Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack arms Strong and Joe Catty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and gatty, and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and getty.
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Speaker 2: I've never eaten cat food before.
Speaker 1: I think he likes it. It's tasty, it's good. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect this to beat cat food. It's a little mushine,
Speaker 1: but flavor wise, actually not too bad. Exit all, it's
Speaker 1: not too bad. It doesn't taste like cat food, taste
Speaker 1: like a burger.
Speaker 4: I don't like stunt food. I'm stupid.
Speaker 5: I don't doubt that a Michelin starred chef could take
Speaker 5: cat food and put enough stuff.
Speaker 2: In it to make it taste delicious. I don't doubt
Speaker 2: that a bit.
Speaker 4: And or use the usual components of cat food, which
Speaker 4: would be fish and chicken, and craft a burger and
Speaker 4: then call it cat food burger.
Speaker 1: To get attention. I don't doubt that could happen either.
Speaker 5: You've made Joe angry Michael with your stupid, stupid clip.
Speaker 4: All right, I don't appreciate having my intelligence insulted. Michael
Speaker 4: on my very own radio show, Slash podcast. Thank you
Speaker 4: for listening.
Speaker 5: So I got this text I thought was kind of interesting.
Speaker 5: This is around the whole Russia Ukraine thing, which again
Speaker 5: won't belabor this point, but I think the missing element
Speaker 5: of this old story is Putin has no interest in stopping,
Speaker 5: so I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what we're doing. I don't know what was doing.
Speaker 5: I think it's all kind of gonna slam to a
Speaker 5: clothesier like today because he there's no interesting.
Speaker 2: Quitting one of the.
Speaker 5: Parties preferring war will hurt the peace process. How about
Speaker 5: the party that's winning currently. Yes, we got this text
Speaker 5: during my forty year legal career. I actually as a
Speaker 5: court appointed mediator dozens of times.
Speaker 1: Those cases are a fascinating field.
Speaker 4: Right anytime you want, I'll bet you have amazing insights
Speaker 4: into humanity.
Speaker 5: Those cases were obviously less complicated than mediating the end
Speaker 5: of wars, but they do have some parallels. First and
Speaker 5: importanceance is the neutrality of the mediator. This might speak
Speaker 5: to the way Trump is handling things. Nobody has confidence
Speaker 5: in the mediation process. If one party perceives a mediator
Speaker 5: to be biased in favor of the other party, that never,
Speaker 5: in all caps works unless one side is ready for
Speaker 5: a complete surrender.
Speaker 4: Hello, half of couples counseling two thirds, three quarters.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but maybe that's the whole Trump thing.
Speaker 5: He's done a lot of deals. Maybe he realizes if
Speaker 5: Putin has to believe that, like, I'm just as interested
Speaker 5: in him getting a good deal as Lenski getting a
Speaker 5: good deal, or this will never even, we won't even
Speaker 5: get started. Yeah, if not, they believing in the mediator
Speaker 5: being unbiased, The parties go through this dance that the
Speaker 5: mediator can only stand by till they get it out
Speaker 5: of their systems. Almost universally, both sides say they are
Speaker 5: happy to go to trial, ig go on fighting the
Speaker 5: war in order to intimidate the other side to give
Speaker 5: up its concept of total victory.
Speaker 2: That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 5: So both sides at least say out loud, fine with
Speaker 5: me if we keep fighting, because the second you don't,
Speaker 5: obviously I've lost all leverage.
Speaker 1: Right, you're the person who wants the deal more so.
Speaker 5: I think in this case Putin actually does want to
Speaker 5: keep fighting, but he would claim that even if he wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the mediator knows. This is usually bs that they want
Speaker 5: to keep fighting, Otherwise there would be no agreement to
Speaker 5: mediate in the first place.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 5: Why would Putin get together for these meetings at all
Speaker 5: if he didn't have some interest in peace. The difference
Speaker 5: between the war situation and these examples this court guy
Speaker 5: has is in a divorce, there's no reason for you
Speaker 5: to just drag it out longer.
Speaker 2: You're not getting anything out of that.
Speaker 4: Whereas I was going to say, unless you were draining
Speaker 4: one percent of their net worth per day and you
Speaker 4: just wanted to delay for DeLay's sake.
Speaker 1: No, that's where the metaphor breaks down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Putin does get some advantage out of just dragging
Speaker 5: it out. While that dance goes on, The best thing
Speaker 5: a mediator can do is remain patient. Behind closed doors,
Speaker 5: the mediator meets with each side separately, trying to be
Speaker 5: candid with them as to the strengths and weaknesses of
Speaker 5: their case. As a neutral mediator sees it, those discussions
Speaker 5: have to be this is interesting too, Those discussions have
Speaker 5: to be confidential, or else one dude would seize on
Speaker 5: the confidential discussions as a sign that the other is weakening,
Speaker 5: which not surprisingly emboldens the other side when they think
Speaker 5: they've got the upper hand and then adopt a more
Speaker 5: firm's stance, And that gets to the whole Henry Kissinger
Speaker 5: thing about when you've got carping coming in from both
Speaker 5: sides all the time, you can't have a mediation because well,
Speaker 5: for obvious reasons. I think he always uses the example
Speaker 5: of a romantic couple. Imagine a romantic couple trying to
Speaker 5: get together when you had about a bunch of outside voices,
Speaker 5: you know, claiming things that aren't true, or shouting questions
Speaker 5: or whatever. It would you never get anywhere?
Speaker 1: All right? Does it bother you that he wants? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you heard the rumor that she has slept with
Speaker 1: you know, ten guys in the last week.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't heard that. I'm not commenting on it.
Speaker 4: No, and it can't possibly be true. I've been with her,
Speaker 4: But still that over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So the one of the narratives on the Sunday shows
Speaker 5: was or I guess it was the week? Was it?
Speaker 2: God, this has all happened so fast?
Speaker 1: Was it just last Friday? Just this past.
Speaker 5: Friday, a week from tomorrow, when the whole meeting in
Speaker 5: Alaska thing happened?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, Anyway.
Speaker 5: After that it was with walked away with no concrete agreement. Well,
Speaker 5: you don't know what happened. You don't have the slightest
Speaker 5: idea what happened. What are we even talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, right, that was silly from the beginning. I mean
Speaker 4: even Trump made clear, no, we're just going to see
Speaker 4: if there's the basis for an agreement.
Speaker 1: Anyway, there's not.
Speaker 4: It's marriage counseling in which one of the partners is saying,
Speaker 4: you know, I despise this person and want nothing more
Speaker 4: than to be divorced from them.
Speaker 1: So that's putin no matter what he may have claimed.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Speaking of counseling and that sort of thing, we
Speaker 4: were talking yesterday I think it was in this hour,
Speaker 4: hour four of the show about Abigail Shreyer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that makes more sense with like marriage counseling
Speaker 5: than the mediator of a divorce. That's the having the
Speaker 5: marriage counseling when one person has already made up their mind.
Speaker 5: That's what might be going on with this war situation.
Speaker 5: One site has already made up with their mind they're
Speaker 5: gonna keep fighting.
Speaker 4: So again, speaking of mental health, we were talking about
Speaker 4: Abigail Schreyer and her book Bad therapy and the fact
Speaker 4: that her kid got a mandatory You've got to leave
Speaker 4: the room, multiple questions about do you wish you were dead,
Speaker 4: if you felt your family would be better off if
Speaker 4: you were dead in the past week, if you had
Speaker 4: thoughts about killing yourself, if you ever tried to kill yourself,
Speaker 4: Are you thinking of killing yourself right now? And she
Speaker 4: is talking about the incredible suggestibility of kids and how
Speaker 4: the JB. Pritzker Illinois idea of mandatory grilling of kids
Speaker 4: like this starting in the third grade is just a terrible,
Speaker 4: terrible idea for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 5: We got a tremendous pushback from a health mental health
Speaker 5: professional that I didn't agree with. Okay, it sounds like
Speaker 5: a nice person fan of the show that maybe have
Speaker 5: that handy. I do have that handy. Maybe we'll get
Speaker 5: to that later.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to if you can dig that out.
Speaker 4: Because again, I'm not trying trying to pitch a particular
Speaker 4: point of view, I'm trying to get at the truth
Speaker 4: as usual. But this she points out that there's no
Speaker 4: proof that mental health screeners have ever been shown to
Speaker 4: improve mental health outcomes. I believe I wonder if our
Speaker 4: friend disagrees with that, unlike the alleged benefits of mental
Speaker 4: health screeners, there is solid evidence on the harms produced
Speaker 4: by receiving a mental diagnosis, harms that are pure tragedy.
Speaker 4: In the case of misdiagnosis, she writes, the screeners are
Speaker 4: nora a screeners capable of identifying who the next school
Speaker 4: shooter will be. They are poor at identifying kids which
Speaker 4: kids likely have depressions, since they are not sensitive enough
Speaker 4: to distinguish it from normal periods of sadness. They do
Speaker 4: not even real reliably indicate which kids are at risk
Speaker 4: of suicide.
Speaker 1: And she quotes Stephen J.
Speaker 4: Morse's professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: who says he's looking at the statistics for these screenings
Speaker 4: and all he says, if you do the statistical calculation
Speaker 4: you discuss, ever, that the false positive rate is about
Speaker 4: ninety seven percent.
Speaker 1: In screening for suicidal intention.
Speaker 2: That doesn't surprise me a bit.
Speaker 4: I see ninety seven percent of the yes this person
Speaker 4: is thinking about it positives are false.
Speaker 1: The kid is just a kid.
Speaker 5: I know what the argument is from the other side,
Speaker 5: because I've known enough mental health professionals, and I think
Speaker 5: y'all look at it wrong in my opinion. Do you
Speaker 5: want to hear this or yeah, here you.
Speaker 4: Go, Sure, and then I'll get to the main point
Speaker 4: and the reason I bring this up. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: definitely want to This.
Speaker 5: Will make my point. This is a common suicide scale.
Speaker 5: They're explaining what the governor of Illinois wanting to do
Speaker 5: and everything like that. The person has to be alone
Speaker 5: for this rating. So I was complaining about I hate
Speaker 5: the idea of you can't be in the room.
Speaker 2: We're going to ask your kids some questions.
Speaker 5: I hated the fact that they asked me to leave
Speaker 5: the room when my wife's gonna have a baby or
Speaker 5: just had a baby to talk. I hate all that
Speaker 5: sort of I think it's awful, awful, awful. Anyway, I'll
Speaker 5: explain what my theory is on that after we read this.
Speaker 5: The person, the kid has to be alone for this rating.
Speaker 5: Imagine a kid is possibly suicidal. How do you think
Speaker 5: they would respond with the parent in the room. This
Speaker 5: is an important scale, and it's crucial that answers aren't
Speaker 5: compromised by the presence of others. It's not a big
Speaker 5: deal like you're making it out to be Typically, when
Speaker 5: a respondent says no to the first two questions, the
Speaker 5: scale ends. You know, do they say no or not?
Speaker 5: How often do they say yes? And how often when
Speaker 5: they say yes? Anyway, we just discussed that if they
Speaker 5: don't have thoughts of suicide, nothing more needs to be recorded.
Speaker 5: I understand you not wanting to be kept in the
Speaker 5: dark as a parent, but you have to understand how
Speaker 5: common it is to lose young people to suicide because
Speaker 5: their parents are unaware of or don't react.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: These are not usually things a kid wants you to
Speaker 5: know about. This is one very clear area where you
Speaker 5: want to trust a doctor. I work in research at
Speaker 5: a UC campus and federal facility for Mental Health. I
Speaker 5: am bothered by the crafting of a society around the tiny, tiny,
Speaker 5: tiny percentage of people who beat their kids, rape their
Speaker 5: wives into pregnancy, all that different sort of stuff. I
Speaker 5: just think it's a weird way to craft society with
Speaker 5: the assumption.
Speaker 1: Going forward, you're all horrible lyying people.
Speaker 5: That are oppressing your wives and children, and we're going
Speaker 5: to treat you as such until otherwise we find out otherwise.
Speaker 1: I just think that's wrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that might overstate the case a little bit, but
Speaker 4: because there are times when a kid will confide in
Speaker 4: a teacher, coach, or doctor something something they'd be uncomfortable
Speaker 4: talking about in front.
Speaker 1: Of their parents. That exists. Of course it does, of
Speaker 1: course it does.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't I wouldn't ban a kid from wanting to talk
Speaker 5: to somebody, go on their own to a teacher and say,
Speaker 5: you know, in my home, life's horrible, something like that.
Speaker 5: But they having every parent leave the room when you
Speaker 5: ask my kid questions. I just I couldn't be more against.
Speaker 1: That, right, Yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 4: And I just for the record, I want to say
Speaker 4: our correspondent sounds like a very good person with great intentions,
Speaker 4: concerned about the kids killing themselves, which is one of
Speaker 4: the saddest things that exists in human no existence. And
Speaker 4: I credit you dedicating your life to that one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: We don't have time to get to the main point
Speaker 4: I had in bringing this up, but it relates directly
Speaker 4: to what we were just talking about. We'll have that
Speaker 4: on the other side of the break.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: That's good stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 5: Exet the second death and is a family very upset
Speaker 5: that the Washington Post printed sensitive details about the security
Speaker 5: of him, his wife, and his kids in their newspaper.
Speaker 2: More on that later.
Speaker 1: That's despicable.
Speaker 2: It is despicable.
Speaker 4: Wow, I got one of the better scams I've ever
Speaker 4: seen sent to me via text just a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Talk about that if we can.
Speaker 4: So, if you're just tuning in where you've been catch
Speaker 4: up via podcast Armstrong you're getting on demand, you ought
Speaker 4: to subscribe. We were talking about Elizabeth or I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: what's her name, miss Schreier, that's right, and mandatory mental
Speaker 4: health screening for kids and false positives and suggestibility of
Speaker 4: kids and that sort of thing. And the final note
Speaker 4: I want to throw in, And one of the reasons
Speaker 4: I brought this up is a little spot quiz. What
Speaker 4: was old Uncle Joe's first introduction to neo Marxism. I
Speaker 4: was in college when I had a professor mentioned semi
Speaker 4: casually that the nuclear family was a organ of oppression.
Speaker 2: That's an insane thing to say.
Speaker 4: And sitting there as a college freshman, I thought, you
Speaker 4: are out of your mind and or have ideas that
Speaker 4: are really sick. Well, and as it turns out, I
Speaker 4: was right. One of the tenets of traditional Marxism and
Speaker 4: neo Marxism as well, is that the state ought to
Speaker 4: be raising the children because confirming the state orthodoxy and
Speaker 4: the party line as it's called, is absolutely critical to
Speaker 4: Marxist systems, and so the state seeks to supplant the family.
Speaker 1: And now.
Speaker 4: Getting back to our discussion of animal farm and the
Speaker 4: sheep who are taught to bleed four legs good, two
Speaker 4: legs bad, and then we're later bleeding a completely different
Speaker 4: version of it. They just say what they're told to say.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of very good, well meaning people
Speaker 4: who tend to be of the do good or variety, who.
Speaker 1: Fall for the faux moral, faux.
Speaker 4: Civil rights whatever arguments of say anti racism or whatever,
Speaker 4: and they think they're doing good and they have no
Speaker 4: idea they are serving hardcore radical neo Marxists. And I'm
Speaker 4: not sure it's hard to tell who's who sometimes because
Speaker 4: they all use the language of morality. But anyway, that's
Speaker 4: all lead up to what miss Schreier writes next. Illinois
Speaker 4: State Senator Laura Fine, chair of JB. Pritzker's Mental Health Committee,
Speaker 4: which is getting this mandatory mental health screening for little
Speaker 4: kids going, indicated last week that the state may harbor
Speaker 4: broader ambitions quote the screenings will be designed to catch
Speaker 4: the early signs of anxiety, depression, or trauma, and Shreier
Speaker 4: writes a slip of the mask if not the tongue.
Speaker 4: Trauma is not a recognized mental health diagnosis, as I
Speaker 4: encounter during my investigation in the hands of school counselors.
Speaker 4: Trauma can and does mean any hurt suffered in childhood.
Speaker 4: Have your parents ever spanked you, yelled at you, forced
Speaker 4: you to attend church? Do they offer enthusiastic affirmation of
Speaker 4: your chosen gender identity?
Speaker 1: Or are they skeptical?
Speaker 4: All of these are routinely identified as sources of childhood trauma.
Speaker 4: And because teachers in school mental health staff are all
Speaker 4: mandatory reporters, anything they learn about a family's private life
Speaker 4: that carries even a whiff of trauma may occasion a
Speaker 4: child called a child services or at the very least,
Speaker 4: the state, the school, the government stepping in and saying, well,
Speaker 4: there has been trauma here there far. Therefore, we are
Speaker 4: taking a twenty five to one hundred percent role in
Speaker 4: raising your child. For you right, and the people I've
Speaker 4: quoted and the people in schools are doing this, they
Speaker 4: may not understand what god they are serving, but it
Speaker 4: is one hundred percent the God of the state should
Speaker 4: raise your children, not you, which is progressivism from the
Speaker 4: early twentieth century. It's Marxism, it's you know, it's one
Speaker 4: of the tenets of the hardcore left.
Speaker 5: I'm a mandated reporter for the state of California now,
Speaker 5: and when I was doing all that training stuff, I
Speaker 5: thought it'd be so easy to abuse this think gods
Speaker 5: in the hands mostly you know, normal people, I hope,
Speaker 5: but it'd be really easy to abuse.
Speaker 4: I'm a mandated traffic reporter. There's a slowdown on I
Speaker 4: to five southbound anyway. Yeah, and required by law, so
Speaker 4: so much more to come.
Speaker 1: This out right now? Scammed? You say you almost got scammed?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's really good, skillful.
Speaker 1: Hot Nigerian princess with it that sort of thing. How'd
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Speaker 5: Surena Williams used the weight loss drug to use all
Speaker 5: her weight she gained from being a mom. She's kind
Speaker 5: of interesting. She's making the rounds talking about that. I
Speaker 5: don't know if she's pitching that drug or not. Anyway,
Speaker 5: talk more about that later.
Speaker 1: M okay.
Speaker 4: A handful of random scraps of infotainment.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 4: First of all, the final, final final thought from Abigail Schreier.
Speaker 4: I love her concluding paragraph about screening for mental illness.
Speaker 1: And kids and blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: The vast majority of our kids and teens are not
Speaker 4: mentally ill, but they are lonely, worried, scared, and bummed out.
Speaker 4: Schools ought to supply them with reliable bolsters to the
Speaker 4: human spirit, high expectations, greater independence and responsibility, far far
Speaker 4: less screen time, more recess exercise, art, music, involvement in
Speaker 4: goal oriented activities that lure them out of their own
Speaker 4: minds and force them to think about something anything other
Speaker 4: than themselves.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: I was talking to my son's Scout leader tuesday night,
Speaker 5: and some of the older kids had just gotten back
Speaker 5: from a really difficult hike that they do once they
Speaker 5: get to be like sixteen or something like that. That
Speaker 5: included a burrow, having a donkey carry a bunch of
Speaker 5: your gear as you hike up into the mountains for
Speaker 5: nine days or something like that, and you take everything
Speaker 5: with you and everything out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, he was talking about how much difficulty they had
Speaker 5: with the burrow and then trying to figure out how
Speaker 5: to do it, and it ended up being more work
Speaker 5: than it was worth and blah blah, blah blah. But
Speaker 5: they figured it out all on our own, which is
Speaker 5: the way Scouts works. And he said they all walked
Speaker 5: taller when they got at the end of that thing.
Speaker 5: He said, you could see in their physical manner the
Speaker 5: way they were stronger, more confident people after that.
Speaker 1: I guarantee that's the.
Speaker 5: Opposite of what they do in well schools and a
Speaker 5: lot of other things. The opposite fields you from any difficulty,
Speaker 5: decision making, worry, stress, shield you from all of that,
Speaker 5: and you walk around smaller and scared as opposed to
Speaker 5: taller and confident.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so revealing. I'm reminded of. Maybe my most
Speaker 4: cherished memory with my youngest kid was our incredibly grueling
Speaker 4: star crossed kayaking trip in which we both ended up
Speaker 4: so exhausted we could barely move our arms and it
Speaker 4: was harrowing. And we talk about it and and just
Speaker 4: it makes my heart, you know, swell with love just
Speaker 4: thinking about going.
Speaker 1: Through that experience together. That sets man.
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Speaker 5: So some of it is just data harvesting. They just
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not that's uh, that's more than data harvesting.
Speaker 4: I think that's like identity theft. It's like they're not
Speaker 4: they're not harvesting reams of data so they can target
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Speaker 4: But anyway, it's just it's it's well disguised and and
Speaker 4: you know, a guy like me, I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: And has a profile online.
Speaker 4: I always think of my sweet, wonderful oldest kid, Kate,
Speaker 4: who is a autistic can be just got laid off
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Speaker 4: does not have the skepticism gene. We've worked on it
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Speaker 1: Well, plus, if.
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Speaker 2: You applied for or whatever necessarily.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: because a lot of people don't understand that you can
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Speaker 5: F with them good and hard. I get a lot
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Speaker 5: how to get rid of this. I've been changing passwords
Speaker 5: and all that sort of stuff. But I get a
Speaker 5: lot of from PayPal, Apple. These aren't real, but it
Speaker 5: looks like it's from PayPal, looks like it's from Apple,
Speaker 5: looks like it's from eBay where it's good news. Your
Speaker 5: order is on the way. Your laptop will be there thursday,
Speaker 5: hoping You say, wait a second, I didn't order a laptop.
Speaker 2: And you click on it and then you're who knows
Speaker 2: where right?
Speaker 4: Or what's the you know, one of your cash services
Speaker 4: just final check that you authorized a five hundred dollars payment.
Speaker 1: To Joe Jones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, very sophisticating. So final a stray note for
Speaker 4: the segment, let's call it crazy Old Lady Theater. Michael,
Speaker 4: you need to help us set up twelve and thirteen.
Speaker 4: So there was some sort of model shoot being done
Speaker 4: at an apartment complex.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just two regular photographers and the model shoot
Speaker 6: is nothing sexy. It's just strictly for clothing, you know,
Speaker 6: nothing nothing weird or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Wait, it's more like for a department store or something
Speaker 4: like that. Just here's a real person in an apartment
Speaker 4: building wearing you know, today's business fashions.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 4: But but Jack, there was a crazy old lady present,
Speaker 4: and we give you crazy old lady theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she wasn't happy about this.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, they were outside of my home. I don't
Speaker 1: know where they're from. They're going to.
Speaker 6: The room and they're staying in the room, and they're
Speaker 6: not going to whore and pimp her.
Speaker 1: They're not going to pimp the whore.
Speaker 5: Wore.
Speaker 1: They rent their room, not my common elements pimp wore.
Speaker 2: You can be cordial though, No, why not.
Speaker 1: Because you're trespassing, just because where are you from?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Louis Missouri.
Speaker 1: You're not from Florida, are you exactly?
Speaker 6: Maybe in Missouri you've been carrying on as you do,
Speaker 6: but not in Florida.
Speaker 1: Pimp. But wait, there's more trust.
Speaker 5: On my homestead property in Florida.
Speaker 1: So what that gets you back to your unit and
Speaker 1: owning your unit. Okay, and you trespass on my private
Speaker 1: property homestead Missouri pimp to wow, pimp, you had missed
Speaker 1: up date to day man.
Speaker 3: Missouri.
Speaker 6: Pimp.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Those are some nice people that handled it that well.
Speaker 5: I hope you have a good day.
Speaker 4: But fabulous, Missourians, I'm sure you're having I'm sorry you're
Speaker 4: having a rotten day.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I played Duck Duck Goose. I never played pimp pip horror.
Speaker 5: It's probably similar. Yeah, yeah, poor woman, same game essentially,
Speaker 5: but you dress differently. Poor woman really troubled by probably yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, attractively clad woman. I saw a model shoot
Speaker 5: in New York. We were going to some we went
Speaker 5: to some super expensive clothing stores that my son's into.
Speaker 5: He just wanted to see them in person. Never could
Speaker 5: have we would never afford it. But there was a
Speaker 5: model shoot going out in the alley outside the store,
Speaker 5: some tall, ridiculously skinny chick dressed up and people taking pictures.
Speaker 2: And I watched that for a while.
Speaker 5: I thought, what an interesting That whole thing is interesting,
Speaker 5: every aspect of it. That woman that thinks she's going
Speaker 5: to be something in the people that want to buy
Speaker 5: these clothes because she's wearing it, and the photographers trying
Speaker 5: to make their bones, and just every aspect of it
Speaker 5: I found interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean.
Speaker 4: I've I've witnessed and contemplating the whole modeling thing myself,
Speaker 4: and how odd it is if you really kind.
Speaker 1: Of break it down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, We're going to be staying my wife and I
Speaker 4: in London in the Tony Mayfair section, uh huh, which
Speaker 4: is home to some of the most famous high end
Speaker 4: shopping in the world, many other places Rodeo Drive, Chicago's
Speaker 4: Magnificent Mile, New York, you know, various sections, and I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to hitting some of those shops because they'll
Speaker 4: be like right around the corner. And I always have
Speaker 4: the same experience, and I know you have too. I'll
Speaker 4: go in there and say, oh my god, I love
Speaker 4: that shirt. Then I'll see the price tag and say
Speaker 4: what and here's the key.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 4: Maybe someday you hit it big, and I certainly hope
Speaker 4: that for you. This is the land of opportunity. This
Speaker 4: is the land where you can pursue your dreams, become
Speaker 4: a success, build a business, have wealth the likes of
Speaker 4: which your parents never dreamed of, or maybe less, which
Speaker 4: is the trend lately.
Speaker 1: But let's not get depressed anyway. Here's your advice.
Speaker 4: Just because you can buy a five hundred dollars shirt
Speaker 4: doesn't mean you should buy a five hundred.
Speaker 2: Dollars shirt, right. I suppose it depends on who you are.
Speaker 5: But I see a lot of that stuff, and I
Speaker 5: see a price tag, and I think only an idiot.
Speaker 5: But even if you could afford it, I think only
Speaker 5: an idiot would do this.
Speaker 1: Or you have so much money, Yeah, it is just
Speaker 1: immaterial to you.
Speaker 4: But if that's the case, honestly, if it makes no material, emotional,
Speaker 4: or any other difference to you buying a seventy dollars
Speaker 4: shirt or a five hundred dollars shirt, I suppose go ahead.
Speaker 4: Could you make the argument they ought to give that
Speaker 4: money to charity, Well.
Speaker 5: Of course, but this store was significantly more expensive than
Speaker 5: that that my son and I went to. He just
Speaker 5: wanted to see it in person. And it's not something
Speaker 5: you would look at and say, oh, I kind of
Speaker 5: like that shirt. Everything in there was so weird. It
Speaker 5: was weird in that like really avant garde fashion way,
Speaker 5: you know, just the shoes, it's just like everything was
Speaker 5: so strange and the people that worked in there were
Speaker 5: wearing the clothing. It's like, where would you go dressed
Speaker 5: like that with your weird platform shoes with springs on
Speaker 5: the bottom that are like five.
Speaker 1: Thousand dollars and whatever the hell?
Speaker 3: That is?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: So I have decided my new ch after in my
Speaker 4: life is forming a vigilanti squad. But during my free time,
Speaker 4: I'm going to form an organization that puts like boxes
Speaker 4: in super high end clothing stores and says, and it says,
Speaker 4: you could buy this shirt for five hundred dollars, or
Speaker 4: you could buy this shirt and donate the difference to charity.
Speaker 4: Because it's just not realistic that the person is going
Speaker 4: to pass by that shirt and donate it to charity.
Speaker 4: It's just it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But if you have it all there point of purchase, good,
Speaker 1: see it work.
Speaker 2: That'd be tough.
Speaker 1: We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 7: Strong Star Wars actor Mark Hamill revealed he wanted to
Speaker 7: flee the US after Trump was elected a second time. Unfortunately, though,
Speaker 7: he couldn't get anyone to cover his shift at Arby's.
Speaker 2: I missed the first part.
Speaker 5: Who is working at Arby's in this scenario, Mark Luke Skywalker,
Speaker 5: gotcha hasn't worked much, thank you, Dell. Article from The
Speaker 5: New York Times, I don't have time for unfortunately or
Speaker 5: fortunately the difference between the cooled and the cooked in America.
Speaker 5: It's about how income inequality is hitting those who can
Speaker 5: afford air conditioning and those who work out doors, with
Speaker 5: climate change making it so difficult. You know, it's not
Speaker 5: actually noticeably hotter, right, I mean, it's like a tiny
Speaker 5: amounts hotter. The ocean is a degree hotter than it
Speaker 5: was fifty years ago or something. You're not actually hotter
Speaker 5: working in a field now than you would have been
Speaker 5: five summers ago.
Speaker 1: It's not actually truer, you realize, Wow, mass hysteria.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, it goes through about how she interviews somebody many
Speaker 5: of the people who work outside without air conditioning experience
Speaker 5: health emergencies, and then the quotes are, yeah, the heat sucks,
Speaker 5: said one delivery driver. Driver, but I need to pay
Speaker 5: the bills. That doesn't sound like a health emergency. It
Speaker 5: just sounds like I would rather not be hot, but
Speaker 5: he is, and that's his job.
Speaker 4: Like and when we were young and poor and doing
Speaker 4: jobs like that and we're hot. I didn't know to
Speaker 4: yell income in a should have what a jackass.
Speaker 5: I hired this Mexican dude, uh to take down a
Speaker 5: tree a couple of weeks ago, and I was talking
Speaker 5: to him when he was talking about the heat, and
Speaker 5: he said Americans, he said, we work like this in
Speaker 5: Mexico all the time. They don't have any rules. And
Speaker 5: everybody's fine, he said, but just uh, that is funny.
Speaker 5: But to get down to the bottom. The faster our
Speaker 5: world heats up, the faster the vide between the cooled
Speaker 5: and the cooked will widen. Ultimately, is symptomatic of a
Speaker 5: larger injustice of the climate crisis, which is that the
Speaker 5: people who have done the least to cause it are
Speaker 5: the ones who will suffer the most from its impacts.
Speaker 1: Shut up.
Speaker 5: So those of us who work in air conditioning at
Speaker 5: this point in our lives have done more to cause
Speaker 5: the climate change.
Speaker 1: For the people who whatever, shut up is the right answer.
Speaker 1: I'm strong, I'm strong, You're ready and strong. Here's your
Speaker 1: host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 4: to wrap up the day. There is Michael Angelow in
Speaker 4: the control room, Michael.
Speaker 6: Final thought, Yeah, earlier in the show, we were talking
Speaker 6: about streaming services. I need to add up and see
Speaker 6: how much I'm paying for my streaming services.
Speaker 1: Now that might be my car payment right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife brought that up the other day. Got to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 4: Hey, Katie Greener seemed to uswoman As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 1: I'm still really bothered by Shrekking.
Speaker 5: Ah yeah, yeah, if you missed the segment on Shrekking,
Speaker 5: I think we did that hour two.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Well. And then Shrek's sidekick, Donkey with the Donkey punch
Speaker 4: that's troubling as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: A final thought, Trump is going to patrol alongside the
Speaker 5: guardsmen in DC tonight.
Speaker 1: That will be quite the media spole. Yes, yes, and
Speaker 1: we will have the highlights tomorrow.
Speaker 4: My final thought, having had the opportunity to witness workers
Speaker 4: in two different American states. In South Kakilaki, it's very,
Speaker 4: very hot in the summertime, and these fellas seem to
Speaker 4: bring plenty of water and they seek the shade when
Speaker 4: they need to. And we're going to lovingly incorporate the
Speaker 4: bones of the dead ones into the mantle of our
Speaker 4: new fireplace. No, they're all perfectly fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people have been working out in the heat since
Speaker 5: the dawna time, he realized.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, it's especially bad now with climate change
Speaker 4: that it's two thirds of a degree warmer than it
Speaker 4: was in eighteen oh six.
Speaker 5: I had completely forgotten about the donkey punch, Armstrong and
Speaker 5: Geddy wrapping up Now they're grueling, four hour workday.
Speaker 1: Google it.
Speaker 4: So many people to think, so little time. Go to
Speaker 4: Armstrong Eddy dot com. A lot of great clicks there
Speaker 4: for you. Katie's Corner, the hot links to pick.
Speaker 1: Up an AMG T shirt or hoodie. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: chilly soon. You're gonna love that lightweight hoodie.
Speaker 2: I do well.
Speaker 5: Specifically google the Alec Trebec Yes version of it.
Speaker 4: Yes, and enjoy the great late great Canadians giggles.
Speaker 1: See tomorrow, God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 5: There were so many great moments on today's Armstrong and
Speaker 5: Getty Show, but perhaps none as great as this. We
Speaker 5: give the guy we're not attracted to a chance, thinking
Speaker 5: he will for sure know what he has and treat
Speaker 5: us well.
Speaker 2: But then he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what he has is a shallow beech.
Speaker 4: What he has is a calculating she devil and he
Speaker 4: should run from you.
Speaker 1: Suckibus, run soon, run away, Armstrong and Getty