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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio.
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Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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So the best sports show of any kind of sports show is the NBA Tonight thing, whatever channel it's on now that has Kenny Smith and Shaq and Charles Barkley on it because they they one, it's funny. But two, they get into conversations that no other sports show does. I wish the NFL had something like that. They just. And they got into the whole gambling scandal last night and disagreed a lot. And we'll play that for you and get into that conversation. Come up because I thought it was pretty interesting.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. They're great for a couple of reasons, including the fact that there are so many sports shows that they're only dimly aware of like politics and societal norms and what's okay to say and what's not. And so they always defer to the woke notions. Sports shows which are often very guy oriented, you'd think it'd be pretty reckless. No, a lot of them are like super politically correct because they just don't want to get in trouble. And they don't really. They've heard something about Black Lives Matter or transgender rights or something. And so they're very, very safe. The great thing about these guys, they don't give a damn.
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That panel also, it's the only sports show where you'll have usually Charles say, God, this game sucks. If I'm there, I'm walking in my car. I got better things to do.
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Right? Right. Yeah. Love it. All right, so we're going to talk about that also. I haven't done this for a very long time. Later in the hour, Joe closes his tabs with a new theme song. Very excited about that. Among other fair. But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's take a fun look back at the week that was. It's cow clips of the week cap.
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It's cow cooks of the.
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Construction on President Trump's vast new ballroom gets underway.
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Surprise.
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Donald Trump is literally destroying the people's house.
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In order to do it properly, we had to take down the existing structure.
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If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up, stop sending drugs to the United States, okay, we're going to kill them.
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You know, they're going to be like, dead, okay? The White House revealing the second summit.
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With Vladimir Putin won't happen anytime soon.
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The fragile ceasefire faced its most serious test Sunday. You know, they're gonna be very good. They're gonna behave, they're gonna be nice. And if they're not, we're gonna go and we're gonna eradicate them if we have to.
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I will be the mayor who doesn't.
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Just protect Jewish New Yorkers, but also celebrates and cherishes them.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of.
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The United States, America, to the republic for which it stands. Bullsh. Wipe that smile off your face, Andrew.
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You didn't leave. You impeached.
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Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones and Terry Rozier were taken into custody.
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The scheme targeted victims known as quote fish. These operatives included capos and multiple soldiers from the Bonanno, Gambino, Lucchesi and Genovese crime families. This is the insider trading saga for the NBA.
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Anytime you say anything about Bron, people call you and say, hey, leave LeBron alone. Never works, man. Left field arose. Arena watches it go.
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But this is a beautiful pork chop, and a lot of people know about it. Nobody can cook them like I do. We have a blackstone in the White House. They call me a racist. We have a blackstone in the White House, and we make fantastic pork chops. Goods of the week.
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So I'm going to assume you know the story. More or less. Big gambling bus, 31 people, or 30 more than that, arrested yesterday, including an NBA head coach and some players, including some players that were losing on purpose, taking themselves out of games or missing shots or whatever. And they were involved in card games and all that sort of stuff. So last night on the big NBA show that we mentioned that has Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith on it, both NBA hall of Famers, they got into a discussion about this sort of thing that I find very interesting. All these guys knew what was at stake, and I'm just ashamed that they put themselves and put their family and put the NBA in this position. Gambling is an addiction. So the addiction of it is what makes you make illogical decisions, man. This ain't got nothing to do with damn gambling addiction. This ain't got nothing to do with addiction. These dudes are stupid. Why are they stupid? You under no circumstances can you fix basketball games? Under no circumstances. Now we're going to play a little more of their argument, which I just think is interesting because I think Charles Barkley is almost certainly a gambling addict with the gazillions of dollars he spent on gambling. And he's saying it's not an addiction, it's stupidity. They go on. He took himself out of games on prop bets. How much money is he gonna make? Well, if he did that, you're proving my point. What do you mean? That means that's a logical thought process. If you're making $26 million to try to win 50,000, like, that's illogical. So that you're proving my point. That's not addiction. That's stupidity. The same reason someone goes and uses drugs when they. In the NBA, drugs are addiction. So there's no gambling addiction. They are gambling add. But the notion that you're trying to make sure these guys being addicted, you can't fix basketball games. You cannot fix separate from Chelsea. That's enough, Michael. I think the point there. I think I agree with the Kenny Smith character. That is proving the point. They're doing something incredibly illogical. It makes no sense whatsoever because the gambling is more important to them than the money.
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Yeah, they can count. It's not stupidity. Yeah, it's a compulsion.
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I think if you're a gambling addict like Charles probably is, you don't want to credit anything to gambling addiction.
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Yeah. Yeah, I guess I think there's room to say losing control of your gambling is stupid as a warning to people. But. Yeah, if you're. Yeah, if you're risking everything, including your, you know, $20 million paycheck, $26 million a year to make 50 grand. No, that's. That's psychosis. These guys can count. They have people who can count. If they can't, they count for them.
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Yeah, it's because you, you're.
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You.
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You're getting a bigger thrill, temporary thrill out of being involved in gambling than apparently you are out of collecting $26 million a year playing basketball. Now, he was probably pulled himself out of the game and faked an injury because he owed a bunch of money. Isn't that what we're assuming?
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Yeah, yeah. And. And he was compelled to not go past a certain number of points. The mobsters bet the under. But yeah. How much? Was it money that he owed or were they blackmailing him or what? How can you owe money unless you.
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And you'd have to know you'd have to owe a lot. I think his Total life earnings is 130 million. Now, you got taxes, he got agents, you got your lifestyle. How much he's got left, I don't know, but I think it'd be enough to cover whatever he owed.
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Right, Right. I mean, he could pay, play a million dollar a hand blackjack and lose 10 hands in a row and pay the guy back by the end of.
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The year and he'll never make another century. And who knows, there might not be some sort of lawsuit where they go back and say, hey, we're not going to pay him for. We want. We are money back from the years we were paying him. Who knows what their contract is? But he will never make another set as an NBA player, certainly. So it's from a logical standpoint, not the best move. Wow. It's amazing the things that people will do.
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Yeah, it is. Hey, speaking of sports, Michael, the World Serious kicks off tonight. Indulge me, won't you? This is my musical hero, Getty Lee of Rush, talking about throwing out the first pitch at a Blue Jays game. He's a maniac baseball player. He's also Foreigner. He is Canadian. Yes. And he's one of the world's leading collectors of baseball memorabilia. Really insane. His collection. Oh, yeah. He could open up a museum easily. It's amazing. Go ahead. I can throw a pitch the Blue Jays asked me to throw at the home opener. First pitch I practiced like hell. As you can imagine, he is a Canadian music icon. He is the vocalist, bassist and keyboardist with the Toronto rock band Rush. Jonathan, welcome into the field to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Getty Lee.
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I threw a perfect curveball for a strike. Wow.
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Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, Getty Lee, one with the breaking pitch. Controversial.
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Yeah, no kidding. And is he doing it again tonight? I don't know.
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That was back in 2013.
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First of all, his English is pretty good for a Foreigner.
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Right?
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Like we've been talking about. Wait till you hear the reign of booze on the national anthem in Canada. I wonder if there's any chance they're not going to air that. They always air the national anthem, but maybe they won't tonight.
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Well, I don't know that. Yeah, I think they air it. And in fact, if they were planning not to air it, I'd bump a commercial or two to air it because that will get tremendous attention to the next telecast.
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Whoa. So then does that make Americans angry and, like, go all in on rooting for the Dodgers in a way that they might not normally? It becomes more of a USA versus Canada thing?
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No, I just.
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I just ratchet up Americans dislike of Canada.
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I don't know if he can either. And Dodger hate for people who don't like the Dodgers runs pretty deep.
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Yeah. As a longtime San Francisco Giants fan, no is the answer no right?
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Yeah. I'm gonna watch first pitch or the game starts at 5 o' clock West Coast Time 8 Eastern. More on the way. Stay here.
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Armstrong and Gettysburg.
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Terry, I need you to go have a double.
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And so they get a double drink until they have the right BAC level according to the Breathalyzer. Now we'll see if any of the people who are drinking can pass the sobriety test. The guy who had the most to drink had 14 drinks over about two and a half hours. Yes, he didn't pass the test. Neither did anybody else. The cadets said that they would have arrested every single person who was in that room drinking if they were stopped on the side of the road. Don't drink and drive. That's the important message the cops can tell. I don't know what the message was there. Joe and I have done that a couple of different times where we got all Drunk up with the highway patrol.
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Yeah. This was a different program where they get people drunk and then they, like, unleash them on cadets to see if. To give them practice in giving sobriety tests to drunks.
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Have you done that before, Katie, on the air, where you get drunk? I have, yeah.
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It's a good time.
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You ever gotten drunk alone just to make your problems go away? I.
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Yeah, last night and tonight. Yeah, it was. It actually, it was crazy fun while it lasted. This is back in Jack's drinking days, obviously. I was very proud of the fact that my times kept getting better until it was a lot like my golf game and until I, you know, obviously cross the line.
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Until it doesn't. Yeah.
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Felt like crap that afternoon, though. We did it during morning drive. Yeah. Same here.
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Makes the day kind of long, I'd say.
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Well, it makes the day go away. You sleep for the rest of it, usually. At least I did.
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Hey, I meant to get to these stats on sports gambling that are kind of interesting. Rich Lowry, writing in the New York Post about. He's. He thinks it was a mistake, the Supreme Court legalizing gambling. So 38 states jumped on board immediately with sports betting that we didn't have before because of a Supreme Court ruling that basically the government doesn't have the right to not let you do. That is basically it. But. So most recent year, they have numbers for 20, 23 people wagered $150 billion nationwide. Wow. Just in America, 150 billion on the Super Bowl. The most bet on activity. 70,000 wagers a minute. Now, this is all, you know, getting toward the. How much pressure there could be on. There's so much money involved. There could be pressure on referees or players or coaches or whatever to do something untoward. And getting in on a little of the betting. 70,000 wagers a minute. During the super bowl, an article in the Atlantic, a guy studying this all for the Manhattan Institute, wrote, the rise of sports gambling has caused a wave of financial and familial misery, one that falls disproportionately on the most economically precarious households. Well, that's true for obvious reasons. You lose $10,000 and you're poor does a lot more damage than if you're rich.
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So there's got to be a term for this among people who study it. But the concept that prostitution is illegal. Everybody knows there's escorts and, you know, there's a certain amount of prostitution and they have a bust. Rub and tugs. They have a couple of busts a year. Everybody goes through the Motions. And it all looks, all looks a little bit silly. But that keeps a from like just blatant streetwalking hoes from walking by elementary schools and it becoming rampant. And it gives the cops an excuse to contact people who they suspect are being trafficked or exploited or underage or that sort of thing. In the same way that the, the speed limit is 70, they don't expect you to go 70, they just don't want you to go 90. There's. And there was always lots and lots of betting when gambling was quote unquote illegal. But it held back the tide a little bit. And that's difficult to explain in a way that is constitutional in the face of a good lawyer's argument. You have to have like really consistent moral codes among society. You got to have a homogenous society.
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And where it always gets complicated in a welfare state is like, I personally have zero problem with you having the freedom to ruin your life gambling as long as I gotta pay for you and your kids. But that ain't the way it works. That is not the way it works. If you end up on hard times or can't have a dignified retirement when you reach old age because you've been gambling your whole life, I'm expected to pick up the tab. So that's where it becomes a problem. This is an interesting number. This is similar to drinking. Every once in a while you see the stats where it's like, and I was one of These people, like 10% of drinkers buy 90% of the alcohol or something like that because there's so many people that have a beer a weekend while the rest of us are doing the heavy lifting. But for sports betting it's similar. About 5% of bettors spent 70% of the money over a two year period. 5% of the betters did 70% of the spending.
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Not surprised.
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Yeah. And again, do it all you want. As long as I'm not sending you SNAP money for your kids because you can't afford to feed them.
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Right. And as long as it doesn't screw up my favorite sports because it's everywhere all the time. And the temptations to do the unthinkable are, you know, ever present for the players and coaches and referees and the rest of it.
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Remind me about. I'm by. I bought some gourmet coffee and EBT Snap money. I want to, I want to tell that story I just came across yesterday. I thought it was kind of funny.
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You're on snap. Sorry, you need some help?
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No, no, I'm not on snap.
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Oh, okay.
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Yet I am in the radio industry. We got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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You know the thing, you know, you hear people say all the time, you know, you can't buy junk food with food stamps or that sort of thing. Boy, I came across a lie that that is the other day. Stay tuned.
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Yeah, yeah. It's a huge flaming lie. My God. It's one of the few things I agree with Dr. Oz about. Anyway, once in a while we'll do this. I get to the end of the week, I, Joseph Getty, get to the end of the week, and I've got so many articles and tabs open that are really interesting and I'd love to get to them on the show, but I'm just not going to. So we just will buzz through a bunch of them. Jack. Any of them intrigue you in particular? We can go into some detail. It's called Joe Closes His Tabs. We haven't done this for a long time and I decided that it needed theme music. So Anson, working his AI magic, has come up with some options. First, we need to pick the theme music. Everybody gets a vote. Michael, number one, please. Joe Getty.
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Closes His Tabs. Gonna be hard to beat this one.
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It's a little long. That's way too long. She likes amazing.
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I like the style, though.
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All right, number two.
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Michael. Joe Daddy Closes His Tail. For our purposes. That's better.
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Yeah, it's pretty good too. All right, number three. I like that too. I like that one the best, I think. For what?
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For what we're using it for. I Might be number three myself.
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H, I got to hear number two again. Michael.
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Closes his. Okay. I'm glad I tasted that again. I'm getting hints of berries and I had a bit of a chocolate flavor at the end.
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Yeah, okay. Well, we'll. We'll probably go with number three if that's. Which one do you like?
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Short?
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Michael?
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I like both two and three, but either one.
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Yeah. Yeah, fantastic. Anyway, here we go. Schools are accommodating.
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Michelangelo. Not wanting to anger either of the people's names on the show. That's what that was. You caught me.
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Checking for craps. I have none to give for which one we choose. Students are accommodating student anxiety. I'm sorry? Schools are accommodating student anxiety and making it worse. The authors of this study say having kids avoid that which makes them anxious makes their anxiety about a particular thing worse.
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I don't doubt that.
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A bit like test taking your public speaking.
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Speaking is a great idea. I know it's very common. Like if you. If you're really nervous speaking in public, they'll let you give your speech alone after school to just the teacher. You think that's going to help you in the future when you have to finally speak in public, which you will at some point.
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And this is a study and they use a bunch of data. But some of their conclusions are just intuitive. Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous.
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Right.
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When it's not at all. Public speaking. Testing lunch with classmates are too risky.
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For the lunch with classmates. That's rough.
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Second, they suggest that the student can't. Student can't withstand the distress. Those messages increase anxiety. I mean, as opposed to the more dad, like, you'll be fine. Go ahead.
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I can speak to that one perfectly. So I didn't have a problem with public speaking or tests or anything like that. I did have the lunch with classmates problem, though, because I moved schools a lot and I know exactly what it feels like to walk out into that lunchroom and know you're going to go sit on a table by yourself with everybody looking at you. I know that feeling exactly. But if the teachers had accommodated me by. You can. You can eat in here with us? By our. By yourself? You think that would have made me a better, more resilient human being or less?
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I mean, good Lord. Right? Right. So many of the WOKE policies that, you know, we've said all along are terrible ideas. Or just at least people are saying it out loud now. They're terrible ideas.
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Wow.
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The most wanted fentanyl producer is extradited to the US After a brazen escape. This guy's name, he's Chinese. Zidong Zhang. He was the big go between between the Chinese fentanyl precursor chemical producers and the Mexican cartels. Evidently he. He escaped from house arrest in Mexico. House arrest where he was set to be extradited to the US He. He hopped on a private jet to Cuba, then tried to fly to Russia. They wouldn't have him, sent him back to Cuba. Now Cuba's extraditing him to Mexico and from there he was delivered to the US So we have him now. Never heard of this guy. He's one of the most important drug dealers on the planet. And he's a Chinese national. I'll be damned. Another headline.
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I wonder if he is mostly running fentanyl.
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Let's see. Headline is most wanted fentanyl producer. Yeah, that was his gig.
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I remember having an argument with somebody who thought I was a conspiracy theory nut for saying China was trying to get fentanyl in the United States.
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Zhang is accused of smuggling tons of chemical precursors to make fentanyl for Mexico's top two criminal organization, the Sinalo and Jalisco cartels, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Man, people believe some strange stuff. Federal judge strikes Biden near a ban on transgender care discrimination. Saying that no, you can add I feel like a girl to actual sex related civil rights protection. What I thought was interesting is this writer in the Hill. I'm sure some 24 year old woke half wit wrote the following sentences. Where was it? Did I scroll too far? The decision is a significant loss for the transgender community which has faced a wave of state and federal policies and court decisions rolling back previously established rights. Do you mean rolling back insane? 15 minutes ago. Departures from all sanity, right? Previously established rights. Man, you're dressing up some pretty thin, you know, rulings in some pretty fancy clothes there. Moving along. Testosterone is giving women back their sex drive but risk side effects. Women are if. And it's tough to find a doctor to prescribe this, but women are taking testosterone, even a little more than their body would ever produce on their best day. And it's turning them into sex maniacs.
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Okay, I have personal experience with this.
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New York Times with this story.
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I know someone who does the testosterone cream thing. He was using the testosterone cream, believe some of it was rubbing off on his wife who was getting more testosterone and they became like rabbits.
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With four kids in the house. This, these. These people are in Their early sex.
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This is people in their 50s, been married for 30 years having sex every single day. Where do you buy this cream? And he thinks he's. It's the testosterone.
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Has anybody got any.40 in their early 40s, four kids in the house, sex six times a week up from. How about never?
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Okay. She says they're doing the biblical thing and taking Sunday off. That's what they're doing. Even God.
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That's probably the Bible. I don't know if it's good exercise.
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But isn't that interesting, though, that the only thing that needed to get the lady going is a little testosterone? You're gonna have a mustache and maybe grow testicles, but hey, there's a downside to everything.
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Yeah, actually, facial hair is downside. She was a little less emotional, a little less sentimental than she used to be, but she didn't have time for that kind of thing anyway. It's more like get stuff done, handle business, work out. Unbelievable. And they got a bunch of. Bunch of examples. I mean, one woman in her 50s told me that after years of revulsion at so much as the thought of her husband's breath.
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Wow.
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She now looked forward to having sex with him almost every night. Even in the middle of sex, she was thinking about the next time they could have sex.
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Wow. Wow. Night after night, night after night.
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Wow. Interesting. Just as estrogen is a crucial hormone for men, testosterone is an important hormone hormone for women. It just is in different balances in. In the two sexes. And guess what? There are only two sexes.
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So you get some testosterone cream, and then when you come home from work and you hug your wife, you just rub a little behind her ear.
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I got this new hand cream anyway.
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Oh, God.
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See? In a few minutes.
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Nice mustache, by the way.
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How. Oh, it's nothing a little wax can't handle, huh? How about this one? From. From laughing and sex to make you want to pound somebody. Get Joe Getty Cold Warrior ready, Michael. How China cheats its way into US Law schools. China's L Set Prep. LSAT Prep companies are utterly crooked with letting other people take the test for them. All sorts of cheating technologies, screen captures of test questions then fed to their clients. And Chinese communist nationals are getting into all of our elite law schools to learn American law. You want to guess why they're doing that?
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You know, that is really smart by China. That is really clever. Why wouldn't you do that? Why wouldn't you spend as much money as you can to get your smart Chinese kids into the best law schools, help them out with the score. Yeah, that's very clever.
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Then you can subvert the United States because you have a whole of society effort to take down the US and raise China up. And I for one ain't sitting still for it. Jo Getty, Cold Warrior. Yeah, I heard that. That was good. I like that one. Kind of chilling. Anyway, moving along, Joe closes his tabs. What do we have here? Oh boy. And maybe we want to talk about this Monday. Hamas is calculated. It can survive in Gaza and rule. And I read a piece by Kevin Williamson, the Dispatch. I think he's right. Donald Trump's Middle east plan might have been a smashing success, except that it is missing two elements. One, peace and to a plan. But we can talk about that more on.
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He hates Trump so much though it's difficult for him to see straight.
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Well, that's it. Maybe, but his reasoning is perfectly sound. Tesla earnings profits dropped 37%. 37% in the third quarter despite growing vehicle sales because of the end of certain subsidies. Plus he has emphasized that it's now about robot cars. That's his thing. It's not about making high quality electrical vehicles at various price ranges for American consumers and consumers worldwide. No, he's obsessed with the self driving software.
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Wonder why.
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You know what visionaries do.
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Yeah, I wonder if he wants to sell it to all the car companies.
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And that's how he's going to make his money.
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He's still, he's still saying that in 26, Tesla will go fully self driving. You don't have to pay attention. I just, I just don't think it's going to happen.
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But yeah, he says my fundamental concern he's talking about his relationship with the board of directors, is pay. But his control. My fundamental concern with how much voting control I have at Tesla is if I build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted in the future? I don't feel comfortable building that robot robot army if I don't have at least influence over it. Says it'll be like a shock wave. Wow. When they're successful.
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Oh boy. We don't need any more shockwaves.
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Too many shockwaves. And then finally, I wanted to dig in a little more into the article I mentioned yesterday. Surveillance cameras pointed the wrong way to allow the Louvre heist.
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That's so funny. You installed your security cameras pointing the wrong direction.
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Yeah. And you know, I, I don't want to come off as sexist.
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No chicks did it. But that's what I figured.
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Absolutely. Everybody involved in this, the director of the Louvre The Director of Security of Security.
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The.
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I believe the what is. The what is the Minister of Culture, I think involved is a woman they have known for years that they needed to upgrade their security system, including their camera system. And they declared that it was time to do it right now, four years ago. But it's been tied up in French bureaucracy that whole time and they haven't replaced a single damn camera. How emblematic is that of what France is now?
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No kidding. Wow, wow, wow. That's why it's a national embarrassment.
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Yeah, no kidding. Look, we. Our security system is. Is paltry. It's terrible. We've got to at least get modern cameras. Okay, we'll study it and half a decade goes by and that was.
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Pretty good.
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And I have so many more I want to get to. I'm going to hit you with one more. I don't care. We're running late and I've been wanting to talk about this for a long time. A Jewish lawyer was arrested for wearing a Star of David on a London street because he was getting close to a pro Palestinian protest. And they called the wearing the Star of David.
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Provocative. Wow.
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Yeah. More on that next week.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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I'm glad that our hungry are getting government help to buy the most expensive gourmet coffee that exists, among other things. On the way, stare Armstrong and Getty.
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You got different kinds of snobs. You got wine snobs, obviously. And there are chocolate snobs and cheese snobs and everything like that. But I saw a list the other day. The worst snobs. The worst. The snobbiest of snobs are coffee snobs. Espresso snobs. And I'm gonna try not to become one of those. As I mentioned earlier in the week, I bought a fancy expensive coffee machine. I get it today. I've already bought my beans. I'm really excited about it. I've been doing these rabbit hole deep dives on all these grinding and all these different sorts of things. We'll see how that turns out. But one thing I noticed when I was looking for some good coffee was some of the most expensive stuff on Amazon. This illy whole beam Intenso bold roast. It's a 90 bucks for this couple of packets of stuff, right? Ever Snap and EBT eligible for a lot of these super expensive roasts. How about that? So you can take your wealth redistribution money because you know you're just struggling to put food on the table and buy ridiculously overpriced. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Neither would I. Neither would anybody else. Difference in the taste. Espresso beans.
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Well, where is it written that the poor. Only the rich can enjoy ultra luxury products? Jack, that's so crazy. Like everywhere.
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That is so crazy, man. It is a rabbit hole though. And I'm sure you've done that with wine or you can do with all kinds of things, but oh my God, the spoon, the cup, the grinder, the how long after roasting, you let it air out for how long and just all this BS that there's no way you can possibly tell the difference in the flavor.
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You know, everybody needs their passions, but other people's passions seem so, so dumb. They really do. Jack Armstrong loves coffee.
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There you go. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
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All right, let's get a final thought to from everybody to wrap up the show for the week. Michelangelo, lead us off. What's your final thought? I am fascinated by how the announcers.
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Are going to handle the national anthem.
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If they show it, will they acknowledge it or just. You don't think they'd just be silent?
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I don't know what they'll say, though.
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I'll bet they're talking about that right now. They'll say you're hearing some booze as tensions have increased over trade talks between the US and Canada. Anyway, 0 and 2. Katie Green, our steamed news woman, has a final thought. Katie, I'm gonna stick with my food. Final thought theme. I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies last night.
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I want one right now. They're so good. Oh, I need one. I need it.
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I don't want to give them away. So I stop eating them. Jack, final thought for us.
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I am excited about the World Series. I'm wearing a Dodgers hat. I bought a Dodger stadium this year at a game. But I'm going to be rooting for Toronto. I love a good underdog story.
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I just had this weird thought. We're going to Hear that the NBA has donated $40 million to Trump's new ballroom and all of a sudden Cash Patel is going to lose his enthusiasm for the investigation. Because I have a feeling the revelations have just begun.
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Really? I'm excited. Yeah. Trump will commute their sentences.
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Oh boy.
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There you go. Armstrong and Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Good to know. I'm getting notes of citrus with a chocolate aftertaste. No, you're not.
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Tastes like coffee to me.
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No, you're not. We'll see you Monday. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty. It was another crazy week on the Armstrong and Giddy show.
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But can thank the Lord that we have Jack and.
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