Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jakie. I know he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty, So I'm gonna describe this the way
Speaker 2: it was described by Katie and then we'll listen to it.
Speaker 1: This is a cop.
Speaker 3: Uh attacked by a turkey, quacks at it like a
Speaker 3: duck and calls it a chicken.
Speaker 1: Here we go and chicken.
Speaker 3: What is.
Speaker 1: Quick?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on quick, hag hack hack up? Somebody beck, I'm
Speaker 1: getting what ye back off? Okay, here's your stuff back.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm giving a second except for I'm getting. I feel
Speaker 1: like it. I feel like I can for all the
Speaker 1: places you can come. I feel like it lived up
Speaker 1: to its explanation.
Speaker 3: That was a cop attacked by a turkey, quacking at
Speaker 3: it and calling it a chicken.
Speaker 1: Bro put the turkey back.
Speaker 3: You need to spend a little more time in a
Speaker 3: navy are or something.
Speaker 1: Well, he's taunting the bird. That can't help you, know what.
Speaker 1: A good cop tries to de escalate. Our beloved newsmen
Speaker 1: of the past, Marshall Phillips would occasionally be confronted by
Speaker 1: aggressive turkeys during hot, hot turkey lovin season, which we
Speaker 1: are in, we have more turkeys in my neighborhood.
Speaker 3: I gotta believe I got more turkeys around me than
Speaker 3: anybody listening in America. It's shocking how many turkeys are
Speaker 3: in my neighborhood. The big giant wild turkeys. They're huge
Speaker 3: for one thing, absolutely gigantic and.
Speaker 1: Mean as hell. During hot, hot, sexy turkey time.
Speaker 3: When I drive home today, there will be six of
Speaker 3: them sitting on my roof. Guaranteed eight more in the backyard.
Speaker 3: They're all over the place. They don't cause any problems.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're a little loud, they.
Speaker 1: Get into it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I got to handle this very delicately. Okay,
Speaker 3: I want to handle it delicately for this very nice
Speaker 3: mom who sent us a text.
Speaker 1: I will switch into delicate mode on your advice, combined
Speaker 1: with harsh mode I think is necessary. So this, this, well,
Speaker 1: this is why we can't have nice things. As the
Speaker 1: cliche goes, this is why demagoguing issues in politics works.
Speaker 1: I guess so.
Speaker 3: An hour three, if you didn't hear it, get the
Speaker 3: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Joe got into the
Speaker 3: whole big beautiful bill Medicaid thing. We're getting ripped off
Speaker 3: like crazy with Medicaid. We're gonna get into more of
Speaker 3: it tomorrow with Craig Gottwalas, who is an expert in this.
Speaker 3: But we're getting ripped off like crazy all kinds of
Speaker 3: healthy people. You're paying for their health care and other
Speaker 3: stuff for no good reason whatsoever other than then nobody
Speaker 3: keeps track of this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And because it buys votes, that's like the entire reason
Speaker 1: you're paying for it.
Speaker 3: And Phil Graham, former senator from from Texas from back
Speaker 3: in the day, tried to run for president once but
Speaker 3: he's way too smart to be president, has a PhD
Speaker 3: in economics, wrote a piece about how, no, this is
Speaker 3: where the money is. You talk about Social Security, you know,
Speaker 3: and cutbacks and everything like, No, the money where we
Speaker 3: need to do something is in Medicaid. So we get
Speaker 3: this text, Hey, I have a daughter who's disabled and
Speaker 3: on Medicaid and Social Security, and I get to you
Speaker 3: guys who are trying to get people riled up and
Speaker 3: listening to show and I'm a strong Republican. But what
Speaker 3: you're missing is and then she lays out the story
Speaker 3: of how her disabled daughter can't take care of herself
Speaker 3: at all, never will be able to in her life.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable what you're dealing with. I can't even imagine, and
Speaker 3: how she needs that money, and we don't have the
Speaker 3: courage to call her back and talk to her and
Speaker 3: get the facts on this story about her disabled daughter
Speaker 3: and how much she needs mediciate.
Speaker 1: There will not be a single disabled person affected in
Speaker 1: any way by the proposed cuts, not one.
Speaker 3: And there isn't a single person us or anybody else
Speaker 3: arguing for someone like your daughter having their money cut.
Speaker 1: You strenuously one hundred and eighty degrees in the other direction.
Speaker 3: This is why you demagogue these issues though, because he
Speaker 3: is it's sir that yes, her poor daughter and she
Speaker 3: will be left high and drive by the mean Republicans.
Speaker 3: That is one hundred eighty degrees opposite of the truth
Speaker 3: you said. They've convinced her. We convinced her even with
Speaker 3: you only talking about.
Speaker 1: The scammers right.
Speaker 3: Her takeaway was like you and I are in favor
Speaker 3: of cutting her daughter's money. I mean, if that's the
Speaker 3: way it lands, no wonder politicians don't come with on
Speaker 3: one hundred miles of even trying to stop the sky
Speaker 3: scumbag liars.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, it's unfortunate, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It is highly unfortunate. You could stand and we've seen this,
Speaker 3: We've been doing this for a long time. You can,
Speaker 3: as a politician, stand up in front of a crowd
Speaker 3: and say, look, nobody here currently getting Social Security that's
Speaker 3: over the age of sixty five will see any a
Speaker 3: dime of that cut in their lifetime. But and then
Speaker 3: everything after the butt gets portrayed as you, as an
Speaker 3: old person, are gonna starve, right, And it's just there's
Speaker 3: just no getting around it, apparently, right, Right, man, I
Speaker 3: feel for you, ma'am. What a rough situation you're in
Speaker 3: doing God's work trying to deal with that. But nobody
Speaker 3: us or anybody is suggesting cutting the program for people
Speaker 3: like your daughter. Nobody, right, We would have more money
Speaker 3: for people like your daughter if the freaking healthy twenty
Speaker 3: eight year old dude playing video games and laughing at
Speaker 3: us wasn't getting all his stuff paid for, right. I
Speaker 3: don't know what you do with the reality of this.
Speaker 1: I think if you were to sit down with Carl
Speaker 1: Rove and James Carvill, I'm trying to be by party
Speaker 1: maybe Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Charles Crouthammer, Jesus and John Wayne.
Speaker 1: They would that's quite a crowd, they would say, Jackie boy, Joseph,
Speaker 1: here's the story. That's what Paula is grow up. You
Speaker 1: always talk about trying to frighten or entice the herd
Speaker 1: in one direction or another, as if you're too good
Speaker 1: and too smart for that. That's politics.
Speaker 3: I understand what you're saying, that the politicians go out
Speaker 3: there and try to frighten you on this stuff. What
Speaker 3: I'm concerned about is we made it clear we weren't trying.
Speaker 3: We weren't claiming they're coming for your to take your
Speaker 3: disabled daughter's medic care. Politicians will say that sort of
Speaker 3: stuff Medicaid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we weren't.
Speaker 3: We were saying the opposite, and it's still landed as
Speaker 3: if we were.
Speaker 1: That's what troubles me. Yeah, I think that's squarely in
Speaker 1: the department of things. I can't do anything about. It's
Speaker 1: it's striking. I totally get your being troubled by that.
Speaker 3: Like I said, if you're a politician, you get up
Speaker 3: on stage and make it clear that I'm not interested
Speaker 3: in cutting your social security. But people walk out of
Speaker 3: the room thinking they're going to take my social secure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well that we're done here then I.
Speaker 1: Guess yes, correct, as a as a country, you mean, yes,
Speaker 1: or as a system of government people, well right, self
Speaker 1: governance doesn't work, that's my point. M uh yeah. Well
Speaker 1: the great Scottish philosopher what's his face? Uh with the
Speaker 1: you know, the republic will last only until the populace
Speaker 1: realizes they can vote themselves money from the treasury. And
Speaker 1: and what he didn't suspect is that, or maybe he did,
Speaker 1: was that there that politicians would be able to convince
Speaker 1: virtually all of the population that any effort to rein
Speaker 1: that in was indeed an attack on them and their
Speaker 1: well being. So uh yeah, it just it doesn't work. Uh.
Speaker 1: The great you know, overarching Joe Getty principle, there are
Speaker 1: actually several of them, many of them contradict each other,
Speaker 1: is that all systems can last only until those who
Speaker 1: had gained the system win over those who would protect
Speaker 1: a system. And it's like, you know, the constant battle
Speaker 1: between hackers and cybersecurity experts. There comes a point in
Speaker 1: a like a governmental system where accommodation of manipulating the
Speaker 1: voters and then manipulating the systems behind the scenes becomes
Speaker 1: so sophisticated that the immune system of democracy is insufficient.
Speaker 1: It's like a septic infection in the bloodstream. So monarchy now,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm old. You all figured out. Good luck.
Speaker 3: If you're old already, nobody is going to touch your
Speaker 3: social security period. Now, if you are actually disabled, nobody's
Speaker 3: going to take your money.
Speaker 1: Period. Nobody wants to. Nobody's even suggested it, right, and
Speaker 1: yet it is the easiest cell in the world. If
Speaker 1: any Republicans say we're gonna rain in medicaid waste fraud abuse,
Speaker 1: they're gonna come take the money out of the mouths
Speaker 1: of your disabled children, and people believe them. So what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do. I'm in an accepting mood today.
Speaker 1: I have accepted it, probably because I'm excited about my
Speaker 1: new political party party. The F y'all it cans. You
Speaker 1: gotta have.
Speaker 3: AI design a logo, because that's a good I like
Speaker 3: the capital F capital y apostrophe, a L L.
Speaker 1: Dash I dash cans F y'all it cans. We need
Speaker 1: an animal, though, maybe the turkey is the donkey and
Speaker 1: the elephant, or taken clearly, maybe we have the Turkey
Speaker 1: has heard in a.
Speaker 3: Previous clip which Ben Franklin wanted to be our national bird.
Speaker 1: So enough politics. I've got a couple of stories about business,
Speaker 1: about you know, personal wealth, that sort of thing. Number one,
Speaker 1: so you're a crypto zillionaire, I'd start carrying a gun,
Speaker 1: hiding a guard and keeping your fingers hidden. Secondly, pipes,
Speaker 1: who's making the real money? What's the way to wealth?
Speaker 1: Become one of the stealthy wealthy the stealthy wealthy. It's
Speaker 1: doable and better yet it rhymes.
Speaker 3: Also, I watched the Minecraft movie with Henry over the weekend.
Speaker 3: I want to talk, Yeah, I want to talk about
Speaker 3: a couple of notable things that I think might be
Speaker 3: the future of motion pictures. Jack Black is so fat
Speaker 3: and greasy and doesn't care. That's what's interesting about him.
Speaker 3: He's got to be one of the biggest movie stars
Speaker 3: in the world, very very big in terms.
Speaker 1: Of making moneyms to be unbathed. He does not.
Speaker 3: Care at all. I think he shows up to he
Speaker 3: doesn't care how he looks at all. Didn't comb his hair,
Speaker 3: he doesn't find a shirt that fits, he doesn't wash
Speaker 3: his face. Yeah, it's weird anyway, more on that Later's
Speaker 3: there the Minecraft movie. Over the weekend with my son
Speaker 3: Henry and I was about to talk about it, and
Speaker 3: I thought I should look up a little of how
Speaker 3: successful this movie was to back up my premise, and
Speaker 3: I googled it first. Then I remembered what you keep saying, No,
Speaker 3: you got to use the chat gptwo, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get out of the habit.
Speaker 1: Of googling and go to chat gpt.
Speaker 3: The answer I got on chat GPT about I just
Speaker 3: asked chat gpt, was the Minecraft movie a financial success?
Speaker 3: It's answer so much better and thorough than googling it,
Speaker 3: I mean, not even close. So I got to get
Speaker 3: out of the habit of googling. Anyway, a Minecraft movie
Speaker 3: has made almost a billion dollars worldwide after a budget
Speaker 3: to make it of only one hundred and fifty million dollars,
Speaker 3: which I gotta believe all of the filming of the
Speaker 3: acting of that movie could have been done in an
Speaker 3: afternoon probably. I mean, there wasn't much to it, and
Speaker 3: it was all so much was green screen. It was
Speaker 3: all CGI stuff and everything like that. And like I mentioned,
Speaker 3: Jack Black, what an interesting dude. I don't know, is
Speaker 3: he married or not. I've seen him in various interviews.
Speaker 3: He's certainly not trying to impress chicks. He wears ill
Speaker 3: fitting clothes, he doesn't wash his face or coma's hair.
Speaker 3: He rolls in, does his lines brilliantly because he's really good,
Speaker 3: and then collects his money and goes home. What an
Speaker 3: interesting thing that is? What movie star has never wanted
Speaker 3: to care how they look? Like Jack Black, he keeps
Speaker 3: getting fatter and greasier anyway. I mean, you canna be
Speaker 3: fat if you want. Maybe you think that's part of
Speaker 3: your appeal. You can wash your face AnyWho. The Minecraft movie,
Speaker 3: first of all, way better than I expected it to be.
Speaker 1: I thought it was.
Speaker 3: It was only an hour forty five, but I thought, uh,
Speaker 3: I thought this is gonna be kind of tough to
Speaker 3: sit through. And it was quite entertaining, pretty dang funny
Speaker 3: by the end it had it reminded me of like
Speaker 3: all your Lord of the Rings movies. Okay, another giant
Speaker 3: fight sequence. I just I can't do fight sequences like
Speaker 3: a lot of people can, apparently endlessly. I get it.
Speaker 3: But my main takeaway was, and if I was rich,
Speaker 3: I would start for like really like Elon Rich I
Speaker 3: would come up with this idea today. It was basically
Speaker 3: a series of popular memes that young people get strung
Speaker 3: together so that everybody could laugh together about Hey, I
Speaker 3: get this meme and feel part of something. That's what
Speaker 3: it seemed like to me. And I'll bet you could
Speaker 3: put one of those out once a month of just
Speaker 3: whatever the most re hot memes were, right, make it
Speaker 3: like ninety minutes long. It's just a series of meme
Speaker 3: jokes that every teenager gets and things so the hilarious
Speaker 3: and it would be super popular because that's basically what
Speaker 3: the Minecraft movie was.
Speaker 1: So just a recognition slash belonging fest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because other things aren't really working, but partially because
Speaker 3: this is a reason to be together in the theater.
Speaker 3: Is fun to recognize the memes together. It was clear
Speaker 3: from my older son when he went and saw it
Speaker 3: in the theater that that was a lot of the
Speaker 3: appeal was all these inside jokes that they get and
Speaker 3: laugh at, and it's fun to see him in a group.
Speaker 3: I think this is a way to rescue movies. It's
Speaker 3: gonna kill old time movies. But like just I don't know,
Speaker 3: the most popular memes put together ninety minutes with a
Speaker 3: loose script.
Speaker 1: I think that would right. Somebody steal that idea and
Speaker 1: make it work. Well, it's either like irony or a
Speaker 1: perpetual motion machine or something that online memes. The enjoyment
Speaker 1: of online memes together Yeah, in a room might convince kids,
Speaker 1: hey this is really fun. Wow, good point.
Speaker 3: Hello, But Mike constantly, my son was saying, I know
Speaker 3: you don't get that, but to various things that were happening,
Speaker 3: characters and lines and stuff like that, because they're here today.
Speaker 3: I mean, you could have had a movie where the
Speaker 3: Hawktua girl was, you know, a co star there for
Speaker 3: a couple of coffee. Oh please don't, but you're and
Speaker 3: people would have go fought with laughter though you know
Speaker 3: they mean them studios.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, now you gotta start producing these. This
Speaker 1: is your ten million dollar idea. It's fine. I thought,
Speaker 1: I'll get another co host. I thought of Friday Night.
Speaker 3: I thought, this is actual brilliant idea. It would just
Speaker 3: take a lot of money to get a going.
Speaker 1: You know, you'd have to pay for rights, but you'd
Speaker 1: have lawyers to do that. That'd be easy. Uh yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Just your monthly meme cinema.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and all the teenagers get together and feel
Speaker 3: cooler and smarter than the rest.
Speaker 1: Of us because they get all the jokes right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We bought it though, cost twenty bucks. So minecraft's available
Speaker 3: at home now for streaming, but it was twenty bucks
Speaker 3: to in it.
Speaker 1: I think it's got about a six month run. Your idea,
Speaker 1: Oh really, don't like. Don't invest too heavily thinking next
Speaker 1: year will be even bigger. Trust me, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3: Person in charge of CBS News just step down. So
Speaker 3: first it was the producer of sixty Minutes a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago, and now the leader of CBS News
Speaker 3: saying it's become clear that the company I do not
Speaker 3: agree on the path forward.
Speaker 1: You know there's some stuff from sixty Minutes we were
Speaker 1: hoping to squeeze in today.
Speaker 3: We got to talk about tomorrow better now, Yes it is, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's hold all that stuff over. Sixty Minutes feels exactly
Speaker 3: like it used to feel to me when I used
Speaker 3: to watch it.
Speaker 1: When I was younger. Now, so the guy who quit
Speaker 1: in a huff, the head guy, because I'm getting too
Speaker 1: much corporate pressure to twist the show into being watchable again, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: That story how much which China is spying on us?
Speaker 1: Last night?
Speaker 3: Man, watch it if you haven't seen it, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about it tomorrow with sixty minutes feature. China is spying
Speaker 3: on us in a way that no country has ever
Speaker 3: spied on any country ever.
Speaker 1: Probably uh yeah, yeah, absolutely true. Boy, I'm amazed. I'm
Speaker 1: working with chat GPT to try to create I gotta
Speaker 1: go to the paid version. I'm trying to create a
Speaker 1: logo for the f Yolikin Party because f y'all, not
Speaker 1: you good people, but just politicians and here's friends. I
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about in some of the texts.
Speaker 1: So I said, design me a logo for the political
Speaker 1: for a political party called the f Yolikin Party. Our
Speaker 1: mascot is a bald eagle. The logo should use red,
Speaker 1: white and blue, and it says I can generate a
Speaker 1: logo for the f Yolikin Party featuring a bald eagle
Speaker 1: in red, white and blue color scheme. Before I do,
Speaker 1: could you clarify the tone you're aiming for, for example,
Speaker 1: serious and patriotic like a traditional political logo, satirical or humorous,
Speaker 1: leaning into the edgy name bold and rebellious in a
Speaker 1: punk American rebel style, picked up on the edgy name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm a little troubling. It's been a little
Speaker 1: frustrating to get it to do what I want it
Speaker 1: to do. In some ways that are funny. I keep
Speaker 1: telling it to have the effing eagle face to the right,
Speaker 1: and it keeps having it face left. But other than that,
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing.
Speaker 3: How patriotic you I want it to be? Like if
Speaker 3: Lee Greenwood ate a flag, what would come out of him?
Speaker 3: That's what I want, right exactly, So totally different topic.
Speaker 3: The screams echoed down the narrow street in a trendy
Speaker 3: neighborhood in early morning Paris.
Speaker 1: Help Help, Help Help. Three men in black masks had
Speaker 1: jumped on a thirty four year old woman and her
Speaker 1: toddler and tried to throw them into an idling white
Speaker 1: van disguised as a delivery truck. Luckily, her husband threw
Speaker 1: himself between the attackers and his family. A neighbor hustled
Speaker 1: the child away, screams yells. The husband was battered with
Speaker 1: a wrench. Bloody blah blah blah. So all because this
Speaker 1: chick's father runs a French cryptocurrency exchange, and she's got
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of it, apparently li bitcoin
Speaker 1: around the world. This Braisen attack latest in the series
Speaker 1: of violent abductions, including several in the US, targeting crypto
Speaker 1: executives and their families. Victims have been pistol whipped to
Speaker 1: abduct it and in two cases had fingers severed, actually
Speaker 1: cut off their fingers. Yes, to use their fingerprints to
Speaker 1: open accounts. Wow barbaric, I would agree, fans of Retina Scam.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. The assaults are often called wrench attacks because
Speaker 1: they rely on simple tools for inflicting pain to course
Speaker 1: victims rather than sophisticated tools for hacking them. Can the
Speaker 1: guy hit me with the Wrinch's why I called it that? Yes? Yes, essentially. Yes.
Speaker 1: Hacking has long been the primary risk for the crypto rich.
Speaker 1: But to thwart hackers, savvy cryptocurrency investors have increasingly taken
Speaker 1: their digital wallets offline in favor of physical devices a
Speaker 1: thumb drive in a safe, making remote theft more difficult.
Speaker 1: But real world bash over the head crypto crime bypasses
Speaker 1: those those safeguards.
Speaker 3: Obviously, do I get the option like put your thumb
Speaker 3: on this, or we're gonna cut your thumb off, or
Speaker 3: do they just take my thumb?
Speaker 1: I think this is probably a period of negotiation, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. These concerns intensified this week with a
Speaker 1: cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase disclosing that as many as ninety seven
Speaker 1: thousand customers had their personal information stolen, including addresses and
Speaker 1: snapshots of their balance. Oh, Joe Jones of one two
Speaker 1: three Main Street has eleven million dollars in crypto. Why
Speaker 1: that's just on the other side of town. Perhaps we'll
Speaker 1: bash him in the head with a wrench, cut off
Speaker 1: his finger and take his money. Say the scumbags, Wow wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, if you're smart and savvy, you keep
Speaker 1: your crazy wealth to yourself. Do you have any crypto?
Speaker 1: I do not at this point. No, I do not either.
Speaker 1: I've kicked myself for that a number of times. I
Speaker 1: have a friend who is a savvy financial guy, and
Speaker 1: a guy, for reasons of the way his marriage was
Speaker 1: set up, could do more or less whatever he wanted quickly.
Speaker 1: He didn't have the sort of setup where hey, sweetheart,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of doing this and this for these reasons,
Speaker 1: Should we free up enough money? No? He would just
Speaker 1: do it, and he literally paid for his kids college
Speaker 1: education with crypto profits. Wow, got in and got out
Speaker 1: at the right time, because it can all of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can definitely go the other way. You make too
Speaker 1: much money. You got to four fingers on each hand,
Speaker 1: oh boy. In September of Florida man was sentenced to
Speaker 1: forty seven years in prison for leading a ring that
Speaker 1: carried out a string of home invasions across multiple states
Speaker 1: in search of crypto riches, and one of the attacks,
Speaker 1: the men held a pink revolver I'm not sure why
Speaker 1: the color of the revolver is important to the head
Speaker 1: of a seventy six year old Durham, North Carolina man
Speaker 1: and threatened to cut off his genitals. The victim to
Speaker 1: your pink revolver, is yours a revolver, mine's not. The
Speaker 1: victim eventually transferred one hundred and fifty grand worth of
Speaker 1: crypto to the attacker, who was later ordered to pay
Speaker 1: a great deal more than that restitution to his victims
Speaker 1: as part of the sentencing. Blah blah blah, it's happened
Speaker 1: in France a bunch of different places. Just crazy. So anyway,
Speaker 1: guard your crypto your fingers and your genitals. Folks, it's
Speaker 1: crazy times. You know, I'm going to skip over. Will
Speaker 1: anyone take the factory jobs Trump wants to bring back
Speaker 1: to America? The answer is no, no, oh they won't.
Speaker 1: But we can talk about that more later. Because I
Speaker 1: wanted to get to this meet the stealthy wealthy who
Speaker 1: make their money the boring way, and I found it
Speaker 1: really interesting and inspiring in an American dream kind of way.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal with an article the subhead is
Speaker 1: the road to Riches is paved with cup holders, burgers
Speaker 1: and miles of elementary school carpeting. And these are people
Speaker 1: who discovered a Nietche business like this. One guy who
Speaker 1: points out his name is Derek Derek Olsen. He's made
Speaker 1: a fortune making machines that rip up flooring like carpeting
Speaker 1: in elementary schools. This is how sexy it is, He says.
Speaker 1: The average elementary school in the US has seven miles
Speaker 1: of carpet, and children are disgusting. So elementary schools basically
Speaker 1: need their floors redone almost every summer. It's this Nietzsche
Speaker 1: industry that nobody knows about and everybody needs. So he
Speaker 1: made his fortune on tearing up the floor machines every
Speaker 1: elementary school in America needs every couple of years.
Speaker 3: Reminds me of that guy that used to call her
Speaker 3: emails all the time, who was a cleaned up crime
Speaker 3: scenes and made lots of money. Yeah, because when there's
Speaker 3: a crime, somebody's got to clean it up.
Speaker 1: He did it. Yeah. So's here's another great example that
Speaker 1: I really liked. It's uh and this is a business
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are familiar with. MOBA. They
Speaker 1: talk about a guy who has studied this and how
Speaker 1: it's absolutely legit. That's the way to get rich.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: The story of David McNeil, who's the founder of weather Tech,
Speaker 1: the car accessories, the super durable floor mats and everything.
Speaker 1: He was working as a tool and die maker he
Speaker 1: dropped out of college. He sold cars. He rented a
Speaker 1: car on a trip to Scotland in nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: and immediately noticed its thick rubber floor mats that had
Speaker 1: a border to prevent water and mud from running off.
Speaker 1: And they're like the best he'd ever seen. So when
Speaker 1: he got back home to Chicago, he called the English
Speaker 1: manufacturer and eventually worked out a deal to buy a
Speaker 1: twenty foot shipping container of the black mats to sell
Speaker 1: in the US. He took out a second mortgage on
Speaker 1: his home to do this. Wow. By the end of
Speaker 1: ninety one, I made forty thousand dollars. By the end
Speaker 1: of ninety two, I made one hundred and sixty thousand.
Speaker 1: By the end of ninety three, I made four hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: While all of this was going on. If you called
Speaker 1: my eight hundred number at three o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: you know who would answer it. I would Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love stories like that. Yeah. He now employs eighteen
Speaker 1: hundred people in Bowling Brook, Illinois, makes nearly its entire
Speaker 1: range of car accessories and other products in the US.
Speaker 1: His company expects to bring in eight hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in revenue this year.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, yeah, Well they're having good ideas. I only
Speaker 3: have dumb ideas. Why all my ideas are stupid?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I know, Homer Simpson, you and me both all three.
Speaker 1: Larry Fleming eighty years old. He'd bought Wendy's franchise, then
Speaker 1: another one, and then he he had a beer distributorship,
Speaker 1: a small one, but he noticed that it was really
Speaker 1: making more money than the other stuff and was less work.
Speaker 1: So he just started, you know, saving his money, buying
Speaker 1: a little more territory and a little more territory, and
Speaker 1: his blah blah blah bah bah. His beer distributorship, which
Speaker 1: sells to the eastern halves of Oklahoma and Kansas, has
Speaker 1: a sixty four percent market share in Oklahoma is annual
Speaker 1: sales approach two hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much he clears on that, but it's just
Speaker 1: that's that's the way you get rich in America because
Speaker 1: the tech guys who have, you know, specialized skills, and
Speaker 1: they get a lot of press these days. And I
Speaker 1: know a handful of guys who've done very well in tech.
Speaker 1: I don't have what they have, but the ability to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I really like this product. I'll bet other people will too.
Speaker 1: I think I can borrow enough money to get started
Speaker 1: and then work like a maniac. That's what this country
Speaker 1: is all about. Awesome, Yeah, I thought that was cool.
Speaker 1: The stealthy, wealthy jack and it rhymes. What was the story?
Speaker 1: You skipped out a question about that? Who will take
Speaker 1: the factory jobs that Donald Trump wants to bring back
Speaker 1: to America? Right?
Speaker 3: That's an interesting one illegal immigrants if you can get
Speaker 3: them otherwise nobody, right. I've heard a number of people
Speaker 3: number there's something like that, there's one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: thousand empty manufacturing jobs right now, right before we even
Speaker 3: bring back more manufacturing jobs. But there is I've heard
Speaker 3: a couple of people say this. This is an original
Speaker 3: idea on my part.
Speaker 1: There is this.
Speaker 3: Kind of belief out there that it would be really
Speaker 3: great to have more manufacturing jobs for like some imaginary
Speaker 3: person you're kind of picturing that wants it and would
Speaker 3: take it. But you're not thinking of yourself, right, You're
Speaker 3: not thinking of like you were your kids. Probably you're
Speaker 3: thinking there's some other people.
Speaker 1: That would really like it.
Speaker 3: If there's a big factory at the edge of town,
Speaker 3: they could go. You know, I don't know, put something
Speaker 3: in a box all day long for decent wage. I
Speaker 3: don't want to do it, and I don't want my
Speaker 3: kids to do it. But I'm sure there are plenty
Speaker 3: of people that would like to. And it's just kind
Speaker 3: of not true. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This article actually opens with a description of Quaker City
Speaker 1: castings in Salem, Ohio. Six am every weekday, a group
Speaker 1: of sturdy framed men and steel toed boots. Clock into
Speaker 1: the factory to build sand moles molds rather pour molten
Speaker 1: metal and grind iron and steel castings. Tiring, hazardous, dirty job.
Speaker 1: This is the work politicians lie in eyes, but Americans
Speaker 1: often don't want. You know though, I do have this story.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just anecdotal and doesn't mean anything, but I
Speaker 3: had a friend in college married my college roommate, and
Speaker 3: they went off and started their lives. And she got
Speaker 3: a job working at a factory that put the little
Speaker 3: explosive thing in air bags for cars. That's what she did,
Speaker 3: stood on a conveyor belt that went by. But she
Speaker 3: was a good, hard working person, showed up and did
Speaker 3: what she told her anything like that, and moved up
Speaker 3: very quickly. And before he knew it was like flying
Speaker 3: around on a plane going to the other factories, talking
Speaker 3: to people that did incredibly well for herself.
Speaker 1: Wow. And they retired early and just had a great life.
Speaker 1: Show up and work hard. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah, now, final
Speaker 1: note on this, then we can move on. But there
Speaker 1: are huge swaths of America where this sort of job
Speaker 1: used to be available. The pay is actually declined, inflation
Speaker 1: justted for a couple of reasons we could talk about
Speaker 1: in manufacturing. But there are a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: of people on fake disability, for instance, on the government.
Speaker 1: But you win votes by keeping them on the dole.
Speaker 1: You win no votes by telling them get to work.
Speaker 1: There's a Quaker City Castings plant opening at the edge
Speaker 1: of town, right, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: There's hardly anything more annoying to me than maybe it's
Speaker 3: gonna because I've done a lot of hard physical jobs
Speaker 3: in my life. But the idea of being a physically
Speaker 3: okay dude in his twenties who's living off of my money,
Speaker 3: my taxes because you refuse to work at Quaker City
Speaker 3: Castings or anything else, or yeah, that really really annoys me.
Speaker 3: We will finish strong. Next, this is Crown Prince.
Speaker 4: Mahava ben Selden, and we're together now getting of course,
Speaker 4: but we are vibing.
Speaker 1: You are too kind.
Speaker 4: But We've been having a lot of fun in the
Speaker 4: Middle East.
Speaker 1: I've been having a great time. We've been eating a
Speaker 1: lot of meals.
Speaker 4: Sitting on the floor, dipping our fingers straight into various
Speaker 4: goops and spreads that I politely scrape under the rug
Speaker 4: and go eat it at mobile McDonald's that you've built
Speaker 4: for me?
Speaker 1: Isn't that on bab bah bah bah bah? He's loving it.
Speaker 3: That guy who does trump on Satura nib is so funny.
Speaker 3: I mean we had him before he was on SNL,
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He did us a video Instagram style in his
Speaker 1: car that had a torn like ceiling liner.
Speaker 3: It looked like he was on foot stamps, like he
Speaker 3: was living in his car, and he may have been.
Speaker 3: And he ad libbed some hilarious stuff. We should do
Speaker 3: that for the podcast because I'm sure Katie has never
Speaker 3: heard of it, and a lot of us our listeners
Speaker 3: have never heard of It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: But Dulla was I gonna say, Oh.
Speaker 3: I wonder how much of that he had libs, because
Speaker 3: we know because we hired him to do some stuff
Speaker 3: that he had libbed and was freaking hilarious. And when
Speaker 3: I was watching Sarah Olive, I thought, I'll bet he
Speaker 3: had libbed a lot. When he went and sat in
Speaker 3: the audience there right before the uh uh introduced the show,
Speaker 3: I thought that looked all ad lib to me.
Speaker 1: He's a funny guy. Again. My favorite line from that
Speaker 1: whole thing was I said I was.
Speaker 3: In abba dabi abi abba dabi doo a aba dabado
Speaker 3: Like the great, late great Fred Flintstone.
Speaker 1: What final? Here's the thoughts, Final Final. Here's your host
Speaker 1: for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get a finals up
Speaker 1: from everybody on the crew to wrap things up to
Speaker 1: the day. There he is our technical director of Michael
Speaker 1: Angelow pressing the buttons. Michael, what's your final thoughts? I
Speaker 1: love Jack's idea about having a movie based on memes,
Speaker 1: but what you need is something at the beginning of
Speaker 1: each film that explains the memes to older people like
Speaker 1: me because I can't keep up.
Speaker 3: That's the appeal to the teenagers though, That's what I
Speaker 3: noticed both my sons like, it's the fact that we
Speaker 3: don't get it, that it's an inside joke for them.
Speaker 1: That's what they lost. In fact. Michael o'fellow like, you
Speaker 1: would be banned from the theater when our new brainstorm, Jack,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna rip it off hits the screen. Katie
Speaker 1: Green is an assignment covering the Mexican Navy crashing into bridges. Jack,
Speaker 1: do you have a final thought now?
Speaker 3: Basically going to tease a story for tomorrow that just
Speaker 3: broke from the Washington Post. An exclusive police secretly monitored
Speaker 3: New Orleans with facial recognition cameras after that terrorist attack.
Speaker 3: It's the first known use of this widespread in America,
Speaker 3: and it happened secretly.
Speaker 1: Interesting. All right, that's a topic for another day. So
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Speaker 1: I've had enough of both parties.
Speaker 3: F y'all, Armstrong and Geddy. Right, I pick up another
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Speaker 3: God bless America.
Speaker 1: I'm Strong and Getty. What do we want to be
Speaker 1: losers or winners? I want winners. We smell like winning
Speaker 1: around here.
Speaker 3: I think your Star Spangledasher they are the true.
Speaker 1: Heroes and everyone knows that. So let's go with the
Speaker 1: All right, So I got three possible names for our
Speaker 1: new political party and Gritarians, enough is Enopocrats, gotcha, or finally,
Speaker 1: f Gallikins, Armstrong and Getty