Speaker 1: And now, broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio
Speaker 1: at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. It's Friday! It's Friday!
Speaker 2: Live from Studio C. Si, senor. A dimly lit room
Speaker 2: deep within the bowels of.
Speaker 3: The Armstrong and Getty communications compound.
Speaker 1: Hey, y'all.
Speaker 2: Today we're toiling under the title of the show. Poopy
Speaker 2: water is the new atomic bomb. The nation is moving
Speaker 2: to make our infrastructure much more impervious to cyber attacks
Speaker 2: from our enemies. They might not try to kill us
Speaker 2: with giant bombs, but... Instead, turn out our lights and
Speaker 2: poopify our water.
Speaker 3: Which is not a bad plan.
Speaker 2: Evil bastards. That's right, that's Secretary of State. Alternate title,
Speaker 2: Article 5 is still alive, so cut the jive. At
Speaker 2: least that's what the head of the CIA would have
Speaker 2: said if he were Sly Stone. Or Rick James.
Speaker 3: If they sent Lamont Sanford over to Moscow. You have
Speaker 3: to be old to understand that one.
Speaker 2: Exactly. I almost went with Miles Davis in your honor.
Speaker 2: I know you're a fan. Cut to jive.
Speaker 3: How y'all doing? Jury still deliberating in the Lindsay Clancy trial.
Speaker 3: I thought we might have a verdict today to talk about,
Speaker 3: but we do not. And I guess in that state,
Speaker 3: they do it on Saturdays too. So if they don't
Speaker 3: come up with a verdict today, they could tomorrow. You've
Speaker 3: been on jury's I've never made it to the jury
Speaker 3: because of the way I look. I mean, they look
Speaker 3: at me and they think, we can't. Shouldn't he be
Speaker 3: wearing that seat for some reason?
Speaker 2: Look at his face.
Speaker 3: But I guess a lot of times you get verdicts
Speaker 3: on Fridays because everybody either out loud says it or
Speaker 3: just kind of subconsciously. It's the end of the week.
Speaker 3: Do we want to come back on Monday again, or
Speaker 3: do we want to go back to our regular lives,
Speaker 3: which you've interrupted for one week to two years now?
Speaker 3: And I can see why there would be pressure to
Speaker 3: try to come up with them. But they don't have
Speaker 3: that there because they work on Saturdays.
Speaker 2: So who knows? Yeah, you're right, because there is a
Speaker 2: feeling of, all right, we're kind of going around in
Speaker 2: circles here. We've got a hard stop. Let's bear down.
Speaker 2: Although I must emphasize, as I do every time this
Speaker 2: topic comes up, the most shocking– interesting horrifying aspect of
Speaker 2: serving on multiple juries for me has been um how
Speaker 2: you every time so far i've run into people who
Speaker 2: do not have the capacity for rational thought they are
Speaker 2: swayed by their emotions their prejudices what the last person
Speaker 2: said or they'll just they float through the world in
Speaker 2: a cloud of uh confusion because they're not very bright
Speaker 2: and i i didn't hate them for it but it
Speaker 2: was certainly not i mean i can think of a
Speaker 2: couple specific examples but I thought, oh my gosh, how
Speaker 2: do we approach this? What do we do with this person?
Speaker 2: And it can suck a lot of time.
Speaker 3: So instead of 12 angry men, there should be a
Speaker 3: movie called Four Simpletons or something? Four Dumb Men?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Three angry men, three angry women, about three
Speaker 2: irrational people, and three dimwits.
Speaker 3: The movie 12 Angry Men, which I've never actually seen,
Speaker 3: a classic, I'm told, Men. Did we not have women
Speaker 3: on juries back in the day? And when did that change?
Speaker 2: That's correct. Too emotional. That's right. And they're talking. God,
Speaker 2: you'd never get out of there. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a great question.
Speaker 3: Katie, it's kind of you're kind of required that you say, oh,
Speaker 3: you guys or.
Speaker 4: F off.
Speaker 2: Oh, you guys.
Speaker 3: Or F off or something.
Speaker 2: Both of you F off. I'm sorry for speaking for myself.
Speaker 2: We went too far. You're right. You did.
Speaker 3: See the balance there? I was stuck in silence because
Speaker 3: I was so offended.
Speaker 2: That's what that was. You were given the silent treatment.
Speaker 3: You know what you did. Did they actually not have
Speaker 3: women on juries back in the day? I'm sure that
Speaker 3: was the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wonder when that'd be. I don't know. Women
Speaker 2: have had the vote since. 1918, unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Chat GPT that for me, Katie, because I'd never thought
Speaker 3: about that before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were allowed, women were allowed on juries gradually
Speaker 4: across the United States starting in 1898.
Speaker 2: Okay. First state, Utah. Congratulations, Utah. Well done. Way to
Speaker 2: lead the way, Utah, as you so often do.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so no verdict in that trial. That's one
Speaker 3: thing we're keeping.
Speaker 2: Our eye on.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, it's Friday, so I don't want
Speaker 3: to go into this very long, but I was watching
Speaker 3: some of the Nepal videos and as horrific as they were,
Speaker 3: I was fine for, it didn't occur to me why
Speaker 3: until after I crossed the line, that one video that
Speaker 3: we were all watching on Wednesday, I guess, where the,
Speaker 3: the far off shot, you see all the people running
Speaker 3: from that building and then they just get obliterated. I
Speaker 3: guess because it was far enough away, I couldn't make
Speaker 3: out individual people or faces. I like, I was able
Speaker 3: to watch that, but I saw a video yesterday. Did
Speaker 3: you see the one where they're all standing on that?
Speaker 3: It's like a, it's like a doc and it's close
Speaker 3: enough to see their faces. And then when that, when
Speaker 3: that one happened, it was just, ah, I mean, that
Speaker 3: was rough. And I thought, all right, that's enough of that.
Speaker 3: Now I'm into horror porn to watch any more of these.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was, Kind of justifying it with, I mean,
Speaker 3: it is one of the most amazing weather phenomenons or
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it, natural disasters I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: But man, you had all these people, they thought they
Speaker 3: were safe. So they escaped up to this dock and
Speaker 3: everybody's on this dock watching the flood. And then it
Speaker 3: comes from behind and it just obviously killed every single
Speaker 3: one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I mean, you're looking right at them. And then
Speaker 3: all the other people yell, oh my God, in their,
Speaker 3: whatever language that is, Nepalese.
Speaker 2: Sure. Whatever. Whatever. Michael, I know you like to keep
Speaker 2: a diary of the show. Could you make a note
Speaker 2: that Mr. Armstrong started the Friday show with child murder
Speaker 2: and natural disaster that claims thousands of lives? Just, you know,
Speaker 2: setting a tone. It has been noted.
Speaker 3: It was a jury update and an affirmation of me
Speaker 3: not being a sociopath. because I don't want to watch
Speaker 3: people die. And I stand by my slanders. It's weird
Speaker 3: that we do now. Uh, we didn't used to, and
Speaker 3: now it's common. And I saw somebody on a somewhere CNN,
Speaker 3: there was a conversation about it where some like older
Speaker 3: person said, I just saw someone die on CNN. What
Speaker 3: is going on here?
Speaker 2: Yeah. You didn't used to do that. Didn't used to happen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to come off as fancier than
Speaker 2: now too late. Shouts the audience.
Speaker 3: Um, 5,000-bottle wine cellar like Gavin Newsom? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: not in that way. That's too much unless you're an
Speaker 3: investor and wholesaler. Anyway, it used to be that.
Speaker 2: That sort of kind of base, prurient, whatever word you
Speaker 2: want to use, like horror porn stuff was relegated to
Speaker 2: what in England, and it's a delightful name, but they
Speaker 2: would call the penny dreadfuls. The very tabloidy tales of
Speaker 2: death and crime and sex and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: And a respectable person from, you know, even like your
Speaker 2: middle class up would never be caught dead with one
Speaker 2: in their hand because it's just– it's terrible. It's embarrassing
Speaker 2: to be a fan of the penny dreadfuls. That's for
Speaker 2: the lower classes.
Speaker 3: Oh, interesting culturally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just– So does that mean the grim fascination
Speaker 2: with watching people die? I don't think is a, an
Speaker 2: example of being a sophisticated or have like a great conscience.
Speaker 3: No, it's not a good, a movement in the right direction.
Speaker 3: And maybe worse. It's just like, doesn't affect people. It
Speaker 3: just hasn't, it doesn't even register. Oh, those people that
Speaker 3: it's a nothing for some reason, because we're so used
Speaker 3: to screens, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of fun and exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The whole screen thing. We should start the show officially
Speaker 3: and kind of reset. You are right.
Speaker 2: Joe is right.
Speaker 3: I can't argue with the point that I brought the
Speaker 3: show down on a Friday.
Speaker 2: I ruined the party.
Speaker 3: We got the daiquiri machine going. Strawberry daiquiris. And this
Speaker 3: is not the mood. I show up to your party
Speaker 3: Friday afternoon, barbecued and everything. Hey, you watching the murder trial?
Speaker 3: The woman, oh, you don't know about it?
Speaker 2: This woman, she took her kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and everybody's murmuring to each other. Who is that guy?
Speaker 2: Would it be weird to leave already? I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't want to be hurtful, but... What if we help
Speaker 2: move the whole barbecue to your house when he goes
Speaker 2: to the bathroom? Oh, God, now he's talking about dead
Speaker 2: Nepalese people. When he goes to the bathroom, let's move
Speaker 2: the whole barbecue to your house. We won't tell him.
Speaker 2: When he comes out, everybody will be gone.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: A lot to talk about today. A lot of good stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm Jack Armstrong. There's the backer machine right there. I
Speaker 3: like the ice crushed really small. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 3: Joe Getty on this Friday. This is our anniversary, by
Speaker 3: the way. We've got to talk about that, right?
Speaker 2: Isn't that, Michael? Isn't that our anniversary today? Yeah, in
Speaker 2: three days. Oh, I thought it was today. It's the 31st.
Speaker 3: August 28th, the year 2026, we are Armstrong and Getty,
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Speaker 2: We'll have an exciting preview of our anniversary coming up.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Officially now, according to FCC rules regs,
Speaker 2: the show starts at Mark.
Speaker 1: I've never had this happen before.
Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
Speaker 1: All right, let me get it together real quick.
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting about that? In the context of
Speaker 3: the conversation. we were having, it sounded like crying to
Speaker 3: me if I didn't know what that was. It's often
Speaker 3: hard to tell laughing from crying. We've probably all had
Speaker 3: the experience where somebody is laughing so hard we can't
Speaker 3: really tell what's going on with them. And then you
Speaker 3: find out it's humor. Oh, you're laughing.
Speaker 2: Right, and often if you are amused enough, tears flow
Speaker 2: from your eyes. Yeah. Hey, God, what's up with that?
Speaker 2: Go figure.
Speaker 3: Anyway, that's a tiny little clip of something that Michael's
Speaker 3: been trying to get us to play all week long.
Speaker 3: It's like his favorite clip of the week of some
Speaker 3: news anchor or something losing his ass, and we never
Speaker 3: got to it, so we will get to it today,
Speaker 3: all right? I'm told it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: All right, then. That's good.
Speaker 3: So we got headlines on the way. We got clips
Speaker 3: of the week. We got lots of news to get to.
Speaker 3: I hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Show.
Speaker 3: We're just discussing Trump's personality and how unflappable he is,
Speaker 3: while at the same time being easily flapped by the
Speaker 3: most minor comment. But he keeps on keeping up. It's
Speaker 3: an interesting trait that some of it I would like
Speaker 3: to have. Not all of it, certainly. Anyway, we'll have
Speaker 3: to talk.
Speaker 2: About that later. I would say inflexible, not unflappable.
Speaker 3: Similar but yeah i don't know i don't know the
Speaker 3: ability to just keep trying and powering through obviously everything
Speaker 3: can be taken to an extreme that is a negative in.
Speaker 2: General it's a lovely quality and we're all a mix
Speaker 2: of good and bad qualities but i i would you
Speaker 2: know the counter to that and again i'm not disputing
Speaker 2: the truth of what you say just since we're talking
Speaker 2: about trump The inability to recognize that doing what you
Speaker 2: do is harming you and others and to keep doing
Speaker 2: it makes you.
Speaker 3: That's a separate personality trait. We're talking about the post
Speaker 3: he put out yesterday. He actually posted this about him
Speaker 3: being the greatest president, greatest Republican of all time. Beneath him,
Speaker 3: Lincoln and Reagan.
Speaker 2: Also just the greatest president of all time. He started,
Speaker 2: it was like a tournament.
Speaker 3: So he started with the best Republicans, and it was
Speaker 3: a pyramid, and right below him, Lincoln and Reagan, and
Speaker 3: then atop him, a certain personality type that would ever
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 2: Even if you thought it, you wouldn't do it. But
Speaker 2: that's not him, man. I'm glad you're amused. I really am. Super.
Speaker 2: The polls say people are decreasingly amused, but... We all
Speaker 2: get a say in this great country thanks to the
Speaker 2: First Amendment.
Speaker 3: I'm increasingly amused by all kinds of crazy things that
Speaker 3: happen in the world. What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: It's probably a good way to be. Let's figure out
Speaker 2: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: The head networks are talking about the awful flood. ABC,
Speaker 4: hundreds dead as nearly 1,000 remain missing in massive Nepal-Tibet flood. NBC,
Speaker 4: scientists say that glacier collapse that caused the Nepal floods
Speaker 4: is most likely linked to thawing permafrost. And CNN survivors
Speaker 4: say Nepal-China flooding hit like a tsunami.
Speaker 2: Hey, Europe, why don't you commit economic suicide again in
Speaker 2: the name of climate change? Because that's the only thing
Speaker 2: that's happened, really. Ice age has ended. What are you
Speaker 2: going to do? To the thing.
Speaker 3: So it was 140-foot wall of water going 40 miles
Speaker 3: an hour that had fallen a mile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really quite amazing.
Speaker 4: From the New York Times... Six months in, Iran's regime stands.
Speaker 1: U.S.
Speaker 2: Goals remain unmet.
Speaker 3: Whose headline was that?
Speaker 2: New York Times. Ah, come on.
Speaker 3: You're putting a negative spin, a negative accurate spin on
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 2: Well, goals are unmet. They're in progress. Here I am
Speaker 2: defending the administration. The squeeze, the economic squeeze. We've got
Speaker 2: to wait and see. A friend of mine, and I've
Speaker 2: got to admit, I rolled my eyes a little bit.
Speaker 2: A day after it was announced, the what was it called?
Speaker 2: The economic D-Day. I said, how's that? How do you
Speaker 2: think that's going so far? I said, no, that's that.
Speaker 4: No, it's it.
Speaker 2: But it's a long time. We'll tell time. New York Times.
Speaker 2: It's right in your name.
Speaker 4: From The Washington Post, new survey says most Americans have
Speaker 4: turned against police cameras that track license plates.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where this conversation is going to end,
Speaker 2: but I'm very happy that it's being had.
Speaker 3: I don't like that they managed to do it before
Speaker 3: we had this conversation. That's what bothers me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. From Breitbart.
Speaker 4: Dolly Parton recorded a secret song that will be locked
Speaker 4: away until her 100th birthday.
Speaker 2: All right. Good plan. All right. Who's making money off
Speaker 2: of that plan? Hollywood Reporter.
Speaker 4: Intense Six Flags Coaster X2 closed after two riders suffer
Speaker 4: brain hemorrhages.
Speaker 1: Ugh.
Speaker 2: It's a little too much.
Speaker 3: Have I told my worlds of fun getting my brains
Speaker 3: bashed in story before riding the roller coaster?
Speaker 2: I should tell that sometime. Horrifying. Later. Also horrifying.
Speaker 4: From the New York Post, 300-pound lioness and cub reportedly
Speaker 4: on the loose in central Indiana.
Speaker 3: I thought you were going to say on the GLP-1.
Speaker 2: I was going to say there's no need to list
Speaker 2: her weight in the news story. The gal's a little
Speaker 2: beefy for a lioness. On the loose where?
Speaker 3: In Indiana.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
Speaker 3: Isn't that where they had the monkeys?
Speaker 2: Loose? Is that Indiana? South Carolina, I think. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right. Although, you know, there are loose monkeys now
Speaker 2: and again. Perhaps I'm forgetting the Indiana incident.
Speaker 3: Man, if you had monkeys loose and lions loose, just
Speaker 3: open the.
Speaker 2: Curtains, lock the doors, and.
Speaker 3: Get some popcorn, man.
Speaker 2: I'm going to saw the roof off my SUV and
Speaker 2: start doing safaris through Indiana. People with their big long
Speaker 2: lens cameras and stuff.
Speaker 4: Study finds 82% of Americans say they are living their
Speaker 4: life on autopilot.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? Not a whole lot changes.
Speaker 3: They're just kind of going day to day doing the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 2: And is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Speaker 3: I need more on this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hmm. And finally, the Babylon Bee.
Speaker 4: Assan Piker says anyone trying to twist his words as
Speaker 4: anti-Semitic is a dirty lying Jew.
Speaker 2: I like that one. It's about right. Yeah, he's desperately
Speaker 2: trying now to cover his tracks and cover up the
Speaker 2: things he said in the primary. And I get everybody
Speaker 2: taxed to the center. But in his case, he's an Islamist.
Speaker 2: So that's going to be a little tougher. Did you
Speaker 2: see the clip of El-Sayed?
Speaker 3: He's riding in a van with Piker and they're having
Speaker 3: a conversation with some other people about. the media trying
Speaker 3: to hold you to things you said and how wrong
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 2: We'll have to play that. It's really interesting.
Speaker 3: I didn't quite get it. I tweeted it out, but
Speaker 3: I didn't quite understand what he was up to, but
Speaker 3: it's an interesting way of looking at it. He was
Speaker 3: just outraged that the media holds you to things you said.
Speaker 3: Don't they understand the purpose is the, all right.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay. No, I'm unfamiliar with that. I look forward
Speaker 2: to hearing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We'll see what you think of that. We're going to
Speaker 3: get to clips of the week coming up a little bit,
Speaker 3: and then we will move into the news of the day.
Speaker 3: That's the way we do things around here. And if
Speaker 3: you miss a segment, you can get the podcast. Armstrong
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Speaker 2: You should subscribe. That's right. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I need a body man.
Speaker 3: I'd really like to have a body man. Maybe we
Speaker 3: can add a couple of more stations and I could
Speaker 3: justify it financially to have a body man.
Speaker 2: Is that somebody a henchman who hides the bodies after
Speaker 2: you've done your worst or what?
Speaker 3: I know that, you know, it's, you know, rich and
Speaker 3: famous and powerful like Trump's got one. That woman, I think.
Speaker 3: that was in the news for the last week or so.
Speaker 3: Just somebody that follows you everywhere you go, that has
Speaker 3: all your stuff, like your phone charger and your hair stuff,
Speaker 3: and if you're a woman, your makeup, and just the
Speaker 3: things you need, your pills if you use them or whatever.
Speaker 2: I need a body man.
Speaker 3: It'd be very, very handy. I'll explain why in a
Speaker 3: moment with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the show. So will
Speaker 3: me already.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get one. Probably a... foreigner who will
Speaker 2: work for less than an american i'll fake up an h-1b.
Speaker 3: Visa i need somebody who speaks english obviously.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah well some foreigners do that's what i'm told
Speaker 2: anyway uh let's take a fond look back at the
Speaker 2: week that was it's cow clips of the week it's
Speaker 2: cow they call it cow clips of the week it's.
Speaker 3: Cow jurors heard from 84 witnesses as prosecutors sought to
Speaker 3: prove that lindsey clancy murdered her three children.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with her life.
Speaker 1: She was a nurse, a daughter, a wife, and a
Speaker 1: darn good mother.
Speaker 2: The majority of people believe that Lindsay Clancy is not
Speaker 2: criminally responsible.
Speaker 4: President Trump has now imposed a 50% tariff on about
Speaker 4: $ 20 billion in Canadian goods.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of real estate on my ass,
Speaker 2: so he has a lot of room to kiss my ass.
Speaker 3: Meta agreeing to pay up to $ 18 billion in a
Speaker 3: landmark deal.
Speaker 4: Meta has agreed to set a default daily time limit
Speaker 4: of two hours.
Speaker 3: Rescue teams in Nepal are in a race against time
Speaker 3: as they search for any survivors.
Speaker 2: The mystery under the street.
Speaker 3: Of New York after three men were captured on video
Speaker 3: climbing out of the New York City sewer system. I'd
Speaker 3: like to propose that Los Angeles consider a pilot program
Speaker 3: for free hygienic sexual relief clinics.
Speaker 2: This is the first known time John Ratcliffe has visited
Speaker 2: Moscow as CIA director. Well, that went well.
Speaker 3: It ended in an odd way.
Speaker 2: And that was Clips of the Week. Does anybody have
Speaker 2: the slightest idea? I was told we had a problem
Speaker 2: with the clip. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you for that. Michael, thanks for jumping in with
Speaker 3: a quick... The plain-speaking Michelangelo. Ah, okay, never mind. If
Speaker 3: I trip and fall down, I'll stand up and say
Speaker 3: I tripped and fell down there.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, I'd like to apologize on behalf of the
Speaker 2: entire crew for that. I just ran into your car. Yes. Yes,
Speaker 2: you did. Yes, I hit it with mine. Look, you
Speaker 2: have dents in yours.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes. You're going to complain about this.
Speaker 3: But back to the Clancy trial where they're in the
Speaker 3: deliberation right now. What do you suppose the because he
Speaker 3: had to think this out. You don't you don't just
Speaker 3: like do your closing arguments off the top of your head.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the defense attorney here. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Why did he say she was a good mom? Well,
Speaker 3: what was how did he think that would land? I
Speaker 3: know a way it lands to me is like, what
Speaker 3: the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Well, to to to build a case that it had
Speaker 2: to be a complete psychological freak out. Because she was
Speaker 2: a good mom all along. You could see it. She
Speaker 2: had an enormous record as a good mom. Then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden she snapped. Yeah. I mean, because the
Speaker 2: opposite is, sure, she was verbally and physically abusive to
Speaker 2: her children and neglectful as well.
Speaker 3: But she wouldn't kill them. I don't feel like the
Speaker 3: opposite of that. I don't feel like those are the
Speaker 3: only choices. There's all kinds of people in prison, I think,
Speaker 3: based on my observance of life. You lived a kind
Speaker 3: of regular life your whole life. And then you snapped
Speaker 3: and did something really awful. And now you're in prison.
Speaker 2: Happens.
Speaker 3: You just kind of, you know, you lost your mind
Speaker 3: or you were drunk or whatever. And now you did
Speaker 3: something really, really awful. I'm not sure how good you
Speaker 3: were last year. Makes any difference.
Speaker 2: It does. If you're building the case that she had
Speaker 2: a psychological break. I wonder, though, that's why I brought
Speaker 2: it up. Was he swinging for the fences? Because I
Speaker 2: think if you're that crowd that was wearing the pink
Speaker 2: shirts gathered outside the courtroom and whatever percentage of America
Speaker 2: buys that thing, we were talking about that the other
Speaker 2: day and we're not sure. Didn't we come to the
Speaker 2: conclusion we think it's overwhelmingly the other way, even though
Speaker 2: it's been portrayed somewhat as lots and lots and lots
Speaker 2: of people are sympathetic? Yeah, I suspect so, just instinctively.
Speaker 2: You can't have people killing their children.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's swinging for the fences in that
Speaker 3: if you were leaning in that direction or kind of
Speaker 3: feeling that way, like that crowd, that would really land
Speaker 3: with them.
Speaker 2: She was a good mom.
Speaker 3: And then, you know, this happened. That wouldn't really land
Speaker 3: with them. It doesn't land with me.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And any jurors were thinking, that's a bunch of crap.
Speaker 3: So I guess we'll see what happens when they come back.
Speaker 3: And then, you know, various jurors will go on shows
Speaker 3: and that sort of stuff and describe their thinking, I suppose,
Speaker 3: as happens in these High profile cases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. I see it exactly the opposite. I
Speaker 2: think that's the only only strategy. The only possibility for
Speaker 2: why she killed her children is she had a massive
Speaker 2: psychotic break. It's the only only reason I'm giving you
Speaker 2: my closing argument.
Speaker 3: How does it fit in with her sitting there stone
Speaker 3: faced in the courtroom? They've had to stop the trial
Speaker 3: multiple times because she's just weeping and inconsolable. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that because I haven't been following it that closely.
Speaker 3: But so she has. Okay, well, that makes more sense.
Speaker 3: Every time I see her on TV, I think, how
Speaker 3: are you listening to the story of how you suffocated
Speaker 3: your kids to death and just sitting there watching it?
Speaker 3: But you're saying she couldn't always handle it. I think
Speaker 3: that's a point in her favor in terms of the
Speaker 3: argument that it was a momentary something or other.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She got emotional.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cause how would you nudges it in that direction? How
Speaker 2: would you not? Oh my God.
Speaker 3: Anyway, if the verdict comes down, obviously we'll get to
Speaker 3: it while we're on the air. Um, this is kind
Speaker 3: of a promo for something we're doing on the Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty show. The reason why I want to have
Speaker 3: a body, man, uh, as we've mentioned a couple of times,
Speaker 3: we're going to start putting portions of the show and
Speaker 3: maybe all of the show at some point on YouTube,
Speaker 3: like a lot of shows do. And so we have
Speaker 3: installed cameras all over the place and fancy TV lights
Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff. And we're trying to
Speaker 3: get all that nailed down. And when's the go time?
Speaker 2: 2032?
Speaker 3: Is that what we're thinking? 2032, we'll finally be able
Speaker 3: to go on YouTube. And it'll change everybody's lives for
Speaker 3: the good. My biggest concern with the TV lighting and
Speaker 3: everything like that is the red bulbous nose I have
Speaker 3: like I'm W.C.
Speaker 2: Fields.
Speaker 3: And so I got a brand new.
Speaker 2: Or the great, the vaunted, the beloved Rudolph, the reindeer
Speaker 2: of yore. Yeah, exactly. Like Rudolph.
Speaker 3: I could light your sleigh one day.
Speaker 2: That's right. The moral of that story, of course, you
Speaker 2: should belittle people who are different until they can do
Speaker 2: something for you. And then you should accept them.
Speaker 3: Unless they can do something extraordinarily helpful, continue to make
Speaker 3: fun of the problem they have that is no fault
Speaker 3: of their own.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Is the point of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Yes.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I did some grok around and I bought the
Speaker 3: super expensive, like they use on movie sets, get rid
Speaker 3: of your red nose cream. And so if I had
Speaker 3: my body man, he would carry that around all the time.
Speaker 3: And I'm trying that out on the TV lights today
Speaker 3: to see if I could make things any better.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 3: Otherwise, I'll be so self-conscious I won't even be able
Speaker 3: to talk.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's, well, gosh, maybe, is there a filter, Hanson?
Speaker 2: Can we fix it in post?
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting about a lot of people's, I've
Speaker 3: noticed this with my kids, I've noticed with myself, I've
Speaker 3: noticed with lots of people throughout my life, a lot of,
Speaker 3: oftentimes the thing that you're so self-conscious about that you
Speaker 3: think when you walk into a room everybody's looking at,
Speaker 3: you brought it up to other people, they'd be like, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess your hair is kind of this or that
Speaker 3: or whatever. I guess your shoulders are kind of narrow.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I never thought about it. You know,
Speaker 2: whatever it is that bothers you. I had been madly
Speaker 2: in love with my now wife for quite some time.
Speaker 2: And when I wasn't staring at her face, I was
Speaker 2: thinking of it. And after a year or two, she
Speaker 2: pointed out, yeah, I've got this flaw. And I'm like, what? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess. I never noticed it.
Speaker 3: Isn't that horrible that we do that to ourselves?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Let it go. Let it go. Let
Speaker 2: it go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I try to tell my kids, but of course
Speaker 3: it's tough to tell teenagers. Nobody's thinking about that or
Speaker 3: noticing that or whatever.
Speaker 2: Right, right. So before we plunge on to the news
Speaker 2: of the day, a word from our friends at Incogni.
Speaker 2: You know, this is a little grimish, but it's true.
Speaker 2: You know that murderous guy who assassinated a Minnesota lawmaker
Speaker 2: and her husband in their own home? When they searched
Speaker 2: the guy's car, they found a notebook with a handwritten
Speaker 2: list of 11 websites, but they weren't like weapons sites.
Speaker 2: They were data brokers. And that's how he got, you know,
Speaker 2: the home address. And it's amazing. It's there with your
Speaker 2: phone number, your family's names, even a photo of your
Speaker 2: front door. What the hell?
Speaker 3: First time I ever used one of those people search
Speaker 3: sites a couple of years back for something. I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: I can for like two dollars get all this information
Speaker 3: about somebody.
Speaker 2: That's disturbing. Your information is out there, too.
Speaker 3: And if you don't want it to be, you got
Speaker 3: to use incognito because they force data brokers and people
Speaker 3: search sites to delete you. Then they keep checking back
Speaker 3: because deleted data creeps back. because it's out there all
Speaker 3: over the place, and they keep it off the web.
Speaker 2: So do what we did. Go to Incogni.com right now.
Speaker 2: If you use the code Armstrong, you get 60% off.
Speaker 2: Incogni.com slash Armstrong. I-N-C-O-G-N-I dot com slash Armstrong. Incogni.com slash Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Because the next time a stranger searches your name, let
Speaker 2: them find nothing.
Speaker 3: Like, I've known a couple of tall, attractive women in
Speaker 3: my life who walk around hunched over their whole lives
Speaker 3: because they're so self-conscious about being tall.
Speaker 2: I'm like, really?
Speaker 3: It seems like an asset to me, but it's just
Speaker 3: horrible that we do this to ourselves.
Speaker 2: Well, in the case of a lot of gals, and
Speaker 2: I know this partly from raising a couple and talking
Speaker 2: to their friends and hearing them talk, if you have
Speaker 2: that self-consciousness in adolescence, it's tough to shake off. It's
Speaker 2: like a lifetime process of shaking that off for a
Speaker 2: lot of people.
Speaker 3: Well, and it only takes maybe one person in your
Speaker 3: life to ever comment on something to stick in your
Speaker 3: head for the rest of your life. Like John Mulaney,
Speaker 3: the comedian, always says, a 13-year-old has an amazing talent
Speaker 3: for picking out the exact same thing you're most self-conscious
Speaker 3: about and calling you on it. And that is true.
Speaker 2: Brutal. Brutal. Yeah, not good. So one thing we haven't
Speaker 2: talked much about is what they're calling the, is it
Speaker 2: the merry-go-round? Oh, the AI flywheel, where NVIDIA, for instance,
Speaker 2: it sells the best chips around, and zillions of them
Speaker 2: are actually lending money to tech startups and AI companies
Speaker 2: so they can afford to buy those chips, meanwhile investing
Speaker 2: in other companies to help get them up and running
Speaker 2: to buy their own chips. And their cash position is
Speaker 2: so amazingly strong, they can get away with it. with
Speaker 2: it for now. House of Cards is the wrong metaphor,
Speaker 2: but it's an interesting economic model. I'll say that. Certainly.
Speaker 3: I've heard people use the actual term. I don't remember
Speaker 3: what it was. But some sort of circular investing thing
Speaker 3: that we could all do. And then like on paper,
Speaker 3: it would look a certain way. Like if I give
Speaker 3: you if I gave you a million dollars and then
Speaker 3: you give a million dollars to Michael, then he gives
Speaker 3: it to me and we just keep going around like that.
Speaker 3: You could you could have that on the books in
Speaker 3: a certain way that it looks really great for all
Speaker 3: of us, but we're not really doing anything. Right.
Speaker 2: If we invested in a bunch of businesses that would invest,
Speaker 2: that would advertise heavily on the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2: And that was our revenue. And we began to depend
Speaker 2: on that revenue. Whether those businesses turn out to be
Speaker 2: strong enough to survive on their own is the open
Speaker 2: question with the AI stuff. Right.
Speaker 3: And if that ever falls apart, like you said the
Speaker 3: other day, boy, don't check your 401k the day after that.
Speaker 2: Holy crap. I was going to say, luckily, the world
Speaker 2: economy isn't supported entirely by that. Oh, wait. Yes, it is.
Speaker 3: By like five companies, the entire.
Speaker 2: To a significant extent.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 3: We got mailbag on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Did Ron DeSantis misappropriate funds and, uh.
Speaker 3: Send them to a family charity and do one of
Speaker 3: those Gavin Newsom types of things. That was a story
Speaker 3: that broke yesterday. Apparently what we do now in America
Speaker 3: is we release grand jury testimony, even if nobody is charged,
Speaker 3: so that they then have to defend themselves. That's apparently
Speaker 3: a new thing that we're going to do ever since
Speaker 3: the Epstein files. And that's what's happening here. And we'll
Speaker 3: get into that in an hour or two.
Speaker 2: As we warned you would happen. Here's your freedom loving
Speaker 2: quote of the day. Continuing our series on progress. I
Speaker 2: love this. I've heard it in various, uh, forms. This
Speaker 2: is attributed to Ernie Hemingway. Never confuse movement with action. Oh,
Speaker 2: I've heard it. Uh, you know, all motion is not action.
Speaker 3: You know, that's what Claude told me yesterday is one
Speaker 3: of my flaws. We teased this yesterday, went to my, uh,
Speaker 3: chat bot threads and said, what are my character defects
Speaker 3: or my, uh, my flaws? And, um, And it laid
Speaker 3: them all out. We need to talk about that later.
Speaker 3: It's pretty interesting. You should try it yourself if you
Speaker 3: have any chatbot threads. And one more quote I liked
Speaker 3: about progress.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure to what extent I agree with this,
Speaker 2: but I sure loved reading Robert Heinlein through the years,
Speaker 2: a great science fiction writer and thinker. Progress isn't made
Speaker 2: by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to
Speaker 2: find easier ways to do something. I think it's probably both, honestly.
Speaker 2: But that is an interesting perspective. People saying this is
Speaker 2: too hard. It's got to be an easier way to
Speaker 2: do this. That has been one of the great drivers
Speaker 2: of human progress.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: And why not?
Speaker 3: My progress.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. Mailbag. You never write. Drop us a note.
Speaker 2: Mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. Sarah in Kentucky writes... Guys, thank you.
Speaker 2: I was glad to hear the discussion of Dolly Parton's
Speaker 2: positive effect in the world. It's worth noting and emulating.
Speaker 2: And as with the scientific butterfly effect, I hope her
Speaker 2: influence continues to grow in magnitude. It's actually driven to
Speaker 2: remind myself of the particulars of the butterfly effect. That
Speaker 2: small changes in the starting point of a complex system
Speaker 2: can lead to massive, unpredictable results down the road. Take
Speaker 2: care that they're positive. I think a fair.
Speaker 3: Number of people picked up on the fact that Dolly
Speaker 3: Parton was so beloved because she was nice to everyone
Speaker 3: her whole life.
Speaker 2: Uh-huh. And that maybe that would work for me. Well,
Speaker 2: let's get off the niceness. I'm already bored. Tom in
Speaker 2: SoCal with what I called when I wrote back to
Speaker 2: him the email of the day.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: Given the state of immigration in this country, I believe
Speaker 2: the poem by Emma Lazarus on the base of the
Speaker 2: Statue of Liberty needs an update. Let's start with the
Speaker 2: most famous line. Give me your tired, your poor, your
Speaker 2: huddled masses yearning to breathe free. For this, I offer
Speaker 2: the following. Give me your entitled, your corrupt, your coddled
Speaker 2: asses yearning to get stuff for free. Wow. Yearning to
Speaker 2: get stuff for free. That's pretty good. Tom and SoCal
Speaker 2: for the win. That's pretty good. Well done. How about this?
Speaker 2: Similarly cynical. Kevin, the Texas Marine. With a more positive
Speaker 2: outlook on the Palestinian Authority's method of using October 7th
Speaker 2: as a math teaching tool. We talked about this, I believe,
Speaker 2: late-ish in the show yesterday. If you missed it, grab
Speaker 2: the podcast Armstrong and Gideon Demand. Yeah, literally, you know,
Speaker 2: Mohammed killed seven Jews on the first day. If he
Speaker 2: kept it up, how many Jews would he kill over
Speaker 2: a full week?
Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
Speaker 2: That was for third graders. Yeah, that's what they're learning. Anyway, Kevin,
Speaker 2: the Texas Marine writes, at least their kids are learning math.
Speaker 2: Kids here in the U.S. aren't. At least our kids
Speaker 2: know more about pronouns, though. Let's see. Keep K-B-U-T-T-S-A-S-F-E. Keep
Speaker 2: blowing up those test scores and slaughtering final exams. Let's see.
Speaker 3: If each drag show in town had seven dancers on
Speaker 3: a Friday night and there are six drag shows, how
Speaker 3: many drag queens would you have?
Speaker 2: Well played, sir. Well played. Let's see. A couple things
Speaker 2: we were talking about recently. Frank in Idaho said, who
Speaker 2: also almost went to law school, so he's an authority
Speaker 2: on the law, says, since the defense attorneys in the
Speaker 2: Clancy trial requested a lesser charge of manslaughter being included,
Speaker 2: isn't that an admission that they agree she could be
Speaker 2: legally responsible and undermine all arguing they've been doing, that
Speaker 2: she's not legally responsible? If she had a psychotic break,
Speaker 2: how can she not be legally responsible for murder, but
Speaker 2: not legally responsible for manslaughter? Wow, do we have time
Speaker 2: for this explanation? And I'm a non-attorney, but if they thought... Clearly,
Speaker 2: the prosecution has failed. Yeah, they wouldn't push for a
Speaker 2: middle ground, probably. They would want it to be all
Speaker 2: or nothing. But if you're thinking, you never know with juries,
Speaker 2: why don't we serve the interests of our client and
Speaker 2: put a lesser charge out there that wouldn't be that
Speaker 2: much of a punishment?
Speaker 3: Well, both Katie's dad, the judge, and Jonathan Turley on
Speaker 3: Fox said yesterday, I don't understand how they get to
Speaker 3: manslaughter with this.
Speaker 2: Right, right. I agree. Yeah, it's a stretch. Ryan writes,
Speaker 2: dear Cold Warrior and old Fancy Jack, for the love
Speaker 2: of America, President Trump should stop acting like the trolling
Speaker 2: chief and start acting like a goddamn president. He won't
Speaker 2: and we are doomed. Well, that's a negative point of view.
Speaker 2: Apparently you don't like the Lake of America. It's even
Speaker 2: shinier and ripplier than ever with its new name. Paolo writes,
Speaker 2: you guys are super apprehensive about AI in the future.
Speaker 2: The only practical course is develop it as fast as
Speaker 2: we can. The evildoers get it first, then we are screwed.
Speaker 2: The keep it going full speed is imperfect, but that's
Speaker 2: our only option. I'll flesh out his note later. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I find a flaw in that at all.
Speaker 2: Next hour, we'll have more. Listen.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.