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Speaker 1: Now broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: And now.
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Speaker 3: Jeez, thank God it's almost over live from Studio C. Si, senor. A dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. It's actually a polling place. The Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. So there'll be a lot of people coming in and out throughout the day voting. And we make them show their ID. Yeah, and then, you know, while I'm trying to do this show, I got to, like, check their ballots and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of annoying. Anyway, today we are toiling under the title of the show. There is somebody voting right now.
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Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. She doesn't speak English. I have no idea if this is a citizen or not. What language do you need the ballot? What language do you need? Maybe we should prop that door open so it doesn't click open and close like that. I don't know what that language is. They have no ID. All right.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: Funny. Anyway, we're toiling under the title of the show today. One title. Only one title today. Unifying title. E Pluribus title. This is the most important election of this week.
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Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
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Speaker 3: I guess I should come over by the microphone. Whatever. Am I wrong? Or did midterms used to not get this much attention? I feel like midterms used to come and go. You barely knew they were happening. That might overstate it somewhat. But yes, the fever pitch of it in the age of hyperbole has definitely boiled to the top. I have two theories on that. Yeah, go ahead.
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Speaker 4: One, of course, Trump drives everything. But the whole, it's our national television show. We don't have any other shared experiences. This is our national obsession. Politics is our national television show.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's part of it. The other part of it is that it's our identity as well as human beings in a way that was never true before. As we've reviewed many times, it's worth repeating. If you asked somebody not very long ago, Not very long ago at all. We'll say the 90s. Tell me about yourself. Give me a list of five things that tells me who you are. Politics might not make the list at all. And if it did, it would be number five at best. Now it's like number one or two for everybody.
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Speaker 2: Damn it.
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Speaker 3: I've been watching the evening news every night my whole life. And I don't remember every single night the whole episode being about midterm elections. Ever? I would have not watched it because I wouldn't have cared. So I just I don't I don't get it. But I guess you explained it. I care. I care deeply. Well, also, and again, another factor. My God, I have to keep repeating myself. Why am I teaching this remedial class? The gulf between the parties policy wise is the widest it's been since 1861. Vote R, vote D 30 years ago. Small tweaks around the edges. A little more emphasis on this. A little less emphasis on that. Fine. Now you've either got grown-ass men showing their genitals to your 8-year-old girl and welfare, sex changes for illegal immigrants, or you've got whatever the hell Trump is at this point. So that's the other aspect of it. Oh, you're worried about.
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Speaker 3: Grown-ass men showing their genitals to your children? I've got a response to that. You have a cell phone in your pocket, don't you? Is it a Samsung or is it an iPhone? We ought to run that again. Look, you're carrying a cell phone in your pocket. Abdul Al-Said's bizarre answer to the gender-bending madness question on 60 Minutes, specifically on boys running roughshod over little girls on sports fields. You know, one thing that didn't get left out of our October surprise, which actually ended up being November surprises in a couple of cases. That was the surprise. They got you. Oh, October's over. No surprises.
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Speaker 4: And then day one of November, boom. Because we have voting month now, which is a terrible idea. Like half the votes in in all the states where they had the November surprise.
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Speaker 3: It's hard to have it. It's still going to take weeks to figure out, you know, most of the Western states for some reason. That's worth letting you know is that the last two house races, 24 and 22, took them eight days to call who won. had control of the House. So don't be expecting that.
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Speaker 4: If you grew up like I did, if you always had the result that night before you went to bed, that ain't going to happen. I love the states where they don't open the mail-in ballots until the polls close.
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Speaker 3: What is the theory on that? What is that? Why do you do that? Oh, you know, Wanda, the votes counted and leaks and affecting turnout or something, something. You know, Florida does it. The minute they get them, they count them, they tabulate them. They just don't distribute that information. Works perfectly. Works great. States that make you show I.D. works perfectly. Works great. States that limit who get an absentee ballot and you've got to reapply for it every two years or whatever. Works great. Works absolutely perfectly. The idea of election six weeks where we blanket the landscape with mail-in votes and you vote when and where you please. No, that's not healthy for reasons we're going to do a little more later. And not just the logistical stuff. It takes so freaking long to figure out who won an election and the potential for vote fraud, which is vast. It's just, it's not.
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Speaker 3: You lose the coming together aspect of the election that I think is more spiritually important than people realize or contemplate. The only interesting thing I've heard today, because I took in a lot of broadcast
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media and all of it was completely useless election information.
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Speaker 4: And I mean completely useless information. You couldn't even stretch to pretend that there was any value in any of the things they were saying on any of the shows.
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Speaker 3: No use. So why are you doing it? Don't you know it's useless? It's completely useless. Anyway, the only interesting thing I came across was Trump did go on Hannity yesterday and say at the end of the year, we're not giving any more military aid to Israel. That comes to an end. Our $ 4 billion annual aid to Israel comes to an end. That's an idiotic decision. One in a series. Way to go. Netanyahu was for it, if you'll remember, a month or so ago. He thinks it's both in both cases. It's they just think it'd be it'd be better for Israel politically to not be getting any aid so that people can't, you know, do their whole. That's why eggs are expensive. All right. So I will extend and revise my comments, Mr. Chairman. That is an incredibly unfortunate decision. Well, it's a perhaps sound decision based on an incredibly unfortunate and psychotic state of political affairs. I think Netanyahu is for it because of what I just said. Israel's in such bad shape in terms of its approval in the United States at this point. They don't want to be getting any money, so you can't hang that around them. Yeah, yeah. You know, this is a disappointing midterm election for Katie and me. We were working on a project where we would send correspondence to each of the swing states that everybody's paying attention to. And we would go to them and they would each tell us what everybody already knows. And we would go around in the circle to each one of them all day long, just over and over again. Katie had them coached up on saying gas and diesel prices were going to be a big factor. It was artwork, to be honest. Oh, it was all, but we couldn't get funding. Oh, geez. Really disappointing. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It is just unbelievable. I also think it's interesting that I've been watching Mark Halperin's YouTube show. It's like a TV show, but it's on YouTube every day. He says he doesn't even look at the public polls that everybody talks about endlessly. He says, I don't even look at them.
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Speaker 4: Because the private polls are so much better. And those are the ones that tell you what's going to actually happen. So it's funny that the whole world of politics looks at the polls, that experts who have better info, I don't.
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Speaker 3: Even look at them. There's no, what's the point. Right. Right. My wife actually asked me about that, uh, yesterday or no, it was today about, um, you know, the polls show this race dead even, and she's not terribly political. Uh, God bless her. Um, And I explained that, look, you've got a fairly significant margin for error. You have to overweight every Republican respondee because they don't respond as often as Democrats. You've got the problem of reaching people
on cell phones. Their accuracy is declining. And so you've got a couple of blobs of it's within like six or seven points of here. And then the blobs intersect. And maybe this blob is correct. Maybe it's at the far left of that blob and the far right of that one. And then you can say it's tied. But maybe it's at the far right of this one and the far left of that one. And they're actually 11 points apart. It's just blobs. So it's fine. It's just it's just yeah, it's it's not pinpoints is my my point. Well, as I mentioned yesterday. The internal polling from the campaigns, which is significantly better because they have all the interest in the world figuring out exactly who's voting on every block and every town. is that everything has been breaking toward the Democrats last week or so. I just read where late deciders are breaking heavily toward Republicans. So you can take your liberal polls and shove them, Mr. Well, these are from Republicans, these liberal polls here. You can take your rhino polls and shove them, mister.
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Speaker 4: All I will say is Mark Halpern was the only person anywhere in America that was actually not just spouting his opinion, was actually going with information, who was saying before the Trump election, Trump's going to win all the swing states. And I don't understand why everybody's not talking about this. He said that for weeks leading up to the election. Because that's what all the internal polling showed. They have way better polling than whatever you're looking at in the New York Times or, you know, Quinnipiac or whatever. The people that make their livings, keep their jobs by figuring out what's going to happen, have better polling.
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Speaker 3: And their polling this time around says everything's breaking toward the Democrats at the last minute. I'm not comfortable with the term internal polling. Can we find a different term? I feel threatened by it. Triggered. Triggered, exactly. I feel triggered, yeah. Or not safe. You don't feel safe with that. Right, yeah, you've made me feel unsafe. There you go. What's worth noting is this is radio, and we're not doing lots of video yet on YouTube and other places and the socials. I am wearing my F-Y'all-ican party T-shirt in honor of Election Day.
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Speaker 4: And I, of course, am wearing an Uncle Sam uniform, as I always do on Election Day. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Speaker 3: He's Joe Getty. On this, it is getting to be already Tuesday, November the 3rd, the year 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty, and we approve of this program. Let's begin then, officially, according to FCC rules and regs. Here we go. It's an Election Day special at Mark.
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Speaker 5: You're going to zoom in. You're going to zoom in and get up here to 9321 Triangle Circle. That's what they call it, right around Nick and Jack Farms. Everyone knows that Nick and Jack Farms has always been Kerry Trump ever since 1884 when he only won 42%.
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Speaker 3: Of the vote.
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Speaker 5: We're going to go south. We're going to head our way south. We're going to zoom in a little bit. Right there, there's a green patch. We call this Elms Country Club. Back in the day, Elms Country Club is where, of course, Hamilton lost the duel with Washington. Everyone knows this is a huge Republican mainstay. We're going to back up a little bit. I never stop talking. I always just keep moving the map.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a lot of that this afternoon. Oh, and that's the short version of that bit. Oh, my God, I got tears in my eyes. That is so good. It's going to be a lot of that this afternoon.
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Speaker 4: And if you feel like you get something out of people doing that, rather than just waiting to see who won, then go ahead and.
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Speaker 3: Knock yourself out. Seriously, we will tell you when, you know, various states close and when you're likely to know anything, because there's like a third of the populace of the country that they won't even be done like midday tomorrow. They go for days.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 3: Yes. Really? Katie's Headlines next. Stay here.
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and.
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Speaker 2: Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 3: A couple of old school conservative stalwarts like Peggy Noonan and George Will in major publications are sort of embracing slash rooting for a bad night for the Republicans tonight with the idea that there's an entire remake of the whole conservative movement afoot. Let's start over from scratch. I don't know if that's going to happen. Well, let's talk about that and I will ruin it. So stay tuned for that. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, hit it. Big shocker. Lead story. All the alphabet networks. The midterms.
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Speaker 6: We'll just do CNNs in all caps. America heads to the polls. Yeah, that's the way it ought to be.
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Speaker 3: CBS News.
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Speaker 6: Trump says peace deal still possible with United States as United States launches limited strikes on eve of elections.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been hitting them now and then and not announcing it, which is interesting. Yeah, just kind of lawn mowing forays, as they say, just keeping their ability to threaten shipping in our bases at bay. Somebody asked Trump the other day, is there going to be an attack after the midterm? He said no. I mean, he just stated it, and it's not getting much attention. Of course, he says all sorts of stuff. From the Washington Post.
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Speaker 6: Nearly $ 1. 9 billion traded on midterms in booming prediction markets.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: The prediction markets are huge on this. We can tell you where they are.
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Speaker 6: From the New York Times. Are freezers being hacked? Europe and the United States military investigate.
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Speaker 3: What
are you going to get out of hacking from my freezer? You going to thaw out my meat ahead of time? No, they're attacking grocery stores, freezers, and fridges all over Europe, and they're having to throw away all the food.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: From the Wall Street Journal, people are using AI for divorce advice, and it's driving their lawyers crazy.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'll be darned. I've done that myself. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 4: Your chatbot doesn't have an interest in dragging it out to get more billable hours.
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Speaker 3: That's funny. That wasn't the lawyers. Take it all. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. New York Post.
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Speaker 6: AI-powered glasses could eliminate talking at work, but experts fear privacy concerns, quote, you never have to type.
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Speaker 3: Or speak again. Oh, that'd be great for human beings. What the F are we doing here? I want to talk about that one. How do you write that headline with a straight face? Never have to talk again. Great, your brain will atrophy. What the hell? The monkey that got too smart for its own good. Who are you calling a monkey? Study finds.
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Speaker 6: Study links regular cold showers to 26% fewer sick days.
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Speaker 3: Toughen you up. It's like the cold plunge thing. I could do a chilly shower. The cold plunge ain't happening. I'd have a heart attack and die. We should talk about that, too. I have a theory.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: And finally, the Babylon Bee.
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Speaker 6: Decades of recycling progress undone by single midterm election. And it's got a picture with all of the campaign signs all over along.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it was visual. We got this text. Quit talking about it. Drives me nuts. Do sports talk.
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Speaker 4: Talk about cats, anything, but don't dwell on the stuff that you've already determined.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 7: Martha Stewart is apologizing after posting and later deleting a photo of herself in a Halloween costume holding a sign that read, I am hungry, help me. Amid backlash, the lifestyle guru addressed the costume.
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Speaker 3: But didn't fully apologize.
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Speaker 7: But as the controversy grew, Stewart issued another more direct apology saying in part, it's hard to admit when you've really screwed up. She added, wearing a costume like I did was insensitive and not funny.
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Speaker 3: I am very sorry. Now there's a news story. I'm going to demand an apology for the apology. What are you apologizing for? Martha Stewart dresses up as a hobo for Halloween.
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Speaker 4: And then people complain because that's what people do. And then she apologizes grovingly, grovingly.
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Speaker 3: Uh, we'll give you a few minutes to work on that. Uh, yeah, yeah. If you're offended, you have power. If you're aggrieved, you have the floor. No, shut up.
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Speaker 4: Why do people apologize for this stuff? Do you realize how long you have to wait for it to blow over? Like another five minutes. Shut up, jackass. That's my apology.
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Speaker 3: Good God, things come and go so fast in the modern world. Why does anybody react to any of this stuff? Again, you got to apologize for the apology now, unless you got a couple of hot stock tips for me. Thug life.
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Speaker 4: We did have the headline from Katie about people who take cold showers get sick less. And that sort of stuff I've always been interested in. What is the name for that when it's. I know it's causality versus whatever the other one is.
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Speaker 3: Correlation.
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Speaker 4: But trying to figure out what other things go with that sort of person. So the sort of person that takes cold showers to try to be more energetic or more of a go-getter is more of a go-getter. And they probably go to the gym more often and they probably eat healthier and they probably do all kinds of other things that makes them less likely to be sick, right? I mean, it's just almost guaranteed. The few people I know that do cold plunges are also fitness nuts.
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Speaker 3: Not a surprise. You're not going to have.
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Speaker 4: Many cold plunge people who take cold showers to give themselves more energy or whatever, who also sit around on the couch all day long and eat chips.
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Speaker 3: It's not going to happen.
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Speaker 4: So I always like that out.
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Speaker 3: I've always liked that about statistics, that sort of thing. Yeah, unless you tease out all of that stuff and equalize for A, B, C, D through Z, you know, probably it's a meaningless study. Yeah, it's like the– I was talking to my son about this the other day when we got onto the topic of– he was talking about how many kids at school vape nicotine and how– At least at least it used to be the studies where you're twice as likely to be divorced, get divorced. You're twice as likely to get divorced if you smoked. Well, the smoking doesn't cause the divorce. Obviously, it's the sort of person that smokes and all the other lifestyle choices that come with it tend to leave toward toward marriages that don't last. That's those sorts of stats I find fascinating. And they're underappreciated because people go with the original stat all the time and draw kinds of broad conclusions. Well, right, and I would prefer to be aware that there are– what term would you use? Personality clusters or lifestyle clusters that are shown by a variety of behaviors, and that way I could quickly label people and know who I'm dealing with.
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Speaker 4: Because that's what you want to do. I want to be able to quickly know. That's what you need. You need the metaglasses that can put them in some sort of group. Right, so I can immediately look down on them. And in a few cases, it would be look up to them and fawn all over them to try to gain their favor.
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Speaker 3: But it'll be one
or the other. Oh, speaking of which, I got a handful of stories that are completely not political that I find interesting. And I hope you do, too. The best college bargain right now is a super pricey elite liberal arts school. Nobody pays the rack rate at these schools. Nobody. And I'm looking down a list of some of your this seems to be fairly clustered in Iowa in the middle. I'm sorry, in in the East Coast, in the Midwest. But you got Williams College, Grinnell College. That's in Iowa. Swarthmore is in Pennsylvania. I'd like to go to a place called Swarthmore. I'd have to work on pronouncing it. And they go through a bunch of these places. Nobody pays the rack rate at all. In fact, the sticker price for Swarthmore, Jack's soon-to-be alma mater. I feel like you wear a cape if you go to Swarthmore. The cape is optional, but preferred. The sticker price, which includes costs like transportation. It's like door-to-door service for a cruise or something. It's $ 98, 000 and change. But this year's average aid package is $ 78, 000 and change, covering roughly 80% of attendance costs. And nearly 350 of the only 1,700 students there pay nothing. And starting in the next academic year, the school won't charge tuition to families with typical assets earning under $ 200, 000. So who do they let in then? And they're cheaper in general. I'm sorry, one of the points of this article is that all of these elites, little liberal arts, you can't possibly afford the rack rate schools, are less than the state schools. So then why do they have that? price at the top to start with? That's such a great question. I don't know. So that you can brag about it?
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Speaker 4: So that people can go around saying, yeah, I went to a school that cost $ 100, 000 a year to go to?
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Speaker 3: Well, the closest they got to explaining that was that for a very long time, a high price tag and a very low rate of admission was... Do you go to classes in a castle at Swarthmore?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: In your cave? Oh, yeah. Hell, you go to your dorm as a castle. Classes are in a bigger castle. In your You hang your cape up by the door as you snuggle up into your dorm room there. It's all stone. You got a roaring fire there.
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Speaker 1: Of course.
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Speaker 3: It's like something out of Harry Potter.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Very Hogwarts-ish. Yeah. But that's the closest they came to explaining that was, yeah, a high tab and high or low admission rate. That's how you prove you are exclusive. But now, given the utter plunge in people's regard for college educations in general, Everybody gets enormous aid packages. They've got more examples, but they're fairly typical or similar. So you got Bowdoin College in Maine, which I've heard of a million times just because of the Eastern media elite. I'm wearing my sweater tied around my neck if I go there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No capes, though, because they'll immediately know you're a Swarthmore man. Anyway. So the college, this 18-year-old really bright kid, college offered an aid package covering almost 80% of its $ 98, 000 first-year cost, leaving him to pay $ 21, 000. At the University of Maryland, his local public university, he would have paid the full in-state cost of $ 32, 000, so another $ 11, 000. Man, the collapse of the.
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Speaker 3: Respect is not even the right word. The worship of certain kind of colleges is one of my favorite things that's happened in modern life. Right. And finally, Davidson College, where my last serious girlfriend before I met my wife went when she dumped me, families earning less than $ 175, 000 will pay no tuition. Those making under $ 85, 000 get everything covered, and then they calculate need. So anyway, I thought that was interesting and strange. We're just at the front end of seeing how this whole college thing shakes out since the world has decided it isn't really worth it going to college. Well, right. You have lots and lots and lots of people for lots and lots of reasons to very solid reasons. So you get the flattening of information, the perversion of college curriculum and and the ideological Marxist indoctrination that's happening there. But the whole flattening of information where I can go online right now and with a little help from a chat bot assemble for myself in probably roughly five minutes plus ordering the books, a graduate level course in any topic on earth. And probably some, Jack, and you do this a fair amount more than I have in recent days, and get enough like super high level help in interpreting it. for instance, reading Ulysses and trying to figure out what the hell's going on, that you could absolutely educate yourself. But how many years are we from our minds being so lazy and flabby because of AI that we lack the critical thinking to A, learn anything, or B, control the AI systems? So yeah, where this is in 10 years, nobody has any idea. Speaking of AI, I found this fascinating. The smartest people in AI believe this is the world's Most important chart, and nobody is talking about it. Wow, that's the best tease ever. I was going to go get some coffee during your segment and hope you didn't notice I left the room, but world's best chart. You'd be a fool if you did. Most important.
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Speaker 4: Did you know your home address is on the internet right now? Anyone can find it.
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Speaker 3: Anyone.
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Speaker 4: Stranger, scammer, someone who just hates you, someone sitting in a car outside your house. Ever type your own name into a people search site?
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Speaker 3: It's horrifying.
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Speaker 4: Seconds later, you'll see your home address, your cell numbers you've ever had, all your family members' names, your friends' names. Then if you dig in, there's all kinds of more
information. That's why we use Incogni. I use Incogni myself. It sends requests to remove personal information, including home address, from hundreds of data brokers and people search sites automatically. Keep sending them because the sites love to sneak your info right back in there.
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Speaker 3: Bastards. So think about who could be looking for you right up to this minute. They can't harm you if they can't find you. Go to incognito.com slash Armstrong for 60% off. That's I-N-C-O-G-N-I dot com slash Armstrong. It's like incognito. Incognito.com slash Armstrong. Again, you get 60% off with our code. Incognito.com slash Armstrong is crazy affordable. Do this. It's a good idea. All right, so here's the chart. And as it is a chart, I will have to rely on my Legendary powers of description, which I haven't even considered how to do. All right. So it is a chart of AI companies. This is specifically the one I'm looking at is Anthropic by month. What percentage of your projects, your time spent, use no AI, minimal AI, AI assist? AI collaborates or AI leads the parade. AI is doing this work. And occasionally I'll weigh in and say, how's it going? Okay. Can I get you anything? In August of 25, the minimal AI.
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Speaker 1: Was 40%.
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Speaker 3: And the AI assists was 50% or so. There was a little tiny bit of AI collaborates and a little bit of no AI. Zero AI is leading. And this was in 1985? No, that was last year, last August, right? And so they go month by month by month. The AI collaborates is growing in leaps and bounds, but there's no AI leads until March of this year, when all of a sudden AI leads is 1%. Golly gee, you remember March? Oh, the motor car was just entering the streets of America. FDR was the president. No, it was March of this effing year.
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Speaker 2: 1%.
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Speaker 3: Next month, 3%. Next month, 12%. Next month, 14%. Next month, 22%. By August, 26%. AI is running the show. August of this year. And when I listen to these AI experts on these various podcasts talk about things, they always mention these, like, landmark dates. And they're all within the last three years. You know, it was in March of 25 when everything changed. Everything changed just a few months ago, like a year ago. But, yeah. They're going to have to start going with weeks. You remember the third week of September?
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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like the Wright brothers barely got a plane off of the sand for a few seconds in 2025, and we landed on the moon earlier.
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Speaker 3: This year, and now we're on the way to Mars. Right, halfway there, yeah. It's a phenomenon known as recursive self-improvement, or RSI, which roughly translates to AI building smarter AI. Anthropic refers to it as closing the loop, a cycle in which each improvement makes the machines better and faster at improving themselves. And AI companies are now seeing the early signs of recursive self-improvement, which is speeding up the research and freaking everyone else out. As this technology accelerates its own evolution, the risk is that we struggle to keep pace and keep it under control.
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Speaker 4: So we've got Lonnie Chan, one of our favorite political analysts on later today, not to talk about today's midterms, because what would he say?
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Speaker 3: I want to hear about the polls in Texas. James Tallarico, is he going to win? The presidential election kicks off tonight, really. And we're going to talk to him a little bit about that. But I have heard a number of people say AI is going to be an enormous topic for the presidential election. I don't quite understand in what way it will be, but that doesn't surprise me because it's two years from today, this week. Two years away. That's a long time.
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Speaker 4: Given the timelines you've just given us over how much AI has changed, who knows what the conversation is going to be leading to presidential election day two years from now.
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Speaker 3: Well, Michael, if I moderate the debate, I think you know what my first question of the candidates is going to be.
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Speaker 2: What the f * * * type of AI s * * * is this?
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Speaker 3: That's right. Mailbag coming up in a moment. Stay with us. You're a debate moderator.
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Speaker 3: Poor Darlene Graham.
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Speaker 4: I was just reading the Wall Street Journal story about her. She had no interest in this. No, she didn't want this.
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Speaker 3: No, Trump browbeat her into it and she's mortified. She doesn't know what to do with herself. Here's your freedom-loving quote of the day, continuing, perhaps ending, our series about elections from Hunter S. Thompson from his classic Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail 72, which I've read a couple of times and is absolutely wonderful. The whole framework, and this was written, keeping in mind, it was written, I believe, in 1973. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get to the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics. Oh, Hunter S. That was the beginning. That was the beginning. Mailbag. Drop us a note, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. Quickly, Brad mentioned that Mike Slater gave us a nice shout-out at the beginning of his podcast recently. Mike is one of the best and smartest people in broadcaster podcasting. He's a lovely fellow, and we thank him for that. The only decent person in the industry. Yeah, by one of the most decent, I meant the only one. Yes. Eric in Texas spells Eric with a K. Blame him or his parents. We'll take your calls. Good morning, gentlemen, he writes. Would you please talk about nothing else except for exit polls today? I am dying to know how the 28th district in Texas is going to turn out. I know I won't be able to sleep until I know. Seriously, guys, thank you for talking about more than just politics and not being hacks. You're always a good listener. Thanks, Eric. Let's see. How about this from Kate? Oh, filling out my ballot tonight. Kate's a Cal Unicornian. I could hear your voices in my head from way back in the 2008 election. which you so lovingly characterized as the high-speed chicken abortions ballot. Wow. As there were all sorts of ballot measures, including... That's right. Twelve hundred square foot apartments for each chicken. Right.
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Speaker 3: The high speed, never existing rail debacle and something about abortion. She says, I was intelligent enough to agree with you on voting no on nearly everything that year, but young and dumb enough to think. But a bullet train would be so cool, despite Joe screaming that there would never, ever, ever be a bullet train. Joe, you're right, and I've never forgiven myself. Good. That's healthy. I know you'd rather be right than happy, so I wanted to brighten your day. Oh, my God. My goodness, I'm almost faggot-fy. Friend of Armstrong and Getty over 25 years. I get new gray hairs every year. I continue to wait for my potholders in the mail. Never retire.
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Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
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Speaker 3: Oh, boy. Thanks for that. Anita, next time never seems to come. This country's problem is that the next time never seems to come. Every time we say we will get better candidates, next time we get worse ones. Candidate quality and candidate character still matter. If we keep doing this 100 years from now, will we be arguing about whether we have to vote for the rapist because at least he's not the murderer? Why is it that every cycle we rationalize a worse candidate because the other side is supposedly worse still? In every cycle, our standards decline further. At some point, someone has to say enough. Well, in every cycle, we act like this is the election that will determine things. One way or the other. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It'll really set the course for the next millennium or something. How much time do we have, Michael? About 30 seconds.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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Speaker 3: We had a number of emails calling BS on your assertion, Jack, that you've never had the flu. We don't really have time to call to pay that off. It's a hot topic. It's yes. Well, yes. Your various claims of things you've. Well, it's just it got some reaction. Oh, boy. We got a lot more. Yes, you say.
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Speaker 4: Russia did something horrible overnight. Attacking a school and an aid center in Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
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