September 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- A fantastic story about a mission involving North Korea & The Navy Seals...
- The Dallas Hocker Shocker...
- RFK's Senate hearing...
- Jack's uncomfortable human interest story!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joke.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Getty Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Did you guys see this? Yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
In San Francisco, two United planes on the tarmac bumped
into each other. United calls that an accident, while Southwest
just calls it a high five.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm blad we played that joke like five minutes ago,
did we not? Yes, we did, and we talked about it,
laughed about it. Or did I make that up on
my head? Am I having a stroke? Didn't we just
play that joke?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
If you are, we both are simultaneously, which is to start?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay, Michael, you're clearly happy. I was trying to hit number.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Okay, that's just it's my little cursorn't. It doesn't bother
It doesn't bother me that we played the same joke twice.
It would bother me if you didn't remember that, because
then we would have a serious problem.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right, Yeah, indeed, we're okay, I'll sign joke and well
worth hearing you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Actually it's barely mildly amusing.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yes, jobs numbers out about a third of what they
were projecting that is low and the job market is
I'll use the actual term the Wall Street journally uses
deteriorating markedly, they say, So, more on that coming up later.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yes, indeed, and Donald Jay and or as people are
questioning the statisticians. Interesting, So, speaking of Donald Jay and
policy and that sort of thing, The New York Times
has a big front page piece today about a twenty
nineteen Seal Team six operation that has never been publicly
acknowledged or even hinted at by either the United States
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or North Korea, where Seal Team six was doing what
they do so well. And the New York Times understands.
You can tell they understand that feeling this at all
is a little questionable, right. I wonder how many of
these happen around the world that we never hear about.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You think a lot, hmm, several? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The people who spoke to them, and then the New
York Times editors who decided to go ahead with the
story said they're doing this because they were concerned that
special operations failures are often hidden by government secrecy. If
the public and policymakers became aware only of high profile
successes like the raid to put a couple of slugs
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in Bilauden's head. They may underestimate the extreme risks that
American forces undertake.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's not a bad argument. I don't love that argument. Yeah,
that's funny.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I feel like we kind of have a vision of
Seal Team six. If they sat out on a mission,
it's always successful and things go wonderful.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And I don't know if that's good. Yeah, and you know,
it's funny arguing with myself. You're the leaders of various
regimes around the world, both friendly and unfriendly. If you,
you know, were to get them to tell the truth
from Shijin pinga vlad Putin to the friggin Canadians, they
would say, oh, yeah, we do everything we can all
the time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah. Yeah, we don't talk about it. A lot of
it's covert, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The idea that how can you condemn them for spying
when we're spying. If you've ever said that in your life,
drop and give me twenty because you're a jackass and
need to atone for your jackassishness. Everybody's doing everything they
can all the time, you jackass. Anyway, back to Seal
Team six, So.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What happened was.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In twenty nineteen, when Trump was negotiating and apparently very
friendly with Kim Jong un right in search of a
nuclear agreement, breakthrough, thawing of relations, the whole deal. We
had a terrible line spot because for years US intelligence
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had found it nearly impossible to recruit human sources within
North Korea and to tap communications in their insular totalitarian state.
They just we were not able to work our spycraft
and the foreign policy. You know, folks and Donald Jay
were really really anxious to get insight into Kim Jong
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UN's thinking because the North Glorian later seemed increasingly unpredictable
and dangerous in his relationship with Trump had lurched erratically
between letters of friendship.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And public threats of nuclear war.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And they actually have a weapon in a way to
deliver it at maybe right right.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So White House decided that they had to fix for
the intelligence problem a newly developed electronic device that could
intercept mister Kim's communications. Problem was somebody had to sneak
in and plant it. It needed to be located geographically
in an advantageous, advantageous place, So the job was given
to Seal Team six in twenty eighteen. As they point
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out in the Times, even for Seal Team six, the
mission would be extraordinarily difficult. The seals are more used
to quick raids in place like Afghanistan and a rock.
They would have to survive for hours in frigid seas,
slip past security forces on land to perform a precise
technical installation, then get out undetected.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And in North Korea where.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Obviously any if things got ugly, it could provoke catastrophic retaliation.
Whether you know they have thousands and thousands of artillery
pieces and rocket launchers pointed at Soul all the time,
and our military bases outside of Seoul, and we have
twenty eight thousand American troops in South Korea right there
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by the border. So anyway, high high risk. So what
happened was this? The plan called for the Navy to
sneak a submarine nearly two football fields long.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Wow, so six hundred feet.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That would be a boomer and not an attack sub,
I would think, anyway, I'll check on that, but into
the waters off North Korea, and then deploy a small
team of seals into mini subs, each about the size
of a killer whale.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Wow. That would motor silently to the shore. Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But like the old horrible racist joke about the Polish
Navy with screen doors on submarines, these submarines are called
wet subs, which meant the seals would ride immersed in
forty degree ocean water for about two hours to reach
the shore, using.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Scuba gear and heated suits to survive.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So you get your mini sub close to shore and
each many sub would release a group of eight seals
about eight seals who would swim to the target, install
the device, then slip back in the sea. But they
face the serious limitation they'd be going in almost blind,
unlike for instance, the Bin Laden raid, where the Special
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ops forces have drones overhead to give them high definition
videos of the targets so the seals on the ground.
Senior leaders can communicate in real time, can even listen
in on enemy communications frequently and adjust the mission as necessary.
But in North Korea, any drone would be spotted, so
they had to rely on satellite images and high altitude
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spyplanes with minutes long lags and low definition. Boy yeah yeah,
I know so, and everything had to be done under
a near blackout of communications. You give them the go,
they go and just hope things go well and or
adjust and overcome.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I don't have any idea what I'm talking about here,
but I'm surprised this got signed off on as a
likely success.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You're right, it's they use the term, you know, extremely
high risk and repercussions catastrophic, this and that in this article.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It could not have been an easy call.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So anyway, Sealed Team six practices for months in US waters,
continued prep into the first excuse me weeks of twenty nineteen.
February of that year, Trump announced he would meet Kim
for nuclear summit in Vietnam at the end of the month.
And so it's not clear why Trump approved it. Nobody's
really talking. All the heavyweights declined to comment, obviously, so
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the submarine launched the too mini subs. They got to
about one hundred yards from shore in clear, shallow water,
and mission planners, knowing that they would not have real
time intelligence, tried to compensate by spending months watching how
people came and went in the area. They studied fishing
patterns and chose the time when boat traffic would be scant.
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If any intelligence suggested that if the seals arrived silently
in the right location than the dead of night in winter,
they'd be unlikely to encounter anyone.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, unlike don't mean.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Impossible, and as the mini subs glided toward the target,
sensors suggested the intelligence was cracked. The shore is empty.
They reached the spot where they were supposed to park
on the seafloor. Then there were three seemingly inconsequential mistakes
that may have doomed the mission. In the first, one
of the mini subs settled in the right space, the
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second one overshot the mark had to do a U turn,
and they were parked in opposite directions, which they had
to correct After the guys got off the subs, sliding
doors on the subs open all the seals, gripping untraceable
weapons loaded with untraceable ammunition, swam silently underwater to shore
with the listening device. Every few yards, the seals peaked
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above the black water to scan their surroundings. Everything seemed clear.
That might have been a second mistake, because bobbing in
the darkness was a very small boat without lights on
board was a crew in North Koreans who were easy
to miss because the sensors in the seal's night vision
goggles were designed to detect heat in part, and the
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wet suits the Koreans wore were chilled by the cold seawater,
so they were invisible.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Now these are Crean defense forces or just fisher people
the suspenses building.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The seals reached the shore thinking they were loone, starting
to remove their diving gear. Target only a few hundred
yards away. Back at the mini subs, the pilots repositioned
the sub with the sliding cockpit doors open for visibility
and communication. The pilot read the electric motor brought the
sub around. That was probably the third mistake. Some of
the seals speculated afterward that the motors wake might have
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caught the attention of the North Koreans in the boat,
and if the boat crew heard a splash and turned
to look, they might have seen some of the instrument
lights from the sub's open cockpits glowing in the dark,
dark night. There on the dark water and the boat
started moving toward the many subs, and the North Koreaians
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aboard were shining flashlights and talking in a tone that
indicated they had noticed something. Some of the many subpilots
told officials afterward that from their vantage point, it seemed
the boat was a safe distance way and everything was fine.
But the seals on the shore saw differently. It's a
pitch dark, featureless sea and the boat seemed to be
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moving practically on top of the mini subs. Communications blocked out,
no way for the shore team to confer with the
mini subs. Lights from the boat swept over the water,
the flashlights scanning the water, and the seals didn't know
to your question, if they were seeing a security patrol
on the hunt for them, or simply some poor North
Korean suns up bitches who were fishing or I think
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it turned out looking for oysters or something like that.
But the point is the top guy on the shore said,
mission compromise. This is no good, and they unleashed some
holy hell on the guys in the boat, then boarded
the boat to make sure all the North Koreans were dead.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They were. Indeed, they found no guns or uniforms.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Evidence suggested the crew had been civilians diving for shellfish.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Dead.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Wow, and they and this is not for the kids.
If the kids are listening, number one, what are you
listening to?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
This show for kids? Go out and play anyways.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Secondly, officials familiar with the mission said the seals pulled
the bodies out of the water to hide them from
North Korean authorities. One added that the seals punctured the
boat crew's lungs with knives to make sure their bodies
would sink. All us personnel escaped unharmed, and to this day,
thanks New York Times, nobody on either side is even
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hinted that anything happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Wow, those poor fishermen, yikes.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
As if they, you know, didn't have crappy enough livesfure.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
They're out there living like it's a thousand years ago,
just trying to come up with some food in the
darken knight in the cold du Yeah. Wow, when you're
running the seal team six.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, that's a long night's wow. That's how you look
at it anyway. Michael, what did you say, price Picks? Yeah, Oh,
it's a delight to tell you about prize pool last night.
Did you have a more or less on two spitting
incidents in the NFL kickoff game of the season. I
don't know if that was one of the things you
could put your money on with Price Picks. Probably wasn't.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But the season is underway and you should have the
Prize Picks app downloaded so you can get into it
right away.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, it's super easy and fun. You just pick at
least two players and say I think they're gonna do
more or less than the stat projection. And you can
combine different guys from different teams. Heck, you can do
different sports.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
With baseball really heating up right now. It's easy, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
It's daily fantasy sports without like investing, like a second
job in some team in league.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
When you got Chiefs Chargers today in Brazil, how exciting
is that? Lots of opportunities there. Download the app today
and use the code arms strong to get fifty dollars
in lineups after you play your first five dollars lineup.
That got as armstrong to get fifty dollars in lineups
after you play your first five bucks price picks.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's good to be right, indeed, it is.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
How many players wives will get Brazilian waxes while they're
in Brazil. They don't have that on Prize Picks either.
Who will the crowd be rooting for? Will there be
a crowd? Do people in Brazil care about football?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So I was back in Kansas last weekend and a
lot of people were talking about why did k State
football play some other team in Ireland? And apparently there
were a few fans, and the few fans that were
there didn't didn't care about either team. So I don't
know why we're doing this stuff. We got a lot
more in the way. I hope you can stay here,
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arm Strong, Hey, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Defense ninety eight has this qualifier from the game WHOA
fifty your building?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Whoa goes?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So Jalen Carter, the focus and the star for Eagles
on the front line, out for the game before snap.
Here he goes, He walks there, turn at Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Did he spit? Did he spit on him?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
There you go, Jalen Carter out of this game for
a snap.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
The best player on defense for the defending Super Bowl
champions doesn't even make it to the first play of
the game before he spits on the opposing quarterback and
gets kicked out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's quite the development.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Wow, My headline is Hawker shocker sets Eagles back. They
won anyway, but barely. That is uh, that's quite the development. Now,
I expector and better.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Hanson.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
You claimed that did does somebody else spit first? Is
that what you're claiming that Prescott spit first.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I haven't heard. Yeah, okay, that's what Anson is saying.
I haven't come across that anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But he he.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Says that whether he could, the gentleman got spit a
pawn and so retaliated by spitting.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But well, not a pawn, but at okay.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Cowboys, could be seen spitting
in the direction of the Eagles, said in his postgame
press conference, he spits a thousand times throughout the game.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I wasn't gonna spit on my lineman, and.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I just spit ahead. Yeah okay, and then Carter spit back.
Hanson says, saw it. Hanson says he smiled after he spit,
and that was indication that it was a malicious spittach.
Oh my, it's gonna be like the Kennedy assassination. Jack
back into the left, back into the people are going
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to be arguing for generations.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
These young dudes get so incredibly amped up. It's amazing
they stay as in control as they do. Oh yeah,
and this doesn't have the mark.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's easy to criticize him for when they get over
the top and celebrate too much or getting somebody's face,
and you know they're pros.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
They get paid a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But yeah too, to get yourself on the very edge
of being able to control your energy and aggression so
you can be successful on the field.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But then as the whistlebows the fine tackles, well done,
you're a worthy opponent. If you don't excuse me, I
must retreat to my huddle. I mean it's a lot
to ask. Okay, a brief version of this. Maybe we'll
talk about it more later.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
All the European leaders gathered yesterday in Europe to talk
about Russia, Ukraine and what they're willing to do. Macrona
France said that twenty six of Ukraine's allies have pledged
to deploy troops to Ukraine. Twenty six countries have pledged
to deploy troops as part of a reassurance force. Then
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Putin announced yesterday any Western forces would be legitimate targets
if they arrive in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That's pretty that's this is getting pretty dicey. That is
bold talk. I'd say you back down. Do you back
down from that?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
As these European nations, particularly France in Great Britain or
do you say, okay, go ahead, We're gonna put our
troops there, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You want to fight NATO. If you're going to back
down from that, what are you even doing at this party?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We'll see how this turns out. We're gonna talk a
little RFK Junior hearing coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Stay here, armstrong and getty. Robert F.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Kennedy and Junior entered a hostile arenatys Senate hearing morphed
into a verbal judo match. He sparred with members from
both sides over science and politics, the heart of the conflict,
turmoil at the CDC and vaccines.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Chad program there on Fox News reporting on RFK juniors
hearing before the Senate Committee, it was, as you're about
to hear, highly combative and from my perspective, really interesting
in that there are a lot of things that Kennedy
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said that struck me as being absolutely important to say,
and I was very glad somebody finally said them, and
we'll have some examples of that. There are also times
I thought he came off as a crackpot or wildly inconsistent.
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We'll just say that. And it's interesting, and I think
a lot of people fall into this camp. And it's
true to some extent of Donald J himself. A lot
of what he's doing is absolutely fantastic. But that last,
like twenty percent of you know, behavior, speech policy, whatever.
I wish we could just trim that off. And I
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find myself thinking of RFK in similar terms. But the
more audio than to the analysis.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The Wall Street Journal did not think much of it.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Of course you would if you are, if you're really
a MAHA, you would say, well, of course, they're all
about big business, and you can't get bigger big business
than pharma.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Surround on the side of pharma.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's not an idiotic argument. No, I don't buy it
entirely meaned that argument. It's not without its point exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, and then you've got, as always, the CDC lied
to all of us. We all know it. Everybody knows
it during COVID to.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
About vaccines, specifically, whoops about this very how's your credibility?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yes, so that makes it tough. Yeah, that does. There's
more great audio. Let's roll on. Next clip.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Michael Senate Democrats unloaded on Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Sir, I'm asking the questions.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
You are the witness, and sir, you're a Charlatan, that's
what you are. Should resign, but the Secretary gave as
good as he got.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You're making things up to scare people.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's a lie. This is crazy too.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
You're Kennedy's new COVID booster guidelines royal the hearing.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So you're saying that is now the official rule of HHS.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Anybody is eligible to get a.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Booster by just walking into the pharmacy.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's not recommended for healthy people.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
No, If you don't recommend, then the consequence of that
in many states is that you can't walk into a pharmacy.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And get one.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
So I want to play this next clip because I
took a lot of coverage of this, and the mainstream
media used this as the example because they all hate
RFK Junior obviously in anything that's Trump related. So the
mainstream media used this as the number one example coming
out of yesterday of how RFK Junior is so inept,
and I think they're just wrong about this.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Here's Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't think anybody knows because there was so much
data chaos coming out of the CDC.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You know, I know the answer of how many America
aside from COVID.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
This is the secret area of health and Human services.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
How can you be that ignorant?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
We as Senator Mark Warner, who is a lying partisan jackass.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
If that's your best example of how RFK Junior is
not up for the job that he says he doesn't
know how many people died of COVID death. Nobody freaking
knows that is documented. Remember we were reading from the
La Times there toward the end of COVID where they
stated half the people that were being reported as COVID
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deads at hospitals in Los Angeles half died with COVID,
not because of COVID, right, half right?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So how would you have the slightest idea how many
people died of COVID? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And what a brilliant encapsulation of the state of our politics.
How many people died of COVID. It's impossible to know
because the data is so corrupt. How can you be
so ignorant? What just happened there, whatever it was, was
not the way you run are a public.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I would say I don't think RFK Junior did the
best job of pushing back. I think I just did
a better job of pushing back against that. You know,
if he would have said what I just said, it
would have been a better sound clip.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So the Republicans have two doctors on that committee. Interestingly enough,
doctor Barrasso and doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
His name just flitted out of my head. Who's the
other one, Cassidy, of.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Course, and they were not pleased and not impressed by
RFK Junior. It was not a partisan thing. Let's run
thirty two, Michael.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Even the Senate's number two Republican, a doctor vexed by
Kennedy's vaccine positions.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
In your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest
standards for vaccines.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Since then, I've grown deeply concerned.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Republican Tom till Us Warren Kennedy to tread carefully.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
We're playing with fire here.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
If the death rates go up for children who aren't vaccinated,
they need to own it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It was brought up a couple of times that RFK
Junior said in twenty twenty. I believe I had to
be after that because we didn't even have the vaccine then,
so I don't know what it was, but he said
at one point the vaccine killed more people than COVID did.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, that's a ridiculous thing to say. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, and he'd hailed as genius President Trump's operation warp
at warp speed. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board's headline
RFK Junior's operation warped Memory. The Health secretary can't keep
his vaccine story straight. And he talks about how he'd
said it was fabulous and genius and blah blah blah.
These are the same vaccines that RFK also called a
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crime against humanity. So which is that, mister Kennedy, was
Trump's vaccine operation of triumph or a government catastrophe? And
they go through a bunch of other back and forths
that he's had.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And then JD. Vance, who.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
He's a very savvy guy and his brain is big,
throbbing brain, has has told him, you go one hundred
percent and white.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
There is no gray area. Our side is one hundred
percent right.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Everybody questions it one hundred percent evil, and we're going
to kick their asses. And that's the way to run
politics in the modern world. He might be right, he said,
when I see all these senators trying to lecture and gotcha,
Bobby Kennedy today, all I can think is use all
support off label, untested and irreversible hormonal therapies for children,
mutilated our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of
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sah and everybody else knows it. I don't think Bill
Cassidy is pro mutilating children in the name of transgenderism JD.
But again, no black, Oh, I'm sorry, no gray, only
black and white.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Well, he needs maha to get elected president in the
same way that Trump did, so you know, just from
a political standpoint, he knows what he's doing there. Kim
Strassel on the Wall Street Journal today, HHS Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a
goat rodeo for the ages.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And she goes on but she wasn't a fan, uh No.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And it's a very learned, very sober takedown. We'll post
the link at Armstrong E. Geddy dot com if you
want to read it yourself. Everybody you know has different
opinions about all this stuff, and that's fine. We you know,
we we respect your opinions whatever they are, because, as
we've said, there are plenty of good reasons to doubt
the health establishment, and and a lot of stuff RFK
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Junior said. I'm not a fan for the record, but
a lot of what he said is absolutely right in fact,
including my favorite clip, which is coming up in a second.
Why don't we pause right now for a quick word
from our friends. A trust and will? This is good advice.
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Speaker 4 (27:42):
RFK Junior had said back in the day that the
COVID vaccine that Trump came up with was a crime
against humanity. Yesterday, he said Trump should get the Nobel
Prize for being behind the warp speed and getting that
to market as quickly as he did.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So he kind.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Of changes his story over the years on that sort
of stuff, and the Wall Street Journal pointing that out
today he RFK Junior is in charge of a quarter
of the government budget, a quarter, so because it's bigger
than the Defense Department.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah, I remember we interviewed.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
HHS secretary a few years ago and I joked, we
were hoping for the secretary of Defense, but we'll talk
to you. He said, I got a bigger budget, and
you know he's absolutely right. Anyway, RFK Junior had enough
of being yelled at by hypocrites and jackasses yesterday also
by sincere people with sincere concerns, and in clips thirty
(28:41):
six he lashes back, we are.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
The sickest country in the world. That's why we have
to fire people to CDC. They did not do their job. Senaty,
you've said in that chair for how long, twenty twenty
five years while the chronic disease and our children went
up to seventy six percent, and you said nothing. You
never asked the question why it's happening? Why is this happening?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I liked that because it should have been declared a
long time ago an emergency situation. We've got going on
trying to figure out why autism, anxiety, depression, suicide, all
the different things kids are dealing with that they didn't
used to deal with. Why is this happening? As you
mentioned earlier, Why is the sperm count plummeting? All these
(29:27):
things are health emergencies and not a lot of talk.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
So Kim Strassel makes a couple of points that I
found interesting. Number one that Kennedy has no support in
the Senate to speak of, but the Republicans are just
keeping their heads down because of the you know, vehemence
of the mahakroud and Trump seems to still be on
his side.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And the second thing she says is that the agency
is just.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Not being run well and there are all sorts of
things that desperately needed to be done, but it's just
it's just chaos. Well, I don't want to belabor the point,
but where is it? There was one great quote. If
there's a minority of HHASE customers that get jazzed by
a raw milk debate, there are many more, including Republicans
(30:20):
who find mister Kennedy a quack or would appreciate it
if you would vote a few minutes to improving their
Medicare experience, etc.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So well, I'm surprised with what Floria did. I wish
we didn't have to be all or nothing about everything.
So go from what did my doctor friends say the
other day, kids at least in California get from birth
to eighteen, you.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Get seventy two vaccines. That seems like a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I mean, I have no idea what I'm talking about,
but that really seems like a lot. And you kids
get so many more now than we all did when
we were kids. But can't there be some sort of
okay mumps, measles, polio. There's probably a couple others tetanus
that we all know are a good idea. What all
these other ones, Let's question those for a while, as
opposed to go from they're all mandatory to none of
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them are mandatory.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Well, right, yeah, surely the sweet spot is somewhere in between.
Oh I found that. One last thing I want to
say about Kim Charssel's article. She points out, and this
is just interesting, whatever you think that RFK, alone, among
mister Trump's cabinet members, is pursuing his own agenda, not
the president's vision. Secretary of State Marco Rubio moves at
warp speed to implement Trump's goal.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of reducing foreign eight.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins cutting deals to hand more food
stamp flexibility over the States, just as Trump promised heads
of the Interior energy departments EPA revamping entire rule books
to unleash the American energy At Trump's behest, mister Kennedy,
he's perusing lists of his try lawyer friends, deciding whom
to award influential government positions. You're forgiven if you don't
(31:47):
remember mister Trump's campaign promise to empower mister Kennedy's litigator set.
In other words, he's not really executing a Trump thing.
He's just his own president of the AHHS.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Hike.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
He's got a new slogan.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Not that that matters, but what does that say about
our young people or what Nike seems to think about
our young people today?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
That's worth talking about.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Are we gonna have a lot of youth athletes spitting
on their opponents now after last night's Thursday night NFL game?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Is that the way? Is that the way we do things?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
You spit on your opponent.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, at least it'll be girls spitting on girls and
not dudes spitting on girls in quote unquote girls' sports.
As we are moving swiftly in the direction of the
return of sanity, one of the greatest things Trump and
company are doing.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Oh really, I don't know anything about that. Lots to
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Speaker 3 (32:41):
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Speaker 4 (32:51):
So I had a lightning storm last night at the
football game, and it was delayed for an hour, and
it was a close game. Number one, Number two watch
TV show Up America, and it got delayed for a
whole hour anyway, So I have a delicate topic here
to discuss. And whenever I've brushed up against this topic
in the past, Joe has become oh no, an unhappy
(33:16):
participant and uh and already unhappy preemptively and argued against
it being a subject matter at all. Now there's a
there's another one that is the reverse that Joe talks about,
and I don't like talking about it, and I don't
remember what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Might be human body parts, is it sex? I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
But like you, your argument is, well, it's the human
body or it's natural or grow up or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I feel like I don't even know what we're talking about,
much less signing off on your characterization of my argument
on whatever we're talking about. There is something, though, that
you tell me that that I don't like to talk about,
and you say grow up, okay to which, And that's
what I'm going to say about this topic that I
know you don't like to discuss because it's as natural
and normal there are every other advertisement on television is
(34:03):
about this topic.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Go ahead, and I have a question to throw out
to the listener that might have an answer. First of all,
nobody can ever accuse me of using this show to
try to get dates, because I would not talk about
any things.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That I talk about if I were trying to land
a date. I guarantee you that point.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I went and visited the restroom, Oh boy, about twenty
minutes ago, and it was the first time a certain
natural function had occurred.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
In five days, No, five days? What the what?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
This regularly happens to me? And I've been working on
it for a while talking to the doctor. Well, and
you it's not like you take in five hundred calories
a day as some sort of you know, neo gandhi
ascetic discipline. No, you, I could bear that broke into
a cabin. And as I said, there are ads all
(35:03):
the time on television about this, so it must be
a common problem. But a lot of the stuff that
they recommend and ads, at least according to my doctor,
you don't want to do regularly or your your body
becomes addicted and it no longer works naturally and it
won't do what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
What's the right term, BM, or what do you want?
What do you want to call it? That'll do Sure.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Again, your your body won't do it without the drug
after a while, so you don't want to use the
drug regularly. I finally took the drug last night because
it's been five days and something's got something's got to give. Uh.
So I talked to my doctor about it. He's recommended
various supplements that have not worked for me. He said, prunes.
I don't know what a prune is. I've never seen
(35:43):
a prune or had a prune. What is a prune?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
What?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
What's a pro marry in the hoe?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Add that to your list of things Jack has never
done or seen or eaten.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
A prune?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Is a fruit? Is?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
What does it look like? Can you get it? At this?
A prune?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
It looks precisely like a prune, which is something everybody
but you can recognize.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
So the doctor said, add in prunes to your diet.
Start with one. I don't know if the what is
the size of a prune? Is it the size of
a golf ball or a football? Well, I don't know
what a prune is about a quarter in his natural state.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
No, it's it's like an elongated golf ball. But roughly
that's and did you eat it?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Like an apple. You just munch on it like that.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Well, they're often dried to preserve them, because you can
drive prunes in a box keep forever. But yeah, after
a couple of my surgeries, I react horribly to the
opiate painkillers and one of the horrifying symptoms is just
complete constipation. And yeah, I had a wolf down prunes
(36:45):
and prune.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Really you never had a prune, but so my doctor said,
start with one prune. If that doesn't work, add too,
and then you stop when you hit the sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
That's what he told me. So I'm gonna drive for
a day or what I guess. Yeah, yeah, my dad
grew Your dad.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Grew up on prunes as regular as the London subway. Yeah,
I wouldn't think one prune would do you any good whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
But I'm not a saw bones. I feel like once
every five days is not often enough. It's time saver, true,
makes travel easier. I don't even have to think about it.
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
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Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joke.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Getty Armstrong and Getty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Did you guys see this? Yesterday?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
In San Francisco, two United planes on the tarmac bumped
into each other. United calls that an accident, while Southwest
just calls it a high five.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm blad we played that joke like five minutes ago,
did we not? Yes, we did, and we talked about it,
laughed about it. Or did I make that up on
my head? Am I having a stroke? Didn't we just
play that joke?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
If you are, we both are simultaneously, which is to start?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay, Michael, you're clearly happy. I was trying to hit number.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Okay, that's just it's my little cursorn't. It doesn't bother
It doesn't bother me that we played the same joke twice.
It would bother me if you didn't remember that, because
then we would have a serious problem.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Right, Yeah, indeed, we're okay, I'll sign joke and well
worth hearing you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Actually it's barely mildly amusing.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yes, jobs numbers out about a third of what they
were projecting that is low and the job market is
I'll use the actual term the Wall Street journally uses
deteriorating markedly, they say, So, more on that coming up later.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yes, indeed, and Donald Jay and or as people are
questioning the statisticians. Interesting, So, speaking of Donald Jay and
policy and that sort of thing, The New York Times
has a big front page piece today about a twenty
nineteen Seal Team six operation that has never been publicly
acknowledged or even hinted at by either the United States
(01:46):
or North Korea, where Seal Team six was doing what
they do so well. And the New York Times understands.
You can tell they understand that feeling this at all
is a little questionable, right. I wonder how many of
these happen around the world that we never hear about.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You think a lot, hmm, several? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The people who spoke to them, and then the New
York Times editors who decided to go ahead with the
story said they're doing this because they were concerned that
special operations failures are often hidden by government secrecy. If
the public and policymakers became aware only of high profile
successes like the raid to put a couple of slugs
(02:35):
in Bilauden's head. They may underestimate the extreme risks that
American forces undertake.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's not a bad argument. I don't love that argument. Yeah,
that's funny.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I feel like we kind of have a vision of
Seal Team six. If they sat out on a mission,
it's always successful and things go wonderful.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And I don't know if that's good. Yeah, and you know,
it's funny arguing with myself. You're the leaders of various
regimes around the world, both friendly and unfriendly. If you,
you know, were to get them to tell the truth
from Shijin pinga vlad Putin to the friggin Canadians, they
would say, oh, yeah, we do everything we can all
the time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah. Yeah, we don't talk about it. A lot of
it's covert, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The idea that how can you condemn them for spying
when we're spying. If you've ever said that in your life,
drop and give me twenty because you're a jackass and
need to atone for your jackassishness. Everybody's doing everything they
can all the time, you jackass. Anyway, back to Seal
Team six, So.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What happened was.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In twenty nineteen, when Trump was negotiating and apparently very
friendly with Kim Jong un right in search of a
nuclear agreement, breakthrough, thawing of relations, the whole deal. We
had a terrible line spot because for years US intelligence
(04:04):
had found it nearly impossible to recruit human sources within
North Korea and to tap communications in their insular totalitarian state.
They just we were not able to work our spycraft
and the foreign policy. You know, folks and Donald Jay
were really really anxious to get insight into Kim Jong
(04:25):
UN's thinking because the North Glorian later seemed increasingly unpredictable
and dangerous in his relationship with Trump had lurched erratically
between letters of friendship.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And public threats of nuclear war.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And they actually have a weapon in a way to
deliver it at maybe right right.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So White House decided that they had to fix for
the intelligence problem a newly developed electronic device that could
intercept mister Kim's communications. Problem was somebody had to sneak
in and plant it. It needed to be located geographically
in an advantageous, advantageous place, So the job was given
to Seal Team six in twenty eighteen. As they point
(05:04):
out in the Times, even for Seal Team six, the
mission would be extraordinarily difficult. The seals are more used
to quick raids in place like Afghanistan and a rock.
They would have to survive for hours in frigid seas,
slip past security forces on land to perform a precise
technical installation, then get out undetected.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
And in North Korea where.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Obviously any if things got ugly, it could provoke catastrophic retaliation.
Whether you know they have thousands and thousands of artillery
pieces and rocket launchers pointed at Soul all the time,
and our military bases outside of Seoul, and we have
twenty eight thousand American troops in South Korea right there
(05:49):
by the border. So anyway, high high risk. So what
happened was this? The plan called for the Navy to
sneak a submarine nearly two football fields long.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Wow, so six hundred feet.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
That would be a boomer and not an attack sub,
I would think, anyway, I'll check on that, but into
the waters off North Korea, and then deploy a small
team of seals into mini subs, each about the size
of a killer whale.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Wow. That would motor silently to the shore. Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But like the old horrible racist joke about the Polish
Navy with screen doors on submarines, these submarines are called
wet subs, which meant the seals would ride immersed in
forty degree ocean water for about two hours to reach
the shore, using.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Scuba gear and heated suits to survive.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
So you get your mini sub close to shore and
each many sub would release a group of eight seals
about eight seals who would swim to the target, install
the device, then slip back in the sea. But they
face the serious limitation they'd be going in almost blind,
unlike for instance, the Bin Laden raid, where the Special
(07:04):
ops forces have drones overhead to give them high definition
videos of the targets so the seals on the ground.
Senior leaders can communicate in real time, can even listen
in on enemy communications frequently and adjust the mission as necessary.
But in North Korea, any drone would be spotted, so
they had to rely on satellite images and high altitude
(07:25):
spyplanes with minutes long lags and low definition. Boy yeah yeah,
I know so, and everything had to be done under
a near blackout of communications. You give them the go,
they go and just hope things go well and or
adjust and overcome.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I don't have any idea what I'm talking about here,
but I'm surprised this got signed off on as a
likely success.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You're right, it's they use the term, you know, extremely
high risk and repercussions catastrophic, this and that in this article.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It could not have been an easy call.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So anyway, Sealed Team six practices for months in US waters,
continued prep into the first excuse me weeks of twenty nineteen.
February of that year, Trump announced he would meet Kim
for nuclear summit in Vietnam at the end of the month.
And so it's not clear why Trump approved it. Nobody's
really talking. All the heavyweights declined to comment, obviously, so
(08:28):
the submarine launched the too mini subs. They got to
about one hundred yards from shore in clear, shallow water,
and mission planners, knowing that they would not have real
time intelligence, tried to compensate by spending months watching how
people came and went in the area. They studied fishing
patterns and chose the time when boat traffic would be scant.
(08:49):
If any intelligence suggested that if the seals arrived silently
in the right location than the dead of night in winter,
they'd be unlikely to encounter anyone.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, unlike don't mean.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Impossible, and as the mini subs glided toward the target,
sensors suggested the intelligence was cracked. The shore is empty.
They reached the spot where they were supposed to park
on the seafloor. Then there were three seemingly inconsequential mistakes
that may have doomed the mission. In the first, one
of the mini subs settled in the right space, the
(09:22):
second one overshot the mark had to do a U turn,
and they were parked in opposite directions, which they had
to correct After the guys got off the subs, sliding
doors on the subs open all the seals, gripping untraceable
weapons loaded with untraceable ammunition, swam silently underwater to shore
with the listening device. Every few yards, the seals peaked
(09:46):
above the black water to scan their surroundings. Everything seemed clear.
That might have been a second mistake, because bobbing in
the darkness was a very small boat without lights on
board was a crew in North Koreans who were easy
to miss because the sensors in the seal's night vision
goggles were designed to detect heat in part, and the
(10:07):
wet suits the Koreans wore were chilled by the cold seawater,
so they were invisible.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Now these are Crean defense forces or just fisher people
the suspenses building.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The seals reached the shore thinking they were loone, starting
to remove their diving gear. Target only a few hundred
yards away. Back at the mini subs, the pilots repositioned
the sub with the sliding cockpit doors open for visibility
and communication. The pilot read the electric motor brought the
sub around. That was probably the third mistake. Some of
the seals speculated afterward that the motors wake might have
(10:39):
caught the attention of the North Koreans in the boat,
and if the boat crew heard a splash and turned
to look, they might have seen some of the instrument
lights from the sub's open cockpits glowing in the dark,
dark night. There on the dark water and the boat
started moving toward the many subs, and the North Koreaians
(11:00):
aboard were shining flashlights and talking in a tone that
indicated they had noticed something. Some of the many subpilots
told officials afterward that from their vantage point, it seemed
the boat was a safe distance way and everything was fine.
But the seals on the shore saw differently. It's a
pitch dark, featureless sea and the boat seemed to be
(11:21):
moving practically on top of the mini subs. Communications blocked out,
no way for the shore team to confer with the
mini subs. Lights from the boat swept over the water,
the flashlights scanning the water, and the seals didn't know
to your question, if they were seeing a security patrol
on the hunt for them, or simply some poor North
Korean suns up bitches who were fishing or I think
(11:43):
it turned out looking for oysters or something like that.
But the point is the top guy on the shore said,
mission compromise. This is no good, and they unleashed some
holy hell on the guys in the boat, then boarded
the boat to make sure all the North Koreans were dead.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
They were. Indeed, they found no guns or uniforms.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Evidence suggested the crew had been civilians diving for shellfish.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Dead.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Wow, and they and this is not for the kids.
If the kids are listening, number one, what are you
listening to?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
This show for kids? Go out and play anyways.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Secondly, officials familiar with the mission said the seals pulled
the bodies out of the water to hide them from
North Korean authorities. One added that the seals punctured the
boat crew's lungs with knives to make sure their bodies
would sink. All us personnel escaped unharmed, and to this day,
thanks New York Times, nobody on either side is even
(12:44):
hinted that anything happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Wow, those poor fishermen, yikes.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
As if they, you know, didn't have crappy enough livesfure.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
They're out there living like it's a thousand years ago,
just trying to come up with some food in the
darken knight in the cold du Yeah. Wow, when you're
running the seal team six.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, that's a long night's wow. That's how you look
at it anyway. Michael, what did you say, price Picks? Yeah, Oh,
it's a delight to tell you about prize pool last night.
Did you have a more or less on two spitting
incidents in the NFL kickoff game of the season. I
don't know if that was one of the things you
could put your money on with Price Picks. Probably wasn't.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But the season is underway and you should have the
Prize Picks app downloaded so you can get into it
right away.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, it's super easy and fun. You just pick at
least two players and say I think they're gonna do
more or less than the stat projection. And you can
combine different guys from different teams. Heck, you can do
different sports.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
With baseball really heating up right now. It's easy, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
It's daily fantasy sports without like investing, like a second
job in some team in league.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
When you got Chiefs Chargers today in Brazil, how exciting
is that? Lots of opportunities there. Download the app today
and use the code arms strong to get fifty dollars
in lineups after you play your first five dollars lineup.
That got as armstrong to get fifty dollars in lineups
after you play your first five bucks price picks.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's good to be right, indeed, it is.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
How many players wives will get Brazilian waxes while they're
in Brazil. They don't have that on Prize Picks either.
Who will the crowd be rooting for? Will there be
a crowd? Do people in Brazil care about football?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So I was back in Kansas last weekend and a
lot of people were talking about why did k State
football play some other team in Ireland? And apparently there
were a few fans, and the few fans that were
there didn't didn't care about either team. So I don't
know why we're doing this stuff. We got a lot
more in the way. I hope you can stay here,
(14:42):
arm Strong, Hey, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Defense ninety eight has this qualifier from the game WHOA
fifty your building?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Whoa goes?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
So Jalen Carter, the focus and the star for Eagles
on the front line, out for the game before snap.
Here he goes, He walks there, turn at Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Did he spit? Did he spit on him?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
There you go, Jalen Carter out of this game for
a snap.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
The best player on defense for the defending Super Bowl
champions doesn't even make it to the first play of
the game before he spits on the opposing quarterback and
gets kicked out.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's quite the development.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Wow, My headline is Hawker shocker sets Eagles back. They
won anyway, but barely. That is uh, that's quite the development. Now,
I expector and better.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Hanson.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
You claimed that did does somebody else spit first? Is
that what you're claiming that Prescott spit first.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I haven't heard. Yeah, okay, that's what Anson is saying.
I haven't come across that anywhere.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
But he he.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Says that whether he could, the gentleman got spit a
pawn and so retaliated by spitting.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But well, not a pawn, but at okay.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Cowboys, could be seen spitting
in the direction of the Eagles, said in his postgame
press conference, he spits a thousand times throughout the game.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I wasn't gonna spit on my lineman, and.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I just spit ahead. Yeah okay, and then Carter spit back.
Hanson says, saw it. Hanson says he smiled after he spit,
and that was indication that it was a malicious spittach.
Oh my, it's gonna be like the Kennedy assassination. Jack
back into the left, back into the people are going
(16:40):
to be arguing for generations.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
These young dudes get so incredibly amped up. It's amazing
they stay as in control as they do. Oh yeah,
and this doesn't have the mark.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's easy to criticize him for when they get over
the top and celebrate too much or getting somebody's face,
and you know they're pros.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
They get paid a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But yeah too, to get yourself on the very edge
of being able to control your energy and aggression so
you can be successful on the field.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But then as the whistlebows the fine tackles, well done,
you're a worthy opponent. If you don't excuse me, I
must retreat to my huddle. I mean it's a lot
to ask. Okay, a brief version of this. Maybe we'll
talk about it more later.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
All the European leaders gathered yesterday in Europe to talk
about Russia, Ukraine and what they're willing to do. Macrona
France said that twenty six of Ukraine's allies have pledged
to deploy troops to Ukraine. Twenty six countries have pledged
to deploy troops as part of a reassurance force. Then
(17:45):
Putin announced yesterday any Western forces would be legitimate targets
if they arrive in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That's pretty that's this is getting pretty dicey. That is
bold talk. I'd say you back down. Do you back
down from that?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
As these European nations, particularly France in Great Britain or
do you say, okay, go ahead, We're gonna put our
troops there, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You want to fight NATO. If you're going to back
down from that, what are you even doing at this party?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We'll see how this turns out. We're gonna talk a
little RFK Junior hearing coming up.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Stay here, armstrong and getty. Robert F.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Kennedy and Junior entered a hostile arenatys Senate hearing morphed
into a verbal judo match. He sparred with members from
both sides over science and politics, the heart of the conflict,
turmoil at the CDC and vaccines.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Chad program there on Fox News reporting on RFK juniors
hearing before the Senate Committee, it was, as you're about
to hear, highly combative and from my perspective, really interesting
in that there are a lot of things that Kennedy
(18:59):
said that struck me as being absolutely important to say,
and I was very glad somebody finally said them, and
we'll have some examples of that. There are also times
I thought he came off as a crackpot or wildly inconsistent.
(19:19):
We'll just say that. And it's interesting, and I think
a lot of people fall into this camp. And it's
true to some extent of Donald J himself. A lot
of what he's doing is absolutely fantastic. But that last,
like twenty percent of you know, behavior, speech policy, whatever.
I wish we could just trim that off. And I
(19:42):
find myself thinking of RFK in similar terms. But the
more audio than to the analysis.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The Wall Street Journal did not think much of it.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Of course you would if you are, if you're really
a MAHA, you would say, well, of course, they're all
about big business, and you can't get bigger big business
than pharma.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Surround on the side of pharma.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's not an idiotic argument. No, I don't buy it
entirely meaned that argument. It's not without its point exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, and then you've got, as always, the CDC lied
to all of us. We all know it. Everybody knows
it during COVID to.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
About vaccines, specifically, whoops about this very how's your credibility?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yes, so that makes it tough. Yeah, that does. There's
more great audio. Let's roll on. Next clip.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Michael Senate Democrats unloaded on Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Sir, I'm asking the questions.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
You are the witness, and sir, you're a Charlatan, that's
what you are. Should resign, but the Secretary gave as
good as he got.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You're making things up to scare people.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's a lie. This is crazy too.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
You're Kennedy's new COVID booster guidelines royal the hearing.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So you're saying that is now the official rule of HHS.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Anybody is eligible to get a.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Booster by just walking into the pharmacy.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's not recommended for healthy people.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
No, If you don't recommend, then the consequence of that
in many states is that you can't walk into a pharmacy.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
And get one.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
So I want to play this next clip because I
took a lot of coverage of this, and the mainstream
media used this as the example because they all hate
RFK Junior obviously in anything that's Trump related. So the
mainstream media used this as the number one example coming
out of yesterday of how RFK Junior is so inept,
and I think they're just wrong about this.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Here's Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't think anybody knows because there was so much
data chaos coming out of the CDC.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You know, I know the answer of how many America
aside from COVID.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
This is the secret area of health and Human services.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
How can you be that ignorant?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
We as Senator Mark Warner, who is a lying partisan jackass.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
If that's your best example of how RFK Junior is
not up for the job that he says he doesn't
know how many people died of COVID death. Nobody freaking
knows that is documented. Remember we were reading from the
La Times there toward the end of COVID where they
stated half the people that were being reported as COVID
(22:30):
deads at hospitals in Los Angeles half died with COVID,
not because of COVID, right, half right?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So how would you have the slightest idea how many
people died of COVID? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And what a brilliant encapsulation of the state of our politics.
How many people died of COVID. It's impossible to know
because the data is so corrupt. How can you be
so ignorant? What just happened there, whatever it was, was
not the way you run are a public.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I would say I don't think RFK Junior did the
best job of pushing back. I think I just did
a better job of pushing back against that. You know,
if he would have said what I just said, it
would have been a better sound clip.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So the Republicans have two doctors on that committee. Interestingly enough,
doctor Barrasso and doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
His name just flitted out of my head. Who's the
other one, Cassidy, of.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Course, and they were not pleased and not impressed by
RFK Junior. It was not a partisan thing. Let's run
thirty two, Michael.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Even the Senate's number two Republican, a doctor vexed by
Kennedy's vaccine positions.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
In your confirmation hearings, you promised to uphold the highest
standards for vaccines.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Since then, I've grown deeply concerned.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Republican Tom till Us Warren Kennedy to tread carefully.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
We're playing with fire here.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
If the death rates go up for children who aren't vaccinated,
they need to own it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It was brought up a couple of times that RFK
Junior said in twenty twenty. I believe I had to
be after that because we didn't even have the vaccine then,
so I don't know what it was, but he said
at one point the vaccine killed more people than COVID did.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, that's a ridiculous thing to say. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, and he'd hailed as genius President Trump's operation warp
at warp speed. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board's headline
RFK Junior's operation warped Memory. The Health secretary can't keep
his vaccine story straight. And he talks about how he'd
said it was fabulous and genius and blah blah blah.
These are the same vaccines that RFK also called a
(24:32):
crime against humanity. So which is that, mister Kennedy, was
Trump's vaccine operation of triumph or a government catastrophe? And
they go through a bunch of other back and forths
that he's had.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And then JD. Vance, who.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
He's a very savvy guy and his brain is big,
throbbing brain, has has told him, you go one hundred
percent and white.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
There is no gray area. Our side is one hundred
percent right.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Everybody questions it one hundred percent evil, and we're going
to kick their asses. And that's the way to run
politics in the modern world. He might be right, he said,
when I see all these senators trying to lecture and gotcha,
Bobby Kennedy today, all I can think is use all
support off label, untested and irreversible hormonal therapies for children,
mutilated our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of
(25:27):
sah and everybody else knows it. I don't think Bill
Cassidy is pro mutilating children in the name of transgenderism JD.
But again, no black, Oh, I'm sorry, no gray, only
black and white.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Well, he needs maha to get elected president in the
same way that Trump did, so you know, just from
a political standpoint, he knows what he's doing there. Kim
Strassel on the Wall Street Journal today, HHS Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Junior has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a
goat rodeo for the ages.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And she goes on but she wasn't a fan, uh No.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And it's a very learned, very sober takedown. We'll post
the link at Armstrong E. Geddy dot com if you
want to read it yourself. Everybody you know has different
opinions about all this stuff, and that's fine. We you know,
we we respect your opinions whatever they are, because, as
we've said, there are plenty of good reasons to doubt
the health establishment, and and a lot of stuff RFK
(26:26):
Junior said. I'm not a fan for the record, but
a lot of what he said is absolutely right in fact,
including my favorite clip, which is coming up in a second.
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Speaker 4 (27:42):
RFK Junior had said back in the day that the
COVID vaccine that Trump came up with was a crime
against humanity. Yesterday, he said Trump should get the Nobel
Prize for being behind the warp speed and getting that
to market as quickly as he did.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So he kind.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Of changes his story over the years on that sort
of stuff, and the Wall Street Journal pointing that out
today he RFK Junior is in charge of a quarter
of the government budget, a quarter, so because it's bigger
than the Defense Department.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah, I remember we interviewed.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
HHS secretary a few years ago and I joked, we
were hoping for the secretary of Defense, but we'll talk
to you. He said, I got a bigger budget, and
you know he's absolutely right. Anyway, RFK Junior had enough
of being yelled at by hypocrites and jackasses yesterday also
by sincere people with sincere concerns, and in clips thirty
(28:41):
six he lashes back, we are.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
The sickest country in the world. That's why we have
to fire people to CDC. They did not do their job. Senaty,
you've said in that chair for how long, twenty twenty
five years while the chronic disease and our children went
up to seventy six percent, and you said nothing. You
never asked the question why it's happening? Why is this happening?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I liked that because it should have been declared a
long time ago an emergency situation. We've got going on
trying to figure out why autism, anxiety, depression, suicide, all
the different things kids are dealing with that they didn't
used to deal with. Why is this happening? As you
mentioned earlier, Why is the sperm count plummeting? All these
(29:27):
things are health emergencies and not a lot of talk.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
So Kim Strassel makes a couple of points that I
found interesting. Number one that Kennedy has no support in
the Senate to speak of, but the Republicans are just
keeping their heads down because of the you know, vehemence
of the mahakroud and Trump seems to still be on
his side.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And the second thing she says is that the agency
is just.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Not being run well and there are all sorts of
things that desperately needed to be done, but it's just
it's just chaos. Well, I don't want to belabor the point,
but where is it? There was one great quote. If
there's a minority of HHASE customers that get jazzed by
a raw milk debate, there are many more, including Republicans
(30:20):
who find mister Kennedy a quack or would appreciate it
if you would vote a few minutes to improving their
Medicare experience, etc.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So well, I'm surprised with what Floria did. I wish
we didn't have to be all or nothing about everything.
So go from what did my doctor friends say the
other day, kids at least in California get from birth
to eighteen, you.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Get seventy two vaccines. That seems like a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I mean, I have no idea what I'm talking about,
but that really seems like a lot. And you kids
get so many more now than we all did when
we were kids. But can't there be some sort of
okay mumps, measles, polio. There's probably a couple others tetanus
that we all know are a good idea. What all
these other ones, Let's question those for a while, as
opposed to go from they're all mandatory to none of
(31:06):
them are mandatory.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Well, right, yeah, surely the sweet spot is somewhere in between.
Oh I found that. One last thing I want to
say about Kim Charssel's article. She points out, and this
is just interesting, whatever you think that RFK, alone, among
mister Trump's cabinet members, is pursuing his own agenda, not
the president's vision. Secretary of State Marco Rubio moves at
warp speed to implement Trump's goal.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Of reducing foreign eight.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins cutting deals to hand more food
stamp flexibility over the States, just as Trump promised heads
of the Interior energy departments EPA revamping entire rule books
to unleash the American energy At Trump's behest, mister Kennedy,
he's perusing lists of his try lawyer friends, deciding whom
to award influential government positions. You're forgiven if you don't
(31:47):
remember mister Trump's campaign promise to empower mister Kennedy's litigator set.
In other words, he's not really executing a Trump thing.
He's just his own president of the AHHS.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Hike.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
He's got a new slogan.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Not that that matters, but what does that say about
our young people or what Nike seems to think about
our young people today?
Speaker 2 (32:07):
That's worth talking about.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Are we gonna have a lot of youth athletes spitting
on their opponents now after last night's Thursday night NFL game?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Is that the way? Is that the way we do things?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
You spit on your opponent.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, at least it'll be girls spitting on girls and
not dudes spitting on girls in quote unquote girls' sports.
As we are moving swiftly in the direction of the
return of sanity, one of the greatest things Trump and
company are doing.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Oh really, I don't know anything about that. Lots to
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Speaker 3 (32:41):
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Speaker 4 (32:51):
So I had a lightning storm last night at the
football game, and it was delayed for an hour, and
it was a close game. Number one, Number two watch
TV show Up America, and it got delayed for a
whole hour anyway, So I have a delicate topic here
to discuss. And whenever I've brushed up against this topic
in the past, Joe has become oh no, an unhappy
(33:16):
participant and uh and already unhappy preemptively and argued against
it being a subject matter at all. Now there's a
there's another one that is the reverse that Joe talks about,
and I don't like talking about it, and I don't
remember what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Might be human body parts, is it sex? I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
But like you, your argument is, well, it's the human
body or it's natural or grow up or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I feel like I don't even know what we're talking about,
much less signing off on your characterization of my argument
on whatever we're talking about. There is something, though, that
you tell me that that I don't like to talk about,
and you say grow up, okay to which, And that's
what I'm going to say about this topic that I
know you don't like to discuss because it's as natural
and normal there are every other advertisement on television is
(34:03):
about this topic.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Go ahead, and I have a question to throw out
to the listener that might have an answer. First of all,
nobody can ever accuse me of using this show to
try to get dates, because I would not talk about
any things.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That I talk about if I were trying to land
a date. I guarantee you that point.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I went and visited the restroom, Oh boy, about twenty
minutes ago, and it was the first time a certain
natural function had occurred.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
In five days, No, five days? What the what?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
This regularly happens to me? And I've been working on
it for a while talking to the doctor. Well, and
you it's not like you take in five hundred calories
a day as some sort of you know, neo gandhi
ascetic discipline. No, you, I could bear that broke into
a cabin. And as I said, there are ads all
(35:03):
the time on television about this, so it must be
a common problem. But a lot of the stuff that
they recommend and ads, at least according to my doctor,
you don't want to do regularly or your your body
becomes addicted and it no longer works naturally and it
won't do what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
What's the right term, BM, or what do you want?
What do you want to call it? That'll do Sure.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Again, your your body won't do it without the drug
after a while, so you don't want to use the
drug regularly. I finally took the drug last night because
it's been five days and something's got something's got to give. Uh.
So I talked to my doctor about it. He's recommended
various supplements that have not worked for me. He said, prunes.
I don't know what a prune is. I've never seen
(35:43):
a prune or had a prune. What is a prune?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
What?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
What's a pro marry in the hoe?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Add that to your list of things Jack has never
done or seen or eaten.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
A prune?
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Is a fruit? Is?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
What does it look like? Can you get it? At this?
A prune?
Speaker 3 (35:58):
It looks precisely like a prune, which is something everybody
but you can recognize.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
So the doctor said, add in prunes to your diet.
Start with one. I don't know if the what is
the size of a prune? Is it the size of
a golf ball or a football? Well, I don't know
what a prune is about a quarter in his natural state.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
No, it's it's like an elongated golf ball. But roughly
that's and did you eat it?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Like an apple. You just munch on it like that.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Well, they're often dried to preserve them, because you can
drive prunes in a box keep forever. But yeah, after
a couple of my surgeries, I react horribly to the
opiate painkillers and one of the horrifying symptoms is just
complete constipation. And yeah, I had a wolf down prunes
(36:45):
and prune.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Really you never had a prune, but so my doctor said,
start with one prune. If that doesn't work, add too,
and then you stop when you hit the sweet spot.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
That's what he told me. So I'm gonna drive for
a day or what I guess. Yeah, yeah, my dad
grew Your dad.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Grew up on prunes as regular as the London subway. Yeah,
I wouldn't think one prune would do you any good whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
But I'm not a saw bones. I feel like once
every five days is not often enough. It's time saver, true,
makes travel easier. I don't even have to think about it.
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
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