April 19, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Picking a jury for the Trump trial...
- The Kennedy's speak out against one of their own...
- Perhaps the worst product name in history...
- The thing Jack hates the most!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Today this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
They hoped to get this finished, to pick the final
five alternates in this trial in order to kick off
the opening statements on Monday. The alternates, of course, are
used during the trial in case one of their regular
jurors drops out for some reason, and as far as
the jury is concerned, well, they have been chosen. They
consist of seven men and five women. Their jobs range
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from working in finance to healthcare.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
One of them is a teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So that was a broad overview of who's on the jury.
You've probably, if you've been following the news, been hearing
these very detailed descriptions of each juror everything but their name.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Where did this come from? When did this become a
thing we do? I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He's an Upper West Side firefighter, is age fifty seven,
reads the Okay, go as far as you can to
try to. So one of the people that backed out yesterday,
who's already seated, backed out because their family identified them
just from the news report said, oh, you got on
the jury and when they realized that, Wow, my mom
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watching the news at home, figured out I was on
the jury.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That frightens me. They told the judge and were excused, Well, right,
and I agree completely.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
If I heard he's a fifty three year old tax
lawyer from the Upper West Side who reads the New
York Times, I'd think, hey, that's just like Ed. And
then when Ed said I'm going to be out for
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Please, yeah, please yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So I and so I was watching some of your
lefty media yesterday and they, of course were referring to,
you know, some of these jurors who lean Trump are
going to.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Be outed and docked. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You're telling me that ain't gonna happen the other direction,
if he's acquitted, that the lefty crowd out there isn't
going to dox the people that let Trump off the hook.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You what, you This only goes one direction. You got
to be kidding me.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's bad enough and toxic enough that we live in
a period where people don't want to get into politics
when we need them sorely. Think of all the really good, smart,
productive people that could be in Congress, for instance, but
they're like, I don't want a piece of that. I
don't want to get anywhere near that. If that sort
of poison extends to the jury system. Now, granted, not
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every trial is a high profile trial, but man's that's
a creeping infection we do not want to let get going.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
One potential jury yesterday had made it so far through
the process they were close to being seated when the
UH lawyer representing the Trump side brought up the potential
jurors vitriolic social media posts to try to get her
struck for cause. So this is a person that said
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they had announced that they could be fair and un
biased in a trial and did not have strong opinions.
They mentioned to tweeting for where this person had called
Trump a sexist, racist, narcissist, and another post where they
said I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized.
I feel like that maybe you have a solid view
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of whether or not you can believe what he says.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Sounds a little biasy to me. This tongue were that's
kind of funny thought.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
In the modern world, this is something that didn't exist before.
You can go through somebody's social media history and get
a pretty decent idea where they are.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Politically and how far they are that direction.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Now, back in the day, you'd have had to interview
all their closest friends to have the slightest idea.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I just came across some more data on that topic
about how few people drive all of the online of
vitriol on politics. It's not a surprise, but it's not
that many people. Another side topic to the Trump trial,
putting aside the facts of the case and the rest
of it, is the whole gag order thing. Were you
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going to bring that up or I don't want to
steal your thunder No. It's just interesting that the judge,
for reasons that are at least semi legitimate, says, look,
you can't be bad mouthing me and my family and
the court clerk and the witnesses and the But it
went a little far to include the witnesses. So now
you have Michael Cohen doing the rounds Colin Trump, you know,
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one hundred kinds of fiend, and Trump is not allowed
to respond at all, and we are into seriously gray
First Amendment areas. In fact, I think looking at the
description and I don't have it in front of me.
But the description of the gag order, it's too broad,
it is indefensible.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, this is going to get nailed down at some point,
because trial's got what six weeks to go. Trump's gonna
say something that crosses the line in the judge's mind.
They're going to challenge it, and it's gonna have to
get decided at a high level in a court. I
think that's inevitable, don't you.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, he's already on the verge of finding Trump in
contempt and finding him and then the judge said what he.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Throw him in jail?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
That'd be some Uh yeah, where is that that future
violations of the gag order can be punished not only
with additional fines, but also with a term of incarceration
of up to thirty days.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh, you put Trump at you for thirty days.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, if you want a revolution in the streets, that'd
be a good way to get it. Trump came out
of the courtroom yesterday and I was watching live on
CNN when it happened, and apparently they're Jake Tapper even
stated that they're gonna let They're gonna air what Trump
says when he comes out of the courtroom every day
because they feel it's only fair since the other side
gets to they air what the other side says. Anyway,
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Trump came out of the courtroom and said this yesterday,
and I'm sitting here.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
For days now, from morning till ninety and that freeze freezing.
Everybody is freezing in there, and all of this and
this is your result.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Of this very very mad thing, very mad thing. The
whole world is watching this house.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I didn't think climate control would be his main complaint.
I'm a little surprised by that we.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Got this text.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I'm a freelance court reporter who's worked in about twenty
different courthouses. They all have freezing courtrooms. To the point
my fingers have gotten so hold i could hardly move them,
and my nose is dripping. But because my hands are
busy typing, I can't even wipe my nose. They say
it's they say they do it to keep people awake.
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I've seen more than a few jurors fall asleep during testimony.
That's why we've kept the studio arctic cold since the
beginning of our career. Is you can't get groggy and
sluggish if you're freezing. David Letterman famously had a studio.
He kept his studio arctic just so nobody gets, you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Know, sluggish but man to the point that your fingers
are so cold. That's too cold. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Other presidential election development yesterday, two things with whole RFK
Junior Robert F. Kennedy Junior first of all, but Kennedy klan,
A whole bunch of them came forward, fifteen of them
and did a little press conference or a statement together,
not backing their family member, their fellow Kennedy, but backing Joe.
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Biden played me clips seventy. I think you'll notice something
here about Carrie Kennedy.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Members of the Kennedy family, including brothers and sisters of
presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior, throwing their support behind
President Biden. Concerned RFK Junior will hand the White House
back to Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The best way forward per America is to reglect Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris to four more years.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Biden, who recently welcomed the family to the White House,
has called RFK Junior's father his political hero.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
His bust sits in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So do all the Kennedy sound like that? Why do
they all talk like that? What's that noise problem? Uh,
it's a rare disorder I know for RFK and his
aunt or whoever that was, has it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
To charismatic dysphonia, a specific form of an involuntary movement disorder.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, you know, that's that's fine. It was interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I don't mean to be hurtful, but did it look
to anybody else like maybe their family tree doesn't have
enough brand?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You got, you got your all kinds of weird physical,
physiological things that are happened to each other, and you're like, really, you've.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Been around I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They reminded me of that Barkin family from West Virginia
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's what I call.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well, that's a little much, But I was gonna say,
maybe the royal families in the seventeen.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Hundreds, if you hear me talking, Yeah, maybe too many
cousins exactly? Too many?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, Maybe get out of high annis Port or wherever
did the Kennedy clam comes from. Maybe get outside the
city limits for your next breeding. I mean, come on, hey,
your half sister is hot, But can I show you
this chart? God, when is the last gasp of giving
a crap what the Kennedy family thinks gonna happen. I
hope it's in my lifetime. Good lord, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
This might be it. But here's the big development. Well,
that's one.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So his family comes out and says, we're all behind
Joe Biden. Okay, that's I don't know if that's gonna
Swaaney votes or anything like that, but it'd be a
little hurtful if I ran for president and everybody in
my family came out and said, yeah, we're for the
other guy.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I tell you one thing, one person we're not voting for.
It's our relative. But this read from this newsletter today.
That's that Barkin family. Huh, that's what that they were
actually in bread.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Disturbing, Sorry, was that the Kennedy's there, And so I
think that Kennedy voice thing, that thing getting close to
the Barkin family. I think that's where they're headed a
couple more generations, noted geneticist Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Okay, enough of that. That's weird me out, Yeah, it's
weird and everybody out. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So this this is an actual real political development. This
is one of the most shocking and significant developments of
the twenty twenty four presidential election. To date, Kennedy's people
somehow got ballot access. They've been struggling all around America.
It took a surprising term yesterday when arguably the most
important state in the entire electoral college map, when he
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secured ballot access in Michigan out of nowhere, not via
gathering signatures to qualify from scratch on his own bite,
rather than nabbing the natural law party slot.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And nobody saw this coming, and somehow the Biden team
missed that that was out there, and so Kennedy's on
the ballot in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
His folks expressed optimism that he would be on all
fifty ballots.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know whether that was big talk or I
think that's big talk based on the smart people that
I read. There's no way he's going to do that.
But he doesn't need to. He gets five to ten
percent in Michigan. Biden loses Michigan. It's really narrow right now.
I mean, you know, numbers will change. We got a
lot of months, but right now, I could get into
it if you want to, but it's what's the point.
(11:23):
But if Biden loses Michigan. I mean, the path to
victory gets really really narrow, really fast. So that's a
big deal that RFK Junior is on there. And you
have a lot of Democrats that don't like the support
in Israel or whatever, and they don't want to vote
for Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They got to vote for somebody.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, which is why his let's go with quirky family
members were saying, don't vote for our guy. They're terrified
of the spoiler effect.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Right. Well, Rfk's on the ballot in part of the
what did I say The name of that party was
the Natural Nature a Law party?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, it's weird house.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Are these parties that get candidates that don't represent their thing?
So often they so they did all the work to
get on the ballot as a party, then somebody snatches their.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Right attractive to turn down the libertarian parties? Had that
come Had that happened a couple of times where it's
a real stretch to call the candidate a libertary.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Where the Green parties happened a few times too.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, So the big Columbia protests, the college kids are
going nuts there and angry about something or other. We
can talk about that a little bit. I thought New
York did a heck of a good job dealing with it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, lit more wood shampoo, that's what we got to do.
Oh wow, do you know that term? Folks? It's more
on the way stay here.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
For the truth might be a distraction that's getting in
the way of finding common ground and getting things done.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
That is the Orwellian nightmare, radical Marxist new head of
NPR Catherine Marr who so did I mention racist too
in America hating What a beautiful distillation of her philosophy.
If the truth is getting in the way of play
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that one more time, Michael Widga.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a
distraction that's getting in the way a finding common ground
and getting things done.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So yes, but so you get to determine what the
common ground is that we should all come to.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Is that the way it works? Yes, and what should
be gotten done? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So let's put aside the truth and come together and
accomplish these things I'm going to tell you we need
to accomplish, like tearing down the system. And unfortunately there
are quite a few young people who have been indoctrinated
in this philosophy. Through heck, kindergarten through graduate school. Who
would have believed it? Let's go with clip forty eight
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their NBC Nightly.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
News confrontation at Columbia police removing protesters from campus. Citing
extraordinary circumstances, Columbia University President Manu Schaffique called in the
NYPD to clear an encampment of pro Palestinian student demonstrators.
The encampment set up Wednesday morning, the same day Schaffique
testified on Capitol Hill about anti Semitism on campus.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
We are risking like our academic standing, just like just
show the administrators that we are not okay with their decisions.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Demonstrators telling us they plan to keep their protest going
despite the police presence. New York City's Mayor's saying police
made more than one hundred arrests.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They have by the way, that is out today a
whole bunch of them got arrested, as more than one hundred.
As you hear their Columbia students have rebuilt the anti
Israel solidarity camp less than twenty four hours after the
mass arrests.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
That clip of the young lady reminds me of an
email we got. Why do you guys refer to these
people as college kids, they're adults.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
When you hear that.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Clip of that young lady, do you really think she
is an adult? Maybe legally speaking, but she's got a
child's understanding the world because she's not been subjected to
the busy arena of conflicting ideas, taking them on and
come to an understanding of the world. No, she's just
been fed propaganda is one point of view, and that's
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all she knows. Listen to this little protester here.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
We are, you're must Whoa's good?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Are those Russian assets or Chinese ash? Is that actually well?
Us college students saying we're harmoths? I mean, if you
want to go with the no, I support the Palestinians,
their land was taken. Okay, at least you got half
an argument and in your but you're harmos.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I said the other day, and I will repeat now
that our educational system, including our terrified college administrators, have
created a monster that is now turning against them. That's
such a common sentiment and so well understood. People don't
go with the second half because they don't need to.
They just say we've created a monster, and we have,
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and they're easy to dismiss as stupid snowflakes and that
sort of thing. But they are many thousands, and they
believe this stuff as vehemently as any of the radical
youth movements of the past see MAOIs China. There was
an aspect of the protests that is very, very amusing
that we don't have time to squeeze and now maybe
when we come back on the other side of the break.
But while this is the stuff of eye rolling and
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snickering at these young morons, it's also dangerous.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
When Iran was hanging women for not covering their hair,
it had been nice if you could have gotten worked
up at all and joined in solidarity with those young
people who are protesting at risk of their lives. Armstrong
and getdyop.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Squeezing stop.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Stop right stop stop stop stop, let.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Go come for the idiotic worldview and stay for the
acting like a complete baby.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You're squeezing my hand. Stop squeezing my ow.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
The rebar is cutting mind and let go of at
you moron. That's the protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge
the other day. And if I'm one of the cops,
I think I go with the laughing at them means seriallysly, dude,
I'm going to tell all my friends about this and
we're gonna laugh all evening.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, that's how funny this is. You pretending you're hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right, Protester boy just wants video of being manhandled
by the cops so he can make the establishment look
like the bad Guys's not gonna work anymore. People are
tired of your antics and back to Columbia a second.
But I'm reminded of the email from Tom the Marine
that I loved. If you ever want to drop us
a note, please do mail bag at Armstrong in getty
dot com. But Tom writes, I love hearing the hyper sensitive,
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lazy whimps throw around the R word revolution. They refuse
to put in a half work day as a marine.
It makes me laugh. It makes me feel more secure
in my freedom actually fighting not typing a mean tweet.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But fighting is hard.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
It requires a degree of physical and mental toughness to
survive that they cannot fathom. Having these dufuss rent gives
me a warm, secure feeling. They don't have the work
ethic necessary to overthrow a ham sandwich.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Which he spells samwich.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Thank you for the note, Tom, the marine for your
so final note on the Columbia University protests. The one
sided propaganda spewing leftist universities have created a monster that
is now attacking them, as monsters tend to do. And
Columbia is notable for being a wildly progressive neo Marxist institution.
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And look which you have wrought friends. Anyway, this is
too good to not share with you. So pro Palestinian
protesters told the Columbia Spectator, that's the big university paper,
that they had been sprayed with a crowd control chemical
developed by the Israeli defense forces at a rally. Mainstream
media amplified the allegations, and Columbia suspended the student involved
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in the chemical attack. And the student had previously served
in the IDF, and they suspended him almost immediately. The
narrative rights the free Beacon was a progressive fever dream
at one of the best universities in the country, and
his Rayley's student had deployed chemical weapons against peaceful student
protesters for challenging the depredations of the Zionist state. And
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the Columbia President, Saint Gala, testified pretty effectively in front
of Congress the other day credit where it's too repeated
this claim at a meeting of the university Senate, and
I quote demonstrators were sprayed with a toxic chemical. Well,
the student is now countersuing, and it appears that the
toxic chemical was if you'll excuse me, a harmless fart
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spray purchased on Amazon dot com for twenty six dollars
and eleven cents.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
My kids card fart primary. One of my kids had that.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
According to a lawsuit filed against Columbia on Tuesday, the
suspended student had in fact dispersed I'm going to change
the name just because we do have some standards of
good taste around here.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Is that new?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He had indeed dispersed liquid arse and gag gift for
adults and kids. According to its product description, gag La
will just refer to it as he's.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Prayed the substance first literal gag gift you made me gag.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
He sprayed the substance in the air, not in any
particular individual, and in what the lawsuit describes as quote, okay,
I mean more time.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's the worst name for a product I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I would agree, I would agree again and those listeners
have more sensitive dispositions.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I apologize, but yes, he sprayed.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Liquid ass in the air in what the lawsuit describes
as a quote harmless expression of speech. The result was
a swift suspension, for which the student is now suing,
alleging the university quote rushed to silence plaintiff and Brandon
is a criminal through biased misconduct proceedings. I will not
be purchasing nor deploying LA anytime soon. Wow, restore sanity
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to some of these fevered young people. Will they grow
up and out of this? Fringe movements have come and
gone in the past, I certainly hope. So that's enough
of that now on too different fare.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So last night.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I was gonna make hamburgers outside, and in the midst
of it, it was reminded, as I always am, how
much I hate it. And I took a picture of
my grill with the spatul in the burgers, and I
tweeted it out, and I tweeted that, what did I say,
it's up there on the screen.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You're a man who hates grilling.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm the only male in America who hates grilling. I
loathe it. I would pay a large sum of money
to never have to do it again in my life.
I have no idea why I do hate it. I
hate everything about grilling. AM bad at it, and I
hate it. I'm probably bad at it because I hate
it and I have no interest in getting better.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I just wish i'd never have to do it again.
And I don't know why. And I'm embarrassed by it.
And I told I told both my boys.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I said, hey, you have a girlfriend, wife, They're gonna
expect you to be able to grill and do it well.
Do not follow in my footsteps. This is not good.
But it's just a weakness I have for some reason.
I can do some other things pretty good. I can fix,
I can fix a whole bunch of different things. But
I can't grill. And I don't want to grill. I
look at men who enjoy it and like it's like
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a foreign species to me.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
As Michael, what exactly is the problem? Do you burn
the stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I just I hate doing it. Sometimes I do burn
it because I have no interest in doing it. It's
just it's just like, you know, I don't particularly like
I don't know, cleaning the toilet.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I feel like it's a task like that anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Maybe you can get a testicle transplant from a donor.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know, we got one hundred and fifty. It's the
least manly thing. I mean, I hate to admit it
out loud. It's definitely the least manly thing about me
is that I hate grilling so much.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I got a hundred you can do you sweetheart. My
son's really into that now. Every time I do anything, yay,
you do you?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
One hundred and fifty two responses to my grilling tweet,
but a couple of them. Maybe if you didn't grill
like a runaway teenager or a crackhead, you might come
to enjoy it. That was a comment on my tiny
little grill and my weak asspatch was everybody coming.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's a little bum camp if you didn't grill like.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
A runaway teenager or a crack I thought that was
pretty funny. It is a pretty pathetic looking grill. It's
the tiny little grill that sits down on the ground.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And then made an investment commensurate with your enjoyment of it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I guess true, Yeah, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
If I was into it, I'd come up with a
reason to justify in my mind why I got the
thousand dollar grill like lots of dudes do, but I haven't.
And another response, why I hate it because you're gay,
same reason you support wars.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I thought that was a wow, that's some really solid reasoning.
Thanks for sharing, friend.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
So yeah, wow, if that was art, that's really good art.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I mean, if that was like tongue in cheek, you
got me.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And then one other thing, talk about apropos of nothing.
This really comes out of nowhere. I couldn't sleep last night.
I've been waking up at like one point thirty two
in the morning and then staying awake. It's because of
my sins and my horrible decisions in my life.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I guess that I wake up a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So last night I got to reading on something that
I had gotten into a while ago, and it was
about the development through evolution of the eye. Oh and
there's some new knowledge about the development of the eye
that I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
First of all, I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Darwin wrote in Origin of the Species that the idea
of natural selection producing the eye seems, I freely confess
absurd in the highest possible degree. Even Darwin didn't think
that he could explain. He said the eye to the
day gives me a cold shudder. He once wrote to
a friend his whole matro selection thing that he pushed
and it caught on and everything like that. He said,
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but I can't come up with how the eye would
ever happen. And they now believe that the eye. Not
only did I always assumed, I me always assumed that
we're all living off kind of like one eye. It
somehow was some freak of evolution and you know, way
way way way back some organism, and then it kind
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of spread out and we all had the same eye.
But they think the eye developed independently at least sixty times,
like completely independently in some organism. It wasn't like picking
up on all the work done by generations of evolution
from some other line of organism. It developed independently, which
I find fascinating, while otherwise.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
There would have to be like a coupling between some
sort of one hundred million years ago lizard and one
hundred million years ago monkey.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
But I just assumed to it back further. Well, it
actually does go back way further than that. We're talking
like bacteria and stuff like that. There has been life
on planet Earth. Earth's about four billion years old. There's
been life on planet Earth, they think for about three
point eight billion of those years. Nobody has any idea
how it started or if it could ever start anywhere
else in the universe. And that's just as fascinating as
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anything could be. But so life started with just some
like you know, tiny little algae, bacteria, minuscule things, and
very quickly some of them for some reason, realized that
sunlight helped them grow and survive, and that there would
be a benefit to knowing when there is sunlight or
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where the sunlight is.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So it was just a perception of light.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And it went from there with the development of the
eyeball that has again developed separately and all kinds of
different things.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And now women in particular are having painful and expensive
procedures to change the color of their eyes to be
more attractive, sometimes sacrificing their vision.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I gotta admit that had popped into my head many
times about the evolution of how how did we ever
come to?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How do we ever have?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But even Darwin was very confused about that, But they
got into in this scientific magazine, I was reading the
hundreds of thousands of generations of evolution that it would take,
even in some sort of algae for the eye to
go from can sense sunlight to maybe having some sort
of lens like thing that could see a little better.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Next thing, you know, you're walking around blanket with two eyes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I think part of the reason people have a difficult
time comprehending this stuff is that we can't conceive of
that amount of time, right.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That is the missing element in all of these things
is the three point eight billion years is a long
time for something to very very slowly happen. That's why
when we're talking about stuff like how is the human
mind going to adapt to smartphones and social media? We
don't have one hundred thousand generations to work that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Out, right, Yeah, not even like a full generation Bingo
bongo all of a sudden it's there.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So they've re set up their pro Hoomas camp there
outside of Columbia University. It'll be interesting to see if
they crack down on it today, if they let it,
you know, get a toe hold.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
As we learned in Seattle with.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What was that thing called as oh Chad Chaz and
then it turned into something else. It was the their
self administered freedom zone that quickly degenerated.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And Portland had something like that too, as we've learned
over the years, and maybe the going way back to
the Occupy Wall Street people in various cities. If you
let these protests get a toe hold, then it becomes
a lot harder to dislodge them. Then you're gonna have
to use even more force and have more of a spectacle.
And I just wonder if the cops are going to
show up there outside of Colombia and take care that's
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quickly today so that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah, they arrested what a couple of hundred students protesters history,
But that's the way to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But they're back already. Why aren't they in jail. They
don't put anybody in jail, right, Well, you.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Can stab a bodega owner and not go to jail.
So yeah, chanting at Columbia won't get you in jail.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Text line if you want to weigh in on any
of these things, four one five two nine five KFTC
all that information about eyeballs, got this text? I have
an eye problem today. I couldn't see myself going to work.
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That's funny, That is funny, well played.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
My friend probably one hundred years old, got a couple
of stories about the hot new weight loss drugs, one
of which is it involves influencers online social media influence influencers,
which reminds me the watching special report with Brett Baher
last night on Fox News. TikTok is advertise heavily going
(31:02):
with a lot of I use TikTok to help veterans
out and help people buy flags made in America and
bob blah. So they're really leaning on that as I
don't care if Saint Peter himself has a TikTok account
and he's using it to bring people to the Lord.
It's still a tool of Chinese propaganda and surveillance, and
it's gotta go. Having said that, Wall Street Journal influencers
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love ozempic, but they aren't telling you about the risks.
And they go through several stories of influencers talking about
how much they're loving it and they're losing weight and
how to deal with some of the side effects, blah
blah blah. But then they give a bunch of examples
like this Karen Evans, who's gotten almost half a million
views wow, talking about tips for ozampic, including managing the nausea.
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She hasn't followed up with a new video disclosing that
the vomiting became so bad that she stopped using the drug.
I was throwing up randomly. It was destroying my life,
she said.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And you hate to throw up randomly.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I prefer that activity to be fairly predictable and infrequent.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Certainly associated with various activities, over indulgence, what have you.
Here's another one. Brittany Buckner, a travel influencer. He usually
posts about plus sized clothing and travel under the handle
of plus Sized and Outside, told her more than fifty
eight thousand Instagram followers about her use of the weight
loss drug after telehealth service Row that's ro paid her
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to promote its weight loss prescription program. She got the
partnership after searching through a site that connects influencers with brands.
Under the arrangement, Buckner, who was taking a different drug
at the time, told followers that she didn't get the
medication from ROE, but I wish I had gone through
them to get it. Roe paid Buckner to film to videos,
which it posted later on social media. Baby. In reality,
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Buckner hadn't been able to fill her prescription for because
of the supply constraints. She hadn't taken the drug for
months and didn't even attempt to do so through ROH.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So it was just made up essentially.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
And these influencers who are your friend and look how
pretty they are, blah blah blah. They're not doctors, they're
not even pharmacists, they're nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So I feel like ozempic has become the catch all
name for all these products. So it's kind of like Kleenex.
Kleenex is a brand, and all tissues you call Kleenex.
Because there's this thing called plastic. Surgeons warn't of ozempic.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Face.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, I think they probably mean all the weight lost drugs,
not just ozempic. But yeah, that's the idea that you
lose weight so fast. It's a big deal in Hollywood.
You lose weight so fast, you get a lot of
dangling skin, and then people got to get it operated
on one of the I got the reason this says
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I know a guy.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I haven't asked him, but he's clearly lost a bunch
of weight recently, and he looks fifteen years older. It's
just a but you lose weight, you look older. You
can Yeah, if you're over strand age. If you're twenty five,
you don't. But yeah, and I wanted to get to
this too. In the time that we have remaining, the
blockbuster medications ozempic, Mountjaro and zep bound rolled out to
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millions to lose weight and appear to be causing other
unexpected effects. Now this is from the Daily Mail, which
usually does pretty good journalism. Some patients have reported a
dulling of emotion and even suicidal thoughts oh my god.
Others have reported plummeting libido and diminished sensation during sex.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I worth, losing weight. Some have seen it cure addictions too.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
People who had consistently add a couple of drinks every
evening found they had zero desire to drink alcohol on
the medication.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Others found their shop ahoulism diminishing. On the other hand,
experts say there may be an explanation. They say it's
all to do with the drugs impact on a masterful
brain chemical that determines pretty much every human behavior. It
could alter your entire your personality, and we don't have
time to get into the specific neuro chemistry of the thing,
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but it might be doing more than just making you
less hungry.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I can't experience joy or have an orgasm, but at
least i'm fin armstrong, and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Today this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
They hoped to get this finished, to pick the final
five alternates in this trial in order to kick off
the opening statements on Monday. The alternates, of course, are
used during the trial in case one of their regular
jurors drops out for some reason, and as far as
the jury is concerned, well, they have been chosen. They
consist of seven men and five women. Their jobs range
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from working in finance to healthcare.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
One of them is a teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
So that was a broad overview of who's on the jury.
You've probably, if you've been following the news, been hearing
these very detailed descriptions of each juror everything but their name.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Where did this come from? When did this become a
thing we do? I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He's an Upper West Side firefighter, is age fifty seven,
reads the Okay, go as far as you can to
try to. So one of the people that backed out yesterday,
who's already seated, backed out because their family identified them
just from the news report said, oh, you got on
the jury and when they realized that, Wow, my mom
(01:21):
watching the news at home, figured out I was on
the jury.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That frightens me. They told the judge and were excused, Well, right,
and I agree completely.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
If I heard he's a fifty three year old tax
lawyer from the Upper West Side who reads the New
York Times, I'd think, hey, that's just like Ed. And
then when Ed said I'm going to be out for
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Please, yeah, please yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So I and so I was watching some of your
lefty media yesterday and they, of course were referring to,
you know, some of these jurors who lean Trump are
going to.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Be outed and docked. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You're telling me that ain't gonna happen the other direction,
if he's acquitted, that the lefty crowd out there isn't
going to dox the people that let Trump off the hook.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You what, you This only goes one direction. You got
to be kidding me.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's bad enough and toxic enough that we live in
a period where people don't want to get into politics
when we need them sorely. Think of all the really good, smart,
productive people that could be in Congress, for instance, but
they're like, I don't want a piece of that. I
don't want to get anywhere near that. If that sort
of poison extends to the jury system. Now, granted, not
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every trial is a high profile trial, but man's that's
a creeping infection we do not want to let get going.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
One potential jury yesterday had made it so far through
the process they were close to being seated when the
UH lawyer representing the Trump side brought up the potential
jurors vitriolic social media posts to try to get her
struck for cause. So this is a person that said
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they had announced that they could be fair and un
biased in a trial and did not have strong opinions.
They mentioned to tweeting for where this person had called
Trump a sexist, racist, narcissist, and another post where they
said I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized.
I feel like that maybe you have a solid view
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of whether or not you can believe what he says.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Sounds a little biasy to me. This tongue were that's
kind of funny thought.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
In the modern world, this is something that didn't exist before.
You can go through somebody's social media history and get
a pretty decent idea where they are.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Politically and how far they are that direction.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Now, back in the day, you'd have had to interview
all their closest friends to have the slightest idea.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I just came across some more data on that topic
about how few people drive all of the online of
vitriol on politics. It's not a surprise, but it's not
that many people. Another side topic to the Trump trial,
putting aside the facts of the case and the rest
of it, is the whole gag order thing. Were you
(04:10):
going to bring that up or I don't want to
steal your thunder No. It's just interesting that the judge,
for reasons that are at least semi legitimate, says, look,
you can't be bad mouthing me and my family and
the court clerk and the witnesses and the But it
went a little far to include the witnesses. So now
you have Michael Cohen doing the rounds Colin Trump, you know,
(04:33):
one hundred kinds of fiend, and Trump is not allowed
to respond at all, and we are into seriously gray
First Amendment areas. In fact, I think looking at the
description and I don't have it in front of me.
But the description of the gag order, it's too broad,
it is indefensible.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, this is going to get nailed down at some point,
because trial's got what six weeks to go. Trump's gonna
say something that crosses the line in the judge's mind.
They're going to challenge it, and it's gonna have to
get decided at a high level in a court. I
think that's inevitable, don't you.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, he's already on the verge of finding Trump in
contempt and finding him and then the judge said what he.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Throw him in jail?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
That'd be some Uh yeah, where is that that future
violations of the gag order can be punished not only
with additional fines, but also with a term of incarceration
of up to thirty days.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Oh, you put Trump at you for thirty days.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, if you want a revolution in the streets, that'd
be a good way to get it. Trump came out
of the courtroom yesterday and I was watching live on
CNN when it happened, and apparently they're Jake Tapper even
stated that they're gonna let They're gonna air what Trump
says when he comes out of the courtroom every day
because they feel it's only fair since the other side
gets to they air what the other side says. Anyway,
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Trump came out of the courtroom and said this yesterday,
and I'm sitting here.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
For days now, from morning till ninety and that freeze freezing.
Everybody is freezing in there, and all of this and
this is your result.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Of this very very mad thing, very mad thing. The
whole world is watching this house.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I didn't think climate control would be his main complaint.
I'm a little surprised by that we.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Got this text.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I'm a freelance court reporter who's worked in about twenty
different courthouses. They all have freezing courtrooms. To the point
my fingers have gotten so hold i could hardly move them,
and my nose is dripping. But because my hands are
busy typing, I can't even wipe my nose. They say
it's they say they do it to keep people awake.
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I've seen more than a few jurors fall asleep during testimony.
That's why we've kept the studio arctic cold since the
beginning of our career. Is you can't get groggy and
sluggish if you're freezing. David Letterman famously had a studio.
He kept his studio arctic just so nobody gets, you.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Know, sluggish but man to the point that your fingers
are so cold. That's too cold. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Other presidential election development yesterday, two things with whole RFK
Junior Robert F. Kennedy Junior first of all, but Kennedy klan,
A whole bunch of them came forward, fifteen of them
and did a little press conference or a statement together,
not backing their family member, their fellow Kennedy, but backing Joe.
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Biden played me clips seventy. I think you'll notice something
here about Carrie Kennedy.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Members of the Kennedy family, including brothers and sisters of
presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior, throwing their support behind
President Biden. Concerned RFK Junior will hand the White House
back to Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The best way forward per America is to reglect Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris to four more years.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Biden, who recently welcomed the family to the White House,
has called RFK Junior's father his political hero.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
His bust sits in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So do all the Kennedy sound like that? Why do
they all talk like that? What's that noise problem? Uh,
it's a rare disorder I know for RFK and his
aunt or whoever that was, has it.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
To charismatic dysphonia, a specific form of an involuntary movement disorder.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, you know, that's that's fine. It was interesting.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I don't mean to be hurtful, but did it look
to anybody else like maybe their family tree doesn't have
enough brand?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You got, you got your all kinds of weird physical,
physiological things that are happened to each other, and you're like, really, you've.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Been around I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They reminded me of that Barkin family from West Virginia
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's what I call.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well, that's a little much, But I was gonna say,
maybe the royal families in the seventeen.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Hundreds, if you hear me talking, Yeah, maybe too many
cousins exactly? Too many?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, Maybe get out of high annis Port or wherever
did the Kennedy clam comes from. Maybe get outside the
city limits for your next breeding. I mean, come on, hey,
your half sister is hot, But can I show you
this chart? God, when is the last gasp of giving
a crap what the Kennedy family thinks gonna happen. I
hope it's in my lifetime. Good lord, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
This might be it. But here's the big development. Well,
that's one.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So his family comes out and says, we're all behind
Joe Biden. Okay, that's I don't know if that's gonna
Swaaney votes or anything like that, but it'd be a
little hurtful if I ran for president and everybody in
my family came out and said, yeah, we're for the
other guy.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I tell you one thing, one person we're not voting for.
It's our relative. But this read from this newsletter today.
That's that Barkin family. Huh, that's what that they were
actually in bread.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Disturbing, Sorry, was that the Kennedy's there, And so I
think that Kennedy voice thing, that thing getting close to
the Barkin family. I think that's where they're headed a
couple more generations, noted geneticist Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Okay, enough of that. That's weird me out, Yeah, it's
weird and everybody out. Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So this this is an actual real political development. This
is one of the most shocking and significant developments of
the twenty twenty four presidential election. To date, Kennedy's people
somehow got ballot access. They've been struggling all around America.
It took a surprising term yesterday when arguably the most
important state in the entire electoral college map, when he
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secured ballot access in Michigan out of nowhere, not via
gathering signatures to qualify from scratch on his own bite,
rather than nabbing the natural law party slot.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And nobody saw this coming, and somehow the Biden team
missed that that was out there, and so Kennedy's on
the ballot in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
His folks expressed optimism that he would be on all
fifty ballots.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know whether that was big talk or I
think that's big talk based on the smart people that
I read. There's no way he's going to do that.
But he doesn't need to. He gets five to ten
percent in Michigan. Biden loses Michigan. It's really narrow right now.
I mean, you know, numbers will change. We got a
lot of months, but right now, I could get into
it if you want to, but it's what's the point.
(11:23):
But if Biden loses Michigan. I mean, the path to
victory gets really really narrow, really fast. So that's a
big deal that RFK Junior is on there. And you
have a lot of Democrats that don't like the support
in Israel or whatever, and they don't want to vote
for Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They got to vote for somebody.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, which is why his let's go with quirky family
members were saying, don't vote for our guy. They're terrified
of the spoiler effect.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Right. Well, Rfk's on the ballot in part of the
what did I say The name of that party was
the Natural Nature a Law party?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, it's weird house.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Are these parties that get candidates that don't represent their thing?
So often they so they did all the work to
get on the ballot as a party, then somebody snatches their.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Right attractive to turn down the libertarian parties? Had that
come Had that happened a couple of times where it's
a real stretch to call the candidate a libertary.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Where the Green parties happened a few times too.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, So the big Columbia protests, the college kids are
going nuts there and angry about something or other. We
can talk about that a little bit. I thought New
York did a heck of a good job dealing with it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, lit more wood shampoo, that's what we got to do.
Oh wow, do you know that term? Folks? It's more
on the way stay here.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
For the truth might be a distraction that's getting in
the way of finding common ground and getting things done.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
That is the Orwellian nightmare, radical Marxist new head of
NPR Catherine Marr who so did I mention racist too
in America hating What a beautiful distillation of her philosophy.
If the truth is getting in the way of play
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that one more time, Michael Widga.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a
distraction that's getting in the way a finding common ground
and getting things done.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
So yes, but so you get to determine what the
common ground is that we should all come to.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Is that the way it works? Yes, and what should
be gotten done? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So let's put aside the truth and come together and
accomplish these things I'm going to tell you we need
to accomplish, like tearing down the system. And unfortunately there
are quite a few young people who have been indoctrinated
in this philosophy. Through heck, kindergarten through graduate school. Who
would have believed it? Let's go with clip forty eight
(14:12):
their NBC Nightly.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
News confrontation at Columbia police removing protesters from campus. Citing
extraordinary circumstances, Columbia University President Manu Schaffique called in the
NYPD to clear an encampment of pro Palestinian student demonstrators.
The encampment set up Wednesday morning, the same day Schaffique
testified on Capitol Hill about anti Semitism on campus.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
We are risking like our academic standing, just like just
show the administrators that we are not okay with their decisions.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Demonstrators telling us they plan to keep their protest going
despite the police presence. New York City's Mayor's saying police
made more than one hundred arrests.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
They have by the way, that is out today a
whole bunch of them got arrested, as more than one hundred.
As you hear their Columbia students have rebuilt the anti
Israel solidarity camp less than twenty four hours after the
mass arrests.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
That clip of the young lady reminds me of an
email we got. Why do you guys refer to these
people as college kids, they're adults.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
When you hear that.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Clip of that young lady, do you really think she
is an adult? Maybe legally speaking, but she's got a
child's understanding the world because she's not been subjected to
the busy arena of conflicting ideas, taking them on and
come to an understanding of the world. No, she's just
been fed propaganda is one point of view, and that's
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all she knows. Listen to this little protester here.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
We are, you're must Whoa's good?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Are those Russian assets or Chinese ash? Is that actually well?
Us college students saying we're harmoths? I mean, if you
want to go with the no, I support the Palestinians,
their land was taken. Okay, at least you got half
an argument and in your but you're harmos.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I said the other day, and I will repeat now
that our educational system, including our terrified college administrators, have
created a monster that is now turning against them. That's
such a common sentiment and so well understood. People don't
go with the second half because they don't need to.
They just say we've created a monster, and we have,
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and they're easy to dismiss as stupid snowflakes and that
sort of thing. But they are many thousands, and they
believe this stuff as vehemently as any of the radical
youth movements of the past see MAOIs China. There was
an aspect of the protests that is very, very amusing
that we don't have time to squeeze and now maybe
when we come back on the other side of the break.
But while this is the stuff of eye rolling and
(17:02):
snickering at these young morons, it's also dangerous.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
When Iran was hanging women for not covering their hair,
it had been nice if you could have gotten worked
up at all and joined in solidarity with those young
people who are protesting at risk of their lives. Armstrong
and getdyop.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Squeezing stop.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Stop right stop stop stop stop, let.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Go come for the idiotic worldview and stay for the
acting like a complete baby.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You're squeezing my hand. Stop squeezing my ow.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
The rebar is cutting mind and let go of at
you moron. That's the protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge
the other day. And if I'm one of the cops,
I think I go with the laughing at them means seriallysly, dude,
I'm going to tell all my friends about this and
we're gonna laugh all evening.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, that's how funny this is. You pretending you're hurt.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
All right, Protester boy just wants video of being manhandled
by the cops so he can make the establishment look
like the bad Guys's not gonna work anymore. People are
tired of your antics and back to Columbia a second.
But I'm reminded of the email from Tom the Marine
that I loved. If you ever want to drop us
a note, please do mail bag at Armstrong in getty
dot com. But Tom writes, I love hearing the hyper sensitive,
(18:30):
lazy whimps throw around the R word revolution. They refuse
to put in a half work day as a marine.
It makes me laugh. It makes me feel more secure
in my freedom actually fighting not typing a mean tweet.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But fighting is hard.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
It requires a degree of physical and mental toughness to
survive that they cannot fathom. Having these dufuss rent gives
me a warm, secure feeling. They don't have the work
ethic necessary to overthrow a ham sandwich.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Which he spells samwich.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Thank you for the note, Tom, the marine for your
so final note on the Columbia University protests. The one
sided propaganda spewing leftist universities have created a monster that
is now attacking them, as monsters tend to do. And
Columbia is notable for being a wildly progressive neo Marxist institution.
(19:22):
And look which you have wrought friends. Anyway, this is
too good to not share with you. So pro Palestinian
protesters told the Columbia Spectator, that's the big university paper,
that they had been sprayed with a crowd control chemical
developed by the Israeli defense forces at a rally. Mainstream
media amplified the allegations, and Columbia suspended the student involved
(19:46):
in the chemical attack. And the student had previously served
in the IDF, and they suspended him almost immediately. The
narrative rights the free Beacon was a progressive fever dream
at one of the best universities in the country, and
his Rayley's student had deployed chemical weapons against peaceful student
protesters for challenging the depredations of the Zionist state. And
(20:10):
the Columbia President, Saint Gala, testified pretty effectively in front
of Congress the other day credit where it's too repeated
this claim at a meeting of the university Senate, and
I quote demonstrators were sprayed with a toxic chemical. Well,
the student is now countersuing, and it appears that the
toxic chemical was if you'll excuse me, a harmless fart
(20:30):
spray purchased on Amazon dot com for twenty six dollars
and eleven cents.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
My kids card fart primary. One of my kids had that.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
According to a lawsuit filed against Columbia on Tuesday, the
suspended student had in fact dispersed I'm going to change
the name just because we do have some standards of
good taste around here.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Is that new?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He had indeed dispersed liquid arse and gag gift for
adults and kids. According to its product description, gag La
will just refer to it as he's.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Prayed the substance first literal gag gift you made me gag.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
He sprayed the substance in the air, not in any
particular individual, and in what the lawsuit describes as quote, okay,
I mean more time.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's the worst name for a product I've ever heard.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I would agree, I would agree again and those listeners
have more sensitive dispositions.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I apologize, but yes, he sprayed.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Liquid ass in the air in what the lawsuit describes
as a quote harmless expression of speech. The result was
a swift suspension, for which the student is now suing,
alleging the university quote rushed to silence plaintiff and Brandon
is a criminal through biased misconduct proceedings. I will not
be purchasing nor deploying LA anytime soon. Wow, restore sanity
(22:04):
to some of these fevered young people. Will they grow
up and out of this? Fringe movements have come and
gone in the past, I certainly hope. So that's enough
of that now on too different fare.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So last night.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I was gonna make hamburgers outside, and in the midst
of it, it was reminded, as I always am, how
much I hate it. And I took a picture of
my grill with the spatul in the burgers, and I
tweeted it out, and I tweeted that, what did I say,
it's up there on the screen.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You're a man who hates grilling.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm the only male in America who hates grilling. I
loathe it. I would pay a large sum of money
to never have to do it again in my life.
I have no idea why I do hate it. I
hate everything about grilling. AM bad at it, and I
hate it. I'm probably bad at it because I hate
it and I have no interest in getting better.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I just wish i'd never have to do it again.
And I don't know why. And I'm embarrassed by it.
And I told I told both my boys.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I said, hey, you have a girlfriend, wife, They're gonna
expect you to be able to grill and do it well.
Do not follow in my footsteps. This is not good.
But it's just a weakness I have for some reason.
I can do some other things pretty good. I can fix,
I can fix a whole bunch of different things. But
I can't grill. And I don't want to grill. I
look at men who enjoy it and like it's like
(23:26):
a foreign species to me.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
As Michael, what exactly is the problem? Do you burn
the stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I just I hate doing it. Sometimes I do burn
it because I have no interest in doing it. It's
just it's just like, you know, I don't particularly like
I don't know, cleaning the toilet.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I feel like it's a task like that anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Maybe you can get a testicle transplant from a donor.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know, we got one hundred and fifty. It's the
least manly thing. I mean, I hate to admit it
out loud. It's definitely the least manly thing about me
is that I hate grilling so much.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I got a hundred you can do you sweetheart. My
son's really into that now. Every time I do anything, yay,
you do you?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
One hundred and fifty two responses to my grilling tweet,
but a couple of them. Maybe if you didn't grill
like a runaway teenager or a crackhead, you might come
to enjoy it. That was a comment on my tiny
little grill and my weak asspatch was everybody coming.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's a little bum camp if you didn't grill like.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
A runaway teenager or a crack I thought that was
pretty funny. It is a pretty pathetic looking grill. It's
the tiny little grill that sits down on the ground.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
And then made an investment commensurate with your enjoyment of it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I guess true, Yeah, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
If I was into it, I'd come up with a
reason to justify in my mind why I got the
thousand dollar grill like lots of dudes do, but I haven't.
And another response, why I hate it because you're gay,
same reason you support wars.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I thought that was a wow, that's some really solid reasoning.
Thanks for sharing, friend.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
So yeah, wow, if that was art, that's really good art.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I mean, if that was like tongue in cheek, you
got me.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And then one other thing, talk about apropos of nothing.
This really comes out of nowhere. I couldn't sleep last night.
I've been waking up at like one point thirty two
in the morning and then staying awake. It's because of
my sins and my horrible decisions in my life.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I guess that I wake up a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
So last night I got to reading on something that
I had gotten into a while ago, and it was
about the development through evolution of the eye. Oh and
there's some new knowledge about the development of the eye
that I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
First of all, I didn't know this.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Darwin wrote in Origin of the Species that the idea
of natural selection producing the eye seems, I freely confess
absurd in the highest possible degree. Even Darwin didn't think
that he could explain. He said the eye to the
day gives me a cold shudder. He once wrote to
a friend his whole matro selection thing that he pushed
and it caught on and everything like that. He said,
(26:06):
but I can't come up with how the eye would
ever happen. And they now believe that the eye. Not
only did I always assumed, I me always assumed that
we're all living off kind of like one eye. It
somehow was some freak of evolution and you know, way
way way way back some organism, and then it kind
(26:29):
of spread out and we all had the same eye.
But they think the eye developed independently at least sixty times,
like completely independently in some organism. It wasn't like picking
up on all the work done by generations of evolution
from some other line of organism. It developed independently, which
I find fascinating, while otherwise.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
There would have to be like a coupling between some
sort of one hundred million years ago lizard and one
hundred million years ago monkey.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
But I just assumed to it back further. Well, it
actually does go back way further than that. We're talking
like bacteria and stuff like that. There has been life
on planet Earth. Earth's about four billion years old. There's
been life on planet Earth, they think for about three
point eight billion of those years. Nobody has any idea
how it started or if it could ever start anywhere
else in the universe. And that's just as fascinating as
(27:21):
anything could be. But so life started with just some
like you know, tiny little algae, bacteria, minuscule things, and
very quickly some of them for some reason, realized that
sunlight helped them grow and survive, and that there would
be a benefit to knowing when there is sunlight or
(27:43):
where the sunlight is.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So it was just a perception of light.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And it went from there with the development of the
eyeball that has again developed separately and all kinds of
different things.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
And now women in particular are having painful and expensive
procedures to change the color of their eyes to be
more attractive, sometimes sacrificing their vision.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I gotta admit that had popped into my head many
times about the evolution of how how did we ever
come to?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
How do we ever have?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But even Darwin was very confused about that, But they
got into in this scientific magazine, I was reading the
hundreds of thousands of generations of evolution that it would take,
even in some sort of algae for the eye to
go from can sense sunlight to maybe having some sort
of lens like thing that could see a little better.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Next thing, you know, you're walking around blanket with two eyes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I think part of the reason people have a difficult
time comprehending this stuff is that we can't conceive of
that amount of time, right.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
That is the missing element in all of these things
is the three point eight billion years is a long
time for something to very very slowly happen. That's why
when we're talking about stuff like how is the human
mind going to adapt to smartphones and social media? We
don't have one hundred thousand generations to work that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Out, right, Yeah, not even like a full generation Bingo
bongo all of a sudden it's there.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
So they've re set up their pro Hoomas camp there
outside of Columbia University. It'll be interesting to see if
they crack down on it today, if they let it,
you know, get a toe hold.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
As we learned in Seattle with.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What was that thing called as oh Chad Chaz and
then it turned into something else. It was the their
self administered freedom zone that quickly degenerated.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
And Portland had something like that too, as we've learned
over the years, and maybe the going way back to
the Occupy Wall Street people in various cities. If you
let these protests get a toe hold, then it becomes
a lot harder to dislodge them. Then you're gonna have
to use even more force and have more of a spectacle.
And I just wonder if the cops are going to
show up there outside of Colombia and take care that's
(30:00):
quickly today so that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah, they arrested what a couple of hundred students protesters history,
But that's the way to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But they're back already. Why aren't they in jail. They
don't put anybody in jail, right, Well, you.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Can stab a bodega owner and not go to jail.
So yeah, chanting at Columbia won't get you in jail.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Text line if you want to weigh in on any
of these things, four one five two nine five KFTC
all that information about eyeballs, got this text? I have
an eye problem today. I couldn't see myself going to work.
(30:38):
That's funny, That is funny, well played.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
My friend probably one hundred years old, got a couple
of stories about the hot new weight loss drugs, one
of which is it involves influencers online social media influence influencers,
which reminds me the watching special report with Brett Baher
last night on Fox News. TikTok is advertise heavily going
(31:02):
with a lot of I use TikTok to help veterans
out and help people buy flags made in America and
bob blah. So they're really leaning on that as I
don't care if Saint Peter himself has a TikTok account
and he's using it to bring people to the Lord.
It's still a tool of Chinese propaganda and surveillance, and
it's gotta go. Having said that, Wall Street Journal influencers
(31:29):
love ozempic, but they aren't telling you about the risks.
And they go through several stories of influencers talking about
how much they're loving it and they're losing weight and
how to deal with some of the side effects, blah
blah blah. But then they give a bunch of examples
like this Karen Evans, who's gotten almost half a million
views wow, talking about tips for ozampic, including managing the nausea.
(31:53):
She hasn't followed up with a new video disclosing that
the vomiting became so bad that she stopped using the drug.
I was throwing up randomly. It was destroying my life,
she said.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And you hate to throw up randomly.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I prefer that activity to be fairly predictable and infrequent.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Certainly associated with various activities, over indulgence, what have you.
Here's another one. Brittany Buckner, a travel influencer. He usually
posts about plus sized clothing and travel under the handle
of plus Sized and Outside, told her more than fifty
eight thousand Instagram followers about her use of the weight
loss drug after telehealth service Row that's ro paid her
(32:34):
to promote its weight loss prescription program. She got the
partnership after searching through a site that connects influencers with brands.
Under the arrangement, Buckner, who was taking a different drug
at the time, told followers that she didn't get the
medication from ROE, but I wish I had gone through
them to get it. Roe paid Buckner to film to videos,
which it posted later on social media. Baby. In reality,
(32:57):
Buckner hadn't been able to fill her prescription for because
of the supply constraints. She hadn't taken the drug for
months and didn't even attempt to do so through ROH.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So it was just made up essentially.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
And these influencers who are your friend and look how
pretty they are, blah blah blah. They're not doctors, they're
not even pharmacists, they're nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So I feel like ozempic has become the catch all
name for all these products. So it's kind of like Kleenex.
Kleenex is a brand, and all tissues you call Kleenex.
Because there's this thing called plastic. Surgeons warn't of ozempic.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Face.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, I think they probably mean all the weight lost drugs,
not just ozempic. But yeah, that's the idea that you
lose weight so fast. It's a big deal in Hollywood.
You lose weight so fast, you get a lot of
dangling skin, and then people got to get it operated
on one of the I got the reason this says
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I know a guy.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I haven't asked him, but he's clearly lost a bunch
of weight recently, and he looks fifteen years older. It's
just a but you lose weight, you look older. You
can Yeah, if you're over strand age. If you're twenty five,
you don't. But yeah, and I wanted to get to
this too. In the time that we have remaining, the
blockbuster medications ozempic, Mountjaro and zep bound rolled out to
(34:16):
millions to lose weight and appear to be causing other
unexpected effects. Now this is from the Daily Mail, which
usually does pretty good journalism. Some patients have reported a
dulling of emotion and even suicidal thoughts oh my god.
Others have reported plummeting libido and diminished sensation during sex.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I worth, losing weight. Some have seen it cure addictions too.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
People who had consistently add a couple of drinks every
evening found they had zero desire to drink alcohol on
the medication.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Others found their shop ahoulism diminishing. On the other hand,
experts say there may be an explanation. They say it's
all to do with the drugs impact on a masterful
brain chemical that determines pretty much every human behavior. It
could alter your entire your personality, and we don't have
time to get into the specific neuro chemistry of the thing,
(35:06):
but it might be doing more than just making you
less hungry.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I can't experience joy or have an orgasm, but at
least i'm fin armstrong, and Getty
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