President Half A Cadaver

Published Sep 18, 2024, 4:38 PM

In hour 3 of The Armstrong & Getty Show

  • The difference in questions presented to Trump VS Kamala
  • Hezbollah walkie talkies explode
  • Bummer Wheel Of Fortune moment & Jack's manscaping
  • You either have to lie or not date anyone

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty, I'm strong and Katty and he.

Armstrong and Yetty, You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are quote stupid and racist.

Why should black voters trust you?

Why is joy important to you to insert into this election?

That's a stark contrast.

Kamala Harris went in front of the same Black Woman's Forum thingy yesterday for an interview using my finger quotes.

That Trump pointal Association of Black Journalists.

Suddenly that Trump went before a while back, and he got nailed from the very beginning on why are you such a racist? And just I'm so attacking him? First question for Kamala Harris's joy, where does joy come from?

How did you come up with joy? Where are you so joyous?

So, yeah, that's something to get it, to nail it down a little more. Here's the way Donald Trump was asked and answered about economic policies versus Kamala Harris.

Always with energy, always.

I don't want to be boring about it, but there's no bigger subject. It covers everything.

If you make.

Donuts, if you make cars, whatever you make. Energy is a big deal, and we're going to get that. It's my ambition to get your energy bill within twelve months down fifty percent.

If I can do that, you've.

Done a hell of a jump.

Is the price of grocery still too high? Yes?

Do we have more work to do? Yes?

And I will tell you I do believe that I offer a new generation of leadership for our country. And so my plan for the economy includes what I imagine and believe in call an opportunity economy.

There you go.

Holy cow, I can't stand Trump, but boy howdy would hear policies bring America to its knees?

Whatever they are?

Whatever, Yeah, whatever you can discern from that, if you can discern anything.

So we played clips on Monday from the only Solar interview, Solo not Solar. I didn't get to see the harvest.

What was it?

Was a harvest super moon with a shot of brandy or something?

What was it?

It was a harvest sure thinking of the autumn fisherman's urine soaked thresher jackass moon.

I'm sorry, no, that was last month.

It's the blood harvest, triple wolf, dog breath, murder moon. It was a super harvest moon last night with an eclipse, that's it, with a twist of eclipse.

And it was a cloudy where I was, so you couldn't see the bang moon.

Now.

It was very disappointing. Crazy, So not a solar interview.

Kamala Harris has done one solo interview one and it was Friday with an ABC reporter in North Carolina, I think, And but he.

Got no attention whatsoever.

And she was.

Horrible at it.

She was everything that people on the right had been thinking she would do if she ever had to answer questions, and she did the nonsense rambling, didn't answer anything word salad, Kamala thing, and it got zero attention. So I'm not sure demanding more interviews makes much difference. But I thought this was a heck of a thing in the New York Times. And this is not an opinion piece. This is actually a news article, which often they are opinion pieces in the New York Times.

Yeah, no kidding.

During her twenty twenty campaign and early in her vice presidency, some of Miss Harris's biggest missteps came during unscripted encounters with journalists.

Yeah, we've noticed. To avoid taking chances.

She has granted only six interviews in the fifty eight days since President Biden withdrew from the race, three with friendly radio hosts. Say they're being very generous with their definition of interview.

Oh yeah, my goodness, you're you're doing a pre planned publicity stop with a friendly music DJ.

Good lord to say that she's reviewed, to say she's done six interviews, She's done one actual interview and there weren't really any follow ups in the one.

On Friday.

Back to the New York Times article, even the press a verse, mister Biden took more questions in the final two months of his campaign than miss Harris has in what's is nearly the first two months of hers. That is a hell of a blast from the New York Times. Wow, Even the press a verse Joe Biden, whose brain didn't work and they're trying to hide the fact that he was incapable of doing it, took more questions in the last two months than she has in her first two months. That's amazing. It goes on, we are.

And it's worth pointing out guy's been serving and he went through the primaries.

And then he ran for the election.

We know everything we need to know about him, and yet he did more than the Manchurian mystery Kennedy Kamala Harris, who has no policies.

Nor beliefs, And again this is an Eyork Times news piece. Her team says that this is about to change, promising a series of appearances across an array of media venues, including local and national outlets, podcasts, radio stations, at daytime talk shows.

Well we'll see.

Miss Harris's campaign is particularly focused on local TV and radio stations in battleground states like Pennsylvania, where Miss Harris sat on Friday for a somewhat circuitous eleven minute interview with WPVII, the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, in between stops in Johnstown and Wilkes Borrow. So even the New York Times didn't have anything nice to say about that interview. Somewhat circuitous, they go on to say in this news piece, asked for one or two specific things she would do to address high prices, Miss Harris spoke for a minute and fifty two seconds about her biography before she got around to articulating her proposals for tax deductions and to small business and tax credits for housing developers, and answer for people worried about the price of groceries.

This was not.

That's from the New York Times, right yeah. And the idea, well, what we're going to do about inflation is the government's going to hand out more money, which is of course inflationary.

And she does not have a syllable on.

The ah, COVID, COVID, dang it, COVID's best, certainly COVID coronavirus. She does not have a word about the underlying causes, which is, you may recall, was her her Tzar hood when it comes to the border.

And so Mark Halprin's analysis of that whole thing. If Harris loses the campaign strategy to schedule just enough interviews that are seen as just tough enough to try to check the boxes for another fifty days, rather than truly engaging with voters and explaining her policies, will be one of the great strategic miscalculations of all time, unless, of course, her team is sure she can't really pull off such interviews, which case, maybe this plan is brilliant, and I think it's the latter. The people around her, for valid reasons, don't think she can do this. Yeah, Now, whether she's actually going to this last fifty days really get out there.

And do lots of interviews, well, we'll see.

We'll also see if they get any attention, because she was as bad as she can be on Friday and it got played.

Nowhere, go ahead, Michael.

My approach is about new ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment. And also, to be very honest with you, my focus is very much and what we need to do over the next ten twenty years, oh my god, to catch up to the twenty first century around again capacity but also challenge it.

So I don't know if you heard this the National Review podcast yesterday, Charlie Cook and Rish Lottery broke down her speaking style in a way that I hadn't heard anybody do before.

But they're absolutely right.

It's not that the individual sentences don't make sense because you listen to for like two minutes and you're confused, like you can't even quite grasp what just happened. It's because she says things that are opposite of each other, and in between she uses conjunctions like to be honest or if I want to be direct, So she just said I'm all about what's going on now, then said, to be honest with you, I'm focused on the next ten to twenty years.

What what mean?

Those are two challenges and also capacity. Those are two phrases that make no sense. You just said the important thing is now, then said, to be direct, I'm focused on what's gonna happen next ten to twenty years.

And she does that all the time. Israel has every right to defend herself. They were attacked, but to be direct, they can't keep doing what they're doing.

What.

Yeah, she reminds me of a double A baseball player is sent up to the next level to see how ready they are.

She does that interview in Philly.

It was miserable, it was hilarious, and well, we just played you some of it, and her team has called her back down to double A. She obviously has the capacity to memorize talking points and deliver them. She did fairly well at that in the debate. Even the slightest of follow ups would have exposed her for the nannie she is.

But I come from a middle cast family. My mom was a single mom. She was a teacher. We grew up.

Yeah, we've heard this story.

You grew up in the most affluent neighborhood in Montreal anyway, So they trot her out for this Philly interview knowing that it would probably not be picked up by the national media. She struck out three times because she still can't hit the curveball, and now they're going to drill her some more to see if in the next couple of weeks, Like you said, her team says there soon she'll be doing all sorts of good stuff. So they've analyzed her performance trying to get her to learn how to hit a curveball. Then they're going to try again in a very limited way, and if she whiffs again, you're gonna see her shut down again.

So now you know the hack for listening to her.

I really look forward to it in the future because they went through a whole bunch of examples. If she when she gets done with a sentence and then throws in to be honest or to be more direct, you're about to hear the opposite of what she just said, which is hilarious.

It's like a KJP.

The moment you know she's going to be utterly unclear is right after she says, let me.

Be clear right, Wow, that is something I'll offer.

You some bull crap that I'm trying to formulate right now. That's what, let me be clear, means.

And again, Biden did took more questions in his last two months of his political career with a broken brain than the new younger, New Generation candidate has taken in her first two months.

Not at your fact fact check, he's still the president.

Let me be clear.

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So everybody was kind of excited by the It's like straight out of a movie. All those pages blowing up yesterday that has blows now. They weren't done. There's more devices blowing up today. We got all the details on that coming up. Arm shock.

The side is giving us a master class on COVID action. You know, in my twenty six years at CIA and I was involved in operations like this, I've never seen anything in terms of the exquisite nature of such a kinetic intelligence operation, both in the in the lethal aspect of it, but also in the supply chain. And this really does kind of give the notion that Israel has restored its deterrence.

It's instilling fear in his adversaries, restored its deterrence.

Yeah, I don't want to be negative on this because it is one of the more amazing stories I've ever heard, but Massad giving a master class an intel having missed October seventh is something.

But anyway, it's.

An astounding paradox or you know, juxtaposition. Indeed, that's Mark Palmeropolis is an intelligence expert, allegedly a quick update than.

More from him.

Live update to update it a minute ago. For a second day, there are reports of communications devices exploding across Lebanon. This is today and in southern suburbs of the capital. Another wave of wireless devices, including walkie talkies, exploded in Lebanon up day after at least twelve people were killed thousands more injured. Lebanon's Health ministry said the second wave of blasts involveds devices. Killed at least one person, wounded more than a hundred.

So if you kill so, that's a total of I think thirteen killed. Is this a major deal in terms of deterring Hesbola or in the war against Hesbola? Or is it just a really cool story that we're all into.

I am.

I think it will have effects beyond the kill, the dead and the wounded. Keep in mind that thousands, a few thousand were wounded, some of them mortally I would guess, or out of commission for a very long time and probably terrified to flip on the light switches in their apartments at this point. So that's all we've got on the new round of explosions. Smaller scale looks like mostly walkie talkies, which Hesbela guys carry a lot. Let's plunge on with mister Palmer opolis a clip seventy six, Michael.

It's really an intelligence operation for the Ages, and I really do think it restores the Israeli deterring capability of instilling fear in its adversaries. This was lost on October seventh, you noted, you know, really rather catastrophic Israeli intelligence failures. But in many ways, Mossad is back now and they are actually showing almost you know, total domination of His Balla in the intelligence sphere.

And then one more no to the next clip.

An operation like this, you know, kind of have two possible uh you know effects. One is you do something called operation preparation of the of the environment. That's Israel is going to launch an operation in which they so destabilize the his BALLA fighters and that follows with an Israeli grounding cursion. And that did not happen here, So in my sense it's something a bit different. This to me is a signal to his Balla that again Israel has total dominance over kind of the intelligence domain, and that you know that they know where every his BALLA member is, you know, his BALLA member, His BALLA operators are going to have their heads on a swivel. It instills fear, and it's a message to his Balla and to the rank and file in particular that they that a wider war is certainly not in their interests.

Ah okay, And then I like the final clip is a real contrast with our president haffec At ever, who refuses to escalate anything, even though it's one of the truest truisms that's ever been spoken, that it is strength that the ters violence in deters warfare, not weakness. Let's talk about escalating.

You know, in some ways, the Israelis often escalate to de escalate, So I think this might have been part of their strategy. You know that the diplomacy between where I was hustein a National Security Council official is in Lebanon trying to media, the diplomacy was going nowhere. In some ways, this can actually push the region forward, because neither sides want a wider war, and the Israelis have certainly shown to his Ballow.

The costs of this.

Well, there's a phrase that Joe Biden either doesn't believe in or hasn't heard, escalate to de escalate, right, He's always, well, the other side gets to escalate, but we better not. And you know a lot of the left media feels that same way. CNN's headline yesterday was on their website was pager explosions are a significant escalation of hostilities between Hesbealah and Israel, Well, what are they supposed to do?

The blind spot on the left for the realities of the use of force astound me. Yeah, the concept of having a military so powerful nobody dares take it on. Or in the case of perhaps the South China Sea and the Chinese bullying of our longtime allies, the Filipinos respond swiftly and terribly and say that was the appetizer. Course, if you pull that again, the repercussions will be so terrible they will be spoken of for five hundred years.

Thanks for coming. Click.

BBC is reporting three killed by the exploding walkie talkies. Steve Hayes of The Dispatch said this is one of the most extraordinary intel operations in history, I would say so, and fun to watch.

Getting a kick out of it.

Armstrong and Getty.

Wondering some help, answering some help. I'm finding some help. You run for some help, boundary for.

Help, take a look, offering some help. And Vivian, you were so close to.

That million dollars.

Oh my god, this is a regular mom who had a chance at a million dollars if she could have solved I'm looking at the board there you got the erring part. Some and help are basically completely solved. Help is solved. Some is missing wood letter. So it's just what is something earring some help and she couldn't come up with it? Can you hear the beginning of it? I want to hear her guesses.

Again, wondering some help, answering some help. I'm finding some help.

We'll run for some help.

Boundary for help.

Okay, that's boundaryson, I don't know.

I'm sorry.

The nice lady didn't win the money, but you know why she didn't because she's no good at the game.

Well, she said she was nervous, and I've had that before, where I just I can't I can't like come up with things that if I weren't nervous I could come up with easily, because then you know, you know, whatever kind of situation, but.

Which is part of the game she's bad at. Yes, Yes, boundary for help, offering for help again? Her her anguish brings me no joy whatsoever?

Yeah, No, too bad. She missed out on a million dollars. Well, well that's the way the cookie crumblin it is exactly?

Or is this a sign of the cruel New Ryan Seacrest Era on Wheel of fortune and which going to rule that wheel with an iron at which no holds are barred. Perhaps, uh So, some non political stuff after a quick political follow up. We were talking in the last hower, I guess about, among other things, the Harris campaign to the extent that it has any policies. They've been talking with Biden about taxing unrealized assets of.

Like, oh, super rich people.

I love this, so and so the unrealized capital gains tax.

And this is what you got to remember.

It's being proposed for billionaires to start with.

But you know, if they get that going, those.

Are gonna come down, obviously, and it's gonna go by thunder and there goes my thunder. It's gonna be freaking everybody eventually. And this has got to be rejected harshly, harshly, and the fact that she has not had to answer a question about this is amazing.

Yeah, it's a journalistic malpractice and treason practically. So, yeah, we skipped to the end, which is fine. This is the mirror image of what was the brilliant book. Oh, we interviewed the author he so Hoover Foundation, Guy, Hoover Institution guy. But it was about the fact that welfare programs of all sorts expand inevitably. If you have like pathetic on the scale of one to one hundred, and you start a program that's for levels one, two, and three.

What's the next thing that happens level four?

Are advocates for level four say, well, well, whoa level fource, just one more level of pathetic?

Why aren't they getting any help?

The book is the High Cost of Good Intentions, and it has so many great examples, going clear back to Revolutionary War veterans and how it started with people who fought in the Revolutionary War, then spread to their spouses, then spread to their kids, and it ended up being people who were alive during the Revolutionary War. And it just kept spreading and spreading. And we've done that throughout history.

A guy who wants picnicked on bunker hill, you know whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, it inevitably explains so the mirror image of that, and it's this is so insidious. But once you catch on to it, nobody gives a crap about billionaires or will shed a single tier. They are an utterly unsympathetic group when it comes to especially being taxed. But you've got this concept of taxing unrealized gains, which has been seen as abhorrent. But if you can get that concept into play against the utterly unsympathetic billionaires, soon it's one hundred millionaires and you're thinking, I still don't give a crap. Uh wait, and you won't have to wait long, mister, honey, honey, we just hit five hundred thousand dollars in the four oh one k. They are coming for you, man, They are absolutely coming for you. The income tax originally was extremely narrow. I can't tell you the number of government security. Again, the mirror image was originally for like two percent of the population.

Can you realize how this would work?

So you got stock in Tesla or whatever, Tesla goes up a lot this year, Okay, well you made you made money, You owe tax on that. So my Tesla stock went up fifty thousand dollars, and now I owe you whatever you'd have to pay twenty grand, even though I haven't cashed it out yet. And of course the Tesla stock could go back down after that, and then what do you do.

So setting aside the whole introducing something abhorrent mission creep principle, as we were talking about last hour. It would also be absolutely devastating to the stock market and everybody's four oh one case, because there would be huge dumping of stock among the investor class. It would be too expensive to keep it, and it would happen a year after year after year to avoid taxes. And Kenonymous dropped me a text. Also, the unrealized gain tax is simply paying the tax on that stuff early.

It doesn't make any more money.

In fact, it makes less because the asset will not grow as quickly because of the tax being extracted from it. The capital gains tax will be paid upon death or transfer like it is now, but it won't be able to grow as much. What seems like a tax gain is just paying it early. Typical shell game taxes are now, some people might argue, But billionaires who have say a billion dollars worth of stock, they can borrow against that as income and spend that money and live lavishly and the rest of it will go with a value added tax. Then if you buy anything, there's a value added tax, but you have to eliminate income taxes and one hundred other dopey you know, duplicit as taxes.

But anyway, that's enough of that.

I vote on who's got the most joy. I don't pay attention to this stuff.

You're a wise, wise man. A couple of things I just wanted to touch on quickly because they're interesting. Big giant poll of Ukrainians Should Ukraine negotiate with Russia to achieve peace? The broad number is fifty four to forty three No, but forty three say yes. Forty three percent say yes yes. But it gets more interesting the more specific you get. If you ask Ukrainian soldiers, it's fifty five to eighteen no. Overall wow, But quite intelligently, this poll asked should you It's not just a yes no, it's a should Ukraine seek a compromise to end the war through through negotiations period, or defend its positions and focus on exhausting Russia to but not go on the offensive. Should they fight until it liberates all the territory to the February twenty two lines before the Putin invasion? Or should they fight until it liberates all territory to the nineteen ninety one borders, take the whole country back before the Little Green Men and Donetsk and the rest of it. Among Ukrainian armed forces fifty five percent said the whole mcgilla.

Wow. And these are people who have seen the worst of the worst and know what they're up against, and they're still a majority saying let's keep going.

That is wild.

That's add the twelve percent that say, all right, maybe the twenty twenty two lines before the invasion, So that gives you sixty seven percent of the Ukrainian armed force.

Two thirds of people who you know they should get to decide.

Well, And then add another eleven percent that says, let's just defend our positions and not let them take any more ground, but fight on huge percentage of those in the armed forces. Numbers are only slightly smaller Ukraine. Overall, about twenty six percent say seek compromise to and the war through negotiations now. Decent chance you or I would do the same if they were trying to take my very country or state or land or whatever. You Yeah, the really the only demographic group that is a third let's negotiate now is eighteen to twenty five year olds, keeping in mind that you can't get drafted until you're I think it's twenty five in Ukraine, which is interesting. But anyway, again, not to dwell on that too long. I want to bounce around to a couple other things. Amazon announced five days a week beaches.

Sorry, that's an interesting to put it.

They're telling their corporate staff to be in the office every weekday. There is strowm drang and angst.

I've got such a dichotomy of opinions on Amazon. I hate that it's closed down many of my favorite local stores in my small town because they couldn't keep up with Amazon. On the other hand, what was I needed to do? I needed to other Oh, I wanted a little hair trimmer for my manscaping. Katie, you know, aabe oil for your puff daddy party? How, Katie, how I'm always manscaping?

I need to.

This.

I just yeah, it's no kidding turn off here. It's just to close your eyes and cover your ears. This is harassment.

Because I was gonna mention it. I just knew you really don't want to hear that. You really really don't even want to think about that.

But I bought a manscaping tool on Amazon and I had it in three hours at my house. Now, they probably didn't even have what I.

Was looking for film, a porn or what.

Why do you need a day party.

I didn't need it in three hours. I didn't.

I'm going to a freak out or whatever you call those lins freak session, freaking freak off, freak off with this story, Jack. I didn't need it in three hours. That's just what they offered for two dollars extra shipping. So I thought, yeah, I might as well have it this afternoon. But how does any store stay open when I can order something and have it at my house in two hours, I know, or tonight or tomorrow. I mean, it's amazing, absolutely amazing, And now I'm being well.

Groomed as smooth as a dolphin. Oh my god, oh god, kill me.

Now this is the worst sixty seconds ever.

Right, yeah, Michael, Amen to that.

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Productivity is going up, productivity is going up.

You know something this massive change, this massive, it's going to take a while for everything to play out. And sure enough it did pluses and minuses. But yeah, a lot of the Amazonians, and don't mess with them because they're very large and powerful, are pretty frustrated about it. But I wish them well. Speaking of corporate news, I found this interesting household name company practically worthless. Its stock is at thirty cents in dropping. It is a worthless company twenty three and meters.

Oh really, Their entire board.

Resigned in a new blow. They've struggled to find a profitable business model even as everybody was spitting in the tube and announcing I'm won thirteenth the Spanish in the rest of it.

So there's not as much money in harvesting people's spit as they thought, or what.

Spit mining?

That's right, Yeah, The stock price fell to thirty cents a share after the hours on Tuesday, and if you're into the market you'll get this. But at that price, the company is worth less than the cash on its balance sheet, which is like an indictment so stunning it it almost can't be you're worth nine hundred grand. We've got a million.

We don't care, you.

Suck, you're worth nine hundred grand. Uh So, anyway, that company could well be going away or reorganizing, or have to be bought by somebody, or start selling your data or god knows what. Oh so much more good stuff to talk about, but we're out of time.

Got to take quick break, and I want to talk about what I learned about politics today from my babysitter interview yesterday was really interesting.

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Wow wow oof.

So I was talking to a babysitter I was interviewing yesterday, and we got into this topic. This is not anything we haven't discussed before, we haven't thought about, but.

Still struck me.

So she was a political science major, so we got into a little bit of a conversation about that, and and I just was asking, do you think things will ever go back to where this isn't everybody's life all the time following politics constantly and pendulum or continuum, that sort of stuff kind of interesting. But I said, you know, you're you're you're young, so you don't know this. But people didn't used to talk about politics all the time. In fact, we almost never talked about it. I said, you know, when I none of my and I hadn't thought about it because she's in college.

All my friends in.

College, I don't have the slightest idea what their politics were.

I had the slightest idea never came up.

I couldn't. I couldn't tell you now, people that I hung out with all the time, what their politics were old beer were our politics? And she looked at me like I was crazy. She said, wow, I said, and girlfriends. I'm thinking of all the girlfriends I had in college. I don't have any idea what their politics were or their parents.

And she said, that's crazy.

She said, that's the first question you ask somebody when you meet them, now, the first question.

Wow.

Wow, And we both couldn't believe each other's life experience around this. I have no idea what any of my girlfriend's political positions were because we.

Never discussed it. And who cares? And who cares?

I like it when you when we stay and spend time together and talk that one.

Thing you do.

I love when you do that. But I don't care whether i'd public corrected my credit. That's perverse.

It's absolutely perverse, and it speaks to a couple of a.

Handful of things. It can't be good.

Well, there are books written about this stuff, But it's the omnipresence of government in our lives, in the decay of our other social institutions that gave our lives meaning and a sense of belongingness.

Right, And I was thinking, Okay, so that's fine. If you're a.

Lefty and the first question is always you know what, who do you vote for? What's your politics? Because you can, you know, be out and proud and whoever. The girl you're talking to, I'm thinking about myself as a guy. The girl you're talking to is almost the same as you, guaranteed. But what if you're not, you either have to lie or not date anybody or have any friends.

I guess that is correct, Yes, absolutely correct.

Yeah, wow, you know to that end, we don't have much time, but I can squeeze this in recent polling shows married men are fifty nine to thirty nine Republican fifty nine to thirty nine. Married women are fifty six to forty two. Republican. Unmarried men are fifty two forty five. Republican unmarried women are sixty eight thirty one.

Democrat.

The Democratic Party has become the party of unmarried women, and to some extent, either low T males or those who are just so desperate to have a woman that they pretend to be Democrats.

I don't know, but that's shocking.

So Taylor Swift's endorsement, for instance, how could that be a surprise to anyone that's like her entire constituency.

Oh and it's worth also mentioning.

The New York Post had an interesting piece the other day pointing that over the last eight years, especially the last eight years, women have become much much more left wing than they were. So it's not just that they're left. They're way more left. And that's interesting.

But it wouldn't be as big a deal if it wasn't such an important topic, you know, as in the first thing you ask somebody when you meet them, that's weird, Armstrong and Getty

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