September 15, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on the dangers of social media & the algorithm
- The Emmys
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- How bad can I be?!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Clearly there was there was a lot of gaming going on.
Friends that have confirmed that there was kind of that
that deep dark Internet, the Reddit culture and these these
other dark places of the Internet where where where this
person was was going deep and you saw that on
the on the casings I think, I mean, I didn't
(00:44):
have any idea what the what those inscriptions, many of
those inscriptions even meant, but they are, you know, certainly
the memification that is happening in our society today.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Governor Spencer Cox of Utah, who has become a bit
of a rock star.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I feel like, although.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I was just told that our old friend David Drucker
writing that his message about unification is not going to
get anywhere. That's no way to rise in the political ranks,
which might be true, but we're considering.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You have to get the votes of the hardest core
activists in your party. I wonder if the well that
rings true and we're doomed.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I actually heard somebody else explaining how Utah's politics are
designed differently than almost other states. I think it was
Drunker actually explaining it. They still have a structure where
being a centrist helps you get elected, whereas most structure
we have in the country right now is the only
way you're going to lose is if it's somebody more.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Extreme than you. Yeah. Yeah, so you're prioritized being extreme. Yeah. Yeah.
And you know, I've been reading more about Spencer Cox
and he's advocated some policies that I think are not good.
But I think he's right about this. Although the David
(02:08):
Drucker quote kind of sucked the fun out of it. Well,
I don't know. I guess, well, we're doomed. We're doomed.
Maybe we can slow the progress. I don't know. But
here he was on Meet the Press talking about speaking
of the suspect going into the dark parts of the
Internet and the menimification of society.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and
the Internet is doing to all of us. Those dopamine hits.
These companies, trillion dollar market caps, the most powerful companies
in the history of the world, have figured out how
to hack our brains, get us addicted to outrage, and
get us to hate each other. I'm seeing it in
(02:53):
real time since the tragic death of Charlie Kirk. I'm
seeing it in every corner of our society. Inflict entrepreneurs
are taking advantage of us, and we are losing our
agency and we have to take that back.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I like that term conflict entrepreneurs. Yeah. Yeah, the greatest
minds in our society, certainly the most successful ones, are
selling us conflict, hate, and addiction. That is undeniable when
you're talking about social media. They have algorithms so sophisticated
(03:26):
the human mind cannot comprehend them, designed to get us
angry and addicted. And what are you going to do
out while that? Obviously you can on an individual basis,
you can recognize what's being done to you. We were
talking about scammers coming door to door earlier. Maybe the
(03:46):
best you can do is protect you and the ones
you love while society crumbles around you. The Governor continues.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Believe that social media has played a direct role in
every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen
over the last five six years. There is no question
in my mind that cancer probably isn't a strong enough word.
What we have done, especially to our kids. It took
us a decade to realize how evil these algorithms are.
(04:16):
And we're doing everything in Utah, first state in the nation,
a couple of years ago to past comprehensive reform. Sadly,
these most powerful companies on Earth are suing us to
prevent us from implementing these things.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And we believe we just lost our connection with Governor Cox.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, he was saying the same things on another channel.
He went on a couple of different shows. He actually
mentioned that he has no interest in becoming a national figure.
The only reason he went on these shows is because
the Trump White House had encouraged him to go on,
and he just felt like he was serving his party.
But the stuff about social media, I was actually listening
to that live while I was at the gym, and
(04:58):
I sat there on the bench in between sets and thought,
we're doomed. There's no way out of this. There's just
no fixing this right. I can't even imagine that. I
can't even imagine how like a younger generation could evolve
(05:21):
to where it would still be okay, I mean, where
they would understand this. I just I don't see any
fix the only fix. And I'm not advocating this, I'm
just trying to noodle it through. By the way, if
you have any comments on this stuff, we would love
to hear your wisdom because we're desperately in need of it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Not just jacking me but society. Mail bag at armstrong
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five kftc uh. The only cure for this I see
(06:00):
is a semi totalitarian government that doesn't give a wit
about free speech or is willing to do whatever damage
is necessary to completely rain this in.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And do you think that social media that'd ultimately be
a plus or negative a net It's almost impossible to
picture a government giving given sufficient power to do that
and not being oppressive.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
In other ways. Right. In other words, the only way
to cure your athletes foot Jim is suicide, not to
minimize the the infection here. But I didn't want to
pick a true dread disease. M Yeah, I don't. I
honestly I don't. I can't picture the road out except
(06:49):
on an individual basis, and I know, good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
What do you mean, well, you individually, yes you can,
But for society no.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, no, that's but that's my point exactly. Society is doomed.
So look after yourself and the people you care about. Well,
that's the best you can do.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So and then with mortality, you'll be dead before you know.
We're all killing each other in the streets.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I certainly hope. So that's true, right, Well, no, it's
a recognition reality. And you always seem to pooh poo
it when I say, look, just look after you and yours,
be healthy, be happy. I guess because I'm looking for
a solution for society. Oh, quit wasting your time. I
know that I can check out of it at any
(07:33):
moment that I'm aware of. Yeah, I suggest strongly everybody does.
You will be less miserable. That is not what people do.
Based on my uh observation of people that I know
well enough to know what they do. They find so
much comfort in going online and hearing the other side demonized.
(07:53):
It's like relaxing. Yes, for people, it's indorphiny. That's them
taking care of themselves. Oh you know, what I want.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I remember our old producer, Sean, he had a if.
Sean was a trumpeter and he had a friend who
was a trumpeter, and he said she told him one time,
she said, all I want to do after a long
day is just come home, turn on the TV and
hear people talk about how awful Trump is. What was
relaxing that they were talking about, like watching Stephen Colbert. Yeah, yeah, so,
(08:22):
and and other people do it with like my parents,
with watching Gutfeld or whatever. So it's just that is
what's relaxing. That is taking care of yourself. That's your
what the what is the hot frail self care? Yes, exactly,
that is your self care. I'm gonna watch the other
side be demonized and uh ah the.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
End of a long, hard day at work. It's just
fun to hear all the other side is evil, So.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Hannah, it is easier. It's an easier emotion than wrestling
with the difficulties of my side is not always right either.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, I just yeah, this is tough because we're we're
kind of discribed having a range of activities from the
legitimate trying to move the policy slash culture part of
our government and our people to a more sane place.
I mean, that's perfectly legitimate if you've got your state taxpayer,
(09:20):
university taxpayer supporting universities who make you write out a
statement that essentially says I'm of one political view in
order to get hired. That we can fight against that,
we can move that sort of policy and practice, we
can change by fighting for it. But like saving the
(09:45):
soul of the Western world by getting it off social media, No,
I just I don't know that that's a winnable fight.
I can't picture how it can be won. But so
we're I don't want to smear the distinction be tween
advocating for kids not getting indoctrinated into radical gender theory
(10:06):
in their third grade class and just bathing myself in
libs of TikTok on Twitter. Those are two different things.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, yes, definitely, I think I'm where Mark Alpern was
over the weekend, where he wrote he was. He was
he was committed to the idea that there weren't as
many people out there cheering Charlie Kirk's death as was
(10:39):
being portrayed, and then he spent a lot of time
on media and decided there are a lot of people
doing that, and he ended with I am very very disturbed.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I am very very worried about where this country is
going and.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The thing that happened over the last however many hours
it is now four days or whatever, has we have
definitely gone x percent further down the road of I'm
gonna fight fire with fire. They fight, and on both
sides saying this right, they fight dirty. We need to
fight dirtier. Yeah, like a big chunk. It's like we
(11:15):
had been moving the ball down the field a couple
inches at a time. It took a good five yard
leap in the last four days. Yeah, yeah, in the
wrong direction. So are you a church going person?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Dropus? The line was anything said from the pulpit about
Charlie Kirk's assassination this weekend mail bag at Armstrong and
Geddy dot com. I'd like to know because I came
across one story of a preacher getting very political in
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Speaker 3 (12:47):
Right, not that any of you watched the Emmys, and
probably for good reason after what we're gonna play for you,
but the Emmys made no effort whatsoever to bring the
country together.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Last night. We could play a little clip of that
for you coming up.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Art.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I dreamed that one day there will be a channel
for every interest, the Travel Channel for travel, the Food
Network for food, and the History Channel for history.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No Aliens, there won't be history on the History Channel,
sir no, just.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
As there will be no learning on the learning channels.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Nate Bargatzi opening the Emmys, which I thought that skit
was pretty funny, but then they immediately immediately like I
meant to say this Friday, and I kicked myself for
not remembering to say.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Easiest prediction in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I said, Gee, I wonder if Stephen Colbert's show is
gonna win the Emmy for Best Comedy Variety Show at
the Emmys, so he can go up there and give
a speech and get cheered, you know, for being the
great fighter against Trump and losing his job for it
and everything like that. They went beyond that. Not only
did he win the award later and get to give
the speech, they had him as the first presenter. First
(14:02):
thing they announced to America. Hey, in case anybody who
leans right did give award shows one more try.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We decided to make it clear.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
To you that you're wasting your time watching this because
we're only interested in talking to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Right, here's the hold still, here's a nice thumb in
your eye. First guess is Colbert gets a go ahead
and hit it. Michael gets a long standing ovation, le've
gone any winner, Steven Hobad and immediately for bro they
jumped to their feet. Everybody's standing in a hit place
(14:39):
down beg very much. You're a hero in a martyr.
Go But while I have your attention, is anyone hiring?
So that's great, Michael, that makes a point.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But the applause is much longer than we hadit it
Downe because we don't want to just talk over applause
for the next one minute. But it was it was
I don't know what you'd compare it to the people
on their feet and cheering and with that look on
their face of here he is the man who stood
up for Trump and paid the price for it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's just really that's where we are.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And then they did no moment of silence for Charlie Kirk,
even though most NFL teams did all around the country
yesterday on the Emmys in the evening they did not.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I'll bet part.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Of it was because they knew they'd be booing in
the crowd. Yeah, they thought better to not have a
moment of silence than to announce it and then have booze.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah. And as an email will put it. If you
are on lefty social media, Blue Sky, et cetera, ninety
nine point nine percent of people are completely convinced that
everybody knows Charlie Kirk was a divisive hater. I mean
he was an evil, evil guy who kind of deserved it,
and that the guy who killed him was probably a
(15:55):
maga Trump guy who just didn't think Charlie Kirk was
pure enough in that. So it's hard to believe. It's
hard to picture what they believed in, what their reasoning is,
because they have a completely different set of quote unquote facts.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So I'm probably fighting a fight that was lost a
very long time ago. I mean, what's the point So
awards shows have gone the direction of you know, the
Washington Post or MSNBC. They're aiming at one crowd. Fine,
that's never going to go back, doesn't need to no
law against it, just you know, another notch toward us
(16:32):
becoming divided and having our own little group of shows
and sights and people we follow and people we listen to,
and we don't even hear the other side anymore, and
we can't even imagine that they're normal human beings.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Right, very frustrated. So Harvier, what's his name, Avier Bardem?
He was the evil guy in No Country for Old Men. Yeah,
among other stirring roles. He was on the red carpet
wearing a caffee roun his neck. Yeah. Gotta ask a
question before the awards show.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
If you find out a company that you're going to
go into business with is in business with Israel, what
do you do?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I won't work. I won't work.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I cannot work with somebody that that's justify or supports
the genocide. I can That's as simple as that. And
we shouldn't be able to do that in this industry
and in the other industry. Today in Madrid, in Spain,
the cycle Laeta, the bicycle tour, was stopped by thousands
(17:34):
and thousands and thousands of people on the streets marching
saying we can allow the team of Israel being in this.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So you get the point. And so was there any
actors going along. Who said, I just said, I'm wearing
this pin to show that I believe there are only
two genders and boys shouldn't be in giral sports. No,
you don't have any of that, of course, right right,
that's fine. Certainly, then that ship is sailed.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Free Peeky did some good reporting on the International
Associated Association of Genocide Scholars that pronounced that Israel's committing genocide.
It's a very loose group that has no authority whatsoever.
They were quoted everywhere Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
US Venezuela tensions are rising in the Caribbean Sea as
five American F thirty five fighter jets are seen landing
in Puerto Rico this weekend as part of a military
build up. The Trump administration says the heightened presence is
to crack down on drug trafficking, and now Venezuela is
conducting large scale militia training civilians volunteering.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
To serve as reservists. President Nicolas Madudo.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Urges all Venezuelans to prepare for an armed struggle if needed.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Wow, so we may be putting marines on the beach
of Venezuela. As the president there is trying to convince
regular people they need to be there to fight the
US Marines.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What does it mean to volunteer to being a militia
in a totalitarian regime? Means you've been drafting. This may
be the best thing that's ever happened in Meduro. Because
now he has legitimacy. You can say, I'm your brave
defender against the Great Satan or whatever they call us,
El Norte.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Here's a good tease for a story I'm going to
do in a little bit. Yes, you need to surprise
your bones. Latest study from doctors. You need to surprise
your bones. Oh the bones have gotten locks. They have Wow.
I'm going to adopt this idea asap, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
A number of different stories for you.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Elon must purchased a billion dollars worth of Tesla shares
shares rows eight percent like pre market.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I don't know where it is now.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Over the idea that, hey, he's all in on his
commitment to Tesla EV, there are stories. Well, you had
the story last week. You lied to us last week
with the idea that Elon no longer Tesla no longer
has any interest in electric vehicles. That's not a lie.
Why is it a lie. I guess that could still
be true. He just investor in Tesla. He's just not
interested in making cars, right, that's your theory.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Tesla is now a robot and autonomous car company.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Regardless, he put another billion dollars in. It made shares
go up, so maybe that helps with your stocks. I
just wanted to throw this out. I just saw the
headline that alphabet, which is Google just passed three trillion dollars,
wasn't it? Like I feel like it was like a
year ago when we had our first trillion dollar company,
and that was seen.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
As a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We now have and keep this in mind when you
think about the stock market breaking records every single day.
VideA is worth four point three trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now, and that's the most valuable valuable company in the world.
How much four point three trillion?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Holy cow, We just had our first trillion dollar company
not that long ago. Microsoft is almost four trillion, Apples
three and a half trillion, Amazon's two and a half trillion,
Google's three trillion, Meta is two trillion.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Those are your top six that's like all of our
stock market growth. Yeah, are those companies? Yeah? And then
Tesla is a ten with it's over a trillion dollars.
But that's that should be paid more attention to.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
When people say the stock market really talking about half
dozen tech stocks.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And that's right. Yeah, anyway, rising tide lifting all boats barely.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
The Treasury Secretary announced today a framework TikTok deal with China,
but gave no details. President Trump is speaking with President
she of China on Friday, but they say they've got
a deal for TikTok. What that means given the fact
that Congress passed a law that TikTok's got to leave
the country, the Supreme Court upheld at nine nothing. How
the president can work around that and make a deal,
(21:57):
I don't know, but that is going to happen. We
found an American buyer, presumably, if it's true, although occasionally
Trump will engage in the presumptive clothes the Hey, we've
got a deal, got a deal, just got to sign
a couple of details, but the deal is done.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Who knows. According to the Treasury Department, the fourth round
of trade talks with China includes not only the TikTok thing,
but national security, economic and trade issues of mutual interest
and cooperation on money laundering networks that threaten both the
US and China. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
For personal security, Trump has announced fifty eight billion extra
or million rather fifty eight million extra dollars to boost
security for executives in judicial branches, as we fear that
there's going to be more political violence in the future
and we need more security.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, there's already been a fair amount. Yeah, toward judges
for instance. Yeah. Oh, speaking of it, why you need
to surprise your bones coming up? So the President, speaking
of Donald Jay doing deal, said over the weekend he
will increase sanctions on Russia only if all NATO countries
(23:05):
agree to impose high tariffs on China. Yeah. I read
that post. China has a strong control, even grip over Russia,
and these powerful tariffs will break that grip. If NATO
does as I say, the war will end quickly. If not,
you're just wasting my time and the time, energy, and
money of the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The part that bothered me is he truthed out, this
is not Trump's war, would have never started to file
as president. It's Biden and Zelensky's war. It's Zelensky's war.
He was attacked putin. It's Biden and Zelensky's war. I
don't even know how you put it on Joe Biden.
I'm not happy with the way Joe Biden handled it afterwards,
(23:45):
but I don't think he could have stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It, and he was weak and passive blah blah blah.
H No, but still, come on, I don't know how
you put it on Zelensky. It's Zelensky's war, not putin.
What the hell I don't I just don't get him.
I really don't. Oh, I was discouraging. Trump announced the
(24:09):
plants in National Guard to Memphis to combat crime. That
looks like that's actually going to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No National Guard troops for Chicago, I guess, but we
are going to have him in Memphis. And also there
is a story out in the last hour about New Orleans,
Louisiana sent in National Guard troops.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Also yeah, yeah, And in more important news, and we
should have gotten to this first, an Australian regulator has
approved the world's first ever vaccine designed to save koalas
from chlamydia. Thank god. So if you're thinking of getting
it on with a koala, give it a little while
(24:47):
for them to get some shots so they don't give
you the seate.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Okay, here's why you need to surprise your bones. And
I'm really actually kind of interested in this.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Uh, I was about to say, we all exercise, but
we don't all exercise. Some of us exercise. I think
we all realize that exercising as you get older is
a good idea to try to hang on to a
muscle health, bone health, all that sort of stuff, stave
off diseases, all kinds of things. We need to jump
more often. Oh, jumping is the big thing you need
(25:19):
to surprise your bones. None of the other exercises do
what jumping does to like stress your bones and everything
like that to make them realize we're still in the game.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We still got to be what we once were. Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And there's just nothing else that does it quite the
same as jumping. So they really recommend several times a
week doing some jumping, jumping down from a bench or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Might as well jump, go ahead and jump. Yeah. Wow,
I've got to admit that's one thing I've practically not
done at all since my various hip operations and all
is jump up and down. But how often too jarring? Well, yeah,
you're in a different situation. But how about not really? No,
it's fine. How often do most people jump? Not very often? Probably,
(26:04):
thank you for that sound effect. There you go. Now
I can picture. It's the last time you jumped, Michael,
probably when I was a kid. Really, wow, I've jumped
more recently than that. I got to start jumping rope again.
I did that for a while. Oh, man, is that
a good exercise when we go? Katie? How can you
jump often? Unfortunately? Okay? Is that part of your workout
(26:24):
routine there at the gym?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And it hurts everything? Should stop? It does. Well.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
The reason the reason it hurts everything is because we
don't jump enough. And that makes sense to me. That
actually makes pretty good sense. That whole jarring everything is
that's a whole different exercise than a lot of the
stuff we do. Like when I go play basketball with
my son, we go over to the gym. They got
the low goal that I can dunk on and I
like doing that. But man, it's it's it's rough landing.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeaham, consult your physician before you take Jack's exercise advice.
Maybe ease into it. Well, the jump is a good idea.
I don't think that's wrong advice.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Just whether or not you would begin if you haven't
done it for thirty years or ten years or however long.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Hey, just go up to the second story of your house,
open window. No, yeah, but proceed carefully. Jes eyes, your bones,
stupid bones. So I guess trampoline is the key, right,
I wondered.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I actually wondered that it didn't mention that would that
count because it kind of, uh it lessens the impact.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So that might be a good way to ease into it.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I got a trampoline in my backyard. I haven't put
it back together since we moved. I should put it
back together and get out there, and Jone.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Say to my bones, boo, yeah, yeah, bond it's all
about your bone density. I guess. Well, thank god Kulos
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
So maybe if we break on time, we can talk
about the Blue Sky as aa of the American left.
This was written by a lefty over the weekend about
Blue Sky.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I've never been on Blue Sky. It's a liberal Twitter. Yeah,
when Elon took over Twitter, they all fled for safer
pastures where they would never have their opinion challenged.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And this gets into cancel culture and the reaction to
Charlie Kirk's assassination and all that sort of stuff. I
think it's really dang interesting. I hope you can stick around.
I'm surprising my bones during the break I did a
lot of jump and jumping out off of things, climbed
up on the table, jumping down.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Surprised my bones. Here's a surprise. Your ankle's broken. And
didn't see that coming, did you, lazy ankles? I thought
this was early interesting.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
A piece written by a progressive aimed at other progressives
about how they've lost their way with the blue skyization
of the American left. Progressors discovered a scenely invincible weapon
and then one day it stopped working. He actually used
the example of suicide bombers the Palestinians were using back
(30:11):
in the day, when they first started strapping bombs of
themselves and going into Israel and blowing themselves up. For
a while there it looked like a there's no solution
to this. The other side has figured out a way
and we can't stop this. Then Israel built enough, built
(30:31):
enough walls, got enough security that it didn't work anymore.
But the Palestinians had forgotten how to do anything else
other than that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
And he uses that.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Example with progressives and cancel culture, which I thought was
really interesting that they developed this habit of thinking that
they could get anybody canceled unless they got on board,
and it worked for a fair number of years. Progressive
culture substitution of nastiness for persuasion and argument has robbed
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America of the incisive commentary of which intelligent progressives would
otherwise be capable of. Progressives got addicted to the power
of cancel culture, there seemingly invincible h bomb, and when
it stopped working, they just didn't know what else to
do because they'd forgotten everything they used to do in
the time before Twitter. And he went through the examples
of how for a while their cancel culture was so
(31:26):
powerful that you could go after any company and they
would fire people, change their direction, all kinds of different things,
no matter how ludicrous your demand, no matter how crazy
it was, or how minor your fence right. And he
makes the point specifically that we said for years there's
(31:51):
not a giant boycott coming corporations, you don't need to
fire this person or take down the ad or donate
money to this cause, that the giant boycott isn't coming.
And that's what this progressive who wrote this was saying
corporations figured out that there was really no power behind
those threats.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It was a midget with a giant paw.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The few companies that stood up to it realized, Okay,
so there weren't millions of people.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
There weren't hundreds of thousands. There weren't even thousands.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Of people that were willing to boycott our restaurant or
our shoe or whatever over this issue and just went
away if we ignored it. And companies figured that out,
and so it just ended the whole that level of
cancel culture as a threat, and progressives had forgotten how
to do anything else or given up on the idea
that they needed to.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well, that sure is backed up by the absolutely miserable
status of the Democratic Party and their inability to focus
on a solution for it, or a message or any
sort of consensus on why it happened. Because you still
have that crowd that doesn't understand what went wrong. You
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stop persuading people, you just bullied them. I've never been
on Blue Sky.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
This guy actually argues on how a lot of the
progressives that are on Blue Sky should come back to
Twitter and argue with people on the other side and
try to make their point and that how on blue
sky they spent because it's all progressives. I've never been
on there for a second. I don't have the app.
I've never even looked into it. But it's entirely progressives
(33:29):
on there. The only people there are to attack because
the only muscle they have is attack is other progressives
who aren't progressive enough. So they're constantly attacking their own
for not being further enough, far enough down the road
of Crazyville.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Right right, right, Yeah, trying to remember who I was
reading in the last couple of days who was talking
about one of the reasons Charlie Cook's at Kirk Charlie Kirk,
not Cook, Charlie Cook of the National Review is still
among us. Charlie Kirk's method of getting in there and
scrapping verbally with people he doesn't agree with is so
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important to stress test your ideas, and you know, it's
like you're talking about surprising your moons. You've got to
subject your ideas to the rough and tumble of disagreement.
I mean, we got this email of talking about how
the right reporting people for glee over Charlie Kirk's murder
(34:27):
is just like the cancel culture of the left. And
I disagree, but I had to spend a fair amount
of time thinking and building a case for why that's true.
And as I often say, if you write in, say hey,
I disagree, or here's what you missed, that's not like
an insult or a disservice. Hell, it's doing us a favor,
(34:50):
you know. Just try to be reasonably respectful. But yeah,
I would agree. I think the left really needs a
charismatic old sk schooler to lead them out of the wilderness.
Of all we know how to do is yell at
people and hurt them and call them fascists, because you know,
(35:10):
he ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow. And the
words of the great hippie John Lennon.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
So, as we wrap up the hour, you probably saw
that golf legend fat drunk John Daily set the record
for most strokes on one hole at an actual tour
event over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I didn't hear a reference to that.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, he took a nineteen on the par five twelve
at the Champions Tour.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Match over the weekend. Gonna be tough to bounce back
from that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
What I like about it is so he sends his
t shot into the rough.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Then he goes to his ball in the rough and
it out of bounce from there seven times in a row. Hey,
sticking with plan, It'll work. It's one of these days.
So is that if you've ever golfed, you've reached this
level where you're so angry and disappointed at yourself and
(36:12):
demoralized and your scor is shot anyway, it's just like,
oh yeah, how bad you want it to be? I mean,
I don't know who you're punishing then, right. It reminds
me of when the Hanya could like rip off their
shirt on the Maury Povid Show and just stand there there.
I showed you, You showed me what that is. Kind
(36:33):
of what you're doing here. You're just like, I want
to show me how bad it can be. So I'm
gonna show you how much I can suck. I'm not
the same shot to get Oh yeah, how do you
like this one?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The same one said yeah, yeah, what do you think now?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Huh? Who are you a dressing? Anyway? Way to go
Johneen coming up but coming up next hour. Really interesting
study going back in a number of years about why
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showed them that they are wrong, and how that applies
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Clearly there was there was a lot of gaming going on.
Friends that have confirmed that there was kind of that
that deep dark Internet, the Reddit culture and these these
other dark places of the Internet where where where this
person was was going deep and you saw that on
the on the casings I think, I mean, I didn't
(00:44):
have any idea what the what those inscriptions, many of
those inscriptions even meant, but they are, you know, certainly
the memification that is happening in our society today.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Governor Spencer Cox of Utah, who has become a bit
of a rock star.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I feel like, although.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I was just told that our old friend David Drucker
writing that his message about unification is not going to
get anywhere. That's no way to rise in the political ranks,
which might be true, but we're considering.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You have to get the votes of the hardest core
activists in your party. I wonder if the well that
rings true and we're doomed.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I actually heard somebody else explaining how Utah's politics are
designed differently than almost other states. I think it was
Drunker actually explaining it. They still have a structure where
being a centrist helps you get elected, whereas most structure
we have in the country right now is the only
way you're going to lose is if it's somebody more.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Extreme than you. Yeah. Yeah, so you're prioritized being extreme. Yeah. Yeah.
And you know, I've been reading more about Spencer Cox
and he's advocated some policies that I think are not good.
But I think he's right about this. Although the David
(02:08):
Drucker quote kind of sucked the fun out of it. Well,
I don't know. I guess, well, we're doomed. We're doomed.
Maybe we can slow the progress. I don't know. But
here he was on Meet the Press talking about speaking
of the suspect going into the dark parts of the
Internet and the menimification of society.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and
the Internet is doing to all of us. Those dopamine hits.
These companies, trillion dollar market caps, the most powerful companies
in the history of the world, have figured out how
to hack our brains, get us addicted to outrage, and
get us to hate each other. I'm seeing it in
(02:53):
real time since the tragic death of Charlie Kirk. I'm
seeing it in every corner of our society. Inflict entrepreneurs
are taking advantage of us, and we are losing our
agency and we have to take that back.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I like that term conflict entrepreneurs. Yeah. Yeah, the greatest
minds in our society, certainly the most successful ones, are
selling us conflict, hate, and addiction. That is undeniable when
you're talking about social media. They have algorithms so sophisticated
(03:26):
the human mind cannot comprehend them, designed to get us
angry and addicted. And what are you going to do
out while that? Obviously you can on an individual basis,
you can recognize what's being done to you. We were
talking about scammers coming door to door earlier. Maybe the
(03:46):
best you can do is protect you and the ones
you love while society crumbles around you. The Governor continues.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Believe that social media has played a direct role in
every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen
over the last five six years. There is no question
in my mind that cancer probably isn't a strong enough word.
What we have done, especially to our kids. It took
us a decade to realize how evil these algorithms are.
(04:16):
And we're doing everything in Utah, first state in the nation,
a couple of years ago to past comprehensive reform. Sadly,
these most powerful companies on Earth are suing us to
prevent us from implementing these things.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And we believe we just lost our connection with Governor Cox.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, he was saying the same things on another channel.
He went on a couple of different shows. He actually
mentioned that he has no interest in becoming a national figure.
The only reason he went on these shows is because
the Trump White House had encouraged him to go on,
and he just felt like he was serving his party.
But the stuff about social media, I was actually listening
to that live while I was at the gym, and
(04:58):
I sat there on the bench in between sets and thought,
we're doomed. There's no way out of this. There's just
no fixing this right. I can't even imagine that. I
can't even imagine how like a younger generation could evolve
(05:21):
to where it would still be okay, I mean, where
they would understand this. I just I don't see any
fix the only fix. And I'm not advocating this, I'm
just trying to noodle it through. By the way, if
you have any comments on this stuff, we would love
to hear your wisdom because we're desperately in need of it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Not just jacking me but society. Mail bag at armstrong
in getty dot com is the email address mail bag
at armstrong in getty dot com. Or if texting is
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(06:00):
is a semi totalitarian government that doesn't give a wit
about free speech or is willing to do whatever damage
is necessary to completely rain this in.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And do you think that social media that'd ultimately be
a plus or negative a net It's almost impossible to
picture a government giving given sufficient power to do that
and not being oppressive.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
In other ways. Right. In other words, the only way
to cure your athletes foot Jim is suicide, not to
minimize the the infection here. But I didn't want to
pick a true dread disease. M Yeah, I don't. I
honestly I don't. I can't picture the road out except
(06:49):
on an individual basis, and I know, good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
What do you mean, well, you individually, yes you can,
But for society no.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, no, that's but that's my point exactly. Society is doomed.
So look after yourself and the people you care about. Well,
that's the best you can do.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So and then with mortality, you'll be dead before you know.
We're all killing each other in the streets.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I certainly hope. So that's true, right, Well, no, it's
a recognition reality. And you always seem to pooh poo
it when I say, look, just look after you and yours,
be healthy, be happy. I guess because I'm looking for
a solution for society. Oh, quit wasting your time. I
know that I can check out of it at any
(07:33):
moment that I'm aware of. Yeah, I suggest strongly everybody does.
You will be less miserable. That is not what people do.
Based on my uh observation of people that I know
well enough to know what they do. They find so
much comfort in going online and hearing the other side demonized.
(07:53):
It's like relaxing. Yes, for people, it's indorphiny. That's them
taking care of themselves. Oh you know, what I want.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I remember our old producer, Sean, he had a if.
Sean was a trumpeter and he had a friend who
was a trumpeter, and he said she told him one time,
she said, all I want to do after a long
day is just come home, turn on the TV and
hear people talk about how awful Trump is. What was
relaxing that they were talking about, like watching Stephen Colbert. Yeah, yeah, so,
(08:22):
and and other people do it with like my parents,
with watching Gutfeld or whatever. So it's just that is
what's relaxing. That is taking care of yourself. That's your
what the what is the hot frail self care? Yes, exactly,
that is your self care. I'm gonna watch the other
side be demonized and uh ah the.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
End of a long, hard day at work. It's just
fun to hear all the other side is evil, So.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Hannah, it is easier. It's an easier emotion than wrestling
with the difficulties of my side is not always right either.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, I just yeah, this is tough because we're we're
kind of discribed having a range of activities from the
legitimate trying to move the policy slash culture part of
our government and our people to a more sane place.
I mean, that's perfectly legitimate if you've got your state taxpayer,
(09:20):
university taxpayer supporting universities who make you write out a
statement that essentially says I'm of one political view in
order to get hired. That we can fight against that,
we can move that sort of policy and practice, we
can change by fighting for it. But like saving the
(09:45):
soul of the Western world by getting it off social media, No,
I just I don't know that that's a winnable fight.
I can't picture how it can be won. But so
we're I don't want to smear the distinction be tween
advocating for kids not getting indoctrinated into radical gender theory
(10:06):
in their third grade class and just bathing myself in
libs of TikTok on Twitter. Those are two different things.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, yes, definitely, I think I'm where Mark Alpern was
over the weekend, where he wrote he was. He was
he was committed to the idea that there weren't as
many people out there cheering Charlie Kirk's death as was
(10:39):
being portrayed, and then he spent a lot of time
on media and decided there are a lot of people
doing that, and he ended with I am very very disturbed.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I am very very worried about where this country is
going and.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The thing that happened over the last however many hours
it is now four days or whatever, has we have
definitely gone x percent further down the road of I'm
gonna fight fire with fire. They fight, and on both
sides saying this right, they fight dirty. We need to
fight dirtier. Yeah, like a big chunk. It's like we
(11:15):
had been moving the ball down the field a couple
inches at a time. It took a good five yard
leap in the last four days. Yeah, yeah, in the
wrong direction. So are you a church going person?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Dropus? The line was anything said from the pulpit about
Charlie Kirk's assassination this weekend mail bag at Armstrong and
Geddy dot com. I'd like to know because I came
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Speaker 3 (12:47):
Right, not that any of you watched the Emmys, and
probably for good reason after what we're gonna play for you,
but the Emmys made no effort whatsoever to bring the
country together.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Last night. We could play a little clip of that
for you coming up.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Art.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I dreamed that one day there will be a channel
for every interest, the Travel Channel for travel, the Food
Network for food, and the History Channel for history.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
No Aliens, there won't be history on the History Channel,
sir no, just.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
As there will be no learning on the learning channels.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Nate Bargatzi opening the Emmys, which I thought that skit
was pretty funny, but then they immediately immediately like I
meant to say this Friday, and I kicked myself for
not remembering to say.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Easiest prediction in the world.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I said, Gee, I wonder if Stephen Colbert's show is
gonna win the Emmy for Best Comedy Variety Show at
the Emmys, so he can go up there and give
a speech and get cheered, you know, for being the
great fighter against Trump and losing his job for it
and everything like that. They went beyond that. Not only
did he win the award later and get to give
the speech, they had him as the first presenter. First
(14:02):
thing they announced to America. Hey, in case anybody who
leans right did give award shows one more try.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We decided to make it clear.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
To you that you're wasting your time watching this because
we're only interested in talking to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Right, here's the hold still, here's a nice thumb in
your eye. First guess is Colbert gets a go ahead
and hit it. Michael gets a long standing ovation, le've
gone any winner, Steven Hobad and immediately for bro they
jumped to their feet. Everybody's standing in a hit place
(14:39):
down beg very much. You're a hero in a martyr.
Go But while I have your attention, is anyone hiring?
So that's great, Michael, that makes a point.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But the applause is much longer than we hadit it
Downe because we don't want to just talk over applause
for the next one minute. But it was it was
I don't know what you'd compare it to the people
on their feet and cheering and with that look on
their face of here he is the man who stood
up for Trump and paid the price for it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's just really that's where we are.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And then they did no moment of silence for Charlie Kirk,
even though most NFL teams did all around the country
yesterday on the Emmys in the evening they did not.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I'll bet part.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Of it was because they knew they'd be booing in
the crowd. Yeah, they thought better to not have a
moment of silence than to announce it and then have booze.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah. And as an email will put it. If you
are on lefty social media, Blue Sky, et cetera, ninety
nine point nine percent of people are completely convinced that
everybody knows Charlie Kirk was a divisive hater. I mean
he was an evil, evil guy who kind of deserved it,
and that the guy who killed him was probably a
(15:55):
maga Trump guy who just didn't think Charlie Kirk was
pure enough in that. So it's hard to believe. It's
hard to picture what they believed in, what their reasoning is,
because they have a completely different set of quote unquote facts.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So I'm probably fighting a fight that was lost a
very long time ago. I mean, what's the point So
awards shows have gone the direction of you know, the
Washington Post or MSNBC. They're aiming at one crowd. Fine,
that's never going to go back, doesn't need to no
law against it, just you know, another notch toward us
(16:32):
becoming divided and having our own little group of shows
and sights and people we follow and people we listen to,
and we don't even hear the other side anymore, and
we can't even imagine that they're normal human beings.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Right, very frustrated. So Harvier, what's his name, Avier Bardem?
He was the evil guy in No Country for Old Men. Yeah,
among other stirring roles. He was on the red carpet
wearing a caffee roun his neck. Yeah. Gotta ask a
question before the awards show.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
If you find out a company that you're going to
go into business with is in business with Israel, what
do you do?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I won't work. I won't work.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I cannot work with somebody that that's justify or supports
the genocide. I can That's as simple as that. And
we shouldn't be able to do that in this industry
and in the other industry. Today in Madrid, in Spain,
the cycle Laeta, the bicycle tour, was stopped by thousands
(17:34):
and thousands and thousands of people on the streets marching
saying we can allow the team of Israel being in this.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So you get the point. And so was there any
actors going along. Who said, I just said, I'm wearing
this pin to show that I believe there are only
two genders and boys shouldn't be in giral sports. No,
you don't have any of that, of course, right right,
that's fine. Certainly, then that ship is sailed.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Free Peeky did some good reporting on the International
Associated Association of Genocide Scholars that pronounced that Israel's committing genocide.
It's a very loose group that has no authority whatsoever.
They were quoted everywhere Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
US Venezuela tensions are rising in the Caribbean Sea as
five American F thirty five fighter jets are seen landing
in Puerto Rico this weekend as part of a military
build up. The Trump administration says the heightened presence is
to crack down on drug trafficking, and now Venezuela is
conducting large scale militia training civilians volunteering.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
To serve as reservists. President Nicolas Madudo.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Urges all Venezuelans to prepare for an armed struggle if needed.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Wow, so we may be putting marines on the beach
of Venezuela. As the president there is trying to convince
regular people they need to be there to fight the
US Marines.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What does it mean to volunteer to being a militia
in a totalitarian regime? Means you've been drafting. This may
be the best thing that's ever happened in Meduro. Because
now he has legitimacy. You can say, I'm your brave
defender against the Great Satan or whatever they call us,
El Norte.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Here's a good tease for a story I'm going to
do in a little bit. Yes, you need to surprise
your bones. Latest study from doctors. You need to surprise
your bones. Oh the bones have gotten locks. They have Wow.
I'm going to adopt this idea asap, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
A number of different stories for you.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Elon must purchased a billion dollars worth of Tesla shares
shares rows eight percent like pre market.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I don't know where it is now.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Over the idea that, hey, he's all in on his
commitment to Tesla EV, there are stories. Well, you had
the story last week. You lied to us last week
with the idea that Elon no longer Tesla no longer
has any interest in electric vehicles. That's not a lie.
Why is it a lie. I guess that could still
be true. He just investor in Tesla. He's just not
interested in making cars, right, that's your theory.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Tesla is now a robot and autonomous car company.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Regardless, he put another billion dollars in. It made shares
go up, so maybe that helps with your stocks. I
just wanted to throw this out. I just saw the
headline that alphabet, which is Google just passed three trillion dollars,
wasn't it? Like I feel like it was like a
year ago when we had our first trillion dollar company,
and that was seen.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
As a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
We now have and keep this in mind when you
think about the stock market breaking records every single day.
VideA is worth four point three trillion dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now, and that's the most valuable valuable company in the world.
How much four point three trillion?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Holy cow, We just had our first trillion dollar company
not that long ago. Microsoft is almost four trillion, Apples
three and a half trillion, Amazon's two and a half trillion,
Google's three trillion, Meta is two trillion.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Those are your top six that's like all of our
stock market growth. Yeah, are those companies? Yeah? And then
Tesla is a ten with it's over a trillion dollars.
But that's that should be paid more attention to.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
When people say the stock market really talking about half
dozen tech stocks.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And that's right. Yeah, anyway, rising tide lifting all boats barely.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
The Treasury Secretary announced today a framework TikTok deal with China,
but gave no details. President Trump is speaking with President
she of China on Friday, but they say they've got
a deal for TikTok. What that means given the fact
that Congress passed a law that TikTok's got to leave
the country, the Supreme Court upheld at nine nothing. How
the president can work around that and make a deal,
(21:57):
I don't know, but that is going to happen. We
found an American buyer, presumably, if it's true, although occasionally
Trump will engage in the presumptive clothes the Hey, we've
got a deal, got a deal, just got to sign
a couple of details, but the deal is done.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Who knows. According to the Treasury Department, the fourth round
of trade talks with China includes not only the TikTok thing,
but national security, economic and trade issues of mutual interest
and cooperation on money laundering networks that threaten both the
US and China. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
For personal security, Trump has announced fifty eight billion extra
or million rather fifty eight million extra dollars to boost
security for executives in judicial branches, as we fear that
there's going to be more political violence in the future
and we need more security.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, there's already been a fair amount. Yeah, toward judges
for instance. Yeah. Oh, speaking of it, why you need
to surprise your bones coming up? So the President, speaking
of Donald Jay doing deal, said over the weekend he
will increase sanctions on Russia only if all NATO countries
(23:05):
agree to impose high tariffs on China. Yeah. I read
that post. China has a strong control, even grip over Russia,
and these powerful tariffs will break that grip. If NATO
does as I say, the war will end quickly. If not,
you're just wasting my time and the time, energy, and
money of the United States.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The part that bothered me is he truthed out, this
is not Trump's war, would have never started to file
as president. It's Biden and Zelensky's war. It's Zelensky's war.
He was attacked putin. It's Biden and Zelensky's war. I
don't even know how you put it on Joe Biden.
I'm not happy with the way Joe Biden handled it afterwards,
(23:45):
but I don't think he could have stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It, and he was weak and passive blah blah blah.
H No, but still, come on, I don't know how
you put it on Zelensky. It's Zelensky's war, not putin.
What the hell I don't I just don't get him.
I really don't. Oh, I was discouraging. Trump announced the
(24:09):
plants in National Guard to Memphis to combat crime. That
looks like that's actually going to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
No National Guard troops for Chicago, I guess, but we
are going to have him in Memphis. And also there
is a story out in the last hour about New Orleans,
Louisiana sent in National Guard troops.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Also yeah, yeah, And in more important news, and we
should have gotten to this first, an Australian regulator has
approved the world's first ever vaccine designed to save koalas
from chlamydia. Thank god. So if you're thinking of getting
it on with a koala, give it a little while
(24:47):
for them to get some shots so they don't give
you the seate.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Okay, here's why you need to surprise your bones. And
I'm really actually kind of interested in this.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Uh, I was about to say, we all exercise, but
we don't all exercise. Some of us exercise. I think
we all realize that exercising as you get older is
a good idea to try to hang on to a
muscle health, bone health, all that sort of stuff, stave
off diseases, all kinds of things. We need to jump
more often. Oh, jumping is the big thing you need
(25:19):
to surprise your bones. None of the other exercises do
what jumping does to like stress your bones and everything
like that to make them realize we're still in the game.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
We still got to be what we once were. Wow.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
And there's just nothing else that does it quite the
same as jumping. So they really recommend several times a
week doing some jumping, jumping down from a bench or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Might as well jump, go ahead and jump. Yeah. Wow,
I've got to admit that's one thing I've practically not
done at all since my various hip operations and all
is jump up and down. But how often too jarring? Well, yeah,
you're in a different situation. But how about not really? No,
it's fine. How often do most people jump? Not very often? Probably,
(26:04):
thank you for that sound effect. There you go. Now
I can picture. It's the last time you jumped, Michael,
probably when I was a kid. Really, wow, I've jumped
more recently than that. I got to start jumping rope again.
I did that for a while. Oh, man, is that
a good exercise when we go? Katie? How can you
jump often? Unfortunately? Okay? Is that part of your workout
(26:24):
routine there at the gym?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And it hurts everything? Should stop? It does. Well.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
The reason the reason it hurts everything is because we
don't jump enough. And that makes sense to me. That
actually makes pretty good sense. That whole jarring everything is
that's a whole different exercise than a lot of the
stuff we do. Like when I go play basketball with
my son, we go over to the gym. They got
the low goal that I can dunk on and I
like doing that. But man, it's it's it's rough landing.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeaham, consult your physician before you take Jack's exercise advice.
Maybe ease into it. Well, the jump is a good idea.
I don't think that's wrong advice.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Just whether or not you would begin if you haven't
done it for thirty years or ten years or however long.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Hey, just go up to the second story of your house,
open window. No, yeah, but proceed carefully. Jes eyes, your bones,
stupid bones. So I guess trampoline is the key, right,
I wondered.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I actually wondered that it didn't mention that would that
count because it kind of, uh it lessens the impact.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
So that might be a good way to ease into it.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I got a trampoline in my backyard. I haven't put
it back together since we moved. I should put it
back together and get out there, and Jone.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Say to my bones, boo, yeah, yeah, bond it's all
about your bone density. I guess. Well, thank god Kulos
don't have chlemittee anymore. Uh where were we? Ah? Simply
save home security? My goodness, what a good idea this is.
It is the the system of the future. The future
is here now. Simply Safe doesn't have some loud thing
(28:04):
go off because you've already gotten broken into. With their
AI technology and their great live monitoring agents, they anticipate
the break in and can even speak to the intruder
before they bust your window. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
And you wouldn't think that that would be affordable, really
that sort of thing, but it is. You can afford
it ninety or sorry, sixty day money back guarantee and
no long term contracts, So why wouldn't sh try it?
And simply Safe is obviously so confident that you're gonna
like it, and you'll join four million Americans who trust
simply Safe with their home security, just.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Like I do, way better, way more affordable than old systems.
And again they earn your business every single day, tremendous.
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
So maybe if we break on time, we can talk
about the Blue Sky as aa of the American left.
This was written by a lefty over the weekend about
Blue Sky.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I've never been on Blue Sky. It's a liberal Twitter. Yeah,
when Elon took over Twitter, they all fled for safer
pastures where they would never have their opinion challenged.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
And this gets into cancel culture and the reaction to
Charlie Kirk's assassination and all that sort of stuff. I
think it's really dang interesting. I hope you can stick around.
I'm surprising my bones during the break I did a
lot of jump and jumping out off of things, climbed
up on the table, jumping down.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Surprised my bones. Here's a surprise. Your ankle's broken. And
didn't see that coming, did you, lazy ankles? I thought
this was early interesting.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
A piece written by a progressive aimed at other progressives
about how they've lost their way with the blue skyization
of the American left. Progressors discovered a scenely invincible weapon
and then one day it stopped working. He actually used
the example of suicide bombers the Palestinians were using back
(30:11):
in the day, when they first started strapping bombs of
themselves and going into Israel and blowing themselves up. For
a while there it looked like a there's no solution
to this. The other side has figured out a way
and we can't stop this. Then Israel built enough, built
(30:31):
enough walls, got enough security that it didn't work anymore.
But the Palestinians had forgotten how to do anything else
other than that.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
And he uses that.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Example with progressives and cancel culture, which I thought was
really interesting that they developed this habit of thinking that
they could get anybody canceled unless they got on board,
and it worked for a fair number of years. Progressive
culture substitution of nastiness for persuasion and argument has robbed
(31:04):
America of the incisive commentary of which intelligent progressives would
otherwise be capable of. Progressives got addicted to the power
of cancel culture, there seemingly invincible h bomb, and when
it stopped working, they just didn't know what else to
do because they'd forgotten everything they used to do in
the time before Twitter. And he went through the examples
of how for a while their cancel culture was so
(31:26):
powerful that you could go after any company and they
would fire people, change their direction, all kinds of different things,
no matter how ludicrous your demand, no matter how crazy
it was, or how minor your fence right. And he
makes the point specifically that we said for years there's
(31:51):
not a giant boycott coming corporations, you don't need to
fire this person or take down the ad or donate
money to this cause, that the giant boycott isn't coming.
And that's what this progressive who wrote this was saying
corporations figured out that there was really no power behind
those threats.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It was a midget with a giant paw.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The few companies that stood up to it realized, Okay,
so there weren't millions of people.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
There weren't hundreds of thousands. There weren't even thousands.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Of people that were willing to boycott our restaurant or
our shoe or whatever over this issue and just went
away if we ignored it. And companies figured that out,
and so it just ended the whole that level of
cancel culture as a threat, and progressives had forgotten how
to do anything else or given up on the idea
that they needed to.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well, that sure is backed up by the absolutely miserable
status of the Democratic Party and their inability to focus
on a solution for it, or a message or any
sort of consensus on why it happened. Because you still
have that crowd that doesn't understand what went wrong. You
(33:04):
stop persuading people, you just bullied them. I've never been
on Blue Sky.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
This guy actually argues on how a lot of the
progressives that are on Blue Sky should come back to
Twitter and argue with people on the other side and
try to make their point and that how on blue
sky they spent because it's all progressives. I've never been
on there for a second. I don't have the app.
I've never even looked into it. But it's entirely progressives
(33:29):
on there. The only people there are to attack because
the only muscle they have is attack is other progressives
who aren't progressive enough. So they're constantly attacking their own
for not being further enough, far enough down the road
of Crazyville.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Right right, right, Yeah, trying to remember who I was
reading in the last couple of days who was talking
about one of the reasons Charlie Cook's at Kirk Charlie Kirk,
not Cook, Charlie Cook of the National Review is still
among us. Charlie Kirk's method of getting in there and
scrapping verbally with people he doesn't agree with is so
(34:02):
important to stress test your ideas, and you know, it's
like you're talking about surprising your moons. You've got to
subject your ideas to the rough and tumble of disagreement.
I mean, we got this email of talking about how
the right reporting people for glee over Charlie Kirk's murder
(34:27):
is just like the cancel culture of the left. And
I disagree, but I had to spend a fair amount
of time thinking and building a case for why that's true.
And as I often say, if you write in, say hey,
I disagree, or here's what you missed, that's not like
an insult or a disservice. Hell, it's doing us a favor,
(34:50):
you know. Just try to be reasonably respectful. But yeah,
I would agree. I think the left really needs a
charismatic old sk schooler to lead them out of the wilderness.
Of all we know how to do is yell at
people and hurt them and call them fascists, because you know,
(35:10):
he ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow. And the
words of the great hippie John Lennon.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
So, as we wrap up the hour, you probably saw
that golf legend fat drunk John Daily set the record
for most strokes on one hole at an actual tour
event over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
I didn't hear a reference to that.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, he took a nineteen on the par five twelve
at the Champions Tour.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Match over the weekend. Gonna be tough to bounce back
from that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
What I like about it is so he sends his
t shot into the rough.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Then he goes to his ball in the rough and
it out of bounce from there seven times in a row. Hey,
sticking with plan, It'll work. It's one of these days.
So is that if you've ever golfed, you've reached this
level where you're so angry and disappointed at yourself and
(36:12):
demoralized and your scor is shot anyway, it's just like,
oh yeah, how bad you want it to be? I mean,
I don't know who you're punishing then, right. It reminds
me of when the Hanya could like rip off their
shirt on the Maury Povid Show and just stand there there.
I showed you, You showed me what that is. Kind
(36:33):
of what you're doing here. You're just like, I want
to show me how bad it can be. So I'm
gonna show you how much I can suck. I'm not
the same shot to get Oh yeah, how do you
like this one?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The same one said yeah, yeah, what do you think now?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Huh? Who are you a dressing? Anyway? Way to go
Johneen coming up but coming up next hour. Really interesting
study going back in a number of years about why
cultists dick with the cult, even when undeniably factually you've
showed them that they are wrong, and how that applies
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