April 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- It's Good Friday, Jack's sick & Trump's battles
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & dying potatoes?
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Jeki and he Arms Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's Good Friday live from Studio CE So you Senior,
dimly lit, room deep with them the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hey y'all today, heading into.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The weekend, we're under the tutelage of our general manager, our.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Christian friends all over the world. A most respectful Good
Friday to you all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was just thinking about how Joe and I have
worked in various places and different parts of the country
are more religious or less. And when we are working
in Charlotte, North Carolina, nothing happened on Good Friday. I
mean everything was everybody was off, everything was closed, everybody
was at church, et cetera. It was a very big deal.
And then of course in California, godless, immoral California, it's
(01:12):
a much.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Less of a thing. Another day, another day of sodomy.
Pretty much right.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
The public schools are in My son goes to a
Christian private school and they are out today.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So it just depends on your situation. How y'all do.
And that's funny. I was just reading.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The morning newsletter I read every day from Mark Haupern,
just kind of a summary of everything that's going on.
He's talking about all the different battles Trump's fighting at
once tarist, I know, taken on the college's you know,
the Justice Department and the gang member or not, and
you know a million different things.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, there at least half a dozen notable court cases
right for instance.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And Mark Alpern wrote his critics called this one of
the most delusional and evil manifestations of a special, dark
brand of immorality. Donald Trump calls today Friday, so a
pretty good writing special day for.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You or not towards Friday. Welcome to the show. Indeed, yeah,
it's Friday either way, So that's good.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I grew up in the Midwest and we went to
school on Good Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But every Friday we had fish for in the lunch.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
School lunch never meet even though it wasn't a Catholic school,
just out of respect for any Christianity to meet on Friday,
which is a thing for some.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Of this sure Catholics in particular, I think. But yeah,
nice fish sandwhich is a delicious change of pace. What
kind of fish that was? You know, back in elementary
school in the seventies, I don't know that fish may
have been seeing me out an hour I don't know, wow,
hour ago. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I doubt it was cat but you know, you don't know,
it could have been catfish.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, anyway, Yeah, but happy Easter weekend to everyone. Yeah,
and all those things I just mentioned that Trump's dealing with.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, all those are stories with another round of what's
going on, including more reporting on apparently more negotiations with
the United States in Iran as Trump's kind of put
off this attack on Iran, which again would be the
biggest military thing the United States has gotten involved with
since Shock and Awe March two thousand and three. I
(03:25):
don't feel like I don't get the sense that America
is taking it that way or is paying any attention
or anything.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Right, I think the average citizen is in a tangentially
similar position to a lot of Democrats right now. They're
not quite sure what to focus on. There's too many
things going on at once. Yeah, yeah, how about the
tariff thing, the economy stuff, the market. You're four to
oh one k, you know, the various fights over illegal
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immigrants and all. It's just there's so much happening. I
don't think people have understood the gravity of what's been
said recently about Iran, just because they've been listening to
talk about Iran's nuclear program and a deal and a
possible attack now for a couple of deecas.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So it's going to come as a pretty big surprise
to people if all of a sudden, you know, on
a random Tuesday, the United States is engaging in the
biggest military intervention in a quarter century.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, and then this is kind of cynical, but well,
who are we dealing with? Me? The Democrats would be
put in the position of pivoting from defending a wife
beating gang member illegal immigrant to because they will knee
jerk oppose what has been done, they will be put
in the position of backing the Republican guard in the Mullahs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And of course, as we talked with with Mike Lyons
a week ago today, anytime you the history is full
of military plans for short wars and easy victories that
did not turn out that way.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I mean, it is, it is so common.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's the rule as opposed to the exception of that's
the way it turns out.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh yeah, that is clearly true. And our last couple
of foreign adventures proved it beyond anybody's capacity to doubt that.
I would think Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which were
very successful in their way, but then metastasized obviously. So anyway,
that's going to come one of these days. Yeah, groovy,
(05:25):
super It's been kind of dull here too. Four. Oh,
getting back to the topic of Good Friday. Maybe we'll
dip into this a little later. I almost didn't read
Peggy Noonan's piece in the Wall Street Journal today. She
generally publishes on Fridays, and it's often about politics and
culture and that sort of thing, and today was about
Good Friday and the scripture and stuff, and I thought,
I'm not sure, you know, I'm getting ready to do
(05:47):
our show. It's not like we do a theological show.
But it was all about how, both in Christianity and
Judaism in particular, the concept that it's not too late
to become a better person is really important. Specifically, the
fellow who is known in some circles as the good
thief who was being tortured to death on the cross
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next to Jesus. One of the thieves was contemptuous and
mocked Jesus, and the other said, hey, shut up, this
man's being condemned for no good reason. We've got we're
deserving what's coming, And he asked Jesus to look out
for his soul in the last moments of his life.
And Peggy, as always, was very eloquent writing on that theme.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's a good one. I'll absolutely read that today. I'll
be looking for that sort of stuff today, as opposed
to in the daily this and that of news stories
at bigger picture about you know, one's life or perhaps
after life. I went back to is Trump Hitler Mine
might be soon, as I feel like my illness has
taken a step toward the worse.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm working from home today.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I often quote the statistic that ninety percent of people
would prefer to die at home rather than a hospitle
The reality is the opposite, ninety percent of people died
at a hospital rather than home.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But I'm pretty sure zero percent of people want to
die at a radio station. So I decided to work
from home today. That's a good point. That's an excellent point. Yes, yes,
you know that first statistic in all seriousness. You know,
there are so many things I want to make like
my jihad, my cause, because they're absolutely worthy of someone
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importing their life into it. Although I'm reminded how many
times you've pointed out that people go crazy over these
stupid issues. They're like, this is the hill you're gonna
this is your cause, this is how you're spending your
time and money. None leap to mind immediately. But the
death penalty I always use as an example.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean, you know, of all things, there's lots of
important things about there to try to help downtrodden people.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This one criminal illegal aliens in Chicago, Brandon Johnson, that
jackass communists anyway, But yeah, the fact that everybody wants
to die at home, surrounded by the family, that's the
way it's always worked to human history. There's really no
downside to it. I've seen it happen, and it's practically
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impossible to get going because once the medical establishment has you,
they want to keep you. That's just that's a civil
rights violation. It's more it's a violation of human dignity. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think we're going to make a cultural shift on
that at some points. As I've quoted my doctor saying
a couple of visits ago, where he said, sometimes I
wonder what we're doing here in terms of trying to
keep people alive a little longer.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I think we're going.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
To make a cultural shift on that, because you know,
many of us have probably lived through this with somebody
older or spouse or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But you do, you get into that system and it's
all part of it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I wonder if it started when we stopped saying they
died of old age and started giving the specific thing
that killed them at that moment.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What an interesting point.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, you died from THEA died from an infectioner, they
died from you know, whatever it was. Because it makes
it seem like if you'd just stopped that one thing
from happening, then they would be fine.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know, they'd have been good for another two years
of a square dancing in a water polo.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
But no, we got to get back to saying they
died of old age. I think that'd be good for
all of us. Yeah, natural causes, whatever. But if I
die on Good Friday.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I don't know. I just feel like, oh, would you
feel like you know the bride'smaid who upstages the bride
or like it's inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Or what I'm just wondering. I mean, I have a
bit of a messianic complex. But Sunday, you know, have
it opened minds.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So okay, So let's see three days, just to have
your microphone in place in case it were to rise exactly.
Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'm Jack Armstrong, set up the studio is Joe Getty
on this It is Friday, Good Friday, April the eighteenth year,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We are I'm strung in getting we approved of this program.
Let's begin officially then, according to f CCE rules and regulations,
leaping into action at mark, a.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Dozen eggs are going for more than six dollars according
to the national average. You might have seen the social
trends classic egg decorating and dying, marshmallows and potatoes. All
it takes is a little food dye you probably have
in the back of your pantry from last year, and
egg shaped potatoes. Both options are a fraction of the
cost of a dozen eggs.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I think to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs
is the reason our grandparents left the old country.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You don't even do if you can't buy eggs. Here's
the suggestions.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
A good suggestion, just tell your kids you hid the
eggs really really well this year.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Man, oh man? How many how many people does that
apply to?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, I've I've been humming food for potatoes, I've
been pretty damn broke before. But how many people really
really if you were going to die eggs normally, you
can't this year because of the extra two and a
half dollars. Yeah, you're gonna change your family tradition. I
just find that doesn't apply to that many people. But
the news I've seen so many news.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Stories about this six dollars, and as you point out,
it's just an additional few bucks. Yeah, that's that's so funny,
is that it's a beautiful example of how a narrative
gets going in the media. Right, eggs are expensive, and
then they find any way they can to perpetuate the narrative,
even if it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Right, with completely serious tones of looking for egg shaped
potatoes in your pantry, but with this perfectly straight face,
completely unaware of the ridiculousness of the words coming out
of their mouths.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It's wow, humans are strange. I know the news industry
is strange.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
So we got a Katie's headlines, we got we got
all kinds of good stuff, more clips of the week,
clips of the week. Holy cow, how exciting is that?
All the way, here's our text line four one five
two nine five k FTC.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Kim Strassel.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Wall Street Journal has got an interesting piece today, specifically
about Trump's possible plan to raise taxes on the rich.
But mostly it's about how you orchestrate these sort of
things behind the scenes by leaking to the press, which
I find fascinating.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I don't think most people pay enough attention to
her understand correctly, Yeah, she thinks some of his team
is trying to maneuver him into that, right, they probably are. Yeah. Interesting.
Uh so again, we have clips of the week coming
up in mailbag and all sorts of good stuff. But
first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead
story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Katie alrighty, starting with the Associated Press. Trump officials defiance
over Abrego Garcia's deportation is quote shocking, says the appeals Court.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
This one's going to be interesting to see unfold. No doubt,
are people as into this story as the media thing
seems to think. So it's the lead story every media source.
I've had people bring it up in real life, okay,
which is a good sign. It's not like it comes
up a lot. But this is a three judge panel
of Appeals Court judges ruling unanimously. So this one is
(13:23):
not some Obama pointed geek often some hinterland.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
From ABC, Trump says US and China are discussing a
tariff deal.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, there's no.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Uh, I hate to use the left stalking points, but
there's no evidence they're actually talking. Trump could just be
making that up, but he says they're in talks about
a deal that will wind this down.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Now, there are many levels by which different leaders can connect.
I wonder from.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
USA today, US will abandon Ukraine in peace push if
no progress within a.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Matter of days, says Marco Rubio. Wow, but then what yeah?
Then what? Yeah? They are definitely making noises toward Putin
to say it's time to get down with this or
things are gonna change materially, but it's not clear.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Trump said it various times when he was running that
you know, if Putin didn't go along.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We would arm Ukraine to the teeth. Trump says a
lot of stuff. But they're also talking about that big
giant economic deal between the US and Ukraine. Again, it'll
be interesting to watch.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
From the New York Post, US Space Force publishes quote
space Warfighting Blueprint for future of warfare beyond Earth.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Wow, I'd like to read that that is gonna be.
That is gonna be the next battleground.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We all watch drones and space. Yeah, those are two
different things. Unmanned everything on Earth and shooting stuff out
of the sky up in space guaranteed. Oh yeah, we
get into it with China.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The first thing it might happen is China knocks all
our satellites out of the sky right right.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And you know, I don't think most of us have
any idea how screwed we would be if that were
to happen. But Trump was stupid starting the Space Force
in term one. That was a joke, okay.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Idiots speaking of space. This one, also from the New
York Post. Katie Perry's Blue Origin Space mess shows the
world is fed up with entitled celebrities who think they
are owed atoration.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I love how this whole thing landed. It landed with
a thud like nobody.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Nobody took them in as the heroes they thought they
were going to be received as right.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The matching uniforms like they're the Spice Girls. I mean,
I understand all astronauts whar quote unquote matching uniforms, but
they don't look like they're I don't know. The sideline
dancers for the Philadelphia seventy six.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Ers, right tight around the ass flared leg I mean,
each one made to make.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Them look the hottest.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I mean, whatever, Perry Let's got a space.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
All their individual hair styles were way too perfect. I said,
look at the moon. It was so beautiful. It was
like a gift just for me.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
From the Washington Post, Fear and Hope are drawing Democrats
to Sanders and AOC.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Fear and Hope go ahead. Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Just a reminder in this one from Fox News, real
id looming deadline prompts tsa travel warning. Expect major delays.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
The most the most predictable thing that's ever happened in
my life will happen. I will be at the airport
at some point in May or June, and they will
turn me away because I did not have my real
idea and I forgot about it and I know that's
what's important. We foil Lodden, beIN Lodden and his hijackers right.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Twenty four years later.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And finally the Babylon Bee, eighteen year old trying to
file her taxes wishing her teachers had spent less class
time on poly queer trans theory.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a story about common core math coming
up later. You thought it was terrible, You were right.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We've got clips of the week and other news of
the day to get to if you missed a second
to get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's been interestingly every single year that in mainstream media
there's such a tip of the cap to Easter weekend,
and I'm glad for that. Culturally, it's interesting that it continues.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We were talking yesterday about to some of the statistics.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Around decreased church attendance and all that sort of stuff
over the many decades, although it has flattened out and
in some age groups started to increase again, but in general,
the mainstream media is, you know, very secular and not
church going and everything, and they be on this time
of year. There are articles in the Washington Post of
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the new York Times. There'll be a lot on Sunday
and they'll mention it on the Sunday shows Eastern Services
and they'll show a clip of the Pope and stuff
like that, so they, you know, they tip their cap
to it like they think it's important.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I think in the northeastern elite circles there's a fair
amount of Catholicism, right persists, So that's probably the reason
for most of it. Okay, Yeah, I keep hearing because
I think a lot of them are godless sodomites, but
they've got a handful of Catholics godless sodomites.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
The Pope hasn't shown up for any good Friday stuff yet.
He's pretty sick.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh, sorry to hear that. It's also a socialist, Yes,
there's that. Yeah. So coming up right after Clips of
the Week today is the two hundred and fiftieth I'm sorry,
Tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of something
very very big, very important and very cool, and we're
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gonna turn back the pages of history and get away
from the day to day politics. So'd be talking about
in seventy five, that's right. Jack April nineteen seventeen, seventy five.
Stay with us. But first, it's Friday tradition. Let's take
a fond look back at the week that was. It's
cow clips of the week. This is a message form
an Ilgas. Life moves pretty fast.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
What a wonderful the whips of the week, mylord, how's
mis master piece?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Then we have the cues young men feminized by sissy
pawn ferries and pups who fetishize beast reality.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Let's go to space. You are officially an astronaut. How
do you feel.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I will never be the same. This experience is right
second to being a mom.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
The moon was so beautiful and that was like I
felt like that was a special gift just for me.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
But the best part was Katie saying, what a wonderful
world she did.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You know, I kind of consider myself the number one
female pleasure in device on Earth. Jacket, that's the worst
thing you have ever said. It really is.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in
the direction of oligauki oligauky oligaki, an oligachic society.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I sure don't look like it today.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Together with Governor Newsom, I'm filing our fourteenth lawsuit against
the president.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
How in the hell are we sitting by and allowing
this to happen?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And at least on the left, what they say is
that they eat their own.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is there anybody else? He's much more self aware and
he lets on in public.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
You seem to have a real hatred of Vladimir Putin
the rout one hundred percent hatred.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Heybringo Garcia, the Maryland man, the Maryland man, that Maryland man,
a Marylyn man. Let this innocent man walk out. I
don't understand what the confusionists.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
He was a member of MS thirteen.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
There is no Maryland father.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Do you plan to return him?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
The questions for busters? How could I? It's a model
of terroristy to day in Led States. Why did you
crow fast food on the side of my test? You
through mashed potato? Here?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
You drive in, you drive out.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You have jump cars, you drive in the you drive out.
That's what people do than they're driveway you more?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh strong contender for clip of the year that heard
this week?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Oh I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Two things on the clips of the week that stuck
out to me because I've watched Bernie and AOC A
couple of different places, including locally in Fulsom California.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know, we saw the highlights.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
She says oligarchy. He says oligarchy. And I would think
that they would, you know, decide on one or the other.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It doesn't matter. But I just think that's kind of funny. Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And I think I am I figured out why it's
so annoying the Chickstronauts.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'll never be the same now I understand what love means.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I think the phony this was a life changing experience.
Bothers people who have had any sort of life changing experience,
whether it's an illness or having a kid or you
know whatever, like really is profound happens in your life.
Having somebody profess a fake one is just highly annoying.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Hmm. Interesting. I was struck by, and I'm not sure
which of the chickxtronauts it was, who said the view
of the moon was whatever she said, and it was
like a gift just for me. And I was thinking, hey,
can we borrow your moon from time to time? We
kind of need it for the tides and such. But
congratulations on the moon being there just for you. So
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now officially that was Katy Perry, the great songstress, the
American heroine Katy Perry ah oh, an astronaut. We officially
now do not have time for my fascinating glimpse of
history here, but we will unleash it at the top
of next hour with your agreement, Jack, it is the
two Tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
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the Ride of Paul Revere. Okay, cool? What actually happened
that night and the next day as opposed to the myth? Yeah?
But to me, and this is usually true of history,
the actual story is way more interesting than some of
the myth logical stuff. I read it fairly recently. What
great book was I reading? I'll have to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But yeah, the real story way more interesting and make
a better movie than the poem that was written about.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah. I have no problem with some of the more
myth like tales we tell the kids because they have
an important role. They help form a child's understanding of
our system, our country, our history, that sort of thing,
and we need to get the help back to the
traditional teaching of history with you know, let's account for
(24:34):
slavery and the Indian Wars and the rest of it.
That's fine, but not the neo Marxist demonizing of the
West and the United States in particular, won't have it.
I'm all in favor of the myth making, as I said,
especially for the kids, but when you dig into the
reality of these things as an adult, the one thing
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that strikes me over and over and over again is
that these people were not super human. They were not
angels descended on high who found it easy to do that,
or didn't no fear, or didn't get hungry or didn't
lose digits at Valley Forge because they're so cold, they
thought they were going to die, and some of them did.
They're human just like us, and they stepped up and
(25:15):
did what they needed to do. And I think that's
the great lesson of certainly the Revolutionary period and Martin
Luther King Jr. And whatever whatever hero of history you
want to cite, a human just like you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
When Good Friday Joe's going big with the revolutionary generations
got to be Christian nationalism some sort of that's what's
being happened here.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I feel like I feel like that's what's going on here.
Accuse away progressive nay bobs. I have to continue to
fight the good fight. Got you. A couple of people
have texted me suggestions for Easter services or a good
Friday services that I could perhaps attend tonight to assuage
my guilt.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And we've gotten some great tips via email on how
to properly die your potent patoes since eggs are far
too expensive. Now mind egg shaped potatoes and dye them again? Michael,
how many people does that fit your your situation? You're
an intact family with kids.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
You want to die eggs, but you're so poor that
extra dollar and a half for the eggs, you're just gonna.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Have to dye potatoes. Yes, egg shaped potatoes, Michael, don't
let us forget. We need to play that once an hour. Okay?
That that news? It is that good.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
And we've got Joe's mail bag on the way and
a bunch of other stuff. Text line four one five
two nine five KFTC. By the way, has that my
insurance guy's office yesterday? Because somebody rear ended my new truck.
I hadn't been paying attention because I have it aut
on O pay. I should pay better attention. But oh
(26:52):
my god, what everybody's paying for car insurance?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah? How do people afford to drive. Yeah, and not
to get political on this, but if the tariff thing
continues in whatever shape, auto parts are going to be hammered,
which means insurance rates will rise even higher.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't see how they could go higher.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I mean it's almost to the level of should you
not drive?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Just come up with a different way to get to work? Yeah. Yeah.
Here's our freedom loving quote of the day. Two of
them actually from Paul Revere. Tomorrow being the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of his famous ride. We'll talk more
about that next hour, but a couple of quotes. Number one,
there's a time for casting silver and a time for
casting cannon, said Revere. He was a renowned silver smith.
(27:38):
One is reminded of the the verses from which book
of the Bible? Is it? The Bible? About the Bible?
For everything, there is a season. Oh time first, right,
thank you, let's see. And then this quote I like
this in the fall of seventeen seventy four, In winter
(27:58):
of seventeen seventy five, I was one of upwards of thirty,
chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the
purpose of watching the movements of British soldiers and gaining
every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. Speaking of
normal people doing heroic and very brave things, what they're
(28:19):
caught doing that? Yeah, exactly, Mailbag. According to the discussion
next hour, drop his note anytime, Mailbag at Armstrong and
Giddy dot com. Let's see, we've been discussing quite a
bit how to reform universities. Well, Kevin actually sets this
up really well, Jensen. I know exactly how to reign
in universities without giving excess power to the next administration.
(28:42):
It's easy. No more elections. How can AOC run for
president when Baron is on his abnormally tall throne already
not possible. There you go. I've called for monarchy. Oh,
he signs off monarchy. Now, I've called for monarchy for
a long time. Ironic. Given my admiration Paul Revere and
(29:02):
Baron Trump, it's not gonna be the old man. It's
gonna be Baron. He's like the wiser, gentler, more benevolent Trump, right,
and very large. I don't even like entertaining this sort
of thing as a joke. Okay, moving along. He is
abnormally large, though, making him an excellent king in my opinion. Yeah.
(29:25):
Uh so yesterday, for reasons that really don't bear repeating,
we spent a fair amount of time talking about the
concept of being a human footstool, all right, which has
been It's happened a couple of times in the history,
including the British schoolboys in the mid twentieth century. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
with a crazy wife of the headmaster made them perform
(29:45):
as human footstools in a humiliating you know, the exploitation. Yeah. Anyway, Sean,
who's been the really strong email wise lately. Uh and
probably worth setting up that I've leave that the time
of the humans is coming to an end and we
will become a planet of the beavers. So Shawn writes,
after twenty years of service, Joe, one of the last humans,
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came to realize that when the beaver king demanded he
get down and form a footstool for him, what he
was really saying was I love you. And after all
these long years in the beavers world, Joe realized that
he too loved the beaver king, whose web defeat had
sat so long above upon his bowed back. That's some
I'm sorry I slaughtered the sentence there, Sean, that's some
(30:29):
really good post apocalyptic Orwellian beaver King. That's like the
last page of nineteen eighty four. I don't know if
he did that on purpose.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
But right, we spent a abnormal amount of time on human footstools.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
On yesterday's episode. If you want to check the podcasts,
was that the one more thing podcast throughout the show?
On demand? Yeah? Okay? Oddly enough. Barry from Thailand with
an interesting question. He says, hey fellows and happy ty
New Year from the Land of Smiles. Listening to yesterday's show.
Regarding Muskin as many children, I was wondering why he
(31:06):
thought he might produce superior children other than the occasional athlete.
Has any genius ever sired children who made a contribution
that came even close to matching the parent? I can't
think of any. There aren't a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I mean, there's a few examples out there, the Adams family.
There for several generations John Adams, John Quincy and.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Martitia Tuesday, John Adams, John Quincy and then Henry Adams
three just absolutely ridiculous, brilliant generations in a row.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But it doesn't happen very often. I really don't know.
From Henry Adams other than hearing about him occasionally from
you read the Education of Henry Adams. Oh my god, okay,
all right, must have gone well if he was a
genius his education. So let's see Catherine and beautiful Torrance,
California rights on the topic of Marxism in colleges. Propaganda
starts so much earlier in high school. This is absolutely true,
(31:58):
and we knew this, but it's worth for a generation,
our kids have been taught that America and Western civilization
is evil communist. Howard Zinn's book is a standard textbook
across the nation for a generation. University professors were brought
up on this marxis kool aid and are sharing it
with their students.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You know what I because I came across this yesterday
on some podcasts as listening to the smugness of the
self hating people, the whole we're bad and we shouldn't
exist and where the world?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Wait? What what is that? Weird? Why are you so
smug about this?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
This is your society and you wanted to go away
and be.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Replaced by China running the world or Plutin. I mean,
you nut jobs. It's it's an almost adolescent pretension that
makes me insane. Look how enlightened and honorable I am.
I'm self hating. It might be the.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Worst human tendency because so many of your bomber's terrorist
types on Osama Bin Laden or whoever, the hell lot
of your Columbia kids, they're all rich, privileged people. I mean,
their lives are better than practically everybody else, and they're
going with the whole life sucks, the world sucks.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So I'm going to do this destructive thing. What the hell? Yeah? Yeah,
and then Catherine points out quite aptly, freedom of speech
extends to those who choose to attend lectures or events
where the topic differs from the Marxist views of the
faculty or student body. Shouting down or blocking entry to
conservative speakers abridges the right of attendees to hear their presentations,
(33:29):
arrest protesters for First Amendment violations, invoking enforce all laws
now in the books that guarantee academic freedom. Uh yeah,
I agree completely. The Heckler's veto is evil and I
stand against it. Let's see that one's a little long ISHU.
Let's see Drew the Millennial says, I got into a
little discussion with Timmy Sandefer about this Yeah, we talk.
(33:51):
I'm hella cool, Timmy Sandafer. I never call them that.
I am fully in supportive due process for every US
citizen and every person with a legal right to be here. However,
according to the Agency in charge of Border Security, thirteen
million people a crossed our southern border illegally in the
last four years. How charitable is the American taxpayer expected
to be to these people? If someone's suspective of crossing
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illegally cannot prove citizenship or any legal right to be here,
why should the American taxpayer be burdened with housing, clothing,
medicating them, etc. Until a due process hearing that forty
percent of them don't show up for anyway, there has
to be some compromise here, because that seems completely unrealistic.
I don't owe full American rights and accommodations to anyone
on Earth just because they managed to sneak over a border. Thoughts.
(34:32):
Tim would be my political surrogate for most situations, but
he is uncompromising here, and I just don't think that's realistic. Yeah,
I followed their back and forth on Twitter. Is pretty interesting. Yeah,
I tell you what. I absolutely am glad that Tim
and people like tim are fighting hard on the side
of don't give away due process in whatever aspect of
(34:54):
life you're talking about. Don't give that away too cavalierly.
We need somebody pulling on that end of the rope.
I happen to think there are probably ways to move
it a little bit without giving away our rights. But
worthy discussion.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, well yeah, I have more of that, but maybe
at a different time.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We have a lot to get to today. I can't
wait to hear your blast about common core.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Math because it's been a pain in my.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Ass for my entire kids schooling, and you speak for
many parents. Yeah, right along, folks, that's the takeaway. Oh cool.
If you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio and the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Jeki and he Arms Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's Good Friday live from Studio CE So you Senior,
dimly lit, room deep with them the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hey y'all today, heading into.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The weekend, we're under the tutelage of our general manager, our.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Christian friends all over the world. A most respectful Good
Friday to you all. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was just thinking about how Joe and I have
worked in various places and different parts of the country
are more religious or less. And when we are working
in Charlotte, North Carolina, nothing happened on Good Friday. I
mean everything was everybody was off, everything was closed, everybody
was at church, et cetera. It was a very big deal.
And then of course in California, godless, immoral California, it's
(01:12):
a much.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Less of a thing. Another day, another day of sodomy.
Pretty much right.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
The public schools are in My son goes to a
Christian private school and they are out today.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So it just depends on your situation. How y'all do.
And that's funny. I was just reading.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The morning newsletter I read every day from Mark Haupern,
just kind of a summary of everything that's going on.
He's talking about all the different battles Trump's fighting at
once tarist, I know, taken on the college's you know,
the Justice Department and the gang member or not, and
you know a million different things.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, there at least half a dozen notable court cases
right for instance.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And Mark Alpern wrote his critics called this one of
the most delusional and evil manifestations of a special, dark
brand of immorality. Donald Trump calls today Friday, so a
pretty good writing special day for.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You or not towards Friday. Welcome to the show. Indeed, yeah,
it's Friday either way, So that's good.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I grew up in the Midwest and we went to
school on Good Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
But every Friday we had fish for in the lunch.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
School lunch never meet even though it wasn't a Catholic school,
just out of respect for any Christianity to meet on Friday,
which is a thing for some.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Of this sure Catholics in particular, I think. But yeah,
nice fish sandwhich is a delicious change of pace. What
kind of fish that was? You know, back in elementary
school in the seventies, I don't know that fish may
have been seeing me out an hour I don't know, wow,
hour ago. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I doubt it was cat but you know, you don't know,
it could have been catfish.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, anyway, Yeah, but happy Easter weekend to everyone. Yeah,
and all those things I just mentioned that Trump's dealing with.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, all those are stories with another round of what's
going on, including more reporting on apparently more negotiations with
the United States in Iran as Trump's kind of put
off this attack on Iran, which again would be the
biggest military thing the United States has gotten involved with
since Shock and Awe March two thousand and three. I
(03:25):
don't feel like I don't get the sense that America
is taking it that way or is paying any attention
or anything.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Right, I think the average citizen is in a tangentially
similar position to a lot of Democrats right now. They're
not quite sure what to focus on. There's too many
things going on at once. Yeah, yeah, how about the
tariff thing, the economy stuff, the market. You're four to
oh one k, you know, the various fights over illegal
(03:55):
immigrants and all. It's just there's so much happening. I
don't think people have understood the gravity of what's been
said recently about Iran, just because they've been listening to
talk about Iran's nuclear program and a deal and a
possible attack now for a couple of deecas.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So it's going to come as a pretty big surprise
to people if all of a sudden, you know, on
a random Tuesday, the United States is engaging in the
biggest military intervention in a quarter century.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, and then this is kind of cynical, but well,
who are we dealing with? Me? The Democrats would be
put in the position of pivoting from defending a wife
beating gang member illegal immigrant to because they will knee
jerk oppose what has been done, they will be put
in the position of backing the Republican guard in the Mullahs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And of course, as we talked with with Mike Lyons
a week ago today, anytime you the history is full
of military plans for short wars and easy victories that
did not turn out that way.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I mean, it is, it is so common.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's the rule as opposed to the exception of that's
the way it turns out.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh yeah, that is clearly true. And our last couple
of foreign adventures proved it beyond anybody's capacity to doubt that.
I would think Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which were
very successful in their way, but then metastasized obviously. So anyway,
that's going to come one of these days. Yeah, groovy,
(05:25):
super It's been kind of dull here too. Four. Oh,
getting back to the topic of Good Friday. Maybe we'll
dip into this a little later. I almost didn't read
Peggy Noonan's piece in the Wall Street Journal today. She
generally publishes on Fridays, and it's often about politics and
culture and that sort of thing, and today was about
Good Friday and the scripture and stuff, and I thought,
I'm not sure, you know, I'm getting ready to do
(05:47):
our show. It's not like we do a theological show.
But it was all about how, both in Christianity and
Judaism in particular, the concept that it's not too late
to become a better person is really important. Specifically, the
fellow who is known in some circles as the good
thief who was being tortured to death on the cross
(06:09):
next to Jesus. One of the thieves was contemptuous and
mocked Jesus, and the other said, hey, shut up, this
man's being condemned for no good reason. We've got we're
deserving what's coming, And he asked Jesus to look out
for his soul in the last moments of his life.
And Peggy, as always, was very eloquent writing on that theme.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That's a good one. I'll absolutely read that today. I'll
be looking for that sort of stuff today, as opposed
to in the daily this and that of news stories
at bigger picture about you know, one's life or perhaps
after life. I went back to is Trump Hitler Mine
might be soon, as I feel like my illness has
taken a step toward the worse.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm working from home today.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I often quote the statistic that ninety percent of people
would prefer to die at home rather than a hospitle
The reality is the opposite, ninety percent of people died
at a hospital rather than home.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But I'm pretty sure zero percent of people want to
die at a radio station. So I decided to work
from home today. That's a good point. That's an excellent point. Yes, yes,
you know that first statistic in all seriousness. You know,
there are so many things I want to make like
my jihad, my cause, because they're absolutely worthy of someone
(07:26):
importing their life into it. Although I'm reminded how many
times you've pointed out that people go crazy over these
stupid issues. They're like, this is the hill you're gonna
this is your cause, this is how you're spending your
time and money. None leap to mind immediately. But the
death penalty I always use as an example.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean, you know, of all things, there's lots of
important things about there to try to help downtrodden people.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This one criminal illegal aliens in Chicago, Brandon Johnson, that
jackass communists anyway, But yeah, the fact that everybody wants
to die at home, surrounded by the family, that's the
way it's always worked to human history. There's really no
downside to it. I've seen it happen, and it's practically
(08:15):
impossible to get going because once the medical establishment has you,
they want to keep you. That's just that's a civil
rights violation. It's more it's a violation of human dignity. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think we're going to make a cultural shift on
that at some points. As I've quoted my doctor saying
a couple of visits ago, where he said, sometimes I
wonder what we're doing here in terms of trying to
keep people alive a little longer.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I think we're going.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
To make a cultural shift on that, because you know,
many of us have probably lived through this with somebody
older or spouse or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But you do, you get into that system and it's
all part of it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I wonder if it started when we stopped saying they
died of old age and started giving the specific thing
that killed them at that moment.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What an interesting point.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, you died from THEA died from an infectioner, they
died from you know, whatever it was. Because it makes
it seem like if you'd just stopped that one thing
from happening, then they would be fine.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know, they'd have been good for another two years
of a square dancing in a water polo.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
But no, we got to get back to saying they
died of old age. I think that'd be good for
all of us. Yeah, natural causes, whatever. But if I
die on Good Friday.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I don't know. I just feel like, oh, would you
feel like you know the bride'smaid who upstages the bride
or like it's inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Or what I'm just wondering. I mean, I have a
bit of a messianic complex. But Sunday, you know, have
it opened minds.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So okay, So let's see three days, just to have
your microphone in place in case it were to rise exactly.
Let's start the show officially.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'm Jack Armstrong, set up the studio is Joe Getty
on this It is Friday, Good Friday, April the eighteenth year,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
We are I'm strung in getting we approved of this program.
Let's begin officially then, according to f CCE rules and regulations,
leaping into action at mark, a.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Dozen eggs are going for more than six dollars according
to the national average. You might have seen the social
trends classic egg decorating and dying, marshmallows and potatoes. All
it takes is a little food dye you probably have
in the back of your pantry from last year, and
egg shaped potatoes. Both options are a fraction of the
cost of a dozen eggs.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I think to dye potatoes because we can't afford eggs
is the reason our grandparents left the old country.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You don't even do if you can't buy eggs. Here's
the suggestions.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
A good suggestion, just tell your kids you hid the
eggs really really well this year.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Man, oh man? How many how many people does that
apply to?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean, I've I've been humming food for potatoes, I've
been pretty damn broke before. But how many people really
really if you were going to die eggs normally, you
can't this year because of the extra two and a
half dollars. Yeah, you're gonna change your family tradition. I
just find that doesn't apply to that many people. But
the news I've seen so many news.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Stories about this six dollars, and as you point out,
it's just an additional few bucks. Yeah, that's that's so funny,
is that it's a beautiful example of how a narrative
gets going in the media. Right, eggs are expensive, and
then they find any way they can to perpetuate the narrative,
even if it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Right, with completely serious tones of looking for egg shaped
potatoes in your pantry, but with this perfectly straight face,
completely unaware of the ridiculousness of the words coming out
of their mouths.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It's wow, humans are strange. I know the news industry
is strange.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
So we got a Katie's headlines, we got we got
all kinds of good stuff, more clips of the week,
clips of the week. Holy cow, how exciting is that?
All the way, here's our text line four one five
two nine five k FTC.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Kim Strassel.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Wall Street Journal has got an interesting piece today, specifically
about Trump's possible plan to raise taxes on the rich.
But mostly it's about how you orchestrate these sort of
things behind the scenes by leaking to the press, which
I find fascinating.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I don't think most people pay enough attention to
her understand correctly, Yeah, she thinks some of his team
is trying to maneuver him into that, right, they probably are. Yeah. Interesting.
Uh so again, we have clips of the week coming
up in mailbag and all sorts of good stuff. But
first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead
story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Katie alrighty, starting with the Associated Press. Trump officials defiance
over Abrego Garcia's deportation is quote shocking, says the appeals Court.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
This one's going to be interesting to see unfold. No doubt,
are people as into this story as the media thing
seems to think. So it's the lead story every media source.
I've had people bring it up in real life, okay,
which is a good sign. It's not like it comes
up a lot. But this is a three judge panel
of Appeals Court judges ruling unanimously. So this one is
(13:23):
not some Obama pointed geek often some hinterland.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
From ABC, Trump says US and China are discussing a
tariff deal.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, there's no.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Uh, I hate to use the left stalking points, but
there's no evidence they're actually talking. Trump could just be
making that up, but he says they're in talks about
a deal that will wind this down.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Now, there are many levels by which different leaders can connect.
I wonder from.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
USA today, US will abandon Ukraine in peace push if
no progress within a.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Matter of days, says Marco Rubio. Wow, but then what yeah?
Then what? Yeah? They are definitely making noises toward Putin
to say it's time to get down with this or
things are gonna change materially, but it's not clear.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Trump said it various times when he was running that
you know, if Putin didn't go along.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We would arm Ukraine to the teeth. Trump says a
lot of stuff. But they're also talking about that big
giant economic deal between the US and Ukraine. Again, it'll
be interesting to watch.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
From the New York Post, US Space Force publishes quote
space Warfighting Blueprint for future of warfare beyond Earth.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Wow, I'd like to read that that is gonna be.
That is gonna be the next battleground.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
We all watch drones and space. Yeah, those are two
different things. Unmanned everything on Earth and shooting stuff out
of the sky up in space guaranteed. Oh yeah, we
get into it with China.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The first thing it might happen is China knocks all
our satellites out of the sky right right.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And you know, I don't think most of us have
any idea how screwed we would be if that were
to happen. But Trump was stupid starting the Space Force
in term one. That was a joke, okay.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Idiots speaking of space. This one, also from the New
York Post. Katie Perry's Blue Origin Space mess shows the
world is fed up with entitled celebrities who think they
are owed atoration.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I love how this whole thing landed. It landed with
a thud like nobody.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Nobody took them in as the heroes they thought they
were going to be received as right.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The matching uniforms like they're the Spice Girls. I mean,
I understand all astronauts whar quote unquote matching uniforms, but
they don't look like they're I don't know. The sideline
dancers for the Philadelphia seventy six.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Ers, right tight around the ass flared leg I mean,
each one made to make.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Them look the hottest.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I mean, whatever, Perry Let's got a space.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
All their individual hair styles were way too perfect. I said,
look at the moon. It was so beautiful. It was
like a gift just for me.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
From the Washington Post, Fear and Hope are drawing Democrats
to Sanders and AOC.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Fear and Hope go ahead. Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Just a reminder in this one from Fox News, real
id looming deadline prompts tsa travel warning. Expect major delays.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
The most the most predictable thing that's ever happened in
my life will happen. I will be at the airport
at some point in May or June, and they will
turn me away because I did not have my real
idea and I forgot about it and I know that's
what's important. We foil Lodden, beIN Lodden and his hijackers right.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Twenty four years later.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
And finally the Babylon Bee, eighteen year old trying to
file her taxes wishing her teachers had spent less class
time on poly queer trans theory.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a story about common core math coming
up later. You thought it was terrible, You were right.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We've got clips of the week and other news of
the day to get to if you missed a second
to get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It's been interestingly every single year that in mainstream media
there's such a tip of the cap to Easter weekend,
and I'm glad for that. Culturally, it's interesting that it continues.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We were talking yesterday about to some of the statistics.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Around decreased church attendance and all that sort of stuff
over the many decades, although it has flattened out and
in some age groups started to increase again, but in general,
the mainstream media is, you know, very secular and not
church going and everything, and they be on this time
of year. There are articles in the Washington Post of
(18:05):
the new York Times. There'll be a lot on Sunday
and they'll mention it on the Sunday shows Eastern Services
and they'll show a clip of the Pope and stuff
like that, so they, you know, they tip their cap
to it like they think it's important.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I think in the northeastern elite circles there's a fair
amount of Catholicism, right persists, So that's probably the reason
for most of it. Okay, Yeah, I keep hearing because
I think a lot of them are godless sodomites, but
they've got a handful of Catholics godless sodomites.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
The Pope hasn't shown up for any good Friday stuff yet.
He's pretty sick.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh, sorry to hear that. It's also a socialist, Yes,
there's that. Yeah. So coming up right after Clips of
the Week today is the two hundred and fiftieth I'm sorry,
Tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of something
very very big, very important and very cool, and we're
(19:00):
gonna turn back the pages of history and get away
from the day to day politics. So'd be talking about
in seventy five, that's right. Jack April nineteen seventeen, seventy five.
Stay with us. But first, it's Friday tradition. Let's take
a fond look back at the week that was. It's
cow clips of the week. This is a message form
an Ilgas. Life moves pretty fast.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
What a wonderful the whips of the week, mylord, how's
mis master piece?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Then we have the cues young men feminized by sissy
pawn ferries and pups who fetishize beast reality.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Let's go to space. You are officially an astronaut. How
do you feel.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I still can't accept that word.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I will never be the same. This experience is right
second to being a mom.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
The moon was so beautiful and that was like I
felt like that was a special gift just for me.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
But the best part was Katie saying, what a wonderful
world she did.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You know, I kind of consider myself the number one
female pleasure in device on Earth. Jacket, that's the worst
thing you have ever said. It really is.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in
the direction of oligauki oligauky oligaki, an oligachic society.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I sure don't look like it today.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Together with Governor Newsom, I'm filing our fourteenth lawsuit against
the president.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
How in the hell are we sitting by and allowing
this to happen?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And at least on the left, what they say is
that they eat their own.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Is there anybody else? He's much more self aware and
he lets on in public.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
You seem to have a real hatred of Vladimir Putin
the rout one hundred percent hatred.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Heybringo Garcia, the Maryland man, the Maryland man, that Maryland man,
a Marylyn man. Let this innocent man walk out. I
don't understand what the confusionists.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
He was a member of MS thirteen.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
There is no Maryland father.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Do you plan to return him?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
The questions for busters? How could I? It's a model
of terroristy to day in Led States. Why did you
crow fast food on the side of my test? You
through mashed potato? Here?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
You drive in, you drive out.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You have jump cars, you drive in the you drive out.
That's what people do than they're driveway you more?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh strong contender for clip of the year that heard
this week?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Oh I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Two things on the clips of the week that stuck
out to me because I've watched Bernie and AOC A
couple of different places, including locally in Fulsom California.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know, we saw the highlights.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
She says oligarchy. He says oligarchy. And I would think
that they would, you know, decide on one or the other.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It doesn't matter. But I just think that's kind of funny. Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And I think I am I figured out why it's
so annoying the Chickstronauts.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'll never be the same now I understand what love means.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I think the phony this was a life changing experience.
Bothers people who have had any sort of life changing experience,
whether it's an illness or having a kid or you
know whatever, like really is profound happens in your life.
Having somebody profess a fake one is just highly annoying.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Hmm. Interesting. I was struck by, and I'm not sure
which of the chickxtronauts it was, who said the view
of the moon was whatever she said, and it was
like a gift just for me. And I was thinking, hey,
can we borrow your moon from time to time? We
kind of need it for the tides and such. But
congratulations on the moon being there just for you. So
(23:21):
now officially that was Katy Perry, the great songstress, the
American heroine Katy Perry ah oh, an astronaut. We officially
now do not have time for my fascinating glimpse of
history here, but we will unleash it at the top
of next hour with your agreement, Jack, it is the
two Tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
(23:43):
the Ride of Paul Revere. Okay, cool? What actually happened
that night and the next day as opposed to the myth? Yeah?
But to me, and this is usually true of history,
the actual story is way more interesting than some of
the myth logical stuff. I read it fairly recently. What
great book was I reading? I'll have to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But yeah, the real story way more interesting and make
a better movie than the poem that was written about.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah. I have no problem with some of the more
myth like tales we tell the kids because they have
an important role. They help form a child's understanding of
our system, our country, our history, that sort of thing,
and we need to get the help back to the
traditional teaching of history with you know, let's account for
(24:34):
slavery and the Indian Wars and the rest of it.
That's fine, but not the neo Marxist demonizing of the
West and the United States in particular, won't have it.
I'm all in favor of the myth making, as I said,
especially for the kids, but when you dig into the
reality of these things as an adult, the one thing
(24:55):
that strikes me over and over and over again is
that these people were not super human. They were not
angels descended on high who found it easy to do that,
or didn't no fear, or didn't get hungry or didn't
lose digits at Valley Forge because they're so cold, they
thought they were going to die, and some of them did.
They're human just like us, and they stepped up and
(25:15):
did what they needed to do. And I think that's
the great lesson of certainly the Revolutionary period and Martin
Luther King Jr. And whatever whatever hero of history you
want to cite, a human just like you.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
When Good Friday Joe's going big with the revolutionary generations
got to be Christian nationalism some sort of that's what's
being happened here.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I feel like I feel like that's what's going on here.
Accuse away progressive nay bobs. I have to continue to
fight the good fight. Got you. A couple of people
have texted me suggestions for Easter services or a good
Friday services that I could perhaps attend tonight to assuage
my guilt.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And we've gotten some great tips via email on how
to properly die your potent patoes since eggs are far
too expensive. Now mind egg shaped potatoes and dye them again? Michael,
how many people does that fit your your situation? You're
an intact family with kids.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
You want to die eggs, but you're so poor that
extra dollar and a half for the eggs, you're just gonna.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Have to dye potatoes. Yes, egg shaped potatoes, Michael, don't
let us forget. We need to play that once an hour. Okay?
That that news? It is that good.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
And we've got Joe's mail bag on the way and
a bunch of other stuff. Text line four one five
two nine five KFTC. By the way, has that my
insurance guy's office yesterday? Because somebody rear ended my new truck.
I hadn't been paying attention because I have it aut
on O pay. I should pay better attention. But oh
(26:52):
my god, what everybody's paying for car insurance?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah? How do people afford to drive. Yeah, and not
to get political on this, but if the tariff thing
continues in whatever shape, auto parts are going to be hammered,
which means insurance rates will rise even higher.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't see how they could go higher.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I mean it's almost to the level of should you
not drive?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Just come up with a different way to get to work? Yeah. Yeah.
Here's our freedom loving quote of the day. Two of
them actually from Paul Revere. Tomorrow being the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of his famous ride. We'll talk more
about that next hour, but a couple of quotes. Number one,
there's a time for casting silver and a time for
casting cannon, said Revere. He was a renowned silver smith.
(27:38):
One is reminded of the the verses from which book
of the Bible? Is it? The Bible? About the Bible?
For everything, there is a season. Oh time first, right,
thank you, let's see. And then this quote I like
this in the fall of seventeen seventy four, In winter
(27:58):
of seventeen seventy five, I was one of upwards of thirty,
chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the
purpose of watching the movements of British soldiers and gaining
every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. Speaking of
normal people doing heroic and very brave things, what they're
(28:19):
caught doing that? Yeah, exactly, Mailbag. According to the discussion
next hour, drop his note anytime, Mailbag at Armstrong and
Giddy dot com. Let's see, we've been discussing quite a
bit how to reform universities. Well, Kevin actually sets this
up really well, Jensen. I know exactly how to reign
in universities without giving excess power to the next administration.
(28:42):
It's easy. No more elections. How can AOC run for
president when Baron is on his abnormally tall throne already
not possible. There you go. I've called for monarchy. Oh,
he signs off monarchy. Now, I've called for monarchy for
a long time. Ironic. Given my admiration Paul Revere and
(29:02):
Baron Trump, it's not gonna be the old man. It's
gonna be Baron. He's like the wiser, gentler, more benevolent Trump, right,
and very large. I don't even like entertaining this sort
of thing as a joke. Okay, moving along. He is
abnormally large, though, making him an excellent king in my opinion. Yeah.
(29:25):
Uh so yesterday, for reasons that really don't bear repeating,
we spent a fair amount of time talking about the
concept of being a human footstool, all right, which has
been It's happened a couple of times in the history,
including the British schoolboys in the mid twentieth century. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
with a crazy wife of the headmaster made them perform
(29:45):
as human footstools in a humiliating you know, the exploitation. Yeah. Anyway, Sean,
who's been the really strong email wise lately. Uh and
probably worth setting up that I've leave that the time
of the humans is coming to an end and we
will become a planet of the beavers. So Shawn writes,
after twenty years of service, Joe, one of the last humans,
(30:08):
came to realize that when the beaver king demanded he
get down and form a footstool for him, what he
was really saying was I love you. And after all
these long years in the beavers world, Joe realized that
he too loved the beaver king, whose web defeat had
sat so long above upon his bowed back. That's some
I'm sorry I slaughtered the sentence there, Sean, that's some
(30:29):
really good post apocalyptic Orwellian beaver King. That's like the
last page of nineteen eighty four. I don't know if
he did that on purpose.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
But right, we spent a abnormal amount of time on human footstools.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
On yesterday's episode. If you want to check the podcasts,
was that the one more thing podcast throughout the show?
On demand? Yeah? Okay? Oddly enough. Barry from Thailand with
an interesting question. He says, hey fellows and happy ty
New Year from the Land of Smiles. Listening to yesterday's show.
Regarding Muskin as many children, I was wondering why he
(31:06):
thought he might produce superior children other than the occasional athlete.
Has any genius ever sired children who made a contribution
that came even close to matching the parent? I can't
think of any. There aren't a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
I mean, there's a few examples out there, the Adams family.
There for several generations John Adams, John Quincy and.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Martitia Tuesday, John Adams, John Quincy and then Henry Adams
three just absolutely ridiculous, brilliant generations in a row.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
But it doesn't happen very often. I really don't know.
From Henry Adams other than hearing about him occasionally from
you read the Education of Henry Adams. Oh my god, okay,
all right, must have gone well if he was a
genius his education. So let's see Catherine and beautiful Torrance,
California rights on the topic of Marxism in colleges. Propaganda
starts so much earlier in high school. This is absolutely true,
(31:58):
and we knew this, but it's worth for a generation,
our kids have been taught that America and Western civilization
is evil communist. Howard Zinn's book is a standard textbook
across the nation for a generation. University professors were brought
up on this marxis kool aid and are sharing it
with their students.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You know what I because I came across this yesterday
on some podcasts as listening to the smugness of the
self hating people, the whole we're bad and we shouldn't
exist and where the world?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Wait? What what is that? Weird? Why are you so
smug about this?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
This is your society and you wanted to go away
and be.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Replaced by China running the world or Plutin. I mean,
you nut jobs. It's it's an almost adolescent pretension that
makes me insane. Look how enlightened and honorable I am.
I'm self hating. It might be the.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Worst human tendency because so many of your bomber's terrorist
types on Osama Bin Laden or whoever, the hell lot
of your Columbia kids, they're all rich, privileged people. I mean,
their lives are better than practically everybody else, and they're
going with the whole life sucks, the world sucks.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So I'm going to do this destructive thing. What the hell? Yeah? Yeah,
and then Catherine points out quite aptly, freedom of speech
extends to those who choose to attend lectures or events
where the topic differs from the Marxist views of the
faculty or student body. Shouting down or blocking entry to
conservative speakers abridges the right of attendees to hear their presentations,
(33:29):
arrest protesters for First Amendment violations, invoking enforce all laws
now in the books that guarantee academic freedom. Uh yeah,
I agree completely. The Heckler's veto is evil and I
stand against it. Let's see that one's a little long ISHU.
Let's see Drew the Millennial says, I got into a
little discussion with Timmy Sandefer about this Yeah, we talk.
(33:51):
I'm hella cool, Timmy Sandafer. I never call them that.
I am fully in supportive due process for every US
citizen and every person with a legal right to be here. However,
according to the Agency in charge of Border Security, thirteen
million people a crossed our southern border illegally in the
last four years. How charitable is the American taxpayer expected
to be to these people? If someone's suspective of crossing
(34:11):
illegally cannot prove citizenship or any legal right to be here,
why should the American taxpayer be burdened with housing, clothing,
medicating them, etc. Until a due process hearing that forty
percent of them don't show up for anyway, there has
to be some compromise here, because that seems completely unrealistic.
I don't owe full American rights and accommodations to anyone
on Earth just because they managed to sneak over a border. Thoughts.
(34:32):
Tim would be my political surrogate for most situations, but
he is uncompromising here, and I just don't think that's realistic. Yeah,
I followed their back and forth on Twitter. Is pretty interesting. Yeah,
I tell you what. I absolutely am glad that Tim
and people like tim are fighting hard on the side
of don't give away due process in whatever aspect of
(34:54):
life you're talking about. Don't give that away too cavalierly.
We need somebody pulling on that end of the rope.
I happen to think there are probably ways to move
it a little bit without giving away our rights. But
worthy discussion.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, well yeah, I have more of that, but maybe
at a different time.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We have a lot to get to today. I can't
wait to hear your blast about common core.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Math because it's been a pain in my.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Ass for my entire kids schooling, and you speak for
many parents. Yeah, right along, folks, that's the takeaway. Oh cool.
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