Signed, Non Crazy People.

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Signed, Non Crazy People
Date: November 14, 2025
Host: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty take a wide-angle look at a range of current events, highlighting pressing issues such as economic uncertainty, affordability struggles, the end of the penny, job layoffs, protest culture, and technology’s relentless march forward. The conversation swings from national to personal, punctuated by sharp wit, skepticism, and candid assessments of politicians, cultural trends, and modern life.

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Main Themes and Discussion Points

1. The State of the Economy: Confusion and Precariousness

• The hosts dissect media coverage of the stock market and economic trends, highlighting how news reports often link market moves to whatever story is hot, without real evidence.

• Key Point: The increasing role of algorithmic trading makes understanding market swings more complex and, in many respects, unknowable.

  • “[Economic reporting]… all your economic report reporting…they don’t say ‘because’, they just say ‘as’—so this happened as…” —Jack Armstrong [02:00]
  • “...they're just guessing. Obviously those are two very different stories, whether AI is not all what it's cracked up to be or the whole interest rate thing.” —Jack Armstrong [03:12]

• The duo notes notable declines in major tech stocks, such as Nvidia, tying this to concerns over the so-called "AI Bubble" and tech companies’ promises of massive future spending.

  • “...I think people are starting to reckon with the spectacular obligations... the various tech companies are making towards spending incomprehensible amounts of money..." —Joe Getty [04:18]

• The hosts repeatedly return to the theme of general uneasiness and economic “precariousness” permeating the news and people's lives.

  • “...the word of the year should be precarious. Yeah, everything feels precarious." —Joe Getty [18:23]

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2. Affordability and Insurance Costs

• The conversation zeroes in on spiraling costs for average Americans, particularly car and homeowners insurance, which have far outstripped regular inflation.

  • “...the thing that's killing them is homeowners insurance going up, car insurance going up as much as it has. And that is true. Man, that is a chunk of money.” —Jack Armstrong [05:44]

• Politicians’ focus on high grocery prices is contrasted with the practical financial burden of insurance costs.

  • “How come I haven't heard any politicians bring that up? I constantly hear about the price of eggs, but not the price of insuring my 2015 Honda Accord. That has tripled...” —Jack Armstrong [06:20]

• Discussion of government ineffectiveness in regulating industries like health and insurance.

  • “He said the government is not involved where it's bitterly needed and is overly involved where it shouldn't be.” —Joe Getty (paraphrasing Stephen Brill) [06:53]

• The hosts forecast that affordability will be the central issue in the upcoming election, with both parties maneuvering for voter sympathy.

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3. The End of the Penny and Small Change Economics

• The U.S. Mint’s discontinuation of penny production sparks reflections on psychological pricing and the future of cash transactions.

  • “The U.S. Mint yesterday ended production of the penny after 232 years. Well, still not the worst thing that ever happened to Lincoln.” —Jack Armstrong [09:31]
  • “Goodbye, Penny. You'll be missed. Nope. Hated carrying [you] around my whole life. And you're really worthless now.” —Jack Armstrong [09:59]

• Questioning whether the convention of .99 pricing will end, and noting the declining relevance of cash.

  • “Who pays cash anyway, right? Who are you paying cash for anything?” —Jack Armstrong [10:57]

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4. Job Market and Economic Weirdness

• Job market tightening highlighted: major companies (like Verizon) announce significant layoffs; lack of government data during shutdown creates uncertainty.

  • “Verizon announced they’re going to cut about 15,000 jobs...” —Jack Armstrong [11:22]
  • “Worst market for college grads in four years”—discussed as an underwhelming headline [12:08].

• The duo jokes about using the national lottery to pay down government debt [12:54].

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5. Headlines in Brief – News Rundown with Katie Green

A rapid-fire review of topical stories ranging from China’s new aircraft carrier to robotic crime-fighting:

• China's new supercarrier vs US dominance [14:10]

• US military presence near Venezuela [14:39]

• TSA bonuses following shutdown [14:56]

• Elon Musk’s claim about robotic security [15:47]

  • “...Tesla’s Robot could follow people around to stop crime.” —Katie Green

• Study on sitting and standing for back pain [16:43]

• ABC’s continued coverage of the Epstein scandal [17:03]

• Satirical headlines: Nancy Pelosi and ‘outsider trading’ [17:28]

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6. Protest Culture, Extremism, and Coverage Double Standards

• Joe Getty sharply critiques left-wing protestors who disrupted a Turning Point USA event at Berkeley, drawing analogies to right-wing extremism and criticizing uneven media scrutiny.

  • “...the mob outside appeared set on menacing anyone suspected of being a ticket holder…attendees scattering as a car was apparently made to backfire to create the illusion of gunshots.” —Joe Getty (paraphrasing Andrew Doyle) [24:44]

• Hassan Piker ("swagged out white boy" leftist influencer), is taken to task for both his rhetoric and the American left's acceptance of extreme figures, unlike notorious fringe influencers on the right.

  • “He is...a toxic anti-Semite who’s argued landlords should be mass slaughtered until the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.” —Joe Getty [24:18]

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7. Technology: Home Robots and Everyday Automation

• Elon Musk’s push into humanoid robotics and skepticism about their near-term home utility.

  • “...you remember when like the dishwasher showed up or the microwave...Will the robot be like that?” —Jack Armstrong [29:51]

• Debate whether consumers would pay thousands for a multitasking home robot—or even a laundry-folding robot.

  • “If you could dump a load of laundry straight out of the dryer into a machine and it would fold everything perfectly and neatly. They would sell out..." —Joe Getty [31:03]

• Russian robotics demo gone awry provides comic relief.

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8. Listener Mailbag & Quick Takes

• Listener opinions on insurance price hikes.

• Discussion on public sector unions and whether current survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes get adequate attention.

• Housing affordability and the lack of new starter homes, tied to municipal policies and the rental market.

• Satirical jabs at Seattle politics and unconventional family arrangements.

  • “In almost every municipality I'm aware of, the mandated affordable housing is almost exclusively rental properties...” —David, general contractor, read by Joe Getty [35:13]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “All your economic report reporting...they just say ‘as’— so this happened as—so...” —Jack Armstrong [02:00]
• “The word of the year should be precarious. Yeah, everything feels precarious.” —Joe Getty [18:23]
• “Goodbye, Penny. You'll be missed. Nope. Hated carrying around my whole life. And you're really worthless now.” —Jack Armstrong [09:59]
• “Man, that's a problem. I don't know what's going to be done about that. The whole affordability thing...” —Jack Armstrong [07:24]
• “But there are gazillions of pennies out there. How long will they be in circulation?” —Jack Armstrong [10:12]
• “The mob outside appeared set on menacing anyone suspected of being a ticket holder..." —Joe Getty (paraphrasing reporting) [24:44]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Stock Market Dissection & Media Skepticism: [01:35–04:46]
• Affordability & Insurance Costs: [04:46–08:19], [13:18–13:49]
• Penny Discontinued & Cash Observations: [09:31–11:12]
• Job Market & Layoffs: [11:22–12:08]
• Rapid News Review with Katie Green: [14:10–17:28]
• Clips of the Week (Humorous/Absurd News): [18:46–21:28]
• Protest Culture & Double Standards: [23:33–27:39]
• Home Robots & Technological Automation: [28:32–32:38]
• Mailbag – Listener Reactions & Unfiltered Opinions: [32:50–36:52]
• Final Quick Takes – Housing & Local Politics: [36:28–37:03]

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Episode Tone

A blend of sarcasm, gallows humor, skepticism towards institutions (media, politicians), and concern over political polarization—with the occasional detour into absurdity and nostalgia.

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For Further Listening

The hosts encourage listeners to hear the full show for deeper dives and more context, as well as to check out posted videos and links at their website. The episode closes with teases for more audience input, affordability stories, and policy discussions in upcoming segments.

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Transcript

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast.

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Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong Strong. It's Friday live from Studio C, a dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Hey, y'.

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All.

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Heading into the weekend, we're under the tutelage of our general manager.

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Don't really feel strongly about anything. Could go with pennies who are coming to an end as a part of American or Chinese drones, which there are way too many of. Was just reading about that.

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Or the stock market. What took quite a dump yesterday and might be an indication of some things huge. Who knows?

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Michael, where's our sound? Where's our stock market sound? Remember, Michael's very, very busy.

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Yeah. So I. Look our old producer Scott decided. No, no, no, no, no. Sean or producer Sean decided he needed to get really educated about the stock market. And he did, which was an admirable. He just as a grown man, he decided here's something I'm going to get really interested in. And he did a lot of studying and everything like that. But he pointed out. And I'd never noticed it before, but once he pointed it out, I have never been able to stop thinking about it in that all your economic report reporting says as they don't say because they just say as so.

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Right. My first is appropriate.

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Yeah.

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Because any idea what they're talking about? They're guessing. So my first as I had yesterday that I saw was a stock market big giant drop yesterday as investors realize AI ain't gonna turn out to be what they thought it was. And I thought, oh, okay, it's the AI bubble crashing. So that was just in my head. Then this morning I saw stock market dropped a lot yesterday as the Fed announced they may not lower interest rates.

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No, that's it.

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Okay. When they said they were going to.

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That's the mono. Cause I get it.

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So they don't have the. This happened because they can't say it is because of this because nobody knows it's Way too complex. So they always throw out an as and then it kind of goes into your head. As because.

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Sure. And once you catch correlation, causation, etc.

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Yeah, Once you catch on to that, you notice they do it all the time and they're just guessing. They're absolutely guessing. Obviously those are two very different stories. Whether AI is not all cracked, what it's cracked up to be, or the whole interest rate thing.

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But man, I don't know if you've studied the stock exchange, but there are lots of different stocks and they respond to different things at different times. So yeah, it's, it's much more complex and subtle than at an extreme media.

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Would have it added in with the fact that it's mostly computers trading now. Gazillions of decisions per half a second and reacting to each other and everything like that. And it gets really hard to figure out what's going on. But Nvidia, the big AI chip maker, has had quite the drop from their high moving down. Yeah. And who knows if that'll bounce back or not. And the whole is AI the AI thing gonna bow if that bubble breaks? There won't be an as as this happens or as that it'll all be, holy crap, the world has changed quite a bit because the stock market is built on AI right now.

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Right. There it is. There's our stock market sound. That's the one I was looking for. Sounds like a bubble.

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Was that a bubble?

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I think people are starting to reckon with the spectacular obligations or commitments, I should say, that the various tech companies are making towards spending incomprehensible amounts of money more and more each year over the next several years. And people are starting to think, you.

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Know, I made a lot of money.

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On this stock already and that sounds crazy. It might be like crazy great, but. But it's definitely crazy. So I think I'll unload these stocks.

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The Trump administration, huge push the last couple of days to make it sound like they're super concerned about affordability. Think since everybody's decided that's the topic for the voting populace is affordability. And JD Vance is out giving speeches yesterday and everything like that. And so I was just reading a newsletter that was including a bunch of regular people talking about how much more things cost and comparing their grocery bill now to five years ago and all that sort of stuff. But the one thing a couple mentioned that they said they can't, that really makes the difference. I thought it was interesting, like one person saying, okay, we make up for the groceries. Like we've quit going to Starbucks and we canceled one of our streaming subscriptions and you know, kind of evens out. But the thing that is killing them is homeowners insurance going up, car insurance going up as much as it has. And that is true. Man, that is a chunk of money. Oh, yeah.

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Whoa, whoa. Many, many times. Well, maybe not many times, but a hell of a lot more than the rate of inflation, especially over the last five years, skyrocketing. And then add to that medical costs, none of which are, you know, your to be subscription, whatever that is, keeps jumping up on my TV trying to get me to subscribe. Those are obligations. You, you legally can't not have a couple of those. Yeah.

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Oh, exactly. You can cut back, you can change the way you buy groceries, you can eat different things, whatever.

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But you, if you got to drive.

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A car, your car insurance going way up.

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Yeah.

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Is a lot. And how come I haven't heard any politicians bring that up? I constantly hear about the price of eggs, but not the price of insuring my 2015 Honda Accord. That has tripled or whatever it has in the last several years.

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Yeah, yeah. I tell you what, I get tired and discouraged even thinking about this because the insurance industry is a lot like the medical field as described by Stephen Brill in his brilliant book Bitter Pill, which came out. Gosh, that was at least a decade ago now, wasn't it? Maybe even more.

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I think more now. Yeah.

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But he said the government is not involved where it's bitterly needed and is overly involved where it shouldn't be.

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My. If I had to go back in time to when I was, you know, we were early in our careers and I didn't make that much money. My biggest, the thing that would be hardest to adjust to would be the insurance thing and have to drive a completely different vehicle than I drove at the time. You have to go older and cheaper and less insurance to be able to afford it.

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Man, that's a problem.

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I don't know what's going to be done about that. The whole affordability thing when you package the whole. All of it together.

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That's something.

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This is the, this is going to be the topic of the next year leading up to the election and both parties battling to at least look like they're the party that cares about it.

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Right, right. Well, and Trump with his misstep. I keep hearing the quote from Laura Ingram. The only time the mainstream media ever pays attention to Fox News is when, you know, something bad happens for Republicans. But when Trump told Laura that no, that affordability thing is a Democrat con job. Everything's great. I'm just not getting credit for it. Oh, was that a misstep?

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Yeah, I think that's why they've been out the last couple of days. I don't know if I'm buying this new argument that rents and housing prices are high because of illegal immigration and Joe Biden letting all the illegals in. That's what J.D. vance rolled out yesterday.

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I don't know.

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Combined.

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It's not a non factor, but it's not the factor.

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It's a good one though. If you want to completely blame a different administration for something though. All your rent is too damn high.

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I agree with you, sir. And, and. And point to something that. You know your bases with you.

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Right.

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Four square on.

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Right. But I've done something about clearly.

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Yeah, yeah, there. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but when it comes to their budgets, their dollars and cents, putting food on their table and, you know, having enough money to pay for medicine for their kids, people are very realist and have very little patience for. For spin.

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I hope this all gets fixed when we go to war with Venezuela. I think that's the answer to all our problems freaking to a war footing. Give Venezuela what they've been asking for. Tired of the way they act, huh?

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51St state, Canada. And yet I can't remember 51st, 52nd. Whatever we're at now, we should Greenland.

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We haven't forgotten about you. We should start the show officially because as Taylor Swift says, we're married to the hustle. We're here to inform you. I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It is Friday, November 14, the year 2025, where Armstrong and Yeti and we approve of this program.

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All right, let's begin then. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations. Here we go. @ Mark. The US Mint yesterday ended production of the penny after 232 years. Well, still not the worst thing that ever happened to Lincoln. What?

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He was murdered.

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You guys agree, right? I had a gun with Johnny Carson's classic Too Soon. Right?

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Right. I. I don't mind a Lincoln assassination joke, really, but. I don't know. Goodbye, Penny. You'll be missed. Nope. Hated carrying around my whole life. And you're really worthless now. So. Goodbye, Penny.

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Yeah.

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How long. How long since there are gazillions of pennies out there? How long will they be in circulation? And I've heard lots of people ask this, and I'm. I'm not worried about it. I'M sure it'll be worked out. But how is the whole. Things are 19.99. My whole life, your whole life, everybody's whole life, everything has been priced at 8.99. How's that whole thing gonna get fixed? Everything gonna round up or round down? Is it gonna be 95? Is everything gonna be 95 now? 1895, I think if.

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Unless you live somewhere with zero sales tax, that wouldn't be what you'd pay anyway.

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No, but just as a. Well, you're saying psychologically that we'll just stay with everything something 99.

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Oh, I, I think so, yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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And you don't think it'll immediately go into our head. But wait a second. Nobody has pennies.

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Of course.

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Who pays cash anyway, right? Who are you paying cash for anything?

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I don't know. These, these questions are silly.

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I guess it's not a. I guess it's a non problem for someone's thoughts. A nickel.

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A penny's kind of an insulting offer.

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Not for mine. Well, it's about market value.

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I will not comment.

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Look forward to talking about some of the news today. And I actually looking forward to seeing what the stock market does. So Verizon announced they're going to cut about 15,000 jobs. That's with a couple other companies that have mentioned things like that and several last week as we talked about on the air, and there were no, none of your jobs numbers came out over the last month because of the shutdown, which I mocked a lot at the beginning of the shutdown.

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Right, right.

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But after, you know, didn't think the shutdown was going to last almost a month and a half. So there's a whole bunch of data that hasn't been put out in the normal way during a time when many major companies announced tens of thousands of layoffs. So that next number that comes out next month could be pretty shocking.

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Well, I've got to add in this unintentionally funny headline from the Wall Street Journal, which. Well, you'll probably react the way I did as the words unfolded in my brain. Worst market for college grads in four years was the headline. I'm thinking, you know, you look at those four years, one of those years has got to be the worst one. I mean, it's.

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Yeah, you're not saying much. I don't think that lands the way they think it's going to land. All I know is the Mega Millions jackpot's almost up to a billion dollars. That's my answer. Yes, that'll get Me out of a jam.

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How long before the federal government starts, like plowing $10 million per week into the lotto to try to pay off the government debt? I don't know. Is that.

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Oh, wow, wow, wow.

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The federal government ends up winning the.

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Lotto, like every time a national lotto, all the money goes to pay down the debt.

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Oh, wow, That's a better idea.

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Yeah, I'd have to think about that. We got Mailbag on the way. We got clips of the week today and more news to catch up on. I hope you can stay here.

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Armstrong and Getty, for instance.

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I groked it and car insurance jumped up quite a bit in several states in 2024. In Minnesota, it went up 58% in one year. In Maryland, 53%. California, 48. In 2024, Pennsylvania was up 38%. Virginia, 33%. Car insurance is out of control. And then homeowners insurance, if you own a home, similar yipes. That is that eggs schmegs. Do something about the car insurance and homeowners insurance.

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Right? I agree completely. You know, there are plenty of people who thought the grok guys should have been primarily concerned with going after all the regulations that clog up the economy. It's not too late. I would love to see that become a priority. Anyway, a lot to talk about. Who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie.

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Starting with the Washington Post. China's new aircraft super carrier challenges U.S. dominance in Pacific.

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Yeah, that ain't good. That ain't good. That underappreciated change in the structure of the world Defense everything. Is China having aircraft carriers that can match ours because we didn't used to have there. Used to, didn't used to be anybody could touch us when it came to aircraft carriers.

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Breitbart.com US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela in flecks of American military power.

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Take that, Venezuela. Tired of your ass?

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We'll show you by sailing ships at you, I guess.

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Business Insider. TSA agents who served during the shutdown to receive $10,000 bonuses.

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I don't hate this idea. I don't think. I like rewarding people who knew they were going to get paid who kept coming to work, including the air traffic controller guys. 10 grand sounds awfully generous, though. Yeah.

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From the New York Post fundraiser for Dave Portnoy's student harasser. Raises over $36,000 after anti Semitic rant.

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So I'm sorry, the fund was for the kid.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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From the Independent, Elon Musk says Tesla's Robot could follow people around to stop crime.

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Yeah, well, it's got to be better than that video that came out the other day where it just stood there and looked at him when it asked, where can I get a Coke? Just stood there.

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Did you see when the Russian tech firm trotted out their new robot? Oh, that video fell on its face and broke.

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That video is fantastic. We should talk more about that later.

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This one's from the Daily Star. Betty Boop turns bloodthirsty in twisted new horror with gruesome scenes galore.

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There's a new.

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A cartoon of what, the 30s?

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There's a new edgier Betty Boop.

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It's a. It's a horror movie of Betty Boop. And she attacks podcasters.

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Okay.

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But apparently it is one of the gorier horror movies that has been released.

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Oh, boy. All right.

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Study finds 30 minutes of sitting, 15 minutes of standing. It's the best ratio for back pain relief.

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Say it again. 30 minutes of standing, 15 minutes of sitting.

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No. 30 minutes of sitting. Okay, 15 minutes of standing.

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Okay, I'll do both.

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Sounds good. Set an alarm, Siri.

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ABC Epstein appeared to offer political advice on dealing with Trump in 2018.

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Yeah, they were very snarky. They didn't like each other. So ends my discussion of Epstein.

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It was a lead story again on MSNBC this morning. Good Morning Joe. So that's four days in a row. Yeah.

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Bunch of s shovelers, please. It's ridiculous. There's nothing there.

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And finally, from the Babylon Bee, Nancy Pelosi prepares for sad future of outsider trading.

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That's pretty funny.

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That is funny.

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Keep our eye on the stock market to see if that was a blip. They got caught off guard by the announcement that maybe there won't be an interest rate hack again. Or if it is the AI bubble starting to burst. That's a big one. In addition to all the other news we got to get to. If you miss it, get the podcast. Armstrong and Getty on demand.

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Armstrong and Getty.

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I don't know if I'm just my coffee intake is off today or what. Like, I feel okay, but mentally, I really feel like things are about to collapse. Like, not for me personally, but did the world.

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I'm just like, oh, I see.

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All this financial news.

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I was going to say you sound sharp enough to me.

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All this financial news has just got me feeling, ah.

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The word of the year. I hate when they come out with that because it always annoys me, but the word of the year should be precarious. Yeah, everything feels precarious.

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That's exactly right. That's what I feel. That is the feeling that you nailed. My feeling. Precarious.

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Thank you. I'm happy to So a lot to squeeze in, but the first, the Friday tradition. It's time to take a fun look back at the week that was it's cow clips of the week.

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It's.

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Government shutdown in American history could.

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Be coming to an end.

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Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer.

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I think the word of the day is terrible.

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No way to defend this. You are right to be angry.

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I cannot.

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Believe it.

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The bombshell release of what House Democrats say are emails to and from deceased.

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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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This vote is going to be on.

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Your record for longer than Trump is going to be president.

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And Lauren Boebert herself was called here to the White House, had a meeting inside the Situation Room. There was no pressure and I mean, everybody was great.

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These emails prove absolutely nothing other than.

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The fact that President Trump did nothing wrong. 1200 flights have been canceled all across the US today.

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My little one has learned the word ice cream and she made me make sure I promised her to get her ice cream when I get back home from the trip. That being said, nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing unsafe comes in between me, that little girl and her ice cream. Turmoil at Britain Premier broadcaster with President Trump right in the middle. We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell. Anytime, any place. Bunch of fascists in the face. He says, excuse me, sir. So misgendering me right away. You're not a woman, that's obvious.

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This is a police matter.

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We need to protect women's safety.

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I was assaulted.

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I was assaulted. No, they are not. They are men.

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I was assaulted by men. Hey, optimist, you know where I can get a Coke? I can take you to the kitchen.

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If you want to check for a Coke there. Oh, yeah, that'd be great.

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Yes, let's do that. This is a very big play, don't you think? They have to get a touchdown. Let's put it differently. They just have to get a touchdown.

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If I'm reading this right, is he riding like a.

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An actual real bull that signal for. Yeah, he did.

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Don't sleep on the wet sheets. Sleep on the wet sheets. If your name is Jack, don't sleep.

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On the wet sheets.

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It's clips of the week.

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Gotta say, sleeping on dry sheets last night was a. Was a real treatment. Enjoyed it a lot.

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I'm sure it was signed. The rest of humanity generally does signed non crazy people. So as always, Cal was just dizzying and confusing and tiring in a good way. But all that stuff happened this week, including that, that one clip, anytime, any place, punch a fascist in the face. You're the young idiot shouting. And I want to follow up on that ugly, ugly situation in Berkeley, California as Turning Point USA tried to hold a very reasonable, intelligent, thoughtful event. And I'll describe that in a second. But to get into that, I want to point this out. Hassan Piker, who you've probably never heard of and I hadn't really heard of until several people brought up the fact that he was at Mamdani's rally and in a picture with him and other America hating type neo Marxists and stuff. And he's just come up in the news again. He was in China. The dog abusing left wing edgelord who identifies as swagged out white boy was in China with his sidekick who was like the captain of the squash team at a $79,000 a year prep school. Okay, these guys hate capitalism and they're preaching Marxism. Typical Marxists actually. But he, the Chinese authorities approached him because he had some meme involving Chairman Mao on his phone that he was showing off and these two China loving Marxists coward in fear as the Chinese authorities approached them then cut off their feed. And Andrew Stiles at the Free Beacon mocks them roundly for that. But who is this guy who's such a, an accepted part of the American left now and he's big, I guess he's, he said on his live stream from China, like, like I just don't, like I'm, I'm not, I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart for America. And then he watched the ceremonial flag raising near Mao's portrait at Tianmen Gate. He marveled at the pride of the older Chinese subject who were, and this is a quote, fortunate enough to experience a radical transformation in their lifetimes unlike any other country. He's talking about Mao's cultural revol that resulted in tens of millions of deaths. Not only that, but he said what was the other thing? Oh, he is. In addition to loving red China and its authoritarian speech police piker is also a toxic anti Semite who's argued landlords should be mass slaughtered until the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.

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Yipes.

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He claimed that the United States deserved to be attacked on 9, 11, 11 and many other heinous remarks. He's been openly embraced by like the pod Save America Bros. Which is a huge podcast on the left and other mainstream elements of the Democratic Party. It is astonishing. And then you go to Berkeley, the reason I mentioned that at all.

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And so where's the left calling that out the way the right has been calling out the Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson thing?

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Right? Right, exactly. They're, they're nowhere to be seen. In fact, they're embracing this guy. But anyway, Andrew Doyle is an author. He's written a couple of great books, Speech and why It Matters and the New Puritans. And he was at the Turning Point USA event in Berkeley the other day, which was even uglier than I'd realized because I'd just seen, you know, some of the footage that was on the news. And he writes, the dark void of ideological thinking has rarely been more evident than in the celebrations following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Even committed leftists were horrified to witness the sheer relish expressed online from those who seemed oddly eager to advertise their lack of basic humanity. And that ugliness was still evident this week at the University of California at Berkeley. Turning Point USA held an event on campus in defiance of those who gloated over his death on what would have been Charlie's final stop on his college tour. That was planned, and he talks about it was Rob Schneider was there, the comedian Peter Boghossian, great thinker, friend of the Armstrong and Getty show, and the Christian apologist Frank Turek. And they were fielding questions from the audience discussing their shared commitment to liberty despite their many differences of opinion. It was as expected, a jovial and good natured exchange of ideas. And outside things were not so, so serene. Protesters had gathered early, threatening attendees and obstructing them as they tried to enter the building. There were pyrotechnics being ignited, glass containers being thrown, attempts to break through barriers, attendees scattering as a car was apparently made to backfire to create the illusion of gunshots. Though the speakers inside unanimously emphasized a commitment to nonviolence and open dialogue, the mob outside appeared set on menacing anyone suspected of being a ticket holder. One woman's necklace was snatched. People were bloodied. There were brawls. In a video of the incident, you can hear someone gleefully calling out, you're bleeding, white boy. Those assembled f your dead homie exalting in Kirk's death. And he compares them to the Westboro Baptist Church that would pick soldiers funerals to goad their grieving families. And so when you get, you know, you got this Hasan Piker guy who's embraced by the center ish left and a super popular podcaster. Well, no wonder people get the ideas this sick and are proudly chanting in the street. Unbelievable.

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Also, it sounds like the news coverage of that nationally was wanting as opposed to. If it had been some violence of that level, trying to stop some mainstream left thing.

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Yeah, all three Alphabet networks would be doing hour long specials about it. Yeah, yeah, man, there's a lot of sick thinking on the left.

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Hey, you mentioned the clips of the week and the cavalcade of sounds that were on there. And there were a lot of things on there. I could comment on all of them, I guess. I did comment on all of them during the week. But the Tesla robot, we posted that video at Twitter, if you haven't seen it. The, the Optimus robot that Elon's rolling out. And that's Elon's new focus. Right? The robots and all that sort of stuff. As opposed to the electric car. Yeah, I mean, they gave him a trillion dollar incentive package at Tesla to perfect this robot. Do you think I'm picturing that? Like in five years, maybe not even that long, it'll be very common for everybody to have a robot in their house. Just like when the dishwasher showed up or the microwave oven. People will spring for that next appliance. That is a robot that either folds laundry or I don't know what it'll be doing exactly.

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Yeah, it'd be multipurpose in that. But it's funny, I started my sentence with five years from now. Will, will it be common to have in your household if you're old enough. You remember when like the dishwasher showed up or the microwave or whatever and it became affordable that most people and it was an expensive item but eventually you and all your friends had one because it just became something that every family wanted to have. Will the robot be like that? But at the end of my sentence when I got to the that can, I didn't have any real good examples. What would it be doing? What would it do that would be worth. I don't know. I'm picturing it being $5,000.

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At least at first it'll. Yeah. Be at least that. But as you pointed out, it'll get cheaper and cheaper as mass production moves in. Wow. I don't, I don't need it to load my dishwasher. Speaking of the dishwasher, it's not that much trouble.

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No, neither is folding laundry. Although if it did everything, if a loaded dishwasher and folded laundry and picked up around the house and, and you know, we just did a commercial for Simplisafe. Not to put them out of business but maybe it know, kind of wanders around the house at night keeping an.

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Eye on things with a machine gun and metal teeth. Right.

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So.

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Well, I've got to disagree with you though. And, and I would love folks input whether via text or email if you could dump a load of laundry straight out of the dryer into a machine and it would fold everything perfectly and neatly. They would sell out. I mean initially to the rich but that would be a popular item, I think.

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I don't know, maybe it's just because.

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I despise you must.

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I would not buy a five thousand dollar robot or even a two thousand dollar robot just to fold laundry.

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How about four hundred robot? Four hundred?

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Yeah. That, that. They'll never be that cheap. It's going to be an expensive item. It'll have to be because it's going to be. Have to be so complex to be able. So I would like to know what the end of Elon's sentence is. Okay. You've dedicated your life to building these. Robo. And maybe he's mostly thinking warehouses. It's gonna stack stuff, get stuff down, load trucks, pick up bales of hay, all kinds of different stuff.

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Work the assembly line.

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Sure, work the assembly line. He's not thinking about it for home use, like.

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I think so. Yeah. Yeah. But I think the future is probably, at least in the near term, single use, you know, robotic equipment, just like it is in industry. Most of those robots have one job, but we'll see.

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If you haven't seen the video of them rolling out the Russian version of that and it falling off. The. The best part of that to me is the Russian engineers walking behind it like with their arms out, ready to catch it because they knew it was going to fall over at some point. Why did they even do that demonstration? That was a bad.

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We need to post [e-mail] let's. Let's dig that up, guys, and put it up under hotlines.

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I like the guy grabbing the curtain and he couldn't. Then they try to pull a curtain so people can't see it, but he can't grab the curtain. And it was classic Soviet Union nonsense. We got Mailbag on the way. Stay here.

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Armstrong and Getty.

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We got this text from somebody who says, have my own Turing test for robots. As soon as one can rake leaves, put them in a pile out by the street for the truck to come by, then I'm in. Yeah, if you could add one that could do all those things. Rake the leaves, put them out, take the trash out, unload the dish, all that stuff, that'd be pretty handy. That cut quite a bit of work.

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Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. John Stuart Mill from on Freedom. Continuing the series. Neither one person nor any number of persons is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it. Yeah, John Stuart Mill was unfamiliar with the modern welfare state in which you can do whatever you want or do nothing at all and taxpayers will be asked to pay for your Nintendo System mailbag and your useless grievance degree as well. Drop us a Note [e-mail] Got this from Chuck about the government shutdown, among other things, and government employee unions. Guys, if the purpose of unions is to extract More money from greedy shareholders. Then who are the targets of public sector unions? A question seldom asked and never answered. Yeah, let's see. Ben in Texas writes as a longtime listener, 20 plus years. Thanks, Ben. I've disagreed plenty, but this might be the first time I've ever been disgusted by your take on something. I can't even imagine being one of the many Epstein survivors who have publicly come out and said there were other rich and powerful abusers who have been named in police and FBI reports that for some reason have faced zero consequences. And we would like that to change only to hear radio hosts call their pleas dumb and a nothing burger. I wouldn't say that's a dumb plea at all. I've never, never said that about that particular concern. You don't have to believe Israeli intelligence is behind the whole plot to show some empathy for rape victims who would just like some justice. Do better, please.

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No. No. Okay, so we got a te that that I was happy to read a little bit later, but I think the guilty parties have been caught. That's where we differ. Epstein and Maxwell, who are trafficking these people. I don't think there's a giant group of rapists out there that are getting away with it. If I believe that, I'd be all, I'd be with you, but I don't believe that.

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Why don't we put a pin in that, as they say, and we'll come back to it? Let's see. Because I have a response to Ben too. John writes, I don't know if false flag is the right term, but maybe Trump fighting the Epstein files as he knows nothing is in there. Keeps Democrats busy and they look like fools when they find nothing. I don't know. It's a theory. Moving on joyfully. Let's see. David with a really interesting point of view about the unaffordability of housing, particularly for young people, young families. I'm bemoaning the lack of starter homes that allow younger people to get into the ownership game. In almost every municipality I'm aware of, the mandated affordable housing is almost exclusively rental properties. Yeah, the culture of expecting a home as nice as your parents who worked way up over 30 years is a big problem. But so is the crony capitalism of big developers getting a new apartment complex approved, while small individual starter homes almost never get approved. And he's been a general contractor in the West coast for 20 years. That's interesting. Our first couple of houses were tiny, Judy and me, and kind of crappy and we fixed them up. But yeah, I think about all the new suburbs I see springing up.

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They're all bigger and everywhere.

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They're all big houses.

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Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

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Interesting. And Mike Montana wants to know about Katie Wilson, the new mayor of Seattle, who pays $40,000 a year in child care. And he writes, hey, Kitty Wilson has an unemployed husband. Can't he watch the kiddos? The family situation sounds sketchy. Let's give her $9 billion to oversee.

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Yay.

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That's right. The new mayor of Seattle is still on her parents payroll.

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Got a lot on the way. A bunch of you weighed in on how much your car insurance is. Speaking of affordability and other things to talk about.

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Armstrong and Getty.

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