Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and he armsranget live from studio. See Sayson,
Speaker 1: You're a dimly let room deep with on the bowels
Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Hey y'all, today Halloween,
Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Your los
Speaker 1: angele listen, dudors, honorary honorary general manager. Garbage. That's you,
Speaker 1: your garbage. Oh wow, we're still talking about that. Hell yes, hell, yes,
Speaker 1: we're talking about it. Awesome, greatest gaff in the history
Speaker 1: of politics in I am ho, I am h O.
Speaker 1: I love when you're talking online textees, that's right. And
Speaker 1: nacronyms or whatever you call that acronyms, that's funny. I
Speaker 1: finally went and got some tense steaks to stake down
Speaker 1: my giant inflatable jack lantern in the front lawn because
Speaker 1: it kept blowing down the street and the neighbors seemed
Speaker 1: to be horrified by this. So I went and got
Speaker 1: some tent steaks. I got that thing nailed down so
Speaker 1: it shouldn't go anywhere, no matter how windy it gets.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Katie, I feel like you impacted my life
Speaker 2: somehow because I came home from the gym yesterday and
Speaker 2: my inflatable Jack o' lantern was at the end of
Speaker 2: my Drivewax.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3: I blame you.
Speaker 1: Those inflatable stakes very susceptible to wind apparently. Let's see,
Speaker 1: you've seen it in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade where
Speaker 1: Snoopy gets out of control and hoists some people to
Speaker 1: their death. Dangerous exactly. So I'm ready for Halloween. I've
Speaker 1: got full sized candy bars. I eat way too many
Speaker 1: of the bite sized candy bars last night. Man, if
Speaker 1: you have bags of those around there, I mean, good
Speaker 1: for you if you're the sort of person that can
Speaker 1: walk by them. But I'm not. That's funny. My bride
Speaker 1: and I were walking our dog and reminiscing about when
Speaker 1: Halloween meant something to us as young parents and living
Speaker 1: in a different neighborhood and all, and she said, boy,
Speaker 1: but I don't miss having that candy left home. Oh,
Speaker 1: no kidding. So watching the World series last night, and
Speaker 1: you know every time I go by it, tell it's
Speaker 1: not even a full bite of a Snickers. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, it's like a fimble full of Snickers. It's
Speaker 1: gonna got hurt to pop one of those in my mouth. Sure,
Speaker 1: what is that twelve calories? Pay thirty of those later. Oh,
Speaker 1: feel so good. I felt better than the Yankees did
Speaker 1: after the worst inning in the history of the World
Speaker 1: Series by a team, The New York Yankees inning five
Speaker 1: of Game five of the World Series will be remembered
Speaker 1: forever by baseball fans. Yeah, I felt like I was
Speaker 1: watching Little League again, speaking of my younger days. It
Speaker 1: was they if you weren't watching the game, the Yankees
Speaker 1: committed no less than three horrific physical endormenttal errors and
Speaker 1: let the Dodgers back from a five hotes. Yeah. That
Speaker 1: a sign is you do that you deserve to lose,
Speaker 1: you do. The headline is the inning started five nothing Yankees.
Speaker 1: The inning ended five to five, all five unearned runs,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. Oh, it was incredible. Garrett called a
Speaker 1: pitcher who contributed to the stupidity by the way committing
Speaker 1: one of the more egregious mental errors in the history
Speaker 1: of the World Series. He had to be homicidal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the end of that to uh. I won't belabor
Speaker 1: this for you non sports fans, but as I read
Speaker 1: somebody in the New York Post last night, one rider
Speaker 1: said it would have been much less humiliating to lose
Speaker 1: in a sweep the night before. Much less humiliating. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's a take. Here's another take, and then we'll move on.
Speaker 1: Since the Japanese superstar failed to materialize in the World Series,
Speaker 1: now I call him no show. Hey o Tani. Wow
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, he was a non factor
Speaker 1: the biggest star in all baseball. So, as I texted
Speaker 1: somebody last night, it's nice to see a plucky little
Speaker 1: team that has one hundred million. Their payroll is one
Speaker 1: hundred million more than the league average. The one hundred
Speaker 1: million more than the league average under dugs, they were
Speaker 1: playing against the team with even a higher payroll, so
Speaker 1: it didn't really matter of the two teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just kind of interesting for pro sports. Six
Speaker 1: of the ten baseball players in the world were on
Speaker 1: the field last night, the highest paid best statistically. Oh
Speaker 1: I see, okay, Yeah, they bought all the best players.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, And so you know that's what Yankees and
Speaker 1: Dodgers have always done. But just you know, it sucks
Speaker 1: if you're like a Royals fan or an A's fan,
Speaker 1: or a Brewers fan or anything else trying to get
Speaker 1: a sniff of anything. How do we feel about Donald
Speaker 1: Trump donning the orange vest getting into them? Dumb trick?
Speaker 1: Maybe the greatest pr move in the final week of
Speaker 1: a campaign ever. It is one of the most effective
Speaker 1: fun capitalizations on a gaff. I have ever seen Joe
Speaker 1: Biden that ahead a kef care handed his opponents not
Speaker 1: a hammer to hit him with, but a machine gun
Speaker 1: of a rhetorical opportunity. Whether the senile old fellow deserves
Speaker 1: to be kicked for it or not, it was one
Speaker 1: of the greatest gaffes in the history of presidential politics.
Speaker 1: And the Trump campaign is going nuts with the The
Speaker 1: only garbage I see is his followers a clip we
Speaker 1: need to hear fifty times today. By the way, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: let's make sure we have that at our fingertips. But
Speaker 1: I know you're busy, Michael, but we got to have
Speaker 1: the whole Biden calling people trash thing, the short one
Speaker 1: ready to go all time, thousand times a day, including now,
Speaker 1: if we happen to have it. It's these that we
Speaker 1: hold these truths to be self evidence of the twenty
Speaker 1: first century. There's something or Puerto Rico where I'm in
Speaker 1: my home state of Delaware.
Speaker 3: They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
Speaker 3: flowed down there is his supporters.
Speaker 1: So I missed this yesterday. We missed this yesterday on
Speaker 1: the show. So Tim Walls before they even got to
Speaker 1: Kamala was on ABC this week with George Stephanopoulos, and
Speaker 1: we played that clip. But I'm so used to the
Speaker 1: mainstream media with this bias between Republicans and Democrats. When
Speaker 1: there's a bad thing on the Republican side, for instance,
Speaker 1: Sunday night in Madison Square Garden, it's the horrible thing
Speaker 1: that someone said about Puerto Ricans. When a Democrat says
Speaker 1: something bad, it is Republicans pounce on this thing always,
Speaker 1: once you become aware of it. It's omnipresent. And so
Speaker 1: George Stephanoppolis asks it, says to Tim Walls, Republicans are
Speaker 1: already trying to utilize the president's comments. It was a
Speaker 1: disruption of Kamala's message, wasn't it. And then Tim Walls
Speaker 1: gets to restate their message as opposed to that was
Speaker 1: a hateful thing to say. Tell me how you don't
Speaker 1: hate all Puerto Ricans and put them in a difficult situation.
Speaker 1: Why do you hate all Puerto Ricans? You hating Nazi
Speaker 1: like they did with every Trump surrogate who had to
Speaker 1: defend that comment. For Democrats, it was, this is an
Speaker 1: interruption of your message of hope and justice and everything wonderful.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to that. It's just it's incredible. I mean,
Speaker 1: the level of bias that I don't even think they
Speaker 1: know they do. It's just so ingreat. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I missed it yesterday because I'm so used to it.
Speaker 1: I'm just so used to the double standard. Yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: may they fail. May they continue to see declining ratings
Speaker 1: and revenue and go away forever. I think both scandals
Speaker 1: are stupid, but they do exist, and they're being treated
Speaker 1: completely differently by the media. Of course, we should start
Speaker 1: the show officially just to give you a little flavor
Speaker 1: of how Trump handled this yesterday. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 1: Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday, Halloween. It's our
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Speaker 1: and probably me eating Snickers bars during commercial breaks. Oh,
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Speaker 1: go at mark as they get me my jacket.
Speaker 4: But if you did, you know it actually makes you
Speaker 4: look thinner, I said, got me, I said I want
Speaker 4: to wear it on stage.
Speaker 1: When they said I looked thinner, I said, in that case,
Speaker 1: I'll wear an I'm set.
Speaker 4: I may never wear a blue jacket again. I may go,
Speaker 4: I may go in this They said that that was
Speaker 4: my that was the word.
Speaker 1: That was the key. So you look thinner. So Trump
Speaker 1: did like an entire comedy routine around his orange dump
Speaker 1: truck vest or a garbage truck vest that he wore
Speaker 1: last night. And it was really good. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was Trump at his best right. They had to make
Speaker 1: America great again dump truck referring, of course, to the
Speaker 1: Biden gaff calling his supporter's garbage or did he the
Speaker 1: apostrophe heard around the world? But man, they made Hay
Speaker 1: with it quick and brilliantly. You know what's interesting, I
Speaker 1: heard a podcast talking about this the other day. They
Speaker 1: turned garbage into gold. Jackage out there is his supporters.
Speaker 1: I'm clicking today. Everybody stay tuned. Who knows what you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear? Turn no show. Hey, Atana the garbage and
Speaker 1: I just turning garbage into gold. You are rolling. I
Speaker 1: heard some strategists talking the other day, like people who
Speaker 1: have worked on presidential campaigns before, talking about how you
Speaker 1: never put your candidate in the apron, You never put
Speaker 1: them in the hat, you never want to put them
Speaker 1: into whatever, because they always end up looking ridiculous. The
Speaker 1: most famous one, if you're old enough to remember it,
Speaker 1: is Michael Ducaccus in the tank. He puts on the
Speaker 1: tank helmet, he gets in the tank and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he looked ridiculous and they thought it was a campaign killer.
Speaker 1: So especially ever since then, they never put a candidate
Speaker 1: in an apron or something like that. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: Trump puts on the McDonald's apron and it's it's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a combination of funny and cool. Same
Speaker 1: thing with the dump truck or him doing the rally
Speaker 1: last night in the best you could see For many, many,
Speaker 1: many candidates who weren't TV stars their whole life. He
Speaker 1: was the host of the number one TV show in
Speaker 1: America for years. I mean, he's got, you know, a
Speaker 1: talent for this that makes a difference. But you can
Speaker 1: imagine so many candidates trying to wear the garbage truck
Speaker 1: vest at the rally and it coming off as so lappable.
Speaker 1: People talk about it for decades. Right. A couple of things.
Speaker 1: Number One, he's got the undercover CEO thing going. It's
Speaker 1: just fun to see a rich real estate developer wearing
Speaker 1: the garb of the working man, working woman, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And and this is you cannot you cannot teach this.
Speaker 1: He has fun with it without disrespecting the people who
Speaker 1: do that for a living for a minute. The fun
Speaker 1: is at his expense. Us makes me look thinner, or
Speaker 1: you know, the whole prize untouched by human hands. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's never about disparaging the workers. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I was watching his whole comedy routine we'll play more
Speaker 1: of it later at the rally last night, and I thought,
Speaker 1: I know, there's a big chunk of America that hates this,
Speaker 1: but this is really really good. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: makes me insane and I supported DeSantis, but he has
Speaker 1: an incredible gift for connecting with working people that we
Speaker 1: may never see again. Oh man, it was something, Yes, Michael,
Speaker 1: I always go back.
Speaker 3: People want to be entertained, not informed, and this will
Speaker 3: entertain a lot of people and get votes.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of truth to that, Michael. I hate
Speaker 1: for that to be true, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: debates and stuff like that. I don't want that to
Speaker 1: be true, but it is. How does mailbag look? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's terrific. One of my favorite notes of the last
Speaker 1: six months. What are we five days out? Now? Our
Speaker 1: text line is four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: I just read the strategy. It's all about fifty three percent,
Speaker 1: fifty three percent, fifty three percent. Kamala Harris can get
Speaker 1: three percent? All right. If Kamala can get fifty three
Speaker 1: percent turnout among women, I guess she can't be beaten. Mathematically.
Speaker 1: It's impossible. And that's so that's what they're trying to drive.
Speaker 1: That's what the commercials about. HUSB. Don't you don't have
Speaker 1: to vote that way just because your mean husband makes
Speaker 1: you go in the booth and then lie to him.
Speaker 1: You can do it that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Okay, ay, right, I requested yesterday after Dad, I think
Speaker 5: it was off the air, I said, can I be
Speaker 5: put pleased into a medically induced coma and woken up
Speaker 5: on Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Just tell me what happened, including we don't know yet.
Speaker 1: That's fine, I just I can't take another minute of this.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, and I
Speaker 1: think that sentiment is shared by many many Americans. Can
Speaker 1: we get this? Oh please? This is an odd moment,
Speaker 1: the freedom loving quote of the day. In that D said, guys, Joe,
Speaker 1: yesterday you dropped the truth grenade that resonated with me,
Speaker 1: which I'm paraphrasing and is paraphering paraphrasing of it. Something
Speaker 1: of the effect of well, one of the feelings of
Speaker 1: democracy is you can't hurt people's feelings. I will remember,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the high cost of childcare, and we
Speaker 1: can't talk about the skyrocketing rate of single parenthood, specifically
Speaker 1: women who decide to have a kid without a marriage
Speaker 1: or stable relationship, and then they find themselves in a
Speaker 1: situation where they need childcare but their job maybe doesn't
Speaker 1: pay enough. And that's fine, we can talk about that
Speaker 1: is a body politic, but to not recognize why it's
Speaker 1: such a crisis now because the rearranging of the American
Speaker 1: families just you can't talk about that because people don't
Speaker 1: want to hear it anyway. Paraphrasing myself, I worked on
Speaker 1: this for a couple of minutes. Now, this is the
Speaker 1: freedom of quote of the day for me, Joe getting
Speaker 1: The great weakness of democracy is that it depends in
Speaker 1: large part on an electorate that can handle the truth.
Speaker 5: M hmm.
Speaker 1: You know, I collect these. I'm going to write me
Speaker 1: under that the saying that wherever it came from is
Speaker 1: clearly true, is just one thousand percent true. The hard
Speaker 1: times make tough people. Tough people make good times. Good
Speaker 1: times make weak people. Yeah, and weak people make weak times.
Speaker 1: That is one thousand percent true. And we're in that
Speaker 1: pendulum swing and unfortunately we're really making for hard times.
Speaker 1: Is usually phrased, Yeah, Yeah, we're in the hard times
Speaker 1: being made by soft people phase. And it's frustrating. If
Speaker 1: you're you can recognize it. Yeah, Mailbag, our email address
Speaker 1: is mail Bag at Armstrong and getty dot com. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure there's anything that can be done about it.
Speaker 1: It's is unavoidable to sunrise, sunset, and the ripening of fruit. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: this note from Aaron uh, somebody may have suggested that
Speaker 1: some of the reaction to various gaffes in the late
Speaker 1: stage of the campaign is either fake or people with
Speaker 1: their panties wanted and Aaron Rice handies aren't watted. I
Speaker 1: was just calculating my taxes when that story dropped about
Speaker 1: what Biden said. Now, I don't appreciate a coffin case
Speaker 1: head of the government calling one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: people garbage when we're paying eighteen or more percent forty
Speaker 1: five grand a year of our combined income to a
Speaker 1: government that calls us trash, because we don't want our
Speaker 1: children taught by some drag queen that they were born
Speaker 1: in the wrong body and that bacon is unaffordable. Subway
Speaker 1: sanders cost fifteen dollars in the Secretary of Health looks
Speaker 1: like Rick Moratus on estrogen. Look when they say stuff
Speaker 1: like that, I start to hear the menacing sound of
Speaker 1: fifes and drums in my head. Wow, oh there you go, baby,
Speaker 1: huh three. I'm not calling anybody, I'm calling that a
Speaker 1: great email. You got one of those angry maga people
Speaker 1: that I hear so much about.
Speaker 3: The only garbage I see floating down there is just supporters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got more on why. He probably said that
Speaker 1: from a prominent Democratic strategist coming up that I congratulate
Speaker 1: them for being honest. We're almost out of time. What
Speaker 1: the heck? John m and San Diego sent this Happy Halloween.
Speaker 1: Now our who fears razor blades and drugs and their
Speaker 1: kids hallowing candy? It submits something possibly worse. My friends
Speaker 1: sent me this picture. It appears to be super high
Speaker 1: end chocolates wrapped in foil with a little sticker on it.
Speaker 1: But what this friend does is wraps Brussels sprouts to
Speaker 1: look like candy. No, remember you got to get the
Speaker 1: nerds gummy clusters. It's the most popular candy in America,
Speaker 1: the most delicious candy in America, according to the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, Get those for your picks. Brussels sproutch.
Speaker 6: President Biden and First Lady Doctor Jill Biden hosted a
Speaker 6: Hallo Read event today at the White House, which included
Speaker 6: a Spooky Storytime corner. Incidentally, spooky story time is just
Speaker 6: what they call it anytime President Biden makes unscripted remarks,
Speaker 6: hooray everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't want to write this down. So how about
Speaker 1: him sticking all the baby's feet in his mouth? Have
Speaker 1: you seen that montage? I haven't. Oh so creepy for
Speaker 1: babies now, it's it's a perfectly nice grandpa sort of
Speaker 1: thing to do with their own grandkid. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: intimate thing. But an old stranger baby after baby putting
Speaker 1: their bare feet in his mouth is weird. I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought the video was weird, and that,
Speaker 1: by the way, not a real doctor. She was dressed
Speaker 1: as a panda, which is kind of funny. Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: we got a text that just said I'm nonplussed, which
Speaker 1: is a word I need to use more often. Non
Speaker 1: plus excellent of a person surprised and confused so much
Speaker 1: that they're unsure. I'll react. There you go. That's what
Speaker 1: we got. So I'm angry about well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm angry. Yeah, I'm angry, and I apologize if
Speaker 1: you're tired of hearing me say this, because I've been
Speaker 1: saying it now for three years, but it still amazes me.
Speaker 1: Here's a headline in the New York Times, their latest
Speaker 1: polling on people's attitudes about the economy, which is what
Speaker 1: the number two issue in America behind immigration. Right now,
Speaker 1: inflation is basically back to normal. Why do voters still
Speaker 1: feel blah, wow, wow, that is just profoundly ignorant. I
Speaker 1: don't understand. I couldn't believe that reporters didn't get this
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the conversation. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I'm nonplussed about how they can still not get this.
Speaker 1: Let me read the opening paragraph from the New York
Speaker 1: Times economic person. Grocery inflation has been cooling sharply, but
Speaker 1: Tamra Flamer twenty seven, she hasn't noticed. What she knows
Speaker 1: is that paper plates and meat remained more expensive than
Speaker 1: they were a few years ago. Yes, you freaking morons.
Speaker 1: You don't notice a deep increase in the increase of prices.
Speaker 1: It would be impossible. Nobody could do of the rate. Yes,
Speaker 1: nobody would notice a slowing of the rate of inflation.
Speaker 1: It's impossible to notice. It's just a it's a dumb concept. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it goes on. Voters say they are very
Speaker 1: focused on the economy as they head the polls, yet
Speaker 1: surveys suggest they feel relatively glum about its recent track record.
Speaker 1: The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, says The
Speaker 1: New York Times. Is it? Is it? Really? Do you
Speaker 1: know a single normal human being? You must not, or
Speaker 1: you would hear people say I went to Wendy's last
Speaker 1: night and it cost sixty bucks for me and the kids.
Speaker 1: Or I filled up with gas yesterday. I don't know
Speaker 1: how people do it. Or let me stop you there, Jim,
Speaker 1: let me stop you there. Now Wendy's went from fifty
Speaker 1: two dollars to sixty dollars in the course of seventeen months.
Speaker 1: Now it's only gone from sixty to sixty two dollars
Speaker 1: in the course of the last nine months. So as
Speaker 1: you can see, inflation is cooling a Jamner Hamburger right
Speaker 1: in your face. If you tried that to somebody. What
Speaker 1: did band these people? Where do they live? Mars? I
Speaker 1: don't know. And like I said, do you not have
Speaker 1: a single normal friend? Not one in your circle? Whoever
Speaker 1: walks in and you know, at a party and says man,
Speaker 1: I stopped by the liquor store. I got this bottle
Speaker 1: of wine. It used to be eight bucks, now it's fifteen.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. That's reality for everyone, but people
Speaker 1: who write economics stuff, it's not. There's more on this.
Speaker 1: The lingering pessimism is something of a puzzle, which makes
Speaker 1: you a moron. The job market has been chugging along,
Speaker 1: overall growth has been healthy, and inflation is back to normal.
Speaker 1: It says here. How is that a puzzle? Things cost more,
Speaker 1: way more than they did not very long ago. Period,
Speaker 1: you morons, And let me speak for thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of people listening right now. The job market is hot. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've still got one job, or I used to have one.
Speaker 1: I still have one, and my money, my wages have
Speaker 1: not kept up with inflation, not even close. So and
Speaker 1: then I'll shut up about this because it's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm belaboring the point, but I just it's I actually
Speaker 1: can't believe it. I find it difficult to believe that
Speaker 1: the journalists who cover the economy are still saying this
Speaker 1: crap five days out from a presidential election that Trump
Speaker 1: is set to win, maybe mainly because of the price
Speaker 1: of stuff, and they don't get it. I don't understand
Speaker 1: inflation's back to normal. God, you're so dumb. I don't
Speaker 1: even know where to start with you? Here you are
Speaker 1: belaboring the point which points to arise in the belaboring
Speaker 1: statistics any like that, the labor market. You just can't
Speaker 1: be stopped today with your workplay anyway. You just a
Speaker 1: non stop fountain wordplay like a Nigo Montoya over here
Speaker 1: of my words. Yes, I don't know what you call
Speaker 1: the subheadline halfway through an article that's in bold or
Speaker 1: what what do you call those things? But anyway, it
Speaker 1: says here consumers may focus more on price levels than
Speaker 1: price changes. Okay, al right, well that's that's correct. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it is correct and obvious to anyone over the age
Speaker 1: of five. Yes, good look, I can't. I'm reeling from
Speaker 1: that one. You know, I thought it was the beating
Speaker 1: was about over, and you caught me right in the
Speaker 1: jyms with that, I mentioning consumers worry more about fing
Speaker 1: prices than the rate of efing change, which they can't
Speaker 1: observe day to day because they're busy with they're real lives.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so funny. So I mentioned as a target.
Speaker 1: The other day, I get my normal allotment of stuff
Speaker 1: and it's two one hundred dollars. This is the first
Speaker 1: time it's ever open over to dollars, and I said
Speaker 1: to the guy, two hundred dollars. He said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know everybody reacts that way. And I should have said
Speaker 1: to the guy, Hey, whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Well, back off, buddy.
Speaker 1: The rate of change is lower, all right. The percentage
Speaker 1: increases lower than it was before, so you take it
Speaker 1: down a notch. I guess I should be happy that
Speaker 1: it's two hundred dollars because it's totally gone up two
Speaker 1: percent in the last month, as opposed to the you know,
Speaker 1: between three and nine percent for the previous three years.
Speaker 1: I think that that that illustrates this case so beautifully.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be absurdest humor for you to
Speaker 1: say that to the cashier. And yet that is essentially
Speaker 1: the inverse of what they're claiming with the straight face
Speaker 1: in the New York Times. Oh, speaking of which, I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you brought this up, because I've been sitting
Speaker 1: on this for a while. Dave in Baltimore, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: Dave and Baltimore sent us this and the title of
Speaker 1: the New York Times article speaking of the Old Gray Lady,
Speaker 1: is which appears to be a senilist Joe Biden, when
Speaker 1: it writes about economics, is wages heaven outpaced? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: let me do this again. The words are important. Wages
Speaker 1: have outpaced inflation, but not for everyone. And here is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite couple of sentences in the history
Speaker 1: of my reading newspapers. The bottom line, most American workers
Speaker 1: are probably making more money today adjusted for inflation than
Speaker 1: they were in twenty nineteen, but not all have seen
Speaker 1: their pay keep up with their own cost of living,
Speaker 1: and many, perhaps most, are lagging behind where they would
Speaker 1: be if pre pandemic trends had continued unabated. These complications
Speaker 1: may help explain why so many Americans believe they have
Speaker 1: fallen behind. They've fallen behind. Wow. The New York Times
Speaker 1: is saying most Americans are making more money today adjusted
Speaker 1: for inflation than they were pre pandemic. I have seen
Speaker 1: that statistic nowhere. No, I don't see how that's possible.
Speaker 1: They're wrong on the fact. But the second part, which
Speaker 1: I've read a couple of times so I will parse
Speaker 1: for you, is claiming that in spite of that fact,
Speaker 1: that y'all and we are making more money adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 1: Bacon is easier to buy for us than it was
Speaker 1: pre pandemic. We're going out to eat and spending less
Speaker 1: relative to our incomes than we were a while ago.
Speaker 1: But in spite of that, because we have somehow projected
Speaker 1: in our heads where we would be twenty nineteen to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four if the inflation hadn't been so high
Speaker 1: for several years, we're coming up with some sort of
Speaker 1: fanciful Yes, bacon is easily affordable right now, but it
Speaker 1: would be even more easily affordable if not for the
Speaker 1: inflation of twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, back to your question, do you know
Speaker 1: any human beings have you spoken with them? That is?
Speaker 1: That is blindness that goes beyond onto galling and is
Speaker 1: absolutely in the realm of amazing, And I would like
Speaker 1: to hear scientists explain it. Here's a director of consumer
Speaker 1: surveys at the University of Michigan in the same New
Speaker 1: York Times article. It's not that consumers have lost touch
Speaker 1: with reality. It's just at high prices continue to weigh
Speaker 1: down their personal finances. Thank you for Adam, you're a professor.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're a university professor because none of us
Speaker 1: regular people could figure that out at all. And then
Speaker 1: they beIN of medicine at the University of Michigan said,
Speaker 1: don't jam sharp objects into your eye. Where was your
Speaker 1: article from your nonsensical article? New York Times, New York Times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this says wages have climbed faster than prices for
Speaker 1: many consumers. Okay, how many? Not very I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody who got enough of a raise over the last
Speaker 1: several years to put them even even, let alone ahead.
Speaker 1: I don't know anybody. Yeah, this is the first time
Speaker 1: I've ever heard anybody that, And it's a couple of
Speaker 1: times in the New York Times when you had to
Speaker 1: that's the narrative. Wouldn't you had to have gotten like
Speaker 1: a twenty percent race since twenty nineteen to keep up
Speaker 1: with the overall prices stuff? That's crazy. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we could go on, because they quote a couple of
Speaker 1: more Harvard economists who study how people experience inflation. You
Speaker 1: need you all, all of you, all, all y'all, as
Speaker 1: they say in the South, all y'all need to hang
Speaker 1: around any normal human beings, go down to your corner
Speaker 1: bar and have a conversation with some people, or turn
Speaker 1: to someone at a you know, a high school basketball game.
Speaker 1: Talk to any normal human being. All right, somebody who
Speaker 1: doesn't work for the New York Times live in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: is a childish catwoman with an advanced degree. And see
Speaker 1: what they think about prices. I tell you what, If
Speaker 1: you can bag this rare game, it would be rarer
Speaker 1: than having a panda head on your wall. Okay, wow,
Speaker 1: you you find me walk into your house and you
Speaker 1: got a panda head on your wall? Do I pretend
Speaker 1: I don't see it? Right? I say, Hey, Jim, I
Speaker 1: can't help, but notice that I'm I'm wondering what others
Speaker 1: that person's up to. I mean, was that they'll do anything?
Speaker 1: Was that Penda live? At one point? This is rarer game. Still,
Speaker 1: you go down to the corner bar to this the
Speaker 1: soccer game, waiting for kids in line at school, and
Speaker 1: you find the person who says, in response to my god,
Speaker 1: prices are so high. It's still shocking. They say, yes,
Speaker 1: but the rate of increase has slowed, and that's what's important.
Speaker 1: You bag that rare game, and I will salute you
Speaker 1: a mighty hunter. Or the person who reacts with Yeah,
Speaker 1: but my wages are up even more than inflation, so
Speaker 1: I'm happy. Oh please, that's like an albino panda head.
Speaker 1: I mean, to forget it. You're never gonna find one
Speaker 1: much of miss killing with six toes on each boot.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's rare. That's the point. We've got Katie.
Speaker 1: We've got Kate. These headlines on the way stay here.
Speaker 1: So this is the Eagles, witchy woman. It's Halloween. We're
Speaker 1: trying to get a theme going here. People. We have
Speaker 1: talking about scary. We have some witch legs stuck in
Speaker 1: our bushes. Looks like a witch fell in the bushes
Speaker 1: or dove in the bushes or something like that. I
Speaker 1: guess that's just an elderly woman with the curious taste
Speaker 1: and stockings. Yes, I love those.
Speaker 3: Those witch legs are the ones that are just flown
Speaker 3: into the.
Speaker 1: House right ours are in the bushes. Speaking of scary,
Speaker 1: alert listener Edge just sent this along. It's a video
Speaker 1: of a new kind of drone that does not have
Speaker 1: propellers and a loud engine. It it is a bird.
Speaker 1: It looks exactly like a red tailed hawk or a
Speaker 1: or a you know, a similar raptor like a falcon
Speaker 1: maybe and it flaps its wings to fly. Oly crap.
Speaker 1: If it flies, it's spine right, exactly like the owns.
Speaker 1: That's right. Anyway, We'll post this at Armstrong and geddy
Speaker 1: dot com. Check it out. I mean it blew me away.
Speaker 1: That's the same fabulous site where you can pick up
Speaker 1: a Hotdogs R Dog's T shirt Armstrong and Getty hot
Speaker 1: Dogs or Dogs t shirts flying off shelves. It is
Speaker 1: a perhaps the only response you can offer to people
Speaker 1: around you insisting that trans women are women. Hot Dogs
Speaker 1: or Dogs Armstrong and getdy dot com. Let's figure out
Speaker 1: who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3: Katie starting with The New York Times.
Speaker 2: Biden's gaps complicate Harris's final stretch and is worrying Democratic insiders.
Speaker 1: It's a gaff if he says it, If Trump or
Speaker 1: anyone says it on their side, it's their stated position
Speaker 1: and their deep core belief right right that we will
Speaker 1: hold them too.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post, more than fifty eight million early.
Speaker 3: Votes have been cast so far.
Speaker 1: Wow, So they're expecting the total to on the high
Speaker 1: end to be one fifty. So we might We almost
Speaker 1: certainly are gonna have half the votes cash before election day.
Speaker 1: It's becoming a more common than not thing to vote
Speaker 1: before election day. Yeah, I think early voting in Saturday
Speaker 1: most places, and then you gotta wait till Tuesday. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's an astounding number.
Speaker 2: ABC Israel deploys forces along eastern border with Jordan, according
Speaker 2: to IDF, why do we know?
Speaker 1: Just the caution, Okay, I'll look into that. Jordan.
Speaker 3: They're protecting the eastern border, is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember there are a couple of attacks launched
Speaker 1: by some scumback group or another from Jordan. A few
Speaker 1: days ago.
Speaker 2: From NBC, LA hit by looting and chaos, submid Dodgers
Speaker 2: World Series celebration.
Speaker 1: And a bus Yes I win. Somebody texted me last night.
Speaker 1: I had somebody in LA and I texted a nice game,
Speaker 1: and they time for the fireworks and looting to me
Speaker 1: and I set in a bus on fire. And there's
Speaker 1: a bus on fire in the picture, big giant bus.
Speaker 1: You got to set a city bus on fire. If
Speaker 1: your team wins, it's just part of the deal, or
Speaker 1: if they lose. I'm exactly, I'm being sarcastic. Of course,
Speaker 1: I've never understood why we put up with this for
Speaker 1: a second, and why we don't have the harshest of
Speaker 1: physical or monetary penalties for this, to where nobody would
Speaker 1: even dare to set a bus on fire because their
Speaker 1: team wins that the taxpayers then have to pay for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will address this more thoroughly. Next hour. We have reports,
Speaker 1: live reports, helicopter footage, all sorts of good stuff for
Speaker 1: you about the LA riots. Stay with us.
Speaker 3: You guys touched on this, but it's too funny to ignore.
Speaker 1: Daily Mail. Biden bites four.
Speaker 2: Babies, including one dressed as.
Speaker 3: A chicken at White House Halloween party.
Speaker 1: Not sure how the kids costume matters, but is it
Speaker 1: because the kid was dressed as a chicken. There's some
Speaker 1: belief that the dementia ridden old man was hungry and
Speaker 1: thought that it was a meal fla bat. I just
Speaker 1: think he was trying to rejuvenate himself by eating the
Speaker 1: young From the New York Post.
Speaker 2: Ohio officer quote attacked by giant runaway pumpkin months after
Speaker 2: Turkey's chased him down during a traffic.
Speaker 1: Stop and viral video. Wow, the guy cannot win.
Speaker 3: He can't win this.
Speaker 2: This inflatable pumpkin is huge, and the video the thing
Speaker 2: just bounces over and lands on his head.
Speaker 1: Don't disappointing. They don't teach you that what to do
Speaker 1: with that?
Speaker 2: In the Academy and your mem of the day, it's
Speaker 2: clearly some kids that are trigger treating outside of the
Speaker 2: White House. And one kid asked the other what'd you get?
Speaker 2: One kid goes a bill for thirty five trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: Uh, I don't know, but I.
Speaker 3: Think it's unconstitutional. And then another one asks, what's a
Speaker 3: student loan deferment?
Speaker 1: He wants something scary. That's scary.
Speaker 2: And finally, the Babylon Bee wife breathed sigh of relief
Speaker 2: after voting for Trump and the privacy of her voting
Speaker 2: away from the watchful eye of her creepy feminist husband.
Speaker 1: There you go. Wow, Wow, We got one note from
Speaker 1: a listener whose husband there The man is afraid to
Speaker 1: tell the wife that he's not voting for Kamala. This
Speaker 1: is a real life example that mem reminded me of.
Speaker 1: Russia has fined Google twenty decillion dollars? Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard that term before? No? Decillion dollars. We'll have to
Speaker 1: talk about that later too. That's a number of nationality.
Speaker 1: It's a number Armstrong and Getty