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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will reportedly not be voted into the Pro Football hall of Fame name during his first year of eligibility, but he still plans to continue dating women during their first year of eligibility. The dating shot. That is such a dumb thing. Such a dumb thing. Now I guess the whoever's in charge of the hall of Fame is looking at booting out members that didn't vote for Belichick. It's just.
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Joe Getty
Oh, really?
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Jack Armstrong
Dumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're doing some sort of thing.
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Joe Getty
Protest against the cheating. Jack Deflate gate. How could you forget that? Videotaping gate or whatever.
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Jack Armstrong
The guy has eight super bowl rings. He has double the next closest coach in NFL history. Eight super bowl rings. Six. Six as a head coach and two as an assistant.
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Joe Getty
I mean, it's just.
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Jack Armstrong
It's just dumb. It's dumb. They didn't. They don't like him for a variety of reasons because he. He treated the press poorly and. And didn't give him answers and didn't play the game. And the.
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Joe Getty
Whatever grumpy lobster boat captain deserves to be in the hof.
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Jack Armstrong
Come on now. Of course.
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Joe Getty
Come on. It's a hilarious question.
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Jack Armstrong
I've never been to the hall of Fame. Have you been to the hall of Fame? No. I should go sometime. I always wanted to as a kid. I wonder if it's as underwhelming as the rock. I found the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.
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Joe Getty
I enjoyed the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, but you know, I wouldn't like go to Cleveland to see it.
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Jack Armstrong
Hell no.
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Joe Getty
If you're in Cleveland, go ahead. What else are you going to do? Anyway, so, speaking of grumpy older men, Donald J. Trump. William Holman writes for the Wall Street Journal, actually writing about a handful of things, but he addressed in a way that I found enlightening. Your the answer to your frequent question, Jack, will we get back to a more normal feel of politics in the post Trump era? I used to believe inevitably comes.
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Jack Armstrong
I now believe no.
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Joe Getty
I'm beginning to believe yes.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, I hope you're right. I'd love to be wrong.
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Joe Getty
Well, lead up to that, he's writing about the whole Davos thing and he said lacking in last week's Davos hysteria was any sense of politics in that Trump's address was a stump speech for channel flickers at home on the way to dropping the Greenland threat that he so typically parlayed into global attention. Guess who else is a politician? Every national leader in the room in Davos, who all have voters back home. Mark Carney could not have bothered getting back on his plane unless he found a suitably viral way to express what Canadian voters were feeling about Mr. Trump. TRUMP the moment. So that's what he did. He unloaded a blast of a speech. And yet NATO will survive and stronger because the allies are worth having now because they're beefing their game up. William Rice but anyway, say what you will about the Davosites, they are worldly types who understand regression to the mean, which is a fancy term for getting back to normal, more or less. The next US president won't be anything like Mr. Trump. Most importantly, lacking the license he gave himself to behave the way he does by being Donald Trump in public for 40 years, years before he became president.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't know if I'd buy that. I mean, true, nobody's going to come into office with the Persona that Trump built up over many, many, many, many years, but J.D. vance could be pretty close in behavior.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's, let's get to that. Let me lay out his reasoning, then we'll, we'll analyze some of the players. Oh, here it is. Nor will the next president's way be paved by the political gold that Mr. Trump got from the ID idiocies of Adam Schiff, Rachel Maddox, James Comey in the Bidens Joe and Hunter, who might as well have been on the Trump payroll.
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Jack Armstrong
No kidding.
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Joe Getty
Nor will he or she benefit from the nakedly commercial ratings based codependency of Mr. Trump and his cable TV detractors. Also a product of his unique career path.
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Jack Armstrong
He. Or wait a second, he or she. You need to have a pause for laugh after that. Oh, stop.
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Joe Getty
You pig. You pig. Peg. Peg.
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Jack Armstrong
Female president.
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Joe Getty
At every opportunity, headline writers define Mr. Trump as an outlier, a norm breaker, an offender against all that is holy. That is, until he opens his mouth at Davos. Then he becomes alarmingly synonymous with the US But Davos sites aren't fooled. They know that Trump is not a country of 340 million people. They may even know a bit of electoral history, blah, blah, blah. Not worth going into the history. Essentially. The US Will return to close to the mean soon, I hope.
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Jack Armstrong
See, on some things, not on all things.
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Joe Getty
Anybody who. Well, right. Whipping up hate and fear and indignation to raise money online will not change. But his argument is essentially. And anybody who's like actually taken physics could probably explain this better than I can. But I was doing a little medicine ball stuff at the gym the other day, you know, and if you throw the medicine ball at the wall at 20 miles per hour, it comes back with certain amount of energy. If you throw it at the wall at 50 miles per hour, it comes back with much more energy. I think it takes Trumpian energy to generate anti Trumpian energy.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. What I meant is I hope some things don't return to the mean. I'd like calmer, more gentlemanly conversations. I would like to go back to that. I think that'd be good for everybody. But I don't like if to the mean means and NATO goes back to not funding their militaries and counting on the United States to do all the defense. I don't want to return to that mean, for instance.
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Joe Getty
Right. My hope, which will probably be dashed, but I'll hold on to it. I'll cuddle it at night to help me go to sleep, is that there are very smart people and JD Vance is a great example of this, who is watching and listening and learning and saying to himself, if I can do the 75% that's productive and lead off, leave off the undisciplined 25% of Trump's act. I hit a home run. Marco Rubio could pull it off. J.D. vance could pull it off. I think. I hope that that's what's happening. Well, and again, my wishes might be the father of My thoughts here, but I'm seeing a lot greater visibility of the Josh Shapiro's and the Rahms, Emanuel and moderate sane Democrats who are convinced that a return to something like, you know, gentlemanliness and reaching across the aisle is what the American people want.
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Jack Armstrong
I hope so.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know if you. Go ahead.
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Joe Getty
I was going to say, speaking of Josh Shapiro, we've got a pretty amusing clip from him as long as his name came up.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, why don't we go ahead and do it. He was being interviewed on the Raging Moderates podcast, speaking of moderates and he was asked about the Biden administration and big government programs and that sort of thing.
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Josh Shapiro (clip)
35 Michael Josh Biden Harris administration didn't provide those specific tangible things that people could see or feel. I'll give you a very specific, concrete example. One of the biggest things holding back our rural communities is a lack of high speed, affordable Internet. Some people call that broadband. I've got 246,000 homes and businesses without it. I was incredibly proud of President Biden when they got that infrastructure bill passed to provide the billions of dollars that were needed to plug everybody and connect everybody in Pennsylvania. And do you know how many people, Scott, this many years later have been connected to high speed, affordable Internet thanks to President Biden's law in Pennsylvania? Zero. Because the dollars were never driven out.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, that's the whole abundance thing that some Democrats are working that, you know, we have lots but we need to figure out it's not the programs are bad, we don't implement them properly.
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Joe Getty
Right. And, or you know, something we're railing about all the time. Josh Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania, if you don't really follow politics, is saying, yeah, we like spray out this money, but it doesn't help the people. We're just handing out the money to hand out the money.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's that abundance book. That's one of the main things is that we, you know, we're not being effective. We have these policies and then nothing ever actually gets fixed. Which is not a bad argument. But it, you know, I'm not on board with all these policies. I don't think WI fi is a human right. So not, you know, don't know that I need to pay for everybody else's WI fi.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. I think the general principle though is I love, I love to hear people.
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Jack Armstrong
Absolutely. You know, it's also a problem if you go to the gym and you have a corgasm. The danger of corgasms. And more importantly the danger of clickbait and stupid stories coming up.
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
Corgasms. This is one of those dumb clickbait articles I want to talk about and with a greater significance I think is I've seen three times already today because I guess you work your core at the gym and it rhymes with or which is the first part of orgasm. And then you got a hot chick and claiming that you know, you know how this whole thing works.
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Joe Getty
Yesterday at choir practice I almost had coral sex. I mean what, what are we doing here? What, what, what is this? New York Post. I assume it's the New York Post.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, and the California and the New California Post. Oh we got that. Another not so dumb stuff on the way. Armstrong and Getty, he's going to face.
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Joe Getty
Serious charges and the fact that the spray may have been harmless doesn't amount to it not being a threat. Someone who comes in with a fake bomb is still charged with serious criminal charges.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that's what I was saying yesterday. I mean we have, especially since 9 11, we have so many different sorts of terrorism and charges against, you know, threatening or attacking public officials. That guy could spend if they decide to prosecute it, a long time in jail.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah, that was a seriously stupid move.
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Jack Armstrong
I bet he's completely nuts, isn't he? Nuts or a half wit. Yeah, an idiot.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Corgasms aren't as rare as you think, Joe.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, they are.
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Jack Armstrong
So you got this obviously hot young woman because that's the only sort of person that starts this sort of thing. And she has hundreds of thousands of people who follow her on Instagram. And you people are morons. You are absolutely paste eating. Don't ever talk to me morons. If you follow influencers like this, you only get one life. Are you aware of that? And you spend any of your time looking at pictures of somebody like this to see what she thinks about things? What the hell is wrong with people? Well, they're, they're.
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Joe Getty
A certain percentage of the population are dimwits.
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Jack Armstrong
God, I'd say.
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Joe Getty
But, but, but why are you offended by that? Dimwits need dim witted entertainment.
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Jack Armstrong
Because I think it gives us that right. I think it gives us the culture and politics that we have that people are just dumb and spend and paying attention to crap like this.
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Joe Getty
I would like to have an honest discussion with. And you'd never, you could never get it going. But ask, you know, Democratic activists, really, any activist, any political consultant, do you think people who are really dumb should vote? I mean people who through no fault of their own, do not have the intellectual capacity to understand any of the issues or how governance works, should they vote?
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Jack Armstrong
No, they should not. So this hot young chick who's an influencer says she was at the gym doing leg raises. And after doing about 10 leg raises, you know, like for your, your, your, well, your core. I started to feel a tingle in my body. I thought, surely that's not how it's meant to feel. I was sweating and could feel a similar sensation to what I'd normally experience in the bedroom. As I noticed the climax building, I panicked and had to stop. I don't know if my heavy breathing was a giveaway to everyone around me. Nicknamed core gasms, exercise induced orgasms are fairly rare, but certainly not unheard of. According to Dr. Debbie Hebernick, a sex researcher and the author of the Corgasm Workout estimates that roughly 10% of people have corgasms. Have you either had one, Katie, or been in a gym and heard one obviously happening, you know, two rows over? No, no, I have not. I'll have what she's having. As the joke goes.
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Joe Getty
There was not a single sentence of that that wasn't bold.
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Jack Armstrong
They generally feel similar to orgasms from vaginal intercourse, but they tend to be more dull, less intense and more tingly. Well, apparently you've been with me, says.
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Joe Getty
The sex researcher who has A workout book going right.
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Jack Armstrong
Anyway, so just the existence of this sort of thing makes me so sad.
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Joe Getty
Was it Barnum who said a fool and his money is. Are soon parted or is that like an ancient.
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Jack Armstrong
I think he was, he was a sucker is born every minute.
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Joe Getty
Wasn't that. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. But anyway, a fool in their attention are soon parted. Right? Ought to be the modern expression. Which might be more fool in their time.
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Jack Armstrong
Which is actually more valuable than your money because you don't get the. Your time limited. Don't spend it on influencers. How much time have I got right here, Michael?
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Joe Getty
I'd say you got about three months looking at you.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, how about now? Three minutes in this segment. Ok, so I don't think I've talked about this on the air. It's turned out to be just such a pain. So when we left New Orleans, we traveled. We each had backpacks we took on the plane. And then we had one great big giant bag for our other stuff that I actually checked as we were traveling around over our Christmas break. And then when we left our fabulous hotel in New Orleans, for whatever reason, left the giant bag in the hotel, got it all packed up and everything and left it there. We got, we got out of the.
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Joe Getty
Uber at the airport.
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Jack Armstrong
I was like, who's got the big bag? I thought you had the big bag. Because my, my sons, I'd always have my sons pull it and neither one of them had. So anyway, it's on me. But. So none of us had grabbed it out of the, out of the hotel. I felt like a complete idiot, was hoping that this was not something that couldn't be dealt with. I called the hotel and I said, I feel like an idiot. Said, you know, it happens. You wouldn't believe. It happens all the time. Every single day. We deal with this. We have a routine. So we, we, we. The FedEx is right downstairs. So, you know, blah, blah, blah, FedEx will contact you, you pay me, get it shipped home. Fantastic. Not a big problem. Doesn't arrive when it's supposed to arrive. The tracking is weird. It's like, looks like it's going places it's not supposed to go. I probably should have intervened there, but anyway, never shows up. Call FedEx and start asking about the tracking number. And they say we, we don't know where it is. I said, what do you mean you don't know where it is? We don't know where it is. So you're going to have to contact the shipper. Why do I have to Contact the shipper. You're going to have to have the shipper. Shipper look into this. Well, I'm kind of the shipper. I paid for it. But did you drop it off? No. Well, you're gonna have to have the person that dropped it off call. Why do I need to do that? Because they're the ones that instigated the shipping. But you had it at one point. It's right here in your information. You had it and you had the tracking number and you were sending it around places. So the thing that had that tracking number where it is, you'll have to ask the shipper. And he just kept saying, over, by the way, in a thick accent from some other land, so thick that I could barely understand what was going on. And it took me like 20 minutes to finally get to the person. And I went, I've gone through this over and over and over again. And I contact the hotel and they're like, what are you talking about? We said, what do you want us to do? Exactly. The hotel's like, what am I supposed to do about this?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, we did our part.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I paid for the shipper and I can just get. No. And so then you do a claim, and I don't know if you've ever done this in before, but a claim. And I could get a maximum. I've got, like, probably in terms of clothes, shoes, the bag, about three grand invested in this. I can get a maximum of $100 back if I have the receipts for everything in the bag. I don't know about you, but I don't have the receipts for my boots that I bought four years ago or my jeans that I bought last year.
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Joe Getty
Can you imagine the stacks of receipts in the filing system? You would have to. Have to actually have done that. That's ridiculous.
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Jack Armstrong
I have to post the receipts to get anything back to even get the hundred dollars. So it's basically good luck. It's what they say to you if you ever lose something. Just a heads up, if you ever do that.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
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The Federal Reserve taking its time bringing interest rates down and seeing little urgency.
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Joe Getty
With government data pointing to slower job.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, so the whole interest rate thing, and then, you know, you still see the independence of the Fed because Trump has obviously pressured the guy a lot. And they didn't do what he wanted. He wants to lower interest rates. Interest rates. Because that tends to fire up the economy. Funny thing about. And we won't get off on this because it's a long, boring thing, but I've been taking in more information about the whole Fed and how there's just no justification for it. Constitutionally, it shouldn't exist yet everybody thinks it's a weird beast, but everybody thinks it works really well and it has worked well and the world really respects it.
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Joe Getty
So.
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Jack Armstrong
But it doesn't make any sense.
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Joe Getty
And monetary policy really shouldn't be in the hands of politicians.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, it definitely doesn't make sense that it's part of the executive branch. But Trump can't fire him. That doesn't make any sense. It reminds me he can actually legally, probably, but just traditionally, it would be breaking with the independence and it would.
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Joe Getty
Cause enormous economic shocks like all over the world. It reminds me of like, you know, the French system where, you know, you're married but you have a lover and it's just not spoken of and. But everybody knows what's going on. It's like the Fed is. What's the justification for that?
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Jack Armstrong
Shh, shh.
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Joe Getty
We don't talk about that.
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Jack Armstrong
There are very few things in life and it's tough because, you know, you gotta have rules, you gotta have boundaries, you gotta this to make everything work. But I can't think of hardly anything in life where there's not. Not one squishy area where there are exceptions that. That are hard to justify within all the older rules and boundaries you have.
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Joe Getty
Sure.
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Jack Armstrong
And it's just this way life works.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Gray areas and exceptions to the rule. Yeah, yeah. Makes the world go around. So does literature, folks. That was a clumsy transition. But Jack, I knew you'd be thrilled by this. I came across a rather whimsical article in the Atlantic written by a fellow who participated in. Get this, a 25 hour live reading marathon. Marathon live reading of Moby Dick.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, wow.
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Joe Getty
Hundreds of volunteers who did five minutes each. Cool. That I've droning on and on for 25 hours.
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Jack Armstrong
I think that's awesome. I would participate in that. I would watch some of it.
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Joe Getty
An inmate to listen to that. The Supreme Court would knock you down. Well and unusual.
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Jack Armstrong
One, I love literature. Two, it's dying, so I would like to fight for keeping it alive maybe one more day. None of these books are going to be read in the future. And by the future, I mean like in five years.
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Joe Getty
None of them by the way charmingly, it's. This takes place at the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. Is that. What state is that? Mass.
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Jack Armstrong
I think.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, probably. Yeah. I'm not super good at my. Northeastern. Yeah, yeah. Massachusetts. And just one final note on mobile dick for anybody who's ever read it or tried to read it. Is there another book at once so good and so bad, so thrilling and so boring, so authentic to the currents of the soul and so hideously contrived, so stunningly patrolled by dreamlike visions and so crushed by its own intellectual baggage.
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Jack Armstrong
That's.
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Joe Getty
I agree with him. Who said completely. That's the guy writing this article.
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Jack Armstrong
The James Parker.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Anyway, another note from the world of literature before we move on to earthier matters. Oh, this piece of crap. Hang on a second. Let's see. Shakespeare was a black woman. Jack. As it turns out.
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Jack Armstrong
No, we don't.
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Joe Getty
The whole Stratford on Avon white fellow with the funky beard saying no, not correct. According to this new or supposed to take it seriously Intellectual University something or other. Which froze on my computer.
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Jack Armstrong
Son Hamnet, which is a movie that's coming out right now about Shakespeare's son. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Gosh dang it. All the particulars. Yeah. I can't get the computer to work.
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Jack Armstrong
There is.
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Joe Getty
It's a shame, a crying shame.
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Jack Armstrong
My plug for literature and you know, to each their own. But there. I don't know if there's anything I get more enjoyment out of than good literature. I don't own up. There's a single thing that I get more like feeds my soul and wanting to be alive than good literature. But it is a dying thing nobody's going to read in the future. Except for maybe the very quick sub titles on your TikTok video if you can't quite understand what the person's saying.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. You have literature. I like to doom. Scroll through Twitter. I get the same thing from Twitter.
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Jack Armstrong
Nothing feeds my soul like Doom scrolling through Twitter.
- [24:31]
Joe Getty
Nothing makes me more in touch with why it's great to be alive than doom scrolling through Twitter.
- [24:38]
Jack Armstrong
A series of inaccurate, overwrought opinions of people with malfeasance on their mind. Nothing. Yeah.
- [24:49]
Joe Getty
For profit. Carefully selected by algorithms to piss me off.
- [24:54]
Jack Armstrong
Exactly. Nothing feeds my soul like that.
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Joe Getty
Right. Right. Okay. So this stupid thing finally opened. This new book entitled the Real Shakespeare identifies the real Shakespeare as the historical figure Emilia Bassano, a poet with connections to the Tudor court who is a mixed race Jewish woman apparently. But because mankind insists on white men being credited with the great works of art, she was shunted aside in the credit given to an uneducated interloper from Stratford upon Avon, the half wit William Shakespeare, who was then revered by posterity because the idea of a white genius was preferred to a black female playwright. The book argues. The book's author, Irene Coslet, is a feminist historian, and she says if Shakespeare was a female of color, this would draw to attention to issues of peace and justice in society. What if women had a pivotal role in civilizing impact in history, but they have been silenced, belittled and erased from the dominant narrative?
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Jack Armstrong
This fits in with something I've talked about many times. I think he's dead now. Harold Bloom, who is one of the leading scholars of Shakespeare in the world and was a Yale professor and he had said back in the 90s, he was going around giving speeches that there's literally nobody teaching Shakespeare anymore except through the lens of how it was racist or, you know, anti woman, or that nobody's actually just teaching it as great literature and art, which it has been the dominant form of for, you know, half a thousand years. But now it's only being torn apart in a way of how awful it was because it was a white straight male. And that was in the 90s. And so that's why I'm saying this sort of thing is dead for a variety of reasons, not only our attention span, but none of the great literature. You can't, you can't teach it in a college because most of the time it's white straight men for a variety of reasons. Right.
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Joe Getty
It's held up only for ridicule.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Isn't that amazing? What cultures have ever done this where they destroyed themselves like this?
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Joe Getty
Right. And the point of critical theory, if you've ever read about it, is to destroy everything through completely unfair critiques of it. Like, you know, Shakespeare was a black woman. People are like completely befuddled. And then you say, but it's known he was a white man. What do you mean by known? I find the term known problematic. So the white narrative is what, you know, that's all you know, isn't it? And people are like, why are you yelling at me? And that's the way critical theory gets over. It just criticizes everything until people are either exhausted or completely flabbergasted and they pull back. Did you have more on that topic? I could talk about this crap all day, but I could do a couple of.
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Jack Armstrong
I think, I think that matches up that, what you just said. I think it matches up with some sort of thing when people become successful enough, apparently you can just start to feel guilty about the fact that I'm kind of comfortable and successful and boy, a lot of people in the world aren't, so it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. And so you marry those two things together, and for some reason you end up where we are.
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Joe Getty
Right? Yeah, that's a good point. And, you know, it's especially prevalent. We've seen this over and over and over again among people who grew up with money. Went to the $75,000 a year boarding school in upstate New York or whatever. Like when we went through Mamdani's cabinet the other day, they all went to schools that were like, you know, even adjusted for inflation, like five times the tuition of the college I went to for, like their fourth grade.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, right.
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Joe Getty
Just these incredibly expensive elite boarding schools or whatever, you know, Eastern private schools. Because I know, speaking. Speaking for myself as a guy who, you know, we. We had food on the table and all and a roof over our heads, but we were not wealthy at all. I don't have any guilt whatsoever that I necessarily comfortable. Not even like for a second.
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Jack Armstrong
No, no.
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Joe Getty
But ever.
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Jack Armstrong
Those kids who grew up that way, a lot of them.
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Joe Getty
Not feeling like water off a duck's back. Michael.
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Jack Armstrong
Sorry. That should be studied more. More people should speak out about that. Yeah. I feel guilty because I was a rich kid and I've always had it easy. And now, like, I just fight every day. The fact that I feel guilty about I didn't have to earn this. So now I'm trying to tear down the system for some reason.
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Joe Getty
Right, right. Yeah. That is an interesting psychological malady that those people have.
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Jack Armstrong
And it's very common. Oh, incredibly common throughout history.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Huh. Interesting. I actually. I'm looking at the clock. I've got some good news about Americans in America are a lot more sane than you'd get the idea from the media. A great victory in court for free enterprise and a poll that reveals you could. People were never really in the minority at all speaking sanity during the woke pocalypse. So we'll get to those two things in a couple of minutes.
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Jack Armstrong
That dude that got shot the other day, a new video came out. If you haven't heard about this, we should like, describe it in detail because we haven't done that. I think it lends a lot of interesting information to the whole conversation and. And the way it's looked at. So, you know, that's the hot spot. That is Minneapolis. Maybe we'll get to that now. Or three. Stay with us.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Gettys get some texts about.
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Jack Armstrong
My situation with having my package lost, basically, and how little they care, the shipping company. But we'll talk about that later.
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Joe Getty
So the Free Beacon polled the 20 Democrats who are most likely to run for president recently. We talked about this earlier, asking basic questions including, should transgender girls be able to participate in girls sports? They phrased it that way. So they, you know, I never use that term, but so that they might get answers. Do you believe transgender youth under 18 should be able to be placed on puberty blockers and hormones? What's your response to the question can a man become a woman? That sort of thing. And almost all of them decline to comment at all. Only three respond to Josh Shapiro, Rahm Emanuel and Pete Buddha Judge. And their answers are not particularly interesting. But the Economist YouGov poll just came out and 67% of voters oppose biological men competing in women's sports and only 22% support it. That 22% are delusional, obviously, but I.
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Jack Armstrong
Think those 22% think they have to say that. I'll maybe give you 8% of people who actually believe that.
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Joe Getty
So at the very, very least, it's three to one. At the very least. And indeed it found out that 43% of Kamala Harris voters oppose allowing men in women's sports. It's a plurality. It's 43 to 39. So it's not a majority of anybody who thinks that. That's right. It's amazing.
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Jack Armstrong
It's amazing, right? Given the coverage of it or how scared politicians on the left are to say that out loud, it certainly doesn't fit in with a national opinion on it virtually.
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Joe Getty
I mean, practically all the coverage of girls having balls spiked into their faces on the volleyball court and being badly injured of getting bullied and hurt on the basketball courts, of all the examples that losing out on the medals in the track meets in Connecticut and other states in California, blah, blah bl. Virtually all of that coverage of those injustices was in conservative media.
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Jack Armstrong
It reminds me of what I used to say about illegal immigration many years ago, long before Trump ran for president, I'd say, because we'd look at the polling on it and it wasn't even close. People hated illegal immigration, absolutely hated it. But everybody, including Republicans, were scared to say it out loud because you'd get the whole racist thing and you anti brown percent. And then finally when somebody came along who was willing to say it out loud, freaking illegal immigration's awful. We need to stop it. He gets a nomination, gets elected easily I think there's going to be similar. Maybe Rahm Emanuel's a Democrat who's just going to say out loud what practically, you know, easily the majority of Democrats think, no, no, no, no, you can't have boys and girls, sports. That's nuts.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
And he's going to get the nomination easily.
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Joe Getty
Right, Right. It's interesting, that dynamic of the vicious vocal activist minority cowing others into silence. Not us, as you may have noticed, but others. And then a stray thought to connect to the next story. When we were talking about being successful, having more money than you need, and some people feel guilt over that and decide to become a Marxist for some crazy ass reason and we don't, I meant to throw in one cool thing about having more than you need to pay your bills is that you can support things and people and organizations that are doing good in the world. It's one of the great pleasures. And you know, among those organizations we love the Pacific Legal foundation, the Goldwater Institute, there are a handful of others that are doing great, great work around the country advocating for liberty. And the Pacific Legal foundation, our longtime friends, had a great, great victory that I've been meaning to talk about. Here's your story. A fellow by the name of Parker Noland. He was in the army, had a medical discharge and he's a go getter. He set his sights on starting a small debris hauling business targeting underserved construction sites in his county of Montana, Kalispell, Montana.
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Jack Armstrong
I love go getters like this.
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Joe Getty
Oh yeah. I admire so much.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't go or get. So somebody who does both is amazing to me.
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Joe Getty
I'm a come giver. Come give me something. Anyway, he secured a loan. He bought a few dumpsters and a specialized truck. He posted ads. He made the rounds. He worked tirelessly. And of course, in the land of the free in the United States of America. Within a few days, the state shut him down because, and this is something Tim Sandifer, our friend, has been fighting against for his entire adult life. The Montana Public Services Commission issued a cease and desist letter telling Parker he couldn't haul construction debris without first obtaining the infamous certificate of public convenience and necessity, a con, a government permission slip that in practice gives the current waste companies the power to block any new competition. Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
In case you don't understand this, and he can look at all different realms of life, a couple of companies that are established and successful and wealthy, they get laws passed or restrictions passed that are barriers to entry for any new guy to come compete against them.
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Joe Getty
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
Right. And it works.
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Joe Getty
We don't think the public needs another hauling company. That'll be a no hard working army veteran. You cannot open a business in America. Nothing makes me insane.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah it just because it's just so antithetical to everything we supposedly believe in in country.
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Joe Getty
So Mr. Parker turned to the courts and lost in the district court. He sued him saying Montana's con laws were unconstitutional under The Montana Constitution 14th Amendment lost at the district court. But helped by the legal the pacific legal foundation for them free of charge appealed his case and the Montana Supreme Court delivered a major win. It revived Parker's constitutional challenge sent the case back to the district court to further analyze each constitutional provision. He hasn't won. But the supreme court of Montana said yeah this is a serious deal we need to take.
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Jack Armstrong
That's awesome. And you lower courts throw yourself off a cliff today. That's what I would like you to do. Or a high building if you can't get near a cliff because you're a.
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Joe Getty
Person or or under the the stampeding hooves of the bison of Montana or something. The point is end yourself. You suck. We hate you.
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Jack Armstrong
The point is end yourself. You suck.
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Joe Getty
Throw yourself in one of those boiling cauldrons at the. What do you call it?
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Jack Armstrong
Yellowstone. Yeah that'd be. That'd do it.
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Joe Getty
There you go. That's a rough way to go.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
That's quick. Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
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