The Best Weekend Talk Show In America Hour Two

Summary

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Episode: "The Best Weekend Talk Show In America Hour Two"

Date: June 1, 2026

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Overview

In this lively and candid hour, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty tackle some of the week’s most contentious and bewildering headlines, blending biting analysis, dark humor, and a dash of disbelief at modern bureaucracy and cultural trends. The main focus is the growing crisis of lawlessness and homelessness in major American cities—centered on Los Angeles—tracing its roots to drug addiction, policy failures, and the “homeless industrial complex.” Along the way, they highlight bizarre news (including diamond swallowing and gluteal amnesia), the pitfalls of bureaucracy, youth sports excess, and the climate science debate, all through their classic irreverent lens.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Homelessness in Los Angeles: More Than a Housing Problem

• Opening salvo: The hosts react to Spencer Pratt’s shocking descriptions of urban chaos, including rampant drug addiction, lawlessness, and the ineffective responses of city officials.
• Drug Addiction as the Core Issue:
  • Joe Getty hammers home that the real problem isn’t housing, but “hopeless, hardcore drug junkies” (04:05).
  • Spencer Pratt (quote): “These aren’t people that just missed a paycheck… This is a drug problem that needs mandatory treatment, not handing people needles and pipes.” (04:31)
• Failure of Enforcement and Double Standards:
  • The hosts highlight how ordinary citizens would be prosecuted for indecent exposure, but “zombie” homeless addicts face no consequences.
  • Jack Armstrong: “You’re washing your genitals in front of a school, you’d be a registered sex offender after you were quickly convicted of the crime... but, well, she’s a junkie homeless person, so there’s nothing we can do.” (06:50)
• Advocate Lawyers and Legal Barriers:
  • Cops’ hands are tied due to activist lawyers arming street people with legal defenses, further enabling the crisis.

2. The "Homeless Industrial Complex" and Government Waste

• Spirited discussion on vast sums siphoned by NGOs and city officials in the name of homelessness relief.
  • Jack Armstrong details a specific scandal: A senior home was bought by a nonprofit for nearly triple market value, sits empty, and the city pays $400,000 per bed per year with no requirement to house anyone. (09:30)
  • Quote: “The Winegard NGO operates around 10 similar housing facilities… we need a prison sentence for every Democrat involved in these deals and every NGO executive.” (10:07)
• Big Picture: They call it “a big money spigot.” Politicians and their cronies profit by perpetuating, not solving, the problem.
  • Jack Armstrong: “You’ve got to learn to look at society through the eyes of government officials who see everything that’s notable as an excuse to take more taxpayer dollars and give them to their cronies.” (11:19)
  • Joe Getty: “First, I’ll commission a study and we’ll claim that it’ll cost a quarter of a million dollars or $5 million or whatever to make sure my brother-in-law gets that contract.” (11:49)

3. City Magnet Effect and Policy Incentives

• Spencer Pratt excoriates LA’s policies for making it a magnet for addicts from out of state:
  • “60% of them… are not from Los Angeles... These people have been bussed in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits… When I unplug them and say, we’re not taking our tax money anymore, they’re all gonna go to Seattle...” (12:19)
• Armstrong and Getty recall being previously attacked for suggesting that cities with more amenities attract more homeless—now even defenders have to admit it’s true. (13:56)
• Key Insight: Well-intentioned programs may unintentionally incentivize and concentrate problems.

4. Compassion vs. Enabling

• Getty: “I don’t want you to die on the street. But if you’re gonna die on the street anyway, which you probably are, do it in a different town. That’s where I am.” (16:07)
• Armstrong likens framing the crisis as a housing issue to focusing on cancer patients’ fatigue instead of the cancer:
  • “These people don’t have no fixed address. They’re junkies… The activist class and the politicians, they know precisely what they’re doing. It’s a scam. Wake up.” (16:44, 17:43)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Homelessness & Addiction

• “You’re cleaning your private parts in front of kids and you’re a normal citizen, you are going to jail… But the consequences for zombie people, they don’t have them. It’s not fair…”
  — Spencer Pratt (06:03)

• “You can’t have the lawful class who will suffer the consequences for breaking the law and then the ‘can do anything they want’ class.”
  — Jack Armstrong (07:07)

• “If you’ve got an activist lawyer… they can screw up the work so much, the cops and prosecutors think, ‘Why bother?’”
  — Jack Armstrong (09:06)

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5. The Madness of Bureaucracy

• Example: $375,000 spent on two water fountains in NYC’s Riverside Park, a project bogged down by layers of compliance, ADA requirements, permits, and procurement rules.

  • “How is it costing the price of a four-bedroom house in suburban Kansas City to replace a couple of water fountains?” (35:02)
  • Armstrong calls this The Machine: “a system built over decades by people making a series of individually rational decisions that add up to something no one designed and no one would build on purpose.” (38:30)

• Getty notes this is an area where China has an advantage: “Not getting bogged down in crap like that to accomplish anything that everybody wants.” (38:20)

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6. Climate Science Panic & Policy Overreach

• Armstrong and Getty dissect how extreme climate models, originally designed to test theory limits, were misappropriated by politicians and activists as predictions—fueling global panics and massive, possibly futile, spending.
  • “The most extreme climate change pathway that they've been threatening us with... is utterly implausible and it really shouldn't be part of the debate at all.” (29:15)
• Billions, even trillions, wasted on extreme assumptions, as Armstrong notes: “just a suicide based on bad data.” (33:18)

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7. Other Topics and Comic Relief

Youth Sports Excess

• Astounded at six-year-olds doing four two-hour baseball practices per week for an “all-star” team.
  • “What the f does that even mean at age six?” (28:20)
  • “You only get so many summers as a kid…” (28:47)

Fitness & 'Gluteal Amnesia'

• Modern fitness trends now obsess over glute strength for health and longevity.
  • “Strong glutes help manage and even reduce lower back pain... Gluteal amnesia... called a condition that occurs when the glutes forget their primary function because they aren’t getting used.” (23:06-23:39)
  • On aging and fitness: “As long as you can climb flights of stairs, you can have sex.” (23:20—personal trainer quote via Joe Getty)

Diamond Swallowing Criminal

• Absurd criminal story: A thief swallows $770,000 in Tiffany diamonds, passes them two weeks later—along with two extra mystery earrings.
  • “Am I going to be charged with what’s in my stomach?” (41:24)
  • “Oddly, his excrement also contained two other earrings which were not part of the Tiffany haul. And nobody’s quite sure how those got inside him.” (42:51)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Homelessness, Spencer Pratt audio: 03:29 – 15:53
• Government waste & the homeless industrial complex: 09:30 – 11:56
• Policy Magnets / City Incentives: 12:19 – 14:59
• Bureaucracy and the $375K water fountains: 34:48 – 38:30
• Climate models & overblown predictions: 28:58 – 34:14
• Youth sports excess: 27:32 – 28:50
• Fitness trends and gluteal amnesia: 20:45 – 24:41
• Diamonds swallowed by thief: 41:10 – 44:51

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Conclusion

With their trademark blend of skepticism, insight, and sarcasm, Armstrong and Getty expose the perverse incentives, broken policies, and cultural foibles shaping American life—from the streets of LA to the halls of government and the local youth baseball field. Key takeaway: When the system’s incentives break down, logic and compassion are often replaced by chaos and corruption—though at least there’s plenty to laugh (and groan) about along the way.

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“Until we start talking about it as a drug problem and not a housing problem, there is no fixing it.”
— Joe Getty (16:23)

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Transcript

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Jack Armstrong]

Wow, what an eventful week. You've got lawless teens taking over cities, the situation with Iran and Israel and the world's weirdest ceasefire. Not to mention the politics going on right now. Hot and heavy.

[Joe Getty]

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[Spencer Pratt]

We're talking they're stapling dogs, eyes closed. Meth addicts will just be having sex on the side of the street. There's just naked people everywhere now. And when I say people, naked zombies.

[Joe Getty]

Well, that's a horrifying ear grabbing little clip there from dude running to be mayor of Los Angeles. If you're listening across the country, it's well known in the LA area that Spencer Pratt is a big deal and making a lot of noise and really lean and heavenly on making a point we've been trying to make for a very long time, that this homeless problem, using our finger quotes, is a drug addict problem. Yeah.

[Jack Armstrong]

The distinguishing characteristic of these people's lives is not that they lack a fixed address, it's that they're hopeless, hardcore drug junkies. That's why they got no home.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. So this is Spencer Pratt. He was on a another podcast recently talking about this stuff. Let's let him roll on. What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles? Yeah, I'm sorry, I wanted 75, Michael. I changed my mind. Perhaps you didn't hear that. 75. We're rolling on with that.

[Spencer Pratt]

These aren't people that just like missed a paycheck and we need to get them help and get back. This is a drug problem that needs mandatory treatment. Not handing people needles and pipes and saying, oh, here's a million dollar bed. If you're a fentanyl zombie hanging upside down, you don't care about a million dollar empty bed. As mayor, I'll enforce the laws because you cannot be a crazed drug addict zombie just running amok naked on the street.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, it's amazing that more people haven't been able to say this out loud and get any attention in the cities that are beleaguered by this problem.

[Jack Armstrong]

Eric, Part of the machine that's making billions of Dollars, quite literally billions and billions of dollars being siphoned off the taxpayers and into the pockets of people who are involved in what we and others have called the homeless industrial complex.

[Joe Getty]

It really is. That's exactly what it is. It's a big giant money spigot. And if you stand up in front of a crowd and make it seem like it's the unhoused screwed by the free market, it's just too expensive to live here. And that's why we need to give them more help.

[Jack Armstrong]

That's why I want one paycheck away from having a similar fate.

[Joe Getty]

And that's why I want you to back this or that program. That will be another however many billions of dollars that will get spread out to a whole bunch of different people because somebody gets that money.

[Jack Armstrong]

I've got a great example of that when we're done with our Spencer Pratt audio.

[Joe Getty]

And the homeless situation just magically continues to get worse. Anyway, here's more. Spencer Pratt.

[Spencer Pratt]

Every morning front of Palisades elementary that then burned down and across the street at my son's preschool at Methodist, there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front of kids at 7:45 in the morning. You call LAPD, they pull up and they go, you don't know because they can't enforce all. She'd go around the corner and she'd go number two in front of Joe's Barbershop. You're cleaning your private parts in front of kids and you're a normal citizen. You are going to jail. You're going to be on the citizens app as a sex offender. But the consequences for zombie people, they don't have them. It's not fair for all the normal tax paying people in Los Angeles that we have to abide by laws. And then there's a whole classes like it's like anarchy. It's like it's psycho.

[Jack Armstrong]

Such a good point. You're. You're washing your genitals in front of a school. You'd be a registered sex offender after you were quickly convicted of the crime. But well, she's a junkie homeless person so there's nothing we can do.

[Joe Getty]

And it's so gross.

[Jack Armstrong]

It is so gross. And so clearly I was going to use the term corrosive, but it's not, it's more like a grenade than a corrosion of a society. You can't have the lawful class who will suffer the consequences for breaking the law and then the can do anything they want class.

[Joe Getty]

So I don't know about this. I don't know how much I want to get into it. But the first clip we played where Spencer Pratt was talking about the drug addict stapling dog's eyes shut.

[Jack Armstrong]

What is that about? Well, part of that's just being completely psychotic in their stray dogs or whatever. The other part is they're testing their drugs on dogs to see if they die. And so you got all sorts of dogs dying of drug overdoses.

[Joe Getty]

That didn't surprise me.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, horrifying. You know, I remember a family guy had a really funny bit that I won't bother describing, but they need to change it slightly and have. Have guys and girls too, obviously participating in all sorts of lawlessness, then saying to the cop, it's okay, I'm homeless, so I get to do this. And the cops saying, oh, sorry, sorry to have bothered you. Just do that over and over again to make the point.

[Joe Getty]

Well, I remember in the town that I live in, this is quite a few years ago, before this had turned into. Well, it was an issue for regular people, but before turned into a splashy public issue, the street person thing. So we called the cops on some scary zombie people, I like that term, that were harassing some of the Boy Scouts around the church where they had their meetings. And the cops got there and said, there's not much we can do because they all have the name of a lawyer that they hit us with and say, hey, we know our rights and blah, blah, blah, blah. Because there's all these advocate lawyers that get in their ear and tell them you have a right to be here and they're not allowed to kick you out. This is before that ruling, the Supreme Court ruling.

[Jack Armstrong]

So maybe that's like, part of it,

[Joe Getty]

but there's plenty of other rulings out there that allow them to live their lifestyle well.

[Jack Armstrong]

And those lawyers are either Marxists, idiots, or greed heads who are making money from NGOs probably doing this. It's an insane position. But, yeah, if you've got an activist lawyer, they can, you know, in a misdemeanor charge, probably. Yeah, they can screw up the work so much, the cops and prosecutors think, why bother?

[Joe Getty]

You got an example of money being wasted, you said.

[Jack Armstrong]

Indeed. Yeah. Listen to this, would you please? Sorry, it's updating. There it is. So this is from Los angeles. So this NGO non governmental organization named Weingarten, got a $30 million grant for homeless housing and a senior citizen home, senior citizens home was cleared of elderly residents. The property, by the way, had been listed on the market for $11.2 million. But it was sold to Weingart for $27 million.

[Joe Getty]

That's nice. So you get nearly three times as much as it was their asking price. That's a good Realtor.

[Jack Armstrong]

Exactly. Citi pays the NGO extremely high rates. $400,000 per bed per year for homeless property. The building sits empty. The NGO NGO has no obligation to put a homeless person in a bed. So they can bill for every room at $400,000 per year with no one in them. And it doesn't stop. Their taxpayers also cover the purchase, operations, upkeep and problems even if the facility sits empty. The Winegard NGO operates around 10 similar housing facilities. And this, this commentator says we need a prison sentence for every Democrat involved in these deals and every NGO executive. Spencer Pratt says he'll hand them over to the IRS and DOJ for investigation and prosecution. And they say I saved him some time. Looked up who handed the money out and it's the Mayor, Karen Bass, former Mayor Eric Garcetti, Key member on the Housing and Homelessness Committee is Nithya Raman, who has been involved in oversight and funding decisions and is also running for mayor. And the LA County Board of Supervisors. They have, they wrote those checks.

[Joe Getty]

That is so depressing. Oh yeah, is highly, highly depressing.

[Jack Armstrong]

You've got to learn to look at society through the eyes of government officials who see everything that's notable as an excuse to take more taxpayer dollars and give them to their cronies. Everything. If there are three car wrecks in a row at an intersection, you think, holy crap, we need another sign or I don't know, give out some tickets or have a cop there. A politician thinks, okay, okay, how do we use this?

[Joe Getty]

First, I'll commission a study and we'll claim that it'll cost a quarter of a million dollars or $5 million or

[Jack Armstrong]

whatever to make sure my brother in law gets that contract.

[Joe Getty]

Right? And you know, I think it starts there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, that sort of thing.

[Joe Getty]

Here's a little more of Spencer Pratt. This will make a good point for you. He's doing an interview with ABC7 in Los Angeles. So you're going to move these 40,000 people somewhere and you're going to have his facility up in. You said how long?

[Spencer Pratt]

Here's what you got, 90 days. Let me explain something. These 40,000 people, 60% of them, city Watch just announced this week, are not from Los Angeles. They're not from California. These people have been bust in by scam, rehabs scam, NGOs scam homeless non profits. These people, when I Unplug them and say we're not taking our tax money anymore. They're all going to Seattle where the mayor will welcome them. These are products to a lot of people. So the people that want to keep doing drugs and live on the sidewalk there, a lot of these people are going to leave. The other ones, there's a lot of criminals, there's people that are getting naked in front of kids, they're going to jail. The people that are torturing animals, they're going to jail. So not everyone goes in the same box. So we have the money, we have the resources and we have the facility.

[Joe Getty]

And he's been making the argument at every turn, where are they going to go? They're probably going to go to Seattle because they give out so much stuff. I've got that situation around where I live. And you might know correspondent Jesse who contacts a show now and then. He was homeless for a long time and he works with cops in various organizations in like being a go between, between the homeless and the city because he can talk to the homeless crowd because he was one, he was a drug addict homeless person. He knows how to worse. But he was talking about how, you know, this city has so many programs and so much stuff. It's a magnet of course for that crowd. Whereas that city 10 miles over doesn't have near as many because they don't have near as much stuff. When you, when you have these programs, you get people coming from all over the place to do their drug addict lifestyle where you live because it makes it more comfortable to hang out and be a drug addict.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I remember it was probably a decade ago. I'm guessing that we, I got into a bitter argument with some folks in running these programs and running the government in San Francisco. They angrily denied that these programs were attracting people to, you know, enjoy the warm milk of the government teat and swore it wasn't true. And every damn study, every study now makes it utterly clear that yeah, people go wherever the benefits are, where the living is easiest, where there's no law enforcement, where they give you tents, blah blah, blah. That's why Free Adel is teeming with people like that. Likewise Portland and some other west coast cities. And it, what does it tell you friends, if it was self evident that places like Jack is describing are magnets for people to come to them, but the city officials are angrily denying that's true. When it's self evident, you just ask these people, they'll tell you. What does that tell you? It's, it's either. Well, I was going to say it's not an innocent mistake, but if it isn't an innocent mistake, it's the sort of mistake people make when they are so completely devoted to their wackadoodle ideology they can't see any evidence that that contradicts what they think.

[Joe Getty]

There's a lot of people like that, I know personally, people like that, that they think I want to live in the town that helps these people and not screws them like some of these other towns who won't, won't help the, you know, the less fortunate. So they think it's, you know, helping

[Jack Armstrong]

as opposed to hurting someone die of the giant state. That's right, Dr. Krauthammer, helping somebody die of a drug overdose, whether today, next week or next year is not complete again.

[Joe Getty]

And once again you're the compassionate one. Worry about them. I'm worried about law abiding taxpayer. How about that? How about the guy who wants to go to the park with his kids? How about them?

[Jack Armstrong]

Right? And the well meaning people you're describing, they only care about their own egos. That's what all this is about is showing how enlightened they are and how kind and compassionate to others. It's a giant ego, Jo. Oh.

[Joe Getty]

If it comes down to it, I don't want you to die on the street. But if you're gonna die on the street anyway, which you probably are, do it in a different town. That's where I am.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. I want to live in a pleasant place. Says every human being who's ever lived on earth anyway.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, there it is. Up Fox is big on the Spencer Pratt rap about the homeless people and call them zombies and everything like God. Until we start talking about it as a drug problem and not a housing problem, there is no fixing it. Of course, as you've made the point many, many times, they don't want to fix it. It's a big money spigot.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Getting back to my. The primary marker or, you know, notable fact about their lives is not their lack of an address, it's their drug addiction. I have a good friend who is bravely trying to get past his latest round of cancer treatments and it's like me describing him as a tired person. Yeah, he's, he's very tired and it's, We've got to address his tiredness somehow. No, no, he's got cancer is the problem. The cancer is causing his fatigue. He doesn't have chronic fatigue syndrome. He has cancer. These people don't have no fixed address. They're junkies. But again, it's not ignorance. Well, it is on the the part of the voters who allow this stuff to happen. That's ignorance and egotism. But the activist class and the politicians, they know precisely what they're doing. It's a scam. Wake up.

[Joe Getty]

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That's a dumb joke. Hot dog's already a mystery meat.

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Well, I remember a few years ago the joke was quit skipping leg day. Right? Maybe all these guys with giant upper bodies and the tiny waists mentioned, blah,

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blah, blah, maybe that is. But this article that came out over the weekend is how important the biggest muscle you've got in your body, which is your gluteus maximus, is to health all the way around and balance and not Making other muscles overwork to common compensate for your weak glutes and everything like that. So when even knee back and all kinds of different problems come from you letting your butt muscle amnesia of the butt muscles get weaker and then all these other muscles have to overcompensate. And it has a lot to do with balance, which is we all know when you get actually like old, old balance becomes a big problem.

[Jack Armstrong]

I have suffered from this very thing. I can attest to the truth of this.

[Joe Getty]

Strong glutes help manage and even reduce lower back pain and all kinds of other different things. I saw this quote from. I tell my clients, as long as you can climb flights of stairs, you can have sex. Well, that's an interesting thing to know,

[Jack Armstrong]

especially if she's upstairs.

[Joe Getty]

So if I can't get up there.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hang on, I'm coming. Hang on.

[Joe Getty]

Don't go to sleep. I'm almost there. Five more steps.

[Jack Armstrong]

I just got to rest. I got arrest for a minute.

[Joe Getty]

Called gluteal amnesia. It's a condition that occurs when the glutes forget their primary function because they aren't getting used after too much activity and go numb or even feel sore. Gluteal amnesia. And so it's talking about how you need to walk and do all the things that you did most of your life, but then at some point, maybe you just started sitting all the time. You sit in your car, you get to work, you sit, then you walk out to your car, sit in it, drive home, and then sit some more. Then you get gluteal amnesia.

[Jack Armstrong]

You don't want it.

[Joe Getty]

No, you don't want it. And the overall point being. Oh, and it's interesting. The metabolism, increasing glute strength improves how the body handles glucose, how it uses energy, how it maintains muscle over time for your whole body. It's really interesting. So they're making this argument that it's really a key predictor of your overall health and longevity. If you got a.

[Jack Armstrong]

What they call a hockey butt, I'm gonna chat. GPT. A hockey butt. That's interesting. Is that the way pants. Hockey pants fit?

[Joe Getty]

I don't kind of.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, I gotta chat. GPT the five best glute exercises and get to work this commercial, all the

[Joe Getty]

dudes are doing them at the gym. I'll tell you that. The. The squat rack is always being used. A lot of other stuff, not so much. Anyway, if you missed a segment of this show, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. This is the best weekend talk show in America

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[Parent]

with my mom and dad living in Orange county, when we bring my five and seven year old to visit, we are sometimes in for a two hour drive that could feel like 10.

[Camper/Parent]

Oh, as an avid camper, I know all about this. We'll pack up the RV and know this is either going to be the trip of a lifetime or a complete disaster.

[Parent]

Which is why we load up the iPads with Lingokids before we even pull out of the driveway.

[Camper/Parent]

It's what dreams are made of. Lingokids keeps kids engaged and quiet with over 4000 interactive games, songs and shows that kids simply cannot get enough of.

[Parent]

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[Camper/Parent]

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[Parent]

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[Parent]

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[Jack Armstrong]

I just heard something that makes me hate the modern world even more than I realized I did. And and we have several stories on that. Well, kind of sort of topic, but

[Joe Getty]

found out it's a friend of a friend.

[Jack Armstrong]

Got a six year old son, six years old, plays baseball that's way too young to play baseball it's too hard a game. Play catch with your kid until they're at least eight or probably nine. Have them hit in the driveway over and over again. Reps not standing on a field in a cute little uniform bored to tears so he can pose for pictures that the women like.

[Joe Getty]

And you're saying this as a baseball player and coach, not just yes, and

[Jack Armstrong]

the son of a professional and college baseball player and blah, blah, blah. Yes. Yeah, the game is too hard. You're wasting the kids time. Anyway, I'm in the minority, which does not bother me in the least. So this kid's 6 years old. He's a good little ball player. They have an all star team right there. What does, what the f does that even mean at age six?

[Joe Getty]

Oh my God. And they agreed?

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah. Okay. If you want to be on this, whatever the F thing this is. Yeah, okay. Two hour practices four days a week.

[Joe Getty]

Oh my God. Is a six year old.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, I give up.

[Joe Getty]

That. I give up crazy.

[Jack Armstrong]

I give up. What do you want him to have Tommy John surgery as an 11 year

[Joe Getty]

old or just you people thinking or just time? I mean, you only get so many summers as a kid.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh my God.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, that's horrible. I know.

[Jack Armstrong]

It's horror. It's child abuse. Moving along. How did climate science get so screwed up?

[Joe Getty]

I maybe read the same article as you last night and I was laying there in bed and I thought, how has it not become just a common thing to refer to it as the climate hoax, the great climate hoax, or the great climate fraud that we all live through? Isn't there enough out now to call it that?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, completely.

[Joe Getty]

Al Gore says. What did Al Gore say?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh, it's Pete Crow Armstrong, like. Anyway, yeah, it's this analysis written by a fellow with a musical name of Quico Toro, but it's super, super gentleman

[Joe Getty]

Cuico Toro,

[Jack Armstrong]

world music and all, with two drummers and whatever. Yeah. Anyway, so what he's writing about, well, he mentions that UN scientists finally announced last month what climate researchers have known for years, that the most extreme climate change pathway that they've been threatening us with, the whole Greta Thunberg horror cult thing is utterly implausible and it really shouldn't be part of the debate at all. How dare you? It was based on something known as RCP 8.5 to folks who are really into this, the representative concentration pathway 8.5, which was a particular study by like serious climate scientists. For this reason, he explains that if you are designing a highway bridge and you need to Figure out where your structures weak points are, what it would take to cause it to break. You don't have like, you know, you don't do computer studies on what would happen if, I don't know, there were a few more trucks than usual because there's too much statistical noise. You wouldn't find the weak points that you're looking for. What you do is whip up a computer simulation, ask what would happen if 200 fully fully loaded 250 rather, rather fully loaded M1 Abrams battle tanks drove onto the bridge at the same time. I mean unbelievable stresses that your bridge would never face. But that'll show you where the weaker points are and what you might bolster up to deal with normal stuff. So you like super catastrophize a computer model to get it to show you what might happen if, well climate like legit climate scientists were doing this same thing in I think it was 15 years ago or so.

[Joe Getty]

You've stolen our childhood, Joe.

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You have stolen my dreams and my

[Jack Armstrong]

childhood with your empty words. That's, that's what I do. If you knew me you'd know that's kind of my act.

[Funko Pop Announcer]

This is all wrong.

[Jack Armstrong]

Dream stealing and childhood crushing. That's what I'm known for, baby. Anyway, so what these climate scientists did was. All right, all right, all right. What would happen if like the most extreme crazy scenario word one unfold and the 8.5 has to do with 8.5 watts per square meter of added solar energy. So it was like an extreme scenario. What would that cause? What would the stress points be? Blah blah, blah. In the same way that the bridge engineer does this. Well, the problem is all of the activists and greed heads took hold of this study and used it as a premise for not the 250 fully loaded Abrams tank scenario. Extreme crazy scenario. They took it as a prediction and ran with it like crazy. And it dominated that what's its 8.5 thing dominated all the discussion for years and years and years. And the original scientists are like wait, no, this isn't going to happen. It couldn't happen. We're just trying to do math over here. But nobody wanted to hear it.

[Joe Getty]

How many does anybody have a total on how many trillions? It's gotta be trillions could be sure of dollars that were spent by the world to try to combat this fanciful prediction.

[Jack Armstrong]

So right. And I told including countries like Britain

[Joe Getty]

completely destroying their economy, which they may never recover from.

[Jack Armstrong]

Oh yeah, just a suicide based on bad data. And you know, I was talking about name checking A few people and activists who embrace this stuff. That 8.5 thingy has been the default setting for 30,000 climate science papers since 2018 alone. It was from this kind of research, Mr. Toro writes, that we get lured papers like Future of the Human Climate Niche, where respectable Dutch climate scientists claim that one in three human beings live in regions that will be unlivable in the next 50 years. It was this kind of research that gave rise to countless breathless headlines about how outdoor labor was about to become impossible, possible across much of the tropical world. Alarmist documentaries claiming the ocean was about to end up without any fish or will all drown in it or whatever. Many he name checks, a bunch more best sellers and documentaries and stuff like that. That's crazy.

[Joe Getty]

2018, because Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, the movie came out in 2006. Yeah, 20 years ago.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. And so these people said, wow, climate change. Let's look at the most extreme scenario possible. Well, I think we've explained it to you. So this is another great observation of the modern world I'm going to skip over. So many South Korean soldiers get plastic surgery on leave. What? That they have to permit them not to, like, do their jobs for an extended period after they come back.

[Joe Getty]

What are they mostly getting done?

[Jack Armstrong]

Nose jobs and just facelifts and ear tucks and just. I want to be sexier. Plastic surgery, wow. South Korea is so weird.

[Joe Getty]

Even though they aren't dating, marrying, or having kids.

[Jack Armstrong]

Right, right. It's all Instagram, you know, motivated. You got to look sharp on, you got to look gorgeous online. I saw an ad for Instagram the other day. I was trying to get people, I don't know sign up or beyond more and stuff like that. And it was clear, every single bit of it was, I am an attractive to, okay, attractive woman or girl, and I want everybody to see how attractive I am. That, like, is the entire engine behind it. And dip ass guys who ought to get a job, find a woman, get off Instagram, idiots. All right, so here's the story I want to bring you. This is a person by the name of John Shoshet or something like that on the air. Yeah. So he was on a neighborhood board in New York City and he came across this project to replace a bunch of water fountains in Riverside Park. If you know New York, you know it. If you don't, you don't. But it was going to cost $375,000 to replace one broken and one outdated water fountain. And he's like, well, wait a minute. How is it costing the price of a four bedroom house in suburban Kansas City to replace a couple of water fountains? And he says, I've spent enough time in and around the public sector to understand how he got there. He worked, blah, blah, blah. So he dug into it. And each rule governing the Riverside park drinking fountain project had its own logic. The backflow prevention systems protect the public water supply and are mandated by the Department of Environmental Protection. The dual bowl of fountains, one bowl up high, one lower, satisfy ADA requirements. Under current park directives, water lines as old as the existing 90 year old ones have to be replaced when any new work is done. Because parks chose to rebuild the fountain at its existing location. And there are no records showing where the old water line ran. A new trench has to be cut. A tree root survey is required because digging that trench risks damaging root systems that took decades to grow. The competitive bidding and procurement procedures were put in place to prevent corruption. The park's project manager presenting the slides was professional and thorough. Each box was checked and the outcome was a third of a million dollars for two drinking fountains. But it's actually worse than that. The community, through the city's participatory budgeting process, had allocated the 375 grand grand for five modern hydration stations with bottle filling capability spread throughout the park. Now that's still a lot of money, but you got five complete water fountain bottle filler handicap. What's it all right, 375 here in New York. All right. But the plan that emerged from the parks department had been whittled down to replacing two existing fountains with code compliant versions of what had been there for decades. No new locations, no bottle fillers, five hydration stations, ordinary fountains, and the replacement fountains won't even be installed until 2027. Blah, blah, blah. And he makes the point that what went wrong with this is what went wrong with virtually everything else. This is why we can't build anything. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

And an advantage China actually has over us.

[Jack Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah, so true.

[Joe Getty]

Not getting bogged down in crap like that to accomplish anything that everybody wants.

[Jack Armstrong]

And, and he says the villain isn't a person, a party or conspiracy. It's a system built over decades by people making a series of individually rational decisions that add up to something no one designed and no one would build on purpose. I'm going to call that system the machine. And he goes on for paragraphs about it.

[Joe Getty]

Understudied and underappreciated bureaucracy.

[Jack Armstrong]

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. This is the best weekend talk show in America.

[Joe Getty]

America

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[Joe Getty]

mom,

[Jack Armstrong]

can I have Lingokids?

[Joe Getty]

Dad, Lingokids, please. When did we become the Lingokids house?

[Jack Armstrong]

No idea.

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[Spencer Pratt]

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[Jack Armstrong]

We can play games with astronauts, wild animals and superheroes.

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[Jack Armstrong]

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[Joe Getty]

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[Cindy Crawford]

Hi, I'm Cindy Crawford and I'm the founder of Meaningful Beauty. Well, I don't know about you, but like, I never liked being told, oh, wow, you look so good for your age. Like, why even bother saying that? Why don't you just say you look great at any age, Every age. That's what Meaningful Beauty is all about. We create products that make you feel confident in your skin at the age you are now. Meaningful Beauty. Beautiful skin at every age. Learn more@meaningful beauty.com.

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[Jack Armstrong]

Your mouth out. Open your mouth.

[Joe Getty]

You're not opening your mouth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Hey, you're about to get paid. Open your mouth. Open your mouth. Hey, you're about to get paid.

[Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship Announcer]

You better open your mouth.

[Jack Armstrong]

Ask him to open his mouth. And he start chewing and he's still trying to swallow.

[Joe Getty]

I wish I didn't see the video of that. So that's a guy arrested after swallowing $770,000 worth of diamonds. So it sounds like they nab him. He puts him in his mouth. The cops are yelling at him to open his mouth. You're gonna get taste. Open your mouth. You're gonna get taste. And then apparently he swallowed them. Is that what happened? Michael, have you seen the video.

[Jack Armstrong]

I haven't seen the video. Yes, indeed. I've got this story from the smokinggun.com charmingly entitled the man who Pooped Tiffany Diamonds. So they're about to try him.

[Joe Getty]

So how they get him out of you? They just wait? They just lock you in a cell and wait? They just feed you Papa John's pizza.

[Jack Armstrong]

Methods differ region to region, but. So he was yanked out of his vehicle. He threw the diamonds in his mouth, swallowed him, and subsequently asked cops, am I going to be charged with what's in my stomach? Later he mused, I probably should have thrown him out the window. Yeah, probably. Probably so. Prison scan revealed that Gilder's stomach contained foreign objects. About two weeks after police guard put on police guard at a Florida hospital, he passed the stolen Tiffany merchandise. Two weeks?

[Joe Getty]

Is that how long it takes for something to pass through you?

[Jack Armstrong]

Oddly, as if this isn't odd enough, oddly, his excrement also contained two other earrings which were not part of the Tiffany hall. And nobody's quite sure how those got inside him.

[Joe Getty]

Wait a second. Right. Well, is he saying, look, I stole those diamonds and swallowed them. I have no idea where those earrings came from.

[Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship Announcer]

This is weird.

[Jack Armstrong]

You planted those. Wow.

[Joe Getty]

They're those big hoops, are they?

[Jack Armstrong]

That'd be uncomfortable recalling that he's been offered a negotiated plea deal. Blah, blah, blah.

[Joe Getty]

We're all wondering how many, how big a bulk of diamonds are we talking about? Because if you had really high quality diamonds, you wouldn't need very many to be $770,000, probably.

[Jack Armstrong]

I see three.

[Joe Getty]

Here's a more than I want to defecate.

[Jack Armstrong]

A doctor holding his blue gloved handout showing three large diamonds. I mean they are if it's 770

[Joe Getty]

noise that you would make if you had to pass those to give us an idea of how big they are

[Spencer Pratt]

now.

[Jack Armstrong]

Don't do that. You know, I would dearly like to, but my better judgments is not,

[Joe Getty]

oh my God, help me.

[Jack Armstrong]

It. I don't know. But I'm not good at diamonds. I'm not very blingy, but I would guess these are multiple carrots, like three carat earrings. I mean, big old wearing. They're like NBA star earrings.

[Joe Getty]

And that's a good plan he came up with though.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, he was under pressure. He didn't expect to be pulled over.

[Joe Getty]

Swallowed them in front of the cops and then I. And you know what they'll do though? Let me go. I'll be able to poop them out. Then I will turn them into cash very easily. Of course. And live a life of Riley.

[Jack Armstrong]

Well, right. And then was he taunting the cops when he said, am I going to be charged with what's in my stomach? Yeah dude, open your mouth or we're

[Joe Getty]

going to tase you. They should have just tased him.

[Jack Armstrong]

They probably did. Armstrong and Getty.

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[Parent]

with my mom and dad living in Orange county, when we bring my five and seven year old to visit, we are sometimes in for a two hour drive. That could feel like it.

[Camper/Parent]

10 oh, as an avid camper, I know all about this. We'll pack up the RV and know this is either going to be the trip of a lifetime or a complete disaster.

[Parent]

Which is why we load up the iPads with Lingokids before we even pull out of the driveway.

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[Parent]

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[Camper/Parent]

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[Parent]

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[Parent]

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[Camper/Parent]

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Express it now. Just pop yourself.

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