September 25, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Kathy Hochul at the Ryder Cup & FCC overreach
- Our school system
- The Russia/Ukraine war
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jetty
and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Barack Obama admits to marriage woes and shocking comment it's
not that shocking, mildly interesting. I'll tease it as saying
it's mildly interesting later this hour.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Plus the long and storied history of folks on the
left doing precisely what they're saying Donald Trump shouldn't do
in the Jimmy Kimmel thing, and that will probably be
my last word for the rest of my life on
the topic. Uncharacteristically, I've brought not one, but two sports
stories to you today. Number One, the Cal Raleigh, affectionately
(00:57):
known as Big Dumper, the home run smashing catcher for
the Seattle Mariners, joined the Baseball sixty homer Club. Second
sports story, unless you have more to say on the
Big Darrier, what I kept.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hearing from everybody on this team was we got more
work to do, and it seems like this team was
just even more focused tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah. I mean, you know, I think most people heard
what I said last night. You know, might as well
win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's awesome, all right, Laren, come to you, naughty naughty cow,
naughty cow. So two knights in a row, he says,
in front of the big, giant hometown crowd.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Might as we'll win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And I guess it's from the movie Major League, which
I didn't remember, the Charlie Sheen Classic. That's where it
comes out. Yeah, but that is clearly going to become
the Mariners hook line as they make their way through
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
So second and I will be rooting for them, I think.
Second sport story. Do you know what the Ryder Cup is?
It's a big every other year team golf competition between
the US against Europe, and everybody gets super fired up
because it's a team event that's kind of fun, and
they play different formats and there's patriotism and national pride
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involved and everybody hoots and hollers and chance USA.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's golf that the golf.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
As I mentioned, Yes, indeed, and if you're a golf
ban you get super into it. Before I get to
the semi interesting story I was going to bring you,
ladies and gentlemen, it's oh, it's being held in New
York at the legendary Bethpage Black Golf Course, and the
Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochel, went there to
receive the warm accolades of her voters.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Keep it going for New York, Your friend and mine
in attendance, Governor Kathy Hochel. Governor, thank you so much
for being here, and thank you to your team too
for getting us ready for the Ryder Cup in New York.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I would like to say a few thank yous to
Governor State New York, Kathy Hockl as we prepare to
tee it up on Friday. I want to thank the
people who made this journey possible. Off to Governor Hulkel,
to the teams of New York, to the teams of
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the New York State Parks.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Here's what I do.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
After the second time I get booed at the mention
of my name, I get up there and say, is
my name.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
In the script? Anymore? You give me that pen? How
about you don't thank me anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I don't know if you've noticed, but every time I
get thanked, it's a resounding chorus of booze.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So three times, oh, I know, just overwhelming lusty We've
sat on this show many times. Don't Trump came in
to the studio stadium and was greeted by booze. But
if you listen to it, it's a lot of cheers.
That's some booze. What those were booths? Those were booths.
Uh So, speaking of booze, there will be quite a
bit of it can assumed at the Ryder Cup. And
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there's some fear that the New Yorkers will get a
little mouthy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And mean to the Euros. But here's the twist I
want to bring to you. Why were they booing her?
Why don't they like her there?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Because she sucks as a governor and the human being.
Her policies are terrible, her character is non existent and
she's a bad person.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Why didn't know? Is that a mostly Republican crowd the
golf tournament?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Or I could see it being more republican, say an
NBA game. But anyway, uh so, uh one interesting aspect of.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Mentioning my name please.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So it used to be the part of the appeal
of the event was that, you know, the the European
players who you'd heard of. The squash buckling Sevy biasteris
the unflappable you know, what's his name is? Name flitted
Tony Jacquelin, you know, and you'd seen footage of them
and all, but you weren't sure. And the American players
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the Euros had seen footage of them, and blah blah blah. Well,
now the entire European team except for I think two
guys came here as children or teenagers to the United States,
went to college in the United States, and have been
playing on the PGA Tour in America from the first
moment they possibly.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Could, because that's the best place to get coaching and.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
All that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, and then to make the PGA Tours
the highest level of competition by far. It's like the
Premier League soccer in Europe versus Major League Soccer in America.
You would never play an MLS if you could make
a Premier League team. But so anyway, so all these
guys are on TV every single week. They speak a
lot of them completely accent free English, and they know
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all of our golf courses in the style of play,
and they play like Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And also it's all become kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So it's kind of like when we see are NBA
MVP playing for some other country in the Olympics, Like, Okay,
you play for the Denver Nuggets, but.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right, yeah, exactly, you're not some mysterious fernery. You play
for the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But it's it's still fun, and what the heck, I'll
be there watching and enjoying it. On a slightly more
serious topic, I know you know this, and we know
that you know that we know this that though we
disapproved strongly of Brendan Carr of the useless, ridiculous, antiquated FCC,
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they've got very few actual duties that they need to execute,
putting hardcore pressure on ABC in various media companies because
they didn't like what Jimmy Kimmel said.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I hate that. I've always hated it, I always will
hate it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We don't need the government weighing in on free speech,
all right.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And there's no such thing as hate speech. That's a
nonexistent thing.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, and Pam BONDI using that term was an utter
betrayal of those of us who cherish liberty. So shut up, Pam,
get better at your job.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Having said that, here's the part that I know that
you know that we know that you don't the Democrats
have been enthusiastic proponents of this sort of thing for
a very long time.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They make Brendan Carr look like an amateur. Well, they
invented the whole concept of hate speech right.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
For instance, you got eleven to seven Democrats Senate Democrats
condemning Car for the trying to quote act as the
speech police and force broadcasters to adopt political viewpoints that
you favor. How quickly memories fade. When Democrats were in
the White House, they argued for giving the FCC additional
powers to police speech by expanding its purview to cable
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networks and broadband providers. They claim to want to prevent
discrimination in what they called misinformation, which is exactly what
Carr and Trump and company said that Jimmy Kimmel did,
which is why he should be pressured. You got New
Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan. He suggested in an NPR
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interview that he believes the FCC should police the speech
of broadcasters. Quote and just as the affiliates on the
broadcast side have to get a license that would not
allow news distortion, why is it that folks on the
other side, with the same corporations are able to do
it all while hurting the American people. He specifically campaigned
for speech policing. Don't forget how Democrats who controlled the
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FCC under Obama and Biden wanted to classify Internet providers
as common carriers and therefore the FCC could regulate them
in the public interest and what could be said or
not said on them. The real goal was to give
the FCC more political control over the Internet and speech.
We could go into that the Internet part of it,
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but you know, maybe another day. Some Democratic senators wanted
to go even further to police speech, especially online. Bennett
of Colorado, Michael Bennett Peter Welts in Vermont introduced legislation
two years ago to establish a new independent agency, the
Federal Digital Platform Commission, to regulate the content, moderation and
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algorithms of online platforms to ensure they weren't unfair.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
God, that's so crazy or harmful. That is so crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I just I can't wrap my header on it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's evil.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Even if you're going to be in charge the whole time,
but you're not going to be in charge the whole time,
you nuts? Do you want to give that power to
your opponents?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I know, I know it's stupid as well as completely unprincipled.
And finally, rowheat Chopra, whose name may or may not
know rowheat Big Elizabeth Warren Protege led the Biden Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. Chopra proposed in twenty eighteen a public
Integrity Protection Agent see good lord or will is spinning
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in his grave like a black and Decker drill. Regulators
in that agency would be empowered to and I quote
inspect and investigate individuals and companies seeking to influence. Federal officials,
including think tanks and nonprofits, oppose this stuff all the time,
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no matter which side it comes from.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Please interesting idea out there from one of the best
libertarians in America, John Stossel, Why don't we do for
schools what we did for the post office?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
A little competition listening, little.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Competition like we had with FedEx, which made the post
Office have to get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And an interesting thing about FedEx all on the way.
Stay here pan't a long story.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That I think we most of us know if you've
been paying attention of how our education system got into
such a mess. Of from pre K which shouldn't exist
and doesn't need to exist, but is growing and with
throwing money at it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
All the way through graduate school.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
In America, our schooling is just a mess in all
kinds of different ways. It's not making kids more learned,
it's indoctrinating them into the craziest views of America. It's
just just horrible all the way around. It's depressing. Actually,
it's funny. I ran into a teacher last night. Well,
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I was at the grocery store buying my hamburger for
my spaghetti sauce. Some a woman said, older woman said
are you Jack Armstrong at the grocery store? And I said, why,
yes I am, And she said, oh my god, I
listen every day. And she went on about various things.
But she used to be in the public education system
that my very kids are in, and she told me
some stories about it and how it's changed over the years.
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It's just it's depressing all the way around. Anyway, I
was just taking in a little John Stossel. We used
to have his own show. I don't know what he
does now to get attention, but he's still a libertarian
rights books, does videos. And he was making the argument, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's funny, that's an old guy thing to say.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
He probably gets ten thousand times as many views for
his videos online right as he did for his TV show.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
The post Office said you can't get it there overnight,
but when FedEx did, suddenly others could, and even the
United States Postal Service had to figure out a way
to do it. That's the power of competition. Why not
apply it to education? And that's what his whole video
is about. And yeah, well that's, as we all know,
one of the main reasons that Mom, Dami, the Kami
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or whoever else is really against any other kind of
schooling because if you started to see the results you
could get with a different model, woo, that would be
bit just like it was horrible for the post Office,
they had to completely revamp.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That's what would happen to public schoo rules right when
you found out.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Wow, you're telling me, for like ten percent of the money,
all the kids can be proficient in reading and math and.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I'll be darned. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, And as I've pointed out many times, even like
you know, lefty media like sixty minutes still have these
awe inspiring stories about the charter school run by a
tough black principle in the Bronx or whatever, with uniforms
and high expectations and enforcing all the rules, no bs allowed,
and the kids achieved like crazy, and it's presented as
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a wonderful, feel good story. Then they forget it the
second of the Teachers' Union squawks.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But anyway, I wanted to talk about FedEx because I
heard this the other day.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I had forgotten this story, and how many of you've
heard it before.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The guy who started FedEx, Frederick W.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Smith, who's one of the great American characters in the
history of entrepreneurism, and he just died in June. I
didn't realize I just died the other day. He inherited
a couple of million dollars from his family and thought
that he could make this whole thing work, basing on
the model of banking or something like that. But he thought,
why can't you do that with shipping and actually get
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things overnight? And it started very awkwardly, and Poorlan wasn't
working very well, and in the early days he was
driving around the city where he formed FedEx, delivering packages
in the middle of the night himself to get them
there on time. Because he couldn't figure out any other
way to do it, Memphis, I believe.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And at one point they got and this is the
legendary story. At one point they were down to their
last five thousand dollars. They didn't have enough money for
the fuel for the planes. They were literally going to
have to shut down. It would have been the end
of FedEx. They just were out of money. And he
was down to the last five thousand, and he hopped
a plane and he went to Vegas and he played blackjack,
and he won enough money to pay the bills for
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another week, and FedEx it picked up some more venture
capital and took off. But it it seems that literally,
if he had not got on a winning streak at
Las Vegas, FedEx would have never happened.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That's just mind blowing, it is. It's an amazing story.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I mean, you combine the fact that he's driving around
Memphis himself as a multi millionaire with boxes in his
trunk delivering him just so he can, you know, live
up to the promises he's making to show people, hey,
this will work invest money, man.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
There are a lot of great lessons there. I mean,
because the yeah, you should gamble more.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's number one. Gambling is fun and you usually win.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Now, I was gonna say that that was obviously an
incredibly great break.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
How many bad breaks did he get? Good point?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But he just kept grinding, He just kept solving problems
and looking for solutions, and finally, with the help of
you know, pocket ace or whatever he h you know,
he got over.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That is a great story.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And people from other countries Elon Musk will will tell
you all the time, you can't do that almost anywhere
else in the world. There just doesn't There isn't the
there isn't the spirit for it. With people that will
invest in new ideas. The bureaucracy will not allow you
to do it, and the regulations and everything, you just can't.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, that's why we Americans, we native born Americans love
so much the immigrants who embrace this country and our
principles and our opportunities and say, I love this country.
This is an unbelievable place to be. And you know,
people call conservatives like ourselves anti immigrants.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, if you can contribute and you're gonna work hard
and you're gonna value this country, welcome my.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Friend well, and most of your convenience stores, liquor stores,
dry cleaning places are being run by people from other
countries who had the guts to start a business and
run it and are willing to put in the time
it takes to get a business going and make it run.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Working hard again. Damn it, that keeps coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, you own one of those stories. You ain't gonna
have a lot of free time. You're gonna be working constantly.
Russia Ukraine. What Trump said the other day, what's it
all mean? We'll touch on that, among other words.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of
the UN reiterating in private to his Russian counterpart, what
the administration is broadcasting to the world.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If the Russians.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it's going to.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Be very, very bad for their country. I don't know
where all this is. The Russians refuse to negotiate in
good faith? Do you mean more right?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (17:48):
The report goes on President Trump's new belief that Ukraine's
positioned to fight and win back all of its territory
is a one to.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Eighty from this, you don't have the cards and it.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Came about Trump says after making a hard look at
the military and economic position Russia is in, suggesting in
a truth social post that people of Russia have no
idea what's really going on with the war, and calling
Russia's military a paper tiger.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
The Kremlins response, Russia is not a tiger. It is
a bear, and there was no such thing as a
paper bear. So Russia is a real bear.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
But even Peskov admitted quote certain tensions and problem areas
in various sectors of the economy, which he framed as
a global issue.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. So there is some reporting out there that.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Trump got economic information, in military information about Russia that
shows it to be really really weak, like in a bad,
bad position, and that's what caused him to change his
tune on this. Although lots of people are writing talking
about what you were talking about earlier that he didn't
exactly say the United States is going to do anything. No,
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he just said, you know what, you ought to take
back all the land. That's what you should do. Anyway,
good luck with that, And he did say that at
the end of his post, good luck to both countries.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
What and if NATO wants to buy you know, scary
weapons from us, we'll sell them.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, we're not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, the restraints are off, but not we are going
to actively help you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
It really was just we will not get in your way.
We will not get in your way. And then the
fact that he ended with I got it. Hear in
front of me, this is the time for Ukraine to
act in any event. After saying all this stuff about
Ukraine taking back all the land and maybe even more,
and all these different things and lots of capital letters
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and exclamation boyds, he says, in any event, I wish
both countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to
NATO for NATO to do what they want with him.
Good luck to all? What is that? Good luck to all?
Good luck to both countries, good luck to both countries.
One country is evil and started the whole thing and
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wants to and may and may take over more countries
in Europe, and we might be a war with them soon.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Why are you wishing them luck? What the hell is that?
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Surely Trump doesn't still think he and Putin can be buddies.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No, he he's given up on that. I think he
said something over the weekend we didn't we didn't air
about how.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
He really he really thought he and Putin were friends,
but he realizes they're not now. He said something along
those lines. Yeah, wow, but what's the good luck to
both countries? What a weird thing to say.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're backing one country, we're not backing the other country, right,
So why would you say good luck to both countries?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
He's differentiating Russia from Putin, I guess, or Russian leadership
in general, the people versus the government.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I guess. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It seems very odd to me. I have a more
charitable view of that. Although one of the things that
bothers me about Trump is, and as I always say,
He's done some really really good stuff, some stuff that
I'm so grateful for, But he thinks he can instinct
his way through everything, and it takes him months and
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months and months to realize, Oh, Putin never negotiates in
bad in good faith.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Rather, if you were eighty, if you were eighty years old,
had got elected president twice, had a hot model life,
and were billionaire, you might also think you can instinct
your way through everything.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And I'd be wrong, and that's dangerous. Well, you can
understand how you'd get.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
There, doesn't matter, it's immaterial to me. I get your point.
But I mean, people are dying all the time. I'm
sure they don't turn to each other, you know in
Ukraine and say, you know, he got elected president, so
I can understand him taking Putin at his word for
a year and a half. I'm sorry, it's only been
nine months, right, I'm just surprised that his instincts are this.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I mean, I would think that your instincts, after all
these years of being a businessman at the highest level,
in dealing with all kinds of brilliant sharks, would be
able to would be to understand what Putin is like
really quickly.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well right, and your instinct ought to be I need
to know everything about this real estate market. I need
to know everything about tourism in Scotland before I invest
in a gigantic golf project.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Anyway, where this ends, nobody knows so well.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
God, it could be the Russian paper tiger or paper
bear if you prefer, shrivels up and just looks terribly weak,
and Ukraine wins back a bunch of territory in the
next six months, or there could be mushroom clouds.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, because Russia keeps pushing with various NATO countries and
flying planes in the borders and everything like that. That
and the leader of Finland was on Fox yesterday talking
about that. It was asked, if there is an incursion
with aircraft, Russian aircraft, NATO countries should shoot them down.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Yeah, Well, we have a strict protocol on this how
we work. So of course what we do in Finland
is we protect our airspace and then it's up to
the military force, of Defense forces and the air force
to use the protocol we deal We've had many violations
of airspace over the years, some of them intentional, some
of them less, so we announced them immediately when they happen.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That was a bunch of words around the idea that
NATO countries are going to start shooting down any of
these Russian drones when they cross into their borders, maybe
even before.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So we'll see. Alexander Stube of Finland is an extremely
thoughtful guy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well see what this leads to, Like you said, it
could be Russian, it could be stalemate nine months from now.
It could be Russia decides, you know, this isn't worth
it the economy, the military, and kind of backs off.
Or it could be mushroom mushroom clouds. It certainly could be.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, Putin would not be the first dictator to decide
if my megalomaniac dreams don't come true, then my people
don't deserve me and they don't deserve to live.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
No, that was Hitler's belief at the end. Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I mean he ordered the destruction of German towns, and
luckily it was not carried out by the people beneath him.
But he actually believed the German people should die. They
they didn't fight hard enough. So I don't think Putin
is that. I don't think so. But I could one
hundred percent see that him making the calculation, I'm going
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to use a tactical nuke and it will back them off.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
They'll back off.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Mm yeah, yeah, a terrible possibility. But I think you're
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Right, which I think we might, by the way, back off.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I really enjoyed the conversation between Brett Bear and President
Stube of of Finland Michael Do sixty five and sixty six,
back to back for us, then we can move on.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
And the other thing we have to understand is that
Russia and Putin have failed in all of their strategic games,
and on the military front, the advance is really slow.
In the past one thousand days they have advanced one
percentage point of the territory of Ukraine. So this is
not exactly a march in too Kiev.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So what was supposed to be four.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Days is now showing it pretty much four years and
they've taken twenty percent of Ukrainian territory.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You're happy Finland joined NATO.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Oh, I'm very happy. I was always an advocate of
Finish native membership. I have to admit we're in a minority.
We have to understand that for us, the big game
changer in Finland and Sweden was Russia's war of aggression
in Ukraine, and the feeling was, you know, if they
can do it to Ukraine, could they do it to us.
We've always taken care of our military. As I said,
we are a security provider, not a security consumer. In NATO,
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we take care of the northeastern flank of Europe together
with America.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I like that we're a security provider, not a security consumer.
And I'm sure he had a couple of two tree
countries in mind. Yeah, allergies friends. Yeah, and then you
want to know the most important thing, he said, I
don't think we had the have the audio. Bratt Bear,
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who's an avid golfer, asked him a kind of a
lighthearted question about the fact that Stube and Trump have
bonded over playing golf together, because Stube actually came. I
think he went to school in the US and wanted
to become a professional golfer. And he's got game, he's
got serious, no long hitter stupe. Yeah, but he said, yeah,
(26:45):
I've really enjoyed playing with the president. He's a fine,
fine player. He's a better player than me, which I
don't believe for a second. But Trump probably like sent
fifty billion dollars worth of armament and gold plated ceiling
fixtures and wall or so oil whatever they need in Finland.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Whatever they need exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's some good flattery. And he said it with a
totally straight face and everything.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's funny. Hey, Katie, before we take a break, I
got a joke for you.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Apparently this is a popular junk, a joke among your
eighth graders or whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Okay, so Katie, Katie has gone clear through middle school.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Not too long ago. Why did the chicken cross the road?
I don't know, Jack, Why to get to the idiot's house? Knock, knock,
who's there? The chicken? Very good?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Wait a minute, you have, in effect, implied Nay stated
that I am the aforementioned idiot.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I mean, got a lot of it was just multi layered,
most basic humans.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I'm gonna hit my wife with it the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I see her.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Okay, we will finish strong next. In general, I like
the free market to take care of things. If you're
a bad company doing bad things and tricking people or
bad service or whatever, then you know some other company
will come along and do a better job and take
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your customers. That's what keeps people right where you cross
the line into illegal illegality is you know. I didn't
go to law school, but the Federal Trade Commission with
the biggest fine ever two point five billion dollar settlement
with Amazon, they were tricking customers into signing up for Prime.
(28:49):
I haven't heard a good description of how that worked,
but here's the part that I do understand. And making
it almost impossible to cancel O. Now that so many
companies do that, and it makes me so angry. And again,
I think the free market should fix this doesn't a lot,
but it should fix it like eight with AT and T.
(29:10):
Or maybe I shouldn't name a company. Let's pretend I
didn't say AT and T. A company where you might
have your iPhone and a bunch of other iPhones and
watches and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That you get rid of one.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You can sign up for anything there at the store,
but you can't cancel it there at the store. You
got to call a specific number. You have to call them,
and they're only open certain hours and rings for a
long time, and then you're on hold for a long
time and you get busy and you think I'll call
back tomorrow. I haven't got time for this right now,
and you forget about it, and you keep that damn
(29:44):
twenty dollars a month thing for a watch you no
longer use, going for another however many months that.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It freaking drives me crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Enter the fifty digit code on the original packaging of
your Apple WoT.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Right exactly, I mean that is that is what it
obviously is. Oh, I can sign up for it here.
You can sign me up easily, but you can't cancel it?
Why is that? You know why it is? You're hoping
I can't or won't.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, and I'm gonna have a government agency that just
goes around opening accounts than trying to cancel them, and
if they can't, they bring the hammer down.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And we've all had experience if you ever tried to
quit a gym. I just paid like six extra months
on a gym that I swear to god I canceled
on time, but they.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Said I didn't. And well, how is that going to
prove them wrong? Michael?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Do we still have that canceled clip that we used
to play all the time during the height of canceled culture?
And I because when my government agency gets up and running,
you know when we go to cancel an account, if
we go to cancel that account, you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know what, It'll be.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Canceled taking a long time. So I'm I'm wondering, given Haiming, giving.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
How much I'd been screwed by various phone companies and
gyms and other people throughout my life, what did Amazon
do to cross the line of actually getting sued for
it making it almost impossible to cancel your prime subscription. Wow, God,
that makes me nuts because you know what you're doing.
I know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You Oh, can't handle it, Jeffrey pays.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And it's not just the stupid tax, it's the I
got better things to do tax. Then, you know, spend
an hour on trying to cancel this dumb little thing today,
right right, hate you so much. Speaking of tax, have
been meaning to squeeze this in. If you were of
a certain age, you're familiar with the fact that once
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you hit fifty and then sixty you can do catch
up contributions to your four to oh one k, pile
extra money into that for your retirement. I don't exactly
understand the theory behind that one.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, to make your us depending on the government, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, but then why don't they Why don't they? Why
don't you let people contribute more than you're younger?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Because they want the tax dollars. And indeed, this is
a huge tax increase the current government, the Trump by
rs is eliminating that if you are a high earner,
which they set at one hundred and forty five k
in wages, which makes you a hell of a high
earner and Coonhauller, Kentucky. And it makes you able to
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afford your twelve hundred square foot apartment barely in, for instance,
Manhattan or San Francisco Bay Area or wherever else.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
National income statistics for any sort of thing are just
they don't make sense.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, they're ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Wow, I didn't realize it. When's that start? Insult your
local tax professional?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
That sucks.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Uh, yeah, it's gonna it. Issued final rules this month
on the twenty twenty two law that means many workers
will pay taxes on their CA up money up front. Well,
it's their high earning years. It's just a different version
of wealth redistribution. Yeah, yet another version. And the money
will go into a roth Ira account, which perhaps you've
(33:12):
heard of, which can later be withdrawn tax free. So
it's post tax money that then you can use tax
free later, which in some cases you're better off with anyway, honestly.
But again, touch your local you know, tax counselor or accountant, attorney, whatever.
But my got our tax code is complicated, just horrendous.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And it constantly changes too.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
Oh yeah, strong, Strong, you're ready.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
How about a final thoughts from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
There is Michael Angelo, r. Technical director in the control
room pressing the buttons.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Michael final thought, Yeah, I was just thinking back to
when I was a kid. They used to have these
things where you would get a CD for like ten cents,
and then they would keep sending you stuff. The next
thing is, you know you were hooked on this program
and I couldn't cancel it.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yep, that you have to be a certain age to
remember that. But thirteen albums for one penny and my
mom talked me out of it because she had done
it when she was young in the fifties, and you know,
you think it was impossible to cancel.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Bastards Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
As a final talk, Katie, this is always fun going
to your subscriptions section on your phone and see how
many things you're subscribed to?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Did I do that? Sign up for the free thing
and then forget Yeah, we've got to do that.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Thanks for the reminder. I got to have like a
count of days. It's been seventy eight days since Joe
vowed to go through subscriptions, still counting. Jack final thought.
My favorite return policy was the Snuggie.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Remember when the Snuggie was popular, free returns if not satisfied,
all your money back. It showed my brother got it.
It shows up at a cardboard box with no label, no paperwork,
no nothing. Who are you gonna send it back to?
Speaker 8 (35:07):
How?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
What?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Right? It's bastards? Did I mention that already? My final thought?
You know how they say a smile is the universal language.
Just thought occurred to me yesterday. Judy and I were
walking backstirr and I jumped back because I saw a
rattlesnake and it was motionless and its head didn't look
quite right, like a viper. And then I realized this
because it had no head. But before I realized that,
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I had found a long stick and poked at it
with a stick. And I realized, everywhere on earth, no
matter your culture or religion, if you want to figure
out if something's alive or not.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You poke it with a stick. That's right, It's a universe.
It's like a smile. They universal.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
They even did that on Friends with their fat neighbor
across the way.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
We poked them with a stick.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
So many people who thanks, so little time. Good Armstrong
and Getdy dot com. A lot of great clicks for
you there. Pick up some swag, the one where they
poked the name with a stick. We'll see you tomorrow.
God bless America is.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
The two things I got from the United Nations.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
A bad escalator and I'm Strong and Getty shape.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Into spoke, Getty sauce, Jack and Jump, a big dumper
and monkey job.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Jack and John.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
In case you missed.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Barack Obama admits to marriage woes and shocking comment it's
not that shocking, mildly interesting. I'll tease it as saying
it's mildly interesting later this hour.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Plus the long and storied history of folks on the
left doing precisely what they're saying Donald Trump shouldn't do
in the Jimmy Kimmel thing, and that will probably be
my last word for the rest of my life on
the topic. Uncharacteristically, I've brought not one, but two sports
stories to you today. Number One, the Cal Raleigh, affectionately
(00:57):
known as Big Dumper, the home run smashing catcher for
the Seattle Mariners, joined the Baseball sixty homer Club. Second
sports story, unless you have more to say on the
Big Darrier, what I kept.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hearing from everybody on this team was we got more
work to do, and it seems like this team was
just even more focused tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah. I mean, you know, I think most people heard
what I said last night. You know, might as well
win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's awesome, all right, Laren, come to you, naughty naughty cow,
naughty cow. So two knights in a row, he says,
in front of the big, giant hometown crowd.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Might as we'll win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And I guess it's from the movie Major League, which
I didn't remember, the Charlie Sheen Classic. That's where it
comes out. Yeah, but that is clearly going to become
the Mariners hook line as they make their way through
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
So second and I will be rooting for them, I think.
Second sport story. Do you know what the Ryder Cup is?
It's a big every other year team golf competition between
the US against Europe, and everybody gets super fired up
because it's a team event that's kind of fun, and
they play different formats and there's patriotism and national pride
(02:17):
involved and everybody hoots and hollers and chance USA.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's golf that the golf.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
As I mentioned, Yes, indeed, and if you're a golf
ban you get super into it. Before I get to
the semi interesting story I was going to bring you,
ladies and gentlemen, it's oh, it's being held in New
York at the legendary Bethpage Black Golf Course, and the
Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochel, went there to
receive the warm accolades of her voters.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Keep it going for New York, Your friend and mine
in attendance, Governor Kathy Hochel. Governor, thank you so much
for being here, and thank you to your team too
for getting us ready for the Ryder Cup in New York.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I would like to say a few thank yous to
Governor State New York, Kathy Hockl as we prepare to
tee it up on Friday. I want to thank the
people who made this journey possible. Off to Governor Hulkel,
to the teams of New York, to the teams of
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the New York State Parks.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Here's what I do.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
After the second time I get booed at the mention
of my name, I get up there and say, is
my name.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
In the script? Anymore? You give me that pen? How
about you don't thank me anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I don't know if you've noticed, but every time I
get thanked, it's a resounding chorus of booze.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So three times, oh, I know, just overwhelming lusty We've
sat on this show many times. Don't Trump came in
to the studio stadium and was greeted by booze. But
if you listen to it, it's a lot of cheers.
That's some booze. What those were booths? Those were booths.
Uh So, speaking of booze, there will be quite a
bit of it can assumed at the Ryder Cup. And
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there's some fear that the New Yorkers will get a
little mouthy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And mean to the Euros. But here's the twist I
want to bring to you. Why were they booing her?
Why don't they like her there?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Because she sucks as a governor and the human being.
Her policies are terrible, her character is non existent and
she's a bad person.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Why didn't know? Is that a mostly Republican crowd the
golf tournament?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Or I could see it being more republican, say an
NBA game. But anyway, uh so, uh one interesting aspect of.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Mentioning my name please.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
So it used to be the part of the appeal
of the event was that, you know, the the European
players who you'd heard of. The squash buckling Sevy biasteris
the unflappable you know, what's his name is? Name flitted
Tony Jacquelin, you know, and you'd seen footage of them
and all, but you weren't sure. And the American players
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the Euros had seen footage of them, and blah blah blah. Well,
now the entire European team except for I think two
guys came here as children or teenagers to the United States,
went to college in the United States, and have been
playing on the PGA Tour in America from the first
moment they possibly.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Could, because that's the best place to get coaching and.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
All that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, and then to make the PGA Tours
the highest level of competition by far. It's like the
Premier League soccer in Europe versus Major League Soccer in America.
You would never play an MLS if you could make
a Premier League team. But so anyway, so all these
guys are on TV every single week. They speak a
lot of them completely accent free English, and they know
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all of our golf courses in the style of play,
and they play like Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And also it's all become kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So it's kind of like when we see are NBA
MVP playing for some other country in the Olympics, Like, Okay,
you play for the Denver Nuggets, but.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right, yeah, exactly, you're not some mysterious fernery. You play
for the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
But it's it's still fun, and what the heck, I'll
be there watching and enjoying it. On a slightly more
serious topic, I know you know this, and we know
that you know that we know this that though we
disapproved strongly of Brendan Carr of the useless, ridiculous, antiquated FCC,
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they've got very few actual duties that they need to execute,
putting hardcore pressure on ABC in various media companies because
they didn't like what Jimmy Kimmel said.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I hate that. I've always hated it, I always will
hate it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We don't need the government weighing in on free speech,
all right.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And there's no such thing as hate speech. That's a
nonexistent thing.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, and Pam BONDI using that term was an utter
betrayal of those of us who cherish liberty. So shut up, Pam,
get better at your job.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Having said that, here's the part that I know that
you know that we know that you don't the Democrats
have been enthusiastic proponents of this sort of thing for
a very long time.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They make Brendan Carr look like an amateur. Well, they
invented the whole concept of hate speech right.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
For instance, you got eleven to seven Democrats Senate Democrats
condemning Car for the trying to quote act as the
speech police and force broadcasters to adopt political viewpoints that
you favor. How quickly memories fade. When Democrats were in
the White House, they argued for giving the FCC additional
powers to police speech by expanding its purview to cable
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networks and broadband providers. They claim to want to prevent
discrimination in what they called misinformation, which is exactly what
Carr and Trump and company said that Jimmy Kimmel did,
which is why he should be pressured. You got New
Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan. He suggested in an NPR
(08:12):
interview that he believes the FCC should police the speech
of broadcasters. Quote and just as the affiliates on the
broadcast side have to get a license that would not
allow news distortion, why is it that folks on the
other side, with the same corporations are able to do
it all while hurting the American people. He specifically campaigned
for speech policing. Don't forget how Democrats who controlled the
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FCC under Obama and Biden wanted to classify Internet providers
as common carriers and therefore the FCC could regulate them
in the public interest and what could be said or
not said on them. The real goal was to give
the FCC more political control over the Internet and speech.
We could go into that the Internet part of it,
(08:56):
but you know, maybe another day. Some Democratic senators wanted
to go even further to police speech, especially online. Bennett
of Colorado, Michael Bennett Peter Welts in Vermont introduced legislation
two years ago to establish a new independent agency, the
Federal Digital Platform Commission, to regulate the content, moderation and
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algorithms of online platforms to ensure they weren't unfair.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
God, that's so crazy or harmful. That is so crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I just I can't wrap my header on it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's evil.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Even if you're going to be in charge the whole time,
but you're not going to be in charge the whole time,
you nuts? Do you want to give that power to
your opponents?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I know, I know it's stupid as well as completely unprincipled.
And finally, rowheat Chopra, whose name may or may not
know rowheat Big Elizabeth Warren Protege led the Biden Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. Chopra proposed in twenty eighteen a public
Integrity Protection Agent see good lord or will is spinning
(10:02):
in his grave like a black and Decker drill. Regulators
in that agency would be empowered to and I quote
inspect and investigate individuals and companies seeking to influence. Federal officials,
including think tanks and nonprofits, oppose this stuff all the time,
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no matter which side it comes from.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Please interesting idea out there from one of the best
libertarians in America, John Stossel, Why don't we do for
schools what we did for the post office?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
A little competition listening, little.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Competition like we had with FedEx, which made the post
Office have to get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And an interesting thing about FedEx all on the way.
Stay here pan't a long story.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That I think we most of us know if you've
been paying attention of how our education system got into
such a mess. Of from pre K which shouldn't exist
and doesn't need to exist, but is growing and with
throwing money at it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
All the way through graduate school.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
In America, our schooling is just a mess in all
kinds of different ways. It's not making kids more learned,
it's indoctrinating them into the craziest views of America. It's
just just horrible all the way around. It's depressing. Actually,
it's funny. I ran into a teacher last night. Well,
(11:35):
I was at the grocery store buying my hamburger for
my spaghetti sauce. Some a woman said, older woman said
are you Jack Armstrong at the grocery store? And I said, why,
yes I am, And she said, oh my god, I
listen every day. And she went on about various things.
But she used to be in the public education system
that my very kids are in, and she told me
some stories about it and how it's changed over the years.
(11:57):
It's just it's depressing all the way around. Anyway, I
was just taking in a little John Stossel. We used
to have his own show. I don't know what he
does now to get attention, but he's still a libertarian
rights books, does videos. And he was making the argument, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's funny, that's an old guy thing to say.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
He probably gets ten thousand times as many views for
his videos online right as he did for his TV show.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
The post Office said you can't get it there overnight,
but when FedEx did, suddenly others could, and even the
United States Postal Service had to figure out a way
to do it. That's the power of competition. Why not
apply it to education? And that's what his whole video
is about. And yeah, well that's, as we all know,
one of the main reasons that Mom, Dami, the Kami
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or whoever else is really against any other kind of
schooling because if you started to see the results you
could get with a different model, woo, that would be
bit just like it was horrible for the post Office,
they had to completely revamp.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That's what would happen to public schoo rules right when
you found out.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Wow, you're telling me, for like ten percent of the money,
all the kids can be proficient in reading and math and.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I'll be darned. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, And as I've pointed out many times, even like
you know, lefty media like sixty minutes still have these
awe inspiring stories about the charter school run by a
tough black principle in the Bronx or whatever, with uniforms
and high expectations and enforcing all the rules, no bs allowed,
and the kids achieved like crazy, and it's presented as
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a wonderful, feel good story. Then they forget it the
second of the Teachers' Union squawks.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But anyway, I wanted to talk about FedEx because I
heard this the other day.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I had forgotten this story, and how many of you've
heard it before.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The guy who started FedEx, Frederick W.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Smith, who's one of the great American characters in the
history of entrepreneurism, and he just died in June. I
didn't realize I just died the other day. He inherited
a couple of million dollars from his family and thought
that he could make this whole thing work, basing on
the model of banking or something like that. But he thought,
why can't you do that with shipping and actually get
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things overnight? And it started very awkwardly, and Poorlan wasn't
working very well, and in the early days he was
driving around the city where he formed FedEx, delivering packages
in the middle of the night himself to get them
there on time. Because he couldn't figure out any other
way to do it, Memphis, I believe.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And at one point they got and this is the
legendary story. At one point they were down to their
last five thousand dollars. They didn't have enough money for
the fuel for the planes. They were literally going to
have to shut down. It would have been the end
of FedEx. They just were out of money. And he
was down to the last five thousand, and he hopped
a plane and he went to Vegas and he played blackjack,
and he won enough money to pay the bills for
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another week, and FedEx it picked up some more venture
capital and took off. But it it seems that literally,
if he had not got on a winning streak at
Las Vegas, FedEx would have never happened.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That's just mind blowing, it is. It's an amazing story.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I mean, you combine the fact that he's driving around
Memphis himself as a multi millionaire with boxes in his
trunk delivering him just so he can, you know, live
up to the promises he's making to show people, hey,
this will work invest money, man.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
There are a lot of great lessons there. I mean,
because the yeah, you should gamble more.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's number one. Gambling is fun and you usually win.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Now, I was gonna say that that was obviously an
incredibly great break.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
How many bad breaks did he get? Good point?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But he just kept grinding, He just kept solving problems
and looking for solutions, and finally, with the help of
you know, pocket ace or whatever he h you know,
he got over.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That is a great story.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And people from other countries Elon Musk will will tell
you all the time, you can't do that almost anywhere
else in the world. There just doesn't There isn't the
there isn't the spirit for it. With people that will
invest in new ideas. The bureaucracy will not allow you
to do it, and the regulations and everything, you just can't.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, that's why we Americans, we native born Americans love
so much the immigrants who embrace this country and our
principles and our opportunities and say, I love this country.
This is an unbelievable place to be. And you know,
people call conservatives like ourselves anti immigrants.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, if you can contribute and you're gonna work hard
and you're gonna value this country, welcome my.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Friend well, and most of your convenience stores, liquor stores,
dry cleaning places are being run by people from other
countries who had the guts to start a business and
run it and are willing to put in the time
it takes to get a business going and make it run.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Working hard again. Damn it, that keeps coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, you own one of those stories. You ain't gonna
have a lot of free time. You're gonna be working constantly.
Russia Ukraine. What Trump said the other day, what's it
all mean? We'll touch on that, among other words.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of
the UN reiterating in private to his Russian counterpart, what
the administration is broadcasting to the world.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If the Russians.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it's going to.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Be very, very bad for their country. I don't know
where all this is. The Russians refuse to negotiate in
good faith? Do you mean more right?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (17:48):
The report goes on President Trump's new belief that Ukraine's
positioned to fight and win back all of its territory
is a one to.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Eighty from this, you don't have the cards and it.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Came about Trump says after making a hard look at
the military and economic position Russia is in, suggesting in
a truth social post that people of Russia have no
idea what's really going on with the war, and calling
Russia's military a paper tiger.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
The Kremlins response, Russia is not a tiger. It is
a bear, and there was no such thing as a
paper bear. So Russia is a real bear.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
But even Peskov admitted quote certain tensions and problem areas
in various sectors of the economy, which he framed as
a global issue.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. So there is some reporting out there that.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Trump got economic information, in military information about Russia that
shows it to be really really weak, like in a bad,
bad position, and that's what caused him to change his
tune on this. Although lots of people are writing talking
about what you were talking about earlier that he didn't
exactly say the United States is going to do anything. No,
(18:59):
he just said, you know what, you ought to take
back all the land. That's what you should do. Anyway,
good luck with that, And he did say that at
the end of his post, good luck to both countries.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
What and if NATO wants to buy you know, scary
weapons from us, we'll sell them.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, we're not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
No, the restraints are off, but not we are going
to actively help you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
It really was just we will not get in your way.
We will not get in your way. And then the
fact that he ended with I got it. Hear in
front of me, this is the time for Ukraine to
act in any event. After saying all this stuff about
Ukraine taking back all the land and maybe even more,
and all these different things and lots of capital letters
(19:39):
and exclamation boyds, he says, in any event, I wish
both countries well. We will continue to supply weapons to
NATO for NATO to do what they want with him.
Good luck to all? What is that? Good luck to all?
Good luck to both countries, good luck to both countries.
One country is evil and started the whole thing and
(20:03):
wants to and may and may take over more countries
in Europe, and we might be a war with them soon.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Why are you wishing them luck? What the hell is that?
I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Surely Trump doesn't still think he and Putin can be buddies.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
No, he he's given up on that. I think he
said something over the weekend we didn't we didn't air
about how.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
He really he really thought he and Putin were friends,
but he realizes they're not now. He said something along
those lines. Yeah, wow, but what's the good luck to
both countries? What a weird thing to say.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We're backing one country, we're not backing the other country, right,
So why would you say good luck to both countries?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
He's differentiating Russia from Putin, I guess, or Russian leadership
in general, the people versus the government.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I guess. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It seems very odd to me. I have a more
charitable view of that. Although one of the things that
bothers me about Trump is, and as I always say,
He's done some really really good stuff, some stuff that
I'm so grateful for, But he thinks he can instinct
his way through everything, and it takes him months and
(21:20):
months and months to realize, Oh, Putin never negotiates in
bad in good faith.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Rather, if you were eighty, if you were eighty years old,
had got elected president twice, had a hot model life,
and were billionaire, you might also think you can instinct
your way through everything.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And I'd be wrong, and that's dangerous. Well, you can
understand how you'd get.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
There, doesn't matter, it's immaterial to me. I get your point.
But I mean, people are dying all the time. I'm
sure they don't turn to each other, you know in
Ukraine and say, you know, he got elected president, so
I can understand him taking Putin at his word for
a year and a half. I'm sorry, it's only been
nine months, right, I'm just surprised that his instincts are this.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I mean, I would think that your instincts, after all
these years of being a businessman at the highest level,
in dealing with all kinds of brilliant sharks, would be
able to would be to understand what Putin is like
really quickly.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well right, and your instinct ought to be I need
to know everything about this real estate market. I need
to know everything about tourism in Scotland before I invest
in a gigantic golf project.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Anyway, where this ends, nobody knows so well.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
God, it could be the Russian paper tiger or paper
bear if you prefer, shrivels up and just looks terribly weak,
and Ukraine wins back a bunch of territory in the
next six months, or there could be mushroom clouds.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, because Russia keeps pushing with various NATO countries and
flying planes in the borders and everything like that. That
and the leader of Finland was on Fox yesterday talking
about that. It was asked, if there is an incursion
with aircraft, Russian aircraft, NATO countries should shoot them down.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Yeah, Well, we have a strict protocol on this how
we work. So of course what we do in Finland
is we protect our airspace and then it's up to
the military force, of Defense forces and the air force
to use the protocol we deal We've had many violations
of airspace over the years, some of them intentional, some
of them less, so we announced them immediately when they happen.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That was a bunch of words around the idea that
NATO countries are going to start shooting down any of
these Russian drones when they cross into their borders, maybe
even before.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
So we'll see. Alexander Stube of Finland is an extremely
thoughtful guy.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Well see what this leads to, Like you said, it
could be Russian, it could be stalemate nine months from now.
It could be Russia decides, you know, this isn't worth
it the economy, the military, and kind of backs off.
Or it could be mushroom mushroom clouds. It certainly could be.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Yeah, Putin would not be the first dictator to decide
if my megalomaniac dreams don't come true, then my people
don't deserve me and they don't deserve to live.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
No, that was Hitler's belief at the end. Yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I mean he ordered the destruction of German towns, and
luckily it was not carried out by the people beneath him.
But he actually believed the German people should die. They
they didn't fight hard enough. So I don't think Putin
is that. I don't think so. But I could one
hundred percent see that him making the calculation, I'm going
(24:42):
to use a tactical nuke and it will back them off.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
They'll back off.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Mm yeah, yeah, a terrible possibility. But I think you're
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Right, which I think we might, by the way, back off.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I really enjoyed the conversation between Brett Bear and President
Stube of of Finland Michael Do sixty five and sixty six,
back to back for us, then we can move on.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
And the other thing we have to understand is that
Russia and Putin have failed in all of their strategic games,
and on the military front, the advance is really slow.
In the past one thousand days they have advanced one
percentage point of the territory of Ukraine. So this is
not exactly a march in too Kiev.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So what was supposed to be four.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Days is now showing it pretty much four years and
they've taken twenty percent of Ukrainian territory.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You're happy Finland joined NATO.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
Oh, I'm very happy. I was always an advocate of
Finish native membership. I have to admit we're in a minority.
We have to understand that for us, the big game
changer in Finland and Sweden was Russia's war of aggression
in Ukraine, and the feeling was, you know, if they
can do it to Ukraine, could they do it to us.
We've always taken care of our military. As I said,
we are a security provider, not a security consumer. In NATO,
(25:54):
we take care of the northeastern flank of Europe together
with America.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I like that we're a security provider, not a security consumer.
And I'm sure he had a couple of two tree
countries in mind. Yeah, allergies friends. Yeah, and then you
want to know the most important thing, he said, I
don't think we had the have the audio. Bratt Bear,
(26:23):
who's an avid golfer, asked him a kind of a
lighthearted question about the fact that Stube and Trump have
bonded over playing golf together, because Stube actually came. I
think he went to school in the US and wanted
to become a professional golfer. And he's got game, he's
got serious, no long hitter stupe. Yeah, but he said, yeah,
(26:45):
I've really enjoyed playing with the president. He's a fine,
fine player. He's a better player than me, which I
don't believe for a second. But Trump probably like sent
fifty billion dollars worth of armament and gold plated ceiling
fixtures and wall or so oil whatever they need in Finland.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Whatever they need exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's some good flattery. And he said it with a
totally straight face and everything.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's funny. Hey, Katie, before we take a break, I
got a joke for you.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Apparently this is a popular junk, a joke among your
eighth graders or whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Okay, so Katie, Katie has gone clear through middle school.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Not too long ago. Why did the chicken cross the road?
I don't know, Jack, Why to get to the idiot's house? Knock, knock,
who's there? The chicken? Very good?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Wait a minute, you have, in effect, implied Nay stated
that I am the aforementioned idiot.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I mean, got a lot of it was just multi layered,
most basic humans.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I'm gonna hit my wife with it the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I see her.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Okay, we will finish strong next. In general, I like
the free market to take care of things. If you're
a bad company doing bad things and tricking people or
bad service or whatever, then you know some other company
will come along and do a better job and take
(28:29):
your customers. That's what keeps people right where you cross
the line into illegal illegality is you know. I didn't
go to law school, but the Federal Trade Commission with
the biggest fine ever two point five billion dollar settlement
with Amazon, they were tricking customers into signing up for Prime.
(28:49):
I haven't heard a good description of how that worked,
but here's the part that I do understand. And making
it almost impossible to cancel O. Now that so many
companies do that, and it makes me so angry. And again,
I think the free market should fix this doesn't a lot,
but it should fix it like eight with AT and T.
(29:10):
Or maybe I shouldn't name a company. Let's pretend I
didn't say AT and T. A company where you might
have your iPhone and a bunch of other iPhones and
watches and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That you get rid of one.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
You can sign up for anything there at the store,
but you can't cancel it there at the store. You
got to call a specific number. You have to call them,
and they're only open certain hours and rings for a
long time, and then you're on hold for a long
time and you get busy and you think I'll call
back tomorrow. I haven't got time for this right now,
and you forget about it, and you keep that damn
(29:44):
twenty dollars a month thing for a watch you no
longer use, going for another however many months that.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It freaking drives me crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Enter the fifty digit code on the original packaging of
your Apple WoT.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Right exactly, I mean that is that is what it
obviously is. Oh, I can sign up for it here.
You can sign me up easily, but you can't cancel it?
Why is that? You know why it is? You're hoping
I can't or won't.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, and I'm gonna have a government agency that just
goes around opening accounts than trying to cancel them, and
if they can't, they bring the hammer down.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And we've all had experience if you ever tried to
quit a gym. I just paid like six extra months
on a gym that I swear to god I canceled
on time, but they.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Said I didn't. And well, how is that going to
prove them wrong? Michael?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Do we still have that canceled clip that we used
to play all the time during the height of canceled culture?
And I because when my government agency gets up and running,
you know when we go to cancel an account, if
we go to cancel that account, you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know what, It'll be.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Canceled taking a long time. So I'm I'm wondering, given Haiming, giving.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
How much I'd been screwed by various phone companies and
gyms and other people throughout my life, what did Amazon
do to cross the line of actually getting sued for
it making it almost impossible to cancel your prime subscription. Wow, God,
that makes me nuts because you know what you're doing.
I know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You Oh, can't handle it, Jeffrey pays.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And it's not just the stupid tax, it's the I
got better things to do tax. Then, you know, spend
an hour on trying to cancel this dumb little thing today,
right right, hate you so much. Speaking of tax, have
been meaning to squeeze this in. If you were of
a certain age, you're familiar with the fact that once
(31:47):
you hit fifty and then sixty you can do catch
up contributions to your four to oh one k, pile
extra money into that for your retirement. I don't exactly
understand the theory behind that one.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, to make your us depending on the government, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, but then why don't they Why don't they? Why
don't you let people contribute more than you're younger?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Because they want the tax dollars. And indeed, this is
a huge tax increase the current government, the Trump by
rs is eliminating that if you are a high earner,
which they set at one hundred and forty five k
in wages, which makes you a hell of a high
earner and Coonhauller, Kentucky. And it makes you able to
(32:29):
afford your twelve hundred square foot apartment barely in, for instance,
Manhattan or San Francisco Bay Area or wherever else.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
National income statistics for any sort of thing are just
they don't make sense.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, they're ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Wow, I didn't realize it. When's that start? Insult your
local tax professional?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
That sucks.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Uh, yeah, it's gonna it. Issued final rules this month
on the twenty twenty two law that means many workers
will pay taxes on their CA up money up front. Well,
it's their high earning years. It's just a different version
of wealth redistribution. Yeah, yet another version. And the money
will go into a roth Ira account, which perhaps you've
(33:12):
heard of, which can later be withdrawn tax free. So
it's post tax money that then you can use tax
free later, which in some cases you're better off with anyway, honestly.
But again, touch your local you know, tax counselor or accountant, attorney, whatever.
But my got our tax code is complicated, just horrendous.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And it constantly changes too.
Speaker 9 (33:35):
Oh yeah, strong, Strong, you're ready.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
How about a final thoughts from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
There is Michael Angelo, r. Technical director in the control
room pressing the buttons.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Michael final thought, Yeah, I was just thinking back to
when I was a kid. They used to have these
things where you would get a CD for like ten cents,
and then they would keep sending you stuff. The next
thing is, you know you were hooked on this program
and I couldn't cancel it.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yep, that you have to be a certain age to
remember that. But thirteen albums for one penny and my
mom talked me out of it because she had done
it when she was young in the fifties, and you know,
you think it was impossible to cancel.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Bastards Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
As a final talk, Katie, this is always fun going
to your subscriptions section on your phone and see how
many things you're subscribed to?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Did I do that? Sign up for the free thing
and then forget Yeah, we've got to do that.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Thanks for the reminder. I got to have like a
count of days. It's been seventy eight days since Joe
vowed to go through subscriptions, still counting. Jack final thought.
My favorite return policy was the Snuggie.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Remember when the Snuggie was popular, free returns if not satisfied,
all your money back. It showed my brother got it.
It shows up at a cardboard box with no label, no paperwork,
no nothing. Who are you gonna send it back to?
Speaker 8 (35:07):
How?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
What?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Right? It's bastards? Did I mention that already? My final thought?
You know how they say a smile is the universal language.
Just thought occurred to me yesterday. Judy and I were
walking backstirr and I jumped back because I saw a
rattlesnake and it was motionless and its head didn't look
quite right, like a viper. And then I realized this
because it had no head. But before I realized that,
(35:30):
I had found a long stick and poked at it
with a stick. And I realized, everywhere on earth, no
matter your culture or religion, if you want to figure
out if something's alive or not.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
You poke it with a stick. That's right, It's a universe.
It's like a smile. They universal.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
They even did that on Friends with their fat neighbor
across the way.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
We poked them with a stick.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
So many people who thanks, so little time. Good Armstrong
and Getdy dot com. A lot of great clicks for
you there. Pick up some swag, the one where they
poked the name with a stick. We'll see you tomorrow.
God bless America is.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
The two things I got from the United Nations.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
A bad escalator and I'm Strong and Getty shape.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
Into spoke, Getty sauce, Jack and Jump, a big dumper
and monkey job.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Jack and John.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
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