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Jack Armstrong
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
And now here's Armstrong and Getty. So I don't know why, but for.
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Joe Getty
Some reason I think I'm going to be watching more NFL football this year than I have in previous years. Me, because it's. My kids are older and I have time again, but I. The season kicks off tomorrow night. I was looking through all the previews from ESPN and Sports Illustrated and usa. Did everybody like that? Man, there is no consensus whatsoever. I looked at, like, probably 20 different versions of expert sport writers who, you know, dedicate their lives to this sort of stuff. And zero consensus of. Of what two teams will be in the super bowl, which I guess is kind of what makes it interesting that even experts have no idea.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it reminds me of the, the. What do they call them, the models for where a hurricane might go. And it's a big series of spaghetti strings that go in a range of different places that are possible and. Yeah, that's the. Yeah, of course. That's why it's interesting to watch. Plus, you know, six weeks into the season, everybody's playing a different squad because of injuries in the NFL. Right.
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Joe Getty
All of the predictions have nothing to do with injuries because you don't predict anybody ever getting hurt. So it's all over the place without injuries. And of course there will be injuries. So there you go.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. You know, I'm sure somewhere out in Sportsland somebody does this, but shouldn't there be, like a lot of time and energy spent appraising everybody's second string everything?
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Joe Getty
No kidding. Yeah. And factor that in somehow.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, there's probably an algorithm out there, but who knows?
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Joe Getty
Taylor Swift's husband claims he's in the best shape of his life, so we'll see.
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Jack Armstrong
And he's gonna be done with the race soon. He'll be taking off the uniform, so we'll see. But he's still, you know, he still hasn't landed her.
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Joe Getty
I was just in Chief's country. They've been in the super bowl five of the last six years. And everybody in Chief's country agrees this is the last go round. This is the last opportunity, really.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
To have everybody together and young enough and everything like that. So it's now or never.
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Jack Armstrong
I have something incredibly important to talk about, but how was Pat Mahomes?
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Joe Getty
Not that old. How old? Does somebody Google that? I'm guessing early 30s, 29. He's even. He might not even be 30. Yeah, but Travis is done.
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Jack Armstrong
What do I win?
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Joe Getty
Although I will throw this in and this is a little sportsy.
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Jack Armstrong
He's 29.
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Joe Getty
29. This is a little sporty.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes.
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Joe Getty
Many people have thrown around him being the greatest quarterback of all time. He's certainly in the argument the Patriots just kept rebuilding and rebuilding and rebuilding with all new people all the time around. An unbelievably good quarterback. So maybe the Chiefs will do that with Patrick Mahomes. Who knows?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. 6th round pick Tom Brady.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
Speaking of the difficulty of prognosticating. Anyway, complete change of topic. I promise this. And here it is. I'm going to quote a piece written by Simone Rodin Benzequin. She's a French journalist and thinker. How the Muslim Brotherhood is capturing Europe. We've been talking on and off today about how Europe is really tense and the people, the government too. But the people are really, really concerned about the fact that rampant immigration has fundamentally changed the countries where these people live. And they don't like it and they feel threatened to buy it. And the government's response in a lot of countries like Britain, our old grandpappy Britain has been. Shut up. Don't say anything.
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Joe Getty
Well, immigration was the number one or two issue in our election. People were very angry about it and the people flooding into our country were way, are way more similar to us than the people that are flooding into those European countries.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, in the main, yeah, I mean we certainly had plenty of. And Bill Mulligian and the folks at Fox News did a great job of documenting this but we had plenty of Chinese national and people from various hostile Muslim and African lands and that sort of thing. But as a percentage, no, no, Europe had a lot bigger problem. You know, I don't, I don't particularly want a bunch of Venezuelans flooding into the country willy nilly who want to work construction. But I mean that's a different situation than what we're about to talk about. So anyway, this, the fact that this got zero attention practically the free press is writing about it. But the fact that it got zero attention in American media is just yet another if, as if you needn't it measure of how incredibly dishonest and biased they are. France did not plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim Brotherhood's attempt to take over Europe. But a couple of weeks ago, a classified report from the Ministry of the Interior leaked to one of the major French daily newspapers, 73 page document marked confidential defense was meant for top officials only. Reading from her article now, based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens and dozens of interviews, it laid out a stark diagnosis. The Muslim Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France, not through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques, and soft power. And it states, and I quote, the Brotherhood strategy is to install a form of ideological hegemony that means they're running the thing by infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities.
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Joe Getty
This is exactly the book's submission by Michelle Welbeck. If you haven't read it and we've talked about it many times, he explains it in France, exactly how it would play out and sound like, this is it Hollapek.
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Jack Armstrong
I think it's Hollaback girl.
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Joe Getty
Welbeck.
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Jack Armstrong
I think somebody look up submission. Yeah, yeah. I just don't need to read it.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, well, I don't know. I guess we should say it in a way that you could look it up. Yeah, it's. It's spelled with a W. I think.
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Jack Armstrong
Phonetically might be better anyway, so. The report is the most detailed government study to date of the Brotherhood's presence in Europe. Written by civil servants, it draws on months of fieldwork and analysis conducted in France and abroad with inputs from diplomats, intelligence officials, academics, and religious figures. Its conclusion is blunt. The Muslim Brotherhood operates as a political project. Understand, Hear that, contemplate that. Not organization, project. Its goal is not sudden revolution, but gradual transformation. Its targets are hearts and minds. Its strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And it's not just coming for France, she writes. It is coming for all of the West. Here's another key fact you need to know. The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement that seeks to impose Islamic law through grad. Ideological means, primarily via schools, charities, and religious networks. And she mentions, she goes into a paragraph or two that while it claims to reject violence, it has extremist offshoots, which gets people's attention, and that's obviously awful. But if somebody said to me, you know, my goal, Joe, is to completely subvert and destroy and get rid of the American Constitution and American culture as it exists now. But trust me, I will be nonviolent. I don't like violence, I would still oppose them with every fiber of me. So getting back to what they're trying to do, and it reminds me a little bit of the critical theory crowd, that the woke crowd, the postmodernists, the neo Marxists, whatever you want to call them, that their intent is to overthrow Western civilization and bring on a Marxist revolution, blah, blah, blah, and people are like, What? No, no, I just want to protect trans people. No, as I often say, they effing wrote books with their effing names on the effing spines explaining precisely what they want to do and how, and now they are doing it. It's not some sort of creative, you know, flight of fancy. They told us what they're going to do and in the same way. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by a fellow by the name of Hassan Al Bana. He's an Egyptian. And the movement has always presented Islam as a total system, religious, political, legal and economic. See, that's the one. There are a lot of good Americans who think, well, I'm, I'm Lutheran and I have the right to be a Lutheran, so I can't be against people who just want to be a Muslim because they naively believe it's just a personal faith like that. You only really pay attention to a day, a week, and when you pray and decide not to sin, blah, blah, blah. No, it is a religious, political, legal and economic system. But it was in Europe that this vision was tactically refined, she writes. After being banned or repressed in the Arab world, many Brotherhood ideologues took refuge in Western democracies. In Switzerland, Al Bana's son set up the Islamic center of Geneva in 1961 and later raised his two sons, both of whom became leading voices of Islamist thought in Europe. And in the decades since, the Brotherhood has methodically expanded its presence across the continent, all designed to promote its vision of political Islam under the coverage of religious outreach.
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Joe Getty
By the way, countries like Jordan and Egypt are so scared of these people. That's why they won't allow any Palestinians into their country.
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Jack Armstrong
Right? Oh, yeah, and that's. I'm so glad you pointed that out. In the Muslim world, they know exactly what these people are doing. They're like, well, I don't want to be. I don't want to discriminate against Muslims. No, those people are saying, no, I am a Muslim. I know what they're up to. The numbers in France alone are startling. The Muslim Brotherhood's French network comprises 280 associations, different ones, including 139 officially affiliated mosques, 68 more that are considered ideologically close, that want to institute the whole of society system together. Accounting for nearly 10% of the mosques open since 2010. Every Friday, some 91,000 people attend worship in these spaces. The movement also controls or influences 21 private schools, 815 Quranic schools where over 66,000 minors are taught to see themselves as part of the global community, global Muslim community, in moral and cultural opposition to Western secularism. And what exactly do they teach at these institutions? You could guess most of it. Hatred of Jews, hatred of Christianity, and any effort to contain Islam. You know, it's, it's, you know, it's obviously anything that stands in the way of imposing their system on the world. And, and we'll post this@armstrongandgetty.com but she concludes with. France has taken a first step by naming the problem President Emmanuel Macron was reportedly initially furious with.
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Joe Getty
With a dude for.
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Jack Armstrong
For a wife, right? What? No. Come on, Candace. Anyway, he was reportedly initially furious with the leak, has now, in response to public outcry, acknowledged the findings and ordered a national response. This is huge. You have not read a sentence of this in any of the mainstream media. After initially, like the Brits saying, shut up, don't talk about this, the public went nuts and McCrone was forced to respond and order a national response. Sweden has followed suit. You read that in the New York Times. Requesting the full report and launching its own investigation. Sweden demanded a copy of the report. Austria had previously produced assessments, but few have led to action. Belgium has accommodated Brotherhood linked networks under the banner of multiculturalism. And the US Here the conversation barely exists. While several American Muslim organizations have historical or ideological ties to the Brotherhood, public scrutiny is rare and political discourse tends to avoid the subject entirely. But the warning is clear. She writes, the threat is not just in France, it's in Europe and it's crossed the Atlantic. It's all around you.
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Joe Getty
That's really interesting. The book we were talking about. It's a novel, by the way. It's not some thick, non fiction, hard to read thing. It's a novel. It's about a college professor who's living In France, like 10 years from now, based on this timeline, when the Muslims take over by legal means through electoral process. And it's really interesting. There's a lot of sex scenes in it too, if that hooks you. Anyway, the book's called Submission by Michelle Welbeck, is how you pronounce it, but it's spelled with an H. But if you look up Submission and you'll find. You'll find it, but I'm telling you, it's really an interesting look at how easily this could happen.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. What's shocking about it is, well, it's exactly what Simone Rodin Benzequin was describing in the piece. It's quiet, slow infiltration of institutions and under the coverage of religious freedom, taking control of everything.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, And a lot of people who just want to be good, good, nice, welcoming people who allow it to happen. And then in this particular version in the novel, Marie Le Pen gets elected prime minister, but then there's into the blowback against the right wing, ultra conservative Nazi. So they allow the Muslim side to win, which you could easily picture happening.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. It's not just a personal faith. It is a political system that has a personal faith as part of it.
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Joe Getty
Islam, one of the world's great religions. I hear you. Any thoughts on any of that? Text line 415295, KFTC.
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Armstrong and Getty.
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Part of the key to doing this job is having your finger on the pulse of what people are interested in. And I think we. We understand that. The thing that was on your mind as you went to bed last night is what does one of the founding members of Pink Floyd think of Ozzy Osbourne? Well, here's the answer.
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Roger Waters (quoted)
Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his. Whatever that state that he was in his whole life, we'll never know. Although he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense. The music, I don't. I have no idea. I couldn't give a. I don't care about Black Sabbath. I never did. I have no interest in biting the heads of chickens or whatever they do. I couldn't care less.
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Joe Getty
And there you go.
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Jack Armstrong
Roger Waters is a nut and a prick, but that was pretty funny.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I might agree with him on that one. I'm not. Oh yeah, Aussie guy myself. Here's another story. Got this text. We're talking about crime in various areas, while San Francisco, the Bay area, the San Francisco, the city has cleaned up a ton in the last couple of years. I mean, just amazing. There are still dark spots. Anyway, this person texted that they were at getting a ticket to get on the Bart and they set down their bag while they were messing with the ticket machine and somebody walked up and peed in their bag.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, that bag tied the room together.
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Joe Getty
That's unpleasant.
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Jack Armstrong
Big Lebowski reference. Wow. Wow, that. Yeah, that's. See, that's. That's aberrant behavior.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, we should do better as a society. I want to talk a little bit about the giant Chinese parade they had yesterday. Maybe the biggest military parade in world history, depending on who yaks with their missiles and their bombs and their soldiers and whatnot, and their attempt to bring down the United States of America and all of Europe. That's fantastic. So that coming up.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Tomorrow, I just, I just happen to come across a. An, an analysis by a military analyst which, you know, analyst ought to do. They ought to analyze about the parade and what he saw and what he thought of it that I found quite compelling. We'll talk about that tomorrow.
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Joe Getty
Well, cool. It's something else in my head, and I don't remember what it was. How did it skip my head? Is Roger Waters, a singer or a.
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Jack Armstrong
Guitar player, is the bassist, singer and primary composer of most of Pink Floyd's Master.
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Joe Getty
If I've heard a Pink Floyd song, he was probably singing it. No, no, no. Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Not necessarily. I don't have time to properly answer that question. Both he and David Gilmore sang a lot. Gilmore is the guy who sings great. He is the handsome lead singer. Roger Waters, like a character actor, did really great singing, but not, not as. Not the same.
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Joe Getty
China wants to take over the world. That's not new news. We got a little info on that.
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For you, Strong and G. So we.
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Played you several different versions of network coverage of the big Chinese military parade that was impressive and scary Yesterday. This is ABC's version.
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News Reporter
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un together in public for the first time. The parade will commemorate the end of World War II. China's growing military might on display. With more than 25 world leaders attending satellite images showing military equipment already lining up our brick planet in Tiananmen Square.
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Jack Armstrong
We are expecting China to showcase its new weapons, including hypersonic missiles, drones, stealth fighters. And it's a chance for China to not only showcase its power on the world stage, but also to showcase its upgraded military.
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News Reporter
It comes two and a half weeks after President Trump welcomed Putin to Alaska. Rolling out the red carpet, shaking Putin's hand. A stark contrast as Putin, Xi and India's Prime Minister Modi. The stand shoulder to shoulder.
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Joe Getty
The F35 is the greatest plane in the world. We invented it, we built it. And China somehow stole all of the plans and built exactly the same thing, which is. Could definitely come back to bite us in the ass someday. That's unfortunate. And they have these hypersonic missiles that we do not have. At least we've never announced that we have them that can travel around the world undetected and deliver a nuclear payload anywhere. And they had those on display along with their 2 million man army that they were showing off. It's something.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. Well, and it's unmistakable, the message. And, and yeah, Xi Jinping. I'm sorry Putin was there. And. And fathead from North Korea, but 26 different leaders were there saying, you know what, I'm going with Team China. I think I'm gonna get a better deal here.
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Joe Getty
And Donald Trump truthed out yesterday. May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration. The big parade and everything. Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un as you conspire against the United States of America. President Donald J. Trump.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, wait a minute. That kind of, kind of took a turn at the end.
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Joe Getty
What an odd thing to message out as a president. I know you're conspiring over there, don't you think? I don't know. Is that what he's saying? I caught you. You think I don't know what you're up to?
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Jack Armstrong
I know, I know domestically, I so like a lot of what Trump's doing, but good God. You don't think Xi Jinping doesn't know, you know? Yeah, that's the. If Xi Jinping's subconscious could tweet, it would tweet. Yeah, that's why we're doing all of this on tv.
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Joe Getty
No, I think you're right.
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Jack Armstrong
So it's unmistakable.
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Joe Getty
I think you're wrong. I think he and Putin both said, crap, he's on to us.
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Jack Armstrong
Wow.
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Joe Getty
Anyway, completely different. We need transition music for this one. Michael. Here we go.
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Jack Armstrong
Everybody describe the difference between a beat and a groove.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's mad. There's the magic right there.
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Jack Armstrong
Listen to this for a minute. I'm telling you, that organ in the background underappreciated.
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Joe Getty
Harder than it looks too.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, oh. It can come and go. Like, love the groove. Are you kidding?
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Joe Getty
So I think this is somewhat self explanatory. A woman trying to sell her sneakers online and meets the guy. Anyway, here, here's how it turns out.
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Sneaker Seller
We had met up because I was going to sell him my sneakers. He just wanted to sniff my feet and I didn't feel comfortable with that. I mean, you could have my sneakers all you want. I mean, I don't care. I'm not wearing them. You know, they're just stinky old sneakers. But people like weird things. And I met him down in the parking garage. He did a three point turn and actually hit me with a car, ran me over. I've met a lot of people who have foot fetishes. Nobody has ever done anything to this caliber.
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Joe Getty
A lot of questions here.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, go ahead and start.
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Joe Getty
Oh, geez. Now maybe she has some of those because my son deals in the world of rare sneakers. And it's a thing. And people buy and sell them online and they're worth hundreds of dollars. And, and, but, but, I mean, why was she selling her shoes on used shoes?
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Jack Armstrong
Because she was offered money so the dude could smell her stinky old sneakers.
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Joe Getty
Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
And then he said, you know, it's crazy.
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Joe Getty
While I'm here, you mind if I just like, I go to the source?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, it's exactly. You know, my dear, it strikes me as we're conversing here in this parking garage that it seems odd to go to the second hand, if you will, the smell of your foot within your sneakers when your very feet are there at the end of your legs. So perhaps I could, well, I don't know, sniff on your feet here in this parking garage. And she said, sir, that is a bridge too far. I will sell you my stinky ass snakers, but you'll not be sniffing on my tootsies.
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Joe Getty
So he says, well, fine, then let's agree to disagree. And he walks over to his car, gets in, does a three point turn.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes.
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Joe Getty
Not a U turn, a three point turn. Apparently the space was not wide enough to allow a single turn. He does a three point turn, comes back and hits her. How hard much did he hit you? As you seem to be kind of recounting this story in a jovial manner as opposed to lying on the cement going.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, something tells me it was a glancing blow. But a guy was charged with aggravated battery, which is good after reviewing his background, and this is surprising, the cops.
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Joe Getty
Aggravated a battery is a full step worse than jovial battery.
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Jack Armstrong
He's been the subject of other incidents involving the same modus operandi.
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Joe Getty
So he buys you sneakers online, and then every time he meets the person, he says, so while I'm here, let's eliminate the middleman.
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Jack Armstrong
Right? An aggressive scent. What is the upcharge for the. The foot sniffing.
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Joe Getty
So your belief is that she knew exactly why he wanted the sneakers. She's one of those people that sells her clothing for people to smell, which I find weird and disgusting, but. But I wouldn't outlaw it between two consenting adults. If you want to enjoy my soiled garments and are willing to pay for me, that trade can happen.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, as usual in modern crappy, crappy journalism, some. Some of the most obvious questions that immediately popped to mind evidently didn't occur to this journalist. Like the. The lead says, she said, blah, blah, blah, told local news she met up with this guy in order to sell him a pair of used sneakers. Okay, let's start right There, she's a petite female, 28 year old. Dude is not going to be wearing her sneakers. Did at any point she ask, why do you want to sell my. Buy my sneakers? How did he come to know she had sneakers to sell?
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Joe Getty
Right. Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
Did she realize there was a quasi sexual dynamic going on here? And merely. Well, if you judged merely by what she said, she just didn't want him sniffing on her feet, but knew why he was buying the stinky old sneakers. People like weird things. She said.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, okay, it makes sense now because the part at the end where she said, I, I've met a lot of people who like to smell feet. And I thought, okay, I've not met any. So how come you've met lot? But that makes sense. Now you're saying that that's what she's up to.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, in that world.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Okay, so she. And maybe this is profitable. Maybe I should look into it. Maybe she goes to famous footwear, buys discount shoes, wears them for a week, puts them on ebay, and sells them.
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Jack Armstrong
For 100 bucks to pervs. Yeah.
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Joe Getty
It's entirely possible you've declared it a perversion.
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Jack Armstrong
You know what, I apologize for that. And I retract it to. To enthusiasts. Anyway, here's. Here's another head scratcher for you. It's right in the middle of the article. The untrained eye wouldn't even have noticed this Jack.
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Joe Getty
Right.
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Jack Armstrong
So. But then she said things got scary. She said this guy whose name is El Monse, circle of southwest Miami Dade.
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Joe Getty
Florida, man ran out of the room.
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Jack Armstrong
Wait a minute, what room? Room. Oh, she met up with him at a hotel. Good idea to sell him used snake.
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Joe Getty
That's a really good idea. Knowing. Knowing we think that what it's. What's it all about? So you're selling your sneakers to people that want to smell your dirty sneakers and you're meeting them privately. That's a terrible idea. Mail them to.
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Jack Armstrong
Then she said things got scary. She said Circle of South ran out of the room with what she thought were her shoes.
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Joe Getty
Okay, now that is very confusing.
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Jack Armstrong
Everybody, including you folks, are all making the same wait, what face? What she thought were her shoes. Did this guy have like 10, 12 pairs of women's shoes on him? Anyway, she said she ran after him to the parking area. She's like, you gotta pay me for my shoes that you sniff while you pleasure yourself, otherwise it's theft. And she's quite correct. And she confronted dude, like was yelling at him and chasing after him. That's when he got into the his SUV did a rapid three point turn and actually hit her with his car as she was like confronting him and yelling at him, which is obviously uncool. But again, again, you can be like America's leading seller of shoes, undergarments, whatever the hell you want if somebody's willing to buy em. I'm a capitalist. You, you go, girl. But I think I, the news consumer, do deserve an explanation.
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Joe Getty
Okay, I need to look this up. Perversion generally means a deviation from what's considered normal, natural or acceptable. Acceptable is the eye of the beholder. But certainly normal and natural, it would count as a perversion.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't know, I might have to quibble with you there. One of the more striking things I ever read as a young man was pointing out the difference between average and normal.
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Joe Getty
How about natural?
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Jack Armstrong
It's not natural, it's a value judgment. It's not very entirely a value judgment.
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Joe Getty
Well, if one out of a million people are into it, is that natural? I suppose it is natural, yeah. It's a natural aberration.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. If that's fairly consistent across time. The 10% of people are especially attracted to smells.
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Joe Getty
I'm perfectly okay calling this guy a pervert.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, he's a shoe thief. Well, maybe again, he ran out with what she believed were her shoes.
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Joe Getty
He just ran out of here with somebody's shoes.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. I believe they're gonna be mine.
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Joe Getty
That is not. And the reporter's thinking, how did I end up on this beat? All right, what are the details? Writing it down.
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Jack Armstrong
How much college debt do I have from Columbia Journalism school? I was going to change this fascist evil country and teach people about the patriarchy and white supremacy. Here I am reporting on Purvo Jim here and Sally Stinky Shoe and her scam. Although again, you know, if they're buying, sell. That's what I say. Nobody's harmed.
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Joe Getty
No, nobody harmed until you get run.
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Jack Armstrong
Over by an suv.
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Joe Getty
Okay, we will finish strong next.
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Armstrong and get.
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How you doing? NFL season kicks off tomorrow. Eagles are playing Dallas somebody. They're playing somebody Thursday night and then Chiefs, Chargers in Brazil on Friday. And I happen to know, and I'll be vague about this because they didn't tell me with the idea that I would spread this information. I happen to know that for at least one of the teams, all the people there involved are. We're told they're not allowed to leave the hotel. So everybody flew there, landed, went to the hotel and are told they're not allowed to leave. And I just think that's Kind of interesting that, because I know. I know Chiefs fans who were thinking about. I actually know some people are going, going, you know, it'd be cool. We'll go to Brazil, we'll see Rio, we'll go to the game. It'll be fun. But the teams apparently think it's so dangerous, they don't want you to even leave the hotel at all while they'll be there for three days.
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Jack Armstrong
Dangerous in what way? Says the skeptical man. I mean, because there's the standard sort of crime danger. There's also the danger of doing stuff you're not supposed to. You got a bunch of young men with young men's desires and libidos and plenty of spending cash loose in Rio. I think the danger is not getting, you know. Yeah, this mugged as much as other.
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Joe Getty
Stuff that could be, too, but true. But the people involved I was talking about are not players, so they're not allowed to go out of the hotel either. And my brother, who took his daughters to Rio for the Taylor Swift concert, my nieces last year or year before said it is sketchy AF there. Kind of like when we went to Cape Town, he said, like, right down in the middle of the city is pretty nice, but, like, as soon as you get, like, a block away from the most popular things, it's just, like, super scary. And I don't doubt that.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, that was funny. I was on a punt in England. It's like a gondola, but fatter. In Cambridge, it's a thing. You take a punt and the, like, gondolier, dude, you go down the river, you look at all these beautiful colleges in Cambridge, and there are chapels and everything. And then you come back and. Anyway, some of the other folks on our boat were South Africans, and somebody, the other person on the boat was asking them about it. Actually, it was the guy, the punter, literally the guy pushing the boat, and they're like, oh, it's like any place, any city, you know, you just have to be kind of careful. And I'm sitting there thinking, no, it ain't right. It's dangerous. Be careful.
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Joe Getty
It's final Thoughts with energy. Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day, beginning with our beloved board operator, technical director, Michelangelo Michael. What's your final thought?
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Michelangelo Michael
Yeah, we're missing an opportunity here, guys. None of us like doing the wash or laundry instead of just take our dirty laundry and start selling it, you know, like socks are cheap. Once I've used them, I can sell them as celebrity socks. What do you think a dirty laundry.
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Joe Getty
People really pay for? I don't know.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I don't. Katie Green is off, but she will be back soon. Jack, do you have a final thought for us?
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Joe Getty
I just had an emotion I'm not proud of. Envy's one of your seven deadly sins. I don't like this sort of thing, but I just saw a video of a very happy gentleman launching his one million dollar yacht he had just purchased for the first time. And they rolled it down into the water and it backed out and it sank immediately. And I enjoyed that. And that's some sort of bad envy, like hating the rich thing that I shouldn't be proud of. But I thought it was awesome.
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Jack Armstrong
Why?
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Joe Getty
I don't know why I thought that was awesome.
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Jack Armstrong
So famous, stupid. Particularly like TV fame. You remember Jack from Will and Grace?
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Flamboyantly gay fella played by one Sha Hayes. Judy and I saw Sha Hayes in a play in London and it was one of the most stunning acting performances I've ever seen.
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Joe Getty
Really?
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Jack Armstrong
It was monumental. He won the Tony Award for it.
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Joe Getty
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, it was amazing. But you bring up his name, people are like, oh, I remember that guy. Funny, kind of gay guy, right? Yeah. And. And you assume that's all he can do. No, far from it.
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Joe Getty
See you tomorrow. God bless America.
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Jack Armstrong
There were so many great moments on.
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Joe Getty
Today'S Armstrong and Getty show, but none.
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Jack Armstrong
As great as this. Still fake news. Overall, we all know that it was his administration throwing a bag full of the Epstein files out of the window at the orders of the Pope and the Jews.
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Joe Getty
Right?
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Jack Armstrong
Who's with me?
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Joe Getty
The Pope and the Jews working together. That's right.
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Jack Armstrong
Everybody knows that. Anyway, Armstrong and Getty. This is an I heart podcast.