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Michael Angelo (2:43)

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Jack Armstrong (2:47)

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Michael Angelo (2:51)

And now here's Armstrong and Getty, lifelong friends of the man police say carried out the deadly attack on a Mormon church in Michigan, say he dated a Mormon woman and descended into heavy methamphetamine use while living in Utah. Peter and Francis Tersini say after alleged gunman Thomas Jacob Sanford's relationship ended with the woman and he returned to Michigan. He had changed. Peter Tersini says Sanford went on rants about Mormons. Francis Tersini writing in a Facebook post, that man that came back from New York, Utah, wasn't the same. He was a puppet, and the puppeteer was Satan. So he gets dumped by a woman who's Mormon, which makes him angry, and he's a heavy meth user. What are you supposed to take from that in terms of some sort of societal meaning? Anything.

Joe Getty (3:48)

Angry guy committing suicide and taking people with him.

Michael Angelo (3:51)

Right.

Joe Getty (3:52)

Horrible.

Michael Angelo (3:53)

I'd say couple different things. Want to get to here. First of all, there's a new book out about Senator Bob Menendez, if you remember him. He was a prominent senator. I mean, he was a chair of some of your big committees and all that sort of thing. Gold Bar Menendez. Remember when he got busted with him and his wife, they were taking gold bars from Egypt, among other things. He'd been a crook forever and gotten away with it, got in trouble a couple of times. We've got away. But finally, gold bars with direct connections to Egypt were just too much.

Joe Getty (4:27)

But his wife, Mercedes Boobman, she was something else.

Michael Angelo (4:34)

Yeah, Nadine Menendez, she's doing four and a half years in prison for bribery and corruption also. And this segment of the book that I was reading about is all about when he met her. And it's just what's interesting to me is that kind of woman. And maybe all know some, or maybe some of you are that you're. I was gonna say a hot woman, but it's often not like the hottest of the hot. It's just you're, you're pretty attractive and you decide to make your way through the world on that by attaching yourselves to politicians or rock stars or successful businessmen or whatever.

Joe Getty (5:19)

You.

Michael Angelo (5:19)

In the most, like, transparent way. But you, you attach yourselves to the kind of guys that don't care that it's transparent that they're only with you for the fact that you're a rock star or a senator or have a lot of money. Both. Both of you know what you're doing. And I find that just so disgusting all the way around, the fact that you Both know exactly what you're doing and are okay with it. It's one thing to be fooled, like you're a. You're a. You're a U.S. senator and an attractive woman and you think she loves you and everything like it. But it's clear from this relationship and all the people she'd gone through the, the excerpt was so interesting. She'd been with so many different rich or powerful people and. And it seems like everybody knew exactly what was going there all the time. Nobody's pretending anything else. It's just. It's all so slimy. Her and her friends were all that kind of woman.

Joe Getty (6:12)

Yeah. I have a friend who has an ex who turned out to be that sort of person, and he told me her mom was too. And that was just the model. See, there's nothing in my background that would make me think, hey, I've got an idea, right? We have this nakedly transactional you're hot, I'm rich thing. But if you grew up with that and have a cynical view of marriage, I, I guess you'd have to have that.

Michael Angelo (6:43)

But there are a lot of you women who are very attractive who, who just like, go through life like normal and are attracted. It's just a side part of your life or personality or whatever, but you don't make that your. This is how I'm going to end up being with a senator. And if, if this thing with the senator, he gets tired of me, I'll go to a rock star.

Joe Getty (7:07)

Just.

Michael Angelo (7:08)

Just sounds like such an exhausting life.

Joe Getty (7:11)

Or a CEO or something.

Michael Angelo (7:12)

Yeah. Yeah. And that's exactly what she does. She would go to parties. Well, this happens all the time. When the. Somebody becomes aware in the news and you find out that she dated, you know, five different people you've heard of because they just. They hang out at those kind of parties, I guess.

Joe Getty (7:30)

Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, if you were going to make a counter argument, and it's not like I'm, I'm doing this personally, but the counter argument would be, and you certainly know this, that getting together, marrying for love and having it not go well is crushing. It's. It's horrible.

Michael Angelo (7:46)

True, dad.

Joe Getty (7:48)

So how about I just get into a relationship, we're both happy, we both know what to expect and yeah, I mean, we're not crazy in love, but what the hell, it's a nice lifestyle.

Michael Angelo (7:57)

Oh, man, I don't know.

Joe Getty (8:00)

Like I said, I'm not arguing in favor of that. I just think that's probably the point of view.

Michael Angelo (8:03)

I get the guy who thinks it's love, but the guy who knows I'm a troll. She's only with me because I'm a senator. Ah, that just seems like a heck of a thing to wake up and think every day.

Joe Getty (8:19)

Friends with benefits. What are the benefits? Let's talk.

Michael Angelo (8:22)

We got the gold bars coming in from Egypt, though, and that's, that's the cool thing.

Joe Getty (8:27)

Yeah, yeah.

Michael Angelo (8:28)

They're just explaining in that book how she and her friends would go to parties and they would know who was going to be there, and they would spot them, have a discussion amongst themselves or who is going to approach whom. You know, kind of split them up. Okay, you, you go. You go with the CEO. I'm going to go talk to the senator.

Joe Getty (8:46)

It's terrifying.

Michael Angelo (8:47)

Horrible.

Joe Getty (8:48)

My daughter, who interned with a couple of different organizations that included the very powerful in Washington, D.C. at one point she said to me, it's all really interesting and exciting, but you can feel your soul dying, I'm sure.

Michael Angelo (9:04)

And then somebody like Sender Menendez, because I assume he didn't start a crook in his life, his soul deadened throughout the whole, many, many, many years of being around government and probably got cynical enough where he thought, everybody's getting rich. I might as get rich. Who cares?

Joe Getty (9:19)

Sure. Being a powerful man in New Jersey, forget about it.

Michael Angelo (9:22)

It's all a game.

Joe Getty (9:23)

Yeah.

Michael Angelo (9:24)

Something more uplifting. I want to read a little bit of this Richard Lowry writing in the New York Post about the Mississippi miracle. And he's very annoyed by that term that people have attached to it. As he writes, there's nothing miraculous. We're talking about the education thing that we've talked about a lot. The Mississippi went from last into the, in the country to like, top five first in some categories.

Joe Getty (9:46)

A couple other states, too.

Michael Angelo (9:47)

The Mississippi miracle. And he said, there's nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and sets high standards for its kids getting better results in reading instruction. This, to the contrary, is a predictable outcome, not a miracle. It's exactly what you would expect to happen and a replicable one, as other Southern states have taken up similar policies and are getting the same results. I think that's a very good point to make.

Joe Getty (10:15)

Oh, it's frustrating, though, isn't it? I mean, it's, it's, it's a good story, but that you have to explain to people how they did it and how successful it is and then talk them out of continuing to pursue exactly the wrong policies.

Michael Angelo (10:33)

Yeah, I like the idea. Quick, call it a miracle. I Don't know what would be a good name. The Mississippi going back to what has.

Joe Getty (10:40)

Always worked or the little cumbersome okeyfinoke obvious. I don't. I don't know.

Michael Angelo (10:45)

But. But that's a much better point to make. We started doing what has always worked for like 2,000 years.

Joe Getty (10:52)

Yeah. Went back to it.

Michael Angelo (10:54)

It's not a miracle.

Joe Getty (10:56)

It's. It's a good point and a solid point. I just. I think calling it the Mississippi miracle gets people's attention.

Michael Angelo (11:02)

I suppose.

Joe Getty (11:02)

It's a shiny object.

Michael Angelo (11:04)

It all came out of a piece written in 2002 called Illiteracy is a Policy Choice that actually came out of Florida. And that's where it all started.

Joe Getty (11:16)

I.

Michael Angelo (11:17)

Unfortunately for my kids, and thank God my. My older son, who really dealt with this is a. Is. Can read fine. But he landed in kindergarten right at the time where they did away with phonics and they. They no longer believed in phonics and they went with sight words. And looking back on it, I'm horribly embarrassed that I went along with it. But as my first kid and first year in school and okay, this is what we're doing now. And we would practice the sight words at home and it never really worked. Of course it didn't. The idea that you just taken the word as a whole as opposed to sound it out with phonics, it's just a dumb idea on its face.

Joe Getty (11:54)

There are too many effing words, for one thing. Yeah. The creative spelling, the whole language approach, it was a fad adopted by those layers of PhD administrators to justify their existence. If you come to the school board and say, I've got an innovative, great new policy, it's to do what we've always done because it works really, really well, then what the hell are you doing there? So education has these fads every so often.

Michael Angelo (12:20)

If you're unfamiliar with this, because I sat through the lecture about it before we started teaching our kids this way. There was this new theory that people don't actually learn to read through sounds. You take in a word as a whole. That's the way the brain works. And then they would throw around some mumbo jumbo looking back on it, and I shouldn't have thought of this time. It doesn't make any sense.

Joe Getty (12:44)

No.

Michael Angelo (12:45)

Who has ever picked up a word like that? I mean, when you come across a word you don't know, do you just take it in all at once? No, of course you don't.

Joe Getty (12:55)

No. Especially because writing is really just a. It's a It's a way to record spoken language. And kids learn spoken language way, way, way before they learn to read. They know what C Jane run means long before they can read those words. So you've just got to help them learn how to identify in print sounds that they've heard before. Now when you get older, you learn new words through reading, but that's a different phase in your life. But see again, the part that makes me insane and wants to make me want to pummel people with both my fists is that there was never any problem with the old approach, the phonics approach.

Michael Angelo (13:40)

Same with math.

Joe Getty (13:40)

It worked great 100 years ago, 50 years ago and 20 years ago. Same with math.

Michael Angelo (13:45)

Same with the math. Math was fine. There was, there was nobody, nobody was having any trouble with the way we always learn math. You didn't need to develop a new way to do it.

Joe Getty (13:53)

A cure in search of a disease, as the old saying goes.

Michael Angelo (13:56)

Has that gone away? Because my kids are out past that age where they're learning math at that. But man, that was horrible. Oh my God.

Joe Getty (14:02)

Progressive places. They are still fighting tooth and nail against reinstituting phonics even as they fight to have secretly guide your son into becoming a girl.

Michael Angelo (14:14)

So I think phonics is just part of it. I think maybe the most important part of what Mississippi is doing in those other southern states is having standards and holding people to them they've done away with. I forget what the soft phrase they use when I was young, he. Did you hear Jimmy flunked? He's going to have to take fourth grade over again. They went from flunked to held back to just did away with the policy completely, which is terrible. We're going to move on. A kid who's not ready for the next grade so he doesn't feel bad about himself. Oh, he's going to feel great being in that fifth grade class and not understanding anything and being and embarrassing himself every day. That's going to be great for his self esteem and even better when he gets to sixth grade and he's still behind because he couldn't pick up the fifth grade stuff.

Joe Getty (14:58)

And if you're not quite at the point of wanting to join me in beating on people, here's one more for you. Keep in mind, at the same time, any programs for exceptionally bright and capable kids were eliminated because that's not equity. Anyone excels that, the other kids feel bad. So let's take our best and brightest, our future leaders and scientists and innovators and crush their spirits.

Michael Angelo (15:23)

That's equity, but Mississippi brought back holding kids back a year if they aren't ready yet, which just, you know, seems like the obviously best thing to do for the kid. Yeah, it's not a miracle, it's the obvious stuff we always used to do. But yes, Michael, we have politicians that aren't quite ready for she she grew.

Joe Getty (15:52)

Up in the cycle era of Philadelphia.

Michael Angelo (15:55)

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Yep, he's in a dress. Or the dad.

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Michael Angelo (20:14)

So what's the name of the show?

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Michael Angelo (20:18)

Okay, why is he in a dress?

Joe Getty (20:22)

Because he's a little transgender boy, I'm sure. And that's beautiful and that's good. And he should be transgender and everybody should. Anyway, then you've got this.

Michael Angelo (20:31)

Everybody should.

Joe Getty (20:33)

Yo, hey, put the camera on him.

Michael Angelo (20:36)

Yo, you see this person right here? Is this him? Would it be crazy if we actually found the guy right now? Because we saw a person who has literally fit in the description, who just walked out walk by her camera.

Joe Getty (20:51)

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Michael Angelo (21:10)

Can I hear it again now that I know what it is?

Joe Getty (21:13)

Yo, hey, put the camera on him.

Michael Angelo (21:15)

Yo, you see this person right here? Is this him? Would it be crazy if we actually found the guy right now? Because we saw a person who has literally fitting the description who just walked down, walked by her camera and so they actually.

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Michael Angelo (21:36)

Good.

Joe Getty (21:38)

Yeah. That's some good law enforcement. A little more. What's that, Michael? Okay. A little more potpourri. Apropos of nothing, guitarist Ronnie Wood said the Rolling Stones have a new album that's done and coming out for some reason.

Michael Angelo (21:55)

For some reason.

Joe Getty (21:58)

And he also suggested they could be heading back out on tour soon.

Michael Angelo (22:01)

God. I was reading about the way they recorded the last one and like, you know, Keith Richards is in the Bahamas and mixing Paris and they don't. They're never in the same room together until the first time they do a concert. And then they're briefly in the same room wherever they're doing the concert. And then they get into different limos and go to different hotels. It's a very weird thing they got going on.

Joe Getty (22:29)

Yeah. And it's funny. It's easy to be cynical about this, obviously, but they're all richer than God, especially Keith and Mick. They must just really, really love it.

Michael Angelo (22:43)

You'd have to. But, but, but. So you've always said that. I've always, always said that. I've always assumed that if you love it so much, why wouldn't you take the time to get together in a studio and, like, put some effort into it if you like it so much? Because they treat it like it's a task that somebody's making them do.

Joe Getty (22:58)

Yeah. I mean, I guess Keith, at whatever age he is, is pushing 80, if he isn't there already, just has some musical ideas that he really, really wants to get down. Really?

Michael Angelo (23:11)

Dude, can't you jump on a private plane? Like, it's not a lot of work and we'll. We'll meet somewhere and do this stuff together.

Joe Getty (23:18)

Right. Look, there's the drummer right here with us. Isn't that fun? Yeah. I don't know.

Michael Angelo (23:25)

How are you? How are you all weathering the government shutdown so far? Are you okay?

Joe Getty (23:31)

Believe it or not, I have a couple of interesting points about the shutdown.

Michael Angelo (23:34)

I know it's a tough day for a lot of us.

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Joe Getty (26:49)

Well guys, Congress failed to reach an agreement on a spending Deal.

Michael Angelo (26:53)

Yeah. You know that queasy feeling when your phone battery's at 1%? That's our government right now. That's what.

Joe Getty (27:00)

Yeah. This would be the first government shutdown.

Michael Angelo (27:02)

Since 2018, not including Joe Biden at the debate. Yeah. So that's one of my two things I'm willing to say about the government shutdown. One, do you remember we had one that lasted over a month in 2018. Do you remember it at all? I don't. Not at all. And it lasted over a month. And this one probably won't. This one will probably end this afternoon or Friday morning or Sunday and it'll.

Joe Getty (27:31)

Never be thought of again. OBAMA One. Right.

Michael Angelo (27:34)

The first Trump term, 2018.

Joe Getty (27:36)

Oh, right, right. Yeah. I'll be damned. Yeah. The memories, the memories.

Michael Angelo (27:42)

The government shut down for over a month and like I have no memory of it at all.

Joe Getty (27:48)

The only really interesting part of this to me is the Democrats strategy because it's not over a specific policy or bill or anything. It's just this really kind of sad effort to be seen as fighting against Trump. And they're making claims about Medicare or is it Medicare, Medicaid, I can never remember which one we're talking about. But what they're claiming about how it would gut the Affordable Care act isn't even close to true. And I've got a bunch of statistics about how, I mean, if you're like not even close to poor, your cost for The Obamacare is $52 a week. If you're 250% of the poverty line, 250%, taxpayers pick up more than 2/3 of your premium.

Michael Angelo (28:41)

Wow.

Joe Getty (28:42)

People who are anywhere close to poor pay nothing. I mean, almost nothing. And that will continue. This is just a little trimming of the so called inflation reduction act super bonus extras that the democrats themselves set 2025 expiration date on. And the Republicans are saying, yeah, it's expiring and it ought to expire, so let's move on with our lives. And for that they're trying to brand the Republicans as somehow gutting Obamacare and kicking poor people out on the street. And the other part, I'm sorry, did you have a comment on that?

Michael Angelo (29:20)

No.

Joe Getty (29:21)

The other part that I find really, really interesting and what I wanted to get to is they're also trying to eliminate the, the free plans, where people have no skin in the game. The Republicans are. And here's why. Making these plans free has allowed insurers to get paid for people who don't even know they're enrolled. 40% of those in the fully subsidized plans.

Michael Angelo (29:56)

That's.

Joe Getty (29:56)

The freebie plans had zero claims in 2024. And that number cannot be explained by. Well, they're healthy because you have all sorts of statistical data on how often people go to the doctor and make claims and that sort of thing. And it's. And so these insurance companies that are part of the Obamacare swirling ocean of cash that Craig Gotwell warned us about at the very beginning of it, and he's been right about everything. The companies that are making such huge profits off these plans are just like enrolling people who have no idea they're enrolled.

Michael Angelo (30:35)

That is why.

Joe Getty (30:35)

And getting paid for it. And the Republicans are just trying to stop that. And for that, Hakeem Jeffries with his newly grown dark black mustache, really good look. And Chuck, I have no soul. Schumer are trying to pretend like, you know, Mike Johnson is. Is scissor kicking pregnant poor ladies in the mouth if they try to go to the doctor. It's just horrible. So shut it down. I'm sure it'll end just great for you, Chuck.

Michael Angelo (31:04)

Well, it's. They somehow believe that voters go to the polls for the next election and vote on the shutdowns. They don't. We don't. We don't. We don't think about it at all.

Joe Getty (31:16)

No, not the moment it ends and hardly during.

Michael Angelo (31:20)

Right. And. And so now it's the. Until it ends, which again, it'll probably be in the next couple of days until it ends. It's the PR battle, with the help of the mainstream media to try to spin it as a. Something awful. The Republicans did. Whatever.

Joe Getty (31:39)

Right.

Michael Angelo (31:39)

Knock yourself.

Joe Getty (31:40)

Whatever.

Michael Angelo (31:40)

Have a good time.

Joe Getty (31:42)

Hey, can we run my favorite clip of the day again? I love this clip. It's number 15, Michael. So this is in Portland, the feds who are protecting the federal buildings and workers there in Portland and finally standing up against the antifa scumbags and radicals and jackasses in Portland that have ruined that. Well, you know what? Portland's having a bit of a comeback, but that have made so much of Portland unpleasant. They're warning them through a megaphone that they have to get off the sidewalks, clear the streets, et cetera. They're in violation, blah, blah, blah. But listen carefully to the voice.

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This is the Federal Protective Service. The facility is closed and not open to the public. Stay out of the area of the driveway to allow for vehicular traffic. Remain on the sidewalk or across the street. Everyone must leave this restricted area and may be subject to detention. Or arrest for failing to depart the restricted area.

Joe Getty (32:43)

So they've used AI to have Donald Trump read that warning to everybody through the megaphone to troll them.

Michael Angelo (32:50)

Trump.

Joe Getty (32:50)

That's right. Hilarious. I love that.

Michael Angelo (32:54)

And so when they send the National Guard to Portland, are there going to be fat generals there?

Joe Getty (32:59)

Not anymore there won't.

Michael Angelo (33:01)

No more fat generals. We are done with that. That's right.

Joe Getty (33:05)

Fat admirals sinking their ships through their sheer blubbery girth. Can't have it. Not with China Is lean and mean. To strike a serious note, they are literally lean and literally mean. And if we want to have a chance in the next half century, we got to get leaner and meaner.

Michael Angelo (33:27)

I'm surprised you're not all about the Cubs being in the playoffs. Usually. You are throughout the years.

Joe Getty (33:32)

Yeah, I, I have been. But I, you know, I became a Giants fan, a big Giants fan, when many, many moons ago we moved to California. And then, then I just kind of drifted away. It was when the Giants hired that America hating jackass and, and they, they rectified that. They got rid of them and hired some good baseball people who they just fired, I think, but the habit was gone.

Michael Angelo (33:57)

Yeah. Yeah. That happens once you get out. Because I did that with the NFL when my kids were born and I was a huge NFL fan. I got out. And if you're out, if you stay out for a couple of years, it's. It's work to get back in because you don't know who anybody is, and it's hard to get back into it again. I've always been somewhat consistent on baseball. I was noticing last night, this is just kind of interesting from that whole scandal a couple of years ago when the Houston Astros had the. They were stealing signs and then sending Morse code by banging a bat on a trash can to signal.

Joe Getty (34:32)

Simple and brilliant.

Michael Angelo (34:34)

Yeah. And. And that. That's. That's known, right? That's not just a theory. That's. They. They nailed that down, I think.

Joe Getty (34:40)

Oh, yeah. They got hammered for it.

Michael Angelo (34:41)

But regardless, watching playoff baseball last night, several different games. There are a lot of those players that are on teams now and carry the teams. They were really good players. So they were cheating and they're really good players.

Joe Getty (34:53)

Oh, yeah. Yeah. You got to be both.

Michael Angelo (34:56)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (34:57)

So you tell me precisely what major league pitch is coming at me. I ain't hitting it. You got really, really good.

Michael Angelo (35:05)

That dude that was pitching for the Red Sox last night, they left him in. As opposed to other pitchers that got pulled out yesterday because pitch counts such a Big deal. In the modern world, you don't go over a certain number. Back in the day, they left you out there until your arm fell off. But the dude they left in for, the Red Sox threw his hardest pitch of the night. On his last pitch, he had. He had retired 17 in a row. Struck out a guy with 100.2 mile an hour fastball. His fastest pitch of the Night was his 117th pitch. Most he'd ever pitched in one game. That was awesome. The Yankees had bases loaded, bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium, which is like your movie scenario. No outs.

Joe Getty (35:43)

How far were they behind?

Michael Angelo (35:44)

It was three one, I think at the time. Bases loaded.

Joe Getty (35:47)

I mean, absolutely in it.

Michael Angelo (35:48)

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, and then, then they ended up straining all three.

Joe Getty (35:54)

God, I love baseball so much. It is weird that I've drifted away from it.

Michael Angelo (35:58)

Playoff baseball is awesome.

Joe Getty (35:59)

One other I'm checking back in.

Michael Angelo (36:01)

Apparently Troy Aikman badmouth the broadcast the other night for Sunday Night Football. I wasn't watching it, but it was a blowout game and there were a bunch of flags being thrown. And he was complaining about it, saying, this is just a terrible product we're offering here. What are they doing? So do you think that that makes sense? Like if a game's a blowout, stop throwing flags. Just let the thing get over with. I don't know what I think about that.

Joe Getty (36:25)

I could see loosening it up a little bit. So, you know, getting back to baseball, I have it on pretty good authority that if it's 17 to 1, that strike zone's getting big.

Michael Angelo (36:36)

Oh, really?

Joe Getty (36:37)

Because we've all got places to go. Both teams want it, the umps want it, the hot dog vendors want it, the fans are already gone. Let's get this beach over with.

Michael Angelo (36:49)

Troy Ignaze, who's enjoying this? This is a terrible product.

Joe Getty (36:54)

Are we gonna go under the hood in this stinking blowout? Stop it.

Michael Angelo (36:59)

Okay, we will finish strong.

Jack Armstrong (37:00)

Next, Armstrong and Getty.

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Joe Getty (40:41)

While speaking yesterday about the cost of higher education, Governor Ron DeSantis promoted the new College of Florida to parents nationwide and added, quote, would you rather visit your kid in January in Michigan or Sarasota? Does this guy even know how college works? Nobody visits their kid in January. They were just home for Christmas.

Michael Angelo (41:05)

Hmm.

Joe Getty (41:10)

Wasn't a showstopper, but it certainly slowed it down.

Michael Angelo (41:13)

Yeah.

Joe Getty (41:15)

Jack, I have, and you will dispute this, but I stand ready to defend myself. I have a fascinating note on the shutdown. Okay, fascinating. Might oversell it. Can I have a second take? I have a mildly interesting note on the shutdown. So I'm going through this checklist on, you know, will Social Security checks go out? Will national parks close, blah, blah. How could the shutdown affect travel? Transportation Security Administration employees and air traffic controllers would work without pay, but travelers could see longer security lines or delays, especially if employees skip on paid work. Wait a minute. You're telling me the TSA is going to be surlier and less engaged, The TSA is going to be in a bad mood, and air traffic controllers are going to be resentful. Now you've got my attention.

Michael Angelo (42:06)

They eventually get paid. We all know this, right? You've been through enough of these shutdowns to realize they eventually get paid. So. And. And unless it goes for a while, you get your check exactly the same time you always get your check. So it rarely means anything. So that's way oversold. I was listening to news this morning, and they use the example of, for instance, this Friday, the inflation numbers are supposed to come out. And with the government shutdown, those numbers may not come out on time. And I thought, if that's the best you can do for how horrific the shutdown is for America, I think we'll be all right. That's your best example.

Joe Getty (42:42)

Mommy, what's the current inflation rate? I just don't know, honey.

Michael Angelo (42:48)

I don't know. Did you see this story that there's another Jeffrey Epstein out there and he's even worse?

Joe Getty (42:58)

What?

Michael Angelo (42:58)

This guy, Howard Rubin, ex New York City financier with. Not as rich as Epstein. Not worth billions, but worth many tens of millions. Well known in the Big Apple. He just got arrested the other day. And there's a lot of similarities with Epstein. He had been trafficking and torturing Playboy models and other women in his midtown Manhattan penthouse. Sex dungeon. For many, many, many years.

Joe Getty (43:31)

Good God.

Michael Angelo (43:32)

Like including beating them and electrocuting them. I mean, so he was a degree worse than Epstein. But the interesting thing to me is they've also arrested this woman, just like Ghislaine Maxwell. He had a pretty attractive woman who worked with him that apparently they had no sexual relationship between them, but she was the one that would find the women and bring him to them. And he paid for everything that she did. He financed her life for her and her husband. She was the, you know, assistant. Apparently. That's what these people do.

Joe Getty (44:08)

Yeah. You know, I've been aware of some really troubling sex trafficking rings, including child sex trafficking rings. And there are some utterly brutal, soulless women involved in those rings. Almost always. That's their goal, is to gain the trust of the victims. What's their job?

Michael Angelo (44:29)

Because this is usually portrayed as a dude thing, obviously, but they have these women helpers that can go out and get the chicks for them. God dang it. Got in some of the texts that they had in between the two of them in the New York Post were rough because he would. He was into the whole hitting people thing. And like one of his texts he sent, I. I went. I went pretty far on this one. We're gonna have to work really hard to give her enough money for her to keep her mouth shut.

Joe Getty (45:00)

Wow.

Michael Angelo (45:01)

I mean, like. Yeah, it's brutal.

Joe Getty (45:03)

Oh, my.

Michael Angelo (45:04)

He's super well known, you know, man about town. What is wrong with people, man?

Joe Getty (45:11)

Money can buy a lot. Including that lifestyle, I guess for a while.

Michael Angelo (45:16)

God, yeah, I guess.

Joe Getty (45:18)

Sick. How much time do we have, Michael? A minute and 30 minute, 30. You know, I've got, believe it or not, some really interesting follow up stuff on Charlie Kirk and his assassination and the reaction to it. Probably don't have time to get into it exactly. But the way I was going to get into it was I was talking to a friend yesterday. I'll just leave it at that. We have an association, deal with each other. But he was dealing with a person. Very bright, personable, likable fella. Political lefty. And this guy was at this point, it was, I think early this week. Guy is completely convinced beyond a shadow of doubt that the young man who assassinated Charlie Kirk was a MAGA enthusiast who thought Charlie Kirk didn't go far enough.

Michael Angelo (46:10)

That whole, like Jimmy Kimmel said, completely.

Joe Getty (46:14)

Convinced of that still.

Michael Angelo (46:16)

Wow.

Joe Getty (46:17)

And then went on around a rant, but. And the irony, police are going to lay down their arms and retire. Then went on a rant about how people are Brainwashed by Fox News and how it is so one sided.

Michael Angelo (46:29)

Okay.

Joe Getty (46:29)

And my friend was like, what do you say to somebody? Like he was not in a position to say anything to the guy for reasons of commerce, but okay. It's amazing, isn't it?

Michael Angelo (46:43)

Yeah, I'd say I don't know how society works when you got that completely different set of facts out there.

Joe Getty (46:49)

The president of the press college Professors association in America is still claiming Charlie Kirk's assassin was a right wing kid. It's amazing.

Michael Angelo (47:07)

It's final thoughts.

Joe Getty (47:07)

I'm strong again. Get ready with Katie Green and Michael Angelo.

Michael Angelo (47:15)

Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

Joe Getty (47:18)

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day. There is Michelangelo pressing the buttons in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought?

Michael Angelo (47:24)

You know what I love about playoff.

Joe Getty (47:25)

Baseball is that there's always the role players that become superstars and then you have the superstars that shrink.

Michael Angelo (47:31)

Exactly.

Joe Getty (47:32)

Yeah, true. It happens. Katie Greener steam to news woman has a final thought. Katie, I have already informed my husband that we will be referring to it as a shower poof from here on out. There you go. It's the proper term. Jack, a final thought for us. Yeah.

Michael Angelo (47:47)

Shohei Ohtani did not shrink last night. Two home runs in game one for the Dodgers. But it's hard to root for a team with the payroll that they've got. I mean it's so close to buying a world series. It just, I don't know, I have trouble getting on board with that.

Joe Getty (48:00)

Oh, and you're a long time bandwagon jumper too.

Michael Angelo (48:03)

Yeah, this one feels extra dirty.

Joe Getty (48:06)

My final thought is echoing something we discussed earlier in the show. Ask if they're teaching phonics at your kids schools and if they're not, get them out of there. The crazes that took hold in American education over the last 20 years, the woke period and screwed up these kids ability to learn is just unforgivable.

Michael Angelo (48:28)

Yeah, maybe even talk to people in your school board or teachers or whatever about the. Hey, you heard about the Mississippi miracle? What do you think of that?

Joe Getty (48:35)

Yeah, bring it up a lot.

Michael Angelo (48:36)

Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

Joe Getty (48:39)

So many people. Thanks. So little time. Go to armstrongandgetty.com the clicks. Oh, the clicks, the hot links. Katie's corner. You can email us mailbag@armstrongandgetty.com. pick up a T shirt or a hoodie or a hat or something for your favorite A and G fan. And it helps keep everybody on the payroll during these difficult times.

Michael Angelo (48:58)

Now we're getting close enough to Christmas too. You might want to start thinking about that. We'll see tomorrow. God Bless America. Armstrong and get it they see gender.

Joe Getty (49:08)

Is only a construct and sex is assigned at birth.

Michael Angelo (49:11)

And they say we are done with that. Transing kids by self diagnosis, no age.

Joe Getty (49:16)

Limit, no parental notification and no acknowledgement of social contagion.

Michael Angelo (49:20)

We are done with that. Homelessness is a lifestyle. Done with that.

Joe Getty (49:25)

Whiteness is toxic.

Michael Angelo (49:26)

Done.

Joe Getty (49:27)

Penises in women's prisons? Done.

Michael Angelo (49:29)

Welcoming the intifada. We are done, done done with that.

Joe Getty (49:32)

Armstrong and Getty Ah come on.

Jack Armstrong (49:36)

Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.

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