Nice Job, Straw Hole

Published Aug 28, 2024, 4:23 PM

In hour 3 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:

  • Kamala's childhood & Jack's spill
  • The American dream out of reach?
  • How will the Kamala/Walz CNN interview go?
  • Cool historical facts!

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jettie enough he Armstrong and Yetty.

Two Delta Airlines workers were killed and another seriously injured in an accident inside a maintenance hangar. Delta says the employees were working on a tire away from any aircraft when a wheel component ruptured. Emergency crews racing to the scene. The medical examiner identifying the deceased as fifty eight year old Merkel Morwig and thirty seven year old Luis Aldirando. That third employee is receiving medical treatment for serious injuries. Delta SAS is conducting a full investigation into exactly what happened.

Yeah, I'm sure routine maintenance on a wheel of a plane in a hang as that woman said, uh, explodes and kills a couple of people and almost a third. That's a that's rough.

I was a pretty young kid when somebody said to me be careful airing up a car tire because if you don't fill it, it can explode and really injure you or kill you. And since then, every time I fill up attire.

I'm thinking, is today the day I've never heard of it happening to anybody like like like around anywhere I live?

I did not once?

Well, And because of what is it? A notability? The notability paradoxic news. If something incredibly rare happens, it's covered like crazy on the news, convincing everybody it happens all the time. You'd think something as crazy as that would have come from my attention in real.

Life, yes, you would think.

So, you know what, this is liberating for me? I am going to air up. I'm going to go right to the maximum pressure.

You know what. I like fear death anymore? Good for you? That will be freeing.

I like in my town, none of the vacuums or air dispensers at the gas stations are usable because the homeless people break into them all the time and steal the money, So you can't have them.

How do you like that?

For civilization? In an upscale town, you just can't have that stuff because the homeless people take it.

And that's so crazy.

Hanson just sent us a fabulous story about a store worker in I believe it was it Oakland, lawless, insane, melting down Oakland, California, confronted by a couple of dozen utes on bicycles who surrounded him, beat him down, punching him and kicking him, forcing it. He finally pulled a handgun and they hurriedly went on their way. But yeah, just lawless gangs roaming the streets. Okay, Well that leads us into this. I wasn't gonna talk about it here, but let's nail this down. I asked Katie Green to help us because she knows the San Francisco Bay area so well, having grown up there. Uh, Kamala, no arrests, No arrests. Of course it's worth throwing them.

I assumed that. And then whatever the answer is, this is fine. I just I've been wondering the whole time. So, Kamala Harris, her mom was a professor at Stanford and then her dad was at Berkeley or whatever it was. But anyway, she keeps talking about growing up in Oakland and making it seem like, you know, and and how middle class and you know, when we got our first house and my mom was a single working mom. Yeah, at a prestigious university. But I mean, you know, it's whatever. But she's trying to make her youth sound a lot more hard scrabble than is. By the way, her high school years or formative years were in Montreal, in a very nice area of Montreal, Canada.

AnyWho rise, Yes, she when she.

Gave her speech the other night, she talked about in Berkeley there's the hills where the rich people live, and then there's the flat land, and like that's the hood. And have you nailed down where she actually grew up her her life as hard scrabble as it sounds or not.

Yeah, I mean, she's definitely not in the Berkeley Hill. She's about a block away from Telegraph Avenue, which is a hard, harder area of Berkeley.

But now, but was it in nineteen seventy five when she was ten years old?

Right, I don't know.

I'm not sure what it was like then, But I mean she's she's definitely down in the flats.

But it's a nice size house.

I've seen it before, actually, I just didn't realize that it was hers.

But I mean, yeah, how many square feet? I don't know looking at the Zillow ad for it. Claw foot tub? What the hell uses a clawfoot tub? What is this?

Eighteen ninety I don't know what a waste of effort, Kitty. At the risk of getting too nutty about this, do you know the cross street or anything? Because Telegraph Avenue runs sure right through the heart of Berkeley, right by you see Berkeley's into Oakland.

Yeah, it's between Dwight Way and Parker. She's about a half a block from People's Park.

Well, this is a pointless exercise now that I recognize my own stupid question. Anyway, since we don't know what the neighborhood was like.

No appreciation for geography and it's it's fascinations.

Well, I don't have a time machine, so I don't have any idea what that street was like fifty years ago. It might have been a perfectly nice, safe, middle class neighborhood, or it might have been scary af.

Is it intense now? Is it? Oh? Yeah? Oh yeah.

Well you're quite right though that these things change just so much of the course thirty forty fifty years. But it is no doubt though that she had a PhD professor mom and her dad an avowed Marxist. By the way, this has been soft pedaled, dude was a hardcore Marxist. And when you listen to things, things Kamala Harris says, they sound like the sort of things that the daughter of a Marxist would say. Anyway, where's up? Essentially Berkeley and Montreal? And where was the third one? So like Madison Wisconson ors something like that, she grew up in college towns with academia.

I just poured coffee all over myself.

See flow the travel mug that you revere so much, I do. I can't drink out of them without pouring coffee down my face. Is there one that you can drink out of? Because I can drink out of a regular cup and never spill on myself. But then you don't have the lid. But the ones with the lid, they got the tiny little hole in the way you do it. And I just I pour coffee all over my chest. And now I've got coffee all over myself. I look like a street person. People are gonna run from me when we when they see me, I'll smell you.

Remember during the Trump trial, when some people suggested that the defense might just rest and not call any witnesses. The defense of the travel mug industry rests here, honor, we will not call any witnesses.

Insinuating what operator airnesses. Yeah, this is a unique to you.

I'm the attorney. I can't comment. Katie is the member of the free media. Can explain me for me.

Yeah, so here in my choices, I either drive to work with an open cup of coffee, which I've done for years, and it spills all over the place, every caveman, every bump you hit, it flies all over the place and got it on my pants and on the floor and my everything. The console of my car or truck is covered in coffee. Or I have these kind of the tabolids on it, but I pour them down my chest, which is more.

Show me the top of it. Look at my shirt.

Well, no, I don't doubt you poured it down your chest. I've worked with you for like thirty five years. Show me the top of the cup. I need to assess its mechanics. Oh no, no, that's a.

Bad No, that's a child. Look look at this. Look at this cup. Look at that.

There's the trigger. You press that to open the hole or it automatically closes. There's the top, there's the lock button, there's the unlock And this is a tool of a grown man.

And where do you get that stores it?

Looks like you're drinking of what should be a.

Hole for a straw jack. Oh, is that what that is? Yes?

And by the way, also significantly, you can you can beat somebody down with this thing.

So this is a whole of straw is supposed to go in. Yes, nobody drinks coffee with a straw. Nice chob straw hole.

And it says on the side of this thing recycled plastic. So I feel good because I'm sustainable.

That's nice. I must have coffee all over my shirt, which may be ruined. Damn, it'll come right out.

You just got to go into the bathroom, soak that puppy, then sop it up paper towels, then soak it again.

The old soak in. So my nippoles now showing to everyone. So a bit of a wet t shirt contest. Yes, is that your ten thousand dollars shirt? Yes, exactly.

Let's go with your twelve thousand dollars coat. We're talking about something. So the Kama Harris and Oakland and growing up at academia and her Marxist father from Jamaica, and the.

Rest her dad's from Jamaica, and that was at a socialist country when he lived there and he was like involved her.

And I've heard this before that her dad was a socialist. Well, no, he was.

He was a Marxist economist. Okay, that was that was his thing, That's what he that was his field. I might be off a not to you, but he was definitely a Marxist of some sort, which you know, the sins of the father should not be visited upon the head of the child.

That's pretty that. Yeah. I don't know about that though.

On the other hand, it is an avenue of investigation.

Wait a minute, your dad was a communist. Maybe we'll take another look.

At your commun adjacent attitudes and you know, just to contemplate that for a minute.

Right, So we saw nothing on the reality of her hard scrabble story, although I mean that's a pretty elite parents you got right there.

You know, dad yeeded out when she was pretty young. You know what. That's great. I use that term purely to annoy Katie. And oh I got brought her to her knees. My skin almost just jumped off of my body. I was, Yes, he shoots the scores.

It's just like when I do it in front of my kids. If I use some hipster language. They just hate it so much.

Oh, I know that was heartless of me.

Anyway, he left pretty early, so yeah, it's highly possible they did not have a ton of money as a single mom, etcetera, etcetera. This doesn't prove anything. Again, it makes you wonder.

If I say this, salads bust and my kids are like, Dad, don't, don't, don't ever, don't ever.

Say that it's off putting. Why is it? I remember that too.

Why is your parents using language that you and your friends use so annoying?

That's a great question. It just makes it does make your screen crawl.

It's like, ah, arable, It's terrible. Again, I did it purely out of cruelty. Speaking of this discussion, single parents, whatever, the American dream feels out of reach for most. According to the Wall Street Journal.

Yes we got to get to that coming back because it fits in with a number I came across. That is definitely not good news for the Harris administration at all. So stay tuned for all that. Maybe the entire election comes down to, is Kamala Harris seen as the incumbent or a breath of fresh air? Is she the administration that's currently in power, which she is part of, or is she changing to someone someone new, which is weird.

That's not the way it normally is looked at.

When you at Reagan Reagan Bush, that was seen as a continuation, not a fresh start.

Michael, break out your chisels and put that in. Granted, truer words have never been spoken. It's absolutely true and a really interesting question.

And she seems to be kind of getting away with It's not Reagan Reagan Bush like continuation. It's like, no, this is a fresh start. Just because I as a best vice president doesn't mean anyway. The important part about that is Gallup's got their latest poll about the direction of the country for August. The August numbers are out since September starts this weekend, and seventy three percent say they are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. When you've got a seventy three percent wrong track, the incumbent loses always. But is she the acumbent or not? That's the question that numbers of punch in the gut. Oh my god, seventy three percent wrong track. You lose unless you're unless you're seen as a change.

So first, the headline, the American dream feels out of reach for most. And this you know, I shouldn't follow Jack as he was granite worthy with his last pronouncement. But here's Joe Getty's axiom thirty seven?

Are we up to thirty seven? Michael?

I believe so when bad policies are popular, terrible government is the result.

That makes sense.

Let you contemplate that for a moment. So I'm looking at some of the numbers of the Wall Street Journal and nork Pole. Well over fifteen hundred US adults showed a start gap between people's wishes and their expectations. Americans overwhelmingly desire all the traditional trappings of the American dream, owning a home, having a family, looking forward to a comfortable retirement. Those are all lovely goals, but very few believe they can easily achieve it. And it's interesting that's the lead, And I thought that was an interesting way to phrase it.

Easily achieve it. No, it takes a lot of work. But in the.

Summat's God, yes, those say goals are tough to achieve even with hard work. So I wonder if somebody saw that lead and thought that's a dumb way to put it.

Anyway. Sorry, that's just in a side. Let's get back to the court of the thing.

The trend was consistent across gender and party lines, but held more true for younger generations who been priced out of home ownership and settled with.

High interest rates and student debt.

Eighty nine percent respondent said owning a home is either essential or important to achieve their vision of the future eighty nine percent, but only ten percent said home ownership is either easy or somewhat easy to achieve.

Has it ever been easy? Easy? Coupled by the word it seems like a hell of a standard.

Like I would like to put it to people, when they're young, you want a comfortable retirement, of course I do. You will have to work every day for at least forty years, probably forty five years to do that. How many people would say, oh, I'm fine with that. I think most of them would find that appalling. When they're young, You'll have to work every day for the next forty five.

Years and be smart and aggressive and improve yourself at every opportunity and be wise.

Yeah, and I think a lot of people would think, well, that's not okay, that's.

Yeah.

Again, I I equipple with the choice of words.

I think the principle remains being the dad of three young people in their twenties and or early thirties and looking at housing costs, and well, you can speak to housing costs jacuine house shopping lately. I'm so grateful I'm in a house that I want to stay in. But anyway, financial security and a comfortable retirement were similarly labeled as essential or important by ninety six and ninety five percent of people, respectively, but rated as EASi or somewhat easy to pull off by only eight percent and nine percent. You know what, the more I get into this, the more annoyed I am by that verbiage.

Yeah.

Easy, That's That's what I mean is we've come up with this standard that you can rolland any kind of.

Job and you'll get a house and a comfortable retirement. Yeah. No, No, it's never been that easy.

Well, this is a point we've made a number of times in the past, but I think it bears repeating that so much of the current American consciousness is still less now than it was twenty five years ago, but still somewhat tied to the post WW two era when Europe was leveled. Asia was either leveled or had not yet industrialized, and the United States manufacturing mite was virtually the only game in town. And you could stumble out of high school half drunk, go to Detroit, get a great union job, work for thirty five years, retire with a pension, and live a lovely life in the suburbs.

Even with all that being true, the houses people were buying were like fifteen hundred square feet. Nobody was most Nobody was going to Hawaii on vacation or flying anywhere. You were driving to grandma's house or your local lake, living a much different lifestyle. Kids wearing hand me downs much more common.

You know, I was really fond of my ultimate point. It's been undermined somewhat by the premise of this poll. But I will point out in terms of housing, which is undeniably incredibly expensive. If you say, I don't know, top of my head, import millions of people who need housing out of nowhere and poor trillions of dollars into the economy out of nowhere. That's going to be inflationary, Armstrong and Getty.

The booking process was apparently a two way street.

Politico is reporting.

Harris campaign staff have been asking reporters who they think she should talk to. Behind the scenes, TV producers from big name anchors have been calling the campaign to pitch their talent as the person she has to do it with. They chose CNN. It's been thirty eight days since Harris ascended to the top of the ticket and twenty days just to get an interview scheduled.

Yeah, well it's finally going to happen. Kamala Harris is going to do an interview, but not alone. She's going to do it with her running mate, which is weird. And she's going to do with Dana Bash on CNN. And I didn't know this, but she has done a number of those. She did a twenty twenty sit down, she did her first in office vice president interview with Dana Bash. She did the first interview after Rowe Versus Wade was overturned with Dana Bash. She's done a handful of them, so she has a relationship with her. For better or worse, for those of us who want the real Kamala Harris to be exposed, I don't know. The most interesting wrinkle of the whole thing is it's going to be pre recorded, which I don't remember that happening in the past. Why would you ever do that? And based on a bunch of the texts we got, everybody thinks, then well, okay, well then it's going to be edited. So whether it is or not, you're allowing the perception that there's some hanky panky going on by doing it pre recorded. I think she's doing herself a real disservice by pre recording it. Well, right, it's the old appearance of impropriety. Why would you not avoid that? Yeah, by doing it life, I suppose. I mean, I can come up with some.

Technical I can't why not? But lord knows, there's plenty of live TV these.

Days, all day every day, CNN does live television. How often do they have a mic cutout or a camera fallover or whatever. There's no reason. I would love to know why they decided to pre record it. I do have a theory, which I mentioned already. I think she's so capable of a major flub they wanted the ability to get their ducks in a row to try to have an explanation for it by the time it aired.

Ah, yeah, I wonder.

And to the question of well, Dana bash Is interviewed her several different times. In fact, is one of the few other than Lester Holt, who just asked her basic questions and exposed her as a moron. The fact that their buddy buddy isn't reassuring to me as a voter.

No at all. No.

God, the pre recording it to bad luck, well, you know, them editing it.

I mean that would really be.

If they actually edited out some bad stuff, that would be that'd be a bad thing to do for CNN. If I was CNN, I wouldn't risk that because if that leaked out.

You know, you can be critical, even harshly critical, but still be fair.

And I'm trying to be fair.

But the whole well, that's Dana Bash who she's had a bunch of interviews with, and she's bringing her wingman, Tim Walls, and they're pre taping it. It all smacks of training wheels to me, show up, sit down, answer questions, anything that like layers, you know, let's make it more comfortable for you.

On top of that, it.

Comes off as training wheels. Sure does you know what do you call them? The walls on the gutter of a bowling Allen?

Right, yeah, but up the side rails, so you can't. That is exactly what's happening. They're making sure she can't throw a gutter ball. Tim's there. They picked a friendly, then you. They're going to pre record it, so if they have to say no, no, no, what Kamala Harris actually meant and not comment about Israel and Hamas is not that we don't blah blah blah.

I think that's why they're pre recording. Yeah.

Yeah, although again, the opportunity to edit it quote unquote for length.

Is there. It's absolutely there.

Somebody rambles on and on on an answer, and oh man, we're going to air this in the one hour you know whatever slot, and that answer got kind of long, and by coincidence, the end of it was incoherent and exposed Kamala Harris for being everything people accuse her of being.

But we're going to.

Edit it for length. I'm sorry, this just this stinks. I don't think they'll edit it. I one percent thinks she'll have all the questions.

Ahead of time. One hundred percent.

Really, I may be sure shocking, might even be in agreement, but certainly leak to her.

I mean that that's so effortless.

One person with knowledge of what the questions are going to be sends one simple email to someone on That's all it takes.

Yeah, Yeah, what about the tim Walls being with her now? I could like a day or two after the convention doing kind of a soft ballie, hey you're the ticket now saying I don't think that would be totally illegitimate. But this being the long, long, long, long awaited first interview of any substance, they promised I will do an interview by the end of the month, comes and it's with another person.

Yes, Michael, what if she starts the answer and then he takes over and just finishes it.

On every topic, there's one kamala. Kamala is a kamila or kamala?

I think, Michael, that will happen in one form or another, And I'm really curious about how it will come off. If it happens once and he's like, I know what you're saying because you remember, and he is the articulate one goes ahead and finishes, he can get away with that happens a couple of times. That's gonna be weird. That's gonna be Mom at the interview, answering the questions for her little pumpkin.

I would be surprised if he doesn't come off better than her. He's pretty good, Yeah, at the you know, speaking his socialist crap, he's pretty good.

He's pretty good at it. She's not.

Do you think their teams are aware of that that?

I don't know.

They got to be very very careful about her being eclipsed by him and or him mansplaining you know what they're gonna do.

They got to really stay away from that. Every pundit I've listened to thinks he gave the speech of the week last week better than hers. How often does that happen where the VP gives them clearly knocked, knock their socks off, brought the house down speech.

Yeah, I guess. I don't know.

I thought all that was a little florid, a little over enthusiastic.

Honestly, I thought he was pretty impressive. But different topic, but kind of a similar ish sort of thing. Back to the debate, which is now going to happen as we all know, and the agreement that the microphones are going to be on.

Everybody is so like prepared.

Maybe maybe the average voter isn't, but those of us in the media are fully prepared. She is setting up a i'm speaking, I'm speaking that is, that is our entire goal with making sure that the microphones are on so she can do the i'm speaking, be the victim of a of a belligerent male and you know, have t shirts for sale on our website that night I'm speaking, kam La hars. You know, it's just it's going to be sickening. How so, obviously telegraphed that move is going to be yes, which might diminish its power. Yeah, I thought that immediately when I was like, wait a minute, she wants the mics on. Oh, I know why she wants Trump to make an ass of himself and her to be able to say, I'm speaking, mister Well, she won't call mister President mister Trump, I'm speaking, which reminds me her only notable moments, truly notable in her debating history, certainly the last decade or so, have been I'm the victim the whole I was that little girl.

I was very much an I'm the victim sure moment, even though that is her best and only card. Yeah, it was stupid on several levels. So, yeah, she's clearly trying to achieve that in the debate. The whole interview thing, well, we'll say she's reasonably adept at memorizing talking points as long as the questions are fairly standard, you know, polysci two to oh one. If it gets into Polyci three thirty six, she could struggle.

On the debate and having the microphones on the conventional wisdom on the left is that she wants Donald Trump to embarrass himself. And I'm not that worried about that, but Rich Flowery National Review made this point, and this is absolutely true. Trump is so eager to jump in, and he's jumped into great effect many times with Hillary and in all those Republican debates when he got the nomination, he was really good at that. But he absolutely would have saved Joe Biden in that debate if he'd been able to speak. We would have never gotten to the end where Joe Biden pauses and says we killed.

Medicare or whatever he says.

He would have never got that line out because Trump would have interrupted him before he had a chance to. Trump would have saved the worst moments that Biden had in that debate by jumping in and before he got a chance to talk. That He'll and he could do that with Kamala. He'd let her ramble, geez trump, stand back. She got three minutes, Let her have the whole three minutes and go full. The time is now and every day, you know whatever she's gonna say.

Yeah, he doesn't have the discipline to do that, So that Mike's soft would be a real blessing. But yeah, that's the whole Uh.

You know, if your opponent is screwing.

Themselves up in the public eye, just get stand back, let them do it right.

So I'm not concerned that he'll say something that embarrasses himself as much as I think he'll get in the way of her embarrassing herself.

Yeah, and he has the risk of coming off is petulant too, was. I saw some clips the other day when he was debating Hillary and she would make a claim and he'd say that's not true, interrupting that's not true, which is fine. Then he'd go with another that's not true. That's not true at all, that's not true. He couldn't he couldn't leave it at like two.

That's not true. He had to hit it and hit it and hit it and hit it.

There's a difference between not true, and then phil are thinking, oh, really, wow, I can't wait till he talks, and then's saying it five six times.

It's petulant. But I don't know seeing an interview why they play the games.

See an interview is taped for some reason and then airs nine eastern six West coast. It will be huge ratings, especially by CNN standards, I think.

So that's like what three hundred people gonna be.

I would imagine among the most watched presidential candidate interviews of all time, if.

Not the most. It'll be a biggie. And there's no guarantee she'll ever do another one.

I think that will that would cause a serious bit of damage to her campaign if she clammed up and hid after that. I just going by, like the New York Times yesterday, there are twenty one questions we'd like to ask Kamala Harris, since she hasn't answered any questions. If you got the old gray lady snipe and atcha, the rest of the herd will follow.

We've got sixty nine days to go, giggity giggity, and that's a long time to hide hide your candidates. So she'll do this ease into it with a guy at her side helping her along because she needs a wingman, and then eventually do one by herself, more adversarial.

I don't know. I don't see it happening, so when we return.

This is not political, it's not ripped from today's headlines. But I'd like to squeeze it in. It's very much a listical type feature atte but it's a list of mind blowing facts about the timeline of the United States and people and events and stuff like that, how quickly things have happened in some cases. Just I think you'll find it as interesting as I did. We'll try to squeeze that in.

Cool.

That's all on the way, and we got lots of good stuff.

Hope you can stay here mind your own damn business. I'm speaking.

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What thick head of hair? Wow? You know better? Golf game coming up? Next hour?

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M On a completely different topic, this is very listically, but I thought it was very interesting, enjoyable, and I hope you will too. A handful of things that kind of change your idea of time and how much time is passing. This earthing time is earthly time. John Tyler was the tenth US president. He was born in seventeen ninety. He has a living grandson. I love this sort of stuff shows you how recent things are.

Yeah, as you might guess, you.

Know, they had some old Tony Randall, who's the latest Robert de Niro star fatherhood, Mick Jagger style fatherhood. The president had a son at age sixty three, who had a son at age seventy five, and that son is now ninety five.

Yeah, that's an extreme case.

But just like I was thinking about this the other day, my dad's birthday is coming up next week and he'll be eighty four. No, no, eighty seven, I'm sorry, this is two thousand four doing the man. He'll be eighty seven. And when he was born there would have been lots of Civil War veterans around.

Yeah, isn't that crazy? It is crazy? Well, wait a minute, when was he born, the thirty thirty seven? I mean you'd have been old.

Yeah, but yeah, absolutely there were lots of Civil War veterans.

You're quite quite right.

Yeah, this one is stupid. I'm gonna include the stupid ones just because they make the good ones seem better. George Washington died in seventeen ninety nine. The first dinosaur fossil discovered in eighteen twenty four. This means that George Washington never knew that dinosaurs existed. Well, he knew that monarchies existed, and he shot him so.

And got us free. Harriet the tortoise, who.

Died in two thousand and six was owned by both Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin.

Wow, how crazy is that? That is something.

Tortoises live a long time. The next one, Jack, You've pointed out several times, and it is mind blowing. The first successful airplane flight and the moon landing were only sixty six years apart.

Yah, yeah, yeah, yeah, nineteen oh three to nineteen sixty nine is amazing. That's one of the most amazing things in history. That we went from man had never flown to landing on the Moon and returning in that amount of time.

And principle we've discussed many times the twentieth century, Well, the twentieth century. The twenty first century makes the twentieth century. It looks like the nineteenth century. It's not change, it's the pace of chick right that makes people crazy. This one will blow your socks off. Oxford University existed for several hundred years before the Aztec Empire was founded. They don't have the relevant dates, but I believe it to be true, as Oxford has been around since, you know, forever. Ah, that one's just silly.

I always thought this was interesting for some reason. Abe Lincoln when he got elected to Congress, his when he sat down for his first year of Congress, it was John Quincy Adams last year as a congressman. And John Quincy Adams was at his dad's side for Bunker Hill and you know, going to Great Britain and France and all that sort of stuff, Revolutionary war stuff. I mean that link there is amazing, right.

Yeah.

So yeah, valuing the Republic and understanding the blood and toil that it birthed it, that was very, very immediate.

Yeah, it's a good point. Let's see we'll skip that. Well.

Star Wars came out the same year that France executed someone with a guillotine for the last time.

Wow, makes you stop and.

Think they were still cutting people's heads up in France in the seventies.

Quick on air meeting. We don't have much time, is it uranus or uranus?

I think you're supposed to say urinus? Well, well, am I talking about my anus or the planet?

Legitimate question? He didn't give me a category here.

For once in my life, I will act like an adult and say Uranus was discovered before Antarctica. Although is that one of those when white people discover thing? Because I'll bet there were some some sort of southern Peruvians or Argentinians or something like run into it, Whereas I discovered my ain is probably about age two, I would go, oh boy. Finally, Nintendo was founded in eighteen ninety nine, when the Eiffel Tower was still being built. What it was a card company playing

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