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 Jetty and he.
Speaker 3: Arms Yo Yo.
Speaker 2: Yo, live from Studio C Sor. It's a dimly lit
Speaker 2: room deep with the numb bowels of the Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty communications. Calm down and today Friday headed into the
Speaker 2: weekend under the tutelage of our general manager. This one
Speaker 2: will annoy you, but I'm really proud of it. The flagpole,
Speaker 2: the flagpole. Why is the flag in? Every day or
Speaker 2: so they run something up it to see if it
Speaker 2: sticks against Trump, total dictator. He's a Hitler fan. And
Speaker 2: then like twenty four hours later where he's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you remember that whole Hitler thing Tuesday seems nutty. You
Speaker 2: you mix your metaphors. I believe you don't run a
Speaker 2: flag up to see if it sticks. You throw things
Speaker 2: against the wall to see if they stick. You run
Speaker 2: things up the flagpole to see if anybody salutes, and
Speaker 2: all of them. Okay, that's an excellent point, and I apologize.
Speaker 2: It's the dizzy times we live in. It's let me disoriented.
Speaker 2: Here's my favorite quote of yesterday from the Great Polster
Speaker 2: Nate Silver. Basically, everyone loses twenty five IQ points in
Speaker 2: the final two weeks of an election campaign. That's hilarious.
Speaker 2: That's really good, he said. It's like showing up to
Speaker 2: a party where everyone is six drinks in. Boy, that's
Speaker 2: good too. I was, that's so funny. Cramming through all
Speaker 2: the stuff we crams through before the show, I was
Speaker 2: struck by the increased, increasingly frantic and idiotic nature of
Speaker 2: the various pitches. Just crazy pandering, ridiculous fear mongering. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody's lost twenty five points off their IQ. It's a
Speaker 2: good metaphor. Yeah. The New York Times Siena polls out today.
Speaker 2: They only got a couple of lefts. Most expensive poll
Speaker 2: in the field public Pole. Anyway, they have it exactly
Speaker 2: forty eight to forty eight with eleven days left, exactly, which,
Speaker 2: if you go by past elections, means Kamalo's behind by
Speaker 2: three really in terms of trying to win, but who knows.
Speaker 2: They're making the argument that this time around, maybe she
Speaker 2: loses the popular vote but wins the electoral college and
Speaker 2: a switcheroo, so we'll see. I think they're just trying
Speaker 2: to keep their readers from jumping off balconies with that
Speaker 2: against the wall to see you salutes. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: right exactly, we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
Speaker 2: All in the dice and try to come up with
Speaker 2: a royal slush. Come on, My brother said, his boss
Speaker 2: gets those sayings wrong all the time. We'll burn that
Speaker 2: bridge when we get to it. And that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: kind of a Yogi bar as a character. Huh, exactly
Speaker 2: what was I gonna say? I don't know. I was
Speaker 2: talking about the election, something about So I got my
Speaker 2: car yesterday and I flipped on NPR and the unmistakable
Speaker 2: voice of James Carvel was on this. They gotta stick
Speaker 2: with one message, and all these messages aren't walking. And
Speaker 2: it was the idea said two weeks ago they got
Speaker 2: that she got dementia. Now he's an evil genius fascist,
Speaker 2: Which is it? And and he said, if I was
Speaker 2: talking to your you know, highly educated listeners who are
Speaker 2: willing to take a nuanced argument, I could explain how
Speaker 2: he's crazy and a fascist. But he said, you got
Speaker 2: to pick one or the other. And I thought that
Speaker 2: was interesting. From that, even Carvil recognized it's a little
Speaker 2: Flayly to go heavy dementia and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: heavy evil genius, He's gonna take over the country. Well,
Speaker 2: you can't really take over the country if you're so
Speaker 2: dementia ridden you don't know where you are, which was
Speaker 2: what they were claiming to were right. I also think
Speaker 2: it's everyday is revealing that carvill said. You know, if
Speaker 2: it's an audience that will actually listen to me for
Speaker 2: ninety seconds, I could spell it out in a way
Speaker 2: that they would get. But that's not the nature of
Speaker 2: popular politics. It's got to be. If you can't blurt
Speaker 2: it out in twelve point three seconds or less, it's
Speaker 2: too complex an argument, which is chilling. Right, that's a
Speaker 2: good way to pick your leaders on arguments that have
Speaker 2: to be made in eight seconds or less. Fantastic. Oh,
Speaker 2: I see the roads are gonna be blocked off in
Speaker 2: town because the Ironman Triathlon is going on this weekend.
Speaker 2: Are you commeeting in that? Michael? Tell me about it.
Speaker 2: I was planning to, but I just must have forgot
Speaker 2: didn't get it on my calendar. Correct Now my ankle's
Speaker 2: bothering me, right, I gotta get tried on my singlet
Speaker 2: and it's really tight, So I'm gonna see if I
Speaker 2: can find a good one at the store. I'll go ahead,
Speaker 2: I'll go. But I promised the kids i'd finally get
Speaker 2: the Halloween decorations up one week before Halloween. So I
Speaker 2: suppose you've got no time for the iron, So I
Speaker 2: got no time to go? Is it soon? Whim a
Speaker 2: couple miles? I think that will run swim bike? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think it's the full one, like you swim
Speaker 2: two miles bike on one hundred and then run a marathon.
Speaker 2: That's crazy exactly, that's just insane. Well, and then I
Speaker 2: plan to clean the garage as soon as I'm done
Speaker 2: with that. So as I get Holmo'll clean the garage.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good lord. We work with somebody who does
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, and he's in unbelievable shape, which
Speaker 2: you'd have to be. Uh. I can't sit on a
Speaker 2: bicycle seat for that long, even if I could pedal
Speaker 2: for that long. How do you get used to that
Speaker 2: hard tiny bicycle jammed up your wedge? Do you have
Speaker 2: well hois graphic? Do you have biking shorts? Sir? Have
Speaker 2: you invested in a pair of biking shorts? I am
Speaker 2: never ever going to be wearing biking shorts. No, I'm not.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I'm not gonna wear biking
Speaker 2: shorts is ridiculous. I don't think you know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about, sir. I know they got padding in them,
Speaker 2: but I don't. I don't run a bike like that,
Speaker 2: so I don't need that. I'm never gonna wear the bike.
Speaker 2: So what do you wear the ride the beach cruiser
Speaker 2: like you're a six year old woman or something. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I have a one speed bike. We're a one speed family.
Speaker 2: Those are that's the fun bike. Okay, But I wear
Speaker 2: jeans and tennis shoes and a T shirt. You'll never
Speaker 2: see me in the Tour de France get up on
Speaker 2: a Saturday morning. Oh, you don't need to wear that.
Speaker 2: I have them. They look like they're shorts. All begun
Speaker 2: to listen to you with your prejudices. You're ridiculous. They're comfortable,
Speaker 2: they look great, they got pockets for everything. I have
Speaker 2: mountain biked up and down the mountains of California for years,
Speaker 2: crashing over rocks in the grate, and they keep your
Speaker 2: prostate from getting crushed. But they're not cool at all
Speaker 2: for jerk. Ok all, I'm not wearing bike shorts, just
Speaker 2: not doing it. Not doing it?
Speaker 4: You used to?
Speaker 2: All, right, enough, we had any The jury is actually
Speaker 2: picking a brocks to throw. I think I've made my case, yes, Katie.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm just thinking of some form of a bet
Speaker 3: that is set up for you to lose. Needs to
Speaker 3: take place, and the bike shorts and no time man,
Speaker 3: and it would have to be an important bet.
Speaker 2: Well that's the point. I think he hears bike shorts
Speaker 2: and has a very limited view of what that is.
Speaker 2: Like every swimsuit is a g strength.
Speaker 5: Nowhere that either the people of America, thank you, remember
Speaker 5: what was that modeling gig we had to do one
Speaker 5: time off their bike countfits.
Speaker 2: I would like to seek out the people behind that
Speaker 2: and hunt them down. There was some fundraiser for a
Speaker 2: worthy charity that was tied into a big bike race
Speaker 2: and they said part of it is a celebrity biking
Speaker 2: fashion show and they just threw clothes at us here
Speaker 2: put these on. They're totally the wrong side, tighty little
Speaker 2: shirts on the really tight, skin tight tour de friend's shirts.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Sauce. This has to be on the internet, right,
Speaker 2: I don't think it is. If it was, I would
Speaker 2: call whoever runs a long time ago and pay the
Speaker 2: money to scrub it. Oh yeah, I mean were on
Speaker 2: Bill Gates, elon Musk whatever it costs. Oh that was
Speaker 2: a horrible thing to do. Yeah. Those were the actual
Speaker 2: unfortunate skin tight bus bike shorts. And it was awful charity.
Speaker 2: So we weren't really in a position, I mean, any
Speaker 2: other thing. We just said, no freaking way, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put on these ridiculous clothes and walk out in front
Speaker 2: of a bunch of people. But you know, for charity,
Speaker 2: you don't want to come off as say, oh so
Speaker 2: you don't want to help burn the children or whatever
Speaker 2: the hell it was? Right, yeah, yeah, and this was
Speaker 2: this was like pushing thirty years ago almost, and we
Speaker 2: were right at the beginning of our career where you
Speaker 2: say yes to every right. Yeah, now there's no I'm
Speaker 2: going home. That's not happening.
Speaker 6: I'm not putting notes clothes. Oh god, that was funny.
Speaker 6: We just start show officially, it's Friday. We have so
Speaker 6: many professional things. That's exactly right. That's what the whole
Speaker 6: crowd did when we walked out.
Speaker 2: The entire crowd. That was awful. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this It is Friday, October twenty fifth
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Speaker 4: Paul free Paul, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
Speaker 2: Listen to that crowd, no tax.
Speaker 4: On Social Security benefits.
Speaker 2: Now, aside from the fact that the policies are populous nonsense,
Speaker 2: I'm not the first to point out that the script
Speaker 2: has been flipped on who's the joyful candidate? Oh? Please
Speaker 2: not even he is going out with the He's Hitler.
Speaker 2: We're about to be taken over by Hitler. We're all
Speaker 2: going to right and he's got he's the Princess of Darkness,
Speaker 2: and he's doing jokes and giving stuff away and people
Speaker 2: are cheering in it. So the joy thing is completely flipped. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 2: when the final days and we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2: I think I have a guess. Ah, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: very very exciting. How oh what speaking of which what
Speaker 2: Hillary said yesterday, She's pushing a book, so people say
Speaker 2: things in their one. Brian Killmead on Fox, who's one
Speaker 2: of the funniest people in America, but he said, Hey, Hillary,
Speaker 2: nobody's interested in your book in real time, let alone
Speaker 2: looking back on it with the memoirs. Ye stop that
Speaker 2: you bought that book, take it back to the bookstore
Speaker 2: and said, this book's no good. I didn't learn anything.
Speaker 2: What another memoir from Hillary? But anyway, what she said
Speaker 2: on the trail is just unbelievable in the realm of
Speaker 2: the whole fascist Hitler thing. How does mailbag look? It's
Speaker 2: it's decent enough. We have clips of the week first though,
Speaker 2: awesome all on the way. Here's our text line four
Speaker 2: one five two nine five KFTC. So the DA in
Speaker 2: La County says them and Nandez brothers have served their uh,
Speaker 2: the debt to society. I don't know what your debt
Speaker 2: to society is when you shotgun both your parents to death,
Speaker 2: but apparently they've served it. According to him, and get
Speaker 2: into that story later, he's evil. Oh real, I wonder
Speaker 2: what he's up to now. Now it's nefarious. The one
Speaker 2: good thing about George gisscon is, you can assume if
Speaker 2: he does something it's for the wrong reasons. It's it's
Speaker 2: evil at its core, one way or the other. Coming up,
Speaker 2: we have a great continuing series of freedom loving quotes
Speaker 2: the Day plus mail bag. First, though, it's time to
Speaker 2: take a not fake, take a fond look back at
Speaker 2: the week that was. It's cow Clips of the Week,
Speaker 2: So here it goes.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a nerd sometimes.
Speaker 2: Like a kipip. Vice President Kamala Harris is calling Donald
Speaker 2: Trump increasingly uninged and unstable.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump's dissension into madness after Trump told Kelly he
Speaker 7: wished he'd be more like German generals. Clearly, you can't
Speaker 7: mean Hitler's generals, and Trump said, yeah, yeah, Hitler's.
Speaker 2: Whole death defyingly What No, I meant death defiantly. No, no,
Speaker 2: you you meant to say defiantly. Do you think Donald
Speaker 2: Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: I do, Yes, I do. You're USh Vice president.
Speaker 4: The only piece of advice I would have for her
Speaker 4: and the event that she wins, would be not to
Speaker 4: let her husband Doug anywhere near the nannies.
Speaker 2: Just keep them. Aw, that's a nasty one. That's nasty.
Speaker 4: I used to think that Democrats were crazy for saying
Speaker 4: that men have peeriods, but then I met Tim Wattz.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, here's Harris leading a rally that apparently came with
Speaker 3: free vodka.
Speaker 2: What fucking about you? Wish you'd done those executive orders
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, twenty three. I think we did
Speaker 2: the right thing.
Speaker 8: She was the last person in the room before Biden
Speaker 8: decided to withdraw from Afghanistan. She was the borders are
Speaker 8: She cast a tie breaking vote for an inflation reduction
Speaker 8: act that gives you high prices.
Speaker 9: Cut into social security is like giving the middle finger
Speaker 9: to the middle class.
Speaker 2: The duck stop following me around all day.
Speaker 1: Hypercrombie and Fitch Sword and popularity in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1: Michael Jeffries, who led the company at that time, now
Speaker 1: federally charged in a sex trafficking and prostitution scheme. Sex
Speaker 1: trafficking has become the second most profitable criminal activity in
Speaker 1: the country, right after drug trafficking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're telling your what I said. You're wrong your
Speaker 2: you used your instead of your maths finished. I'm asking
Speaker 2: you to Well, then you have to listen. Well I
Speaker 2: can't because I'm talking, Well, you stopped. Maybe when I
Speaker 2: go to bed.
Speaker 4: Okay, I guess I just don't see the point of
Speaker 4: taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting
Speaker 4: at me for a hell of a long time.
Speaker 2: A day's shoot. How is that? Even Presbyterian Pella didn't
Speaker 2: even make any sense? The oppression of the autocorrect they're
Speaker 2: portrayed in comedy form, delightful. Here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 2: of the day, continuing our series of responses to Kamala
Speaker 2: Hers saying equity and equitable treatment means we all end
Speaker 2: up in the same place. It's a quote of all people,
Speaker 2: Liz Cheney. We all embrace equal opportunity, but government enforced
Speaker 2: equality of outcome is Marxism. A century of history shows
Speaker 2: where that path leads. Yeah, don't get me started on
Speaker 2: Liz Cheney's current mental state. Man, my son is studying
Speaker 2: Marxism right now, and in school in a way that
Speaker 2: I don't think would ever have happen a public school
Speaker 2: sit in private school. Yeah, that's amazing. Ye, a system
Speaker 2: that killed hundreds of millions of people ignored by our
Speaker 2: public schools for some reason, including the mail, Yes, including
Speaker 2: the teacher pointing out that Kamala Harris's parents were both Marxists.
Speaker 2: There's something that wouldn't happen in a public school when
Speaker 2: money well spent. I love that mail bag. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe that. I'm I'm sorry dot Com. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see Steve from Everett, Washington. Right's quite sensibly all right,
Speaker 2: the whole Hitler thing. Why don't we all just agree
Speaker 2: that there's been a universal breach of Godwin's law. You
Speaker 2: remember Godwin's Law. The longer an online discussion goes on,
Speaker 2: the more certain it becomes that somebody will compare somebody
Speaker 2: else to Hitler. And we're in the season of all
Speaker 2: Hitler all the time. I think you should have the
Speaker 2: classic from the producers, Springtime for Hitler, at the ready
Speaker 2: for all future references.
Speaker 9: Spring Time for hit Law and Germany go here you go,
Speaker 9: Stee picking up on that this has gotten a lot
Speaker 9: of attention the Washington Examiner yesterday, and we'll read from
Speaker 9: it later.
Speaker 2: Reductio ad Hitler IM sixty years of Democrats claiming the
Speaker 2: Republican nominees a fascist and they going election after election
Speaker 2: after election. I can't wait to do that. And on
Speaker 2: a similar topic, Matt, that's right, sir, Matt in Honolulu. Rites, guys,
Speaker 2: I have to disagree that it would be insane for
Speaker 2: a candidate to call another fascist ten years ago, ten
Speaker 2: or fifteen years ago, as one of us stated. Recall it,
Speaker 2: Biden said he told a group of black folks that
Speaker 2: Romney would put you all back in chains in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty twelve. I think I'd rather be called a fascist
Speaker 2: than a slaver. But maybe that's just me. Good point,
Speaker 2: Matt in Honolulu. Yeah, anyway, we'll review more of that
Speaker 2: rhetoric coming up. Let's see Dave writes, did you notice
Speaker 2: that Waltz's I could be a knucklehead sometimes there's a
Speaker 2: certain similarity to Harris' is sometimes I can be a nerd? Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the script writers decide that a little self
Speaker 2: deprecation could help humanize their candidates. Yeah, but you can't.
Speaker 2: I'm a nerd away. I don't know anything about the
Speaker 2: job I'm applying for. I can't think of any policies
Speaker 2: about anything. I don't know if the knucklehead and the
Speaker 2: nerd is the best closing argument I've ever heard either.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot more on the way. Stay with us.
Speaker 2: If you missing now get the podcast.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: We have four new CNN poll of polls from four
Speaker 7: key battlegrounds. First up, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Harrison Trump
Speaker 7: only separated by one percentage point forty eight forty seven.
Speaker 7: Harris North Carolina also raised her thin forty nine forty
Speaker 7: eight Trump, and George of the former President holds a
Speaker 7: slight advantage fifty forty eight Trump, And finally in Arizona
Speaker 7: also close fifty forty seven Trump. So I at this point, honestly,
Speaker 7: I don't even know how much I should even show
Speaker 7: poles because look, we know this, there are what seven battlegrounds.
Speaker 2: There you go that maybe a punch line. I agree
Speaker 2: with Jake Tapper there, what's the point of even looking
Speaker 2: at the poles anymore? Now they're all I was watching
Speaker 2: the thing with Karl Rove yesterday. He has twenty one poles.
Speaker 2: He looks at that he considers the best from these
Speaker 2: different organizations and averages and sort of he said yesterday morning,
Speaker 2: of the twenty one, there are four that were between
Speaker 2: one and two percent. Fourteen of them were less than
Speaker 2: one percent. I mean, so you know, well, and to
Speaker 2: further drive home. The point, the idea that there would
Speaker 2: be a change in the electorate significant enough to measure
Speaker 2: and the poles would measure it accurately and come out
Speaker 2: in time to see is idiotic. It can't happen. It's done,
Speaker 2: and now it's time to lace up the shoes. You
Speaker 2: remember that. It's one of the funniest meetings we've ever
Speaker 2: had in our career. Sales manager is a good guy.
Speaker 2: I really liked the guy, but he's a It was
Speaker 2: a psychop speech, and he said, we gotta lace up
Speaker 2: our shoes, we gotta pick up the paint brush. You know,
Speaker 2: it's time to put on the helmets. And we got it,
Speaker 2: and I can't remember. There are a couple more and
Speaker 2: we were like, what sort of weird painting sports full
Speaker 2: contact contest? Is this what we're getting into here? But anyway,
Speaker 2: so it's yeah, now it's to just say show up
Speaker 2: and vote and then we'll find out what happened. I
Speaker 2: hope four hours to forty days later. All right, So
Speaker 2: the number of times Republican candidates have been called hitler
Speaker 2: or a fascist over the years, we'll get to that
Speaker 2: in now or two. Make sure you get that. Wow. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 2: stay tuned for that, and plus a couple of great
Speaker 2: analyses of the weakness and flounderingness. Is that a word
Speaker 2: of Kamala Harris's closing argument, including from some very moderate
Speaker 2: reasonable people. It's not just right wing red meat chuck,
Speaker 2: and it's it raises serious questions about who's in charge
Speaker 2: and what are they thinking? And or is their candidates
Speaker 2: so bad they just don't know what to do. On
Speaker 2: a different topic, entirely, if you are even a marginal
Speaker 2: baseball fan, you are excited that, as bugs Bunny would say,
Speaker 2: the world serious is beginning tonight, and it is pitting
Speaker 2: the East Coast legends, the greatest team of all time,
Speaker 2: the Yankees of New York against the LA Dodgers, certainly
Speaker 2: the royalty of western US baseball. The biggest stars in
Speaker 2: the game are on either team to a large extent,
Speaker 2: Heyo Tani, Aaron Judge, and others who if you're a
Speaker 2: real baseball fan, you know Mookie Bats, Freddy Freeman, Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: you got all sort, Juan Soto, just all sorts of
Speaker 2: great stars. Wall Street journalists talking about the fact that
Speaker 2: it costs six hundred and fifty million dollars worth of
Speaker 2: payroll to bring you this World Series. Yeah. I was
Speaker 2: about to say, why do they have the biggest stars
Speaker 2: because they spent so much freaking money the two biggest
Speaker 2: media markets in the country where you make the most
Speaker 2: money as a sports team. Yeah, they've spent a mind
Speaker 2: boggling some That highlights the enormous financial advantage that they
Speaker 2: hold over most of their competitors Dodgers. For instance, last winter,
Speaker 2: they committed over a billion dollars that's with a bee
Speaker 2: to sign Otani and his Japanese countryman Yoshinobu Yamamoto, which
Speaker 2: came on top of five hundred and twenty seven million
Speaker 2: they were already paying Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And as sports fans know, you don't always end up
Speaker 2: winning whatever sport you're in by spending the most money.
Speaker 2: But it happens a lot. It does. It helps a
Speaker 2: lot to spend the most money. And it's kind of
Speaker 2: weird that in professional sports it's just you know, yay,
Speaker 2: my team is richer than the other team and can
Speaker 2: buy better players from other teams. Yeah, you know, whatever,
Speaker 2: what is the other option to And you're quite right,
Speaker 2: I mean, if this happened like three four years in
Speaker 2: a row or four out of five or something like that,
Speaker 2: there would be a hue and a cry to do
Speaker 2: something about it. But often it's the plucky upstarts that
Speaker 2: did advance far into the playoffs, and they're fun to
Speaker 2: root for. Just some of the money that whoever the
Speaker 2: sticks and whenever that does happen, whoever the best plucky
Speaker 2: upstart is ends up a Yankee or a Dodger, or
Speaker 2: a Laker, or a Celtic or a NIX chair, you know,
Speaker 2: or a cowboy or whatever. Right. The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: quotes Dodgers infielder Max Munsey saying, is a fan of baseball?
Speaker 2: How can you not be excited about this? Well, for one,
Speaker 2: you might be a baseball fan in Pittsburgh or Oakland
Speaker 2: or Saint Petersburg rooting for a team whose entire roster
Speaker 2: costs a tiny fraction of the Yankees or Dodgers. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And if you know how baseball works, they share baseball,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, a TV revenue to beef up the payrolls
Speaker 2: of the lower teams, and there are various rules to
Speaker 2: try to tax the super high spenders. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to get into that because it's boring if you're
Speaker 2: a sports fan. But I came across a really interesting piece.
Speaker 2: I wish I had it in front of you. You might
Speaker 2: have been the journal I don't recall talking about how
Speaker 2: the greatest thing American sports has going for it is
Speaker 2: quote unquote socialism, And I thought, wait, what are you
Speaker 2: talking about? In Europe, the big soccer clubs particularly, it's
Speaker 2: really the only sport that matters. Well that's not entirely true,
Speaker 2: but it might as well be football as they call it.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy, the game where they constantly kick the
Speaker 2: ball with their feet all game long. In fact, you
Speaker 2: touch it with your hands, you get called for a foul.
Speaker 2: They call that football our game where you kick it
Speaker 2: like once every twenty minutes. That's the real football anyway.
Speaker 2: Name Nate Margatzi's thing about that where he's George Washington. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: football a game you or you kicked the ball? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: well there's some kicking, very little, very little. How many
Speaker 2: points do you get for kicking the ball? Sometimes one,
Speaker 2: sometimes three? I love that bit anyway. So in Europe
Speaker 2: for the soccer it is unbridled capitalism, and you have
Speaker 2: the big team's real Madrid who's the big British team
Speaker 2: that's always on top, Manchester United. There you go. They
Speaker 2: spend whatever they want. They got money flown in from
Speaker 2: the oil sheeks. They always win. They're in the Premier League.
Speaker 2: The lesser teams are always relegated down to the Trump
Speaker 2: League that Ted Lasso spent most of his time in.
Speaker 2: The greatest thing for American sports is that they have
Speaker 2: leveled the playing field and so every team has a
Speaker 2: reasonable chance to compete every year. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I just thought, yeah, it was interesting, and you know,
Speaker 2: is it some sort of Joe Gideon endorses socialism. No,
Speaker 2: not at all, not at all. But in the context
Speaker 2: of sports, where the entire question is am I watching
Speaker 2: an exciting game? Yeah, it makes perfect sense. I thought
Speaker 2: it was pretty good analysis. Here's an interesting thing conversation
Speaker 2: I got into with my son yesterday. It really made
Speaker 2: me think and I wanted to bring it to the air.
Speaker 2: I don't remember how we got started on this, but
Speaker 2: I talked about rooting for the underdog. I wish I
Speaker 2: could remember the origin of our conversation, but I talked
Speaker 2: about rooting for the underdog, and I said, it's kind
Speaker 2: of a common thing to do. People like to root
Speaker 2: for the underdog. And he said that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: I said, well, I don't know. I just I just
Speaker 2: just what we do, like my dad taught, like when
Speaker 2: I was a kid, if we turned on a game,
Speaker 2: I'd say, well, who do you root for? If you
Speaker 2: don't know who I usually root for, who's behind? Root
Speaker 2: for the underdog. And my son, who's a very interesting person,
Speaker 2: said that doesn't make any sense just from a like
Speaker 2: an evolutionary standpoint, and I and I was thinking about
Speaker 2: it for a while, and I've always been interested in
Speaker 2: this comment from Osama bin Laden, this quote where he said,
Speaker 2: and he was talking about geopolitics and all that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff, and he said, when when two people see
Speaker 2: horses fighting, they root for the strong horse. And I thought,
Speaker 2: that is not what we usually do. And I wonder
Speaker 2: if the normal evolutionary thing is to root if two
Speaker 2: people are in a fight, you root for the strong one.
Speaker 2: And we've kind of like overcome that or lost that
Speaker 2: out of either I can't tell of its softness or goodness,
Speaker 2: but I just thought it was interesting. I remember the
Speaker 2: first time I heard that Osama bin Laden quote, I thought,
Speaker 2: that's not what I would do. If I saw two
Speaker 2: horses fighting, I wouldn't be rooting for the strong horse
Speaker 2: to beat down the weaker horse. But that's the way
Speaker 2: he's on and I wonder if that's the way most
Speaker 2: of the world, or most of the humans through history
Speaker 2: have seen things. I came up with this phrase years
Speaker 2: and years and years ago, and if I were a
Speaker 2: different guy, I would have devoted my life to developing
Speaker 2: the theory, but as working on my short game on golf. Anyway,
Speaker 2: the idea that you get you have to take care
Speaker 2: of necessity before you can get to nicety. You have
Speaker 2: to get through the quest for security before you can
Speaker 2: indulge the more gentle parts of the human spirit. And
Speaker 2: I think in Osama Bin Lauden's part of the world,
Speaker 2: you are still in the competition is everything. Of course
Speaker 2: he was an extremely with wealthy Saudi air. But anyway,
Speaker 2: but in that part of the world, you've got your
Speaker 2: competition phase of development as human beings. Then you get
Speaker 2: to your altruism phase, where you can afford to be
Speaker 2: kind to the less fortunate. There are many many tales
Speaker 2: of you know, for instance, people fetishize, romanticize the Native
Speaker 2: American peoples and the way they lived, and then the
Speaker 2: way they lived was frequently brutal. If you couldn't pull
Speaker 2: your weight, you were left to starve to death. If
Speaker 2: you were lazy or indigent or a coward, you were
Speaker 2: either killed or left to die. You were sent out
Speaker 2: to die into the wilderness. And it was only after
Speaker 2: a certain amount of security and wealth has accumulated that
Speaker 2: you can take care of the handicapped, in the blind
Speaker 2: and the developmentally disabled or whatever, which I think is
Speaker 2: a wonderful thing. But yeah, during the hard scrabble years,
Speaker 2: not so much, which would be ninety nine point nine
Speaker 2: nine percent of human history. So we have softened out
Speaker 2: of our culture, the normal tendency to root for the stronger,
Speaker 2: do you think? And yeah, and I think so. And
Speaker 2: while I like that, and in all kinds of different ways,
Speaker 2: I wonder I fact culture gets overtaken by cultures that
Speaker 2: continue to do it, do the old way. Now we
Speaker 2: root for the strong, well, right now we're too like
Speaker 2: the core of the armstrong and getting message for our
Speaker 2: beloved republic, which is that if you get too far
Speaker 2: down the road to that obsessed with the niceties, just
Speaker 2: a self obsessed critical theory, you know, microaggressions, just all
Speaker 2: that crap. You get way too far into the navel gazing,
Speaker 2: you will be taken like ripe fruit by those who
Speaker 2: are young and hungry and brutal, no matter how big
Speaker 2: and strong your empire seems to be. Take a look
Speaker 2: at history, friends, and so you know that's that's been
Speaker 2: our message. If we've had a consistent message through the years,
Speaker 2: is you can't get too soft and self indulgent, or
Speaker 2: it's over. I was just thinking about that in terms
Speaker 2: of rooting for the scrappy underdogs and maybe the more successful. Anyway,
Speaker 2: human impulses to root for the giant Strong has been
Speaker 2: built to be the best whatever team, corporation, person, fang, whatever. Counterargument.
Speaker 2: If you see somebody who's clearly in the underdog position
Speaker 2: and they triumph, you've you've identified a real winner. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought it was a very interesting,
Speaker 2: uh that it didn't automatically make sense to my son
Speaker 2: because he hasn't been you know, inculcated yet. It has
Speaker 2: light up the idea of rooting for the underdog. Yeah,
Speaker 2: really interesting question. If you have any thoughts, mail bag
Speaker 2: at Armstrong e getty dot com. We we'll touch on those.
Speaker 2: I actually have one more quick note on baseball specifically,
Speaker 2: since twenty eleven, the winner of the World Series has
Speaker 2: ranked between seventh and eighth in the majors in payroll
Speaker 2: on average. Oh interesting, top eight ten of the past
Speaker 2: fourteen champs, including the Yankees or Dodgers. This season, either
Speaker 2: one will have had payroll in the top ten. Only
Speaker 2: one the twenty seventeen Houston Astros who cheated, as I recall, Hey,
Speaker 2: you ain't cheating. He eight trying. I loved that team.
Speaker 2: I know they cheated, but that was a fun team.
Speaker 2: Only one those Astros ranked in the bottom half. Oh well,
Speaker 2: it's accurate to say that the Yankees and Dodgers don't
Speaker 2: win the Series every year A team that bears at
Speaker 2: least a passing resemblance to them almost always. And if
Speaker 2: you're in the bottom half of salaries, you've got really
Speaker 2: no shot. That's something you would never tell your fans.
Speaker 2: If you're in the bottom half, start banging on trash cans. Right,
Speaker 2: if you're familiar with the reference, We've got Katie's headlines
Speaker 2: on the way. World Series Game one is tonight in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Now it seems like my microphone is crazy
Speaker 2: loud was it was off and now it's Michael if
Speaker 2: you lost your mind, there's something gone wrong. Button sabotage, sabotage.
Speaker 2: We've been sabotaged. Okay, I hate to hear that. Well,
Speaker 2: let's forge you ahead. Then it's let's figure out who's
Speaker 2: reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3: Katie starting with the New York Times. Harris and Trump
Speaker 3: deadlocked to the end, according to final Times in Sienna
Speaker 3: national polls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, actually forty eight to forty eight, which is horrible
Speaker 2: news of your Democrat.
Speaker 3: By the way, CNN, Israel strikes Gaza and Lebanon. A
Speaker 3: ceasefire talks are expected this weekend.
Speaker 2: Speaking a listener to NPR every day, there's going to
Speaker 2: be a ceasefire as soon as the Dodgers and Yankees
Speaker 2: announce the ceasefire. Ye please, Yeah, Yeah, it's funny. I
Speaker 2: didn't even catch that because I'm so used to hearing
Speaker 2: it in in this meaningless term, right, the ceasefire. I
Speaker 2: heard somebody say yesterday. Currently neither party has an interest. Yeah. See,
Speaker 2: that's the problem with the whole Ceaspire thing. You got
Speaker 2: to have both parties very interested. When neither party has
Speaker 2: any interest. What are we talking about here? It's like
Speaker 2: that man and woman. They currently no plans to get married.
Speaker 2: They haven't met, they haven't talked to each other. That
Speaker 2: what they do know of each other, they hate each other. No,
Speaker 2: we will discuss wedding plans further this weekend. Right, it's weird,
Speaker 2: But I was gonna say, every time I listen to
Speaker 2: NPR on this story, it's Israel bomb to school or
Speaker 2: Israel bomb to hospital. How have you not caught on
Speaker 2: to they call everything a hospital or a school? Do
Speaker 2: you really think every building in Gaza is a school
Speaker 2: or hospital? Or Southern Lebanon.
Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, LA District attorney requests resentencing for
Speaker 3: Menendez brothers, opening a path to release.
Speaker 2: Marxist prostitute makes announcement he thinks will somehow help him period.
Speaker 3: From the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk's Secret conversations with
Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2: So I haven't read that story of you, I have, indeed, Yeah,
Speaker 2: well you have to tell us about that later. I
Speaker 2: know how it's being portrayed in the central left media,
Speaker 2: and it's kind of, oh, of course, kind of hilarious.
Speaker 2: Back to Russia. Russia, Russia. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: From NBC, Kim Jong owned to send putin twelve thousand soldiers.
Speaker 3: South Korea says that US they'll be fair game.
Speaker 2: Say that again, you glitched out. I didn't hear what
Speaker 2: you said or glitched out of my head. But you're
Speaker 2: a Michael sabotage probably.
Speaker 3: Dang Michael sending twelve thousand soldiers. US says they'll be
Speaker 3: fair game for killing. Yes, Oky, no to take out
Speaker 3: to lunch?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well played, Katie. Idiots?
Speaker 3: But USA today Nevada forfeits women's volleyball game against San
Speaker 3: Jose State.
Speaker 2: Really another forfeit? Yeah, oh that's right. I became aware
Speaker 2: one of some friends of the Armstrong and Getty show
Speaker 2: in sports and the government have written a powerful letter
Speaker 2: about that topic. We'll get to that later on the show.
Speaker 2: Just forcing women to compete against men get their heads knocked.
Speaker 3: In From International Business Times radio stations replacing journalists with
Speaker 3: AI presenters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? Lose my job? Apparently? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Go on, Katie, open a taco truck. Huh.
Speaker 3: Our meme of the day is? It says at the top,
Speaker 3: So I ordered an take two? So I ordered an
Speaker 3: Arnold Palmer, and it's a picture of an Arnold Palmer
Speaker 3: with a giant egg plant in it.
Speaker 2: Oh unfortunate how the lemonade iced tea comes with the
Speaker 2: big egg plant in it. Let's move on, please class
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon be worst allegation yet. Woman claims
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety three, Trump touched her inappropriately with classified
Speaker 3: documents while praising Hitler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's another one of those out in Epstein's
Speaker 2: sort of claim about Trump doing something bad with the woman.
Speaker 2: I suppose we could get into that or not not
Speaker 2: dignify it anyway. Much more on the way, stay here,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty