Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and now he arm Strong and.
Speaker 3: Jetty Lifelong friends of the man police say carried out
Speaker 3: the deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan say
Speaker 3: he dated a Mormon woman and descended into heavy methamphetamine
Speaker 3: youse while living in Utah. Peter and Francis Tercini say
Speaker 3: after alleged gunman Thomas Jacob Sandford's relationship ended with the
Speaker 3: woman and he returned to Michigan he had changed. Peter
Speaker 3: Tercini says Sandford went on rants about Mormon's Francis Tercini
Speaker 3: writing in a Facebook post that man that came back
Speaker 3: from Utah wasn't the same.
Speaker 2: He was a puppet and the puppeteer was Satan. So
Speaker 2: he gets dumped by a woman who's Mormon, which makes
Speaker 2: him angry, and he's a heavy matthewser, what are you
Speaker 2: supposed to take from that in terms of some sort
Speaker 2: of societal meaning anything.
Speaker 1: Angry guy committing suicide and taking people with him, right horrible.
Speaker 2: I'd say a couple of different things. Want to get
Speaker 2: to here. First of all, there's a new book out
Speaker 2: about Senator Bob Menendez. If you remember him, he was
Speaker 2: a prominent senator. I mean he was a chair of
Speaker 2: some of your big committees and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Gold bar Menindez. You remember when he got busted with
Speaker 2: him and his wife. They were taking gold bars from Egypt,
Speaker 2: among other things. He'd been a crook forever and gotten
Speaker 2: away with it, got in trouble a couple of times,
Speaker 2: he got away, but finally gold bars with direct connections
Speaker 2: to Egypt were just too much.
Speaker 1: But his wife, Mercedes Boobooman, she was something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ni Nidine Menndez. She's doing four and a half
Speaker 2: years in prison for bribery in corruption also, And this
Speaker 2: segment of the book that I was reading about was
Speaker 2: all about when he met her. And it's just what's
Speaker 2: interesting to me is that kind of woman. And maybe y'
Speaker 2: all know some or maybe some of you are that, uh,
Speaker 2: you're I was gonna say, a hot woman, but it's
Speaker 2: often not like the hottest of the hot it's just
Speaker 2: you're you're pretty attractive, and you decide to make your
Speaker 2: way through the world on that by attaching yourselves to
Speaker 2: politicians or rock stars or successful businessmen or whatever in
Speaker 2: the most like transparent way. But you you attach yourselves
Speaker 2: to the kind of guys that don't care that it's transparent,
Speaker 2: that they're only with you for the fact that you're
Speaker 2: a rock star or a senator or have a lot
Speaker 2: of money. Both both of you know what you're doing,
Speaker 2: and I find that just so disgusting all the way
Speaker 2: around the fact that you both know exactly what you're
Speaker 2: doing and are okay with it. It's one thing to
Speaker 2: be fooled like you're you're you're a US senator and
Speaker 2: an attractive woman and you think she loves you and
Speaker 2: everything like that. But it's clear from this relationship and
Speaker 2: all the people she'd gone through. The excerpt was so interesting.
Speaker 2: She'd been with so many different rich or powerful people,
Speaker 2: and it seems like everybody knew exactly what was going
Speaker 2: there all the time. Nobody's pretending anything else. It's just
Speaker 2: it's also slimy. Her and her friends were all that
Speaker 2: kind of woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have a friend who has an ex who
Speaker 1: turned out to be that sort of person, and he
Speaker 1: told me, uh, her her mom was too, and that
Speaker 1: was just the model. See, there's nothing in my background
Speaker 1: that would make me think, hey, I've got an idea. Right,
Speaker 1: we have this nakedly transactional you're hot, I'm rich thing.
Speaker 1: But if you grew up with I didn't have a
Speaker 1: cynical view of marriage, I guess you'd have to have that.
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of you women who are
Speaker 2: very attractive, who who just like go through life like normal,
Speaker 2: and our attraction churche is aside part of your life
Speaker 2: or personality or whatever, but you don't make that your
Speaker 2: This is how I'm going to end up being with
Speaker 2: a senator. And if this thing with the senator, if
Speaker 2: he gets tired of me, I'll go to a rock star.
Speaker 2: Just just sounds like such an exhausting life for a
Speaker 2: CEO or something. Yeah, yeah, And that's exactly what she does.
Speaker 2: She would go to parties. Well, well, this happens all
Speaker 2: the time when the somebody becomes aware in the news
Speaker 2: and you find out that she dated you know, five
Speaker 2: different people you've heard of because they just they hang
Speaker 2: out at those kind of parties.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, yeah, Well, you know, if you were
Speaker 1: going to make a counter argument, and it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm doing this personally, but the accounter. Argument would be,
Speaker 1: and you certainly know this, that getting together marrying for
Speaker 1: love and having it not go well is crushing. It's
Speaker 1: it's horrible, true to ask. So how about I just
Speaker 1: get into a relationship. We're both happy, we both know
Speaker 1: what to expect, and yeah, I mean, we're not crazy
Speaker 1: in love. But what the hell, it's a nice lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't know, Like, I can't arguing.
Speaker 1: In favor of that. I just think that's probably the
Speaker 1: point of view.
Speaker 2: I get the guy who thinks it's love, but the
Speaker 2: guy who knows I'm a troll. She's only with me
Speaker 2: because I'm a senator. Ah, that just seems like a
Speaker 2: heck of a thing to wake up and think every day.
Speaker 1: No friends with benefits? What are the benefits? Let's talk.
Speaker 2: We got the gold bars coming in from Egypt. Don
Speaker 2: That's that's the cool thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just explaining in that book how she and
Speaker 2: her friends would go to parties and they would know
Speaker 2: who is going to be there, and they would spot
Speaker 2: them have a discussion amongst themselves. So who is going
Speaker 2: to approach whom? You know, kind of split him up. Okay,
Speaker 2: you go, you go with the CEO. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go talk to the Senator horrible.
Speaker 1: My daughter, who interned with a couple of different organizations
Speaker 1: that included the very powerful in Washington.
Speaker 4: D C.
Speaker 1: At one point she said to me, it's all really
Speaker 1: interesting and exciting, but you can feel your soul dying.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. And then somebody like sender Menindez, because I
Speaker 2: assume he didn't start a crook in his life, is
Speaker 2: sold deadened throughout the whole many many many years of
Speaker 2: being around government, and probably got cynical enough where he thought, hey,
Speaker 2: everybody's getting rich. I' might just rich who cares sure.
Speaker 1: Being a powerful man in New Jersey. Forget about it.
Speaker 2: It's all a game. Yeah, something more uplifting. I want
Speaker 2: to read a little bit of this. Richard Lowry writing
Speaker 2: in the New York Post about the Mississippi Miracle, and
Speaker 2: he's very annoyed by that term that people have attached
Speaker 2: to it, as he writes, there's nothing miraculous. We're talking
Speaker 2: about the education thing. We've talked about a lot. The
Speaker 2: Mississippi went from last in the country to like top
Speaker 2: five first in some categories.
Speaker 1: A couple other states too.
Speaker 2: The Mississippi Miracle and he said, there's nothing miraculous about
Speaker 2: a state that adopts phonics and sets high standards for
Speaker 2: its kids getting better results in reading instruction. This to
Speaker 2: the country is a predictable outcome, not a miracle. It's
Speaker 2: exactly what you would expect to happen, and a replicable one,
Speaker 2: as other Southern states have taken up similar policies and
Speaker 2: are getting the same results. I think that's a very
Speaker 2: good point to make.
Speaker 1: Oh it's frustrating, though, isn't it. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: good story, but that you have to explain to people
Speaker 1: how they did it and how successful it is, and
Speaker 1: then talk them out of continuing to pursue exactly the
Speaker 1: wrong policies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the idea quick call it a miracle.
Speaker 2: I don't know what would be a good name the
Speaker 2: Mississippi going back to what has always worked towards the
Speaker 2: little cumbers obvious. I don't know, but that's a much
Speaker 2: better point to make. We started doing what has always
Speaker 2: worked for like two thousand years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, went back to it.
Speaker 2: It's not a miracle.
Speaker 1: It's a good point and a solid point. I just
Speaker 1: I think calling it to Mississippi miracle gets people's attention.
Speaker 1: I suppose it all this shiny object.
Speaker 2: It all came out of a piece written in two
Speaker 2: thousand and two called illiteracy is a policy choice that
Speaker 2: actually came out of Florida, and that's where it all started.
Speaker 2: I Unfortunately for my kids, and thank god, my older son,
Speaker 2: who really dealt with this is can read fine. But
Speaker 2: he landed in kindergarten right at the time where they
Speaker 2: did away with phonics and they no longer believed in
Speaker 2: phonics and they went with sight words. And looking back
Speaker 2: on it, I'm horribly embarrassed that I went along with it.
Speaker 2: But as my first kid in first year school and Okay,
Speaker 2: this is what we're doing now, and we would practice
Speaker 2: the site words at home and it never really worked.
Speaker 2: Of course it didn't. The idea that you just taken
Speaker 2: the word as a whole as opposed to sound it
Speaker 2: out with phonics, it's just a dumb idea on its face.
Speaker 1: There are too many effing words for one thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the creative spelling, the whole language approach, it was a
Speaker 1: fad adopted by those layers of PhD administrators to justify
Speaker 1: their existence. If you come to the school board and
Speaker 1: say I've got an innovative, great new policy. It's to
Speaker 1: do what we've always done because it works really, really well.
Speaker 1: Then what the hell are you doing there? So education
Speaker 1: has these fads every so often.
Speaker 2: If you're unfamiliar with this, because I sat through the
Speaker 2: lecture about it before we started teaching our kids this way. Uh,
Speaker 2: there was this new theory that people don't actually learn
Speaker 2: to read through sounds. You take in a word as
Speaker 2: a whole. That's the way the brain works. And then
Speaker 2: they would throw around some mumbo jump up and looking
Speaker 2: back on it, and I should have thought at this time,
Speaker 2: it doesn't make any sense. No, who has ever picked
Speaker 2: up a word like that? I mean, when you come
Speaker 2: across a word, you don't know, you're just taking it
Speaker 2: all at once. No, of course you don't.
Speaker 1: No, especially because writing is really just it's a it's
Speaker 1: a way to record spoken language. And kids learn spoken
Speaker 1: language way way way before they learn to read. Sure,
Speaker 1: they know what see Jane run means long before they
Speaker 1: can read those words. So you've just got to help
Speaker 1: them learn how to identify in print sounds that they've
Speaker 1: heard before. And you get older, you learn new words
Speaker 1: through reading. But that's you know, a different phase in
Speaker 1: your life. But to see again, the part that makes
Speaker 1: me insane and wants to make me want to pummel
Speaker 1: people with both my fists is that there was never
Speaker 1: any problem with the old approach. The phonics approame with
Speaker 1: math worked great one hundred years ago, fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: and twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: Same with math, the same with the math. Math was fine,
Speaker 2: there was there was nobody. Nobody was having any trouble
Speaker 2: with the way we always learned math. You didn't need
Speaker 2: to develop a new way to do it.
Speaker 1: A cure in search of a disease, as the old
Speaker 1: saying goes.
Speaker 2: Has that gone away because my kids are out past
Speaker 2: that age where they're learning math at that But that
Speaker 2: was horrible?
Speaker 1: Oh my good progressive places, they are still fighting tooth
Speaker 1: and nail against reinstituting phonics, even as they fight to
Speaker 1: have secretly guide your son into becoming a girl.
Speaker 2: So I think phonics is just part of it. I
Speaker 2: think maybe the most important part of what Mississippi is
Speaker 2: doing in those other southern states is having standards and
Speaker 2: holding people to them. They've done away with I forget
Speaker 2: what the soft phrase they use when I was young,
Speaker 2: Did you hear Jimmy flunked, he's gonna have to take
Speaker 2: fourth grading over again. They went from flunked to hell
Speaker 2: back to just did away with the policy completely. Wich
Speaker 2: is terrible. We're gonna move on a kid who's not
Speaker 2: ready for the next grade so he doesn't feel bad
Speaker 2: about himself. Oh, he's gonna feel great being in that
Speaker 2: fifth grade class and not understanding anything and being in
Speaker 2: embarrassing himself every day. That's gonna be great for his
Speaker 2: self esteem, and even better when he gets the sixth
Speaker 2: grade and he's still behind because he couldn't pick up
Speaker 2: the fifth grade stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you're not quite at the point of wanting
Speaker 1: to join me in beating on people, here's one more
Speaker 1: for you. Keep in mind. At the same time, any
Speaker 1: programs for exceptionally bright and capable kids were eliminated, all right,
Speaker 1: because that's not equity. Both if anyone excels that, the
Speaker 1: other kids feel bad. So let's take our best and brightest,
Speaker 1: our future leaders and scientists and innovators and crush their spirits.
Speaker 1: That's equity.
Speaker 2: But Mississippi brought back holding kids back a year if
Speaker 2: they aren't ready yet, which just you know, seems like
Speaker 2: the obviously best thing to do for the kid.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a miracle. It's the obvious stuff we
Speaker 2: always used to do. But yes, Michael, we.
Speaker 1: Have politicians that aren't quite ready for hess.
Speaker 2: She grew up in the software of Philadelphia. Any thoughts
Speaker 2: on this text line four one five ftc.
Speaker 1: Armstrong? Heety, we know about you. You get up.
Speaker 2: How about you break out those moves for your two
Speaker 2: biggest fans.
Speaker 1: That's the charming Netflix show Coco Melon Lane. Think about
Speaker 1: the visual? Is a little boy dancing with his two
Speaker 1: gay dads in address.
Speaker 2: He's in a dress, or the dad he's in a dress.
Speaker 1: The little boys dance around in address with his gay fathers.
Speaker 1: They're on Netflix. So listen of the show Coco Melon Lane.
Speaker 1: Why is he in address because he's a little transgender boy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's beautiful and that's good and he should
Speaker 1: be transgender and everybody should. Uh anyway, then you've got
Speaker 1: this everybody should.
Speaker 4: Yo.
Speaker 2: Hey, put Caro on him? Yo?
Speaker 4: You see this person right here?
Speaker 1: Is this him?
Speaker 4: Would it be crazy if we actually found the guy
Speaker 4: right now? Because we saw a person who was literally
Speaker 4: fitting the description, who just walked down walk by her camera.
Speaker 1: A man suspected of committing multiple robberies in Colorado was
Speaker 1: caught by TV news crews while they were filming a
Speaker 1: segment about him. This guy wandered into the live shot
Speaker 1: and the uh. One of the anchors did a double
Speaker 1: take after seeing this scumbag walk across the street behind him.
Speaker 2: Can I hear it again now that I know what
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 1: Yo? Hey put caro on him? Yo?
Speaker 2: You see this person?
Speaker 4: My hair? Is this him? Would it be crazy if
Speaker 4: we actually found the guy right now because we saw
Speaker 4: a person who was literally fitting the description, who just
Speaker 4: walked down walked by her camera.
Speaker 2: Actually asked?
Speaker 1: Crew quickly called nine one one, alerted the police to
Speaker 1: is the guy's presence. Within ten minutes he'd been arrested. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's some good law enforcement. A little more what's that, Michael? Okay?
Speaker 2: A little more.
Speaker 1: Pot pourrie propos of nothing. Guitarist Ronnie Woods said the
Speaker 1: Rolling Stones have a new album that's done in coming
Speaker 1: out for some reason, for some reason, and he also
Speaker 1: suggested they could be heading back out on tour soon.
Speaker 2: Goudy's reading about the way they recorded the last one,
Speaker 2: and like you know, Keith Richards is in the Bahamas
Speaker 2: and mixing Paris, and they don't. They they are never
Speaker 2: in the same room together until the first time they
Speaker 2: do a concert, and then they're briefly in the same
Speaker 2: room wherever they're doing the concert, and then they get
Speaker 2: into different limos and go to different hotels. It's a
Speaker 2: very weird thing they got going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's funny. It's easy to be cynical about this, obviously,
Speaker 1: but they're all richer than God, especially Keith and Mick.
Speaker 1: They must just really really love it.
Speaker 2: You you'd have to. But so you've always said that.
Speaker 2: I've always always said that. I always assumed that if
Speaker 2: you love it so much, why wouldn't you take the
Speaker 2: time to get together in a studio and like put
Speaker 2: some effort into it if you like it so much,
Speaker 2: Because they treat it like it's a task that somebody's
Speaker 2: making them do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess Keith, at whatever age is,
Speaker 1: is pushing Ady if he isn't there already, just has
Speaker 1: some musical ideas that he really really wants to get down.
Speaker 2: Really, dude, can't you jump on a private plane like
Speaker 2: it's not a lot of work and we'll meet I'm
Speaker 2: aware and do this stuff.
Speaker 1: Together, right, Look, there's the drummer right here with us.
Speaker 1: Isn't that fun? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 2: How are you? How are you all weathering the government
Speaker 2: shutdown so far? Are you okay?
Speaker 1: Well? Leieve it or not. I have a couple of
Speaker 1: interesting points about the shutdown.
Speaker 2: I know it's a tough day for a lot of
Speaker 2: us Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: Well, guys, Congress failed to reach an agreement on a
Speaker 5: spending deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: That crazy feeling when your phone batter is at one percent?
Speaker 1: That's our government right now.
Speaker 5: That's where you're like, Yeah, this will be the first
Speaker 5: government shutdown since twenty eighteen, not including Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: At the debate.
Speaker 2: I yeah, So that's one of my two things I'm
Speaker 2: willing to say about the government shutdown. One do you
Speaker 2: remember we had one that lasted over a month in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen? Do you remember it at all? I don't,
Speaker 2: not at all, And it lasted over a month, And
Speaker 2: this one probably won't. This one will probably in this
Speaker 2: afternoon or Friday morning or Sunday, and it'll never be
Speaker 2: bamba one right, first Trump term twenty eighteen?
Speaker 1: Oh right, right, yeah, huh, I'll be damned. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: memories the memories.
Speaker 2: The government shut down for over a month, and like,
Speaker 2: I have no memory of it at all.
Speaker 1: The only really interesting part of this to me is
Speaker 1: the Democrats strategy, because it's not over a specific policy
Speaker 1: or bill or anything. It's just this really kind of
Speaker 1: sad effort to be seen as fighting against Trump. And
Speaker 1: they're making claims about medicare or is it medicare medicaid,
Speaker 1: I can never remember which one we're talking about. But
Speaker 1: what they're claiming about how it would cut the Affordable
Speaker 1: Care Act isn't even close to true. And I've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of statistics about how I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: like not even close to poor, your cost for the
Speaker 1: Obamacare is fifty two dollars a week. If you're two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty percent of the poverty line, two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty percent, taxpayers pick up more than two thirds
Speaker 1: of year premium. Wow, people are anywhere close to poor
Speaker 1: pay nothing, I mean almost nothing, and that will continue.
Speaker 1: This is just a little trimming of the so called
Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act super bonus extras that the Democrats themselves
Speaker 1: set twenty twenty five expiration date on, and the Republicans
Speaker 1: are saying, yeah, it's expiring, and it ought to expire,
Speaker 1: so let's move on with our lives. And for that
Speaker 1: they're trying to brand the Republicans is somehow gutting Obamacare
Speaker 1: and kicking poor people out on the street. And the
Speaker 1: other part, I'm sorry, did you have a comment on that.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: The other part that I find really really interesting and
Speaker 1: what I wanted to get to is they're also trying
Speaker 1: to eliminate the free plans where people have no skin
Speaker 1: in the game. The Republicans are. And here's why. Making
Speaker 1: these plans free has allowed insurers to get paid for
Speaker 1: people who don't even know they're enrolled. Forty percent of
Speaker 1: those in the fully subsidized plans that's the Freebee plans
Speaker 1: had zero claims in twenty twenty four. And that number
Speaker 1: cannot be explained by well, they're healthy, because you have
Speaker 1: all sorts of statistical data on how often people go
Speaker 1: to the doctor and make claims in that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: These insurance companies that are part of the Obama Care
Speaker 1: swirling ocean of cash that Craig Gottwaltz warned us about
Speaker 1: at the very beginning of it, and he's been right
Speaker 1: about everything. Uh, the companies that are making such huge
Speaker 1: profits off these plans are just like enrolling people who
Speaker 1: have no idea.
Speaker 2: They're enrolled, that is why, and.
Speaker 1: Getting paid for it. And the Republicans are just trying
Speaker 1: to stop that. And for that, Hakeem Jefferies with his
Speaker 1: newly grown dark black mustache, really good look.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And and Chuck, I have no soul, Shumer are trying
Speaker 1: to pretend like you know, Mike Johnson is scissor kicking
Speaker 1: pregnant poor ladies in the mouth if they try to
Speaker 1: go to the doctor. It's just horrible. So shut it down.
Speaker 1: I'm sure to lend just great for you.
Speaker 2: Chuck, Well, it's uh. They somehow believe that voters go
Speaker 2: to the polls for the next election and vote on
Speaker 2: the shutdowns. They don't. We don't, we don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't think about it at all.
Speaker 1: No, not the moment it ends, and hardly during.
Speaker 2: Right, and so now it's the until it ends, which
Speaker 2: again it'll probably be in the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: Until it ends. It's the pr battle with the help
Speaker 2: of the mainstream media to try to spin it as
Speaker 2: a something awful. The Republicans did.
Speaker 1: Whatever, knock yourself have a good time. Hey, can we
Speaker 1: run my favorite clip of the day again? I love
Speaker 1: this clip. It's number fifteen, Michael. So this is in Portland.
Speaker 1: The FEDS who are protecting the federal buildings and workers
Speaker 1: there in Portland and finally standing up against the Antifa
Speaker 1: scumbags and radicals and jackasses in Portland that have ruined
Speaker 1: that well, you know, at Portland's having a bit of
Speaker 1: a comeback, but that have made so much of Portland unpleasant.
Speaker 1: They're warning them through a megaphone that they have to
Speaker 1: get off the sidewalks clear to the streets, et cetera.
Speaker 1: They're in violation, blah blah blah. But listen carefully to
Speaker 1: the voice.
Speaker 2: In the moment.
Speaker 4: To allow for meticular traffic remain on the sidewalk across
Speaker 4: the street.
Speaker 2: Everyone this restricted area or risk for the restricted area.
Speaker 1: So they've used AI to have Donald Trump pread that
Speaker 1: warning to everybody through the megaphone to troll them Trump.
Speaker 1: That's right, hilarious. I love that.
Speaker 2: And so when they send the National Guard to Portland,
Speaker 2: are there going to be fat generals there?
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 2: There won't the more fat generals. We are done with that,
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Fat admirals sinking their ships through their sheer, blubbery girth.
Speaker 1: You can't have it not with China is lean and mean.
Speaker 1: To strike a serious note, they are literally lean and
Speaker 1: literally mean. And if we want to have a chance
Speaker 1: in the next half century, we got to get leaner
Speaker 1: and meaner.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you're not all about the Cubs being in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Usually you are throughout the years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have been, but I you know, I became
Speaker 1: a Giants fan, a big Giants fan when many many
Speaker 1: moons ago we moved to California and then uh and
Speaker 1: I just kind of drifted away. It was when the
Speaker 1: Giants hired that America hating jackass and they rectified that.
Speaker 1: They got rid of them and hired some good baseball
Speaker 1: people who they just fired I think, but the habit
Speaker 1: was gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that happens once you get out, because I
Speaker 2: did that with the NFL when my kids were born
Speaker 2: and I was a huge NFL fan. I got out
Speaker 2: and if you're if you stay out for a couple
Speaker 2: of years, it's it's worked to get back in because
Speaker 2: you don't know who anybody is and it's hard to
Speaker 2: get back into it again. I've always been somewhat consistent
Speaker 2: on baseball I was noticed in last night. This is
Speaker 2: just kind of interesting from that whole scandal a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago when the Houston Astros had the they
Speaker 2: were stealing and then sending Morris Code by banging a
Speaker 2: bat on a trash can to signal simple and brilliant. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's that's known, right, that's not just a theory.
Speaker 2: That's they nailed that down.
Speaker 1: I think, oh yeah, they got hammered for it.
Speaker 2: Regardless. Watching playoff Baseball last night several different games, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of those players that are on teams
Speaker 2: now and carry the teams. They were really good players,
Speaker 2: so they were cheating and they're really good players. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta be both. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean, tell me precisely what major league pitch
Speaker 1: is coming at me. I ain't hitting it. You got
Speaker 1: to be really, really good.
Speaker 2: That dude that was pitching for the Red Sox last night,
Speaker 2: they left him in as opposed to other pitchers that
Speaker 2: got pulled out yesterday. Because the pitch counts such a
Speaker 2: big deal in the modern world. You don't go over
Speaker 2: a certain number. Back in the day, they'd left you
Speaker 2: out there until your arm fell off, but the dude
Speaker 2: they left in for the Red Sox through his hardest
Speaker 2: pitch of the night on his last pitch, he had
Speaker 2: retired seventeen in a row, struck out a guy with
Speaker 2: one hundred point two mile an hour fastball. His fastest
Speaker 2: pitch of the night was his one hundred and seventeenth pitch,
Speaker 2: most he'd ever pitched in one game. That was awesome.
Speaker 2: The Yankees had bases loaded bottom of the night at
Speaker 2: the Yankee Stadium, which is like your movie scenario, no out.
Speaker 1: How far were they behind?
Speaker 2: It was three to one I think at the time
Speaker 2: basis loaded, I mean absolutely in it. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean and then then they ended up straying all three.
Speaker 1: God, I love baseball so much.
Speaker 2: It is weird. The playoff baseball is awesome.
Speaker 1: What other check it back in?
Speaker 2: Apparently Troy Aikman bad mouth the broadcast the other night
Speaker 2: for Sunday Night Football. I wasn't watching it, but it
Speaker 2: was a blowout game and there were a bunch of
Speaker 2: flags being thrown and he was complaining about it, saying,
Speaker 2: this is just a terrible product we're offering here. What
Speaker 2: are they doing? So do you think that that makes
Speaker 2: sense like if a game's a blowout, stop throwing flags.
Speaker 2: Just let the thing get over with. I don't know
Speaker 2: what I think about that.
Speaker 1: I could loosening it up a little bit, so, you know,
Speaker 1: getting back to baseball, I have it on pretty good
Speaker 1: authority that if it's seventeen to one, that strike zones
Speaker 1: getting big. Oh really, because we've all got places to go.
Speaker 1: Have Both teams want it, the Umps want it, the
Speaker 1: hot dog vendors want it. The fans are already gone.
Speaker 1: Let's get this beach over.
Speaker 2: With Corey Well, who's enjoying this. This is a terrible.
Speaker 1: Product talking about We're gonna go under the hood and
Speaker 1: this stinking blowouts. Stop it.
Speaker 2: Okay, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: Speaking yesterday about the cost of higher education, Governor A.
Speaker 6: Round De Santis promoted the new College of Florida to
Speaker 6: parents nationwide and added quote, would you rather visit your
Speaker 6: kid in January in Michigan or Sarasota? Does this guy
Speaker 6: even know how college works? Nobody visits their kid in January?
Speaker 2: They were just for.
Speaker 1: Hm hmmm. It wasn't a show stopper, but it's certainly
Speaker 1: slowed it down. Yeah, uh, Jack, I have and you
Speaker 1: will dispute this, but I stand ready to defend myself.
Speaker 1: I have a fascinating note on the shutdown. Okay, fascinating
Speaker 1: might oversell it. Can I have a second take? I
Speaker 1: have a mildly interesting note on the shutdown. So I'm
Speaker 1: going through this checklist on uh, you know, will social
Speaker 1: Security checks go out? Will national parks close?
Speaker 2: Baba?
Speaker 1: How could the shutdown affect travel? Transportation Security Administration employees
Speaker 1: and air traffic controllers would work without pay, but travelers
Speaker 1: could see longer security lines or delays, especially if employees
Speaker 1: skip on paid work. Wait a minute, you're telling me
Speaker 1: the TSA is going to be surlier and less engaged,
Speaker 1: the TSA is going to be in a bad mood,
Speaker 1: and air traffic controllers are going.
Speaker 2: To be resentful. Now you've got my attention. They eventually
Speaker 2: get paid. We all know this, right, You've been through
Speaker 2: enough of these shutdowns to realize they eventually get paid.
Speaker 2: So and and and unless it goes for a while,
Speaker 2: you get your check exactly the same time you always
Speaker 2: get your check, so uh, it rarely means anything. So
Speaker 2: that's way over. So I was listening news this morning,
Speaker 2: and they use the example of for instance, this Friday,
Speaker 2: the inflation numbers are supposed to come out, and with
Speaker 2: the government shut down, those numbers may not come out
Speaker 2: on time. And I thought, if that's the best you
Speaker 2: can do for how horrific the shutdown is for America,
Speaker 2: and I think we'll be all right. That's your that's
Speaker 2: your best example, Mommy.
Speaker 1: What's the current inflation?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: I just don't know, honey, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Did you see this story that there's another Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 2: out there and he's even worse what This guy Howard
Speaker 2: ruben X new York City financier with not as rich
Speaker 2: as Epstein, not worth billions, but worth many tens of millions,
Speaker 2: well known in the Big Apple. He just got arrested
Speaker 2: the other day. And there's a lot of similarities with Epstein.
Speaker 2: He had been trafficking and torturing playboy models and other
Speaker 2: women in his Midtown Manhattan penthouse sex dungeon for many, many,
Speaker 2: many years, good god like, including beating them and electrocuting them.
Speaker 2: I mean, so he was a degree worse than Epstein.
Speaker 2: But the interesting thing to me is they've also arrested
Speaker 2: this woman just like Gislaane Maxwell. He had a pretty
Speaker 2: attractive woman who worked with him that apparently they had
Speaker 2: no sexual relationship between them, but she was the one
Speaker 2: that would find the women and bring him to them,
Speaker 2: and he paid for everything that she did. He financed
Speaker 2: her life, her and her husband. She was the you know, assistant.
Speaker 2: Apparently that's what these people do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I've been aware of some really troubling
Speaker 1: uh sex trafficking rings, including child sex trafficking rings, and
Speaker 1: there's some utterly brutal, soulless women involved in those rings.
Speaker 1: Almost always, that's our goal, is to gain the trust
Speaker 1: of the victims.
Speaker 2: WA's their job because this is usually portrayed as a
Speaker 2: dude thing obviously, but they have these women helpers that
Speaker 2: can go out and get the chicks for them. God
Speaker 2: dang it got and some of the texts that they
Speaker 2: had in between the two of them in the New
Speaker 2: York Post were rough because he would he was into
Speaker 2: the whole hitting people thing, and like one of his
Speaker 2: texts he sent, I went, I went pretty far on
Speaker 2: this one. We're gonna have to work really hard to
Speaker 2: give her enough money for her to keep her mouth shut. Wow,
Speaker 2: I mean, like, yeah, it's brutal. Oh, my ma is
Speaker 2: super well known, you know, man about town. What is
Speaker 2: wrong with people?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: Money can buy a lot, including that lifestyle. I guess
Speaker 1: for a while, God, yeah, I guess. Sick.
Speaker 2: How much time do we have?
Speaker 1: Michael A minute at thirty minute thirty? You know, I've
Speaker 1: got believe it or not, some really interesting follow up
Speaker 1: stuff on Charlie Kirk and his assassination and the reaction
Speaker 1: to it. Probably don't have time to get into it exactly,
Speaker 1: but the way I was going to get into it was,
Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend yesterday. I'll just leave
Speaker 1: it at that. We have an association, we deal with
Speaker 1: each other. But he was dealing with a person very bright, personable,
Speaker 1: likable fella political lefty, and this guy was at this
Speaker 1: point and it was I think earlier this week, guy's
Speaker 1: completely convinced, be on a shadow of doubt that the
Speaker 1: young man who assassinated Charlie Kirk was a MAGA enthusiast
Speaker 1: who thought Charlie Kirk didn't go far enough. That hole
Speaker 1: completely convinced of that still, and then went on a
Speaker 1: rant and the irony police are going to lay down
Speaker 1: their arms and retire. Then went on a rant about
Speaker 1: how people are brainwashed by Fox News and how it
Speaker 1: is so one sided. And my friend was like, what
Speaker 1: do you say to somebody? Like he was not in
Speaker 1: a position to say anything to the guy for reasons
Speaker 1: of commerce. But it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say, I don't know how society works when
Speaker 2: he got that completely different set of facts out there.
Speaker 1: The president of the College Professors Association in America is
Speaker 1: still claiming Charlie Kirk's assassin was a right wing kid.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Down strong, it's.
Speaker 4: Strong.
Speaker 2: You're ready. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap up the day. There is Michelangelo pressing the
Speaker 1: buttons in the controller. Michael, what's your final thought? You
Speaker 1: know what I love about playoffs baseball is that there's
Speaker 1: always the role players that become superstars, and then you
Speaker 1: have the superstars that shrink.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, it happens, Katie Green are esteemed to use
Speaker 1: woman as a final thought. Katie, I've already informed my
Speaker 1: husband that we will be referring to it as a
Speaker 1: shower poof from here on. There you go. It's the
Speaker 1: proper term.
Speaker 2: Jacka final thought for us yeah, show Hey with Tani
Speaker 2: did not shrink last night. Two home runs in Game
Speaker 2: one for the Dodgers. But it's hard to root for
Speaker 2: a team with the payroll that they've got. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's so close to buy in a World Series and
Speaker 2: just I don't know, I have trouble getting on board
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: Oh near a longtime band wagon jump or two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what one feels extra dirty.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: My final thought is echoing something we discussed earlier in
Speaker 1: the show. Ask if they're teaching phonics at your kids' schools,
Speaker 1: and if they're not, get them out of there. The
Speaker 1: crazes that took hold in American education over the last
Speaker 1: twenty years, the Woke period and screwed up these kids'
Speaker 1: ability to learn is just unforgivable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe even talk to people in your school boarder,
Speaker 2: teachers or whatever about the Hey you heard about the
Speaker 2: Mississippi miracle. What do you think of that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Bring it up a lot.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Wraight pick up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 5: Dring.
Speaker 1: It's difficult times.
Speaker 2: Now we're getting close enough to Christmas too, you might
Speaker 2: want to start thinking about that. You will see them.
Speaker 2: Oh God, bless America. I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 3: They see gender is only a construct and sex is
Speaker 3: assigned in birth, and they say.
Speaker 2: We are done with that.
Speaker 3: Transing kids by self diagnosis with no age limit, no
Speaker 3: parental notification, and no acknowledgment of social contagent.
Speaker 2: We are done with that. Homelessness is a lifestyle, Done
Speaker 2: with that. Whiteness is toxic. Don henuses in.
Speaker 3: Women's prison, done welcoming me intofada.
Speaker 2: We are done, done, done with that. Armstrong and Getty,