Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Petty Enough he arms Rang and yet live
Speaker 2: from Studio c SO. So say you said you're midweek
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound and today we're toiling under
Speaker 2: the title of all the World's a tabloid, or at
Speaker 2: least we got one DoorDash driver off the streets. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's a lighthearted view. Yes, yes it is. It's kind
Speaker 2: of what I was going for. It was on purpose, okay, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: What I like best is that it has gone from
Speaker 2: These were clearly pros, people who have done this sort
Speaker 2: of thing before. What they're doing to this guy's complete
Speaker 2: hack showed up. I should cover up the camera something.
Speaker 2: There's a bush over there, let me see these branches,
Speaker 2: walk up, put your face right in front of the camera,
Speaker 2: and try to put the bushes in front of the camera.
Speaker 2: So not pros apparently.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: The Guthrie snatching, of course, our topic as all the
Speaker 4: World's a tabloid, And that's I tell you what there are.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 4: We've gotten We've received a number of emails. I don't
Speaker 4: know how the text line looks, but saying, guys, enough
Speaker 4: of that story.
Speaker 2: That's so, what are you gonna say? And and I
Speaker 2: hear what you're saying, but I think it's interesting that
Speaker 2: there is a fundamental human yearning for justice. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is at the center of these stories. You know, there
Speaker 2: are folks who would have you believe, well, it's just
Speaker 2: because there's an attractive white person involved, even by proxy,
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. No, it's not that at all.
Speaker 4: It's that we there are plenty of cases of other
Speaker 4: people being snatched up. We want justice, this human beings,
Speaker 4: we crave it. Well, there was nothing going on yesterday.
Speaker 4: There is now that's one difference. Yeah, something actually happened
Speaker 4: in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: And even more fundamental than that. People want to save
Speaker 2: a life if they can. So they got the video
Speaker 2: and they actually go to some tip They got ten
Speaker 2: thousand tips. It looks just like my cousin Jib or
Speaker 2: whatever and mustache Mike for sure. One of the tips
Speaker 2: led him to stop a guy, pull him out of
Speaker 2: his car and talk to him and then go to
Speaker 2: his house with the SWAT team. Last night, I just
Speaker 2: heard some experts say they took down doors, so they
Speaker 2: had a warrant.
Speaker 4: Took the like, came to the house and put the
Speaker 4: doors off the house, knocked them down, knocked them in.
Speaker 2: Is that what happens when there's a warrant? They just
Speaker 2: come on in? Or are they knocking? If you don't
Speaker 2: come out, they come in. I don't I should. I'm
Speaker 2: sure I've learned this five times in my life, including
Speaker 2: in college, but I don't remember. I think if they
Speaker 2: have a suspicion that there's urgency, no, they don't wait
Speaker 2: to see if somebody comes to the door, because you
Speaker 2: might shoot the victim in the meantime, right, so you
Speaker 2: just come on in. Wow, that's a pretty sin. That's
Speaker 2: a pretty scary deal. I mean, if this guy, and
Speaker 2: we'll play a little audio from him, because he's now
Speaker 2: being interviewed by news outlets. But if this guy is
Speaker 2: legit got nothing to do with it, he's just like
Speaker 2: an Amazon driver sort of person, then holy crap. What
Speaker 2: a scary thing to happen, especially when in your town
Speaker 2: you know there has been a snatching and probable murder.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, somebody busts your doors open. Holy crap.
Speaker 2: That would be scary.
Speaker 4: Well, interestingly, this guy said, I've never heard of any
Speaker 4: of these people. I don't watch the news. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: he was not afraid of a snatching It is totally unaware.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I would react if somebody busted
Speaker 2: the doors down. I mean, I'm sure they're yeller. Yeah,
Speaker 2: with tremendous fear. Maybe with my gun in my hand. Ugh,
Speaker 2: that'd go badly. Well yeah, but what are you supposed
Speaker 2: to do when people are busting your door down? Oh
Speaker 2: that's that's gotta be frightening.
Speaker 4: I think they they come in with such speed you
Speaker 4: wouldn't have time to reach for your gun if it
Speaker 4: was in your lap.
Speaker 2: Maybe. But then they talked to the guy and he's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. They left him alone,
Speaker 2: They left him. Now he's talking to media outlets saying
Speaker 2: I got nothing to do with it, although one member
Speaker 2: of the Armstrong and Getty Show said that guy's guilty
Speaker 2: as hell. Oh my irresponsible yellow journalism tabloid. Eh, he's
Speaker 2: not reacting exactly the way I would react. Oh no,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna play that game. No, But you able
Speaker 2: person wouldn't react like to that he reacted like he reacted.
Speaker 2: They busted him. He's a simpleton. He's like, what the
Speaker 2: f am I doing here?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Thank you to do anything? Thank you for declaring me not
Speaker 2: a simpleton, because that is not the way I would react.
Speaker 2: But Katie, he's a simple.
Speaker 5: I know, I know right in the body language, guys,
Speaker 5: it's all in the body.
Speaker 2: Body language. Katie Green was the body language on the case.
Speaker 2: Poor guys. You know, I'm no expert, but that was
Speaker 2: a judge that's.
Speaker 3: Close enough, and I can sense a bs or and
Speaker 3: he just said that. There's something about the way he
Speaker 3: was rubbing his hands together and cussing, oh, you.
Speaker 2: Know, the old Robin cuss I felt like I heard
Speaker 2: him as he walked away, like that, get away with it? Ye,
Speaker 2: the microphones are never mind. Oh my gosh, you too. Please.
Speaker 2: So that guy most likely had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4: And so there's no chance in the world they would
Speaker 4: have turned him loose if they had any suspicion that
Speaker 4: he might still be You don't think they'd keep an
Speaker 4: eye on him or No, No, they'd find something. You
Speaker 4: can find somebody to show me the man, I'll show
Speaker 4: you the crime. They would find something.
Speaker 2: To hold him until they figured it out exactly. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: I went to bed like a lot of people last night,
Speaker 2: thought wow, that happened fast. They got the guy. But
Speaker 2: you wake up and they let the guy loose. So
Speaker 2: maybe back to nothing ten thousand tips watts and lots
Speaker 2: of looks like my cousin Ed's, and then you got
Speaker 2: to go through and try to figure that out. Well,
Speaker 2: that'd be quite the job. It'd be the very, very
Speaker 2: tedious job. No, I would never do this, but if
Speaker 2: I lived in Houston or Tucson rather, I'd be at
Speaker 2: least slightly tempted to throw in a tip or two
Speaker 2: about my enemies, which is just like my boss. So
Speaker 2: I don't like it. That is Jim Jones. I know Jim.
Speaker 2: We used to go skiing together. That's precisely how he
Speaker 2: looked in a sche mask that it's Jim, all right.
Speaker 2: So if you're the family and none of this is
Speaker 2: the least bit amusing, obviously I'd take it as bad
Speaker 2: news that it wasn't pros, because pros are trying to
Speaker 2: make money, and the last thing they want to be
Speaker 2: involved in is they murder. They just want to get money.
Speaker 2: An amateur who shows up and thinks, oh damn, a camera.
Speaker 2: I should cover that up with something we could I
Speaker 2: use to cover that up. Lumber around, lumber around, find
Speaker 2: some shrubs. That guy a piece of bush. Like you said,
Speaker 2: that guy might not, you know, not as a non pro,
Speaker 2: might have had a plan but didn't work out the
Speaker 2: way he thought it was going to. I heard one
Speaker 2: guy who spent his career on the FBI's crisis Negotiation
Speaker 2: hostage team saying, in a pro kidnapping of an older person,
Speaker 2: they go in and they take all the medication. Wow,
Speaker 2: that is professional.
Speaker 4: That's what the backpack is for, because preservation of life
Speaker 4: is how you get paid. Sure, you must keep that personal.
Speaker 4: You have every interest, every interest in keeping that person alive.
Speaker 2: Well, that's if they're not alive, it destroys the entire
Speaker 2: point of what you're doing. And anybody over eighty has
Speaker 2: got medicine everywhere. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, that's uh, that's
Speaker 2: that's pretty interesting. Hey, Lamo, you never watched a TV
Speaker 2: show in your life where a guy carries a gun.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen anybody ever on any show in
Speaker 2: your life where they carry the gun over the crotch
Speaker 2: like that? I know it's not funny, but it's funny
Speaker 2: one time has a holster right over his schwantse well
Speaker 2: and just to just be awkward in all kinds of ways.
Speaker 2: If it's just a tool, maybe a hammer or whatever,
Speaker 2: put it on my side or my back.
Speaker 3: Why am I.
Speaker 2: Gonna put it right between my legs where you'd bend over.
Speaker 2: You're moving around. I mean, it's just what are you doing?
Speaker 2: You lame o? More proof as if we needed it.
Speaker 4: That proof that you're not smart enough for a criminal career.
Speaker 4: Is you're considering a career as a criminal, that's proof
Speaker 4: you're too dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll actually hear from the guy that they
Speaker 2: that went into his house and question a little bit later.
Speaker 2: We got other stuff to get to. We should start
Speaker 2: the show officially because we have a good Olympics clip
Speaker 2: as the opening clip. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
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Speaker 6: Now it's the Frenchman. Yannie combear thrang through the s
Speaker 6: turn Yannique bear thrang. Oh the gate to the groin
Speaker 6: for Yannie compared drawn and you could hear it, and
Speaker 6: if you're a man, you could feel it. Wow. Watch
Speaker 6: this again, Oh the Frenchman. Oh, miss you. Wow. The
Speaker 6: boys took a beating on that one.
Speaker 2: That's the actual Olympics call. It's a boy the history
Speaker 2: of France right there, right, The boys took a beating
Speaker 2: on that one. From a play by play announcer. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: And if you watch a video, he's trying to go
Speaker 2: through those you know those poles that got there when
Speaker 2: you're skiing, and he goes over one one wipes up
Speaker 2: and smacks him right in the crotch. Oh yeah, it's whatever.
Speaker 2: He's going seventy five miles per hour and you could
Speaker 2: hear it was really loud, and the crowd goes, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: miss sure, the boys took a beating on that one.
Speaker 2: His testicles got hit really hard, is what happened? Uh
Speaker 2: Soccer Blue, no kidding. We got Katie's headlines. My favorite
Speaker 2: newsletter continues to make the argument that going to war
Speaker 2: with a Ram's a really big deal and it's really
Speaker 2: really on the table, and nobody's talking about it. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just not a news story for anybody. Hence my
Speaker 2: title of the show, All the World's a tabloid.
Speaker 6: There is so.
Speaker 2: Much of real significance going on in the world, but
Speaker 2: we've just we've become internet tabloid culture. I have matters
Speaker 2: of substance to discuss. Yeah, there might be good reason
Speaker 2: for that, but we can talk about that later. We
Speaker 2: got Katy's headlines on the ways stay here, yo, yo,
Speaker 2: looking forward to some of these headlines that Katie's got
Speaker 2: because there's plenty of news out there. I uh, Joe's
Speaker 2: thing about the world has become a tabloid. We should
Speaker 2: discuss that. It's true. It's true to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: even even more so. It's been growing that way our
Speaker 2: entire adult lives. But it's getting more and more that
Speaker 2: way every single day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, later in the show, I'll be forced to concede
Speaker 4: that Don Lemon has done something very clever.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know. It pains me to my soul
Speaker 2: that I have to give him credit. But he has
Speaker 2: horrible man. Everyone get lucky sourist fruit. That's right, Michael, blind, pig, stop, clock,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
Speaker 2: lead story with Katie Green. Katie hit it all right.
Speaker 5: Well, like you guys already touched on, it is the
Speaker 5: top of every website I've gone to. ABC person released
Speaker 5: a search for armed individual, and Nancy Guthrie case continues.
Speaker 5: Fox New FBI video and Nancy Guthrie hunt shows jawline
Speaker 5: gait and details that experts say should not be ignored.
Speaker 5: At NBC, investigators wrangled the video from Nancy Guthrie's Google
Speaker 5: Nest camera out of back end systems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can explain how that went down. It's actually
Speaker 2: kind of interesting and surprising and counterintuitive. And I'll tell
Speaker 2: you the attack NBC was making on Google over that story.
Speaker 2: Oh man, the aerial shot. That is a nice house.
Speaker 2: That is a really large place. They very cool lot.
Speaker 2: Of course, her daughter makes twenty million dollars a year,
Speaker 2: so you buy mam a beautiful house. It's nice. It
Speaker 2: was nice till now.
Speaker 3: From The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5: US added one hundred and thirty thousand jobs in January,
Speaker 5: starting year off on stronger footing.
Speaker 2: You know, it's really why you should not pay attention
Speaker 2: to any social media news. I was scrolling Twitter last
Speaker 2: night latey and I couldn't sleep. I'm coming across all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. Boy, the job numbers must be this bad.
Speaker 2: If Trump's saying this, waita the lies tomorrow. The job
Speaker 2: numbers must be horrible because of blah blah blah. And
Speaker 2: I wake up when the official numbers come out and
Speaker 2: they're really good. So that was laying the groundwork for
Speaker 2: something by trolls or whatever. I don't know, or the
Speaker 2: trolls on both sides would claim the other side's administration
Speaker 2: is lying about the job numbers. Yeah, well, nobody will
Speaker 2: released anything. Complete cynicism, which has long been rushes in
Speaker 2: China's goal troubling From the.
Speaker 5: New York Times, the FAA says it is lifted. It's
Speaker 5: closure of airspace over El Paso.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was a mystery there for a day where
Speaker 2: they said they were going to close airspace over Alpasso
Speaker 2: for ten days and with no explanation. That's a crazy story.
Speaker 2: Now they've lifted it for security reasons. What the heck
Speaker 2: could apossibly been going on.
Speaker 4: They took the aliens into custody and beginning the autopsy.
Speaker 2: Alien autopsy, it's my belief. Well, then the aliens went
Speaker 2: to Texas because everybody's going to Texas, right, Texas and whatnot? Right,
Speaker 2: the aliens were in California, said the hell with this?
Speaker 5: From CBS, ACLU sues Ice in Idaho over an unconstitutional
Speaker 5: Wilder immigration raid and class action case.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's going to be lots of these over
Speaker 2: the coming year.
Speaker 5: From the New York Post, Illinois city pans out twenty
Speaker 5: five thousand dollars or cash payments to forty four black
Speaker 5: residents through reparations program.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, some small town had a reparations program where
Speaker 2: forty four people got paid.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's Evan Evanston.
Speaker 2: Oh my perfect, very very affluent, very white, home of
Speaker 2: Northwestern University or just north of Chicago. Wow, and that's
Speaker 2: that's to make up for slavery. You'll see. It is
Speaker 2: exactly the sort of town that would do that. Beautiful.
Speaker 5: From CNBC, Heineken to slash up to six thousand jobs
Speaker 5: in AI quote productivity savings amid slump and beer sales.
Speaker 2: What's hey, I gonna do for the beer company and
Speaker 2: run the machines and whatnot, push the paper. I guess
Speaker 2: that's where the drunks at, where we got to market.
Speaker 5: Heineken makes a good non alcoholic beer. By the way,
Speaker 5: some people were telling me about non alcoholic beer the
Speaker 5: other day. I haven't had one in almost twenty years,
Speaker 5: and somebody told me they are so much better than
Speaker 5: they used to be.
Speaker 3: Well fun.
Speaker 5: In fact, a majority of them contain point five percent alcohol, right,
Speaker 5: but there are a few, including Heineken, that are actually
Speaker 5: zero point zero and it tastes really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was told that non alcoholic wine has
Speaker 2: made leaps and bounds. Also, somebody ding see, I just
Speaker 2: I want the alcohol without the calories. That just kind
Speaker 2: of backwards. Do you'd like a syringe of alcohol without
Speaker 2: all the gallery? Exactly? It's pure strim study.
Speaker 3: Strum study fines.
Speaker 5: Smart underwear tracks gut bacteria by measuring flatulence.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, groa, would you know.
Speaker 6: I had?
Speaker 5: Finally, the Babylon bee wife refuses to return stolen land
Speaker 5: she took from husband's side of the bed.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Oh, there was a major case that would gratify you.
Speaker 4: Jack about land acknowledgments in.
Speaker 2: A hole I want to hear that, and we'll catch
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Speaker 1: This revision is expected that there will be about eight
Speaker 1: hundred thousand fewer jobs than originally reported in some respects.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, then the data would finally be
Speaker 1: catching up to sentiment because for nearly a year, people
Speaker 1: looking for jobs have said that it is very hard
Speaker 1: to land.
Speaker 2: One is that actually Jill Sleshingter or was that AI?
Speaker 2: Jill Sleshingter had an AI sound to it, didn't it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It really did, didn't We didn't I declare her AI
Speaker 2: like a week ago? Maybe? Anyway, we're talking about the
Speaker 2: jobs numbers that just came out. They're good today, one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five thousand and jobs added and that
Speaker 2: was more than expected and all good. But last year's numbers,
Speaker 2: the entire year, they revised downward by a lot. And
Speaker 2: Peter Navarro was making the rounds explaining his ties with
Speaker 2: Epstein and talking about how the jobs numbers were revised
Speaker 2: down a lot and what Jill Slesinger says, is, you know,
Speaker 2: the jobs numbers were pretty good last year, but people's
Speaker 2: mood was bad. And she is saying, well, now that
Speaker 2: we know the numbers were not as good as we thought,
Speaker 2: it kind of meets up with sentiment more. Oh, now
Speaker 2: I get what she was trying to say. Right, It
Speaker 2: makes more sense why people felt that way, because those
Speaker 2: weren't the real numbers.
Speaker 3: The Trump.
Speaker 2: People have been complaining about the way we do jobs
Speaker 2: numbers now for quite a while and saying they're so
Speaker 2: wildly inaccurate. The system is just not it's just broken.
Speaker 2: I forget what it is. It's like you mail in
Speaker 2: your numbers or something. I mean, it's some antiquity of facts.
Speaker 2: It over, it's some antiquated system that doesn't make sense anymore. Right.
Speaker 2: And their return rate or their response rate is plummeted.
Speaker 4: Right, And so it's a small sample size, the data
Speaker 4: comes in late.
Speaker 2: So they're so inaccurate they're almost not worth it even
Speaker 2: talking about. So anyway, that is just a lead up
Speaker 2: to this, and this may or may not have anything
Speaker 2: to do with this. This might be more about politics
Speaker 2: and just our mood. Gallup has been asking this question
Speaker 2: for twenty years. This is the lowest number they've ever had.
Speaker 2: It's still a majority, which is good, but not as
Speaker 2: high he like it to be. The most recent number,
Speaker 2: only fifty nine percent of Americans gave high ratings when
Speaker 2: asked to evaluate how good their life will be in
Speaker 2: five years? How good will your life being five years?
Speaker 2: That number is lower than it's ever been in the
Speaker 2: history of Gallup asking that question, still high, I think,
Speaker 2: at fifty nine percent, I mean, that's good, But you
Speaker 2: know you'd like I don't, man, There's never been a
Speaker 2: point in my life, even when I was broken poor,
Speaker 2: where I wouldn't have been optimistic about what things are
Speaker 2: going to be in five years. But yeah, yeah, certainly
Speaker 2: you're you're striving, You're trying to come up with a
Speaker 2: way to improve your life constantly, I think. But that's
Speaker 2: that is so interesting. Do you think to do with
Speaker 2: the reality of jobs numbers, inflation and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: or is that just our sour mood and we've been
Speaker 2: convinced by both parties that the other parties trying to
Speaker 2: destroy America and just all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking for myself, my mood is buoyant. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think I think you're onto something they're also the
Speaker 4: incredibly high degree of uncertainty. The one thing people and
Speaker 4: companies and investors don't like is uncertainty. And given AI especially,
Speaker 4: and the rapidly changing nature of the workforce and the
Speaker 4: go to skills of yesterday or now the forget it,
Speaker 4: why would you waste your time of today?
Speaker 2: God knows what's happening tomorrow. I think that's a lot
Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, that's not good, though, It's not good
Speaker 2: to have a record number of people thinking things are
Speaker 2: going to suck in.
Speaker 4: Five years, right right, there's something very significant going.
Speaker 2: On, I think so. Also, Yeah, although here's here's one
Speaker 2: interesting thing, and I think this is a newish trend.
Speaker 2: Although I'm not super confident.
Speaker 4: People overwhelmingly will tell polsters things are pretty good for
Speaker 4: me and mine, but as a whole all the economy
Speaker 4: is terrible and fed up, and from what I understand,
Speaker 4: people are miserable. Although this was in this case a
Speaker 4: personal answer, so I guess what I'm saying doesn't apply.
Speaker 4: But it's interesting how people's perceptions are shaped and then
Speaker 4: how that guides their decisions.
Speaker 2: Now what you just said, For most brilliant.
Speaker 4: Scientists in the world are studying that sort of thing
Speaker 4: right now, trying to figure it out.
Speaker 2: What you just said might fit in more with that
Speaker 2: right track wrong track number where you got like ninety
Speaker 2: per cent of people who say the country's on the
Speaker 2: wrong track. Oh, I'm fine and I'm gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: The country's on the wrong track, which is a common one, right.
Speaker 2: But so that lowest number by gallop for how things
Speaker 2: are going to be in five years includes a couple
Speaker 2: of pretty giant economic meltdowns in this country two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight, and you know, a couple other not very
Speaker 2: good periods, and people were still more optimistic about their
Speaker 2: five year outlook then than they are now. Well in
Speaker 2: a picture, or remember, if you will, the hysteria of
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen when Trump got elected and how half of
Speaker 2: America lost its freaking mind rose Donald moved to another country.
Speaker 2: Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 4: I listened to a little NPR this morning to punish
Speaker 4: myself for the terrible things I've done, And sure enough
Speaker 4: they came through with a good, solid beaten. It was
Speaker 4: a story about all of the people who are volunteering
Speaker 4: to be in a production of the opera.
Speaker 2: The Handmaid's Tale. Oh my god, because conservative lunatics and
Speaker 2: Trump want to take away women's rights. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: You're still clinging to that. Seriously, dude's got like a
Speaker 2: couple of openly gay cabinet members, highest ranked ever. Nobody's
Speaker 2: taking away your anything.
Speaker 4: But you know, speaking of interesting phenomenon having to do
Speaker 4: with human beings and how they perceive the world, people
Speaker 4: especially on the left, love being under threat. They love
Speaker 4: being afraid because then they can join together with other people.
Speaker 4: And because so many people on the left are not
Speaker 4: like logic driven, they're consensus driven.
Speaker 2: I will say whatever it takes for me to be accepted.
Speaker 2: They just keep stoking the fear of what women are
Speaker 2: going to be forced into pregnancy by the fascist evangelic
Speaker 2: urdles or something. Isn't Susie Ailes like the most powerful
Speaker 2: woman that's ever been in any White House? Arguably? Sure? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So ask to evaluate how good your life will be
Speaker 2: in about five years? Hmmm. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: could get up in the morning if my answer was
Speaker 2: going to be and I ain't gonna be very good
Speaker 2: five years. I've never felt that way. Maybe that's just
Speaker 2: a ridiculous misplaced optimism. I don't know. But I just
Speaker 2: I don't know. I would get out of bed if
Speaker 2: I thought, oh boy, this is not very good and
Speaker 2: it's going down from here.
Speaker 4: By the way, coincidentally, today is the anniversary of my
Speaker 4: birth many many years ago, and I think at my
Speaker 4: advanced age, I would say, I don't know, I'll do
Speaker 4: my past.
Speaker 2: It's hard to predict.
Speaker 1: Was.
Speaker 2: I was aware of that, but I feel not my
Speaker 2: place to mention it's your birthday. Oh that's fine. I
Speaker 2: don't care either way. I don't know if you're to
Speaker 2: that point in life where you'd rather not be reminded
Speaker 2: as you got one foot in the grave, Oh, clearly
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was recording last night in my music studio and
Speaker 2: with the.
Speaker 4: Right one foot on a distortion pedal, the other foot
Speaker 4: in the grave, and a calendar notice popped up on
Speaker 4: my uh my screen said tomorrow Joe's sixty first birthday.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, what that's how miss that's a typo
Speaker 4: stop it? Yeah, I just seen it in print. It's like,
Speaker 4: what the hell? Anyway, every year my birthday.
Speaker 2: Is bittersweet number one, because it's it's nice, because the
Speaker 2: people I love say really nice things, and it's it's
Speaker 2: it's great, but it's bitter because I'm reminded once again
Speaker 2: that if my mom had handled out one more day, I'd
Speaker 2: have shared my birthday with my hero Abraham Lincoln, and instead,
Speaker 2: because she had to quit, essentially on the eleventh of February,
Speaker 2: I share my birthday instead of with Abraham Lincoln with
Speaker 2: Burt Reynolds, a fact with his which has tortured me
Speaker 2: since I figured that out at roughly age eight. Smoky
Speaker 2: in the Bandit right Gettysburg address could have been the
Speaker 2: great emancipator instead the great deep pansinator of the seventies.
Speaker 2: Anyway says the number one is it of all time
Speaker 2: got with Sally Field two very different people in her prime.
Speaker 4: Now, oh yeah, anyway, I ought to pay off a
Speaker 4: couple of things I mentioned briefly before too terribly long,
Speaker 4: the technical quirk that enabled the authorities to get the
Speaker 4: video from poor missus Guthrie's nest cam. Also, I must admit,
Speaker 4: Don Lemon, it's done something clever, and it pains me
Speaker 4: deeply to admit that that and.
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Speaker 4: Guthrie thing right now.
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Speaker 2: So you got self, taught lawyer Cannonball run once again. Boy.
Speaker 4: So missus Guthrie had a Google Nest camera next door
Speaker 4: door but had let these subscription lapse, which it turns
Speaker 4: out was a good thing, because the way these things
Speaker 4: work is they continually replace the image they've just taken
Speaker 4: with new images with new video unless they save it
Speaker 4: for a deliberate reason. But because she didn't have a subscription,
Speaker 4: it wasn't recording over it in the same way.
Speaker 2: Well, this is out. Everybody had the same question yesterday.
Speaker 2: Why are we ten days in and just seeing these
Speaker 2: pictures right right? I think the answer is they had
Speaker 2: to dig deep, deep within their computer systems to find
Speaker 2: some sort of backup, you know, footage that that's normally
Speaker 2: not accessible. I've seen computer experts say it's amazing they
Speaker 2: were able to find this. MSNBC's take all last night
Speaker 2: was because I was watching late at night when this
Speaker 2: was all, you know, really breaking the person's interest and
Speaker 2: everything like that. MSNBC's take was, how does a three
Speaker 2: and a half trillion dollar company take ten days to
Speaker 2: find this? What is going on here? All right? Okay,
Speaker 2: that's based on no knowledge of how this would work
Speaker 2: at all. No, the slightest idea, Well, you say, so
Speaker 2: your belief is that Google, and I hate Google a lot,
Speaker 2: but so you've got some sort of belief that Google,
Speaker 2: with their three and a half trillion dollars, was holding
Speaker 2: back on the pictures out of some sort of something.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what is that? Just hatred of
Speaker 2: success or the icious hatred of the success? Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was weird. I was watching their their late night primetime
Speaker 2: show and they're really into that they've got three and
Speaker 2: a half trillion dollars and it takes them ten days.
Speaker 2: Something is up here because Google's got lots of money
Speaker 2: or something. I don't even know what you're doing here.
Speaker 4: Well, you were one of one hundred and twelve people
Speaker 4: watching that channel, so you should remember that.
Speaker 2: That is a good point. Hey, we've got an update
Speaker 2: on why the El Paso airport was closed and they
Speaker 2: said it was going to close it for ten days
Speaker 2: and it's opened back up again. Interesting detail and mail
Speaker 2: bag all on the way.
Speaker 5: Armstraw Heyetti.
Speaker 7: CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs sharing on X the decision
Speaker 7: to close El Paso International Airport to all fights for
Speaker 7: ten days was triggered by Mexican cartel dro breaching US
Speaker 7: air space. This is something that she says, officials have
Speaker 7: told CBS News the War Department took action to disable
Speaker 7: those drones. Reportedly, again not from Jennifer Jacobs with CBS News.
Speaker 2: Well, that's bold by the Mexican cartels. I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: given interesting Trump a reason to go after you. I'm
Speaker 2: sitting here think I don't think it's a false flag operation.
Speaker 4: I really don't. But the first thing I thought of, Wow,
Speaker 4: Trump's been talking about attacking the cartels, and if they're
Speaker 4: oh wait a minute, would that would just be very
Speaker 4: convenient if your goal was to find a pretext to
Speaker 4: attack the car Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to make that argument at all either,
Speaker 2: But I don't have nearly enough fact cardon imagine why
Speaker 2: the Mexican cartels would want to They got such a
Speaker 2: great business model going why they would want to do that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh man, you poked the bear cartels. Bears don't say
Speaker 2: wolf raw, here's your freedom hating quote of the day.
Speaker 4: You pok the bears wolf, Well, I need to frequently
Speaker 4: use wolf as an exclamation.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. I love mikes metaphors. I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan of them. I think they're hilarious. All right, So
Speaker 2: we're pausing our freedom hating quotes of the day from
Speaker 2: communists to feature this sent along by Jeff Fabulous, honorary
Speaker 2: producer and friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show from
Speaker 2: Alexander Soulzanitzen. Being a communist, intelligent and good is completely incompatible.
Speaker 2: The one who is intelligent and good is not a communist.
Speaker 2: The one who is a communist and good is not intelligent.
Speaker 2: And of course the one who is a communist and
Speaker 2: intelligent cannot possibly be good. It is the doctrine of
Speaker 2: evil Caesar and Mamdani. We have more examples of that
Speaker 2: coming up later. Mailbag.
Speaker 4: What this is actually another great quote from Benjamin Disraeli
Speaker 4: that squares quite beautifully with a story I want to
Speaker 4: tell later on about an incident in a college classroom.
Speaker 4: But his quote is there is no education like adversity.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's true. The School of Life who first came
Speaker 2: up with that Nietzsche, Plato, somebody. But the school of life,
Speaker 2: that is where you get the most your education.
Speaker 4: There is no education like adversity. And you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm switching the order.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with this from ad on the
Speaker 2: topic of gen Z is Dumber that I featured. A
Speaker 2: piece by Ashley Fike on the dumbness of gen Z
Speaker 2: says I have a different take. First, I'm a college
Speaker 2: professor for a grad school program, and these kids are
Speaker 2: now my students. They're not dumber because of the technology,
Speaker 2: and I've got to disagree. I think that does play
Speaker 2: a role. But he says they are dumber because no
Speaker 2: one taught them how to learn. First, we have the
Speaker 2: teachers who spend time on anything and everything but reading, writing, science,
Speaker 2: and math. The kids have never been taught to read.
Speaker 4: We give them a medical textbook and a reading assignment,
Speaker 4: and they literally cry because they have to do so
Speaker 4: much reading. For decades now, our schools have been cesspools
Speaker 4: where our students are indoctrinated with crap rather than educated
Speaker 4: with knowledge.
Speaker 2: Next, we have the parents.
Speaker 4: When I was a child, my parents constantly asked, have
Speaker 4: you finished your homework?
Speaker 2: If I didn't have homework. My parents would make stuff
Speaker 2: up even on vacation. I was encouraged to the point
Speaker 2: of being forced to bring along a book to read.
Speaker 2: These days, many parents don't give this attention to their children. Instead,
Speaker 2: they're too wrapped up in their own attention seeking drama
Speaker 2: to pay attention to whatever their children are reading. Trying
Speaker 2: to get clicks for their Instagram. They have little. They
Speaker 2: have given their children over to the state, and the
Speaker 2: state i e. The teachers' unions care little to educate
Speaker 2: their child. You want to make your kids smarter, start
Speaker 2: educating them. Part of it is definitely the school is
Speaker 2: telling you your kid is a straight A student. We're
Speaker 2: an A and B student and they're not m That
Speaker 2: has been my actual personal experience. Yeah, and the Disraeli
Speaker 2: quote scratch me worry edge, because I am a firm believer,
Speaker 2: as many of you know, in free range parenting, letting
Speaker 2: your kids make mistakes, letting them get lost and find
Speaker 2: their way home, not raising a veal calf.
Speaker 4: And not only is there're no education like adversity. There's
Speaker 4: no way to build resilience and toughness and even a
Speaker 4: sense of humor like adversity. Once you survive your first
Speaker 4: few serious challenges. You're fifty times as strong as you
Speaker 4: were before that, And yet so many people deny their
Speaker 4: kids that experience.
Speaker 2: I think it's tragic. Boy on the school part of it, though,
Speaker 2: That great inflation thing is a serious problem. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't doubt it. Did you hear the announcement Harvard made yesterday?
Speaker 2: They're going they're only going to give out twenty percent a's,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and beasting bodies? Yeah, go ahead. People lost
Speaker 2: their mind over this. Last year they gave out two
Speaker 2: thirds of the grades they gave out were aids, a's,
Speaker 2: another eighteen percent A minuses to get you open into
Speaker 2: the eighties percentile of a's and anuses, which obviously is Harvard,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna cut it back to twenty percent. And
Speaker 2: people went nuts because I've been straight A my whole life.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, technically, oh yeah, I don't blame the kids
Speaker 2: for going nuts. They were given one set of expectations
Speaker 2: for their entire scholastic careers, and now Harvard is changing that.
Speaker 4: They're right to and they have to. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: sure the kids are free.
Speaker 2: If I'm semi bright and put in medium effort, I
Speaker 2: should get an A is the lesson you've been taught
Speaker 2: your whole life. Yes, this is a clever boy.
Speaker 4: The Super Bowl half a streaker recorded everything with his
Speaker 4: Google glass, posted it to instram and he also bet
Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars there would be a streaker and he
Speaker 4: won three hundred.
Speaker 2: K Wait a second, that's there's got to be something
Speaker 2: wrong with that bet, isn't there? I don't know the
Speaker 2: terms of use of whatever means he used to bet.
Speaker 2: How is that does seem onto me?
Speaker 3: How different?
Speaker 2: Then I'll bet you know, so and so misses a
Speaker 2: free throw. I put money on it, and then I
Speaker 2: missed the free throw. Isn't it the same thing? It's similar? Well,
Speaker 2: if that's a possibility, I'm gonna make all kinds of bets.
Speaker 6: I'll bet.
Speaker 2: I'll bet a dog bite somebody in the parking lot
Speaker 2: or whatever. You're gonna run around on all fours and
Speaker 2: bite people. I'll bring a vicious dog. Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I cannot personally verify this. It's from doctor Brian,
Speaker 4: who's a fine man.
Speaker 2: Indeed.
Speaker 6: Wow.
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