May 5, 2025 • 36 mins
During Hour 1 of the Monday May 5, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show...
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- Trump's NBC interview
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Caddy arm Strong
and he.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Armstrong and Dya from studio Ceez and youre a dimly
let room deep with them, the fowls of.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Brand New Week. How
about this Prosset's sinco to myow, I wrote a borough
to work. I had to leave at three thirty in
the morning to get here.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Because Burrow, we appreciate your commitment.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
By the day, you know, in honor of defeating the
French so that Emperor Maximilian would be booted out or something.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oo, who zeus for maximillion? Nobody woo. Anyway, it's Monday,
Brand New Week. It's sinko to my own. Today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager ben Ya mean
neting Yahoo and Israel having just announced a plan to
occupy Gaza and control aid distribution themselves, bringing closer to fruition.
(01:45):
What I've been saying for quite some time, they're doing uh,
not living side by side with anybody.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're taking it over.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So they had a vote overnight and they're gonna occupy Gaza. Yes, sir,
run the place. Okay, yes, sir. I don't think they
got any choice. Meanwhile, I'd like to discuss the Western
media's just utter loyal sycophancy with Amas. I heard amplify
their talking points and video messages slavishly.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I heard that on NPR this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Critics say Hamas should be given a chance to something
or other or whatever. There's no talk of amass surrendering
or giving.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Back to the hostages or anything what not. Have you mentioned, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I may have heard that same report, and I heard
a similar one in which they described the suffering of
the Palestinian people, which I don't debate for a minute,
and then throw an offhand. You know, the monsters, the Israelis.
They say they'll ease up and there can be peace
if they give the hostages back. But anyway, in other news,
it's like, well, okay, so why don't they Why haven't they? No,
(02:49):
they never asked that question, and I was just I
was watching some of the coverage off again, the undeniable
suffering of some of the Palestinian people, including children, which
the the video of the four kids clamoring for food
was straight out of Hamas's video production facilities.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean they were like it was like watching Oliver Twist.
Please second, I have some awe.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I mean it was utterly designed to provoke sympathy and
outrage it whoever was putting the children in that the
poor children in that position, which.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Is a moss.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
By the way, funny you had mentioned Oliver Twist, written
by Charles Dickens. Walsoll wrote Christmas Carol, which features sickly
little Tim. Because That's what I've been thinking about over
the last several days. I'm sickly. I am now a
sickly character, tiny Jack. I am like you know, I'm
like sickly or Week. I'm like Fredo and the Godfather.
(03:43):
I'm like the weak brother. I'm a sickly, weak human being.
And so I'm just trying to embrace that role now.
That is I can normally assume that you're going to
turn coat and then like turn us into the FCC
for something.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't know about that, but I am. I am sickly.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm sickly and weak, and I hope I don't know
if I don't know, if I could listen to a
radio show that has a.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Worse I'm worse now than I was last week.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Get yourself a little crutch and and say vaguely affirming
things like God, bless us everyone. That's what I'm It's endearing.
I started a prednizone on Friday, a pretty high dose
which amps you up. And uh, I didn't sleep one
minute Friday night, not a single minute. I don't know
(04:31):
if I've ever done that in my wife, like he's
in partying. I don't know if I've ever gone a
whole night without one minute of sleep, without at least
like a five minute catnap or something.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I said the entire night it was crazy. Should we
just shut.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The whole thing down for a week and lets you
try to rest or something? And I don't get to
be on the air the last week of my life
because I'm probably dying. Wow, that's that's the point being
that's not a static reality. Perhaps we could affect that.
That would be my point. Anyway, that was crazy. I
had another point. Oh, and the best news story of
(05:08):
the last eighteen hours is obviously Trump reopening Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That's about story out there. How great is that? How
do you define best exactly? I don't know. Catches your
eye and makes you want to know more. That caught
my eye and maybe you want to know no more. Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He is the all time king troller, get people talking
guy of all time. You know he very well. This
just bopped into my head, now, my adult, sickly head.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
He might have timed this.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
With nothing Yahoo. He might have thought, oh boy, I'm
gonna have to answer this question all day. What would
be open Alcatraz? Because that's what's leading everywhere. He might
have just covered up the whole Israel is going to
take over Gaza. Yes, you know, gosh, dang it, you're right.
I mean the freneta. I was gonna make the points.
That's a frenetic pace of this just it tends to
(06:00):
wear people out over time. But yeah, if you were
going to dodge talking about that, yes, all right, what
is so completely crazy? All right, say you're not sure
if due process applies or if you have to uphold
the constitution, and then say we ought to reopen Alcatraz
and use it as a prison for the the evilist,
(06:21):
most violent people.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I was singing.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
If it was an old timy radio, we would call
Alcatraz like roughly, now call him up and say, hey,
have you heard about because it's a big tourist destination.
So I was just in San Francisco a week before
last with my son. I said, I can't believe I've
never taken Alcatraz, which I can't believe I haven't. And
when I heard the news yes day, I thought, oh,
did I miss my window. I'd like to call him
up and say, have you heard word one about this?
(06:45):
Has anybody who works at Alcatraz ever heard in the
ink even the slightest inkling of opening it back up
as a prison?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Anybody in the entire US Park surface, which is run
Alcatraz for like, well not sixty years, has been closed
as a prison for sixty years, but it's been run
by the Ark Service for decades and decades. Here's what's
interesting and just typical of the whole Trump thing. So
every news outlet taking it completely seriously, except for Fox,
who dismissed it very quickly as obviously he's not going
(07:12):
to open Alcatraz, but he's making the point that we've
got to lock these people up. I mean, they just
threw it aside as obviously not going to happen. It's
not even worth discussing immediately. Yeah, but on every other
channel they're taking breathless. How could he be so crazy?
It would cause we have an architect here to describe
how expensive it would be to you know, the whole thing.
Oh yeah, Well, and both sides get what they want
out of the story. You know, it's it's a beautiful, confusing,
(07:36):
idiotic symbiosis.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But I'll bet that's it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It bumped Israel invading Gaza and taking it over off
the front page, which was a was, you know, a
no go as an option for mainstream media not too
long ago and probably still is. But declaring a war
on Disney. Mickey Mouse is an actual mouse, and he's
plotting the overthrow of the country.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We are going to.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Hunt down Mickey or Michael Mouse if it takes everything
we've got and then pushes everything off the front page. Antavirus.
Gene Ackman's wife would still be alive if it weren't
for Mickey Mouse, the great Gene Hackman, the late great Gina.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Out there he goes again.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, so okay, that's funny, absolutely Hilarious's going to reopen Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Worked as a story.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Let's start the show officially, then get us into a
different conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Give me a chance to call for a while. I'm
Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He's Joe Getty on this it is Sinko Demayo, both
wearing sombrero's big giant Sombreros twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program,
Viva Mexico. All right, let's begin the show officially now.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
According to the FCC rules regulation, the show starts at Mark.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I've also signed and forty seven executive orders, everything from
banning paper straws to defunding PBS. I understand Elmo has
now been apprehended by ice, brought to you by the
letter L for El Salvador.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's not coming back.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I tell you what, that whole bit was really funny,
all the executive orders Trump was signing, it was just good,
funny political human He's not coming back.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know what I list for else? Alphador?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh my, Not to get off on comedy because it's
not that important, I suppose, but I hate that there's
a number of political like round up newsletters I read
every day, and the one I read it on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Here are your Trump jokes from Saturday Night.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Live and just I just hate that the rest of
the show, the of the ninety minutes, the other eighty
six minutes are really good, often of just sketch comedy.
I hate that it's been distilled down for so much
of America as to what were the Trump jokes?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, whatever, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We've talked about this one once and I think it's
pretty self evident to a lot of people. But the
extent to which politics, you know, our versus d Trump
versus not Trump, whatever, has become people's identity and their
hobby and their passion and their talking point. It's the
modern It looks like a clear day, Jim. You see
(10:10):
what Trump did. Jim. I've got the best example, which
I'm gonna talk more about later, from uh going to
the movies on Friday night. So I went to see Thunderbolts,
the latest Marvel movie, and I had unfortunately seen a
piece or two, including the one in the National Review
about how Thunderbolts a disgusting attack on Trump and America
(10:34):
through and through transparent the way it treats its audience.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I was like, what really, I.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Went, You're insane if you watch that movie and you're
thinking that it's taking shots at Trump and America, and
that's what gets into your head. You're crazy. This is
the whole wolf Right thing that's taken over. You're nuts.
I remember the same thing with the movie up Oh
a transparent defending of climate and I didn't get that
at all.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Don't look up, don't look up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
didn't get.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That at all. So everybody's gone nuts with this stuff
where it's just it's it's your It's like you were
just saying, it's your identity, it's your life. You see
every single thing through the through the lens of is
this supporting Trump or not? Or my point of view
or not? Every single tiny thing now it's it's it's
a psychosis of some sort. Yeah, it's partly a psychosis.
(11:25):
I think there's a hell of a lot of pop
culture that is also joined in that fray, and so no,
it's not completely crazy to see that fray represented in
pop culture.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I must disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
On the other hand, you're a specific example. I get Yeah,
but this I.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Read this long article, I mean where it was.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It was pages long in Oh yeah, this guy is
a I know, the guy who does that stuff for
and are He is a sophisticate, a brilliant man, a wordsmith. Yeah,
I just think it's crazy. So we used to laugh
at the left when they talk about cowboy movies. Of
course the bad guys have black hats. A good have
white hats because black people are bad. So the way
(12:03):
you read into this crap we used to all call crazy.
Now the right does it exactly as stupidly, by the way,
as egregiously stupidly. In my opinion, Wow, folks, it's the steroids.
He's got the roid rage going. He doesn't know what
he's saying. He's out of control. Now, if you if
you go to a movie like that and you see politics,
there's something wrong with your brain. You haven't seen You've
(12:24):
you've got you, You've lost your ability to like live
a normal life.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And I think that's happening a lot. I don't know
what we do about it. I don't know if there's
any getting out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah. Again, I haven't seen him dead, so it's impossible
to judge. Well, we'll play his greatest well, milk, his
greatest hits greatest rants for I don't know, a few
days coming backs, yes, yeah, just Hanson and I are
planning on the air.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's probably gonna do you know, new co host. So
we don't have Katie here today, she's off.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
We don't have Michaelangelo here today, so it's just Joe
and I are some in our sombreros and Hansen in there,
who also.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Wrote a burrow to work in honor of Sinco Tomaio.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And you're sick as can be and don't drink. So
I'm swinging down Marguerite's on my own drag.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, we've got more news for you coming up.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
We're probably not going to reopen Alcatraze, but Israel probably
is going to take over Gaza and that's gonna be
quite the mess. And a bunch of other stuff that
happened over the weekend, including uh, some more tariff stuff
that Trump talked about. You're needing less pencils. You can
live with a terrass on movies whatever that means. Your
(13:36):
kids are gonna have less dolls. You're gonna have less pencils.
That's the world you're gonna live in.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Shoot, I gotta start saving my pencils and dolls.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
A lot of stuff on the way. I hope you
can stay here for the first time in four years
you gotta make your college student loan payment. If you're behind,
get caught up, or you're gonna be in real trouble
that starts today. According to it's all presented from a
(14:04):
sympathetic that's horrible for you point of view from everything
that is mainstream media as opposed to, of course you
have to start paying for it. It was bizarre that
you ever didn't right and turned out to be illegal,
and the extension of the original COVID plan was utterly
without excuse or explanation. Yeah, at the same time, you know,
(14:25):
I've got to admit I've got so much raging hostility
against the college scam and those who perpetrated it and
those who profit so mightily from it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Today.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You know, I could almost believe that Joe Biden was
relieving the student debt or trying to because he was
so guilt stricken, if he had a conscience over how
how badly screwed so amara so many American young people
are by that whole fraud. You've got to go to
college to have a decent life where we will, oh,
all of culture will look down on you and call
(14:57):
you names and think less of you. Oh, by the way,
you're not going to get an education. It's wildly artificially
inflated in price because it's such a scam and a
profit center for the left. And I just and that's
supposed to ease my guilt by making the guy who
decided I'm not going to college it's a waste of
time pay for it. No, I'm just saying, there's there's.
It's not as it's not a simple moral question. It's well,
(15:21):
you know, you walk down the garden path of evil,
you end up surrounded by evil, the old g Poe
all right, and the old and the just. There is
a very few simple, clear solutions. I would say, sorry,
you got scammed. You know, you gotta pay your your loan. Yeah,
(15:42):
so a few headlines because Katie's not here, but we'll
go ahead and do something at least somewhat similar. You
got your uh Irani impact, hoothy revels, revels. It's so
essentially Iran lobbing a big, old ballistic missile into Israel.
They they caught three of them. The fourth got through
because it was right by the airport. Yeah, lots of
(16:02):
a videos. Man, you're in that airport and you hear
the raid sirens going off, and then all of a sudden,
a big kabluey right outside the terminal.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
According to the Israeli military, they knocked out about ninety
five percent of the missiles launched at them by the
Houthis but occasionally get through. It stopped air traffic there
at the biggest airport for like an hour.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I think a little more than that.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Heck, we got a rainstorm in Kentucky's right right, the
entire country for a week.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It rains in Kentucky. You're not flying out lax today.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, what Israeli armies started calling up tens of thousands
of reservists in preparation for an expanded operation in the
Gaza Strip. You got a judge knocking down one of
Trump's executive orders targeting law firms that had gone up
against them. That one was obvious. Sorry, it was silly,
it was dumb. Will it's over. We'll get into the
(16:56):
details in some of these big stories. But here's my
favorite headline that I came across today. Surgeons attempt to
medical first removing a spinal tumor through the patient's eye.
I'm no expert on anatomy, but it seems to me,
isn't that? Like, I don't know going to speaking of Kentucky,
I'm going to go to Lexington, Kentucky through Olympia, Washington. Why,
(17:22):
surely there's a better route. More news of the day,
and we'll get you up to speed on a bunch
of these stories that.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Are real, that's for sure. Armstrong and Getty. What's vax?
All right, sir?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
This order would reduce the number of interracial couples in
TV commercial.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's just too many.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You see him in the kitchen together making.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Meal from HelloFresh.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
He's wearing loafersh she's got tight braids.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You're like, where did they meet? You know, why did
they even talk about? It's insane, sir. I thought that
was pretty funny. What do they even talk about?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You know, it's a cartoon version of you know, the
culture war?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Blah blah blah. That's fine, We're all fine. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's brought to you by HelloFresh. Where did they meet? Okay,
So that's the fake Trump on Saturday Night Live. You
got the real Trump, who's done his third interview.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
With Christian Walker Meet the Press in one hundred days.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The overtly hostile, relentlessly negative.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Unfair, brutal, one sided. Kristen Welker.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Democrats get away with not doing very many interviews period,
and then when they do do them, they give them
to mainstream media outlets.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
There are all on their side.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Trump goes into hostile territory like every day answering questions.
Let's review Joe Biden's last interview. Sir, your wonderfulness is
a wonder to us all. How are you so wonderful?
But so last week a lot of tension was made
talking about the tariff war and what it'll do, and
Trump's saying, you know, kids can get by fewer dolls.
(19:01):
And I thought it meant under the tree. You thought
it meant on the shelves. Well, it was a little ambiguous,
that's what I thought. Still trying to figure out where
that all is. So Christian Walker brought that up with
him on Meet the Press yesterday, And I.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Want to ask you about something you said this week
got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting.
You said, quote, going to quote what you said, maybe
the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dollars. Yeah,
and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of
bucks more than they would normally. Are you saying that
your tariffs will cause some prices to go up.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
No, I think the tariff's are going to be great
for us because it's going to make us rich.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't
that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs at eleven
years old, needs to have thirty dollars. I think they
can have three dollars or four dollars. Because what we
were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a
trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
When you say they could have three dollars instead of
thirty dollars, are you saying you say Americans could see
empty store shelves.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they
don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three.
They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils,
they can have five.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You're basically saying there could be some supply.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Because they can't waste money on a trade deficit with
China for things we don't need, for junk that we
don't need.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Ian Bremer called that the most anti American thing I've
ever heard of.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
US President say, it's a bit strong.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I agree, it's a bit strong, but it sure sounds
like he means under the tree, like you just your
kids can do deal with less toys. And you've got
too many pencils, by the way, what a weird example.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And they're going to cost more. Yeah, listen, you don't
need three hundred and fifty pencils. Good lord.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I would hope at this point we have earned a
reputation for fairness that you can trust us.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
We calls them as we see them.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I found that to be, as political pitches go, one
of the more amazing ones. There's going to be less
to choose from, and it will cost more, but it
will protect our industry and our manufacturing jobs, and we
will all be better off for it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Was his the second half of the sentence that he
never really spoke.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, yeah, so here we are as usual as people
often are, trying to fill in the stuff he doesn't say.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
A native English speaker, Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Because the argument that it's going to be painful for
a while that's the way terif wars work, but it's
going to turn out in our favor.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know if that's true or not, but at
least you can make that argument. It's a theory.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The whole you have too much stuff, I'll determine how
much stuff you need to be happy is not something
people are going to enjoy. No, that is Frankly, that's
awful political messaging. If one is just going to be
completely cynical about it, it's not good.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Your kids have too many toys. I'm just telling you, no, No,
my kids will have as many toys as I think
they ought. Nobody wants anybody to tell them.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
That, Yeah, I don't need that sort of value judgment.
If it was coming from a Democrat, folks, friends, and
no kidding, be honest with your you would be going nuts.
If Obama or Biden had said your kids don't need
that many dolls for Christmas, Yeah, you'd be going crazy
over that. Interestingly enough, Scott Bessens, who is the cool
(22:33):
head I think in the administration when it comes to
trade and tariffs and that sort of thing, has a
piece in the Wall Street Journal published yesterday. I guess
it was Trump's three steps to economic growth, and he
doesn't state it explicitly, but it seems really clear that, yeah,
the tariffs are a means of negotiating better trade deals.
(22:54):
Don't worry, we won't have high tariffs going forward. But
then Trump goes on the kristin Welker's awful show, and
it implies otherwise, because that is necessary for the negotiations.
I guess that we're going to be, you know, dollless
and have few pencils pencils.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I think he was just.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Trying to pick a kind of an anonymous, you know,
generic good.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You know, I feel amply penciled myself. You don't need
two hundred and fifty pencils.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
A couple of pencils is plenty, right, all right, you
got me on that one. Yeah, we mostly use the
mechanical ones around my house, so I think, you know,
last lifetime anyway, So that was just odd his mystifying
strategic chaos or strategic ambiguity in negotiations. That was at Lutnik.
(23:46):
One of his guys was talking about, hey, now he
does it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, we know.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Nobody knows where this is going. That's the point. Okay,
I'm not sure. I love that, but I think I
understand it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What do you use a pencil for? What are you
writing in pencil for? I have a second grade paper due.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Oh no, don't. I don't use them much, honestly. Uh,
you'd have to ask my wife if maybe you're doing
math or things you need to erase.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I don't know, use a pencil. We do a lot
of drafting in our house, busy drafting.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I feel like I use a pencil maybe to mark
the kid's height up against the wall. Yeah, but the
only thing I can think of off the top of my head,
you know, if you want the honest truth, And it's
a probing question, I appreciated I only use a pencil
because I picked it up thinking it was because we
use mechanical pencils around my house. Yeah, okay, I admit it.
(24:40):
So that got a fair amount of attention. And honestly,
I think it's silly and indefensible and an odd thing
to say. I get the idea of instead of a
society of wildly cheap, astonishing abundance that is good for
corporations but bad for the American worker, We're going to
(25:01):
go back to a little more traditional American economic system.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Blah blah blah. My problem with that.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It's defensible, you know, in some ways I get it,
but I despise central planning, right, It's a horror.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's a horror.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I could go on and on without pausing for breath
for two and a half hours if you would like
me to about how incredibly stupid and flawed central planning
is and how it is a miserable failure every single
time it's tried, and the smacks of central planning except
that I just think it's a means to the end
of the trade negotiations. Yeah, I have a thought on that.
Right after this, I watched the Warriors game last night.
(25:41):
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this stuff about him, ask whether or not he's going
to follow the constitution?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You want to get that next hour, when we got
time to really flesh them out.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I was I was all ready to go right now,
right now do you understand the whole movie tariff thing
that has just been announced on fortunal. That's that's why
I wanted to do the constitution stuff now, because I
don't honestly, well, I would like to point out where
I think Trump is being criticized unjustifiedly on a big one,
(27:19):
the constitutional stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm here to defend him on that. Okay, believe it
or not. Cool, that's a good one. That's a hot one. Pencils,
I don't care, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
We can do it now or do it. Let's kick
off next hour with it. I will give you the
very very short version. I did not love his answer,
But I've said since Trump was running in twenty fifteen
twenty sixteen that his his grasp of and his love
for the Constitution is less than I would like. On
(27:53):
the other hand, the constant abuse of the Constitution by
you know, your Biden's and Obama's and company or are
certainly more.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Than I would like.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
But having said that, he was obviously in an environment
with a person who is trying desperately to trap him
to get the big juicy news quote. And there is
subtlety and complexity to anything but the very very simplest
(28:23):
answer to those questions. Now, he could have given the
very very simplest answer, but he knew she was trying
to trap him, and so he.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Was engaging in ambivalence. I get it, and we'll play
you the clips.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So I think it's amazing that the Trump people are
willing to troll to the level they troll. I mean
two things. One thing she asked about I meet the
press yesterday. You sell Trump twenty twenty eight hats. I mean,
so that's some serious patrolling. They actually sell Trump twenty
twenty eight hats. Yes, And they put out on their
own one of their own feeds over the weekend, put
(28:55):
out the picture of him as pope and also so
him as a roided up muscle freak action hero guy
good lord an with a machine gunner.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So I want to talk about two movies I saw
every the weekend. Since I'm sick, I saw more movies
than usual. I saw the new Marvel Comics movie, which
had a really interesting message I thought, and my son
thought was the best deprayal deep portrayal of depression he's
ever seen in any TV or movie ever. Oh really, yeah,
which I find interesting. The very adult movie wasn't like
(29:33):
any other Marvel movie I've ever seen by far.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I actually people clapped at the end, including me. It
was really something.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You know, many including me have kicked Marvel absolutely four foisting,
increasingly dopey, idiotic. Oh these these idiots will watch anything,
no movies for the longest time, so you know they're
smart people.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
They got it. And then oh the other movie I watched.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I watched so where I the eighty year anniversary of
the Fall of Berlin, And I watched a movie I'd
never seen before with Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, The Bunker.
Have you ever seen that? I'd never even heard of it.
It's the best Hitler movie I've ever seen. I didn't
never even heard of it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I feel like I have.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Oh my god, it was good. But I want to
talk about that later and some things around that, among
other stuff. We got mail bag on the way. I
hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
The tryouts for Jack's replacements start before or after I die.
Asking for a friend, will there be a hot link
for risumni sub submissions? You know, as a man who's
played in a number of rock and roll bands through
the years, sometimes there's a week link and you need
to get rid of them, and you don't. You just say, yeah,
we can't practice this Tuesday. But everybody knows, but that
(30:54):
person you are practicing on Tuesday. But with the drummer,
you're auditioning. So that's what we've been doing. Anyway, Hanson
and I get together and do a show on Saturdays
with Billy Young Billy who's the new co host. Anyway,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Got a
great one for a Thursday, by the way, Jackie brought
(31:15):
up v E Day in World War Two. Got a
wonderful V Day related quote. But today's from Ben Franklin.
I love this because of its brevity. Here comes the
orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. Man,
how many political speeches have you heard that are a
flood of words and a drop of reason?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I like it? Or Ben piffy mail bag?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Did you go from basically late Great Ben Franklin, Late
Great Ben Franklin.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and getty dot com. Let's start light and move, you know,
towards the more pithy or more important Jay team Livermore
on the topic of weighing obese people, guys, you don't
need to take them to the zoo. Well, I would agree.
There are a couple of cases of people needing to
(32:10):
be weighed and they didn't have the proper scale at
any medical facility for them because of their their heavy heavyweights.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
They take them to weigh.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Hippopotamusis exactly which is hurtful all around. Anyway, He says,
you only need two traditional bathroom scales with a board
between them, and assuming the scales are accurate to two
hundred and fifty pounds, the two scales can weigh individuals
up to five hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That's what we did.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We did that on the Armstrong and Getty Show. We
figured that out years ago. We used to give away
tickets to heavy people. Sacramento Kings were in the playoffs
and we gave away tickets to the biggest Kings fan
by weight, and we didn't have a five hundred pound scales.
We had two regular scales. They would put one foot
on each and it worked fine. That was in earlier
and more idiotic days on the show. We've moved beyond
(32:57):
that sort of foolishness.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What weighing giant people and giving them price.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Then he says, you don't need a super executive, expensive
elephant scale for your doctor's office. The scales can be
put away in a cabinet when weighing traditional patient. No.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
JT.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
No, it's much simpler to just have the big scale.
Uh oh, better bring out another. No, two more.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Scales, come on? Anyway? You are right.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Did you watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday? I did, and,
fueled by what do you make jin out of rice
juniper berries? Fueled by whatever's in gin, I threw down
a couple of ill advised dollars on various nags which
failed to cross the finished money fashion.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You didn't choose the winner? I did not?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Well, I never I never go with favorites. I mean,
what's the point anyway? Let's see, this is from Kevin.
It seems appropriate that a horse named sovereignty should defeat
a horse named journalism in this Saturday's Kentucky Derby during
a time that our country is taking back sovereignty. It's
a southern border and exposing fake journalism. Finding more meaning
(34:01):
from the horse names than I did, Kevin, But you're right,
that is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
How about Ryan reacting to the President on Meet the
Press with his you don't need two hundred pencils or
whatever he said, Dear Big Freedom and cyber Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Was President Trump telling me I should do with less.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
The man who drapes everything in gold, builds luxury resorts
and hotels that I can't afford to google much less
to go to and at the cost of tax payer dollars,
shows up to whatever sports of any wants.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It's telling me to do more or do with less.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Please, elected officials, don't tell me I could do with
less when you have grown fat and rich off the
American people. Let's Ryan from Houston. It was a solid
conservative lad.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, I don't think it's very good political messaging anyway.
Moving along totally different topic, JT writes one thing to
look ahead when you lower the federal He wrote a
multipoint email about GDP measurements, which were much in the
news at the end of the last week, and he
said one more thing, when you lower the federal budget,
(35:04):
that too causes a reduction in the GDP calculation. That's right,
because it's consumer spending plus investment plus government spending minus imports,
blah blah blah, which is just an accounting reality. It's
not that imports hurt the GDP. You just don't want
to double count that money.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
When you borrow money for the federal budget, that borrowed
money increases the GDP. Paying down the debt doesn't help
the GDP at all. It won't so if Trump and
dogs were actually able to find a trillion dollars to
cut from the federal budget, the GDP of the country
would go down by a trillion dollars, all other things
being equal. Well, in three months when the quarterly report
(35:42):
comes out, if it's down again, I'm taking that week
off while you all argue about whether or not this
is a recession. I can't wait. It'll be fascinating. Jt
rolls on though, and I think this is great. Here's
another example of how screwed up the GDP calculation is.
And I would add how silly it is to spend
a lot of time beating our over it. To Jack's point,
if Biden borrows two trillion dollars for his green energy
(36:04):
schemes and then Trump comes in and balances the budget,
the GDP will take a two trillion dollar hit year
over year from that act of financial sanity. This has
been one of my many many ghods that is so
esoteric nobody cares about. But I believe we really need
a new GDP like metric, that GDP like metric that
better measures the health of the economy. Yeah, that'll be
(36:29):
a fun argument. Is this a recession? Two down quarters
in a row? Blah blah, everybody will switch sides from
the last time I argued about it.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Now it'll be good times, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I'll just read passages from my favorite Dickens novels.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
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Because Burrow, we appreciate your commitment.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
By the day, you know, in honor of defeating the
French so that Emperor Maximilian would be booted out or something.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oo, who zeus for maximillion? Nobody woo. Anyway, it's Monday,
Brand New Week. It's sinko to my own. Today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager ben Ya mean
neting Yahoo and Israel having just announced a plan to
occupy Gaza and control aid distribution themselves, bringing closer to fruition.
(01:45):
What I've been saying for quite some time, they're doing uh,
not living side by side with anybody.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They're taking it over.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So they had a vote overnight and they're gonna occupy Gaza. Yes, sir,
run the place. Okay, yes, sir. I don't think they
got any choice. Meanwhile, I'd like to discuss the Western
media's just utter loyal sycophancy with Amas. I heard amplify
their talking points and video messages slavishly.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I heard that on NPR this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Critics say Hamas should be given a chance to something
or other or whatever. There's no talk of amass surrendering
or giving.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Back to the hostages or anything what not. Have you mentioned, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I may have heard that same report, and I heard
a similar one in which they described the suffering of
the Palestinian people, which I don't debate for a minute,
and then throw an offhand. You know, the monsters, the Israelis.
They say they'll ease up and there can be peace
if they give the hostages back. But anyway, in other news,
it's like, well, okay, so why don't they Why haven't they? No,
(02:49):
they never asked that question, and I was just I
was watching some of the coverage off again, the undeniable
suffering of some of the Palestinian people, including children, which
the the video of the four kids clamoring for food
was straight out of Hamas's video production facilities.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean they were like it was like watching Oliver Twist.
Please second, I have some awe.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I mean it was utterly designed to provoke sympathy and
outrage it whoever was putting the children in that the
poor children in that position, which.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Is a moss.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
By the way, funny you had mentioned Oliver Twist, written
by Charles Dickens. Walsoll wrote Christmas Carol, which features sickly
little Tim. Because That's what I've been thinking about over
the last several days. I'm sickly. I am now a
sickly character, tiny Jack. I am like you know, I'm
like sickly or Week. I'm like Fredo and the Godfather.
(03:43):
I'm like the weak brother. I'm a sickly, weak human being.
And so I'm just trying to embrace that role now.
That is I can normally assume that you're going to
turn coat and then like turn us into the FCC
for something.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't know about that, but I am. I am sickly.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm sickly and weak, and I hope I don't know
if I don't know, if I could listen to a
radio show that has a.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Worse I'm worse now than I was last week.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Get yourself a little crutch and and say vaguely affirming
things like God, bless us everyone. That's what I'm It's endearing.
I started a prednizone on Friday, a pretty high dose
which amps you up. And uh, I didn't sleep one
minute Friday night, not a single minute. I don't know
(04:31):
if I've ever done that in my wife, like he's
in partying. I don't know if I've ever gone a
whole night without one minute of sleep, without at least
like a five minute catnap or something.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I said the entire night it was crazy. Should we
just shut.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The whole thing down for a week and lets you
try to rest or something? And I don't get to
be on the air the last week of my life
because I'm probably dying. Wow, that's that's the point being
that's not a static reality. Perhaps we could affect that.
That would be my point. Anyway, that was crazy. I
had another point. Oh, and the best news story of
(05:08):
the last eighteen hours is obviously Trump reopening Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That's about story out there. How great is that? How
do you define best exactly? I don't know. Catches your
eye and makes you want to know more. That caught
my eye and maybe you want to know no more. Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He is the all time king troller, get people talking
guy of all time. You know he very well. This
just bopped into my head, now, my adult, sickly head.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
He might have timed this.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
With nothing Yahoo. He might have thought, oh boy, I'm
gonna have to answer this question all day. What would
be open Alcatraz? Because that's what's leading everywhere. He might
have just covered up the whole Israel is going to
take over Gaza. Yes, you know, gosh, dang it, you're right.
I mean the freneta. I was gonna make the points.
That's a frenetic pace of this just it tends to
(06:00):
wear people out over time. But yeah, if you were
going to dodge talking about that, yes, all right, what
is so completely crazy? All right, say you're not sure
if due process applies or if you have to uphold
the constitution, and then say we ought to reopen Alcatraz
and use it as a prison for the the evilist,
(06:21):
most violent people.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I was singing.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
If it was an old timy radio, we would call
Alcatraz like roughly, now call him up and say, hey,
have you heard about because it's a big tourist destination.
So I was just in San Francisco a week before
last with my son. I said, I can't believe I've
never taken Alcatraz, which I can't believe I haven't. And
when I heard the news yes day, I thought, oh,
did I miss my window. I'd like to call him
up and say, have you heard word one about this?
(06:45):
Has anybody who works at Alcatraz ever heard in the
ink even the slightest inkling of opening it back up
as a prison?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ever?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Anybody in the entire US Park surface, which is run
Alcatraz for like, well not sixty years, has been closed
as a prison for sixty years, but it's been run
by the Ark Service for decades and decades. Here's what's
interesting and just typical of the whole Trump thing. So
every news outlet taking it completely seriously, except for Fox,
who dismissed it very quickly as obviously he's not going
(07:12):
to open Alcatraz, but he's making the point that we've
got to lock these people up. I mean, they just
threw it aside as obviously not going to happen. It's
not even worth discussing immediately. Yeah, but on every other
channel they're taking breathless. How could he be so crazy?
It would cause we have an architect here to describe
how expensive it would be to you know, the whole thing.
Oh yeah, Well, and both sides get what they want
out of the story. You know, it's it's a beautiful, confusing,
(07:36):
idiotic symbiosis.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But I'll bet that's it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It bumped Israel invading Gaza and taking it over off
the front page, which was a was, you know, a
no go as an option for mainstream media not too
long ago and probably still is. But declaring a war
on Disney. Mickey Mouse is an actual mouse, and he's
plotting the overthrow of the country.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We are going to.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Hunt down Mickey or Michael Mouse if it takes everything
we've got and then pushes everything off the front page. Antavirus.
Gene Ackman's wife would still be alive if it weren't
for Mickey Mouse, the great Gene Hackman, the late great Gina.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Out there he goes again.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, so okay, that's funny, absolutely Hilarious's going to reopen Alcatraz.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Worked as a story.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Let's start the show officially, then get us into a
different conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Give me a chance to call for a while. I'm
Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
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We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program,
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Speaker 4 (08:42):
I've also signed and forty seven executive orders, everything from
banning paper straws to defunding PBS. I understand Elmo has
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letter L for El Salvador.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's not coming back.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I tell you what, that whole bit was really funny,
all the executive orders Trump was signing, it was just good,
funny political human He's not coming back.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You know what I list for else? Alphador?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh my, Not to get off on comedy because it's
not that important, I suppose, but I hate that there's
a number of political like round up newsletters I read
every day, and the one I read it on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Here are your Trump jokes from Saturday Night.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Live and just I just hate that the rest of
the show, the of the ninety minutes, the other eighty
six minutes are really good, often of just sketch comedy.
I hate that it's been distilled down for so much
of America as to what were the Trump jokes?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
All right, whatever, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We've talked about this one once and I think it's
pretty self evident to a lot of people. But the
extent to which politics, you know, our versus d Trump
versus not Trump, whatever, has become people's identity and their
hobby and their passion and their talking point. It's the
modern It looks like a clear day, Jim. You see
(10:10):
what Trump did. Jim. I've got the best example, which
I'm gonna talk more about later, from uh going to
the movies on Friday night. So I went to see Thunderbolts,
the latest Marvel movie, and I had unfortunately seen a
piece or two, including the one in the National Review
about how Thunderbolts a disgusting attack on Trump and America
(10:34):
through and through transparent the way it treats its audience.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I was like, what really, I.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Went, You're insane if you watch that movie and you're
thinking that it's taking shots at Trump and America, and
that's what gets into your head. You're crazy. This is
the whole wolf Right thing that's taken over. You're nuts.
I remember the same thing with the movie up Oh
a transparent defending of climate and I didn't get that
at all.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Don't look up, don't look up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
didn't get.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That at all. So everybody's gone nuts with this stuff
where it's just it's it's your It's like you were
just saying, it's your identity, it's your life. You see
every single thing through the through the lens of is
this supporting Trump or not? Or my point of view
or not? Every single tiny thing now it's it's it's
a psychosis of some sort. Yeah, it's partly a psychosis.
(11:25):
I think there's a hell of a lot of pop
culture that is also joined in that fray, and so no,
it's not completely crazy to see that fray represented in
pop culture.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I must disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
On the other hand, you're a specific example. I get Yeah,
but this I.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Read this long article, I mean where it was.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It was pages long in Oh yeah, this guy is
a I know, the guy who does that stuff for
and are He is a sophisticate, a brilliant man, a wordsmith. Yeah,
I just think it's crazy. So we used to laugh
at the left when they talk about cowboy movies. Of
course the bad guys have black hats. A good have
white hats because black people are bad. So the way
(12:03):
you read into this crap we used to all call crazy.
Now the right does it exactly as stupidly, by the way,
as egregiously stupidly. In my opinion, Wow, folks, it's the steroids.
He's got the roid rage going. He doesn't know what
he's saying. He's out of control. Now, if you if
you go to a movie like that and you see politics,
there's something wrong with your brain. You haven't seen You've
(12:24):
you've got you, You've lost your ability to like live
a normal life.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And I think that's happening a lot. I don't know
what we do about it. I don't know if there's
any getting out of it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah. Again, I haven't seen him dead, so it's impossible
to judge. Well, we'll play his greatest well, milk, his
greatest hits greatest rants for I don't know, a few
days coming backs, yes, yeah, just Hanson and I are
planning on the air.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's probably gonna do you know, new co host. So
we don't have Katie here today, she's off.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
We don't have Michaelangelo here today, so it's just Joe
and I are some in our sombreros and Hansen in there,
who also.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Wrote a burrow to work in honor of Sinco Tomaio.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And you're sick as can be and don't drink. So
I'm swinging down Marguerite's on my own drag.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, we've got more news for you coming up.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
We're probably not going to reopen Alcatraze, but Israel probably
is going to take over Gaza and that's gonna be
quite the mess. And a bunch of other stuff that
happened over the weekend, including uh, some more tariff stuff
that Trump talked about. You're needing less pencils. You can
live with a terrass on movies whatever that means. Your
(13:36):
kids are gonna have less dolls. You're gonna have less pencils.
That's the world you're gonna live in.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Shoot, I gotta start saving my pencils and dolls.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
A lot of stuff on the way. I hope you
can stay here for the first time in four years
you gotta make your college student loan payment. If you're behind,
get caught up, or you're gonna be in real trouble
that starts today. According to it's all presented from a
(14:04):
sympathetic that's horrible for you point of view from everything
that is mainstream media as opposed to, of course you
have to start paying for it. It was bizarre that
you ever didn't right and turned out to be illegal,
and the extension of the original COVID plan was utterly
without excuse or explanation. Yeah, at the same time, you know,
(14:25):
I've got to admit I've got so much raging hostility
against the college scam and those who perpetrated it and
those who profit so mightily from it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Today.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You know, I could almost believe that Joe Biden was
relieving the student debt or trying to because he was
so guilt stricken, if he had a conscience over how
how badly screwed so amara so many American young people
are by that whole fraud. You've got to go to
college to have a decent life where we will, oh,
all of culture will look down on you and call
(14:57):
you names and think less of you. Oh, by the way,
you're not going to get an education. It's wildly artificially
inflated in price because it's such a scam and a
profit center for the left. And I just and that's
supposed to ease my guilt by making the guy who
decided I'm not going to college it's a waste of
time pay for it. No, I'm just saying, there's there's.
It's not as it's not a simple moral question. It's well,
(15:21):
you know, you walk down the garden path of evil,
you end up surrounded by evil, the old g Poe
all right, and the old and the just. There is
a very few simple, clear solutions. I would say, sorry,
you got scammed. You know, you gotta pay your your loan. Yeah,
(15:42):
so a few headlines because Katie's not here, but we'll
go ahead and do something at least somewhat similar. You
got your uh Irani impact, hoothy revels, revels. It's so
essentially Iran lobbing a big, old ballistic missile into Israel.
They they caught three of them. The fourth got through
because it was right by the airport. Yeah, lots of
(16:02):
a videos. Man, you're in that airport and you hear
the raid sirens going off, and then all of a sudden,
a big kabluey right outside the terminal.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Holy crap. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
According to the Israeli military, they knocked out about ninety
five percent of the missiles launched at them by the
Houthis but occasionally get through. It stopped air traffic there
at the biggest airport for like an hour.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I think a little more than that.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Heck, we got a rainstorm in Kentucky's right right, the
entire country for a week.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It rains in Kentucky. You're not flying out lax today.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, what Israeli armies started calling up tens of thousands
of reservists in preparation for an expanded operation in the
Gaza Strip. You got a judge knocking down one of
Trump's executive orders targeting law firms that had gone up
against them. That one was obvious. Sorry, it was silly,
it was dumb. Will it's over. We'll get into the
(16:56):
details in some of these big stories. But here's my
favorite headline that I came across today. Surgeons attempt to
medical first removing a spinal tumor through the patient's eye.
I'm no expert on anatomy, but it seems to me,
isn't that? Like, I don't know going to speaking of Kentucky,
I'm going to go to Lexington, Kentucky through Olympia, Washington. Why,
(17:22):
surely there's a better route. More news of the day,
and we'll get you up to speed on a bunch
of these stories that.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Are real, that's for sure. Armstrong and Getty. What's vax?
All right, sir?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
This order would reduce the number of interracial couples in
TV commercial.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It's just too many.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
You see him in the kitchen together making.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Meal from HelloFresh.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
He's wearing loafersh she's got tight braids.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You're like, where did they meet? You know, why did
they even talk about? It's insane, sir. I thought that
was pretty funny. What do they even talk about?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
You know, it's a cartoon version of you know, the
culture war?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Blah blah blah. That's fine, We're all fine. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's brought to you by HelloFresh. Where did they meet? Okay,
So that's the fake Trump on Saturday Night Live. You
got the real Trump, who's done his third interview.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
With Christian Walker Meet the Press in one hundred days.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
The overtly hostile, relentlessly negative.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Unfair, brutal, one sided. Kristen Welker.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Democrats get away with not doing very many interviews period,
and then when they do do them, they give them
to mainstream media outlets.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
There are all on their side.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Trump goes into hostile territory like every day answering questions.
Let's review Joe Biden's last interview. Sir, your wonderfulness is
a wonder to us all. How are you so wonderful?
But so last week a lot of tension was made
talking about the tariff war and what it'll do, and
Trump's saying, you know, kids can get by fewer dolls.
(19:01):
And I thought it meant under the tree. You thought
it meant on the shelves. Well, it was a little ambiguous,
that's what I thought. Still trying to figure out where
that all is. So Christian Walker brought that up with
him on Meet the Press yesterday, And I.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Want to ask you about something you said this week
got a lot of attention. You were at your cabinet meeting.
You said, quote, going to quote what you said, maybe
the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dollars. Yeah,
and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of
bucks more than they would normally. Are you saying that
your tariffs will cause some prices to go up.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
No, I think the tariff's are going to be great
for us because it's going to make us rich.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You said some dolls are going to cost more. Isn't
that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs at eleven
years old, needs to have thirty dollars. I think they
can have three dollars or four dollars. Because what we
were doing with China was just unbelievable. We had a
trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
When you say they could have three dollars instead of
thirty dollars, are you saying you say Americans could see
empty store shelves.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
No, No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they
don't need to have thirty dollars. They can have three.
They don't need to have two hundred and fifty pencils,
they can have five.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You're basically saying there could be some supply.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Because they can't waste money on a trade deficit with
China for things we don't need, for junk that we
don't need.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Ian Bremer called that the most anti American thing I've
ever heard of.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
US President say, it's a bit strong.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I agree, it's a bit strong, but it sure sounds
like he means under the tree, like you just your
kids can do deal with less toys. And you've got
too many pencils, by the way, what a weird example.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And they're going to cost more. Yeah, listen, you don't
need three hundred and fifty pencils. Good lord.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I would hope at this point we have earned a
reputation for fairness that you can trust us.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
We calls them as we see them.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I found that to be, as political pitches go, one
of the more amazing ones. There's going to be less
to choose from, and it will cost more, but it
will protect our industry and our manufacturing jobs, and we
will all be better off for it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Was his the second half of the sentence that he
never really spoke.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, yeah, so here we are as usual as people
often are, trying to fill in the stuff he doesn't say.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
A native English speaker, Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Because the argument that it's going to be painful for
a while that's the way terif wars work, but it's
going to turn out in our favor.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I don't know if that's true or not, but at
least you can make that argument. It's a theory.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The whole you have too much stuff, I'll determine how
much stuff you need to be happy is not something
people are going to enjoy. No, that is Frankly, that's
awful political messaging. If one is just going to be
completely cynical about it, it's not good.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Your kids have too many toys. I'm just telling you, no, No,
my kids will have as many toys as I think
they ought. Nobody wants anybody to tell them.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
That, Yeah, I don't need that sort of value judgment.
If it was coming from a Democrat, folks, friends, and
no kidding, be honest with your you would be going nuts.
If Obama or Biden had said your kids don't need
that many dolls for Christmas, Yeah, you'd be going crazy
over that. Interestingly enough, Scott Bessens, who is the cool
(22:33):
head I think in the administration when it comes to
trade and tariffs and that sort of thing, has a
piece in the Wall Street Journal published yesterday. I guess
it was Trump's three steps to economic growth, and he
doesn't state it explicitly, but it seems really clear that, yeah,
the tariffs are a means of negotiating better trade deals.
(22:54):
Don't worry, we won't have high tariffs going forward. But
then Trump goes on the kristin Welker's awful show, and
it implies otherwise, because that is necessary for the negotiations.
I guess that we're going to be, you know, dollless
and have few pencils pencils.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I think he was just.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Trying to pick a kind of an anonymous, you know,
generic good.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You know, I feel amply penciled myself. You don't need
two hundred and fifty pencils.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
A couple of pencils is plenty, right, all right, you
got me on that one. Yeah, we mostly use the
mechanical ones around my house, so I think, you know,
last lifetime anyway, So that was just odd his mystifying
strategic chaos or strategic ambiguity in negotiations. That was at Lutnik.
(23:46):
One of his guys was talking about, hey, now he
does it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, we know.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Nobody knows where this is going. That's the point. Okay,
I'm not sure. I love that, but I think I
understand it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What do you use a pencil for? What are you
writing in pencil for? I have a second grade paper due.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Oh no, don't. I don't use them much, honestly. Uh,
you'd have to ask my wife if maybe you're doing
math or things you need to erase.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I don't know, use a pencil. We do a lot
of drafting in our house, busy drafting.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I feel like I use a pencil maybe to mark
the kid's height up against the wall. Yeah, but the
only thing I can think of off the top of my head,
you know, if you want the honest truth, And it's
a probing question, I appreciated I only use a pencil
because I picked it up thinking it was because we
use mechanical pencils around my house. Yeah, okay, I admit it.
(24:40):
So that got a fair amount of attention. And honestly,
I think it's silly and indefensible and an odd thing
to say. I get the idea of instead of a
society of wildly cheap, astonishing abundance that is good for
corporations but bad for the American worker, We're going to
(25:01):
go back to a little more traditional American economic system.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Blah blah blah. My problem with that.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It's defensible, you know, in some ways I get it,
but I despise central planning, right, It's a horror.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
It's a horror.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I could go on and on without pausing for breath
for two and a half hours if you would like
me to about how incredibly stupid and flawed central planning
is and how it is a miserable failure every single
time it's tried, and the smacks of central planning except
that I just think it's a means to the end
of the trade negotiations. Yeah, I have a thought on that.
Right after this, I watched the Warriors game last night.
(25:41):
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(26:48):
this stuff about him, ask whether or not he's going
to follow the constitution?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You want to get that next hour, when we got
time to really flesh them out.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I was I was all ready to go right now,
right now do you understand the whole movie tariff thing
that has just been announced on fortunal. That's that's why
I wanted to do the constitution stuff now, because I
don't honestly, well, I would like to point out where
I think Trump is being criticized unjustifiedly on a big one,
(27:19):
the constitutional stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm here to defend him on that. Okay, believe it
or not. Cool, that's a good one. That's a hot one. Pencils,
I don't care, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
We can do it now or do it. Let's kick
off next hour with it. I will give you the
very very short version. I did not love his answer,
But I've said since Trump was running in twenty fifteen
twenty sixteen that his his grasp of and his love
for the Constitution is less than I would like. On
(27:53):
the other hand, the constant abuse of the Constitution by
you know, your Biden's and Obama's and company or are
certainly more.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Than I would like.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
But having said that, he was obviously in an environment
with a person who is trying desperately to trap him
to get the big juicy news quote. And there is
subtlety and complexity to anything but the very very simplest
(28:23):
answer to those questions. Now, he could have given the
very very simplest answer, but he knew she was trying
to trap him, and so he.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Was engaging in ambivalence. I get it, and we'll play
you the clips.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So I think it's amazing that the Trump people are
willing to troll to the level they troll. I mean
two things. One thing she asked about I meet the
press yesterday. You sell Trump twenty twenty eight hats. I mean,
so that's some serious patrolling. They actually sell Trump twenty
twenty eight hats. Yes, And they put out on their
own one of their own feeds over the weekend, put
(28:55):
out the picture of him as pope and also so
him as a roided up muscle freak action hero guy
good lord an with a machine gunner.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So I want to talk about two movies I saw
every the weekend. Since I'm sick, I saw more movies
than usual. I saw the new Marvel Comics movie, which
had a really interesting message I thought, and my son
thought was the best deprayal deep portrayal of depression he's
ever seen in any TV or movie ever. Oh really, yeah,
which I find interesting. The very adult movie wasn't like
(29:33):
any other Marvel movie I've ever seen by far.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I actually people clapped at the end, including me. It
was really something.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You know, many including me have kicked Marvel absolutely four foisting,
increasingly dopey, idiotic. Oh these these idiots will watch anything,
no movies for the longest time, so you know they're
smart people.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
They got it. And then oh the other movie I watched.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I watched so where I the eighty year anniversary of
the Fall of Berlin, And I watched a movie I'd
never seen before with Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, The Bunker.
Have you ever seen that? I'd never even heard of it.
It's the best Hitler movie I've ever seen. I didn't
never even heard of it.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I feel like I have.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Oh my god, it was good. But I want to
talk about that later and some things around that, among
other stuff. We got mail bag on the way. I
hope you can stick around.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
The tryouts for Jack's replacements start before or after I die.
Asking for a friend, will there be a hot link
for risumni sub submissions? You know, as a man who's
played in a number of rock and roll bands through
the years, sometimes there's a week link and you need
to get rid of them, and you don't. You just say, yeah,
we can't practice this Tuesday. But everybody knows, but that
(30:54):
person you are practicing on Tuesday. But with the drummer,
you're auditioning. So that's what we've been doing. Anyway, Hanson
and I get together and do a show on Saturdays
with Billy Young Billy who's the new co host. Anyway,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day. Got a
great one for a Thursday, by the way, Jackie brought
(31:15):
up v E Day in World War Two. Got a
wonderful V Day related quote. But today's from Ben Franklin.
I love this because of its brevity. Here comes the
orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. Man,
how many political speeches have you heard that are a
flood of words and a drop of reason?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I like it? Or Ben piffy mail bag?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Did you go from basically late Great Ben Franklin, Late
Great Ben Franklin.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and getty dot com. Let's start light and move, you know,
towards the more pithy or more important Jay team Livermore
on the topic of weighing obese people, guys, you don't
need to take them to the zoo. Well, I would agree.
There are a couple of cases of people needing to
(32:10):
be weighed and they didn't have the proper scale at
any medical facility for them because of their their heavy heavyweights.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
They take them to weigh.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Hippopotamusis exactly which is hurtful all around. Anyway, He says,
you only need two traditional bathroom scales with a board
between them, and assuming the scales are accurate to two
hundred and fifty pounds, the two scales can weigh individuals
up to five hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
That's what we did.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We did that on the Armstrong and Getty Show. We
figured that out years ago. We used to give away
tickets to heavy people. Sacramento Kings were in the playoffs
and we gave away tickets to the biggest Kings fan
by weight, and we didn't have a five hundred pound scales.
We had two regular scales. They would put one foot
on each and it worked fine. That was in earlier
and more idiotic days on the show. We've moved beyond
(32:57):
that sort of foolishness.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What weighing giant people and giving them price.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Then he says, you don't need a super executive, expensive
elephant scale for your doctor's office. The scales can be
put away in a cabinet when weighing traditional patient. No.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
JT.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
No, it's much simpler to just have the big scale.
Uh oh, better bring out another. No, two more.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Scales, come on? Anyway? You are right.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Did you watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday? I did, and,
fueled by what do you make jin out of rice
juniper berries? Fueled by whatever's in gin, I threw down
a couple of ill advised dollars on various nags which
failed to cross the finished money fashion.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You didn't choose the winner? I did not?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Well, I never I never go with favorites. I mean,
what's the point anyway? Let's see, this is from Kevin.
It seems appropriate that a horse named sovereignty should defeat
a horse named journalism in this Saturday's Kentucky Derby during
a time that our country is taking back sovereignty. It's
a southern border and exposing fake journalism. Finding more meaning
(34:01):
from the horse names than I did, Kevin, But you're right,
that is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
How about Ryan reacting to the President on Meet the
Press with his you don't need two hundred pencils or
whatever he said, Dear Big Freedom and cyber Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Was President Trump telling me I should do with less.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
The man who drapes everything in gold, builds luxury resorts
and hotels that I can't afford to google much less
to go to and at the cost of tax payer dollars,
shows up to whatever sports of any wants.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It's telling me to do more or do with less.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Please, elected officials, don't tell me I could do with
less when you have grown fat and rich off the
American people. Let's Ryan from Houston. It was a solid
conservative lad.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, I don't think it's very good political messaging anyway.
Moving along totally different topic, JT writes one thing to
look ahead when you lower the federal He wrote a
multipoint email about GDP measurements, which were much in the
news at the end of the last week, and he
said one more thing, when you lower the federal budget,
(35:04):
that too causes a reduction in the GDP calculation. That's right,
because it's consumer spending plus investment plus government spending minus imports,
blah blah blah, which is just an accounting reality. It's
not that imports hurt the GDP. You just don't want
to double count that money.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
When you borrow money for the federal budget, that borrowed
money increases the GDP. Paying down the debt doesn't help
the GDP at all. It won't so if Trump and
dogs were actually able to find a trillion dollars to
cut from the federal budget, the GDP of the country
would go down by a trillion dollars, all other things
being equal. Well, in three months when the quarterly report
(35:42):
comes out, if it's down again, I'm taking that week
off while you all argue about whether or not this
is a recession. I can't wait. It'll be fascinating. Jt
rolls on though, and I think this is great. Here's
another example of how screwed up the GDP calculation is.
And I would add how silly it is to spend
a lot of time beating our over it. To Jack's point,
if Biden borrows two trillion dollars for his green energy
(36:04):
schemes and then Trump comes in and balances the budget,
the GDP will take a two trillion dollar hit year
over year from that act of financial sanity. This has
been one of my many many ghods that is so
esoteric nobody cares about. But I believe we really need
a new GDP like metric, that GDP like metric that
better measures the health of the economy. Yeah, that'll be
(36:29):
a fun argument. Is this a recession? Two down quarters
in a row? Blah blah, everybody will switch sides from
the last time I argued about it.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Now it'll be good times, you know.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
I'll just read passages from my favorite Dickens novels.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
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