Hour 1 of the Monday June 24, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gaddy arm Strong and he Is Armstrong.
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That's the last thing you're gonna hear from me. I kill. Can we stop talking about it until it happens? Please? I feel like I was on the cutting edge of dismissing debates as not important many cycles. Tests to that many cycles ago, and it rubbed people the wrong way. Oh no, no, no, this is a big deal. This is show me an example. Well as actually listening to a podcast over the weekend. Sarah Isger of The Dispatch, who went back and through the data because she's that sort of person. She said, there is no statistical evidence at all to show that any presidential debate has mattered. Yet, not one. There's no data to show a presidential debate has mattered. Now, obviously he couldn't measure turnout and enthusiasm and stuff like that, but there's no they got off that line or they made a mistake there that shows up in the polls anywhere. So what are we talking about. On the other hand, you said last week you think this might be different, and I think you're right, because there's the opportunity for Joe Biden to display to the world he really, really really isn't ready to be president again. To me, Jack, I analyze it like I analyze golf tournament. There are zingers that's a birdie, and then there are gaffs that's a bogey. And you keep track of zingers and gaffs throughout the debate and have a final score that'll tell you who's the next president. The singers and gaffs just don't matter. And then and I've been mocking the conversation around who won ough, Oh that is uber stupid. It's stupid. And then always and it makes me grit my teeth toward my eyes bleed. Was there a knockout blow?
What are you talking about?
That has never happened? Why are we discussing that anything that ever happened, they'd be like, how is the boy Scout meeting? Was there a fire? What was? There's never been one, There's never been Why are you asking me that? That's the same it's the same sort of was there a knockout blow tonight, Jim? There's there's no such thing of that ever happening. So why are we asking this question? Yeah, for what's better, whether it's for better or worse. What we charmingly don't do around here is we don't join in the Emperor's new clothe physicisms of mainstream media, where they pretend certain things just because they've always pretended it. It's kind of the tradition. Everybody knows their roles, everybody knows their steps in the traditional dance. But we need less of that more truth telling place. I tell you what. The debates are usually reasonably good entertainment for about forty minutes. And in this case, if old old man Biden comes off just completely past is due date, then that'll have devastating consequences. Other than that, just let's let it happen. And the bar is very low, and if he steps over that bar, then it's a nothing. It's a nothing. It'll just be will be right where we were before, which is a very very close election my and here I am talking about it. But I hope, in a different way than most commentators, the low bar is true. Although one thing that I have to remind myself of constantly is that we and a lot of the folks listening to the show are much more into the stuff than the average human being. And the average human being might think, oh, the big debates tonight, I'll watch it, and so like, you know, the gender bending madness, the neo Marxism, the how incredibly evil DEI is that awareness is just creeping out into the masses of the American people. We've been hammering it for quite a while, but the average folks are just becoming aware. I think the average folks are just starting to become aware that Biden is senile. You see it in the main the late night comedians. They're really starting to hammer that theme now. I still think that's a growth stock, if you will. Well, from what I understand from people's polling, people are just becoming aware that it's Trump and Biden again. Really lord, yeah, so yeah, if you were super into this, it seems crazy, but and those are the people that are going to side the election. I thought of this over the weekend. For real, two old angry men. If it came to blows, yes, since they both have Secret Service protection, what would happen? Would the Secret Service agents have to stand back like they do in hockey and let them fight it out until they got on the ground, well, right, until somebody's got a clear advantage. Right then you move in chain around your head. No change, you just exchange blows. I think so. Uh. Trump gave an interview where he actually explo why he gave away the farm on the debate, which I thought was interesting and I'll read more from that later. Byron York got of the Washington Examiner got an interview with Trump, and York brought it up, which I thought was good. He said, a lot of people are criticizing the fact that you seem to have given everything to them, liberal moderators, no audience, turning off the mics, everything that works against you, And Trump said, I think I tricked them. I think they presented me a deal they knew I couldn't take. They presented me liberal moderators, no aden, all the stuff they know I hate they thought I would say no and then they could say we tried to get him a debate, but he said no, and I just said yes to what they offered, and they were stuck. He thought the Biden camp was intent on Trump refusing. They just well, it's hard to say if that's true or not. Are was that their opening position? But Trump's view of it as a guy who's done a lot of deals. I mean, there's no doubt that he's done a lot of big deals in his life, no doubt about that. He believes that they offered him something. You know, we've done that before with various things, where he just you don't want it. Do you charge? You charged more than you know they're willing. If they would happen to pay it, sure, but there's no way they will, so I don't have to worry about it. That sort of thing. Trump thinks that that's what they did. They offered him a series of poison pills and he said yes. Anyway, got him locked into a debate. I don't know if that's true enough, but that's his take, that's his explanation. Yeah, I'm not sure I buy it because the narrative which I found at least somewhat convincing, was that Biden really needed a debate to turn the trends around. You don't buy that that Biden wouldn't have moved out that point, or you don't buy Trump's explanation. You don't think that was even his thought. Well, yeah, he seems to be implying that Biden didn't want the debate so he would make a false play of trying to settle terms for it. Well he seemed, Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, Trump seems to think Biden was trying to get out of the debate but have cover right so he wouldn't get blamed for not debating. But yeah, I think it makes more sense that he needed to alter the narrative on that. And then we'll have to move on from presidential election for a while or I will vomit. There is enough pulling out now to show that it looks like the felony conviction, at least on the national numbers, made a difference for whatever reason. Again, the people that are barely paying attention, they kind of knew Trump was running, maybe might be the nominee. They kind of heard of some trial. They have no idea what it is, but they heard he was convicted. Enough people and a change, you know, move them a couple of percentage points nationally. So we'll see how fast are Madison and Washington spinning in their graves knowing that the most basic and phony of information swaying the people paying the least attention is what runs the superpower. Oh. I was watching one of the Sunday shows, and those things are paying. I was watching one of the Sunday shows yesterday and they did a and I never watch these when they have the focus groups. I never watch those. But for whatever reason, I like was too far from my phone to fast forward or something. I was doing dishes and we've brought in twelve undecided voters, and I thought, who are these people? And they were all so incredibly uninformed, I mean just like barely had paid any attention whatsoever to any of the major events. Wow, if that's the crowd that makes the difference, Hey, rock the vote. Everybody's got a vote. It's you right, everybody get out there and vote, whether you know a freaking thing or not. Oh, I hate that, I really do. Right. And the other thing, just to back up a second, given the fact that it looks like the felony convictions actually moved the needle. If that makes the difference in election in the election, that should be horrifying. So this completely bogus, stretched all kinds of rules, even according to a lot of liberals to come up with this. If that changed the outcome, oh that's bad for America. And then if it gets overturned an appeal after the election, oh my god, that's one of the worst things that has ever happened. If that the way it turns out, well listen will be my final thought on the topic. But Victor Davis Hanson just wrote a piece in which he pointed out that the Democrats are desperate to win this election because they know, because it's the nature of these things, that the weapons they wielded that have never been wielded before, trying to stretch whatever bizarre misdemeanor counts into felony to get your opponent off the campaign trail and drain his finances, all of that stuff, the highly questionable Jack Smith's special Council appointment, the rest of it that will absolutely be used against them. They have brought those weapons onto the field to play, and it's game on now, and they fear what that would look like. And I wish Republicans would stick to the high road to make it all the more clear how terrible what's happened is. But I don't hold out much hope. Speaking of the Jack Smith case, Supreme Court rulings come out on Mondays and Thursdays. They could let out the immunity thing today, although most experts seem to think they'll do it at the end of the week. There's the frost sound of their screeching tires as they leave town. Yeah, please don't do it on Thursday morning with the debate that night. I just, I just, I just I don't I don't want that. Anyway, Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Monday, June twenty fourth of the year twenty twenty four. Life will not be a bore in twenty four. We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program. The preliminaries are over. Let's begin the show officially at Mark But.
Anyway, it'll be a good I'm sure he'll be prepared. Whatever happened to all that cocaine that was missing a month ago from the life, whatever happened.
Donald Trump applying Joe Biden uses cocaine to get ready for these speeches. Events convena focus group to discuss whether they believe Joe Biden uses cocaine. How does mail bag look very good? Awesome? And it's on the way. We got so much to talk about, it's gonna be fun. Our text line is four one, five two KFTC. I mentioned hockey fights.
Game seven and the Stanley Cup tonight with a possible comeback from three to zero by the Edmonton Oilers.
I happened to with my wife out of town. Think yeah, watch Game four several nights ago and got caught up in it. Now I'm rooting like crazy for Edmonton really and yeah, oh yeah. The whole nation of Canada is in a pitch all bit I can't. I heard the other day a Canadian team hasn't won the Cup in decades. It's been a long time. Wow, And so the whole country's into it, and it'd be one of the great comebacks in the history of sports, of all sports. Yeah yeah, anyway, here's freedom love and quote of the day from Marcus Tullius Cicero Flowing toga. Laura Leaves magnificent, the great Roman thinker, the closer the collapse of the empire, the crazier its laws become. It almost sounds too good to be true. These are translations. Why do guys think about the Roman Empire so much because they heard about a very powerful, successful civilization collapsing and notice the parallels and get worried. Why don't you all spend less time worrying about what color our towels are and more time thinking about the Roman Empire? Okay, all right, mailbag, I obviously let's see Brian Wright says, listen into the One More Thing podcast. Ah, we do an additional segment after the show has done. This podcast only sometimes there are and Jack was talking about Shasta City, California. If you want to see how crazy that place is. There's a show on Netflix called Files of the Unexplained. Check out the episode called Mysteries of Mount Shasta. I believe you will be very immute with still. Oh, really, that's interesting because the town's pull up stores with crystals and orbsitting gongs. Yeah, there's a lot of odd and free thinking up there in the hinter lands, and very hard with anyway, Brian's listening to the show for twenty three years. Thanks and thanks for the note. What a great tip. Let's see Tom and SoCal. Here's my theory is to why Biden picked the right side podium for the debate. And Biden campaign's been working with this great chest cheating champion, Hans Niemann, who has caught suitcasing a device to receive messages. Biden's team is gonna use this same device to signal in messages to Joe, and they could only do so from the right side due to some sort of Bluetooth distance requirement. How will we know for sure? Watch for Joe to shake his be followed by that particular goofy smile. He gets all right, that's really getting into the weeds. BBTQKFC Biden's Bishop to Queen's Night five check Tom and Sowell. Come on, come on boy, I'm glad we have time for this. I think we do. This is from uh Jeff. He says, you guys were talking about the nature and importance of work and if AI eliminates the need to work, and I briefly mentioned I'd rather talk to theologians and philosophers on this topic as opposed to scientists and bureaucrats. He said, I thought you might like to hear one such perspective. Uh St Jose Maria as crivia, I'm sorry. My Spanish Terrible was the Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Day, which, far from the whole Da Vinci code ridiculousness, is a really nice charitable organization. Anyway. He had a theological theory based on Genesis, which says the Lord God took men and put in the garden of Eden to Tillett and keep it. Chronologically, this happens before man's fall from grace the original sin, which is recounted in the third chapter. Now, Saint Thomas Quinas held that work, in all of its forms was a condition of man's fall from grace and hence a stumbling block to a sort of union with God. But Saint Jose Maria's theory turned this update side down, saying that man was created to work. Since that happened before the fall, that would mean work is not something to be overcome, but something that brings us closer to God. Was a joyful activity sometimes that naturally stem from human nature. Yeah that's interesting, but you know, you don't need to buy any of that it's certainly, I think one thousand percent true that evolutionary speaking, the people that survived worked, and it is so deep in our DNA to work and provide that you take that away, and what the hell are we?
Well?
Right? And how true and clearly true is this? One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands has a couple of lines about a friend who's quarter of the way insane, but he ain't to blame. With a trust fund like that, I'd have been the same. You're idle, rich go nuts. Idle hands are the devil's playthings. I mean, it's universally recognized wisdom, but it's not recognized by the scientists. Apparently, average mortgage pricer, median whatever, hitting all time high today. Huh what does that mean? That's good, that's exciting. A bunch of stuff around the real estate market coming up, Armstrong and getty.
He'll come out, okay, I say, he'll come out all jacked up, right, all jacked up. Will anybody be watching the debate on Thursday night?
I'm shocked. No, I'm shocked. It's like death.
This could be the most boring, Lord could be quite exciting.
Who knows? Utterly unique anyway, we'll save our debate talk for later or maybe never. We got to talk about the pro homos protest while I'm looking at it right now on TV outside of synagogue over the weekend in La keeping Jewish families for being able to go in and into worship, physically stopping them, attacking them, and lapd doing the same thing they did on the UCLA campus, just standing around and watching for whatever reason, Jewish man beat down in New York City at a fifth grade graduation. So we'll talk about that more later. So I've been looking for a house. I've been talking about this and whether you're whether you're looking for a house, whether you own a house, whether you rent, or whether you don't do any of those. And all you have is credit cards. You care about the interest rate. Everybody cares about the interest rate. And I've come across this theme recently looking at houses. And you tell me whether you think this is real or not. I think it's real. Everybody talks about when the interest rate goes back down. Everybody like back down, I know, but when it goes back down, then you'll be able to When he goes back down, you'll be able to, you know, then that's what now the banks and the real estate agents, that might be salesmanship, but also they're trying to convince you you can refine. Yeah, you know this is temporary, so that might just be salesmanship, right, But based on the way I'm talking to people, just like in my real life, everybody got used to it. And I've got all the stats on this, but everybody their mindset is and I think it's too.
Well.
This explains the inflation versus prices conversation we've been angry about for the past year. I think a lot of people and journalists think the price of bacon's going to go back down to what it was before. It ain' it ain't ever, no, but I think that is the assumption for some reason. And then with interest rates, interest rates could go down unlike bacon, but it's unlikely. Since nineteen seventy one, the average interest rate is higher than the current interest rate. Since nineteen seventy one, fifty three years of data, the average interest rate is higher than the current interest rate. What does that tell you? That tells you, well, it tells you the idea that they're going to go down significantly. So I was looking at the data between a nineteen seventy one, you have to go between nineteen seventy one and two thousand and three, they were higher than they currently are. So in two thousand and three they went down, got significantly below seven percent five point eight three, and then we went through a weird long period where they were the lowest they'd ever been in history. But now they've gone back up to where they have been historically, and I just what's what what is your argument for why they're ever going to go back down to like the fours and the fives? God knows that. So here's your hot The all time high was in nineteen eighty one, sixteen point six three percent. Wow, brutal. The all time low was in twenty twenty one, two point six y five. If you're wondering about the math on that, they figured what a two hundred thousand dollars mortgage would cost you. I don't know where you're buying a house with a two hundred thousand dollars mortgage, but it ain't California. But anyway, just for the sake of the argument, two hundred thousand dollars mortgage in nineteen eighty one versus twenty twenty one to show how much difference to that interest rate would make you. Your house payment in nineteen eighty one would have been twenty eight hundred dollars same loan a couple of years ago, eight hundred dollars. Wow, twenty eight hundred dollars or eight hundred dollars. Wow, that's even more stark than I thought it was going to be. That is amazing. Yeah, Well back to your greater point. I mean, I think I used this metaphor before, but it's like, you know, five years into your marriage saying honey, I've noticed we're having less sex than on our honeymoon. It's it's never going to be that way again. That we will never see rates where they were barring a pandemocopolis, I mean like a pandemic and worse. So, you know, I've talked to a number of experts who are guessing, but they're thinking high fives, low sixes. Probably. I've talked about this war. I remember listening to one of your this is bad, this must have been in I can look at the chart and probably figure I didn't finish that sentence. Around that level is where we could expect quote unquote normal to be for a while I think that would be well looking at the chart. So I've got the actual graph in front of me. If you look at the graph, we're we're still in the salad times to the last fifty years. So the uh. I remember I was listening, so it must have been two thousand and three. I was listened to a financial advisor on the radio. Back in two thousand and three. Interest rates had gotten down in the fives, and he said, I would go out and borrow as much of that five percent money as you can, because it'll never be this great again, because it had never been that great to borrow money ever. So now everybody's thinking is in a mindset of boy, the fives, okay, that'd be better than now. But we're I'm gonna get I need the three percent loan ain't gonna happen. I mean, somehow we got to get our our our minds and our emotions fixed, or I think we're in worse trouble than we, you know are Otherwise, just our expectations and spending habits are gonna be nuts. The only quibble I have with that fifty year number is that the seventies I think were in late seventies early mid seventies to early eighties. We're a bit of an outlier, and I think think think we as a society, as of a government, are much better at handling macroeconomics and managing the economy than we were at the time. A lot of the green Span, allan Greenspan innovations and what flowed from it hadn't existed yet. Having said that, we're conducting this ungodly experiment in running up a national debt which is incomprehensibly large. I was about to bring that up. Now, I'm not an expert, but the experts are wrong all the time. You can get ten experts in this room and they would disagree one hundred and eighty degrees and a whole bunch of different topics. But I was reading on bank rate in a couple of different other places. Yeah, with our current debt, there's just no way we can get back to sustained low interest rates. It just can't happen, which is disappointing. I've talked about that too, is the most likely outcome of this high debt that we're carrying as a country. And this is really unfortunate because like you have a big health scare, and you might do something. But if you just kind of stay sluggish and heavy and uncomfortable your whole life, you're probably not going to do it. You're looking at me When I say that, I get held them mirror up to my face. That's what's going to happen to our economy. We're not going to have the big crisis that makes us get our act together. The country's just going to be way less dynamic. Things are going to cost more, fewer businesses will get started. Life just won't be as good for the next century or longer because we just we won't have that shock that needs us to get our act together. I think that would be a good outcome what you've just described. That's what we need to pray for. Because if we have debts in the many, many trillions UH and debt service interest in other words, is twice what national defense is, and then comes a serious crisis, then we will have that crash you're talking about. But if all the politicians who drove us straight toward the cliff for their entire term, they'll be out of office, collecting their pensions and chuckling quietly to themselves. We need an electorate that is better than our politicians right now. Oh god, I'd say if seven percent is the average over the last half of a century, and five or six would be awesome, Yes, I mean just absolutely awesome. Why would anybody ever sell their two point eight five to you know, five percent mortgage house? Right, It's going to take many, many years to unkink that. Oh you know, we got a couple of possible really big crisis points coming possibly hopefully not but China, the United States. Who knows what that could Just oh yeah, I want to talk about that. I was going to get into a national debt Later. National Review had a great article about where we are. We didn't need How many people paying attention to politics know that the the CBO revised this year's deficit way up lastly, hundreds of billions of dollars, way up to just crazy, insane. Your hunter Biden on his second family, he's gonna ruin their finances coke Binge level of debt. And nobody pays attention to that stuff. Nope, nope. And for the reasons I just said, the politicians on whose watch we got within a mile of the cliff, half a mile, quarter mile, ten feet of the cliff, they don't care. They know when we go over the cliff, somebody will have to deal with it, which is why we need to be better than our politicians. But I don't have a lot of optimism. Don't want to bring it everybody down. But if you want something to be angry about, here's the first line from the National Review article about America's deficit disaster gets worse and nobody is paying attention with the new revised numbers. The bulk of the changes came from an increase in spending on student loans thanks to the Biden administration's debt forgiveness action, higher expect than expected spending on Medicaid, and recently passed Feign eight bill. But that bailing out the college kids put a huge debt in our deficit right, completely unnecessary. Bought inim zero votes, is unethical, it is illegal. Oh my god. I hope Trump understands that enough to bring it up in the debate. And I repeat your assertion. I think you came up with the idea that if you can prove that an expensive pandering effort bore no fruit. You pandered to the two to four hundred billion dollars, but it didn't buy any votes. You can immediately rescind the law. That would be awesome, the unsuccessful pandering amendment to the Constitution. Yeah, I tried to buy votes and it didn't work, So never mind. Spending that money would be insane. I mean, obviously, but I didn't even get any votes out of it, right, all right, No, Well that wasn't supposed to be negative. This whole thing was supposed to be negative. I was just trying to have me and everybody else think seven percent interestreates not insane. Seven point five as of today, which is pretty early seven point five. Yeah, wow, I have like Friday's number. Maybe I was just looking at California. Uh yeah, yeah, but that's that's right in the wheelhouse of where it generally has been. And people bought houses, Lots of people bought houses, Yeah, just much more modest houses, the houses all of us grew up in. That's a real possibility that McMansions go out the window and people live in smaller houses and maybe drive their car longer, and maybe don't take as nice as vacations the way you and I grew up, and lots of people grow up and everything was fine, and the McMansions are abandoned and soon squatted in by cannibalistic homeless hoards. I don't know why I haven't done that yet, eliminate all this looking for a scott and squat. Oh yeah, squat. Yeah takes some how long to kick you out, probably well cal Unicornia, six to nine months if the homeowner's lucky. How about if I claim one of my kids as transgender. Oh, that'll buy at least another sixty days. I gotta do that. Maybe I'll squat today. I started driving around some empty neighborhoods. Pick a house, get a big bolt cutter, move in. Yeah, yeah, just look at real estate listings. Drive by. If it's occupied, keep driving if it's not, start a squatting. I'll hang a home, sweet home on the front door. Yeah, exactly, draw up a phony lease to show to the cops when they show up. That gets you six to nine months of rent free living. Awesome? Uh? Any comment on any of this? Text line four one five five k FTC yo yo. Looking forward to talking about a variety of news stories today. Yep, a lot of stuff to squeeze in. I've got a couple of tales of VIP status here for you. Very different worlds. But the first one VIP status as an illegal immigrant. I refuse to freaking use the term migrant that the left just they instant they make us use their language. Why is everybody cooperating? Anyway? You can buy VIP status among the cartels, who now increasingly are not even worrying about drugs because there's way more money to be made smuggling human beings. And later on I want to talk about how everybody is involved at every level of the Mexican government. They're all on the take and they're all making a ton of money legal immigrants. Escentually, there's a reporting that says the cartels are more interested in smuggling people than drugs. Now, oh yeah, there's much less risk. Wow interesting, Yeah, yeah, you get there is no penalty for smuggling human beings for instance money. It is quite good. Oh that brings me the Margaret Brennan unface the nation on that topic. We'll have to do that later. Oh, I was so angry at the television. So anyway, they in the USA today, which is covering this topic with surprisingly clear eyes. All of a sudden, I'm talking about the tunnel is dark and narrow, Toxic gases rise from the dank water. Insects scurry along the sides, rattlesnake's weight, coiled rodents lurk at the water's edge. Yeah, this drainage network that reaches from Warez City into El Paso. It's one of the most sought after roots for patrons of a VIP immigration package offered by Mexican cartels. For those who pay money for than enough money for it. The tunnel route costs at least six grand and sometimes as much as fifteen thousand dollars and some of the VIP treatment. Oh and Chinese immigrants regularly pay up to seventy five grand for these VIP packages. Wow. One includes a easy crossing through the Darien Gap on a horseback, followed by a bus ride free of vessles, no schlepping through the desert getting thirsty. But it's interesting that you're the sort of person that has seventy five grand and it's still better to come across the border legally and then just live here then to go through the process, because obviously you could afford an immigration lawyer and all that sort of stuff, right, But why bother? We don't enforce any immigration laws. That's that says something right there, Not even the well to do who can afford a lawyer that could make it as fast and easy as possible, say, why would I do that? Right? Yeah, exactly, And I'm you know, I'm not going to get all angry about that. It's it's incredible, it's lawless, it's galling, it's sickening. But moving along, I thought this was interesting. I like this this headline Bulgogee, tacos, fire pits and tequila bars. Concert goers shell out for VIP treatment. And they give the example of this duties retired something or other pediatrist. He recently spent two hundred and fifty grand he's sixty seven years old, quarter of a million dollars to buy eight seats around a fire pit at the new Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs, Colorado. That's life time tickets to every show where you can sit around a fire pit with a view that can't be obstructed by any fans. He also gets primo parking, VIP restrooms steps away, Hello, and in seat service of Hawaiian short ribs, sandwich is Korean bulgogi, tacos and crafted cocktails. Wow Korean bulgogi tacos. You said, oh, are you kidding me? KBTS, what your own bathroom close by is a big deal. kBT sounds like a K pop band, but indeed it's Korean bulgogi, which they could watch with nobody in front of them. Right, well, you can hammer down a bunch of KBTS crafted cocktails. That John is right there. It's a VIP John, No poor people in there now. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is obviously a horrific amount of money. But if you have several million in the bank, for instance, and you're really into music, eight for life around a fire pit sounds like there's something the sort of thing some business will buy and we'll use it for clients instead of well, yeah, I was just gonna say, if you don't use them, give them to your friends, sell them, bring relatives, bring whatever. It's not that crazy g being a VIP and the kgt's watching BTS, don't get a duy oh lord getting an l y f T. Yeah. So, and maybe you're a rich Chinese guy, you get dragged through the snake tunnel as a VIP and you'd plunk down your two hundred and fifty k start watching contracts in America because we don't enforce the law. Armstrong and Getty