Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty enough He.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: And from Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 4: We have a diaspora that that can absorb a significant
Speaker 4: number of these migrants, and that you know, when I
Speaker 4: hear colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the
Speaker 4: n being closed, no room in the end, I'm saying,
Speaker 4: you know, I need more people in my district, but
Speaker 4: just for redistricting purposes, and those members could could clearly
Speaker 4: fit here.
Speaker 1: That's the quiet part out loud Congresswoman Vet Clark from
Speaker 1: New York saying we need lots in lives, lots of
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants here because then you know that helps with redistricting.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's the sort of claim that Tucker Carlson makes
Speaker 2: and then gets attacked for, right, right, yeah, or we've
Speaker 2: made what is that called there's a name for that
Speaker 2: that they accused Tucker of all the time, the Tucker
Speaker 2: crowd replacement theory or a.
Speaker 3: Great replacement theory. Yeah, it's kind of it's on the
Speaker 3: same page.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I'd like to call this a tale
Speaker 1: of two mayors and a president. A tale of two
Speaker 1: mayors and a president. New San Francisco tyonical poll released
Speaker 1: just two days ago, found that seventy three percent of
Speaker 1: San Francisco's approof of Mayor Daniel Lurry's first six months
Speaker 1: in office. This is only twenty five percent disapprove. And
Speaker 1: they are crack pop. This is incredible. I don't live
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, but I wish they would have pulled me,
Speaker 1: because I've been saying saying this for a while now
Speaker 1: with my own anecdotal evidence, from my own eyeballs as
Speaker 1: a guy who goes into downtown San Francisco on a
Speaker 1: regular basis, it is night and day different from what
Speaker 1: it was a year or two ago.
Speaker 2: Night and day. Yeah, last time I was there with
Speaker 2: my son, we had to walk to the Tenderloin to
Speaker 2: find a homeless person. I wanted to show my son,
Speaker 2: you know what the worst part of San Francisco was.
Speaker 2: But just walking around the regular areas, no homeless people. Zero.
Speaker 2: You couldn't say that fairly.
Speaker 1: Recently, I prefer the term transient drug addict or junkies.
Speaker 1: But to each their own. Evan Simon a great piece
Speaker 1: in the California Globe describes how Mayor London breed and
Speaker 1: the city council communist what was his name, Aaron Peskin
Speaker 1: who also ran, but how Laurie crushed them. Daniel Lourie
Speaker 1: the new guy, and he goes into how they tried
Speaker 1: to tack to the center, but people weren't having it
Speaker 1: because San franciscould become the poster child for dysfunction. One
Speaker 1: of his first acts was to declare a fentanyl state
Speaker 1: of emergency. Shortly thereafter, Lurie spearheaded a massive cut to
Speaker 1: the San Francisco budget, helping solve the overspending problems that
Speaker 1: plagued the Braden administration while not cutting the SFPD or
Speaker 1: public safety funding. In the past few weeks, Lori has
Speaker 1: kept up the trend of undoing the progressive policies by
Speaker 1: cracking down on junkie camps, by severely limiting RV parking times,
Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff, and again seventy three percent
Speaker 1: approval rating in his first six months.
Speaker 2: I'd like for him some of the stuff that's happened.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any reporting on, like how did the
Speaker 2: sidewalks and streets get so clean? They did they use
Speaker 2: fire hoses on everything overnight at some point. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just it's just like sparkling clean compared to what
Speaker 2: it was a year ago. It's stunning. I've never seen
Speaker 2: anything change as much as San Francisco changed in the
Speaker 2: amount of time that I've been going there.
Speaker 1: You know, it's as simple, as simple as and the
Speaker 1: fact that people don't get this frightens me. It's as
Speaker 1: simple as if your town is crappy, it's because it's
Speaker 1: being run crappily. It's because of bad policy and bad politics.
Speaker 1: They can blame whatever they want, budgets or the white
Speaker 1: man or whatever. It's not that it's policy. So that's
Speaker 1: Daniel Lurie in San Francisco. Then you got poor old
Speaker 1: Jacob Frye in Minneapolis, the left wing activist Minnesota mayor
Speaker 1: Minneapolis mayor. You may remember him weeping openly in the
Speaker 1: wake at George Floyd's death. It was called performative here
Speaker 1: in the Washington Examiner, he wailed about one hundred years
Speaker 1: worth of intentional segregation institutionalized racism. He downplayed Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter riots by claiming the rioters were from out of
Speaker 1: state and probably conservative plants.
Speaker 3: Blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1: Well, when it came time for him to get re elected,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Democratic Farm Labor Party abandoned him and instead
Speaker 1: endorsed his top opponent, State Senator Omar Fatah, a destructive
Speaker 1: left wing dielogue, a socialist, a Jew hater, an is lomist,
Speaker 1: anti police activist. They just dumped Jacob Fry. Jacob, you
Speaker 1: bent over backwards. You prostituted yourself to these people, and
Speaker 1: they dumped you because of the color of your skin.
Speaker 1: You are a white fella. You will not do anymore.
Speaker 1: Good luck of Minneapolis. I told you two mayors and
Speaker 1: a president. Here's the president. The fabulous Neil Ferguson wrote
Speaker 1: a great piece for the Free Press about Harvier Malay
Speaker 1: Milai and what he's accomplished in Argentina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some of these stats are incredible.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was rooting for him so hard when he
Speaker 1: got elected a year and a half ago. When he
Speaker 1: was sworn in in the end of twenty three, Argentina
Speaker 1: economy was an incurable basket case gross domestic product who's
Speaker 1: shrinking by one and a half percent or more a year.
Speaker 1: According to the IMF, per capita gross domestic product on
Speaker 1: an inflation adjusted basis was lower in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: than it had been in twenty oh seven. Public finances
Speaker 1: in disarray. IMF estimated total public debt around ninety percent
Speaker 1: of GDP forty billion, of it was owed to the IMF,
Speaker 1: a culmination of no fewer than twenty two programs. They
Speaker 1: mentioned the previous socialist government's reckless physical and monetary policies
Speaker 1: that created annualized inflation. Get this, you remember when it
Speaker 1: was like nine percent and people are screeching, they're annualized
Speaker 1: inflation exceeded two hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how you function in societies like that,
Speaker 2: So that ten dollars steak is now thirty dollars two
Speaker 2: days later or one year later. Rather, I hope, I
Speaker 2: hope I ever lived through anything like that. I've always
Speaker 2: been amazed when you hear those stories, just like you
Speaker 2: just give up, like immediately, like I'm I'm I'm broke,
Speaker 2: I'm completely broke. Everything I've worked for my whole life
Speaker 2: is gone.
Speaker 1: And then for meal wheel barrow full of cash to
Speaker 1: buy a loaf of bread, right, you know, in the
Speaker 1: last days of the Confederacy or whatever. The so it
Speaker 1: was annualized inflation exceeding two hundred percent. Indeed, the wholesale
Speaker 1: price inflation in December of twenty three, when Mela took
Speaker 1: over was fifty four percent.
Speaker 3: Months over month.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, technically hyperinflation according to the widely accepted definition.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's see. Well, if that's not, I don't know
Speaker 3: what you gotta be.
Speaker 1: Uh to give you some idea that in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: the price of a latte roughly tripled from fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: pass to forty five hundred.
Speaker 3: If you're a.
Speaker 2: Lat if you're still drinking lattes when inflation is five
Speaker 2: hundred percent or whatever, Wow, you're optimistic. I'd got to
Speaker 2: go ahead and like just to make coffee at home.
Speaker 1: Maybe, And restaurants and coffee shops had to print their
Speaker 1: price their menus on paper because they were adjusting their
Speaker 1: prices twice a month.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what he inherited.
Speaker 1: After less than twenty months, Milai has eliminated the fiscal deficit,
Speaker 1: cutting it from five percent of GDP to zero. He's
Speaker 1: reduced the number of government ministries from eighteen to eight. Chainsaw,
Speaker 1: Remember he gifted the Elon Musk with the chainsaw uh,
Speaker 1: he said, Ministry of Tourism in sports out, Ministry of
Speaker 1: Culture out, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development out, Ministry
Speaker 1: of Women, Gender and Diversity out, over and over again.
Speaker 1: With the Executive Order seven he issued a few days
Speaker 1: after he was inaugurate, and he deregulated key markets including
Speaker 1: property rentals, commercial airlines. Oh, property rentals, mamdami. He deregulated them,
Speaker 1: deregulated commercial airlines, and rode freight transport labor. Market reforms
Speaker 1: took longer, but were enacted after a fight with Congress.
Speaker 1: You know, I could get into more statistics and all.
Speaker 1: He overhauled the imports system, removed quota's licenses, NOLL certifications,
Speaker 1: and how did you still long term program with tax
Speaker 1: and regulatory reform?
Speaker 2: How did he do it? Indian casinos? Uh No.
Speaker 1: But the result of the shock therapy has been a
Speaker 1: stunning recovery. He's brought monthly inflation down from thirteen percent
Speaker 1: to two percent. The economy is not shrinking anymore, it's
Speaker 1: growing at seven percent a year. Investors are buying up
Speaker 1: Argentine stocks and bonds, which they had not for a
Speaker 1: very long time after a brief upward jump. Because there's
Speaker 1: going to be pain when you administer shock to his system.
Speaker 1: The poverty rate has fallen from forty two percent to
Speaker 1: thirty one percent. There's a great deal to be done,
Speaker 1: but it is a stunning success. As of course it is.
Speaker 1: The free market works so much better. In fact, that's
Speaker 1: a too faint a way to put it. The free
Speaker 1: market is worlds better, world's better than government control.
Speaker 2: Just because you mentioned the Free Press that you're reading
Speaker 2: from Barry Weiss who started the Free Press. She was
Speaker 2: a journalist at the New York Times. She's a lefty,
Speaker 2: but not as crazy as the other lefties there. They
Speaker 2: were also woke. They hated her partially because she supported Israel. Anyway,
Speaker 2: she left the New York Times started her own thing,
Speaker 2: the Free Press. She's trying to go public with that,
Speaker 2: and its evaluation is going to be somewhere between two
Speaker 2: hundred million and two hundred and fifty million dollars. Great,
Speaker 2: she started it two years ago. I wish I had
Speaker 2: a shred of that. Good for her, Yeah, she's terrific.
Speaker 2: I love the Free Press. I'm a big fan. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I see it as you know, one of the good
Speaker 2: guys winning, which is always nice, but just that there's
Speaker 2: a hunger out there for reasonable journalism obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know she and most of the staff there, well,
Speaker 1: they have all sorts of I mean, they have Neil
Speaker 1: Ferguson who is unapologetically conservative, but they're liberals, not progressives.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Between her and Mark Hauprin's amazing growing success and
Speaker 2: everywhere that he is and all the things he's got going,
Speaker 2: it gives me some hope that there are enough people
Speaker 2: out there that want even if it's not their cup
Speaker 2: of tea politically, they believe you're trying to be honest
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: Right, That's that's what I want.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're you know, way to left
Speaker 2: me on your politics, as long as I believe what
Speaker 2: you're telling me is true, and then we can come
Speaker 2: to different conclusions.
Speaker 3: Right you're not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hate being pandered to. It's insulting to
Speaker 1: my intelligence. A lot of people like it. It feels
Speaker 1: ooogy to me, but you know, to each of their own. Eh,
Speaker 1: you sink or swim in this business, and so far
Speaker 1: we're swimming. We appreciate you being here. If you like
Speaker 1: the show, tell a friend. If you don't mind your own.
Speaker 2: Business, we're the ten wealthy of suburbs in America, among
Speaker 2: other things we could talk about just for fun.
Speaker 3: I don't know. We got to come up with some.
Speaker 1: I used to live next door to one of them. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're one of the incredibly wealthy from birth Silverspoon. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's the patchwork of Chicago suburbs. You had very affluent,
Speaker 1: then kind of nice, and then very working class.
Speaker 2: Cheek bajow armstrong. An elite getty is what we'll call it.
Speaker 3: That's not even.
Speaker 2: We'll get this up. Venus Williams won a tennis match
Speaker 2: last night. Interesting note about that. You'd hate to be
Speaker 2: the one who lost that lost to her. Anyways, stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Lots of stuff on the way.
Speaker 1: So as we speak, right now, the sentencing hearing is
Speaker 1: going on for Brian Kohlberger, the monstrous psychopath, former PhD
Speaker 1: student in criminology, who butchered those four poor young people
Speaker 1: in Idaho to see if you could get away with it,
Speaker 1: I think, and and the survivors are families are testifying
Speaker 1: right now, and uh and it's incredibly heavy and traumatic
Speaker 1: and sad and brutal and any but a.
Speaker 3: Friend of mine who's watching this Live.
Speaker 1: Just told me one of the moms sad, you got
Speaker 1: a's in college, but you're going to get big d's
Speaker 1: in prison.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, I have no idea how I would react.
Speaker 1: I pray god I never find out. But oh, that's
Speaker 1: quite a line.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Why what's the motivation to participate in this sort of thing?
Speaker 2: I feel like, And you know, I haven't spent a
Speaker 2: lot of time thinking about this, because who wants to.
Speaker 2: I feel like I wouldn't not dignifying you with even
Speaker 2: talking to you, go to prison for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life, you scum back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they pressed him with a series of questions
Speaker 1: and all I'm sorry, I was super serious.
Speaker 3: I just I couldn't believe that line.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we'll have more on that later. Oh those poor people.
Speaker 2: But what what is what is in theory the goal
Speaker 2: of this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: You have the right to confront the person, Well, it's
Speaker 1: part of the sentencing. You go before the court and
Speaker 1: you explain, yes, his crime was terrible and here's why.
Speaker 1: So he can because he has attorneys saying, look, he
Speaker 1: was a troubled kid.
Speaker 3: He got kicked around or whatever.
Speaker 1: He should get a very light sentence, and the family
Speaker 1: is there to say, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: No, So you're you're you could affect how long the
Speaker 2: sentence is. Absolutely, well, that'd be motivation to show up
Speaker 2: because otherwise, I just you know, you've taken enough of
Speaker 2: my time in my life, and I'm not going to
Speaker 2: dignify even speaking to you.
Speaker 3: You've come back, enjoy the rest of your life in prison.
Speaker 1: Well, and as they addressed him or asked him questions,
Speaker 1: he just stared at him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Right, that's a horrible deal.
Speaker 2: I did see what I don't remember what news shows
Speaker 2: was they were interviewing some former life sentenced prison dude
Speaker 2: talking about how they treat guys like him in prison.
Speaker 2: So she's accurate. He is not going to have a
Speaker 2: good time in prison unless there's a tremendous effort made
Speaker 2: to separate him from the regular population.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, do we want to hit the audio and
Speaker 1: we'll do the Venus Williams things next?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do this quick message from
Speaker 3: our youngest daughter.
Speaker 1: Avery wanted to say, he may have received a's in
Speaker 1: high school and college, but you're going to be.
Speaker 3: Getting big D's in prison. Thank you.
Speaker 1: He's actually after laughter and then applause. I know, Oh
Speaker 1: I laughed too when I heard it first. But good lord,
Speaker 1: that's some dry, dark humor. She means peniss, Yes, she does.
Speaker 1: He's going to be raped in prison.
Speaker 3: Goodness.
Speaker 2: You know that's not the way the system is supposed
Speaker 2: to work. As a libertarian ish person, we have a
Speaker 2: system for figuring out to punish it. It is, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't include extracurricular punishment by the.
Speaker 1: Big Venus toughest guys who then get their sexual jollys
Speaker 1: while they're in prison.
Speaker 3: No, it's not our system, but I get it.
Speaker 2: But I don't mind that it's going to happen. How
Speaker 2: about that? I don't mind that that will happen to him?
Speaker 3: Horrifying.
Speaker 2: That is Venus Williams, the tennis player. Do you remember her?
Speaker 2: She's forty five years old. She won a tennis match
Speaker 2: last night, in actual WTA tennis event, the oldest player
Speaker 2: to ever win an actual sanctioned by the group that
Speaker 2: sanctions all these tennis tournaments match. We'll hear from her,
Speaker 2: and we'll revisit her father. Longtime listeners of The Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty Show Remember this is one of our favorite
Speaker 2: clips of all time. If we were going to do
Speaker 2: a clip of the you know, Armstrong and Getty universe,
Speaker 2: it would make the top ten. I mean it's pretty
Speaker 2: good that and other stuff on the way. Stay tuned.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: I had to come back for the insurance because they
Speaker 4: informed me earlier this year.
Speaker 3: I'm on Cobra.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny.
Speaker 4: Sounds like I got to get my benefits on him
Speaker 4: started training.
Speaker 3: She's actually not lying about that because we talked about
Speaker 3: that about six years ago.
Speaker 2: So you're actually telling the truth.
Speaker 3: You know, Inra insurance is has insurance. You guys know
Speaker 3: what it's like.
Speaker 2: And let me.
Speaker 4: Tell you, I'm always at the doctor, so I need
Speaker 4: this insurance.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's why Venus Williams came back to tennis. I
Speaker 2: have a feeling she made enough money she can cover
Speaker 2: her medical bills. But so Venus Williams became the oldest
Speaker 2: tennis player to ever win a WTA actual tennis event
Speaker 2: at age forty five, I feel like not have enough
Speaker 2: attention being given to the poor girl. A loss to
Speaker 2: her which couldn't have been her greatest day. Twenty three
Speaker 2: year old ranked thirty fifth in the world, so no slouch. Yeah,
Speaker 2: lost in straight sets to forty five year old Venus Williams,
Speaker 2: which is pretty impressive. That forty mark. There's some athletes
Speaker 2: that can compete against the good twenty one year olds when.
Speaker 1: They're forty, but not much further than that. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are rare stories. Sure, that's what good she is obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 1: forty five is getting up there. Any who, Venus Williams
Speaker 1: who won her She won her first match, her big
Speaker 1: tournament when she was what like sixteen, So we're looking
Speaker 1: at like, dang near thirty years ago when she came
Speaker 1: out of Compton and took Wimbledon and US opening all
Speaker 1: these different tournaments by storm as a child, and then
Speaker 1: later her sister who actually turned out to even be better.
Speaker 1: But anyway, when do you want our first tournament? And
Speaker 1: everybody was excited about this girl. Here was her dad
Speaker 1: in his first go around with fame, being asked about
Speaker 1: how people back in the neighborhood are reacting to.
Speaker 3: Local girl. Done good.
Speaker 5: Oh, they're all are jumping. They get jumping, and they
Speaker 5: probably going to go out and smoke a lot weed,
Speaker 5: you know, get some beer, and they even joy the
Speaker 5: rest of the night.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty earthy take, and I think everybody liked that,
Speaker 2: because a lot of your tennis professionals come from the
Speaker 2: sorts of neighborhoods where I see them actually in my
Speaker 2: neighborhood when I go lift weights to the country club.
Speaker 2: These boys and girls, lots of girls out there who
Speaker 2: are like twelve years old, with a private tennis coach
Speaker 2: tossing balls to them for a couple hours every single day.
Speaker 2: It's a lot different than the way Venus and Serena
Speaker 2: came to it.
Speaker 1: I expect the folks back in the Hamptons, we'll be
Speaker 1: enjoying some champagne, some caviat and we'll rejoy the rest
Speaker 1: of the eve.
Speaker 3: We're going to we.
Speaker 2: Weed, probably some beer, and enjoy the rest of the
Speaker 2: evening jumping.
Speaker 5: They get jumping, and you're going to go out and
Speaker 5: smoke a lot weed, you know, get some beer, and
Speaker 5: they even enjoyed the rest of the night.
Speaker 3: Yep, why wouldn't you so?
Speaker 2: Another wrinkle in the story that has grabbed so much
Speaker 2: of America, the CEO and the chick getting caught at
Speaker 2: the Cold Blade concert, and how that whole thing has
Speaker 2: played out from the overthinking it department. I've got something
Speaker 2: that was actually in the sub stack today I'll get
Speaker 2: to But so, uh, his wife has disappeared to one
Speaker 2: of their other homes. They live in a ten million
Speaker 2: dollar home, but she's disappeared to their excuse me cabin
Speaker 2: that is only worth two million dollars up in Maine,
Speaker 2: and trying to hide out because all the media is
Speaker 2: trying to get to her, which has got to suck.
Speaker 2: Which is kind of a little bit of the point
Speaker 2: of this article. I just came across by some woman.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who she is. Why are we so
Speaker 2: into this?
Speaker 3: This woman writes.
Speaker 2: It's classic schadenfreud, pleasure in another person's misfortune. But in
Speaker 2: the Internet age, it's also more than that. We've collectively
Speaker 2: decided that Andy Byron, a white man with lots of
Speaker 2: money who had the audacity to cheat on his wife
Speaker 2: in a stadium full of people, is a bad person.
Speaker 2: It's astoundingly simple. Because he is a bad person. There's
Speaker 2: no limit to what we expect him to withstand. The
Speaker 2: memes and the commentary and the AI generated comments is
Speaker 2: photo plastered on front page news sites around the world.
Speaker 2: The further we dig, the worse the man becomes. He
Speaker 2: wasn't only cheating, he was cheating with the head of HR,
Speaker 2: which turned out to be a lie. I guess, she says, sir,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: She had received a promotion very recently and was in
Speaker 2: a relationship, which is not true anyway, whatever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Was he abusing his power to hide his affair. He's
Speaker 2: the kind of man who cheats on his wife, so
Speaker 2: he's capable of anything. But what does this public shaming,
Speaker 2: this outrage, this witch hunt actually achieve. Who are we
Speaker 2: doing for at four? I suppose Andrey Byron's wife knows
Speaker 2: she is being cheated on, although I don't think we
Speaker 2: can pretend this entire spectacle is for her benefit, so
Speaker 2: we're not like piling on him to make her feel
Speaker 2: better exactly. Her name too is being published, and she's
Speaker 2: now had not go hide in a home to try
Speaker 2: to get away from everybody. Her photos are being pawed
Speaker 2: through throughout her entire life, Her life is being unpacked
Speaker 2: on social media. Now, we might think we're restoring the
Speaker 2: moral order by deriding him, expressing a tacit solidarity with her,
Speaker 2: but I imagine she kind of wishes she wasn't so
Speaker 2: famous and that this had happened in quiet, if it
Speaker 2: happened at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this person is a little overly serious about all
Speaker 1: of this. They're missing some of the main points.
Speaker 2: Well, are we doing it for women broadly? Is this justice, vengeance,
Speaker 2: symbolic power for every wife and mother who cared for
Speaker 2: their family at home while their husband cheated on them
Speaker 2: in public? Is it about wealth? Is it about privilege?
Speaker 2: Why do we enjoy that so much?
Speaker 1: I don't think having the coldplay cam at baseball games
Speaker 1: is a quote unquote witch hunt at all. I think
Speaker 1: it's funny because what they did was funny. It got
Speaker 1: attention because it was so obviously a pantomime of what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I mean, it was like it was intentional.
Speaker 1: It was so egregious and silly.
Speaker 3: But what's going on? Two things?
Speaker 1: Number one, Yeah, people are expressing a solidarity around certain
Speaker 1: values about you don't cheat in your on your spouse
Speaker 1: and you don't do it in public. And they're also
Speaker 1: doing what people do all the time. They're acting as
Speaker 1: if they're all pure hearted by condemning other people's sins.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bible is there are several references to
Speaker 1: that the whole Wait a minute, you're awfully interested in
Speaker 1: that other person's sins, aren't you. It's all you talk about.
Speaker 1: Why don't we spend a minute on yours? Nah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to do you say? Hell of a lot
Speaker 1: of that going on too?
Speaker 2: Are you claiming I got a log in my eye? Well,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to enjoy this story.
Speaker 1: Uh, roughly speaking, yes, yes, So you know there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of motives, pure impure, purely fun. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're rooting through this poor wife's life and posting her play,
Speaker 1: you're an a hole.
Speaker 3: You are, Yeah, just trying that to be an a hole?
Speaker 2: What a drag for her? I mean it would be
Speaker 2: both families with kids, just you know, horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But to add to it that, now you're like gonna
Speaker 2: get recognized at the grocery store and people are gonna
Speaker 2: want to take selfies with you while you're going through
Speaker 2: the worst time of your life that you may never
Speaker 2: recover from.
Speaker 1: Fully right, Well, speaking of a holes in British bands,
Speaker 1: uh that.
Speaker 2: Over a transition the British band.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know anything about cold Play.
Speaker 2: That's fine, Gwenna married a foreigner.
Speaker 3: I don't know I feel about that anyway.
Speaker 1: So over at the Oasis show, frontman Liam Gallagher pausing
Speaker 1: with fistfighting his brother.
Speaker 3: I think they've got that stuff behind him anyway.
Speaker 1: Said quote, and I wish I could do his Northern
Speaker 1: England accent. But do we have any love birds in
Speaker 1: the house. Don't worry, we ain't got any of that
Speaker 1: cold place ninety effing camera ass. It doesn't matter to
Speaker 1: us who you're effing mingling with or tingling with, none
Speaker 1: of our effing business. And they went into the next song. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is a very Oasis thing to say.
Speaker 2: I'm looking up at a TV show right now. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is, but it's one of your
Speaker 2: daytime television shows. And they've got some expert on having
Speaker 2: a relationship with another employee is always you know that
Speaker 2: sort of line of and they keep showing the kiss
Speaker 2: and ducking away over and over while the experts explains
Speaker 2: how having relationships said, the workplace can be front and
Speaker 2: this is why here are the eight ways to stay Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh you're exhausting. Nobody wants that. Shut up?
Speaker 1: He said, Oh my god, it's me and she gasped
Speaker 1: and dove for cover.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 2: The piling on people, though that kind of makes us
Speaker 2: feel good is a weird emotion though.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's incredibly unhealthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and almost impossible to not do.
Speaker 3: Uh to some extent. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and there are incredibly brutal, horrible, unhealthy expressions of
Speaker 1: that too. And in fundamentalist.
Speaker 2: Religious king ring.
Speaker 1: Where you don't dare say, look, that woman doesn't deserve
Speaker 1: to get stone she had raped, You don't dare say that,
Speaker 1: you've got to throw the stones with more enthusiasm than
Speaker 1: anybody else to show that.
Speaker 3: Yes, I condemn it too. Yeah, it's sick and.
Speaker 2: It's a sick tendency. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 6: Here are some other headlines tonight. A life threatening heat
Speaker 6: dome is intensifying, it's expected to.
Speaker 2: Put We didn't realize that new term is out there,
Speaker 2: A life threatening heat dome. Good lord on lt HD.
Speaker 2: Good lord, somebody warned me ahead of time.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how much of the network news likes weather
Speaker 1: stories every night on ABC.
Speaker 3: Don't life threatening storms.
Speaker 2: I refuse to believe there's an appetite for that. I
Speaker 2: think it's just easy and cheap.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe ulsters like it. I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 1: We were amused by the term life threatening heat dome though,
Speaker 1: and I said it reminded me of like a metal
Speaker 1: guy does. And unfortunately he's off today. But we thought
Speaker 1: we needed some sort of life threatening heat. Don't don't jingle?
Speaker 3: What do we have? Michael? That's pretty good?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Was here one more time?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 2: Of course in honor of the death of Oswald Osborne?
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, the great man has passed. Was that our
Speaker 1: only choice? Or do we have another one?
Speaker 3: Michael? Not Frendan, he does.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's more like a Jay gilesy feel
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: I like the first one. Oh there's more, Oh boy?
Speaker 2: Not Fred he do well, it's nothing to try for with.
Speaker 3: What would you describe that style? Ass, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Play it again? Not Threding, He don't know. Wow, like
Speaker 3: nineties hip hop pop. That was terrible.
Speaker 1: First one was best. Oh, speaking of fun in the sun,
Speaker 1: North Korea, this is exciting. You're looking for a beach vacation.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, No, where I'd like to go is North Korea.
Speaker 1: If they had a great beach resort, Well, they have opened.
Speaker 3: Such a facility. This is exciting.
Speaker 1: Kim Jong un hailed it as one of the greatest
Speaker 1: successes this year, and they've opened it up, although unfortunately
Speaker 1: some Russians went there and said all the North Koreans
Speaker 1: seem to have been brought here for appearances and they're
Speaker 1: not really here on vacation, and they published that. And
Speaker 1: so North Korea has banned foreign visitors from their hot
Speaker 1: new communist beach resort, at least for now, very very
Speaker 1: attractive a country where two thirds of the populace is starving,
Speaker 1: but they have a new beach resort for foreigners. And
Speaker 1: then this story, this is another North Korea, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna think I make this and made this up. This
Speaker 1: is so crazy, so I think I brought this up.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard this. Thousands of North Koreans are now
Speaker 1: drawing US salaries by assuming the identities of Americans to
Speaker 1: secure remote jobs. They started doing this during COVID and
Speaker 1: it's really taken off. They're like computer geeks and they're
Speaker 1: doing they actually do the jobs, although they're frequently double
Speaker 1: dipping because you can do that, I guess, and just
Speaker 1: get your work done and then go to your other job.
Speaker 3: And get your work done online.
Speaker 1: But they're drawing US currency, which they desperately, desperately need
Speaker 1: into North Korea by the thousands. This is the crazy
Speaker 1: part the FBI. I shouldn't even say this out loud,
Speaker 1: but it's been published. The FBI and other investigators are
Speaker 1: finding them now because they're bound by a few defining characteristics.
Speaker 1: Total devotion to dear leader Kim Jong Oun, of course,
Speaker 1: a penchant for stealing.
Speaker 3: Cryptocurrency, huh.
Speaker 1: And an obsession with minions, really cuddly yellow agents of
Speaker 1: evil from Despicable Me. That's one of those few Hollywood
Speaker 1: movies that they'll show in North Korea. And I guess
Speaker 1: this society is obsessed with minions keeping the world safe
Speaker 1: from grew. North Korean's love of the animated movie franchise
Speaker 1: has become a recurring of slightly baffling joke among the
Speaker 1: security researchers who investigate them. Many of these fake workers
Speaker 1: use minions and other Despicable Me characters in social media profiles,
Speaker 1: email addresses. They're just they're they're omnipresent in these people's
Speaker 1: online presence. Some investigators in initially thought their use of
Speaker 1: gru Gre was a reference to Russia's famed gru the
Speaker 1: military intelligence agency no, it was a tribute to the
Speaker 1: Minions Overlord Felonious Grew Senior. If you want to be formal,
Speaker 1: the Steve Carrell voiced animated character who tries to steal
Speaker 1: the moon.
Speaker 3: Very skinny legs on grew and final sentence.
Speaker 1: Allusions to Minions and other characters are so ubiquitous that
Speaker 1: investigators pursuing North Koreans view despicable references as a sign
Speaker 1: they might be on the right track.
Speaker 2: They get so little pop culture that the little they
Speaker 2: got they've just all grabbed onto it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they give a bunch of examples that had
Speaker 1: like Grew in their screen name or or other characters.
Speaker 2: Those movies are fairly entertaining. I've watched them with my kids.
Speaker 1: I watch I finally watched the first one and thought, wow,
Speaker 1: that's really good. The really good cartoon movies are just
Speaker 1: really good. But I've found that since my kids.
Speaker 3: Are grown, I don't seek them out each other.
Speaker 1: Fair although, you know, after a couple of glasses of
Speaker 1: wine on a Saturday nine it sounds like a good
Speaker 1: relaxing time.
Speaker 2: I watch couch watching Cars three.
Speaker 1: I didn't say I'm drunk. I had a couple of
Speaker 1: glasses of wine. I'm a grown ass man. Huh, what
Speaker 1: are you a little girl?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you know what? That was defensive and combative.
Speaker 1: I think I may have a problem. They're all pretty good, though,
Speaker 1: despicable of means.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a weak one in the bunch.
Speaker 2: I don't know why some of them have one eye
Speaker 2: and some of them have two. That's never been explained.
Speaker 3: Asha safer workplaces.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much time I got that, Michael
Speaker 2: blessly about thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll just tap down.
Speaker 1: I just saw little to do something significant, too much
Speaker 1: to just sit here, mute.
Speaker 2: I just saw up on TV. Perching is the new
Speaker 2: TikTok challenge. I guess there's some wrapper that perches. It's like, uh,
Speaker 2: it's like squatting down on one leg and then crossing
Speaker 2: your other leg over the top. Pretty sure I can't
Speaker 2: do that. I'm gonna try it as soon as the
Speaker 2: show's over. Those if I can perch anywhere, well.
Speaker 1: The last TikTok trend we talked about was like kicking
Speaker 1: in people's doors in the night. Yeah, well, risking getting shot,
Speaker 1: So perch away.
Speaker 2: Kids, This is more like an athletic test to see
Speaker 2: if you're flexible enough for strong enough.
Speaker 3: No, no, you're not. I am not. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: Thought, Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 1: Joe gettys of courses first hit, his second heat hit,
Speaker 1: his life threatening heat. Thought, Yes, get a lot of airplane. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's get a final thought from everybody on the cruise.
Speaker 1: Showed up for work today. Michael Angelo's our technical director.
Speaker 3: He's pushing in the buttons, Michael, which final thought.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out what Ozzy Osbourne
Speaker 6: says in this clip.
Speaker 2: I think it's find yourself a good plumber.
Speaker 3: But let's listen fully. And finally we went in left school.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be a plumber job faction with a plumber.
Speaker 3: I think that'd be a warm Katie Green is off
Speaker 3: for the day. Jack a final thought.
Speaker 2: So if you didn't hear, we had this story the
Speaker 2: other day. A variety of athletic things you could do
Speaker 2: that would predict the likelihood that you're going to die
Speaker 2: or live to old age, and one of them was
Speaker 2: to be able to sit on the floor and get
Speaker 2: up without using your hands and like your likelihood of
Speaker 2: death is cut by like eighty percent. If you can
Speaker 2: do it, I'm gonna give that challenge to my kids today.
Speaker 2: I think I can do it, but it might be cheating.
Speaker 2: Might have to post that video.
Speaker 1: My final thought is from our two of the show,
Speaker 1: as I recall, it's my favorite thing we talked about
Speaker 1: today and probably the most important. The idea that a
Speaker 1: tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance or it will
Speaker 1: cease to be tolerant at all.
Speaker 2: Of course, seems obvious Armstrong and Yetty wrapping up another
Speaker 2: ruling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: It's not obvious to a lot of know because the
Speaker 1: intolerant bully them, and most people are cowards. The rightty
Speaker 1: cowards friends, so many people who thanks so little time.
Speaker 1: Go to Armstrong and Getty dot com for the hot links,
Speaker 1: for the swag.
Speaker 3: Pick up a n G T shirt or hat for
Speaker 3: your favorite fan.
Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 3: Get ready, Bell, You're going to enter a problem. This
Speaker 3: is the United States of America. God's sake. Screw it,
Speaker 3: I'm leaving short.
Speaker 1: Watch your language and less tolerant of all the bulk.
Speaker 2: Do you understand?
Speaker 3: So let's go out with the buying. Are you ready?
Speaker 3: It's gonna be pathetic, that's it. What was that? I
Speaker 3: know that there's no popa toll. Oh my god, only
Speaker 3: showing America doing this.
Speaker 1: Folks, they armstrong and getty