May 20, 2025 • 35 mins
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- So much news to cover, transparency & Tapper's book
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- The Russia/Ukraine conflict & Europe's regulations
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
and Jettie and Key.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms from Studio C see signor it's the first time.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
In a month.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I've made it through that, Doug Coffing, that's fantastic progress.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're in a dimly lit room deep with from the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all
on little Wednesday. We're under the tutelage of our general manager, and.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I couldn't decide to keep going back and Forest, do
you have a favorite funny?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You would say that I was just.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Reading the morning newsletter I read every single day for
Mark Alburn, and he said this is the first time
in his career he can remember where when he got
up in the morning, he checked his top twenty five
news sources and No.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Two had the same headline.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh, and that was the lead story in that it's
so spread out over what people think is a big
story today, which obviously we get to decide what we
think is a big story.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Sure, sure, and there are several. Honestly, if I was
gonna go with one, I.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Don't even know Biden's nodule, the backlash, the nodule.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
On his prostate, among other things. Where are you on that?
Do you what do you think happened? I was just
watching News Nation today is you're flipping around the channels
and everything like that. MSNBC has decided to not cover
the story anymore. I'll bet they got so much pushback yesterday,
I bet they got killed by a lot of their viewers.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Wow to if it even in a minor way towards
sanity in the center, they get.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Murdered for it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They even they kind of led the way on the whole.
Wait a second, this timing is beyond suspicious. They were
like the lead on that yesterday. So but they were
the first person to have a doctor on questioning that,
but didn't cover it all today News Nation though, they
just stated it flatly, like not like even analysis, just
like news analysis. The guy they talked to, there are
(02:21):
no coincidences in Washington. So the release of the medical
information about Joe Biden obviously timed to, you know, throw
clouds over the her tapes and the book coming out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, they just stated it as fact. Do you
think that that's that clear?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I just happened to read an email from one of
our favorite correspondents who was rejecting that idea, saying that
the announcement of the cancer thing would draw more attention
to Biden's decline in age and that sort of thing.
And I'm not buying the argument. I think it is
injecting the cloud of sympathy, right and and and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know, here's an old fellow with a dread disease.
He's near death.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We can't be talking about him critically. Yeah, that fits
beautifully does. And the other explanation is inexplicable. Yeah real,
they just never tested him and never had any symptoms.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
No, come on, I.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Took in so much news coverag yesterday and I'd say
ninety nine out of one hundred doctors say it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
But they didn't know about this earlier. I mean, it's
just doesn't That's not the way it works. You don't
get to the level nine whatever reading on your prostate
cancer the first time you get checked, right as president
of the United States. But anyway, here's one aspect of
it that we should not put up with as a people.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I've been saying this for years. I wish we could
demand as a as a self governing country to get
information back. We should have been.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Able to demand yes yesterday, the media should have demanded,
and people should have fell in line, knowing that voters
will not put up with anything short of this.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
The doctor that looked at Joe Biden should have been
on TV yesterday afternoon answering the question did you ever
check him for prostate cancer?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
If not, why not? And if yes, what were the results?
That should have happened yesterday afternoon. There's no reason for
it to not. It's the president of the freaking United States, right,
What's what's the reason to compel that? Though I agree
with you, such a PARENTCYS as a governing body, everybody
(04:39):
should have to tell us everything, all the time, immediately.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
About their personal medical reality. That's a stretch.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm not saying I disagree exactly, but it's a stretch.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
They do it physical every single year. They talk about it. Yeah,
I think it in a completely dishonest way. Yes, I
think it's perfectly reasonable to ask the question did you
check for prostate cancer? Okay, you want to politically say
it's none of your business, Okay, roll the dice on that.
Go ahead and say it's not the public's business, my
own personal health's.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I find this a really interesting conversation. Up where do
we draw the line? I mean, if if the president
has a rash on his ass, does he have.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
To disclose that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
For instance, No, it's got a tendency toward acne, dandruff, And.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So where where do you draw the line? And I
don't way on the other side of you had a cancer,
that the treatment causes you to have mental difficulties and
trouble walking.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yes, that is one of the leading theories at this point. Yes,
I would agree. I just again, it's the practicalities of
it that I'm getting hung up.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Think a different topic then if you're if you if
the medical one is too complicated for you, pick the
dog bite one, or you know, any of the any
of the many things that happened, somebody should have to
answer questions immediately.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yes, yeah, I absolutely agree with you in principle, the
dog bite one.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
That comes up because I was listening, I was watching
a I was watching a podcast last night with reporters
with with with one reporter making the point that early
on in the Biden White House there they would cover
up everything. He said, they wouldn't be transparent about the
tiniest thing he said. At the very beginning, there was
I don't know if you remember, way back, there was
(06:35):
a wedding. Somebody in Joe Biden's family got married, and
they got married at the White House, which you're not
supposed to do because that's a you're just not supposed
to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's people's house, taxpayer thing. You can't do that clause
whatever it is. And they light about that, and the
reporter's like, this is so, I mean, why are you
lying about this? I mean, you're not being honest about this.
The dog bites, they weren't. They weren't honest about that.
From the very beginning. There was a whole bunch of
different things that the guy saw. These are minor incidents,
(07:04):
and why are you covering these up?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And it's just the way they operated. They weren't honest
about anything ever.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I just don't know how to deal with this other
than yelling about it on the radio. I mean, like
Trump's first medical disclosures were hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, he wasn't even trying.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
He found a guy on the street who may or
may not have been a doctor, who declared him the
healthiest man to ever inhabit the planet Earth. And that
was it was there a political price to pay, no,
or at least not measurable.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So I got the Jake Tapper book last night and
I started into it, and I read quite a bit
to go, and I've got some highlights from Matt.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
With the main takeaway being, first of all, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's unintentionally hilarious, really completely unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
They take themselves so seriously.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
They're letting the world know, they're pulling back the curtain
and allowing you to get a glimpse.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, it's just that it's hilarious. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean they open with a Shakespeare quote on the
first page before they get into it. I thought, you've
got to be kidding. You're going now way too self
important here.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
This really gets to are our core question about this?
Your core question about this? The answer appears to be yes,
Jake Tapper and the other fellow who did some good
reporting for Axios.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
At the time or whatever it was. But Jake Tapper
is that bubbled in, that self delusional. He doesn't know
that we know.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
New That's one hundred percent right, I'm not trying to
soften that at all, because you've got the evidence of
polls showing that majorities of Americans knew. So if majorities
of Americans new and with zero sources inside the White House,
why do you need any of those of you have sources.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But and it's not like we had a vague suspicion
it was denigible.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But it is more than I had realized. The tightest
inner circle, we're lying to everybody like at the next level,
Like I don't know how they're you know, Washington, d C.
Is famously if you want a friend, get a dog,
there are no you have no friends. I mean, everybody
just doesn't what's in their best self interest. But I
can't believe that there aren't more destroyed relationships. It'd be
(09:29):
like if you were lying to me about something important
to the show for years.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
And because I would obviously I would believe you. I mean,
that's that's the way it was.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It was.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It was like senators who had worked with other people
who were now you know, chief of staff or whatever
in the inner circle for for decades.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, who would say, damn, I'm a little worried about
the president.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I mean he looked roughly, don't trust me behind closed doors,
He's fine, you know. And you take their word for
it because it's somebody you've known for years.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And you go out and repeat it yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yes, because they wouldn't hang out to dry. This is
somebody you've known forever, your close friends, and they did.
They lied to like the people that have known forever.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I think in DC, and Lord knows, I'm not a
student of that culture. I find it horrifying in every way.
But I have a feeling that the brighter the light
in front of you, meaning the greater the power in
front of you, the less the little lights behind.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You are even visible.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I mean, if you're next to the ultimate power, that
senator you worked with for twenty years, I don't even
see his light anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Irony that Best Center, baby, because they're just crocodiles, those people.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I guess I got one more thing on the cancer
thing I want to say, But first we should start
the show officially.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
It is Tuesday, May the twentieth, the year twenty twenty
five or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, remind me, Michael's gotta give me my monthly prostate
exam during the commercial break.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I don't want to forget.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And full disclosure, we put all the pictures up on
the website. Oh yeah, if you want to see them all, Right,
here we go. Here's the beginning of the show.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Officially now, according to the FCC rules regulations, here we
are Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
If they came out and said, yeah, Biden knew about
it five years ago, I wouldn't be shocked. If they
came out and said Biden found out on Friday, I
wouldn't be shocked. And I understand the excitement over an
insidious democratic cover up about Joe Biden's mental decline. The
thing is, though, it was a terrible cover up because
(11:37):
we all knew.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
That new accept the big Foot media, and they would
just such a fascinating psychological study. Yes, not only were
they unaware, they were angry at the very suggestion that
it was true, including the guy who wrote the book
I was reading last night. Oh scream that Laura Trump
(12:04):
for claiming it wasn't the stutter. Yeah, I'll have to.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I got some excerpts from the book that are funny.
I'll do my screed about the playing on their emotions
from the Biden family, which I think they're doing, which
is just unconscionable. It is really unconscionable what they're doing.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We'll get there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
They lack the capacity apparently. Yeah, we got Katie's headlines
on the way. We got lots today. I hope you
can figure out.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The NBA has got to be happy that the New
York Knicks have gotten on a roll because the final
four teams are Oklahoma City, Minnesota, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And New York. That is not the star power they
want or the big markets that they want. Oh probably not.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I got lucky. New York made it in fantastic. I'm
happy for them, the good folks, and they try real hard.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
What a crazy show we have today. Just too much
to describe, So let's dive into it. Let's figure out
who's reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Starting with NBC, Trump allies shift from well wishes to
suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis because he obviously did.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The question is for how long? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Trump allies did that? Yeah? Trump? This is from NYC.
Trump like Joe Scarborough.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, right, I was listening to NPR on the drive
in and they said, while initially offering well wishes. Later
in the day, Trump turned to conspiracy theories about Biden's diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Is it a conspiracy theory? Really?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Every single doctor I heard yesterday, like one hundred doctors
said no way.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They just found out about.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
This on Friday, every single one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I feel about.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
The phrase conspiracy theory very much like I feel about.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The phrase fact check.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
It's an indication that the opposite is happening, but somebody
is just trying to, you know, deny without denying.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Please.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
From the Hill, Natanya who says Israel will control all
of Gaza take over aid deliveries.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The old weight didn't work very well, did it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
From the La Times, Palm Spring's bombing investigation turns to
the explosives.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
How are they sourced and built?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, that's what I asked yesterday. Where does this guy
learn how to build a bomb and where to get
this stuff? So, yeah, I'm gonna have to read that
La Times.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Article the internet and around I'm guessing and what a lunatic?
Oh anti human activist Shiemani from the Washington.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Post Supreme court allows Trump.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
To cancel protected status for Venezuelans for now.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that's quite the story.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I'd hate to be a Venezuelan who has given the
gift of temporary protected status by Biden and then have
it disappear.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
So if the President can, with the stroke of a pen,
declares something, the next guy can undeclare.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It From ABC.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Russia attacks Ukraine with drones after the Trump putin phone call.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, biggest drone attack over the weekend. They tried to
fire an intercontinental ballistic missile but it either didn't fire,
or they changed their mind or something.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Nobody's sure, but.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They almost fired off one of those over the weekend,
of course, which would have gotten a lot of.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Attention USA Today, six inmates still on the run after
escape from New Orleans jail.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Search enters day five. There are parts of.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
The South, including Louisiana, that have a reputation for being
a little fast and loose and sloppy and corrupt and
old boyish, and a number of different descriptors. This would
not discourage me from thinking some of those cliches are true.
These guys just broke out with ease, were gone for
eight hours before anybody had any idea.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
My favorite part is they left the message we One
of them left the message behind It said too easy
spelled too easy y lol.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
From the New York Post, French pizza chef confesses to
killing reclusive man, then shopping and cooking his body in
a pot of vegetables.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Oh delicious, a French pizza chef. That's the horn part
to me, does that even mean? French pizza chef?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And finally, from the.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Babylon b experts say AI unlikely to replace government bureaucrats
because it's not soulless enough.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And speaking of AI, so, there was a Shakespeare quote
at the beginning of the new Jake Tapper book that
I didn't understand and I was going to Google it,
and I thought, no, I'm going to do chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I put it in chet GPT. What does this mean?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Explained it at length with examples in a way that Google.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Could have never done.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh no, no, sell your stock, yes, man, if you're
not using chat GPT to answer simple questions, it's so
much better than going.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Or one of the other ones are terrific as well.
You know the way I have stock in Oh sorry,
I'll get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Some of the revelations from the book, among other things
on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So they done, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
President now claiming quote some progress in the effort to
end the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks Putin quote
has had enough, but Putin giving no indications Russia is
any closer to a ceasefire. President Trump now saying he
will leave it up to Ukraine and Russia to negotiate
for now.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What about the Putin call? Remember we had a clip
of that. What was that about? Show years ago? The
Putin call?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That's from like eight years ago, so I don't remember
it at the very beginning of Trump one. Yeah, any who,
Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin for about
two hours yesterday and takeaway seems to be I'm gonna
let them work it out. Which where does that leave things?
It leaves it as a win for Putin? I think yes,
(18:10):
although the ball is in Trump's court because he has
not said, at least as of yet, Okay, if you're
going to let them work that out, does that mean
them working it out while we continue to give a
tremendous amount of aid intelligence aid? Maybe being the most
important to Ukraine or not, because if it's or not,
(18:33):
it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I feel like those of us who would like to
see the US backing Ukraine are digging through about our
fifteenth pile of manure looking for the pony in Trump's negotiations.
Just this, maybe he's got this up his sleeve, you know,
feeling or hope. It's just it's been dashed over and
(18:56):
over again.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, he does have to go one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
We are either going to continue to back Ukraine the
way we have for three years or not. And if
we're not, that's a major change.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I think it's more likely that one happens.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Will he announce it or will it will it just
become evident at some point, I don't know, after this
period of Zelensky in Ukraine and Europe doing everything conceivable conceivable.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
To make it clear we want peace too, We're with
you on this and putin never giving a single sign
that he has any interest in Trump's piece too. No,
if the US policy becomes well then you all are
on your own. We're not going to support a Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well then we've but it's not a nothing. We've cided
with right now. In my opinion, I know one hundred
that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, And what seemed to be the lean is indeed
coming true. It was it was less than Putin showing
you wasn't interested in peace right now. He gave Trump
a long lecture of about why Ukraine belongs to Russia,
and he said this will not end until the underlying
problems are solved. Well, the underlying problems will not be
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solved until he has Ukraine correct.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
As Rich Lowry writes in The National Review, the play
for the Kremlin is obvious here. It wants to keep
pinching ahead with territorial gains, and if it continues to
string along the negotiations, has to hope that Trump tires
of the whole thing and cuts off USA to Ukraine.
That would reward Putin's intransigent with an important diplomatic victory
is split between the US and Europe, and a chance
to make major advances against an increasingly hard pressed Ukraine.
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And the only reference really to Trump being tired of
Putin and understanding that he's being played was that reference
to Putin's tapping me along, But I mean to come
out of the call yesterday and say, yeah, I think
we made progress. I don't know where that is.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Jd Vance presented it as as well, if you guys
aren't interested, then hey, we're out. As if that is
actually a neutral position, that is not a neutral position,
that's a taking the side of Russian position. So I
don't know if they're just trying, if they're trying to
fool people by presenting it is like we're staying.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Neutral on this or what. So the ball is.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
First off, I think in Trump's court, but then absolutely
in Europe's court as they got to figure out what
to do. So they had a big meeting over the
weekend of European leaders with a couple of interesting things
that came out of it. A big defense meeting of
the Germany, the big people Germany, Britain, France, poland a
couple of things. They announced. Germany is going to lift
(21:35):
their prohibition on nuclear energy that they've had since World
War Two, so they are going to, like France, start
using nuclear energy so that they don't have to buy
energy from Russia.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So that's a pretty big deal economically for Russia.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, they also announced in that meeting that Russia will
does not present NATO a dilemma in five like had
previously been thought if the war were to end soon,
but could within a year, like they could be back
up to speed enough within a year to present NATO
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a real bulemma of what do we do now? If
they move on Estonia, they would be strong enough. That's
what the European countries announced over the weekend. And then
I really liked this quote that came out of it.
I think from the leader of Poland. Russia has been
playing hockey for years. We are not going to figure
skate our way out of this.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Oh that's some good ice sport metaphor slinging there, sir, Yeah, Adam,
well done.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That went with also one of the leaders saying the
years of two percent funding of our military are over.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's going to have to be more like five percent. Yeah,
if there were days.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I wish we had unlimited time for this sort of
thing because it's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I have all sorts of interesting.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Well I suppose you all will be the judge of
that when I delivered it, but I found it really
really intriguing analysis of Europe and everything that's wrong with it.
I think the Russia attack on Ukraine following the annexation
of Crimea and the attack on Georgia and everything else
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has has and Germany continuing to buy oil from Russia
after that happened, and all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, right, I think.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
It's finally gotten to the point that it's shaken the dopey,
dopey Euros out of their torpor, their their their sleepiness,
their fantasy land that they've been living in for the
past a bunch of years. After you know, the US
security umbrella enabled them to invest vast sums of money
into welfare states and socialism and the rest of it.
(23:42):
And and I would I would like to issue a
hammering indictment against them for all of that crap. But
I think they're right about Russia and Ukraine. We're not
going to figure skate our way out of this.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, I love that. Here here's the takeaway.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
And this was going to be the takeaway after I
built a case over many, many minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But I'll give you the takeaway.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We need to work every day as a country to
not become Europe. And there are a couple of examples
of a great piece by Walter Russell Mead about why
democracy is in retreat, and he cites several cases in
Europe about anybody who does not go along with the
(24:26):
very very mainstream view of who ought to get elected
and what policies ought to be passed is decried as
undemocratic and dangerous, like the AfD party in Germany. And
I could go into detail on that. The more I learned,
the more interested I get. But their definition of democracy
is the results I want, and anything that challenges that
(24:51):
is swept aside. Like the AfD ought to be in
an alliance with the party that won.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The most seats.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
It's obvious the effort to keep them out because of
a few crack pots and being a little soft down
Russia or whatever is just it's twisting the German political
system into knots.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
They're subsessed with it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
The men declared a terrorist organization or whatever so people
can listen to their phone calls and read their emails.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Well, yes, but actually, as long as we're talking about
this is let me click over.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I think it's right there.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, So last week the German government officially designated the
opposition party AfD as a confirmed extremist organization. The announcement
came from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,
their domestic intelligence agency, blah blah blah. Then on Wednesday
they abruptly withdrew the extremist label. They will now monitor
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the party only as a suspected case, which still allows
some surveillance in a way Americans would find repugnant, but
under much stricter judicial oversight. And somebody leaked the report
and it reveals that the evident against the AfD consisted
not of plans for violence or insurrection, but just controversial
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rhetoric and deeply nationalist views, none of which should have
triggered that designation. So it was the quote unquote mainstream
powers that be trying to label as extremist anybody who
dared shake their hold on power, which is exactly what
I was driving at. Their definition of democracy is democracy
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with the right results, and that's terrible. The other thing
I really wanted to talk about is the Wall Street
Journal had a great piece about how huge tech is
in the world economy right now, technology in general, and
how tiny Europe's share of it is. The EU rivals
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I mean, it's in the same weight class more or
less if you take it as a whole, the US
economy and the Chinese economy.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's a juggernaut.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
But you want to talk tech, Oh, it's sad, it's pathetic.
Apple's market value is bigger than the entire German stock market,
for instance. There's no Google, there's no Amazon, there's no Meta.
In Europe, there's nothing even slightly close. And this Journal
article goes into depth and has a bunch of different
examples of native born tech people, German tech people who
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brought what they learned back from Silicon Valley to Europe
and were immediately crushed by strict labor laws, a risk
averse business culture, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
lackluster economic growth, no demographic growth, and said no, and
back to California they went, or other places. Yeah and so,
(27:48):
and you know that list. I'm gonna hit it one
more time and we free marketers. So hold all dragon fans.
I know we're sad. And then we ought to have
industry planning in tariffs and the rest of it. But
Europe is crushed by a timid and risk averse business culture,
strict labor laws, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
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and lackluster economic growth.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Don't become Europe.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
That's what we as a country need to repeat to
ourselves every morning. You gotta make your bed. It's a
small act of discipline and positive something or other. I
believe in it very much, and say, let's not become
Europe today.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Like when you get up in the morning, use I'm
going to be a good person today or or whatever
your mantra is, right, I'm going to do kindness whatever,
do God's will today and stay positive. Let's not become
Europe today.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yes, we're going to build a utopia through a million regulations.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yes, our two.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'll get into a little of what I pulled out
of the first part of Jake Tapper's book that I
started reading last night when I was in bed again
unintentionally hilarious, along with some.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Interesting nuggets about what was going on there.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's the biggest failure of media in our nation's history,
and it should not just disappear as a minor thing.
Luckily it has not been for at least the last
couple of weeks. Now I need to promote a mail bag.
It's going to go heavily into the two big topics
of yesterday's show, especially Ai and Jack Black's grooming so
(29:38):
fat so greasy is my headline. If I'm reviewing the
Minecraft movie. You're not wrong. You can't wash your face
before you walk out there. I mean, it's not asking
a lot. Okay, all about on the way stay here.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So the big beautiful, complicated bill, they had a vote
Sunday night at ten That's the one we were talking
about yesterday that it got out of committee. They voted
at ten pm on Sunday night. I haven't heard a
good explanation as for why the next vote is one
am tonight tomorrow one am. Why are they doing that?
Do you know? Are they voting after raves on Capitol Hill? Now? Oh,
(30:18):
I can't imagine. Wake me up when it's time to vote.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I want there's got to be a reason though, if
you know text four one two nine five KFDC. I
know what the Democrats are claiming, but I don't think
that's it.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They're trying to steal it away in the dark of night, right, yeah, okay,
all right, Like it's not going to come out in
the papers the next day because normally the American people,
because it's at noon, can storm in there and demand
that they do something different.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, that's not the way it works ridiculous. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day. Love this one, Thomas Sowell.
Keep it in mind. What's ominous is the ease with
which some people go from saying that they don't like
something saying that the government should forbid it. When you
go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. Ah.
That's a good one, mail Bag. Although we all have
(31:04):
our things like I'm that way with leaf moors.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I would like that to be banned by the government everyone,
But just that that's reasonable. So speaking of quotes, oh,
drop us a note mailbag and armstrung and giddy dot comes.
Speaking of quote, we were talking about graduation quotes and
what you might have on.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Your mortar board and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And let's see this is rich Salt Lake City wrote
my daughters graduating from high school.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Here's a photo of the quote she put in the yearbook.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
I feel like I have somehow succeeding in raising her
properly because of your homespun wisdom. Her graduation quote was
stupid should hurt.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
That's a good one. She credited her dad with that quote.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Cool, even though that's been our slogan for many, many years.
But that's fine. We will lend it to you rich
if that increases the bond with your beautiful daughter. Happy
to lend that. I liked another gal who's listed on
this sheet. Her quote is long story short, I survived.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Well, let's see how about this JT and libermore rights
to claim that there aren't two parties any longer. This
is the point we were talking about this. There's not
really time to reset the discussion. But the parties don't
stand for anything fixed or even semi fixed.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
They just change with the wind.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
The two parties we have today are stronger and more
unified than ever before in American history. How else to
explain how party members will no longer date across political lines.
How else to explain the left's use of basketed deplorables.
Bitter clingers are Biden's short but awful garbage, and they're
not too distant past. There were fiscally conservative Democrats, there
are socially liberal Republicans. You're free to cross party lines
(32:37):
for the things you believed in. That's gone by the wayside.
Saber metrics has taken over politics, and both sides now
demand near complete loyalty in voting.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
A lot of it has to do with Citizens United,
which is correctly decided, but that doesn't mean it was
good for the country. The fact that you can raise
you all these small amounts or attack somebody, a pro
life Democrat or a pro choice Republican for instance, would
get killed in the modern era. Well, Citizens United was
(33:08):
about corporations making political contributions, and the left thought that's
going to ruin everything, But no, it is the Internet.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
The Internet. Citizens United was completely insignificant compared to the Internet,
which now moves mountains. Anyway, to finish up JT's point.
To put in another way, we now have two parties
defined by not being the other party called negative what
is it called negative polarization? Yeah, anyway, Yeah, some good
(33:35):
points there. Let's see, and he points out that.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
We're worse than a credit card holder making the minimum
payment because we're borrowing the money to pay the interest
on our debt.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
You're borrowing from your parents to make the minimum payment
on your credit card. That's you're in bad shape.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Twenty fourteen, Hunter Biden thinks for behaving irresponsibly as a
country on the topic of artificial general intelligence, powow quotes
several people as saying, we're not nearly as far down
the road. The technology we have today is not sufficient
to get there, says one super giant AI startup guy.
(34:13):
Then he describes how it's just a predictive thing. It's
not thinking. Consider something as mundane as customer service. Chat
pots are terrible, even though they deal with fairly restricted
subject areas I'm summarizing here. Then he quotes one of
the great AI guys of the early days who said,
nineteen seventy or three to eight years from serious general
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artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I want that to be true.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I also know that's a minority opinion, and it's always
farther off than they say. On the other hand, you know,
we've got a couple of examples, including yesterday when I
came up with an edgy name for a political party
and was designing a logo, and chat GPT said, now,
do you want to steer into the edginess of the name.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
With the illustration with the logo?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
You want to make it more stock like a political party. Okay,
maybe that's not the artificial general intelligence, but it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Another example of AI amazing this here. But we're out
of time.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah, we'll talk about that later. We'll talk about that
for the rest of our lives, probably as it takes
over the world. The robot good point, and the robots
start to swing their arms and knock our heads off.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Boy, that video really made an impression on you, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Oh The Jake Tapper book unintentionally hilarious. I got some
highlights from that. I was reading it last night in bed.
How fun is that?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
An hour two Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
and Jettie and Key.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:38):
I've made it through that, Doug Coffing, that's fantastic progress.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're in a dimly lit room deep with from the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Hey, y'all
on little Wednesday. We're under the tutelage of our general manager, and.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I couldn't decide to keep going back and Forest, do
you have a favorite funny?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You would say that I was just.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Reading the morning newsletter I read every single day for
Mark Alburn, and he said this is the first time
in his career he can remember where when he got
up in the morning, he checked his top twenty five
news sources and No.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Two had the same headline.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh, and that was the lead story in that it's
so spread out over what people think is a big
story today, which obviously we get to decide what we
think is a big story.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Sure, sure, and there are several. Honestly, if I was
gonna go with one, I.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Don't even know Biden's nodule, the backlash, the nodule.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
On his prostate, among other things. Where are you on that?
Do you what do you think happened? I was just
watching News Nation today is you're flipping around the channels
and everything like that. MSNBC has decided to not cover
the story anymore. I'll bet they got so much pushback yesterday,
I bet they got killed by a lot of their viewers.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Wow to if it even in a minor way towards
sanity in the center, they get.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Murdered for it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They even they kind of led the way on the whole.
Wait a second, this timing is beyond suspicious. They were
like the lead on that yesterday. So but they were
the first person to have a doctor on questioning that,
but didn't cover it all today News Nation though, they
just stated it flatly, like not like even analysis, just
like news analysis. The guy they talked to, there are
(02:21):
no coincidences in Washington. So the release of the medical
information about Joe Biden obviously timed to, you know, throw
clouds over the her tapes and the book coming out.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, they just stated it as fact. Do you
think that that's that clear?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I just happened to read an email from one of
our favorite correspondents who was rejecting that idea, saying that
the announcement of the cancer thing would draw more attention
to Biden's decline in age and that sort of thing.
And I'm not buying the argument. I think it is
injecting the cloud of sympathy, right and and and.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know, here's an old fellow with a dread disease.
He's near death.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
We can't be talking about him critically. Yeah, that fits
beautifully does. And the other explanation is inexplicable. Yeah real,
they just never tested him and never had any symptoms.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
No, come on, I.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Took in so much news coverag yesterday and I'd say
ninety nine out of one hundred doctors say it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
But they didn't know about this earlier. I mean, it's
just doesn't That's not the way it works. You don't
get to the level nine whatever reading on your prostate
cancer the first time you get checked, right as president
of the United States. But anyway, here's one aspect of
it that we should not put up with as a people.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I've been saying this for years. I wish we could
demand as a as a self governing country to get
information back. We should have been.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Able to demand yes yesterday, the media should have demanded,
and people should have fell in line, knowing that voters
will not put up with anything short of this.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
The doctor that looked at Joe Biden should have been
on TV yesterday afternoon answering the question did you ever
check him for prostate cancer?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
If not, why not? And if yes, what were the results?
That should have happened yesterday afternoon. There's no reason for
it to not. It's the president of the freaking United States, right,
What's what's the reason to compel that? Though I agree
with you, such a PARENTCYS as a governing body, everybody
(04:39):
should have to tell us everything, all the time, immediately.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
About their personal medical reality. That's a stretch.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm not saying I disagree exactly, but it's a stretch.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
They do it physical every single year. They talk about it. Yeah,
I think it in a completely dishonest way. Yes, I
think it's perfectly reasonable to ask the question did you
check for prostate cancer? Okay, you want to politically say
it's none of your business, Okay, roll the dice on that.
Go ahead and say it's not the public's business, my
own personal health's.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I find this a really interesting conversation. Up where do
we draw the line? I mean, if if the president
has a rash on his ass, does he have.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
To disclose that.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
For instance, No, it's got a tendency toward acne, dandruff, And.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So where where do you draw the line? And I
don't way on the other side of you had a cancer,
that the treatment causes you to have mental difficulties and
trouble walking.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yes, that is one of the leading theories at this point. Yes,
I would agree. I just again, it's the practicalities of
it that I'm getting hung up.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Think a different topic then if you're if you if
the medical one is too complicated for you, pick the
dog bite one, or you know, any of the any
of the many things that happened, somebody should have to
answer questions immediately.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yes, yeah, I absolutely agree with you in principle, the
dog bite one.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
That comes up because I was listening, I was watching
a I was watching a podcast last night with reporters
with with with one reporter making the point that early
on in the Biden White House there they would cover
up everything. He said, they wouldn't be transparent about the
tiniest thing he said. At the very beginning, there was
I don't know if you remember, way back, there was
(06:35):
a wedding. Somebody in Joe Biden's family got married, and
they got married at the White House, which you're not
supposed to do because that's a you're just not supposed
to do that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It's people's house, taxpayer thing. You can't do that clause
whatever it is. And they light about that, and the
reporter's like, this is so, I mean, why are you
lying about this? I mean, you're not being honest about this.
The dog bites, they weren't. They weren't honest about that.
From the very beginning. There was a whole bunch of
different things that the guy saw. These are minor incidents,
(07:04):
and why are you covering these up?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And it's just the way they operated. They weren't honest
about anything ever.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I just don't know how to deal with this other
than yelling about it on the radio. I mean, like
Trump's first medical disclosures were hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, he wasn't even trying.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
He found a guy on the street who may or
may not have been a doctor, who declared him the
healthiest man to ever inhabit the planet Earth. And that
was it was there a political price to pay, no,
or at least not measurable.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So I got the Jake Tapper book last night and
I started into it, and I read quite a bit
to go, and I've got some highlights from Matt.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
With the main takeaway being, first of all, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's unintentionally hilarious, really completely unintentionally hilarious.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
They take themselves so seriously.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
They're letting the world know, they're pulling back the curtain
and allowing you to get a glimpse.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, it's just that it's hilarious. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean they open with a Shakespeare quote on the
first page before they get into it. I thought, you've
got to be kidding. You're going now way too self
important here.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
This really gets to are our core question about this?
Your core question about this? The answer appears to be yes,
Jake Tapper and the other fellow who did some good
reporting for Axios.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
At the time or whatever it was. But Jake Tapper
is that bubbled in, that self delusional. He doesn't know
that we know.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
New That's one hundred percent right, I'm not trying to
soften that at all, because you've got the evidence of
polls showing that majorities of Americans knew. So if majorities
of Americans new and with zero sources inside the White House,
why do you need any of those of you have sources.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But and it's not like we had a vague suspicion
it was denigible.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But it is more than I had realized. The tightest
inner circle, we're lying to everybody like at the next level,
Like I don't know how they're you know, Washington, d C.
Is famously if you want a friend, get a dog,
there are no you have no friends. I mean, everybody
just doesn't what's in their best self interest. But I
can't believe that there aren't more destroyed relationships. It'd be
(09:29):
like if you were lying to me about something important
to the show for years.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
And because I would obviously I would believe you. I mean,
that's that's the way it was.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It was.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It was like senators who had worked with other people
who were now you know, chief of staff or whatever
in the inner circle for for decades.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, who would say, damn, I'm a little worried about
the president.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I mean he looked roughly, don't trust me behind closed doors,
He's fine, you know. And you take their word for
it because it's somebody you've known for years.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And you go out and repeat it yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yes, because they wouldn't hang out to dry. This is
somebody you've known forever, your close friends, and they did.
They lied to like the people that have known forever.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I think in DC, and Lord knows, I'm not a
student of that culture. I find it horrifying in every way.
But I have a feeling that the brighter the light
in front of you, meaning the greater the power in
front of you, the less the little lights behind.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You are even visible.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I mean, if you're next to the ultimate power, that
senator you worked with for twenty years, I don't even
see his light anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Irony that Best Center, baby, because they're just crocodiles, those people.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I guess I got one more thing on the cancer
thing I want to say, But first we should start
the show officially.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
It is Tuesday, May the twentieth, the year twenty twenty
five or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah, remind me, Michael's gotta give me my monthly prostate
exam during the commercial break.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I don't want to forget.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And full disclosure, we put all the pictures up on
the website. Oh yeah, if you want to see them all, Right,
here we go. Here's the beginning of the show.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Officially now, according to the FCC rules regulations, here we
are Mark.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
If they came out and said, yeah, Biden knew about
it five years ago, I wouldn't be shocked. If they
came out and said Biden found out on Friday, I
wouldn't be shocked. And I understand the excitement over an
insidious democratic cover up about Joe Biden's mental decline. The
thing is, though, it was a terrible cover up because
(11:37):
we all knew.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
That new accept the big Foot media, and they would
just such a fascinating psychological study. Yes, not only were
they unaware, they were angry at the very suggestion that
it was true, including the guy who wrote the book
I was reading last night. Oh scream that Laura Trump
(12:04):
for claiming it wasn't the stutter. Yeah, I'll have to.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I got some excerpts from the book that are funny.
I'll do my screed about the playing on their emotions
from the Biden family, which I think they're doing, which
is just unconscionable. It is really unconscionable what they're doing.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We'll get there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
They lack the capacity apparently. Yeah, we got Katie's headlines
on the way. We got lots today. I hope you
can figure out.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
The NBA has got to be happy that the New
York Knicks have gotten on a roll because the final
four teams are Oklahoma City, Minnesota, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And New York. That is not the star power they
want or the big markets that they want. Oh probably not.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I got lucky. New York made it in fantastic. I'm
happy for them, the good folks, and they try real hard.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
What a crazy show we have today. Just too much
to describe, So let's dive into it. Let's figure out
who's reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Starting with NBC, Trump allies shift from well wishes to
suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis because he obviously did.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
The question is for how long? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Trump allies did that? Yeah? Trump? This is from NYC.
Trump like Joe Scarborough.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Yeah, right, I was listening to NPR on the drive
in and they said, while initially offering well wishes. Later
in the day, Trump turned to conspiracy theories about Biden's diagnosis.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Is it a conspiracy theory? Really?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Every single doctor I heard yesterday, like one hundred doctors
said no way.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They just found out about.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
This on Friday, every single one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I feel about.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
The phrase conspiracy theory very much like I feel about.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The phrase fact check.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
It's an indication that the opposite is happening, but somebody
is just trying to, you know, deny without denying.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Please.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
From the Hill, Natanya who says Israel will control all
of Gaza take over aid deliveries.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The old weight didn't work very well, did it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
From the La Times, Palm Spring's bombing investigation turns to
the explosives.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
How are they sourced and built?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, that's what I asked yesterday. Where does this guy
learn how to build a bomb and where to get
this stuff? So, yeah, I'm gonna have to read that
La Times.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Article the internet and around I'm guessing and what a lunatic?
Oh anti human activist Shiemani from the Washington.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Post Supreme court allows Trump.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
To cancel protected status for Venezuelans for now.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that's quite the story.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I'd hate to be a Venezuelan who has given the
gift of temporary protected status by Biden and then have
it disappear.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
So if the President can, with the stroke of a pen,
declares something, the next guy can undeclare.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It From ABC.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Russia attacks Ukraine with drones after the Trump putin phone call.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, biggest drone attack over the weekend. They tried to
fire an intercontinental ballistic missile but it either didn't fire,
or they changed their mind or something.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Nobody's sure, but.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
They almost fired off one of those over the weekend,
of course, which would have gotten a lot of.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Attention USA Today, six inmates still on the run after
escape from New Orleans jail.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Search enters day five. There are parts of.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
The South, including Louisiana, that have a reputation for being
a little fast and loose and sloppy and corrupt and
old boyish, and a number of different descriptors. This would
not discourage me from thinking some of those cliches are true.
These guys just broke out with ease, were gone for
eight hours before anybody had any idea.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
My favorite part is they left the message we One
of them left the message behind It said too easy
spelled too easy y lol.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
From the New York Post, French pizza chef confesses to
killing reclusive man, then shopping and cooking his body in
a pot of vegetables.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Oh delicious, a French pizza chef. That's the horn part
to me, does that even mean? French pizza chef?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And finally, from the.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Babylon b experts say AI unlikely to replace government bureaucrats
because it's not soulless enough.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And speaking of AI, so, there was a Shakespeare quote
at the beginning of the new Jake Tapper book that
I didn't understand and I was going to Google it,
and I thought, no, I'm going to do chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I put it in chet GPT. What does this mean?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Explained it at length with examples in a way that Google.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Could have never done.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh no, no, sell your stock, yes, man, if you're
not using chat GPT to answer simple questions, it's so
much better than going.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Or one of the other ones are terrific as well.
You know the way I have stock in Oh sorry,
I'll get out of the way.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Some of the revelations from the book, among other things
on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So they done, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
President now claiming quote some progress in the effort to
end the war in Ukraine, saying he thinks Putin quote
has had enough, but Putin giving no indications Russia is
any closer to a ceasefire. President Trump now saying he
will leave it up to Ukraine and Russia to negotiate
for now.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What about the Putin call? Remember we had a clip
of that. What was that about? Show years ago? The
Putin call?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
That's from like eight years ago, so I don't remember
it at the very beginning of Trump one. Yeah, any who,
Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin for about
two hours yesterday and takeaway seems to be I'm gonna
let them work it out. Which where does that leave things?
It leaves it as a win for Putin? I think yes,
(18:10):
although the ball is in Trump's court because he has
not said, at least as of yet, Okay, if you're
going to let them work that out, does that mean
them working it out while we continue to give a
tremendous amount of aid intelligence aid? Maybe being the most
important to Ukraine or not, because if it's or not,
(18:33):
it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I feel like those of us who would like to
see the US backing Ukraine are digging through about our
fifteenth pile of manure looking for the pony in Trump's negotiations.
Just this, maybe he's got this up his sleeve, you know,
feeling or hope. It's just it's been dashed over and
(18:56):
over again.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, he does have to go one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
We are either going to continue to back Ukraine the
way we have for three years or not. And if
we're not, that's a major change.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I think it's more likely that one happens.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Will he announce it or will it will it just
become evident at some point, I don't know, after this
period of Zelensky in Ukraine and Europe doing everything conceivable conceivable.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
To make it clear we want peace too, We're with
you on this and putin never giving a single sign
that he has any interest in Trump's piece too. No,
if the US policy becomes well then you all are
on your own. We're not going to support a Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well then we've but it's not a nothing. We've cided
with right now. In my opinion, I know one hundred
that's exactly my point.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, And what seemed to be the lean is indeed
coming true. It was it was less than Putin showing
you wasn't interested in peace right now. He gave Trump
a long lecture of about why Ukraine belongs to Russia,
and he said this will not end until the underlying
problems are solved. Well, the underlying problems will not be
(20:09):
solved until he has Ukraine correct.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
As Rich Lowry writes in The National Review, the play
for the Kremlin is obvious here. It wants to keep
pinching ahead with territorial gains, and if it continues to
string along the negotiations, has to hope that Trump tires
of the whole thing and cuts off USA to Ukraine.
That would reward Putin's intransigent with an important diplomatic victory
is split between the US and Europe, and a chance
to make major advances against an increasingly hard pressed Ukraine.
(20:35):
And the only reference really to Trump being tired of
Putin and understanding that he's being played was that reference
to Putin's tapping me along, But I mean to come
out of the call yesterday and say, yeah, I think
we made progress. I don't know where that is.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Jd Vance presented it as as well, if you guys
aren't interested, then hey, we're out. As if that is
actually a neutral position, that is not a neutral position,
that's a taking the side of Russian position. So I
don't know if they're just trying, if they're trying to
fool people by presenting it is like we're staying.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Neutral on this or what. So the ball is.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
First off, I think in Trump's court, but then absolutely
in Europe's court as they got to figure out what
to do. So they had a big meeting over the
weekend of European leaders with a couple of interesting things
that came out of it. A big defense meeting of
the Germany, the big people Germany, Britain, France, poland a
couple of things. They announced. Germany is going to lift
(21:35):
their prohibition on nuclear energy that they've had since World
War Two, so they are going to, like France, start
using nuclear energy so that they don't have to buy
energy from Russia.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So that's a pretty big deal economically for Russia.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, they also announced in that meeting that Russia will
does not present NATO a dilemma in five like had
previously been thought if the war were to end soon,
but could within a year, like they could be back
up to speed enough within a year to present NATO
(22:11):
a real bulemma of what do we do now? If
they move on Estonia, they would be strong enough. That's
what the European countries announced over the weekend. And then
I really liked this quote that came out of it.
I think from the leader of Poland. Russia has been
playing hockey for years. We are not going to figure
skate our way out of this.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Oh that's some good ice sport metaphor slinging there, sir, Yeah, Adam,
well done.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That went with also one of the leaders saying the
years of two percent funding of our military are over.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's going to have to be more like five percent. Yeah,
if there were days.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
I wish we had unlimited time for this sort of
thing because it's so interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I have all sorts of interesting.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Well I suppose you all will be the judge of
that when I delivered it, but I found it really
really intriguing analysis of Europe and everything that's wrong with it.
I think the Russia attack on Ukraine following the annexation
of Crimea and the attack on Georgia and everything else
(23:11):
has has and Germany continuing to buy oil from Russia
after that happened, and all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, right, I think.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
It's finally gotten to the point that it's shaken the dopey,
dopey Euros out of their torpor, their their their sleepiness,
their fantasy land that they've been living in for the
past a bunch of years. After you know, the US
security umbrella enabled them to invest vast sums of money
into welfare states and socialism and the rest of it.
(23:42):
And and I would I would like to issue a
hammering indictment against them for all of that crap. But
I think they're right about Russia and Ukraine. We're not
going to figure skate our way out of this.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, I love that. Here here's the takeaway.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
And this was going to be the takeaway after I
built a case over many, many minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But I'll give you the takeaway.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
We need to work every day as a country to
not become Europe. And there are a couple of examples
of a great piece by Walter Russell Mead about why
democracy is in retreat, and he cites several cases in
Europe about anybody who does not go along with the
(24:26):
very very mainstream view of who ought to get elected
and what policies ought to be passed is decried as
undemocratic and dangerous, like the AfD party in Germany. And
I could go into detail on that. The more I learned,
the more interested I get. But their definition of democracy
is the results I want, and anything that challenges that
(24:51):
is swept aside. Like the AfD ought to be in
an alliance with the party that won.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The most seats.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
It's obvious the effort to keep them out because of
a few crack pots and being a little soft down
Russia or whatever is just it's twisting the German political
system into knots.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
They're subsessed with it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
The men declared a terrorist organization or whatever so people
can listen to their phone calls and read their emails.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Well, yes, but actually, as long as we're talking about
this is let me click over.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I think it's right there.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, So last week the German government officially designated the
opposition party AfD as a confirmed extremist organization. The announcement
came from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,
their domestic intelligence agency, blah blah blah. Then on Wednesday
they abruptly withdrew the extremist label. They will now monitor
(25:46):
the party only as a suspected case, which still allows
some surveillance in a way Americans would find repugnant, but
under much stricter judicial oversight. And somebody leaked the report
and it reveals that the evident against the AfD consisted
not of plans for violence or insurrection, but just controversial
(26:06):
rhetoric and deeply nationalist views, none of which should have
triggered that designation. So it was the quote unquote mainstream
powers that be trying to label as extremist anybody who
dared shake their hold on power, which is exactly what
I was driving at. Their definition of democracy is democracy
(26:29):
with the right results, and that's terrible. The other thing
I really wanted to talk about is the Wall Street
Journal had a great piece about how huge tech is
in the world economy right now, technology in general, and
how tiny Europe's share of it is. The EU rivals
(26:53):
I mean, it's in the same weight class more or
less if you take it as a whole, the US
economy and the Chinese economy.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's a juggernaut.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
But you want to talk tech, Oh, it's sad, it's pathetic.
Apple's market value is bigger than the entire German stock market,
for instance. There's no Google, there's no Amazon, there's no Meta.
In Europe, there's nothing even slightly close. And this Journal
article goes into depth and has a bunch of different
examples of native born tech people, German tech people who
(27:24):
brought what they learned back from Silicon Valley to Europe
and were immediately crushed by strict labor laws, a risk
averse business culture, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
lackluster economic growth, no demographic growth, and said no, and
back to California they went, or other places. Yeah and so,
(27:48):
and you know that list. I'm gonna hit it one
more time and we free marketers. So hold all dragon fans.
I know we're sad. And then we ought to have
industry planning in tariffs and the rest of it. But
Europe is crushed by a timid and risk averse business culture,
strict labor laws, suffocating regulations, smaller pool of venture capital,
(28:12):
and lackluster economic growth.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Don't become Europe.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
That's what we as a country need to repeat to
ourselves every morning. You gotta make your bed. It's a
small act of discipline and positive something or other. I
believe in it very much, and say, let's not become
Europe today.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Like when you get up in the morning, use I'm
going to be a good person today or or whatever
your mantra is, right, I'm going to do kindness whatever,
do God's will today and stay positive. Let's not become
Europe today.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yes, we're going to build a utopia through a million regulations.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yes, our two.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I'll get into a little of what I pulled out
of the first part of Jake Tapper's book that I
started reading last night when I was in bed again
unintentionally hilarious, along with some.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Interesting nuggets about what was going on there.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
It's the biggest failure of media in our nation's history,
and it should not just disappear as a minor thing.
Luckily it has not been for at least the last
couple of weeks. Now I need to promote a mail bag.
It's going to go heavily into the two big topics
of yesterday's show, especially Ai and Jack Black's grooming so
(29:38):
fat so greasy is my headline. If I'm reviewing the
Minecraft movie. You're not wrong. You can't wash your face
before you walk out there. I mean, it's not asking
a lot. Okay, all about on the way stay here.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So the big beautiful, complicated bill, they had a vote
Sunday night at ten That's the one we were talking
about yesterday that it got out of committee. They voted
at ten pm on Sunday night. I haven't heard a
good explanation as for why the next vote is one
am tonight tomorrow one am. Why are they doing that?
Do you know? Are they voting after raves on Capitol Hill? Now? Oh,
(30:18):
I can't imagine. Wake me up when it's time to vote.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I want there's got to be a reason though, if
you know text four one two nine five KFDC. I
know what the Democrats are claiming, but I don't think
that's it.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They're trying to steal it away in the dark of night, right, yeah, okay,
all right, Like it's not going to come out in
the papers the next day because normally the American people,
because it's at noon, can storm in there and demand
that they do something different.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, that's not the way it works ridiculous. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day. Love this one, Thomas Sowell.
Keep it in mind. What's ominous is the ease with
which some people go from saying that they don't like
something saying that the government should forbid it. When you
go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. Ah.
That's a good one, mail Bag. Although we all have
(31:04):
our things like I'm that way with leaf moors.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I would like that to be banned by the government everyone,
But just that that's reasonable. So speaking of quotes, oh,
drop us a note mailbag and armstrung and giddy dot comes.
Speaking of quote, we were talking about graduation quotes and
what you might have on.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Your mortar board and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
And let's see this is rich Salt Lake City wrote
my daughters graduating from high school.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Here's a photo of the quote she put in the yearbook.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
I feel like I have somehow succeeding in raising her
properly because of your homespun wisdom. Her graduation quote was
stupid should hurt.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
That's a good one. She credited her dad with that quote.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Cool, even though that's been our slogan for many, many years.
But that's fine. We will lend it to you rich
if that increases the bond with your beautiful daughter. Happy
to lend that. I liked another gal who's listed on
this sheet. Her quote is long story short, I survived.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Well, let's see how about this JT and libermore rights
to claim that there aren't two parties any longer. This
is the point we were talking about this. There's not
really time to reset the discussion. But the parties don't
stand for anything fixed or even semi fixed.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
They just change with the wind.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
The two parties we have today are stronger and more
unified than ever before in American history. How else to
explain how party members will no longer date across political lines.
How else to explain the left's use of basketed deplorables.
Bitter clingers are Biden's short but awful garbage, and they're
not too distant past. There were fiscally conservative Democrats, there
are socially liberal Republicans. You're free to cross party lines
(32:37):
for the things you believed in. That's gone by the wayside.
Saber metrics has taken over politics, and both sides now
demand near complete loyalty in voting.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
A lot of it has to do with Citizens United,
which is correctly decided, but that doesn't mean it was
good for the country. The fact that you can raise
you all these small amounts or attack somebody, a pro
life Democrat or a pro choice Republican for instance, would
get killed in the modern era. Well, Citizens United was
(33:08):
about corporations making political contributions, and the left thought that's
going to ruin everything, But no, it is the Internet.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
The Internet. Citizens United was completely insignificant compared to the Internet,
which now moves mountains. Anyway, to finish up JT's point.
To put in another way, we now have two parties
defined by not being the other party called negative what
is it called negative polarization? Yeah, anyway, Yeah, some good
(33:35):
points there. Let's see, and he points out that.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
We're worse than a credit card holder making the minimum
payment because we're borrowing the money to pay the interest
on our debt.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
You're borrowing from your parents to make the minimum payment
on your credit card. That's you're in bad shape.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Twenty fourteen, Hunter Biden thinks for behaving irresponsibly as a
country on the topic of artificial general intelligence, powow quotes
several people as saying, we're not nearly as far down
the road. The technology we have today is not sufficient
to get there, says one super giant AI startup guy.
(34:13):
Then he describes how it's just a predictive thing. It's
not thinking. Consider something as mundane as customer service. Chat
pots are terrible, even though they deal with fairly restricted
subject areas I'm summarizing here. Then he quotes one of
the great AI guys of the early days who said,
nineteen seventy or three to eight years from serious general
(34:37):
artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I want that to be true.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I also know that's a minority opinion, and it's always
farther off than they say. On the other hand, you know,
we've got a couple of examples, including yesterday when I
came up with an edgy name for a political party
and was designing a logo, and chat GPT said, now,
do you want to steer into the edginess of the name.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
With the illustration with the logo?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
You want to make it more stock like a political party. Okay,
maybe that's not the artificial general intelligence, but it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Another example of AI amazing this here. But we're out
of time.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah, we'll talk about that later. We'll talk about that
for the rest of our lives, probably as it takes
over the world. The robot good point, and the robots
start to swing their arms and knock our heads off.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Boy, that video really made an impression on you, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Oh The Jake Tapper book unintentionally hilarious. I got some
highlights from that. I was reading it last night in bed.
How fun is that?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
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