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Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Getty
And now here's Armstrong and Yeti.
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Jack Armstrong
We should probably retouch on the big Binance story. A word that I'm not sure I'd ever heard in my life or if I had it didn't register with me. It's a big deal. The Binance story, Wall Street Journal exclusive. Not only is Iran getting plenty of money through Binance allegedly, but also might factor into the Trump family getting money. So not those two things aren't connected. Like that wasn't on purpose but.
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Joe Getty
Or are they? Probably not.
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Jack Armstrong
Speaking of Israel, I want to do this a little bit later inside Israel's high tech campaign to track down and kill every last person who took part in the October 7th attack. If you're old enough, you remember they've done this a couple of times. For instance, the 72 Olympics when a bunch of their athletes were murdered by radical Muslim nutjobs. Israel spent decades hunting down everybody involved with that and taking them out, including some people that weren't involved with it by accident. But they don't mess around.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, boy, I saw that October 7th piece and I also read part of the documentation of the sexual violence that happened on 10-7-23 and I do at least want to touch on that. And how the Hamas. Oh yeah, yeah. Some of the most horrible things I've ever read in my life. And how the Hamas friendly New York Times at least Nicholas Kristof. That's his name, Nicholas, right. Two days before the report came out. Concocts this ridiculous. Yeah, Israelis regularly rape people in prison, including trained rape dogs. Story to cloud the water. So everybody's thinking, God, everybody's accusing everybody of rape. I don't know what to think. It's Obvious that that's what they were doing. It's utterly despicable.
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Jack Armstrong
That's unconscionable.
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Joe Getty
It is unconscionable. A quick question. Speaking of money. Not binance and not trillions of dollars. So I was playing in a golf tournament last weekend and I was staying with my friend Parski. Not his real name, nickname. And he had this unbelievable coffee machine. And Jack, I know you're a coffee freak, but then, so. Oh, my God, this coffee is so good. It's just a cut above anything I've ever had at my home. And I really am lusting for it. It's expensive. It's like. Take a deep breath. Expensive, right?
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Jack Armstrong
But I know.
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Joe Getty
I love it. But I couldn't pull the trigger because I thought, no, Joseph, I'll tell you about me. You want to know about me? I can be decisive in the face of danger, fear and uncertainty.
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Jack Armstrong
Danger, fear and uncertainty. All three of those are bad at once.
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Joe Getty
Oh, please.
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Jack Armstrong
Two of them.
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Joe Getty
I laugh at, all three.
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Jack Armstrong
I get sealed. I write through it.
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Joe Getty
But the downside of that is occasionally decisiveness turns into hastiness. I am, I have been. I have been guilty of being a tad hasty once or twice in my life. So I thought, all right, I know, I love this machine. I know it functions great. He's had it for five years. It's been problem free, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But shouldn't I, like, look at a bunch of different competitors and read reviews?
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Jack Armstrong
I did that.
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Joe Getty
Benefits and stuff like that.
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Jack Armstrong
I actually, actually, that's like the first time I ever really use chatbots, you know, in this price range. Give me the best four and the upsides and the downsides and blah, blah,
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Joe Getty
blah, that's what I'm gonna do.
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Jack Armstrong
You can justify the price. You don't drink coffee out, so it doesn't work for you. But for anybody like me who occasionally, fairly regularly, would get a Starbucks or stop at a coffee shop or whatever, if you stop doing that and do it at home, it pays for itself fairly quickly.
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Joe Getty
Sure, yeah, yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
But I make coffee at home now with this machine and I haven't. The really cool people don't have automatic coffee machines. You go through all the work, you tamp it down and you do the thing and you.
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Joe Getty
Man, I have a job.
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Jack Armstrong
Exactly. You do it manually and it's very, very cool. And there are endless videos about this way if you, if you want to go onto YouTube. Endless people that are so good with the reviews and really quite entertaining, actually. Anywho, I got an automatic machine. But you pour the beans in the top and it grinds the beans and then it makes the. I do an espresso shot every in the morning and then in the afternoon. And almost every single day I say, God, this is good. I mean, it's not just okay, it's just this is fantastic. And part of it is because I don't drink anymore, so I don't have anything like that. I can't try new wines or beers or anything. So.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Katie Green
Yeah, okay.
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Joe Getty
Thanks for that. Excellent consumer advice. That's what I'll. I will do.
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Jack Armstrong
I have not at any point thought, what did I do this for?
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Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I drink it every single day of my life, so. All right. It's not like I've decided I'm gonna be a surfer and I, you know, spend $5,000 on a surfboard and I try it once and hate it. You know, it's not one of those.
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Jack Armstrong
Thinking of becoming a free solo climber. I'm gonna need a lot of gear.
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Joe Getty
Not one of those. So I think, you know, this. The. The world, the face of warfare is chang rapidly. And we, the greatest superpower on earth, are trying, I think, bravely. It's one of the things I think Pete Hegseth is doing very, very well is getting rid of the hidebound, stubborn, slow Pentagon culture. Trying to anyway so we can adapt to technology a lot more quickly.
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Jack Armstrong
Listen up, Dick wads. That's the great piece, Pete Hegseth from Saturday Night Live impersonation.
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Joe Getty
Ah, yeah, Pete. Well, I won't get into that tangent because it's less interesting than this. Walter Russell Meadow frequently writes for the Wall Street Journal. He's an editor at large. I think they call him really smart, interesting wise guy. Got some years on him. I love reading his stuff, but he just spent a bunch of time in Ukraine and is reporting on all the aspects of the war, including how there has been fatigue and discouragement, but there ain't really. Now, in fact, you have kids enlisting to operate drones and stuff like that, and they really feel like they're on the front foot and they're going to keep their country and there's patriotism and they're cleaning out the last of the kleptocrat that they inherited from the Soviet Union. They're really, really positive things happening, which I thought was. Was cool. But he's talking about. I'm just going to read a little bit of it first. The nature of war has changed and is changing much faster and more radically than most observers and Most of the world's militaries yet understand rifles, mortars and tanks appear to be going the way of sword fights and cavalry charges. Evacuating the wounded from the ever expanding drone infested gray zone that separates opposing armies can take weeks in up to two months. That's because teams of drone and unmanned ground vehicle operators must struggle to maneuver coffin shaped evacuation platforms against swarms of hostile drones on a winding path through the war zone.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't think you were here. I think I was talking about this when you weren't here on Thursday. Did you see the video? There's lots of videos out there like this, but it was a video of a couple of Russians being chased by the drones.
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Joe Getty
I just saw a series of those videos.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh my God, that sound. I'll bet if you in, in warfare in the future that's going to be the sound of holy s. I'm going to die. Because they were out in a field and it was nice and quiet and then you hear that and they're all like, they say things in Russia and they start running as fast as they can and it just gets louder. More of these drones catch up to them and holy crap, why?
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Joe Getty
I saw a series of them that were discovering Russian barracks and hidey holes and going into buildings and guys running behind rubble and the drone just pulls up to him bluey over and over again.
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Jack Armstrong
There's something about it being not human that makes it more terrifying than if a guy were with a gun were chasing you.
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Joe Getty
Oh, you can elude a guy with a gun. That's the terrifying part of it. A drone, you're. You're just screwed anyway. So he writes, more fighting is done on screens and less in the trenches. Almost every assumption about what armies are and how they fight is being challenged and reshaped daily. Second, the changing technological balance of war is tilted for now and favor of Ukraine or defenders. In short, the fundamentals of drone warfare favor the defense over the offense, meaning that Ukraine's smaller armed forces can hold off larger numbers of Russian attackers while extorting a high price for every acre of ground gained. That could change overnight as both sides are adapting as quickly as they can. But the costs of gaining even a small amount of territory are astronomical now. And I came across this blog post from a guy who writes about military technology has for years, years and years actually. He includes a 2013 post, a link to it, about the advent of drone warfare that he says is still probably the most prophetic thing I've ever written. And man, did he Nail it. So I've become a fan of this guy Noah Smith, but. And he's talking about the next step is going to be something I have been talking about for years because I'm so fascinated and terrified by it. And that is the swarms of quote unquote drone insects. Micro drones that can be controlled through AI that are practically unseeable. They're so small, they're certainly unhittable. And as long as they have enough battery power to sustain themselves over long flights, they'd be an unstoppable weapon anyway,
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Jack Armstrong
Just, you know, the mind whirs thinking of the possibilities. Release them into a building.
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Joe Getty
Oh yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh my God.
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Joe Getty
Well, in the scenario I was reading and hell, it might have been this guy who wrote it. Come to think of it, the time is about right. You got these micro drones that might be the size of house flies. It's, you know, it remains to be seen where the technology goes. They could, they could fly in the ventilation system of a building anywhere.
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Jack Armstrong
But then what do they do?
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Joe Getty
Because they don't cracks under doors, they
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Jack Armstrong
can't carry guns or whatever. What do they do to you?
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Joe Getty
Oh, they could explode. They could, depending on, you know, how small they are and how many there are. I. The one scenario I read is that they would fly into your lungs.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, that's nice.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. And then kirblue, just blow up your lungs. It wouldn't take a lot of them to kill you anyway. So yeah, this is absolutely horrifying, but I wanted to get to this part. And he mentions interestingly that in the second Nagorno Karabakh war in 2020, drones were used extensively, but nobody was really paying attention. But Ukraine's intensive use of drones has allowed them to inflict casualty rates as high as 5 to 1 on the Russian army in recent months while giving up little or no territory. And about 96% of those casualties are estimated to be caused by drones. I didn't realize that 96% of a 5 to 1 ratio.
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Jack Armstrong
I knew it was high, but I didn't know it was practically all of them.
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Joe Getty
And in just the past year, Ukraine from went from using just a few thousand FPV drones per day to using around 60,000 a day.
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Jack Armstrong
60,000 drones a day. And remember the 60 Minutes piece from a couple of weeks ago? They update the technology weekly, right? I mean what, what they're doing today is different than what they did last week.
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Joe Getty
Then he gets into the fact that they are incredibly inexpensive compared to traditional armaments and that China has the capacity to build 2.8 billion of or 2.08 billion of them per what, month, year? I'd have to roll a video but we need to increase our manufacturing capacity for the tools of war, but quick in a way that mankind has never needed to do. You can convert a Ford truck factory to a tank factory in the course of quite a few months in 1941. 42. But fast enough for the war of that kind. Can you imagine if tank technology was changing every six weeks? What then? What does that even look like?
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Jack Armstrong
It barely changed in six years. Probably.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there's a lot to read. I will post this. We'll post this@armstrongandgetty.com if you want to read more about it. It's long and detailed, but if you're into this sort of stuff, it's absolutely fascinating.
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Jack Armstrong
Holy cow.
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Joe Getty
And scary. Ye.
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Jack Armstrong
I hope we're as good at it as China and Russia and whoever else. Or some, you know, 300 pound guy sitting on his bed. Like Trump once said about hackers, I
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Joe Getty
for one welcome our insect drone overlords.
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Jack Armstrong
Individual criminals trying to do whatever they want to do.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's some good stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
Let me check my phone real quick.
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Joe Getty
Stand by.
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Jack Armstrong
Something that's not great. Yep. We're going to talk to Katie Green, our news person who's a new mom coming up in a little bit.
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Announcer
Hope you can stick around Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know if you know who Chris Saliza is. He's mainstream slash left columnist. Anyway, and I'm not going to get bogged down in this story because I got some funny things, but he tweeted out yesterday about the so called DNC autopsy report that's 192 pages long and he's a Democrat. There's not one mention of Joe Biden's advanced age or the strategic decision to shield him from a public that thought he was too old to continue as president. Unreal. Yeah, pretty much all you need to know about the autopsy. There's no commentary about the whole trying to pretend something wasn't true that everybody knew. So maybe, maybe it's so big it doesn't need to be commented on.
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Katie Green
I don't know.
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Joe Getty
Not likely to be repeated. I don't. I don't know. I'm making excuses. I mean, and Kamal is incompetent and just transgender stuff. None of it's in there.
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Jack Armstrong
Anywho, a couple of Babylon Bee things that I came across that I thought were pretty funny. You can just check in with them anytime. You want. If you want to laugh, pretty much. Zillow adds new feature for California homes showing whether they're currently on fire or not. He's got a picture of a 1.3 million dollar home and says this home is currently on fire. I like this one. And this is based on. I. I gotta admit, I fell for this for myself. So I was commenting on this. What do you call it? Survey chart. Survey. What's a poll? Poll that came out and it showed that the youngest and poorest among us, which goes together because when you're young you tend more likely to be poor are the ones who eat out the most and use doordash the most. What the hell is that? You got no money. You're complaining to everyone about income inequality. Can't. The American dream is dead, man. The American dream is dead. But you're eating out and doordashing. Okay, not exactly sure how that fits together but. But this is pretty good from the battle on B. And it's got a whole bunch of old people, gray hairs, men and women with their arms crossed with a scolding look on their face. Generation that put nation $39 trillion in debt condemns Gen Z for spending irresponsibly. No.
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Joe Getty
Devastating.
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Jack Armstrong
That is pretty good.
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Joe Getty
Boom. Headshot.
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Jack Armstrong
That is pretty good.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Where do we get. Hey, I know how to handle money. I eat at home. I'm not eating out every meal. I'm also voting for people who continue to spend more money than we take in cycle after cycle my whole life. All right, final vote for whoever promises
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Joe Getty
me the most of it.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And then finally this from the Babylon B. I didn't read the whole thing or I'm not gonna read the whole thing, but it's pretty darn funny. It was Reef. It was a review from a one year old and it's got a picture of the one year old sitting. Sitting there in a shirt like in the corner. Bath time review. A torrid pointless affair from a picture the one year old with a blank expression. You know, like they're the reviewer. I try to keep an open mind. I'm always trying new experiences but that goes into how they didn't like the bats. And at the very end I rate the bath time one star though I wish I knew of some concept lower than one to rate it.
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Joe Getty
I'd love to hear that whole thing. That sounds cute.
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Jack Armstrong
It is pretty funny. And speaking of that sort of thing, we're going to talk to Katie Green, part of the Armstrong and Getty show who just had a baby A week ago, coming up a little bit. I wonder if they've had their first bath yet. I don't remember when you have your. Give the baby the first bath, do you? I don't remember.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, there's cleansing, certainly, but a quote unquote bath. Yeah, I don't remember when that starts.
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Jack Armstrong
Put them in that little plastic thing that you buy that sits kind of over your big sink, one hand on
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Joe Getty
them at all times because they're slippery as a seal.
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Jack Armstrong
And the first. First time you give your first baby a bath, you're, like, horrified at the. Getting the temperature of the water right and them falling out and all kinds of things.
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Joe Getty
Oh, stressful.
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Jack Armstrong
And then, you know, as. As more kids come along, by the time you. By the time you're Elon Musk and you got your 12th kid, you're giving a bath in the sink. Anything? This is nothing.
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Joe Getty
Our third kid, Delaney, we just sprayed her with a hose. You're clean enough. Get back to work.
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Jack Armstrong
Sorry, it's cold. Life is cold. Get used to it.
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Joe Getty
I wish you were listening right now.
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Jack Armstrong
So we'll talk to Katie coming up a little bit. And then we got a lot more stuff, a lot more news to get into. We got to explain to you, Binance, if you don't know, because that's going to be the word of maybe the next two years. If you missed a segment, get the podcast. Armstrong and Gettysburg
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Announcer
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, just posted on Twitter that all Californians should boycott Chevron and not buy their gas there. And the pushback is quite enjoyable and hilarious.
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Joe Getty
Oh, I can't wait.
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Jack Armstrong
So stay tuned for that.
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Joe Getty
But first, the most important interview we will do today. Nay, this week. Nay, this month.
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Jack Armstrong
Nay, he says.
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Joe Getty
Like a horse. This year, it's Katie. Katie, the baby lady, joining us from her home. Hello, Katie.
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Katie Green
Hey, how's it going, guys?
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Joe Getty
Easiest interview question in the history of mankind. How's being a mom?
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Katie Green
It's so great. It's one. It's exhausting, but it's so wonderful. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Oh, man.
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Katie Green
Yeah, he's. He's, he's growing quick, which is really good. The doctors are happy about it, and I am healing. My. My doctor. What? He called me a wolverine the other. The other day. He's like, what the hell?
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Joe Getty
Well, you know, that's funny. I'd not been fully considering that. I remember our third was delivered via C section. And there you've got a new baby and you're recovering from major surgery. That's a hell of a Hell of a deal.
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Katie Green
Yeah. It's been difficult, but luckily enough. Drew has been so wonderful, and he's been, you know, kind of making me rest because I was getting really frustrated. I don't. I don't rest well. So he's been taking care of a lot of the stuff, but I've been helping out, and little Donovan's doing great, so.
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Jack Armstrong
When. When. When. When was Donovan born?
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Katie Green
He was born at 7:57pm on the 12th.
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Jack Armstrong
The 12th. So it has been 10 days, and we are trying to remember because you forget these things. When do you give a baby their first bath? Have you done that yet?
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Katie Green
You can do sponge baths right now. His umbilical cord is still attached. You can't, like, put them in the back yet.
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Joe Getty
All right. Yeah.
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Katie Green
So just a little sponge bath. You got a cinder with the hoods that have animal. Animal faces on them.
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Joe Getty
Oh, man. So cute. You gotta send her that. The link to the Babylon Bee article. One year old reviews. Bath time. Yes. Very funny.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
The baby did not. Gave it. The baby gave it one star.
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Katie Green
Oh, no.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Because what is happening to me?
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Katie Green
He has that look on his face constantly.
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Joe Getty
The.
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Katie Green
What the hell are you doing?
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Joe Getty
Right?
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Katie Green
It's like a permanent face.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah.
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Joe Getty
I'm used to a much quieter, more placid joint than this one. All right. I don't know what kind of crazy ass house you people are running, but my old place, very dark and quiet.
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Katie Green
I didn't ask to be born.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. So 10 days into parenthood, anything surprise you so far?
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Katie Green
You know what? Honestly, his. His ability to recognize certain things, so. I noticed the other day that when Frankie barks, he doesn't even react. And so I was talking to the doctor about that. He's hurt Frankie in the womb, so there's like little. Little things like that drew in my voices and his. His ability to, like, see us. I mean, he can't see a whole lot, but when you bring him real close to our faces, he smiles.
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Jack Armstrong
Frankie is Katie's younger brother. If you are not a. He barks for some reason.
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Joe Getty
Right? It's a rare condition.
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Jack Armstrong
Katie has a dog named Frankie, obviously. Okay.
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Katie Green
Yeah, yeah, sorry. My. My dog Frankie. When he barks, Donovan recognizes it. And then also my body is. I mean, it's incredible. Since the 10 or since the 12th, I've lost 30 pounds.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Yikes.
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Katie Green
Yeah, just. I mean, just. And it was all water weight, blood volume, obviously the baby and all the stuff going on, but just kind of the ability to, like, bounce back.
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Jack Armstrong
How. How has Most of that transferred to me. I wonder. Over the last 10 days. Must be some sort of thing. It was.
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Katie Green
Yeah. I signed a piece of paper. I said, give it to Jack.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. Does little Donovan have a nickname yet? What's the go to for you and Drew and. And we've been called Grandma and Grandpa.
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Katie Green
We've been calling him Van.
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Jack Armstrong
That's cool. That's a cool name.
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Joe Getty
That's a cool name. Love that.
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Katie Green
Yeah. Van. Or currently, whenever he's feeding, Mr. Mad Monkey man has been the.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's funny.
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Katie Green
His arms out and he shakes his head real hard and goes, ah. To get licked at the. The milk. It's very funny.
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Jack Armstrong
I hope you're only giving that baby. Baby formula from the grocery store like Joe and I grew up on, because the government wisely told our parents that the worst thing for a baby is the natural breast milk from mother's milk.
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Joe Getty
No, use this from a factory instead. Oh, I hated the 20th century. Yeah. Yeah. So go ahead.
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Jack Armstrong
Sorry.
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Katie Green
Oh, no, no, that. That's what we're doing. Just straight out of the box, just powdered, not even mixing it with liquid. We're just giving them powder.
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Jack Armstrong
There you go.
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Joe Getty
So, Mad Monkey Man.
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Katie Green
Is that what you said, Mr. Mad Monkey Man? Yeah, when he. When he's feeding, he. He goes. He goes crazy. And it's very funny. I'll try to get a video of it because it's. Yeah, it's wonderful.
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Joe Getty
Our oldest, Kate, was born tighter than a watch spring. And. And we always. We often refer to her as Beelzebuby. Oh, boy.
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Jack Armstrong
That's pretty good. The pictures you had yesterday, Katie, of. Of little Van in various beanies was. Was fantastic. And me of babies and baby clothes or toddlers in their little clothes. There's nothing cuter than that. It just. It's absolutely fantastic.
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Katie Green
Oh, I. I got an absolute kick. So we've been having him in, like, onesies and stuff just because it's. It's super easy. But the other day when I actually. Well, yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
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Joe Getty
It has little ducks on it. That's sweet. Yeah.
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Katie Green
Oh, does. Are they. Is it a footy onesie? Does that. Little duck feet, too.
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Jack Armstrong
It's cozy.
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Katie Green
Cute. Cute. Yeah. We've been sticking to the onesies, but the other day I came out of the nursery and I held him up because I put pants on him, and I thought it was the coolest thing.
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Joe Getty
Absolutely.
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Jack Armstrong
He's got pants on him. Drew, that's fantastic.
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Joe Getty
That's hilarious. So back to the whole recognizing Frankie's bark, and you're in Drew's voices and stuff like this. I know you don't need to hear this, but, you know, just anybody who's gonna have a kid or might have a kid or what, the best and most magical thing you will ever do is instead of staring at your phone when you take him for walks or whatever, to look at everything and name everything and talk about everything. You see the trees and the flowers and the birds and the squirrels and the grass and everything. It's just. It's the best thing you can possibly do for your kid, and it's more fun. I think it was more fun for me than it was for the kids. I just loved doing that.
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Katie Green
Yeah, that's actually. That's really. I. I love that. We did. We did a little bit of that yesterday. What was our first big outing without, you know, a doctor's appointment involved. And we took him to the grocery store, and everything he was looking at, we were like, oh, yeah, those are cookies. Those will make you fat.
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Jack Armstrong
But, you know, fantastic.
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Joe Getty
Protein, my boy. Protein is what you want.
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Katie Green
Exactly. Yeah. But he's. He's just. He's wonder. Oh, and that's the other thing. The amount of sweet little old ladies that stopped and talked to us and talked to Donovan was hilarious.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.
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Katie Green
Oh, there he goes.
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Joe Getty
That's beautiful.
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Katie Green
He's yelling. He just said, hi, guys.
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Joe Getty
Oh, fantastic. Well, say hi to him for us and grandma and grandpa and the whole family. All right. Say hey to Drew.
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Katie Green
Absolutely. Will do. And I miss you guys. He'll. He will keep sending pictures of the baby in hats.
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Jack Armstrong
Cool. Thank you, Katie.
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Joe Getty
And pants, if possible.
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Jack Armstrong
Michael's got a question.
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Katie Green
Just Frankie.
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Joe Getty
Is he jealous of the baby, or is he, like. Like him?
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Katie Green
Frankie has been amazing. At first, he wasn't too sure what. What the heck we brought home, but now, I mean, for feeding, for changing, anywhere we take Van, Frankie follows, and he sits there, and he likes to kiss his little toes, which is very cute. Yeah. But, like, right now, I'm sitting on the couch, and Frankie is leaning up against me with his face kind of drooped over the bassinet, just looking at Van at the moment.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I've had that experience with babies and dogs where the dogs completely get into the whole, okay, this is something I need to protect and watch after Mode just automatically. It's really cool.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Part of the pack, 100%.
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Katie Green
And that's exactly what's going on. And I was, you know, every. I think that's something that Every new mom worries about, too, you know, like, oh, God, how's the dog gonna react?
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Jack Armstrong
I was gonna tell this later. I'll throw it in now. We had two dogs. One did that, the other one did not. And then we had to put it.
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Announcer
Him.
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Jack Armstrong
Put him down. My dog Bogart, who was at the end of his life and kind of losing his mind and everything like that, and he was a danger around the baby, and there's. There's no. There's no wiggle room on that, so.
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Katie Green
Wow.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Katie Green
And that. That. I didn't think that that was going to be the outcome, but I also, you know, you never know, because.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Katie Green
That's. You know, they. I. There are some times where Frankie will get, like, real pissed around the house, and I was like, oh, my God, this can't happen with the baby. He is. He's completely in love. And it's. It's really nice. It's very good boy.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Katie Green
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
All right, well, great. Great to talk to you. Go take care of your kid and stay in touch, okay?
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Katie Green
Okay. Absolutely, you guys. I'll talk to you soon.
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Joe Getty
See ya.
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Jack Armstrong
I remember my dad saying, when Sam was born, our first said, keep them away from those animals because he knew we had several dogs in the house and. And the one was not doing well at that point. Great dog his whole life, but he was at the end of his life and. And had. And I probably shouldn have waited to see, but was not gonna work out. Tried him outside for a while, but he tried to bite me. And so, anyway, so. But the normal behavior of the dog, the dogs that I've seen now twice, is. Yeah. They fool right into. Okay. This is a member of the pack we need to protect. Lay there next to them when they're sleeping, alert you sometimes when something's wrong. It's fantastic.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. I've learned a lot in recent months about dog dementia, which is a real thing, clearly.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
We're trying to figure out what some of Baxter's symptoms and tendencies were at the end of his life, and we're investigating that possibility. But, yeah, it's absolutely a thing that the poor dog is full of fear and confusion all the time.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. That's the way Bogart was. He was terrified, and that's when he tried to bite me. It's just like, you know, who are you? Why are you in this house or in the garage or whatever? And, like, happens with people. Physically, perfectly fine. Even though he was old, but his mind was no longer working.
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Announcer
Worked.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. It's too bad. Anyway, he tend. On a sad note, but that's a happy note.
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Jack Armstrong
Her dog is protecting the baby like it's supposed to. Like normal things happen, right?
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Joe Getty
Again, to review, she's got a dog named Frankie, and her brother's name is Mr. Woof. Woof. I was trying to come up with a good ridiculous dog name. What's a good ridiculous. Only a dog would have it named Michael.
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Jack Armstrong
Help us out here, Fido.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I can answer that. Dad came up with that one, too. But I don't know, Mr. Spingle, most of the people I know who have dogs, they. They name it with a person's name these days.
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Jack Armstrong
Yep. Absolutely. Lots of maxes.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. My neighbor Lee was smart. He named his dog Buddy because he realized that I called back. I called Baxter Buddy all the time. You might as well call the dog Buddy if you're gonna say, come here, Buddy. Right?
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Katie Green
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
You know, I had a friend whose dog's name was Arty. Arty. Arty. The. The one dog party.
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Joe Getty
Now that's branding.
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Jack Armstrong
That's good.
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Joe Getty
Love it.
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Jack Armstrong
Okay, we got more on the way. Stay here.
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Announcer
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
So we did not get into the fact that the governor of the biggest state in California, where Silicon Valley is and all the tech that you've heard about is based the AI stuff. He signed some sort of governor executive order putting companies on the hook for laying people off if they're using AI can't even imagine how that's supposed to work.
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Joe Getty
It's meaningless, grandstanding drivel. It's unimplementable.
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Jack Armstrong
It is. Yeah. Well, just imagine in general, the idea of you're going to make it illegal for companies to use the latest technology that will make things more efficient. That'd be good for America.
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Joe Getty
Virtue signaling nonsense.
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Jack Armstrong
So is this. Gavin Newsom. Californians, if you're hitting the road this weekend, be sure to avoid Chevron. And that headline got me, like, wow, you're telling people you're boycotting a big giant gas company suit.
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Joe Getty
Now Chevron now pro tip.
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Jack Armstrong
Unbre Unbranded gas comes from the same refinery, storage tanks and pipelines, and it meets the same state standards to keep your engine running clean, even if it doesn't have a fancy name like Techron. I've never paid any attention to that stuff. I turn into the gas station that's on the corner so I don't have to make a left turn. I've never paid any attention to made with Techron or has this additive or whatever. I've never paid attention to that in my life. Gavin goes on to say big oil is already making billions off of Trump's Iran war. Don't let them rip you off even more by overpaying for the brand name. Among the pieces of pushback, Kevin Dalton, who is great at his commentary. First of all, he asked Grok. He said, hey, Grok, is it the tech run or the taxes in California that make gas significantly more expensive than everywhere else in the country? He goes on to post Californians, if you're hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to avoid California. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic supermajority gouge you at the pump and literally make more money than the oil companies do off of these gas taxes. Gavin Newsom is already making billions of for the state off the gas tax and wasting the money. That is true.
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Joe Getty
That's so good.
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Jack Armstrong
And lots of people are hammering him just for the idea of boycotting a perfectly legitimate company out there that has among other things, I personally am always willing to pay if you know it is true about that. I try to avoid left turns and traffic. I'll do the one on the right. But if I can do one of the big name brands that it's clean and I know they've got a working bathroom and they're actually paper towels in the holder and liquid in the windshield wiper thing, I'll pay 3 cents extra for that. And that's what Chevron is or has better selection inside the store if you go in there to buy crap.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, let's not leave out the fact that Gavin Newsom and his buddies have been demonizing the oil industry in California, including the refineries that that brew up the special blend that California has to burn. Been demonizing them and driving them out of business, thereby necessitating importing oil and gasoline at a much greater expense to the environment from some of the dirtiest extracting regimes on earth.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I forgot to mention that a lot of horrifying, a lot of the pushback was the California Chevron actually responded with, hey, the gas in California that Gavin Newsom wants comes from other countries and is actually dirtier than blah, blah, blah, blah, what you were just saying.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, we wish we could refine good clean oil extracted cleanly, locally so it's not happening to be transported around the world. But Gavin won't let us anymore if people want to. Just a virtue signal.
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Jack Armstrong
If people pay a couple cents more because they want a nicer convenience store, which is what Chevron is and everything else that goes with it, then then that's the free market of work and people either will or they won't. Gavin. But as some political people pointed out in their replies, this is just a. It's pretty clever, actually. It's to, to make it about Chevron and gas companies and big oil and all this different sort of stuff to distract from the fact that California is so much more expensive with their gas than any other state and they waste the money on crap it goes into. The general funding just gets wasted.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, but you sure make it. Make, make Chevron the bad guy, not the, the high tax blue state that California is.
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Joe Getty
The whole preemptively clouding the water strategy. We've cited it a couple of times. The ridiculous Israeli rape dog story that came out a couple of days intentionally, just before the humanitarian group released the, the horrific, practically unreadable review. Never mind the videos of the systematic rape and sexual torture of Israeli women, men and children by the forces of Hamas and the Palestinians. Yeah. They trotted out this. Yeah. Israeli uses, Israel uses systematic rape in the prisons story just to cloud the waters before that release. It's a strategy now and as you said, it's disgusting, but it is fairly effective.
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Jack Armstrong
Can be Gavin Newsom releasing this boycott Chevron thing the Friday of Memorial Day weekend when people are gonna drive and fill up their tanks. Banks is. Yeah, it's a preemptive move.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
So you're standing there at the gas station angry at big oil and not. Or the war in Iran, as he pointed out, and not California's ridiculous taxes.
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Joe Getty
If Gaffey and his evil henchman wife, Jennifer Siebel nuisance. If they had the power to jail dissidents, they would.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, heck. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
I'm, I'm quite certain of that. That they would brew up some context. She would, she would write out the, the, the indictment or the, you know, disappearing papers about, you know, transphobia, Islamophobia, God knows what else. And yeah, we would be in dissident prison right now.
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Jack Armstrong
So on the waning seconds of this hour, you talked earlier about, you might buy a fancy coffee machine.
- [37:29]
Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
You got to try that civic cat stuff. I, I keep swearing to, but I keep forgetting to. I'm, you know, just a small amount because it's super expensive.
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Joe Getty
Well, I don't have to worry about that. I have my own civet cat and I feed a coffee beads and then squeeze it to get it to.
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Jack Armstrong
And then you go to the litter box and.
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Katie Green
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Dig through the sand through it. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
- [37:53]
Jack Armstrong
Kind of.
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Joe Getty
I use a little strainer and then pop them right in the, the coffee machine.
- [37:57]
Jack Armstrong
Wow. I'm getting. I'm getting notes of. I'm not even gonna say civet cat.
- [38:02]
Joe Getty
I mean, mostly.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
It
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Announcer
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