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Joe Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at.
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Jack Armstrong
The George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty. They've been after this guy for years and years and years and you know he's a violent guy. He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit, but he's a violent guy and he's.
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Joe Getty
Killed millions of people. Yeah, I mentioned. I was listening to a podcast yesterday with some expert from some think tank, and these were definitely not Trump friendly people. But the guy from the think tank said, look, we've, we've indicted the guy. We had a, whatever, $50 million bounty on his head, all these different things. But nobody ever acted to follow through on any of this stuff. And it needed to happen at some point as they continued to do more and more business with our number one enemies, Iran, Russia and China.
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Jack Armstrong
Right, right. And interestingly, it was in an article I was reading about Democrats who were pissed off that their party is just knee jerk condemning it after they'd been calling for the ouster Maduro for years and years. But one of the folks said, yeah, everybody's saying there could be unintended consequences. There are unintended consequences to leaving the guy in office. Come on, we can't be against every action. Which I thought was a very good and reasonable thing to say. Michael, do we have the theme music I was looking for? Ready? As Hansen advised you on that. Don't play it. Just let me know.
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Joe Getty
No.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, Jack. It's all turned into a huego Detronos. And that's all we can lose to use because we're in copyright laws. It's turned into a Game of Thrones that's in Spanish hue. Go Detronos.
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Joe Getty
And that's what that music was.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. That's the theme for the game.
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Joe Getty
I never watched. Got. I'm going to watch the first episode I've ever seen tonight, Episode one, season one.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, good.
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Joe Getty
Just decided to watch that.
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Jack Armstrong
So I, I enjoy the hell out of it, the whole thing. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Anyway, and the idea of the Game of Thrones is, you know, you want to be the king. There's a lot of people that want to take you down all the time. A lot of intrigue, a lot of this and that. You know, whether it's Shakespeare or Game of Thrones or the history of every country on earth, it's a common thing.
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Jack Armstrong
A lot of power, a lot of big players, a lot of small players. And sometimes the small players can have an incredibly big effect, have a incredibly big effect on the outcome. So just to throw out a little Game of Thrones description for you, and we got a bunch of players here. President Trump. Now, this is the king.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
This is the big power. Your Game of Thrones fan. You can fill in the names if you like he announced, A we're running Venezuela and B the Venezuelan interim authorities. How interim? That remains to be seen. Will give the US between 30 and 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil with the proceeds overseen by the White House to, quote, benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States, said Donald J. Trump.
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Joe Getty
That's a heck of an and yeah, yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Venezuela's Ministry of Information didn't respond to requests for comments. Ask Trump what we're supposed to say.
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Joe Getty
And U.S. sure.
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Jack Armstrong
Everybody wins. After the U.S. captured strongman Nicholas Maduro, Trump announced the U.S. would take control of Venezuela's oil reserves and bring American oil companies into the country to rebuild the oil industry and infrastructure. Said Donald J. Quote, what we want to do is fix up the oil, fix up the country, bring the country back and then have elections. Whoa, say the dedicated klepto narco communists running the country and Maduro being gone. Nothing we can do about that. But what's this about elections? They will not go down. Not swinging, Moving along the Wall Street Journal editorial board or I'm sorry, it's an individual writer Thor Halvorson says tell Delsey Rodriguez you're fired. And he goes into the very game of thrones. The vice president of Venezuela, Delsey Rodriguez, who is an iron fisted, cartel friendly communist torturer, she designed and ran the torture programs for Venezuela. She's our new buddy that's gonna lead the reform. Wait, what?
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Announcer
What?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, and she said very unfriendly things the day we took Maduro, then said nicer things a couple days later when she rethought it or I don't know what, what, what's going on in her head. She's got to be doing a lot of calculating every single day.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
If I'm too friendly with Trump, I'm going to get a bullet in my head. If I'm not friendly enough with Trump, I'm probably going to get a bullet in my head because they think they're. That I'm going to upset the whole apple cart of making money off of drugs.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm seeing one commonality between those two outcomes and it's the old B.
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Joe Getty
And the H.
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Jack Armstrong
Here are a few sentences worthy of consideration to understand Ms. Rodriguez in her situation, which Jack is so poetically described to us. Reports indicate the Trump administration has struck a deal with Rodriguez, Mr. Maduro's iron fisted vice president, positioning her as a transitional leader. She has, it seems, convinced US officials she can dismantle the Maduro dictatorship, which would have to include demonic mobilizing the armed militias. These Quasi governmental goon squads they have roaming the streets. How the hell is she gonna do that? Oh, that's just a job number one. There's more. Disbanding the dreaded secret police, and if you have time after dinner, ending the regime's drug empire. But this is a fantasy. Ms. Rodriguez will fail spectacularly, leading to the final unraveling. One more little bit of info. Venezuela is not like Mexico, where the state coexists uneasily with the cartels who are over here. Here the cartel is the state. Factions like enriched generals, intelligent chiefs and narco traffickers won't surrender power in some Washington broker deal. Ms. Rodriguez herself faces insurmountable obstacles, including her utter lack of legitimacy. Never elected vice president, she has less authority than Maduro, the usurper who appointed her. And hatred for Ms. R.O. rodriguez among Venezuelans is visceral. She tortured my dad to death. Style hatred.
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Joe Getty
She's got to be working a deal with somebody. Excuse me.
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Jack Armstrong
It's the superflu.
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Joe Getty
God, I hope not. She's got to be working a deal to leave the country, isn't she? She's got to get out of there. Of course, I don't know why we would not.
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Jack Armstrong
She's got bigger huevos than most men on earth.
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Joe Getty
I don't know why we'd give her a deal. Screw you. That so you know, you made your bed, sleep in it. This ain't going to work out for you. That's. That sucks for you. I don't know why we'd make her a deal, but she. She's got to be thinking, who can I. Where can I steal a couple of million and, you know, get some plastic surgery and disappear to another country?
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Covino and Rich
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
I mean, seriously, I can't imagine how she doesn't end up either in jail or dead at the end of the month.
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Jack Armstrong
If I were her advisor, I would say, here's our strategy. We feign full cooperation with Trump, but give him as much cooperation as it takes to last out the next three years. Because three years is a blip. And we just survive for three years and we go back to running the thing the way we've always run it. If J.D. vance gets elected, well, then we gotta rethink it again. But if some Democrat gets elected, then we go back to running the place.
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Joe Getty
She's gotta be in contact with those heavyweights in the cartels, though, on a regular basis. And the head of the military? Oh, 100%. 100%?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I mean, they're. They're sitting next to her in her office.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. And keep telling him, look, I'm on your side. Right. I don't want to end this.
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Jack Armstrong
What's a good juego di tronos without a super villain? And that is probably Dios Dado.
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Joe Getty
Cabello.
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Jack Armstrong
Play the theme. Play the theme. Cabello. I said in a forbidding voice. That's right.
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Joe Getty
That's all we can play because of copyright laws.
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Jack Armstrong
There's this. Here's a picture of the dude. He's got a big wooden bat with KN notches on it that he's evidently gonna bash somebody's head in. He. He has an hours long weekly show on state television called Bringing down the Hammer to make sure everybody's good and terrorized. He is.
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Joe Getty
Is that like My Two Dads or something like that? Is that a sitcom?
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Jack Armstrong
It's not like that at all. No. No. Cabello is the belligerent and eccentric de facto leader of Venezuela's security forces and brutal militias. He's a wild car country's future. He's long positioned himself as the regime's fiercest defender, commanding some of the collectivos, which are the armed gangs who roared through Caracas on motorbikes this week in a menacing show of force.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I was wondering.
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Jack Armstrong
I was just gonna say off the air, you made a very apt comparison.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, he seems like the Prigozhin of Venezuela. That. That guy that, that Putin had and then at some point turned on Putin and Putin had to have him killed. But that kind of a guy. But there was a Washington Post headline yesterday. Fear grips Caracas. That's the big city there in Venezuela. Fear grips Caracas as a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela. And I couldn't. And I was looking for. Is the Washington Post just, you know, hoping for this so much and coming up with as many examples as they can to make it seem like Trump has made things worse for people there, or is this actually happening?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, it is. It is he. The very night of the snatching, caballo is toting a rifle and riling up black uniformed security forces before they patrolled Caracas to prevent citizens from protesting in favor of the abduction or against the government. Doubting is treason, he bellowed before telling the armed group now off to battle in the streets for victory. Well, that's a tough one for us.
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Joe Getty
I don't want to have evil gangs riding motorcycles through the streets, beating protesters down, but we don't want that place to turn into chaos either. We don't want people in the streets and looting banks and blah, blah, blah.
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Jack Armstrong
Blah, blah, which happens What a beautiful transition, Jack. To the next chapter of the Huego Detronos. Give me one second of the theme, Michael.
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Joe Getty
Come on.
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Jack Armstrong
There it is. So there's no Juego Detronos without a beloved princess who you hope can win, right? That would be Maria. I can never remember. Middle name Machado, who is the freely elected leader of the opposition. She's actually the most powerful politician in Venezuela. Why not let her rule? Well, as Trump said. And he said it poorly, he said it badly. I hate the way he said it, but I see his point. She doesn't control the apparatus of power in the country. The cartellernment does. The govtel.
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Joe Getty
Let's keep working on it.
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Jack Armstrong
The cabal of thieves runs the government, the security forces, the army, the police, and to boot them out to de baathify Venezuela, to compare it with Iraq, would bring on absolute chaos and then a real Game of Thrones battle for supremacy.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, and then we would probably have to have boots on the ground. Unless we were just gonna let it fall into anarchy for a while. That would be very, very ugly.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. His story is not over, right? Oh, no, no, no. I read with interest a piece by Holman Jenkins, who's a terrific writer, writes mostly for the Wall Street Journal, but he says a puzzle for today is the sluggish response of the opposition led by Ms. Machado. Take over a floor in a Washington hotel, hold court, plaster your, get a plane and paint it in the national colors. Announce a date for your return to Caracas when 200,000 turn out at the airport to greet you. It's over, the country's yours. That would be a very Game of Thronesy or I'm sorry, Huego di Tronos move then. Final, final note. Every Juego di Tronos needs a dragon and jack for the United States. Was that the Growler? The Growler. The signal jamming jet that helped capture King Maduro. It's this amazing bit of technology. It's very classified. The Boeing EA 18G Growler, specialist in electronic warfare, once a neglected part of combat, has enjoyed a renaissance in electronic warfare. You want to knock out communication, radar, other signals. And the Growler, whoa, it gets it done. Better than a dragon in this Huego Detronos.
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Joe Getty
I don't know what I think of the name Growler, but it'll do. Okay, we got more on the way.
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Jack Armstrong
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
To shave your beard. So we passed.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
As a promotion. I don't know how you say no to that.
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Jack Armstrong
Boy. Adjusted for inflation, that's a couple mil. Probably because they were already so successful, I guess. And the fans, if you just know the hits, go back to their first two albums. Thank you. End of Screed. Holy crap.
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Joe Getty
Is it good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's hardly a cooler guy in the world than Billy F. Gibbons.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, please.
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Joe Getty
But I can't imagine saying no to that. But he thought the fans really liked it because it kind of kept with their, you know, we're cool guys. Not answering to the man. Not. Of course, back then, selling out was still a bit of a thing. Selling out is no longer a thing. Everyone sells out all the time. For clicks, money, whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
Constantly. Yeah, I remember, like the first tour sponsor, which may have been Budweiser or Pepsi or something. Whoever was the. The who or whatever got murdered for it. Oh, no, your corporate sellout. We do this for a living, you dummies.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Remember when they use a Beatles song for a Nike commercial in the 80s and it was, oh, my God, well now, Right. Everything is part of a commercial or a commercial enterprise of some sort.
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Jack Armstrong
It's not necessarily a good thing. I was. I was too cynical because I've. I've talked about, about, you know, the confluence of art and commerce in music and now it's changed through the years. But anyway, that's a topic for another time.
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Joe Getty
I was looking at Bloomberg. They had A headline. Here's almost everything Wall street expects in 2026. And we talk a lot about AI around here and the economy. And if you're paying attention at all, you know that they are very, very linked to all these records the stock market's been setting for the last year. It's like seven companies and it's almost all about AI. Anyway, according to Bloomberg, this is what Wall street is expecting. Astronomical expenditure on AI, uncertain rates of return, uneven pace of adoption. By now, every firm on Wall street is well aware of the risks around artificial intelligence. But when it comes to the year ahead. And they talk to many, many investment firms across the investment outlooks, more than 60 institutions compiled by Bloomberg News, the optimism is almost universal. Very few advocate walking away from what they describe as a revolutionary technology. So the bloom is definitely not off the rose of AI for the big firms. And they're investing in 26.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, that's interesting.
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Joe Getty
Okay, I'd say.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, I think we've become so used to the incredibly frantic pace of change, the idea that this might take a few years more to work out seems to a lot of people like, ah, it'll never go anywhere. And even with the give it time.
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Joe Getty
Couple of setbacks here and there, you know, people killing themselves or some of these hallucinations that are hilarious or whatever, most of these firms still think, no, this is gonna be the biggest thing and we need to be on board.
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Jack Armstrong
I think it'll be the ruin of mankind. I haven't changed my mind on that either, but no, what are you gonna do?
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Joe Getty
Absolutely will be the ruin of mankind. No doubt about it.
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Jack Armstrong
Kind of lead.
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Joe Getty
Got a tale as old as time about socialists, among other things on the way. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettys.
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Jack Armstrong
The American Heart association has revived the theory that light drinking may be good for you.
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Covino and Rich
They've revived that theory.
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Jack Armstrong
The theory actually needed reviving because it was found passed out behind a dumpster hugging a burrito.
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Joe Getty
I haven't heard the latest. Drinking's good for you, drinking's bad for you. Whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, whatever.
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Joe Getty
Do whatever you want to do. But the new dietary guidelines are going to be announced today by RFK Jr. We have an inkling of what they're going to be, so maybe we'll get into that a little bit later. And who cares what the government tells you to eat anyway? Especially after the COVID what the CDC or FDA recommends. Whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I'm not listening to them. I listen to a an Instagram influencer. It's got huge Muscles. He tells me what to eat before.
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Joe Getty
I get to what I was going to get to. This is. I'm trying to concentrate today. I got a number of real life things I'm dealing with. Katie, you probably know this. You're with child, you're with your first child, and it's very excited for you. Parenting is exhausting. I'm just. Just throwing that out there. I've heard it's never ending. Exhausting. Yeah, that's. That's the key line right now. If I ever say I'm tired, everybody.
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Jack Armstrong
Goes, oh, you're not gonna sleep for the next 18 years. You know, the law allows you to punch them right in the face.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, you should punch them in the face for that. But I knew this at the time when I. When I started, I knew it was going to be this way, that it was going to be physically exhausting in the beginning, but mentally not that challenging. It's pretty easy to know what to do, you know, keep them fed, water and change diaper now and then. It wasn't that. As they got older, though, it's not physically tiring mentally. The challenge just gets enormous as they. As they get into the older ages. So that's an interesting shift, the first part to it. The first part with the. The physical tiredness. Yes. Everybody will tell you that they should just shut up.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. It becomes much like negotiating with the Maduro regime as they move into the teenage years. There are a few good solutions, only options or something, I don't know.
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Joe Getty
Right, right. There are no good choices here.
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Jack Armstrong
There's just the least bad choice.
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Announcer
But.
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Joe Getty
Physically not near as tiring. So we've played this clip a couple of days in a row. It's so good. Why not play it a third day in a row? Who is this woman for mum? Donnie? It doesn't really matter. She's, you know, close to him.
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Jack Armstrong
She is Sia Weaver, his New York City tenant rights or tenant protection director. New York City has the most renters of any city in America. Not surprisingly. It's a lot of people. She has power.
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Joe Getty
And the fact that anyone is in a high level of government anywhere, let alone in New York City, it's just amazing. Who would say this?
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Jack Armstrong
I think the reality is, is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.
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Joe Getty
A different relationship to property. That's a lot of words to say. People shouldn't be able to own homes. I guess the government will own all.
- [28:10]
Jack Armstrong
This land and decide who gets to live where.
- [28:12]
Joe Getty
Yes, never mind that.
- [28:14]
Jack Armstrong
That property rights has been a cornerstone of Liberty for 500 years in the Western world. I'm sorry, more like a thousand years.
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Joe Getty
Well, she adds in the extra dose of. I mean, because, you know, going way back, your socialists didn't think you should be able to own land or own property. But it's specifically a white supremacy thing, which is just fantastic.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, you could hear her perk up when she threw white people, especially because she knows how well that plays with her bizarre neo Marxist crowd, especially white families. But some POC families who are homeowners as well are going to have a different relationship to property.
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Joe Getty
Does that include you? She is a white woman who, it turns out, has a $1.6 million home in Tennessee. $1.6 million home in tennessee. That's a pretty nice home. So as always happens with your socialist crowd, they mean other people, I guess, or something. I don't know what that is. It's very, very weird. But it's as old as socialist, whether it's right. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
The Bolsheviks, sure. The intellectual elites forcing it on the.
- [29:16]
Joe Getty
Masses, or going back to Karl Martin. So many socialists are just loser, lazy scumbags who. Their lives are fine and they. Though they. They live very comfortable lives off of other people usually. But they want socialism for everybody. I'd never quite understood the philosophy, how they fit it in with their own personality. Ulysses. And it's been on my mind a lot because I'm into James Joyce right now. I'm reading Ulysses, as I've mentioned 8,000 times. I'm 75% of the way through as of last night, by the way. So I'm very excited. I got through the two hardest chapters. But at the same time that I'm reading Ulysses, I'm listening to this highly acclaimed biography of James Joyce's written many, many years ago. And he was a socialist. And it's just amazing. In his personal life, he was a deadbeat. He would borrow money from friends and family and not pay him back until eventually they'd cut him off. He ate out all the time. And people would say to him, dude, you're broke. You can't afford your rent. You come across a little money and you go out to eat at a nice restaurant. Well, I deserve to enjoy the fruits of blah, blah, blah. I mean, just socialists are. What are they? Just, they're babies or they're selfish or I don't know what it is. But not only does their philosophy. I guess my point is this. Not only does their philosophy not work in that you run out of other people's money, they don't even live like decent people at all. Like they're the worst of humanity when it comes to, you know, dealing with the relationship with money and stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
And the thing that galls me the most, maybe aside from the denial of liberty among these people, is they have appointed themselves as so wise and benevolent and good that they will decide who gets what, who lives where. I will be in charge of that. Imagine the egotism of thinking you should decide that. I mean, it's astonishing. It ought to be greeted with an immediate go to hell. Please.
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Joe Getty
Karl Marx was exactly like James Joyce just 50 years earlier, without constantly borrowing money from people and wanting to have nice clothes and eat out. But he didn't support himself, so he was always in debt and, and bringing down other people around him. And this is just anecdotal, but, but in my life life, the people that were the most conservative that I've known, as far away from socialism as you can get, tend to drive older cars, vacation reasonably, live in medium sized homes, that sort of thing. It's the socialist crowd that wants to go out to nice restaurants and, and travel to fancy places and blah, blah, blah. Your own philosophy doesn't make sense mathematically. And then your lifestyle, what the hell?
- [32:03]
Jack Armstrong
So dedicated capitalist Joe Getty, for instance, married his wife in our local church and then we drove to the Poconos for our honeymoon. Zoran Mamdani, dedicated communist, had a three day wedding festival on another continent with his Ivy league professor, filmmaker, father and mother. The rest of the it, it's got money to burn. He came from enormous wealth. How do people fall for this ass?
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Joe Getty
And the woman who says home ownership shouldn't exist has a $1.6 million home right?
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Jack Armstrong
Right now. How's this for a howler? Unless you add more on that particular topic. Do you remember we featured Washington state representative Sean Scott a few months ago? He was the guy who was advocating taxing the big tech corporations like Amazon right out of Seattle. Seattle, because they're, they're snapping up all the, the rental housing and causing the, you know, the housing market to be too tight and blah, blah, blah. And you know, several of us thought, yeah, that'd be great. I tell you what, yank the tech out of Seattle, see how you're doing then, chum, you know, go ahead. You finance all of your socialist dreams anyway. So that's the same guy who was interviewed the other day by Brandy Cruz. This is Washington representative Sean Scott being asked the obvious question. Socialism never ever works. Let's start with 90. Michael, I want you to give me one example of socialism you think working well somewhere.
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Guest or Caller
A good example of socialism working well somewhere. This is a really, really cool question. I think of Cuba in particular. Very, very high literacy rate, number one. Number two, extremely strong commitment to public health.
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Joe Getty
Health.
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Guest or Caller
So that's one example that I can think of that would resonate with pretty much anybody in our state who cares about education or health care. Would you disagree with that?
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Jack Armstrong
Wow. Jack, would you like to knock that softball 450ft over the fence? Wow, that is absolutely crazy.
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Joe Getty
How old is this guy?
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Jack Armstrong
He looks to be late 20s, early 30s. That sort of the, the prime age for radical leftist who's gotten a little powerful.
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Joe Getty
Wow. How did he not dig more into Cuba and what the reality of his reality is of living in Cuba.
- [34:24]
Jack Armstrong
Oh, he's living a fantasy. I mean, huh.
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Joe Getty
He reminds me of Christopher Hitchens, who's absolutely loved. Didn't agree with all his policies certainly, but he was a big time socialist when he was young and he went to Cuba and lived there and was going to work on a coffee farm or something like that.
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Jack Armstrong
Right.
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Joe Getty
To show, blah, blah, blah. And he was there for a while and realized, okay, I'm not allowed to go where I want, I'm not allowed to say what I want to say, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and.
- [34:48]
Jack Armstrong
Got out of there fast. And the standard of living is miserable. Yeah, but because they've got some government furnished health care and, and allegedly education. That's not true, by the way. The literacy figures they always throw around. It's an absolute lie. Yeah. And they're all driving cars from 1966 because nobody can afford anything else and they have no industry. And it's unbelievable.
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Joe Getty
Here's all you need to know about these countries, really. People risk their lives, them and their children to get on rafts and go through the ocean to get out of there.
- [35:24]
Jack Armstrong
That really is all you need to know. But wait, there's more. He goes on, people flee on makeshift.
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Announcer
Rafts and die in the ocean to flee Cuba for the United States.
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Joe Getty
That's what I just said.
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Guest or Caller
Yeah. And I think that, that, that is something that absolutely we have to be Sensitive to. But you asked me about institutions that are working really, really well.
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Announcer
I asked you about places socialism is working and you chose a country that people will risk their lives to flee from to this.
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Jack Armstrong
To this country.
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Announcer
There's a reason for that, Sean.
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Guest or Caller
There was a revolution in Cuba. That is correct.
- [35:56]
Announcer
They still do it to this day. They show up on the beaches of Miami.
- [35:59]
Guest or Caller
Right.
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Announcer
Because they would rather be here and would risk their lives in shark infested rottweiled water to flee the country that you just gave me an example of.
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Jack Armstrong
Washington Representative Sean Scott. You're an effing idiot. And anybody who elected this guy, you're an effing idiot for electing an effing idiot. Are you kidding me? How stupid can our politics become? What's next? Electing dogs? I think that's the next step. Let's give him one more chance. One.
- [36:29]
Joe Getty
Sure.
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Jack Armstrong
Surely, Jack, surely this guy has one coherent idea and. Or defense of socialism.
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Guest or Caller
And if this, if the situation were reversed, the injuries and the ailments that they sustain as a result of migrating to a place where they believe that they're going to be better off. I believe that they could be treated in a much better way than American health care facilities are currently able to treat people. So that's one example that I can think of of socialism working very well in public health and image education.
- [36:59]
Jack Armstrong
All right, can you imagine that whole thing? Hanson, let us get that whole thing and hooray for Brandy.
- [37:06]
Joe Getty
Cruz, can you imagine how miserable you'd have to be to try to craft a raft and go out and raft and go out in the ocean with a decent chance of children dying or being killed by your own government? If they catch you trying to leave, can you imagine how desperate you'd have to be?
- [37:21]
Jack Armstrong
Right. And then if you did not track with that last clip, his argument was that, well, having fled Cuba in desperation and come to the United States, if they like got injured on the journey, they'd have gotten better healthcare in Cuba. That was his argument. Did I mention Representative Sean Scott of Washington State? You're an effing idiot. You should never. If somebody asks you what we should have for dinner, don't offer an opinion. You're too stupid. Stupid to have one. Good Lord. If your wife, I don't know if he has a wife asks you, do we turn left or right here? Just remain mute. You're too effing stupid to offer an opinion on that. Good Lord, this guy's in government in Washington. Check yourself.
- [38:09]
Joe Getty
I guess the one thing I've learned in the last couple of months from mayor of New York or the mayor there in Washington or whatever this guy guy is. You have to constantly fight the socialism thing and make the arguments. I thought they were tired and like it was boring to people, but apparently you have to keep doing it.
- [38:32]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. As you know one of my my jihads now for Perhaps my number one jihad that you know come to in the last 10, 15 years is that you have to keep making the arguments for liberty. We got very, very lazy and and kind of we'll just lazy and cocky as Americans that everybody understands how great liberty is. Our kids will just absorb it around them. Nobody will teach them otherwise. So we don't have to make a concerted effort to teach them. Well, the Marxists have moved into our schools. They are teaching them otherwise and we're losing the battle.
- [39:02]
Joe Getty
Wow, that is something else. Another big NFL coach got fired on what do they call that, Black Monday or Black. Yeah, Black Day or something like that.
- [39:11]
Jack Armstrong
Very dark day.
- [39:12]
Joe Getty
Dark day. Among other things. We have to talk about. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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McDonald's is facing a lawsuit that accuses them of falsely claiming its McRib sandwich contains real pork rib meat when it's actually made of restructured shoulder, heart and scalded stomach. Yeah, but people don't get as excited when you say the McStomach is back.
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Joe Getty
Heart and scalded stomach. Ew. That's what the McRib is. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Re. Well, it's reconstituted. Wow. I like big butts. And I cannot lie. Judy and I got a big old smoked pork butt the other day. Oh, that is so good. That's the best part of the pig. Nice butt, porky.
- [42:41]
Joe Getty
So the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas is going on right now. You attended several years ago. How many years ago was that, Michael?
- [42:47]
Jack Armstrong
Oh, geez, about four years ago, five years ago, I guess. Yeah.
- [42:51]
Joe Getty
What's it like? Is it crazy crowd?
- [42:52]
Jack Armstrong
It's crazy crowded. You can barely walk.
- [42:55]
Joe Getty
I would like to go someday, just walk around, check stuff out. Just more from a. The way companies, you know, trot out their new stuff standpoint them.
- [43:04]
Jack Armstrong
It's interesting because there's really cool stuff and then there's absolute crap. And there's these Chinese companies that come in and you can't even pronounce the names and they barely speak English and they're just selling junk, you know, so it's a weird dynamic. You know, you got your mate like Sony and then you got these brands you've never heard of. Yeah, that's fine. But that is intriguing.
- [43:26]
Joe Getty
That's kind of interesting because we mostly buy junk. So maybe from a walking around there looking for what's cool standpoint it seems like why are you here with your crap? People buy crap all the time. Scrap that doesn't work. So maybe that's why they're there. Anyway, the Consumer Electronics show is going on right now and I don't know what journalist wrote this, but the highlights from day one. The biggest buzzword in the air at the CES is physical AI. That's Nvidia's term for AI models that are trained in a virtual environment using computer generated. Generated Synthetic. Synthetic data. I have no idea what that means. I like when they, they use terms like that that they should know. Nobody has any idea what that means, but they just move on as if.
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Jack Armstrong
That'S a common generated synthetic data.
- [44:14]
Joe Getty
Synthetic data then deployed as physical machines once they've mastered their purpose. So I guess, I don't know. It doesn't give any examples though. I assume it'd be like Roombas. Fancy Roombas. I don't know, that sort of thing.
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Jack Armstrong
Actually, if you want next hour, I've got a great article on the technologies that will probably change our lives this year, which include robots. I mean it's going to be your early adapters who grab them and have them in their homes. But yeah, people just. Maybe it's all the damn science fiction. But people want humanoid looking computer machines. Certainly a lot of companies think we do.
- [44:51]
Joe Getty
I wonder how many years it'll be when we all have some sort of human looking robot in our house that does a lot of our tactics. Asks is that going to be in 10 years or sooner? I don't know, maybe just a common thing.
- [45:03]
Jack Armstrong
And if it empties the dishwasher, why not also have it be a sex bot? Always with the sex bot. Well, I'm just, I'm trying to see the future. Armstrong and Getty.
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