# You Work My Legs

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 26 Oct 2026, 36 min.

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Hour 4 of A&G features... • SEIU cash grab • Anthropic IPO • Riots in France, land acknowledgements & Lebron • Final Thoughts! Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
[0:05] Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong
[0:10] Speaker 1: and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
[0:23] Speaker 2: I cannot wait for the midterm to happen. We get
[0:26] Speaker 2: the results, and then we move on with our lives.
[0:29] Speaker 1: I cannot wait. I want to talk about other things.
[0:33] Speaker 1: One of the big issues to be decided in the
[0:35] Speaker 1: state of Calunicornia is the proposed billionaire tax, which has become,
[0:40] Speaker 1: according to the Wall Street Journal headline, a hot mess
[0:42] Speaker 1: for Democrats. They get into the fact that it's more
[0:45] Speaker 1: or less tied in the polls, slight lead on, yes,
[0:48] Speaker 1: large numbers of undecided voters. But the governor's against it.
[0:54] Speaker 1: A lot of big Democratic donors are against it. But
[0:57] Speaker 1: the Democratic Party of California narrowly voted, yes, we support
[1:00] Speaker 1: it in August. Now the unions are pissed at Gavin.
[1:03] Speaker 1: Gavin's pissed off, et cetera. And you could easily see
[1:05] Speaker 1: stupid people being against it. I mean, for it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well,
[1:09] Speaker 1: the tax is, quote, already a hot mess no matter
[1:12] Speaker 1: what happens, said Katie Porter, the former progressive congresswoman from
[1:17] Speaker 1: Orange County who opposes it.
[1:19] Speaker 2: Get out of my shot.
[1:21] Speaker 1: She doesn't want the tax in her shot, apparently. So
[1:24] Speaker 1: you got the SEIU is going for a giant cash grab.
[1:28] Speaker 2: It is among the most short-sighted things you could possibly do.
[1:35] Speaker 1: Idiotically so, which I will illustrate in a moment or two.
[1:38] Speaker 1: But allegedly, ostensibly, it's a one-time 5% tax that would
[1:43] Speaker 1: apply to the net. Oh, we'll get there. Had to
[1:47] Speaker 1: laugh at one time. Oh, so clever. Yes, that joke.
[1:53] Speaker 1: It would apply to the net assets of Californians worth
[1:56] Speaker 1: a billion or more. Rather than income or real estate,
[1:59] Speaker 1: it would be levied on assets, unrealized assets like held assets,
[2:03] Speaker 1: such as publicly traded stocks, bonds, private business interests. How
[2:08] Speaker 1: do you value assets? What's the value of my interest
[2:12] Speaker 1: in the Armstrong and Getty show? I don't know. What's
[2:15] Speaker 1: the advertising world going to be? What's the internet going
[2:17] Speaker 1: to do?
[2:18] Speaker 2: AI?
[2:19] Speaker 1: Nobody knows. Well, intellectual property and art would also be
[2:24] Speaker 1: taxed at its value, even though you haven't sold it yet.
[2:27] Speaker 2: Wow. And who gets to decide that? Who gets to
[2:30] Speaker 2: decide what your art is worth?
[2:32] Speaker 1: Wow.
[2:32] Speaker 2: A government bureaucrat of some sort. And of course, the
[2:35] Speaker 2: law includes you're not allowed to move out of the state.
[2:38] Speaker 2: You have to stay in California and pay. Oh, wait
[2:40] Speaker 2: a second. Somebody's just telling me in my ear, you
[2:43] Speaker 2: are allowed to move as a billionaire and leave the state.
[2:46] Speaker 1: The state actually says it's retroactive back to January 1st
[2:50] Speaker 1: of this year, 2026, but whether that is legal or
[2:53] Speaker 1: the courts will permit it is one of the giant questions.
[2:55] Speaker 1: Can't be. There's no way that could be legal. Anyway,
[2:57] Speaker 1: so as proposed, a person taxed on $ 10 billion in
[3:00] Speaker 1: assets would owe $ 50 million to the SEIU so they
[3:05] Speaker 1: could enrich themselves because they're a mob. Anyway, so here's
[3:09] Speaker 1: a funny angle of this, and then I'll get to
[3:10] Speaker 1: the chilling reality. Yes?
[3:12] Speaker 2: And if it ends up being retroactive, that just makes
[3:15] Speaker 2: it more likely more billionaires would leave and never come back.
[3:20] Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes. Indeed, for reasons we're about to get into.
[3:23] Speaker 1: But so... This is so interesting, and this is very
[3:27] Speaker 1: inside baseball, but the good folks at the Hoover Institution
[3:30] Speaker 1: put out a paper on how this would actually affect
[3:34] Speaker 1: the revenue picture in California. And you got billionaires leaving,
[3:39] Speaker 1: cutting the amount that would be collected to a fraction
[3:42] Speaker 1: of what the SEIU and the proponents are saying it
[3:45] Speaker 1: would be. And then those billionaires are gone. because they're
[3:48] Speaker 1: not going to come back and risk it being reenacted
[3:50] Speaker 1: or whatever. So they're gone. And if you add in
[3:54] Speaker 1: the decline in annual income tax payments over time, it'll
[3:57] Speaker 1: exceed the wealth tax revenue by $ 39 billion, meaning the
[4:01] Speaker 1: state will lose $ 39 billion if it pulls this ridiculous maneuver.
[4:06] Speaker 1: In year one? No, it's over a course of, I
[4:10] Speaker 1: can't remember, several years. A lot more than that going forward, though. Oh, yeah, eventually. Sure,
[4:17] Speaker 1: of course. But here's the funny part. It's a couple
[4:20] Speaker 1: of French economists who've advised the French government on their
[4:26] Speaker 1: finances who are saying, oh, mais non, this is a
[4:30] Speaker 1: good law. Pass this law. We know about finance in France.
[4:34] Speaker 1: We keep our government well financed. It's just too much.
[4:39] Speaker 1: It's too funny. Hmm. And they're denying that people will
[4:44] Speaker 1: adapt to the tax, move out of the state or whatever,
[4:47] Speaker 1: or hide their assets, or like Mark Zuckerberg, get a
[4:49] Speaker 1: new deal so that his assets aren't taxable, blah, blah, blah.
[4:54] Speaker 1: They claim that, oh, no, that would be irrational. People
[4:58] Speaker 1: won't do that. But is it really irrational to flee
[5:02] Speaker 1: a wealth tax? As the Hoover economists explain, Prop 40
[5:05] Speaker 1: removes the state constitutional cap on intangible personal property tax.
[5:12] Speaker 1: So intangibles meaning like stocks, bonds, art, that sort of thing.
[5:15] Speaker 1: Once that cap is lifted, future ballot initiatives and legislative
[5:19] Speaker 1: action can build on the authority this amendment to the
[5:23] Speaker 1: Constitution creates to impose additional wealth taxes at any rate,
[5:28] Speaker 1: at any threshold of wealth. Yeah, I only laughed once.
[5:34] Speaker 1: It would let two-thirds of the two-thirds majority of the
[5:36] Speaker 1: Democratic legislature extend the tax and lower the income threshold
[5:40] Speaker 1: anytime they want. Yeah, I only laughed once. I should
[5:42] Speaker 1: have laughed twice.
[5:43] Speaker 2: I laughed at the idea that this is a one-time
[5:45] Speaker 2: and then laughed at the idea that it's for billionaires
[5:48] Speaker 2: because it.
[5:48] Speaker 1: Will come down over time to include people that have.
[5:51] Speaker 2: Got $ 750 million, then $ 500 million, then $ 200 million, then
[5:54] Speaker 2: $ 100 million.
[5:55] Speaker 1: Who needs $ 5 million in the bank to retire on? Right, right.
[6:01] Speaker 1: Let's just have them pay their fair share. There are
[6:03] Speaker 1: plenty of people who have nothing in the bank. I mean,
[6:05] Speaker 1: it's just so easy to write. So on that topic,
[6:09] Speaker 1: and this will be the end of the triumvirate of
[6:12] Speaker 1: a piece of journalism and thought that I wanted to include,
[6:15] Speaker 1: the dude running for governor of Wisconsin as a Democrat,
[6:18] Speaker 1: David Crowley, he was in a debate last week, and
[6:21] Speaker 1: of course he vowed that, quote, those who are making
[6:23] Speaker 1: enough money pay their fair share.
[6:26] Speaker 2: God, that's one of the most evil phrases ever. And
[6:30] Speaker 2: you can only fall for that if you're an idiot.
[6:33] Speaker 1: How much is enough money? How does he define fair share?
[6:36] Speaker 1: He doesn't specify. Probably has different assessments than many voters.
[6:41] Speaker 1: Then they get into, let's see, who's this writing? Oh,
[6:44] Speaker 1: the fabulous Alicia Finley is writing... Wealth and fairness are
[6:48] Speaker 1: in the eye of the tax assessor, which is something
[6:50] Speaker 1: to keep in mind as Democrats campaign to make the
[6:52] Speaker 1: rich pay their fair share. They rail against billionaires, but
[6:56] Speaker 1: Joe the HVAC repairman, not Elon the trillionaire, is their
[6:59] Speaker 1: real target. And they talk about, she talks about this book,
[7:04] Speaker 1: The Everywhere Millionaire, by Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick. who
[7:09] Speaker 1: note that most of the nation's wealth is concentrated among
[7:12] Speaker 1: small business owners. In their view, auto dealers, fast food
[7:16] Speaker 1: franchise owners, plumbers who've hired a couple more plumbers, now
[7:20] Speaker 1: they have their name on the van. They're the primary
[7:23] Speaker 1: cause of inequality in America, and they aren't paying anything
[7:27] Speaker 1: near their fair share in tax. And these guys and
[7:31] Speaker 1: their book is super popular on the left. You don't
[7:34] Speaker 1: know it just like you didn't know rules for radicals
[7:36] Speaker 1: until people like us start talking about it. But by
[7:40] Speaker 1: these authors' calculation, there are 3 million Main Street millionaires
[7:44] Speaker 1: who own private businesses and, get this, have a net
[7:47] Speaker 1: worth of at least $ 5 million. And they point out
[7:51] Speaker 1: that's way more money. Because there are so many successful
[7:55] Speaker 1: people in America because it's the land of opportunity. That's
[7:58] Speaker 1: who you need to screw.
[8:00] Speaker 2: So starting next Tuesday night, as I keep saying, the
[8:03] Speaker 2: presidential race begins and the Democratic Party is going to
[8:06] Speaker 2: be at war with itself over. Is that the ideology
[8:10] Speaker 2: that's going to drive who gets the nomination?
[8:14] Speaker 1: Where's it going to be? Somebody more mainstream. So, again,
[8:17] Speaker 1: if you built a successful small business by the sweat
[8:20] Speaker 1: of your brow, your risk, you labored for years to
[8:24] Speaker 1: build it, you didn't have money to buy groceries because
[8:26] Speaker 1: you were putting it back into the business. Congratulations, you're rich.
[8:30] Speaker 1: Now fork it over. As Zidar and Zwick tell it,
[8:33] Speaker 1: owning a small business is, quote, the best tax deal
[8:36] Speaker 1: in America. And they gripe that these damned Main Street
[8:39] Speaker 1: millionaires use their political clout to promote lower taxes to
[8:42] Speaker 1: help them expand their businesses. Oh, no. And accumulate wealth. Oh, God.
[8:48] Speaker 1: And they probably, I don't know, employ people. So, I
[8:53] Speaker 1: saw a great screed over the weekend on some channel.
[8:59] Speaker 2: Look at your daily life. Who's causing you more problems?
[9:04] Speaker 2: The top 1% or the bottom 1%?
[9:07] Speaker 1: And he goes through a long list.
[9:09] Speaker 2: And I think for most of us, it's very, very clear.
[9:12] Speaker 2: Who's causing us the most problems is the bottom 1%.
[9:15] Speaker 2: The person that's causing everything to be locked up at
[9:18] Speaker 2: the CVS, the drug addict laying in front of your store, the.
[9:23] Speaker 1: Or coming at you with a knife. Exactly. If they
[9:26] Speaker 1: only laid in front of the stores, that'd be great.
[9:28] Speaker 1: Where do I sign?
[9:29] Speaker 2: Endless examples. You know, sucking up all kinds of government programs.
[9:34] Speaker 2: The bottom 1% causing you more problems or the top 1%?
[9:37] Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I don't... I don't know.
[9:41] Speaker 2: He.
[9:42] Speaker 1: Blinded by ideology, I guess.
[9:44] Speaker 2: How you can thank somebody who's got a really successful business. Well,
[9:48] Speaker 2: it's Jeff Bezos' screed that we played a couple weeks
[9:52] Speaker 2: ago where he talks about the guy who opens up
[9:53] Speaker 2: a hamburger place and sells, you know, a thousand hamburgers
[9:57] Speaker 2: and a million hamburgers and a hundred million hamburgers. And
[9:58] Speaker 2: all of a sudden, these people want hamburgers at that
[10:02] Speaker 2: price you're happy to have a hamburger you're happy at
[10:04] Speaker 2: that price you're buying it he's employed all these different
[10:08] Speaker 2: people how you can then turn that into the bad.
[10:12] Speaker 1: Guy yeah it's just beyond me envy it's all envy
[10:16] Speaker 1: And Alicia's final point is that, and she name checks
[10:19] Speaker 1: a bunch of people, including Abdul El-Sayed, the Islamianist, who
[10:25] Speaker 1: advocates imposing an additional death tax that inheritances should be
[10:31] Speaker 1: taxed near 100%. Wow. He wants to remove the earnings cap. Wow. Yeah.
[10:37] Speaker 1: He wants to remove the earnings cap on Social Security
[10:40] Speaker 1: to make sure the rich pay their fair share. That
[10:43] Speaker 1: cap is at $ 184, 000.
[10:43] Speaker 2: Wow.
[10:46] Speaker 1: Coastal states, expensive states, if you earn more than $ 184, 000,
[10:50] Speaker 1: you are rich. Congratulations. Progressives don't merely want to redistribute wealth.
[10:56] Speaker 1: They want to raise taxes to aggrandize their own power
[10:58] Speaker 1: and level opponents. They can decide who's fair, what's fair,
[11:03] Speaker 1: and who has enough. Yeah, good.
[11:07] Speaker 2: What do you think starting next Tuesday? Who's going to
[11:09] Speaker 2: have the momentum, the AOC Bernie crowd or the I
[11:15] Speaker 2: don't even know who to put in that category. Rahm Emanuel, maybe,
[11:22] Speaker 2: what's his name from Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro?
[11:24] Speaker 1: You're going to accuse me of hedging, but you're not
[11:28] Speaker 1: only wrong, you're way out of line. I think it
[11:31] Speaker 1: is going to be a battle royale between those two fronts.
[11:37] Speaker 1: It is going to be a savage battle between the
[11:40] Speaker 1: Democrat socialists, who, remember, are there to kill the Democratic Party,
[11:45] Speaker 1: not join it. Their wing and the lefties, the Rojanas
[11:49] Speaker 1: of the world, the fellow travelers, versus the reasonable guys
[11:52] Speaker 1: you mentioned like Rahm Emanuel. He could, well, he's by
[11:55] Speaker 1: far the smartest of the horses in the race. That's
[12:00] Speaker 1: going to be a battle for the ages. They are
[12:02] Speaker 1: going to carve each other up. It's going to be
[12:05] Speaker 1: like Gangs of New York, if you've never seen that movie.
[12:08] Speaker 1: They're going to be charging at each other across open
[12:11] Speaker 1: fields with axes and knives and clubs with nails in them.
[12:19] Speaker 2: I always see that fight scene in Gangs of New
[12:21] Speaker 2: York and think, I think I'd have just slithered off
[12:23] Speaker 2: to an alley and waited until it was over.
[12:26] Speaker 1: I'd have, like, crossed the river to New Jersey and
[12:28] Speaker 1: tried to start a life there. I don't want to
[12:30] Speaker 1: get in a Club with nails in it fight. I'd
[12:37] Speaker 1: rather sit down and talk about it. Listen, you have
[12:40] Speaker 1: some good points. We have some good points. Right. Whoopsie daisy.
[12:46] Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite lines from the whole movie.
[12:51] Speaker 1: What do we got to get into? Oh, France. We
[12:53] Speaker 1: got to talk a little bit about France, which fits
[12:54] Speaker 1: in with this, actually. Oh, yeah. Please. It's the same story.
[12:58] Speaker 1: They played an NFL football game in France. They pulled
[13:00] Speaker 1: it off.
[13:01] Speaker 2: France had 70,000 cops out over the weekend.
[13:05] Speaker 1: That's a lot of cops. Anyway, more on the way.
[13:08] Speaker 2: Stay here.
[13:08] Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
[13:14] Speaker 3: Stevie Wonder is suing his ex-girlfriend for living on his
[13:17] Speaker 3: property rent-free for nearly 40 years. The good news is
[13:26] Speaker 3: he finally realized he doesn't have a ghost.
[13:37] Speaker 2: So Anthropic put out their official filing for their.
[13:42] Speaker 1: IPO, which might end up being the biggest one in
[13:45] Speaker 1: world history.
[13:47] Speaker 2: Anthropic is, as it says here, moving one step closer
[13:51] Speaker 2: today to being the first company focused primarily on developing
[13:55] Speaker 2: the most advanced artificial intelligence models to go public. Their
[14:00] Speaker 2: current situation is, in their IPO filing, it shows it
[14:05] Speaker 2: now generates a little over $ 2 of revenue for every
[14:08] Speaker 2: dollar spent, which is seen as unbelievable compared to where
[14:14] Speaker 2: they thought things would be a couple years ago.
[14:18] Speaker 1: Wait, they're generating $ 2 in revenue for every dollar spent?
[14:21] Speaker 1: On computing, yeah. Oh, okay.
[14:25] Speaker 2: So, it's own filing once they get through all the
[14:30] Speaker 2: financials and everything like that. And everybody seems to be
[14:34] Speaker 2: blown away by the amount of money that it is generating,
[14:38] Speaker 2: its own filing warns that AI could pose a catastrophic
[14:41] Speaker 2: or existential risk to humanity. So it's believed this is
[14:45] Speaker 2: the first time this has ever happened, where a giant
[14:48] Speaker 2: company announces, hey, we're going to be the next big thing,
[14:51] Speaker 2: you should invest in this, does pose an existential risk
[14:56] Speaker 2: to humanity. But that being said, we think it's a
[14:59] Speaker 2: good idea. Now, it is very possible that the day
[15:05] Speaker 2: they announce in what is going to be the biggest
[15:07] Speaker 2: IPO in the history of the world, that they say, hey,
[15:12] Speaker 2: guardrails need to be put on this industry so that
[15:15] Speaker 2: it doesn't get out of hand now that we are
[15:16] Speaker 2: officially the biggest player in town. That could be what
[15:22] Speaker 2: they're doing. It also could be because they're just, you know,
[15:28] Speaker 2: have a conscience. We will all see together, won't we?
[15:37] Speaker 1: I almost just want to ignore all this stuff.
[15:39] Speaker 2: I am getting closer to ignoring this sort of thing.
[15:42] Speaker 2: I use AI every single day, multiple times a day.
[15:46] Speaker 2: I couldn't be more amazed at all the stuff that
[15:48] Speaker 2: it can do for me. I'm more serious about running
[15:52] Speaker 2: now than I've ever been in my life, partially because
[15:55] Speaker 2: of having our friend Darren on about the Iron Man.
[15:59] Speaker 2: And I've been talking to him a lot. I have
[16:00] Speaker 2: a running plan for the first time. I've always just
[16:03] Speaker 2: like run, go out and run like Forrest Gump and
[16:06] Speaker 2: just tried to tough it out with no plan whatsoever.
[16:09] Speaker 1: And now I have like a plan.
[16:10] Speaker 2: And he told me about all these different methods that
[16:14] Speaker 2: have been created over the last decades. And so it's
[16:17] Speaker 2: all about measuring your heart rate and raising it a
[16:19] Speaker 2: little bit at a time and all the star stuff.
[16:21] Speaker 2: And I started that a couple of weeks ago and
[16:22] Speaker 2: it's been really fantastic. And like effortless. And I'm getting
[16:26] Speaker 2: better at it already. So I've got a goal next year.
[16:29] Speaker 2: My New Year's resolution is going to be to run
[16:31] Speaker 2: the fastest 10K I've ever run in my life at
[16:33] Speaker 2: age 62. And so that's my plan for 2027. But
[16:38] Speaker 2: my point with the AI thing is AI is laying
[16:40] Speaker 2: this all out for me. And then at the end
[16:42] Speaker 2: of my run, I put in all my times and
[16:43] Speaker 2: my heart rate. And it says, this looks good. This
[16:45] Speaker 2: you should slow down. That you should add in. I
[16:47] Speaker 2: think we're ready to go to this next level. It's
[16:48] Speaker 2: just fantastic. It's like having a personal trainer.
[16:51] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to go beyond the chatbots and use
[16:53] Speaker 1: some of the agents to really dig into AI. But
[16:56] Speaker 1: every time I ask it what it could do for me,
[16:57] Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't need that. I don't think I
[16:59] Speaker 1: need that either. Yeah. Unless it could exercise for me. Man.
[17:04] Speaker 1: Could it do the exercising? Where do I sign up? Yeah,
[17:08] Speaker 1: that'd be pretty cool. I'll just lay in bed. You
[17:09] Speaker 1: work my legs and make them stronger. I don't know.
[17:12] Speaker 1: You work my legs? I don't know how this works.
[17:14] Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. Hey, AI, how about
[17:16] Speaker 1: a little higher? Use your algorithm. Armstrong and Getty.
[17:22] Speaker 4: Young people across Europe are protesting. Their spectrum of grievances
[17:26] Speaker 4: have a common theme. The cost of living is too high.
[17:31] Speaker 4: In France, over 400,000 people marched Saturday, mostly peacefully, until
[17:38] Speaker 4: some turned. With 70,000 police deployed, confrontations were contained, but
[17:45] Speaker 4: fierce in Paris.
[17:46] Speaker 2: Not as bad as the weekend before, but pretty damn bad.
[17:50] Speaker 2: And they got into the Coliseum and were raising hell.
[17:55] Speaker 2: I listened to National Review podcasts. They had quite a
[17:58] Speaker 2: debate over the idea of the peaceful protesters. Similar to
[18:03] Speaker 2: the George Floyd thing, there are people that show up
[18:07] Speaker 2: in the afternoon with placards and want to march in
[18:09] Speaker 2: the street. But then the crazies come and start destroying stuff.
[18:14] Speaker 2: And the debate is over the topic of, if your
[18:17] Speaker 2: movement has turned crazy... Should you stay off the streets,
[18:22] Speaker 2: or are you contributing to the craziness by engaging in
[18:26] Speaker 2: the peaceful part?
[18:27] Speaker 1: And I actually don't know what I think. Yeah, because
[18:29] Speaker 1: you've got the protesters. They may be misguided or reaping
[18:33] Speaker 1: the inevitable fruit of socialism, but, you know, they're protesters.
[18:36] Speaker 1: But then you get the revolutionaries and Islamists, and then,
[18:41] Speaker 1: as has been pointed out, when they're done, you've just
[18:44] Speaker 1: got the looters, people from Paris and the surrounding area,
[18:48] Speaker 1: who think... I'm not a protester, nor an Islamist, nor
[18:52] Speaker 1: a communist, but I heard you can smash windows and
[18:54] Speaker 1: get free stuff when the sun goes down.
[18:56] Speaker 2: But if I'm protesting, I don't think they should change
[19:00] Speaker 2: the retirement age or whatever. I'm just doing regular protesting,
[19:05] Speaker 2: and those people show up. Is it on me to
[19:07] Speaker 2: fight them, or should I not show up because it
[19:09] Speaker 2: emboldens them?
[19:11] Speaker 1: I don't know what. That's an interesting quandary. Yeah, I
[19:14] Speaker 1: don't actually know.
[19:15] Speaker 2: There are some people that very fiercely believe you show
[19:17] Speaker 2: up to the peaceful protests once they've gone nuts. You're
[19:19] Speaker 2: contributing to it. You're part of it. You can't say, yeah,
[19:23] Speaker 2: but I protested peacefully. I don't know that I agree
[19:26] Speaker 2: with that. That's a good question.
[19:31] Speaker 1: Kind of all over the place here.
[19:33] Speaker 2: We got a text about the billionaire tax in California, which.
[19:37] Speaker 1: Is, I don't know if it's going to pass or not.
[19:41] Speaker 1: Got a chance.
[19:42] Speaker 2: Hey guys, 50 year conservative here. I voted for prop 40.
[19:46] Speaker 2: That's for the billionaire tax.
[19:49] Speaker 1: Two reasons.
[19:50] Speaker 2: Billionaires are primarily leftists in California. Let them have it
[19:53] Speaker 2: good and hard. Followed by California will supposedly lose $ 20
[19:59] Speaker 2: billion a year when the billionaires leave. I vote to
[20:02] Speaker 2: starve California. Anything Newsom and the unions are against, I'm for.
[20:08] Speaker 4: Wow.
[20:09] Speaker 1: It's an interesting theory. Yeah, the unions are actually divided
[20:13] Speaker 1: on that idiotic idea.
[20:14] Speaker 2: But the idea of California not getting all that tax revenue,
[20:17] Speaker 2: now you've got to make some decisions.
[20:19] Speaker 1: Okay, so nothing's going to change until the state hits
[20:22] Speaker 1: rock bottom.
[20:23] Speaker 2: Right, let's help along rock bottom. So let's speed it
[20:25] Speaker 2: along the way.
[20:27] Speaker 1: Well, friend, that's an interesting philosophy. Yeah. I just hope
[20:32] Speaker 1: that the turnaround happens before they come for you and yours.
[20:36] Speaker 1: So speaking of money and affordability and young people and
[20:38] Speaker 1: that sort of thing, I thought it was interesting. Or
[20:41] Speaker 1: was there one more thing you were going to squeeze in?
[20:43] Speaker 1: I can or I don't have to. Go ahead. I
[20:44] Speaker 1: don't care. Okay. This all fits together. Did you see
[20:48] Speaker 1: the video?
[20:50] Speaker 2: I was hardcore on this over the weekend, and I've
[20:52] Speaker 2: calmed down since then. I tweeted about it. Did you
[20:55] Speaker 2: see the video of LeBron messing around during the national anthem? No.
[21:00] Speaker 1: Totally unaware.
[21:01] Speaker 2: So he's playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, who everybody says
[21:04] Speaker 2: they look fantastic, although they're very old. But anyway. And
[21:07] Speaker 2: you're aware of the story that the WNBA finals are
[21:12] Speaker 2: going on, and first three games, both teams left the
[21:15] Speaker 2: floor before the national anthem. Then they come back out
[21:18] Speaker 2: on the floor and the national anthem's over. They clearly
[21:21] Speaker 2: do not want to support this country and everything it
[21:28] Speaker 2: stands for, whatever their message is. I don't know if
[21:32] Speaker 2: this has anything to do with LeBron, but so when
[21:34] Speaker 2: the teams are lined up the other night, They're all
[21:38] Speaker 2: lined up. Now, the baseball teams, it's different. This is
[21:41] Speaker 2: why I've softened on it. Because I was at an
[21:43] Speaker 2: NBA game last night. Watched the Kings game. When the
[21:45] Speaker 2: national anthem is being done, it's pitch dark. You barely
[21:50] Speaker 2: can see anybody. And they're online. And a lot of
[21:53] Speaker 2: them are, like, stretching. Because they're about to play in, like,
[21:55] Speaker 2: 60 seconds. And they're, like, stretching and moving around and
[21:59] Speaker 2: doing their stuff. And LeBron was, like... kind of like
[22:01] Speaker 2: practicing a golf swing and a basketball shot.
[22:04] Speaker 1: And he was so moving around so much.
[22:07] Speaker 2: It really had a, I'm trying to demonstrate how little
[22:11] Speaker 2: I give a crap about the national anthem. That's what
[22:13] Speaker 2: it looked like when I saw the video. I've since
[22:16] Speaker 2: calmed down, having been in a game last night, realizing
[22:18] Speaker 2: they're in the dark. They're all stretching. As opposed to, like,
[22:22] Speaker 2: the World Series, which is going on. They do the
[22:24] Speaker 2: National Anthem. Everybody's standing there pretty much at attention. But
[22:28] Speaker 2: it's under a bright lights on the lines National Anthem
[22:32] Speaker 2: right in front of them. It's a little bit of
[22:33] Speaker 2: a different look. Maybe they make it dark in the
[22:37] Speaker 2: arena for the NBA so you don't see the fact
[22:40] Speaker 2: that the players don't give a crap about the country.
[22:42] Speaker 2: That might actually be on purpose.
[22:44] Speaker 1: I don't know. But so I really, I was pretty
[22:50] Speaker 1: harsh on LeBron.
[22:51] Speaker 2: I've stuck up for him through lots of things about
[22:52] Speaker 2: him just being stupid and ignorant and young and this
[22:56] Speaker 2: and that. And I thought him screwing around during the
[22:58] Speaker 2: national anthem was a bridge too far. But then I
[23:01] Speaker 2: noticed last night all the players are stretching and doing
[23:03] Speaker 2: their stuff.
[23:03] Speaker 1: So anyway. Oh, so maybe you've learned something then. What
[23:07] Speaker 1: do you think I've learned? Not to judge so harshly
[23:12] Speaker 1: and so quickly. Perhaps. Okay. Maybe I have.
[23:18] Speaker 2: It all fits in with patriotism to this Gallup poll
[23:21] Speaker 2: that just came out right now.
[23:23] Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
[23:24] Speaker 2: Gallup exposes the single widest partisan divide in American values, patriotism.
[23:31] Speaker 1: And we got some wide divides.
[23:33] Speaker 2: Half of Republicans, just under half, ranked patriotism among the
[23:37] Speaker 2: top three values the nation needs most.
[23:40] Speaker 1: Democrats, 6%.
[23:42] Speaker 2: So half of Republicans say patriotism is in the top
[23:46] Speaker 2: three of things we need more of.
[23:47] Speaker 1: Democrats, only 6%.
[23:49] Speaker 2: The 40-point gap is larger than any other ideological split
[23:53] Speaker 2: in the survey, dwarfing disagreements over equality, fairness, honesty, and responsibility.
[24:00] Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty interesting. Democrats, in large measure,
[24:03] Speaker 1: do not like this country. They've been taught to hate it.
[24:05] Speaker 1: They hate it. They're ignoramuses. They lack all perspective. They've
[24:10] Speaker 1: been propagandized. They're fools. What do we do about that?
[24:18] Speaker 1: Take the schools back. Take the universities back. I don't
[24:23] Speaker 1: know how.
[24:23] Speaker 2: Angry you can be with somebody who's been taught their
[24:26] Speaker 2: entire life that they live in a bad country.
[24:28] Speaker 1: By the schools we sent them to. By the schools
[24:30] Speaker 1: we sent them to. Yes. I know. You know, I
[24:37] Speaker 1: engaged in a little, it wasn't name-calling, it was description
[24:41] Speaker 1: of these people and their attitudes. But yeah, we have
[24:44] Speaker 1: allowed this on our watch, and we need to figure
[24:46] Speaker 1: out how to undo it. I read a great piece
[24:48] Speaker 1: that said, look, there's no reforming the institutions, the media, entertainment,
[24:53] Speaker 1: the schools, the universities. Conservative America just has to build
[24:57] Speaker 1: our own. And promote them and make them better than
[25:01] Speaker 1: the alternatives. And then, you know, people will send their
[25:04] Speaker 1: kids there and will want to be there themselves.
[25:07] Speaker 2: As I mentioned, I went to an NBA game last night,
[25:09] Speaker 2: Sacramento Kings home game against the Memphis Grizzlies. My kids
[25:12] Speaker 2: had a really, really good time, which was the point
[25:14] Speaker 2: because I don't need to go to anything. But before
[25:18] Speaker 2: the game started, they had some Native American woman come
[25:21] Speaker 2: up on the screen and do a land acknowledgment. The
[25:27] Speaker 2: arena is online. She didn't say stolen. I appreciate that.
[25:31] Speaker 2: Didn't go that far on land that belonged to our tribe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[25:37] Speaker 2: And then she said, go King. So it was, it was,
[25:39] Speaker 2: it wasn't the angry version of it. It was like
[25:42] Speaker 2: a happier version of, but still I want to deal.
[25:45] Speaker 1: This is so stupid. Yeah. A land acknowledgement before a
[25:50] Speaker 1: sports game. Oh, God.
[25:55] Speaker 2: So, you know, my son, his first day of history class,
[26:00] Speaker 2: public school, which he's no longer in, he had to
[26:03] Speaker 2: write a land acknowledgement at the school. First day of
[26:07] Speaker 2: history class. That the school was built on land that
[26:10] Speaker 2: belonged to whatever tribe.
[26:12] Speaker 1: Do you know how stupid that is? And all these
[26:16] Speaker 1: kids who don't have your influence or that style of
[26:19] Speaker 1: influence at home, they just believe it. They accept what
[26:22] Speaker 1: they are taught. That's why every dictator in history, every
[26:26] Speaker 1: revolutionary in history is prioritized reaching the little kids.
[26:29] Speaker 2: But that's how you end up with people that don't
[26:32] Speaker 2: want to be on the floor for the national anthem
[26:34] Speaker 2: because they've been taught that.
[26:35] Speaker 1: Their whole lives. So you're right.
[26:40] Speaker 2: If I ever get the opportunity, I should talk to
[26:42] Speaker 2: people like that and explain to them why I think
[26:43] Speaker 2: they're wrong and see if I make a dent.
[26:45] Speaker 1: But I don't know how you can be mad at them.
[26:47] Speaker 1: We sent them to these schools. What are they supposed to?
[26:50] Speaker 2: Independently as fifth graders go to the library and figure
[26:53] Speaker 2: this out on their own?
[26:54] Speaker 1: Right.
[26:55] Speaker 2: Right.
[26:56] Speaker 1: Which is, you know, in person-to-person encounters, that reminds me,
[27:00] Speaker 1: we got a great email from a guy who almost
[27:02] Speaker 1: got in a violent argument and wants to know whether
[27:04] Speaker 1: he should even bother. But in the face of like
[27:08] Speaker 1: a blowhard bigot, for instance. But instead of you're in
[27:14] Speaker 1: America hating commie, love it or leave it, maybe craft
[27:18] Speaker 1: for yourselves a good short argument about America is an
[27:23] Speaker 1: incredible land of opportunity. Millions and millions of people have
[27:26] Speaker 1: come from all over the world to pursue their dreams
[27:28] Speaker 1: here and realize their dreams. Every country on Earth, every
[27:31] Speaker 1: landmass on Earth has had slavery and bigotry. Every single one.
[27:37] Speaker 1: We ended it. We're working to make sure it goes
[27:40] Speaker 1: away permanently. This is a great country, and you ought
[27:42] Speaker 1: to love it. Not aspersions and argument. On the land acknowledgment.
[27:47] Speaker 1: You stupid morons. Throw that in at the end.
[27:50] Speaker 2: The land acknowledgment. I don't know if you can hear
[27:52] Speaker 2: me with those plugs in your ears, but the land acknowledgment.
[27:55] Speaker 2: Every square inch of the earth has been owned by
[27:59] Speaker 2: a thousand different groups or tribes or whatever. It's changed
[28:04] Speaker 2: hands over and over and over and over and over again.
[28:06] Speaker 2: Surely they don't do land acknowledgments in Europe, do they?
[28:09] Speaker 2: Because that'd just be too nonsensical.
[28:11] Speaker 1: Oh, it would take a year. Are you kidding? The
[28:13] Speaker 1: land that we're holding this soccer match on was owned
[28:17] Speaker 1: by the Huns there briefly during the late 19th century.
[28:21] Speaker 1: Prior to that, the Huguenots, who in turn displaced the Visigoths,
[28:28] Speaker 1: I believe, and that, oh my God, it would go
[28:30] Speaker 1: on and on. Yeah.
[28:32] Speaker 2: And cleared through the most recent century. And then the
[28:35] Speaker 2: Germans had it for a while. Then the French took
[28:37] Speaker 2: it back. Czechs took it back in 1943, but they
[28:41] Speaker 2: couldn't hold it.
[28:41] Speaker 1: So the Germans came back, right?
[28:43] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[28:43] Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Oh, it's just absurd. It is a
[28:47] Speaker 1: virtue signaling farce.
[28:53] Speaker 2: What do you think of LeBron stretching and doing a
[28:55] Speaker 2: golf swing during the National Anthem?
[28:58] Speaker 1: Of his sins. You rank it pretty low? Fairly low, yeah.
[29:02] Speaker 1: Him criticizing the U.S. while rolling around in bed with
[29:06] Speaker 1: Xi Jinping, economically speaking, that's at the top. That I
[29:10] Speaker 1: can't forgive. Hey, LeBron, they got actual slaves over there. Now, today, oh,
[29:18] Speaker 1: that reminds me, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, did.
[29:21] Speaker 2: You read about this chick at all? Oh my God,
[29:25] Speaker 2: that's a scandal that should be revealed. The Nobel Peace
[29:28] Speaker 2: Prize should die as something anyone talks about.
[29:31] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, please use it as a doorstop. So this chick,
[29:34] Speaker 1: this South African lawyer, we'll tell you a little more
[29:38] Speaker 1: about her, the most recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, after
[29:42] Speaker 1: a brief interlude.
[29:44] Speaker 2: Man, she didn't get the FIFA prize, Peace Prize, the
[29:47] Speaker 2: soccer prize.
[29:48] Speaker 1: The real prize. They give to Trump. Okay, stay tuned.
[29:51] Speaker 1: We'll finish Trump. Mr. Plute, Homer Simpson here.
[29:58] Speaker 2: When you sold me this house, you forgot to mention
[30:00] Speaker 2: one little thing.
[30:01] Speaker 1: You didn't tell me it was built on an Indian
[30:05] Speaker 1: burial ground! No! You did it! Well, that's not my recollection. Yeah, well,
[30:15] Speaker 1: all right, goodbye.
[30:16] Speaker 2: He says he mentioned it five or six times.
[30:21] Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
[30:25] Speaker 2: In five years, the radio show is going to be.
[30:28] Speaker 1: What were we going to talk about? I don't know.
[30:32] Speaker 1: I don't know either. Let's just wait around. So we
[30:35] Speaker 1: do it.
[30:36] Speaker 2: Joe did this great tease before we went to commercials,
[30:38] Speaker 2: and I thought that'll be really good. And he doesn't remember,
[30:41] Speaker 2: and I don't remember. Katie, do you remember?
[30:42] Speaker 1: I started reading an email from an attorney, and I
[30:45] Speaker 1: was thinking about that. I have no memory. This is
[30:46] Speaker 1: what it's like to work with old people, Katie.
[30:49] Speaker 2: Well, I don't remember either, so you guys rub it
[30:51] Speaker 2: off on me. Because we were talking about patriotism and
[30:54] Speaker 2: LeBron and schools and land acknowledgments.
[31:00] Speaker 1: Wow. Good. The maid is stealing my jewelry. That's the topic. Wow,
[31:08] Speaker 1: that is really annoying. And a little disturbing. Yeah, I guess.
[31:15] Speaker 1: There we are in a couple of years.
[31:17] Speaker 2: I was talking to a woman the other night at
[31:19] Speaker 2: the football game, and she's not near as old as me, but,
[31:21] Speaker 2: you know, as you get older.
[31:22] Speaker 1: After a brief interlude, I remember saying that. The Nobel
[31:26] Speaker 1: Peace Prize? Oh, there we go. Son of a... This
[31:31] Speaker 1: needs to be said. And another thing. What were you
[31:38] Speaker 1: going to say? You met a woman the other night?
[31:40] Speaker 1: I don't want to use up all your time.
[31:41] Speaker 2: We were having a conversation, and she stops and says,
[31:45] Speaker 2: what was I saying?
[31:46] Speaker 1: And she didn't know, and I didn't know. And she
[31:48] Speaker 1: was saying it to me. And I was interested. I
[31:50] Speaker 1: was listening. Oh, my God. That's just sad. I think
[31:56] Speaker 1: we've all had that experience, too. I'm sorry. Where was I?
[32:01] Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize. We'd love to help you. One of
[32:04] Speaker 1: us should know. Right. Maybe we should both just walk away.
[32:11] Speaker 1: So South African lawyer Navi Pillay won the Nobel Stupid
[32:16] Speaker 1: Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace in international law. Whoops.
[32:22] Speaker 1: The next day, a Uyghur activist... accused the former UN
[32:26] Speaker 1: human rights chief, please, North Korea's on that panel, anyway,
[32:31] Speaker 1: of sharing his and other advocates' identities with China. Because
[32:36] Speaker 1: these Uyghur advocates, because the Uyghurs are being enslaved and
[32:40] Speaker 1: beaten and it's an actual genocide, kids, they didn't mention
[32:43] Speaker 1: that at school, did they? They have to operate in secrecy.
[32:48] Speaker 1: Or they will be jailed, tortured, and killed by the
[32:50] Speaker 1: Chinese government, or put in a re-education camp and have
[32:53] Speaker 1: their minds wiped clean. So a UN whistleblower alleges, and
[32:57] Speaker 1: this is somebody within the UN now, alleges that Pillay
[33:00] Speaker 1: oversaw the disclosure of more than 50 dissidents' names to
[33:04] Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party, potentially exposing them and their families
[33:08] Speaker 1: to persecution. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal editorial board tore
[33:13] Speaker 1: into the Nobel Committee. Quote, the Oslo worthies this year
[33:16] Speaker 1: have honored an 85-year-old South African whose career has been
[33:20] Speaker 1: marked above all by hatred for Jews and the Israel
[33:24] Speaker 1: they support.
[33:25] Speaker 2: She declared Gaza a genocide like the day of October
[33:28] Speaker 2: 7th or something like that.
[33:30] Speaker 1: And then she ends up winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
[33:32] Speaker 1: They continue, Ms. Pillay is lobbied to lower the threshold
[33:35] Speaker 1: for claims of genocide. Why? Because a looser standard would
[33:39] Speaker 1: allow Ms. Pillay's South Africa, which hosted Hamas delegations in
[33:42] Speaker 1: the weeks after October 7th, to pursue more easily its
[33:46] Speaker 1: vendetta against Israel. And lastly, the last thing this prize
[33:49] Speaker 1: will do is promote the cause of peace. Wow.
[34:04] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that sound that drives thoughts out of my head.
[34:09] Speaker 2: Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
[34:11] Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
[34:13] Speaker 1: to wrap up the show for the day. There he is,
[34:14] Speaker 1: Michelangelo in the control room pressing the buttons. Michael, what's
[34:17] Speaker 1: your final thought? Yeah, we got daylight saving time on Sunday,
[34:20] Speaker 1: so that's exciting. So maybe, you know, do a clock
[34:22] Speaker 1: a day until Sunday so you don't forget anything. Spring sideways. Katie,
[34:27] Speaker 1: a final thought for us?
[34:29] Speaker 2: I am about to tweet out a photo I put
[34:31] Speaker 2: my baby in a.
[34:32] Speaker 1: Pumpkin this weekend.
[34:35] Speaker 2: It was very cute.
[34:35] Speaker 1: There you go. Did his onesie not get gooey? No,
[34:39] Speaker 1: we dried it out for a couple days. Oh, there
[34:41] Speaker 1: you go. That's a good planet. Jack, a final thought
[34:44] Speaker 1: for us.
[34:45] Speaker 2: Speaking of cute, so I'm at an NBA game last night,
[34:48] Speaker 2: and for the national anthem, they had a fifth-grade class
[34:52] Speaker 2: who had been practicing their choir come and sing the
[34:55] Speaker 2: national anthem.
[34:56] Speaker 1: And it was freaking awesome. They should do that for
[34:58] Speaker 1: all national anthems.
[34:59] Speaker 2: No more celebrities or somebody you kind of.
[35:01] Speaker 1: Heard of, pop star.
[35:02] Speaker 2: Get the local fifth-graders to come sing the song.
[35:05] Speaker 1: It was so cool. Different final thought than I'd planned.
[35:08] Speaker 1: Did you see game one, I think, or was it
[35:10] Speaker 1: game two of the World Series? Two. That had some
[35:13] Speaker 1: hottie with jeans cut down to her pubic area.
[35:16] Speaker 2: Ridiculous.
[35:17] Speaker 1: And a little crop top on, doing the whole sexy,
[35:20] Speaker 1: sexy sex pop thing for the anthem. Who approved that?
[35:25] Speaker 1: Wear a dress. It's the national anthem. Ya ho? Oh,
[35:29] Speaker 1: that was out of line.
[35:31] Speaker 2: Whoa.
[35:31] Speaker 1: She was dressed like a prostitute. I disavow. Oh, you're
[35:35] Speaker 1: a pansy.
[35:36] Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four-hour workday.
[35:40] Speaker 1: Who just did the, if you dress like a ho bit?
[35:42] Speaker 1: That was so good. Blaze Armstrong. Yeah, Shane Gillis. Right, exactly.
[35:46] Speaker 1: Go to armstrongandgetty.com. Many pleasures await you there. Pick up
[35:50] Speaker 1: some swag. Drop us a note. I'm probably going to
[35:52] Speaker 1: block out this show. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
[35:55] Speaker 4: The people in charge of this country do not love.
[35:59] Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. This is a crisis. This is a mess.
[36:03] Speaker 1: This is a sandwich, and everyone knows it. Yep. Yeah. Absolutely.
[36:08] Speaker 1: Let me say one thing. Happy birthday, Grandpa. Happy birthday, Grandpa.
[36:14] Speaker 1: If the dramatics could come down just a little bit.
[36:16] Speaker 1: Don't you oppress me. Those are the rules. Those are
[36:18] Speaker 1: the rules. I'm disgusted by that. On that high note,
[36:22] Speaker 1: thank you all very much. Armstrong and Getty.

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