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 Jettie and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Raising money so more kids can join Scouts and have
Speaker 3: the sort of experience my son has had this year,
Speaker 3: which has been fantastic. Twenty six dollars from a couple
Speaker 3: of Scouts from the eighties. Appreciate that. Fifty dollars from
Speaker 3: what appears to be a cheesecake one.
Speaker 2: Of our favorite clips ever.
Speaker 3: Two hundred bucks from Joe's doormatt seasoned ribs.
Speaker 2: That's a story long way back.
Speaker 1: That's a throw down, Katie. You've never heard that story. Joe,
Speaker 1: Joe dropped the ribs he was cooking, and then now
Speaker 1: who have now wait a minute, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you got to let me tell a story.
Speaker 2: It's my story.
Speaker 1: We were having dinner with a couple that we had
Speaker 1: just met and befriended. Okay, and I worked for a
Speaker 1: very very long time to cook some delicious baby back ribs.
Speaker 1: Took a great deal of care, and it was at
Speaker 1: the moment that I was going to bring them to
Speaker 1: the table that I somehow in trying to open the
Speaker 1: backscreen door, and all they slid off the platter right
Speaker 1: onto the doormat.
Speaker 3: The doormat where everybody wipes their feet coming in and
Speaker 3: out of your house.
Speaker 2: And it was the.
Speaker 1: Sort of doormat that held a great deal of material. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was not like a shallow one. It was deep
Speaker 1: with like bristles and stuff like that. And so I
Speaker 1: pick it up. I look at it and think, what
Speaker 1: do I do? The dormata has the things from your
Speaker 1: shoes that you thought were too disgusting to track into
Speaker 1: your house.
Speaker 2: So you scraped them off.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, as a dog owner, by the way, oh yes.
Speaker 1: And so I decided what I needed to do was
Speaker 1: to sneak into the kitchen unleast some very very hot
Speaker 1: water from the faucet completely. And I had been saucing
Speaker 1: these ribs and smoking them and cooking them, and all.
Speaker 2: I scrubbed the ribs clean, re sauce.
Speaker 1: Them, throw them back on the grill for like three minutes,
Speaker 1: then brought them in and served.
Speaker 2: Them from that season drib Yeah did you tell people?
Speaker 2: I don't remember?
Speaker 1: No, no, absolutely not, which could be my only crime.
Speaker 2: What is this? A hair and old band aid?
Speaker 1: What I know you, I know you think you're being funny,
Speaker 1: but I uh but I I cleansed that those were
Speaker 1: that rack of ribs with the great energy.
Speaker 2: How many of those people are still with us? Just
Speaker 2: just two of the five?
Speaker 1: Boy, everybody was fine, little hair, little gravel could bitch you.
Speaker 2: Huh. The ribs there means so see me. Probably probably
Speaker 2: got them through COVID. Right.
Speaker 4: If only it was in the day and age of
Speaker 4: the ring camera.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that would have been well, my look would
Speaker 1: have been, oh no. And then when the light bulb
Speaker 1: goes on ding, Wait a minute, I love that.
Speaker 3: So we got two hundred bucks from Joe's doormat seasoned ribs. Uh,
Speaker 3: fifty bucks from love your Ukrainian girlfriend. I'm happy to
Speaker 3: see she's still uh, you know, hold.
Speaker 2: Them on to hope between the two of us. Wow,
Speaker 2: and he can't let go.
Speaker 3: Twenty five bucks from that time Jack said his cell
Speaker 3: number on the air.
Speaker 2: That's right. I was given out the text line, and
Speaker 2: I gave.
Speaker 3: Out almost all of my own personal cellphone over before
Speaker 3: I realized I was.
Speaker 2: Given out the wrong number. I think all but like
Speaker 2: one or two digits. That's probably why I get some
Speaker 2: of the texts and things that I get.
Speaker 3: Anyway, We've got an idea for raising money for the
Speaker 3: Scouts coming up in a little bit and it's alive
Speaker 3: tradition around here.
Speaker 2: It's special.
Speaker 3: We do it every year. I know a lot of
Speaker 3: people wait for it. You're gonna like stop from work
Speaker 3: or whatever you're doing. Maybe bring the kids in. It's
Speaker 3: that cherished a Christmas tradition.
Speaker 1: It's inspired a lot of giving over inspired is one word.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to that next segment.
Speaker 1: So handful of headlines for you, just very briefly open
Speaker 1: Violent jew Hatred exposes the anti Semitism of anti Zionism.
Speaker 1: It's a really smart, well informed article about all the
Speaker 1: times people have said I'm not anti Semitic, I'm just
Speaker 1: anti Zionist, and then all the poor Jewish people getting
Speaker 1: beat up around the globe purely for being Jewish. Here's
Speaker 1: here's another good one. The West needs to open its
Speaker 1: eyes to honor killings. That's in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: Beloved tradition among some Muslims of if your daughter dishonors you,
Speaker 1: you get to murder her, and the penalties are very mild,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the Muslim world that's right, you
Speaker 1: heard me. There's a great piece by Brendan O'Neil about
Speaker 1: the hunting of Jews at Bondi Beach. Here's the New
Speaker 1: York Post f grades handed to fourteen colleges in anti
Speaker 1: Semitism report card as Jewish students are forced to hide
Speaker 1: their identities. And then that report from Columbia where instructors
Speaker 1: told students a shame your people survived the Holocaust.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, which leads.
Speaker 1: Us to that Turtle Island terrorist group, the Turtle Island
Speaker 1: Liberation Front can.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Their plan was.
Speaker 1: To bomb to detonate five bombs across LA on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, and they would paint Hamas triangles that Hamas
Speaker 1: uses to indicate Israeli targets on their targets. According to
Speaker 1: the federal criminal complaint that is known, they are radically
Speaker 1: anti Jewish, anti Zionist as as well as being anti
Speaker 1: capitalism and anti government. It's the Omni Cause turned militant
Speaker 1: and violent and hateful. No democrats in California have commented
Speaker 1: on the plot. Gavin Newsom, Senator Alex Padilla, Adam Schiff,
Speaker 1: Kern Bass of LA, more than a dozen House Democrats
Speaker 1: who represent parts of LA have remained silent on the
Speaker 1: coordinated bomb plot a radical anti Israel group planned before
Speaker 1: it was falled foiled by the fence. Imagine if any
Speaker 1: sort of right wing group had been caught planning a
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve terrorist attack.
Speaker 3: Proud Boys or whoever you want it to be. Oh
Speaker 3: my god, how many speeches would Gavin have given already?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these people were active on social
Speaker 1: media with various announcements or complaints or whatever. Representative Robert Garcia, Democrat,
Speaker 1: posted a statement lamented the murders of filmmaker Rob Ryan
Speaker 1: and his wife in referenced domestic terrorism without providing any
Speaker 1: additional details. They are extremely uncomfortable with the fact that
Speaker 1: these people are their people. They are globalized, the Intifada people.
Speaker 1: They are down with capitalism people. They are absolutely steeped
Speaker 1: in critical theory, I'm sure, radical queer theory and race
Speaker 1: theory and the rest event.
Speaker 2: That's something. Your silence is something else, Gavvy.
Speaker 3: So that Bondi Beach massacre from Australia. You got the
Speaker 3: dude from Syria who snuck up on one of the shooters,
Speaker 3: tackled and got his gun away from him, and then
Speaker 3: for some reason, And you can't criticize a guy because
Speaker 3: he did something heroic.
Speaker 2: Didn't shoot him? Why didn't shoot him?
Speaker 3: But anyway, guy runs off, and the story I heard
Speaker 3: yesterday was got a gun and started shooting again. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not no, no, I'm not going after him. It's
Speaker 3: just a surprising detail. I mean, because if you've seen
Speaker 3: the whole video, he gets a gun away from him
Speaker 3: and points it at.
Speaker 2: Him, but then the guy runs off. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of cops and soldiers would tell
Speaker 1: you it's a lot harder to shoot somebody than you
Speaker 1: think it is.
Speaker 3: The other part that I hid didn't hear until yesterday
Speaker 3: is a a cop did take out Dad with what
Speaker 3: he and other people are calling a miraculous shot given
Speaker 3: it was a pistol at quite a distance, but just
Speaker 3: pulled off the shot of a lifetime able to bring
Speaker 3: the guy down.
Speaker 2: Thank god. Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 3: Pictures and video of it. He very wisely really took
Speaker 3: his time as opposed to, like, you know, it'd be.
Speaker 2: Very easy to be in a hurry, lam plam, plam plam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he really took his time as a guy
Speaker 3: and probably has spent a lot of time at the
Speaker 3: range and uh, with the proper form took the guy out.
Speaker 1: Exhale, pull gently, right, that's something Yeah. Wow, well again,
Speaker 1: thank god, could have been worse, which is hard to picture.
Speaker 3: Wow about what would have happened if that terrorist attack
Speaker 3: for La New Year's Eve had happened. Wow, that had
Speaker 3: been a disruptor for the United States. We don't need that.
Speaker 3: We do not need more political violence.
Speaker 2: No, indeed, but it's being plotted.
Speaker 3: Because there's always a there's the political you know, turmoil
Speaker 3: the way it royals our rhetoric, but then there's always
Speaker 3: some sort of actual reaction from the other side, whichever
Speaker 3: the other side is.
Speaker 1: So my final note from the piece that I referenced
Speaker 1: by oh it's the New York Post editorial board, here's
Speaker 1: my favorite sentence, what else could globalize the inta fada
Speaker 1: ever have possibly meant?
Speaker 2: Right? Right, very good point. Coming up next? A cherished
Speaker 2: what was that? Grown? Was that a groan?
Speaker 1: M You know? That was a that was an of
Speaker 1: warm memories, nostalgia and enjoyment of the season.
Speaker 2: Jack, Is that what that was? A cherished Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty holiday tradition?
Speaker 3: On the way next, arm Strong and let's see if
Speaker 3: I can get a decent scale just for.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. That's not bad for having not picked
Speaker 2: up the violin in a year, ear.
Speaker 1: Blood, and you're years of studying. I mean you've like
Speaker 1: never even taken a lesson, right, No, No, I've practiced
Speaker 1: a total of like an hour on the violin in
Speaker 1: my entire life presses and you know it's a friendless instrument.
Speaker 1: So I pulled off a scale there whatever.
Speaker 2: It's actually pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I wouldn't like put on my
Speaker 1: hard shoes to go see you in a concert hall.
Speaker 1: But what you might be if you tuned in, you
Speaker 1: might be wondering, why is Jack who can't play the
Speaker 1: violin practicing a scale on a fiddle.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a beloved armstrong and getty tradition.
Speaker 1: As we raise money for wonderful causes, in this case,
Speaker 1: scholarships for young lads and girls who'd want to be
Speaker 1: Scouts and maybe don't have the money, and scouting is
Speaker 1: such a positive influence in their lives, we want to
Speaker 1: make sure they have that experience. And we've offered plenty
Speaker 1: of carrot nice interviews stories from scouts and how it's
Speaker 1: changed their lives and inspired them to become the people
Speaker 1: they've become. But for some of you that hasn't been enough.
Speaker 1: The carrot has passed uneaten. So out comes the step.
Speaker 2: That's right, and the stick is a fiddle and a trombone.
Speaker 1: Right without music, playing beloved Christmas classics until we raise
Speaker 1: how much did we decide?
Speaker 2: Probably three grand? All right?
Speaker 1: Need to get three thousand dollars together, starting right now, Jack,
Speaker 1: I will call the first tune if you don't mind.
Speaker 1: I'm a deep and we have no music, and I've
Speaker 1: oh I have any mentioned. I've got my beloved trombone
Speaker 1: in hand many many years ago. I could play this thing,
Speaker 1: not now.
Speaker 2: Well, and you don't have any music? Yeah, like you said,
Speaker 2: so right, I suggest the Christmas classic. It came upon
Speaker 2: a midnight Do I even know how that goes? It
Speaker 2: came upon okay? I meant night? Ready? Two? Three?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: So this isn't gonna start until we get three off.
Speaker 6: Let's see, we've got Jack's podcast audibleve mouth slurp.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that one.
Speaker 6: That was a mistake, all right, Since this has begun,
Speaker 6: I a different song, Kathy, a different song something I
Speaker 6: know the melody better.
Speaker 3: I think i'd be much better there. How's the money
Speaker 3: coming in and go to Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 3: It's easy to donate. I know it gets jammed up
Speaker 3: a little bit, but you can do it. Here we go,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: What's the tune? Jingle bells? Oh? Okay, jingle bells? What
Speaker 2: temple do we want? Jingle bells? Jingle bells? Two three four?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well we just got Robert who donated fifty dollars.
Speaker 4: Clearly wants this to come to an end. Blatness, so
Speaker 4: blattest twenty six dollars, even this one. I was ten
Speaker 4: coming in with twenty six, Nancy.
Speaker 2: With fifty two. Say now the dashing through the snow part.
Speaker 5: No, we're on our way.
Speaker 2: Ha ha ha, I'm through.
Speaker 5: In the ha.
Speaker 2: That was very important. Okay, what's more? Even more painful
Speaker 2: than it sounds? More good?
Speaker 3: Song as we and if you donated Armstrong, you getty
Speaker 3: dot com, this all can come to a store.
Speaker 2: Stop. Yeah, all right, do you have an idea? Oh?
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, silent night, there you go, all right,
Speaker 2: here we go. It foruld be a silent for the now.
Speaker 1: And it's walls two three.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was almost right. That was good. So it's
Speaker 2: the hot wish it was a silent night.
Speaker 4: Michael has found out a million dollars.
Speaker 2: To make this a silent night. Yeah, Michael got a beautiful.
Speaker 1: The baby Jesus have got to throw the first punch
Speaker 1: of his life.
Speaker 2: Where are we at for our total? Did you refresh? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm refreshing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think that I think that might be good.
Speaker 2: You're stupid?
Speaker 4: Did hurt just contributed fifth you box?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Thank you very much? Stupid? Did hurt for you? Now?
Speaker 1: I could I could be talked into playing a little more. No, no,
Speaker 1: any requests of events.
Speaker 2: I would like more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could more of this every year, I think,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna start practicing a little bit
Speaker 3: and get a little and then I ever do. I
Speaker 3: literally had not opened the case since this day last.
Speaker 2: Year when I put it away.
Speaker 1: You know, other than the people I love, music has
Speaker 1: meant more to me than anything in my life. And
Speaker 1: I have no idea how I got talked into playing
Speaker 1: the trombone. It was a bad idea to find instrument
Speaker 1: in this symphotic setting. Sure, but unless you're James pan
Speaker 1: Cow of Chicago, it won't do you a damn bit
Speaker 1: of good of rock and roll.
Speaker 3: What do you wish you had played and it spent
Speaker 3: as much time practicing if you could start over.
Speaker 1: Honestly, like a piano or like saxophone. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: played zillions hours of guitar and I still stink. But yeah,
Speaker 1: something that was more useful in rock and roll, honestly.
Speaker 2: But it's okay.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, A great twenty five dollars donation from needed
Speaker 3: this when I was ten. That's a great one, as
Speaker 3: in I wish I'd had Scouts when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a good one.
Speaker 3: Raging tromboner in for twenty five dollars, appreciate everybody donating.
Speaker 3: Really hoping to hit one hundred and fifty grand by
Speaker 3: the end of the show. We do have a whale
Speaker 3: we know that's coming in at some point, which is
Speaker 3: gonna help.
Speaker 1: We're in about one twenty nine right now, so we
Speaker 1: need a pretty decent chunk of money.
Speaker 3: I mean, we need about twenty grand to get to
Speaker 3: our goal by the end of the hour.
Speaker 2: That's interesting about the musical instrument.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people, if they ever play
Speaker 3: at all, just kind of randomly end up on one.
Speaker 3: I wish I had taken it way more seriously when
Speaker 3: I'm younger, if I had to practice like I practice now,
Speaker 3: I would have loved to have seen, you know, what
Speaker 3: I could have done. Not that I ever wanted to
Speaker 3: make money or be professional or anything like that, just
Speaker 3: the enjoyment.
Speaker 1: It's more enjoyable to play better. Uh yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was so were motivated. Actually I was a pretty
Speaker 1: good brass player, but and it was fun and I
Speaker 1: met a lot of nice people. No regrets. How much
Speaker 1: do you think is talent and how much do you
Speaker 1: think is effort? I always wonder that about.
Speaker 2: Some of each. We're out of time, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: We got more on the way. Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Democrat politicians also set the course of grocery storry, but
Speaker 7: we are solving that too. The price of a Thanksgiving
Speaker 7: turkey was down thirty three percent compared to the Biden
Speaker 7: last year. The price of eggs is down eighty two
Speaker 7: percent since March, and everything else is falling rapidly. And
Speaker 7: it's not done yet, but boy are we making progress.
Speaker 7: Nobody can believe what's going on.
Speaker 3: I hope I live long enough to see how Trump
Speaker 3: is treated by history. Nixon used to say, it takes
Speaker 3: forget how many years, twenty five years before history is
Speaker 3: ripe enough to pick off the tree the first time
Speaker 3: something like that said.
Speaker 2: I have no idea how Trump will be treated by history.
Speaker 3: We certainly know he's treated now and here on the
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Show. I'll speak only for myself. I
Speaker 3: have no need to defend everything he does or attack
Speaker 3: everything he does. I don't know what percentage of people
Speaker 3: are in that camp. It seems like practically everybody in
Speaker 3: the media either have to defend every single thing he
Speaker 3: does or attack every single thing he does, which is
Speaker 3: just intellectually dishonest.
Speaker 2: It doesn't even make any sense.
Speaker 1: It's a little weird as a citizen too, although it's
Speaker 1: kind of the tribal times we live in, and I
Speaker 1: get why people use that as their business model. I
Speaker 1: just we agree, we just don't choose to do that.
Speaker 1: I won are how many people in real life field
Speaker 1: that way?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, my family is some of the trumpiest people
Speaker 3: I know, but even they have limits where it's sometimes
Speaker 3: like why did you do that?
Speaker 2: Why'd you say that?
Speaker 3: Like what he truthed out about rob Ryner the other
Speaker 3: day was just horrific. What do you, as the president
Speaker 3: of the uniteds dates doing weighing in on that. On
Speaker 3: the other hand, I'm so glad Kamala Harris is not president.
Speaker 3: I mean, without reservation, that could have been cataclysmic. Oh
Speaker 3: my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't use that term lightly. No. AnyWho,
Speaker 2: here's another why did he do this? Donald Trump? Thing? Old?
Speaker 2: Did you see this?
Speaker 3: So in the White House they got all the pictures
Speaker 3: of all the presidents on in one of your hall's
Speaker 3: one of your rooms. Yes, and Trump put in new
Speaker 3: plaques underneath the pictures that it looks like he wrote,
Speaker 3: and their big bronze plaques that look like they've been
Speaker 3: there forever, but they've only been there for a couple
Speaker 3: of days.
Speaker 2: And for instance, under.
Speaker 3: Joe Biden's official picture in the White House, I'll just
Speaker 3: read you part of the plaque because it's very long.
Speaker 3: It says sleepy Joe Biden was by far the worst
Speaker 3: president in American history.
Speaker 2: I mean, I understand laughing at it. I'm laughing at
Speaker 2: it right now, but it's just so hilarious that a
Speaker 2: sitting president would put new I mean, these pictures have
Speaker 2: always been up. Not always, but for many, many, many years, they've.
Speaker 3: Had up all the pictures of the presidents, including the latest,
Speaker 3: and there was no plaque. But he put up accident
Speaker 3: in like completely trumpy language.
Speaker 2: It is hilarious. It's also shocking. It's also incredibly petty.
Speaker 3: Right, and we'll accomplish nothing other than making me laugh
Speaker 3: for five minutes. Well, I'll just give me a good laugh, which,
Speaker 3: you know, Jack, with the weight of the world on
Speaker 3: our shoulders these days, they appreciate. It's got the official plaque. Look,
Speaker 3: I mean it's a black with bronze lettering, big thick.
Speaker 3: I mean they put some effort into this. Oh I'm
Speaker 3: not laughing, I'm crying. Sleepy Nation, Sleepy Joe Biden was
Speaker 3: by far the worst president of American history. Taking office
Speaker 3: as a result of the most corrupt election ever seen
Speaker 3: in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented
Speaker 3: disasters that brought our nation to the brink of destruction.
Speaker 3: And it goes on from there. For like, he had
Speaker 3: to do two plaques to fit it all in. Nicknamed
Speaker 3: both Sleepy and Crooked, Joe, Biden was dominated by his
Speaker 3: radical left handlers, So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's the plaque he put in.
Speaker 3: And obviously you don't even need to say this. The
Speaker 3: next president, probably Republican or Democrat, will take those plaques down.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's hard to know if jd. Vance would take him
Speaker 3: down or not. Might take him down quietly on a
Speaker 3: holiday weekend, and hope nobody notices this, because it's pretty silly.
Speaker 1: What's funny about Trump to me is that he feels
Speaker 1: like he needs to point that out because I think
Speaker 1: he's semi obsessed with.
Speaker 2: Media that's critical to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, because people have made fun of him for
Speaker 1: watching Fox News all the time. I don't think he does.
Speaker 1: He watches Morning Joe, and he meets the Washington Post,
Speaker 1: and he.
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: He's obsessed with what Morning Joe and the New York
Speaker 3: Times say about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: And I would say to him, mister parsident, there are
Speaker 1: plenty of us out here, lots and lots of us who,
Speaker 1: when you're right, say yeah, he's absolutely right.
Speaker 2: So like the fine, the plaque under George W. Bush
Speaker 2: is fairly just.
Speaker 3: Looks like a sophomore paper written by somebody who kind
Speaker 3: of like George Bush. I mean, it's got nothing super
Speaker 3: critical in it. Barry Hussain Barack Obama. His plaque says
Speaker 3: Barack Hussein Obama was the first black president, a community organizer,
Speaker 3: one term Senator for Millinois, and one of the most
Speaker 3: divisive political figures in American history.
Speaker 2: That's in the White House. Yes, come on.
Speaker 3: As president, he passed the highly ineffective Unaffordable Care Act,
Speaker 3: resulting in his party losing control of both Houses of
Speaker 3: Congress and the election of the largest House Republican majority
Speaker 3: since nineteen forty six. He presided over a stagnant economy,
Speaker 3: approved a terrible Iran uclear deal, and signed the one
Speaker 3: sided Paris Climate Accords, both of which were later terminated
Speaker 3: by President Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trumph. Gee, I wonder who wrote these.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Trump wrote them himself one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I think he wrote him himself.
Speaker 3: Yes, so he spent because there's a plaque for every
Speaker 3: president I've seen the hallway. I wonder if he only
Speaker 3: wrote some of them, but there's he just said, Look,
Speaker 3: I want to do Obama and Biden.
Speaker 2: As busy as he is, you wouldn't think you'd have
Speaker 2: time to sit down and dictate off these new plaques
Speaker 2: to put under the pictures.
Speaker 1: Well, you wouldn't think he'd have time to hit social
Speaker 1: media twenty times a day either.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: He I realized there's approval ratings aren't that good right now,
Speaker 3: and he takes a lot of flak from all over
Speaker 3: the place. But he has received more presidential votes than
Speaker 3: anybody who's ever run for the office. That is just
Speaker 3: a numerical fact, having run three times and almost one
Speaker 3: all three times did win twice. So what would you
Speaker 3: what would it take to like feel comfortable enough? So
Speaker 3: I'll use this as an example. Early on in my
Speaker 3: radio career, I've told the story many many times. Might
Speaker 3: it might have been forty one years ago tomorrow, because
Speaker 3: that's when my radio career started. Uh, like one of
Speaker 3: my very first shifts, like my first full time actually
Speaker 3: being paid for jobs, somebody called up and said you
Speaker 3: suck and hung up and I was devastated by this call.
Speaker 2: I sat there thinking, Oh my god, I suck.
Speaker 3: This is what I was planning to do, this is
Speaker 3: what I'm going to college for, this is my only job.
Speaker 2: I suck. What am I gonna do? I mean, I
Speaker 2: was just right, Oh that's terrible. I mean, I'm laughing.
Speaker 1: I'm nineteen years old, and uh, and then I went
Speaker 1: from suck to like, you know, am I funny or not?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: At some point, after enough years of making a house
Speaker 3: payment and car payment and feeding myself on being allegedly
Speaker 3: funny or interesting, you know, I just accept that I'm
Speaker 3: I'm funny enough and interesting enough to enough people to
Speaker 3: make a living.
Speaker 2: And if other people, if there's.
Speaker 3: A bunch of people who don't think so, I'm fine
Speaker 3: with that because enough people do.
Speaker 2: It's been proven through my you know, making.
Speaker 1: A living, and especially if you know anything about the
Speaker 1: business you just needed just a tiny minority people is plenty,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: But not everybody needs to agree. But I'm comfortable in
Speaker 3: my own skin with that as a as an identity.
Speaker 3: How Trump can't get there? You were damn near elected.
Speaker 3: You almost won three presidential elections. You did win too.
Speaker 3: At what point do you need to feel like you
Speaker 3: have been a successful politician to where you're not this
Speaker 3: thin skinned?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And Petty, the best revenge is living well. Those those
Speaker 1: are good words, words to know, words to remember. It
Speaker 1: would be terrifying to spend five minutes in his brain,
Speaker 1: I mean in a lot of ways, to have his
Speaker 1: energy and drive I'll bet the pay self belief, I'll
Speaker 1: bet the pace.
Speaker 2: I would immediately think I can't keep this up all
Speaker 2: day long.
Speaker 1: But the grinding insecurity or pettiness or whatever, that'd be
Speaker 1: terrifying too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the more fascinating people who's ever walked planet
Speaker 3: Earth without a doubt.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh my gosh, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to squeeze in before the end of the show,
Speaker 1: and I'll do a very very short version of it.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite economics stories, one that should be
Speaker 1: taught in every high school in America and will be
Speaker 1: taught in practically no high schools in America could avoid
Speaker 1: a great deal of pain and angst across the fooded
Speaker 1: plain for decades to come.
Speaker 2: But it will be ignored. But you're going to hear
Speaker 2: about it. Cool.
Speaker 3: Well, let's break so we can have time for that,
Speaker 3: and also want to do a big push for Scouts. Boy,
Speaker 3: we just got a great donation. I love this one.
Speaker 3: Twenty five bucks from Scott Wild was the best scout
Speaker 3: master ever. And I don't know who Scott Wild is,
Speaker 3: but I'm sure this is somebody who is a Scout
Speaker 3: And that guy was a scout master and really liked
Speaker 3: him and made a difference in his life. And the
Speaker 3: parents out there that are dedicating so many hours for
Speaker 3: no pay to do that, whether it's youth sports or
Speaker 3: at your church or this with Scouts. I'm highly impressed
Speaker 3: by that. Anyway, we want more people to be able
Speaker 3: to sign up for Scouts, even if you can't quite
Speaker 3: afford it, and that's what we're raising money for. Want
Speaker 3: ahead one hundred and fifty dollars before the show ends.
Speaker 3: We're one thirty seven. Now, I know we can get there.
Speaker 3: We just need you to go to Armstrong in geddy
Speaker 3: dot com and donate a little bit.
Speaker 2: We got plenty of listeners. If everybody donate a little bit,
Speaker 2: we would get.
Speaker 1: There, including you people in the future listening to the
Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't close, you know, we'll keep adding to
Speaker 3: this over the next couple of days. We're just kind
Speaker 3: of unofficially wrapping it up here in the next fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: Go to Armstrong in getty dot com. More on the
Speaker 2: way Armstrong. Hey Yetty, the number of people.
Speaker 3: With the last name Merken who donate and I don't
Speaker 3: believe that's your last name, Google it.
Speaker 2: It's not a common term you come across anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't recall any friends or neighbors with that name.
Speaker 1: That's surname.
Speaker 3: Got one hundred bucks from Ruin the entire company company,
Speaker 3: Ruin the entire country knew some twenty twenty eight. That
Speaker 3: was Joe's idea. That's a good one. That's a popular
Speaker 3: T shirt we have at armstrong in geeddy dot com.
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: Donate to the Scouts armstrong in geeddy dot com trying
Speaker 3: to hit one hundred and fifty before we get off
Speaker 3: the air in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I would like to design some of classroom game that
Speaker 1: the kids could play in primary high school. Although frankly
Speaker 1: even adult could understand this. A young adult, I want
Speaker 1: to teach this in every high school in America. You
Speaker 1: got Minneapolis on one side of a river, Saint Paul
Speaker 1: on the other. In twenty twenty two, Saint Paul enacted
Speaker 1: one of the strictest rent control regimes in the country.
Speaker 1: The Ordnance capped annual rent increases at three percent for
Speaker 1: most apartments, even empty ones, no adjustment for inflation. Across
Speaker 1: the Mississippi River, Minneapolis steered clear rent control.
Speaker 2: Instead.
Speaker 1: City officials strictly focused on creating new housing. A package
Speaker 1: of land use revisions in twenty twenty made it easier
Speaker 1: to build apartments, in part by removing restrictions that limited
Speaker 1: houses to single family homes. Now the results are coming
Speaker 1: into focus. Permits to build apartments in Saint Paul, where
Speaker 1: they did rent control plummeted by seventy nine percent in
Speaker 1: one year. Let's call it eighty percent. An eighty percent
Speaker 1: reduction in anybody saying, Hey, I'd like to build some apartments.
Speaker 1: Real estate investment activity nearly froze. Developers halted projects that
Speaker 1: were already underway as their lenders pulled back because they
Speaker 1: doubted that the owners could make their payments. Property values
Speaker 1: declined as investment cooled. All this compounded the existing real
Speaker 1: estate problems brought on by the pandemic. Saint Paul officials
Speaker 1: are now walking back parts of the ordinance, said the
Speaker 1: new mayor herself landlord. Yeah, the math just doesn't work.
Speaker 1: In Minneapolis, meanwhile, developers kept building housing.
Speaker 2: Permits surged nearly.
Speaker 1: Fourfold in early twenty two from the year before, not
Speaker 1: cut by eighty percent. They quadrupled downtown hubs blossomed as
Speaker 1: new apartments hit the market and attracted young professionals. And
Speaker 1: guess what, Minneapolis rents grew much more slowly than both
Speaker 1: Saint Paul and the US.
Speaker 2: Overall, it made it better.
Speaker 3: Saint Paul is pretty wacky, beautiful city, and I had
Speaker 3: a wedding there one time.
Speaker 2: And spent some time in Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: Saint Paul absolutely gorgeous there, but the politics are wacky.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that Minneapolis, as woke as it is in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, had realists who understood.
Speaker 2: Uh, real estate.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, you know, you got your Mamdannie Omar
Speaker 1: Fatather and Minneapolis pitch and rent control just didn't resonate
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. They didn't think it was a good idea
Speaker 1: and didn't do it.
Speaker 3: So as we wrap up here taking a look at
Speaker 3: people who are donating to are cause raising money, some
Speaker 3: more people can join the Scouts at Armstrong in getty
Speaker 3: dot com. Here you got seventy bucks from a family
Speaker 3: of seven Eagle Scouts.
Speaker 2: Wow, something.
Speaker 3: Fifty bucks from two eagles and a soup slurping marine.
Speaker 3: But the uh, the seven Eagle Scouts reminds me of
Speaker 3: my next door neighbors, the perfect family. I always call
Speaker 3: them nicest people in the world. They're just I just
Speaker 3: I just I'm not. I can't do what they do.
Speaker 3: They're like they just constantly exercising kids and all these
Speaker 3: different projects that they love.
Speaker 1: They eat well, they exercisele like, they speak multiple languages.
Speaker 2: I always see them studied at the molecular level. I
Speaker 2: wish I was like that. I'm just not. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: is it energy? Some people just have more energy than
Speaker 2: other people. Some of it's cultural, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Everybody around you acts like that from the time you're
Speaker 1: a little child. Some of it's personal. I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I gotta be fighting that. How many Eagle scouts did
Speaker 2: you say? Seven? Seven?
Speaker 1: Why can I hang out with you and feel inferior
Speaker 1: every single minute?
Speaker 2: That would be great.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got fifty bucks from make Jock, Make Jack
Speaker 1: stop talking about Prunes.
Speaker 2: Laz. Once you go prune, you'll never be maroon.
Speaker 3: What's one hundred and fifty bucks from Michael Angelo's gas
Speaker 3: station car wash?
Speaker 2: Is that a story? I don't remember, Michael, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I call that no.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow is our clips of the year's show. So this
Speaker 3: is our actual like lie last talking about the news.
Speaker 3: I mean, if something really big happened we go to
Speaker 3: war with Venezuela. I suppose we would talk about that
Speaker 3: tomorrow at some length. But barring some giant news story,
Speaker 3: it's the Clips of the Years show. We go month
Speaker 3: by month with clips and discuss them, and then we
Speaker 3: get to the actual, like ten biggest clips of the year,
Speaker 3: and it's usually a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And then we vote on the clip of the year
Speaker 1: and whoever speaks the clip of the.
Speaker 3: Whale, wardale for it, Starboard Bow.
Speaker 2: We got a whale. I can never remember is.
Speaker 3: That this is the biggest we've had yet by far.
Speaker 3: Good God, it's going to turn over the ship. You
Speaker 3: are somebody wanted to be anonymous a supporter. Ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, thank you very much that came in.
Speaker 3: We are at one forty eight six o nine. We
Speaker 3: only need fourteen hundred bucks to get to one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty, so you.
Speaker 1: Know what to thank you to Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1: I want you to come over for dinner tonight intar
Speaker 1: Jack's house. If I come, I mean go, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, and Jack will prepare you a four course medal.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say, and joeill rub your feet, But no,
Speaker 3: Joe invited them over to my house. But if you're
Speaker 3: coming to my house, have low expectations for your meal.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that, Jack Joe.
Speaker 5: They've gotten some fine old thoughts.
Speaker 2: No arm Strong and show. Here's your host for final thoughts,
Speaker 2: Joe Getty. How about a final thought from everybody on
Speaker 2: the crew?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be exciting? How about Michael Angelow leading the
Speaker 1: way better yet?
Speaker 2: Michael? Final thought?
Speaker 6: I'm kind of disappointed I didn't put out outdoor Christmas
Speaker 6: lights this year.
Speaker 2: The first year and several years I haven't done it.
Speaker 2: I just didn't get around to it. Do I get failed?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wait to let down jesus Michael Wow, Okay, oh not
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Judge Katie Green are esteemed newswoman as final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4: Well, it is the time of the year. I'm really disappointed.
Speaker 4: I was just emailed that my renewal for my AARP
Speaker 4: was declined.
Speaker 2: What am katy am? I correct? You will not be
Speaker 2: here for the Clips of the Year show tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I will not. I will be in Portland.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let us just say you're the best.
Speaker 2: We love you. Have a great vacation and seeing a
Speaker 2: bit see you next years. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Great final thought, it's always so much fun to say
Speaker 3: see you next year.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Our total is one one hundred and forty nine, one
Speaker 3: sixty nine. As we go off the air today, we're
Speaker 3: just eight hundred bucks short. I'm sure that will flow
Speaker 3: in over the next three minutes. So thank you for
Speaker 3: helping us get to one fifty. But as Joe said,
Speaker 3: donations can continue to come in if you hear this
Speaker 3: in the future or whenever. It all adds up to
Speaker 3: a total total. So thank you very much. Armstronginggetdy dot com.
Speaker 1: My final thoughts thinking of a couple of stories and
Speaker 1: pieces of audio we brought you today, how about instead
Speaker 1: of yelling angrily at people, you ask them questions and
Speaker 1: see if you can understand their point of view.
Speaker 2: Give that a try. You might enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to agree with it, but you won't
Speaker 1: come off like an a hole.
Speaker 2: That sounds crazy.
Speaker 3: Armstrong A Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: So many people, thanks a little time.
Speaker 1: Go to Armstrong getdy dot com look for the donat
Speaker 1: now tab drop us Nope, mail bag at armstrong getdy
Speaker 1: dot com.
Speaker 4: We did it.
Speaker 3: We hit one hundred and fifty by the end of
Speaker 3: the day on Thursday, I'm very awesome.
Speaker 2: See you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: God bless America.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: On our way.
Speaker 2: I'm to throw in the that was very important.
Speaker 1: The baby Jesus have got to throw the first punch
Speaker 1: of his life.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Geeddy