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Speaker 1: Probably just has a schedule of it. But no, if the president tells him don't do that and he does it, he will be gone. My ultimate point would be it seems like we ought to be getting more press conferences out of the secretary of defense during wartime. It seems like the more proper way for things to happen. Well, things are going not great, or super, or according to plan, or we don't know. Very quickly on the Nelson Wong thing. I'm sorry, yeah, Nelson, that's right. Jensen, that's right. 00:06:03 Speaker 2: Jensen and Nelson, they're too similar. Different guy. Here's the encapsulation. 00:06:11 Speaker 1: And this is, I grant you, a little prejudicial, but it is 100% true. During the time he was having an affair with a Chinese spy... He was advocating the president forcefully to sell more chips to the Chinese government or Chinese industries, which is the Chinese government. That's not a great look there, Jensen. 00:06:31 Speaker 2: It's not a great look. Or Nelson, whatever your name is. 00:06:33 Speaker 1: The pushback on that is that all the indications are he wanted to do that before he met this chick, during meeting this chick, and since he met this chick. 00:06:42 Speaker 2: That's what he wants to do. He wants to sell as many chips as possible. 00:06:45 Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, he doesn't care near as much as I think he should about selling them to Chinese companies. But that was his position regardless. But no, it's not a great look. The other aspect of that story that annoys and fascinates me, the president, our president, went ahead and said, yeah, you know what, those pretty damn good chips, you can go ahead and sell them to the communists if you cut us in on the profits. Us being the government of the United States. Number one, what the hell is that? What are we talking about? And number two, are you serious? Well, it's a national security thing, but we could use a little help with the. 00:07:25 Speaker 2: Budget, so let's just go ahead. That's awful. 00:07:28 Speaker 1: Speaking of tech giants, Anthropic announced their IPO, whatever level of the announcement was today. The trading starts next week. But it was quite a bit less than they were expecting. Weirdly, it was quite a bit less than they announced last night. So they put out paperwork last night, then came back hours later with a smaller number, and nobody's exactly sure why. 00:07:54 Speaker 2: Did you make an arithmetic error or change your mind, or what happened there? 00:07:58 Speaker 1: I wonder if somebody said, look, if we come off like we're trying to overvalue our company and everybody says that, that's going to be a horrible look. 00:08:06 Speaker 2: Better to undershoot. 00:08:07 Speaker 1: It's going to be around $ 1. 3, $ 1. 4 trillion in that range when, you know, it wasn't that many months ago people were talking about $ 2 trillion. So that's the bloom off the rose of some of the AI stuff. 00:08:20 Speaker 2: So it would seem. 00:08:21 Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's start the show officially before we get in trouble with the FCC and we get impeached. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. On This It Is, how did it already get to be? Tuesday, November 10th of the year, 2026. We're Armstrong and Getty, and we approve this program. If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. All right, let's begin officially now. According to FCC regs, here we go at Mark. 00:08:42 Speaker 3: I hope he addresses the eight articles and doesn't get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and, you know, call everybody fat and gay, like, for being for this impeachment. 00:08:55 Speaker 1: There you go. Like, I may have just given you half his speech. 00:08:58 Speaker 4: I don't know. 00:08:59 Speaker 2: You know, that's pretty funny. Mark Halpern wrote in his newsletter. That was Thomas Massey, correct? 00:09:07 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:09:07 Speaker 1: Yes, that's the guy who's trying to impeach Hegseth for some reason. I don't know why he's got a bee in his bonnet about that. Doesn't like him. Mark Halpern wrote in his newsletter, Pete Hegsa should get up there and be as least like the Colin Jost impersonation as he possibly can, which would probably be a good idea. Don't come off exactly like Colin Jost does on Saturday Night Live. 00:09:31 Speaker 2: A word from our friends at Rough Greens. 00:09:33 Speaker 1: For just $ 14, Rough Greens will send you a 14-day supply of Rough Greens VitaSmart. Put it on your dog's food. Your dog's going to wolf it down. And here's the challenge. Add that scoop of Rough Greens VitaSmart, then watch your dog. Look for that shine in your coat, more energy, more enthusiasm, more of the dog you fell in love with. So here's what we're asking you to do. Take the Rough Greens Healthy Dog Challenge. Get a 14-day supply of Rough Greens VitaSmart for just $ 14 with free shipping. 14 days, $ 14. It does not get any easier than that. 00:10:00 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wise Guys. What is in this stuff? 00:10:02 Speaker 1: Well, it's all natural vitamins and minerals plus live probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, and antioxidants, and so much more. Again, 14 days, 14 bucks. Get your Jumpstart trial bag today. 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a practice. Indeed. It's now committed $ 100 million of Medicaid fraud already. Woof! Anyway, we got a lot of other news of the day. I'm already looking up there and seeing lawyers weighing in on the impeachment articles. That's what always happens with these impeachments, and it's so damn maddening. It's not a quarter law. How many times do you have to scream that at the top of your lungs to get cable news hosts— From talking about it like it's a court of law. It's not. 00:11:33 Speaker 2: It's just the whims of the public. 00:11:36 Speaker 1: They're so bad at their jobs. And the cowardly people in government will vote with the whims of the public. And if people are mostly okay with keeping the guy, they'll keep him. And if they're mostly okay with getting rid of him, they'll get rid of him. That's how that's decided. God dang it. 00:11:52 Speaker 2: Let's talk about high crimes and misdemeanors, Matt. 00:11:55 Speaker 3: Right. 00:11:59 Speaker 1: So tiring. We might live through five of these over the next two years. Oh, goody. Oh, goody. 00:12:06 Speaker 2: Okay, we got Katie's headlines all the way next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. I feel like Thanksgiving's getting very close. Very close. Just feeling the pressure of the holidays. 00:12:20 Speaker 1: Sneaking up on me. Kids starting to mention things they want. All that sort of stuff. Pressure's weighing down. 00:12:25 Speaker 2: And feel it. Feel it pushing on. Wow, that's not the reason for the season. No, it's not. A lot of good stuff to get to today. 00:12:34 Speaker 1: I mean, just a tremendous amount of really interesting fare to cover some politics, but a lot of not politics. Stuff that affects your real life. So stay tuned. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, hit it. Yeah, ready. 00:12:50 Speaker 4: Alphabet networks are all Hegseth this morning. ABC, Hegseth dismisses impeachment effort as political spectacle. NBC, Trump defends Jensen Huang and Pete Hegseth at surprise news briefing with Dana White. And CNN, Hegs says impeachment effort is driven by policy disagreements. 00:13:15 Speaker 1: The other annoying thing about this sort of stuff is the tribalism and the media focus on D.C. 00:13:22 Speaker 2: That most people don't have. Exactly. 00:13:25 Speaker 1: If you can push out anybody from the other administration's. 00:13:30 Speaker 2: You know, inner circle. Yay! 00:13:33 Speaker 1: We moved the ball one inch down the field in a way that normal people don't really give a crap. We got a scalp. Exactly. 00:13:39 Speaker 2: That's a big sport in D.C. 00:13:41 Speaker 1: We made him fire him and hire somebody else with exactly the same policies. Yes! And to quote Abdul Al-Sayed, that's not going to do anything about the price of gas. Oh, boy. 00:13:54 Speaker 2: New York Times. 00:13:58 Speaker 4: Wang told Trump he did not know Chinese woman was a suspected spy. 00:14:03 Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite quotes from Trump yesterday. I talked to Wang. I asked him, did you know she was a spy? He said, I had no idea and I believe him. All right. What? Okay. 00:14:13 Speaker 2: So there's part of the whole spying business. 00:14:16 Speaker 1: Was there a possibility in your world that he knew all along she was a Chinese spy? Because that would seem pretty crazy. 00:14:25 Speaker 2: From the Washington Post. 00:14:26 Speaker 4: California voters reject billionaire tax that divided Democrats. 00:14:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to talk about that. It's notable. 00:14:35 Speaker 1: Here's your bigger story, Katie, your 30,000 feet. There were many, many, many ballot measures across the country that were unquestionably not progressive that won. Office holders swung way to the left, or to Democrats anyway. But a lot of the questions before the people were pretty moderate to conservative. So how you interpret the election, that might. 00:14:59 Speaker 2: Shade it a little bit. 00:15:02 Speaker 1: It's just a wholesale rejection of the Republican Party at this moment. That's the way I read it. Plus, prices are high. People are pissed. Wall Street Journal. 00:15:12 Speaker 4: Anthropic to seek $ 1. 3 trillion valuation in IPO. 00:15:19 Speaker 1: Why did they come in significantly higher than that last night, then change the numbers overnight? It's a very unusual move, and nobody's sure why. 00:15:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder. 00:15:29 Speaker 1: If somebody called from the something or other department and said, hey, you know, Project Gorilla? Who knows? From Reuters. 00:15:42 Speaker 4: France's president and wife file new lawsuit against U.S. podcaster Candace Owens. Still on her for calling Bridget a dude. 00:15:56 Speaker 2: Because of her penis? Because of her penis. 00:15:59 Speaker 1: She laid le slap de biche on him, as we discussed yesterday. I don't know who to root for in this story. I don't really care about the McCrones and their weird marriage. Right. And, yeah, yeah, it's not going to work. She was a 40-year-old teacher and he was a 16-year-old or whatever. I mean, that's a weird... Yeah, but still, Candace Owens is overtly evil. 00:16:20 Speaker 2: Well, absolutely. Absolutely. 00:16:23 Speaker 1: So. 00:16:24 Speaker 4: From the New York Post, despite being fired after five days, Katie Zachariah is auditioning again for White House press secretary. 00:16:33 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I saw that. She wants another shot. She didn't get a fair shot, allegedly. Huh. 00:16:41 Speaker 4: Study finds even a stranger's brief hello may ease loneliness. 00:16:47 Speaker 1: Aww. To quote the great John Prine, hello in there, hello when you see an old person walking down the street, how much that'll do for him. 00:16:57 Speaker 2: Wow, that's nice. And finally, the Babylon Bee. 00:17:02 Speaker 4: Texas adds stars to the state flag to represent all six genders. 00:17:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have to talk about that. I've been working on that a lot lately. Just trying to

spread more good in the world. rather than the opposite. Yes. Yeah. You know what's weird, and I had not anticipated this, and it's funny, it's the inverse of those admittedly very amusing commercials where young homeowners are becoming their parents' insurance company. But once you get to a certain age, you're seen as non-threatening to people. Helps. 00:17:43 Speaker 2: So I can. 00:17:44 Speaker 1: Say to people who I pass on a walk, hey, how are you all doing? And they're not going to think, all right, what's he trying to sell me? He's hitting on me. Does he want to fight me? The woman doesn't think you're hitting on them, and the other people don't think you're trying to rob them. Right, or challenge them or sell something. 00:18:01 Speaker 2: You're just a lost old man. 00:18:04 Speaker 1: Lost. 00:18:04 Speaker 2: Needs directions. 00:18:06 Speaker 1: Maybe a dollar to get to the bus station. No, see, that would be a scam. You're taking this in a weird direction. So we'll get into some of the news of the day in a little more depth coming up. We do a lot of segments. The way to get all of them would be to subscribe to the podcast, Armstrong and Getty On Demand. 00:18:21 Speaker 2: And you'd also get one more thing. So that's cool. All of it's on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 00:18:29 Speaker 4: On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. 00:18:33 Speaker 1: Yes. And it also marks the day that West Berlin got all their Frisbees back. 00:18:44 Speaker 2: So a new inflation number. Can I try that again? Take two. 00:18:48 Speaker 1: I put an M in there and there's no M in the word. Inflation is back in the news as a monthly report came out. And it went up 0.4% or something like that. Anyway, the Wall Street Journal makes the point that over the past three months, prices have now risen at 5.7% annualized pace. 00:19:09 Speaker 3: Oh. 00:19:10 Speaker 2: We all grew up used to 2%. 00:19:12 Speaker 1: 5.7% is damn near three times over the last three months annualized. 00:19:17 Speaker 2: So that's just in the last three months. 00:19:22 Speaker 1: Hey, man. 00:19:23 Speaker 2: So if it feels like things are more expensive, that's because they are. 00:19:27 Speaker 1: I know I speak for all of us when I say Judy and I had a what the hell experience again yesterday. I don't even remember what it was, and it hardly matters. 00:19:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're living paycheck to paycheck, man. That's not a theoretical. Wow, what's happened? 00:19:43 Speaker 1: Interesting. 00:19:43 Speaker 2: I wonder if wages have kept pace. No, it's a gut punch. 00:19:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow. Wow. wow wow wow until that gets under control we could have seriously wild swings in our elections like we've been having yeah i would agree it's interesting as the dust has settled it's become more and more clear to anybody who takes a serious look at it that the election was about a couple of things but it wasn't about a swing to the left um For instance, I'll give you a couple of for instances, then we'll get more into the analysis. But California voters, for the love of all that is holy, to the shock and delight of anybody sane, have rejected apparently the billionaire tax, the wealth tax, and the... It's funny. It's not funny. 00:20:29 Speaker 2: It's annoying. The New York Times. 00:20:32 Speaker 1: just never even got into the fact that it has been denounced by any sane economist on earth as having failed miserably everywhere it has been enacted. They didn't mention that. They just mentioned this person's in favor of it. This person's against it. But other than the money-grubbing unions that were going to get the wheelbarrow full of cash, Even lefty California politicians, some of them said, this is going to hurt us long term. 00:20:59 Speaker 2: We can't have this. 00:21:00 Speaker 1: Although the California Democratic Party did support it. Worth mentioning that the greed-head union mobsters who supported this, including Dave Regan, the president of the Service Employees International Union, have vowed, quote, that is, oh, that they're going to put it back on the ballot in two years. That is our plan. We will build on the coalition that brought us here. We welcome more stakeholders in the process, meaning, hey... You give us your support, we'll spread out the cash, and we'll put forward a proposal informed by everything we've learned in this campaign. Yeah, I thought about that yesterday when it finally became official that it lost in California. The nation's first wealth tax. It would have been, but lost in California. And I thought, yeah, I've lived through this sort of thing before with driver's licenses for illegals, where when you run it up the flagpole the first time, it's like, are you crazy? Of course not. And everybody agreed and we voted against it. And within a couple of years, you chip away a couple of tries later, it becomes just the law of the land. And I worry that that's going to happen with these wealth taxes, not just in California, but across the country. Right. And the important, the insidious part about them is, and clearly we're no billionaires, is that, so we don't, I don't, I have no, you know, personal interest in this whatsoever. But the California measure in particular said this sort of tax is okay going forward. That's the big deal. Okay, wow, you've got a house worth what? $ 1. 8 million? You ought to. 00:22:38 Speaker 2: Be paying your fair share once you open that gate. 00:22:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a couple of big deals. One of them is that, because you've now moved the Overton window into the world of wealth taxes. The other part is the billionaires leave, and you have the same bills, and everybody else has to pay them. 00:22:58 Speaker 2: And you don't have as much money. 00:23:00 Speaker 1: Right, which justifies dropping the standards for the wealth tax, among other measures. But, I mean, there it is. I mean, the argument's right itself. Well, wait a

minute, a billionaire, somebody with $ 800 million, somebody with $ 10 billion, $ 5 billion, $ 4 billion, $ 2 billion, you know, they got plenty of money. So it's just the government and the cronies still get paid no matter what. Another topic near and dear to our hearts, and this is absolutely worth noting, is that virtually, I believe, every state that had a Keep Boys Out of Girls sports measure passed it by wide, wide margins. The Protect Kids Colorado advanced measure. Oh, in increasingly liberal Colorado, I'll just read this, make sure I get it right, where the governor's race was won by nearly 30 points. Wow. To me, what this points out is these cowardly politicians on the left who could have stood up for what practically everybody agrees on. Let me finish the sentence first. Let me tell you what passed. He won by nearly 30 points. Prop 134, an initiative to require sex-based teams from kindergarten through college, passed. 00:24:19 Speaker 2: Oh, sports teams, 52%. 00:24:23 Speaker 1: Protect Kids Colorado advanced that measure along with a companion proposal, 135, that, quote, prohibited surgery for a minor for the purpose of altering the minor's biological sex characteristics. 00:24:33 Speaker 2: That passed with 52%. 52? Even though opponents, yeah, just barely. 00:24:38 Speaker 1: Both of them just barely. Even though opponents of the measures outspent Protect Kids Colorado more than 18 to 1. 00:24:46 Speaker 2: Nebraska, Washington State, et cetera. Arizona, one big. 00:24:50 Speaker 1: Man, the surgery thing only got 52%. I mean, the boys playing in girls' sports is a problem, obviously. But, man, the operating on little kids is like, you know, Nazi Mengele stuff. It is. 00:25:05 Speaker 2: It's horrifying. 00:25:05 Speaker 1: 52%? 00:25:05 Speaker 3: Wow. 00:25:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. You know, the point was made by Hadley Arcus, who's a writer that, do you remember the old Uncle Remus stories about the tar baby? It was a decoy made from a mixture of tar and turpentine by the crafty Brer Fox to catch the elusive Brer Rabbit. Once the doll was touched, Brer Rabbit couldn't let it go. And Hadley makes the point that the transgender thing is a lot like that for Democrats. What's crazy about all of this is, is the philosophical underpinnings of it so few people get. And I wish more people got it. Critical theory says there is no truth. This is the woke thing, folks, in a capsule. There is no objective truth. It doesn't exist. Truth is decreed by the powerful in a society to serve themselves. And so these people, the actual ideological overlords of these people... They believe there's no objective truth and no objective division between men and women. Everything, listen now, everything is a social construct, including there are men and there are women. And if you admit, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, clearly there are men and there are women. boys whoop the hell out of girls in sports routinely. Not everyone, but most of them. I mean, my God, men are different from women, women from men, down to the cellular level biologically. But if you admit, okay, that's an objective truth, critical theory falls apart. And I know a lot of you don't know this. Critical theory has taken over our nation's teachers' colleges and now our colleges and universities. 00:26:59 Speaker 2: If you admit, yes, there. 00:27:00 Speaker 1: Are objective truths that we can all count on and all agree on, it all falls apart. 00:27:05 Speaker 2: That's why they cling to it. 00:27:06 Speaker 1: It's insane. It's an insane theory. And if you told me 15 years ago, oh, yeah, people are going to run around preaching this stuff, I'd say, no. Recalibrate your predictotron equipment because that's insane. Nobody could believe that horse ass, and you shouldn't either. 00:27:21 Speaker 2: End of screen. 00:27:21 Speaker 1: Well, I would have really dominated the high school girls' golf team in my school if I could have played. 00:27:27 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, please. Blowing it past him on the fairway. 00:27:31 Speaker 1: Are you kidding? 00:27:32 Speaker 2: Nice drive, sweetheart. What are you, a girl? Oh, that's right. 00:27:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. 00:27:37 Speaker 2: Oh, and so am I. 00:27:38 Speaker 1: So, so, so, so am I. All right. Tell you what, take your knife and your fork and cut into a delicious steak from Omaha Steaks. That's my advice to you. You know, we're hosting for the holidays, and Judy and I just really like a nice piece of beef, among other things. And so, both for ourselves and as gifts, we love Omaha Steaks. Super high quality, butchered and aged in-house, sourced right here in the United States. Steaks are amazing. The burgers are amazing. I had them last night, but... What do they do to those hot dogs? Why are the hot dogs so freaking good? Why can't other hot dogs come within a mile of that? Anyway, you're probably not getting no more steaks for the hot dogs, but throw in a couple of hot dogs. The Jumbo Franks, they're really, really good. And the apple tartlets and all the other stuff. Your next great holiday dinner is just a click away with Omaha Steaks. The package has started just $ 79 right now at omahasteaks.com using the code Armstrong at checkout. I'm telling you, this is the best gift in the world for somebody who doesn't need stuff. 00:28:40 Speaker 2: Omahasteaks.com. Again, use the code Armstrong at checkout. 00:28:44 Speaker 1: See the site for details. Your next great holiday dinner is just a click away. Packages start at just $ 79 right now. OmahaSteaks.com. Use that code Armstrong at checkout. Shop now at OmahaSteaks.com. 00:28:54 Speaker 2: Bon Appetit. I wish I didn't hate grilling so much. 00:28:58 Speaker 1: I tweeted out one of my hateful, God, I hate grilling tweets last night when I was. 00:29:03 Speaker 2: Starting to grill. 00:29:04 Speaker 1: I just hate it. I hate everything about it. And I know one of the reasons it makes me so mad is I know as a guy, I

should be, I'll never get to have sex as a guy. 00:29:14 Speaker 2: Who hates grillers. 00:29:16 Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. 00:29:17 Speaker 2: My son even said to me, he said, you hate grilling and you take baths. Okay. 00:29:21 Speaker 1: I took a bath once because I was sick. He hangs it over my head all the time. You hate grilling and you take baths. 00:29:27 Speaker 2: Okay. And cream of the coffee. 00:29:29 Speaker 1: I don't know. I just started getting fitted for a skirt. Jack, don't grill. You take a steak. And there's a little prep involved, but just a little. You sear it in a cast iron skillet. You stick it in the oven. 00:29:43 Speaker 2: You finish it in the oven. I hate cooking in general. Grilling is even worse. 00:29:48 Speaker 1: You know what I'd like to do is get in my car, drive to the restaurant, order something, eat it, and go home. 00:29:54 Speaker 3: Oh, my. 00:29:54 Speaker 1: It's Katie. 00:29:54 Speaker 2: Oh, boy. I'm going to need your man card. 00:29:56 Speaker 1: Katie? 00:29:57 Speaker 4: You probably don't like grilling because you have to squat down like a freaking frog to do it. 00:30:03 Speaker 2: My girl's a junkie in an alley. 00:30:05 Speaker 4: It really looks like a homeless encampment grill. 00:30:08 Speaker 1: Oh, look at that. Look at that junkie doing the lean over there. 00:30:12 Speaker 2: He must be high on fentanyl. 00:30:13 Speaker 1: No, that's Jack leaning over his homeless guy grill. 00:30:17 Speaker 4: He didn't sweep all the leaves away. 00:30:18 Speaker 2: They're just under the grill. 00:30:20 Speaker 4: Plate on the ground. 00:30:22 Speaker 1: True. It is the grill they sell to meth heads. That's the only reason Weber even makes that grill. It's for people who live under overpasses. Oh, it's tailgating. Come on. 00:30:31 Speaker 2: Oh, it's for tailgating? 00:30:32 Speaker 1: Yes. 00:30:33 Speaker 2: For people who live under overpasses. This thing called camping. You used to be an inveterate tailgater. I remember back in the day. I didn't grill. I just don't like cooking. I just hate it. 00:30:46 Speaker 1: I wish I liked it like a lot of people do, like really enjoy it. I just find the whole thing annoying. 00:30:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of tolerate it. 00:30:53 Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. Although, oh my God, the steak is so good. But no joke, as a single guy, it's just something I got to keep a secret and hope that I could get somebody to like me enough for other qualities before I lay on them the fact that I hate grilling and I'm not going to. Because otherwise, it's. 00:31:13 Speaker 2: Just, I'm out. They're out. You can fix stuff around the house, though, right? I can. There's lots of things I can do, manly things I can do. 00:31:20 Speaker 1: I'll do all kinds of things. I'll change your tires. I'll fix things around the house. I'll do whatever. But I'm not going to grill. 00:31:24 Speaker 2: I hate it. You can achieve a state of readiness when called upon. Whenever, right now, right now. Give me two seconds. 00:31:30 Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no. I'm ready. 00:31:31 Speaker 2: That's how long it took me. 00:31:33 Speaker 1: I don't like myself, Katie. 00:31:34 Speaker 2: All right, let's go to break. Thank you, Joe. Good God. 00:31:36 Speaker 1: It just strengthens it. You're like a video game character, right? You got eight over here. You're seven on that scale. You're a four on that one. 00:31:43 Speaker 2: Well, what are you going to do? Exactly. Mailbag next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty. 00:31:52 Speaker 1: Speaking of grilling, Wall Street Journal with the shrinking U.S. cattle herd and why high beef prices are here to stay, which is interesting because it's expensive. I read that with concern. Yeah, really interesting topic, too. If, like us, you love the beef, stay tuned. We'll talk about that. First, it's your freedom-loving quote of the day. Continuing on our series about forgiveness. You know, I'm looking at this and I'm thinking about the concept of forgiveness. I'm not sure I could quickly define the word forgiveness. 00:32:25 Speaker 2: But to forgive. I have to think about it. 00:32:30 Speaker 1: Because what I found myself thinking about is, you know, if somebody asks for forgiveness or is contrite, yeah, that's easy. 00:32:38 Speaker 2: What if they don't? 00:32:40 Speaker 1: Then what is forgiveness exactly? Maybe we can talk about that later. Because I've got a bunch of great quotes about it. For instance. You have to go with the idea that Hanging on to it is like drinking poison. You're drinking the poison. You're thinking it's hurting the other person, but you're drinking the poison. They're not even aware you're mad. 00:33:00 Speaker 2: Right, exactly. 00:33:01 Speaker 1: It's like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. I've heard it described of. On that theme, Louis Smedes, whose work I do not know, to forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. 00:33:14 Speaker 2: There you go. Similar. 00:33:15 Speaker 1: Similar. 00:33:16 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:33:16 Speaker 2: Similar theme. Yeah. 00:33:17 Speaker 1: Yeah. We'll get a little nittier and grittier tomorrow. Be sure to tune in for the freedom loving quotes of the day. I've got a great pair on forgiveness. Mailbag. 00:33:27 Speaker 2: Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty dot com. 00:33:31 Speaker 3: All right. 00:33:32 Speaker 2: We have a choice. 00:33:32 Speaker 1: We can either cut the music for something very serious and important. Yeah, let's do that. Just kill the music, Michael. Kevin, the Texafornia Marine, with a quick shout-out to my fellow Marines. Happy birthday, brothers and sisters in Semper Fi. It's the Marine Corps' 251st birthday. I will be spending my day with about 10 other Marines. Firearms, Tannerite, and, of course, alcohol. After the pew-pews and bang-bangs, of course. Well, that's up to you, Kevin. I've done it both ways. The first drink is where we go around the circle and name a

buddy that didn't come home. 00:34:02 Speaker 3: Ooh. 00:34:03 Speaker 1: This has become a tradition in our little group, and last year we met up with a Marine friend from one of my old units. We're both a bit grayer now, but we hit it off like we hadn't had any time apart. Then he sent along a video about the Marine Corps birthday. Thank you, Kevin, and thank you for your service, and that's a beautiful thing. I, too. 00:34:22 Speaker 2: Have mixed firearms and Tannerite. 00:34:24 Speaker 1: It's an explosive. 00:34:24 Speaker 2: Google it. 00:34:25 Speaker 1: And a good time was had by all. Shout out to my redneck friends who I moved to a different hood. And booze. Have I ever told the story about how I shot a hole through the bottom of my buddy's truck? 00:34:35 Speaker 2: Ever told that story? I think you have, yes. It's charming. That was a bad idea. You should release a memoir. You have had a number of entertaining mishaps. 00:34:46 Speaker 1: You may need people around you to remind you of them. 00:34:49 Speaker 2: I know I do. 00:34:50 Speaker 1: Anyway, moving along. I didn't get this at first. There's a picture attached. Loyal listener Robert writes, L.A. has a new mayor. And it's black smoke issuing forth from one of the fires in L.A. 00:35:05 Speaker 2: I get it. It's a reference to the selection of the Pope. Took me a second. On the topic of the lame duck session, I love this. Ryan from Houston. 00:35:13 Speaker 1: Nearly every company, when somebody gets fired or somebody quits, we don't let them stay around and cause conflict. You had a bunch of butthurt grifters in Congress losing their money laundering job, and we let them stick around for months. Yeah. Yeah, true, true. And in fact, one of the more amusing slash disgusting things I've heard about the recent election is the Republicans still have a number of things they could shove through. 00:35:39 Speaker 2: And a lot of it's really good, and I hope they do. 00:35:42 Speaker 1: One of their challenges is a lot of the Congress people who lost don't even bother going back to Washington. 00:35:49 Speaker 4: Really? 00:35:49 Speaker 2: To do their jobs. 00:35:50 Speaker 1: Wow. They just say, well, F you, voters. F you, Congress. And they don't even go. 00:35:56 Speaker 2: They stay home. 00:35:57 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:35:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, wow is right. God, there ought to be a thrashing for that. 00:36:01 Speaker 1: Speaking of punishments, Cascade John writes, Guys, it's interesting that Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years for what he did, and the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs were given probation in many cases. You know, I have not followed the Russell Brand case specifically. 00:36:17 Speaker 3: Um.... 00:36:20 Speaker 1: The line between consensual and non-consensual and when it was non-consensual and what was done, I'm not up on it enough to comment. 00:36:28 Speaker 2: He invited her back. 00:36:30 Speaker 1: The first night they were together, man, she was quite willing to do anything with a celebrity she had just met like one minute earlier. I mean, that's a certain sort of person. But he invites her to his house the next day and then full-on rapes her. 00:36:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:36:45 Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough. 00:36:47 Speaker 1: Let's see. 00:36:47 Speaker 2: How much time do we have, Michael? Not very much, huh? 00:36:50 Speaker 1: Comedian Russell Brand, who I've never heard anything say within 100 miles of funny. Same. Same. All right. So a couple of great emails on the topic of AI agents and whether they're ready for prime time. I'm sure it'll come up AI in general at some point during the show. Some really good points from some of our tech savvy listeners. 00:37:11 Speaker 3: So. 00:37:11 Speaker 2: That on the way. Plus, beef prices are going to stay high. 00:37:15 Speaker 1: Why? The answer will fascinate you and shock you. More talk about the honeypot with Jensen Wang. I believe it's Wong. Whatever. 00:37:25 Speaker 2: For the story, it's just him. 00:37:26 Speaker 1: No. No, be better than that. Has that whole thing moved from government officials into the private world in a way that it really hasn't been before? 00:37:37 Speaker 2: The spying and such? Armstrong and Getty.