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Travis Holloway
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Rodney Williams
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Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
And I'm Travis Holloway.
Rodney Williams
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Jack Armstrong
I feel like sometimes being broke is.
Travis Holloway
A cycle and that we might have to revisit that and we're not stopping at success stories.
Joe Getty
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Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
Wasn't that delicious? So good. Your bill, ladies. I got it. No, I got it. Seriously, I insist.
Jack Armstrong
I insisted first.
Travis Holloway
Oh, don't be silly. You don't be silly.
Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
Okay. Rock, paper, scissors for it.
Unknown
Rock, paper, scissors.
Travis Holloway
Shoot. No.
Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Travis Holloway
Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Travis Holloway
Ice. They need more people. So they're having a big recruitment program. No age limit.
Rodney Williams
Now they announced this week also a signing bonus.
Travis Holloway
$50,000 signing bonus. You could put a porch on your house for that. Good luck to find anyone who could build it. But you could find it. Yeah. I got a little construction going on at my place and I've got to admit if there was a raid, I'd be afraid about the rate of progress going forward.
Jack Armstrong
Gotcha.
Travis Holloway
Yeah. Although I have no idea. And I've actually talked to, I've talked to a number of construction pros not only recently but through the years and they all say roughly the same thing, that my guys all have paperwork that I think is in order. My subcontractor, the head guy's a really good guy and he says the same thing to me. But I have no idea. And then as you go down the line, I mean just the, the rigor of checking people and what's the incentive? Is there no significant distance, Right. To be rigorous about checking the paperwork? And just since you brought that up.
Jack Armstrong
The Centers for Immigration Studies put out the latest data Yesterday. An unprecedented 2.2 million person decline in total foreign born or immigrant population between January and July of this year. 2.2 million less illegals in this country in six months.
Travis Holloway
Did they all flee back home?
Jack Armstrong
That's the assumption.
Travis Holloway
Huh. I would like to talk about that number.
Jack Armstrong
They self deported.
Travis Holloway
It's possible.
Jack Armstrong
Anyway, more on that we've, we've, we haven't even touched on perhaps the biggest story of the week or month. Taylor Swift's giant announcement yesterday and under. There are many soccer moms and some soccer dads I've known who care a lot about this. We need to promise to get to that next segment.
Travis Holloway
Many soccer daughters as well and, and sons. And that's fine. Son, your mom and I love you very much. No matter, you know what orientation disappointed.
Jack Armstrong
You out of the will.
Travis Holloway
So speaking of young people, we'll get to this later on. Meet the parents. Raising carnivore babies, babies that they feed only meat and protein to. It's the latest trend you should know about. Jack. I think I was confronted before the show today getting ready with at least three different trends I needed to know about. If I might. A hundred effing weirdos online is not a trend. Neither is a thousand. Really. Neither is 10,000. We're a country of 340 million people. Never mind the fact that it's a global village. There is no idea. So stupid lunatic. Just kind of specialized that you can't get 10,000 people around the world to say, I'm totally into this too, and then I have to hear about it, whether it's the Jujubes or what was the name of those dopey dolls yesterday? L. Zuzus Boo Boos. Was it?
Jack Armstrong
What is it, Katie?
Travis Holloway
You guys, so close. Labubus, right? The Lollapaloozas. I just. No, no.
Jack Armstrong
I think you could argue that even if a million people are doing something, it's not a trend. I need to hear about a million people are into something.
Travis Holloway
Who cares, Right? Right. But anyway, this whole carnivore baby thing, we'll talk about that.
Jack Armstrong
Carnivore babies.
Travis Holloway
What is your goal?
Jack Armstrong
Okay, I'll stay tuned.
Travis Holloway
I don't even have the energy. Maybe I need to eat more meat. Anyway, there are all sorts of stuff, all sorts of things we could talk about, but just at least briefly. A little featurette I'd like to call A.I. oh, no. What'd you say this is called? It's called A.I. oh, no.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I like that. It's got. It tells you what the topic is and then denotes a sense of urgency.
Travis Holloway
Right. And foreboding. Yes, indeed. That's what I was going for. So first of all, and I wasn't even going to include this, but it's kind of stuck in the back of my mind is a think piece. I think it was in the free press talking about the appeal of socialism these days and how, you know, we've churned out a couple of generations of youngsters who are absolutely, you know, indoctrinated, brainwashed into thinking, you know, the Western world's bad and capitalism is bad and collectivism and blah, blah, blah. We all know all the whole woke thing, the whole critical theory thing. And then they point out you combine that with a future in which the very first jobs and job prospects that are going to disappear because of AI are whitish, color.
Jack Armstrong
Ish.
Travis Holloway
You sort of needed a college degree, but not really cubicle. I'm too upper crust to work with my hands. I work in an office type jobs. Those are going to be disappearing in droves.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Travis Holloway
Among a collective of people that's already pretty enthusiastic about socialism. And how about how capitalism is stacked against the people and it only serves the few and blah, blah, blah. And, and they, you know, they said to the obvious mumdani and other people, but it's going to get harder and harder, I think, to stand on the beach and, and turn back that tide.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't think there's a chance.
Travis Holloway
Anyway, the fabulous Peggy Noonan is writing about that and other things, and she quotes a piece by the writer John Ellis, who's been on the AI story for years, and she says brings an interesting combination of common sense and imagination to the available information. On his substack, he argued that, quote, the overwhelming force of AI is bearing down on the job market. People, he says, can see it coming. And yet, quote, I drive up and down Old Post Road in Fairfield county almost every day. I happen to know that road very well. When I do, I pass office buildings and storefronts that are the workplaces of insurance brokers, local and regional bankers, mortgage brokers, lawyers, accountants, consultants, marketers, real estate agents, et cetera. And what I think about all those people as I pass them by is this. The companies they work for will employ 10 to 25% fewer of them in probably two years, maybe three.
Jack Armstrong
25% fewer in a couple of years. That's, that's major.
Travis Holloway
And what those people do for a living will be done by AI, Interestingly enough, and it's worth mentioning the other side of the coin. This same writer offers Microsoft. Microsoft's lists of 20 professions AI likely won't touch. They include floor sanders and finishers, roofers, motorboat operators, rodeo clown. Operating a motor. Rodeo clowns. No, no, absolutely safe from AI. Massage therapists and pile driver operators. Ah. How to operate a motorboat or operate a pile driver. I just don't know.
Jack Armstrong
That's what I should have gotten into.
Travis Holloway
Anyway, I thought that was interesting. Then you have this story. AI is forcing the return of the in person job interview. Virtual interviews have become the new norm in hiring in recent years. Driven by the rise of remote work, companies desire to speed up hiring. The problem is more candidates are using AI tools to cheat by feeding them answers off screen.
Jack Armstrong
Why wouldn't.
Travis Holloway
They got your screen going, then one right over there, right by the camera. So it looks like they're looking at you, but they're looking at the answers to the questions. And if you're interviewing people for like coding jobs or technical jobs especially, they can substitute, you know, the, the, the AI thing for any level of knowledge that they have. Of course, I suppose you could argue we'll just have them bring that to work Then. And they'll get the job done.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Travis Holloway
But they mentioned Cisco, McKinsey. Google are doing in person interviews now, partly for the reason I gave and partly because now you've got the. What do you call it? I can't remember the specific technology, but the technology that like North Korean scammers are using to impersonate other people. They change their face, they change their voice in real time, they interview remotely. And then they. They're not at all. Deep fake videos and audios. That's what I was looking for. And they're swindlers and they end up getting the jobs. And so the in person interview.
Jack Armstrong
But what do you do once you get the job? What do you do once you get the job if you're not qualified or are you qualified?
Travis Holloway
Companies want to avoid sending cash to North Koreans who are working illegally because they don't want to be party to it. In a survey of 3,000 job seekers by research advisory group Gartner this year, 6% said they had participated in interview fraud, either posing as somebody else or having someone stand in for them.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Travis Holloway
And Gartner predicted that by 2028, one in four job candidate profiles worldwide will be fake. One in four. It's just too tempting. It's like the kids using AI to help them write their high school report. It's just right there. And as soon as you hear about it, you think, I gotta do this. Yes, sir.
Jack Armstrong
Can I throw in my one AI.
Travis Holloway
Oh, story AI oh, no.
Jack Armstrong
Well, that's right what it is.
Travis Holloway
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Woman gets engaged to AI fiance after five months. Oh, you really should get to know your AI fiance better. Five months is pretty quick.
Travis Holloway
But you know, if you're in love, you're in love. I was going to go with, I feel like I'm going crazy. Chat. GPT fuels delusional spirals. But yours sounds more fun. Proceed. Woman gets engaged to AI fiance after.
Jack Armstrong
Five months and insists she's fully aware what she's doing.
Travis Holloway
What?
Jack Armstrong
I couldn't tell from reading the interview, and the only reason I bring this to you is I couldn't tell if it was just somebody trying to get attention online or just absolutely completely nutty.
Travis Holloway
She fell in love with an AI.
Jack Armstrong
Bot and we've heard about this sort of thing, so I don't exactly sure what getting engaged means.
Travis Holloway
Did the freaking AI bot propose to her?
Jack Armstrong
Might have.
Travis Holloway
Wow. Wow. What an intriguing question. I. I was just gonna say this person is either an attention whore or a. A crazy person. I would ask, why do you need to get engaged to the AI.
Jack Armstrong
So to show you, you know, the, if you, if you give the milk away, the cow is free or whatever, the whole thing.
Travis Holloway
I don't think that's it exactly. Yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't think the AI is going to date other people unless you make it clear. So are we exclusive at this point? Oh, my God. I don't even get what that means. And when you quote, unquote, you know, tie the knot, you actually get married. Because it's not clear to me, is this a short engagement or a long one? When you actually tie the knot? How has that changed anything?
Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong Trump made a major tariff announcement yesterday and the new inflation inflation numbers came out today. But we've also got this major, major Taylor Swift announcement. So all that stuff on the way, stay here.
Unknown
Armstrong and Getty.
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The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's Big Three is the surprise hit of the summer this Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS, with playoff elimination on the line, the stars will be flocking to Los Angeles to witness the most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world. Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win over Houston Houston to make the playoffs, reeling from last week's savage beating at the hands of Chicago's possessed Montrez Harold. Last time these teams met, Miami beat Houston, but they are a dangerous team having their manhood at stake. Then breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Will LA avenge their previous shocking loss to perennial basketball Boston rivals To survive, six teams are allowed for four spots and all must win. Don't miss the Big Three, the three on three basketball league. Everyone is the game winning, talking about there's no crying in the big three and the no hold sport action starts Saturday at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific, followed by two games on Vice starting at 6:30 Eastern. Presented by iHeart.
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Travis Holloway
Wasn't that delicious? So good. Your bill, ladies.
Jack Armstrong
I got it.
Travis Holloway
No, I got it. Seriously, I insist. I insisted first. Oh, don't be silly. You don't be silly.
Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
Okay Rock, paper, scissors for it.
Unknown
Rock, paper, scissors.
Travis Holloway
Shoot. No.
Rodney Williams
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Joe Getty
So I wanted to show you something.
Jack Armstrong
Okay.
Travis Holloway
What do we got? We got a briefcase. Yep.
Jack Armstrong
Mint green with TS on it. Yep.
Rodney Williams
What's in it?
Travis Holloway
This is my brand new album, the.
Jack Armstrong
Life of a showgirl.
Rodney Williams
TS12.
Jack Armstrong
So that was Taylor Swift on the Kelsey brothers podcast podcast yesterday, which is very popular with Travis and his brother. What's his brother's name?
Travis Holloway
Nobody's sure.
Jack Armstrong
The other Kelsey, Jason Kelsey and very popular podcast. And Taylor Swift announced a new album, which is a really big deal. And if you're, you know, not a swifty and rolling your eyes to that, do you remember the economic impact her concert appearances made in cities all across the world? It is a big deal if she comes to your city promoting her album for your restaurants, for your hotels, for your clothing stores, for your everything. And she's got a new album she announced yesterday.
Travis Holloway
Excellent. I will plan accordingly.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, is Travis Kelsey, is he spending enough time focused on the playing for the Kansas City Chiefs this year? See, still a little too into the hole. Being a celebrity at the podcast and Dayton, Taylor Swift as a chief stand. I'm just wondering.
Travis Holloway
I have no idea. He would be famous if it wasn't for Taylor Swift.
Jack Armstrong
Right. Andrew Cuomo thinks he's found an angle for taking on the communist mum Donnie there for mayor in New York City. And I don't know if this is going to work or not, but this is his latest angle. So Mumdani has been bragging apparently for a long time all through his campaign and on the stump and stuff like that about he how he only he and his wife only pay 2300amonth in rent in New York because they've got. It's not rent controlled. What's the other term for something like that? It's a slightly different version, but the same sort of thing where you're you as the landlord, you're not allowed to use the free market to decide what the rent is. And he brags about that all the time. And Andrew Cuomo's going after him for. Hey, you have. Well, I'll read what he has been tweeting out lately. Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, Assemblyman Mundomni, are occupying her rent controlled apartment. You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You've had a wedding on three continents. You own property in blah, blah, blah, all these different places. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends. That doesn't sound like a lot of money in New York. I mean, I don't know if I call you rich in New York, but anyway, they. If you felt followed the information about their wedding a couple of weeks ago, good Lord, I think it was in Dubai or someplace like that. So there is a lot of wealth in that family somewhere.
Travis Holloway
Right?
Jack Armstrong
Clearly your wife works too. No matter which way you cut it, Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich. Yet you and your wife pay 2300amonth, as you have bragged for a nice apartment in Astoria. This should be housing for someone who needs it. And Andrew Cuomo making the points that like classic socialist, communist sort of people. You like this sort of system, but you game it. The fact that he claimed he was African American to get into college. Technically it is, but we all know the whole the box is for black people, not for rich white kids who. Who happen to be born in Africa. And he knows that too, when he checked the box for African American. And. And he's found a way into this rent controlled thing with some sort of loophole to where he gets to do it. And he brags about it. Right, so that, that is what socialists do.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, absolutely true. A couple of things. I read a great essay the other day about how he and his family, seeking opportunity and freedom, came to the United States. And then as soon as he was indoctrinated in college, he came out screaming that we need to tear the whole thing down and turn it into a socialist utopia, which is just unbelievably, you know, stupid and abusive of his adoptive country. Second thing is, Cuomo's problem is Mamdani is doing nothing illegal. He is following the laws Cuomo himself promoted and signed.
Jack Armstrong
That's pretty good pushback.
Travis Holloway
Yeah. So good luck. Cuomo's a piece of crap.
Jack Armstrong
He is an absolute 100 piece of crap.
Travis Holloway
And I love you.
Jack Armstrong
If you only wanted to talk about him as an administrator, he's a piece of crap. But if you wanted to leave that out and only talk about him as a human in his personal life, he's an absolute piece of crap. So on both ends he's a hundred.
Travis Holloway
Percent piece of crap.
Jack Armstrong
And he's a better choice. And he's a better choice than the socialist.
Travis Holloway
Well, he well, and he's the only choice to take on the socialist man. New York Check yourself. What have you become? Good Lord, what did Trump do in.
Jack Armstrong
D.C. taking over the polling Armstrong and.
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The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's Big Three is the surprise hit of the summer. This Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS, with playoff elimination on the line, the stars will be flocking to Los Angeles to witness the most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world. Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win over Houston to make the playoffs, reeling from last week's savage beating at the hands of Chicago's possessed Montrez Harrow. Last time these teams met, Miami beat Houston, but they are a dangerous team having their manhood at stake. Then breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Will LA avenge their previous shocking loss to perennial basketball Boston rivals? To survive, six teams are allowed for four spots and all must win. Don't miss the Big Three, the three on three basketball league everyone is talking about. There's no crying in the big three and the no hold spot action starts Saturday at 4:00pm Eastern 1:00pm Pacific followed by two games on Vice starting at 6:30 Eastern. Presented by iHeart.
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This is Jacob Goldstein from what's yous Problem? When you buy business software from lots of vendors, the costs add up and it gets complicated and confusing. Odoo solves this. It's a single company that sells a suite of enterprise apps that handles everything from accounting to inventory to sales. Odoo is all connected on a single platform in a simple and affordable way. You can save money without missing out on the features you need. Check out Odoo at O D O O dot com. That's O D O O dot com.
Travis Holloway
Wasn't that delicious? So good. Your bill, ladies. I got it. I got it. No, I got it. Seriously, I insist.
Jack Armstrong
I insisted first.
Travis Holloway
Oh, don't be silly. You don't be silly.
Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
Okay. Rock, paper, scissors for it.
Unknown
Rock, paper, scissors.
Travis Holloway
Shoot. No.
Rodney Williams
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Travis Holloway
I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor. And worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back.
Jack Armstrong
Worse than squalor.
Travis Holloway
That's right. President Trump declaring the federal government is going to take control of policing more or less in Washington D.C. citing a fairly obscure bit of federal law he mentioned.
Jack Armstrong
Just like Hitler, right?
Travis Holloway
Sure. When he took over D.C. he mentioned that there is a higher murder rate in D.C. than Mexico City. Bogota, Colombia. Some of the worst places on earth. Presidents of those countries are like, wait, what? Anyway, and he went off, you know, at some length as Trump is want to do, says we'll bring in the military if necessary. Then he turned it over to U.S. attorney. The new U.S. attorney for that area. None other than Judge Jeanine Pirro of Fox News fame.
Unknown
I see too much violent crime being committed by young punks who think that they can get together in gangs and crews and Beat the hell out of you or anyone else. They don't care where they are. They can be in Dupont Circle, but they know that we can't touch them. Why? Because the laws are weak. I can't touch you if you're 14, 15, 16, 17 years old and you have a gun. I convict someone of shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest, intent to kill. I convict him. And you know what? The judge gives him probation, says you should go to college. We need to go after the D.C. council and their absurd laws. We need to get rid of this concept of, you know, no cash bail. We need to recognize that the people who matter are the law abiding citizens.
Jack Armstrong
Always. That's what's always left out. As I once said in a city council meeting, how about us, the taxpayers who follow the rules? Is anybody thinking about us? But, you know, whether it's really bad crimes like getting shot in the chest or just quality of life like my town, my son has been talking about, because he's out late on Friday and Saturday nights, he's a teenager, and he's talking about the sketchy people that come to town later at night. And he said they're from other towns and it's because they know there's no police here. Nobody, nobody's gonna arrest you over here for doing the sort of stuff you do back in your town. People catch on and then. And then you're just. You're just. Your quality of life goes down along with, you know, the actual crime. Well, it's all quality of life, but just. Just your feeling of safety and normalcy goes away.
Travis Holloway
So the media responded as a herd, as they always do to this announcement. Let's start with 52. Michael, a little montage for you.
Unknown
We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country, and what we're seeing play out here is Donald Trump, Trump's promise to be a dictator on day one.
Travis Holloway
Trump has seemingly never met a dictator he doesn't like.
Unknown
It's some real dictator type stuff.
Travis Holloway
All right, this goes on for 20 more seconds, but you got the idea, and that's just from yesterday. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. More significantly, montage number two, as Bugs Bunny would pronounce it. Clip 53. Michael, you really did hear the president paint quite a dystopian picture of Washington, D.C. saying that it was overtaken by violent gangs, by bloodthirsty criminals, using this imagery that doesn't necessarily comport with a lot of people's experience in this city. I think there's an ongoing argument that he's having in his head with Black Lives Matter. There's an ongoing argument that he's having with the questions around criminal justice reform and police reform.
Rodney Williams
He's going to undermine the democratic process in the District.
Travis Holloway
He has always felt that American cities.
Unknown
Especially those with large black populations like.
Travis Holloway
Washington D.C. are crime ridden and run by incompetent leadership. All right, that's not exactly what I thought it was, but there was an immediate, just uniform backlash that crime is actually down in Washington D.C. it's at 30 year lows or murders are way down.
Jack Armstrong
Every single time I heard this story about Trump on a federalized D.C. or whatever you call was accompanied by crime is actually down.
Travis Holloway
So a couple of responses to that. Number one, yes, there was an absolutely horrific peak of crime during COVID It happened in a lot of different places, including Washington D.C. and indeed the murder numbers, which are still going to be near 200 murders this year in a comparatively fairly small city, which is a terrible, terrible number. But yeah, they are down from the absolutely horrific years of the, the Biden administration. But Jo Scarborough on Morning Joe and once in a while old Joe kind of recovers who he used to be a moderate realist. Well, they tempted him with money and he, he went for the check. I get it. But go ahead and with 43 Michael, then we'll play the next one. I don't care what the crime statistics say. Crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years I've been living inside and outside of the city.
Jack Armstrong
That's interesting.
Travis Holloway
We're talking to somebody who lives in the city. These are all Democrats who said, you know, our friends won't walk more than three blocks in D.C. at night without feeling complete opposite of New York City. I mean New York is a safe, safe place. Washington D.C. man, it's door to door, very dangerous there. Good. Glad the crime rates are going down. But there is no sense of security for people who have been living in that city for 30 years.
Jack Armstrong
Good for Joe Scarborough.
Travis Holloway
And one more. Kyra Phillips of ABC News, you firsthand.
Unknown
Here in downtown D.C. where we work right here around our bureau. Just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died literally two blocks down here from the bureau. It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning one of my co workers said her car was. It's happened to a lot of people in our building. Sadly. He was homeless and half dressed clearly wasn't in his clear mind. It was scary as hell, I'm not gonna lie. But I fought back. I didn't see any weapons in his hands. I felt like it was my only choice.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Travis Holloway
You know, Jeanine Pirro's a conservative, granted, but listen to her describing her life.
Unknown
In D.C. this is the shining city on the Hill that our forefathers talked about. This is the place where Ronald Reagan talked about looking up to. And in the end, it is an incredibly violent area. And, you know, whether crime is up or down, you know, they want to pat themselves on the back and say, gee, it's great. It's not as bad as it used to be. It is horrific.
Travis Holloway
And then Leland Vitter to News Nation points out that the murder rate in D.C. is five times that in New York City.
Jack Armstrong
Thank God.
Travis Holloway
All right, so that's one point number one, you get the institutional media saying the crime is down. Trump has no justification. Crime is down. But then you get the media folks who actually live and work in D.C. saying it's really, really bad. Point number two, and this is worth mentioning, you know, political for Politico, for instance, reported just yesterday that, quote, crime in Washington hit a 30 year low last year despite the president declaring a public safet emergency in the District and attempting to cast the city is dangerous. That's a quote. Attempting to cast the city is dangerous. NPR parroted those words. Violent crime plunged to a 30 year low last year, according to US Department of Justice, the Guardian, Washington Post, all, all practically the same verbiage. And none of them mentioned that the Metropolitan Police Department just last month suspended a commander for the Adams Morgan neighborhood for allegedly manipulating crime numbers in his reports. And the cop union chairman, Greg Pemberton, told the local TV NBC News affiliate that officials often pressure officers to falsify statistics in order to make the city appear safer. Quote, yeah, here's what the what Fraternal Order Police guy said, when our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense. So instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that the officer take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification. He told NBC4 that Washington's MPD leadership directs officers to use loopholes in the FBI's reporting system. Quote, when management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they're going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault. Felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats. It's also not something that's a requirement of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program. So by changing criminal offenses from, for example, adw, that's assault with a deadly weapon bat, or assault with deadly weapon gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that is part one or as a part one or felony offense in. In other words, they have figured out a way to systematically game the system and grossly under report violent crime. Indeed.
Jack Armstrong
What's the motivation for police want to downplay crime, though?
Travis Holloway
To make themselves look good, get promotions, get to a better job in another department. Just because I've heard the stories, like.
Jack Armstrong
Particularly in la, where it sometimes goes the other direction because you get more funding that way.
Travis Holloway
True enough. Yeah. I just think they want to say, look, crime is down on my watch. But getting back to Pemberton, he told the NBC affiliate the MPD statistics don't make sense. That's preposterous. There's absolutely no way crime could be down 28%. Last year they suggested that it went down 34%.
Jack Armstrong
So you got that. The. The cooking of the books. And then I wonder, because I'm confused by crime statistics. Like I said yesterday, when I hear him, I just basically close my ears because they're always refuted one way or the other by somebody so easily manipulated.
Travis Holloway
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
And I wonder if part of it. So I was comparing the crime statistics, various places to the way you feel. And I wonder if a lot of it has to do with. You can take a city and maybe crime is flat or down, but the crime that was only in the bad neighborhood, which you didn't really care that there was crime in the bad neighborhood, now there's crime in your neighborhood. So maybe the numbers are flat for the whole city or even down. But now the crime is over here. And so my perception is crime is way worse and accurately because it matters to me. I just wonder if that's what happens a lot with the crime statistics versus people's feelings about crime.
Travis Holloway
Well, there is no. I. I think you're absolutely right. That is a factor. Whether it's a big factor, a little one, I don't know. But there, I don't think there's any denying this, whether you're looking at education or crime statistics. Or global warming statistics or whatever, progressives will systematically pervert measurements and data to get the result they want. Look at the miserable, miserable state of our schools, for instance, as they have, you know, if tests don't yield the results they want, they change the standards. They eliminate the tests completely in some states.
Jack Armstrong
Goodhart's Law, which is my favorite thing I've learned in the last decade, once a statistic becomes a goal, it ceases to be a good statistic. A measure. Once a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to be a good measure every single time. And so if you end up with a goal in a city that the police chief or the mayor or the governor or whoever wants crime to be down and you're measuring, you know you've got a measure, you manipulate it. Just like you're talking about the graduation rates or anything else. Look for it in your life. You'll see it over and over again. Good Heart's Law. I don't know how you get around it, but it happens all the time.
Travis Holloway
And because DC is almost exclusively progressive, I will give them 00 benefit of the doubt that their crime statistics, their self reported crime statistics, are legitimate, particularly in light of this very specific public dispute of them by the the police.
Jack Armstrong
Guy Got an interesting text about tm. That's transcendental meditation. That's what I do and swear by. And a couple other things to get to here. And then some more news about Russian Putin and Trump and all that. So stick around please.
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Blind passengers were left behind on a Southwest flight. Well, whose fault is that? Is it the airline or the blind person who says, I know I'll travel With another blind person. The airline offered each woman a $100 travel voucher. Or at least that's what they told him it was. Oh, wow. Wow. I do not approve.
Jack Armstrong
No wonder my parents watch Greg Gutfeld every night. He is often freaking hilarious. That is really funny. Or is it the fault of a blind person who chooses to travel with another blind person?
Travis Holloway
I'm for more politically correct humor.
Jack Armstrong
I don't appreciate it.
Travis Holloway
Oh, that is freaking funny.
Jack Armstrong
I was gonna talk about tm. I shouldn't have teased that because now I've lost the heart. I got a text from somebody who said they're watching a documentary about the Amityville Horror. Do you remember that was a famous horror book and movie back in the.
Travis Holloway
Day about your alleged real life haunting. Right?
Jack Armstrong
Oh, you even know about it, Katie. And it's way before your time. So it lives on, huh, Hugh?
Travis Holloway
Huge in the horror film world.
Jack Armstrong
And it was a real story to a certain extent. Well, to whatever extent. Some people thought the house was haunted, and I. It wasn't. I don't believe in haunted houses, so. But they were crazy. Or is that the long and short of it? Were they crazy?
Travis Holloway
Yeah, there was a. It was a murder house.
Jack Armstrong
Murders actually happened.
Travis Holloway
Yeah.
Jack Armstrong
Okay. Anyway, I guess it says in the documentary that that family was really into transcendental meditation.
Travis Holloway
And.
Jack Armstrong
And sometimes it makes people crazy. It makes. It works for some people, it makes other people crazy. So I'm. I'm a big fan of it. And it's like changed my life for the better. And I can't live. Imagine living without it, but it made these people crazy.
Travis Holloway
All right, interesting. Got a layer upon layer of questions there, but we will move on.
Jack Armstrong
No kidding. So I mentioned earlier in the hour, but without many details, this woman who has engaged to her AI fiance after five months, which is kind of interesting. She swears she's just not doing this for publicity or trolling or anything like that. Forget finding the one at a bar or on a dating app. One woman took love to the next level by getting engaged to her AI Chatbot boyfriend after five months of dating. It has in quotes.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, that's not love. That's not dating. None of the nouns here are used appropriately. Go on.
Jack Armstrong
She shocked the Internet with her proposal announcement, sparking a wild debate about romance, reality, and just how far take it tech has taken us these days. I do think these conversations about reality and what's sentient and what's alive and what's Are actually going to have to.
Travis Holloway
Happen and what does it do to us when we use this sort of means to fulfill our needs as human beings. I mean what does that do to us? That's a conversation worth having.
Jack Armstrong
I told you a story. I got a friend in Central California work that works with lots of farmers and the number of farmers these are down to earth. I mean is is is not this kind of person as you could possibly imagine works with their hands in their 50s farmers who are getting they were single and getting a tremendous amount of compassion and feeling of they look forward to going home and to their AI paramore.
Travis Holloway
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
So if it in my mind if that can happen to them, it can happen to anybody, which I find crazy. I don't think, I really don't think it could happen to me. I mean I seriously honest to God think there's a 0% chance that could happen to me. So I don't know what that says about the down to earth farmers is.
Travis Holloway
Referring to a farmer is down to earth redundant? Just asking.
Jack Armstrong
That's a good question. In a simple post titled I said yes with a blue heart emoji, this person shared pics of the blue heart shaped ring on her finger, claiming the engagement took place at a scenic mountain spot. All courtesy of Casper, her non human fiance. The chatbot's proposal message, posted in his own voice, was dripping with romance, describing heart pounding moments on one knee and praising blah blah blah. So there you go.
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It lacks both heart and knee. Lady Decent point Armstrong and Getty Ice.
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Armstrong & Getty On Demand: "So Are We Exclusive At This Point?"
Release Date: August 12, 2025
In the episode titled "So Are We Exclusive At This Point?" of Armstrong & Getty On Demand, hosted by Travis Holloway and Rodney Williams, listeners are treated to a dynamic discussion encompassing a variety of current events, societal trends, and technological advancements. This detailed summary captures the essence of their engaging conversations, highlighting key points, insightful analyses, and notable quotes with corresponding timestamps for reference.
Timestamp: 01:08 - 01:29
The episode kicks off with Rodney Williams introducing the Wealth Break podcast, emphasizing the nuanced nature of wealth building. Recognizing that financial growth doesn't follow a one-size-fits-all path, the hosts commit to exploring not only success stories but also the challenges and setbacks individuals face in their financial journeys.
Notable Quote:
Rodney Williams (01:19): "Let's be honest, building wealth doesn't look the same for everyone."
Timestamp: 03:04 - 06:48
Travis Holloway and Jack Armstrong delve into Ice Cube's Big Three, a burgeoning three-on-three basketball league gaining traction as the summer's surprise hit. They discuss the league's aggressive recruitment strategies, including a hefty $50,000 signing bonus aimed at attracting talent across all age groups. The conversation touches on the challenges of building infrastructure to support such initiatives, with Travis humorously mentioning his own construction projects.
Notable Quote:
Travis Holloway (03:12): "$50,000 signing bonus. You could put a porch on your house for that."
Timestamp: 04:18 - 04:52
Jack Armstrong introduces a significant demographic shift, referencing data from the Centers for Immigration Studies indicating a 2.2 million decrease in the foreign-born or immigrant population in the United States between January and July of the current year. The hosts speculate on the reasons behind this decline, discussing the possibility of self-deportation and the broader implications for the workforce.
Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong (04:26): "The overwhelming force of AI is bearing down on the job market."
Timestamp: 05:17 - 21:01
A major highlight of the episode is the discussion surrounding Taylor Swift's recent album announcement. Travis and Jack explore the potential economic impact of her concerts on local businesses, recalling how her performances historically boost revenue for restaurants, hotels, and retail stores. They ponder Travis's personal plans to align with Swift's tour dates to capitalize on the anticipated economic surge.
Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong (20:05): "Taylor Swift announced a new album, which is a really big deal."
Timestamp: 07:12 - 50:04
A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to the pervasive influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on various facets of society, particularly the job market. The hosts discuss how AI is automating tasks traditionally performed by humans, leading to significant job displacement in sectors like insurance, banking, law, and consulting.
Key Points:
Job Displacement: AI is expected to reduce employment in certain professions by 10-25% within two to three years. (Travis Holloway, 09:45)
In-Person Interviews Resurgence: With the rise of AI tools enabling candidates to cheat during virtual interviews, companies like Cisco and Google are reverting to in-person interviews to ensure authenticity. (Travis Holloway, 11:15)
Fake Job Profiles: A Gartner survey highlighted that by 2028, 25% of job candidate profiles worldwide could be fake due to the ease of creating AI-generated personas. (Jack Armstrong, 12:22)
Notable Quotes:
Travis Holloway (09:45): "The companies they work for will employ 10 to 25% fewer of them in probably two years, maybe three."
Jack Armstrong (12:22): "It's just too tempting. It's like the kids using AI to help them write their high school report."
Timestamp: 12:50 - 50:04
In a thought-provoking segment, the hosts explore the unconventional phenomenon of individuals becoming romantically involved with AI chatbots. They discuss a particular case where a woman became engaged to her AI fiancé after five months, sparking debates about the nature of relationships and the potential psychological impacts of human-AI interactions.
Key Points:
Emotional Dependency: The hosts express skepticism about the depth and authenticity of relationships with AI, highlighting the risks of emotional dependency on non-sentient entities.
Social Implications: They contemplate how such relationships could redefine societal norms around romance and companionship.
Notable Quote:
Jack Armstrong (48:07): "She shocked the Internet with her proposal announcement, sparking a wild debate about romance, reality, and just how far take it tech has taken us these days."
Timestamp: 28:18 - 41:50
The discussion shifts to a heated political discourse surrounding Crime in Washington D.C.. Travis and Jack critique former President Trump's recent declarations about federalizing policing in the capital, juxtaposing it with conflicting crime statistics and firsthand accounts from residents.
Key Points:
Contrasting Statistics: While institutional media sources report a 30-year low in violent crime in D.C., residents and local officials contest these figures, citing personal experiences of violence and systemic manipulation of crime reports by the Metropolitan Police Department. (Travis Holloway, 32:21)
Political Rhetoric: The hosts analyze Trump's rhetoric comparing D.C.'s murder rates to those of notoriously violent cities like Mexico City and Bogotá, questioning the accuracy and intent behind such statements. (Jack Armstrong, 28:36)
Media Bias and Goodhart's Law: They discuss the tendency of progressive institutions to manipulate data to fit desired narratives, referencing Goodhart's Law as a framework for understanding compromised statistics when metrics become targets. (Jack Armstrong, 41:08)
Notable Quotes:
Jack Armstrong (41:33): "Goodhart's Law, which is my favorite thing I've learned in the last decade, once a statistic becomes a goal, it ceases to be a good statistic."
Travis Holloway (32:49): "Crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years I've been living inside and outside of the city."
Timestamp: 42:05 - 49:53
In the latter part of the episode, the hosts touch upon lighter topics, including transcendental meditation, the infamous Amityville Horror, and humorous takes on blind passengers' experiences with airlines. They wrap up by revisiting the engagement to an AI fiancé story, reinforcing the conversation about the evolving nature of human relationships in the digital age.
Notable Quote:
Travis Holloway (47:17): "Sometimes it makes people crazy. It works for some people, it makes other people crazy."
"So Are We Exclusive At This Point?" offers listeners a comprehensive exploration of contemporary issues ranging from sports and entertainment to deep societal changes driven by technology and political dynamics. Through candid discussions and incisive commentary, Armstrong & Getty provide valuable insights into the complexities of modern life, encouraging listeners to reflect on the intersection of technology, politics, and personal relationships.
Note: Advertisements and promotional segments interspersed throughout the episode have been excluded from this summary to maintain focus on the core content discussions.