The A&G Replay Friday Hour Two

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. Broadcasting Live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center. I'm Strong and Getty. I'm Strong and Getty. And now he is I'm Strong and Getty Strong and Getty. Here it's indented when I'm Strong and Getty Replay. The whole crew is taking a bit of an extended labor day weekend break. Hope you're having a good time and enjoying the I'm Strong and Getty Replay. Okay, so we're gonna put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. I want to ask you just give me sort of a true false on these abolish the Senate. True. Okay, replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them.

1:00Yep. Abolish ICE. Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US illegally. As a long-term plan, yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons at least in large part. Yeah, again, that is part of a long-term program. Yeah. Okay, so no prisons. Government or public ownership of most large corporations. Yeah, absolutely. Well, you got to give them credit for saying it out loud. That's representative for the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA, on the Fox News Sunday. May I paraphrase her first answer about the Senate and the president and the Supreme Court? We don't want any checks nor balances on our power. That's your message, expect you. Well, as Charles C.W. Cook has been saying and writing about all this, what people need to understand, this is not a call for a change or an amendment or something.

2:01It's a call for revolution that ends the union in the United States as a country. Mm-hmm. That's what you're saying. You want to end the United States and create something different. I'm sure. Yeah. It's totally rip up the Constitution. Yeah. No, they just want things to be slightly more like Sweden. Good Lord, wake up idiots. It's time for tough talk, Jack. When are you, Pinky, extended dabbing your forehead with hanker, chiff rhetoric? Time for tough talk. So what did you want to do next? Oh, I thought you were going to take over with your boys. I thought you had a plan. I have no damn plan. How long have you been working with me? No, I can't. I mean, I can absolutely fashion a plan. I know you wanted to highlight. We'd asked for, I'd asked for John Stewart with Mamdani. We'd kind of ignored it last week. But I saw a couple of clips and it just made me so sick.

3:02The way Stewart was just gushing and paling with them. And it just, oh, it was terrible. I haven't heard it. Yeah, yeah. Let's go ahead with 81, Michael. If someone says we're going to abolish all prisons and borders like I do go, I don't think that's a good idea. Like, it's, it feels like order and security is also a progressive value. Why shouldn't people in neighborhoods with less resources have the same safety and security that neighborhoods with lots of researchers? So are there tenants of those that are kind of following in the wake of Zora on Mamdani's success? Success that you're not comfortable with or that give you pause? If you have more than one socialist in a room and there isn't disagreement, then you don't have more than one socialist in a room. So, but you're comfortable with those kinds of discussions? Well, I'm comfortable with disagreement and I'm comfortable with disagreement that doesn't end the conversation entirely. Okay.

4:02That's so enlightening sounding. Yeah, if folks on the right of the aisle say, and we need to take care of the Jews, no, I'm not comfortable with that sort of disagreement. That's sick. That's twisted. It's wrong. And I'm going to stand against it. That was such a phony answer. Well, and then they moved on from the we're going to abolish prisons and the police very quickly without nailing down what he believes. So, well, and the other thing I want to call out John Stortford, the premise of that question, the way he phrased it was, there are some people in the wake of Zora on Mamdani who believe this crazy ass. John, he's an active member of the like the cabal of the democratic socialists of America who radicalized it toward communism. They're not following in his wake. He is them. Read his words. Good Lord. Well, Bill Maher drew very bright lines around this on his HBO show the other night. So, I would, if you had told me this is where we would be in 2026, back when what year

5:09was it I went to see Bill Maher at my local university here in town? He doesn't even speak at colleges anymore. Thank you, Gladys. He doesn't even speak at colleges anymore because they've gone so far away from him. I went and saw Bill Maher doing his politically incorrect thing at the University of California here in the town where I live. And I almost got up and left and I thought, no, you can't be the guy who gets offended in the leaves. That's ridiculous. But the crowd was cheering so much for this crap that I thought Bill Maher was spewing particularly this anti-religious crap that he was into and everything I guess. It's like whatever. But now Bill Maher is like the only person standing up against on the left who's standing up against the crazies. Here's Bill Maher on Friday now. I thought this was just fantastic. Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not Maher Mamdani is a socialist or a democratic socialist. Let me settle it. He's a straight-up communist. How do I notice? Well, I'm reading between the lines when one of his major advisors says, elect more communists.

6:18Yeah, that's, I like that, as opposed to the way John Stuart handled it, where he said, well, if you get two socialists on the roof and don't mid-sigrate and you just move up. He's a flat-out communist. Here's Bill Maher. I wanted the other clip actually, Michael. I'm sorry. The long one explaining why he can't believe that people haven't caught onto this. Her name is Cia Weaver. Okay, let's start there. Let me set it up. Otherwise, we'll make any sense. Bill Maher is talking about the woman that's in charge of housing for his administration. And all the crazy things that she says, where she calls herself a communist, she advocates communist policies, and everybody's ignoring the fact that Mamdani is a straight-up communist. Okay, here we go. Her name is Cia Weaver. And if you ask anyone in the blue sky bubble, who that is, to look at you like a turkey looking up at the rain. She's kind of important in New York, being major Mondani's chief of the office to protect tenants, and since Mamdani's big issue is the rents to damn high,

7:18it's a very key appointment in the most important city in the country, which is also our financial center. It matters that the mayor stands by, and so I assume, stands with someone who says things like, if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize private property, it's over. Seize private property. Home ownership is racist. Elect more communists. Private property, especially home ownership, is a weapon of white supremacy. Really? Even among the 20 million black Americans who own their own home? And that's why Bill Marr went on to say for those in the Democratic circles who are having the debate of whether is Mamdani a communist or a socialist, he's a straight-up communist. Which is a heck of a thing, it's a heck of a place to be, where he got somebody of Bill Marr's status on the left saying the current mayor of New York is a flat-out communist. Yeah.

8:18If anybody has studied communism at all, or radical Marxist regimes, they always take a shower and dress nicely and are flattering and lovely, like a person on a first date. They're not stupid. They understand, boy, a lot of people hate this. Let's just come off as something a little different, but they always, always do that. And Marr is not falling for it. Do you think more in a good place on this? We're in an improving place on it. I just, I always have a hard time answering that question because, you know, we all live in our own worlds surrounded by our friends and contemporaries. We take in the media, we take in, I happen to take in a lot of left-wing media too because of the nature of our job. But where is the college student or recent college grad who is going to be incredibly important to our political future?

9:24So I'm not quite sure whether they've achieved critical mass or not to the point that it's going to be very, very difficult to stop them and their plans. I don't know that. Well, it's a good thing that awareness is increasing no doubt. As Bill Marr was pointing out to people on the left, they don't even know the name of this housing woman in Mamdani's cabinet that anybody on the right or anybody who's anti-communist is completely aware of her and her crazy essence. Yeah, this is the same gal we highlighted a few months ago who came out of her very expensive brownstone and a reporter I think was from the New York Post said, hey, you're saying that housing home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy. And I want to know and asked her a couple of difficult questions. And she started crying and ran back inside and then made the point that it was utterly outrageous that a reporter would violate her privacy by waiting outside her home. Right.

10:24Yeah. And I agree with Mars. Take that if Mamdani stands buyer, you have to assume he stands with her. Well, I almost dropped an S bomb shoot. He hired her. Stand buyer. He sought her out and put her on his staff. The mayor he inherited her. The mayor of New York City is a communist. Yes, he is. That's not Islamist. And John Stuart, he hates Jews. He and people who think like him would wipe Jews off the face of the earth. Does that not bother you at all? But John, God bless him. He is, he is inoculated himself against any devil's advocate journalism, I think, or opinion. He doesn't want to hear it because he loves the vibes. Well, he's close to a generation younger than Bill Mar. That's part of it, I suppose. Yeah, I suppose. I just, what a weird moment, man.

11:26Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty show. Hanson, I need you to figure out exactly what I talked about Jackie Eagle and mocked it because for those of you who listen to the show live on the radio somewhere in America, I think we're just on America online overseas. For those of you who listen live, I want to address the topic at the same time of day. So I'm most likely to convey my Maya culpa to the people who heard it. Okay. The very short version and Katie, I know you get this. I realized, and we got a couple of emails about this. Very nice, very nice. I realized there is a raptor cam that's not far from my house that has focused on a couple of different sorts of birds nest,

12:31but including some bald eagles. And I was really rooting for them to hatch and the babies to be okay. And I know nature is cruel and maybe they will, maybe they won't. But I get people who are like invested in hoping the eagles would be okay and didn't want to see Jackie the eagle. Eagles don't have names. That part I'm still right about. Jackie, you're here. Where's Jackie? Oh my God, Mr. President. Again, again, Jackie is not here. Yeah. But what I was objecting to and I realized now I have a bit of a problem. And Jack does this too. And I yell at him for it. I hate David Mure so much. The bent nose jackass, who is the anchor of ABC evening news. His colloying, syrupy, simpleton fixation on the story.

13:35And I apologize to the eagle lovers everywhere. Your affection for rooting for the eagles is perfectly natural. Not to fill it up the eagles, I still hate them and will till I die. But the bald eagles, it's perfectly understandable and I'm sorry the nice eagle lady is dead. But nature is nice eagle lady. But nature is cruel. Nature is cruel. But I'm rooting for the eagles, of course I am. I'm not a monster. Just hate David Mure. He's a monster. All right. So that's out of the way. Although I will revisit. Yep. Get a few words. That's what I'm trying to say. Thank you, Mr. former attorney general. Who is that, Michael? Again. John Ashcroft. John Ashcroft. That's right. Wow. Man, time flies. Katie, I believe you have the transcript of what I said yesterday and for which I need

14:35to apologize. Yes. How long is it? Maybe like a minute. All right. Go ahead. Jackie has passed. I believe in balance and that sort of thing. But look, there is no crawler bitch on earth than mother nature. Pardon my frank terminology. Well, there aren't that many bald eagles. I'm just back in the past. Not many bald eagles. I'm just back from Alaska where I can report that. They're like crows. There are a lot of them. A hell of a lot of them. So if eagles did what eagles do and Jackie's dead, that's just the way that it goes. The eagle is dead. I'm sure I'll get angry emails about how insensitive I am. No. I just, I just like nature. And I understand human beings. You don't get to tell nature how to be nature. That wasn't terrible. So we did get a couple of emails from people who were hurt at my lack of sensitivity to the dead eagle. And I will tell you this.

15:35I reflected upon my words and realized two things. Number one, I have been an enthusiastic consumer of a raptor cam that focuses on some nests by my house. And I have rooted for the eagles for their eggs to hatch and for them to have babies and the babies to be healthy and successful. And that sort of thing. And so I thought, well, wait a minute. Then why was I a little bit cynical about the reaction? And there are two reasons. This is not an excuse. It's an explanation. Two reasons. Number one, some of the crazy people who plagued the veterinarians and went in and were trying to insist that they saved Jackie and the people are like, we're trying to do what you get out of here. I'm not going to be a lazy people. But secondly, and this is the key point. I realized what queered me to the whole thing. What poised in my attitude is how much I hate David Mure, the anchor of ABC News, the

16:36bent nose jackass who will report that, well, first of all, he reports that there's severe weather every single day. But he uses the same self-serious low voice tone, whether he's reporting to baby ducks flew away from the nest or an earthquake killed 100,000 people in Detroit. I mean, it's just any such a lefty and he's so happy with himself, I hate him. And he's really been hammering the Jackie the Eagle story in like a syrupy, dopey way. And it prejudiced me and it made me cynical about not David Mure bent nose jackass, but about the people who are into the Eagles. And I apologize for that. I love nature. I love watching raptors and shorebirds and that sort of thing. I spend more time than is normal doing it. Yeah, I hate David Mure. The Armstrong and Getty.

17:41The Armstrong and Getty Show. 90-year-old golf legend Gary Player was called sexist for referring to a reporter as a good-looking chick. But I'll always forgive in moments later with Tiger Woods ran him over. Play that, play that, the next one again that we played earlier. I mean, that is just something. A New York pet company is willing to pay up to a thousand dollars an hour for someone willing to sniff dog breath. The title is Joy Behar's assistant. Wow. How about the way the audience owls? Oh, God. We live in course times. Oh, that's right. Speaking of course, this won't take long, but Katie finally responded to the group text. My buddy Brian sent me this link to the New York Post.

18:44Uncanny warm skinned robot built to feel as human as possible could show up in service worker roles. Yeah, service worker. That's right. Uncanny resemblance to Katie. Oh, I have been, I've been found out. Are you the model for the love bot? Yes or no? Oh, wow. It does look like you, which is a compliment because it's a very cute robot, but yeah. Thank you. Yes. Yeah, I was trying to keep that a secret, but apparently the, uh, it's out now. So the skin, the skin is supposedly smells, feels like skin and is warm. Yes, that is a disturbing leap forward in the world of sex bots. My, my, it pays well. How? My, do you get like a couple bucks per unit sold or was it a flat faith thing? Yeah, I, I, it royalties. I definitely get a, a cut of each one.

19:45Okay. Moving away from the fact that it looks like Katie, one thing about attractive people is they all look alike. Robot Katie will not get pregnant. By the way, we're moving on. Like, like all, like all attractive ones look mostly alike. It's just like, we get to the high attractive level of people. Everybody looks the same. It's all of us down here in the bottom area that have varied appearances. Exactly. They're attractive. Much more interesting. I'll look the same. Um, but how do you have a world where you can have a robot that looks like that? Talks to you. You know, tells you you're funny and smart and everything like that has sex parts. I, I, I can't picture a way in which mankind survives that. Nor I. People. People already are not having, dudes, especially, are not leaving their houses and like chasing sex anymore. When they have this girl, when they have this girl and then they're your bedroom doing

20:47whatever you want. All are falling in love with robots that don't even have faces and aren't physical. Right. You know, now you give them that with warm skin. Mmm. Ew. I've given up on humanity. It's actually quite liberating. Okay. A little bit or bigger picture here. Let's talk about God and the meaning of life a little bit. What? So you got the whole thing. Trump's in an argument with the pope. I don't know how this all came about. So 60 minutes did a big feature piece on the pope and the pope came out pretty hard anti-war the last couple of weeks in this piece on 60 minutes, which I assumed Trump watched. I assume that's why Trump made the comments. He made about the pope not being a good pope and not to keep his mouth shut and all that sort of stuff. So that started the dust up between the pope and Donald Trump. A number of people have pointed out by the way and I did some googling on this to see if it's actually true and it is the pope had no condemnation of Iran's massacre of tens

21:54of thousands of demonstrators. Oh, that's nothing to say about it. And I looked several different places. Pope Leo made no reference to Iran regime's cold blooded slaughter of thousands of citizens. The silence of the killings was notable and controversial says chat GPT and his later statements focused on opposing the US Israeli military response rather than condemning Iranian governments crack down on its people. I mean, the fact that they would subjugate the entire world and all of its people in the name of fundamentalist Islam. Mr. Pope does that ring about well, you just you I didn't care much what the pope thought about. War and peace and politics anyway, but you lost all credibility. You had nothing to say when 30,000 protesters were murdered in the street. You're going to criticize Trump. Whatever. Yeah. So you pick and choose the easy battles and the ones that will get you a lot of social cred. Good for you. You get on 60 minutes by and all the cool shows by denouncing Trump.

23:00It would be kind of a difficult to denounce a, you know, a dangerous religion that might put a hit on you and this and that. Well, he's very much of the mainstream of the American left. All you criticize is America. You never criticize other regimes or, or religions or whatever unless they momentarily cooperate with Trump than their fair game. It's ridiculous. He has no credibility. But with the Pope in the news, I re looked up how many dang Catholics there are in the world and everybody else because it helps to have a little perspective on that. If you consider Catholic part of Christian as opposed to its own thing, it depends on how Christianity is the biggest religion on the planet. But if you don't, if you have separate amount as Catholic or whatever, Islam is now the biggest. There are a billion, almost two billion, two billion Muslims in the world, but about a quarter of the world's population, about two billion Muslims.

24:00There are 1.4 billion Catholics just Catholics alone. And then you add in the Protestants, who are about a billion and you're at 2.4 billion. So there are more Christians than Muslims, but depends on whether or not you consider Catholic part of the whole thing. I do. I think for the purposes of our discussion to not include Catholics and Protestants together would be hilariously foolish. Or the point of war in a war with a fundamentalist Islam? Yeah, I would agree. Well, not only that, but just as we've discussed in relation to the brilliant book, What's Its Face? What's that? That's right. Movedic. No, what the hell is that? Dominion. Tom Holland, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. The entire underpinning of virtually everything we do as a society is based on Judeo-Christian principles. So on a very, very fundamental way, yeah, you've got a group of those together. Christianity is absolutely the biggest, but Islam is coming on strong.

25:03So partly because it is so conquest oriented and we'll do so slaughtering people as they go. So then to make this a treat, Nightmare. Gehadism. Thank you, Mitt. Thank you. To make it simple, just round it, just for your own memory in case you're ever wondering, there are about 2 billion Muslims, about 2.5 billion Christians. That's roughly what you got going on in the world. And about 60 million Catholics in the United States, that's the biggest group of anybody in the United States, about 60 million. Here's the number I don't think most people know, and it's fascinating. How many Jews are there in the world? You heard those other numbers, remember? Two billion Muslims? Two and a half billion Christians? How many Jews are there in the world? 15 million, period. 15 million, hardly anybody. Israel's got 7 million. The United States has 6 million. That's practically everybody. A couple more million spread around the world. That's really quite amazing that there's so much controversy and hate and achievement

26:09out of such a tiny religion. Look at Nobel Prize winners. Oh yeah, it's really serious. Yeah, it is. So is that where the oldest conspiracy is some people call it, the fact that the Jews caused this and that to been going on for thousands of years? Is it because Jews are so successful and people are envious or it seems how could that be? How could there be so many wealthy Jews and so many Nobel Prizes? It's got to be something going on. Is that it? Yeah, it's a combination of envy and a weird sort of admiration. The fact that Jews are whether by choice or by the other people's choice, often a distinct community in various countries. And so it's easy to view them with suspicion and you combine that with jealousy and you get for centuries, everything from the Jews are actually vampires sucking the blood of our women to your Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson crap that they're dictating American foreign

27:13policy, which is hilarious. But yeah, the common thread is yeah, it's the Jews doing it. And if you look at like all the incarnations of it, it's impossible to take it seriously except that it ends up with Jewish people being killed. I feel like it's just so much better to look at it culturally. Like the reason that it's always a kid who wins the spelling bee every year is families from Asia or the middle, you know, Southeast Asia, I'm sure. It's because they control. Or those engineers being Indians because they control. Or it's a cultural thing to value in this case spelling more than I think you should. But I just assume if you know many Jewish people, they're the value education and they live way below their means. I've known so many rich Jewish people.

28:14It's impressive how below their means they live in the way they what they drive and what you wear and stuff like that. It's a cultural thing. You should we should all do it. Scholarship and financial sanity, you know, are some of the tenets that you grow up with in Judaism. I wasn't going to say it seemed important at the time. I flitted out of my head. Yeah, it's it's it's ugly. It's ugly and it's stupid. So what I hate it. We're talking when were we talking about the AI sex bot was that this segment? Oh, yeah, earlier this segment. Wow, it seems like it's a lifetime. It seems like ages ago, doesn't it? But that looks just like Katie and we went through that whole thing. That's right. Good times. Mm hmm. Memory names them. It's it's just fascinating that we could have this budding revolution around AI that's you know, going to change the world and this and that and things that couldn't even imagine when I'm like, like, while at the same time, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, while at the same time, we got the oldest battles that have been going on for thousands and thousands and thousands of years blaming the Jews for things.

29:19You wouldn't think those two things could exist simultaneously. Yeah, I know. Like the whole blaming Jews for things is hotter than it's ever been in my lifetime. At the same time that AI is going to, you know, make it so you don't have to work. Yeah, it never again is now. It's right now it's all over the world. I've got a dozen different headlines from different countries. Or I guess the lesson that it doesn't matter what kind of advancements you make in science or medicine, the whole hate each other over religion and skin color ain't going to go away. Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty show. All right, here's your freedom loving quote of the day. First, been doing a series about war. This one is not exactly about war, but it's from a great warrior, Douglas MacArthur, who said, build me a son, oh, Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest

30:23defeat and humble and gentle in victory. Wow, that's a melliquence from the great general. Yeah, wow, mail back. See, final sorting. There we go. Drop a note, mail back at Armstrong, Getty.com. Jeff and SoCal writes saying, fria, who now makes total sense, you live in the Bay area. Is that a gay shot at you, Jack? It might be. I'm not having it. It's a little, it's gay, as I can see that. It's gay, adjacent. Yeah. Let's see, moving along. Oh, Millennial Matt. With a helpful note. You were talking about why Apple's transcription is so horrible if AI is supposed to take over. Long as short of it is, Apple's using like basic out-of-date stuff that's kind of a bit of embarrassment to the industry. I don't know. That's a great question, but a different one. He says, if you want to see what AI transcription is actually like a better example, would be to download an app or use a tool specifically made for this.

31:25Popular ones include, typeless whisper with no e or a whisper flow. I personally use typeless e rights. I'm writing this email with it as we speak. It manages grammar and formatting and nails the words with fantastic accuracy. I have over 65,000 words transcribed with it to date that made my work production skyrocket because I can tear through emails faster than ever. Thanks, Millennial Matt. I believe it, but I believe my point is still relevant that so clearly it is not to the play square. It's either cheap enough or easy enough or whatever to put on all our phones. I'm mystified why Apple is as bad as it is. They are. Cupertino, you're listening. Drop me a note. Would you mail back at ArmstrongEgeti.com? Why is your AI stuff so terrible still? Maybe they're trying to develop their own and they're just because they don't want to buy it from somebody and they're just having trouble. I don't know. Well, let's see. Oh, boy. Bob and East Texas on the cow slash lamb story, Jackie related friend. Back in the 70s went to a field trip.

32:26Probably would have been around 1980. I'm guessing. Yeah. Field trip in grade school where they walked down to the butcher and they shot a steer in front of the kids and butchered it to show where meat came from. Well, first of all, Bob and he's Texas. Texas is great to hear from you. He a number of years ago, he sees on in years, belonged to the future farmers of America, the FFA in Northern California. Group of us went on a field trip to a local rancher and to watch a cow butchering, something we had all seen or participated in. Anyway, this man, we're with a large knife on his side says, follow me. So we did. We're walking down a path when we see a lamb tied up next to the path. If your kids are listening, folks, make them listen because they need to tough it up. If your kids are listening, make them listen. We think nothing of it. The man stops suddenly says nothing grabs the lamb's head, reaches for the knife. Oh, I can't even say. Yeah. We need to listen and tough it up.

33:26And I don't have to enjoy it. I understand the reality of it, but I don't have to look at it or wonder it all the time. Do I? So he does what must be done to end the lamb's days? Drops it on the ground. He starts down the path again, pulls out a rag, wipes the blade off and says, we'll come back for this one later. I have no memory of later and none of us said a word the rest of the visit or afterwards. Katie seems horrified by this. But you realize that is where all your meat comes from, of course. Yeah, but like you said, I don't have to like it or watch it or hear about it. You got to admit for me too, because I grew up around this stuff. It's a little weird that were horrified by it. Yet I had hamburgers last night. Oh, yeah. I can't wait to have a lamb chop tonight. Yeah. And Bob, I like your punchline, but it would take too much explaining. So thanks for the note. Well, let's see. Do we have a minute? Yeah. Oh, oh, my gosh, not to get serious again, but Matt is talking about the attack on the

34:27poor Jewish fellas in San Jose, which got no national attention. Exactly. So and it did get some regional attention, but he says, I have a friend who got into a yelling match with a protester waving of Palestinian flag. And they yelled back and forth a little bit about, you know, as friends said, if you think this country is so bad, go back to your own country. Protester says, you don't know what country I came from. My friend says, yeah, but it's probably an S hole. And that was it. Well, NBC News local somehow somebody ran his plates on his company vehicle figured out who he was asked for comment from the company. He was driving an unmarked company car, but they ran his license plate and tried to figure out who this guy was and how dare he docks him in effect. And you're right. And he says, Joe, you're 100% correct about the red green alliance. Oh, my gosh, that's disturbing. Oh, all right. Let's end on a humorous note.

35:28This is a frequent correspondent Ryan from Houston. He mentions one thing Facebook offers is it gives you memories what you posted each year on that day. Well, 16 years ago I wrote, I can't wait to visit my mom and ride that sweet, sweet California bullet train. He says it's crazy to think a person born on that day that I posted it could be getting his driver's license and California's laid the same amount of track today that they laid the day he was born zero. Wow. That's sad, Ryan. That's true.