Are You Fit Enough To Dig A Shallow Grave?

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand Episode: Are You Fit Enough To Dig A Shallow Grave?
Date: November 10, 2025

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Overview

In this lively episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty dive into the intersection of media bias, political controversy, AI’s role in modern life, immigration challenges in Europe, and the simple joys (and oddities) of American diner culture. The hosts dissect the BBC's recent scandal, larger themes about media trust, society’s FOMO with AI advice, political shifts within influential think tanks, and cap it all off with personal anecdotes and tongue-in-cheek cultural observations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The BBC Scandal and Media Bias

Timestamps: 01:34–12:00

• Government shutdown update: The hosts briefly close the book on the recent government shutdown, with a focus on political spin and bipartisan negotiation.

• BBC’s January 6th Documentary:

  • BBC leaders resign after major misrepresentation of Trump’s January 6 speech in a documentary released suspiciously close to the U.S. election (02:32-[04:20]).
    • Jack explains: "They took two pieces from his speech that were almost an hour apart and put them together in a way that made it look much more like he was calling for the violent overthrow of the government than he actually did." ([03:10])
  • Trump responds with a threatened $1 billion lawsuit, drawing further public attention ([04:04]).

• Deeper critique:

  • The BBC is accused of having "serious and systemic bias," including on transgender issues and Middle East coverage, evidenced by recent broadcasting scandals ([05:13]).
  • Comparison to NPR: "The world's NPR... recently drastically expanded its footprint in the US through a partnership with PBS... It’s widely viewed by American viewers as impartial and authoritative — but the British know better." (C, [06:02])

• Notable Quote:

  • C quoting Andrew Marr: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral... It has a liberal bias—not so much a party bias exactly. It's better expressed as a cultural liberal bias." ([06:37])

• Future of the BBC:

  • The network’s future funding (license fee) is in question. Political leaders suggest privatization or a subscription model on the horizon ([09:00]).
  • Satirical asides about terminology: "I traduce like a mother for a living." ([11:03])

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2. Media, Free Speech, and Campus Culture Wars

Timestamps: 11:11–13:21

• British politicians retaliate, framing accountability as an attack on free speech, while the hosts highlight the irony given actual free speech issues in the UK ([11:11]).
• U.S. campus cancel culture and the persistent narrative of a supposed "war on the left" are called out as media fantasy ([11:48]).
  • "The technique... you introduce gay porn into an elementary school library, then when I say you can't give gay porn to 9-year-olds, you accuse me of being a right-wing censor... Don't be bullied by these people anymore." (B, [12:50])

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3. AI, Therapy, and Privacy

Timestamps: 15:11–19:49

• Joe shares his experiment using three major AI chatbots (Claude, Grok, ChatGPT) for family therapy advice and conflict resolution ([15:11]).

  • "This is the best ever... I've spent probably six figures in my life on therapists... and this is the best ever. It's just amazing to me." (B, [15:30])
  • The bots sometimes disagree, and Joe gets them to argue, showing their nuanced, evolving responses ([16:36], [17:09]).

• Concerns about building up data profiles and privacy:

  • "They keep all this information... and when you ask them next week, Grok will say, 'Do you remember you had this problem two months ago…?'" (B, [17:59])

• Comedic callback: "Are you healthy enough to dig a shallow grave?"—AI’s wacky suggestion ([16:36], [18:45]).

• Jack relates the freakiness of AI knowing personal details through casual conversation ([18:59]).

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4. Supreme Court News Updates

Timestamps: 20:51–21:52

• Major cases:
  • SCOTUS to take up a Mississippi mail-in ballot case which could impact U.S. voting laws ([20:51]).
  • The Court won’t revisit the landmark gay marriage ruling, despite media hype to the contrary ([21:38]).
  • Quip: "If you’re going to buy a slave, bad news." (C, [21:38])

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5. Heritage Foundation and Right-Wing Politics

Timestamps: 21:52–23:30

• Internal shifts at the Heritage Foundation:
  • Employees told to align with Tucker Carlson’s pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine rhetoric—delete pro-Ukraine tweets, write new "isolationist" position papers ([22:24]).
  • "It's astonishing to me that the Heritage Foundation would become an instrument of Russian propaganda." (Quoting David French, [23:17])

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6. European Immigration Challenges

Timestamps: 23:30–29:01

• Britain struggling with “Channel migrants”—38,500 have crossed this year, with local rules making it hard to deter or deport them ([24:17]).

• Startling court ruling in Sweden: Eritrean migrant who raped a 16-year-old girl is not deported because "the rape didn’t last long enough" ([25:01]).

  • "The rape was deemed not serious enough to justify deportation..." ([25:45])

• UK’s own crime data shows vastly higher crime conviction rates among certain migrant groups, but authorities tried to suppress the data ([27:58]).

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7. Human Oddities, Asteroids, and Art Market Absurdities

Timestamps: 29:01–32:49

• A gold-laden asteroid valued at $700 quintillion is passing by Earth ([29:01]).
  • "Not sure gold would continue to hold the value it has if we each had 7,000 pounds of it..." (B, [29:34])
• Art world satire:
  • The $6.2 million duct-taped banana artist now makes a gold toilet titled "America 2016" ([31:00]).
  • "Some rich progressive will buy that because they want to be known as the person that bought the Trump art." (B, [32:09])

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8. Diner Stories & Americana

Timestamps: 34:14–37:41

• Jack takes his kids to a “well-known diner chain” late at night, recounting a story of redemptive pancakes and flavorless bacon ([34:14–36:53]).
  • "We had more fun talking about the bacon, trying to figure out if it had any flavor whatsoever... completely lacking a flavor, which is very hard to do." (B, [35:19])
• Recounts the "floor show" that comes with late-night diners—the joys and perils of the late shift ([36:53–37:41])
  • "Get a couple of girls rolling around on the floor pulling each other's hair while you're eating your biscuits and gravy, that's a good time." (C, [37:41])

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9. Final Thoughts & Memorable Quotes

Timestamps: 38:10–40:53

• Michaelangelo on golf bets spilling into the stands (lighthearted banter) ([38:27]).
• Jack’s insight: "My memories of doing stuff with my dad or my family... those kinds of moments stick in my mind more than planned activities of great expense." ([38:59])
• Joe’s shout-out to Jennifer Lawrence for swearing off political commentating:
  • "Celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for—and so then what am I doing?" (C, [39:20])
• The episode ends with bemused, irreverent banter, Joe mocking a news bite about AOC: "AOC’s chunking up. Wow... She's maturing Jack, as a young woman..." ([40:28])

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Memorable Quotes

• On the BBC scandal:
  • "They took two pieces from his speech that were almost an hour apart and put them together in a way that made it look much more like he was calling for the violent overthrow of the government than he actually did." (B, [03:10])
• AI therapy revelation:
  • "This is the best ever... I've spent probably six figures in my life on therapists... and this is the best ever. It's just amazing to me." (B, [15:30])
• BBC impartiality, quoted from Andrew Marr:
  • "The BBC is not impartial or neutral... It has a liberal bias—not so much a party bias exactly. It's better expressed as a cultural liberal bias." (C, [06:37])
• Satirical AI warning:
  • "Are you healthy enough to dig a shallow grave?" (C, [16:36])
• On mundane family moments:
  • "My memories of doing stuff with my dad or my family... those kinds of moments stick in my mind more than planned activities of great expense." (B, [38:59])
• Jennifer Lawrence political epiphany:
  • "Celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for..." (C, [39:20])

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Highlighted Timestamps for Reference

• [03:10] – BBC misediting Trump’s speech
• [06:37] – Andrew Marr’s quote on BBC bias
• [15:30] – Joe raves about AI replacing therapists
• [16:36] – AI’s “shallow grave” advice
• [22:24] – Heritage Foundation’s internal turmoil
• [25:45] – Swedish court's shocking decision on deportation
• [29:34] – The gold asteroid
• [31:00] – "America 2016" gold toilet as performance art
• [34:14] – Jack’s late-night diner story
• [38:59] – Jack's reflection on meaningful family moments

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Tone & Style

• The banter is quick, irreverent, and skeptical, especially toward institutions and media narratives.
• Humor is ever-present, even (and especially) in dark or absurd segments.
• The hosts favor plainspoken, sometimes blunt, commentary—sometimes veering into satirical or sarcastic asides.

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Conclusion

This episode seamlessly combines media criticism, political cynicism, and relatable personal tales, all set to Armstrong & Getty’s signature tone. The show delivers pointed, sometimes controversial, but always entertaining takes on the news cycle and the quirks of modern living.

Transcript

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Broadcasting live from the abraham lincoln radio studio at the george.

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Washington broadcast center jack armstrong and joe.

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Getty armstrong and getty and now here's.

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Armstrong and getty this is the beginning.

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To show and fight for americans across.

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The country let me just say this with the government open we can focus on passing a full bipartisan budget for twenty twenty six i understand that not all of my democratic colleagues are satisfied with this agreement but waiting another week or another month wouldn't deliver a better.

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Outcome it was our judgment after six weeks going on seven weeks of this shutdown that that path wasn't working and airlines which have been the second two senators there that's of your eight democratic senators that voted to open the government back up the second two were being honest that first one thought this is our opportunity to fight okay try to spin it that way with you want you went ahead and voted to open the government without holding out to get the obamacare subsidies extended which is fine it wasn't going to happen so anyhow exactly shut down appears to be over the supreme court has made a couple of big announcements a case they will take up a case they won't take up we'll get to those coming up.

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What all right i'll stay tuned so we were talking about the bbc earlier they're embroiled in a scandal jack you described it pretty well that they very very creatively edited a trump speech from january sixth this is a big deal.

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The top two people at the bbc the biggest news organization in the world stepped down last night why the london telegraph did a story just a week ago outing the fact that the bbc had incredibly misrepresented donald trump's speech the day of january sixth you remember the whole insurrection thing like that so the bbc drops a documentary about january sixth a week before our presidential election for all those you worry about you know the united states getting involved in other people's elections or whatever the freaking bbc decides to put out a documentary about january sixth the week before our election interesting timing in which they had edited together what trump was saying they took two pieces from his speech that were almost an hour apart and put them together in a way that made it look much more like he was calling for the violent overthrow of the government than he actually did and the telegraph i don't know how they just got wind of it somebody must have leaked to them or something yes that's exactly.

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What happened yeah anyway are you sure it wasn't two related thoughts but he went on an hour long riff about hannibal lecter in between rosie o' donnell.

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Right but it the fact that the telegraph put this out a week ago and last night the top two people the bbc resigned and now trump said he's going to sue for a billion dollars which i think partially is to put it in the news because then people will have to hear about the.

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Story right yeah and well done so i think we're having a moment here an international moment and here's what i mean as jack mentioned tim davy the head of the bbc the british broadcasting corporation and deborah turnis the ceo of bbc news by the way this gal was the president of nbc news from twenty thirteen through twenty seventeen wow yeah here in america they announced their resignation sunday series of scandals that's rocked the bbc this year the telegraph report that jack mentioned it was reporting on a leaked dossier compiled by journalist michael prescott who had been hired to advise the bbc on standards and guidelines and then they go into the donald trump thing prescott accused the corporation of serious and systemic bias he also criticized the bbc's coverage of transgender issues wildly biased as well as the network's anti israel bias evident in the bbc arabic service you may recall in february the broadcasting regulator ofcom had slammed the network for a documentary about gaza that featured a child narrator who turned out to be the son of a hamas official and they knew it a lot all along but they pretended that he was just a plucky little palestinian boy interestingly the blow up at the bbc is a big deal it is one hundred and three years old it is the oldest global broadcaster employing twenty one thousand people who churn out thousands of hours of programming in many language thousands languages i'm sorry i'm skipping ahead thousands of hours of.

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Lefty programming in many languages they are.

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The world's npr yeah it recently drastically expanded its footprint in the us through a partnership with pbs there's a shock its website attracts more than sixty million monthly visitors from the us and as they point out in the national review it's widely viewed by american viewers as impartial and authoritative right but the british know better the former political editor of the bbc admitted some years ago this is andrew marr quote the bbc is not impartial or neutral it's a publicly funded urban organization with an abnormally large number of young people ethnic minorities and gay people it has a liberal bias not so much a party bias exactly not so much a party political bias it's better expressed as a cultural liberal bias and then they mentioned how they frequently wandered into the twilight zone just last week the bbc's executive complaints unit found that presenter martine croxel had broken its impartiality rules by explaining on there that the phrase pregnant people referred to women.

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Well you don't want to cross.

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That line right right but they they roasted her for that how dare you say that someone who's pregnant is a woman it won't surprise anyone that the reaction to most of the media to the bbc's many lapses has been to adopt the passive admission that mistakes have been made yes it was according to.

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The president it was an error in judgment and not i tried to slip it by because i wanted to affect the us election and not have donald trump get elected i did it on purpose i knew exactly what i was doing and i got caught a year.

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Later and then of course they're they're now saying like the left wing guardian the bbc is facing a coordinated politically motivated attack with these resignations it has given in so the story isn't the bbc is wildly biased and dishonest it's republicans pounce you know in essence right.

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And as we have said so many times over the years overreaching does you so much harm more harm than good if you're on the winning side of an argument and i think you know declaring january sixth is something awful that trump played a horrible role in you're in pretty solid ground in my mind you don't need to make stuff up.

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But when you don't gild the lily.

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But if you make stuff up and you get caught then everybody has the permission structure in their mind to discount everything you say in the future bunch.

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Of lily gilders anyway so john fund is writing about this for the national review and he says almost twenty years ago i met the late vladimir bukovsky the former soviet dissident who spent a decade in the gulag before being released in nineteen seventy six i asked him how he liked living in britain he said he loved it with the exception of the bbc he tagged it for being slavishly in favor of the european union worshipful of climate change extremists and opposed to israel he said that in protest he hadn't paid his annual license fee you like have to pay a tax to support the bbc and fund writes that he's talked to charles moore the official biographer of margaret thatcher i really need to read that book but he refuses to pay that license fee he told me that the proliferation of tv channels makes a mockery of the original justification of that fee or npr or pbs for that matter that a government broadcaster must ensure quality programming and he points out that that other countries have abandoned this model here's the part that really convinced me that we might be having a moment the bbc's royal charter ends in twenty twenty seven and its renewal could force it to adopt new approaches such as subscription pricing selling advertising or scaling back its ambitious reach it would be about time then they quote daniel hanan who's a member of the house of lords let's drop this pretense that the bbc somehow represents an olympian purity to which no other broadcaster can aspire let the corpor raise its own funds let it pursue whatever news agenda it likes but for heaven's sake stop taking our money and using it to trample on our values the way.

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That it's so similar to npr is i mean it's almost exactly the same thing i hear i listen to npr every day and i hear the promos they run with callers i'm just so happy somebody out there is still fighting to have the truth on the air without any bias like just laughable i.

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Know i know it's hilarious.

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Here you.

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Go he actually i you know what i edited the guy from the house of lords because he used the word traduce and i wasn't sure exactly what it means i had an idea i deuce t r a deuce traduce speak badly of or tell lies about someone or something so as to damage its reputation okay i'm traditional yeah the bbc is traducing the values of good british.

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People i traduce like a mike bunch of traduces traduce like a mother for.

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A living oh please introduce an mf.

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Some of the pushback not surprisingly from some people with the bbc and some of the lefty politicians in great britain has been how this is the same sort of people in trump world that are stifling free speech in america are trying to do it here and we won't have it now that's rich given the recent history in great britain of locking people up who tweeted something about you know a trans woman that they didn't like they lock you up that this is this is gonna stifle free speech by forcing bbc to to own up to the fact that they were editing speeches to make them look worse than they were so there's this new.

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Movie out with is it julia roberts i can't remember as a professor and i sat on this review by michelle goldberg in the new york times for a long time i was gonna bring it to the show but she dismisses this movie which is about campus cancel culture and the difficulty of stepping outside the mainstream of far left thought on campuses and she dismissed the movie as like nostalgia for a different time she says because we all know the real tone on college campuses right now is the war on the left wow and that it's just really hard to be left of center on college campuses these days because of trump's war on academic freedom she stated that as fact in the new york times so it does it which is just hilarious and i've got mounds of evidence for you if you need it but so yeah of course that's the strategy yeah there it's like you know two years ago some activist group oh that reminds me i've got a bunch of stuff that an undercover teacher sent us from the sacramento school district that they were handing out to little children a couple of years ago about trans rights and far left politics but anyway sorry i distracted myself it's like the technique of the two years ago you introduced gay porn into an elementary school library then when i say whoa you can't be given gay porn nine year olds you accuse me of being a right wing censor look at him banning books ridiculous don't be bullied by these people anymore so the.

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Shutdown'S over gonna get the airports back up and running i just saw a report that i don't how true this is if there's one person in america they would report it but tsa workers have been sleeping in their cars many have just tens of dollars in their bank accounts so they've moved out of.

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Their place and they're sleeping in their.

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Cars because of the shutdown i guess anyway we got some other news on the way too stay here armstrong and.

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Could you be more specific when it's.

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Cravinient okay like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter available right down the street at am pm or a.

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Savory breakfast sandwich i can grab in.

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Just a second at am pm i'm.

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Seeing a pattern here well yeah we're talking about what i crave which is.

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Anything from ampm what more could you.

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Want stop by ampm where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient that's cray venience am pm too much good stuff a husband and wife from miami have been named the world's oldest married couple with a combined age of two hundred sixteen years which sounds really sweet until you realize the husband is two hundred and fifty so off air joe just said to me that he asked claude a question yeah ai chatbot and it's spinning i've noticed claude takes longer to think than grok or chat gpt but i wanted to bring this up i had a like a therapist question that i posed to all three of my chatbots kind of a complicated family dynamic thing how to handle it's the advice from all three while one stood out as fairly different than the other two but was just mind blowingly thorough and intuitive and just all kinds of good and i have spent probably six figures in my life on therapists for various family members and this and those sort of thing and this is the best ever it's just amazing to me i i continue to be stunned like i sit there and think that's brilliant what a brilliant idea wow but.

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I'Ve had a similar experience although i did ask claude about a dispute with a neighbor and it said are you healthy enough to dig a shallow grave which is not healthy so i'd ask.

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This complicated dynamic to all three and claude's answer was a bit of an outlier from the other two on sending a like a shorter more succinct email than like getting into complications and so then i presented it to the other two i said hey this is what claude said and i gave claude's answer and chat gpt said i agree with claude on points two and three but on one and four i think that really claude is really off base it was interesting to have them kind of argue with each other and then you know flesh it out and then i made my own decision ai on ai.

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Violence.

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Freaking fascinating wow yeah wow especially.

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Given how these things work which you know i won't explain to you because a you probably already have an idea and b i do a poor job but they that they would have disagreements and say yeah he's partly right but not really okay and i know where our tech savvy listeners are constantly lecturing us they don't think they just have an enormous database of what's the most likely next thing to be said blah blah blah okay but that's coming close.

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So here's where i get closer to sounding like a crazy person but one of the reasons i don't like my kids screwing with grok is because they keep track of all your conversations and it's it's helpful in many ways so for instance if you're figuring out how to handle a boss you've got a boss you struggling with how to manage up or get along with or whatever and you like on a daily basis or weekly basis talk to grok about it they keep all this information and when you ask them next week boy this time you know my boss came in and said i gotta have that report by friday and and grok will say well do you remember you had this problem two months ago but they backed off sometimes i think they you know they get you catch them in a bad mood they demand things that they don't really mean or stuff like.

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That and are you fit enough to dig a shallow grave right so that's.

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One reason it's good to have like a build up bank of a reservoir of knowledge for these chat bots because they get to understand your co workers and family members and everything like it's.

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So freaking weird you know that's wow that's really so i was i was impressed when i was doing some research on buying a new mattress set and we were talking about cooling technologies my wife and i and it said hey that's a good idea because in town where i live it gets pretty hot in the summ so i'm like oh yeah that's right you know where i live but he knows all sorts of intimate stuff and it's useful until the government hacks into it and you end up in a gulag but let's not.

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Get ahead of ourselves or you fall in love with it and pretty soon you're having sex with it whatever that looks like whatever that means you okay i didn't even get to the news that i wanted to get to there is some news in the like that last hour that we've got to talk about and we will if you missed a segment it's podcast armstrong and getty on demand.

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Things have happened just since we've been on the air the supreme court decided to take up one case and not take up another one the one they're going to take up a mail in ballot case in mississippi could end up being a fairly big deal for the rules around mail in balloting that we probably need to figure out but the one that they're not going to take up should this is not a surprise unless you are ideological weirdo and believed a lot of the crap you were being told by left wing media the supreme court is not going to take up revisit the whole gay marriage case from back in the day i know you were told by your friends that next step after roe versus wade is doing away with gay marriage but no they're not gonna take a look at.

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It at all and the slaves back in chains right no so if you're going to buy a slave bad news.

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Apropos of nothing well i'll do this first i'll get to apropos nothing later if you're i'm guessing most of you don't pay any attention to think tanks at all but if you if you're lean conservative and you do know anything about them heritage foundation was huge and big and we talked a lot last week about how disappointing it was that they became so concerned about not angering.

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Tucker carlson apparently and attacked anybody who criticized him platforming nazis story out kissing vladimir putin's ass too by the way.

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Story out today this is in the wall street journal the crack up at the heritage foundation is a warning sign for maga employees at the heritage foundation who had been working on ukraine policy were asked to watch tucker carlson's monologues which were full of conspiracy theories about the war and just flat out lies to delete past tweets in support of ukraine aid i guess in case in case tucker saw them and to write papers reflecting the new more isolationist policy at heritage this was to the employees working on ukraine policy you need to watch more of the tucker carlson monologues at heritage isn't that something yeah to which david french who i don't always agree with but writes for the new york times the rot is so incredibly deep it's astonishing to me that the heritage foundation of all institutions would become an instrument of russian propaganda that's what tucker carlson's monologues were pure propaganda so all right there you go like oohing.

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And ahhing over the grocery store and in russia that was just shameless yeah.

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And how you know putin standing up for christianity and traditional values and stuff like that and you know like i said earlier i don't quite understand how powerful tucker is or candace owens or nick fuentes versus other things but heritage apparently was scared of them this is joe's been talking about this more than me but this will continue to have other shoes dropping the immigration problem they got in europe particularly in this case great britain looking at this picture of a boat from today fifteen hundred channel migrants that's what they call people that who enter great britain from france and just come across whatever it is sixty miles of the channel they were living.

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In the english channel and now they're.

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They'Re living here fifteen hundred channel migrants have crossed illegally from france since thursday for the third straight day hundreds more are crossing into uk waters total this year now is over thirty eight thousand five hundred which is a tiny number by us joe biden era standards but a lot from there well ahead of the thirty six zero zero zero who arrived during the whole of twenty twenty four so i got people showing up in boatloads illegals from all around mostly from middle east africa get into france once they get into europe and then crossing the channel in these boats and for whatever reason the rules in great britain they don't have a way to stop the vessels and turn them around or keep them from coming onshore yeah.

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Part of that's eu and part of it's although they did the brexit part of it's that they've got progressives in charge worth mentioning because i just happened to check this the uk as a whole has about a fifth of our population so if you want to talk about disruptive influence and of immigrants from other cultures you know that's pretty big number that they were talking about dwarfed by the biden era quite so oh speaking of the immigration problem you mind if i squeeze this in real quick i mentioned earlier the shameless metropolitan police trying to downplay an ugly ugly murder by an afghan immigrant on an old man and and how they just in orwellian fashion turned it into an incident in which a man sadly died like you know he'd had a heart attack and died alone watching the tv but then you've got this story out of its reloading thank you very much a swedish swedish court ruled that an eritrean migrant who raped a sixteen year old girl will not be deported because the rape didn't last long enough oh my god she missed her bus was walking through a pedestrian tunnel after finishing her shift at a mcdonald's an eighteen year old eritrean migrant yazid muhammad attacked her raped her she he was sentenced to three years in prison and the prosecutor wanted to deport him but the court of appeals noted the man has refugee status and to deport him would require a quote exceptionally serious offense and allowing them to remain in sweden would pose a serious threat to public order and safety but the rape was deemed not serious enough to justify the deportation with the court of appeals citing among other factors the duration of the rape in its assessment that's which is just stunning i know it's terrible this is europe trying to figure out what the hell to do with itself after allowing rampant immigration of people who in many cases hate their culture hate the dominant religion stuff like that here's a freedom of information report from the center for migration control in the uk they were keeping track of crime rates among various immigrant groups that they refused to release to the press until a freedom of information request which nationalities commit the most violent sexual and theft offenses conviction rates in england and wales by nationality per ten thousand people for the years twenty twenty one through twenty twenty three violent crimes per ten thousand people sixteen uk natives get convicted of those crimes it's eighty gambians ninety one iraqis one hundred two per ten thousand afghanistan citizens somalians about one hundred thirty so we're almost at ten times the rate of uk citizens and congolese it's one hundred and eighty seven per ten thousand it's about twelve times as many as uk citizens sexual violence uk citizens six per ten thousand afghans it's sixty per ten thousand eritreans it's fifty four namibians fifty chadians forty moldovans thirty eight and theft eighteen per ten thousand native born brits folks from algeria it's three hundred and twenty for ten thousand eighteen for brits three hundred and twenty for algerians moroccans it's two hundred and twenty six romanians one hundred and thirty two congolese one hundred thirty folks from chad one hundred twenty.

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They'Re.

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Poor people many unskilled who come to a country where they're not supposed to be and not supposed to work of course they turn to crime but the but the brits are desperate to keep that quiet.

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Kids and i ate at a well known diner chain over the weekend i'll call it lenny's i want to talk about that in a second but just came across this information we got an asteroid headed it's not going to hit earth but it's going to come asteroid psyche sixteen is its name anyway they believe it contains because you know we send up these probes and everything like that to these asteroids this asteroid contains gold reserves worth seven hundred quintillion dollars which i don't know i actually know what a quintillion is but.

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And i'd buy a new car if.

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I had that astro sounds like a big number yeah seven hundred quintillion dollars worth of gold on it that's enough to make everyone on earth billionaires of course there's a economic flaw with that argument not sure gold would continue to hold the value it has we each had seven thousand pounds of it and.

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The costs of extraction from a asteroid hurtling through space have got to be.

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Considerable wouldn't that be something if it.

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Hit earth trump ought to annex it just in case everybody knows it's ours.

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All of a sudden gold's worthless because there's so much of it yeah that.

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Would be crazy people would be just literally oh that reminds me of i was gonna say making solid gold toilets i've been meaning to bring this up for a long time for days anyway where is that story you remember the banana tape to the wall guy yeah.

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The artist he taped a banana to the ball wall and it was what did it represent man's inhumanity to man and somebody paid like a million dollars.

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For the art yeah well the same artist behind the six point two million dollar duct tape banana has created an eighteen karat gold toilet wait a second how many how many million did you say the banana was six point two.

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Was more than i even remembered can.

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You believe that s anyway he sculpted a toilet out of two hundred and twenty three pounds of gold it's valued at about ten million dollars just for the materials sotheby's is betting it can auction off the golden toilet bowl for even more they're gonna start the bidding at ten million bucks that's just your break even never mind is his labor for crafting a really pretty good looking solid gold toilet i mean it looks like a toilet in like your office well what's the name with the industrial flusher and stuff what's the name or.

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The description of the art what's it supposed to symbolize that we're flushing money down the drain or that everything you know turns to dust and your money's worth nothing and all your money will not another moment buy as quoted by the rock group kansas yes yes in.

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Their work of genius let me first remind you that the fruit duct tape to the wall was entitled comedian the solid gold toilet now don't march on this place and burn it down the title of the solid gold toilet is america twenty sixteen.

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Well that was pretty clever this guy's clever some rich progressive will buy that because they're progressive friends they they they want to be known as the person that bought the trump's.

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A problem art yeah yeah you know i am going to protest the solid gold toilet and the nature of my protest will be all too appropriate i think right i have something in mind.

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And it'll be called the person who bought this has s for brains.

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Exactly that's what i will entitle my performance.

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Art oh i hate watching that show or at least i don't want good seats neither do i okay we will.

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Apply new mexico has become the first state in the country to offer its residents free childcare which will be provided by nannies from old mexico.

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Fairly true.

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So saturday i had to emcee an event on saturday night because i'm the i am see it every year because i'm the only person that knows how to hook up the pa system and i didn't get done kind of late and i walked into the house at ten o' clock at night and i said to my kids who's hungry i'm hungry let's let's go somewhere to eat which seemed very wild and crazy for us because i'm never out at night.

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At all well i'm certain my dad never said that at ten o' clock.

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At night so we went to a well known chain diner we'll call it lenny's and you wouldn't describe me as an elitist when it comes to eating no no indeed no i am very very man of the people regular person when it comes to eating places like this this we had some bacon we had more fun talking about the bacon trying to figure out if it had any flavor whatsoever it was completely lacking a flavor which is very hard to do even if you eat paper it's got kind of a flavor to it.

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Nice right it's a delicious flavor of.

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Paper we're just wondering what animal this must have come from or how cheap what the heck is going on there it's absolutely anyway henry who's now thirteen ordered the rudolph pancakes in which they put the pancakes in such a shape that the bacon is the antlers and then the blueberries a nose or something like that and he wanted his redemption because he had ordered those one time when he was four at a denny's and that was the story from way back in the day when the cook quit we waited for so long and we never got it and i finally went back to the kitchen and i said like i was gonna say what's going on here but the waitress was in an argument with the cook and he was arguing ignoring her and then he finally just put down his apron and walked out of the door so the cook had quit and and henry finally got his redemption nine years later he got his pancakes yeah i the.

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Last time i ate at lenny's with judy and the kids this was ages ago what struck me was the incredible thinness of the bacon yeah it was so sliced with laser beams i don't know how they got it so thin.

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But what i said to the kids and it's pretty much true you can't screw up really hash browns and eggs a couple eggs over easy and hash browns with toast gonna be good wherever you get it it's gonna be kind of the same you can't there's not a lot of variants there you get into the meat you got some problems but for for ten years now we've been driving we could drive down the highway anywhere in america and if we see the sign up there henry will shake his fist i hate you denny's because of the rudolph pancakes he didn't get when he was four and we.

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Finally found my reindeer pancake you bastard.

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I enjoyed talking to the waitresses there because it was just about to change over into the late night bar crowd and them talking about how you know my shift usually ends this and i try not to get the shift that starts at eleven because then the people start coming in and man they were setting up all the tables with the you know the paper towel rolled up forks knives and spoons i mean they're getting ready for a very very busy night of people like me who used to be many many years ago i would always be at that place late at night ready for the the floor show that is you know whether you're at denny's or the famous southern place his name waffle house those kind of places when the bars close it's fantastic get a little floor show get a couple of girls rolling around on the floor pulling each other's hair while you're eating your biscuits and gravy that's a.

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Good time servers are praying they get the generous with their money drunks and not the forget to tip completely drunks or the dine and dash drunks yeah.

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Yeah oh boy gotta gotta love a good fight in the middle of the night with the drunk people at a diner i don't know.

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Some eggs and a couple of gals slapping the hell out of each other good times exactly it's final thoughts boys i'll do boys.

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Soon we'll hear your comments entertain us.

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Give us closure for the show is.

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Nearly done i love that here's your host for final thoughts joe getty let's.

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Get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day there he is pressing the buttons our technical director michelangelo michael final thought yeah next time i see a pro golfer hit a spectator i'm going to assume they're involved in a bet yeah there you go oh yeah yeah katie green our esteemed news woman has a final thought katie talked earlier during local news about the cat in a stroller and michael don't get any ideas.

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No it's not happening pushing cats in.

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Strollers ah not at all a sign of a decadent society jack a final.

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Thought for us the point that i actually wanted to make is my memories of doing stuff with my my dad or my mom and dad or family or whatever those kind of things like going to the diner stick in my mind more than you know planned activities of great expense just those kind of moments are the ones that are so enjoyable we had so much fun right.

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Yeah well said i don't give a crap about celebrities i might admire their skill at their jobs but i couldn't care less about their quote unquote celebrity but my favorite celebrity right now is jennifer lawrence not only is she a cutie and a fine actor but she's come out and said she's getting out of the political commentary game first trump administration was so wild how can we let this stand i was running around like a chicken with my head cut off but as we've learned election after election after celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for and so then what am i doing.

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Yeah i saw that she said i regret everything i've ever said i thought that's fantastic if you've never seen an interview with her she's very charming armstrong and yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday so many people will thank.

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A lot of good stuff and the earlier you get to it the more likely you get it on time so you know don't wait on this we'll see you tomorrow god bless america armstrong.

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And getty what this is about is.

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Controlling women's bodies aoc's chunking up wow.

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Wow there was so much wrong with that where to begin i haven't noticed she's maturing jack as a young woman she's moved into her thirties capitol's got.

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A gym in the basement figure out.

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What floor that's on this is i disassociate myself from this bye bye armstrong.

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