not
the only contestants who outshoon Hudson in terms of class
and attractive Isabelle Saint Cyr, who absolutely slayed as the
first trans queen in pageant history, finished in the top
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ten on paper but some beauty experts were stunned that
she placed behind Hudson, who does not openly identify as trans.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Let's see Hudson a
former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University, or in second place
at the Miss Main competition in twenty twenty four. So
she's slid now to third because the trans person jumped
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in there. Let's see. The University of North Carolina, where
Belichick serves as the head football coach, reportedly banned Hudson
from attending practices. Quote. She is the worst person I've
dealt with on this earth, and I've dealt with actual sociopaths,
A person close to the situation told sports journalist Pablo Torre,
Oh my god, maybe there's more to this than I thought.
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Members of Belichick's family are deeply worried about how detrimental
this is a quote, How detrimental Jordan can be, not
just for North care lineup, of Bill's legacy, reputation, everything
he has built and worked for over decades. That's a quote,
according to Torri, the sports journalist, who has also reported
that Hudson has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to
force her way into commercials starring Belichick by showing up
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on set and demanding to be on camera.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I imagine his response, whether he said it out loud
or not, is I know what I'm doing. I'm an
old man. I'm in love with a young, hot woman.
I'm having the time of my life. I got what
she wants, I'm getting what I want. I got money,
I got everything I got. However, many years of you
know life left, I'm as happy right now as i've
been ever.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So shut up, nne ya, Yeah, I wonder I wonder so.
Speaking of relationships, Michael Royer has been secretly tossing his
wife's socks into the trash for years, not her everyday pairs,
but the size fourteen ones her mom orders his gifts
from fast fashion sites like Tamu, your wife, We're done, Airely,
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your wife wears size fourteen sucks? Yeah, it's funny you're
married two sasquatch. I read this and I'm like, whoa,
whoa whoa journalist, dude? That clet sentence raises more questions
than provides answers. Right number one, what does a woman
has a size fourteen feet or not?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, why the hell is her mom ordering her gigantic
socks from Chinese fast fashion outfits. This is the article
you've missed, the article you know, long, long, long ago.
Dan Hughes, who was a teacher at Parkland Community College
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in Champagne, Illinois, who taught the one radio class I
ever took. He was doing a unit about interviewing, and
again a wonderful guy and a wonderful teacher. But he said,
you hear this all the time, the interviewers who don't listen.
They just are so busy contemplating their next question. And
his his example was something the effect of when did
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you discover the joints of coin collecting? Well, I think
it was when I was abducted by aliens and I
was probed for a number of hours and they handed
me a coin on my way out of spaceship, and
I've loved coin collecting ever since. Really, how many coins
do you have? And I feel like that sentence is
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of a similar order. Yeah, But anyway, this guy buries
her wildly gigantic socks under garbage to avoid detection because
she'll never wear them. And it's a big article about
how clutter can be an emotional like weapon or turf
(24:48):
well weapon, a turf gathering technique used in relationships, and
I read this whole article. Here's one guy's got a
bunch of Gi Joe action figures and comic books from
his parents house, now competing for space with the clothing
his wife bought on sale Bob, much of which has
never been worn. I got through this article thinking, man,
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these are a bunch of crazy people.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Well on just the clothes thing, though, I think that
in every relationship there's likely to be stuff where there
are things she wears you'd rather she didn't, not your
favorite and vice versa, or ridiculously.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Worn T shirts. I'm raising my hand over here, but
I don't want to get rid of it because like
one of my kids gave it to me, or that was,
you know, the first radio station we ever worked at together,
or whatever. I think I'm not going to toss that
T shirt. But yeah, it's kind of worn.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
But in terms of actually wearing something, I mean, there's
all you know, there's probably things Judy likes to see
you in more than others, yes, but might not say
it's not my favorite pair of pants you ever wear
or something.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah. Yeah, So here's another aspect of this another weird avenue.
Here's a cup size fourteen socks. Why is her mother
every her gigantic socks? What is she trying to say?
I mean, sucks so patently useless and gigantic you throw
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them away and she doesn't notice. That is your story,
no kidding, not that these folks in this twist have
a probationary zone started as a single empty drawer and
has now grown to so you can put stuff in
there that I think we ought to get rid of,
you ought to get rid of, and it stays in
there for a couple of months, and when the area
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is full, then you go through. It strikes me as
a little formalistic and odd, but you know.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
My plan is I hope that I die before I
ever have to get to any of that stuff, and
then somebody else will I don't know, halts charge somebody
to halt to the dop.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm never gonna make those decisions while I'm alive. Jo
Getty's wife occasionally goes into his closet and throws away
the doll sized pants that his sister orders him. Oh boy,
here's here's another one. Here's this eighty year old gal
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she enlists her daughter in law to smuggle out stuff
her husband wouldn't want to part with. I mean, that's
going to be a problem, although you know, you're like
smuggling my stuff out of the house under the cover
of our loved ones. Yeah, put this in your person,
get rid of it. On the other hand, they mentioned
that this guy's accumulated over a thousand golf balls on
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his walks near a local course.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah. I'm not good at throwing stuff away. So I've
had it happen before where things got thrown away without
my consent, and I kind of think, yeah, kind of
glad that happened.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, I for some reason, Yeah, I just thought it
was interesting that it was some point, some marriage council
or somebody ways in says, yes, this can this can
be a proxy for emotional space in.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
The probably three time divorced marriage counselor yeah, probably so.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yes, he likes to dominate the closet with his GI
Joes as a way of symbolizing that he needs more
r right, Hey, you know what, And it's funny with
like the g I Joe's, Well they did, they're gaining value.
They could really be worth something someday. You know what,
else could be an index fund. Put your money in
the mixed fund and empty your damn closet.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'm looking right out here at New York Post headline.
Right here, chat GPT is my therapist, and it's more
qualified than the human could be.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You should give it a whirl. I'm using it to
planification right now. It's like I'm in love. I'm so
enthused about it.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I do want to maybe kick off our three with this.
A couple of things Trump said yesterday. I'll be interested
to see if you agree or not. He gave a
major presidential foreign policy speech in the Middle East about
the way America has been interacting.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
With the world. The last well are our adult lives.
I demand you tell us more about this personally interesting
and you're right, it got so little comfort zero among
other things on the way, stay here Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Major League Baseball removed its lifetime ban on seventeen deceased people,
including Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson, two of the
most famous players previously banned for gambling on Major League Baseball.
In response to an application filed by Pete Rose's family,
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred wrote, quote, obviously a person no
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longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity
of the game.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Unquote.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
This means Rose and anyone who gets a lifetime ban
can now become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration after
they die. They still, of course have to get voted
into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Key thing is you have to die, though, So yeah,
step one kind of takes the fun out of it,
doesn't it. Fifteen other guys, that's interesting. I wonder who
they were. I'm sure information is available. Secondly, I want
if Jake Tapper's about to write a book about how
he's just discovered that Pete Rose was a great hitter,
but he gambled, Yeah, more on that later.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Quickly off the top of your head. Don't think about
it for more than two seconds. How old is Honey Booboo?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Twenty eight?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She's nineteen. Okay, she's only nineteen because she's a pretty
young kid. When she became famous in Toddler's and Tiara's
was the original show. She was one of those pageant girls,
and then she had such a personality that they turned
it into a reality show. Here comes Honey Booboo that
focused specifically on.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Her and her obese mom. She just did an interview
with People magazine.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm reading this actually from Fox News, in which she
says she never saw a single dime of money from
that TLC reality show her mom Tookanah wow, Mama June, Right,
Mama June, who is kind of a train wreck drug addict,
spent all the money, bad person, And it seems like
Honey Boobo's actually doing pretty well and is the This
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is a very common thing. A lot of you probably
know this in super dysfunctional families. There's often one kid
that for whatever reason just doesn't follow the pattern and
understands they're in mayhem from a very young age and
gets out of it. And Honey Booboo seems to be
one of those people.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And decides, my life's not going to be like yes, yeah, yeah,
she seems to good for her, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It sucks that she, you know, was clearly the driving
force of that whole thing, and all the money was taken, including.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Your mom, by that moniker anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
No, but when she she wasn't Dancing with the Stars
a few years back and got thirty five thousand dollars
for that, But Mama June stole that also, Oh my
nice job, Mama June.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes, Katie, you have a honey booboo comment. Yes, it
looks like Mama June has a new show called Mama
June Family Crisis. Yeah all right, Oh boy, you are
scraping the true mung at the bottom of the barrel
with that. Yeah, who's watching that? Oh? I'm amazed by
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who watches that.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
There's so much content of every kind and a lot
of people who have, you know, a million followers or
make this much money or whatever, And I think, how
are there enough people taking in enough content for all
of these different things?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And how do you find it that's you know, the
good stuff. But I guess it's because everybody has access
to it all the time. So the math works somehow. Like,
for instance, I was I was on a guitar lesson
thing yesterday that came across my YouTube feed. This is
actually kind of interesting. But he's a big deal in
the in the guitar lesson world. It's basically out a
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TV show is a charming, good looking guy where he
gives guitar lessons and he's got several million followers and
clearly makes looking at his house and his lifestyle pretty good,
living off of this anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
He called out a number of fake famous YouTube guitar players,
and I'm sure this is true with other instruments too.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Who it's all fake.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
They they they record everything at a slow speed, then
speed it up and then act like they can play
this stuff and then try.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
To sell people guitar lests.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And it's become a thing within that world of like
people really hating each other and everything like that and
making serious enemies. But that's the thing you can do, apparently,
you could, like I could play the piano incredibly slowly,
then speed it up, stay on pitch, because you can
do that, and then and then make.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
It look like I can play like that. You just struck.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
If you talk to some you know, chimp scientists whatever
you call them, biologists, I guess, and ask them why
would chimps fight? They could give you like five six
reasons that haven't changed in a thousand years. Human beings
invent new reasons to hate each other every day, right
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might be our greatest gift, our big old brains. That's
what we spend each our time doing, coming up with
reasons to hate people.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
But there's got to be a limit to content creators
even with good content that there's an audience for it,
isn't there doesn't there have to be, or or we
just spend so much time looking at our phones or
our screens that there's just.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, right, there are many, many, many, many podcasts out there,
so much are probably pretty good and never get anywhere.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
But they're an awful lot of them that have a
lot of listeners and make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, and uh, we do well ourselves, and god, we
have no other skills.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Thank god, there's enough of people out there who want
to listen to it or then read all the long
pieces that are out there and all the different substacks
and something.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Just I just don't understand how it all gets taken in.
I'm gonna spend my afternoon making fake I'm a brilliant
violinist videos, just gonna like like air violin with an
actual violin, with like exquisite playing, and see how much
hate I get online. Wear a tuxedo, make very serious faces.
(35:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, I kind of put my hair in
my face to look like some sort of I don't
care musical genius. I love it exactly. Mortica Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Kim Kardashian's chilling testimony about being bound, gagged, and held
at gunpoint when masked men burst into her hotel room
in Paris. Kardashian in Paris facing the suspects in court
they're accused of stealing more than six million dollars in
jewelry during the heist in twenty sixteen. She told the
court she absolutely thought she was going to die.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, that did.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
That didn't get as much attention as it probably should
have at the time, I guess because a lot of
people have kind of a knee jerk dislike of Kim
Kardashian in that whole thing, or.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Assume everything they do is a publicity stunt, right, But
she should remember that was one of the questions at
the time.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
She legit had a gun to her head and thought
she was going to die and had every reason to think.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
So that's rough. AnyWho, I travel with very few jewels,
practically none, no, exactly none.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Isn't that something here in Paris, but you gotta bleak
bring six million dollars worth of jewels with you so
you can go out to eat at night.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's some lifestyle.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
The other big trial going on, that one's going on
in Paris. The other big one that's getting so much
attention is going on in New York today. And p
Diddy's girlfriend is back on the stand no longer. They're
a strange I believe at this point your.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Friend married and has soon to be two kids with
her husband.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, she's on the stand again. And some of the
testimony from that we'll get from Katie Green a little
bit later as that all comes out.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Also a couple of presidential retrospectives. I'm excited about. A
list of foreign gifts to the president, from elephants to
in line skates, which we briefly referenced yesterday. And also
a history of presidents getting played by Vladimir Putin embarrassing.
And there's a one more. Oh, the whole the plain
(02:06):
thing is not going to happen, as we'll discuss going forward,
but a handful of stories affectionately known as bengo bango
bongo behind the scenes, just stuff that's worth touching on.
If not talking about at lengths, but the headline women
are drinking more and doctors are worried. Women are experiencing
rising alcohol related deaths at a much faster clipped than men.
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Men's drinking is more or less stayed the same, but
women who turned thirty five between twenty eighteen and twenty
nineteen were nearly sixty percent more likely to report recent
binge drinking or alcohol use disorder symptoms than women who
turned similar age in the nineties, according to a twenty
twenty three report published in the journal Addiction, So more
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liver disease suspected. This could be contributing to rising rates
of breast cancer and other cancers. Why would that be
not having kids? You think that's it? Yeah, I don't.
I don't know that to be true. If I just.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Amzer change in that from I mean, like we were
comparing it to the fifties, sure, but compared to the nineties,
has there been a major change in that? Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You well, yeah, birth rates are declining and when you
have children is getting older and older. I don't have
the numbers in front of me, but that's indisputable, I think,
And just you know, as a dad who my kids
are grown, but I'm having to deal with children. Is
a disincentive to get hammered in a lot of cases
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at a lot of times a day, you know, and
just you can't if you're you know, doing what you're
supposed to be.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think it's culturally changed a lot too. It would
have been insane. I think, like, not that many years
ago for moms at a Little league game to have
some drinky poohs in their cups while they're watching, And
now I think it's kind of expected.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I've hanness. I got to admit as a cocktail enthusiast,
I'm astounded by that. I'm shocked by it. And my kids,
you know, we're playing sports seven to twenty years ago,
so it's not like I had kids in the nineteen thirties. Yeah,
(04:21):
the idea of boozing at a game, I would be
shocked by. But maybe I'm naive. Beer, spirit and wine
companies have worked to bring in more women customers for
the obvious reasons. Some research said the alcohol industry is
marketing directly toward women country music. Maybe you blame country music, hm,
I certainly do, But are are they marketing toward women
because they are a market or did the industry create
(04:43):
a market. Probably a bit of both. Anyway, Gal's be careful.
It's bad for your health, but it makes marginal looking
guys better looking, trust me, and more interest makes annoying
people less annoying. Now, I want to get to the
ongoing budget negotiation stuff briefly. A quick note. Yeah, the
judge has reduced these sentence for the Menendez brothers. Their
(05:05):
life sentence is now fifty years to life, making them
eligible for parole. And indeed, uh, there's some belief that
the judge is gonna turn them loose. They've served thirty
five years of a fifty year to life sentence. Now
with the new sentence, have been doing lots of volunteer work.
You've kept their noses clean, have helped other people find
(05:27):
themselves in prison. Blabba, haven't murdered any parents zero zero.
Well there's technicality there, but yeah and so and they've
had family members come and testify. Yeah, they're good fellows.
You out to turn them live. I saw that yesterday
on the news.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So yeah, family members who had lived there in the house,
a new mom and dad. Really, well, who are now testifying?
You gotta let them out? Let them out. Our family
has been wrecked by this. Who would be good for
the family? Let them out? What an interesting story. I
haven't watched any of the Netflix stuff or been following this,
so I haven't gotten pulled the Menndez brother thing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I just kind of had been assuming all along they weren't.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Going to get out. But Gavin Newsom's got a decision
to make. From what I understand from the news last night,
Well here's bad news.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Eric and Lyle. First of all, thanks for listening to
the Armstrong and Getty show, and thanks for not shotgunning
anybody lately. But Fellas, his decision will be based on
one thing and one thing only. Will it help him
get into the White House or hurt his chances to
get elected president. It will have nothing to do with you,
your crimes, your reform, the Lord Jesus Christ, California's laws
(06:31):
and traditions, nothing but his lust for the Oval Office.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Interesting. You're probably right. So do you think this helps
him nationally or hurts him? Probably not a huge deal
either way.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I haven't thought about
this case much. I haven't watched the documentaries, partly because
it's become increasingly clear to me, having followed the saga
of a handful of documentaries, and like super popular podcasts,
you can by selectively editing and shading and leaving once
this end, leaving that out, you can wildly mislead people. Yeah,
(07:05):
and I don't particularly feel like getting misled.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So anyway, So you brought up a little bit ago
that Republicans are becoming Democrats around this whole medicaid thing
in the budget and everything that's going.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
On among other programs. Yeah, so it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Today the New York Times is a big battle going
on in the opinion pages. This is in just Today's
New York Times. There's a guest essay by Josh Howley,
the very trumpy senator from Missouri. Don't cut Medicaid. Republicans
should embrace their working class voters.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And then there's a guest essay from Robert F. Kennedy,
doctor OZ and a couple other people in the Trump
White House.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
If you want welfare and can work, you must.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare
programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become
a trap of dependency. So you got that side coming
out of the Trump crowd on that, and then this
guest essay, what medicaid cuts would do to my rural
hospital small town America depends on healthcare systems like mine.
I'm not sure we'll be able to keep our doors
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open if the Republican Congress cuts Medicaid.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I need to come up with a name for that argument,
because I bring it up semi regularly. The last argument
is the argument that we have become so dependent on
a bad, perverse program you can't end it. We must
continue a bad perverse policy, right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
That's what I was thinking yesterday when I was watching
the governor of New Mexico on one of the Sunday shows.
Because they have the most people on Medicaid in New
Mexico of any state for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, because it's wildly liberal. So embrace the Obamacare expansion
of Medicaid wholeheartedly, which then brings in lots and lots
of federal dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
My angle is just this happens a lot with government programs.
You come up with the worst case scenario and then
feel like that needs to apply to everyone forever because.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Of the worst case scenario. Yeah, that's not the way
to make a policy. Yeah, what do we call it
the heroin addiction argument? It's easier to give up heroin
than it is to give up a giant program that
is funding you know, a lot of your critical medical
institutions right just because you let it and it's handy,
(09:31):
it's great.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It frees up money to hand out to other cronies.
But your overall point is definitely right. If Josh Howley
and in his crowd gets a way of look, the
Republican Party is now the party of the working class
and the lava working class.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They want the free the medicare.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Then there's nobody fighting for go out there and get
a job that supplies you with health insurance. Nobody's pushing
that idea or even just to because a lot of
the Republican proposals right now are a little half asked.
From my point, you so to even touch it risk
somebody being able to demogog it and saying you're.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Trying to take a food out of the mouths of
starving children. So let's not even touch it. In fact,
let's grow it. It would help with the working class.
What do you think And you've touched on this before,
there are no political parties. Now, the so called parties
are just an expression of whoever is at their head
at that point. So you can have a complete switcheroo.
(10:26):
Are we, like, I don't know, four years away from
the Democrats being hardcore physical conservatives could be if they
think that's the way to take power. Nobody has any principles,
right hmmm? I think now you know what I would
like to announce my retirement today. I'm retiring from the
world of talk radio because ideas don't matter anymore. My
(10:48):
retirement will commence on a date nonspecific in the future.
I announced that I am quitting at some point because
there's no point I am despairing. I've just Michael, make
a note, make a note of the time and the date. Okay,
Joe despaired on May the fourteenth, twenty twenty five. It's
a Wednesday. That's a good day to despair on, isn't it. Eh?
(11:13):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Or you could just not talk about medicare leave that
out of your conversation, which probably seems like a good
idea to.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Me, and pretend we're not spending our children and grandchildren
into debtors prison. All right, fine, fine, oh whatever, Michael
make the note Jack also despairs, apparently about a minute later.
(11:40):
One minute later. Well, despairing does tend to drag people
with you, you know, it's it's a vortex of gloom. True. True.
You hang around people like that, they will suck you down. Right.
We got more in the Waista here.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So, according to a new book, Joe Biden couldn't even
recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser last June, leaving the.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Star quote shaken to his core. But don't worry, George.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
When Joe ran into Obama, he told him he loved
him in driving Miss Daisy.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
By the way. George Clooney then wrote an op and
about that. We all remember that. So yet I'm yet
to hear one even slightly surprising nugget from that book,
anything that even brushes up against new information coming up
from The New York Times, The Three Secrets to Falling
in Love with exercise.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
This could change your life, Oh please? First of all,
breaking news, breaking news, The news breaks the Donkey Breeze.
In one of the most violent political texts towards the
center in American history, Gathy Newsome, the oily one says
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he wants the state of California to stop enrolling low
income I legal immigrants in a state funded health care program.
Newsom reverses course on taxpayer funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
How bold, how bold to come out against free health
care for illegals.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Good lord, yeah, a lowe in cal Unicornia. That's shocking. Well,
I remember when he.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Kind of hinted that maybe he thought dude shouldn't be
in girls' sports, and the left wing went nuts. I'll
be interested to see what the uh if he gets
attacked for this.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Under Newsom's oily new plan, the state would not end
coverage for illegal immigrants who are already enrolled in medical However,
the state would begin charging adults with quote unsatisfactory immigrant status.
It's so cute, a monthly premium of one hundred dollars
beginning in twenty twenty. Wow, So two years from now,
(14:03):
if you have quote unquote unsatisfactory immigrant status, two years
from now, you'll be charged a monthly one hundred dollars premium.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Good luck running for president on illegals should get free healthcare.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So you perform that program. We're taking on the challenges,
we're leading the nation.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Okay, So to have time for this, Michael, it's kind
of about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Their headline is the opposite of kind of what they
say right in the article three secrets to falling in
love with exercise, and one of the secrets is don't
expect to be in love with exercise, so not a
minute that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Don't try to love every moment.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Many people think you should reach a point where you
just love each and every second of every exercise, and
you love every exercise, the idea that everybody who's exercising
loves it all the time. I exercise very regularly, especially
when I don't have whooping cough.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I hate it.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I've hated every second of running I've ever done in
my life. I've never one step ever. You're doing it
for other reasons, so don't expect to love it or
I guess their point is, don't think that everybody else
that's doing it loves it and there's something wrong with you.
Strive for momentum, not motivation. Don't wait for the motivation
to come along. Just do it on a daily basis
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until it becomes a habit, and then you've got momentum
and it'll just carry you along as opposed to is
I just don't feel like it today. Well that's just
you know, Yeah, that's a bad emotion. We all hate that.
Oh my god, I need to, but I don't want to.
And you get past that. Has anybody ever regretted when
they overcame that feeling, whether it's for exercising or finally
(15:41):
cleaning the kitchen or mowing the lawn or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It is, No, absolutely not right.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And man it takes once you get over the hump
and gets started, it's so easy. Yeah, but that hump, man,
it's quite the hump. And then this one, sorry mel
Brooks reference there. This one doesn't apply to me. Maybe
it applies to you. Find a community. One reason that
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exercise makes us happy is that Foster's connections others. So
join a running club or a zoomba class or whatever
it is. You do it, and do it with other people.
That'll bring you happiness.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Don't look at me, don't talk to me, all right,
to pretend I'm the hareplace.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
When I show up to the gym and it's completely empty,
I think awesome. I don't think oh darna, I wish
I had more people to hang out with. Where's my community?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Well, the title of that article shouldn't be how to
fall in love with exercising. It ought to be how
to deal with the arranged marriage of exercise. Look, he's
a decent enough guy. No, I don't love him. I'm
not really attracted to him, but my parents and his
parents have decided it'd be a good match. So here
(16:48):
we are, where the where are the freeways?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Trump gave an astounding foreign policy speech yesterday that got
zero coverage because I guess the media takes him seriously.
We can touch on that at some point, among other things.
I hope you can stick around if you miss a
segment get our podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson came in third in the
Miss main pageant. She lost points during the Q and
A when she mentioned her charity work taking care of
the elderly.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Oh, the shots just keep on coming. So plenty of
really serious, fair important to consider coming up, including well,
this isn't that serious, but this is my favorite lead
of an article I've come across in a long time.
Lead sentence. Michael Royer has been secretly tossing his wife's
(17:49):
socks into the trash for.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Years, secretly tossing his wife socks in the trash for years.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
He throws away your socks, clandestine sock chuck her because
she's wearing socks that are all worn out and he
it's about clutter in general. Yeah, I thought it was
pretty interesting. But anyway, back to Bill Belichick. In is
incredibly young pageant queen gold digging or whatever she's up to.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Girlfriend really states something or other because she has a
eight million dollars in real estate.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Now at age twenty four. How'd that happen?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Oh, anyway, so she is rapidly becoming a national figure,
a universally known figure who is mostly on the receiving
end of jokes, which is interesting. Andrew Styles, who writes
with a pen dipped in sarcasm, I'm afraid for the
Free Beacon. His headline is Jordan Hudson outshined and outclassed
(18:52):
by a historic transgender contestant. It's so called beauty pageant.
Jordan Hudson, the widely despised girlfriend of cheating NFL coach
Bill Belichick's despised, That's what I'm saying. I do a
despiser well, you're not widely You're just you. She's the
punchline of jokes that I get. Yeah, I think despised
(19:15):
might be a little strong. I think. So I see
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You wrote with a gypton sarcasm. Doesn't everybody see what's
going on here? Seems like a trade off on both ends. Yeah, yeah,
this is pretty funny, though. The widely despied play state
humiliating third or over the weekend at the so called
beauty pageant in Maine, one of America's least attractive states. Well, like,
I'll let you yesterday and then I promise I will
(19:39):
shut up so you can.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Get to the writing. But like, shut up, don't. I
don't care. Like I mentioned yesterday, I found it interesting as.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I read a little about the whole pageant world and
how you can All you have to do is like
get a post office box for a certain amount of time,
and you can compete in that state as if you're
from that state and there's a a bunch of women
that are constantly like you finished second in Maine. Next year,
(20:05):
you know, you establish a post office box in Indiana
and compete there and hope that you win, so that
you can go to the and it's just you know that,
that's just that world.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, it reminds me of like the your amateur championships
in golf. The guy who wins the California State am
might be from Missouri, for instance. Yeah, it's not always
that way. I remember when I when I was in.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
College, the local girl from Colby, Kansas, she won Miss
Colby set down with the seven thousand people, she won
the county fair thing, and then the state and then
became Miss American.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It was a really big deal. So every once in
a while that does happen. Back when there was purity
to American beauty pageants, Well that doesn't.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Seem incredibly tawdry. I mean, beauty pageants are dumb anyway. Anyway,
back to your story, Howell.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
In second place contestant, the winner, even Benjamin are significantly
class year and more attractive than Hudson. According to a
Washington Free Beacon analysis, the top two finishers were not
the only contestants who outshoon Hudson in terms of class
and attractive Isabelle Saint Cyr, who absolutely slayed as the
first trans queen in pageant history, finished in the top
(21:07):
ten on paper but some beauty experts were stunned that
she placed behind Hudson, who does not openly identify as trans.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Let's see Hudson a
former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University, or in second place
at the Miss Main competition in twenty twenty four. So
she's slid now to third because the trans person jumped
(21:30):
in there. Let's see. The University of North Carolina, where
Belichick serves as the head football coach, reportedly banned Hudson
from attending practices. Quote. She is the worst person I've
dealt with on this earth, and I've dealt with actual sociopaths,
A person close to the situation told sports journalist Pablo Torre,
Oh my god, maybe there's more to this than I thought.
(21:52):
Members of Belichick's family are deeply worried about how detrimental
this is a quote, How detrimental Jordan can be, not
just for North care lineup, of Bill's legacy, reputation, everything
he has built and worked for over decades. That's a quote,
according to Torri, the sports journalist, who has also reported
that Hudson has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to
force her way into commercials starring Belichick by showing up
(22:13):
on set and demanding to be on camera.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I imagine his response, whether he said it out loud
or not, is I know what I'm doing. I'm an
old man. I'm in love with a young, hot woman.
I'm having the time of my life. I got what
she wants, I'm getting what I want. I got money,
I got everything I got. However, many years of you
know life left, I'm as happy right now as i've
been ever.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
So shut up, nne ya, Yeah, I wonder I wonder so.
Speaking of relationships, Michael Royer has been secretly tossing his
wife's socks into the trash for years, not her everyday pairs,
but the size fourteen ones her mom orders his gifts
from fast fashion sites like Tamu, your wife, We're done, Airely,
(22:58):
your wife wears size fourteen sucks? Yeah, it's funny you're
married two sasquatch. I read this and I'm like, whoa,
whoa whoa journalist, dude? That clet sentence raises more questions
than provides answers. Right number one, what does a woman
has a size fourteen feet or not?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, why the hell is her mom ordering her gigantic
socks from Chinese fast fashion outfits. This is the article
you've missed, the article you know, long, long, long ago.
Dan Hughes, who was a teacher at Parkland Community College
(23:41):
in Champagne, Illinois, who taught the one radio class I
ever took. He was doing a unit about interviewing, and
again a wonderful guy and a wonderful teacher. But he said,
you hear this all the time, the interviewers who don't listen.
They just are so busy contemplating their next question. And
his his example was something the effect of when did
(24:04):
you discover the joints of coin collecting? Well, I think
it was when I was abducted by aliens and I
was probed for a number of hours and they handed
me a coin on my way out of spaceship, and
I've loved coin collecting ever since. Really, how many coins
do you have? And I feel like that sentence is
(24:28):
of a similar order. Yeah, But anyway, this guy buries
her wildly gigantic socks under garbage to avoid detection because
she'll never wear them. And it's a big article about
how clutter can be an emotional like weapon or turf
(24:48):
well weapon, a turf gathering technique used in relationships, and
I read this whole article. Here's one guy's got a
bunch of Gi Joe action figures and comic books from
his parents house, now competing for space with the clothing
his wife bought on sale Bob, much of which has
never been worn. I got through this article thinking, man,
(25:09):
these are a bunch of crazy people.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Well on just the clothes thing, though, I think that
in every relationship there's likely to be stuff where there
are things she wears you'd rather she didn't, not your
favorite and vice versa, or ridiculously.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Worn T shirts. I'm raising my hand over here, but
I don't want to get rid of it because like
one of my kids gave it to me, or that was,
you know, the first radio station we ever worked at together,
or whatever. I think I'm not going to toss that
T shirt. But yeah, it's kind of worn.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
But in terms of actually wearing something, I mean, there's
all you know, there's probably things Judy likes to see
you in more than others, yes, but might not say
it's not my favorite pair of pants you ever wear
or something.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah. Yeah, So here's another aspect of this another weird avenue.
Here's a cup size fourteen socks. Why is her mother
every her gigantic socks? What is she trying to say?
I mean, sucks so patently useless and gigantic you throw
(26:18):
them away and she doesn't notice. That is your story,
no kidding, not that these folks in this twist have
a probationary zone started as a single empty drawer and
has now grown to so you can put stuff in
there that I think we ought to get rid of,
you ought to get rid of, and it stays in
there for a couple of months, and when the area
(26:41):
is full, then you go through. It strikes me as
a little formalistic and odd, but you know.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
My plan is I hope that I die before I
ever have to get to any of that stuff, and
then somebody else will I don't know, halts charge somebody
to halt to the dop.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm never gonna make those decisions while I'm alive. Jo
Getty's wife occasionally goes into his closet and throws away
the doll sized pants that his sister orders him. Oh boy,
here's here's another one. Here's this eighty year old gal
(27:17):
she enlists her daughter in law to smuggle out stuff
her husband wouldn't want to part with. I mean, that's
going to be a problem, although you know, you're like
smuggling my stuff out of the house under the cover
of our loved ones. Yeah, put this in your person,
get rid of it. On the other hand, they mentioned
that this guy's accumulated over a thousand golf balls on
(27:37):
his walks near a local course.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah. I'm not good at throwing stuff away. So I've
had it happen before where things got thrown away without
my consent, and I kind of think, yeah, kind of
glad that happened.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, I for some reason, Yeah, I just thought it
was interesting that it was some point, some marriage council
or somebody ways in says, yes, this can this can
be a proxy for emotional space in.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
The probably three time divorced marriage counselor yeah, probably so.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yes, he likes to dominate the closet with his GI
Joes as a way of symbolizing that he needs more
r right, Hey, you know what, And it's funny with
like the g I Joe's, Well they did, they're gaining value.
They could really be worth something someday. You know what,
else could be an index fund. Put your money in
the mixed fund and empty your damn closet.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I'm looking right out here at New York Post headline.
Right here, chat GPT is my therapist, and it's more
qualified than the human could be.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You should give it a whirl. I'm using it to
planification right now. It's like I'm in love. I'm so
enthused about it.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I do want to maybe kick off our three with this.
A couple of things Trump said yesterday. I'll be interested
to see if you agree or not. He gave a
major presidential foreign policy speech in the Middle East about
the way America has been interacting.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
With the world. The last well are our adult lives.
I demand you tell us more about this personally interesting
and you're right, it got so little comfort zero among
other things on the way, stay here Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Major League Baseball removed its lifetime ban on seventeen deceased people,
including Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson, two of the
most famous players previously banned for gambling on Major League Baseball.
In response to an application filed by Pete Rose's family,
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred wrote, quote, obviously a person no
(29:34):
longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity
of the game.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Unquote.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
This means Rose and anyone who gets a lifetime ban
can now become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration after
they die. They still, of course have to get voted
into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Key thing is you have to die, though, So yeah,
step one kind of takes the fun out of it,
doesn't it. Fifteen other guys, that's interesting. I wonder who
they were. I'm sure information is available. Secondly, I want
if Jake Tapper's about to write a book about how
he's just discovered that Pete Rose was a great hitter,
but he gambled, Yeah, more on that later.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Quickly off the top of your head. Don't think about
it for more than two seconds. How old is Honey Booboo?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Twenty eight?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
She's nineteen. Okay, she's only nineteen because she's a pretty
young kid. When she became famous in Toddler's and Tiara's
was the original show. She was one of those pageant girls,
and then she had such a personality that they turned
it into a reality show. Here comes Honey Booboo that
focused specifically on.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Her and her obese mom. She just did an interview
with People magazine.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm reading this actually from Fox News, in which she
says she never saw a single dime of money from
that TLC reality show her mom Tookanah wow, Mama June, Right,
Mama June, who is kind of a train wreck drug addict,
spent all the money, bad person, And it seems like
Honey Boobo's actually doing pretty well and is the This
(31:04):
is a very common thing. A lot of you probably
know this in super dysfunctional families. There's often one kid
that for whatever reason just doesn't follow the pattern and
understands they're in mayhem from a very young age and
gets out of it. And Honey Booboo seems to be
one of those people.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And decides, my life's not going to be like yes, yeah, yeah,
she seems to good for her, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It sucks that she, you know, was clearly the driving
force of that whole thing, and all the money was taken, including.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Your mom, by that moniker anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
No, but when she she wasn't Dancing with the Stars
a few years back and got thirty five thousand dollars
for that, But Mama June stole that also, Oh my
nice job, Mama June.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes, Katie, you have a honey booboo comment. Yes, it
looks like Mama June has a new show called Mama
June Family Crisis. Yeah all right, Oh boy, you are
scraping the true mung at the bottom of the barrel
with that. Yeah, who's watching that? Oh? I'm amazed by
(32:06):
who watches that.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
There's so much content of every kind and a lot
of people who have, you know, a million followers or
make this much money or whatever, And I think, how
are there enough people taking in enough content for all
of these different things?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
And how do you find it that's you know, the
good stuff. But I guess it's because everybody has access
to it all the time. So the math works somehow. Like,
for instance, I was I was on a guitar lesson
thing yesterday that came across my YouTube feed. This is
actually kind of interesting. But he's a big deal in
the in the guitar lesson world. It's basically out a
(32:44):
TV show is a charming, good looking guy where he
gives guitar lessons and he's got several million followers and
clearly makes looking at his house and his lifestyle pretty good,
living off of this anyway.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
He called out a number of fake famous YouTube guitar players,
and I'm sure this is true with other instruments too.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Who it's all fake.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
They they they record everything at a slow speed, then
speed it up and then act like they can play
this stuff and then try.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
To sell people guitar lests.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And it's become a thing within that world of like
people really hating each other and everything like that and
making serious enemies. But that's the thing you can do, apparently,
you could, like I could play the piano incredibly slowly,
then speed it up, stay on pitch, because you can
do that, and then and then make.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
It look like I can play like that. You just struck.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
If you talk to some you know, chimp scientists whatever
you call them, biologists, I guess, and ask them why
would chimps fight? They could give you like five six
reasons that haven't changed in a thousand years. Human beings
invent new reasons to hate each other every day, right
(34:00):
might be our greatest gift, our big old brains. That's
what we spend each our time doing, coming up with
reasons to hate people.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
But there's got to be a limit to content creators
even with good content that there's an audience for it,
isn't there doesn't there have to be, or or we
just spend so much time looking at our phones or
our screens that there's just.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, right, there are many, many, many, many podcasts out there,
so much are probably pretty good and never get anywhere.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
But they're an awful lot of them that have a
lot of listeners and make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, and uh, we do well ourselves, and god, we
have no other skills.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Thank god, there's enough of people out there who want
to listen to it or then read all the long
pieces that are out there and all the different substacks
and something.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Just I just don't understand how it all gets taken in.
I'm gonna spend my afternoon making fake I'm a brilliant
violinist videos, just gonna like like air violin with an
actual violin, with like exquisite playing, and see how much
hate I get online. Wear a tuxedo, make very serious faces.
(35:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, I kind of put my hair in
my face to look like some sort of I don't
care musical genius. I love it exactly. Mortica Armstrong and
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