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San Francisco, You are beautiful, but you are so poorly run. Come with me to the Department of Building Inspection while I do something that could have been done over email. Look at this art installation outside of this three hundred million dollars state of the art building. Nobody should ever have to visit this building because you're just going to email me the results anyway. Look another art installation, three hundred million dollars. Don't worry about the homeless crisis. We have art installations and we don't take email, but we have art installations. Look more art installations floating in the middle of the air. Homeless people outside art installations inside. Everybody here was so nice. I'm actually serious. The people working there were very nice. You sent me up to the fourth floor and oh, check this out. It's the permitting department and it is absolutely stunning and empty. Looks like an efficient use of tax dollars. And then you had me signed in with an iPad, but you don't receive email? Are you hitting me? And then I filled out a physical form, gave you a credit card and guess what you're going to email me the report?
That is great.
So there's a guy who was angry with the Department of Building Inspection in San Francisco, where apparently they do not receive email, so he had to go in person, and he's talking about the gazillions of dollars they spent on art and the big beautiful building and the high tech iPad, but there's nobody there and it doesn't actually function, and homeless people everywhere, but you can't.
Make that work.
Thought that'd be a decent lead in to experience I had over the weekend. So in California, we got an awful lot of homeless people and the majority of homeless people and this study has been done over and over again.
It's drug addicts, man, That's what it is.
It's people who are addicted to some of these horrible drugs that are out there on the street.
Trank and meth and fentanyl and all these different things.
And yeah, if you get on these drugs, you are going to end up homeless because you can't keep a job or get your act together to get a job or whatever. And we've been talking about this for several years, the idea that it's because rent's too high or whatever. Who who decides because rent's too high to start doing fentanyl? Anyway, If you haven't been to any of these cities or towns, you can't believe it. It's just a completely different lifestyle. I've gotten used to it myself. You're probably that way too, Katie. I mean, where you didn't see it at all years ago, but you're just used to it now. You just expect there to be drug zombies everywhere you go.
Yeah, it's part of the scene. Just part of the scene. Anyway.
So I go to a restaurant and I debated whether or not I was going to mention the name of the restaurant. I don't suppose there's any upside, but we went to this diner place that my kids and I like the other night, and we're going to have like pancakes and bacon breakfast for dinner.
Always exciting for the kids.
And my son immediately spotted a street person that was in the restaurant with a couple of grocery bags, like big, not grocery bags, trash bags, a couple of trash bags full of stuff.
So they're sitting on booth with trash bags full of stuff, and I like, he pointed.
It out because because we were assaulted by a homeless guy years ago.
That guy's in prison now.
My youngest, especially as real PTSD around anytime he sees somebody that is like a street person sort of character, yeah, really worried about it. And I worry about it too, because there have been some horrifying violent incidents in recent days, weeks, months, years, especially in California anyway. So this person is sitting in the booth right behind us, I mean, she's right behind my head, and she's got these trash bags here, and my son wants to leave, wants to leave, and I said, now it'll be okay. I'll keep an eyeron here. You sit over there, I'm between you and her. Blah blah blah blah blah. Do you think I'll fight her if I have to?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Anyway, she's there smelling horrible, starts ranting and raving with F bombs and N bombs. She's by herself, but she's having some imaginary argument with somebody, waving her arms around and everything like that. And we had gotten our food and we're in the middle of eating, and my youngest is actually crying now, he's so upset because this person is acting threatening.
And I said, Okay, we gotta go.
We just gotta go, and we get up and we leave and I head toward the door and the woman I said, we're leaving, and she starts to get out to check. I said, I'm not paying. I can't eat around somebody like that. And she says to me, the manager woman says, somebody like what. Oh, come on, And I wish i'd had of the I was too wound up and angry to say black women. I can't eat around black women. Oh no, a crazy person. I said, you got a crazy, mentally ill person over there, dropping N bombs and F bombs and waving their arms around. And I don't feel safe over there, and you're letting them sit in your restaurant. So I'm leaving, and she wants to corner you, like you gotta say like something of fence. Yeah, exactly, somebody like what. I couldn't believe it. So you're gonna let that person sit in the restaurant? Drive away customer, unbelievable, but like to insinuate this because they're because they're unhomed, or because it's a.
Black woman or whatever. I don't know whatever she was implying, but.
I was initially was and mostly I was afraid because we have been assaulted before. It was on the front page of the newspaper, the guys in prison. I've been through this before. But uh, and your son's crying.
Yeah, I was worried about.
It for my son, my special need son, and but it quickly turned to just like depression, sadness that that's just my lot in life now.
I mean, if I didn't this is where my career is, this is where my family is.
We got so many ties, but no wonder California's losing population for the first time in its history.
If I had any mobility at all, I would flip and leave. Who would live around this.
It's like this story last week of finding out that Sho Heo Tani didn't want to play for the Giants, and a lot of players don't because they they come to San Francisco and their wives look around and say, we.
Aren't raising our family here. I don't blame him.
I was just on Third Street, right a couple blocks from the ballpark over the weekend, walking up to a crosswalk, and there's a guy standing at the corner, clearly on something like tweaking out. And I'm looking at him, and I look at his hand, and in his left hand is an extended box cutter, and I could see the blade, and so my husband's next to me, and I pulled him in close and said, hey, check his hand, because one one quick, you know, swing of his arm.
And he could cut somebody's throat. Heckya, Yeah, that's really scary right.
In the middle of multi million dollar apartments up the street from the ballpark.
Just un Yeah.
So in what scenario anywhere on planet Earth, at any point in history, does someone acting like that woman was acting get to stay in a restaurant.
You name me.
The era or the geography where that that is okay. In any eating establishment.
Ever, the owner would say you got to get out of here.
It makes me wonder if they had some form of a policy, you know, because if there's a liability if the street person attacks whoever's working in there.
Was this a chain restaurant or was it like a mom and pop It is a minor chain. We've had a bunch of texts I said, I wasn't gonna name the restaurant. I had a whole bunch of text people saying name the restaurant. Name the restaurant, Name the restaurant. One person saying, U, let's it would get you in legal trouble. Name the restaurant. Well, that's why I don't know. The truth is a one defense against libel and slander. On the other hand, there is there I've known of people to get in trouble, like if you do something with the idea of damaging a business anyway.
Well, I'm the reason I'm asking is I could see like a chain restaurant having a legal team that might have some policy like, hey, don't go near them, because if something happens to you, then you can sue us.
What if something happens to your customer. Well, I think it's more likely. You know how much damaged Starbucks ended up in when they they denied the homeless people. They thought homeless people the bathroom. Oh yeah, yeah, it can be comes such a big deal so fast. And I remember this story was several years ago, but in the town that I live in, a bunch of boy scouts were being harassed by a street person. So my wife at the time called the police. The police told her, look, there's nothing we can do about it. And the police said, all these homeless people have a lawyer that they know, they have a name, because the lawyers go out and do some outreach with the homeless community and let them know, Hey, if you ever get harassed by anybody, here's my card, here's my name.
You tell them.
So they have legal representations, so they know their legal rights, which is crazy given how out of their mind a lot of these drug addicts are. But anyway, I think they would be concerned that somehow the story would get out that just because someone was unhoused in our evil capitalist society, she wasn't allowed to sit down for she's having a glass of wine. So she'd probably begged enough money to go into this restaurant that serves booze and get a glass of wine. Sitting there with her garbage back eggs full of probably crap and uh for somebody else's crap, somebody else's crap that was stolen, waving her arms.
Around, screaming and yelling, dropping in bombs, have bombs.
First of all, dropping in bombs by anybody else would be an expulsion you'd get.
You'd get kicked out for that.
And here's here's you with your kids and trying to enjoy a nice dinner you have. You're basically forced to leave by her actions, and she tries to flip it on you, like right right, because you're a white male jack.
We can't sit around someone like that, someone like what she thought? She thought she'd really nailed me on that one. Oh I was so hot, Yeah what I gotcha moment. Oh, I don't blame you.
And I'm really glad that you didn't pay, because I'm sure a lot of people that would be in that situation probably would have felt like, all right, all right, I'll pay. Oh good, I'm glad you stood your ground on that. Hire a lawyer come after me.
That'd be fantastic let's make this as big a deal as possible as to why I didn't think I should have to pay.
Oh my god, so was I gonna they had something else into someone this? Oh So that's what's interesting. So this manager woman when she said someone like, what.
In her mind is that acceptable for me to sit there with my kids next to someone who's having an imaginary.
Heated N bomb F bomb argument? Probably a bleeding heart level way I'm saying.
She probably was sitting there going, you know, oh, you know, this poor person doesn't have a home, Jack and ill Jack.
So when I spoke at the city council after the run in with the homeless person years ago, where blah blah blah that whole story, there were people in the city council meeting saying, if you look at a street person and you assume they're violent, there is something wrong with you. Well, I'm not assuming they're all violent, but if you're assuming they're not, you're a nutjob.
This is a lot like the people that were, you know, claiming the sanctuary cities and whatnot, and they had the man on the street that would go out and say, okay, well then let them live at your house. You know, let me come and live it. It's like that woman. Okay, well, then you try to sit down and have a nice meal and let her sit behind you.
I'll tell you, well, how much you like it? She was an older one.
I'll tell you, why don't you go get your grandkids? Go get your grandkids, send them in the booth next to that woman. And because if you do, you're crazy. And it's not about the homelessness. It's about the drug addict. I don't care if she lives in a five thousand square foot two million dollar house. If she's out of her mind on crazy drugs and acting all aggressive, obviously not mentally with it, I don't want me.
Or my kids next to them. And the restaurant allows that.
Again, where anywhere in the world would the owner not come out and say get the.
F out of here? That's what I keep thinking about. What would it take to get kicked out of that restaurant? What would she have to do to get kicked out? Exactly?
That should be our social experiment. We should go in and just see how far we can push.
It, right right, right right, that's almost interesting to do. One of those who's that guy that does the undercover videos all the time.
I'm Project Veritas.
Yeah, that'd be an interesting one to do. I'd like to get all dirty myself up. I wouldn't have to do a lot to look homeless, oddly, but during myself up, going there and just how and just keep pushing it further and further.
To see how far I gotta go before I'd actually get asked to leave. This could be fun. Yeah, got it.
I was so disappointed again the anger turned to just sadness. This is this is where I live, this is where I'm raising my kids. This is not gonna change anytime soon.
And in that situation, you were almost the bad guy, right, People like what ugh? Oh man, I am so I commend you for not absolutely losing your mind.
Yeah I am.
I've been working on that through over the years because I have lost my mind many times, verbally, never physically. But I do wish i'd have had the presence of mind. Black women. I can't eat around black women. It's just appalling.
What are you talking about, you nut job?
That manager would have melt just ride her spot.
I think most almost people are white males, but based on my observation, so it's not that it's crazed out of their mind, the drug addicts. I'm strong and get the reality is this is fabulous.
I thank you.
That's enough of that.
This is all crazy.
That's just why it is. But damn it, we weren't allowed to ask about the big guys. This is the United States. Let's not play James.
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Sometimes when we were in Colorado, there was an out crossing science who was slowed down to the recommended speed, and then somebody from Colorado went around us, rolled her window down, stuck their arm all the way out and give us a thumbs down.
And I think about that.
Interaction every single day. Flipping people off when you're driving. Instead give the thumbs down. They will not forget you.
So flipping people off is dead. Give them a thumbs down.
So that's a suggesting.
That's probably a TikTok video, right that for young people, thumbs down is the equivalent of flipping you off.
It seemed to although no, she seemed to be saying, no, it's a better alternative, and well, okay, better alternative in what way?
In terms of.
Doing damage, like showing how much you are unhappy with someone. No, that way, you said, that's not the way I took it. I took it out today the opposite. Well, she said, give them the thumbs down, they'll remember it. You're expressing disapproval in a gentlemanly way.
I think they're right. I do too.
I mean, fu is like, let's fight. I find what you're doing less than a satisfactory I like that. See, I'm being misled by our headline here, Michael. I don't know if you wrote the headline. Gen Z says thumbs down worse than middle fingers, so I thought maybe they had. Like the way they change emojis, remember the what emoji is it that we're all taking completely opposite The way thumbs up is ironic and bitter and actually means you're terrible. Thumbs up is mean we'll play it again. It's thirteen seconds long time.
When we were in Colorado, there was an outcrossing sign, so we slowed down to the recommended speed, and then somebody from Colorado went around us, rolled our window down, stuck their arm all the way out and give us a thumbs down. And I think by that interaction every single day, flipping people off when you're driving his debt.
Give the thumbs down.
They will not forget you.
I yeah, I think you're right. I was misled by the misleading headline promaganda. That does make sense, though, that would that would do me more damage. You flip me off, and I think, Okay, you're one of those people here are so angry with your life, blah blah blah. You give me the thumbs down. That's like a grown up You did something wrong and I don't improve of that. It's like saying I'm disappointed in you.
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good. Right.
It's an expression of civilized disapproval. You know, if somebody flies off the handle and screeches at you, it's easy to think, wow, there's an angry, crazy person, right, But if they say, excuse me, I'm terribly sorry to bother you. But I wanted to point out. I mean, you've got to you know, you gotta take that at least a little seriously.
Right.
The thumb's down, folks. I like it, and it's more civilized. I'm from more civilization, not less so.
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The Armstrong and Getty shot is a big concern in California.
Lego stores, for instance, have become hot targets for some California theft rings. The La Times reporting two suspects allegedly stole more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of Lego items from six southern California stores in the last two months.
Two people from another crime ring were.
Arrested on June fifth after police saw one of the suspects dealing Lego products from Target stores.
And check out this video from last.
Week showing about twenty suspects using hammers and other tools to break into jewelry cases in a store in Sunavail, northwest of San Jose. Police arrested five suspects in that incident.
Hey, wait a minute before we discuss the substance is that the woman the newswoman who said, budd he's gay, I mean he's gay, I mean he's blind. That sounds exactly like the I don't know that newschick, I don't know.
Huh.
So legos getting robbed from stores, Lego stores and Target and smashing grabs for jewelry and all that sort of stuff in California, which leads to this Nicholas Christoph Lefty in the New York Times opinion writer, why have we what?
Why do we keep saying?
What?
What have we liberals done to the West Coast? Is this headline?
As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall. One challenge is that some of the bluest parts of the country, cities on the West Coast, are a mess. Centrist voters can reasonably ask why put liberals in charge nationally when the place is where they have the greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime, and dysfunction. Liberals like me need to face the painful fact that something has gone badly wrong where we're in charge. From San Diego to Seattle. I'm an Oregonian who bores people at cocktail parties by singing the praises of the West. But the truth is that too often we offer a version of progressives, of progressive ism that doesn't result in progress. We are more likely to believe that housing is a human right than conservatives in Florida or Texas, but less likely to actually get people housed.
We accept the yawning gulf between our values and our outcomes. Well, that's a stupid value. Is the problem?
Housing being human right doesn't work. There's no way it could possibly work in any society.
All right, you're so completely unrealistic about human nature.
That's why there's the gulf.
So skip down through a bunch of statistics and he says the problem isn't with liberalism, it's with West Coast liberalism. The two states with the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness are California Oregon. The three states with the lowest rates of unsheltered homelessness are all blue ones in the northeast, Vermont, New York, and Maine. Liberal Massachusetts had some of the finest public schools in the country, while liberal Washington and Oregon have below average high school graduation rates. It's an interesting thing to point out he got blue states with different policies, but they're still Democrats. Oregon ranks dead last for youth mental health services, including Mental Health America, while Washington, d C.
And Delaware rank best.
Drug overdoses appear to have risen last year in every Democratic state on the West Coast, while they dropped last year in the Democratic states.
In the Northeast. The homicide rate in Portland last year was double the rate of New York City. Wow.
Wow, you know, I have my guess about what's going on, and that is really an intriguing, uh juxtaposition. The liberalism of the Northeast, I think, is much more Kennedy esque, John carry esque. It's not though the full on wackadoodal woke left like the West Coast is. I mean, I use the term cal unicornea and have for years. I've never said Massachusetts cornea because they're not unicorn riders. They might be wrong, or they might be too liberal, but they're not that unhinged, completely divorced from reality liberal.
Well, this is Nicholas Christoph's take.
My take is that the West coast central problem is not so much that it's unserious as it as that it's infected with an ideological purity that is focused more on intentions than on oversight, and outcomes focused more on intentions than outcomes.
True, well, and to the point that you can't even recognize the outcome.
You won't admit to it. You won't even admit to it yourself.
When it's a disaster, you'll blame systemic racism or settler colonialism or what have you for the miserable outcomes of your policies.
Politics is always part theater, but out west. Too often we settle for being performed in rather than substanative, substantive, having substance.
Yes.
For example, as a gesture to support trans kids, Oregon took money from the tight education budget to put tampons in boys restrooms and elementary schools. We've done this in California, also including boys restrooms in kindergarten. See you have tampons in the boys kindergarten restroom.
Oh my god.
That is damn near like clinically provable mental illness.
The inability of progressives, particularly in the Portland metro area, to deal with the nitty gritty of governing and to get something done is just staggering, said one Democrat representative. UH people are much more interested in ideology then, actually than actual results. If you're spending tax money to put tampons in boys' bathrooms, including kindergarteners, then yes, you care more about a gesture of your politics than accomplishing anything with my tax money. If I'm an Oregonian that I mean that is a You can't even shade that a little bit. It's one, one hundred percent fact. You're more interested in a gesture than accomplishing anything. If you're spending taxpayer money not on how do we raise these math scores or are reading proficiency, but we're putting tampons and boys bathrooms, that's just unbelievable.
I don't think the term virtue signaling is nearly strong enough. No, And it's like on the tip of my tongue because I've read about this before. But in fundamentalist religions you have the phenomenon where people are constantly trying to outdo their neighbors to come off as the most devout.
You see it in fundamentalist Muslim societies.
Where you don't dare be seen being not devout because then you will be dragged out and stoned.
But to be.
To advocate for a policy that insane and nonsensical. That's got to be some sort of desperate signaling of ideological purity.
That's the only thing I can think that would explain it.
Yes, kiddy, I'm just my mind is blown and I'm wondering, and not that it matters, and it's a kindergarten. But were the tampons in the girls bathroom or did they just put this in the boys bathroom just for.
That's a good question.
Well, putting tampoints in tampons in kindergarten bathrooms is pointless.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It put safety, put.
Some safety razors in there for the little girls too. They're as likely to need them shaving their beards. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, because girls grow beards to five year olds.
You're right, calling this virtue signaling isn't good enough. It's close to mentally ill. Like you said, Yeah, I wish I could come up with a term.
If anybody knows, you can text at four one, five two nine five KFTC and I have a feeling there are going to be attempts at humor coming our way or email us mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
But yeah, it is.
Some sort of ideological purity trumpeting. I don't know, right, because it's more than you took away one of the lanes to drive across town and made it a bike lane. Okay, that's a bad idea, I think, because you're not going to force people to ride bikes by making their commute more miserable.
I don't believe.
But that's just like, here's something you think would be good and you're wrong. That's completely different than here you're putting tampons in five year old boys bathrooms.
I mean that's with taxpayer money. Okay.
Here are the three levels of activism just clicked into my head. Level one is you advocate for useless policies though they are perhaps useless, but you don't know that because it sounds like a good idea. Level two is you advocate for policies you know to be useless because it backs up your ideology. Then level three, which is where the West Coast is, is you have lost the capacity to even consider whether your policies will do any good. The only thing that matters is that show of righteousness. That's a weird spot to be in man, and to I mean as an individual. That's really troubling. That's somebody who's unhinged. But to extrapolate that or paint that attitude at the governmental.
Level, I mean, that's how does that happen?
As I said before, am so utterly befuddled by the politics of the West Coast.
I just how can you ignore the evidence of your wrongness.
I thought Suddam Hussein needed to be whacked if the UN and the US were gonna have any credibility. I believed the group thinking weapons of mass destruction stuff. The implementation was terrible, The planning was terrible. It was a miserable policy conducted miserably with all And I say that out of great respect, the admiration and love for the guys who fought, got.
Hurt and died there.
How can you not recognize the failure of what you're avocating. That is a mental illness, ideal, logical insanius So.
I was going to bring this story last week, never got around to it. I'm glad that Christoph includes it in his article. And there's a lot more to this, but this is a good, tragic story of Oregon. Consider a volunteer group called the Portland Freedom Fund that was set up to pay bail for people of color.
We all remember this.
The organization raised money from well intentioned liberal donors, and the underlying problems were real. Bail requirements hit poor people hard well. In twenty twenty two, the Portland Freedom Fund helped a black man named Mohammed at Aiden who had been arrested after allegedly strangling his former girlfriend, holding a gun to her head, and then, in violation of a restraining order, cutting off his GPS monitor and entering her building. He told me he would kill me, the former girlfriend warned. The Freedom Fund paid his he walked out of jail. A week later, he removed the GPS monitor, entered her home. The police found her brought body drenched in blood with a large knife nearby. Three three children were also in the house. Wow, a well meaning effort help people of color may have cost the life of this woman of color. So you've got the well intentioned but doesn't work in practice like that, You've got the completely insane tampons for kindergarteners and everything in between. He also goes on by the way to say he doesn't agree with ebermes Kenny's approach on things which I appreciate out of a progressive New York Times opinion writer.
Yeah, yeah, you can't. You here's a challenge for you. Come up with something.
Fancifully crazier than tampon's and a five year old boy's bathroom. You can't come up with something crazier than that. It's fine, impossible.
Well, and if somebody advocated that to you, what would you think of that person?
Would you think, I don't think their policy prescriptions will be effective, or would you think you're dealing with a mad man?
Well, what Joe's just saying.
I keep thinking, you know, somebody comes up with an idea and you've got to have multiple adults.
Agree on this. Yeah, it's not one person that got that happening. It would have taken dozens to discuss it, to approve it, then to implement it. Oh my god. Well, and like so much of.
The corruption in California, so many of the utterly unrealistic progressive programs exist to spread money around. It's just paying off your supporters in the classic style. That example that cannot be explained through sheer cynical you know, a graft or you know what I'm trying to say, it's that is ideological psychopathy.
You mentioned earlier a teacher that quit their job because he wasn't given the power to keep kids off their cell phones. They just sat there in class looking at their phones. Finally decided to screw this.
I'm not going to do this.
And I understand why you would stay because it's a good paying job. You always want to be a teacher, and you know you're gonna do your time and get your pension. But how would you work in a school where you're struggling, probably with all kinds of budget restrictions making it difficult to teach the kids math, science, all the important things, and there's a tampon machine in the kindergarten boys bathroom?
How would you keep working there? Right?
And keep in mind you're told nobody gets less than a bee. How would you not at least go to the principal or go to the superintendent or whatever and say, look, you realize this is insane. Right, I'll stay here because I want to be a teacher, But I need you to say to me this is insane because I need to hear you say that, otherwise I'm working for a lunatic.
I mean, good, good lord.
That's the latter the situation is as you described, you're working for crazy people. Ideology can divorce people from even the most basic reasonable judgment.
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I came across this yesterday, The worst tourist destinations in the World.
It's voted on by travelers, you know, who go to these sorts of things.
I don't travel the world that much myself, but several in America made the list, and number one is definitely the worst tourist attraction in the world, at.
Least that I've ever been to. And one caveat to this. You'll notice a couple of them in the top four. It's because how far it is from the airport. I don't want to travel with you, so you're a you want to get to the destination, take your picture there, and then be able to post it on Instagram, but you're not actually interested in learning about the country.
I guess becoming up how Instagram has ruined everything. Stay with us, Yeah, because number three is the taj Mahal in India, which seems like a pretty cool place to be. It was built in the sixteen hundreds.
I didn't realize that iconic and one of the most admired pieces of architecture recognizable in the world, but not worth the trip, according to people, because it's a whopping on one hundred and thirty six miles to the closest airport, making it the furthest major tourist destination from an airport. I would find the drive, car, ride, taxi train trip from the airport to the tash.
Mahal in India the most interesting thing maybe I've ever done in my life. But those of you who just want to be at the thing so you can take a picture and post it, well whatever, so oh say with same with.
The Grand Bazaar in Turkey. Number two.
This is a giant open shopping mall that has been there for hundreds and hundreds of years. It might be the world's oldest shopping mall. But it's too far from the airport, they say, so they got a very low rating.
Four thousand shops. Wow, it looks amazing.
So again I would love to experience that and see everything around there, and the trip between the airport and there.
I would find fascinating.
But I guess if you just want to be able to say you were there, which is like the conversations happened last week about why they want to move the Mona Lisa out of the louver because the lines are so long for people who can say I've seen.
The Mona Lisa.
See this picture of me with the Mona Lisa in the background. Anyway, Number one is absolutely true. The Hollywood Walk of Fame in California, Oh yes, I feel personal. It hurts my heart for anybody who traveled from a somewhere on the other side of the world, especially if you brought your kids, traveled from Pasadena. It's a disappointment. The Hollywood Wall of Fame is the biggest nothing burger of all nothing burgers. I know.
I wonder how many people actually travel there and have heard of it and everything like that, and get there and think this can't be it.
This is shabby, and nobody cares except that guy dressed as Captain America who wants twenty bucks for a picture.
Right, And as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, when I just happened to be on that street because we were going somewhere else with my kids. Like most of the artists on there, nobody under the age of fifty has ever heard of and like, I've heard of them, but haven't seen their work, even at my age.
Most of the things you're stepping on.
Wait, and it was a glorified You pay us a thousand dollars, We'll give you a little star in the sidewalk. Things so hious. It fails on every level. Yeah, worst tourist attraction in the world.
I'm Strong and Gatchett. Yeah, this is a sist one hundred on the crazy meter and everyone knows it.
Let me say, let me say one thing and lots of luck as your senior years.
This is the Armstrong and Getty Show.