# I'm Feeling Pretty Thrivey

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 15 Oct 2026, 38 min.

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Hour 2 of A&G features... • Shane Gillis controversy & new White House Press Sec Katie Zacharia • Execution livestream has been cancelled • Gen Z is depressed • Reparations laws in CA 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.
[0:07] Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now,
[0:12] Speaker 2: here's Armstrong and Getty.
[0:23] Speaker 3: So in light of the Shane Gillis controversial Saturday Night
[0:28] Speaker 3: Live monologue in which he hatefully attacked women and did
[0:32] Speaker 3: so much damage across the country to the fairer sex,
[0:35] Speaker 3: here's Jimmy Kimmel commenting on Trump's new White House press secretary.
[0:40] Speaker 4: I want to introduce you to the new kid in
[0:42] Speaker 4: Trump land. It was the first day of kindergarten for
[0:45] Speaker 4: the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah. In order
[0:49] Speaker 4: to keep him awake and interested, every six months they
[0:52] Speaker 4: bring in a new fawning blonde adult to.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Add to the rotation.
[0:57] Speaker 4: Things did not get off to a great start for
[0:59] Speaker 4: Malibu Katie today. Her first briefing was brief. It was
[1:03] Speaker 4: only 14 minutes long. But even in that short time,
[1:05] Speaker 4: she accomplished exactly what she was brought in to do,
[1:08] Speaker 4: which is slobber a whole tube of lip gloss all
[1:11] Speaker 4: over the president's behind.
[1:13] Speaker 2: And really, that's all it takes nowadays.
[1:16] Speaker 4: All it takes is that and dressing like you're about
[1:18] Speaker 4: to announce pre-boarding on a Delta Airlines flight.
[1:22] Speaker 2: Commenting on a woman's appearance?
[1:25] Speaker 3: Making assumptions about your intelligence over and over again.
[1:27] Speaker 4: Yes.
[1:28] Speaker 2: Oh my God. Calling her a prostitute for the president.
[1:31] Speaker 3: Yes, man. I, um, so since Saturday, which I watched
[1:36] Speaker 3: the Shane Gillis thing live and then played it for
[1:40] Speaker 3: my kids. And I didn't even consider that this would
[1:43] Speaker 3: turn into a controversy.
[1:46] Speaker 2: Has it really? That's how it landed with me.
[1:48] Speaker 3: Um, But since it has become a controversy and the hateful, misogynistic, well,
[1:55] Speaker 3: they talked about it on.
[1:56] Speaker 2: The View for an hour yesterday. It's the number one
[1:57] Speaker 2: daytime TV show. Oh, my God.
[2:00] Speaker 3: But how awful it was and how hurtful it was.
[2:03] Speaker 3: So many people have brought up the various Saturday Night
[2:06] Speaker 3: Live bits where they insult every white male in America
[2:12] Speaker 3: or every Republican voter or everyone in the South or
[2:14] Speaker 3: whatever and are perfectly comfortable calling you a.
[2:16] Speaker 2: Nazi, a racist, whatever. Mm-hmm.
[2:22] Speaker 3: And that's just funny because the crowd laughs like crazy.
[2:25] Speaker 3: But the saying women dress like whores at the gym,
[2:27] Speaker 3: which many women do, is somehow out of bounds, which,
[2:31] Speaker 3: you know.
[2:32] Speaker 5: Well, look, it's the permanently aggrieved set. It's the always
[2:36] Speaker 5: offended set.
[2:37] Speaker 2: Shut up. I don't care.
[2:38] Speaker 5: That's the only proper response to these people.
[2:41] Speaker 2: Please, it's a power grab. I'd like to.
[2:44] Speaker 5: You're a bad person. You have to be quiet now.
[2:46] Speaker 5: That's what every single message is. Shane Gillis is on
[2:49] Speaker 5: podcasts all the time. I don't know if he's done
[2:51] Speaker 5: one since Saturday. I'd like to know what he thinks
[2:54] Speaker 5: of this.
[2:55] Speaker 3: I would guess he's not digging it, really, just because
[2:58] Speaker 3: he tries to be not really political. He doesn't want
[3:01] Speaker 3: to be... And why would you want to be coded
[3:05] Speaker 3: one way or the other? But he certainly doesn't want
[3:07] Speaker 3: to get coded Republican. And then all of a sudden, oh,
[3:10] Speaker 3: you're going to see the Trump comic, you know, that
[3:11] Speaker 3: sort of thing, how everybody puts you in a camp.
[3:14] Speaker 2: And then that's where you are for the rest of
[3:16] Speaker 2: your life.
[3:17] Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I would counsel Mr. Gillis as if he
[3:19] Speaker 5: needs my counsel. You can't win with these people, so
[3:23] Speaker 5: don't adjust what you're doing one iota. They're going to
[3:26] Speaker 5: label you no matter what you do. Again, it's an
[3:29] Speaker 5: effort to silence.
[3:30] Speaker 3: That's what all of it is. I like one of
[3:32] Speaker 3: his jokes where he says, I know what I look like.
[3:35] Speaker 3: I know what I look like. I know my body
[3:36] Speaker 3: type screams. Let's wait until the body cam video comes out.
[3:42] Speaker 2: See, that's the thing.
[3:43] Speaker 5: That's the brilliant part of a lot of those jokes
[3:45] Speaker 5: was he always ended up being the butt of the joke.
[3:47] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[3:48] Speaker 5: You know, I'm a fool, I'm flabby, I am actually
[3:52] Speaker 5: gaping at the women at the gym, whatever. He was always,
[3:55] Speaker 5: but see, that proves that you can't win with these people.
[3:58] Speaker 5: They're professional scolds. They're 24-7 scolds.
[4:02] Speaker 2: Screw them. Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.
[4:05] Speaker 2: And in this case, they're not. They're idiots. Shut up.
[4:07] Speaker 2: I don't care. Shut up. I don't care. That's the response.
[4:11] Speaker 3: I wonder if a lot of the podcasts who have
[4:13] Speaker 3: them on all the time are all of a sudden going.
[4:15] Speaker 2: To think, ah, we better not have Shane Gillis on.
[4:20] Speaker 2: A lot of our crowd thinks he's a right-winger misogynist. Yeah,
[4:25] Speaker 2: I wonder. I wonder.
[4:27] Speaker 5: I'm so not in that world that the so-called controversy
[4:32] Speaker 5: to me sounds like, please, where is it?
[4:35] Speaker 2: Stop it. I don't know. I'm just tired of these people.
[4:40] Speaker 2: I know their game. As I've said multiple times.
[4:43] Speaker 3: But you know how these things get coded, like masks
[4:45] Speaker 3: or vaccines or people or sports or whatever.
[4:47] Speaker 2: Sure, but there's.
[4:48] Speaker 5: Nothing you can do about it. Because the scolds will scold.
[4:53] Speaker 5: Scold is going to scold.
[4:54] Speaker 2: That's what I say. Oh, speaking of scolding.
[4:56] Speaker 5: Yeah, Katie Zachariah's debut was a little rough. She sounded
[5:01] Speaker 5: really nervous. She misspoke a couple of times. But number one,
[5:04] Speaker 5: it's her first day in an incredibly high pressure.
[5:07] Speaker 2: Where's her law degree?
[5:09] Speaker 5: Well, and yeah, that's the other thing. She graduated from
[5:11] Speaker 5: Pepperdine Law but did not pass the bar. She only
[5:14] Speaker 5: took one hack at it. Then she and her husband
[5:16] Speaker 5: got married and moved to China and decided not to
[5:19] Speaker 5: come back. And she's called herself a lawyer at times.
[5:24] Speaker 5: I don't really care.
[5:26] Speaker 3: Well, Trump thought she was a lawyer because he was asked.
[5:32] Speaker 2: So the press got on this fast. We should have
[5:34] Speaker 2: gotten the clip.
[5:34] Speaker 3: We got on this fast, like moments after her first
[5:37] Speaker 3: appearance the other day.
[5:39] Speaker 2: Trump was asked on the rope line, hey, where did.
[5:42] Speaker 3: She get her? Where did she pass the bar? What
[5:43] Speaker 3: state she passed the bar? And Trump turns to her
[5:45] Speaker 3: and said, where did you pass the bar?
[5:46] Speaker 2: They want to know. And she said something about China
[5:49] Speaker 2: that made no sense. After I went to China, yeah.
[5:53] Speaker 2: Which is not an answer.
[5:54] Speaker 3: To where did you pass the bar and trump just
[5:56] Speaker 3: said after she went to china so but then i'll
[5:59] Speaker 3: bet he was thinking because he knows how these things
[6:01] Speaker 3: work i bet he thought uh-oh what's going on here
[6:05] Speaker 3: it's not a good look absolutely not a good you
[6:07] Speaker 3: don't have to be a lawyer to be a white
[6:08] Speaker 3: house press secretary i'm thinking probably most of them not
[6:12] Speaker 3: hardly any of them ever have been i don't know
[6:14] Speaker 3: if any of them have ever been a lawyer you
[6:16] Speaker 3: don't need to be a lawyer you.
[6:17] Speaker 2: Usually come out of the media Has nothing to do
[6:20] Speaker 2: with the job.
[6:20] Speaker 5: It's just, again, it's not a great look if you're
[6:22] Speaker 5: calling yourself a lawyer for years and years and you
[6:24] Speaker 5: never pass the bar.
[6:25] Speaker 3: And one of her old professors, just to stand up
[6:27] Speaker 3: for the lovely, what's her name?
[6:29] Speaker 2: I haven't even memorized her name yet.
[6:33] Speaker 3: One of her old professors at Pepperdine said, all I
[6:35] Speaker 3: remember about her is she was a good student. And
[6:36] Speaker 3: by the way, many great legal minds never.
[6:39] Speaker 2: Took the bar. Right, including judges, yeah.
[6:42] Speaker 3: You don't have to be a great legal mind to
[6:44] Speaker 3: be the White House press secretary, by the way.
[6:45] Speaker 2: We're like jumping to some sort of thing that doesn't exist. Right, exactly, yeah.
[6:50] Speaker 5: And the other thing was she was juggling her family's
[6:53] Speaker 5: move to Washington, had less than 24 hours to prepare.
[6:56] Speaker 5: She got her briefing materials that morning, according to a
[7:00] Speaker 5: senior administration official, and several former press secretaries have come
[7:05] Speaker 5: out and said, Why did they throw her out there
[7:07] Speaker 5: on her first day? You got to ease into that job.
[7:10] Speaker 5: That's a hard job. Well, but here's here's my here's
[7:14] Speaker 5: my go ahead.
[7:16] Speaker 2: You've got a well. I'm not looking for scandal around this.
[7:19] Speaker 2: I don't really care.
[7:21] Speaker 3: But according to the Wall Street Journal, the bigger story is,
[7:24] Speaker 3: did she pass herself off as an attorney in China?
[7:28] Speaker 3: It would seem that the Chinese thought she was an attorney.
[7:31] Speaker 3: You don't need to have a U.S. pass the bar
[7:34] Speaker 3: to do this in China or whatever. But she may
[7:38] Speaker 3: have been portraying herself. So Mark Halpern wrote today, the whole.
[7:43] Speaker 3: Did she pass the bar at Pepperdine is not a story.
[7:46] Speaker 3: Some of this other stuff might turn into a story.
[7:49] Speaker 3: So keep your eye on that, I guess, if you
[7:51] Speaker 3: get it at all. I didn't really take that from
[7:53] Speaker 3: the journal article.
[7:55] Speaker 5: But anyway, what I was going to say is this
[7:58] Speaker 5: just illustrates the the obsession, the self-obsession, Washington, D.C.
[8:04] Speaker 2: Why are we all talking about this?
[8:06] Speaker 5: The person who walks out says, yeah, the president's new
[8:09] Speaker 5: agriculture policy is expected to bring more soybeans to.
[8:12] Speaker 2: Blah, blah, blah. What does that have to do?
[8:15] Speaker 5: I mean, you had to be such a politics junkie
[8:18] Speaker 5: not terribly long ago to have any clue who Ari
[8:21] Speaker 5: Fleischer was or any of the many folks whose names
[8:25] Speaker 5: don't leap to mind for the reasons I'm describing.
[8:27] Speaker 3: You're 100% right, and I retract everything I said and
[8:30] Speaker 3: wish I hadn't brought it up because who freaking cares?
[8:34] Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Well, that was a very long segment that
[8:36] Speaker 2: was intended to be who cares about this story. And
[8:40] Speaker 2: I ruined it. And I take full responsibility. No, no, no.
[8:43] Speaker 2: I take 85% responsibility. Wow.
[8:47] Speaker 3: Only 15% of responsibility on the table for anybody who
[8:50] Speaker 3: wants to grab it.
[8:51] Speaker 2: Michael, if you could transcribe that, print that out. Michael
[8:54] Speaker 2: took the 15%. And Mr.
[8:56] Speaker 5: Armstrong signed that statement at the next break. Talked about
[9:01] Speaker 5: this briefly last hour. San Francisco Playground. There's probably human
[9:07] Speaker 5: feces all over the place. That's gotten worse in the Tenderloin,
[9:11] Speaker 5: according to a new report. But we're not here to
[9:13] Speaker 5: talk about poop.
[9:13] Speaker 2: It's not possible. It is possible. To get worse? Where
[9:17] Speaker 2: there's a will, there's a way, Jack. You're a quitter.
[9:19] Speaker 2: How could it be worse?
[9:22] Speaker 5: At the Bums and Junkies meeting, they said, look, folks,
[9:25] Speaker 5: we're doing a good job of pooping in the streets.
[9:28] Speaker 2: But not good enough. Right? So, San Francisco Playground. Stranger...
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[9:48] Speaker 2: And turns out Stranger was a spy.
[9:51] Speaker 5: One of several scenarios, employees of AI companies have been
[9:55] Speaker 5: presented with in attempts to raise their vigilance against attempts
[9:58] Speaker 5: to steal corporate secrets. In training sessions, OpenAI has warned
[10:03] Speaker 5: employees that outsiders, including competitors.
[10:05] Speaker 2: And state-sponsored actors.
[10:07] Speaker 5: You could try to get access to company information, and
[10:10] Speaker 5: company leaders are teaching them. It might be people offering money,
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[10:32] Speaker 5: Anyway.
[10:33] Speaker 3: Although you can get a fair number of chicks if
[10:35] Speaker 3: you're worth $ 150 million, like a lot of them are.
[10:39] Speaker 2: Wow, wow.
[10:40] Speaker 5: It sounds to me like you're just suggesting that women
[10:44] Speaker 5: will alter their standards based on a man's finances. That's shocking.
[10:50] Speaker 5: Here's a financial story worth taking a look at. The
[10:53] Speaker 5: housing market, the crazy kind of constipated housing market.
[10:59] Speaker 2: Is about to loosen up. Ew. I so regret that metaphor.
[11:03] Speaker 2: Why did you need to? I really do. Why did
[11:05] Speaker 2: you need to turn? Yeah, Katie, I agree. Hey, wipe
[11:08] Speaker 2: that look on your face, sister.
[11:10] Speaker 5: I miss who I was before you said that. Why
[11:14] Speaker 5: take an economic story and turn it toilet related? I
[11:16] Speaker 5: don't understand it.
[11:18] Speaker 2: It was stopped up. The housing market's not moving better.
[11:21] Speaker 2: It's not going to keep going. Off the top of
[11:22] Speaker 2: my head, I just big shovel digging hole. But will
[11:28] Speaker 2: the laxative of lower rates... Stop him! All right, all right.
[11:35] Speaker 2: Here's the actual story. All right. I feel like....
[11:41] Speaker 5: I feel like perhaps the other side of the break
[11:44] Speaker 5: is the time to actually talk about this very interesting
[11:47] Speaker 5: story about the housing markets.
[11:48] Speaker 2: We are all homed, are we not? The housing market
[11:51] Speaker 2: matters to all of us. We'll have that for you momentarily.
[11:55] Speaker 2: All right.
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[13:01] Speaker 6: President Trump is expressing doubts about live streaming the execution
[13:06] Speaker 6: of the Fort Hood shooter, who is, after all, in
[13:09] Speaker 6: a wheelchair.
[13:10] Speaker 2: I mean, the least they can do is give him
[13:12] Speaker 2: a head start. Oh, there you go. We have an
[13:18] Speaker 2: update on that story.
[13:19] Speaker 3: I was listening to a podcast yesterday where they're talking
[13:21] Speaker 3: about this is the televising the execution. The guy is
[13:25] Speaker 3: in a wheelchair paralyzed because of the did he get shot?
[13:29] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[13:30] Speaker 3: Too bad he didn't die at the time would have
[13:31] Speaker 3: saved us all this trouble. But anyway, how do you
[13:34] Speaker 3: do that in a way that doesn't look extra gruesome?
[13:38] Speaker 3: Do you leave him in a wheelchair and execute a
[13:40] Speaker 3: guy sitting in a wheelchair? Do some people come out
[13:42] Speaker 3: and lift him out of the wheelchair since he can't
[13:44] Speaker 3: walk on his own and like set him in a chair?
[13:47] Speaker 3: That doesn't look good either. Anyway, none of that matters.
[13:50] Speaker 3: As Donald Trump has just announced, this is breaking news.
[13:53] Speaker 3: The execution of the Fort Hood terrorist Nadal Hassan will
[13:56] Speaker 3: not be live streamed.
[13:58] Speaker 2: Will not. Be watchable. Right, right. Well, it was a
[14:02] Speaker 2: ridiculous idea, and it was never going to happen. So
[14:04] Speaker 2: now it's official.
[14:05] Speaker 3: But that is, you've got to admit, that is a
[14:08] Speaker 3: visual nightmare, kind of thing. No, it could be stage managed.
[14:11] Speaker 2: You don't think so? How would you do it? FDR
[14:13] Speaker 2: got away with it for an entire administration or two.
[14:17] Speaker 2: Stage managed.
[14:18] Speaker 3: You lift him out of it, put him in the
[14:19] Speaker 3: chair before you go to the live stream?
[14:21] Speaker 2: Exactly. Okay. Yeah. Mm-hmm. All right.
[14:25] Speaker 5: So back to the housing market. It's so interesting right now.
[14:32] Speaker 2: The constipated housing market? That's it.
[14:34] Speaker 6: Yep.
[14:34] Speaker 2: That's the one.
[14:36] Speaker 3: Meaning the interest rates are going to loosen things up
[14:38] Speaker 3: so much I'm going to need a diaper.
[14:40] Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Wow. Wow, Katie.
[14:43] Speaker 5: Now who's the bad guy? I think he's out of
[14:45] Speaker 5: control today.
[14:46] Speaker 2: Are you all right?
[14:49] Speaker 4: Hmm.
[14:49] Speaker 2: I thought we got past that.
[14:54] Speaker 5: You're a maniac. So the housing market's weird. It's long
[14:58] Speaker 5: been a hobby of mine to follow real estate. I've
[15:00] Speaker 5: bought and sold a bunch of houses. I'm just really
[15:02] Speaker 5: interested in it. I've never seen anything like this. There
[15:07] Speaker 5: is a wide gap between the number of sellers and
[15:11] Speaker 5: buyers in the housing market right now. You got a
[15:13] Speaker 5: million and a half Americans trying to sell their homes
[15:16] Speaker 5: and only about 929 who are buying. So that should
[15:20] Speaker 5: mean housing prices would drop, especially because higher interest rates
[15:25] Speaker 5: put pressure downward.
[15:26] Speaker 2: On housing prices.
[15:27] Speaker 5: Because look, if all I can afford is $ 3, 000 a month,
[15:31] Speaker 5: It doesn't really matter to me how much of that
[15:33] Speaker 5: is the price and how much of that is the
[15:34] Speaker 5: interest rate.
[15:35] Speaker 2: That's all the money I.
[15:36] Speaker 5: Got, for instance. So it puts downward pressure on houses.
[15:39] Speaker 5: And so housing prices should be tumbling, but they're not.
[15:45] Speaker 5: They're starting to show weakness as about a third of
[15:49] Speaker 5: folks who had the old ultra-cheap mortgages don't have the—
[15:55] Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but today more than a third of outstanding
[15:58] Speaker 5: home loans have a rate above 5%. So at least
[16:03] Speaker 5: a third of them aren't the ultra-cheapos, and those are
[16:08] Speaker 5: more likely to be sold. But here's the really, really
[16:11] Speaker 5: weird part. The number of people who put their house
[16:16] Speaker 5: on the market then say, never mind, is at an
[16:19] Speaker 5: all-time high. If they can't get the price they want,
[16:22] Speaker 5: they just say, yeah, we'll stay, I guess.
[16:26] Speaker 2: That's an interesting situation to be in.
[16:29] Speaker 5: Yeah, other than divorces and job transfers and death and
[16:33] Speaker 5: that sort of thing, people are just not selling in.
[16:36] Speaker 2: The normal ways and in the normal intervals, at least
[16:39] Speaker 2: for now.
[16:39] Speaker 3: Isn't people just wanting to see what they could get
[16:41] Speaker 3: for it? And if they got enough money, they'd go
[16:43] Speaker 3: ahead and move? Because I've never moved just for the
[16:46] Speaker 3: hell of it. So I don't know what that is.
[16:50] Speaker 5: Well, I think people do have a certain expectation what
[16:53] Speaker 5: their house is worth, and often it's unrealistic. But especially
[16:57] Speaker 5: since housing prices have been pretty high for a pretty
[16:59] Speaker 5: long time, if you bought three, four years ago and
[17:04] Speaker 5: you realize nobody can give you anything close to what
[17:07] Speaker 5: you thought you might be able to.
[17:08] Speaker 2: Get, you just stay put.
[17:10] Speaker 3: Every move I've ever made in my life, though, is job,
[17:14] Speaker 3: school district, something. There was a reason, wasn't there? If
[17:18] Speaker 3: it doesn't sell, we'll just stay here.
[17:19] Speaker 2: I guess. Right.
[17:20] Speaker 5: So you've got this huge oversupply of houses for sale
[17:23] Speaker 5: and an undersupply of buyers.
[17:24] Speaker 2: I mean, come on, supply and demand, Econ 101, right?
[17:27] Speaker 2: Except it's not happening.
[17:29] Speaker 5: In September, 6% of sellers pulled a property off the
[17:32] Speaker 5: market after failing to get an acceptable offer.
[17:34] Speaker 2: In Chicago, it was 18% of homes. Every state's different.
[17:40] Speaker 2: Every town's different.
[17:40] Speaker 3: And then even within a town, you can have different
[17:42] Speaker 3: markets going on within the same town. So it's all
[17:45] Speaker 3: anecdotal evidence, you know, for individuals. But, man, there's a
[17:48] Speaker 3: lot of signs in my town. And there weren't any
[17:50] Speaker 3: a couple of years ago when I was looking. It'd
[17:52] Speaker 3: be like one every couple of weeks, and it would
[17:54] Speaker 3: last three days. Now they're all– there was one corner
[17:57] Speaker 3: I drove by the other day. There must have been
[17:58] Speaker 3: eight signs there competing to try to get you to
[18:00] Speaker 3: go that way and go look.
[18:02] Speaker 2: At the house.
[18:02] Speaker 3: Right.
[18:03] Speaker 5: Yeah, so check your local numbers, obviously. In Austin, for instance,
[18:07] Speaker 5: home values are down 27% from their peak in 2022.
[18:10] Speaker 2: Whoa. Yeah. That's what I've been waiting for. I don't
[18:14] Speaker 2: live in Austin. We've got a lot more on the way.
[18:16] Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
[18:21] Speaker 7: He posted AI-generated video that shows him chasing and hugging
[18:25] Speaker 7: a tiger, a video that appears to be a reference
[18:28] Speaker 7: to an incident this weekend where a man in the
[18:30] Speaker 7: UK was killed by a tiger after entering its enclosure
[18:33] Speaker 7: at a wildlife park.
[18:35] Speaker 2: Really? It appears to be a reference to that? Hmm,
[18:37] Speaker 2: it does appear that way. Is that a report on
[18:40] Speaker 2: a meme? Yes, that was a news report on a meme.
[18:44] Speaker 3: I would say, you talked the other day that you
[18:46] Speaker 3: feel like we're in a September 10th moment, people regularly...
[18:50] Speaker 3: Quote how we were into shark attacks was the big
[18:53] Speaker 3: story right before September 11th. We weren't paying attention to
[18:55] Speaker 3: the world. Our news, our mainstream news. which few people
[19:00] Speaker 3: watch anymore, so maybe it's not an indication of anything.
[19:03] Speaker 3: But our mainstream news, our big evening newscasts, are dumber
[19:06] Speaker 3: than they've ever been, ever. And I mean, I feel
[19:09] Speaker 3: like it's gone off a cliff just in the last
[19:10] Speaker 3: couple of weeks with celebrity stories and YouTube videos of
[19:15] Speaker 3: the day and all that sort of stuff before they
[19:17] Speaker 3: get to, you know, President Zelensky and the new diesel
[19:21] Speaker 3: policy will be six celebrity story or memes in.
[19:27] Speaker 2: Before they get to that. Something's going on there.
[19:30] Speaker 3: So that might just be the state of media and
[19:32] Speaker 3: have nothing to do with anything else.
[19:34] Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't watch the news. That's a
[19:37] Speaker 2: wise decision, son.
[19:38] Speaker 5: It might have more to do with the state of
[19:40] Speaker 5: the audience, honestly, because I have a feeling the purveyors
[19:44] Speaker 5: of the news, are, they have technology to figure out
[19:48] Speaker 5: what their viewers want and what they don't, what they
[19:50] Speaker 5: stay tuned through and what they tune out of. And
[19:53] Speaker 5: I think they've realized their audience wants fluff. So they're
[19:57] Speaker 5: giving them fluff.
[19:58] Speaker 2: Could be.
[19:59] Speaker 3: That's not good. So we've talked about this before. The
[20:05] Speaker 3: headline is Gen Z is the most depressed generation. we've
[20:10] Speaker 3: maybe ever had uh we'll get into that in a
[20:14] Speaker 3: second but it's all about the gallop life evaluation index
[20:17] Speaker 3: which we've talked about over the years it gives you
[20:19] Speaker 3: three categories to choose from are you suffering struggling or
[20:28] Speaker 3: thriving those are your three options you got three options
[20:31] Speaker 3: two of them quite negative suffering and struggling And then
[20:36] Speaker 3: one of them seems overly positive.
[20:38] Speaker 5: I feel like there should be something between one and two.
[20:42] Speaker 5: I think struggling is just one shade too dark. I
[20:47] Speaker 5: don't find that necessarily negative. But isn't thriving one shade
[20:51] Speaker 5: too positive?
[20:52] Speaker 3: I mean, I got to be doing pretty well before
[20:54] Speaker 3: I'm thriving today.
[20:56] Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I'm kicking ass. Maybe keeping your head
[21:00] Speaker 2: above water. Surviving is the middle one. Doing okay.
[21:03] Speaker 3: I'm all right.
[21:05] Speaker 2: But anyway, the choices are thriving, struggling, and suffering. Okay.
[21:10] Speaker 3: Where would you place yourself on the ladder today? Today,
[21:13] Speaker 3: I'm struggling a little bit. Yesterday, I was thriving.
[21:16] Speaker 2: That's another problem. Staying up too late watching baseball.
[21:19] Speaker 3: That's another problem of the if it switches day to
[21:22] Speaker 3: day or within the day, then what does any polling
[21:25] Speaker 3: about it.
[21:26] Speaker 2: Mean at all? In general, though, I'm feeling pretty thrivey.
[21:30] Speaker 2: Thank you for asking.
[21:31] Speaker 3: But anyway, Gen Z has seen their life satisfaction plummet
[21:36] Speaker 3: compared to their millennial predecessors a generation ago. This would
[21:40] Speaker 3: be your 18 to 29 year olds. Remember back in
[21:43] Speaker 3: the day, we used to talk about millennials and how
[21:44] Speaker 3: they ruined bedspreads and. mayonnaise and all different things uh
[21:49] Speaker 3: when they were 18 to 29 now they're older and
[21:52] Speaker 3: uh obviously that's the way life works in time in
[21:55] Speaker 3: case you weren't aware of that but now we're talking
[21:57] Speaker 3: about gen z is 18 to 29 uh and a
[22:01] Speaker 3: over a quarter of them 27 are being treated for
[22:06] Speaker 3: depression which seems like a very high number but doesn't
[22:09] Speaker 3: have more to do with your parents and i don't
[22:12] Speaker 3: know anyway Well, and their whole world surrounds them with
[22:16] Speaker 3: negativity and anger all the time. Less than half now
[22:20] Speaker 3: describe themselves as thriving, which is down a fair amount
[22:26] Speaker 3: from 2008. Adults describe themselves as drifting away from friends
[22:31] Speaker 3: and partners and experiencing less joy, while less than a
[22:35] Speaker 3: third said they had reached most of their goals in
[22:37] Speaker 3: the last year. I don't remember when I was 20
[22:39] Speaker 3: in my 20s ever setting goals, really.
[22:45] Speaker 2: They're, like, incremental on the road to success, I guess.
[22:49] Speaker 3: I just don't remember having specific goals that I could
[22:52] Speaker 3: have looked back.
[22:53] Speaker 2: Over the years. Did you reach your goals this year
[22:54] Speaker 2: as a 22-year-old? I don't know. I guess I kind
[22:57] Speaker 2: of had a lot of fun, which I was hoping
[22:59] Speaker 2: to do. Kept my job. Yeah.
[23:04] Speaker 3: The social isolation of COVID-19 during their formative developmental years
[23:08] Speaker 3: has left a lasting impact, according to the researchers. They
[23:11] Speaker 3: think it all turned around COVID and has never gone.
[23:14] Speaker 2: Back, really. which is pretty interesting.
[23:17] Speaker 5: I think it's been exacerbated by a lot of things
[23:19] Speaker 5: happening in the world right now and the education system
[23:22] Speaker 5: and the fact that people are looking for satisfaction where
[23:24] Speaker 5: they'll never find it, namely online.
[23:27] Speaker 3: So that age group back in 2010 would have been millennials.
[23:32] Speaker 3: Now they've gotten older, as I pointed out, the whole
[23:34] Speaker 3: way time works thing. So back then, 64% of millennials
[23:38] Speaker 3: when they were 18 to 29 said, described themselves as thriving, 64%.
[23:43] Speaker 2: Gen Z, 44%. 20 points lower. That seems like a lot.
[23:51] Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
[23:52] Speaker 3: And most of that decline since 2020 happened since COVID, whatever.
[23:56] Speaker 2: COVID did to us. It was big, no doubt. Absolutely huge.
[24:00] Speaker 5: I didn't mean to suggest that it wasn't, but it's not.
[24:04] Speaker 2: The only thing.
[24:06] Speaker 5: Plus, we're celebrating pathologizing every mood and true. I, in
[24:12] Speaker 5: a way societally, I mean, it's just, it's absolutely rampant
[24:16] Speaker 5: among young people.
[24:17] Speaker 2: I see it all the time.
[24:17] Speaker 5: In fact, they're like the proverbial fish that doesn't realize
[24:20] Speaker 5: they're wet. They're all so into their mental struggles.
[24:26] Speaker 2: Everybody talks about it all the time. Right.
[24:31] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[24:32] Speaker 3: Uh, gen x is the crowd that has stayed the
[24:36] Speaker 3: steadiest that's what we are gen x oh yes.
[24:39] Speaker 2: Old steady joe they called me back in the day.
[24:41] Speaker 3: We've hung around in the uh mid to high 40s
[24:45] Speaker 3: since 2008 gone up a little gone down a little
[24:47] Speaker 3: just kind of hang around in that area.
[24:49] Speaker 2: Let's just say yeah okay not so bad things.
[24:52] Speaker 5: Haven't changed much i would argue and i don't get
[24:55] Speaker 5: credit for this we're all the uh the results of
[24:59] Speaker 5: our upbringing and the world we grew up in, as
[25:02] Speaker 5: are the Gen Z kids and the millennials and the
[25:04] Speaker 5: rest of them. But correct me if I'm wrong, the
[25:08] Speaker 5: Gen X official motto is, but what are you going
[25:10] Speaker 5: to do? I mean, that's our zeitgeist, or not zeitgeist.
[25:16] Speaker 2: But that's our thing. What are you going to do? Ups, downs,
[25:21] Speaker 2: good times, bad times, et cetera, et cetera. You know what?
[25:23] Speaker 5: This is a perfect time to read this. Eric crafted
[25:25] Speaker 5: this email to us. And he's talking about the people
[25:29] Speaker 5: who are permanently angry about one thing or another, the
[25:32] Speaker 5: professional scolds that I was describing. He says, I may
[25:40] Speaker 5: have influenced a woman or two out of it simply
[25:42] Speaker 5: by laying out what it looks like in her 40s
[25:44] Speaker 5: versus in her 20s. Essentially, I'd ask, do you want
[25:47] Speaker 5: to burn through your 20s pissed off and angry, then
[25:50] Speaker 5: end up a lonely cat lady in your 40s? Or
[25:52] Speaker 5: do you want to embrace your youth joyfully? Because your
[25:55] Speaker 5: youth will never return once it departs. This choice, and
[25:58] Speaker 5: it is a choice, is critical to at least think about.
[26:04] Speaker 2: True dad about the youth never returning.
[26:07] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[26:07] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[26:07] Speaker 2: But it is a choice. Do you really want to
[26:09] Speaker 2: spend your 20 years all angry and pissed off and
[26:11] Speaker 2: screaming in the streets? I didn't. I didn't. So here
[26:15] Speaker 2: are your questions.
[26:16] Speaker 5: These kids are the result of the education system, though.
[26:19] Speaker 4: Yes.
[26:19] Speaker 3: Here are your questions in case you just want to
[26:21] Speaker 3: judge for yourself on the whole thriving.
[26:24] Speaker 2: Are you supposed to imagine.
[26:25] Speaker 3: A ladder with 10 steps, 0 to 10, where 0
[26:30] Speaker 3: represents the worst possible life?
[26:33] Speaker 2: What, on fire? What is the worst possible life?
[26:38] Speaker 5: On fire as the firing squad gets ready to shoot me.
[26:42] Speaker 2: Actually, that would put me out of my misery.
[26:44] Speaker 3: On fire in line behind somebody writing a check at
[26:47] Speaker 3: the grocery store.
[26:50] Speaker 2: That's a good one. I don't know.
[26:52] Speaker 3: Imagine the worst possible life, which you got to admit
[26:54] Speaker 3: is kind of a funny scenario.
[26:56] Speaker 2: At zero. I'm currently being eaten by a tiger. While
[27:01] Speaker 2: on fire.
[27:01] Speaker 3: And 10 represents the best possible life. I've won the
[27:04] Speaker 3: lottery while I'm having sex, I guess is what today.
[27:07] Speaker 3: I hear the winning numbers read to me while I'm
[27:10] Speaker 3: having sex. That's my best possible life.
[27:12] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[27:13] Speaker 3: But where are, which step are you standing on today?
[27:17] Speaker 3: On which step of the ladder would you say you
[27:18] Speaker 3: personally feel you stand on at this time?
[27:23] Speaker 2: Like at this very moment. I'm at work. I like work.
[27:26] Speaker 2: Because I think I'd be on a different step maybe
[27:27] Speaker 2: later today. I don't know. I don't know if I
[27:30] Speaker 2: would or not.
[27:30] Speaker 3: I'd have to think about it. Somebody called me and
[27:32] Speaker 3: asked me at 3 this afternoon. Where would I put myself?
[27:37] Speaker 3: I'd probably be like a 7 or an 8, actually.
[27:41] Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. Speaking for myself, yeah, pretty close.
[27:46] Speaker 5: I'm really not superstitious, but I don't like pronouncing everything's
[27:51] Speaker 5: going great.
[27:54] Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel like a good idea. I know.
[27:58] Speaker 2: I have a bit of that, too.
[27:59] Speaker 3: But didn't we learn last week, was that from Tom Brady?
[28:01] Speaker 3: I think it was Tom Brady that he broke out
[28:03] Speaker 3: of that trap. He thought it was holding him back.
[28:07] Speaker 3: The idea that he has to kind of have a
[28:09] Speaker 3: negative attitude to stay on track. And he flipped it
[28:14] Speaker 3: around where he's always picturing everything is going great and
[28:17] Speaker 3: it's going to go great.
[28:19] Speaker 2: And that was like his key to success in life
[28:21] Speaker 2: or something.
[28:22] Speaker 3: Which is interesting because I have always said, I used
[28:25] Speaker 3: to believe this a thousand percent when I was in school.
[28:28] Speaker 3: If I don't worry about my test score, I'm going
[28:30] Speaker 3: to get a bad score. So I need to like
[28:33] Speaker 3: be really concerned. I don't think I did very well
[28:35] Speaker 3: on this test. Then I'd get a B back, which
[28:36] Speaker 3: is what I was always hoping for. But if I
[28:40] Speaker 3: thought I did pretty good in that test, that's when
[28:42] Speaker 3: I'm going to get the C minus.
[28:45] Speaker 2: Which is obviously....
[28:47] Speaker 3: Well, there's no cause and effect there. And the bit
[28:52] Speaker 3: of a weird self-defeating, I don't know, you.
[28:54] Speaker 2: Got the whole Ben Franklin pessimist thing, you know. I
[28:57] Speaker 2: don't know what is best. I'm going to listen to
[28:58] Speaker 2: Tom Brady. How many Super Bowl rings did Ben Franklin win? Zero. Over.
[29:03] Speaker 2: Not a one. Anyway, if I were you, where would
[29:06] Speaker 2: you be on the, which step are you on, Michael?
[29:08] Speaker 3: Zero to ten. Worst life you can possibly imagine on
[29:11] Speaker 3: fire while being eaten by a tiger.
[29:13] Speaker 2: Or ten. I'd say seven. You're a seven? How about you, Katie? Yeah,
[29:18] Speaker 2: I'm between a 7 and an 8. Okay, so we're
[29:19] Speaker 2: all thriving. Every one of us.
[29:22] Speaker 3: And then the other question, by the way, is on
[29:24] Speaker 3: which step do you think you will stand on five
[29:26] Speaker 3: years from today?
[29:30] Speaker 2: That'd also be a 7 or 8, I think.
[29:32] Speaker 8: I'm just afraid someone's going to push the ladder over.
[29:35] Speaker 3: Somebody who's got like a two.
[29:38] Speaker 2: They don't like you being on seven or eight. Exactly.
[29:41] Speaker 2: That's socialism. They don't want to be at the top
[29:43] Speaker 2: of the ladder. They just want to chop the ladder
[29:45] Speaker 2: down so nobody gets higher than a four.
[29:48] Speaker 3: That's kind of an interesting one. In five years, what
[29:51] Speaker 3: step do you think you're going to be on? I
[29:52] Speaker 3: think that says a lot about your personality, probably more
[29:55] Speaker 3: than reality. That if you have a really bad number
[29:59] Speaker 3: for what you expect in five years, expect things to
[30:03] Speaker 3: be pretty good.
[30:05] Speaker 2: I hope they will be, I guess. I don't know.
[30:07] Speaker 2: There's a lot of time between now and then. Wow.
[30:09] Speaker 2: So what are you going with? Could be feast, could
[30:12] Speaker 2: be famine.
[30:13] Speaker 3: You're actually unwilling superstitious-wise to predict you're going to be
[30:17] Speaker 3: doing well in five years?
[30:19] Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Well, no, not superstition. It's a ridiculous question
[30:23] Speaker 2: to me. That's what you tell Gallup? That's a ridiculous question.
[30:26] Speaker 2: Get out of here. Yeah, yeah.
[30:28] Speaker 5: I'll answer for right now, but no, there's way too
[30:30] Speaker 5: much that's going to happen between now and then. I
[30:31] Speaker 5: can't possibly predict that.
[30:36] Speaker 2: That's interesting. Too little data.
[30:38] Speaker 8: Do you think since they're asking Gen Z, they're talking
[30:41] Speaker 8: more about, like, careers and, well, you have a house
[30:43] Speaker 8: and all that stuff?
[30:45] Speaker 2: I don't know. You get to make your own criteria.
[30:47] Speaker 2: That's the thing. I feel like I'm going to be
[30:49] Speaker 2: a seven or eight in five years.
[30:51] Speaker 5: For a guy of my age, which is your age, too,
[30:54] Speaker 5: it entirely depends on health. I mean, that's like the
[30:58] Speaker 5: only question confronting me. My golf game might be slightly
[31:01] Speaker 5: better or slightly worse. I hope my wife will still
[31:04] Speaker 5: love me. I certainly love her.
[31:06] Speaker 3: But for whatever reason, your personality is always you hesitate
[31:09] Speaker 3: to give a prediction on something like you'll be penalized somehow.
[31:12] Speaker 2: If you do not do it.
[31:14] Speaker 3: Like somebody's going to come to your house and knock
[31:16] Speaker 3: on the door five years from now. You said you're
[31:18] Speaker 3: going to be a seven. Look at you.
[31:19] Speaker 2: You lost your foot. Look at this idiot. Everybody gather around.
[31:25] Speaker 2: Look at this. Everybody gather around. No, it's not that.
[31:30] Speaker 5: It's that I have very, very strong opinions on stuff
[31:33] Speaker 5: I'm very confident about. But stuff that I don't feel
[31:36] Speaker 5: like I know enough, I don't have an opinion about.
[31:39] Speaker 2: One of those undecideds that gets pulled.
[31:41] Speaker 3: Which is a reasonable stance, actually. It's not much fun,
[31:45] Speaker 3: but it's a reasonable stance to say, how would I
[31:47] Speaker 3: possibly know?
[31:47] Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah. You can't make me answer a
[31:52] Speaker 2: question if I don't know the answer. Oh, man.
[31:55] Speaker 8: You know, I'm with Joe, though, on the whole. I'm
[31:56] Speaker 8: not going to say everything's great. Like, people ask me
[31:59] Speaker 8: all the time, so how's Van sleeping?
[32:02] Speaker 2: Our baby. And I'm like, um... Last night was great.
[32:05] Speaker 8: But I'm not going to say, oh, he's doing great,
[32:06] Speaker 8: because the second I say that, we're going to have
[32:09] Speaker 8: three middle-of-the-night wake-ups with just screaming. Happens with traffic, happens
[32:13] Speaker 8: with everything else, too.
[32:14] Speaker 5: Zach, I was just going to say, and look, I am, like, deliberately,
[32:17] Speaker 5: studiously not superstitious, but what percentage of human beings, if
[32:22] Speaker 5: their spouse or buddy or whatever says.
[32:24] Speaker 2: Man, traffic is great today, thinks, oh, no. Yeah, same here.
[32:29] Speaker 2: It's a truism in golf. Boy, I'm playing well today. Doomed! Doomed!
[32:35] Speaker 2: You were playing great today. Say goodbye to your golf ball.
[32:38] Speaker 2: It's about to go into a lake. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
[32:41] Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Human beings, what are
[32:43] Speaker 2: you going to do? So a word from our friends.
[32:45] Speaker 3: You weren't thriving until somebody scammed you.
[32:48] Speaker 2: How about that for a transition?
[32:50] Speaker 5: Oh, that's good because you thought it was actually your
[32:52] Speaker 5: bank on the line. They had your name and address,
[32:54] Speaker 5: the last four digits of your social. You're thinking, all right,
[32:57] Speaker 5: it's totally my bank. Here's all my private info.
[33:00] Speaker 2: It's not your bank.
[33:00] Speaker 5: It's a scammer who bought your info from one of
[33:02] Speaker 5: those damn data brokers.
[33:04] Speaker 3: Lots of data brokers have all your info, including your
[33:06] Speaker 3: social security address, all the different things, and they sell
[33:09] Speaker 3: it to people for practically nothing.
[33:11] Speaker 2: You got to get it off the websites. Incogni can
[33:13] Speaker 2: do that.
[33:13] Speaker 3: I like the fact that Incogni is sending removal requests
[33:16] Speaker 3: to 420 plus data brokers and people search sites for me.
[33:20] Speaker 2: It follows up so my info doesn't sneak back on there.
[33:23] Speaker 5: You will thrive if you go to incogni.com slash Armstrong
[33:27] Speaker 5: and get 60% off. It's I-N-C-O-G-N-I like incognito. Incogni.com slash Armstrong.
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[33:39] Speaker 5: protect your stuff, they can't scam you if they can't
[33:40] Speaker 5: find you.
[33:41] Speaker 2: Bastards again, I say. So J.D.
[33:43] Speaker 3: Vance made a joke, a gay joke, and I saw
[33:47] Speaker 3: two different takes on that, one positive, one negative, that
[33:49] Speaker 3: I thought were really interesting for discussion.
[33:51] Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get to that in hour three. Among other things,
[33:53] Speaker 2: stay here. Armstrong and Getty.
[34:00] Speaker 6: Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that may require some Californians
[34:03] Speaker 6: to pay slavery reparations.
[34:06] Speaker 2: To get reparations, you just have.
[34:08] Speaker 6: To prove you've been married to Kimberly Guilfoyle.
[34:14] Speaker 1: Wow.
[34:16] Speaker 2: Where the hell did that punchline come from? Fox taking
[34:19] Speaker 2: a shot at Guilfoyle like that. Wow. Okay.
[34:23] Speaker 5: So next hour, I want to get into the absolutely
[34:27] Speaker 5: laughable effort at reparations that Gavi continues to embrace.
[34:32] Speaker 2: Yes.
[34:34] Speaker 5: I think positioning himself for his run for the presidency
[34:37] Speaker 5: because he's got to do well in South Carolina among
[34:39] Speaker 5: the black voters.
[34:41] Speaker 2: But it is everything about it just stinks. It's illegal.
[34:46] Speaker 2: It's illogical. It's unconstitutional.
[34:50] Speaker 3: Well i don't i don't know if you were here
[34:52] Speaker 3: when we talked about the law he signed what a
[34:54] Speaker 3: week or two ago i think you were i was
[34:56] Speaker 3: indeed yeah were you here on the gulf or i
[34:57] Speaker 3: thought you were on the gulf trip anyway the thing
[34:59] Speaker 3: he signed where corporations have to disclose any ties they
[35:03] Speaker 3: or any suppliers to their company may have had to
[35:06] Speaker 3: slavery back in the day and and the the question
[35:11] Speaker 3: that isn't answered enough with so many of these things
[35:13] Speaker 3: is Tell me the one human being that's helped by this.
[35:17] Speaker 2: One. Give me one and make the argument. One human
[35:20] Speaker 2: on Earth that's helped by this.
[35:23] Speaker 5: You know, if like two-thirds of Congress was considering reconstituting slavery,
[35:28] Speaker 5: and you were trying to gin up, cotton gin up,
[35:33] Speaker 5: you know, opposition to it, I could see being like, no,
[35:37] Speaker 5: let's take a look at the history of it and all.
[35:39] Speaker 2: But no, we're not going to have slaves. We're good.
[35:42] Speaker 2: No slaves, okay? You have my assurance. So, but yeah,
[35:46] Speaker 2: it's just.
[35:47] Speaker 5: So, if your parent company in 1906... that doesn't exist anymore,
[35:54] Speaker 5: but you're, you know, a paint company or a tire
[35:56] Speaker 5: company or whatever, and you happen to still exist.
[35:58] Speaker 2: You've evolved 18.
[35:59] Speaker 5: Times, but if in 1906 they did business, we'll stick
[36:04] Speaker 5: with tires with a rubber company.
[36:07] Speaker 2: That was the offshoot.
[36:10] Speaker 5: Of a corporation that once bought cotton from Mississippi.
[36:15] Speaker 2: Right.
[36:15] Speaker 5: You've got to disclose that to the state of California
[36:18] Speaker 5: to aid, to your point, Jack, to help with the,
[36:21] Speaker 5: you know, to make sure the people who are idiotic.
[36:25] Speaker 3: You got to put a plaque in your lobby or
[36:27] Speaker 3: something like that. Like the signs that say this building
[36:30] Speaker 3: contains chemicals that have been known to cause cancer in
[36:32] Speaker 3: pregnant women.
[36:33] Speaker 2: You know, that kind of California. Right. Yes.
[36:35] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[36:36] Speaker 3: All right.
[36:37] Speaker 5: Compulsory land disclosure plaques, that sort of thing. Virtue signaling nonsense.
[36:45] Speaker 5: As the state is going bankrupt, squandering hundreds of billions
[36:50] Speaker 5: of dollars in taxpayer monies, it's a kleptocracy.
[36:54] Speaker 2: But, you know, Gavi's like, yes, stupid.
[36:57] Speaker 5: That's why I do this stuff, to distract you from
[36:59] Speaker 5: the stuff that matters.
[37:01] Speaker 3: I look forward to talking about that. Also, you get
[37:03] Speaker 3: the most expensive... Politics race in the country in Texas
[37:11] Speaker 3: between the communist wokester and he probably crook Republican.
[37:17] Speaker 2: Nice choice. But anyway, J.D.
[37:20] Speaker 3: Vance made a gay joke about the Democrat yesterday that
[37:22] Speaker 3: we should check in on and see what we think
[37:24] Speaker 3: of that.
[37:25] Speaker 2: Good Lord.
[37:27] Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty.

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