September 25, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The big dumper & shootings of the last few days
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Chinese drone experts in Russia & the war in Ukraine
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and Key Arms ranged the Brother Studio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
See it is a tim lay let room deeper from
the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound the bowels,
I tell you, And today Little Friday, we're under the
tutelage of our general manager. Are you looking for a
serious and impactful or lighthearted I think a day if you.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Will, gay isn't happy or gay is an almost sexual
certain world. What in the game I would like lighthearting our.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
General manager this morning today? Big Dumper, Okay, Big Dumper.
That is the charming nickname of young cal Raleigh, who's
the catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who just hit.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
His sixtieth home run.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He is the home run hitnist catcher in the history
of the game and a hell of a nice young man.
I remember talking about Big Dumper earlier in the season
All Star Game. Interesting maybe maybe it was, but I
didn't realize he was on track to hit sixty home runs.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Holy crap. Yeah, he's having an amazing year and.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
To have the most grueling crippling position in baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Have that sort of offensive capability or productivity is crazy,
and I hope you dump a lot. Oh boy, oh
mister president.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, I was reading some of the stats on Aaron
Judge from the New York Yankees, who's just like among
the best players who's ever lived, and thinking it all
got ruined by the steroid era because the mainstream casual
fan got in their head seventy home runs is.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
A big deal. Sixty who cares? Fifty who cares?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Because of the weird steroid area where everything was out
of whack. And you got a couple players that you
take away the steroid area of the era, they're having
seasons people haven't had in sixty.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Years or one hundred years. If you're Aaron Judge, but
you just don't.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It just doesn't resonate in the same way because they
got blown out of proportion. In this piece about Kyle Rawley,
they mentioned other great heavy hitters in the steroid era
and the short porch and Yankee Stadium that Babe Ruth
and Roger Merrish could just poke out like medium length
fly balls constant. And they also point out that mister Judge,
(02:49):
Aaron Judge of the Yankees is six foot seven, two
hundred and eighty pounds, right, and is oh we sure?
He's just one ball player and two guys and is
good one suit and it's gonna be the batting champ
this year hitting for percentage.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
He's an amazing bag. That is incredible for a guy
that size.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, and I just you know, it's funny as we're
talking about this, my mood is lifting. Is there any
chance we can get America to watch sports again or
something and just be able to come together? And oh,
my god, did you see Aaron Judge last night?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah? I think he hit that ball five hundred feet?
What are your politics? I don't care. It was kind
of a cool game.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What is it where I found a tweet from Aaron
Judge about immigration from five years ago?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And so I won't watch him?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right? Right? God, dang it. You're right, Hey, our fence
is sagging. We ought to pitch in and and fix
that together. Neighbor. Yeah, what are your politics? Good lord?
We're diseased, friends, diseased.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well somewhat to that point. To get slightly more serious
on a day after more political violence. Ay, pull, that's
getting a lot of attention, and do you think the
way people talk about politics these days are contributing to violence?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Says the Fascist Court to quin.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
According to Quinnipiac, one of your legit polling organizations, eighty
two percent of people obviously that has to include people
from both parties, eighty two percent of people say yes,
the way people talk about politics is contributing to violence,
and the.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Other eighteen percent are wrong or stupid. Correct. Yeah, if
you say no, what is your what kind of person
are you? What? What? I don't even know?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Your troll or something. And by the way, the other
question of how serious a problem do you think political
violence is today? Seventy one percent very serious, twenty two
percent somewhat serious, for a total of ninety three. Well,
that's good, it is good. Ened it took as much
violence as we've seen to get there. But yeah, at
(04:55):
least people are aware. I mean, there have been some
high pro you know what, that is exactly the wrong term.
There have been some what should have been very high
profile shootings lately. They happen to have come from the left.
There's plenty of right wing violence as well, But to
shooting up of the ICE facility, which we're going to
talk about the shooting up of a Sacramento, California television
(05:19):
station by a left wing activist lawyer guy. The number
of people who think, you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna shoot somebody is way too high, Right, That's
why we should get into Joe and I happen to
take in a lecture on a podcast from an expert
who's been looking into people who commit these high profile
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shooting things, whether it's school shooting's, workplace shootings, assassinations, whatever,
And there's a commonality that runs through a lot of
it that I think.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Would all be better off embracing and understanding.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
One of the things being that a lot of the
times it's a suicide dressed in a cause. Right, the
research the person had been doing, or the time the
person had been spending on you know, talking to people
was all about suicide for a long time before they
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pick a target to wrap it around.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So if they kill themselves.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Alone in their home, it will be completely unsung and
unnoticed except by the people closest to them.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So how do I, as an angry person.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Get lots and lots of people to recognize my performative suicide?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wait? A minute. If I kill a bunch of other people,
everyone will pay attention, and well, go ahead, it's possible.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You remember, back in the day, workplace shootings were a
thing that kind of went away, and the schools became
very popular. I wonder if it's going to migrate to
politics now. Oh, the way you get all the attention
is pick a political figure. And to that point, the
other aspect of this expert's studies that really really interested
me was that so many of these people are what
(07:08):
we were just describing, or something close to it. They
were the desire to kill, looking for a cause, and
they would latch onto a cause and not be like
super into it. They'd learn some of the lingo and
post online. But as this expert pointed out, and it
was so eloquent, he said, they didn't labor for years
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trying to change minds. They didn't put everything they had into.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The cause for ages. They weren't marching and lobbying and
demonstrating and spending their life. No, they just kind of
latched on it then decided, yeah, that's good enough, now
let's kill some people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There are almost no examples of people who were part
of a group or running for office or anything like that,
to try to change a situation. Their first like real
efforts to change a situation is violance, partially because they
want to kill themselves.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And have a reason.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I think it's interesting the way it fits in with
this weird thing that a lot of us have, where
if I don't post this somewhere, it didn't happen, whether
it's my wedding, my vacation, my kids first steps, or whatever.
If I don't post this and somebody sees it, it
like it has no meaning, and so that has trans
transferred now to suicides. If I kill myself alone in
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my apartment, which is the way almost everybody's killed themselves
throughout history, it has no meaning.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I've got to it's got to get some attention.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It was funny you read in my mind. I was
just going to say that. And I don't have the
figures in front of me, but I think we've all
seen them.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That the.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Goals of young people through the last handful of generations
have changed markedly, mostly in the direction of everybody wants
to be famous. I mean, everybody was aware of being famous.
In nine, Team fifty or whatever. It seemed like a
nice idea, but it wasn't anything you really took seriously,
(09:04):
partly because it was practically impossible. But now, more than
like wealth and a happy marriage, a successful career, more
than virtually anything, I want to be famous, and you
couple that with you know the other things we've been
talking about, and it's not a huge leap of logic. Okay,
a suicide everyone notices a cause of just kind of
(09:27):
latched onto and I want to be famous.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Let me think.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh, and I'm troubled and angry and can't find a
love and I have no purpose to my life and.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I don't know what we
do well, yeah, what do we do about that? Don't know?
But that's some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We'll talk more about that later, and you know, get
into the specific violence yesterday around the ice agents. Let's
start to show officially so we don't end up with
that FCC guy. I want to take us out of
the air, like Jimmy co I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is Thursday September twenty fifty or
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Let us begin then officially, according to the FCC rules, rags,
the show starts at mark.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
They're sort of trying to see what we do do
we flinch? And I think the finish answer is to
be cool, calm and collected, take a sauna, take an
ice bath, and then take the right action.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I can incorporate that into my day to day struggles.
A sauna and a nice bath. Who dad, that is
the the president, president or prime minister, the leader of Finland,
Alexander stub Good, but golf buddy of President Trump. We've
talked about a handful of times he has outsized influences.
(10:45):
The two have bonded and he's right there on the
border with Russia, the eight hundred mile border, and says
we need to keep calm, collected, take a sona. It's
a very finish attitude, very finished. They are a call people.
The world is still trying to figure out if Trump
is serious about, like really getting invested in helping Ukraine
(11:07):
take back territory, or if that was just shooting off
his mouth for a day and everything is status.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Quo or what.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I reread his comments and I have a theory. Okay, cool,
I got on the way every Thursday morning. We have
Joe's theory, so he can tune that in and Joe's
Thursday theory, and then we've got Katie's headlines coming up next.
So I just came across and Mark Halpern's newsletter today.
(11:33):
I read every day. I read a whole bunch of
different people's newsletters every day. But his newsletter today has
what easily should be the biggest story of the day,
and it has nothing to do with politics. We can
get that coming up along with Joe's Thursday theory that
he mentioned a little bit ago about what he thinks
Trump is up to read his post about Ukraine. Plus
the feed is going to drop the rate and your
(11:54):
mortgage rate will go up. Play with us for the explanation.
Why what right now, let's figure out who's reporting, But
it's lead story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Katie thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Starting with ABC, director says ICE facilities are on high.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Alert after deadly Dallas shooting.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
His FBI investigates as quote act of targeted violence.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So there's a lot now of each side trying to
make the claim that the other side is most of
political violence. So I take this with a bit of
a grain of salt. But at least MSNBC was reporting
that this. Talking to this guy's like brother and friends,
they were like, he went into politics at all. I'm
shocked by this. This sounds like a great example of
(12:34):
what we're just talking about. Because he offed himself. This
was a suicide that he wanted to be noticed.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I mean, because it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Seemed, you know, is bullets had kill fascists or whatever,
and he ended up shooting a bunch of detainees. Yeah,
it sounds like he may have adopted this cause like
in the last week, and needed a reason around his suicide.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's disturbing.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
From CNN, the US economy grew at a three point
eight percent rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than
previously reported.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's a pretty good number, being near four percent. Yeah,
I'll take that. Can't keep us down. Mark Hey, by
the way, I grew at three point eight percent last quarter, myself,
surprising economists, an exceeding expectation. Yes, it definitely exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
From USA.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Today, President Trump accuses the UN of quote triple sabotage
after technical mishaps during his visit.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, full sabotage.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The fact that the escalator stopped the moment he and
Malania stepped on it, and then his teleprompter didn't work.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's an awful lot.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And apparently if you didn't have an earpiece in, you
couldn't hear him because the audio where he was speaking
wasn't pumping through the speakers, so he was silent to
everybody who didn't have one of those earbuds in.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You know, point quantity is a quality.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
What would that shock anybody that somebody involved with the
UN was trying to screw with Trump?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of course it wouldn't shock you. That's like a whole
thing is crazy. It's like an Okham's.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Razor thing practically right well, especially because I guarantee some
leakage of his speech occurred, and his speech, as you
may recall, included such notions as to hell's the point
of this organization?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
These are the two things I got from the United Nations,
a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
From the Washington Post, Justice Department will seek to indict
Comy on allegations that he lied to Congress.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, I don't know if they're going to get him
on the be able to get him on the thing.
They should, they should get him on But I just
don't know if there's any way the way he got
that whole Steele dossier into the media, briefed the president
on it so he could then that whole thing was
so odd.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Unfortunately, scumbaggery is not a crime. From NBC.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
South Korea says the North has four uranium enrichment facilities
to build nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
From Fox Spicier and spicier Right from Fox News.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
White House unveil's Presidential Walk of Fame with Biden portrait
replaced by autopen image.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Really they showed that on Special Reports last night.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
He got portraits of all the presidents and then in
place of Biden, it's a picture of the autopen.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh that's some elaborate trollery.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
From study fines think aging means decline one in four
ailing older adults bounce back to ideal help okay, And
final from.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
The Babylon Bee.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Us begs Bridget Macron to please please not submit photographic
proof that she is a woman.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh wow, that's just rude. That Sun told hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So here's a headline that just came across Starbucks is
going to close hundreds of stores across the country.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Hundreds. It doesn't say how many hundreds, but it says
hundreds and cut at least nine hundred jobs. Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't know if that's an economy thing. Like a
lot of the stuff we've been hearing about, people are
maxed out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I don't think you were here for the economic story
last week. That half of the consumer spending is by
the top ten percent of people with money out there,
So a lot of the consumer spendings two thirds of
the economy. A lot of the consumer spending is small
number of people that feel like they got money. Everybody
else not so much. And now I can wait oft
(17:00):
the eight dollars coffee every day and dropping that off.
How about the gigantic rise in the stock market powered
by a few stocks?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, like five table anyone? Dang it? What is this show?
What is the point of this show? We need to
gather around and discuss what's the points of what we do?
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Officials recently discovered a skull and human bones and a
traveler's luggage at a Florida airport.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But since it's Florida, they just made him check it,
hi y'all doing before we get to Joe's theory of
the Day. Around Joe's Thursday theory, branding Jack.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Branding right trying to brand a new feature about how
serious Donald Trump is around the whole Ukraine thing, which
could be, you know, one of the biggest stories in
the world. This, this should be the biggest story in
the world, according to Mark Awprin's newsletter today. This is
being reported by Reuters. Chinese drone experts have flown to
(18:10):
Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at
a state owned weapons manufacturer. According to two European security
officials and documents that were seen by Reuters, the Chinese
experts have visited armsmaker I can't pronounce it, Russian company
on more than half a dozen occasions since the second
quarter of last year.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We now know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
During that time they also received shipments of Chinese made
attack and surveillance drones via a Russian intermediary, according to documents,
So China has been helping develop the drones and supplying
a lot of the equipment.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
For quite a while.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It looks like so it's much more of us against
Russia and China and Iran than we even realized or NATO,
the West against China, Russian Iran, that is highly troubling.
It's and then the whole proxy thing that we've talked
about forever. Why that works, you know, I don't exactly know.
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I mean, China is absolutely part of the war against Ukraine,
which is on the other side of it is US,
you know, in Great Britain, Germany, France, EU. In short, yeah, yeah,
they are friends of convenience, Russia and China, no doubt,
(19:29):
but a dangerous, dangerous coalition. Well right, especially getting to
what you're about to talk about. If Trump is serious
about Ukraine can take all their land back, maybe even more,
and you know, arming them in such a way and
supporting them financially in such a way, then it's really China,
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Russia against.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, I'm not sure Trump is serious about that. He
may just have been talking big. I wanted to mention
and very quickly on the topic of drones, a story
every nation wants to copy.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Iran's deadly Shaheed.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Drone militaries around the world are seeking a low cost,
easy to make way to exhaust an enemy's air defenses.
That's why these things are so sought after. I mean,
they're effective as an attacker in certain circumstances. We've seen
that in Ukraine certainly. But whether they're really really effective
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is they're dangerous enough to provoke an anti aircraft response, right,
and we haven't seen it be successful yet. As Iran
sent all those drones into Israel a couple of times,
and Russia does it like night after night, night after
night after night in Ukraine. I guess with the theory,
at some point they'll run out of the anti aircraft,
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anti missile stuff, and then you know, all hell breaks lose. Well,
the math is undeniable that Western stocks of the shells,
the ordinance, whatever the proper term is, is our dwindling.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I can't remember what the latest estimates are for how
much longer we can go at this rate, but it's
a much shorter time than the time it would take
to replace that ordinance. And there's so they may be
playing the long long game, and there's an incredible cost asymmetry.
Oh yes, oh right, exactly, another advantage of these Shaheed
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drones and similar designs.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Wow, this is not good. So Joe's Thursday theory.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You were asking about what Trump's intentions really are toward Ukraine,
the Ukraine Russia war. People are calling it a one eighty,
a giant about face. The biggest news story to come
out of UN this week. It would be if it's real.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, yeah. My theory is that it's not.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And I reread it's a it's a tweeter, it's not
a one hundred and eighty theories, it's ninety. I was
rereading his truth about the situation, and and it says
repeatedly things like I think Ukraine, with the sport of
the European Union, is in a position to win back
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and win all of Ukraine back in its original form,
with time, patients and the financial support of Europe and
in particular the NATO, NATO, the original.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Borders from where this war started very much an option.
Why not?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And then he goes into some detail, but at no
point none does he suggest that the United States will
do anything but sell armaments to Europe. So, like I say,
it's ninety degrees, it's it's away from the Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We'll give you just.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Enough to survive. Plan It's all right. You guys want
some good offensive weaponry, We'll sell it. We'll sell all
of it. You want to you and use it however
you want. Yeah, we use it however you want.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Exactly. And in fact, Zelensky, this news is just breaking.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Did an interview with somebody or other, and he said
of the Russian leadership, they have to know where the
bombshelters are.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They need it. If they will not stop the war,
they will need it. In any case.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
He insisted Ukraine would only target Kremlin officials and not
civilians because we are not terrorists. They have to know
that we in Ukraine. Each day we will answer. If
they attack us, we will answer them. And now he
was meeting with Trump extensively this past week, and he said,
if they attack our energy, President Trump supports that we
can answer on energy. He added too that Kiev was
(23:46):
seeking new long range weapons from the US. Quote, we
need it, but it doesn't mean we will use it.
Because if we'll have it, I think it's additional pressure
on Putin to sit and speak. Russia could use let's see. Oh,
and then I met Vedyev, who's always willing to shoot
off his mouth responded Russia could use weapons that a
bomb shelter wouldn't protect against the Americans should remember this, He.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Replied, on X.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay, that's a nuclear threat obviously. Sure, well that'll get
damn spicy if we give the weapons paid for by
NATO or however it would work, that Zelensky can really
fire into Russia in Moscow and wherever else, taking out
lead officials and energy grids and all kinds of things.
(24:30):
That's gonna get dang spicy. Yeah, they'll go after the
energy I think first, but yeah, yeah, it will definitely
uh up the antique. Well, it's a heck of a
cry from back in was it February sitting there with JD.
Vance yelling at him and Trump saying you don't have
the cards. You need to give up your land.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You can't win, right. Yeah, I don't blame Zelensky for
being impatient. He shot off his mouth and he showed
up the present in his own white house, which was
a bad, bad strategic move. But remember his message was
you're wasting your time trying to talk to Putin. Putin
is a liar and a con man and he will
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just string you along. And you know, it was a
bad day for him. He lost patience and he shot
off his mouth. But his message is absolutely landed now
in the White House.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, we can move away from this story.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
After I asked one more question, will China up their
game in terms of supplying Russia if Ukraine's upping theirs,
that's a great question. My level of certainty is low.
The war in Ukraine doesn't do China any good except
(25:45):
as a way to cement their frenemy relationship with Russia.
It's an incredible inconvenience because it's rubbing the This is
a really unpleasant metaphor rubbing the relationship with America.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Raw ew.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I mean, we've got trade problems, we've got rivalry views,
and now we've got Ukraine problems from Jesi and pings blistered,
you know, terrible inflamed, perspective shaped, it's terribly chafed. He'd
be much better off if that particular, uh, friction point
didn't exist. Remember who particularly, who's the guy particularly, but
(26:22):
who's the guy in the White House? Orbit has an
interesting name, that's been He was the one that announced
we weren't going to send any more stuff. Johnny, go
f yourself. That's an interesting name. Guy with the interesting name.
What nobody knew how to pronounce his name correctly? Uh,
he's the one that stopped the arms shipment, remember, without
(26:42):
Trump's approval.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That was a big story there for like three days,
like who ordered this? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
He's one of the we shouldn't be involved in Ukraine guys.
His trainers him one of the restraints. No, no, no,
no no underneath Pete Heath, he's like the assistant guy.
Why can't think his name anyway? Uh he His big
argument was China's loving this. We're draining our you know,
some of our most important arms US and all of
(27:11):
NATO and Europe that we're going to need if we
end up at war with China, right right, Harry Butts?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Was that the fellow's name? Seymour Butts? Bend over? Oh,
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announcement that Starbucks closing hundreds of stores doesn't that fit
in with the whole People are starting to drop off
things that they don't necessarily need as expenditures because they're
maxed out on their credit cards and everything. Sure so,
I mean because one of the first things you can
get rid of is your five dollars cup of coffee
that you could make at home for eighty cents. Yeah
(28:58):
right right, Yeah, I've long been a I brew my
own guy. But Starbucks also expanded like Lunatics. Therefore a
while as it could be, it was just time to
exhale and right size. But now I think your theory
sounds good. Yeah, yeah, it almost seems like he could
be an economic principle that they use Starbucks as an example.
(29:19):
I mean, that could be like one of the very
first things you give up when you you got to
start tightening the belt. Plus those stores are pretty easy
to open, pretty easy to close, so pretty good economic indicator.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I would think. I'm going to figure out ingemar p daily.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm going to figure out who the guy's name was,
who the guy's name was, and and we'll have mail
bag coming up. Uh turning point. You know, the big
organization founded by Charlie Kirk is still running and growing
and everything, and it's still an open question of how
(29:55):
successful it will be and how much it will grow
without his leadership, because he was a a political, financial leader,
genius who was assassinated. It's coming to Berkeley in October,
and I'm gonna go, so I want to see one
of those events in person, So that'll be interesting not
too long from now. Yeah, that sounds great. I would
(30:17):
love to do on Berkeley's campus. I just I'll be
interested to see what that's like. Here's your freedom loving
quote of the day by an utterly unpronounceable sage from
I Believe Sri Lanka.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
The first name is.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Twelve to fifteen letters, and the second and the last name,
Dwarf's the first name, so I'm not even going to
attempt it. We'll call him old beh Here's what they said,
continuing our theme about posterity, posterity, the future, our legacy.
The only way anyone can hope to live after death
(30:56):
is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And that might not be like famous posterity.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
That might be your family saying you remember, Grandpa always
did the right thing, even when it was really hard.
I mean, that's a legacy that brings tears to my eyes. Oh,
I certainly think you send you send your kids out
into the world as decent people.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's all the legacy you need.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Right Indeed, Mailbag Elbridge Colby, Elbridge Colby, that the name
I couldn't think of. He is the guy only the
like under secretary at the second Death Uh who is
super don't get involved in Ukraine. He can't be happy
with this turn. Yeah, and the only person I've ever
heard of named Elbridge.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
One of the few. Certainly you've got to be.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
In a certain social class, a certain you know group
to give your kids one of those high falutin East
Coast Ivy League names.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
No kidding Elbridge, right.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And there are others that leave to mind, But anyway, yeah,
those were not my peeps. So first of all, we'll
begin with a nice meme from Tyler. We've gotten it before,
but I like it so much. It's a little golden
book for the kids, little bedtime story. Everyone I don't
like his Hitler, a child's guide to online political discussion.
(32:24):
Everyone I don't like is Hitler. We got a funny
comedy routine we're going to play later from a comedian
about that, and.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's speaking of unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
The illustration on the cover is the Chancellor of Germany
from the nineteen thirties and striped pjs riding a sled
along a rainbow.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I think everyone you don't like is Hitler. Man, let's
say moving along.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Ryan from Houston dear Jack, Joe, I'm afraid with all
these schisms in our country, and with the shootings of
Charlie Clark, I mean Kirk, I mean Cook.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Well, that's unnecessarily humor. And now the shooting at.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
A nice detention center leading to someone or multiple people
taking another shot at President Trump, and I imagine probably
ten percent of the population as Champagne on ice ready
to celebrate alas I see great bloodshed in our country's future.
Much like Jack predicting WW three. I hope I'm wrong. Yeah, yeah,
I hope you're wrong too, my brother, let's see. Oh
(33:20):
my god, this is perfectly timed. Jim from Houston. I
can't decide if you guys are sarcastically hysterical or the
world's best salespeople for antidepressants like xanax or both.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I know, Jim, Jim, you're so right, and it said,
but we're affected by it too.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
We were joking yesterday, I think it was off the air,
but that we were talking about, you know, nuclear war
and how China and Russia might be willing to spend
a million people for a million people to make some
sort of point because they don't give an ass about
human life, and we decided our new slogan should be
mushroom clouds and chuckles.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
The arms Strong and Getty show. Next, does your pet
have cancer? Probably stay tuned. Oh my god, that's not funny.
That is not funny.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'm mocking the fact that we're a bit of a
downer of a show. Well, mock it more funnily. Brian
from Kansas City signs off, Go Chiefs, Go chiefs. Indeed
they need the routing. Good morning, old simple Jack and Joe.
Tiger's got nothing on me, Getty. I don't know what's
that reference? You know, Tiger's got nothing on me, Katie.
(34:30):
If you have a second, perhaps chat GPT then I
don't get the reference. Tiger's got nothing on me, Getty.
Is it a golf thing about you? I wonder anyway.
Brian writes, if my son is starting high school next year,
and yesterday we toured one of the local parochial schools.
It was amazing the difference between that and our government schools.
(34:53):
While my son's public high school is new with top
of the line facilities and the private school is thirty
seven years old. We found the level of attention on
acid dedemics and morals was incredible the private school. As
I've said before, I was for three years a federal
employee and was cut by DOGE this summer.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know what, hang by your phone, Brian.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
The White House is quietly re hiring a bunch of
people fired by DOGE because they've realized they need them.
Like it's Social Security administration. They need somebody to answer
to the phones and answer people questions. Anyway, hello, he said,
either way, the job market is rough, But we decided
yesterday we'll figure out how somehow to pull together the tuition.
The gender bending madness and progressive Volk virus has become
(35:31):
too much, even in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thanks for the note, Brian.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, the vibe in the room of a private school,
particularly in my case of private Christian school versus your
public school, is way different.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
It's just it's palpable.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
In a funny coincidence, I had a great conversation with
a good friend yesterday and he was telling the story
about a mutual friend whose kids graduated from a local
public school and did fantastically and had a really good
experience and have a very very bright future. Great family
that values studying and academics. Obviously, but hey, if your
local government school is doing a great job with good,
(36:07):
solid teachers who aren't woke mind virus suffering lunatics, and
enjoy that wonderful service. But if your local schools are
progressive loney bins, get your kid out if you can.
If you missed a segment at the podcast Armstrong and
Getty on Demand, another political killing yesterday, we'll get into
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and Key Arms ranged the Brother Studio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
See it is a tim lay let room deeper from
the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compound the bowels,
I tell you, And today Little Friday, we're under the
tutelage of our general manager. Are you looking for a
serious and impactful or lighthearted I think a day if you.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Will, gay isn't happy or gay is an almost sexual
certain world. What in the game I would like lighthearting our.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
General manager this morning today? Big Dumper, Okay, Big Dumper.
That is the charming nickname of young cal Raleigh, who's
the catcher for the Seattle Mariners, who just hit.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
His sixtieth home run.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
He is the home run hitnist catcher in the history
of the game and a hell of a nice young man.
I remember talking about Big Dumper earlier in the season
All Star Game. Interesting maybe maybe it was, but I
didn't realize he was on track to hit sixty home runs.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Holy crap. Yeah, he's having an amazing year and.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
To have the most grueling crippling position in baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Have that sort of offensive capability or productivity is crazy,
and I hope you dump a lot. Oh boy, oh
mister president.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, I was reading some of the stats on Aaron
Judge from the New York Yankees, who's just like among
the best players who's ever lived, and thinking it all
got ruined by the steroid era because the mainstream casual
fan got in their head seventy home runs is.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
A big deal. Sixty who cares? Fifty who cares?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Because of the weird steroid area where everything was out
of whack. And you got a couple players that you
take away the steroid area of the era, they're having
seasons people haven't had in sixty.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Years or one hundred years. If you're Aaron Judge, but
you just don't.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It just doesn't resonate in the same way because they
got blown out of proportion. In this piece about Kyle Rawley,
they mentioned other great heavy hitters in the steroid era
and the short porch and Yankee Stadium that Babe Ruth
and Roger Merrish could just poke out like medium length
fly balls constant. And they also point out that mister Judge,
(02:49):
Aaron Judge of the Yankees is six foot seven, two
hundred and eighty pounds, right, and is oh we sure?
He's just one ball player and two guys and is
good one suit and it's gonna be the batting champ
this year hitting for percentage.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
He's an amazing bag. That is incredible for a guy
that size.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, and I just you know, it's funny as we're
talking about this, my mood is lifting. Is there any
chance we can get America to watch sports again or
something and just be able to come together? And oh,
my god, did you see Aaron Judge last night?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah? I think he hit that ball five hundred feet?
What are your politics? I don't care. It was kind
of a cool game.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What is it where I found a tweet from Aaron
Judge about immigration from five years ago?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And so I won't watch him?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right? Right? God, dang it. You're right, Hey, our fence
is sagging. We ought to pitch in and and fix
that together. Neighbor. Yeah, what are your politics? Good lord?
We're diseased, friends, diseased.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well somewhat to that point. To get slightly more serious
on a day after more political violence. Ay, pull, that's
getting a lot of attention, and do you think the
way people talk about politics these days are contributing to violence?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Says the Fascist Court to quin.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
According to Quinnipiac, one of your legit polling organizations, eighty
two percent of people obviously that has to include people
from both parties, eighty two percent of people say yes,
the way people talk about politics is contributing to violence,
and the.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Other eighteen percent are wrong or stupid. Correct. Yeah, if
you say no, what is your what kind of person
are you? What? What? I don't even know?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Your troll or something. And by the way, the other
question of how serious a problem do you think political
violence is today? Seventy one percent very serious, twenty two
percent somewhat serious, for a total of ninety three. Well,
that's good, it is good. Ened it took as much
violence as we've seen to get there. But yeah, at
(04:55):
least people are aware. I mean, there have been some
high pro you know what, that is exactly the wrong term.
There have been some what should have been very high
profile shootings lately. They happen to have come from the left.
There's plenty of right wing violence as well, But to
shooting up of the ICE facility, which we're going to
talk about the shooting up of a Sacramento, California television
(05:19):
station by a left wing activist lawyer guy. The number
of people who think, you know what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna shoot somebody is way too high, Right, That's
why we should get into Joe and I happen to
take in a lecture on a podcast from an expert
who's been looking into people who commit these high profile
(05:45):
shooting things, whether it's school shooting's, workplace shootings, assassinations, whatever,
And there's a commonality that runs through a lot of
it that I think.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Would all be better off embracing and understanding.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
One of the things being that a lot of the
times it's a suicide dressed in a cause. Right, the
research the person had been doing, or the time the
person had been spending on you know, talking to people
was all about suicide for a long time before they
(06:18):
pick a target to wrap it around.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So if they kill themselves.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Alone in their home, it will be completely unsung and
unnoticed except by the people closest to them.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So how do I, as an angry person.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Get lots and lots of people to recognize my performative suicide?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wait? A minute. If I kill a bunch of other people,
everyone will pay attention, and well, go ahead, it's possible.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You remember, back in the day, workplace shootings were a
thing that kind of went away, and the schools became
very popular. I wonder if it's going to migrate to
politics now. Oh, the way you get all the attention
is pick a political figure. And to that point, the
other aspect of this expert's studies that really really interested
me was that so many of these people are what
(07:08):
we were just describing, or something close to it. They
were the desire to kill, looking for a cause, and
they would latch onto a cause and not be like
super into it. They'd learn some of the lingo and
post online. But as this expert pointed out, and it
was so eloquent, he said, they didn't labor for years
(07:28):
trying to change minds. They didn't put everything they had into.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The cause for ages. They weren't marching and lobbying and
demonstrating and spending their life. No, they just kind of
latched on it then decided, yeah, that's good enough, now
let's kill some people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There are almost no examples of people who were part
of a group or running for office or anything like that,
to try to change a situation. Their first like real
efforts to change a situation is violance, partially because they
want to kill themselves.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And have a reason.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I think it's interesting the way it fits in with
this weird thing that a lot of us have, where
if I don't post this somewhere, it didn't happen, whether
it's my wedding, my vacation, my kids first steps, or whatever.
If I don't post this and somebody sees it, it
like it has no meaning, and so that has trans
transferred now to suicides. If I kill myself alone in
(08:28):
my apartment, which is the way almost everybody's killed themselves
throughout history, it has no meaning.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I've got to it's got to get some attention.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It was funny you read in my mind. I was
just going to say that. And I don't have the
figures in front of me, but I think we've all
seen them.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That the.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Goals of young people through the last handful of generations
have changed markedly, mostly in the direction of everybody wants
to be famous. I mean, everybody was aware of being famous.
In nine, Team fifty or whatever. It seemed like a
nice idea, but it wasn't anything you really took seriously,
(09:04):
partly because it was practically impossible. But now, more than
like wealth and a happy marriage, a successful career, more
than virtually anything, I want to be famous, and you
couple that with you know the other things we've been
talking about, and it's not a huge leap of logic. Okay,
a suicide everyone notices a cause of just kind of
(09:27):
latched onto and I want to be famous.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Let me think.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh, and I'm troubled and angry and can't find a
love and I have no purpose to my life and.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, I don't know what we
do well, yeah, what do we do about that? Don't know?
But that's some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We'll talk more about that later, and you know, get
into the specific violence yesterday around the ice agents. Let's
start to show officially so we don't end up with
that FCC guy. I want to take us out of
the air, like Jimmy co I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is Thursday September twenty fifty or
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We are armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Let us begin then officially, according to the FCC rules, rags,
the show starts at mark.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
They're sort of trying to see what we do do
we flinch? And I think the finish answer is to
be cool, calm and collected, take a sauna, take an
ice bath, and then take the right action.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I can incorporate that into my day to day struggles.
A sauna and a nice bath. Who dad, that is
the the president, president or prime minister, the leader of Finland,
Alexander stub Good, but golf buddy of President Trump. We've
talked about a handful of times he has outsized influences.
(10:45):
The two have bonded and he's right there on the
border with Russia, the eight hundred mile border, and says
we need to keep calm, collected, take a sona. It's
a very finish attitude, very finished. They are a call people.
The world is still trying to figure out if Trump
is serious about, like really getting invested in helping Ukraine
(11:07):
take back territory, or if that was just shooting off
his mouth for a day and everything is status.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Quo or what.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I reread his comments and I have a theory. Okay, cool,
I got on the way every Thursday morning. We have
Joe's theory, so he can tune that in and Joe's
Thursday theory, and then we've got Katie's headlines coming up next.
So I just came across and Mark Halpern's newsletter today.
(11:33):
I read every day. I read a whole bunch of
different people's newsletters every day. But his newsletter today has
what easily should be the biggest story of the day,
and it has nothing to do with politics. We can
get that coming up along with Joe's Thursday theory that
he mentioned a little bit ago about what he thinks
Trump is up to read his post about Ukraine. Plus
the feed is going to drop the rate and your
(11:54):
mortgage rate will go up. Play with us for the explanation.
Why what right now, let's figure out who's reporting, But
it's lead story with Katie Green and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Katie thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Starting with ABC, director says ICE facilities are on high.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Alert after deadly Dallas shooting.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
His FBI investigates as quote act of targeted violence.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So there's a lot now of each side trying to
make the claim that the other side is most of
political violence. So I take this with a bit of
a grain of salt. But at least MSNBC was reporting
that this. Talking to this guy's like brother and friends,
they were like, he went into politics at all. I'm
shocked by this. This sounds like a great example of
(12:34):
what we're just talking about. Because he offed himself. This
was a suicide that he wanted to be noticed.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I mean, because it.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Seemed, you know, is bullets had kill fascists or whatever,
and he ended up shooting a bunch of detainees. Yeah,
it sounds like he may have adopted this cause like
in the last week, and needed a reason around his suicide.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
That's disturbing.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
From CNN, the US economy grew at a three point
eight percent rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than
previously reported.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's a pretty good number, being near four percent. Yeah,
I'll take that. Can't keep us down. Mark Hey, by
the way, I grew at three point eight percent last quarter, myself,
surprising economists, an exceeding expectation. Yes, it definitely exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
From USA.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Today, President Trump accuses the UN of quote triple sabotage
after technical mishaps during his visit.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, full sabotage.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
The fact that the escalator stopped the moment he and
Malania stepped on it, and then his teleprompter didn't work.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's an awful lot.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And apparently if you didn't have an earpiece in, you
couldn't hear him because the audio where he was speaking
wasn't pumping through the speakers, so he was silent to
everybody who didn't have one of those earbuds in.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You know, point quantity is a quality.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
What would that shock anybody that somebody involved with the
UN was trying to screw with Trump?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Of course it wouldn't shock you. That's like a whole
thing is crazy. It's like an Okham's.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Razor thing practically right well, especially because I guarantee some
leakage of his speech occurred, and his speech, as you
may recall, included such notions as to hell's the point
of this organization?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
These are the two things I got from the United Nations,
a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
From the Washington Post, Justice Department will seek to indict
Comy on allegations that he lied to Congress.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, I don't know if they're going to get him
on the be able to get him on the thing.
They should, they should get him on But I just
don't know if there's any way the way he got
that whole Steele dossier into the media, briefed the president
on it so he could then that whole thing was
so odd.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Unfortunately, scumbaggery is not a crime. From NBC.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
South Korea says the North has four uranium enrichment facilities
to build nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
From Fox Spicier and spicier Right from Fox News.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
White House unveil's Presidential Walk of Fame with Biden portrait
replaced by autopen image.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Really they showed that on Special Reports last night.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
He got portraits of all the presidents and then in
place of Biden, it's a picture of the autopen.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh that's some elaborate trollery.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
From study fines think aging means decline one in four
ailing older adults bounce back to ideal help okay, And
final from.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
The Babylon Bee.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Us begs Bridget Macron to please please not submit photographic
proof that she is a woman.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh wow, that's just rude. That Sun told hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So here's a headline that just came across Starbucks is
going to close hundreds of stores across the country.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Hundreds. It doesn't say how many hundreds, but it says
hundreds and cut at least nine hundred jobs. Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't know if that's an economy thing. Like a
lot of the stuff we've been hearing about, people are
maxed out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I don't think you were here for the economic story
last week. That half of the consumer spending is by
the top ten percent of people with money out there,
So a lot of the consumer spendings two thirds of
the economy. A lot of the consumer spending is small
number of people that feel like they got money. Everybody
else not so much. And now I can wait oft
(17:00):
the eight dollars coffee every day and dropping that off.
How about the gigantic rise in the stock market powered
by a few stocks?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah, like five table anyone? Dang it? What is this show?
What is the point of this show? We need to
gather around and discuss what's the points of what we do?
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Officials recently discovered a skull and human bones and a
traveler's luggage at a Florida airport.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But since it's Florida, they just made him check it,
hi y'all doing before we get to Joe's theory of
the Day. Around Joe's Thursday theory, branding Jack.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Branding right trying to brand a new feature about how
serious Donald Trump is around the whole Ukraine thing, which
could be, you know, one of the biggest stories in
the world. This, this should be the biggest story in
the world, according to Mark Awprin's newsletter today. This is
being reported by Reuters. Chinese drone experts have flown to
(18:10):
Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at
a state owned weapons manufacturer. According to two European security
officials and documents that were seen by Reuters, the Chinese
experts have visited armsmaker I can't pronounce it, Russian company
on more than half a dozen occasions since the second
quarter of last year.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We now know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
During that time they also received shipments of Chinese made
attack and surveillance drones via a Russian intermediary, according to documents,
So China has been helping develop the drones and supplying
a lot of the equipment.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
For quite a while.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It looks like so it's much more of us against
Russia and China and Iran than we even realized or NATO,
the West against China, Russian Iran, that is highly troubling.
It's and then the whole proxy thing that we've talked
about forever. Why that works, you know, I don't exactly know.
(19:07):
I mean, China is absolutely part of the war against Ukraine,
which is on the other side of it is US,
you know, in Great Britain, Germany, France, EU. In short, yeah, yeah,
they are friends of convenience, Russia and China, no doubt,
(19:29):
but a dangerous, dangerous coalition. Well right, especially getting to
what you're about to talk about. If Trump is serious
about Ukraine can take all their land back, maybe even more,
and you know, arming them in such a way and
supporting them financially in such a way, then it's really China,
(19:50):
Russia against.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, I'm not sure Trump is serious about that. He
may just have been talking big. I wanted to mention
and very quickly on the topic of drones, a story
every nation wants to copy.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Iran's deadly Shaheed.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Drone militaries around the world are seeking a low cost,
easy to make way to exhaust an enemy's air defenses.
That's why these things are so sought after. I mean,
they're effective as an attacker in certain circumstances. We've seen
that in Ukraine certainly. But whether they're really really effective
(20:29):
is they're dangerous enough to provoke an anti aircraft response, right,
and we haven't seen it be successful yet. As Iran
sent all those drones into Israel a couple of times,
and Russia does it like night after night, night after
night after night in Ukraine. I guess with the theory,
at some point they'll run out of the anti aircraft,
(20:51):
anti missile stuff, and then you know, all hell breaks lose. Well,
the math is undeniable that Western stocks of the shells,
the ordinance, whatever the proper term is, is our dwindling.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I can't remember what the latest estimates are for how
much longer we can go at this rate, but it's
a much shorter time than the time it would take
to replace that ordinance. And there's so they may be
playing the long long game, and there's an incredible cost asymmetry.
Oh yes, oh right, exactly, another advantage of these Shaheed
(21:29):
drones and similar designs.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Wow, this is not good. So Joe's Thursday theory.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You were asking about what Trump's intentions really are toward Ukraine,
the Ukraine Russia war. People are calling it a one eighty,
a giant about face. The biggest news story to come
out of UN this week. It would be if it's real.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, yeah. My theory is that it's not.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
And I reread it's a it's a tweeter, it's not
a one hundred and eighty theories, it's ninety. I was
rereading his truth about the situation, and and it says
repeatedly things like I think Ukraine, with the sport of
the European Union, is in a position to win back
(22:18):
and win all of Ukraine back in its original form,
with time, patients and the financial support of Europe and
in particular the NATO, NATO, the original.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Borders from where this war started very much an option.
Why not?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
And then he goes into some detail, but at no
point none does he suggest that the United States will
do anything but sell armaments to Europe. So, like I say,
it's ninety degrees, it's it's away from the Biden.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We'll give you just.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Enough to survive. Plan It's all right. You guys want
some good offensive weaponry, We'll sell it. We'll sell all
of it. You want to you and use it however
you want. Yeah, we use it however you want.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Exactly. And in fact, Zelensky, this news is just breaking.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Did an interview with somebody or other, and he said
of the Russian leadership, they have to know where the
bombshelters are.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They need it. If they will not stop the war,
they will need it. In any case.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
He insisted Ukraine would only target Kremlin officials and not
civilians because we are not terrorists. They have to know
that we in Ukraine. Each day we will answer. If
they attack us, we will answer them. And now he
was meeting with Trump extensively this past week, and he said,
if they attack our energy, President Trump supports that we
can answer on energy. He added too that Kiev was
(23:46):
seeking new long range weapons from the US. Quote, we
need it, but it doesn't mean we will use it.
Because if we'll have it, I think it's additional pressure
on Putin to sit and speak. Russia could use let's see. Oh,
and then I met Vedyev, who's always willing to shoot
off his mouth responded Russia could use weapons that a
bomb shelter wouldn't protect against the Americans should remember this, He.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Replied, on X.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Okay, that's a nuclear threat obviously. Sure, well that'll get
damn spicy if we give the weapons paid for by
NATO or however it would work, that Zelensky can really
fire into Russia in Moscow and wherever else, taking out
lead officials and energy grids and all kinds of things.
(24:30):
That's gonna get dang spicy. Yeah, they'll go after the
energy I think first, but yeah, yeah, it will definitely
uh up the antique. Well, it's a heck of a
cry from back in was it February sitting there with JD.
Vance yelling at him and Trump saying you don't have
the cards. You need to give up your land.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You can't win, right. Yeah, I don't blame Zelensky for
being impatient. He shot off his mouth and he showed
up the present in his own white house, which was
a bad, bad strategic move. But remember his message was
you're wasting your time trying to talk to Putin. Putin
is a liar and a con man and he will
(25:12):
just string you along. And you know, it was a
bad day for him. He lost patience and he shot
off his mouth. But his message is absolutely landed now
in the White House.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, we can move away from this story.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
After I asked one more question, will China up their
game in terms of supplying Russia if Ukraine's upping theirs,
that's a great question. My level of certainty is low.
The war in Ukraine doesn't do China any good except
(25:45):
as a way to cement their frenemy relationship with Russia.
It's an incredible inconvenience because it's rubbing the This is
a really unpleasant metaphor rubbing the relationship with America.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Raw ew.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I mean, we've got trade problems, we've got rivalry views,
and now we've got Ukraine problems from Jesi and pings blistered,
you know, terrible inflamed, perspective shaped, it's terribly chafed. He'd
be much better off if that particular, uh, friction point
didn't exist. Remember who particularly, who's the guy particularly, but
(26:22):
who's the guy in the White House? Orbit has an
interesting name, that's been He was the one that announced
we weren't going to send any more stuff. Johnny, go
f yourself. That's an interesting name. Guy with the interesting name.
What nobody knew how to pronounce his name correctly? Uh,
he's the one that stopped the arms shipment, remember, without
(26:42):
Trump's approval.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That was a big story there for like three days,
like who ordered this? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
He's one of the we shouldn't be involved in Ukraine guys.
His trainers him one of the restraints. No, no, no,
no no underneath Pete Heath, he's like the assistant guy.
Why can't think his name anyway? Uh he His big
argument was China's loving this. We're draining our you know,
some of our most important arms US and all of
(27:11):
NATO and Europe that we're going to need if we
end up at war with China, right right, Harry Butts?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Was that the fellow's name? Seymour Butts? Bend over? Oh,
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announcement that Starbucks closing hundreds of stores doesn't that fit
in with the whole People are starting to drop off
things that they don't necessarily need as expenditures because they're
maxed out on their credit cards and everything. Sure so,
I mean because one of the first things you can
get rid of is your five dollars cup of coffee
that you could make at home for eighty cents. Yeah
(28:58):
right right, Yeah, I've long been a I brew my
own guy. But Starbucks also expanded like Lunatics. Therefore a
while as it could be, it was just time to
exhale and right size. But now I think your theory
sounds good. Yeah, yeah, it almost seems like he could
be an economic principle that they use Starbucks as an example.
(29:19):
I mean, that could be like one of the very
first things you give up when you you got to
start tightening the belt. Plus those stores are pretty easy
to open, pretty easy to close, so pretty good economic indicator.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I would think. I'm going to figure out ingemar p daily.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm going to figure out who the guy's name was,
who the guy's name was, and and we'll have mail
bag coming up. Uh turning point. You know, the big
organization founded by Charlie Kirk is still running and growing
and everything, and it's still an open question of how
(29:55):
successful it will be and how much it will grow
without his leadership, because he was a a political, financial leader,
genius who was assassinated. It's coming to Berkeley in October,
and I'm gonna go, so I want to see one
of those events in person, So that'll be interesting not
too long from now. Yeah, that sounds great. I would
(30:17):
love to do on Berkeley's campus. I just I'll be
interested to see what that's like. Here's your freedom loving
quote of the day by an utterly unpronounceable sage from
I Believe Sri Lanka.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
The first name is.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Twelve to fifteen letters, and the second and the last name,
Dwarf's the first name, so I'm not even going to
attempt it. We'll call him old beh Here's what they said,
continuing our theme about posterity, posterity, the future, our legacy.
The only way anyone can hope to live after death
(30:56):
is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And that might not be like famous posterity.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
That might be your family saying you remember, Grandpa always
did the right thing, even when it was really hard.
I mean, that's a legacy that brings tears to my eyes. Oh,
I certainly think you send you send your kids out
into the world as decent people.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's all the legacy you need.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Right Indeed, Mailbag Elbridge Colby, Elbridge Colby, that the name
I couldn't think of. He is the guy only the
like under secretary at the second Death Uh who is
super don't get involved in Ukraine. He can't be happy
with this turn. Yeah, and the only person I've ever
heard of named Elbridge.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
One of the few. Certainly you've got to be.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
In a certain social class, a certain you know group
to give your kids one of those high falutin East
Coast Ivy League names.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
No kidding Elbridge, right.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
And there are others that leave to mind, But anyway, yeah,
those were not my peeps. So first of all, we'll
begin with a nice meme from Tyler. We've gotten it before,
but I like it so much. It's a little golden
book for the kids, little bedtime story. Everyone I don't
like his Hitler, a child's guide to online political discussion.
(32:24):
Everyone I don't like is Hitler. We got a funny
comedy routine we're going to play later from a comedian
about that, and.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's speaking of unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
The illustration on the cover is the Chancellor of Germany
from the nineteen thirties and striped pjs riding a sled
along a rainbow.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I think everyone you don't like is Hitler. Man, let's
say moving along.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Ryan from Houston dear Jack, Joe, I'm afraid with all
these schisms in our country, and with the shootings of
Charlie Clark, I mean Kirk, I mean Cook.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Well, that's unnecessarily humor. And now the shooting at.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
A nice detention center leading to someone or multiple people
taking another shot at President Trump, and I imagine probably
ten percent of the population as Champagne on ice ready
to celebrate alas I see great bloodshed in our country's future.
Much like Jack predicting WW three. I hope I'm wrong. Yeah, yeah,
I hope you're wrong too, my brother, let's see. Oh
(33:20):
my god, this is perfectly timed. Jim from Houston. I
can't decide if you guys are sarcastically hysterical or the
world's best salespeople for antidepressants like xanax or both.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I know, Jim, Jim, you're so right, and it said,
but we're affected by it too.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
We were joking yesterday, I think it was off the air,
but that we were talking about, you know, nuclear war
and how China and Russia might be willing to spend
a million people for a million people to make some
sort of point because they don't give an ass about
human life, and we decided our new slogan should be
mushroom clouds and chuckles.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
The arms Strong and Getty show. Next, does your pet
have cancer? Probably stay tuned. Oh my god, that's not funny.
That is not funny.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I'm mocking the fact that we're a bit of a
downer of a show. Well, mock it more funnily. Brian
from Kansas City signs off, Go Chiefs, Go chiefs. Indeed
they need the routing. Good morning, old simple Jack and Joe.
Tiger's got nothing on me, Getty. I don't know what's
that reference? You know, Tiger's got nothing on me, Katie.
(34:30):
If you have a second, perhaps chat GPT then I
don't get the reference. Tiger's got nothing on me, Getty.
Is it a golf thing about you? I wonder anyway.
Brian writes, if my son is starting high school next year,
and yesterday we toured one of the local parochial schools.
It was amazing the difference between that and our government schools.
(34:53):
While my son's public high school is new with top
of the line facilities and the private school is thirty
seven years old. We found the level of attention on
acid dedemics and morals was incredible the private school. As
I've said before, I was for three years a federal
employee and was cut by DOGE this summer.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know what, hang by your phone, Brian.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
The White House is quietly re hiring a bunch of
people fired by DOGE because they've realized they need them.
Like it's Social Security administration. They need somebody to answer
to the phones and answer people questions. Anyway, hello, he said,
either way, the job market is rough, But we decided
yesterday we'll figure out how somehow to pull together the tuition.
The gender bending madness and progressive Volk virus has become
(35:31):
too much, even in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thanks for the note, Brian.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, the vibe in the room of a private school,
particularly in my case of private Christian school versus your
public school, is way different.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
It's just it's palpable.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
In a funny coincidence, I had a great conversation with
a good friend yesterday and he was telling the story
about a mutual friend whose kids graduated from a local
public school and did fantastically and had a really good
experience and have a very very bright future. Great family
that values studying and academics. Obviously, but hey, if your
local government school is doing a great job with good,
(36:07):
solid teachers who aren't woke mind virus suffering lunatics, and
enjoy that wonderful service. But if your local schools are
progressive loney bins, get your kid out if you can.
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