August 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- 90 year old hippies, Epstein files & Russia strikes again
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Bed, Bath & Beyond, California & giraffe news!
- 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 Armstrong and
Petty and he arms An get it. I'm from Studio
(00:33):
C Signor. It's Little Friday, deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getting Communication Compound. Hey, y'all, today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager, ninety year old
white hippies. Ninety year old white hippies. Hard to imagine
why that is our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They are joined as co general managers by angry young
twenty one year old women, the twin towers of protests
in America, old hippies trying to relive the Civil Rights
era and youngsters who just want to yell about something
because they really ought to be getting laid and getting jobs,
but they're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Ninety year old hippies should be out trying to get sex. No,
the youngsters. I just said very clear. I thought I
got confused there. Really at the end they got confused.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Although certainly if the ninety year olds want to, you know,
engage in sweet sweet loving, they should.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
With the help of some sort of pill that we
should probably be endorsing like every other host in America. Yeah,
there does seem to be a hot market for that.
There does seem to be, doesn't there? And particularly how
what how y'all doing? You excited? Huh about the day
on the weekend and everything and everything going thing? How
are things going? You know, we never talk? How are
(01:51):
things going for you? Oh? That's good here? And then
you you don't really listen. You just you wait for
the space where they stop talking, and then you jump
back in right how you are because that's why you asked. Yeah,
that's why you ask because you want to tell them
how things are going for you, because something either bad
that you want to explain or something really good just
(02:12):
happened in your life, but you're just polite enough to
not or is that actually a higher level of selfishness
instead of just saying I would like to tell you
about this and telling you you lure them, you dupe them,
you swindle them into sharing their feelings first to give
you permission. I would argue that is far worse, I
(02:33):
think you're right than just walking up and saying, you
know what, yesterday I had a kidney stone or something
hurt like hell was crazy? You ever had one. It's terrible.
Buddy of mine had a kidney stone the other day.
He's had problems. He couldn't figure out what was one
with the doctor a couple of times, and then all
of a sudden, he passed a kidney stone, which is
a very calm term for something that I guess is
(02:57):
not that calm. I've never done it before, but past
sounds like it sounds easy. It's just like, you know,
I passed, Sure, I passed a test, I passed a
car on the highway, and then I passed a kidney stone. Okay,
only one of them did I do while screaming? From
what I understand, even sent me a picture of it.
He held it in the poems and and sent me
(03:18):
a picture. How kind. So Congress is coming back here
pretty soon, do you know that? And apparently a couple
of the really big issues when Congress comes back are
going Russia. Obviously Israel, which announced today approved by the
way actually legally approved in the government, new settlements on
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the West Bank, which is going to be an issue
for Congress for some reason. And Epstein. Epstein is going
to be back, according to people who follow politics. The
only reason it died down is because Congress left town
and now you're going to come back, and all that
demanding files and stuff is going to return. I just
I have no stomach or interest for it, but I
suppose to be in the news. Yeah, the only aspect
(04:02):
of the Epstein case that really interests me at this point,
and I came across a great report on it. These
folks went to the trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Of documenting all of the law enforcement and prosecutorial sweet
deals and backslaps from the entire history of the first
reports of his You know, young girl perversions, And I
would just recommend this to you, if you are a
pervert and an exploiter of young women, be the richest
(04:29):
guy in Manhattan and or the richest guy in whatever
part of Florida he was in, and have lots of
powerful friends, because that gets you some really pushed treatment, really.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Legally speaking, like you do something wrong, you get to
preferential treatment.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's your saying a lot of yeah, we'll take care
of this, or you're right, she's a crackpot, don't worry,
but we'll make this go away. Or when when just
all the evidence is there and and it's time to
go to trial, the sweetest sweetheart deal ever fashioned in
the history of of justice in Florida for the guy right,
which became absolutely scandalous. And then the prosecutor ended up
(05:06):
in Trump's cabinet, which is odd.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And when the really really rich get special treatment, is
that mostly because of leverage they have what they can
do for you? Is it some sort of emotional we
want to be their friends or think they're better than us,
or is there something like that. I think you've done
(05:29):
a lovely job running down like the three biggest aspects
of it. So some of it they can do for
me what they can do to me, and it would
be really cool for him to like me, right, So
some of it's transactional, some of it's emotional interesting, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And kind of emotional transactional, like I'm running for reelection
next year. The richest guy in town is my buddy now, right,
So it'd be really cool if.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He likes me. Yeah. Overnight, one of the largest attacks
by Russia on Ukraine since the entire war began. How's
that peace process coming along? Six hundred missiles, drones, rockets,
whatever fired at Ukraine. I heard a number of reports
today which I find almost humorous. If it weren't for
(06:19):
the fact that people were dying. And this is an
awful situation. But where they say it's really going to
damage the hopes for a cease fire. All right, how
long do we pretend that one side has any I
heard somebody say yesterday. You know, one of the problems
with this whole ceasfire peace plan is neither of the
(06:40):
sides in the war have any interest in stopping fighting.
Neither side certainly not, you know, given the other sides
red line demands.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, no, And by the way, it's you know, twenty
twenty hind sight at this point. But Lavrov showing up
in that Soviet Union CCCP sweatshirt, that was the moment
you should have known it was over, absolutely over. Lavrov
made a statement yesterday that oh yeah, peace, steel, peace keeping.
(07:14):
That sounds great. I think the UN Security Council, the
permanent members of the UN Security Council ought to figure
that out.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh that's right, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
One of the members in China is one of the
other members, so us in China we will come up
with a security plan for Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Sounds good. That was Lavrov's message yesterday, right, And as
you pointed out, yesterday, and I didn't hear anywhere else
Putin suggesting the agreement be the same place that the
last agreement from nineteen ninety four was made between Russia
(07:49):
and the United States and Great Britain about how, hey,
we'll give up your nuclear weapons and we'll take care
of you, we'll support you, we'll protect you, protect you.
That from nineteen ninety four. Putin suggested the exact same
meeting location. You're the only one who mentioned that. That
obviously was on purpose. That obviously was a like a troll.
(08:13):
It was a troll. It was one hundred percent of troll. Oh,
you're going to sign a security agreement with the West,
why don't we go back to Budapest and sign that, Vladimir.
That was one hundred percent troll. And I don't understand
how more people didn't pick up on that. I don't know.
They lack my acute powers of something or other. It
seems finishing sentences, obviously, But I am ill, Jack, I'm ill.
(08:35):
I'm saying, how's your cold going? Before I leave on vacation.
Why am I being punished, probably for the terrible things
I've done. You're like Trump, you gotta do a bunch
of good things to get into heaven. You're at the
bottom of the dotebowl. I am at the bottom of
the totem pole. Yes, let's start the show officially. I'm
Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday,
(08:57):
August twenty first of the year twenty twenty five. Were
Armstrong and getting approve of this program? Okay, then let's
start officially. According to FCC rules and regulations, the show
comes at mark. So we're going to ignore these stupid
white hit baes that all need to go home a
ticket nap because they're all over ninety years old, and
we're gonna get back to the business of protecting the
American people and the citizens of Washington, d sud Stephen Steve,
(09:20):
Stephen Miller, I hate to criticize. Sometimes you come off
a bit harsh. That was Stephen Miller, ste okay, and
what was he specifically talking about there?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
He was talking about the protesters who were barely interrupting jd.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Vance and Pete Hagsath's appearance at the National Guard headquarters
at the DC Union Station, the big train station. They're
bringing them burgers and stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Will play you some audio later, but you got you
got a handful of protesters bellowing or as the Washington
was it the Washington Post or then oh my gosh, was.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Who was it? I want to I want to slur
the right people. Oh the Wall Street Journal reporter.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Protesters drown out top Trump advisors visiting troops in Washington. Yeah,
you got like fifteen people yelling at the top of
their lungs in a train station with marble and you
know the hard reflective surfaces. Ever, you know how loud
those places get. So yes, those dozen hippies or whatever
it was were loud.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We need to get away. We need to get away
from the idea that the a bunch of people yelling
interrupting something means anything whatsoever. Well, we had the interview
with the professional crowd organizer guy last week or a
couple of days ago, whenever it was, who said, oh, yeah,
demand is absolutely surging since this National Guard stuff. It's
up four hundred percent year over year. We pay people
(10:41):
to show up to protests and yell. Now, but this
is that's what a lot of it is. And even
if it were one hundred percent sincere So you got
ten twenty forty people who are pissed off. Great, I
woke up pissed off. That doesn't prove anything.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You got a nation of hundreds of thousands of people
afraid of crime every single day. The fact that thirty
people think the National Guard is bad. Okay, great, this
is America. You get to say so, God bless your friend.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We got more on that story and a whole bunch
of others for you. A bit of a tech selloff,
as some not quite as rosy AI stories came out yesterday,
and AI and like five tech companies are driving pretty
much all these stock market records you're hearing about all
the time. And the bloom is off the rose on
(11:30):
the whole AI thing, at least for this twenty four
hour period. We'll tell we'll sell yesterday. We'll talk a
little bit about that. We got Katie's headlines on the
way and a bunch of other stuff. Stay here. We
got to redo that Bed Bath and Beyond story. The
CEO of bed Bath and Beyond just to blasting California
(11:50):
as a place you don't want to do business, which
is pretty interesting. Also, hell is going on. I'm sure, kay,
I'll tell you what's going on. You've ruined the state
of California. You and your party back to you. Yeah,
it was ruined before he got here. This is a party. Uh.
And also he's he he has taken the baton and
run with it, though give him credit. There is major
giraffe news today that we need to get into later.
(12:13):
Major draft, maybe the biggest Giraft news in thousands of years.
That was the one square on my bingo card. I
was sure I would not get today, and there it
is major Giraft news. Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right before that he said, I'm sure Katie and which no, incorrect,
won't know what.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You're talking about. I guess I didn't finish that sent you.
I was saying, I'm sure Katie doesn't have this, but
there's major news today.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wow, way to not have the major giraffe news, Katie. Well,
the last figure out who's okay, go ahead, let's figure
out who's sporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
What were you saying?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
The last big Giraft.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Story was April the draft, the one that was live
streams while she was pregnant.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That was cute four months. No, there's a completely different
version of the long neck turbivore that we need to
get to later.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Okay, starting with brightbart dot com, China sends foreign minister
to India seeking ally against Trump's bullying.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
From the Financial Times, US tech stocks hit by concerns
over future of AI.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Boom. Yeah, so there's one to two percent drop in
some of your big tech companies yesterday, all off of
this MIT paper that came out showing that ninety five
percent of companies polled had not seen returns on their
AI investments, and that made everybody freak out. And then
also Sam Altman of Open Ai saying the other day,
which I think we had, that people are a little
(13:37):
over excited about the whole productivity of AI thing happening
real soon. So that's got company's spoof wow.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Having like others like him, touted the incredible promise of
it for a very long time to raise money.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right, Huh, this drove me nuts. They make it sound
like a bad thing. From the Wall Street Journal, Trump's
law and order push in DC looks a lot like
an immigration raid, and in this article they make the
point that nearly half the arrests have been illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Hey, as long as we're in town, right, there's a
poll out today eighty twenty against Trump's takeover of the
Washington d C. I don't know what they're how they
warded the questioning, or how good the poll is. But
that's the poll being cited on all your major news networks.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I wonder what percentage of the population knows that the
constitution gives the federal government the right to run Washington
d C and or a portion out self management to
locals as.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It sees fit. That's the that's the flow chart. It's
not the opposite way. Guys. They did it again. From
the Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
DHS adds Nebraska's corn Husker clink to Ice Detention Center.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh, the Cornhusk that's the new, cleverly named detention center.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's a bit of a stretch, i'd say.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
From the New York Times, Eric Adams advisor suspended from
campaign after giving cash to reporter.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, he's got a bit of that problem with that
around him, him and him and his friends.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, it's weird. He's surrounded by criminals and con men.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I wonder why the cash was handed over in a
crunkled up bag of sour cream and onion chips.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I saw that, mm hmm. It's one of my favorite chips,
and I'll enjoyed those for a long time. It's a
good if so many hands you giant amounts of cash
stuffed into a potato chip bag. There's a decent chance
something as untoward is going on USA today.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
The new dating term shreking sounds innocent.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But it's not what you think. I don't I don't
think anything right. What do you think? I think? The
trucking is do you want me to blow it? Or
you want me to send it to ahead?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's when you date someone you're not attracted to because
you assume they're gonna treat you better.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, that's right, maybe just a good idea, no getting past.
She just looks to somebody that's gonna treat me nice.
Seems like being grown up and smart, not shrekking. Everything
doesn't need a name. Being a bad person is just
(16:31):
being a bad person.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
From the New York Post, disturbing video captures moment wild
carnival cruise ship brawl breaks out over chicken tenders running
low and I'm hungry. There's at two o'clock in the morning,
and there's a lot of people involved.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Wonder what other factor there was at two o'clock in
the morning that we've learned.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And finally the Babylon bee getting out of hand new
some orders aid to shoot off his ear.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
So back to shrekking. You think it makes them bad
people that they're choosing someone who will treat them nice overlooks.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, they're purposely looking for someone that they're not attracted to,
assuming that the good treatment will follow.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Okay, that's an interesting idea. Be it a bad person?
I know what that is, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
As a capitalist myself, I want to do business in
all fifty states, and I want to do business with
all people of all political parties.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's part of being a capitalist.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
But what I don't want to do is put my shareholders,
my employees, and myself in a situation where were regulated
to a zero and we don't want to spend one
hundred million dollars coming into California and then find out
that the state's going to take it all and waste
it all.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I got a fair amount of attention yesterday the CEO
of bed Bath and Beyond putting out this statement we
will not not open or operate retail stores in California.
Isn't about politics, It's about reality. California has created one
of the most overregulated, expensive and risking environments for businesses
in America. It's a system that makes it harder to
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employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to
deliver value to customers. The result higher taxes, higher fees,
higher wages that many businesses simply can't sustain, and endless
regulations that strangled growth. And it goes on and on
and on with things that are very true about why
California usually finishes fiftieth out of fifty on any sort
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of business climate ranking every year.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Right, he makes like a passing nod of the head
toward crime as well, But you know that's a huge
problem for retail too. The fabulous Katie Grimes of the
California Globe happened to write an article pretty recently how
to kill a state in five easy steps, the gist
of which is California is one of only five states
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that haven't recovered to pre COVID job levels, and even
the partial recovery is entirely dependent on government jobs. California
Center for Jobs in the Economy you recently reported California's
job growth has been dominated by government and government dependent
jobs and healthcare and social assistance blah blah blah. Today
California ranks toward the bottom and attracting all newcomers from
(19:16):
other parts of the country. Of California lost more than
two hundred thousand net migrants twenty five or older. Then
it was only illegal immigration that made that number look
not as bad.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yes, and here's that's an interesting thing. So California's got
a couple of things that prop it up in ways
that the numbers would be much worse. So the outflow
of people for the first time in the state's history
that started a couple of years ago would be much, much,
much worse if you took out a legal immigration and
then the same with the economy. You take out a
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couple of giant tech companies that are the biggest in
the world that just happened to be in California, and
then you ain't got much. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Sits since September of twenty two, when Gavy had the
state on full lockdown, more than virtually any other state.
Although you know, similar to other blue states. California lost
a net one hundred and fifty four thousand jobs in
the private sector. Okay lost one hundred and fifty four
thousand gained three hundred and sixty one thousand in the
(20:25):
government sector. Wow, according to California's nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office
last year, which is dominated by Democrats even though it's
non partisans.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
How does one state gain three hundred thousand government jobs
in a year? What are they?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What are they doing while while they lose one hundred
and fifty four thousand in the private sector. So you
too can have this sort of stagnation government bloat in
overspending vote Gavin Newsom twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, government doesn't make money, so I don't know how
you can could sustain that because the salaries have to
be paid by people outside of government. Right. You know,
if the Gavy bashing was going to continue, I've got
some other great coverage of the brand new guidelines for
math teaching in cal Unicornia. Unhappy, isn't it? Well, I
(21:16):
don't have to do it now, No, not at all.
Is every day to come in there and make me unhappy,
make everybody angry, That's point they said. I'm angry. I
want every day. I'm like a drunk. I'm drunk. I
want everybody to be a drunk. I'm pissed off. I
want everybody pissed off, right.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Uh No, but my point in even bringing it up,
and it's about what you'd think. The California Mathematics framework
is built on the ideology that equity means well, it
means lowering standards for everyone, that they're going to eliminate
any ability to achieve in math, to take advanced math.
(21:52):
Everybody's going to be mediocre in math in the name
of equity.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And we can get you know, into this more detail later.
It's the insidious, insidious philosophy in the land of Silicon
Valley and tech jobs. It's like the tech center of
the universe. The Marxist government is trying to make it
impossible to achieve in stem. Nobody happy. It doesn't make
(22:17):
the kids on the lower end happy or the upper
end happy. No, nobody's happy. No, it's it's a miserable, miserable,
suicidal philosophy. And uh but my point in bringing it
up is is not that, well, it's it's kind of
don't annoy you into action, but to realize, even as
the Trump administration has made fantastic progress in rolling back
(22:37):
a lot of the woke crap, a lot of the postmodernism,
neo Marxist equity crap. It is still on the march
in education and media for that matter. You know, you
want to hear the New York Times lead story on
their website.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The number one headline you see at New York Times
dot com today. In Trump's ideal picture of America, diversity
is taboo. It's about Trump trying to reign in the
Marxist Smithsonian Institution and how all of our museums have
become like leftist teaching centers. So, in Trump's ideal picture
(23:19):
of America, diversity is taboo.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Here's the subhead. Using the full power of the federal government,
President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges
the legitimacy of the black experience. Perfect example of a Mott.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And Bailey argument, or a as I prefer, castle in
courtyard because nobody knows what a freaking modern Bailey are.
But anyway, so you have these museums that are you know,
the toast of the world, Smith's Smithsonian Institution, and you
know a lot of great museums in America, Well they've
all been taken over by far leftis I can attest.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
To this having been to them recently, please in detail,
constantly rolling my eyes as you go through every plaque
you read has something about climate change or colonialism or
white people taking over something or other. Everything you can't
read about, you know, an ancient beaver without getting hit
with some about climate change or colonialism. Right exactly, It's
(24:21):
become a drum beat. They have become a drum beat
of leftist indoctrination. And Trump's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I want to know about the giant beaver. I don't
need to hear about colonialism. How big was the thing?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And so, for instance, the you know, the museum of
the National African American Museum or the National LATINIX Museum,
which may or may not exist because a bunch of
Latino scholars said, hey, this is incredibly insulting. It just
casts us all as victims and pathetic. It's not what
(24:56):
we are at all. We're strong and resilient and you know,
entered blah blah blah. So anyway, if you say, hey,
you've turned museums into like Marxist three education centers. This guy,
Zolon Kano Young's for the New York Times with the
endorsement of the New York Times says, Oh, you're trying
to deny the legitimacy of the plaque experience.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Uh no, I'm not. No, the black experience is fine
and legitimate, and let's talk about it. But you don't
have to teach Marxism at every plaque in every museum.
So you're denying the legitimacy of the black experience, all right.
So I want to get to this later. Speaking of teaching,
because school's starting again, a lot of teachers oppose lessons
(25:41):
on gender. This gets to the thing probably the biggest
story we've had in the week, that study that came
out that shows that lots of people are an agreement
on these things, but they're scared to say it out
loud because they don't know that they're in the majority exactly.
In fact, they assume they're in the minority until the
damn breaks then then it's over. And I think it
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might be that way with teachers on a lot of
this stuff that they're supposed to be teaching. So we
can get to that Pew study later.
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breaking giraffe news, I do. My son's going to be
really into this. He's super into evolution and species and
genus and all that different sort of stuff for animals
and humans. I have a feeling that's going to be
what he ends up doing with his life, because he's
just endlessly fascinated by it. Has he ever fed a giraffe?
(27:46):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I think he should. Okay, I get a high priority.
They're amazing. Their tongues are like a foot and a
half long, black as spades.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So uh. It's always been assumed that there is just
one draft species because it's so unique as an animal.
Turns out there are four distinct species of draff. Four.
I'll be down. So I need to look into that.
There's no way they like developed separately. They must come
(28:16):
from one common ancestor or something that like that and
then split off. But different dog breeds are not different species.
So I don't know. I'm gonna have to look into that.
But it reminded me of when it was announced last
year something like that. There I think there are twenty
three or is it thirty two. Either way, it's a
lot different examples of eyeballs independently coming into being as
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an evolutionary thing. It didn't all come from like one
time miraculously an eyeball eyes became a thing and then
it spread out into all the different beasts many many, many,
many different times. It just independently on its own became
a thing, which I find fascinating. Right, you needed to
see and then something just tappened over gazillions of years
(29:02):
to where he ended up with sight. Anyway, Well, I
don't expect that fish would have bred with gorillas, so
it makes sense that it would have had to have
or no, no, no, no, I see what you're saying. Yeah,
because if you get close enough to the beginning of
the beginning and whether you think the Good Lord directed
that or not, let's not get into that argument. But oh,
let's get into it deeply. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Belief in God is at all, you know, oppositional to science.
I don't get people who do anyway. Ah, yeah, that
is absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, all going back to one thing, my son
has got this cool giant poster in his room of
all of the beasts of the world going down, down,
down in a tree, down to uh, you know, basically
one thing. And it's really interesting. Actually, So here's the
truest thing I've ever said. Just popped into my head.
Somebody jot this down. Human beings can't even conceive really
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of a thousand years, no, for obvious reasons. We're not
built to. So the idea that we could conceive of
three hundred and fifty million years is hilarious and contemplate
the evolution of beasts across millions and millions and millions
and millions of generations. Yeah, beyond arkins. My son likes
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to use this example. He did this when we were
at the Dinosaur Museum, where he was so thrilled. He
was like running around with his hands in the air shouting,
he was so excited. But that we are closer to
the t rex on the timeline than the t rex
is to the stegosaurus. Yea, even though they're often put
together in movies.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Oh yeah, just to summarize, and then there are dinosaurs
for a little bit anyway, right.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Right exactly, We got mailbag on the way and much
more news of the day. Stay here. Okay, apparently we're
gonna have to go big on shreking. It is an
actual thing, both reading about it in USA today and
getting a text from someone I know about the dating world,
and shrekking is a thing. There are women out there shrekking.
(31:07):
So we'll have to talk about that next hour. Calculating
beaches an interesting idea. Oh boy, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Continuing on our series about voting, I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It was from FDR of all people.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
But democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice
are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore,
is education. Interesting given our discussion of a few minutes ago,
or for instance, the state of California, democratic supermajority is
trying to ruin education, you know, achieve equity in maths,
(31:49):
nobody achieves everybody gets to see in basic math, and
nobody does anything else. And did the found turn public
schools into induction nation factories? Did the founding fathers have
a blind spot to government running education and then getting twisted?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Uh? I don't think they conceived of it. There wasn't
any I mean, public education was came about in the
progressive movement of the early twentieth century. Really, how did
schools work before then? I don't actually know this. I
don't think there's a blind spot for me. I need
to be established by the town fathers and parents or whatever,
and all the students would chip right, and the parents
(32:26):
would chip into pay the screen, and you'd probably teach
something reflective of your local culture. Well right, yeah, and
the basics obviously, But yeah, and the progressives made no
bones about it in the early twentieth century that public
schools were an effort to teach the kids not to
be like their parents. Woodrow Wilson said so, quite quite bluntly.
(32:47):
I love it when people use the term when we
use the term government run schools, because it's a better framing.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh yeah, absolutely. Mailbag send us a note. Mail Bag
at Armstrong e getty dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Maybe one day, when Jack is on vacation or something,
I'm gonna do an entire day of just reading emails.
We had one hundred fifty at least that were clever, funny, insightful, ironic, surprising, whatever,
and we just don't have time to get to many
of them. But thanks for writing anyway. This is very important.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
It's a very special email from Ricky, the Bricky, Jack, Joe.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The rest of the crew. After careful review of the
ang proceedings on the fifteenth of August twenty twenty five,
last Friday, it has been determined that the show did
not conduct its official start, an oversight by mister Jack Armstrong.
I would oh my god hot, and nobody caught it.
Under these circumstances, is hereby determined that, in the manner
of a mail bag in fraction committed by one Joe
(33:43):
Getty's actually a cow clipse of the Week and subsequent
administering of the buzzer, it is considered vacated and to
be stricken from any and all permanent records. Wow. It's
been further determined that Jack Armstrong, Michaelangelo, and Katie Green
are guilty conspiring to administer a buzzer part under false pretenses.
(34:03):
That's right, hitting me with the buzzer because I forgot
about cow. You didn't start the show officially, sir, Well,
mine has a sanction from the Fccit yeah, damn it,
Sean writes racist dog whistle from Joe, I feel in
the spirit of allyeship to the colonized. Yes, I just
completed my yearly educator training in California.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh boy, that I should point out something you said.
You mentioned Frankenstein's monster, and of course that's an accurate phrase. However,
it is clear that your intention was to signal your patriarchal,
white yacht driving, post apocalyptic beaver serving, privileged woman loving
class to the rest of the listeners. The masses say
Frankenstein or even a Frankenstein lording over the noble ignorance,
(34:45):
that you understand that the doctor is Frankenstein and not
the monster is truly monstrous. Time to look in the
mirror of my friend, you know, Sean, I appreciate that
being so over the top, stupidiculous, but only a few
years ago or still in education, if you said.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I am offended, and I said I didn't mean it
like that, that doesn't matter. That to your intent doesn't
matter at all. Could get you branded a racist. Sure,
A completely invented, neurotic, bizarre, out of nowhere offense at
something inoffensive was proof that the person who spoke it
(35:23):
is the bad person. If you don't understand how that's
a tool of submission and domination and has nothing to
do with justice or race, well then you're a fool,
my friend, and I pity you.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
That was condescension. God say how about this Jay, the
fabulous JT and Livermore. I need you or somebody like
Mike Lyons to explain to me why Putin needs to
meet with Zelensky and or sign a new border's treaty.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
This isn't rhetorical.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Putin Russia have already shown that signing a treaty or
a treaty like agreement means nothing to Putin. The very
reason Ukraine is in the bind that's in is because
Russia chose not to under several agreements. So why is
anybody spending any effort to get them to sign a
new agreement? What would that even mean?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, the Telegraph reported yesterday there are ten countries willing
to send troops, ten European countries. If you had a
whole bunch of troops there, it would mean something because
you violate that with ten different europe NATO countries troops there.
But well, and okay, and that's a good point because
he says, name one thing that would be different if
the deployment of European troops if Putin signed an agreement,
(36:31):
it would establish what trip Wire was in effect, for
them to fight back. Yeah, absolutely it. It's for them.
It's not for Poote, Armstrong and
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Petty and he arms An get it. I'm from Studio
(00:33):
C Signor. It's Little Friday, deep within the bowels of
the Armstrong and Getting Communication Compound. Hey, y'all, today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager, ninety year old
white hippies. Ninety year old white hippies. Hard to imagine
why that is our general manager.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
They are joined as co general managers by angry young
twenty one year old women, the twin towers of protests
in America, old hippies trying to relive the Civil Rights
era and youngsters who just want to yell about something
because they really ought to be getting laid and getting jobs,
but they're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Ninety year old hippies should be out trying to get sex. No,
the youngsters. I just said very clear. I thought I
got confused there. Really at the end they got confused.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Although certainly if the ninety year olds want to, you know,
engage in sweet sweet loving, they should.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
With the help of some sort of pill that we
should probably be endorsing like every other host in America. Yeah,
there does seem to be a hot market for that.
There does seem to be, doesn't there? And particularly how
what how y'all doing? You excited? Huh about the day
on the weekend and everything and everything going thing? How
are things going? You know, we never talk? How are
(01:51):
things going for you? Oh? That's good here? And then
you you don't really listen. You just you wait for
the space where they stop talking, and then you jump
back in right how you are because that's why you asked. Yeah,
that's why you ask because you want to tell them
how things are going for you, because something either bad
that you want to explain or something really good just
(02:12):
happened in your life, but you're just polite enough to
not or is that actually a higher level of selfishness
instead of just saying I would like to tell you
about this and telling you you lure them, you dupe them,
you swindle them into sharing their feelings first to give
you permission. I would argue that is far worse, I
(02:33):
think you're right than just walking up and saying, you
know what, yesterday I had a kidney stone or something
hurt like hell was crazy? You ever had one. It's terrible.
Buddy of mine had a kidney stone the other day.
He's had problems. He couldn't figure out what was one
with the doctor a couple of times, and then all
of a sudden, he passed a kidney stone, which is
a very calm term for something that I guess is
(02:57):
not that calm. I've never done it before, but past
sounds like it sounds easy. It's just like, you know,
I passed, Sure, I passed a test, I passed a
car on the highway, and then I passed a kidney stone. Okay,
only one of them did I do while screaming? From
what I understand, even sent me a picture of it.
He held it in the poems and and sent me
(03:18):
a picture. How kind. So Congress is coming back here
pretty soon, do you know that? And apparently a couple
of the really big issues when Congress comes back are
going Russia. Obviously Israel, which announced today approved by the
way actually legally approved in the government, new settlements on
(03:40):
the West Bank, which is going to be an issue
for Congress for some reason. And Epstein. Epstein is going
to be back, according to people who follow politics. The
only reason it died down is because Congress left town
and now you're going to come back, and all that
demanding files and stuff is going to return. I just
I have no stomach or interest for it, but I
suppose to be in the news. Yeah, the only aspect
(04:02):
of the Epstein case that really interests me at this point,
and I came across a great report on it. These
folks went to the trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Of documenting all of the law enforcement and prosecutorial sweet
deals and backslaps from the entire history of the first
reports of his You know, young girl perversions, And I
would just recommend this to you, if you are a
pervert and an exploiter of young women, be the richest
(04:29):
guy in Manhattan and or the richest guy in whatever
part of Florida he was in, and have lots of
powerful friends, because that gets you some really pushed treatment, really.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Legally speaking, like you do something wrong, you get to
preferential treatment.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's your saying a lot of yeah, we'll take care
of this, or you're right, she's a crackpot, don't worry,
but we'll make this go away. Or when when just
all the evidence is there and and it's time to
go to trial, the sweetest sweetheart deal ever fashioned in
the history of of justice in Florida for the guy right,
which became absolutely scandalous. And then the prosecutor ended up
(05:06):
in Trump's cabinet, which is odd.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
And when the really really rich get special treatment, is
that mostly because of leverage they have what they can
do for you? Is it some sort of emotional we
want to be their friends or think they're better than us,
or is there something like that. I think you've done
(05:29):
a lovely job running down like the three biggest aspects
of it. So some of it they can do for
me what they can do to me, and it would
be really cool for him to like me, right, So
some of it's transactional, some of it's emotional interesting, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And kind of emotional transactional, like I'm running for reelection
next year. The richest guy in town is my buddy now, right,
So it'd be really cool if.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He likes me. Yeah. Overnight, one of the largest attacks
by Russia on Ukraine since the entire war began. How's
that peace process coming along? Six hundred missiles, drones, rockets,
whatever fired at Ukraine. I heard a number of reports
today which I find almost humorous. If it weren't for
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the fact that people were dying. And this is an
awful situation. But where they say it's really going to
damage the hopes for a cease fire. All right, how
long do we pretend that one side has any I
heard somebody say yesterday. You know, one of the problems
with this whole ceasfire peace plan is neither of the
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sides in the war have any interest in stopping fighting.
Neither side certainly not, you know, given the other sides
red line demands.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, no, And by the way, it's you know, twenty
twenty hind sight at this point. But Lavrov showing up
in that Soviet Union CCCP sweatshirt, that was the moment
you should have known it was over, absolutely over. Lavrov
made a statement yesterday that oh yeah, peace, steel, peace keeping.
(07:14):
That sounds great. I think the UN Security Council, the
permanent members of the UN Security Council ought to figure
that out.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh that's right, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
One of the members in China is one of the
other members, so us in China we will come up
with a security plan for Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Sounds good. That was Lavrov's message yesterday, right, And as
you pointed out, yesterday, and I didn't hear anywhere else
Putin suggesting the agreement be the same place that the
last agreement from nineteen ninety four was made between Russia
(07:49):
and the United States and Great Britain about how, hey,
we'll give up your nuclear weapons and we'll take care
of you, we'll support you, we'll protect you, protect you.
That from nineteen ninety four. Putin suggested the exact same
meeting location. You're the only one who mentioned that. That
obviously was on purpose. That obviously was a like a troll.
(08:13):
It was a troll. It was one hundred percent of troll. Oh,
you're going to sign a security agreement with the West,
why don't we go back to Budapest and sign that, Vladimir.
That was one hundred percent troll. And I don't understand
how more people didn't pick up on that. I don't know.
They lack my acute powers of something or other. It
seems finishing sentences, obviously, But I am ill, Jack, I'm ill.
(08:35):
I'm saying, how's your cold going? Before I leave on vacation.
Why am I being punished, probably for the terrible things
I've done. You're like Trump, you gotta do a bunch
of good things to get into heaven. You're at the
bottom of the dotebowl. I am at the bottom of
the totem pole. Yes, let's start the show officially. I'm
Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday,
(08:57):
August twenty first of the year twenty twenty five. Were
Armstrong and getting approve of this program? Okay, then let's
start officially. According to FCC rules and regulations, the show
comes at mark. So we're going to ignore these stupid
white hit baes that all need to go home a
ticket nap because they're all over ninety years old, and
we're gonna get back to the business of protecting the
American people and the citizens of Washington, d sud Stephen Steve,
(09:20):
Stephen Miller, I hate to criticize. Sometimes you come off
a bit harsh. That was Stephen Miller, ste okay, and
what was he specifically talking about there?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
He was talking about the protesters who were barely interrupting jd.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Vance and Pete Hagsath's appearance at the National Guard headquarters
at the DC Union Station, the big train station. They're
bringing them burgers and stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Will play you some audio later, but you got you
got a handful of protesters bellowing or as the Washington
was it the Washington Post or then oh my gosh, was.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Who was it? I want to I want to slur
the right people. Oh the Wall Street Journal reporter.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Protesters drown out top Trump advisors visiting troops in Washington. Yeah,
you got like fifteen people yelling at the top of
their lungs in a train station with marble and you
know the hard reflective surfaces. Ever, you know how loud
those places get. So yes, those dozen hippies or whatever
it was were loud.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We need to get away. We need to get away
from the idea that the a bunch of people yelling
interrupting something means anything whatsoever. Well, we had the interview
with the professional crowd organizer guy last week or a
couple of days ago, whenever it was, who said, oh, yeah,
demand is absolutely surging since this National Guard stuff. It's
up four hundred percent year over year. We pay people
(10:41):
to show up to protests and yell. Now, but this
is that's what a lot of it is. And even
if it were one hundred percent sincere So you got
ten twenty forty people who are pissed off. Great, I
woke up pissed off. That doesn't prove anything.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
You got a nation of hundreds of thousands of people
afraid of crime every single day. The fact that thirty
people think the National Guard is bad. Okay, great, this
is America. You get to say so, God bless your friend.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We got more on that story and a whole bunch
of others for you. A bit of a tech selloff,
as some not quite as rosy AI stories came out yesterday,
and AI and like five tech companies are driving pretty
much all these stock market records you're hearing about all
the time. And the bloom is off the rose on
(11:30):
the whole AI thing, at least for this twenty four
hour period. We'll tell we'll sell yesterday. We'll talk a
little bit about that. We got Katie's headlines on the
way and a bunch of other stuff. Stay here. We
got to redo that Bed Bath and Beyond story. The
CEO of bed Bath and Beyond just to blasting California
(11:50):
as a place you don't want to do business, which
is pretty interesting. Also, hell is going on. I'm sure, kay,
I'll tell you what's going on. You've ruined the state
of California. You and your party back to you. Yeah,
it was ruined before he got here. This is a party. Uh.
And also he's he he has taken the baton and
run with it, though give him credit. There is major
giraffe news today that we need to get into later.
(12:13):
Major draft, maybe the biggest Giraft news in thousands of years.
That was the one square on my bingo card. I
was sure I would not get today, and there it
is major Giraft news. Yes.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Right before that he said, I'm sure Katie and which no, incorrect,
won't know what.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You're talking about. I guess I didn't finish that sent you.
I was saying, I'm sure Katie doesn't have this, but
there's major news today.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wow, way to not have the major giraffe news, Katie. Well,
the last figure out who's okay, go ahead, let's figure
out who's sporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
What were you saying?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
The last big Giraft.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Story was April the draft, the one that was live
streams while she was pregnant.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That was cute four months. No, there's a completely different
version of the long neck turbivore that we need to
get to later.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Okay, starting with brightbart dot com, China sends foreign minister
to India seeking ally against Trump's bullying.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
From the Financial Times, US tech stocks hit by concerns
over future of AI.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Boom. Yeah, so there's one to two percent drop in
some of your big tech companies yesterday, all off of
this MIT paper that came out showing that ninety five
percent of companies polled had not seen returns on their
AI investments, and that made everybody freak out. And then
also Sam Altman of Open Ai saying the other day,
which I think we had, that people are a little
(13:37):
over excited about the whole productivity of AI thing happening
real soon. So that's got company's spoof wow.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Having like others like him, touted the incredible promise of
it for a very long time to raise money.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right, Huh, this drove me nuts. They make it sound
like a bad thing. From the Wall Street Journal, Trump's
law and order push in DC looks a lot like
an immigration raid, and in this article they make the
point that nearly half the arrests have been illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Hey, as long as we're in town, right, there's a
poll out today eighty twenty against Trump's takeover of the
Washington d C. I don't know what they're how they
warded the questioning, or how good the poll is. But
that's the poll being cited on all your major news networks.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I wonder what percentage of the population knows that the
constitution gives the federal government the right to run Washington
d C and or a portion out self management to
locals as.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It sees fit. That's the that's the flow chart. It's
not the opposite way. Guys. They did it again. From
the Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
DHS adds Nebraska's corn Husker clink to Ice Detention Center.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh, the Cornhusk that's the new, cleverly named detention center.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's a bit of a stretch, i'd say.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
From the New York Times, Eric Adams advisor suspended from
campaign after giving cash to reporter.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, he's got a bit of that problem with that
around him, him and him and his friends.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yeah, it's weird. He's surrounded by criminals and con men.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I wonder why the cash was handed over in a
crunkled up bag of sour cream and onion chips.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I saw that, mm hmm. It's one of my favorite chips,
and I'll enjoyed those for a long time. It's a
good if so many hands you giant amounts of cash
stuffed into a potato chip bag. There's a decent chance
something as untoward is going on USA today.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
The new dating term shreking sounds innocent.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But it's not what you think. I don't I don't
think anything right. What do you think? I think? The
trucking is do you want me to blow it? Or
you want me to send it to ahead?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's when you date someone you're not attracted to because
you assume they're gonna treat you better.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, that's right, maybe just a good idea, no getting past.
She just looks to somebody that's gonna treat me nice.
Seems like being grown up and smart, not shrekking. Everything
doesn't need a name. Being a bad person is just
(16:31):
being a bad person.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
From the New York Post, disturbing video captures moment wild
carnival cruise ship brawl breaks out over chicken tenders running
low and I'm hungry. There's at two o'clock in the morning,
and there's a lot of people involved.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Wonder what other factor there was at two o'clock in
the morning that we've learned.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And finally the Babylon bee getting out of hand new
some orders aid to shoot off his ear.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
So back to shrekking. You think it makes them bad
people that they're choosing someone who will treat them nice overlooks.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No, they're purposely looking for someone that they're not attracted to,
assuming that the good treatment will follow.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Okay, that's an interesting idea. Be it a bad person?
I know what that is, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
As a capitalist myself, I want to do business in
all fifty states, and I want to do business with
all people of all political parties.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's part of being a capitalist.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
But what I don't want to do is put my shareholders,
my employees, and myself in a situation where were regulated
to a zero and we don't want to spend one
hundred million dollars coming into California and then find out
that the state's going to take it all and waste
it all.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I got a fair amount of attention yesterday the CEO
of bed Bath and Beyond putting out this statement we
will not not open or operate retail stores in California.
Isn't about politics, It's about reality. California has created one
of the most overregulated, expensive and risking environments for businesses
in America. It's a system that makes it harder to
(18:09):
employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to
deliver value to customers. The result higher taxes, higher fees,
higher wages that many businesses simply can't sustain, and endless
regulations that strangled growth. And it goes on and on
and on with things that are very true about why
California usually finishes fiftieth out of fifty on any sort
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of business climate ranking every year.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Right, he makes like a passing nod of the head
toward crime as well, But you know that's a huge
problem for retail too. The fabulous Katie Grimes of the
California Globe happened to write an article pretty recently how
to kill a state in five easy steps, the gist
of which is California is one of only five states
(18:54):
that haven't recovered to pre COVID job levels, and even
the partial recovery is entirely dependent on government jobs. California
Center for Jobs in the Economy you recently reported California's
job growth has been dominated by government and government dependent
jobs and healthcare and social assistance blah blah blah. Today
California ranks toward the bottom and attracting all newcomers from
(19:16):
other parts of the country. Of California lost more than
two hundred thousand net migrants twenty five or older. Then
it was only illegal immigration that made that number look
not as bad.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yes, and here's that's an interesting thing. So California's got
a couple of things that prop it up in ways
that the numbers would be much worse. So the outflow
of people for the first time in the state's history
that started a couple of years ago would be much, much,
much worse if you took out a legal immigration and
then the same with the economy. You take out a
(19:53):
couple of giant tech companies that are the biggest in
the world that just happened to be in California, and
then you ain't got much. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Sits since September of twenty two, when Gavy had the
state on full lockdown, more than virtually any other state.
Although you know, similar to other blue states. California lost
a net one hundred and fifty four thousand jobs in
the private sector. Okay lost one hundred and fifty four
thousand gained three hundred and sixty one thousand in the
(20:25):
government sector. Wow, according to California's nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office
last year, which is dominated by Democrats even though it's
non partisans.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
How does one state gain three hundred thousand government jobs
in a year? What are they?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
What are they doing while while they lose one hundred
and fifty four thousand in the private sector. So you
too can have this sort of stagnation government bloat in
overspending vote Gavin Newsom twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, government doesn't make money, so I don't know how
you can could sustain that because the salaries have to
be paid by people outside of government. Right. You know,
if the Gavy bashing was going to continue, I've got
some other great coverage of the brand new guidelines for
math teaching in cal Unicornia. Unhappy, isn't it? Well, I
(21:16):
don't have to do it now, No, not at all.
Is every day to come in there and make me unhappy,
make everybody angry, That's point they said. I'm angry. I
want every day. I'm like a drunk. I'm drunk. I
want everybody to be a drunk. I'm pissed off. I
want everybody pissed off, right.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Uh No, but my point in even bringing it up,
and it's about what you'd think. The California Mathematics framework
is built on the ideology that equity means well, it
means lowering standards for everyone, that they're going to eliminate
any ability to achieve in math, to take advanced math.
(21:52):
Everybody's going to be mediocre in math in the name
of equity.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And we can get you know, into this more detail later.
It's the insidious, insidious philosophy in the land of Silicon
Valley and tech jobs. It's like the tech center of
the universe. The Marxist government is trying to make it
impossible to achieve in stem. Nobody happy. It doesn't make
(22:17):
the kids on the lower end happy or the upper
end happy. No, nobody's happy. No, it's it's a miserable, miserable,
suicidal philosophy. And uh but my point in bringing it
up is is not that, well, it's it's kind of
don't annoy you into action, but to realize, even as
the Trump administration has made fantastic progress in rolling back
(22:37):
a lot of the woke crap, a lot of the postmodernism,
neo Marxist equity crap. It is still on the march
in education and media for that matter. You know, you
want to hear the New York Times lead story on
their website.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
The number one headline you see at New York Times
dot com today. In Trump's ideal picture of America, diversity
is taboo. It's about Trump trying to reign in the
Marxist Smithsonian Institution and how all of our museums have
become like leftist teaching centers. So, in Trump's ideal picture
(23:19):
of America, diversity is taboo.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Here's the subhead. Using the full power of the federal government,
President Trump has promoted a vision of America that challenges
the legitimacy of the black experience. Perfect example of a Mott.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
And Bailey argument, or a as I prefer, castle in
courtyard because nobody knows what a freaking modern Bailey are.
But anyway, so you have these museums that are you know,
the toast of the world, Smith's Smithsonian Institution, and you
know a lot of great museums in America, Well they've
all been taken over by far leftis I can attest.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
To this having been to them recently, please in detail,
constantly rolling my eyes as you go through every plaque
you read has something about climate change or colonialism or
white people taking over something or other. Everything you can't
read about, you know, an ancient beaver without getting hit
with some about climate change or colonialism. Right exactly, It's
(24:21):
become a drum beat. They have become a drum beat
of leftist indoctrination. And Trump's like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I want to know about the giant beaver. I don't
need to hear about colonialism. How big was the thing?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And so, for instance, the you know, the museum of
the National African American Museum or the National LATINIX Museum,
which may or may not exist because a bunch of
Latino scholars said, hey, this is incredibly insulting. It just
casts us all as victims and pathetic. It's not what
(24:56):
we are at all. We're strong and resilient and you know,
entered blah blah blah. So anyway, if you say, hey,
you've turned museums into like Marxist three education centers. This guy,
Zolon Kano Young's for the New York Times with the
endorsement of the New York Times says, Oh, you're trying
to deny the legitimacy of the plaque experience.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Uh no, I'm not. No, the black experience is fine
and legitimate, and let's talk about it. But you don't
have to teach Marxism at every plaque in every museum.
So you're denying the legitimacy of the black experience, all right.
So I want to get to this later. Speaking of teaching,
because school's starting again, a lot of teachers oppose lessons
(25:41):
on gender. This gets to the thing probably the biggest
story we've had in the week, that study that came
out that shows that lots of people are an agreement
on these things, but they're scared to say it out
loud because they don't know that they're in the majority exactly.
In fact, they assume they're in the minority until the
damn breaks then then it's over. And I think it
(26:04):
might be that way with teachers on a lot of
this stuff that they're supposed to be teaching. So we
can get to that Pew study later.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
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There's no safe like simply safe. You want the major
breaking giraffe news, I do. My son's going to be
really into this. He's super into evolution and species and
genus and all that different sort of stuff for animals
and humans. I have a feeling that's going to be
what he ends up doing with his life, because he's
just endlessly fascinated by it. Has he ever fed a giraffe?
(27:46):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I think he should. Okay, I get a high priority.
They're amazing. Their tongues are like a foot and a
half long, black as spades.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So uh. It's always been assumed that there is just
one draft species because it's so unique as an animal.
Turns out there are four distinct species of draff. Four.
I'll be down. So I need to look into that.
There's no way they like developed separately. They must come
(28:16):
from one common ancestor or something that like that and
then split off. But different dog breeds are not different species.
So I don't know. I'm gonna have to look into that.
But it reminded me of when it was announced last
year something like that. There I think there are twenty
three or is it thirty two. Either way, it's a
lot different examples of eyeballs independently coming into being as
(28:40):
an evolutionary thing. It didn't all come from like one
time miraculously an eyeball eyes became a thing and then
it spread out into all the different beasts many many, many,
many different times. It just independently on its own became
a thing, which I find fascinating. Right, you needed to
see and then something just tappened over gazillions of years
(29:02):
to where he ended up with sight. Anyway, Well, I
don't expect that fish would have bred with gorillas, so
it makes sense that it would have had to have
or no, no, no, no, I see what you're saying. Yeah,
because if you get close enough to the beginning of
the beginning and whether you think the Good Lord directed
that or not, let's not get into that argument. But oh,
let's get into it deeply. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Belief in God is at all, you know, oppositional to science.
I don't get people who do anyway. Ah, yeah, that
is absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, all going back to one thing, my son
has got this cool giant poster in his room of
all of the beasts of the world going down, down,
down in a tree, down to uh, you know, basically
one thing. And it's really interesting. Actually, So here's the
truest thing I've ever said. Just popped into my head.
Somebody jot this down. Human beings can't even conceive really
(29:58):
of a thousand years, no, for obvious reasons. We're not
built to. So the idea that we could conceive of
three hundred and fifty million years is hilarious and contemplate
the evolution of beasts across millions and millions and millions
and millions of generations. Yeah, beyond arkins. My son likes
(30:20):
to use this example. He did this when we were
at the Dinosaur Museum, where he was so thrilled. He
was like running around with his hands in the air shouting,
he was so excited. But that we are closer to
the t rex on the timeline than the t rex
is to the stegosaurus. Yea, even though they're often put
together in movies.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Oh yeah, just to summarize, and then there are dinosaurs
for a little bit anyway, right.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Right exactly, We got mailbag on the way and much
more news of the day. Stay here. Okay, apparently we're
gonna have to go big on shreking. It is an
actual thing, both reading about it in USA today and
getting a text from someone I know about the dating world,
and shrekking is a thing. There are women out there shrekking.
(31:07):
So we'll have to talk about that next hour. Calculating
beaches an interesting idea. Oh boy, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Continuing on our series about voting, I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It was from FDR of all people.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
But democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice
are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore,
is education. Interesting given our discussion of a few minutes ago,
or for instance, the state of California, democratic supermajority is
trying to ruin education, you know, achieve equity in maths,
(31:49):
nobody achieves everybody gets to see in basic math, and
nobody does anything else. And did the found turn public
schools into induction nation factories? Did the founding fathers have
a blind spot to government running education and then getting twisted?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Uh? I don't think they conceived of it. There wasn't
any I mean, public education was came about in the
progressive movement of the early twentieth century. Really, how did
schools work before then? I don't actually know this. I
don't think there's a blind spot for me. I need
to be established by the town fathers and parents or whatever,
and all the students would chip right, and the parents
(32:26):
would chip into pay the screen, and you'd probably teach
something reflective of your local culture. Well right, yeah, and
the basics obviously, But yeah, and the progressives made no
bones about it in the early twentieth century that public
schools were an effort to teach the kids not to
be like their parents. Woodrow Wilson said so, quite quite bluntly.
(32:47):
I love it when people use the term when we
use the term government run schools, because it's a better framing.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh yeah, absolutely. Mailbag send us a note. Mail Bag
at Armstrong e getty dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Maybe one day, when Jack is on vacation or something,
I'm gonna do an entire day of just reading emails.
We had one hundred fifty at least that were clever, funny, insightful, ironic, surprising, whatever,
and we just don't have time to get to many
of them. But thanks for writing anyway. This is very important.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
It's a very special email from Ricky, the Bricky, Jack, Joe.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
The rest of the crew. After careful review of the
ang proceedings on the fifteenth of August twenty twenty five,
last Friday, it has been determined that the show did
not conduct its official start, an oversight by mister Jack Armstrong.
I would oh my god hot, and nobody caught it.
Under these circumstances, is hereby determined that, in the manner
of a mail bag in fraction committed by one Joe
(33:43):
Getty's actually a cow clipse of the Week and subsequent
administering of the buzzer, it is considered vacated and to
be stricken from any and all permanent records. Wow. It's
been further determined that Jack Armstrong, Michaelangelo, and Katie Green
are guilty conspiring to administer a buzzer part under false pretenses.
(34:03):
That's right, hitting me with the buzzer because I forgot
about cow. You didn't start the show officially, sir, Well,
mine has a sanction from the Fccit yeah, damn it,
Sean writes racist dog whistle from Joe, I feel in
the spirit of allyeship to the colonized. Yes, I just
completed my yearly educator training in California.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh boy, that I should point out something you said.
You mentioned Frankenstein's monster, and of course that's an accurate phrase. However,
it is clear that your intention was to signal your patriarchal,
white yacht driving, post apocalyptic beaver serving, privileged woman loving
class to the rest of the listeners. The masses say
Frankenstein or even a Frankenstein lording over the noble ignorance,
(34:45):
that you understand that the doctor is Frankenstein and not
the monster is truly monstrous. Time to look in the
mirror of my friend, you know, Sean, I appreciate that
being so over the top, stupidiculous, but only a few
years ago or still in education, if you said.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I am offended, and I said I didn't mean it
like that, that doesn't matter. That to your intent doesn't
matter at all. Could get you branded a racist. Sure,
A completely invented, neurotic, bizarre, out of nowhere offense at
something inoffensive was proof that the person who spoke it
(35:23):
is the bad person. If you don't understand how that's
a tool of submission and domination and has nothing to
do with justice or race, well then you're a fool,
my friend, and I pity you.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
That was condescension. God say how about this Jay, the
fabulous JT and Livermore. I need you or somebody like
Mike Lyons to explain to me why Putin needs to
meet with Zelensky and or sign a new border's treaty.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
This isn't rhetorical.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Putin Russia have already shown that signing a treaty or
a treaty like agreement means nothing to Putin. The very
reason Ukraine is in the bind that's in is because
Russia chose not to under several agreements. So why is
anybody spending any effort to get them to sign a
new agreement? What would that even mean?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, the Telegraph reported yesterday there are ten countries willing
to send troops, ten European countries. If you had a
whole bunch of troops there, it would mean something because
you violate that with ten different europe NATO countries troops there.
But well, and okay, and that's a good point because
he says, name one thing that would be different if
the deployment of European troops if Putin signed an agreement,
(36:31):
it would establish what trip Wire was in effect, for
them to fight back. Yeah, absolutely it. It's for them.
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