Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Pretty and no heem Strong Alive from Studio C
Speaker 2: signor they within the bowels of the Armstrong and Giddy
Speaker 2: Information Complex. And So Wednesday, twelfth of August, the Year
Speaker 2: of Our Lord, twenty twenty six, this morning, the show
Speaker 2: will be presented under the title well, at least people
Speaker 2: are finally paying attention to the wnba ah if you
Speaker 2: prefer I was wrong about the Eagle. Dammit, Hanson, I
Speaker 2: need you to figure out exactly when I talked about
Speaker 2: Jackie the Eagle and mocked it yesterday, because for those
Speaker 2: of you who listened to the show live on the
Speaker 2: radio somewhere in America, I think we're just on America
Speaker 2: online overseas. For those of you who listen live, I
Speaker 2: want to address the topic at the same time of day,
Speaker 2: so I'm most likely to convey my maya kulpa to
Speaker 2: the people who heard it yesterday. Okay, the very short version,
Speaker 2: and Katie, I know you get this. I realized, and
Speaker 2: we got a couple of emails about this, very nice,
Speaker 2: very nice. I realized there is a raptor cam that's
Speaker 2: not far from my house that has focused on a
Speaker 2: couple of different sorts of birds nests, but including some
Speaker 2: bald eagles. And and I was really rooting for them
Speaker 2: to hatch and the babies to be okay, and and
Speaker 2: and so, and I know nature is cruel, and maybe
Speaker 2: they will, maybe they won't. But I get people who
Speaker 2: are like invested in hoping the eagles would be okay
Speaker 2: and didn't want to see Jackie the eagle. Eagles don't
Speaker 2: have names. That part, I'm still right about. Okay, Jackie here,
Speaker 2: where is Jackie? Oh my god, mister president again again? No, No,
Speaker 2: Biden's right, I'm sorry, Michael's right. So anyway, what I
Speaker 2: was objecting to, and I realize now I have a
Speaker 2: bit of a problem. And and Jack does this, and
Speaker 2: I yell at him for it. I hate David Muir
Speaker 2: so much. The bent knows jackass, who's the anchor of
Speaker 2: ABC Evening News. Nobody watches the Evening News. His cloying, syrupy,
Speaker 2: simpleton fixation on the story prejudiced me against the story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it got my backup. And I apologize to eagle
Speaker 2: lovers everywhere. Your affection for rooting for the Eagles is
Speaker 2: perfectly natural. Not the Philadelphia Eagles. I still hate them
Speaker 2: and will till I die. But the bald Eagles, it's
Speaker 2: it's perfectly understandable. And I'm sorry the nice eagle lady
Speaker 2: is dead. But nature is nice eagle lady. But nature
Speaker 2: is cruel. Nature is really cruel. But I'm rooting for
Speaker 2: the Eagles, of course I am. I'm not a monster.
Speaker 2: I just hate David or he's a monster, all right.
Speaker 2: So that's out of the way, although I will revisit
Speaker 2: in a few words. That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister former Attorney General. Who is that Michael again?
Speaker 2: John Ashcroft? John Ashcroft? That's right, wow, man. Time flies,
Speaker 2: So that that takes care of that, at least for now.
Speaker 2: Although somebody figure out when I slandered the eagle lovers yesterday,
Speaker 2: and we'll take care of that. As I said, I
Speaker 2: want to start the show officially according to FCC rules
Speaker 2: and regulations for which we are bleeping sticklers. We are
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Speaker 3: My understanding is that is that Francesca Hang has made
Speaker 3: clear her present stances.
Speaker 2: To her lectures moved from right, she's.
Speaker 3: Moved away from it. And I have a local city
Speaker 3: councilman that has this saying woke one was crazy.
Speaker 2: One was crazy. Okay, we'll get out of the way.
Speaker 2: The fact that Francesca Hong lost in Wisconsin by the
Speaker 2: narrowest of losses, as narrow as a piece of Soviet
Speaker 2: toilet paper, which she would usher back in if she
Speaker 2: got her way. But I wanted to address AOC laughing
Speaker 2: about woke one was crazy. And she went on to say,
Speaker 2: and I think what's important is that we have to
Speaker 2: assess what a candidate is saying. Now, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm with you on woke one was crazy. And I'm
Speaker 2: gonna quote Charles C. W. Cook a little bit. He's
Speaker 2: one of my favorite writers on this topic, and we
Speaker 2: back and forth between me and him. But she's implying
Speaker 2: that woke one was something that happened to us and
Speaker 2: to to her, like an earth quake or a heavy
Speaker 2: rain or something, rather than something that was contrived and
Speaker 2: enforced by her. She was one of the leaders of
Speaker 2: it and her ideological buddies. Yes, it was crazy, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't crazy. You are crazy you and the people
Speaker 2: who did this to us are crazy. You can't laugh
Speaker 2: that off. And then Charles points out there are two
Speaker 2: explanations as to why a person might have fallen for
Speaker 2: crazy woke.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 2: Number one that they have poor judgment and are thus
Speaker 2: liable at any moment to fall prey to the most
Speaker 2: destructive ideas available, or certainly the most dradical leftist ideas,
Speaker 2: which are destructive. All right, so if miss what's her face,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter anymore. She's done at least from now.
Speaker 2: But all of these people, if they are so liable
Speaker 2: to be swept away by like the latest ideological fashion
Speaker 2: like a color of lipstick, or the hot summer read
Speaker 2: or who's the hot new pop starlet, but ideas that
Speaker 2: like proposed to do away with the constitution, you get
Speaker 2: swept up in that you don't have the judgment to
Speaker 2: serve in any office at any level. You have terrible judgment.
Speaker 2: You are a woman child or a man child, and
Speaker 2: you have no business governing or you know. Choice number
Speaker 2: two is you're a coward. Is that a little judgmental? Eh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it is a little judgmental. I'm gonna go with coward.
Speaker 2: Though we don't have too much shaming in America, we
Speaker 2: have too little. I recognize that certain sorts of people,
Speaker 2: and it's probably genetics. They make their decisions through the
Speaker 2: lens of acceptability, not truth. They have opinions based on
Speaker 2: whether those opinions are going to make them more popular
Speaker 2: or less popular, gain social acceptance or social stigma. And
Speaker 2: I think a lot of folks who are like that
Speaker 2: didn't choose to be I don't know, And I think
Speaker 2: maybe you can get more towards the same end of
Speaker 2: things if you try real hard. But anyway, having said that,
Speaker 2: if you are the sort of person who picks policies
Speaker 2: up to and including the destruction of the Constitution, loading
Speaker 2: the courts, ending the Senate, and I'm going to get
Speaker 2: into that some of more of the craziness in a
Speaker 2: second or two. But if if you pick your policies
Speaker 2: that way, you were unqualified for public office. Either way,
Speaker 2: either explanation, you're unqualified and unlike AOC and her brethren
Speaker 2: whom she's defending, tens of millions of Americans did not
Speaker 2: fall for war. Hello, A lot of us fought back
Speaker 2: against it, some of you at great personal and professional cost.
Speaker 2: Some of you who were in blue professions and blue places. Man,
Speaker 2: you took it in the face, and I salute you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I truly to my soul salute you for
Speaker 2: your courage. A lot of folks couldn't. They had mouths
Speaker 2: to feed, they had careers to manage, and you know,
Speaker 2: I get it, but when we're looking at future leaders,
Speaker 2: we're not going to choose them from those who screamed
Speaker 2: at the people who turned out to be right, like
Speaker 2: they were in some sort of cult. And you know what,
Speaker 2: the one more aspect of this, AOC doesn't even say yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: They just laugh it away. Okay, here are some questions.
Speaker 2: Which parts of Woke One were crazy? And why specifically
Speaker 2: give us two or three which people were wrong about it?
Speaker 2: And why who was right? What positions did they take
Speaker 2: that made them right? And why do you think, unlike you,
Speaker 2: they didn't fall into the Woke One being crazy? All right?
Speaker 2: And finally, what practical steps have you taken to ensure
Speaker 2: that you'll oppose future replays of this garbage? But of
Speaker 2: course you know they're not going to answer those questions.
Speaker 2: And then to get to what Charles Cook said, and
Speaker 2: I think this is really the important part. I doubt
Speaker 2: that AOC could answer these questions. Heck, I doubt she's
Speaker 2: thought about them for more than a couple of minutes. Rather,
Speaker 2: I suspect that, like many progressives, she believes that she
Speaker 2: and her friends are entitled to the occasional world breaking meltdown,
Speaker 2: and that the proper role of everyone else is to
Speaker 2: go along with it, as they might with the tantrum
Speaker 2: of a small child. Well I will not, he writes, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean neither. We held an election during Woke one,
Speaker 2: and the senators who elected at that time are still
Speaker 2: serving in Congress. What happens today matters tomorrow, even when,
Speaker 2: as it appears to be the case here, it eventually
Speaker 2: becomes inconvenient to discuss it. Ha ha ha. The crazy demands
Speaker 2: of Woke one were not for a two percent increase
Speaker 2: in the capital gains rate, but for the wholesale rejection
Speaker 2: of racial equality under the law. Remember that critical race
Speaker 2: theory and systemic racism, and the only way to cure
Speaker 2: racism is with racism ibramex Kenny Robin DiAngelo. These people
Speaker 2: were given millions of dollars to train people, both in
Speaker 2: government and in private companies, that white people must be
Speaker 2: discriminated against, which is so blatantly clearly unconstitutional, I feel
Speaker 2: silly even pointed out that it is. It was the
Speaker 2: wholesale rejection of racial quality under the law. It was
Speaker 2: the government led reorganization the American economy, the abolition of
Speaker 2: the police leaves out, the emptying of prisons, which is
Speaker 2: already born horrible results, the provision of sex change operations
Speaker 2: for children, and the erasure of the United States border.
Speaker 2: That's what the crazy was. Again. It wasn't a slight
Speaker 2: change in the tax rate. It was that stuff. That's madness.
Speaker 2: And as Charlie Cook points out, great if the people
Speaker 2: who made those demands and push those policies recognize the
Speaker 2: air of their ways. But you got to give us
Speaker 2: more than oops before we're gonna trust you again, good Lord.
Speaker 2: And there are plenty of folks who, for the reasons
Speaker 2: we've just been discussing, they see the world not through
Speaker 2: the lens of truth but lens of acceptability, who will
Speaker 2: go along with the Haha, that was crazy. This is
Speaker 2: our new crazy, and we're going to ruin you if
Speaker 2: you resist this crazy. There are a lot of people
Speaker 2: who vote that way, So uh, stay tuned, participate in
Speaker 2: the process, and don't go Away, Woke one was.
Speaker 3: Crazy Crazy.
Speaker 1: Arm Strong, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: We're running just a little bit late, so let's dive
Speaker 2: right into who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Speaker 2: Katie Green. Katie take it away, all righty.
Speaker 4: Well, the Alphabet Network's were covering inflation this morning. We'll
Speaker 4: just say ABC's inflation eases but stays above pre I
Speaker 4: War Iran War level.
Speaker 2: Mister President, please stop saying we're bringing prices down because
Speaker 2: people go to the freaking grocery store. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Politico David Crowley defeats Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin
Speaker 4: governor primary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy had fled the race and the current
Speaker 2: guy dragged him back in and he won by a nose.
Speaker 2: So good hopes for Republicans to take the state House
Speaker 2: or at least the governor's office.
Speaker 4: In November New York Times, Trump's tariffs force some Canadian
Speaker 4: companies to consider moving south.
Speaker 2: I hate so many of the tariffs. The ones specifically
Speaker 2: about defense and self alliance I get, but like lumber
Speaker 2: that's jacking up housing prices. We need Canadian lumber, all right,
Speaker 2: We've been buying it forever. It's cheap.
Speaker 4: From The Wall Street Journal, flight tracking platform Sue's Kalshi
Speaker 4: over flight cancelation, prediction markets.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've got an even better prediction market story. It's
Speaker 2: part of a segment I'm gonna call dollars and nonsense.
Speaker 2: You see what I did there, Katie, I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah oooh yeah.
Speaker 4: From NPR are hacks of the US water facilities a
Speaker 4: new front for the Iran war.
Speaker 2: It's good to left the journalists are paying attention to this,
Speaker 2: whatever it turns out to be, and I think it
Speaker 2: is or on, but that our vulnerability there needs to
Speaker 2: not be coded right or left. We all have to
Speaker 2: understand it.
Speaker 4: Study finds heavy drinking during pregnancy has nearly tripled since
Speaker 4: twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 4: That's crazy to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for real child abuse.
Speaker 4: You're gonna tell me to stop it after this one too,
Speaker 4: Brace yourself. Joe Oh from The New York Post, World's
Speaker 4: smallest Pennis patient sets date for crowd funded enlargement operation.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it. This guy's raised almost fourteen
Speaker 2: k to make it bigger. Yeah, you know, if you've
Speaker 2: got the micro thing, that's a really tough way to
Speaker 2: go through life. If you're you know, well, if you're
Speaker 2: heterosexual orgy, it doesn't matter. R Yeah. I feel it's
Speaker 2: a deformity I feel.
Speaker 4: And finally the Babylon Bee Democrats announce you aren't allowed
Speaker 4: to remember what they did just.
Speaker 2: A few years ago. Exactly. Yeah, that's the AOC thing.
Speaker 2: I think. What's important is to listen to what people
Speaker 2: are saying today. Oh no, Look, if you're talking about
Speaker 2: an eleven year old who's now fourteen, yeah, okay, I
Speaker 2: get it. Yeah, even maybe a sixteen year old who's
Speaker 2: now nineteen. But a forty five year old it was
Speaker 2: forty two or you know whatever age you would No, No,
Speaker 2: you were calling for the end of the United States Constitution,
Speaker 2: the end to are are well, you were coming out
Speaker 2: in favor of racism. A few yours and you just
Speaker 2: get to get out of jail free pass. No, you're
Speaker 2: unfit for office, as we are discussing. So, inspite of
Speaker 2: the JIV name, I've given the next segment to dollars
Speaker 2: and nonsense. I came across a handful of stories that
Speaker 2: are all My reaction to all of them was, Wow,
Speaker 2: that's the way that works, and I think you will
Speaker 2: be surprised and enlightened. Two got some great guests we'll
Speaker 2: tell you about in a couple of minutes, says well,
Speaker 2: see Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1: Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty See Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: Really excited about we're going to have at the bottom
Speaker 2: of our two halfway through hour two with the great
Speaker 2: James Lindsay, one of my favorite thinkers, one of the
Speaker 2: people who's been the most effective and eloquent while being
Speaker 2: mostly like really understandable to all of us, calling out
Speaker 2: critical theory and the neo Marxist movement, what some people
Speaker 2: call the woke movement. But the mistake they make is
Speaker 2: thinking these are just you know, maybe well meaning simpletons
Speaker 2: with some bad policy ideas, and we should talk them
Speaker 2: out of it. But they don't understand that there's a
Speaker 2: serious philosophical underpinning to this, and it's everywhere in our
Speaker 2: schools and universities. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 2: We want to talk about what's under the water that
Speaker 2: you might not be aware of with this way of
Speaker 2: thinking the whole where is this crazy woke thing coming from?
Speaker 2: So again, we're going to do that next hour and
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to it. Love James we've been
Speaker 2: following him since he first emerged as a professor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Portland State, I think it was. And one of the
Speaker 2: early moments of his war against this insanity was there's
Speaker 2: this online feud saying two plus two does not necessarily
Speaker 2: equal four. In some cultures it isn't. So no, you
Speaker 2: can't say that. That's racist to say that. And he
Speaker 2: was like, wait a minute, what is this philosophy? And
Speaker 2: he dug into it. He's become an expert on it.
Speaker 2: So anyway, next hour, welcome to a brand new feature.
Speaker 2: I'm calling it Dollars and nonsense. Oh that was a
Speaker 2: nice touch at the end there. Yeah, that's good. Putting
Speaker 2: aside the JIV name. I thought this was also interesting.
Speaker 2: A handful of stories about money. I can't believe this.
Speaker 2: This is an exclusive investigation by the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2: They looked like they were getting rich on polymarket, but
Speaker 2: none of it was real. And I've seen a couple
Speaker 2: of these videos they were The prediction market is flooded
Speaker 2: social media with deceptive video, deceptive videos by paid creators.
Speaker 2: Here's how it works. Here's this guy, George, George Makhara.
Speaker 2: In case you're into this and you've seen these videos,
Speaker 2: he appears to have a lucrative side hustle making bets
Speaker 2: on Polymarket. In January, this guy's at college student. He
Speaker 2: posted a video that showed him winning one hundred grand
Speaker 2: on Polymarket on a bet that President Trump would publicly
Speaker 2: say the word McDonald's that month. The bet was one
Speaker 2: of one hundred and forty five that Makihara appeared to
Speaker 2: place on Polymarket's website between January and mid May, based
Speaker 2: on his videos, bets adding up to almost four hundred
Speaker 2: and ten thousand dollars. But according to the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal investigation, none of those bets were reel, and he's
Speaker 2: one of dozens of mostly college aged creators Polymarket paid
Speaker 2: to film themselves making fake trades and sometimes scoring fake wins.
Speaker 2: According to an analysis of more than eleven hundred video
Speaker 2: that the journal took in, along with instructional materials and
Speaker 2: interviews with creators who've worked with the company on the
Speaker 2: actual site. For what it's worth, more than fifty accounts
Speaker 2: made that McDonald's bet in January, and all of them lost,
Speaker 2: So they didn't even go real far down the line
Speaker 2: of covering their tracks to make sure these were bets
Speaker 2: that actually paid off in that month or what have you.
Speaker 2: And I watched I departed from the text of this
Speaker 2: article to watch one of the videos, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute. This dude's like, there's Polymarket on his screen,
Speaker 2: there's the thing happening, there's the amount. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: videoing his using of the website. So I go back
Speaker 2: to the text and it explains and it's push to
Speaker 2: draw users to its unregulated platform, Polymarket is flooded social
Speaker 2: media with videos like Machi Hars, which appeared genuine at
Speaker 2: first glance. In reality, Polymarket built near perfect copies of
Speaker 2: its own site, then instructed creators to make simulated trades
Speaker 2: on those dummy sites and hide that they were being
Speaker 2: paid by Polymarket. Then, to get the videos to go viral,
Speaker 2: poly market is recruited a social media army to copy
Speaker 2: and repost those creators footage so they would go viral
Speaker 2: for sure. Though the New York based company has been
Speaker 2: banned from offering its crypto its primary crypto platform in
Speaker 2: the US since twenty twenty two, the social media creators
Speaker 2: are paid to specifically target US users who can still
Speaker 2: access the site with a virtual Private network of VPN,
Speaker 2: which is a decent idea if you don't like to
Speaker 2: be tracked on the Internet. Of course, the polymarket spokeshole
Speaker 2: set in a statement that it was committed to maintaining
Speaker 2: the accurate, fair and transparent markets. We are part of
Speaker 2: a rapidly growing industry and are constantly evaluing ways, evaluating
Speaker 2: ways to improve how we're engaging in earning the trust
Speaker 2: of our audience. So anyway, holy cow, that is uh well,
Speaker 2: just to understand how serious and sophisticated these people are
Speaker 2: about misleading you. I mean, I gotta admit if I'm
Speaker 2: watching a commercial for some sort of I don't know,
Speaker 2: counter cleaner spray that makes your counter shiny and clean
Speaker 2: and smell like lemons, I know that chick in the
Speaker 2: ad is not actually a woman cleaning your own counters
Speaker 2: at home. Okay, I get that. But to have those
Speaker 2: videos be that detailed and that deliberately fraudulent and not
Speaker 2: disclose any of it, well, you know what's going on.
Speaker 2: I don't need to explain it to you. Story number two,
Speaker 2: how the bond market inflated Powerball, and we had somebody
Speaker 2: tried to explain this to us once, and I remember
Speaker 2: being mystified a bit tonight there's a billion dollar powerball drawing.
Speaker 2: Marmdpa plays the power ball. We all want it, Michael.
Speaker 2: We're all hoping he's looking for Okay anyway, But if
Speaker 2: you win the power ball and take the cash payout,
Speaker 2: it's only four hundred and thirty three million dollars. It's
Speaker 2: less than half of the billion dollars now. Five and
Speaker 2: a half years ago, there was a super big prize
Speaker 2: in January twenty one. The jackpot was seven hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty one million, so about a quarter smaller. Yet the
Speaker 2: lump sum payment if you chose that was five hundred
Speaker 2: and forty seven million dollars. So how the hell do
Speaker 2: you have a the jackpot be you know, a third bigger,
Speaker 2: up to a billion dollars, But the payout is what
Speaker 2: is that one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars less? It
Speaker 2: has to do with what's what's the correct term the
Speaker 2: bond yield? And this is what's in the small print.
Speaker 2: Powerball and Mega Millions both offer the option for a
Speaker 2: winner to take thirty checks that grow by five percent annually.
Speaker 2: The lotteries take no financial risk offering that annuity, since
Speaker 2: they buy zero coupon treasury bonds maturing on those dates,
Speaker 2: much the way a corporate pension fund might. Because inflation
Speaker 2: and the lure of risk, your assets like stocks are
Speaker 2: higher than in twenty twenty one. If you follow the
Speaker 2: market at all, you know it's been sky high. So
Speaker 2: are the yields. Because to get you to buy bonds,
Speaker 2: they've got to give you better rates, better returns. Otherwise
Speaker 2: you just go to stocks. So anyway, the upshot is
Speaker 2: a bigger difference between the lump sum versus the annuity.
Speaker 2: The cash value is seventy five percent of the advertised
Speaker 2: prize in twenty twenty one. Now it's forty three percent.
Speaker 2: So it has to do with bond yields. And the
Speaker 2: small print is, yeah, if you if you don't take
Speaker 2: the cab thing, you get an annuity that's based on
Speaker 2: bond yields, and so that the cash payout the lump sum,
Speaker 2: I should say, is all based on that math, which
Speaker 2: I had no idea of moving along an dollars. That's right.
Speaker 2: The Powerball son gives me your romote after we watch
Speaker 2: the power Ball, that's right. Interesting article here StubHub customers
Speaker 2: who battled for tickets and battle harder for a refund
Speaker 2: article starts with the story of it's three hours before
Speaker 2: the US played Paraguay in the World Cup in June,
Speaker 2: and this dude is standing outside Sofi Stadium in Englewood, California, LA,
Speaker 2: essentially with his dad and no tickets. Now this is June.
Speaker 2: Right in March, he'd gone on stub hub and paid
Speaker 2: twenty two hundred dollars for a pair of seats as
Speaker 2: a birthday gift for his dad. Four days earlier, he'd
Speaker 2: called stub Hub to say his tickets were still not
Speaker 2: on the FIFA. Where are they? Company said, yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: have replacements by noon tomorrow. Never showed up. He spoke
Speaker 2: with StubHub at least ten times and calls that spend
Speaker 2: nearly three hours in the days leading up to the game.
Speaker 2: Each time he was told not to worry. At kickoff,
Speaker 2: he was still without tickets. He approached the stadium's guest
Speaker 2: services window. Stadium employee said you're here because of stub Hub, right,
Speaker 2: and he's like, wow, yeah, She gestured at a crowd
Speaker 2: of forty people standing to the side. You're not the
Speaker 2: only one. All of these people are here because of
Speaker 2: stub Hub. So there's been a huge a number of
Speaker 2: folks who've faced this sort of thing, not just for
Speaker 2: the World Cup, but a bunch of other stuff, and
Speaker 2: apparently and a Knicks game, Hamilton performance, George Strait concert,
Speaker 2: you name it, and bunches of stub Hub customers are
Speaker 2: getting stiff like this, and then sometimes they get nothing.
Speaker 2: Sometimes they're sent replacements that were worse than what they
Speaker 2: paid for, Like you're in the waybacks instead of upfront
Speaker 2: that's paid for, and you have to spend months fighting
Speaker 2: stub Hub for refunds, including refunds that said, yep, you're right,
Speaker 2: you got screwed. We'll get your refund and you got
Speaker 2: to spend months fighting for Many resolutions came only after
Speaker 2: they hired lawyers or complained in the press, and that
Speaker 2: ain't cool. Complaints about stub Hub to the Better Business
Speaker 2: Bureau rose forty seven percent forty seven percent from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty twenty five, and climbed sixty three
Speaker 2: percent in the eight months leading up to the company
Speaker 2: September twenty twenty five initial public offering. Hmm, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying the vast majority of folks don't get what they
Speaker 2: paid for, but fire beware. Final story dollars and nonsense.
Speaker 2: This is as political as it is anything else. Who
Speaker 2: here has bought a house? Show of hands, A lot
Speaker 2: of us. Okay, what do you do when you're looking
Speaker 2: for a house. Maybe you go on your favorite real
Speaker 2: estate site. You look at the house itself, you get
Speaker 2: the pictures, you look at the map, Oh, that's real
Speaker 2: close to the main road or whatever. And then if
Speaker 2: you're a savvy buyer, you look at the school's ratings, right,
Speaker 2: and maybe you even look at crime rates and that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. Do you check out Meghan's list for
Speaker 2: blue dots for child molesters in the neighborhood. Whatever. If
Speaker 2: you're a savvy home buyer, you do all those things.
Speaker 2: Six days after Joe Biden was sworn into office, he
Speaker 2: issued a directive establishing enforcement priorities for the Department of
Speaker 2: Housing and Urban Development. HUD aimed at scaring real estate
Speaker 2: companies and real estate agents into not disclosing crime and
Speaker 2: school information in real estate listings because it might hurt diversity.
Speaker 2: Diversity and inclusive communities strengthen our democracy. The executive memorandum began,
Speaker 2: But you know who wants their community to be inclusive
Speaker 2: of failing schools? And who wants diversity to mean armed
Speaker 2: criminals along with innocent people? And what's crazy about this is,
Speaker 2: you know, black families don't want to live in dangerous
Speaker 2: neighborhoods with bad schools either. Nobody does, but many progressives
Speaker 2: believe racial equalities best achieved by demolishing standards for everyone.
Speaker 2: So the effect of Biden's memo, which made clear that
Speaker 2: racial politics and the doctrine of disparate impact, would guide
Speaker 2: HUD's enforcement of federal housing laws, and the major online
Speaker 2: real estate companies immediately understood what was being demanded of them. Realtor,
Speaker 2: dot Com and Zillo immediately stopped providing crime data, while Redfinn,
Speaker 2: going out of its way to embrace the party line,
Speaker 2: posted a blog proclaiming neighborhood crime data doesn't belong on
Speaker 2: real estate sites. National Association of Realtors put up a
Speaker 2: web page in early twenty three titled how to Handle
Speaker 2: Client Questions about schools and neighborhood Neighborhoods, which told realtors
Speaker 2: to point home buyers to other sources of information, don't
Speaker 2: give them the facts yourself. And the page is absolutely
Speaker 2: stuffed with dei jargon, but it also testifies it makes
Speaker 2: clear that the Real Estate Association worried the fair housing
Speaker 2: laws would be interpreted aggressively in realtors who did tell
Speaker 2: their clients about schools and crime would run the risk
Speaker 2: of punishment by the federal government. Okay, how many ways
Speaker 2: is this horrible? I mean, number one, there's a huge
Speaker 2: free speech issue here. Huge. Secondly, the idea that the
Speaker 2: Dei cult would deny you this information because they thought
Speaker 2: it might disproportionately lead you to not buy it house, Senate, black,
Speaker 2: Hispanic neighborhood or something. Man, these people are sick the
Speaker 2: Biden administration. We're enthusiastically on board. Mailbag is next.
Speaker 1: Strong, the Armstrong and Getti Show.
Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of times, so let's get
Speaker 2: right to our freedom loving quote of the day, continuing
Speaker 2: our series from Nikita Khrushchev, one of the most critical
Speaker 2: figures in communism in the twentieth century. I'll give you
Speaker 2: a trio of them today. We do not have to
Speaker 2: invade the United States. We will destroy you from within.
Speaker 2: The United States will eventually fly the communist red flag,
Speaker 2: the American people will hoist it themselves. And finally, the
Speaker 2: press is our chief ideological weapon. Mailbag says me, uh uh,
Speaker 2: you can drop us note mail bag at Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Yetty dot com. Michael writes, the problem I see with
Speaker 2: AOC saying that woke one was crazy is that she
Speaker 2: thinks there's going to be a woke too. Well, there
Speaker 2: absolutely is. Absolutely, it's really it's just an adjustment of strategy.
Speaker 2: That's one of the things we're going to talk to
Speaker 2: James Lindsay about in about forty minutes. Let's see this
Speaker 2: is Anna Luisa and Sunny La mesa frequent correspondent. When
Speaker 2: you shared the story of Senator grass Ling and is
Speaker 2: Hoover vacuum, it made me think of the late Senator
Speaker 2: Harry Reid, who told a story about growing up in
Speaker 2: a small, very poor town in Nevada. The legal House
Speaker 2: of Prostitution had the only swimming pool in town. That's
Speaker 2: where his mom worked. By the way, I think she
Speaker 2: did laundry there. Gross the owner felt bad for the kids,
Speaker 2: so in the summer, one afternoon each week he'd kick
Speaker 2: out the prostitutes and let the town's kids have the pool.
Speaker 2: Call me Cilly and o fashion, but I'll take the
Speaker 2: vacuum story, the pool story, or even Biden's corn pop
Speaker 2: story over the DSA's crazy communist, anti Semitic, anti American
Speaker 2: rants any day. Yeah, that's a that's a really good point.
Speaker 2: That's funny. I enjoy the Chuck Grassley things cute. But
Speaker 2: then this from Bill from Michigan. And Bill, let me
Speaker 2: say in advance, this is a very well searched, researched
Speaker 2: and intelligent note. You're you're obviously a man of substance.
Speaker 2: But seriously, dude, here's his note, Joe, your comments on
Speaker 2: Senator Grassley seemed biased? Are you obviously he's old and
Speaker 2: trying to navigate social media. Some may find that endearing.
Speaker 2: Others Democrats, of course, use it as evidence he's over
Speaker 2: the hill and you're not helping. He will likely retire
Speaker 2: at the end of the term. Hope we could backfill
Speaker 2: him with someone is productive given the fights we find
Speaker 2: ourselves in. If you're going to speak and laugh about
Speaker 2: what his opposition is posting, you might also include some
Speaker 2: of what he's recently accomplished. He and his team also
Speaker 2: worth blasting out over the radio. Otherwise, what is your goal?
Speaker 2: And he lists a bunch of Chuck Grassley's legislative accomplishments,
Speaker 2: which again are considerable and lovely and of fairly solid
Speaker 2: conservative stuff. Bill, your radio show would be so boring
Speaker 2: you would have no listeners. Wow, Wow, lighten up, Francis
Speaker 2: the topic of the WNBA patty rights using logic a
Speaker 2: critical theory. Why have the WNBA at all? If there's
Speaker 2: no difference between the sexes, the LGBT crowd could just
Speaker 2: join the NBA. You never hear about a woman wanting
Speaker 2: to join a man's team. And then in a little
Speaker 2: more detail, Poolo rights. No point speculating about the WNBA's
Speaker 2: trans problem, but it's fun, so I'll indulge WNBA's policies
Speaker 2: that you have to be a woman to play, but
Speaker 2: doesn't define what a woman is. I don't think they
Speaker 2: will define what a woman is because they can't. They know.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to believe that a person in a male
Speaker 2: body can be a woman. They're supposed to be inclusive,
Speaker 2: that's all they know. Remember how hard it was for
Speaker 2: that gender professor when Matt Walsh asked him what a
Speaker 2: woman was. Yet, we'll be playing a little bit of
Speaker 2: that coming up. They will come up with a way
Speaker 2: to tap dance around the issue, but we're gonna call
Speaker 2: them on it, and it's gonna be fun to watch
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty