In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty I know he Armstrong and Eddy that's right what I.
Asked about Biden's canny Nasa. Pelissi said it's up to the president to decide if he's going to run. In response to that, President Biden said, I've already decided I'm running. In response to that, Plus, he said, well, that's completely up to you.
To wish.
Biden responded, I know it is, and I'm telling you I'm running to Wish. Peluss He said, whatever you want and tell me I will accept, to which Biden said, I told you I'm running to which Plussy said that either option is okay, so which Biden said, I understand that I've chosen my option. Twitch Plus said when you're ready to share that option, I'm ready to receive that shared option t which.
Biden said, I've already shared it.
I feel like you want me to drop out, which Pelosi said, it's not what I want, it's what you want, and that is to drop out, which.
Biden said, that's not what I said.
Teich Pelosi said you sure, And finally Biden said, I'll say no, I can't remember. So very interesting conversation in the wh I happened.
That was well done.
That that is a pretty good comedic laying out of what actually happened yesterday. Yeah, and I know, Fallon went on to say, you got an eighty four year old telling an eighty one year old, but they need to drop out. But she hasn't completely lost her marbles like he has. But the fact that the person that people are looking to for you know, you're you're a power broker is eighty four. Oh yeah, and she's lost a couple of steps uish she had the grace to step aside his.
Speaker, eighty four is old. Uh.
So we had this first clip yesterday when it happened, Nancy Pelosi on Morning Joe saying basically what Fallon explained right here.
It's up to the president to sucide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time.
Is running short.
You want him to run, I want him to do whatever he decides to do. And that's the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go in.
So, as we said yesterday, all the headlines New York Times, Washington but everybody was Nancy Pelosi seems to hint she wants Biden not to run, and she wasn't hoping it would be received that way, but that is the way it was received by the mainstream media unavoidably.
Well, yeah, I.
Mean to get to the Jimmy Fallon joke completely. Joe Biden has said multiple times I am running. Only God Almighty could get me out, and then her saying it's up to him, he should make the decision. We're waiting for the decision. What are you talking about? Anyway, she got caught in the hallway after she saw the headlines explode on the New York Times in Washington Post, and it was further than she wanted to go.
So here's her being caught in the hallway.
Do you think that President inviting is the best to defeat President Doctor Trump?
Why would you think that I would have that interview here. I think the President is great, and there were so much representations of what I have said. I never said he should reconsider his decision. His decision is the president. I don't know what's happened in New York Times that they make up news but that's why you're here.
It is true, tremendous misinterpretation of what I said. And then she says, I don't know what happened to the New York Times. They make up news.
Now.
Wow, when Nancy Pelosi is saying that the New York Times is fake news, you're in a new place in politics.
And when Jimmy Fallon understands precisely what you meant, right, and you're trying to pretend that that's the wrong interpretation, that's that's crazy.
You know.
One aspect of this that deserves at least a tip of the cap is Nancy Pelosi acting as if the decision of who will lead the greatest superpower on Earth is up to that dude. Is a complete turning the idea of democracy on its head. I mean, that's a bizarre notion that if he wants to continue to lead, then he must. And what Biden said the other day, which is, well, what if you stay in even though people are telling you get out, and you lose to Trump and Trump does all the terrible things you're saying, he's gonna do well. As long as I hung in there and gave it the old college try, I'll feel fine.
Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
But New Hitler is going to build the fourth ranch in Washington, d C. But as long as you gave it the old College try, that'll be great.
Wait a minute, Yeah, that was the Stephanopolis.
As long as I do the goodest or good as I can, neither one of them makes sense, that's all that matters.
No, I don't think it is all that matters. Really, that's a bizarre notion.
It is. It's crazy.
I'm kind of surprised Stephanopolis didn't follow up on that, or you know, you let it hang out there. I mean, because everybody interpreted it the right way. John Stewart went off on it the other night. Man, if you haven't watched John Stewart's first ten minutes from the Daily Show the other night, that was as good as he's ever been.
I thought it was absolutely fantastic.
But uh, I had one more thing I'm gonna say about this, the President and the Stephanopolis and the as long as I try hard and the I'll.
Think of it later. I'm like Joe Biden, I got a thing.
Well, you're thinking about that, and it doesn't matter at all. What the bass player slash backing vocalist from Ram thinks about anything but Mike Mills is the fellow's name, and he has a large following online. He is a died in the wool lefty no way politically speaking, and I just I found it so interesting, he tweeted at John Stewart.
Hey, John, I've loved your work for so long.
Now it's time to stfu you spill it out about Biden and his troubles or weaknesses.
Yes, they exist.
The alternative is a fascist, authoritarian idiot, a delivery vehicle for the absolute worst people, extant stop enabling Trump, And as I tweeted, again, it doesn't matter what the bass player for Ram things. But what's so interesting is that there is a significantly large group of.
People that still actually believes.
That if they clam up and act like nothing's wrong, it'll work. Right when before the debate eighty percent of people thought he was too old to do the job. That is a sub section of society, and again it's not a tiny one, it's significant that is utterly unmoored from reality.
Yeah, I wonder what gets you that way, being a member of the elite, to where you think you can just control the narrative for everybody.
I would think the.
Polling would disavalue of that belief since, like you said, I mean it is one of the most amazing statistics of this whole thing that the numbers have not moved that much on how many people think he's too old to be president.
They were just as high before the debate. People figured it out.
Maybe someday they'll develop a blood test that determines to what extent your worldview is determined by your ideology as opposed to observable reality. And as you and Orwell have pointed out, Jack and Orwell often mentioned in the same sentence, it's hard to perceive reality through the lens of your own beliefs and hopes. And I'm not saying this effortless, but a guy like you know, Mike Millsha I was just quoting, he's obviously so blinded by his ideology it takes him to incredibly foolish places.
Yeah, the thing I was going to bring up is this is this going to be a new thing in politics where if a candidate is chosen and then it gets closer to the election and it looks like they're gonna obviously lose, you try to force them to get out, because that seems to be really the main thing. It's not it's not good for the country to have a president who's brain doesn't work.
They're worried he's gonna lose.
I still think if he were up by ten points, everybody'd be like, what, Yeah.
I saw the debate. He seemed a little off. I heard he had a cold.
George Colooney would be saying, right, yeah, if you were up by ten points, it's all because he's gonna lose. And I heard John Pontohertz yesterday. He is a got a podcast and writes for The New York Post, The Hilarious New York Post. He worked on Bob Dole's campaign, and they knew Bob Dole was gonna lose as early as like March or February of that year. He was so far behind and all their internals were so bad, but nobody was clamoring to tell him to not run because it was doomed. But maybe you should. Maybe if you pick a candidate, the people, pick a candidate, the party. However, you pick a candidate and you get closer to the election and you realize this person can't Why don't we trade it out and try something different. Maybe that will be about that's an interesting thought. Yeah, I'm for it.
The parties can do whatever they want, do something different than what you've been doing.
Why would you continue with somebody that's doomed to lose. It's like a mid season trade. Yeah, we got a shot at winning, but we need a better point guard, so we'll trade, you know, after the All Star Game.
Well why not?
Yeah, your challenges you have to recruit somebody who's at risk of being branded a loser before they would have if they have White House aspirations. But who cares, that's your problem, work it out figured out. I like the idea less less, you know, just slavishly following what has been done, because these are very different times politically, communications wise, the speed of everything.
So yeah, why not, well, less personality based and more policy based, because you're gonna have different people with the right policies. Maybe they can just explain them better so they can win.
Sure.
Sure, yeah, that's a big part of the job, but right now it's all personality.
Well.
I like speaking to John Stewart, the point that he made with his trademark sarcasm that oh, there's only four months, we can't possibly get a candidate together and deliver their message to the American people, and blah blah blah. Four months is bite like European standards an eternity, right, Yeah, because Britain had an election in a month, France had a couple in a couple of months.
It can be done.
It's like I think Britain six or eight weeks is the official campaign period or something like that.
Yeah, it's eminently doable. Why why would you need longer than that?
Candidates are not taking the train from one coast to the other to campaign these days. They're not doing literal whistle stops in Poughkeepsie.
It'll be fine.
Well, somebody on a horse can't deliver the written speech to San Francisco before Yeah, exact month from now.
Yeah, ridiculous.
I wish I had that huge amounts of money on what's that predicted dot com or whatever that site is that you can make political predictions and buy stocking candidates and stuff. It's only that I'm too busy and didn't think of it. That I'm not a wealthy, wealthy man. Right now, I'd have put huge money down that Biden would not be the candidate in November and I would be.
Rolling in wealth.
Well, it hasn't happened yet, could have, would have, should have still got to happen somehow. Press conference five thirty Eastern today, Must see TV. He takes questions one on one. We'll see how that turns out.
Bob Dah listen, I'm strong and getdy Saz who Bob dol Saz who.
I'm strong. We talked about the twenty twenty five project from Heritage. It's making the rounds on social.
Media, but it's fake. I've got the fake one. I can run through some of the stuff that people on the left are freaking out about. Oh my god, did you see what Trump's going to do if he's president. It's not real, but it's gotten a lot of attention. So maybe we'll get to that later. Hey, Michael, let bumper music.
We just played. We've been playing it forever. What band is that? I believe? Who? Ron Contours? All right? Oh?
The Raconteurs. That was Jack White's side project. Okay, straight up, my alley. Anyway, you just talked a little. Just recently got into the white stripes for real. I've been aware of them for many, many years. And a couple of songs I got into him.
Like deep Dive. Oh my god, he's freaking awesome. He's an amazing guitarist. Yeah. Unique. Yeah.
So let's talk a little bit about the Vice President of the United States, whose name is Kamala Harris.
If you don't know miss Harris, a little introduction.
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree. You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you. One of the things I love are ben diagrams.
I love ben Ben diagrams.
The significance of the passage of time, Bryan, the significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time. More parents are seeing the value of educators. It is time for us to do what we have been doing in that time is every day. Ukraine is a country in Europe.
It exists next to another country called Russia.
Russia is a bigger country.
Russia is a powerful country.
Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.
So basically that's wrong. Wow.
The weird nervous laughing thing where she's like uncomfortable or doesn't know what her next thought is is extremely off putting. Of course, her sweet home Alabama is the time for that is every day. I mean that's her, that's her stoid to it.
Yes, it is time for us to do what we have been doing in that time is every day?
That is?
I mean, I don't know that it's necessary to summon up the words to fully describe how incoherent and charisma free she is, because everybody knows it, but she is. She is the Babe Ruth of lack of talent. She is the Mozart of inability, dummy wow. And the idea that there's no way she emerges from a convention the candidate there's well, I'm talking about the Democratic Party anyway. That was rather a long and rambley introduction to the narrative from the New York Times. Harris sharpens her attacks on Trump, and she appeared in front of a big crowd. There's almost twenty thousand people who are fellow members of her traditionally black sorority. Is it Alpha Kappa Alpha, It doesn't matter, yeah, Alpha Kappa Alpha sow. But she got up and did a speech where she said, and I quote, consider Donald Trump is openly vowed if re elected, he'll be a dictator on day one, an easily debunked joke he made, and that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies.
Oh that sounds familiar.
Uh.
He will round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country and even and I quote, terminate the United States Constitution. So what is really ramping up her?
I'm the leader of the.
Democratic Party, and I think it's interesting. This is a little in the weeds political strategy wise, but I think it's interesting that given the fact that they're behind and and she needs to establish herself and then make up ground for the Democratic Party, instead of going with sane, steady, h we're not Trump, you know, we're gonna be moderates. Blah blah blah, they've gone full unhinged. There are a bunch of quotes from this speech and they are virtually all from the the the New Hitler file.
Right.
Well, they got to try to make the election about Trump again, because that's what they were, That's what it was going to be, and that's what it was for a long time.
It's going to be a reperendan on Trump. Can you stand Trump?
Or not.
Well, now it's on do you think Joe Biden in his brain should be president or not?
And they hammered a Plan nine from outer space or oh, Project twenty twenty five. That's it from the Heritage Foundation, which we talked about earlier. In a statement, Danielle Alvarez, spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, accused Team Biden quote of fear mongering because they have nothing else to offer the American people in spite of my very lukewarm support of Trump. I think that is a one hundred percent accurate statement. What else are you going to sell?
Trump does thinks Chris Christie's too fat? I think that is clear. He's made that very clear to number of rallies. We've got something from his most recent rally on that and other stuff.
Do you think that's more significant to them and people? Are the proposed golf match as issues go? Yeah, my god, we'll take your calls.
Armstrong and getdy TV either cameras in the courtroom for the Alec Baldwin trial.
He is looking dapper man.
He is still in his mid sixties, a very handsome man. Can't imagine what you like to have hair like that, But he's wearing his I am not a murderer of glasses. You know how people wear glasses to look smarter. I think he's glass to make him look less like a murdering lunatic.
Strong on fashion, not as strong on trigger safety, but looking good.
Right.
Oh hey, this is a Twitter is not America. But I have become aware in scroll Lin's grow Lin s Grolin in recent moments, as Matt Tayebi, who's a very very smart guy, has put it, eight years of madness have brought America to the doorstep of its perfect ww E ending.
Let's get ready to rumble. Trump v. Hillary too. What are they calling it the mini primary or the whatever they're calling it? Right?
Hillary in polls she would beat Trump nationally, of course, you know nationally. It's not how we like presidents. But there is definitely it could be short lived, but there is definitely a fever swelling draft Hillary.
Like I said before, I don't understand how there is not. I'm just surprised her name hasn't been in the mix more often. You mentioned yesterday. Maybe her health she is She did seem to be having some health problems as an older, heavy set lady. Last time around and now she's eight years older. You got to remember. Sometimes I forget we went to the Republican Convention that was.
Eight years ago. Eight that's a long time ago. And by the way, mss Clinton is seventy six.
Years old right now. No more ancients. I agree with its younger than Trump.
Just wanted to get this on. Here's Trump from the rally day before yesterday.
We're leading in Nevada and a waitress came over, a beautiful waitress. And I never liked talking about physics. He's beautiful inside, because you never talk about a person's look. Ever, you'd never mentioned The other day, I got very angry. Some man called Chris Christie fat and I said, sir, And then he said he was a pig. I said, sir, Chris Christie is not a fat pig.
Please remember that. Oh, he is not a fat pig. Please take it back.
And the guy's looking at me like really, now we have to defend people.
You can't go people fat.
I said about nine times, he is not a fat pig.
Yes. Next up at the Kopa Cavannah Frank Sinatra, Oh my god, and surely your hip enough to know this, But that's a made up story that he told just so he could insert his Chris Christie is a fat pig line.
Which kills in his nightclub act.
Oh and also him saying waitress, beautiful woman, not talking about her look, talk about the inside. It's not appropriate to talk about a woman's looks. Oh wow, okay, we'll start snickering. Alrighty my god, it's so crazy. And again you either laugh at that like I do, or you're just horrified that guy might be president again and raising my hand, I don't understand those of you who werefied by that.
I can't help but laugh at that stuff.
It's just, you know, honestly, honestly, I think it's it's incredibly rude. But every stump speech is like a comedian workshopping is materialist. You see what people respond to and what they don't. And yeah, absolutely, the jokes that work you do over and over again on the stump. So that's that's it's it's very coarse and nasty humor that I don't particularly love, but it's not that out of out of the norm.
Just the material is.
Such a non player though, he's nothing, he's absolutely nothing.
Yeah, if I thought Trump was extremely serious and knowledgeable about everything a president needed to know, and he had a terrible, inappropriate sense of humor.
Well what are you gonna do?
So I already talked about the Project twenty twenty five thing which Trump has distanced himself from the real one. He's distanced himself from the real run. The Heritage Foundation put out a list of things they want to do. Trump is trying to be I mean, he's doing what hasn't happened in a long time.
He got the nomination.
I mean, he's trying to move toward the center to try to win an election that hasn't happened in quite a while. But there's a fake Project twenty twenty five list that's been going around everywhere and people commenting on it and saying, oh my god, and this is the list.
I'll just hit you with some of them.
Complete ban on abortions without exceptions. That's not in there, and that's not what Trump's wanting to do.
Ban contraceptives. That's hilarious.
I've never met a single person that wants to do away with birth control, but they act like that. It's the you know, your your right wingers, that's what we're just clamoring to do all the time. Higher taxes for working class, tax breaks for corporations and the one percent. Eliminate unions in this country. Wow, cut medicare, cut social Security. Trump's not pushing either one of those.
Probably ought to be, but it's not to be. But he's not.
Yeah, eliminate the least instructure it certainly eliminate the Department of Education's not in there. I would be for that, but it's not in there. Teach Christian beliefs in public schools.
Well, wait a minute, I thought eliminating the Department of Education was in there. Wasn't just stay because that's a long that's a goal I share.
By the way, it's it exists.
Ending all climate productions, which I might be unfavored with t but and uh, some of these are fantastic and are true, but a lot of them aren't.
End all school lunch programs. I don't think anybody's pushing that.
Again, you might be able to get me behind that, depending on how was going to be rolled out. End marriage equality, So they're going to end gay marriage. That is not part of the deal. Ban all Muslims from entering the country not actually part of Project twenty twenty five.
Nope.
So a bunch of stuff like that that is just not true, but you know, it allows that crowd to get all excited.
You know, that reminds me of the story about I think the BBC had it. There's a network of Russian websites and bots and whatever spreading misinformation. Of course, the Soviet Union and its successor, Putin's Russia have been doing that since, you know, long before I was born.
But they were talking.
About a specific fake story that was planted about the first Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, that she bought a rare Bugatti sports car for almost five million dollars in Paris. The source of the funds were American military aid money, and the story was swiftly debunked to there's not a single shred of truth to it. The interesting part is that one x user, the pro Russia, pro Donald Trump activist Jackson Hinkel, posted a link scene by more than six and a half million people. Several other accounts spread the story to millions more x users, at least twelve million in total according to the site's metrics.
Wow. Why do people, you know, spread falsehoods because they work? I feel like they overshot.
If you had made it a slightly quite a bit less expensive sports car, you might be able to get me to believe it's possible. There's no way she's gonna go want buy a five million dollar sports car.
Right, Well, let's just goes to show you how voracious the appetite of a certain number of people is to be fed what they want to believe.
Well, it's the same thing.
Yeah, it's exactly the same thing as this fake twenty twenty five project. You put in things that are gonna make people that already think the Maga Wite is gonna ban Muslims and end birth can troll and all that sort of sure.
Yeah, yeah, which is why I bring it up. And you know, on our political side of things, there's certainly people who if you put out a fake story that says, you know, Biden regularly defecates on the floor of Air Force one because he just goes into some weird old guy friends, that people would believe that and spread it around.
He bites Secret Service agents. Yeah, also you.
Know about he practically bites staffers the Free Beacon, which does really good reporting. It's avowedly conservative publication website, obviously, but they are serious.
Conservative journalism, and I take him every day.
They've got a story about Biden aids are scared, poopless of rage, addled potus, and they point out that dementia patients may become increasingly agitated and aggressive as the condition worsens. And they quote a Vanity Fair article. They've got a political article article, they have an Axios article about how explosive his temper is.
Yes, there's what I'm hoping for.
This afternoon at the press conference, somebody something sets him off at the press conference and he just yells at people, thank got.
Me, unleasha's a listen bowel, you're gonna be in Yeah whatever, he said, Yeah, what it is, what it is, because he is who he is.
That's what I want him to. I want him to do the full on.
I graduated top of my class after I was a truck driver. I have three degrees. I want him to do the full thing right. Cornpop and I were study partners there. As I was at the top of the class earning my fourth degree, I'd just gotten out of jail having been arrested as a civil rights activist.
Exactly. The people don't know this. I wrote you, I have a dream speech anyway.
Uh, said one senior administration official, and I quote it's like, you can't in you can't. Oh, I'm sorry, I should read this first. During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefing, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being present it in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction. Quote it's like, you can't include that that'll set him off, or put that in. He likes that, One senior administration official said. Quote it's a roar shock test, not a briefing, because he is not a pleasant person to be around. When he's being briefed. It's very difficult, and people are scared, spitless of him.
One of the underappreciated things about people that are on the staff of any politician is when they lose or retire, you're out of a job and quite possibly the coolest job you've ever had or ever will have in your life.
And it's over right.
So his inner circle and even like his second then outer circle, or I'll saying, run Joe, you got to run.
Stick in there, hanging there.
You're the you gotta be Trump, You're the only guy who can do it, even if.
Only because you get to pay your rent in Washington, d C. For six more months, as opposed to you have to find a place to live next weekend.
Well, and those who have the lust to be near power an insider, and that is what runs Washington, d C.
Greed and lust for power.
Yeah, the idea of being booted out of the you know, the inner circle and being a has been is it's crushing to those people.
They fear it like most people fear death.
I wonder if the media is coordinating on their questions for the press conference this afternoon. They should be I mean Ed O'Keefe at CBS and what's his name at Fox who almost certainly won't get called on, or whoever. They should decide, Okay, who's gonna ask what and what order? Okay, you asked that. If he ignores it, I'll ask this, I wonder.
Or among the good White House press folks, they don't need to they can they can do that on the fly.
But yeah, but we've all seen press conferences where the big story gets addressed and then they go to I'll go to so and so with the South African bee right exactly, I would like to know what you think about a tax for merchants in Cape Town.
And everybody's like, what what Yah? The biggest story in the world and you're talking about that. So I hope that doesn't happen. All right, So here's here's a prediction question.
If it goes pretty well the press conference, the NATO press conference today, where does that leave us?
I think that's a worst case scenario for everyone.
Oh, I agree completely. I think the machinations continue to machinate. Yeah in the scenes. Yeah, and they still move towards the inevitable. That's the problem. He could well, he ain't gonna hit it out of the park. He could not fall over walking to the plate and strike out with a decent swing. That's about the best he can do. Well, right, there's no win here. I hang on a second. I'm trying to think because Hillary's not gonna happen because she's too old, and I don't think she she has it physically, uh.
Five point thirty eastern. For the press conference, it's solo. It's supposed to be a big boy press conference, which you would assume means at least three four questions.
I would think Joe Manchin is seventy six years old. I was just thinking who would be a moderate, sane candidate, and Joe Manchin absolutely could be that, right, Kirsten Cinema, Are we ready for our first bisexual president.
Who kind of turns me on? We haven't had a president that turns me on before, not since Carter.
Anyway, moving along, Wow, all right, these are crazy times.
I don't know if you have noticed.
Okay, we got a lot on the way our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
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Wow? Wow? Wow?
I thought that was a stunt food. Joe can I hate stunt food. It's like a stunt accessory.
Anyway.
A couple of completely unrelated to the main story of the day stories that I found interesting. If a friend bills you four dollars for a favor, are they really a friend?
Surprise?
Venmo requests are souring relationships?
Jeez.
So you go out, you grab a Lotte and say I got it, and an hour later, they get you a bill for twelve dollars or eight or whatever it is.
I guess that's a thing. Now, Why why would you say I got it and then bill them later? Well, right, without discussing it. There was one example.
This guy got sudden a young man to sudden abdominal pain, excruciating pain. He quick called a buddy and he said, can you get me to the hospital. And the guy took him to the hospital and he literally got a Venmo request for the cost of the whatever it was, the one of those quick rentee cars that they have in cities.
There's like four dollars or something like that. People are certain.
Yeah, I guess the surprise Venmo request is tearing apart relationships.
But I found this even more interesting. This is from MSN, I guess, and this.
Person's starting the article talking about airline you know, ticket prices and how your airline knows a lot about you, including your habits, how how much you fly, how much you generally pay, and they might like just offer you a price, oh wow, which I didn't realize a lot to you real real Briefly, to book a flight has long been a game, to play a game where only the airline knows the rules with countless booking codes, loyalty programs and fair changes, weaponize your data against your wallet. But then this writer says, I kept seeing the rigged game everywhere. In every Uber ride, every Amazon order, every trip to the supermarket. All these businesses know so much about me that they can see a number blinking above my head the exact price I'd be willing to pay in a given moment.
That's troubling. So we've all had the experience yet because it is confusing. I think we've all had the experience. Righty, book flights, You're looking around and you can figure out that, like on Southwest you book two one ways for some reason, it's like two thirds the price of the round trip, same flights or or whatever. I've had that happen so many different times, and so it's all very confusing the way they do things. But if they are charging me more that they charge somebody else because they've decided he's willing to spend that we figured that out.
We know what his limits are. He's scheduled driven, not price driven. Right with the extra two hundred bucks. Yeah, for instance, and airline pricing is complicated in various ways, But the main point of the article is quote. What's far more disturbing is the rise of personalized pricing, digital retailer's practice of exploiting your own data to charge the precise price you're willing to pay, which might be different from what the next.
Guy next to you would pay.
Personalized pricing not only bakes in bias and can drive inflation to create the world where you never know when your apps are ripping you off.
All of that is true.
On the other hand, it is the perfectly efficient function of the free market.
Yeah, yeah, I hate this. I don't mind it.
Absolutely supply versus demand. I mean, you know, I'm either writing to pay it or not.
I am never buying anything online ever. Again. Yeah, but that is the future.
I'll bet we all pay different amounts for everything in the future.
Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
It'll figure out that for the new iPhone, he's willing to spend whatever. He's just that kind of guy. He doesn't get the new iPhone ever, so we're gonna have to put the price at this and see if we can entice him.
Well, and right, you give me, I don't know, ten dollars for my bag of garbage bags, box of garbage bags. Whatever. If I say yeah, click, I deserve to pay ten dollars.
If I say, wait a minute, this seems awfully high and I dig for a better price, well that's the price I deserve to pay.
Yeah.
I don't like it, though, Yeah, well it makes sense and why it should happen, But I still don't like it.
Look out for it. The whole colony thing we got to get into more armstrong and getty