We're Really Impressed With Your Profile

Summary

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: "We're Really Impressed With Your Profile"
Date: August 21, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode weaves through a classic Armstrong & Getty blend: sharp takes on the news, spirited debates about culture and policy, reflections on mental health, a warning about sophisticated job scams, and a foray into bizarre real-life encounters. Central themes include skepticism toward mandatory mental health screenings for children, the mediation process in international conflict, and the increasing cunning of online scams.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Cat Food Burger & Michelin Star Chefs (03:47–04:38)

• The hosts riff on the latest food stunt: a "Catkin Clock Burger" supposedly made with cat food.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Joe Getty jokes, "I've never eaten cat food before... it's tasty." (03:51)
  • Michael retorts, "I don't like stunt food. It's stupid." (04:08)
  • Joe: "I don't doubt that a Michelin starred chef could take cat food and put enough stuff in it to make it taste delicious." (04:12)

2. Ukraine, Russia & Mediation Lessons (04:53–09:38)

• Joe and Michael dig into mediation, using a listener text from a veteran mediator to dissect international negotiations, particularly Russia-Ukraine.
• Key Insights:
  • The neutrality of the mediator is paramount. Perceived bias destroys the process. (05:34)
  • Both sides often claim to “want to keep fighting” as a strategy to retain leverage, not because it is true. (06:54)
  • Comparisons are made to divorce mediation: unlike war, prolonging a divorce brings no advantage. (07:37)
• Notable Quote:
  • Joe: "Putin does get some advantage out of just dragging it out while that dance goes on." (07:47)

3. Mental Health Screenings for Children: Sense or Harm? (10:00–15:35; 19:55–23:55; 28:46–29:26)

• Sparked by Abigail Shrier’s book Bad Therapy, the conversation questions the effectiveness of mandated mental health screener questionnaires in schools.

• Both hosts are deeply skeptical of forced private screenings, suggesting they risk gross misdiagnosis, overreach by state, and unintended psychological harm.

• Cited research: Stephen J. Morse notes a 97% false-positive rate in suicide screeners. (12:21)

• Quote: Michael: "There is no proof that mental health screeners have ever been shown to improve mental health outcomes." (11:09)

• Liberal and conservative perspectives are represented, with respect shown for opposing professionals.

• A thoughtful parent/mental-health-professional listener email adds nuance, explaining why kids are questioned privately (protecting honesty in at-risk scenarios). Still, the hosts are wary about building protocols around the rare cases of abuse. (12:45–15:08)

• Quote: Joe: "I just think it's a weird way to craft society with the assumption going forward you're all horrible, lying people... until we find out otherwise." (14:13)

• Discussion broadens to the philosophical: does the state's role in raising children—as seen in Marxism—creep in through such policies? They question "trauma" as a diagnosis, warning against the expansion of state power into parental roles. (20:49–23:55)

  • Quote: Michael: "...it is 100% the God of the state should raise your children, not you. Which is progressivism from the early 20th century. It's Marxism..." (23:35)

• Abigail Shrier’s Conclusion:

  • Joe reads: "The vast majority... are not mentally ill, but they are lonely, worried, scared, and bummed out. Schools ought to supply them with reliable bolsters to the human spirit...higher expectations, greater independence, and responsibility, far, far less screen time..." (28:46)
  • Michael and Joe recall how challenging adventures, like hiking with Scouts or grueling family trips, build real confidence—contrasting with what they see as modern overprotection. (29:26)

4. Text Scams & Job Fraud: ‘We’re Really Impressed With Your Profile’ (31:06–36:03)

• Michael shares a detailed account of a sophisticated text-based job scam referencing the episode's title.
• The message appeared legitimate, referencing a real company ('aQuint'), and promised high pay for remote work, but was exposed as a data-harvesting and identity theft ploy.
• Quote: Michael: "It looks really good. It's just a really, really good spoof." (32:52)
• The hosts lament that increasingly clever scams prey on the desperate or vulnerable, especially job seekers. Michael mentions concern for his daughter, who is autistic and searching for a job, making her a likely target.
• They fantasize about vigilante justice against scammers. (35:05)

5. Scam Awareness & Phishing Warnings (36:08–36:36)

• Joe discusses the surge in fraudulent messages purportedly from services like PayPal, Apple, or eBay. The intent is to get recipients to click links and compromise their info.

6. Crazy Old Lady Theater: Condo Model Shoot Meltdown (36:36–39:03)

• Michael sets up a viral video where an irate Florida neighbor accuses a team of models and photographers of “pimping” and trespassing at her condo complex.
• Memorable Quotes:
  • Angry Neighbor: “Maybe in Missouri you may carry on as you do, but not in Florida. Pimp!” (38:01)
  • After the interaction, the model team responds with Midwestern politeness: “I hope it gets better. And God bless from Missouri...” (38:37)
• The hosts debrief the encounter, reflecting on the oddity and spectacle of the fashion industry.

7. High-End Shopping and Lifestyle Reflections (40:02–42:43)

• Joe and Michael discuss the world of luxury shopping, with humorous and practical takes on the absurdity of $500 shirts and the deeper value of wealth and charity.
• They consider launching in-store donation initiatives (“Buy this, or donate the difference to charity”).

8. Satirical & Entertainment Notes (46:25–47:43)

• Lighthearted segment about Mark Hamill quipping he’d leave the country if Trump were re-elected but couldn’t get his shift at Arby’s covered.
• Dismissive critique of a New York Times article about "the cooled and the cooked," lambasting claims about climate change, labor, and income inequality.

9. Final Thoughts Segment (48:41–50:49)

• Quick team reflections on streaming service costs, “Shreking” (not explained in transcript), and climate anxieties.
• Michael jokes about forming a squad to hunt scam artists, while Joe injects humor about common cultural references and climate fears.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "I've never eaten cat food before... It's delicious. It's tasty." – Joe Getty (03:51)
• "The neutrality of the mediator is paramount. This might speak to the way Trump is handling things..." – Joe Getty (05:34)
• "There is no proof that mental health screeners have ever been shown to improve mental health outcomes." – Michael (11:09)
• "If you do the statistical calculation, you discover the false positive rate is about 97% in screening for suicidal intentions." – Michael quotes Stephen J. Morse (12:21)
• "But the having every parent leave the room when you ask my kid questions, I just, I couldn't be more against that." – Joe Getty (15:08)
• "It is the God of the state should raise your children, not you. Which is progressivism from the early 20th century. It's Marxism." – Michael (23:35)
• "We're really impressed with your profile." – Michael, reading scam text (31:06)
• "It looks really good. It's just a really, really good spoof." – Michael (32:52)
• "Maybe in Missouri you may carry on as you do, but not in Florida. Pimp!" – Angry Neighbor (38:01)
• "Just because you can buy a $500 shirt doesn't mean you should buy a $500 shirt." – Michael (41:08)
• "People have been working out in the heat since the dawn of time, you realize." – Joe Getty (50:07)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Cat Burger Segment: 03:47–04:38
• Russia/Ukraine Mediation Logic: 04:53–09:38
• Mandatory Mental Health Screenings: 10:00–15:35; 19:55–23:55; 28:46–29:26
• Job Scam Story: 31:06–36:03
• Scam Awareness: 36:08–36:36
• Crazy Old Lady Theater: 36:36–39:03
• Luxury Shopping & Giving: 40:02–42:43
• Climate Change Satire: 46:41–47:43
• Final Thoughts: 48:41–50:49

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode is classic Armstrong & Getty: humorous, skeptical, and intellectually restless. The hosts challenge bureaucracy and received wisdom (especially in mental health and education), warn listeners about clever scams, and foster a no-nonsense but compassionate outlook on issues from war to daily life. Their style is conversational and sharp, with a willingness to poke fun at themselves, their guests, and the culture at large.

Whether discussing government overreach, personal resilience, or online fraud, Armstrong & Getty urge listeners to stay skeptical, seek real human connection, and beware the creeping “help” of both state and scammer.

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Transcript

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And now here's Armstrong and Yeti. This is the Catkin Clock Burger.

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Dare to try.

[Joe Getty]

I've never eaten cat food before.

[Michael]

I think he likes it.

[Joe Getty]

It's delicious. It's tasty.

[Michael]

It's good.

[Christina Quinn]

I wouldn't expect this to be cat food.

[Joe Getty]

It's a little mushy, but flavor wise actually not too bad.

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[Michael]

It's not too bad.

[Christina Quinn]

It doesn't taste like cat food.

[Joe Getty]

It tastes like a burger.

[Michael]

I don't like stunt food. I stupid.

[Joe Getty]

I don't doubt that a Michelin starred chef could take cat food and put enough stuff in it to make it taste delicious. I don't doubt that a bit.

[Michael]

And. Or use the usual components of cat food, which would be fish and chicken and craft a burger and then call it cat food burger to get attention. I don't doubt that could happen either.

[Joe Getty]

You've made Joe angry, Michael, with your stupid, stupid clip.

[Michael]

All right, I. I don't appreciate having my intelligence insulted, Michael, on my very own radio show slash podcast. Thank you for listening.

[Joe Getty]

So we got this text I thought was kind of interesting. This is around the whole Russia, Ukraine thing, which again, won't belabor this point, but I think the missing element of this whole story is Putin has no interest in stopping. So I don't know what we're doing. I don't know what was doing. I think it's all kind of going to slam to a close here like today because he has no interest in.

[Michael]

Quitting one of the parties. Preferring war will hurt the peace process.

[Joe Getty]

How about the party that's winning? Currently, yes. We got this text during my 40 year legal career. I acted as a court appointed mediator dozens of times.

[Michael]

Those cases, fascinating field. Write us anytime you want. I'll bet you have amazing insights into humanity.

[Joe Getty]

Those cases were obviously less complicated than mediating the end of wars, but they do have some parallels. First in importance is the neutrality of the mediator. This might speak to the way Trump is handling things. Nobody has confidence in mediation process. If one party perceives a mediator to be biased in favor of the other party, that never in all caps works unless one side is ready for a complete surrender.

[Michael]

Hello. Half of couples counseling, 2/3, 3/4. I don't know.

[Joe Getty]

But maybe that's the whole Trump thing. He's done a lot of deals. Maybe he realizes if Putin has to believe that, like I'm just as interested in him getting a good deal as Zelinsky getting a good deal, or this will never even. We won't even get started.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

If not that. Believing in the. The mediator being unbiased, the parties go through this dance that the mediator can only stand by till they get it out of their systems. Almost universally, both sides say they are happy to go to trial, IG go on fighting the war in order to intimidate the other side to give up its concept of total victory. That's pretty interesting. So both sides at least say out loud, fine with me if we keep fighting. Because the second you don't, obviously you've lost all leverage.

[Michael]

Right. You're the person who wants the deal more.

[Joe Getty]

So I think in this case, Putin actually does want to keep fighting, but he would claim that even if he wasn't.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

The mediator knows this is usually BS that they want to keep fighting. Otherwise there would be no agreement to mediate in the first place. How about that? Why would Putin get together for these meetings at all if he didn't have some interest in peace? The difference between the war situation and these examples this court guy has is in a divorce, there's no reason for you to just drag it out longer. You're not getting anything out of that.

[Michael]

Whereas I was gonna say, unless you were draining 1% of their net worth per day and you just wanted to delay for delay's sake. No, that's where the metaphor breaks down.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, Putin does get some advantage out of just dragging it out while that dance goes on, the best thing a mediator can do is remain patient. Behind closed doors, the mediator meets with each side separately, trying to be candid with them as to the strengths and weaknesses of their case. As a neutral Mediator sees it. Those discussions have to be. This is interesting, too. Those discussions have to be confidential, or else one dude would seize on the confidential discussions as a sign that the other is weakening, which not surprisingly, emboldens the other side when they think they've got the upper hand and then adopt a more firm stance. And that gets to the whole Henry Kissinger thing about when you've got carping coming in from both sides all the time. You can't have a mediation because. Well, for obvious reasons, I think he always uses the example of a romantic couple. Imagine a romantic couple trying to get together when you had about a bunch of outside voices, you know, claiming things that aren't true or shouting questions or whatever it would. You never get anywhere.

[Michael]

Right. Does it bother you that he wants. Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Have you heard the rumor that she has slept with, you know, 10 guys in the last week? No, I haven't heard that. I'm not commenting on it. No.

[Michael]

And it can't possibly be true. I've been with her. But still, that over and over again.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah. That's interesting.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

So the.

[Michael]

The.

[Joe Getty]

One of the narratives on the Sunday shows was. Or I guess it was the week. Was it? God, this has all happened so fast. Was it just last Friday, Just this past Friday, a week from tomorrow, when the whole meeting in Alaska thing happened? Okay. Anyway, after that, it was with. Walked away with no concrete agreement. Well, you don't know what happened. You don't have the slightest idea what happened. What are we even talking about?

[Michael]

Well, right. That was. That was silly from the beginning. I mean, even Trump made clear, no, we're just going to see if there's the basis for an agreement. Anyway. There's not. It's marriage counseling in which one of the partners is saying, you know, I despise this person and want nothing more than to be divorced from them. So that's Putin, no matter what he may have claimed. Anyway, speaking of counseling and that sort of thing, we were talking yesterday, I.

[Joe Getty]

Think it was in this hour, hour.

[Michael]

Four of the show, about Abigail Shrier.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, that's. But that makes more sense with, like, marriage counseling than the mediator of a divorce. That's the having the marriage counseling when one person has already made up their mind. That's what might be going on with this war situation. One side has already made up with their mind. They're gonna keep fighting.

[Michael]

So, again, speaking of mental health, we were talking about Abigail Shrier in her book Bad Therapy and the fact that her kid got a mandatory. You've got to Leave the room. Multiple questions about do you wish you were dead? Have felt your family would be better off if you were dead? In the past week, have you had thoughts about killing yourself? Have you ever tried to kill yourself? Are you thinking of killing yourself right now? And she was talking about the incredible suggestibility of kids and how the JB Pritzker, Illinois idea of mandatory grilling of kids like this starting in the third grade is just a terrible, terrible idea for a lot of different reasons.

[Joe Getty]

We got a tremendous pushback from a health mental health professional that I didn't agree with. Okay, sounds like a nice person, fan of the show that maybe you have that handy. I do have that handy. Maybe we'll get to that later.

[Michael]

Yeah, I would love to, if you can dig that out. Because again, I'm not trying to pitch a particular point of view. I'm trying to get at the truth, as usual. But this. She points out that there is no proof that mental health screeners have ever been shown to improve mental health outcomes.

[Joe Getty]

I believe.

[Michael]

I wonder if our friend disagrees with that. Unlike the alleged benefits of mental health screeners, there is solid evidence on the harms produced by receiving a mental diagnosis. Harms that are pure tragedy in the case of misdiagnosis, she writes, screeners or. Nor are screeners capable of identifying who the next school shooter will be. They are poor at identifying kids which kids likely have depression since they are not sensitive enough to distinguish it from normal periods of sadness. They do not even real reliably indicate which kids are at risk of suicide. And she quotes Stephen J. Morse, professor of law and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, who says he's looking at the statistics for these screenings and all. He says if you do the statistical calculation, you discover that the false positive rate is about 97% in screening for suicidal intentions.

[Joe Getty]

That doesn't surprise me a bit.

[Michael]

I 97% of the. Yes, this person is thinking about it. Positives are false. The kid is just a kid.

[Joe Getty]

I know what the argument is from the other side because I've known enough mental health professionals and I think you all look at it wrong in my opinion. Do you want to hear this or. Yeah, okay, here you go. Sure.

[Michael]

And then I'll get to the main point and the reason I bring this up. But yeah, I definitely want to.

[Joe Getty]

This will make my point. This is a common suicide scale. They're explaining what the governor of Illinois is wanting to do and everything like that. The person has to be alone for this rating. So I was complaining about. I hate the Idea of you can't be in the room, we're gonna ask your kids some questions. I hated the fact that they asked me to leave the room when my wife's gonna have a baby or just had a baby to talk. I hate all that sort of stuff. I think it's awful, awful, awful. Anyway, I'll explain what my theory is on that after we read this. The person, the kid, has to be alone for this rating. Imagine a kid is possibly suicidal. How do you think they would respond with the parent in the room? This is an important scale, and it's crucial that answers aren't compromised by the presence of others. It's not a big deal like you're making it out to be. Typically, when a respondent says no to the first two questions, the scale ends. You know, do they say no or not? How often do they say yes? And how often when they say yes is it turn? Anyway, we just discussed that if they don't have thoughts of suicide, nothing more needs to be recorded. I understand you not wanting to be kept in the dark as a parent, but you have to understand how common it is to lose young people to suicide because their parents are unaware of or don't react well. These are not usually things a kid wants you to know about. This is one very clear area where you want to trust a doctor. I work in research at a UC campus and federal facility for mental health. I, I am bothered by the crafting of a society around the tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of people who beat their kids, raped their wives into pregnancy, all that different sort of stuff. I just, I just think it's a weird way to craft society with the assumption going forward, you're all horrible, lying people that are oppressing your wives and children, and we're going to treat you as such until otherwise we find out otherwise. I just think that's wrong.

[Michael]

Yeah, that might overstate the case a little bit, but because there, there are times when a kid will confide in a teacher or coach or doctor or something, something they'd be uncomfortable talking about in front of their parents. That exists.

[Joe Getty]

Of course it does.

[Michael]

Of course it does.

[Joe Getty]

I wouldn't, I wouldn't ban a kid from wanting to talk to somebody, go on their own, to a teacher and say, neil, my home life's horrible. Something like that. But the having every parent leave the room when you ask my kid questions, I just, I couldn't be more against that.

[Michael]

Right, yeah, I hear that. And I just for the record, I want to say our correspondent sounds like a very good person with great intentions concerned about kids killing themselves, which is one of the saddest things that exists in in human no doubt existence. And I credit you dedicating your life to that 100%. We don't have time to get to the main point I had in bringing this up, but it relates directly to what we were just talking about. We'll have that on the other side of the break.

[Joe Getty]

Cool. That's good stuff. Stay here.

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[Michael]

That's despicable.

[Joe Getty]

It is despicable.

[Michael]

Wow. I got one of the better scams I've ever seen sent to me via text just A few minutes ago. Talk about that if we can. So if you're just tuning in, where you been? Catch up via podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. You ought to subscribe. We were talking about Elizabeth or I'm sorry, what's her. What's her name? Ms. Schreier.

[Joe Getty]

Abigail Shrier.

[Michael]

That's right. And mandatory mental health screening for kids and false positives and suggestibility kids and that sort of thing. And the final note I want to throw in and, and one of the reasons I brought this up is a little spot quiz. What was old Uncle Joe's first introduction to Neo Marxism? It was in college when I had a professor mention semi casually that the nuclear family was a organ of oppression.

[Joe Getty]

That's an insane thing to say.

[Michael]

And sitting there as a college freshman, I thought you are out of your mind and or have ideas that are really sick. Well, and as it turns out, I was right. One of the tenets of traditional Marxism and neo Marxism as well is that the state ought to be raising the children because conforming to the state orthodoxy and the party line, as it's called, is absolutely critical to Marxist systems. And so the state seeks to supplant the family. And now getting back to our discussion of Animal Farm and the sheep who are taught to bleat two legs, four legs good, two legs bad and then were later bleeding a completely different version of it. They just say what they're told to say. There are a lot of very good, well meaning people who tend to be of the do gooder variety who fall for the faux moral, faux civil rights, whatever arguments of say anti racism or whatever and they think they're doing good and they have no idea they are serving hardcore radical neo Marxists. And I'm not sure, it's hard to tell who's who sometimes because they all use the language of morality. But anyway, that's all lead up to what Ms. Schreier writes next. Illinois State Senator Laura fine, chair of J.B. pritzker's Mental Health committee, which is getting this mandatory mental health screening for little kids going, indicated last week that the state may harbor broader ambitions. Quote, the screenings will be designed to catch the early signs of anxiety, depression or trauma. And Schreier writes, a slip of the mask, if not the tongue. Trauma is not a recognized mental health diagnosis as I encountered during my investigation in the hands of school counselors. Trauma can, can and does mean any hurt suffered in childhood. Have your parents ever spanked you? Yelled at you, forced you to attend church? Do they offer enthusiastic affirmation of your chosen gender identity. Or are they skeptical? All of these are routinely identified as sources of childhood trauma. And because teachers and school mental health staff are all mandatory reporters, anything they learn about a family's private life that carries even a whiff of trauma may occasion a child called a child services. Or at the very least the state, the school, the government stepping in and saying, well, there has been trauma here. Therefore. Therefore we are taking a 25 to 100% role in raising your child for you.

[Joe Getty]

Right?

[Michael]

And the people I've quoted and the people in schools who are doing this, they may not understand what God they are serving, but it is 100% the God of the state should raise your children, not you. Which is progressivism from the early 20th century. It's Marxism. It's, you know, it's one of the tenets of the hardcore left.

[Joe Getty]

I'm a mandated reporter for the state of California now, and when I was doing all that training stuff, I thought it'd be so easy to abuse this. Thank God it's in the hands of mostly, you know, normal people, I hope. But it'd be really easy to abuse.

[Michael]

I'm a mandated traffic reporter. There's a slowdown on i5 southbound. Anyway. Yeah, required by law. So, so much more to come this hour. I have no idea.

[Joe Getty]

You got scammed. You say you almost got scammed.

[Michael]

Oh, yeah, it was. It's really good.

[Joe Getty]

Skillful, hot Nigerian princess. Was it that sort of thing?

[Michael]

How'd you know?

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[Joe Getty]

The weight loss drug to use all her weight she gained from being a mom. She's kind of interesting. She's making the rounds talking about that. I don't know if she's pitching that drug or not. Anyway, talk more about that later.

[Michael]

Okay, a handful of random scraps of infotainment here. First of all, the final, final, final thought from Abigail Shrier. I love her concluding paragraph about screening for mental illness and kids and blah blah, blah. The vast majority of our kids and teens are not mentally ill, but they are lonely, worried, scared and bummed out. Schools ought to supply them with reliable bolsters to the human spirit, high expectations, greater independence and responsibility, far, far less screen time, more recess, exercise, art, music, involvement in goal oriented activities that lure them out of their own minds and force them to think about something, anything other than themselves.

[Joe Getty]

Wow. I was talking to my son's scout leader Tuesday night and some of the older kids had just gotten back from a really difficult hike that they do once they get to be like 16 or something like that that included a burrow, having a donkey carry a bunch of your gear as you hike up into the mountains for nine days or something like that. And you take everything with you and everything out.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Anyway, he was talking about how much difficulty they had with the burrow and then trying to figure out how to do it and it ended up being more work than it was worth and blah blah blah. But they figured it out on their own, which is the way Scouts works. And he said they all walked taller when they got at the end of that thing. He said you could see in their, in their physical manner the way they were stronger, more confident people after that.

[Michael]

I guarantee that that's the opposite of.

[Joe Getty]

What they do in, well, schools and a lot of other things. The opposite government, government shield you from any difficulty Decision making, worry, stress shield you from all of that and you walk around smaller and scared as opposed to taller and confident.

[Michael]

Yeah. Yeah. That's so revealing. I'm reminded of maybe my most cherished memory with my youngest kid was our incredibly grueling star crossed kayaking trip in which we both ended up so exhausted we could barely move our arms. And it was harrowing. And we talk about it and just, it makes my heart, you know, swell with love just thinking about going through that experience together.

[Joe Getty]

That's.

[Michael]

That's. Man, we need to contemplate that as people. Anyway, got this text. Hi, my name is Megan Collins from a Quint Capital A is the name of the company. We're really impressed with your profile. Well, thank you. Thank you. And would like to provide you with the chance to take on a flexible, remote role in this position. You would assist merchants by updating their data, improving their visibility, and managing bookings effectively. You can work from anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes a day, earn anywhere from 200 to $500 each day, with a guaranteed $800 base every four days. There is a five. There is a paid five day trial period and monthly earnings could exceed $5,000 with bonuses included. Comprehensive training and a full benefits package are included. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age. Don't miss out on limited availability availability. Text yes to this number to find out more. And I thought, okay, obvious scam, right? Well, I. I go online and I find out this company.

[Joe Getty]

We're really impressed with your profile.

[Michael]

Well, sure. I mean, thank you. In the nose.

[Joe Getty]

I put a lot of effort into that. So I appreciate you commenting on it because.

[Michael]

And then I go online and a Quint is a company that does a lot of the sort of things they describe in the text. And it is absolutely reasonable that that company would be hiring people to do something like that.

[Joe Getty]

So you think if you texted them back, you would be getting hooked up with a legitimate company that actually hires people?

[Michael]

Absolutely not. No, not a chance in hell.

[Joe Getty]

Okay.

[Michael]

But it looks really good.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

[Michael]

It's just a really, really good spoof. And when you go to a Quint's website or they're listening, they're like Google results right under their main website is beware of job scams.

[Joe Getty]

So what, what's the scam here?

[Michael]

Though Quent is aware that scammers are using our company name to trick people into applying jobs that don't exist. Blah, blah, blah. Oh. These job scams also try to get job seekers to provide sensitive personal Information, financial information or payment to the scammer.

[Joe Getty]

So some of it is just data harvesting. They just hope to get addresses, names, maybe Social Security numbers.

[Michael]

Yeah, that's not, that's, that's more than data harvesting. I think that's like identity theft. It's like they're not, they're not harvesting reams of data so they can target ads my way. They want to empty my bank accounts. But anyway, it's just, it's, it's well disguised. And, and you know, a guy like me, I'm not going to fall for this because I check everything, but I could see where people, particularly naive, desperate, et cetera, just get roped in by this stuff because it's getting more and more sophisticated.

[Joe Getty]

As far as I know, you're not applying for jobs right now in your life either, so. But they're hoping to.

[Michael]

Yeah, but I'm open to possibilities. Mailbagarmstrucking getty.com Attention Joe.

[Joe Getty]

But they're hoping they land upon somebody who's like applying for jobs right now. Think, oh good, here's one that landed.

[Michael]

And has a profile online. I always think of my sweet, wonderful oldest kid, Kate, who is A, autistic and B, just got laid off from her job, economic slowdown in her company sector, blah, blah, it's terrible. And she's. If you need an employee in the Seattle Tacoma area who shows up every single day and works hard and will never steal from you, reach out. But yeah, a person like her would be the perfect victim of this sort of thing because she, you know, does not have the skepticism gene. We've worked on it a lot, but yeah, it's just so insidious.

[Joe Getty]

Well, plus, if you're, if you're applying for jobs, like if you're looking for a job, you've got so many feelers out there you wouldn't even remember which company you applied for or whatever necessarily.

[Michael]

Well, right, yeah. And your number, your phone number is definitely part of here. Yeah. So, yeah. And again, they're getting more and more sophisticated because a lot of people don't understand that you can have a link in, whether it's a text or an email or even a website that says, for instance, quint jobs dot com. Well, the actual website is a long jumble of letters and numbers that takes you straight to Nigeria. You can make it look like that in text. Now you web savvy people, you're like, duh, ABC. 1, 2, 3. But a lot of people don't understand that. So yeah, it's just. And I have this fantasy of. And I think I could recruit very, very successfully. Forming some sort of vigilante star chamber. You victimized the unfortunate. Already unfortunate, the elderly, the naive. We're coming for you. Yeah, like group. I would love to do that. That's my next chapter.

[Joe Getty]

That would be fun. That would be fun.

[Michael]

F. With them. Good and hard.

[Joe Getty]

I get a lot of. And I don't. I've been trying to figure out how to get rid of this. I've been changing passwords and all that sort of st. But I get a lot of. From PayPal, Apple. These aren't real, but it looks like it's from PayPal. Looks like it's from Apple. Looks like it's from ebay. Where it's good news. Your order is on the way. Your laptop will be there Thursday. Hoping you say, wait a second, I didn't order a laptop. And you click on it and then you're who knows where.

[Michael]

Right. Or what's the. What's the. You know, one of your cash services. Just final check that you authorized a $500 payment to Joe Jones. Yeah. Anyway, very sophisticated. So final stray note for this segment. Let's call it Crazy Old Lady Theater. Michael, you need to help us set up 12 and 13. So there was some sort of model shoot being done at an apartment complex. Yeah, it's just two regular photographers. And the model shoot is not nothing sexy. It's just strictly for clothing. You know, nothing weird or anything like that. Right. It's more like for a department store or something like that. Just here's a real person in an apartment building wearing, you know, today's business fashions. Correct. But. But, Jack, there's a twist. There was a crazy old lady present, and we give you crazy old lady theater. Yeah. She wasn't happy about this.

[Joe Getty]

So here we go.

[Michael]

Excuse me.

[Angry Neighbor]

They were outside of my home. I don't know where they're from.

[Joe Getty]

Going back to the room now.

[Angry Neighbor]

They're going to the room and they're staying in the room, and they're not gonna. And pimp her. They're not gonna pimp the. They rent their room. Not my common elements pimp.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

You can't be cordial, though.

[Angry Neighbor]

No.

[Michael]

Why not?

[Angry Neighbor]

Because you're trespassing.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

Just because we.

[Angry Neighbor]

Where are you from exactly?

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

St. Louis, Missouri.

[Angry Neighbor]

You're not from Florida, are you?

[Michael]

Nope.

[Angry Neighbor]

Exactly. Maybe in Missouri you may carry on as you do, but not in Florida. Pimp.

[Michael]

But wait, there's more.

[Joe Getty]

Just going back.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

How are we trespassing if we trespassing.

[Angry Neighbor]

On My homestead property in Florida.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

No, we rented an Airbnb.

[Angry Neighbor]

So what? So that gives you right to your unit and owning your unit.

[Michael]

Okay.

[Angry Neighbor]

And you trespass on my private, private property. Homestead, Missouri pimp.

[Michael]

Wow.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

I'm sorry you had a messed up day today, ma'.

[Michael]

Am.

[Angry Neighbor]

No, I'm sorry.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

I hope it gets better. And God bless from Missouri, obviously not staying room.

[Joe Getty]

Wow, those are some nice people that handled it that well. I hope you have a good day.

[Michael]

Some fabulous Missourians I'm sure you're having. I'm sorry you're having a rotten day, ma'. Am.

[Joe Getty]

I. I played Duck Duck Goose. I never played Pimp Horror. It's probably similar.

[Michael]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe Getty]

Poor woman.

[Michael]

Same game, essentially, but you dress differently.

[Joe Getty]

Poor woman. Really troubled by probably. Yeah, you know, attractively clad woman. I saw a model shoot in New York. We were going to some. We went to some super expensive clothing stores that my son's into. He just wanted to see them in person. Never could have. We would never afford it. But there was a model shoot going out in the alley outside the store. Some tall, ridiculously skinny chick dressed up and people taking pictures. And I watched that for a while and I thought, what an interesting. That whole thing is interesting. Every, every aspect of it. That woman that thinks she's gonna be something in the people that want to buy these clothes because she's wearing it and the photographer's trying to make their bones. And just every aspect of it I found interesting.

[Michael]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I've witnessed and contemplated the whole modeling thing myself and how odd it is if you really kind of break it down.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah.

[Michael]

We're going to be staying, my wife and I, in London in the tony Mayfair section, which is home to some of the most famous high end shopping in the world. Like many other places, Rodeo Drive, Chicago's Magnificent Mile, New York, you know, various sections. And I'm looking forward to hitting some of those shops because they'll be like right around the corner. And I always have the same experience and I know you have too. I'll go in there and say, oh my God, I love that shirt. Then I'll see the price tag and say, what? And here's the key, folks. Maybe someday you hit it big. And I certainly hope that for you, this is the land of opportunity. This is the land where you can pursue your dreams, become a success, build a business, have wealth the likes of which your parents never dreamed of, or maybe less, which is the trend lately. But let's not get depressed Anyway, here's your advice. Just because you can buy a $500 shirt doesn't mean you should buy a $500 shirt.

[Joe Getty]

Right? It's, I suppose it depends on who you are, but I see a lot of that stuff and I see a price tag and I think only an idiot would buy this. Even if you could afford it. I think only an idiot would do this.

[Michael]

Or you have so much money it is just immaterial to you. And if that's the case, honestly, if it makes no material, emotional or any other difference to you buying a $70 shirt or a $500 shirt, I suppose, go ahead. Could you make the argument they ought to give that money to charity? Well, of course.

[Joe Getty]

But this store was significantly more expensive than that that my son and I went to. He just wanted to see it in person. And it's not something you would look at and say, oh, I kind of like that shirt. Everything in there was so weird. It was weird in that like really avant garde fashion way. You know, just the shoes, it's just like everything was so strange and the people that worked in there were wearing the clothing. It's like where would you go dressed like that with your weird platform shoes with springs on the bottom that are like dollars and whatever the hell that is.

[Michael]

All right, so I have decided my new chapter in my life is forming a vigilante squad. But during my free time I'm going to form an organization that puts like boxes in super high end clothing stores and says, and it says you could buy this shirt for $500 or you could buy this shirt and donate the difference to charity because it's just not realistic that the person is going to pass by that shirt and donate it to charity. It's just, it's not going to happen. But if you have it all there, point of purchase could see it work.

[Joe Getty]

That'd be tough. We'll finish strong.

[Christina Quinn]

Next Armstrong and Getty.

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Star wars actor Mark Hamill revealed he wanted to flee the US After Trump was elected a second time. Unfortunately, though, he couldn't get anyone to cover his shift at Arby's.

[Joe Getty]

I missed the first part. Who was working at Arby's in this scenario?

[Michael]

Mark Hamill. Luke Skywalker.

[Joe Getty]

Gotcha.

[Michael]

It hasn't worked much.

[Joe Getty]

Dumb article from the New York Times. I don't have time for unfortunately or fortunately, the difference between the cooled and the cooked in America, it's about how income inequality is hitting those who can afford air conditioning and those who work outdoors. With climate change making it so difficult, you know, it's not actually noticeably hotter, right? I mean, it's like a tiny amounts hotter. The ocean's a degree hotter than it was 50 years ago or something. You're not actually hotter working in a field now than you would have been five summers ago. It's not actually true, you realize, wow, mass hysteria. Yeah. Anyway, it goes through about how she interviews somebody. Many of the people who work outside without air conditioning experience health emergencies. And then the quotes are, yeah, the heat sucks, said one delivery driver. Driver, but I need to pay the bills. That doesn't sound like a health emergency. It just sounds like a guy, I'd rather not be hot. But he is, and that's his job.

[Michael]

Like, and when we were young and poor and doing jobs like that and we're hot, I didn't know to yell income inequality. I should have. What a jackass.

[Joe Getty]

I hired this Mexican dude to take down a tree a couple weeks ago, and I was talking to him and he was talking about the heat, and he said, americans. He said, we work like this in Mexico all the time. They don't have any rules and everybody's fine. He said, but just that is funny. But to get down to the bottom, the faster our world heats up, the faster to divide between the cooled and the cooked will widen. Ultimately is symptomatic of a larger injustice of the climate crisis, which is that the people who have done the least to cause it are the ones who will suffer the most from its impacts.

[Michael]

Shut up.

[Joe Getty]

So those of us who work in air conditioning at this point in our lives have done more to cause the climate change. For the people who, whatever. Shut up is the right answer.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

It's Final Thoughts.

[Michael]

I'm strong again.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

Get ready with Katie Green and Michael Angelo.

[Joe Getty]

Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.

[Michael]

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap up the day. There is Michelangelo in the control room. Michael, final thought. Yeah. Earlier in the show, we were talking about streaming services. I need to add up and see how much I'm paying for my streaming services. Now. That might be my car payment right there. Yeah, my wife brought that up the other day. Got to do it. Hey, Katie Greener, esteemed newswoman has a final thought. Katie, I'm still really bothered by Shreking.

[Joe Getty]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. If you missed the segment on Shreking, I think we did that hour too. It's pretty good.

[Michael]

Well, and then Shrek sidekick, donkey with the donkey monkey punch. That's troubling as well. A final thought.

[Joe Getty]

Trump is going to patrol alongside the Guardsmen in D.C. tonight. That will be quite the media spectacle. Yes, yes. And we will have the highlights tomorrow.

[Michael]

My final thought, having had the opportunity to witness workers in two different American states in South Cackalacky. It's very, very hot in the summertime and these fellas seem to bring plenty of water and they seek the shade when they need to. And we're going to lovingly incorporate the bones of the dead ones into the mantle of our new fireplace. No, they're all perfectly fine.

[Joe Getty]

Yeah, yeah. People have been working out in the heat since the dawn of time, you realize.

[Michael]

But yeah, it's especially bad now with climate change that it's two thirds of a degree warmer than it was in 1806.

[Joe Getty]

I had completely forgotten about the donkey punch. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.

[Michael]

Google it. So many people to thank, so little time. Go to armstrong yeti.com. a lot of great clicks there for you. Katie's Corner. The hot links. Pick up an AMG T shirt or hoodie. It's gonna be chilly soon. You're gonna love that lightweight hoodie. I do.

[Joe Getty]

Well, specifically google the Alec Trebek Yes Version of it.

[Michael]

Yes. And enjoy the great late, great Canadians.

[Joe Getty]

Giggles See you tomorrow. God bless America.

[Big Three Basketball Announcer]

Armstrong and Getty.

[Michael]

There were so many great moments on.

[Joe Getty]

Today'S Armstrong and Getty show, but perhaps none as great as this. We give the guy we're not attracted to a chance thinking he will for sure know what he has and treat us well. But then he doesn't.

[Michael]

Yeah, what he has is a shallow beast. What he has is a calculating she devil and he should run run from you succubus. Run son. Run away. Bye bye Armstrong and Getty iheart presents.

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