Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Kim Kardashian's chilling testimony about being bound, gagged, and held
Speaker 2: at gunpoint when masked men burst into her hotel room
Speaker 2: in Paris. Kardashian in Paris facing the suspects in court
Speaker 2: they're accused of stealing more than six million dollars in
Speaker 2: jewelry during the heist in twenty sixteen. She told the
Speaker 2: court she absolutely thought she was going to die.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that did.
Speaker 3: That didn't get as much attention as it probably should
Speaker 3: have at the time, I guess because a lot of
Speaker 3: people have kind of a knee jerk dislike of Kim
Speaker 3: Kardashian in that whole thing, or.
Speaker 1: Assume everything they do is a publicity stunt, right, But
Speaker 1: she should remember that was one of the questions at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: She legit had a gun to her head and thought
Speaker 3: she was going to die and had every reason to think.
Speaker 1: So that's rough. AnyWho, I travel with very few jewels,
Speaker 1: practically none, no, exactly none.
Speaker 3: Isn't that something here in Paris, but you gotta bleak
Speaker 3: bring six million dollars worth of jewels with you so
Speaker 3: you can go out to eat at night.
Speaker 1: That's some lifestyle.
Speaker 3: The other big trial going on, that one's going on
Speaker 3: in Paris. The other big one that's getting so much
Speaker 3: attention is going on in New York today. And p
Speaker 3: Diddy's girlfriend is back on the stand no longer. They're
Speaker 3: a strange I believe at this point your.
Speaker 1: Friend married and has soon to be two kids with
Speaker 1: her husband.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's on the stand again. And some of the
Speaker 3: testimony from that we'll get from Katie Green a little
Speaker 3: bit later as that all comes out.
Speaker 1: Also a couple of presidential retrospectives. I'm excited about. A
Speaker 1: list of foreign gifts to the president, from elephants to
Speaker 1: in line skates, which we briefly referenced yesterday. And also
Speaker 1: a history of presidents getting played by Vladimir Putin embarrassing.
Speaker 1: And there's a one more. Oh, the whole the plain
Speaker 1: thing is not going to happen, as we'll discuss going forward,
Speaker 1: but a handful of stories affectionately known as bengo bango
Speaker 1: bongo behind the scenes, just stuff that's worth touching on.
Speaker 1: If not talking about at lengths, but the headline women
Speaker 1: are drinking more and doctors are worried. Women are experiencing
Speaker 1: rising alcohol related deaths at a much faster clipped than men.
Speaker 1: Men's drinking is more or less stayed the same, but
Speaker 1: women who turned thirty five between twenty eighteen and twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen were nearly sixty percent more likely to report recent
Speaker 1: binge drinking or alcohol use disorder symptoms than women who
Speaker 1: turned similar age in the nineties, according to a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three report published in the journal Addiction, So more
Speaker 1: liver disease suspected. This could be contributing to rising rates
Speaker 1: of breast cancer and other cancers. Why would that be
Speaker 1: not having kids? You think that's it? Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know that to be true. If I just.
Speaker 3: Amzer change in that from I mean, like we were
Speaker 3: comparing it to the fifties, sure, but compared to the nineties,
Speaker 3: has there been a major change in that? Uh?
Speaker 1: You well, yeah, birth rates are declining and when you
Speaker 1: have children is getting older and older. I don't have
Speaker 1: the numbers in front of me, but that's indisputable, I think,
Speaker 1: And just you know, as a dad who my kids
Speaker 1: are grown, but I'm having to deal with children. Is
Speaker 1: a disincentive to get hammered in a lot of cases
Speaker 1: at a lot of times a day, you know, and
Speaker 1: just you can't if you're you know, doing what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be.
Speaker 3: I think it's culturally changed a lot too. It would
Speaker 3: have been insane. I think, like, not that many years
Speaker 3: ago for moms at a Little league game to have
Speaker 3: some drinky poohs in their cups while they're watching, And
Speaker 3: now I think it's kind of expected.
Speaker 1: I've hanness. I got to admit as a cocktail enthusiast,
Speaker 1: I'm astounded by that. I'm shocked by it. And my kids,
Speaker 1: you know, we're playing sports seven to twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: so it's not like I had kids in the nineteen thirties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the idea of boozing at a game, I would be
Speaker 1: shocked by. But maybe I'm naive. Beer, spirit and wine
Speaker 1: companies have worked to bring in more women customers for
Speaker 1: the obvious reasons. Some research said the alcohol industry is
Speaker 1: marketing directly toward women country music. Maybe you blame country music, hm,
Speaker 1: I certainly do, But are are they marketing toward women
Speaker 1: because they are a market or did the industry create
Speaker 1: a market. Probably a bit of both. Anyway, Gal's be careful.
Speaker 1: It's bad for your health, but it makes marginal looking
Speaker 1: guys better looking, trust me, and more interest makes annoying
Speaker 1: people less annoying. Now, I want to get to the
Speaker 1: ongoing budget negotiation stuff briefly. A quick note. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: judge has reduced these sentence for the Menendez brothers. Their
Speaker 1: life sentence is now fifty years to life, making them
Speaker 1: eligible for parole. And indeed, uh, there's some belief that
Speaker 1: the judge is gonna turn them loose. They've served thirty
Speaker 1: five years of a fifty year to life sentence. Now
Speaker 1: with the new sentence, have been doing lots of volunteer work.
Speaker 1: You've kept their noses clean, have helped other people find
Speaker 1: themselves in prison. Blabba, haven't murdered any parents zero zero.
Speaker 1: Well there's technicality there, but yeah and so and they've
Speaker 1: had family members come and testify. Yeah, they're good fellows.
Speaker 1: You out to turn them live. I saw that yesterday
Speaker 1: on the news.
Speaker 3: So yeah, family members who had lived there in the house,
Speaker 3: a new mom and dad. Really, well, who are now testifying?
Speaker 3: You gotta let them out? Let them out. Our family
Speaker 3: has been wrecked by this. Who would be good for
Speaker 3: the family? Let them out? What an interesting story. I
Speaker 3: haven't watched any of the Netflix stuff or been following this,
Speaker 3: so I haven't gotten pulled the Menndez brother thing.
Speaker 1: I just kind of had been assuming all along they weren't.
Speaker 3: Going to get out. But Gavin Newsom's got a decision
Speaker 3: to make. From what I understand from the news last night,
Speaker 3: Well here's bad news.
Speaker 1: Eric and Lyle. First of all, thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty show, and thanks for not shotgunning
Speaker 1: anybody lately. But Fellas, his decision will be based on
Speaker 1: one thing and one thing only. Will it help him
Speaker 1: get into the White House or hurt his chances to
Speaker 1: get elected president. It will have nothing to do with you,
Speaker 1: your crimes, your reform, the Lord Jesus Christ, California's laws
Speaker 1: and traditions, nothing but his lust for the Oval Office.
Speaker 3: Interesting. You're probably right. So do you think this helps
Speaker 3: him nationally or hurts him? Probably not a huge deal
Speaker 3: either way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I haven't thought about
Speaker 1: this case much. I haven't watched the documentaries, partly because
Speaker 1: it's become increasingly clear to me, having followed the saga
Speaker 1: of a handful of documentaries, and like super popular podcasts,
Speaker 1: you can by selectively editing and shading and leaving once
Speaker 1: this end, leaving that out, you can wildly mislead people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't particularly feel like getting misled.
Speaker 3: So anyway, So you brought up a little bit ago
Speaker 3: that Republicans are becoming Democrats around this whole medicaid thing
Speaker 3: in the budget and everything that's going.
Speaker 1: On among other programs. Yeah, so it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: Today the New York Times is a big battle going
Speaker 3: on in the opinion pages. This is in just Today's
Speaker 3: New York Times. There's a guest essay by Josh Howley,
Speaker 3: the very trumpy senator from Missouri. Don't cut Medicaid. Republicans
Speaker 3: should embrace their working class voters.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then there's a guest essay from Robert F. Kennedy,
Speaker 3: doctor OZ and a couple other people in the Trump
Speaker 3: White House.
Speaker 1: If you want welfare and can work, you must.
Speaker 3: As leaders of the agencies that oversee the largest welfare
Speaker 3: programs in the nation, we fear that welfare has become
Speaker 3: a trap of dependency. So you got that side coming
Speaker 3: out of the Trump crowd on that, and then this
Speaker 3: guest essay, what medicaid cuts would do to my rural
Speaker 3: hospital small town America depends on healthcare systems like mine.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure we'll be able to keep our doors
Speaker 3: open if the Republican Congress cuts Medicaid.
Speaker 1: I need to come up with a name for that argument,
Speaker 1: because I bring it up semi regularly. The last argument
Speaker 1: is the argument that we have become so dependent on
Speaker 1: a bad, perverse program you can't end it. We must
Speaker 1: continue a bad perverse policy, right.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking yesterday when I was watching
Speaker 3: the governor of New Mexico on one of the Sunday shows.
Speaker 3: Because they have the most people on Medicaid in New
Speaker 3: Mexico of any state for some reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's wildly liberal. So embrace the Obamacare expansion
Speaker 1: of Medicaid wholeheartedly, which then brings in lots and lots
Speaker 1: of federal dollars.
Speaker 3: My angle is just this happens a lot with government programs.
Speaker 3: You come up with the worst case scenario and then
Speaker 3: feel like that needs to apply to everyone forever because.
Speaker 1: Of the worst case scenario. Yeah, that's not the way
Speaker 1: to make a policy. Yeah, what do we call it
Speaker 1: the heroin addiction argument? It's easier to give up heroin
Speaker 1: than it is to give up a giant program that
Speaker 1: is funding you know, a lot of your critical medical
Speaker 1: institutions right just because you let it and it's handy,
Speaker 1: it's great.
Speaker 3: It frees up money to hand out to other cronies.
Speaker 3: But your overall point is definitely right. If Josh Howley
Speaker 3: and in his crowd gets a way of look, the
Speaker 3: Republican Party is now the party of the working class
Speaker 3: and the lava working class.
Speaker 1: They want the free the medicare.
Speaker 3: Then there's nobody fighting for go out there and get
Speaker 3: a job that supplies you with health insurance. Nobody's pushing
Speaker 3: that idea or even just to because a lot of
Speaker 3: the Republican proposals right now are a little half asked.
Speaker 3: From my point, you so to even touch it risk
Speaker 3: somebody being able to demogog it and saying you're.
Speaker 1: Trying to take a food out of the mouths of
Speaker 1: starving children. So let's not even touch it. In fact,
Speaker 1: let's grow it. It would help with the working class.
Speaker 1: What do you think And you've touched on this before,
Speaker 1: there are no political parties. Now, the so called parties
Speaker 1: are just an expression of whoever is at their head
Speaker 1: at that point. So you can have a complete switcheroo.
Speaker 1: Are we, like, I don't know, four years away from
Speaker 1: the Democrats being hardcore physical conservatives could be if they
Speaker 1: think that's the way to take power. Nobody has any principles,
Speaker 1: right hmmm? I think now you know what I would
Speaker 1: like to announce my retirement today. I'm retiring from the
Speaker 1: world of talk radio because ideas don't matter anymore. My
Speaker 1: retirement will commence on a date nonspecific in the future.
Speaker 1: I announced that I am quitting at some point because
Speaker 1: there's no point I am despairing. I've just Michael, make
Speaker 1: a note, make a note of the time and the date. Okay,
Speaker 1: Joe despaired on May the fourteenth, twenty twenty five. It's
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. That's a good day to despair on, isn't it. Eh?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Or you could just not talk about medicare leave that
Speaker 3: out of your conversation, which probably seems like a good
Speaker 3: idea to.
Speaker 1: Me, and pretend we're not spending our children and grandchildren
Speaker 1: into debtors prison. All right, fine, fine, oh whatever, Michael
Speaker 1: make the note Jack also despairs, apparently about a minute later.
Speaker 1: One minute later. Well, despairing does tend to drag people
Speaker 1: with you, you know, it's it's a vortex of gloom. True. True.
Speaker 1: You hang around people like that, they will suck you down. Right.
Speaker 1: We got more in the Waista here.
Speaker 4: So, according to a new book, Joe Biden couldn't even
Speaker 4: recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser last June, leaving the.
Speaker 1: Star quote shaken to his core. But don't worry, George.
Speaker 4: When Joe ran into Obama, he told him he loved
Speaker 4: him in driving Miss Daisy.
Speaker 3: By the way. George Clooney then wrote an op and
Speaker 3: about that. We all remember that. So yet I'm yet
Speaker 3: to hear one even slightly surprising nugget from that book,
Speaker 3: anything that even brushes up against new information coming up
Speaker 3: from The New York Times, The Three Secrets to Falling
Speaker 3: in Love with exercise.
Speaker 1: This could change your life, Oh please? First of all,
Speaker 1: breaking news, breaking news, The news breaks the Donkey Breeze.
Speaker 1: In one of the most violent political texts towards the
Speaker 1: center in American history, Gathy Newsome, the oily one says
Speaker 1: he wants the state of California to stop enrolling low
Speaker 1: income I legal immigrants in a state funded health care program.
Speaker 1: Newsom reverses course on taxpayer funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3: How bold, how bold to come out against free health
Speaker 3: care for illegals.
Speaker 1: Good lord, yeah, a lowe in cal Unicornia. That's shocking. Well,
Speaker 1: I remember when he.
Speaker 3: Kind of hinted that maybe he thought dude shouldn't be
Speaker 3: in girls' sports, and the left wing went nuts. I'll
Speaker 3: be interested to see what the uh if he gets
Speaker 3: attacked for this.
Speaker 1: Under Newsom's oily new plan, the state would not end
Speaker 1: coverage for illegal immigrants who are already enrolled in medical However,
Speaker 1: the state would begin charging adults with quote unsatisfactory immigrant status.
Speaker 1: It's so cute, a monthly premium of one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: beginning in twenty twenty. Wow, So two years from now,
Speaker 1: if you have quote unquote unsatisfactory immigrant status, two years
Speaker 1: from now, you'll be charged a monthly one hundred dollars premium.
Speaker 3: Good luck running for president on illegals should get free healthcare.
Speaker 1: So you perform that program. We're taking on the challenges,
Speaker 1: we're leading the nation.
Speaker 3: Okay, So to have time for this, Michael, it's kind
Speaker 3: of about three minutes.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny.
Speaker 3: Their headline is the opposite of kind of what they
Speaker 3: say right in the article three secrets to falling in
Speaker 3: love with exercise, and one of the secrets is don't
Speaker 3: expect to be in love with exercise, so not a
Speaker 3: minute that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Don't try to love every moment.
Speaker 3: Many people think you should reach a point where you
Speaker 3: just love each and every second of every exercise, and
Speaker 3: you love every exercise, the idea that everybody who's exercising
Speaker 3: loves it all the time. I exercise very regularly, especially
Speaker 3: when I don't have whooping cough.
Speaker 1: But I hate it.
Speaker 3: I've hated every second of running I've ever done in
Speaker 3: my life. I've never one step ever. You're doing it
Speaker 3: for other reasons, so don't expect to love it or
Speaker 3: I guess their point is, don't think that everybody else
Speaker 3: that's doing it loves it and there's something wrong with you.
Speaker 3: Strive for momentum, not motivation. Don't wait for the motivation
Speaker 3: to come along. Just do it on a daily basis
Speaker 3: until it becomes a habit, and then you've got momentum
Speaker 3: and it'll just carry you along as opposed to is
Speaker 3: I just don't feel like it today. Well that's just
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, that's a bad emotion. We all hate that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I need to, but I don't want to.
Speaker 3: And you get past that. Has anybody ever regretted when
Speaker 3: they overcame that feeling, whether it's for exercising or finally
Speaker 3: cleaning the kitchen or mowing the lawn or whatever.
Speaker 1: It is, No, absolutely not right.
Speaker 3: And man it takes once you get over the hump
Speaker 3: and gets started, it's so easy. Yeah, but that hump, man,
Speaker 3: it's quite the hump. And then this one, sorry mel
Speaker 3: Brooks reference there. This one doesn't apply to me. Maybe
Speaker 3: it applies to you. Find a community. One reason that
Speaker 3: exercise makes us happy is that Foster's connections others. So
Speaker 3: join a running club or a zoomba class or whatever
Speaker 3: it is. You do it, and do it with other people.
Speaker 3: That'll bring you happiness.
Speaker 1: Don't look at me, don't talk to me, all right,
Speaker 1: to pretend I'm the hareplace.
Speaker 3: When I show up to the gym and it's completely empty,
Speaker 3: I think awesome. I don't think oh darna, I wish
Speaker 3: I had more people to hang out with. Where's my community?
Speaker 1: Well, the title of that article shouldn't be how to
Speaker 1: fall in love with exercising. It ought to be how
Speaker 1: to deal with the arranged marriage of exercise. Look, he's
Speaker 1: a decent enough guy. No, I don't love him. I'm
Speaker 1: not really attracted to him, but my parents and his
Speaker 1: parents have decided it'd be a good match. So here
Speaker 1: we are, where the where are the freeways?
Speaker 3: Trump gave an astounding foreign policy speech yesterday that got
Speaker 3: zero coverage because I guess the media takes him seriously.
Speaker 3: We can touch on that at some point, among other things.
Speaker 3: I hope you can stick around if you miss a
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordan Hudson came in third in the
Speaker 4: Miss main pageant. She lost points during the Q and
Speaker 4: A when she mentioned her charity work taking care of
Speaker 4: the elderly.
Speaker 1: Oh, the shots just keep on coming. So plenty of
Speaker 1: really serious, fair important to consider coming up, including well,
Speaker 1: this isn't that serious, but this is my favorite lead
Speaker 1: of an article I've come across in a long time.
Speaker 1: Lead sentence. Michael Royer has been secretly tossing his wife's
Speaker 1: socks into the trash for.
Speaker 3: Years, secretly tossing his wife socks in the trash for years.
Speaker 1: He throws away your socks, clandestine sock chuck her because
Speaker 1: she's wearing socks that are all worn out and he
Speaker 1: it's about clutter in general. Yeah, I thought it was
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. But anyway, back to Bill Belichick. In is
Speaker 1: incredibly young pageant queen gold digging or whatever she's up to.
Speaker 3: Girlfriend really states something or other because she has a
Speaker 3: eight million dollars in real estate.
Speaker 1: Now at age twenty four. How'd that happen?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh, anyway, so she is rapidly becoming a national figure,
Speaker 1: a universally known figure who is mostly on the receiving
Speaker 1: end of jokes, which is interesting. Andrew Styles, who writes
Speaker 1: with a pen dipped in sarcasm, I'm afraid for the
Speaker 1: Free Beacon. His headline is Jordan Hudson outshined and outclassed
Speaker 1: by a historic transgender contestant. It's so called beauty pageant.
Speaker 1: Jordan Hudson, the widely despised girlfriend of cheating NFL coach
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's despised, That's what I'm saying. I do a
Speaker 1: despiser well, you're not widely You're just you. She's the
Speaker 1: punchline of jokes that I get. Yeah, I think despised
Speaker 1: might be a little strong. I think. So I see
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 3: You wrote with a gypton sarcasm. Doesn't everybody see what's
Speaker 3: going on here? Seems like a trade off on both ends. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: this is pretty funny, though. The widely despied play state
Speaker 3: humiliating third or over the weekend at the so called
Speaker 3: beauty pageant in Maine, one of America's least attractive states. Well, like,
Speaker 3: I'll let you yesterday and then I promise I will
Speaker 3: shut up so you can.
Speaker 1: Get to the writing. But like, shut up, don't. I
Speaker 1: don't care. Like I mentioned yesterday, I found it interesting as.
Speaker 3: I read a little about the whole pageant world and
Speaker 3: how you can All you have to do is like
Speaker 3: get a post office box for a certain amount of time,
Speaker 3: and you can compete in that state as if you're
Speaker 3: from that state and there's a a bunch of women
Speaker 3: that are constantly like you finished second in Maine. Next year,
Speaker 3: you know, you establish a post office box in Indiana
Speaker 3: and compete there and hope that you win, so that
Speaker 3: you can go to the and it's just you know that,
Speaker 3: that's just that world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminds me of like the your amateur championships
Speaker 1: in golf. The guy who wins the California State am
Speaker 1: might be from Missouri, for instance. Yeah, it's not always
Speaker 1: that way. I remember when I when I was in.
Speaker 3: College, the local girl from Colby, Kansas, she won Miss
Speaker 3: Colby set down with the seven thousand people, she won
Speaker 3: the county fair thing, and then the state and then
Speaker 3: became Miss American.
Speaker 1: It was a really big deal. So every once in
Speaker 1: a while that does happen. Back when there was purity
Speaker 1: to American beauty pageants, Well that doesn't.
Speaker 3: Seem incredibly tawdry. I mean, beauty pageants are dumb anyway. Anyway,
Speaker 3: back to your story, Howell.
Speaker 1: In second place contestant, the winner, even Benjamin are significantly
Speaker 1: class year and more attractive than Hudson. According to a
Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon analysis, the top two finishers were not
Speaker 1: the only contestants who outshoon Hudson in terms of class
Speaker 1: and attractive Isabelle Saint Cyr, who absolutely slayed as the
Speaker 1: first trans queen in pageant history, finished in the top
Speaker 1: ten on paper but some beauty experts were stunned that
Speaker 1: she placed behind Hudson, who does not openly identify as trans.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Let's see Hudson a
Speaker 1: former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University, or in second place
Speaker 1: at the Miss Main competition in twenty twenty four. So
Speaker 1: she's slid now to third because the trans person jumped
Speaker 1: in there. Let's see. The University of North Carolina, where
Speaker 1: Belichick serves as the head football coach, reportedly banned Hudson
Speaker 1: from attending practices. Quote. She is the worst person I've
Speaker 1: dealt with on this earth, and I've dealt with actual sociopaths,
Speaker 1: A person close to the situation told sports journalist Pablo Torre,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, maybe there's more to this than I thought.
Speaker 1: Members of Belichick's family are deeply worried about how detrimental
Speaker 1: this is a quote, How detrimental Jordan can be, not
Speaker 1: just for North care lineup, of Bill's legacy, reputation, everything
Speaker 1: he has built and worked for over decades. That's a quote,
Speaker 1: according to Torri, the sports journalist, who has also reported
Speaker 1: that Hudson has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to
Speaker 1: force her way into commercials starring Belichick by showing up
Speaker 1: on set and demanding to be on camera.
Speaker 3: I imagine his response, whether he said it out loud
Speaker 3: or not, is I know what I'm doing. I'm an
Speaker 3: old man. I'm in love with a young, hot woman.
Speaker 3: I'm having the time of my life. I got what
Speaker 3: she wants, I'm getting what I want. I got money,
Speaker 3: I got everything I got. However, many years of you
Speaker 3: know life left, I'm as happy right now as i've
Speaker 3: been ever.
Speaker 1: So shut up, nne ya, Yeah, I wonder I wonder so.
Speaker 1: Speaking of relationships, Michael Royer has been secretly tossing his
Speaker 1: wife's socks into the trash for years, not her everyday pairs,
Speaker 1: but the size fourteen ones her mom orders his gifts
Speaker 1: from fast fashion sites like Tamu, your wife, We're done, Airely,
Speaker 1: your wife wears size fourteen sucks? Yeah, it's funny you're
Speaker 1: married two sasquatch. I read this and I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa whoa journalist, dude? That clet sentence raises more questions
Speaker 1: than provides answers. Right number one, what does a woman
Speaker 1: has a size fourteen feet or not?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, why the hell is her mom ordering her gigantic
Speaker 1: socks from Chinese fast fashion outfits. This is the article
Speaker 1: you've missed, the article you know, long, long, long ago.
Speaker 1: Dan Hughes, who was a teacher at Parkland Community College
Speaker 1: in Champagne, Illinois, who taught the one radio class I
Speaker 1: ever took. He was doing a unit about interviewing, and
Speaker 1: again a wonderful guy and a wonderful teacher. But he said,
Speaker 1: you hear this all the time, the interviewers who don't listen.
Speaker 1: They just are so busy contemplating their next question. And
Speaker 1: his his example was something the effect of when did
Speaker 1: you discover the joints of coin collecting? Well, I think
Speaker 1: it was when I was abducted by aliens and I
Speaker 1: was probed for a number of hours and they handed
Speaker 1: me a coin on my way out of spaceship, and
Speaker 1: I've loved coin collecting ever since. Really, how many coins
Speaker 1: do you have? And I feel like that sentence is
Speaker 1: of a similar order. Yeah, But anyway, this guy buries
Speaker 1: her wildly gigantic socks under garbage to avoid detection because
Speaker 1: she'll never wear them. And it's a big article about
Speaker 1: how clutter can be an emotional like weapon or turf
Speaker 1: well weapon, a turf gathering technique used in relationships, and
Speaker 1: I read this whole article. Here's one guy's got a
Speaker 1: bunch of Gi Joe action figures and comic books from
Speaker 1: his parents house, now competing for space with the clothing
Speaker 1: his wife bought on sale Bob, much of which has
Speaker 1: never been worn. I got through this article thinking, man,
Speaker 1: these are a bunch of crazy people.
Speaker 3: Well on just the clothes thing, though, I think that
Speaker 3: in every relationship there's likely to be stuff where there
Speaker 3: are things she wears you'd rather she didn't, not your
Speaker 3: favorite and vice versa, or ridiculously.
Speaker 1: Worn T shirts. I'm raising my hand over here, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to get rid of it because like
Speaker 1: one of my kids gave it to me, or that was,
Speaker 1: you know, the first radio station we ever worked at together,
Speaker 1: or whatever. I think I'm not going to toss that
Speaker 1: T shirt. But yeah, it's kind of worn.
Speaker 3: But in terms of actually wearing something, I mean, there's
Speaker 3: all you know, there's probably things Judy likes to see
Speaker 3: you in more than others, yes, but might not say
Speaker 3: it's not my favorite pair of pants you ever wear
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So here's another aspect of this another weird avenue.
Speaker 1: Here's a cup size fourteen socks. Why is her mother
Speaker 1: every her gigantic socks? What is she trying to say?
Speaker 1: I mean, sucks so patently useless and gigantic you throw
Speaker 1: them away and she doesn't notice. That is your story,
Speaker 1: no kidding, not that these folks in this twist have
Speaker 1: a probationary zone started as a single empty drawer and
Speaker 1: has now grown to so you can put stuff in
Speaker 1: there that I think we ought to get rid of,
Speaker 1: you ought to get rid of, and it stays in
Speaker 1: there for a couple of months, and when the area
Speaker 1: is full, then you go through. It strikes me as
Speaker 1: a little formalistic and odd, but you know.
Speaker 3: My plan is I hope that I die before I
Speaker 3: ever have to get to any of that stuff, and
Speaker 3: then somebody else will I don't know, halts charge somebody
Speaker 3: to halt to the dop.
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna make those decisions while I'm alive. Jo
Speaker 1: Getty's wife occasionally goes into his closet and throws away
Speaker 1: the doll sized pants that his sister orders him. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: here's here's another one. Here's this eighty year old gal
Speaker 1: she enlists her daughter in law to smuggle out stuff
Speaker 1: her husband wouldn't want to part with. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: going to be a problem, although you know, you're like
Speaker 1: smuggling my stuff out of the house under the cover
Speaker 1: of our loved ones. Yeah, put this in your person,
Speaker 1: get rid of it. On the other hand, they mentioned
Speaker 1: that this guy's accumulated over a thousand golf balls on
Speaker 1: his walks near a local course.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm not good at throwing stuff away. So I've
Speaker 3: had it happen before where things got thrown away without
Speaker 3: my consent, and I kind of think, yeah, kind of
Speaker 3: glad that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I for some reason, Yeah, I just thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting that it was some point, some marriage council
Speaker 1: or somebody ways in says, yes, this can this can
Speaker 1: be a proxy for emotional space in.
Speaker 3: The probably three time divorced marriage counselor yeah, probably so.
Speaker 1: Yes, he likes to dominate the closet with his GI
Speaker 1: Joes as a way of symbolizing that he needs more
Speaker 1: r right, Hey, you know what, And it's funny with
Speaker 1: like the g I Joe's, Well they did, they're gaining value.
Speaker 1: They could really be worth something someday. You know what,
Speaker 1: else could be an index fund. Put your money in
Speaker 1: the mixed fund and empty your damn closet.
Speaker 3: I'm looking right out here at New York Post headline.
Speaker 3: Right here, chat GPT is my therapist, and it's more
Speaker 3: qualified than the human could be.
Speaker 1: You should give it a whirl. I'm using it to
Speaker 1: planification right now. It's like I'm in love. I'm so
Speaker 1: enthused about it.
Speaker 3: I do want to maybe kick off our three with this.
Speaker 3: A couple of things Trump said yesterday. I'll be interested
Speaker 3: to see if you agree or not. He gave a
Speaker 3: major presidential foreign policy speech in the Middle East about
Speaker 3: the way America has been interacting.
Speaker 1: With the world. The last well are our adult lives.
Speaker 1: I demand you tell us more about this personally interesting
Speaker 1: and you're right, it got so little comfort zero among
Speaker 1: other things on the way, stay here Armstrong.
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball removed its lifetime ban on seventeen deceased people,
Speaker 5: including Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson, two of the
Speaker 5: most famous players previously banned for gambling on Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5: In response to an application filed by Pete Rose's family,
Speaker 5: Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred wrote, quote, obviously a person no
Speaker 5: longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity
Speaker 5: of the game.
Speaker 1: Unquote.
Speaker 5: This means Rose and anyone who gets a lifetime ban
Speaker 5: can now become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration after
Speaker 5: they die. They still, of course have to get voted
Speaker 5: into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Key thing is you have to die, though, So yeah,
Speaker 1: step one kind of takes the fun out of it,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Fifteen other guys, that's interesting. I wonder who
Speaker 1: they were. I'm sure information is available. Secondly, I want
Speaker 1: if Jake Tapper's about to write a book about how
Speaker 1: he's just discovered that Pete Rose was a great hitter,
Speaker 1: but he gambled, Yeah, more on that later.
Speaker 3: Quickly off the top of your head. Don't think about
Speaker 3: it for more than two seconds. How old is Honey Booboo?
Speaker 1: Twenty eight?
Speaker 3: She's nineteen. Okay, she's only nineteen because she's a pretty
Speaker 3: young kid. When she became famous in Toddler's and Tiara's
Speaker 3: was the original show. She was one of those pageant girls,
Speaker 3: and then she had such a personality that they turned
Speaker 3: it into a reality show. Here comes Honey Booboo that
Speaker 3: focused specifically on.
Speaker 1: Her and her obese mom. She just did an interview
Speaker 1: with People magazine.
Speaker 3: I'm reading this actually from Fox News, in which she
Speaker 3: says she never saw a single dime of money from
Speaker 3: that TLC reality show her mom Tookanah wow, Mama June, Right,
Speaker 3: Mama June, who is kind of a train wreck drug addict,
Speaker 3: spent all the money, bad person, And it seems like
Speaker 3: Honey Boobo's actually doing pretty well and is the This
Speaker 3: is a very common thing. A lot of you probably
Speaker 3: know this in super dysfunctional families. There's often one kid
Speaker 3: that for whatever reason just doesn't follow the pattern and
Speaker 3: understands they're in mayhem from a very young age and
Speaker 3: gets out of it. And Honey Booboo seems to be
Speaker 3: one of those people.
Speaker 1: And decides, my life's not going to be like yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she seems to good for her, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It sucks that she, you know, was clearly the driving
Speaker 3: force of that whole thing, and all the money was taken, including.
Speaker 1: Your mom, by that moniker anymore.
Speaker 3: No, but when she she wasn't Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 3: a few years back and got thirty five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: for that, But Mama June stole that also, Oh my
Speaker 3: nice job, Mama June.
Speaker 1: Yes, Katie, you have a honey booboo comment. Yes, it
Speaker 1: looks like Mama June has a new show called Mama
Speaker 1: June Family Crisis. Yeah all right, Oh boy, you are
Speaker 1: scraping the true mung at the bottom of the barrel
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, who's watching that? Oh? I'm amazed by
Speaker 1: who watches that.
Speaker 3: There's so much content of every kind and a lot
Speaker 3: of people who have, you know, a million followers or
Speaker 3: make this much money or whatever, And I think, how
Speaker 3: are there enough people taking in enough content for all
Speaker 3: of these different things?
Speaker 1: And how do you find it that's you know, the
Speaker 1: good stuff. But I guess it's because everybody has access
Speaker 1: to it all the time. So the math works somehow. Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, I was I was on a guitar lesson
Speaker 1: thing yesterday that came across my YouTube feed. This is
Speaker 1: actually kind of interesting. But he's a big deal in
Speaker 1: the in the guitar lesson world. It's basically out a
Speaker 1: TV show is a charming, good looking guy where he
Speaker 1: gives guitar lessons and he's got several million followers and
Speaker 1: clearly makes looking at his house and his lifestyle pretty good,
Speaker 1: living off of this anyway.
Speaker 3: He called out a number of fake famous YouTube guitar players,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure this is true with other instruments too.
Speaker 1: Who it's all fake.
Speaker 3: They they they record everything at a slow speed, then
Speaker 3: speed it up and then act like they can play
Speaker 3: this stuff and then try.
Speaker 1: To sell people guitar lests.
Speaker 3: And it's become a thing within that world of like
Speaker 3: people really hating each other and everything like that and
Speaker 3: making serious enemies. But that's the thing you can do, apparently,
Speaker 3: you could, like I could play the piano incredibly slowly,
Speaker 3: then speed it up, stay on pitch, because you can
Speaker 3: do that, and then and then make.
Speaker 1: It look like I can play like that. You just struck.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: If you talk to some you know, chimp scientists whatever
Speaker 1: you call them, biologists, I guess, and ask them why
Speaker 1: would chimps fight? They could give you like five six
Speaker 1: reasons that haven't changed in a thousand years. Human beings
Speaker 1: invent new reasons to hate each other every day, right
Speaker 1: might be our greatest gift, our big old brains. That's
Speaker 1: what we spend each our time doing, coming up with
Speaker 1: reasons to hate people.
Speaker 3: But there's got to be a limit to content creators
Speaker 3: even with good content that there's an audience for it,
Speaker 3: isn't there doesn't there have to be, or or we
Speaker 3: just spend so much time looking at our phones or
Speaker 3: our screens that there's just.
Speaker 1: Well, right, there are many, many, many, many podcasts out there,
Speaker 1: so much are probably pretty good and never get anywhere.
Speaker 3: But they're an awful lot of them that have a
Speaker 3: lot of listeners and make a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, we do well ourselves, and god, we
Speaker 1: have no other skills.
Speaker 3: Thank god, there's enough of people out there who want
Speaker 3: to listen to it or then read all the long
Speaker 3: pieces that are out there and all the different substacks
Speaker 3: and something.
Speaker 1: Just I just don't understand how it all gets taken in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna spend my afternoon making fake I'm a brilliant
Speaker 1: violinist videos, just gonna like like air violin with an
Speaker 1: actual violin, with like exquisite playing, and see how much
Speaker 1: hate I get online. Wear a tuxedo, make very serious faces.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I kind of put my hair in
Speaker 1: my face to look like some sort of I don't
Speaker 1: care musical genius. I love it exactly. Mortica Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty