March 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump's tariffs & DOGE protests
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- The meeting with Zelensky & what's next
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Petty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
From the studio. See see Senor. It's a dimly lit.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Room deeper than the bowels, the Armstrong and Giddy Communications
Compound and uh.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Today on Tuesday, we're under the general manager. Triffs. Tarriffs
are our general manager. And you gotta say it like that. Tariffs.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Triffs are an exciting topic, you know, Oh boy they are.
That was dripping with sarcasm. I was just thinking how
in the olden days what happened in the last like
dozen hours would be just such giant news. The United
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States laid twenty five percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada,
our closest trading partners, and then a ten percent tariff
on China, an additional ten percent tariff in China, and
halted all funding the Ukraine, who we've been supporting for
three years. Both of those stories are just enormous, But
we're so used to giant ebbs and flows and everything
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like that, it just doesn't feel like it would have
felt ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Right right, the pace and significance of the news generated
by the new administration is just crazy, hard to take in,
hard to comprehend, never mind to form a response or
an attack against it, as the Democrats would love to. Michael,
do you have our theme music that we play for everything?
Welcome to Joe's provocative statement of the day. Joe's provocative
(02:08):
statement of the day. The tariff moves will be the
undoing of the Trump administration. Wow, this is the landmine
they have laid that they are going to step upon.
Economically speaking, So you wanted Kamla to win. That's intestable.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well played.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He got me, checkmate. No, I wish with every fiber
of me. I hope I'm wrong. I think what this
is going to do to the economy, the stock market, inflation,
working class people's lives ain't gonna be good. And again,
I hope I'm wrong. I'm having a lot of trouble
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finding anybody of any you know, significant haft intelligence who disagrees.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, the idea, right is that it doesn't last very
long that countries realize.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow, they're serious.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
So he's serious, really, And it's a dentistring argument around
whether or not. And it seems like not to me
that any president should have the power to do this
sort of thing on his own, just an individual move.
I mean, it's really it's tacks. It's a heck of
a thing. But according to the law, there has to
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be a national emergency. But as we've seen throughout COVID, painfully,
executives at various levels apparently have the right to declare
their own emergencies, sometimes on a fairly skinny pretext.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
No, that's right.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Why he keeps mentioning fentanyl from China and Mexico and
all and coming across the Canadian mortar and that sort
of thing, because that's the emergency.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's the drug thing, which is an emergency. I just
don't know if it fits in with this.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But anyway, that aside, this is what's happening, and the
hope is that these countries, particularly Mexico and Canada China
is a different situation as they are are. Me, well, say, wow,
he's serious, He's actually going to do this. And then
there I heard this morning. It's either talk of or
it's already decided that Honda's going to stop making the
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civic in Mexico and start making it in Indiana, for instance,
that sort of thing will start happening, and enough of
that will happen, then okay, we can take the tariffs
off now, or lower them or however that works in
the negotiation. Then it's not you know, permanent going forward. Yeah,
that would please me, That would be great.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
My concern is that, and this is a little complicated
because they're as Jack indicated, you got our allies and
friends and neighbors, then you got China.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Just you got to put China over there with tear.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
If the crap out of them, we shouldn't do anything
to help China, and if we have to, you know,
suffer a little bit at the cash register. Again, not
popular politically, but I get that completely. The problem I
see with the like Canada and Mexico thing is there
are a few that can make that move fairly quickly.
It will be temporary until the moment somebody else comes
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into power, and so those that can make them move
fairly quickly and fairly efficiently, like a big automaker, that'll
go pretty well. But the idea that the tariffs are
going to revive American manufacturing, if I'm a manufacturer would
be manufacturer. I'm thinking Trump's got three and a half
years left in office. These policies are are unprecedented and
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not popular among you know, pro business people, congress people's senators,
the rest of it. They're all shutting their mouths out
of loyalty and or fear of Trump right now. But
it's the odds are very, very good it doesn't last
more than three and a half years. So I'm not
going to spend three and a quarter years building a
plant and investing millions or even more tens of millions
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of dollars if then the you know, the realities are
trade including tariffs change.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Completely at the end of that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So I just don't know how effective this could be
in on shoring American manufacturing.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'd love for it to be in a long term way.
I'm just skeptical.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Some Republican congressman just introduced the Golden Age Act, which
would put President Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
On the one hundred dollars bill. And you wanted to
announce that very reasonable for a sitting president.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes, not at all, the sort of act that normally
takes place behind closed doors. And he wants this ole guy,
he doesn't need you to do that to him.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh geez. He wanted to announce that on the day.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Because Trump addresses both Houses of Congress tonight, it will
look like a State of the Union address more or
less is and the State of the Union addresses aren't
State of the Union addresses, so quit telling me. It's
not actually a State of the Union dress, neither of
the State of Union dress.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So what does that even mean? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So, so he's going to address both Houses of Congress,
and Congress people are in theory Democrats going to bring
out of work government workers who doge has ruined their.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Lives, and they're going to be scattered throughout the chamber. Yes, Michael,
do you think they'll be wearing like old clothes and
look really poor, right, you know?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Or just like yeah, rags, barrels, unshaven, little stub of
a cigar, maybe munching hungrily on a crust of bread.
Put their shoes up on the chairs so you can
see that the bottom of holes in them.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So not to jump in if you had a comment
on that, but it's funny.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
One of our beloved listeners just sent us a link
to a sketch from twenty ten from Saturday Night Live.
The Government employee, The annual government employee Awards for twenty ten.
I remember that, and we're gonna work on editing it
and bring it. It was very funny, yeah, and pretty long,
but anyway, but the point of it obviously is, you know,
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they're curly, they don't have to do anything, they're lazy,
and that's of course not true of all government workers,
but that is the popular perception. So trying to like
build a narrative of national woe and disgust that the
federal workforce was cut back.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Good luck Bill in.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That narrative, right, right, Yeah, with your point being that
if it was it was fertile ground for Saturday Night
Lives audience, it certainly is fertile ground for the rest
of the country, right, and mock the government worker.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We should start speaking of that.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
We should start the show officially before we get into trouble.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday,
March fourth, the year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Okay, let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations,
here we go at Mark or lefties singing anthems to
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something or other to change vines or something.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, what was that group? What are they protesting? Or
matt about her? They're anti dogists?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
This joy I have, the world didn't give it to me.
What's I got to do with doje? I'm just not
following here? No, well, what is what's to follow?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I don't They're just it's not as good as some
of the other protest songs like that.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Which side are you on? That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Which side are you on? Which itself? We couldn't hold
a candle. There's a hole of the sky, well the
tree once was.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But it's you know, protests singing. It's part of the
great tradition. Jack Pete, seeger what he got three some
other people?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know the story. You know the story. We got
Katie's headlines on the way some mail bag. Yeah uh.
And we stopped all aid to Ukraine yesterday Trump announced.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's that. None of that. I was watching that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
More on that to come, but I was watching the
tedious news this last night, feeling my joy speaking of
joy being sucked out of me moment by moment by
watching that, and one of the news is had some
lefties chanting about something or other they were angry about it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I don't recall what.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I was sitting there thinking, when was the last time
anybody was convinced of anything by a group of people
chanting walking by and thinking, Wow, they're all repeating the
same thing in unison. I need to think seriously about that.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That hole in the side where the tree.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Once was, somebody's making money, A.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Hole in the sky where the tree once was, somebody's
making money.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
All right, Um, that's a good point, though, when was
somebody convinced by a chant mom away fools?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What they're arguing for rhymes, so they make a good point.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We've got Katie's headlines next day here, Artie. I'm more
concerned about a lot of the foreign policy stuff than
inflation currently personally, but that's not what the polls show.
We didn't talk about this yesterday. CBS had some pulling
out over the weekend. People are still by far mostly
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concerned about the economy and inflation, but feel that the
Trump administration is that is not their focus. Which you know,
you're predicting various things that could be trouble for Trump.
I think that one's going to be a problem for
Trump if if people's perception is the main thing in
my life is inflation and your main thing is Ukraine border, tariffs,
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various things that just that political divide will be a problem.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I left that out of my analysis and one
I call it my my shocking statement of the day, whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Was that's incredibly important to people.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
And I've come across some accounts in conservative media of
parts of the country that are heavily Trump but are
really really struggling with inflation and economic issues. And they also,
you know, part of it that they perceive the main
goals right now are the border and foreign policy and
that sort of thing, But part of it's just no
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matter what they perceive, they are still struggling financially and
haven't seen anything done for them. And that's why I
think if the tariff thing doesn't work like just right
the way you're describing it, it could be a huge
negative right in the pocketbook for Trump's base.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And again I'm not rooting for this.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That just I see it coming down the line and
I wonder if it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Katie, thank you, guys, starting with the free beacon Honda
to move production to the United States ahead of Trump's
Mexican tariffs.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
That was a move they definitely wanted to have in
the headlines, coinciding with the announcement and tonight's speech.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, we'll have to see. It's interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I read a big giant piece I almost brought it
to the show about when Apple announced what was it,
five hundred billion dollars in new investments in America. A
lot of that stuff was pre planned. Just repackage it
and kind of move the parentheses over here in the
timeline over there. It happens every administration to curry favor.
So some of that stuff, including this might be a
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little overstated.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Don't know. I have to wait and see.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
From the Independent again, So you'll wanted Kamla to win. Wow, exactly,
I hear genius would have saved the union.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's my point.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Wow, Okay, from the Independent, Trump military aid cut will
hit Ukraine's frontline fight against Putin's forces within days.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, this is a heck of a thing.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I mean, it went from and it was ridiculous for
Biden to keep saying We're with you to the end
to the end. Okay, that's that's fantastic, But what do
you actually mean will be with you till the end?
Now we're cutting off all support.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
How is this going to turn out? Well?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Ian Bremer put up a video last night on his
website with some real politic about Europe that I thought
was damned interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
We need to get to maybe this power.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, I think Zelensky's diplomatic f up will be seen
as one of the most.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Historic ones of those ever.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And those blaming Zelensky for the blow up in the
Oval Office, they've got a hell of a good case.
I think what's underrated is that meeting with Democrats right
before he went to the White House, which was put
out in on social media by the Democrats saying we've
advised Zolensky to give Trump the finger. He showed up
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in his not a suit and gave Trump the finger
more or less, and Trump was ready for it and
already pissed off.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh Man from ABC News families of North Korean troops
captured in Russia will be executed. They're saying that the
soldiers that are fighting for Russia from North Korea will
kill themselves before they get captured because if there's any
thought that they might have given information Russia, their family's
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gonna get it back.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
In North Korea, what a horrible, horrible country.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, and some of the guys were literally they were
unable to move or run or grab their gun.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
They're so badly injured.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But nonetheless, as a message to the other North Korean troops,
Kim Jong un is going to execute their entire family,
just to make the point North Koreans.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Thing to do. Unbelievable that that can exist on the planet.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
From Reuters, car plows into German city, killing car plows
into crowd. Excuse me, in German city, killing two.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And was this on purpose or anything?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Do we know they're investigating if it was an attack?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, it's almost certainly yet another. I think this is
the third in the space of what a month jihadi
attack in Germany. From Breitbart dot Com.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Real time AI voice tech will make Indian call center
workers sound American.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
If I can understand them. Yeah, if it makes me,
it makes it easier to understand. Did you hear this
is a bit of a controversy. We'll talk about it
more later. Adrian Brody wins Best actor partially for his
unbelievable Hungarian accent that he does in the movie apparently,
and they used AI to make his accent better throughout
the film. And so that's become a big controversy, very
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controversy leading up to the oscars.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Jack from The Guardian, more than half of adults worldwide
will be overweight or obese by twenty fifty.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hey, Usa, USA, We've spread it around the world, so
half the world to be obese.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And finally from the Babylon b Trump hangs up sign
in White House that says you must be this tall
to receive foreign aid.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I saw that.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
You know what the weekly world news headline or the
sun would be with this much obesity. Scientists are concerned
that the the Earth's orbit will slow, leading to twenty
five hour days.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We're weighing it down.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh my god, my god. We can't drag our ass
around the Sun anymore. Right, the Earth has gotten too heavy.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Even the ability scooter. Yeah, years will be three hundred
and seventy one days. More news on the way, stay here,
armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Ukrainian president of Lazzolenski was criticized for what he woarded
the White House meeting on Friday.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But in his defense, most suits his size come with
a sailor hat and a giant lollipop.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I believe Gutfell's a man of smaller stature himself. Is
he not making a short joke? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I just find the he's a shorter fellow shots to
be a little dumb.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I'd rather not base our foreign policy on height or
whether or not you wear your suit. But I understand, uh,
I understand some of the issues around that, Yes, Katie, Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Not that it matters. He's five or five okay, a
little guy, is that right? And it is fairly small. Okay.
I don't know how we got into the heights.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Very absolutely no significance, no at all, No, absolutely not
any way.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So, just to fill out this conversation a little bit,
what led to Trump cutting off all aid to Ukraine yesterday,
which I know some of you are happy about.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Uh. Zelensky in Europe, asked about the war ending soon
in a peace deal, said it's the war's going to
go on for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Trump did not like that. Responded to that yesterday in
a press conference.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
President Zelensky supposedly made a satement today an AP. I'm
not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was
an incorrect sament. But he said he thinks there was
gonna go on for a long time, and he'd.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Better not be right about that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, So Trump goes on to say, basically, you'd better
not be right about that, because we're not gonna aid
him anymore. And if the war goes on for a
long time, you know, like you said Friday in the
Oval Office, you don't have any cards. Russia's you know,
gonna overwhelm you. And I hope this doesn't end up
with Russia taking key, even owning the whole country.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But the more I see, the more I think Zelensky
messed up on multiple levels and was responsible for the
ugly tone of the meeting.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I'm pretty convinced of that. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
On the other hand, I'm told by Trump World it's
soon he'll be super tough on Putin. And because right now,
given especially the cutoff of arms, Putin is gonna the
idea that this is gonna end the war is hilarious.
Putin's gonna think, yes, we're gonna keep going, We're gonna
keep grinding We're gonna keep taking land until they run
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out of ammunition.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Then we're gonna take the entire country. The idea that
this will end the war again, to me is just silly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
They got into a bit of a debate on Fox
and Friends this morning, and I was watching as several
of the people on the couch, We're talking about Elon
should cut off the starlink if Zilency's going to be
like this so they can't communicate, and Brian killed me.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It is like what Russia will take Keevan two days
if that happens. Is that what you want? And so yeah,
it's this whole conversation is making my brain hurt. But
just wrap this up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Ian Bremmer, who we've had on the show a lot,
is only more of a globalist than I am, and
and you know, worries more about making sure Europe's happy
than I do. But he had this to say. This
is around the idea, and I think this is part
of what Trump's trying to force. This gets to the
column from Ross Do thought of the New York Times
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that we read yesterday, where Ross and the New York
Times basically saying Trump's getting rid of old pretenses that
have been gone for a long time. The United States
can't run the world like it used to the world
has changed too much. Europe is not as powerful as
they think they are, and they need to either step
up or something. But you know, times are changing, and
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Ian talks about it here, which I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
What the Europeans have to now figure out is are
they prepared to be courageous? Are they prepared to step
up even though they're not in the most powerful position.
Are they willing to do after three years, after frankly,
eleven years since the Russians invaded Ukraine, the first time
they've stood back.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
They've stood by.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
They haven't stood up for their fellow Europeans. They've allowed
the Americans to do the heavy lifting. And now they
have a president president that is not willing to do that,
and frankly doesn't agree with them anymore, doesn't agree with
their values, doesn't care about shared values, only cares about power.
And so this is not a question for the Ukrainians.
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We know where the Ukrainians stand. They stand up. This
is not a question for the Americans. We know where
the Americans stand. They stand for themselves. This is a
question for the Europeans. Are the Europeans willing to stay
and up for themselves, for their principles, for their.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Values and for fellow Europeans. And I fear the answer
is no. How about that you can cut off there?
How about that?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I thought that I was surprising to me from Ian
Bremmer to say, I mean, now, that's a pretty trumpy
thing to say. Since twenty fourteen, the Europeans have stood
by and watched and let America do the work when
it's their freaking continent. Sure, and his prediction is they're
not going to rise to the occasion if we step aside.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well, if you take a serious look at European domestic politics,
I think he's right. It's just I mean, they try
the slightest reform of their bloated socialist systems and their
people go nuts. And we're talking about now a major
rearrangement of national priorities for all the biggies in Europe.
There's no way it goes through. One more quick thought.
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I was about to say, I agree with everything you
and Ian Bremmer said. The only quipple I have is
where he said Trump doesn't care about principles.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
All he cares about his power.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I might halfway agree, but I would say to Ian, well,
Trump also looks at the emperor's new cloesy nature of NATO,
where those paper tigers in Europe, Well, they've donated a
lot to Ukraine, for instance. They don't have that much
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in the way of arms. They have no arms in reserve,
their armies are weak. And so the idea that we
had this bold and strong alliance that we're abandoning. Know
what Trump's saying is, no, we didn't. All we have
is the expense of it being the sugar daddy for
all of these countries. And that's got to change. Now
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what it changes into Donald j and I might disagree on,
but he's right.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well that gets to the whole pretenses thing.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
So what Ian meant by all the United States cares
about is power might always have been true.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's just I mean, you can say flowery things, but.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Trying to put a democracy in Afghanistan because we want
to spread democracy didn't work. Trying to spread you know,
a Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq, trying to force that and
it hasn't worked.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And so maybe you just do what you can. What
you have the power to do and that's all you
can do.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And you can say all kinds of nice things, but
if you're not capable of doing it, I don't know
do you get credit for saying that.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I say, it's like the climate change argument.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Well, yeah, and I was just thinking, I think it's
true that we would much prefer democracy should they tend
to be friendly to other democracy. It's just it's better
for human beings. But there's a you know, there's a
point at which that's no longer your highest priority. If
the democracy of a you know, Central South American country
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for instance, and this was true throughout the twentieth century,
if their quote unquote democracy is going to lead them
to communism and totalitarianism, then we have stepped in many.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Times and said, nah, we're not gonna let you go
that way. Hey, you know, and often, you know, it's
funny for a while.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
When liberal schools really you know, controlled the discussion of history,
we would be taught at every single quote unquote right
wing incursion and to say in Nicaragua was awful and
bloody and we shouldn't have done it, and we should
have let them, you know, chart their own future. Well,
they ended up with horrific dictators. You know, Ortega and
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just the Sandinistas were scumbag communists, like all scumbag communists,
and their countries are falling apart. They're racked with violence
and gangs and poverty, and now they're exporting all their violent,
poverty stricken gangs to the US. So, yes, we do
have an interest in our own neighborhood. And then sometimes
we got to flex our muscles. But before we get
to mail bag.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So if if Ian is right that the Europeans aren't
gonna stand up, and if we cut off aid and say, hey,
Zelenski a non wear and suit wear and midget, we
ain't giving you anymore. And uh so Russia takes Kiev,
takes Ukraine, and Europe does it. Lets it happen and
and and it's you know, if Europe, I have been
(26:23):
saying since the beginning, if Europe doesn't care, I don't
know why we shouldn't necessarily care more than Europe does.
I still think the US world order, being led by
US has been, you know, a great benefit to us
and continues to be a great benefit. And when it's gone,
everybody's gonna really miss it. Our economic growth will go
(26:43):
way down when China and controls a third or half
of the world shipping lanes and all that sort of stuff.
All that stuff goes out to it. But anyway, do
you think that that could happen? Europe can't or won't
stand up. We're not aiding them anymore. Russia takes Kiev,
Ukraine's has its site set on Estonia or one of
those other tiny little countries, and then why wouldn't Putin
(27:06):
take that? Because Europe just announced we're not gonna fight
you the NATO shmado wow, and we need a brief
answer to that question. Yes, I can absolutely picture that happening.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I don't think it necessarily is going to be militarily,
because after Russia makes a certain amount of progress, the
quote unquote negotiations are going to include the removal of
the current regime and electoral structure in Ukraine and the
installation of a puppet regime of Moscow like Poorshenko's puppet
regime back in the twenty ten teens, and effectively he
(27:45):
will own Ukraine at that point. Now, what happens to
the Baltic State if the states, if Putin decides to make.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Moves there what they'll look like. Gosh, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
It's not out of the question though, But back to
Ian Bremer's main point, I'm seriously because I try to,
you know, imagine every scenario fairly and not just leap
to conclusions, which makes me bad on Twitter. But I
am struggling to even picture how Europe would get from
its current like fat old former warrior who thinks he's
(28:20):
still got it paper tiger hood, to like being actually
lean and mean enough to be a significant military force.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I can't even picture that what that would look like.
Well I can.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
There would be revolution in the streets that would have
to be put down by governments.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Popular governments wow, strong enough.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
To engage in seriously draconian measures to reform their economies,
their entire social fabric.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Because they are socialist states, and.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Then make military you know, military might priority again. I mean,
that's that would be like me declaring exactly how I'm
going to get to Olympic pole vaulter status.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's you can describe how that would.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Happen, but please, Yeah, it would take a complete restructuring
of society, and a lot of us who lean right
have been saying for a very, very long time. You know,
Europe gets to be, you know, the socialist paradise as
they are, where you get twelve weeks of vacation and
retire at fifty and all this sort of stuff. Because
we pay for the protection. You don't have to worry
(29:30):
about your military.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
We do it for you.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, if those days are over, holy crap, there's gonna
be a major restructuring of everything.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, well, I agree with well, I agree with you completely.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I can't stop myself from pointing out that they were
as socialist paradise is for a while. They are turning
into socialist crap heaps because their.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Economic always happens.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Oh yeah, exactly, their economic engines installed as they always do,
and as Margaret Thatcher taught us, they're running out of
other people's money to spend.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, that's the arc of socialism. You can get paradise
for a while, but it doesn't the last We got
a mailbag on the way, bunch of other stuff. I'd
love to hear what you think about this text line
four one five two nine five kftc AI scandal in
the Oscars. Love to talk about that later. Not that
I care about the Oscars, but I am kind of
interested in AI in the world of art and what
(30:21):
that all means and if we should be worried or not. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
I mean definitely. And there's some really interesting gay I stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
My lack of enthusiasm is just because, you know, I
saw that quote unquote scandals a while back and thought.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Do whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, they made it, they made it all about people
losing jobs whatever. You know that that's not my interest.
That's gonna happen. I mean, it sucks, but it's gonna happen,
right right, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And there's another utterly idiotic quote unquote controversy I want
to talk about.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So all right, here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
And continuing on with our series from Theodore Roosevelt, we'll
go with a couple today. Believe you can, and you're
halfway there. He was a very positive thinker, a real guru.
If he'd been not been president, he would have been
like a Mark Twain type character.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So, if I remember correctly, his dad died young and
or he was diagnosed with something where he thought he
was going to die young. That had a big influence
on his view of life. He didn't think he had
very long.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Starting at a.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Young age, he was stricken with the one of your
serious childhood diseases of that era, and was very weak
and worked like a fiend to build himself up to
the strength he attained and became a great believer in
overcoming your obstacles and becoming what you dream of being
another one. No man is above the law, and no
man is below it. Nor do we ask any man's
permission when we ask him to obey it. Why we
(31:52):
could have used that during the George Floyd riots Anyway
mail bag he drops a note into time mailbag at
Armstrong unity dot com. Again, that's Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Excuse me, I've been drinking, I've been torn trying to
get mailbag together. I thought, let's move on from Ukraine,
(32:12):
but dozens and dozens and dozens of emails about Ukraine.
So I'm just gonna sprinkle in a couple. Let's see
Brian Wrights, Guys, I'm a nearly forty year old millennial
who works in the taxes. I hate fine china, silverware,
dressing up, fancy dinners, restaurants, bedskirts, all those industries and
traditions that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Millennials have killed let's sEH restaurants.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
He mentions, as well, you've talked about how in the
past you use those things to relate to people, that
this is important to me, and then he says he
gets now where his parents were coming from. In that way,
showing up looking professional is important. When the leader of
the free world says he has a dress code, that's important.
Obliging the leader of the host nation that has given
you military aid is important. Zelensky was a moron to
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show up dressed like that shows a lack of respect
in professionalism.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's a youngster, a millennial who rejects all of the
niceties of the old world.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Man, I can't believe this is part of the conversation.
But I think you're closer to right than wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, gosh, I really I want to talk more about
this because there's another angle. But it's mailbag and I'll
be disciplined about it.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's see what it is. And I wanted to get two.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Very important text we should hit just since we're a
lot of mocking of the height of Zelensky.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
How tall are you guys? How tall are you?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I am now five to ten? I was five eleven
until my back started collapsing. That's interesting because I was
six to one my whole life. I'm now six foot
and one quarter inches. I have shrunk three quarters of
an inch. Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
It's the discs in your spine get compressed. No life
wears you down to a nub.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
If you live to be one hundred and twenty, you'll
just be a tiny little thing with shoes running around.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Let's see what do we want to go as here?
You know what. I'm so tired of this and it's
so complicated. Oh, I tell you what. Anybody's in an
email and said, guys, it's simple. It's not.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Here's a hint, mister always often wrong, never in doubt. No,
it ain't the Armstrong you getty. One More Thing podcast
yesterday about a super expensive brand of mattress, hostin Or
Hasten Donna Wright.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Don't get that mattress.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
We have this mattress and I hate it, but I'm
stuck with it for the rest of my life because
we spent too much money to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Wow, they actually bought one.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
We did a podcast about this fifty six thousand dollars mattress.
The new York Times was raving about how comfortable it is.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
And then here's a really funny note from al none
of Us whose son is applying to the University of
California system to get in and they noticed that he
was cleaning and cooking a lot more than normal, and
he explained to them that he has declared of self
transgender for the college application process. That will certainly help
him in the University of California.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Ah, that's a good one. I got to tell my
kids that.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, that is pretty funny. And he's also looking into
playing some college volleyball for the UC system and as
he is six three, two twenty and a football player,
that will be an awesome presence on the court for
whatever University of California school accepts her application.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Go banana Slugs, that's what I say. Yes, like that
ball down the real girl's throat, show them. I want
to hear some of those emails about the whole Ukraine situation.
A lot more news in hour too if you miss
a segment at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Petty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
From the studio. See see Senor. It's a dimly lit.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Room deeper than the bowels, the Armstrong and Giddy Communications
Compound and uh.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Today on Tuesday, we're under the general manager. Triffs. Tarriffs
are our general manager. And you gotta say it like that. Tariffs.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Triffs are an exciting topic, you know, Oh boy they are.
That was dripping with sarcasm. I was just thinking how
in the olden days what happened in the last like
dozen hours would be just such giant news. The United
(01:19):
States laid twenty five percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada,
our closest trading partners, and then a ten percent tariff
on China, an additional ten percent tariff in China, and
halted all funding the Ukraine, who we've been supporting for
three years. Both of those stories are just enormous, But
we're so used to giant ebbs and flows and everything
(01:42):
like that, it just doesn't feel like it would have
felt ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Right right, the pace and significance of the news generated
by the new administration is just crazy, hard to take in,
hard to comprehend, never mind to form a response or
an attack against it, as the Democrats would love to. Michael,
do you have our theme music that we play for everything?
Welcome to Joe's provocative statement of the day. Joe's provocative
(02:08):
statement of the day. The tariff moves will be the
undoing of the Trump administration. Wow, this is the landmine
they have laid that they are going to step upon.
Economically speaking, So you wanted Kamla to win. That's intestable.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well played.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He got me, checkmate. No, I wish with every fiber
of me. I hope I'm wrong. I think what this
is going to do to the economy, the stock market, inflation,
working class people's lives ain't gonna be good. And again,
I hope I'm wrong. I'm having a lot of trouble
(02:49):
finding anybody of any you know, significant haft intelligence who disagrees.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, the idea, right is that it doesn't last very
long that countries realize.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow, they're serious.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
So he's serious, really, And it's a dentistring argument around
whether or not. And it seems like not to me
that any president should have the power to do this
sort of thing on his own, just an individual move.
I mean, it's really it's tacks. It's a heck of
a thing. But according to the law, there has to
(03:27):
be a national emergency. But as we've seen throughout COVID, painfully,
executives at various levels apparently have the right to declare
their own emergencies, sometimes on a fairly skinny pretext.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
No, that's right.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Why he keeps mentioning fentanyl from China and Mexico and
all and coming across the Canadian mortar and that sort
of thing, because that's the emergency.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's the drug thing, which is an emergency. I just
don't know if it fits in with this.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But anyway, that aside, this is what's happening, and the
hope is that these countries, particularly Mexico and Canada China
is a different situation as they are are. Me, well, say, wow,
he's serious, He's actually going to do this. And then
there I heard this morning. It's either talk of or
it's already decided that Honda's going to stop making the
(04:11):
civic in Mexico and start making it in Indiana, for instance,
that sort of thing will start happening, and enough of
that will happen, then okay, we can take the tariffs
off now, or lower them or however that works in
the negotiation. Then it's not you know, permanent going forward. Yeah,
that would please me, That would be great.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
My concern is that, and this is a little complicated
because they're as Jack indicated, you got our allies and
friends and neighbors, then you got China.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Just you got to put China over there with tear.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
If the crap out of them, we shouldn't do anything
to help China, and if we have to, you know,
suffer a little bit at the cash register. Again, not
popular politically, but I get that completely. The problem I
see with the like Canada and Mexico thing is there
are a few that can make that move fairly quickly.
It will be temporary until the moment somebody else comes
(05:01):
into power, and so those that can make them move
fairly quickly and fairly efficiently, like a big automaker, that'll
go pretty well. But the idea that the tariffs are
going to revive American manufacturing, if I'm a manufacturer would
be manufacturer. I'm thinking Trump's got three and a half
years left in office. These policies are are unprecedented and
(05:22):
not popular among you know, pro business people, congress people's senators,
the rest of it. They're all shutting their mouths out
of loyalty and or fear of Trump right now. But
it's the odds are very, very good it doesn't last
more than three and a half years. So I'm not
going to spend three and a quarter years building a
plant and investing millions or even more tens of millions
(05:42):
of dollars if then the you know, the realities are
trade including tariffs change.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Completely at the end of that.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So I just don't know how effective this could be
in on shoring American manufacturing.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I'd love for it to be in a long term way.
I'm just skeptical.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Some Republican congressman just introduced the Golden Age Act, which
would put President Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
On the one hundred dollars bill. And you wanted to
announce that very reasonable for a sitting president.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes, not at all, the sort of act that normally
takes place behind closed doors. And he wants this ole guy,
he doesn't need you to do that to him.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh geez. He wanted to announce that on the day.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Because Trump addresses both Houses of Congress tonight, it will
look like a State of the Union address more or
less is and the State of the Union addresses aren't
State of the Union addresses, so quit telling me. It's
not actually a State of the Union dress, neither of
the State of Union dress.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So what does that even mean? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So, so he's going to address both Houses of Congress,
and Congress people are in theory Democrats going to bring
out of work government workers who doge has ruined their.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Lives, and they're going to be scattered throughout the chamber. Yes, Michael,
do you think they'll be wearing like old clothes and
look really poor, right, you know?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Or just like yeah, rags, barrels, unshaven, little stub of
a cigar, maybe munching hungrily on a crust of bread.
Put their shoes up on the chairs so you can
see that the bottom of holes in them.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So not to jump in if you had a comment
on that, but it's funny.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
One of our beloved listeners just sent us a link
to a sketch from twenty ten from Saturday Night Live.
The Government employee, The annual government employee Awards for twenty ten.
I remember that, and we're gonna work on editing it
and bring it. It was very funny, yeah, and pretty long,
but anyway, but the point of it obviously is, you know,
(07:41):
they're curly, they don't have to do anything, they're lazy,
and that's of course not true of all government workers,
but that is the popular perception. So trying to like
build a narrative of national woe and disgust that the
federal workforce was cut back.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Good luck Bill in.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That narrative, right, right, Yeah, with your point being that
if it was it was fertile ground for Saturday Night
Lives audience, it certainly is fertile ground for the rest
of the country, right, and mock the government worker.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
We should start speaking of that.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
We should start the show officially before we get into trouble.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday,
March fourth, the year twenty twenty five, or Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You're getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Okay, let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations,
here we go at Mark or lefties singing anthems to
(08:52):
something or other to change vines or something.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, what was that group? What are they protesting? Or
matt about her? They're anti dogists?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
This joy I have, the world didn't give it to me.
What's I got to do with doje? I'm just not
following here? No, well, what is what's to follow?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I don't They're just it's not as good as some
of the other protest songs like that.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Which side are you on? That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Which side are you on? Which itself? We couldn't hold
a candle. There's a hole of the sky, well the
tree once was.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But it's you know, protests singing. It's part of the
great tradition. Jack Pete, seeger what he got three some
other people?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You know the story. You know the story. We got
Katie's headlines on the way some mail bag. Yeah uh.
And we stopped all aid to Ukraine yesterday Trump announced.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's that. None of that. I was watching that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
More on that to come, but I was watching the
tedious news this last night, feeling my joy speaking of
joy being sucked out of me moment by moment by
watching that, and one of the news is had some
lefties chanting about something or other they were angry about it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I don't recall what.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I was sitting there thinking, when was the last time
anybody was convinced of anything by a group of people
chanting walking by and thinking, Wow, they're all repeating the
same thing in unison. I need to think seriously about that.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That hole in the side where the tree.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Once was, somebody's making money, A.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Hole in the sky where the tree once was, somebody's
making money.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
All right, Um, that's a good point, though, when was
somebody convinced by a chant mom away fools?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What they're arguing for rhymes, so they make a good point.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We've got Katie's headlines next day here, Artie. I'm more
concerned about a lot of the foreign policy stuff than
inflation currently personally, but that's not what the polls show.
We didn't talk about this yesterday. CBS had some pulling
out over the weekend. People are still by far mostly
(11:09):
concerned about the economy and inflation, but feel that the
Trump administration is that is not their focus. Which you know,
you're predicting various things that could be trouble for Trump.
I think that one's going to be a problem for
Trump if if people's perception is the main thing in
my life is inflation and your main thing is Ukraine border, tariffs,
(11:32):
various things that just that political divide will be a problem.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I left that out of my analysis and one
I call it my my shocking statement of the day, whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Was that's incredibly important to people.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
And I've come across some accounts in conservative media of
parts of the country that are heavily Trump but are
really really struggling with inflation and economic issues. And they also,
you know, part of it that they perceive the main
goals right now are the border and foreign policy and
that sort of thing, But part of it's just no
(12:07):
matter what they perceive, they are still struggling financially and
haven't seen anything done for them. And that's why I
think if the tariff thing doesn't work like just right
the way you're describing it, it could be a huge
negative right in the pocketbook for Trump's base.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
And again I'm not rooting for this.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
That just I see it coming down the line and
I wonder if it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, that'll be fun.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with
Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Katie, thank you, guys, starting with the free beacon Honda
to move production to the United States ahead of Trump's
Mexican tariffs.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
That was a move they definitely wanted to have in
the headlines, coinciding with the announcement and tonight's speech.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, we'll have to see. It's interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
I read a big giant piece I almost brought it
to the show about when Apple announced what was it,
five hundred billion dollars in new investments in America. A
lot of that stuff was pre planned. Just repackage it
and kind of move the parentheses over here in the
timeline over there. It happens every administration to curry favor.
So some of that stuff, including this might be a
(13:10):
little overstated.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Don't know. I have to wait and see.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
From the Independent again, So you'll wanted Kamla to win. Wow, exactly,
I hear genius would have saved the union.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
That's my point.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Wow, Okay, from the Independent, Trump military aid cut will
hit Ukraine's frontline fight against Putin's forces within days.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, this is a heck of a thing.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I mean, it went from and it was ridiculous for
Biden to keep saying We're with you to the end
to the end. Okay, that's that's fantastic, But what do
you actually mean will be with you till the end?
Now we're cutting off all support.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
How is this going to turn out? Well?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Ian Bremer put up a video last night on his
website with some real politic about Europe that I thought
was damned interesting.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
We need to get to maybe this power.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, I think Zelensky's diplomatic f up will be seen
as one of the most.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Historic ones of those ever.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And those blaming Zelensky for the blow up in the
Oval Office, they've got a hell of a good case.
I think what's underrated is that meeting with Democrats right
before he went to the White House, which was put
out in on social media by the Democrats saying we've
advised Zolensky to give Trump the finger. He showed up
(14:32):
in his not a suit and gave Trump the finger
more or less, and Trump was ready for it and
already pissed off.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Oh Man from ABC News families of North Korean troops
captured in Russia will be executed. They're saying that the
soldiers that are fighting for Russia from North Korea will
kill themselves before they get captured because if there's any
thought that they might have given information Russia, their family's
(15:01):
gonna get it back.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
In North Korea, what a horrible, horrible country.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, and some of the guys were literally they were
unable to move or run or grab their gun.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
They're so badly injured.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But nonetheless, as a message to the other North Korean troops,
Kim Jong un is going to execute their entire family,
just to make the point North Koreans.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Thing to do. Unbelievable that that can exist on the planet.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
From Reuters, car plows into German city, killing car plows
into crowd. Excuse me, in German city, killing two.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And was this on purpose or anything?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Do we know they're investigating if it was an attack?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay, it's almost certainly yet another. I think this is
the third in the space of what a month jihadi
attack in Germany. From Breitbart dot Com.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Real time AI voice tech will make Indian call center
workers sound American.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
If I can understand them. Yeah, if it makes me,
it makes it easier to understand. Did you hear this
is a bit of a controversy. We'll talk about it
more later. Adrian Brody wins Best actor partially for his
unbelievable Hungarian accent that he does in the movie apparently,
and they used AI to make his accent better throughout
the film. And so that's become a big controversy, very
(16:19):
controversy leading up to the oscars.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Jack from The Guardian, more than half of adults worldwide
will be overweight or obese by twenty fifty.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Hey, Usa, USA, We've spread it around the world, so
half the world to be obese.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And finally from the Babylon b Trump hangs up sign
in White House that says you must be this tall
to receive foreign aid.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I saw that.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
You know what the weekly world news headline or the
sun would be with this much obesity. Scientists are concerned
that the the Earth's orbit will slow, leading to twenty
five hour days.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We're weighing it down.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh my god, my god. We can't drag our ass
around the Sun anymore. Right, the Earth has gotten too heavy.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Even the ability scooter. Yeah, years will be three hundred
and seventy one days. More news on the way, stay here,
armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Ukrainian president of Lazzolenski was criticized for what he woarded
the White House meeting on Friday.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But in his defense, most suits his size come with
a sailor hat and a giant lollipop.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I believe Gutfell's a man of smaller stature himself. Is
he not making a short joke? Okay?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I just find the he's a shorter fellow shots to
be a little dumb.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I'd rather not base our foreign policy on height or
whether or not you wear your suit. But I understand, uh,
I understand some of the issues around that, Yes, Katie, Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Not that it matters. He's five or five okay, a
little guy, is that right? And it is fairly small. Okay.
I don't know how we got into the heights.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Very absolutely no significance, no at all, No, absolutely not
any way.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So, just to fill out this conversation a little bit,
what led to Trump cutting off all aid to Ukraine yesterday,
which I know some of you are happy about.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Uh. Zelensky in Europe, asked about the war ending soon
in a peace deal, said it's the war's going to
go on for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Trump did not like that. Responded to that yesterday in
a press conference.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
President Zelensky supposedly made a satement today an AP. I'm
not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was
an incorrect sament. But he said he thinks there was
gonna go on for a long time, and he'd.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Better not be right about that. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, So Trump goes on to say, basically, you'd better
not be right about that, because we're not gonna aid
him anymore. And if the war goes on for a
long time, you know, like you said Friday in the
Oval Office, you don't have any cards. Russia's you know,
gonna overwhelm you. And I hope this doesn't end up
with Russia taking key, even owning the whole country.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But the more I see, the more I think Zelensky
messed up on multiple levels and was responsible for the
ugly tone of the meeting.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I'm pretty convinced of that. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
On the other hand, I'm told by Trump World it's
soon he'll be super tough on Putin. And because right now,
given especially the cutoff of arms, Putin is gonna the
idea that this is gonna end the war is hilarious.
Putin's gonna think, yes, we're gonna keep going, We're gonna
keep grinding We're gonna keep taking land until they run
(19:49):
out of ammunition.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Then we're gonna take the entire country. The idea that
this will end the war again, to me is just silly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
They got into a bit of a debate on Fox
and Friends this morning, and I was watching as several
of the people on the couch, We're talking about Elon
should cut off the starlink if Zilency's going to be
like this so they can't communicate, and Brian killed me.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It is like what Russia will take Keevan two days
if that happens. Is that what you want? And so yeah,
it's this whole conversation is making my brain hurt. But
just wrap this up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Ian Bremmer, who we've had on the show a lot,
is only more of a globalist than I am, and
and you know, worries more about making sure Europe's happy
than I do. But he had this to say. This
is around the idea, and I think this is part
of what Trump's trying to force. This gets to the
column from Ross Do thought of the New York Times
(20:43):
that we read yesterday, where Ross and the New York
Times basically saying Trump's getting rid of old pretenses that
have been gone for a long time. The United States
can't run the world like it used to the world
has changed too much. Europe is not as powerful as
they think they are, and they need to either step
up or something. But you know, times are changing, and
(21:03):
Ian talks about it here, which I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
What the Europeans have to now figure out is are
they prepared to be courageous? Are they prepared to step
up even though they're not in the most powerful position.
Are they willing to do after three years, after frankly,
eleven years since the Russians invaded Ukraine, the first time
they've stood back.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
They've stood by.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
They haven't stood up for their fellow Europeans. They've allowed
the Americans to do the heavy lifting. And now they
have a president president that is not willing to do that,
and frankly doesn't agree with them anymore, doesn't agree with
their values, doesn't care about shared values, only cares about power.
And so this is not a question for the Ukrainians.
(21:47):
We know where the Ukrainians stand. They stand up. This
is not a question for the Americans. We know where
the Americans stand. They stand for themselves. This is a
question for the Europeans. Are the Europeans willing to stay
and up for themselves, for their principles, for their.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Values and for fellow Europeans. And I fear the answer
is no. How about that you can cut off there?
How about that?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I thought that I was surprising to me from Ian
Bremmer to say, I mean, now, that's a pretty trumpy
thing to say. Since twenty fourteen, the Europeans have stood
by and watched and let America do the work when
it's their freaking continent. Sure, and his prediction is they're
not going to rise to the occasion if we step aside.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Well, if you take a serious look at European domestic politics,
I think he's right. It's just I mean, they try
the slightest reform of their bloated socialist systems and their
people go nuts. And we're talking about now a major
rearrangement of national priorities for all the biggies in Europe.
There's no way it goes through. One more quick thought.
(23:01):
I was about to say, I agree with everything you
and Ian Bremmer said. The only quipple I have is
where he said Trump doesn't care about principles.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
All he cares about his power.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I might halfway agree, but I would say to Ian, well,
Trump also looks at the emperor's new cloesy nature of NATO,
where those paper tigers in Europe, Well, they've donated a
lot to Ukraine, for instance. They don't have that much
(23:32):
in the way of arms. They have no arms in reserve,
their armies are weak. And so the idea that we
had this bold and strong alliance that we're abandoning. Know
what Trump's saying is, no, we didn't. All we have
is the expense of it being the sugar daddy for
all of these countries. And that's got to change. Now
(23:52):
what it changes into Donald j and I might disagree on,
but he's right.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well that gets to the whole pretenses thing.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
So what Ian meant by all the United States cares
about is power might always have been true.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's just I mean, you can say flowery things, but.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Trying to put a democracy in Afghanistan because we want
to spread democracy didn't work. Trying to spread you know,
a Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq, trying to force that and
it hasn't worked.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And so maybe you just do what you can. What
you have the power to do and that's all you
can do.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And you can say all kinds of nice things, but
if you're not capable of doing it, I don't know
do you get credit for saying that.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I say, it's like the climate change argument.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Well, yeah, and I was just thinking, I think it's
true that we would much prefer democracy should they tend
to be friendly to other democracy. It's just it's better
for human beings. But there's a you know, there's a
point at which that's no longer your highest priority. If
the democracy of a you know, Central South American country
(25:02):
for instance, and this was true throughout the twentieth century,
if their quote unquote democracy is going to lead them
to communism and totalitarianism, then we have stepped in many.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Times and said, nah, we're not gonna let you go
that way. Hey, you know, and often, you know, it's
funny for a while.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
When liberal schools really you know, controlled the discussion of history,
we would be taught at every single quote unquote right
wing incursion and to say in Nicaragua was awful and
bloody and we shouldn't have done it, and we should
have let them, you know, chart their own future. Well,
they ended up with horrific dictators. You know, Ortega and
(25:41):
just the Sandinistas were scumbag communists, like all scumbag communists,
and their countries are falling apart. They're racked with violence
and gangs and poverty, and now they're exporting all their violent,
poverty stricken gangs to the US. So, yes, we do
have an interest in our own neighborhood. And then sometimes
we got to flex our muscles. But before we get
to mail bag.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So if if Ian is right that the Europeans aren't
gonna stand up, and if we cut off aid and say, hey,
Zelenski a non wear and suit wear and midget, we
ain't giving you anymore. And uh so Russia takes Kiev,
takes Ukraine, and Europe does it. Lets it happen and
and and it's you know, if Europe, I have been
(26:23):
saying since the beginning, if Europe doesn't care, I don't
know why we shouldn't necessarily care more than Europe does.
I still think the US world order, being led by
US has been, you know, a great benefit to us
and continues to be a great benefit. And when it's gone,
everybody's gonna really miss it. Our economic growth will go
(26:43):
way down when China and controls a third or half
of the world shipping lanes and all that sort of stuff.
All that stuff goes out to it. But anyway, do
you think that that could happen? Europe can't or won't
stand up. We're not aiding them anymore. Russia takes Kiev,
Ukraine's has its site set on Estonia or one of
those other tiny little countries, and then why wouldn't Putin
(27:06):
take that? Because Europe just announced we're not gonna fight
you the NATO shmado wow, and we need a brief
answer to that question. Yes, I can absolutely picture that happening.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I don't think it necessarily is going to be militarily,
because after Russia makes a certain amount of progress, the
quote unquote negotiations are going to include the removal of
the current regime and electoral structure in Ukraine and the
installation of a puppet regime of Moscow like Poorshenko's puppet
regime back in the twenty ten teens, and effectively he
(27:45):
will own Ukraine at that point. Now, what happens to
the Baltic State if the states, if Putin decides to make.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Moves there what they'll look like. Gosh, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
It's not out of the question though, But back to
Ian Bremer's main point, I'm seriously because I try to,
you know, imagine every scenario fairly and not just leap
to conclusions, which makes me bad on Twitter. But I
am struggling to even picture how Europe would get from
its current like fat old former warrior who thinks he's
(28:20):
still got it paper tiger hood, to like being actually
lean and mean enough to be a significant military force.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I can't even picture that what that would look like.
Well I can.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
There would be revolution in the streets that would have
to be put down by governments.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Popular governments wow, strong enough.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
To engage in seriously draconian measures to reform their economies,
their entire social fabric.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Because they are socialist states, and.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Then make military you know, military might priority again. I mean,
that's that would be like me declaring exactly how I'm
going to get to Olympic pole vaulter status.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's you can describe how that would.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Happen, but please, Yeah, it would take a complete restructuring
of society, and a lot of us who lean right
have been saying for a very, very long time. You know,
Europe gets to be, you know, the socialist paradise as
they are, where you get twelve weeks of vacation and
retire at fifty and all this sort of stuff. Because
we pay for the protection. You don't have to worry
(29:30):
about your military.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
We do it for you.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, if those days are over, holy crap, there's gonna
be a major restructuring of everything.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, well, I agree with well, I agree with you completely.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I can't stop myself from pointing out that they were
as socialist paradise is for a while. They are turning
into socialist crap heaps because their.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Economic always happens.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Oh yeah, exactly, their economic engines installed as they always do,
and as Margaret Thatcher taught us, they're running out of
other people's money to spend.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, that's the arc of socialism. You can get paradise
for a while, but it doesn't the last We got
a mailbag on the way, bunch of other stuff. I'd
love to hear what you think about this text line
four one five two nine five kftc AI scandal in
the Oscars. Love to talk about that later. Not that
I care about the Oscars, but I am kind of
interested in AI in the world of art and what
(30:21):
that all means and if we should be worried or not. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
I mean definitely. And there's some really interesting gay I stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
My lack of enthusiasm is just because, you know, I
saw that quote unquote scandals a while back and thought.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Do whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Well, they made it, they made it all about people
losing jobs whatever. You know that that's not my interest.
That's gonna happen. I mean, it sucks, but it's gonna happen,
right right, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And there's another utterly idiotic quote unquote controversy I want
to talk about.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So all right, here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
And continuing on with our series from Theodore Roosevelt, we'll
go with a couple today. Believe you can, and you're
halfway there. He was a very positive thinker, a real guru.
If he'd been not been president, he would have been
like a Mark Twain type character.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So, if I remember correctly, his dad died young and
or he was diagnosed with something where he thought he
was going to die young. That had a big influence
on his view of life. He didn't think he had
very long.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Starting at a.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Young age, he was stricken with the one of your
serious childhood diseases of that era, and was very weak
and worked like a fiend to build himself up to
the strength he attained and became a great believer in
overcoming your obstacles and becoming what you dream of being
another one. No man is above the law, and no
man is below it. Nor do we ask any man's
permission when we ask him to obey it. Why we
(31:52):
could have used that during the George Floyd riots Anyway
mail bag he drops a note into time mailbag at
Armstrong unity dot com. Again, that's Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Excuse me, I've been drinking, I've been torn trying to
get mailbag together. I thought, let's move on from Ukraine,
(32:12):
but dozens and dozens and dozens of emails about Ukraine.
So I'm just gonna sprinkle in a couple. Let's see
Brian Wrights, Guys, I'm a nearly forty year old millennial
who works in the taxes. I hate fine china, silverware,
dressing up, fancy dinners, restaurants, bedskirts, all those industries and
traditions that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Millennials have killed let's sEH restaurants.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
He mentions, as well, you've talked about how in the
past you use those things to relate to people, that
this is important to me, and then he says he
gets now where his parents were coming from. In that way,
showing up looking professional is important. When the leader of
the free world says he has a dress code, that's important.
Obliging the leader of the host nation that has given
you military aid is important. Zelensky was a moron to
(33:01):
show up dressed like that shows a lack of respect
in professionalism.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
It's a youngster, a millennial who rejects all of the
niceties of the old world.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Man, I can't believe this is part of the conversation.
But I think you're closer to right than wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, gosh, I really I want to talk more about
this because there's another angle. But it's mailbag and I'll
be disciplined about it.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's see what it is. And I wanted to get two.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Very important text we should hit just since we're a
lot of mocking of the height of Zelensky.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
How tall are you guys? How tall are you?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I am now five to ten? I was five eleven
until my back started collapsing. That's interesting because I was
six to one my whole life. I'm now six foot
and one quarter inches. I have shrunk three quarters of
an inch. Yeah, it happens.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
It's the discs in your spine get compressed. No life
wears you down to a nub.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
If you live to be one hundred and twenty, you'll
just be a tiny little thing with shoes running around.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Let's see what do we want to go as here?
You know what. I'm so tired of this and it's
so complicated. Oh, I tell you what. Anybody's in an
email and said, guys, it's simple. It's not.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Here's a hint, mister always often wrong, never in doubt. No,
it ain't the Armstrong you getty. One More Thing podcast
yesterday about a super expensive brand of mattress, hostin Or
Hasten Donna Wright.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Don't get that mattress.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
We have this mattress and I hate it, but I'm
stuck with it for the rest of my life because
we spent too much money to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Wow, they actually bought one.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
We did a podcast about this fifty six thousand dollars mattress.
The new York Times was raving about how comfortable it is.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
And then here's a really funny note from al none
of Us whose son is applying to the University of
California system to get in and they noticed that he
was cleaning and cooking a lot more than normal, and
he explained to them that he has declared of self
transgender for the college application process. That will certainly help
him in the University of California.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Ah, that's a good one. I got to tell my
kids that.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, that is pretty funny. And he's also looking into
playing some college volleyball for the UC system and as
he is six three, two twenty and a football player,
that will be an awesome presence on the court for
whatever University of California school accepts her application.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Go banana Slugs, that's what I say. Yes, like that
ball down the real girl's throat, show them. I want
to hear some of those emails about the whole Ukraine situation.
A lot more news in hour too if you miss
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Speaker 2 (35:31):
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