August 20, 2025 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong Show, Katty Armstrong and Jetty
and Key Arms Range Why drum Studio See it is
(00:34):
a what dimly lit room deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong in Getty Communications compound. It's hump day. That's
why we have a camel in the studio. And today
we're under the tutelage of our general manager Sanctuary cities
and states in states. Thanks Humpy. Uh yeah, when are
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we gonna get to the bottom of this? Can you
have jurisdicsons within a country just announce yeah, we're not
cooperating with federal gunment. Yeah, well, so we need this issue,
but just this issue. So we haven't talked about that
horrible wreck down in Florida. The truck driver who made
the illegal UNI turn killed an entire family in a
minivan who turned out to be illegal. When I first
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heard that, I thought, Okay, that sucks. Obviously guy wouldn't
have been in the country if we had enforced borders,
so then maybe, well then you obviously don't have the
crash with him anyway, But did his illegal status have
anything to do yes, it had a lot to do
with it. So he gets a commercial driver's license. He
gets tested after he gets arrested killing these people. He
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can't read a lick of English. He doesn't know any
street signs or anything like that. He got passed in
Washington State, New Mexico. He got pulled over, he got
a ticket. They let him go with the fact that
he couldn't speak English, read English, anything like that, allowing
him to continue to get his commercial driver's license. And
California somehow passed him, so he got three sanctuary states
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and sanctuary cities. Who let this guy who should never
be piloting a giant, gazillion ton truck go and get
the license out of some sort of weird I can't
even wrap my head around it. They're illegal, so we're
gonna let them dry use equipment they shouldn't use. As
a We're gonna give him a much better deal than
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a native born citizen, or a citizen in general, or
anybody with a green card. What they elevate them, give
them special privileges for being illegal. You people are so
freaking crazy. Do you realize how crazy you are? Somebody's
a criminal, but illegal, you let them go. Or if
somebody can't shouldn't be operating certain pieces of equipment, Oh
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you're illegal, Well then we'll let you operate this dangerous equipment.
We wouldn't if you were a US born citizen. How
nuts is that? Completely? And it's absolutely at the heart
of a couple of New York Times pieces at the
top of the fold today. Their lead stories are the
Democratic Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis. People are
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fleeing the Democrat Party as fast as they can. It
is in freefall. Some of the statistics are just astonishing
because of their significance. I mean, it's self evident why
it's happening. I think, you know, we've talked about the
whole preference falsification and where you know, the bullying ten
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to fifteen percent can convince everybody else that the majority
agrees with them because everybody is just kind of quiet
and afraid to speak out. I think there's a and
then when it gets revealed the reality of it, you
get what's called the preference cascade, and everybody comes out
and says, well, wait a minute, I never believed that
all of us didn't believe that. Yeah, well, I think
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the Democratic Party is seeing that right now, that's true,
and I agree on a whole bunch of the issues,
not legal immigration. People have been out and loud and
proud about illegal immigration for a long time. I can't
believe that it continues the way it the way that
it continued the way it did. And man, this this
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story is going to drop hard today, you know, for
places that reported. I imagine that ms is that the
new channel MSMs NOW. I doubt ms now is even
going to do this story. But the Secretary of Transportation
is out making a lot of noise on Fox anyway
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about this whole sanctuary law around truck drivers, for instance.
It's so crazy, there's that's gotta be like a ninety
ten issue. I'll give you eighty twenty at the best,
but not even let's put it to a vote, to
a vote. Are you a kid? Even be close? Right?
So nuts and obviously horrible. A whole family was killed
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by this guy who should have never been and driving
a semi truck. So if your kid or brother born
in the United States wanted that job, probably couldn't have
gotten it. No, No, he's functionally illiterate. I can't give
you a commercial driver's license. God dang it, that's a
maddening story. Yes it is, and it's just so crazy.
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There's no argument for it. Some of the stuff you
can at least see their argument. I don't see the
argument at all for I could read it to you
if you'd like. I don't have it in front of me.
But it was essentially, well, a driver's license is a
bridge to being able to work and support themselves and
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enjoy the American dream. So we want to give that
to them, all right. I think we all need to
have some sort of compulsory two page explanation so everybody
gets it of how a very vocal minority can convince
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a nation of three hundred and forty million people at
least you know half of it that most people agree
with me, that whole anti racist thing, the DEI thing.
What percentage of Americans thought, Yeah, I better go along
with this, like a year after George Floyd, it was
a lot, it was a majority, but as activist lunatics. Yeah,
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the mainstream media or I guess do you call NPR
mainstream media? The pushback, for instance on Trump trying to
change the museums, I mean, it's portrayed in every news
outlet I see is just Trump attacks museums. That's the headline.
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And have you been in of these museums like I
have in the last year. I mean you know that
they're just ridiculous. You read the plaques and you're you
spend your entire time walking around these beautiful museums, rolling
your eyes reading all these plaques. All right, climate change,
all right, white supremacy, I'll like colonialism. Can I look
at one fossil that doesn't mention one of those things?
Right right? It's utterly out of control. It's absurd. Our
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museums have become Marxist activist, you know, education centers, re
education camps, if you will. Anybody who's been to one
knows that. And yet the so called mainstream media and
somebody says, hey, whoa, whoa, how did that happen? Well,
it's the great Is there a name for this? Speaking
of things we all ought to be familiar with? Where
you introduce a sudden and radical change, and then somebody
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who says, whoa, whoa, that was a sudden radical change
is branded as the agent of sudden radical change for
opposing it. I don't know. It's pretty clever, though. It's
the old dipsy doodle. It's the old double reverse. I
don't know what it is, but it's like no no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. It used to be you'd tell me
about the mammoth and how much it weighed and how
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long ago it lived. Now you're telling me that it
died because a global warmer, it will never come back
because a global warming, or if it comes back, it'll
be naked, have no fur because of global warming. And
by the way, white supremacy something something that's a radical change,
don't you say I'm attacking museums to say, I just
want to know about the freaking wily mammoth. So we
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have so many catchphrases that come and go. We're terrible
at sticking with our catchphrases. I wish we could get
better at that. But yes, Michael, here to blame. We're
probably too old to change at this point. But you're
wearing a T shirt that says goats of corruption, and
I have no memory of where the phrase goats of
corruption comes from. That was Jonathan Turley's description of the
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Bidens goats of family corruption. Yes, okay, that come on right.
I was picturing the bleating animal that clears weeds on
your highway overpass. No milk giving delicious meat bearing beast
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of the barnyard, yes nor no, no. Hey, So I
gotta hit you with this because I had to grab
it real quick. But back to the New York Times
thing about how the Democrats are just hemorrhaging voters. That
is the New York Times description of the situation. There
are thirty United States states jack that track voter registration
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by political party. Twenty of them just say I don't
care what party you are a just register so anyway. Of
the thirty states the track voter registration by party, Democrats
lost ground to Republicans in every single one of them
between twenty and twenty four, twenty twenty and twenty twenty four,
and often by a lot. Every single one had Republican gains. Well,
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no that's not true. Some of them just stayed the same,
but every single one had a drop in Democratic registration.
They called it a hemorrhage, and two paragraphs later, the
stampede away from the Democratic Party. Well, you keep keep
talking up trans bathrooms and sanctuary cities, and good luck
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with that. Big dude with a penis won the track
meet the girls track meet. Yay, Yeah, I wonder why
that hemorrhage just happened. It's a mysterious big dude with
a penis. I wasn't right. I wasn't expecting that phrase
in the opening segment. Perhaps show it's time for playing
talk all right, that's plain talk, right, Perhaps we should
(10:26):
start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty.
The worst part of Wednesdays is having the camel in
the studio. I mean, can Michael. That needs to be
your job title from now on, along with the job
out washing the camel bathing mccamble before we bring it
mL is. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
it is Wednesday, August twentieth or twenty five or Armstrong
(10:49):
and getting we approve of this program. Here we go then, officially,
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The FD eight is.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Warning consumers not to eat certain shrimps sold at Walmart
that maybe radio active. The shrimp were sold under the
Great Value brand and have a best by date of
March fifteen, twenty twenty seven. The FDA says they could
contain a radioactive isotope and is telling consumers to throw
them away, and investigation is now underway.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well it's it's it's a great value because it's radioactive. Yeah,
and most people want not radioactive shrimp. Yeah, big deal,
that's what I say, Michael, big deal. So my shrimp's radioactive,
and I agree with Joe, it is a great value.
I'm getting a little dose are radioactive? It probably clear
some things up. I got. Damn honey, This non reated
(11:36):
radioactive shrimp is fourteen to ninety nine pound. But whoa
the isotope shrimp is four ninety nine a pound. Yes,
I had a fortender last night. Look my teeth glow
now cool. So we got lots of news to talk about.
Russia hit Ukraine with one of the biggest attacks in weeks. Psychologically,
(12:00):
is Putin trying to pull off there with the negotiations.
I just heard some hilarious analysis It wasn't supposed to
be hilarious analysis on News Nation about the whole putin
Ukraine thing that is true in its own childlike way.
I have come to a strong conclusion slash position on
(12:21):
this topic, and I wonder how it aligns with the
good folks at the News nation who are doing good
news these days. If you're not familiar with their act,
I look forward to that. Maybe we'll get to that
segment after next, because next we got headlines with Katie Green.
So stay here. Oh boy, I can't wait to hear
(12:41):
your What did you say you came to conclusion or
an epiphany or so? Yeah about the alleged upcoming Ukraine
Russia talks. Yeah, I just I let I just did
the math in my head as I did Joe did
the math on the Ukraine War. I didn't know the
math of competing needs, desires, demands, absolutes, etc. And sometimes
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it just doesn't pan out anyway. More on that to come.
We got a lot of stuff to talk about. Who's
reporting what lead story with Katie Green? Katie take it away?
All right?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He's starting with NBC Israel approve's plan for Gaza City
takeover and call up of sixty thousand reservists.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Sixty thousand reservists. Wow. I would like to know what
the politics are in Israel on that right now. You know,
it's hard to get a fair assessment of that because
the media is so anti Israel, well in the mainstream
media line at least today is that the majority of
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Israelis want a settlement that brings the hostages home. Well, yeah,
I'm sure they do. Well, of course they do. And
whatever reporting that was that any takeover of Gaza will
result in the day as the hostages. Yeah, and not
taking over Gaza will also result in the depths of
(14:05):
the hostages. But then howmstiles still be there? From the Red.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
On the s turn the sausages the sausages from the
Free Beacon quote danger to public safety. DC police misclassified
debts as accidental to drive down murder numbers.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, and again the media is doing their best to
ignore this story. There are now multiple lawsuits, either settled
or pending, in which DC cops are saying, hey, they're
ordering us to fake up crime reports to make the
stats look better. Meanwhile, the Washington Post the New York
Times just blithely continue reporting that crime is down thirty
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percent in one year somehow, So Trump's crazy, My god,
they're dishonesties unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
From the New York Post Southern border w we will
be painted black to make it quote even.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Harder for people to climb.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
What Christy Noame says, they're painting it black, so it
gets so hot people can't climb it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh that's an interesting theory. Yeah, they ought to make it.
Whatever is my cyber truck's made out of man, That's
something I didn't know. In the sun that then gets
hot as a griddle. Like wow, if you put your
arm out the window like a drive through or something
like that and touch your arm on the side of
the truck. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
From the Washington Post, it's happening. People are starting to
talk like chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, I need that story. Send that story to him.
I need to read that story, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
From study fines, ADHD medications tied to fewer crimes, accidents,
and substance abuse problems.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, we probably ought to get into that story too.
From CNN.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
McDonald's is cutting prices of its combo meals to convince
its customers.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That it's affordable again.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So they're going to be dropping prices fifteen percent, and
then they're going to have a five dollars breakfast deal
and an eight dollars combo meal.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah. People have stopped eating a breakfast, specifically at fast
food joints, and economists say that means people are running
out of money because that's the first thing you give
on is the early morning hitting the fast food place.
You decide now, I'll skip it when you run out
of money.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And finally, from the Babylon Bee man officially voting for
whichever political party will get the videos of the male
Vikings cheerleaders off of his social media feed.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I saw them fifteen times yesterday easily.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, yeah, they're at there's a little fellas. I'll give
them that. Springy little acrobats, bendy little dudes. Oh yeah, yeah.
I'll tell you what, Minnesota, if you think that's what
your fans want, it's private enterprise. You go fly acgill
(17:18):
little fellas. Oh my god, Okay, we've got some news
on the way. Stay here, Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Two hundred and seventy drones fired at Ukraine ten ballistic missiles,
killing eight people. Sixteen of those drones were not intercepted.
Four missiles made it through air defenses as well.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
This is the biggest.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Aerial attack on Ukraine since the thirty first of July.
So this certainly sends a message that despite all the
good feeling that might have been vibrating through the White House,
hit Russia. If anything is intensifying, its attacked well.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And as I said yesterday, a number of times, I
feel like nobody's checked in on whether Putin has any
interest in the war. Yeah, that's exactly where I was
heading with my conclusion slash prediction. Putin's not meeting with Zelensky.
It's not going to happen. He has no interest in it.
He's never specifically said he would do it. The Kremlin
(18:23):
immediately pushed back on Trump and Company's pronouncements the other
day and said, for instance, the Ukraine has to disarm
before a meeting. What wait a minute, is there zero
chance of that? To mention, Putin has been ranting for
some time about how Zolensky's illegitimate and a Nazi, and
(18:46):
Ukraine doesn't even exist as a country, and just half
a dozen other reasons why he would never meet with
a puppet of the West, an illegitimate leader and a
puppet of the West, a friend of the Armstrong in
Getty show. I won't mention him because he didn't. I
don't know if he wants his name attached to this,
but he was texting with Joe and I yesterday and
(19:08):
he said, for the record, My opinion on Russia Ukraine
has not changed since day one. Mike makes right. Just
like Rubio said, it's going to be a meat grinder,
and Russia's got more meat to grind, and they will
keep grinding until they get what they want. Unless we're
actually going to go fight alongside the Ukrainians, all we're
doing is prolonging it and costing more lives. Same will
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be true for Taiwan. Sadly, I don't know if I
can disagree with that take, even though I don't want
it to be true at all. Well, the only counter
argument I have is that you can, essentially you can
change that math by aiding them with weaponry, logistics intelligence
(19:51):
at some point though they just need dudes. But but
are you doing anything other than just prolonging it? That's
always your hope, That's why you hold out. You hope
the other side's going to give up. But they aren't.
Russia is not, or are they No? I don't think
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they are, And if they don't, I mean because I haven't.
This hasn't been my uh thinking on this at all
at any point during the war. The idea that you're
getting more people killed, you're prolonging it, but now that
I might, I might be there if Putin has held
But so here's the analysis they had on news Nation
this morning from some very young, attractive blonde woman who
(20:34):
I thought was being a simpleton. But at the same
time she, you know, out of the mouths of babes,
she might have just been raped. Babes ought to be quiet,
be seen, not heard, she's she At one point toward
the end of her little reporting, she said, on the
other hand, it's possible that Putin actually believes what he
has said, that Ukraine is part of Russia and he
has no intention of ever stopping this war. And yeah,
(20:58):
he might just believe No, Ukraine's part of Russia. And
I'm gonna do whatever it takes. We're a very big country.
I'm gonna do whatever it takes to get what I want, right, right.
I just I think where I differ from our learned
friend is that if the Ukrainian people say, yeah, we'd
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rather have the history written that we held out till
we couldn't possibly hold out anymore, thank you very much,
And then if they are our ally, then we keep
helping them. Yeah, you don't decide, just more people will die.
There's no point in that. No, I would. I'm definitely
unless it's and I'm sorry, just one more thought. Those
(21:42):
of you are screaming, but we're depleting our arms when
we ought to be pivoting to our China. It's a
good argument, solid argument. I don't yeah, I don't know
how real that is. Some reporting out there shows that
we're giving the last general of all these different armaments
(22:03):
to Ukraine, or giving it to European countries to give
to your Ukraine, and then replacing the stuff with the better,
higher tech stuff uh in our arsenal in some cases
you know they're getting they're getting uh Chat GPT four
of weaponry and we've got Chat GPT five now that
sort of thing. Yeah, my only objection to that is
(22:24):
I've read some pretty solid accounts that our replacement rate
is just way, way, way too slow. Well, I hope
HEGs Thatt's on top of that, it's too busy doing
pull up contests. Was RFK Junior in the jeans wearing jeans?
Was he's wearing jeans? Non? RFK was RFK Junior was
wearing jeans as he did pull ups yesterday as a
(22:44):
seventy year old man. So I feel like after a
couple of days out of really one of the most
extraordinary meetings in the history of everything. Do you see
the pictures that came out of there. New York Post
(23:05):
had him yesterday some some photographer that was in the
room with Trump and all those world leaders and Rubyo
and Secretary States there and everybody. It's really something. I mean,
Trump's sitting there at his desk in the Oval Office,
surrounded by many of the most powerful people in the
world that aren't President She or putin everybody else pretty much,
(23:27):
and and you know they're just listening to him talk.
It's really quite wild, right, I mean, he is, and
he would call them by their first names, and they
would call him mister President. That dynamic was noticed by
people because Trump can't remember people's names. That's I'm not
sure it was as much power play as and we've
have Jim here. Jim does good work, guys like the
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Secretary of Labor everybody, but it's just Trump, so he
has astride the world in a way I don't remember
anybody being I mean, for better or worse. If you
hate him, you hate that, and if you like him,
you like that. But he just I mean, whether it's
the tariffs or the pulling all these countries together and
with the war and just and just dominating the newsflow
(24:11):
on everything all the time. Yeah, it is just stunning.
I mean I thought I thought that was true first term.
It's true this now in a way that globally it's
just amazing. Right, he is an activist president in a
way we have not seen. So what do you think
of this? I'm all over the place here, What do
you think of this narrative that, Well, everybody's figured out
(24:34):
flattery is the way you get to him, and so,
you know, bending to his knee, isn't I don't quite
get that, because isn't that what happens with everybody who
reaches a position of power. You do it because you
need they're powerful enough, you need something from them, or
you need their approval. You wouldn't do it otherwise. I mean,
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I could demand people call me mister presid but they're
not going to because they got I got nothing to
give you. That'd be weird. Yeah, yeah, I got nothing
to offer them. Trump needs more flattery than most leaders.
That seems obvious to me. Okay, finely got crazing him
over and over and over again. Fine, but unless you
have the position you brought it up. No, no, but
(25:20):
unless you have the position of power, they don't do
it right. So I still feel like it's a You're
still You're still the big dog, whether it's you like
flattery or not. I mean, you can't compel people to
flatter you unless you have a position of them needing
something from you, whether it's the tariff stuff or the
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war stuff or whatever. He is the five thousand pound
gorilla on the world stage. There's no doubt about it.
It's a BFG. So the question of whether Putin would
actually get together with Zelensky at all is now the
hot topic in the halls of power, in spite of
the kind of fata humply feel of the meetings the
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other day on Tuesday, for instance, Russian officials including old
Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister who gave little Yes, who
we didn't mention this, who showed up Friday in Alaska
in a CCCP jacket, the Soviet Union jacket, big Soviet
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Union logo on the chest. I mean, that's that's not symbolism.
That's just a statement, we're the Soviet Union and we're
going to restore the Soviet Union. Wow, that's the Yeah. Again,
that's not symbolism, that's a statement. So anyway, Old Kami
Love and Lavrov said plans for any contact between the
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officials should be laid out with the utmost care. Other
Russian officials ridiculed Zelensky as an unserious politician. He seems
pretty serious to me. And then you got the demand
that Ukraine this arm before a meeting. That's not a
negotiating ploy, that's a rejection. Well yeah, that's a way
(27:07):
to get out of the meeting. But why doesn't Putin
want to meet with Zelensky? Ah? I felt I was
horrified by the idea of those two guys getting together
in a room. I feel like it's, uh, there's more
to lose there for Zelensky than Putin. Let's see this analysis.
What am I missing on this? Because I feel like
(27:29):
if Zelensky's got to go into a room and shake
hands and smile with Putin, that helps Putin more than
it hurts Zelensky. So why doesn't Putin want to meet
with him? Let's see a couple of things. Putin has
said a meeting between the two leaders should come at
the end of a peace process and more as a
formality to sign necessary documents. Quote, this is Putin a
couple of months ago. I'm ready to meet. But if
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it's some kind of final stage, so we don't sit
there endlessly dividing things up, but bring this to an end.
But we will need the signature of the legitimate authorities. Uh.
And then a most important a meeting with Zelensky could
end the delicate dance Putin has performed around Trump's peace
efforts to avoid more punishing sanctions. The criminal leader has
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to has professed his desire for peace while escalating offensives
so have won Russian troops important gains. And a summit
with Zelensky could bring an unwelcome moment of truth. Okay,
that's when he's got to take off his mask, Okay.
So it would make it clear to the world that
he's the obstacle to peace and he doesn't want that,
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in that he has no desire for peace and wouldn't
permit it. Yes, now that's an obstacle. Well, so far
he's been able to portray it and sometimes with Trump's help,
that Zolensky is the obstacle to peace. Right, and if
Putin and Zelensky sit down. That whole charad might be
over is what he's concerned about. Obviously, I guess at
(28:53):
this point, Oh yeah, that's laying your cards on the
table time. And Putin has no intention of ending it. No,
and look from his point of view, and you have
to you have to look at Putin and his motivations
in a very like this same analysis you'd apply to
an alligator. I mean, he has no morals, he has
no emotions, he has no bleeding heart for the death
(29:16):
of his men or anything like that. He's just a
cold calculator. And he's thinking, I'm making gains on the battlefield.
I mean they're tiny and they're incremental at mind boggling cost,
which is Jacks informed us as the history of the
Russian military. So his only goal at this point is
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to prolong that reality so he can make more and
more gains. He also, I mean, because Trump has made
noises jd Vance has made noises in the last couple
of weeks of you know what or Ruby over the weekend,
even you know what, And if this doesn't work out,
you know, nothing changes in the lives of the average American.
We tried our best, so Putin has reason to think
(29:59):
that maybe we say huh, we tried and walk away
from it, which would be a win for him, right right.
Final note, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakarova went on
the offensive yesterday to level accusations against Zelenski to justified
Putin's own refusal to meet agreement over maximalist peace terms
(30:22):
that Russia handed to Ukraine, according to stana Yova, is
likely to serve as at Moscow's precondition for a meeting.
So you need to surrender and agree to our terms
for us to meet. It's not gonna happen. Well, we'll
delve into that more. Delve Wait a second, that's a
word that chat gpt uses all the time. Am I
only using it because chat gpt uses it. That's what
(30:45):
the Washington Post is claiming today, that we're starting to
talk like chatbots. So we'll get into that story a
little bit later. We got mail bag coming up next.
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that was horrible. Let's see mere's your freedom loving quote
of the day and be Radio day to you. This
one comes from Louis Ferdinand Celine, who I don't know
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his work. He's a French one, but I like to quote.
I've never voted. Oh, I'm doing a series on voting.
By the way, I've never voted in my life. I
have always known and understood that the idiots are in
the majority, and so it's certain that they will win.
We could have gotten along. That's pretty good. You're in
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the majority, So what's the point? Mail bag? Feel free
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dot com. Guys. First day back at school, writes al anonymous.
We teachers had our first day of professional development yesterday
and it was all day long. DEI. It has not
gone away, and in some places they're digging their heels
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in even deeper. Parents and communities need to pay attention.
Oh man, there religilear to me where al is would
not shock me if you was in cal Unicornia. You know,
I have friends they had their kids in a expensive
private Catholic school and it was woke a f wow. Wow,
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you know I want to scroll down to this. I
really don't have time to search for this, but the
graphic was smaller than I expected it to be. Hey,
Jack and Joe thought you might be interested slash of Paul.
This is a different note from al different anonymous in
cal Unicornia. You might be interested in Nepaul that they're
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now saying the quiet part out loud in teacher training.
And it's a graphic up on a you know, a
screen that talks about allyeship, and the screen explains that
what you're trying to do there it is I want
to read it correctly. Allyship when a person of privilege
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works in solidarity, in partnership with a marginalized group of
people to help take down the systems that challenge that
group's basic rights, equal access, and ability to thrive in
our society. So they say, yeah, we're tearing allyship. Being
an allyship, yeah, they say, yeah, we're trying to tear
down the system. But they brand the United States Western
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civilization as well. It's a system of oppression, souse, that's
what we're taking down. Sure, a lot of people in
this system with a very high standard of living compared
to the world. Yeah, a totally different note really nice
note from Emily. Here. It's a picture of the memorial
(34:03):
table for her dad who passed away, and it includes
a stupid should hurt t shirt. Oh so that's great,
that's great. Sorry for the loss of your pop, but
that's nice anyway. Moving along, How does Prague, Czechoslovakia feel toward, well,
Czech Republic right feel toward Russia? Guys, I was in
(34:24):
Prague a couple of years ago. I encountered these the
citizens expressing the feelings toward Russia. It is a fountain,
a water feature in Yugoslavia, I'm sorry of in the
Czech Republic of two grown men. Anatomically correct standing on
the base of the fountain is a flag of Russia,
and they are both urinating upon it. I don't know
(34:46):
if I grasped the symbolism. I wonder if that's because
the Soviet Union oppressed those poor people for generations. Moving along,
Guy Goodbar in Long Time Listener writes, Troy, have a
bit of a I want to make sure you knew.
The government subsidized Sunfresh grocery store in Kansas City closed
several days ago. Local radio says twenty nine million dollars
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invested in the city over ten years, I yield the
rest of my time. But f this, Wow, and mum
Donnie is going to try that in New York City. Yeah,
Kansas City tried government grocery stores. They squandered twenty nine
million dollars on it, if became a crime, choked, no food,
Soviet style wasteland, and closed And you haven't heard any
(35:32):
reporting on that. We've got a lot more to come
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the Armstrong in Getty Communications compound. It's hump day. That's
why we have a camel in the studio. And today
we're under the tutelage of our general manager Sanctuary cities
and states in states. Thanks Humpy. Uh yeah, when are
(00:54):
we gonna get to the bottom of this? Can you
have jurisdicsons within a country just announce yeah, we're not
cooperating with federal gunment. Yeah, well, so we need this issue,
but just this issue. So we haven't talked about that
horrible wreck down in Florida. The truck driver who made
the illegal UNI turn killed an entire family in a
minivan who turned out to be illegal. When I first
(01:15):
heard that, I thought, Okay, that sucks. Obviously guy wouldn't
have been in the country if we had enforced borders,
so then maybe, well then you obviously don't have the
crash with him anyway, But did his illegal status have
anything to do yes, it had a lot to do
with it. So he gets a commercial driver's license. He
gets tested after he gets arrested killing these people. He
(01:37):
can't read a lick of English. He doesn't know any
street signs or anything like that. He got passed in
Washington State, New Mexico. He got pulled over, he got
a ticket. They let him go with the fact that
he couldn't speak English, read English, anything like that, allowing
him to continue to get his commercial driver's license. And
California somehow passed him, so he got three sanctuary states
(01:59):
and sanctuary cities. Who let this guy who should never
be piloting a giant, gazillion ton truck go and get
the license out of some sort of weird I can't
even wrap my head around it. They're illegal, so we're
gonna let them dry use equipment they shouldn't use. As
a We're gonna give him a much better deal than
(02:22):
a native born citizen, or a citizen in general, or
anybody with a green card. What they elevate them, give
them special privileges for being illegal. You people are so
freaking crazy. Do you realize how crazy you are? Somebody's
a criminal, but illegal, you let them go. Or if
somebody can't shouldn't be operating certain pieces of equipment, Oh
(02:45):
you're illegal, Well then we'll let you operate this dangerous equipment.
We wouldn't if you were a US born citizen. How
nuts is that? Completely? And it's absolutely at the heart
of a couple of New York Times pieces at the
top of the fold today. Their lead stories are the
Democratic Democratic Party faces a voter registration crisis. People are
(03:09):
fleeing the Democrat Party as fast as they can. It
is in freefall. Some of the statistics are just astonishing
because of their significance. I mean, it's self evident why
it's happening. I think, you know, we've talked about the
whole preference falsification and where you know, the bullying ten
(03:32):
to fifteen percent can convince everybody else that the majority
agrees with them because everybody is just kind of quiet
and afraid to speak out. I think there's a and
then when it gets revealed the reality of it, you
get what's called the preference cascade, and everybody comes out
and says, well, wait a minute, I never believed that
all of us didn't believe that. Yeah, well, I think
(03:53):
the Democratic Party is seeing that right now, that's true,
and I agree on a whole bunch of the issues,
not legal immigration. People have been out and loud and
proud about illegal immigration for a long time. I can't
believe that it continues the way it the way that
it continued the way it did. And man, this this
(04:14):
story is going to drop hard today, you know, for
places that reported. I imagine that ms is that the
new channel MSMs NOW. I doubt ms now is even
going to do this story. But the Secretary of Transportation
is out making a lot of noise on Fox anyway
(04:34):
about this whole sanctuary law around truck drivers, for instance.
It's so crazy, there's that's gotta be like a ninety
ten issue. I'll give you eighty twenty at the best,
but not even let's put it to a vote, to
a vote. Are you a kid? Even be close? Right?
So nuts and obviously horrible. A whole family was killed
(04:58):
by this guy who should have never been and driving
a semi truck. So if your kid or brother born
in the United States wanted that job, probably couldn't have
gotten it. No, No, he's functionally illiterate. I can't give
you a commercial driver's license. God dang it, that's a
maddening story. Yes it is, and it's just so crazy.
(05:18):
There's no argument for it. Some of the stuff you
can at least see their argument. I don't see the
argument at all for I could read it to you
if you'd like. I don't have it in front of me.
But it was essentially, well, a driver's license is a
bridge to being able to work and support themselves and
(05:39):
enjoy the American dream. So we want to give that
to them, all right. I think we all need to
have some sort of compulsory two page explanation so everybody
gets it of how a very vocal minority can convince
(06:01):
a nation of three hundred and forty million people at
least you know half of it that most people agree
with me, that whole anti racist thing, the DEI thing.
What percentage of Americans thought, Yeah, I better go along
with this, like a year after George Floyd, it was
a lot, it was a majority, but as activist lunatics. Yeah,
(06:24):
the mainstream media or I guess do you call NPR
mainstream media? The pushback, for instance on Trump trying to
change the museums, I mean, it's portrayed in every news
outlet I see is just Trump attacks museums. That's the headline.
(06:44):
And have you been in of these museums like I
have in the last year. I mean you know that
they're just ridiculous. You read the plaques and you're you
spend your entire time walking around these beautiful museums, rolling
your eyes reading all these plaques. All right, climate change,
all right, white supremacy, I'll like colonialism. Can I look
at one fossil that doesn't mention one of those things?
Right right? It's utterly out of control. It's absurd. Our
(07:08):
museums have become Marxist activist, you know, education centers, re
education camps, if you will. Anybody who's been to one
knows that. And yet the so called mainstream media and
somebody says, hey, whoa, whoa, how did that happen? Well,
it's the great Is there a name for this? Speaking
of things we all ought to be familiar with? Where
you introduce a sudden and radical change, and then somebody
(07:31):
who says, whoa, whoa, that was a sudden radical change
is branded as the agent of sudden radical change for
opposing it. I don't know. It's pretty clever, though. It's
the old dipsy doodle. It's the old double reverse. I
don't know what it is, but it's like no no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. It used to be you'd tell me
about the mammoth and how much it weighed and how
(07:52):
long ago it lived. Now you're telling me that it
died because a global warmer, it will never come back
because a global warming, or if it comes back, it'll
be naked, have no fur because of global warming. And
by the way, white supremacy something something that's a radical change,
don't you say I'm attacking museums to say, I just
want to know about the freaking wily mammoth. So we
(08:15):
have so many catchphrases that come and go. We're terrible
at sticking with our catchphrases. I wish we could get
better at that. But yes, Michael, here to blame. We're
probably too old to change at this point. But you're
wearing a T shirt that says goats of corruption, and
I have no memory of where the phrase goats of
corruption comes from. That was Jonathan Turley's description of the
(08:36):
Bidens goats of family corruption. Yes, okay, that come on right.
I was picturing the bleating animal that clears weeds on
your highway overpass. No milk giving delicious meat bearing beast
(08:56):
of the barnyard, yes nor no, no. Hey, So I
gotta hit you with this because I had to grab
it real quick. But back to the New York Times
thing about how the Democrats are just hemorrhaging voters. That
is the New York Times description of the situation. There
are thirty United States states jack that track voter registration
(09:17):
by political party. Twenty of them just say I don't
care what party you are a just register so anyway. Of
the thirty states the track voter registration by party, Democrats
lost ground to Republicans in every single one of them
between twenty and twenty four, twenty twenty and twenty twenty four,
and often by a lot. Every single one had Republican gains. Well,
(09:42):
no that's not true. Some of them just stayed the same,
but every single one had a drop in Democratic registration.
They called it a hemorrhage, and two paragraphs later, the
stampede away from the Democratic Party. Well, you keep keep
talking up trans bathrooms and sanctuary cities, and good luck
(10:03):
with that. Big dude with a penis won the track
meet the girls track meet. Yay, Yeah, I wonder why
that hemorrhage just happened. It's a mysterious big dude with
a penis. I wasn't right. I wasn't expecting that phrase
in the opening segment. Perhaps show it's time for playing
talk all right, that's plain talk, right, Perhaps we should
(10:26):
start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty.
The worst part of Wednesdays is having the camel in
the studio. I mean, can Michael. That needs to be
your job title from now on, along with the job
out washing the camel bathing mccamble before we bring it
mL is. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
it is Wednesday, August twentieth or twenty five or Armstrong
(10:49):
and getting we approve of this program. Here we go then, officially,
according to FCC rules and regulations, the show starts at mark.
The FD eight is.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Warning consumers not to eat certain shrimps sold at Walmart
that maybe radio active. The shrimp were sold under the
Great Value brand and have a best by date of
March fifteen, twenty twenty seven. The FDA says they could
contain a radioactive isotope and is telling consumers to throw
them away, and investigation is now underway.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well it's it's it's a great value because it's radioactive. Yeah,
and most people want not radioactive shrimp. Yeah, big deal,
that's what I say, Michael, big deal. So my shrimp's radioactive,
and I agree with Joe, it is a great value.
I'm getting a little dose are radioactive? It probably clear
some things up. I got. Damn honey, This non reated
(11:36):
radioactive shrimp is fourteen to ninety nine pound. But whoa
the isotope shrimp is four ninety nine a pound. Yes,
I had a fortender last night. Look my teeth glow
now cool. So we got lots of news to talk about.
Russia hit Ukraine with one of the biggest attacks in weeks. Psychologically,
(12:00):
is Putin trying to pull off there with the negotiations.
I just heard some hilarious analysis It wasn't supposed to
be hilarious analysis on News Nation about the whole putin
Ukraine thing that is true in its own childlike way.
I have come to a strong conclusion slash position on
(12:21):
this topic, and I wonder how it aligns with the
good folks at the News nation who are doing good
news these days. If you're not familiar with their act,
I look forward to that. Maybe we'll get to that
segment after next, because next we got headlines with Katie Green.
So stay here. Oh boy, I can't wait to hear
(12:41):
your What did you say you came to conclusion or
an epiphany or so? Yeah about the alleged upcoming Ukraine
Russia talks. Yeah, I just I let I just did
the math in my head as I did Joe did
the math on the Ukraine War. I didn't know the
math of competing needs, desires, demands, absolutes, etc. And sometimes
(13:07):
it just doesn't pan out anyway. More on that to come.
We got a lot of stuff to talk about. Who's
reporting what lead story with Katie Green? Katie take it away?
All right?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He's starting with NBC Israel approve's plan for Gaza City
takeover and call up of sixty thousand reservists.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Sixty thousand reservists. Wow. I would like to know what
the politics are in Israel on that right now. You know,
it's hard to get a fair assessment of that because
the media is so anti Israel, well in the mainstream
media line at least today is that the majority of
(13:44):
Israelis want a settlement that brings the hostages home. Well, yeah,
I'm sure they do. Well, of course they do. And
whatever reporting that was that any takeover of Gaza will
result in the day as the hostages. Yeah, and not
taking over Gaza will also result in the depths of
(14:05):
the hostages. But then howmstiles still be there? From the Red.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
On the s turn the sausages the sausages from the
Free Beacon quote danger to public safety. DC police misclassified
debts as accidental to drive down murder numbers.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, and again the media is doing their best to
ignore this story. There are now multiple lawsuits, either settled
or pending, in which DC cops are saying, hey, they're
ordering us to fake up crime reports to make the
stats look better. Meanwhile, the Washington Post the New York
Times just blithely continue reporting that crime is down thirty
(14:48):
percent in one year somehow, So Trump's crazy, My god,
they're dishonesties unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
From the New York Post Southern border w we will
be painted black to make it quote even.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Harder for people to climb.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
What Christy Noame says, they're painting it black, so it
gets so hot people can't climb it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Oh that's an interesting theory. Yeah, they ought to make it.
Whatever is my cyber truck's made out of man, That's
something I didn't know. In the sun that then gets
hot as a griddle. Like wow, if you put your
arm out the window like a drive through or something
like that and touch your arm on the side of
the truck. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
From the Washington Post, it's happening. People are starting to
talk like chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, I need that story. Send that story to him.
I need to read that story, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
From study fines, ADHD medications tied to fewer crimes, accidents,
and substance abuse problems.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, we probably ought to get into that story too.
From CNN.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
McDonald's is cutting prices of its combo meals to convince
its customers.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That it's affordable again.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So they're going to be dropping prices fifteen percent, and
then they're going to have a five dollars breakfast deal
and an eight dollars combo meal.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah. People have stopped eating a breakfast, specifically at fast
food joints, and economists say that means people are running
out of money because that's the first thing you give
on is the early morning hitting the fast food place.
You decide now, I'll skip it when you run out
of money.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And finally, from the Babylon Bee man officially voting for
whichever political party will get the videos of the male
Vikings cheerleaders off of his social media feed.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I saw them fifteen times yesterday easily.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, yeah, they're at there's a little fellas. I'll give
them that. Springy little acrobats, bendy little dudes. Oh yeah, yeah.
I'll tell you what, Minnesota, if you think that's what
your fans want, it's private enterprise. You go fly acgill
(17:18):
little fellas. Oh my god, Okay, we've got some news
on the way. Stay here, Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Two hundred and seventy drones fired at Ukraine ten ballistic missiles,
killing eight people. Sixteen of those drones were not intercepted.
Four missiles made it through air defenses as well.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
This is the biggest.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Aerial attack on Ukraine since the thirty first of July.
So this certainly sends a message that despite all the
good feeling that might have been vibrating through the White House,
hit Russia. If anything is intensifying, its attacked well.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And as I said yesterday, a number of times, I
feel like nobody's checked in on whether Putin has any
interest in the war. Yeah, that's exactly where I was
heading with my conclusion slash prediction. Putin's not meeting with Zelensky.
It's not going to happen. He has no interest in it.
He's never specifically said he would do it. The Kremlin
(18:23):
immediately pushed back on Trump and Company's pronouncements the other
day and said, for instance, the Ukraine has to disarm
before a meeting. What wait a minute, is there zero
chance of that? To mention, Putin has been ranting for
some time about how Zolensky's illegitimate and a Nazi, and
(18:46):
Ukraine doesn't even exist as a country, and just half
a dozen other reasons why he would never meet with
a puppet of the West, an illegitimate leader and a
puppet of the West, a friend of the Armstrong in
Getty show. I won't mention him because he didn't. I
don't know if he wants his name attached to this,
but he was texting with Joe and I yesterday and
(19:08):
he said, for the record, My opinion on Russia Ukraine
has not changed since day one. Mike makes right. Just
like Rubio said, it's going to be a meat grinder,
and Russia's got more meat to grind, and they will
keep grinding until they get what they want. Unless we're
actually going to go fight alongside the Ukrainians, all we're
doing is prolonging it and costing more lives. Same will
(19:30):
be true for Taiwan. Sadly, I don't know if I
can disagree with that take, even though I don't want
it to be true at all. Well, the only counter
argument I have is that you can, essentially you can
change that math by aiding them with weaponry, logistics intelligence
(19:51):
at some point though they just need dudes. But but
are you doing anything other than just prolonging it? That's
always your hope, That's why you hold out. You hope
the other side's going to give up. But they aren't.
Russia is not, or are they No? I don't think
(20:12):
they are, And if they don't, I mean because I haven't.
This hasn't been my uh thinking on this at all
at any point during the war. The idea that you're
getting more people killed, you're prolonging it, but now that
I might, I might be there if Putin has held
But so here's the analysis they had on news Nation
this morning from some very young, attractive blonde woman who
(20:34):
I thought was being a simpleton. But at the same
time she, you know, out of the mouths of babes,
she might have just been raped. Babes ought to be quiet,
be seen, not heard, she's she At one point toward
the end of her little reporting, she said, on the
other hand, it's possible that Putin actually believes what he
has said, that Ukraine is part of Russia and he
has no intention of ever stopping this war. And yeah,
(20:58):
he might just believe No, Ukraine's part of Russia. And
I'm gonna do whatever it takes. We're a very big country.
I'm gonna do whatever it takes to get what I want, right, right.
I just I think where I differ from our learned
friend is that if the Ukrainian people say, yeah, we'd
(21:22):
rather have the history written that we held out till
we couldn't possibly hold out anymore, thank you very much,
And then if they are our ally, then we keep
helping them. Yeah, you don't decide, just more people will die.
There's no point in that. No, I would. I'm definitely
unless it's and I'm sorry, just one more thought. Those
(21:42):
of you are screaming, but we're depleting our arms when
we ought to be pivoting to our China. It's a
good argument, solid argument. I don't yeah, I don't know
how real that is. Some reporting out there shows that
we're giving the last general of all these different armaments
(22:03):
to Ukraine, or giving it to European countries to give
to your Ukraine, and then replacing the stuff with the better,
higher tech stuff uh in our arsenal in some cases
you know they're getting they're getting uh Chat GPT four
of weaponry and we've got Chat GPT five now that
sort of thing. Yeah, my only objection to that is
(22:24):
I've read some pretty solid accounts that our replacement rate
is just way, way, way too slow. Well, I hope
HEGs Thatt's on top of that, it's too busy doing
pull up contests. Was RFK Junior in the jeans wearing jeans?
Was he's wearing jeans? Non? RFK was RFK Junior was
wearing jeans as he did pull ups yesterday as a
(22:44):
seventy year old man. So I feel like after a
couple of days out of really one of the most
extraordinary meetings in the history of everything. Do you see
the pictures that came out of there. New York Post
(23:05):
had him yesterday some some photographer that was in the
room with Trump and all those world leaders and Rubyo
and Secretary States there and everybody. It's really something. I mean,
Trump's sitting there at his desk in the Oval Office,
surrounded by many of the most powerful people in the
world that aren't President She or putin everybody else pretty much,
(23:27):
and and you know they're just listening to him talk.
It's really quite wild, right, I mean, he is, and
he would call them by their first names, and they
would call him mister President. That dynamic was noticed by
people because Trump can't remember people's names. That's I'm not
sure it was as much power play as and we've
have Jim here. Jim does good work, guys like the
(23:49):
Secretary of Labor everybody, but it's just Trump, so he
has astride the world in a way I don't remember
anybody being I mean, for better or worse. If you
hate him, you hate that, and if you like him,
you like that. But he just I mean, whether it's
the tariffs or the pulling all these countries together and
with the war and just and just dominating the newsflow
(24:11):
on everything all the time. Yeah, it is just stunning.
I mean I thought I thought that was true first term.
It's true this now in a way that globally it's
just amazing. Right, he is an activist president in a
way we have not seen. So what do you think
of this? I'm all over the place here, What do
you think of this narrative that, Well, everybody's figured out
(24:34):
flattery is the way you get to him, and so,
you know, bending to his knee, isn't I don't quite
get that, because isn't that what happens with everybody who
reaches a position of power. You do it because you
need they're powerful enough, you need something from them, or
you need their approval. You wouldn't do it otherwise. I mean,
(24:57):
I could demand people call me mister presid but they're
not going to because they got I got nothing to
give you. That'd be weird. Yeah, yeah, I got nothing
to offer them. Trump needs more flattery than most leaders.
That seems obvious to me. Okay, finely got crazing him
over and over and over again. Fine, but unless you
have the position you brought it up. No, no, but
(25:20):
unless you have the position of power, they don't do
it right. So I still feel like it's a You're
still You're still the big dog, whether it's you like
flattery or not. I mean, you can't compel people to
flatter you unless you have a position of them needing
something from you, whether it's the tariff stuff or the
(25:40):
war stuff or whatever. He is the five thousand pound
gorilla on the world stage. There's no doubt about it.
It's a BFG. So the question of whether Putin would
actually get together with Zelensky at all is now the
hot topic in the halls of power, in spite of
the kind of fata humply feel of the meetings the
(26:01):
other day on Tuesday, for instance, Russian officials including old
Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister who gave little Yes, who
we didn't mention this, who showed up Friday in Alaska
in a CCCP jacket, the Soviet Union jacket, big Soviet
(26:23):
Union logo on the chest. I mean, that's that's not symbolism.
That's just a statement, we're the Soviet Union and we're
going to restore the Soviet Union. Wow, that's the Yeah. Again,
that's not symbolism, that's a statement. So anyway, Old Kami
Love and Lavrov said plans for any contact between the
(26:45):
officials should be laid out with the utmost care. Other
Russian officials ridiculed Zelensky as an unserious politician. He seems
pretty serious to me. And then you got the demand
that Ukraine this arm before a meeting. That's not a
negotiating ploy, that's a rejection. Well yeah, that's a way
(27:07):
to get out of the meeting. But why doesn't Putin
want to meet with Zelensky? Ah? I felt I was
horrified by the idea of those two guys getting together
in a room. I feel like it's, uh, there's more
to lose there for Zelensky than Putin. Let's see this analysis.
What am I missing on this? Because I feel like
(27:29):
if Zelensky's got to go into a room and shake
hands and smile with Putin, that helps Putin more than
it hurts Zelensky. So why doesn't Putin want to meet
with him? Let's see a couple of things. Putin has
said a meeting between the two leaders should come at
the end of a peace process and more as a
formality to sign necessary documents. Quote, this is Putin a
couple of months ago. I'm ready to meet. But if
(27:49):
it's some kind of final stage, so we don't sit
there endlessly dividing things up, but bring this to an end.
But we will need the signature of the legitimate authorities. Uh.
And then a most important a meeting with Zelensky could
end the delicate dance Putin has performed around Trump's peace
efforts to avoid more punishing sanctions. The criminal leader has
(28:09):
to has professed his desire for peace while escalating offensives
so have won Russian troops important gains. And a summit
with Zelensky could bring an unwelcome moment of truth. Okay,
that's when he's got to take off his mask, Okay.
So it would make it clear to the world that
he's the obstacle to peace and he doesn't want that,
(28:31):
in that he has no desire for peace and wouldn't
permit it. Yes, now that's an obstacle. Well, so far
he's been able to portray it and sometimes with Trump's help,
that Zolensky is the obstacle to peace. Right, and if
Putin and Zelensky sit down. That whole charad might be
over is what he's concerned about. Obviously, I guess at
(28:53):
this point, Oh yeah, that's laying your cards on the
table time. And Putin has no intention of ending it. No,
and look from his point of view, and you have
to you have to look at Putin and his motivations
in a very like this same analysis you'd apply to
an alligator. I mean, he has no morals, he has
no emotions, he has no bleeding heart for the death
(29:16):
of his men or anything like that. He's just a
cold calculator. And he's thinking, I'm making gains on the battlefield.
I mean they're tiny and they're incremental at mind boggling cost,
which is Jacks informed us as the history of the
Russian military. So his only goal at this point is
(29:36):
to prolong that reality so he can make more and
more gains. He also, I mean, because Trump has made
noises jd Vance has made noises in the last couple
of weeks of you know what or Ruby over the weekend,
even you know what, And if this doesn't work out,
you know, nothing changes in the lives of the average American.
We tried our best, so Putin has reason to think
(29:59):
that maybe we say huh, we tried and walk away
from it, which would be a win for him, right right.
Final note, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakarova went on
the offensive yesterday to level accusations against Zelenski to justified
Putin's own refusal to meet agreement over maximalist peace terms
(30:22):
that Russia handed to Ukraine, according to stana Yova, is
likely to serve as at Moscow's precondition for a meeting.
So you need to surrender and agree to our terms
for us to meet. It's not gonna happen. Well, we'll
delve into that more. Delve Wait a second, that's a
word that chat gpt uses all the time. Am I
only using it because chat gpt uses it. That's what
(30:45):
the Washington Post is claiming today, that we're starting to
talk like chatbots. So we'll get into that story a
little bit later. We got mail bag coming up next.
I hope you can stay here in Good morningage National
Radio Day. How you doing nay giving away a taco?
When you hear this sound later next hour, be caller
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six win a taco. Traffic on the FIBs National Radio day. Wow, Wow,
that was horrible. Let's see mere's your freedom loving quote
of the day and be Radio day to you. This
one comes from Louis Ferdinand Celine, who I don't know
(31:29):
his work. He's a French one, but I like to quote.
I've never voted. Oh, I'm doing a series on voting.
By the way, I've never voted in my life. I
have always known and understood that the idiots are in
the majority, and so it's certain that they will win.
We could have gotten along. That's pretty good. You're in
(31:53):
the majority, So what's the point? Mail bag? Feel free
to reach out. Drops note mail Bag in arms getty
dot com. Guys. First day back at school, writes al anonymous.
We teachers had our first day of professional development yesterday
and it was all day long. DEI. It has not
gone away, and in some places they're digging their heels
(32:14):
in even deeper. Parents and communities need to pay attention.
Oh man, there religilear to me where al is would
not shock me if you was in cal Unicornia. You know,
I have friends they had their kids in a expensive
private Catholic school and it was woke a f wow. Wow,
(32:37):
you know I want to scroll down to this. I
really don't have time to search for this, but the
graphic was smaller than I expected it to be. Hey,
Jack and Joe thought you might be interested slash of Paul.
This is a different note from al different anonymous in
cal Unicornia. You might be interested in Nepaul that they're
(32:58):
now saying the quiet part out loud in teacher training.
And it's a graphic up on a you know, a
screen that talks about allyeship, and the screen explains that
what you're trying to do there it is I want
to read it correctly. Allyship when a person of privilege
(33:19):
works in solidarity, in partnership with a marginalized group of
people to help take down the systems that challenge that
group's basic rights, equal access, and ability to thrive in
our society. So they say, yeah, we're tearing allyship. Being
an allyship, yeah, they say, yeah, we're trying to tear
down the system. But they brand the United States Western
(33:42):
civilization as well. It's a system of oppression, souse, that's
what we're taking down. Sure, a lot of people in
this system with a very high standard of living compared
to the world. Yeah, a totally different note really nice
note from Emily. Here. It's a picture of the memorial
(34:03):
table for her dad who passed away, and it includes
a stupid should hurt t shirt. Oh so that's great,
that's great. Sorry for the loss of your pop, but
that's nice anyway. Moving along, How does Prague, Czechoslovakia feel toward, well,
Czech Republic right feel toward Russia? Guys, I was in
(34:24):
Prague a couple of years ago. I encountered these the
citizens expressing the feelings toward Russia. It is a fountain,
a water feature in Yugoslavia, I'm sorry of in the
Czech Republic of two grown men. Anatomically correct standing on
the base of the fountain is a flag of Russia,
and they are both urinating upon it. I don't know
(34:46):
if I grasped the symbolism. I wonder if that's because
the Soviet Union oppressed those poor people for generations. Moving along,
Guy Goodbar in Long Time Listener writes, Troy, have a
bit of a I want to make sure you knew.
The government subsidized Sunfresh grocery store in Kansas City closed
several days ago. Local radio says twenty nine million dollars
(35:10):
invested in the city over ten years, I yield the
rest of my time. But f this, Wow, and mum
Donnie is going to try that in New York City. Yeah,
Kansas City tried government grocery stores. They squandered twenty nine
million dollars on it, if became a crime, choked, no food,
Soviet style wasteland, and closed And you haven't heard any
(35:32):
reporting on that. We've got a lot more to come
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