WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Thursday Hour Two 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.520 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.680 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:31.760 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong not 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.600 live from Studio c Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.919 We're off for taking a break. Come on, you get 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.640 a break, We get a break. We'll be back live 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.720 for twenty five. Enjoy this carefully curated Armstrong and Getty replay. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:45.640 And as long as we're off, perhaps you'd like to 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.960 catch up on podcasts, subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on demand, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.400 or one more thing we think you'll enjoy it. Sir, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.840 I do want to talk more about the assassination of 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.600 that healthcare guy in the reaction to it online, but 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.600 also in terms of how much ignorance is being displayed. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.040 And I excuse people for this because the media never 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.360 writes about this, or very very rarely does. The unholy 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:18.680 horrific interaction between government and specifically Obamacare and Congress and 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:24.240 private healthcare and insurance. It is an unholy relationship which 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.920 forces the private insurance companies to do things that they 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.760 would not normally do. So if you think, you know, 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.479 I got denied or whatever, and it sucks and I'm angry. Well, yeah, 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.039 you've got to look at Congress and people don't understand that. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.920 So maybe we'll get Craig gott Wallace on to talk 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.800 about that later this week, or talk about ourselves. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.640 But anyway, we're going to talk to a couple of 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.720 our favorite military analysts about what's going on in the 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.440 Middle East, because the United States is involved. Absolutely, we 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.400 have troops there and did a lot of bombing yesterday 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.000 in Syria, for instance. So that'll be at least an 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.280 hour two. I hope you can catch that. An economic 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.440 thing that I find interesting. Last week I was bemoaning 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.880 the fact to that I did not buy bitcoin. Even 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.000 even if I had bought bitcoin after the first time 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.240 I bemoined bitcoin after the election, I still would have 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.440 done well. And then it hit one hundred thousand dollars 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.640 last week and whatever. But this article on the Wall 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.920 Street Journal young men are making risky bets on crypto 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.120 and politics and raking it in right now, I thought 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.960 was an more interesting sociological story than financial story about 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.880 the way young men feel in this country. And as 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.800 a guy who's raising a couple of young men, it 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.799 worries me a lot and did you know this if 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.920 you had a hypothetical portfolio. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.200 Of course, nobody would have this, so it's a little unfair. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.400 But if you had a hypothetical portfolio holding equal amounts 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.080 of bitcoin, gold, the meme stock, game stop, and the 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.200 sports betting stock draft kings, you would have returned sixty 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.320 two percent so far this year. That has tripled the 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.520 returns of a traditional portfolio that most of us have. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.960 Sixty percent stocks, forty percent bonds, that sort of thing. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.360 Sixty two percent. That'd be a pretty good year if 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:04.239 you had those days. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.040 Yeah, but it's mostly young men that are doing this thing, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.080 these things, these kind of stocks. Some forty two percent 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.160 of men's ages ages eighteen to twenty nine invested in 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.359 or used crypto, versus only seventeen percent. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.120 Of women in that age group. A Pew Research. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:24.400 Center said almost eleven percent of men say they are well, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.840 I'll skip that, I'll get to this because I don't 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:26.880 want to. I want to use a part time. I 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:27.959 want to get to the part that I think is 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.040 actually most important. Some men say they have little choice 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.840 but to roll the dice in a world they believe 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.840 is stacked against them. Their participation in the labor force 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.880 is falling while it's growing for women in their age. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.400 Young men are is less likely to enroll in college. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.920 Men out earn women in the workplace and are more 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.720 likely to reach executive level positions. But some forty five 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.720 percent of young men said in twenty twenty three they 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.880 face gender discrimination. Only a third of men said that 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.920 in twenty nineteen. It's now almost half. That's how much 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.960 it's grown in just a few years, according to recent survey. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.040 And then it goes through how many women are in 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.480 college campuses, and are this percentage of that and that 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:15.400 percentage of the I think the view that younger men 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.800 have of themselves in their role in society. Wow, that's 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.359 an underappreciated problem we have in the country, and I 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:22.920 don't know what we. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:23.680 Do to fix it. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:30.119 I agree completely absolutely. You combine, you know, the things 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.560 you mentioned with people are not coupling, partly because so 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.000 many women are radical leftists who won't couple with anybody 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.520 who's not a radical leftist. You got to just the 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.840 value of the nuclear family being diminished in society, and 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.360 just all of the things that all of the like 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.479 most fundamental and primal things that drive men. I will 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.000 provide and I will protect have been taken away. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.120 We've talked about this for a couple of years about 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:02.480 how the percentage of working age may bills that are 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.440 not in the workforce is as high as it was 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:05.680 during the Great Depression. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.839 That's horrifying, Yeah it is and strange. Yes, it is 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.160 very strange in a society that's not, like, really focused 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.359 on what's going on. There is gonna pay price for 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.719 it at some point. No, because of the utterly moronic 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.039 whatever they say it was the second phase of feminism 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.320 or something where to be pro woman meant to be 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.280 anti man, which is just an idiotic notion. But that 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.320 doesn't mean it wasn't really popular. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.279 But does this surprise anybody that more women come out 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.279 of high school thinking, oh, yeah, here are the many 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.719 opportunities for me in America of ways to make a 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.640 living and make a go of it in the world. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.360 And it's much much less so for. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.800 Young men to feel like, you know, college is for me, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.400 welcoming for me, or this career path or whatever. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.039 I have no data to prove this point, but I 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.120 suspect that it's true. I think a lot of young 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.839 men also emerge from their schooling beaten down right because 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.920 they have been systematically given the message there is something 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.960 wrong with you merely because you are male, but also 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.080 because like as a little boy. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.279 You acted like a male. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.400 Masculinity of any sort, including boyish energy, is pathologized in 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:27.200 our sick, sick communist government schools, combined with an attitude 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.080 that is changing things to Mike Row and lots of people, 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.760 but an attitude of the kind of jobs that a 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.840 lot of men would like to do are belittled, and 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.520 you know, paper pushing jobs that more women would be 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.400 more interested in are seen as fantastic. Well in just 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:47.040 the whole Obama era smugness about of course everything he 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.799 did had smugness about it. But the idea that college 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:55.160 is the only route for the respectable and those unwashed 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.680 idiot brutes who don't go to college and work their 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:05.280 menial jobs building HIVAC companies and being carpenters and whatever, 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:06.000 that's just. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.120 Sad, so sad. Do they even have the power of speech, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.800 those brutes? I mean, that was the attitude. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.360 So if the takeaway from that article in the Wall 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.880 Street Journal was supposed to be that men feel like 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.720 they either do or just feel like they have no 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.960 route to success in America. They're going to take these 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.920 higher risk bets on crypto and some of these other stocks. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.960 The Wall Street Journal of all publications shouldn't go with 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.200 if you had this imaginary portfolio. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:36.840 Well nobody does so. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.000 And even if you had that imaginary portfolio, you'd have 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.440 to get in at the right time and get out 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.280 at the right time to take advantage of that. So 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.880 I mean, again, the Wall Street Journal of all places 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.400 shouldn't shouldn't play that kind of game, right, right? 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.119 Exactly? Yeah? 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.880 I uh, well, I've had more to say on that, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.320 but that's probably enough for now. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.000 Well would you say, am I right or wrong about this? 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.640 Maybe I'm just trying to assume my hurt feelings over 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:07.040 the fact that I don't understand cryptocurrency. Is it just 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.560 a very small percentage of people that are actually getting 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.040 in and getting out at the right times? 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:12.280 Too? 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.680 Oh yeah, yeah, I mean every time it goes up, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.960 it goes down again, and those people take a bath. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.200 But that's not very exciting to write or read about. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.720 So it's like people who lose at Vegas. They don't 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.800 come home and tell their friends the other part of it, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.640 And this is the part that I decided not to say, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.520 but I'll go ahead. I lost four thousand dollars. Then 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:35.360 I got chlymydia. Nobody ever told me that. So I 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.760 used to play a fair amount of poker. I play 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.200 less now. And I think it's interesting that what is 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.200 one of the big financial places has all of their 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:47.600 new associates take one hundred hours of poker training and 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.800 playing and all so they start to understand risk and 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.960 levels of risk and that sort of thing. And I 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.280 don't get frustrated about missing these meme stocks and stuff 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.520 like that more than a little because and I hope 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.679 this makes sense to if you play poker, it certainly does. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.040 You have a policy depending on where you are in 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.000 the game, how many chips you have, whatever. If I 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.920 have like a decent hand, I will roll the dice 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.480 and pay some to see, like in Texas, hold them 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.160 the flop. Those are the three community cards that come 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.800 out first. But if I have a crap hand, I 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.199 have a three and a seven, for instance, I'm not 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.720 going to pay anything to see that flop because it's 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.280 just unlikely as a percentage, it's not likely enough that 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.120 it would bear out for me. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.079 And sometimes so you fold your hand. Then sometimes the 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:41.720 flop is three threes. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.800 I'd have had quad threes and taken everybody's money, but 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.559 that doesn't matter. My policy is I do the math 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.160 in my head, and I don't gamble on things not 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.200 worth gambling on. So as long as you have like 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.800 a method to the madness of your investing in your 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.800 financial moves and don't beat an maybe it is. Maybe 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.760 you're young and untethered and you chase meme stocks and 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:04.920 bitcoin and stuff like that. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.920 Good for you, but y fun. I'm kind of jealous. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.760 But why does the Wall Street Journal crowd talk up 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.080 crypto like it is solid sound investment strategy. They don't 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.440 believe that. There's no way most of the people in 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.800 the Wall Street Journal believe that. No, it's almost just 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.480 purely speculation. So just it's exciting, It gets clicks, So 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.160 it's just like any other newspaper. It's just yeah, I 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.160 see those articles. I read them too, Yeah, yeah, and 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.240 I kicked myself right in the ass. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:31.960 Yeah. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.960 I try not to because that that whole foma thing. Oh, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.280 it comes on strong, doesn't it. It's like you run 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.160 into a guy who says, yeah, I bought Apple in 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.079 nineteen ninety one at four dollars. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:47.920 Shut up. Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up, you're right. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.599 Nobody ever says I got into bitcoin late, thought I 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.480 would jump on it. I lost a bunch of money 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.640 and I got chlmydia once again. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.280 I don't know how this guy got clividio and my 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.679 stories everybody gets chlmydia. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:58.640 Well, it's everywhere. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.600 Careful the Armstrong and Getty Show, Yeah, or Jack your 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.240 Shoe podcasts and our hot Lakes. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.160 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.160 One question I don't know the answer to, because we're 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.640 in this business so we are really not in touch 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.600 with the average person is how much regular people are 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.000 paying attention to this. I've heard a number of people 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:34.600 punditing around how normal people aren't paying attention to anything 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.240 that's going on politically right now. They kind of hear 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.439 about it and think Trump won't actually be the candidate. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.040 Willie or Biden's too old, isn't he? 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.720 But they aren't paying any attention at all to any 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.920 of this stuff, and this will be their first introduction 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.040 to the thing where and that might be part of 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:50.920 Biden's strategy. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.200 Hey, Trump's the candidate. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.160 Did you all realize that he's running again, that a 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.320 lot of people haven't really grasped this yet. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.040 So I don't know. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:00.400 I don't know if that's true enough, Like I said, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.520 because I'm in this business, it seems crazy to me. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.400 But right, Yeah, it's difficult to put yourself in the 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.040 place of the non news junkie. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.439 Yeah. I look back to my earlier life though, and 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.680 I wouldn't have I wouldn't have been aware of any 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.560 of this stuff that we talk about every day, none 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:18.079 of it. I think vast majority of Americans don't buy 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.800 it's by v Trump. I'll it it's eighty plus anymore 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:22.679 on any of the issues. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:27.640 I doubt it. Oh no, not really, Well, it depends 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:28.040 what issue. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.160 I mean. I'm looking at an immigration story here that's 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.560 actually quite an interesting More than half of immigrants in 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:33.720 the US are unemployed. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.440 So much for the whole weather boon to the economy, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.080 they had to take jobs. Americas wop too. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.360 I was switching around and I was on Fox this 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.920 morning and they had a live camera at the border 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.640 with a bunch of people running across, and Brian Kilmead said, hey, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.359 look some future lifeguards. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.880 Has anybody explained that the bizarre and inexplicable Eric Adams 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.079 quote that why do. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.439 We have all these migrants who are so skilled that 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.000 we need lifeguards? 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.520 So as long as I brought it up, more than 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.880 half of the foreign born immigrant population in the United 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.920 States under President Joe Biden's administration is I'm unemployed. According 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.200 to a recent report Center for Immigration Studies released apport 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.600 Monday that showed just forty six percent of migrants who 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.000 arrived in the US in the last two and a 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.559 half years were employed as the beginning of twenty four. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.200 Well there their activists would argue, they need permits, they're 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.160 eating something. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:37.200 Who's paying for the food? Taxpayers, the gunment, and the NGOs. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:42.839 Yeah. Report found that also found that since Biden took 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.560 office in January twenty one, the migrant population why are 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.280 we using the term migrant in breight part, the immigrant 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.880 population in the United States increased by roughly six point 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:55.600 six million over the course of thirty nine months. Six 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.200 point six million in less than four years. See, I 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.199 ended up in the shower last night. This is what 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.280 I do for fun. This makes me a crazy person. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.040 And the shower last night was like talking out loud 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.120 as if I were Donald Trump in the debate with 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.120 Joe Biden on how I would handle this whole thing, 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.360 I guess because I'd just taken in so much information 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.680 about it. But make some sort of speech about I 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:15.280 agreed to. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.920 All your rules. You wanted all these different rules. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.440 You picked the moderators, you picked the place, you said, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.160 no audience, you want the mics. Fine, nothing is going 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.640 to get you to cover up the fact that the 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.640 three main issues, according to every poll in America for 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.040 months and months and months, the economy, immigration, and inflation, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.520 you have failed on like nobody has ever failed before. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.320 Then you lay out some statistics and you just hit 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.640 that like five times. Yeah, yeah, I would love to 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.600 see that. I get the idea Trump is listening a 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.560 bit more to his advisors, a bit more disciplined than 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.400 he's been in the past. But whether he will go 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.760 in loaded for bear in that way, I do not know. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:58.960 I did never know with him. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.520 He's got to have this stats at hand on the 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.160 immigration stuff. The numbers, percentages are the wraw numbers to 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.040 let people know, I mean, getting back to the course, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.640 immigration is been the number one or two issue in 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.040 all the polling, So people are paying attention enough to know. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.040 That right, I would agree. That's actually why I brought 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:18.280 it up. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.280 I think people are acutely aware of that, even if 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.040 they're not terribly politically active, they're seeing it around them. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.000 They're local towns and schools and emergency rooms and the 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.920 rest of it. My frustration with Trump is that he'll 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.400 probably come to the debate with like one statistic on immigration, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.960 seven million immigrants, Joe, and then somebody will fact check 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.960 it and cast a little doubt on whether seven is 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.280 an accurate number or not. And since that's all he 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.680 leans on, it'll be easy to dismiss it. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.480 But I don't know. We'll all find out together. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:53.800 The inflation thing again, the news coverage of it yesterday. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.680 Good news for consumers is they'll notice inflation slowing. Good 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.600 news when you go to the grocery store. Oh no, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.400 that's not the way inflation works. You don't notice the 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.920 inflation rates slowing. That's not something you feel. People are 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.760 gonna continue to for a long time to feel shocked 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.800 by prices when we go and buy stuff, and the 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:16.200 fact that the Democrats don't get that, so he needs 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.840 to have some answer for that. I don't know if 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.920 Joe Biden is going to go with the it's the 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.000 corporation sticking it to you, gouging you. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:27.880 But he's got to have some answer for inflation. Yeah right, Please. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.840 At the very least, I'm putting my hands together in 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.360 traditional prayer. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.160 Style praying to Donald Trump. Ooh, a cultist bibe. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.560 One fact to at least be ready to rebut Donald, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.640 is if Joe Biden comes out there and once again says, hey, 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.360 when I came into office, inflation was nine percent, thanks 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:46.720 to you. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.600 Because he's said that in two interviews in two weeks now, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:55.120 and it's just as wrong as wrong could be. Please, Donald, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:56.480 be ready to rebut that. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.240 Yeah, they hit little KJP with that, Yes, sir in 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.120 the press room, and it was that job will cost 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:04.000 you a bit of your soul. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:04.840 She had to say. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.639 What the President is seeking to emphasize is that the 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.320 American people are feeling the effects of inflation. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.679 So she didn't go there. Huh No, she just dodged it. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.439 Of course, what's she gonna say, Well, he lied, he 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.520 made it up, or he's senile and doesn't know fact 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:27.000 from fiction anymore, or you repeat the easily checked lying 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.520 number again and embarrass yourself even more. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.879 Right, so yeah, it's a tough situation to be in Armstrong. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:46.639 And Jack, Armstrong and Shoe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.800 Welcome to a replay of The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 We are on vacation, but boy do we have some 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:57.240 good stuff for you. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.680 Now on with the infotainment. Starbucks anounts this week. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.240 It's doubled it's paid parental leave policy for baristas, while 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.040 Duncan employees are still insisting they're not the father. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.600 How is that? What is that? That's some sort of 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.879 what coast thing? I don't get? Wow? What sort of 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.040 odd snobbery? The elite elite is out? 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.640 Speaking of the elite, you know, I know you wanted 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.160 to talk about something, and we will, By God, we will. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.920 But you know I'm a big Brett Bear fan. It's 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.320 an article in the Wall Street Journal. The incoming Secretary 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:38.119 of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, just bought Brett Bear's home in 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.960 DC for twenty nine million dollars. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:47.840 Brett Bear of Fox Yes is selling a home for 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:49.000 twenty nine million dollars. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.640 That's because he bought one in Palm Springs a couple 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.879 of years ago, where he lives now. Apparently for thirty 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.679 seven million, so he owned Brett doing pretty well. So 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.200 he's been owning a thirty seven million dollar home home 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.879 while owning another thirty million dollar home least for a 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.320 little while, waiting for that to clear the market. Yeah, wow, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.359 there are that many buyers at that level? 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.440 No, Jeck, wouldn't that. That's got to be something. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.200 There's got to be like five people in the entire country, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.320 maybe not even that many, because you'd have to be 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.600 conceivably able to afford. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.200 It and then have any interest in buying a home 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:23.840 at that moment. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.200 So it might be like two people in the nation 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.200 at any given moment that could and want to buy. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.359 A home at that price range. I realize if you 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.119 have to ask, you can't afford it. But what the 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.920 hell are the property Texas on a house like that? 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:37.880 Yeah? 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:49.280 Hi karamba, yeahar bear. Thanks for that, Michael, A couple 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:54.600 things for you you can't overseell. 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.680 I don't think what a big deal it is. The 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.720 Wall Street Journal has this big piece on o'biden's brain 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.480 and how they've been hiding it forever. Here's an interesting thing. 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.320 Just teasing it because we're gonna talk about it. To 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.520 kick off hour two. We got to talk about it 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.240 every hour the whole show today because it's a big deal. 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:14.960 A couple of things that I've come across in terms 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.879 of just teasing the story for later is Matt Welch 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.119 pointing out PolitiFact said the lie of the year is 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.760 they're eating the dogs, They're eating the cats from Donald Trump, 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.320 that's the lie of the year, and links the Wall 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.480 Street Journal story saying White House meetings were frequently canceled 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.120 because Joe Biden's brain didn't work. Yeah, yeah, the dogs 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.480 and cats saying bigger lie than the hiding the fact 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.600 that they had to cancel meetings all the time because 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:40.400 the president's. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:40.760 Of brain didn't act. 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.800 And where am I seeing most of the stuff the 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.280 little snippets of the Wall Street Journal piece from James 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.200 Holman of the Washington Post, who's retweeting all the most 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.280 juicy stuff from the Wall Street Journal story, probably because 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.080