My Girth Is Holding My Pants Up

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: My Girth Is Holding My Pants Up
Date: November 10, 2025
Podcast: Armstrong & Getty On Demand (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

This episode finds Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty in classic form, blending political commentary, irreverent humor, and topical news discussions. Their main focus is the recent end to a government shutdown with sharp analysis of the political maneuverings involved. In addition, they dive into a developing sports gambling scandal, media manipulation, and the ever-present frustrations of holiday season stress and inflation. As always, the episode is laced with their trademark banter, self-deprecation, and memorable asides.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. Government Shutdown: The Endgame

[03:50–08:45]

• Democrats Cave In:
  The shutdown, extended by Senate Democrats’ resistance, ends as eight finally break ranks.
  • Getty (04:13): "Eight Senate Democrats have said enough and the shutdown is going to end. So that's where we are on that."
  • Armstrong (04:19): "Thank God. Eight of them at once all of a sudden... not at all that they all got together and said look, this is stupid."
• Why the Change?
  Citing analysis, they discuss the Democrats caving due to the GOP's unified front.
  • Getty quoting Mark Halpern (04:31): "The cave in by the eight Senate Democrats was a direct result of their belief that Republicans' unified position was not going to crack..."
• Policy Lessons:
  Both hosts agree that holding the government hostage is a losing strategy—regardless of which party tries it.
  • Getty (04:57): "The lesson should be: don't try to score policy wins by holding the government hostage. Republicans have proven this rule several times, gotten nothing from it."
• Media Spin:
  The hosts mock the mainstream narrative of Democrats "winning" the shutdown.
  • Armstrong (05:29): "Really, really rallied the nation by holding out as long as showing their courage, their political courage. Okay."
• Immediate Impact on the Public:
  The impact on air travel—with flight options drastically reduced—is highlighted as the real leverage point that forced action.
  • Getty (07:16): "I mean, the air travel options had dropped off a cliff because of that... I thought, wow, this is going to be something this week. But then they announced the cave of the eight."
  • Armstrong (07:54): "The Republicans may have really hit on a great strategy: ratcheting up the number of flights that were going to be canceled in the name of safety..."
• A Forgettable Blip:
  They predict nobody will remember this shutdown come election time.
  • Getty (08:51): "Nobody will be talking about this next week, let alone a year from now."

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2. The Pressure of the Holidays

[08:51–09:31]

• Getty confesses to feeling stress about holiday preparations and family logistics, while Armstrong jokes about "the joy of the holiday."
• Getty (09:05): "The... oh, that's right. What are we gonna do for Christmas?... Starting to come down on me like a dark cloud."
• Armstrong (09:23): "Have you forgotten the reason for the season?"
• Getty (09:23): "Having a strong fourth quarter? To keep GDP up. Right?"

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3. Widening Sports Gambling Scandal

[09:31–10:49 & 27:36–33:12]

• Prop Betting and Integrity Risks:
  The hosts discuss allegations of Major League Baseball pitchers participating in spot/micro-fixing for gambling purposes.
  • Getty (10:06): "You're gonna find somebody who either is greedy or has a gambling problem or got themselves into a financial pickle... and you're gonna think, wow, all I gotta do is walk one guy in the fifth inning of a kind of meaningless game."
• International Intrigue:
  Armstrong floats the idea that foreign regimes could exploit vulnerable foreign players for illicit gain.
  • Armstrong (10:28): "I'll bet Maduro and his guys have got their clutches on a couple of Venezuelan ball players."
• Details Emerge:
  Later in the episode, the subject returns with details from new indictments, including communication between pitchers and bettors during games, and money being sent abroad.
  • Getty (31:10): "In total, the betters allegedly won over $450,000 from these wagers. The indictment details several instances in which a portion of the winnings were transferred to the pitchers' associates in their home country of the Dominican Republic."
• Technological Cat-and-Mouse:
  The hosts riff on how modern technology both enables and exposes such fixing.
  • Armstrong (28:10): "The opportunity for hinkiness has exploded with the web."
  • Getty (30:37): "You gotta make the increments smaller. You got to throw, you know, bet upon pitches... like 10 times over two months of 5,000 each."
• Moralizing on Gambling:
  They muse on the problem of gambling addiction among bettors and players.
  • Getty (33:10): "No, you're an addict."

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4. BBC Scandal: Media Manipulation and Resignations

[13:22–16:06]

• BBC’s Headline-Making Exit:
  Getty insists the top story is the resignation of the top two executives at the BBC after it’s revealed they manipulated a Trump-related documentary—splicing speech clips to falsely implicate him as instigator of January 6 events.
  • Getty (13:22): “The top two people at BBC resigned overnight... they had edited some of Trump's speech that day to make it look more like he had been the instigator...”
• Media Reflection:
  • Getty (14:58): “And have you seen a lot of coverage about this? No, you have not. They're basically the NPR of Great Britain, right?”
• The Lesson on Overreach:
  On both sides, overreach is a fatal error.
  • Getty (15:10): “Don't overreach. If you're winning an argument... don’t make crap up because then they can dismiss everything, right?”
• Defining Socialism?
  The BBC’s muddled coverage of “democratic socialism” is mocked.
  • Armstrong quoting the BBC (15:32): "He describes himself as a democratic socialist, which has no clear definition, but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations.”
  • Getty (15:50): "Essentially means. Oh, that is hilarious."

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5. Lead Stories & Quick Hits with Katie Green

[20:34–23:22]

• Rapid-fire news headlines, interlaced with commentary:
  • Shutdown Deal Advanced
  • 1500+ Flight Cancellations
  • Ukraine Strikes in Russia: Russian mobilization in Ukrainian conflict.
  • Starbucks Cup Frenzy: Comedic side-topic about Starbucks releasing a bear-shaped glass cup, creating mayhem and wild secondhand resale prices.
  • South African Safari Horror: Woman survives a lion attack.
  • U-Haul Satire: A Babylon Bee story on “Mamdani dethroning Newsom as U-Haul’s top salesman” segues to a discussion of high earners fleeing British and Californian taxation.

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6. Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Ambitions & California Politics

[33:15–37:11]

• Newsom’s “Bear” Line and Texas Speech:
  Newsom campaigns in Texas, takes shots at Governor Abbott, and drops his line:
  • Getty (34:20): "More or less, he went with, they say don't mess with Texas. Well, here's another one. You don't poke the bear."
• California Budget Earmarks Scandal:
  Newsom and CA legislature use climate bond money for pet projects: LGBTQ venues, private schools, and animal rescues.
  • Armstrong (35:43): "At least $250 million of the local project earmarks were funds taken from the $10 billion Proposition 4 climate bond... the climate change borrowed money was used for an LGBTQ plus venue in a private farm and a private day school..."

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7. Inflation, Consumer Sentiment, and Political Messaging

[38:31–40:36]

• Stock Market Woes, Tech vs. Adoption:
  Armstrong references a conversation with a tech professional about the lag between innovation and consumer adoption.
• Consumer Sentiment Near Historic Lows:
  Getty and Armstrong mull why consumers feel so dour, theorizing it’s simple letdown from expectations on prices.
  • Getty (39:24): "People thought things were gonna get cheaper because things were too expensive and they haven't gotten cheaper."
• Trump’s Inflation Spin:
  Armstrong notes Trump is claiming “no inflation,” but they call him out for sounding out-of-touch.
  • Armstrong (39:53): "He does a remarkable job of not coming off as an out of touch billionaire."
• Deflation vs. Inflation:
  • Getty (40:12): "People believe that prices are not going to go down. No, they just aren’t. They'll stop rising so fast, but prices aren't going to go down. That's not the way inflation works."

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8. Mailbag: Listeners Sound Off

[44:16–49:19]

• Marine Corps birthday noted (44:34), along with a "freedom-loving quote" from General Lejeune.
• Satirical riff on headline about “starvation” illustrated with an obese woman, mocking media framing.
• Discussion of SNAP benefits, welfare, and government expansion.
• Jokes about Armstrong & Getty-branded pickleball paddles—“not for use playing pickleball”—and a listener’s Craigslist-success story.

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9. Lighter Moments and Banter

• Getty’s Girthy Wardrobe Malfunction:
  • Getty (19:51): “Somehow I forgot to put on my belt this morning, but luckily due to my poor eating choices I made over the weekend, my girth is holding my pants up. Maybe I don't need a belt anymore."
• Denny’s Dining Adventures:
  Getty describes a late-night outing to Denny’s after some regrettable weekend eating.
• “A well-structured joke”:
  Joke about the world's oldest married couple (husband 200, wife 16) makes Armstrong proud (27:21).
• Holiday Ads and Sponsor Banter:
  Frequent, tongue-in-cheek references to ad reads and ad partners sprinkled throughout.

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Notable Quotes by Segment

• Shutdown Resolution:
  Armstrong (04:19): "Thank God. Eight of them at once all of a sudden in a coincidence, not at all that they all got together and said look, this is stupid. Yeah, our long national nightmare is soon to end, folks."
• On Media Manipulation:
  Getty (14:49): “You tried to affect the United States presidential election by completely lying and misleading the people at the biggest news organization in the world. How crazy is that?”
• Holiday Season Dread:
  Getty (09:05): “Starting to come down on me like a dark cloud.”
• On Gambling Scandal:
  Armstrong (28:10): “The opportunity for hinkiness has exploded with the web...”
• On Policy Lessons:
  Getty (04:57): “The lesson should be: don't try to score policy wins by holding the government hostage.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Government Shutdown resolved: 03:50–08:45
• Holiday Season Anxiety: 08:51–09:31
• Sports Gambling Scandal (1st mention): 09:31–10:49
• Sports Gambling Scandal (detailed): 27:36–33:12
• BBC Scandal: 13:22–16:06
• Gavin Newsom / California Politics: 33:15–37:11
• Economic Sentiment/Inflation: 38:31–40:36
• Listener Mailbag: 44:16–49:19
• Comic Banter & Personal Stories: Sprinkled throughout; Denny’s story at 20:18

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Tone and Language

Armstrong & Getty play off each other with a familiar cadence—cracking jokes, voicing exasperation with politics, and frequently lapsing into satirical asides. Their style is blunt, opinionated, and self-aware, often poking fun at themselves, each other, and the political and media landscapes.

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Summary

This episode encapsulates the Armstrong & Getty formula: unpacking politics and news with a mix of skepticism, biting humor, and relatable anecdotes. If you missed the show, you’ll come away informed about the shutdown’s end, the foggy ethics of modern sports gambling, a media scandal with global reach, and the relentless, often absurd pressures of the holiday season—all with plenty of laughs in between.

Transcript

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[Armstrong]

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio.

[Getty]

Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

[Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and and get it.

[Getty]

You know, our Monday opening with that junior high band struggling to perform their song is a good feeling for a Monday. It's a good kind of know what we're supposed to do. Kind of struggling to get our act together.

[Armstrong]

I was going to say the theme to me is struggling against your own incompetence.

[Getty]

Kind of a. Should have practiced more over the weekend.

[Armstrong]

It's a good tone, really appropriate tone.

[Getty]

From Studio C Senior, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y'. All. To kick off a brand new week, we're under the tutelage of our general manager, Gene Shaheen.

[Armstrong]

Compromising machine.

[Getty]

Who's that?

[Armstrong]

That's kind of a stretch. One of the Democrats has come around in the Senate and said yeah, this is stupid. Can we please end this idiotic shutdown?

[Getty]

So eight Senate Democrats have said enough and the shutdown is going to end. So that's where we are on that.

[Armstrong]

Thank God. Eight of them at once all of a sudden in a coincidence, not at all that they all got together and said look, this is stupid. Yeah, our long national nightmare is soon to end, folks.

[Getty]

I can read from the analysis in Mark Halpern's newsletter today. The cave in by the eight Senate Democrats was a direct result of their belief that Republicans unified position was not going to crack and there would not be a better option on offer anytime soon. Which I'm sure is true. But this is the part that I really like. The lesson should be don't try to score policy wins by holding the government hostage. Republicans have proven this rule several times, gotten nothing from it.

[Armstrong]

Yeah.

[Getty]

And for some reason Democrats thought, yeah, let us try it once.

[Armstrong]

That's pretty good analysis.

[Getty]

I feel like it did get somehow clarified like over the weekend where it became more clear to America. Wait a second. Democrats could open this back up anytime they want to. All the Republicans are voting yes.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, exactly. In spite of the best efforts of the media.

[Getty]

Anyway, the funny part is listening to mainstream media or certainly left wing media try to spin this as some Sort of Democratic win. Okay. You know, it was another.

[Armstrong]

Really, really rallied the nation by holding out as long as showing their courage, their political courage. Okay.

[Getty]

Yeah, that's a, that's a real stretch. Like every other shutdown, it ends with a whimper and nothing exciting. And, and it's like, oh, yeah, okay, what was that all about? And then everybody goes back onto their life, but some Democrats not happy, like Ro Khanna, congressperson of California. Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can't lead the fight to stop health care premiums from skyrocketing, what will you fight for? And there's a fair number of Democrats who feel that way about the whole thing.

[Armstrong]

That's the socialist weasel talking. Yeah. Although those. There are two different issues there. Is Chuck Schumer still an appropriate leader for the Senate?

[Getty]

I'd say that. No, no.

[Armstrong]

He's a bitter, cynical old husk of a awful, awful politician. You know, time for new blood. On the other hand, that whole we've gotta have health care for Americans, so phony. And then, as we've said many times, the Republicans messaging is so bad. In not pointing out, look, the Democrats voted to sunset these additional benefits. We said, okay, that's what happened here. Now they want to change their minds and they've shut down the government because they don't like their own law. That was pretty clear.

[Getty]

And it was like seven and a half seconds long anyway, so the headline, though, is the shutdown is going to be over. They're expecting government workers to be back to work by Thursday. It'll take a little bit of time for airports to get back to normal. Apparently, SNAP benefits are going to go up quite soon if you're one of those people.

[Armstrong]

But you got to send the National Guard in, find those air traffic controllers where they are, at home, at work, on vacation. You get them back to work. If it takes a cattle prod, do it.

[Getty]

I was, I'd completely forgotten about the shutdown because it had no effect on me. And so yesterday, my youngest has got a Boy Scout camping trip this weekend. So I thought the oldest and I might go do something, just the two of us, which we don't do very often. So I went to book some flights. Typical trip that I take where there's usually like 80 options. And there were two options, Wolf. And I thought, oh, that's right, the shutdown. I completely forgot about it. And I mean, the, the, the air travel options had dropped off a cliff because of that. I thought, wow, this is going to be Something this week. But then they announced the. The cave of the eight.

[Armstrong]

Right. You know, I'm much more into policy than politics. Politics is grubby and ugly. But I think the Republicans may have really hit on a great strategy the day by day ratcheting up the number of flights that were going to be canceled in the name of safety, which is at least a semi legitimate rationale to do that. But I, in contrast to you, I ran into lots of people over the weekend who wanted to talk about the government shutdown for the first time. And it was all about airports and airplanes and family members visiting and business travel and the rest of it. People were getting pissed.

[Getty]

As we knew on Friday, once it, Once the airport thing happened, it was going to become a national story. No doubt. There was no more ignoring it. Anyway. That's. I think that was probably the leverage that forced this all to happen. And nobody will be talking about this a year from now when you have the next election.

[Armstrong]

Freaking jackass floats the idea of doing it again. Then people say, no, no, nobody will.

[Getty]

Be talking about this next week, let alone a year from now. How was your weekend, everybody? Good? Do you have a good weekend? Cool. I'm starting to feel the pressure of the holidays. It's starting to sneak up on me.

[Armstrong]

The joy. You mean the joy of the holiday.

[Getty]

The, the. Oh, that's right. What are we gonna do for Christmas? Or who's traveling when where? What am I supposed to buy? Starting to come. Come down on me like a dark cloud.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, yeah. Have you forgotten the reason for the season?

[Getty]

Having a strong fourth quarter? To keep GDP up. Right?

[Armstrong]

Exactly.

[Getty]

That what it is.

[Armstrong]

Exactly. And make your sales goals so we.

[Getty]

Can'T wait to talk about this later. The. A sports scandal that started in the NBA is reached. Major League Baseball, it would seem. And who knows if this is just the tip of the iceberg with a few pitchers out there that apparently were doing things they shouldn't do to meet certain prop bets and the whole world of sports and gambling might have a huge problem.

[Armstrong]

Oh yeah. The spot fixing or micro fixes. Just you throw one pitch a ball because somebody bet on it. Yeah, that. That sort of thing is impossible to police well.

[Getty]

And just so easy to get started, I believe.

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[Getty]

I don't know how many pitchers there are in Major League Baseball, but hundreds and hundreds. And you know, you got hundreds and hundreds of people. You're gonna find somebody who either is greedy or has a gambling problem or got themselves into a financial pickle somehow by spending too much money or whatever. And you're gonna think, wow, all I gotta do is walk one guy in the fifth inning of a kind of meaningless game.

[Armstrong]

And I ought to write a novel about this because it's a good plot twist. But how about this? How many Venezuelans are there in baseball? A pretty good handful. There are actually a really, really good handful of third worlders of various sorts.

[Getty]

See where you're going? Trump should drone the various pitchers from Venezuela.

[Armstrong]

Well, that might be later in the novel, but no, here's the problem. Old Maduro sends me a picture of his arm around my mom, saying, hey, the treasury could really use, you know, a chunk of change here. Just throw a ball, first pitch at the third inning. All right? Your mom, hey, so the dictator, in the same way that, like North Korea gets revenue every way it can to hacking and cheating and stealing identities in every way they can. I'll bet Maduro and his guys have got their clutches on a couple of Venezuelan ball players.

[Getty]

That is a good plot twist. That'd be very exciting.

[Armstrong]

It's kind of, you know, China with a Spanish speaking accent.

[Getty]

I'll tell you what I think should be the story of the day. And I'll bet you haven't heard about it yet. We'll do it right after we start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, November 10th. There's a holiday season. I can see it. The year 2025. We are Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.

[Armstrong]

All right, let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. The show starts at mark.

[Getty]

Here we go. Second and seven. Second and seven. Let's see what happens. Whoa. That's all right. Crosby Merritt, not bad. Takes it down to the five yard line. That's right.

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[Getty]

The good runner. There we go. This is a very big play, don't you think? I think they have to get a touchdown. Let's put it differently. They just have to get a touchdown. There we go. Now you're doing my job because that's.

[Armstrong]

What I was going to say.

[Getty]

They have to get a touchdown. Just forget about the play. They have to get it done. That was Donald Trump, President of the United States, doing a little color commentary in the booth last night. For Monday or for. Not for Sunday Night Football. First time that that had happened in since Carter. I don't know if that's a good thing.

[Armstrong]

Long overdue having president in the broadcast booth for football.

[Getty]

He actually, during halftime, swore in a bunch of People who are gonna do some stuff, good stuff for Americ.

[Armstrong]

I'm surprised the Gipper didn't do it. Reagan, who famously was a baseball announcer, including, and this is such a charming story way back in the day, he would get the, the, the report on a game, the written report, and he would make up the play by play. He would reenact what happened in the game for the radio audience.

[Getty]

During the game last night, they talked about Donald Trump's high school football career and showed a picture from way back in the day because Trump is old, old black and white photo of him playing at some whatever New York fancy academy he went to as a, as a rich kid and playing football. He was a tight end and, and he said, man, I haven't seen that picture in forever. And they talked about that for a while.

[Armstrong]

Little Lord Fontleroy Academy for boys.

[Getty]

Here's what should be the biggest story of the day, and we'll talk more about it later. The top two people at BBC resigned overnight. BBC, which I just heard described as the biggest news organization in the world. I didn't realize that in terms of their reach, in terms of radio broadcast and television broadcast, top two people at BBC resigned. It's amazing. This went on for a year. So the Telegraph, London Telegraph had a article a week ago that the BBC's documentary about Donald Trump in January 6 that they dropped the week before the election last year in an attempt to have some sort of an effect on the election as the, as the number one news organization in the world had edited some of Trump's speech that day to make it look more like he had been the instigator in trying to get to the crowd to go to the Capitol. They took two pieces from the speech that were an hour apart and put them together and made it look like it was all together. So I haven't heard it. But anyway, I don't understand how this took a year, but the Telegraph did this story a week ago, hit BBC, became a huge scandal and the two top people at BBC resigned last night. You don't resign if you're not guilty. And the top guy saying, error in judgment, I highly regret my actions or error in judgment. You tried to affect the United States presidential election by completely lying and misleading the people at the biggest news organization in the world. How crazy is that?

[Armstrong]

Yeah, well, it's shocking but unsurprising.

[Getty]

And have you seen a lot of coverage about this? No, you have not. They're basically the NPR of Great Britain, right?

[Armstrong]

No, no, no. There's a There's a cover up. All the lefty journalists covering for each other as they always do.

[Getty]

God dang it. Everybody overreaches all the time. This is what we all need to learn from life. Don't overreach. If you're winning an argument or you got the facts on your side, don't make crap up because then you. Then they can dismiss everything. Right? You don't think January 6th was a big enough black eye for Donald Trump that you need to make stuff up?

[Armstrong]

Well said.

[Getty]

I mean, come on.

[Armstrong]

Just came across this in the free press too. The BBC writing about Zoran Mamdani in democratic socialism. This is a direct quote from the BBC. He describes himself as a democratic socialist, which has no clear definition, but essentially means giving a voice to workers, not corporations.

[Getty]

Essentially means. Oh, that is hilarious.

[Katie Green]

Good Lord.

[Armstrong]

They have a website, they have a platform. They will tell you precisely what they're about. BBC.

[Getty]

That is wild. Well, BBC is the NPR of the world. Really? The NPR of the world.

[Armstrong]

Hilarious.

[Getty]

Okay, we got Katie's headlines and a whole bunch of stuff to get to. I hope you can stick around.

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Somehow I forgot to put on my belt this morning, but luckily due to my poor eating choices I made over the weekend, my girth is holding my pants up. Maybe I don't need a belt anymore. I'll just keep eating the way I ate this weekend and that will do the trick. Good Lord.

[Katie Green]

When?

[Armstrong]

Maybe just go with suspenders. Yeah. Oh, big man, suspenders, they kind of frame your belly on each side.

[Getty]

I made some horrible eating decisions this weekend, but I did find myself at Denny's late at night Saturday. I want to talk about that later. Hadn't been to Denny's in a while.

[Armstrong]

Wow. Wow. Have you fallen on hard times? There are better places. Come on.

[Getty]

Late at night, there's not a lot.

[Armstrong]

All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's lead story with Katie Green. Katie.

[Katie Green]

All right, starting with NBC News. Senators advance tentative deal to end the government shutdown.

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Eight senators caved, probably more that agreed with them, that didn't want their names on it.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, caved is a very harsh term. I think it's more like they said to the leadership, this is stupid. We're not doing this anymore. They stood up.

[Getty]

Well, they're getting beaten up pretty good by a lot of media and their colleagues.

[Armstrong]

I don't like those people and disagree with them fundamentally. So I will stick with my take from ABC news.

[Katie Green]

More than 1500 flights canceled in United States today as travel disruptions continue.

[Getty]

Yeah, I was looking to fly into Los Angeles this coming Saturday and the pickings were very slim. And so I suppose it's like that at a lot of big airports. I don't know how long that will take to get straightened out. And nobody seems to know that.

[Katie Green]

From the Associated Press. Ukrainian strikes disrupt power and heating to two major cities in Russia.

[Armstrong]

Interesting.

[Getty]

I just saw that Russia mobilized 150,000 troops on one particular town in Ukraine that they're trying to take over.

[Katie Green]

From Fox News. Starbucks apologizes after barista cup launches.

[Getty]

Chaos after what they.

[Katie Green]

They released this glass cup that is shaped like a bear.

[Armstrong]

Right.

[Katie Green]

Everybody lost their effing minds.

[Getty]

Yeah, I think they had a joke about that on Saturday Night Live. It was a cute.

[Armstrong]

I guess it's.

[Katie Green]

It looks like the old honey bear. Like when you would get honey. Yeah, yeah, it looks just like that. And I saw one on ebay this weekend for 475.

[Armstrong]

Free market at work. Go get them.

[Katie Green]

Daily Mail. Woman is bitten in the neck by a lion after being dragged off her horse during a South African safari and miraculously escapes and survives.

[Getty]

She wanted to see lions up close. Probably. Probably was paying a good, good chunk of money for it.

[Armstrong]

Oh, yeah. Want to have stories to tell, Right?

[Getty]

There you go.

[Katie Green]

She's got a story.

[Getty]

Yeah.

[Armstrong]

Win. Winning.

[Katie Green]

And finally, from the Babylon be Mamdani Dethrones Gavin Newsom as u haul's top salesman.

[Armstrong]

Yeah yeah. There's a great new study out about mobility of high earners internationally and specifically how Great Britain, speaking of the BBC is bleeding high earners because of tax rates were human beings are more mobile than they have ever been. Taxing the rich quote unquote doesn't work anymore.

[Getty]

A lot of news stories to catch up on from the weekend. I hope you can stick around. If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on My man Armstrong and Getty.

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[Armstrong]

Miami have been named the world's oldest.

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Married couple with a combined age of 216 years.

[Armstrong]

Which sounds really special.

[Getty]

Sweet until you realize the husband is 200 and a picture of a really old guy and a 16 year old.

[Armstrong]

That was a well structured joke.

[Getty]

Oh boy. Just a little follow up on this baseball scandal that erupted late yesterday. Turns out there's some illegal gambling fixing stuff going on in Major League Baseball in addition to what we learned about the NBA. And I'd be surprised if it doesn't touch every sport eventually as gambling has become so ubiquitous. And then you combine that with the fact that computers can notice. Wait a second. Why do so many people bet on one pitch in a meaningless game with this one pitcher all of a sudden? That's weird.

[Armstrong]

And I way back in the day I knew a guy who knew a guy who was a bookie and the idea of a prop that minute, I mean it would be way too Much paperwork. Nobody could ever entertain that sort of bet prior to the advent of the Internet and, you know, ubiquitous again, that word computers. And so just the opportunity for hinkiness has exploded with the web focusing specifically.

[Getty]

On these two pitchers you've never heard of from the Cleveland Indians, will always be the Indians to me, who won betters, won over $450,000 from just a couple of pitches with these dudes. And according to the Diet indictment, which just came out, the one pitcher, Claes, was interacting with the betters during the games. Wow. So some of the betters, they got tickets and were in the games, and I don't know how they were communicating with the pitcher down on the field. Texting them, I suppose, almost have to be. And texting the pitcher and saying, how about. How about next inning you throw a ball there or walk that guy or whatever. And so that's wild, actually, during the games from a guy inside the stadium.

[Armstrong]

Again, speaking of technology, can you imagine back in the day, you know, Roger Staubach taking a call on the sideline. Hey, Roger, we need you to go three out here. Yeah.

[Getty]

Click.

[Armstrong]

Come on.

[Getty]

This is gonna be so on one hand, gambling everywhere, all the time, the frailty of human nature, etc. Etc. It's this, all that. But you can't pull it off, can you? Because it's just too easy for a computer to pick up on. Wait a second. There's no reason this many people would bet on this meaningless play.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, that's. That's an intriguing notion. And it's funny. It's like getting away with murder or a bank robbery or something like that. Even honest people like myself kind of enjoy trying to game it out as a mental exercise. And I suppose what you'd have to do is develop a pattern of winning three times out of five over an extended period, and then move on to a different pattern for a different set of props. But then you'd need more. More plants, more cheaters.

[Getty]

You gotta. You gotta make the increments smaller. You got to throw, you know, bet upon pitches. Rigged pitches, like 10 times over two months of 5,000 each.

[Armstrong]

Right? Yeah.

[Getty]

Instead of all in one lump sum, one pitch. Because that's just. It's too noticeable.

[Armstrong]

Which probably means the incentives aren't adequate to. To motivate the crime, which is exactly what the sports leagues are trying to go for. You just can't clear enough in a short enough span of time to make it worth the RICO charges.

[Getty]

Let me read this paragraph already mentioned that shockingly, during. During which he was pitching. He was interacting with the betters. In total, the betters allegedly won over $450,000 from these wagers. The indictment details several instances in which a portion of the winnings were transferred to the pitchers associates in their home country of the Dominican Republic.

[Armstrong]

There you go.

[Getty]

Although it remains unclear exactly how much of the winnings ended up with the pitchers, what the pitchers were getting out of it. Right. But as we learned with basketball, it might be just, you know, wipe and clean some of your gambling debts.

[Armstrong]

Sure, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely possible. And in a country where there's a hell of a lot of poverty and a lot of these guys come from very, very humble beginnings, you can absolutely see various family members hoping to get a leg up and their beloved nephew is compliant. Oh, and. Or somebody's got, again, a picture of their mom with the mobster's arm around her shoulder saying, your mom says, I just occurred to me and some of you folks are probably way ahead of us. You could have a guy sitting behind home plate. If his hat's on, proceed. If his hat's off, you throw a ball. The next pitch, quick glance in the stands, there he is. Okay, I throw a ball, Nobody's the wiser.

[Getty]

Right?

[Armstrong]

Wow. You could go. You could go like pitch by pitch. Huh.

[Getty]

And then are you gonna. You do your betting on that timeline like that that person in the stands would have to be in. Communicate with somebody and say, yeah, he's.

[Armstrong]

The guy in communication with the mobsters.

[Lowe's Advertiser]

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[Getty]

And then those people are betting on whatever these various platforms are where you can bet pitch by pitch.

[Armstrong]

Yeah. Wow.

[Getty]

Just aside from that, even when it's on the up and up, who are you that's betting pitch by pitch in just regular season games? What the hell?

[Armstrong]

Yeah. Get counseling.

[Getty]

Find something else to do.

[Armstrong]

Yeah. No, you're. You're an addict.

[Getty]

Okay. We'll keep our eye on this scandal for you.

[Armstrong]

So, speaking of scandalous, Gavin Newsom of California is running for president fully aroused. He has to wear loose trousers to hide his. His clear desire for the Oval Office.

[Lowe's Advertiser]

You.

[Armstrong]

He was probably more than you needed on a Monday. But yes, he was in Texas over.

[Getty]

The weekend talking about.

[Armstrong]

That's exactly what I was going to say. He was putting us thumb is thumb in poor Greg Abbott's eye. The governor of Texas and his rival. He appeared before a throng of admiring morons. There we can shape the future. And do we have any audio of the aforementioned lunkhead con man Gavin Newsom? We ought to get that from a speech in Texas. Guys, if you can round that up. But. But we can shape the future here. All across the south and across the United States of America, you have that power. You do not Donald Trump. And then he unleashed the signature line of his little engagement. Where is it? Come on.

[Getty]

I have it memorized. If you don't have it in front of me.

[Armstrong]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Getty]

More or less, he went with, they say don't mess with Texas. Well, here's another one. You don't poke the bear.

[Armstrong]

A reference to the California grizzly bear on its state's flight flag. What's little known by folks outside California is that bear is actually on his way out of California. That's why he's in motion. He's moving to Nevada on the state flag.

[Getty]

For tax reasons.

[Armstrong]

So exactly. Among other things, during the coronavirus pandemic, you May recall, the two traded insults over their state's lockdown policies. Mr. Newsom chided Mr. Abbott for his decision to drop a mask mandate in Texas. Keep that in mind, moderate folks. He called it absolutely reckless. And Abbott argued on social media that his state had lower case numbers in California. And of course, we all know that the masks were useless or nearly useless. And Gavin Newsom shut down the schools, kept the kids out of schools, even as all the private schools in California were open. The schools were open across Europe, but the teachers union told him what to do, and he did it. So, anyway, Gabby campaigning in Texas. And then speaking of Gabby. Boy, I thought this was interesting. You too, fol the other 49 states could have this sort of politics. Great coverage by Cal Matters, our friends for a very long time. Despite facing a $12 billion deficit this year, Cal Unicornia's legislature still managed to spend at least $415 million on local projects to help lawmakers win their next elections. Cal makers found close to 100 earmarks inserted into just one of the state's budget bills for projects and programs that had no apparent benefit to anybody outside the districts. Here's and. And. I'll get to the punchline in a second. The spending included $5 million in general fund money for an LGBTQ plus venue in San Francisco, two and a half million for a private day school in Southern California, and a quarter million dollars for a private farm animal rescue on the North Coast. All right, here's the punchline. At least $250 million of the local project earmarks were funds taken from the $10 billion Proposition 4 climate bond that California voters foolishly approved last year to turn back climate change. So the climate change borrowed Money was used for an LGBTQ plus venue in a private farm and a private day school in Southern California. The climate change money, just lovely. Was it Friedman who said, oppose all tax increases reflexively automatically oppose all taxes?

[Getty]

Yes, that's right. All increases in taxes. So this time of year, especially.

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Eye on the stock market today as the NASDAQ plunged on Friday with consumer sentiment numbers coming out at near historic lows.

[Armstrong]

I happened to spend some time with a tech professional yesterday who said as we were discussing the market, the technology is way ahead of the adoption, meaning there's just torrents of money being spent and the revenue is going to lag well behind the benefits of that technology, if indeed the full AI. You know, rose ever blooms, who knows when it'll be. So, yeah, investors are starting to get a little nervous about all the money tied up.

[Getty]

What about the consumer sentiment? Why is it the practically at a record low and we'll get into that. More details coming up.

[Armstrong]

I feel sort of villainy, Jack.

[Getty]

Well, yeah, no doubt about that. That might be it. Like we were talking about last week. Things get overanalyzed. How did Trump capture working class Hispanic men, blah blah, blah, blah blah. People thought things were gonna get cheaper because things were too expensive and they haven't gotten cheaper. So now they've turned. Who, who else can help me with the fact that things are too expensive? It might just be that period for every group of people.

[Armstrong]

And over the weekend, Trump was saying he wasn't getting enough credit. There's practically no inflation. He said a little out. You know, he does a remarkable job of not coming off as an out of touch billionaire.

[Getty]

Yeah.

[Armstrong]

I mean astonishing job at that. That was not good. That was out of step billionaire.

[Lowe's Advertiser]

Ish.

[Getty]

Well also. And again, we got to take a break. But he was going around saying prices were going to go down. And I think people believe that prices are not going to go down. No, they just, they just aren't. They'll stop rising so fast, but prices aren't going to go down. That's not the way inflation works.

[Armstrong]

Yeah. And we don't want deflation. So yeah, that's the best that we could offer. A slowing of the rate of inflation.

[Getty]

Yeah. Anyway, we got Mailbag on the way and lots of other stuff. Stick around.

[Armstrong]

Armstrong and Getty.

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Jimmy Kimmel's wife reveals she's lost family connections because of their worst she has trump people in her family and they no longer speak. That's a good idea.

[Armstrong]

Way to go.

[Getty]

That's a good way to live your life.

[Armstrong]

And you're. You're the reasonable one. Okay. All right.

[Getty]

Sorry.

[Armstrong]

I'm still getting organized here. Mail. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. And if I could, I would rework our general manager today. Taking a break from our John Stuart Mill series of quotes, it is the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Today?

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I thought that was tomorrow. It's today. Okay.

[Armstrong]

The 10th, I'm told.

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Okay.

[Armstrong]

Happy birthday, Marines. Roy, the Marine writing and suggesting the following freedom moment quote of the day from General Lejeune from the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war and in the long eras of tranquility at home. Generation after generations of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas that our country and its citizens cousins might enjoy peace and security and soon.

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To take back the beaches of Venezuela.

[Armstrong]

Oh, that was an unnecessary note of something or other in the midst of what was a lovely moment. Thanks for ruining it, Mailbag. Please don't invade Venezuela. Don't, don't, don't. I'm a, I'm a fan of the decapitation move. Just take over old fat Maduro out and let us General scrap for the.

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The leftover drone strike on his Mercedes as he's headed somewhere.

[Armstrong]

That sort of thing. Yeah. Drop us note [e-mail] first of all, it's not a meme exactly, but comments sent along by Tom. It is an article from what, what's some big news outlet? I don't recall what, but it is a very, very big, big lady. And the headline is residents say loss of SNAP benefits could threaten serious hunger. And she, I mean, and the headline is only in America could legacy media say with a straight face that this woman is starving. Wow. Wow. Yeah. They're not wrong.

[Getty]

They're not wrong. You'd think somebody would have caught that said, can we not have a 500 pound person on our stories about hunger?

[Armstrong]

Yeah, let me, let me click on the link.

[Getty]

Was it Gavin Newsom? Yeah, it was Gavin Newsom, I think that said. No, it was Joe Biden. The other night Joe Biden came back and gave a speech and he, and he was talking about the evil Republicans who want people to be hungry. One out of five kids go to bed hungry in this country. That's a disgrace. One out of five kids go to bed hungry. Not a flipping chance.

[Armstrong]

That's just fictional. One out of 500, that's. Oh, I know, I know. Marxists just lie and senile old farts moving along. Dear cold warrior and old Fancy Jack, writes Ryan from Houston. As someone who has applied for government benefits like SNAP recently and been denied because I make too much money then seeing SNAP drivers or SNAP users driving better cars, having money for nails and hair and luxuries I can't even dream about, I wonder if I'm the sucker. Going to work every day and working extra hours stocking gas station coolers when I could be living High sucking the government teat. Uh, yeah, yeah, I hear you. And then he asks, actually a pretty good philosophical question. It's in the blunt language of the working man. But how could anybody want to give this government more power when these slackers are in power? Yeah, I know, I know. What do you see, friends, when you look at the government that makes you say we should give them more power, for they will fix everything wrong with society. Man, you're nuts. Let's see. This is from Newt. Got excited when I heard about the Angie pickleball paddles. But then he impugns their quality. He suggests no way. They may not be tournament quality goods.

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I hope they're not cheap Chinese pickleball paddle.

[Armstrong]

He uses the term cheap Chinese pos, which I think is highly inappropriate. He says they're only good for the principal's office in the seventies. And the bedroom.

[Getty]

I guess they're moving fast. Hanson says get them while you can. They're flying off the shelves. And that's a limited time offer.

[Armstrong]

Yes. These pickleball pedals are not for use playing pickleball. P.S. please don't retire or die before I do. Well, drop us a note when you die, Newt.

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I can't believe we're pumping out cheap Chinese crap with our names on it. That's not like us. It's about time.

[Armstrong]

It's the free market. I love it. How much time do we have, Mike?

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Matt in Puyallup, Washington. A town I had to rehearse pronouncing over and over again with the help of my daughter who lives in that area. A tale of woe from Matt. It's actually kind of a funny note, but we don't have enough time for it. About online dating and how nutty and unsuccessful it was. F password. I put an ad on Craigslist and my wife and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. You never know.

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Wow.

[Armstrong]

Good for you, Matt and Mrs. Matt.

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