December 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack sprays some phlegm, Christmas & the Charlie Kirk Trial
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & COVID fraud in Minneapolis
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong
and Jetty and keep arms all.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Live.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's from Studio C. See senor dimly let her excuse me.
Oh golly, oh boy man.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I warmed up in my car all the way to
work thinking today I'm gonna start without spraying flem.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
All over everyone, good lord, but I was not successful.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Uh deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Communications compound. Today we're into the tutelage of art and
it's frye. We're under the toutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm torn. I'm torn.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
The interview have gone well, but we have multiple general
managers candidates. Do you have any especially excited about Jack today?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't know. I'm feeling very Christmas. Yeah, I get
my Christmas at on please.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Nothing better than that. The Christmas season. Let's remember it's
about joy, togetherness and not get stressed out, not get
too stressed out, not get so stressed out you commit
a crime. Well, just let's set the bar there, go
and try to leap that bar.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Here's something I've learned. We used to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Going way back to the beginning of our knowing each other,
we both had the fortune of like enjoying Christmas time
and it was always a good thing, and hearing people
complain about Thanksgiving and Christmas always seemed weird to us.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We always seemed weird to me. It's like, what freaking
love it? It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But that was because my families everybody got along, and
families weren't tact as a divorced family, and then trying
to put everything together everything like that, It's a lot
of stress and annoyance and things that you'd rather not
deal with. So a lot of the I love Christmas
Thanksgiving is you should be thankful.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
For your situation. That's oh yeah, I mean attitude.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Attitude definitely, that definitely plays a difference in well, everything
in life. But it was easier to enjoy the Christmas
season when I wasn't trying to manage this whole deal. Right, Yeah,
I have follow up questions, obviously, but I'll let you
figure out how far you want to go down that road.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I will just tell you this.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
At our mega Thanksgiving gathering several days ago, in which
folks converged from both coasts and all over the place,
and multiple generations. It was a semi frequent topic of conversation.
You know how fortunate it is to be in a
family where everybody get The worst thing that happens is
somebody is a little goofy and there's an eye roll
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and you move on.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's fine. But yeah, it's a blessing. It's an incredible blessing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, my nuclear family, it's just me and my brothers,
my mom and dad, the same five I started with
as a child. We all get together for all this
tum and it's fantastic. Well, I want to hear go ahead,
I was gonna mention. My niece sent pictures of her
hand with a ring on it the other day. My
oldest niece, she's getting married and she's so excited. Good
for her. I hope she's very happy. You want to
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hear something. It's funny. Communing with my in particular my
youngest daughter's friends, has given me a lot more perspective
about the world of families. I mean, I've known plenty
of people and observed plenty of things throughout my life,
but for instance, this one's unbelievable. I'll leave names out.
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One of her law school buddies. Several of them came
and we had a great time. And actually it was
some non law school buddies too. But we're playing a
game and one of the girls, one of the young
women I will refer to her as Jenny. Jenny made
a real nice throw in the game and I said,
(04:07):
great throw, Jenny, Yes, And she spent the rest of
the day thinking about it because this was passed on
to me. That was the first time in her life
a father figure had encouraged her.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Wow. Wow, I know, I know it was heartbreaking. That
is something yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Anyway, so those of us who've been so blessed by fate,
genetics and the Lord above or whatever, you want to
attribute it to your own great character, you know, with
happy families. What's that line from Kara Maza from Dostoevsky.
I'm sorry the other Russian guy too. Many Russian authors
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got a limit. All happy families are alike. Unhappy families
are all unhappy in their own way. I think that's
the beginning of and Coronna.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes, but that seems to be true.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The happy family is just everybody's nice to everybody and
respects everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The end. I mean, it's not real.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Complicated, yeah, but do you get into the unhappy ones,
and there's all kinds of oh boy, it gets very
complicated very fast.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, happy Holidays, very Christmas. So I guess
the way.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
To portray this would be I have grown and I
have more sympathy for people who find this time a
year stressful as a opposed to only joyous. I still
find it mostly joyous and enjoy it and everything like that.
And I'm looking forward to My son's birthday is two
days before Christmas, always a wrenching things. I'm hoping he
reaches the age at some point where he agrees to
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what lots of people suggest, doing the half birthday in
the middle of the summer so it's not so closed
to Christmas, and everybody seems to benefit from that. But
as a kid, he doesn't dig that, which I can understand,
because when you're a kid, six months might as well
be five years, right right, I think, And I've studied
entitlements in government long enough to know this will probably work.
(06:12):
You give him the full on birthday this year in
a few days, and then you give him the full
on birthday in the summertime now, granted, come next year
and then come next Christmas. Let's see if that works.
You remember that summer when we did it. Yeah, but
I just kind of feel like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, this is my actual birthday. Doesn't heally care
about me? Oh boy, oh boy? Something?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We might have Katie's dad on later. We haven't nailed
that down yet. To talk a little bit about the
dude that murdered Charlie Kirk. The scumbag has been in
court the last couple of days and some of the
things they've decided to do in the courtroom, like cameras
in the courtroom. Katie's father, who was a judge for
very long time, has some comments on and I'd like
to talk about that. It's so interesting because many legal
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experts are not big fans of cameras in the courtroom,
but Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, is staunchly.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In favor of it. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It explains why fairly eloquently and powerfully.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Okay, we'll have to get to that a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm against courts and cameras in all cour courtrooms, and
it runs counter to everything most people believe about transparency
in this and that and getting involved. We've all seen
how what the reality of it is. Anybody old enough
to have watched OJ has Yeah. Yeah, Well, let's start
the show officially on a Friday. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this It is Friday, December twelfth, the
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year twenty twenty five, Armstrong and getting we approve of
this program? Did Christopher Darden never pull on a glove
that was wet and it had been kind of crumpled
in his whole life?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Ever, how do you make that mistake?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
All right, let's begin the show officially now, how Mark,
Now that's a throwback. Yeah, goddamn liberal probably gotten around
them all day.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We do.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And that's calling on Tara. That's uh, you don't have balls.
You're throwing cold contact the part tripping it back to
the box Top thirty one too. That's a little hard
to understand. That was a pilot saying what Katie?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He was leaving, uh, San Jose and he was just saying,
you bunch of liberal fs. Wow, they're probably all out
there driving their f and Hyundais and you're not. You
don't have balls unless you're rolling coal.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I find that humorous.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But I just don't know if I want my pilot
to ever be that angry about anything ever. Wow, that
was the Rootinus Tutinist pilot on Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Apparently that was a few years ago. That is, uh, yeah,
I want com pilots.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I want like kind of wearing the life like a
loose fit suit of clothes, as Jesus says, I, I
don't want you uptied about anything up there.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just sounded like, you know, one of the great awful
stupid trends of kind of the last phase of the
idiotic modern world. This is not as hot as it
was initially, but people acting as if private conversations between buddies,
between friends, between spouses, whatever were exactly the same as
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a speech you would give to the nation in prime time,
and that everything you cracked wise about to your buddies
ought to be seen as the same level as an
official pronounce.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
We might get to wrestle with this as humanity.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I was talking about this with my kids the other day,
and that's around that experiment that's being done. It's really
to help people that have body brain problems they get
further every single day, and the ability to like use
a computer with just your mind or type out words
with just your mind. But the most recent, the most
(10:05):
recent one they had where a guy was able to
type out words with his mind.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
They were having.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Trouble with the computer knowing, well, is this just a
thought or is this something he wants to say?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How interesting?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So if all of our thoughts at some point are
hearable or come out, then we're gonna have to wrestle
with as humankind, which would be actually pretty fascinating. Has
anybody ever writ it and written a book about this
or made a movie maybe to have but where human
beings just had to wrestle with the fact that, Wow,
we all obviously say and think.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Horrific things, I mean, just horrific things about people we
love and things we don't mean at all, and just
just random thoughts.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's just the way we are built. Sometimes I think
it's healthy. It's like the rain running off the roof
into the gutter. You think it, you express it to yourself,
you let it go because that impulse, that animal impulse.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is not something you want to hang on to. So
it's incredibly healthy, it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, clearly human nature because we all do it well,
and I think we've gotten a little better at my
original point too, understanding, Yeah, people crack wise, they make jokes,
they try to shock their friends. That's not an official
pronouncement of their view of humanity. So we get to
persecute them because we love to persecute people, because that
makes us feel better and more important and more moral
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and more powerful. Oh, I despised that trend, which reminds me.
I never got to the trans woman who was put
under for surgery but secretly recorded the doctor's conversation and
the things she heard in the way she reacted. Never
got to that story yesterday. It's pretty interesting. It's way
into what you were just describing people's private case. Did no, no, no, no, no,
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it didn't even come close. I just did a little
bit of it and teased that later we would get
the rest, and we never got to the rest.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So oh, we'll do that today. It's kind of a
fun conversation.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
We antaalize. We got Katie's headlines on the way and
lots of good stuff. So stay here, how y'all doing.
I've got a bunch of news to catch you up
on and a lot of the political news I find incredibly,
incredibly annoying, and I wonder why anybody pays any attention
to it. So I don't know if I'm the best
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person to ask about any of it. Yeah, yeah, I
feel like like eighty percent of political stories I hear.
My first thought is you realize there's better things to
do in life than talk about this.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Wednesday, during the show, I was actually applying for other work.
During the show, I was quiet quitting. I left my
resume on the cop here I got busted. That's a
fairy old school reference. Well, that's a great thing about
our situation. Nobody's making us talk about any of those things.
All right here, here, let's figure out who's talking about what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Katie hit it well prepared to be annoyed.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh boy, oh oh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Top headline on a few of the websites. NBC White
House says US intends to seize oil from tanker captured
near Venezuela. ABC satellite images suggest sees tanker deliberately deliberately
manipulated location data, and Reuters US preparing to seize more
tankers off of Venezuela's.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Coast after the first ship taken. Yeah, I find that interesting.
That's the first of many tankers we're going to start grabbing,
which will have an impact on the whole illegal oil
supply that I guess has been a thing forever. Well
in every regime, including Democratic ones, depend on money flowing
out of the treasury to keep the scam going. And
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if Maduro can't be paying off people, his his hold
on the regime is weakened significantly.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
From the Washington Post, Senate blocks Democrats bill to extend
expiring Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Well, so neither the Republican's idea or the Democrats idea
going to pass, and then we'll be starting from scratch.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I guess at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
From CBS luxury cars and private villas, how Minnesota fraudsters
spent millions intended for hungry kids.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Wow, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And it's becoming more and more clear how importantly you're
a racist accusation was when anybody tried to look into
all of this. In Minnesota, the land of George Floyd especially,
everybody was terrified of being called a racist. You could
get a you could you know, shoot somebody in front
of a cop and call them a racist, and they'd
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pull back.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
In Minneapolis in that period if they said, I think
you killed somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They had a period there in America where you had
good reason to be terrified because you were going to
lose your career.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
From the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
From chips to security, China is getting much of it
of what it wants from the United States who wrote
that New York Times. From the Wall Street Journal, AI
gadgets are bad right now, but their promise is huge.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Which gadgets are they saying is bad, like the dolls
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And no, they're talking about the wearable ones like the metaglasses,
wrisk Ai and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I know a few people who really likes the metaglasses.
This scal who's terrific. I can't remember her name, but
she has tried all of these things and written about them.
It's entertaining and interesting. But yeah, they're all not quite ready,
I guess. But you've met some glasses fans.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Interesting. Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We talked about this a little bit yesterday during Local
from the New York Post. Dynamic pricing used to raise
costs of everything from food and uber rides to museum visits.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I've gotta believe that is a future. We got to
talk about that more later. That's clearly coming from study fines.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Pop music has grown darker and more stressed over the
last fifty years, tracking with America's.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Rising distress, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I think about that a lot, thinking to listening to
young people's music, like Through I mean, I really feel
like it took off in the nineties, the angst and
then I mean, angst has always been in rock world,
but it really got angsty in the nineties and then in.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The two thousands. It's just some of the music my kids.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It's just there's so much my life sucks, the world sucks,
and so hard to be a human sorts of songs.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And finally from the Babylon Bee Hospital adds wing for
patients to recover after seeing their bill.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Ah to the music thing, that makes sense though, art
generally reflects life going on at the time, right, whether
whether it's paintings or music or writing or whatever. So, yeah,
which is leading? Which I feel like there's a suggestion
there that the music is leading the kids. I think
it's a reflection of the kids. Don't you think that's right?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, I would agree absolutely that which catches on reflects
what they are thinking and feeling. Sure, yeah, maybe we'll
talk about that too. That's a pretty interesting topic. We
got clips of the week, We got some serious news
we need to get into. There are more spending numbers
out of each continuing to spend. We gotta spend to
keep the economy going, even though your own personal economy
might be damaged. Do the right thing for America and
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max out your credit card.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I guess if you missed seg get the podcast Armstrong
and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Barry Weiss, who Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson was on
THEO Vaughan's podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's an interesting thing, but he called Barry Weiss unimpressive. Anyway,
I disagree.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Barry Weiss, who's running CBS News now and it's one
of the more impressive journalists ever, has a follow up
on the fraud Minnesota thing.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That's pretty interesting. We'll get to that in a little bit. Mm. Excellent.
That's a story that keeps on giving. Oh god, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It is such a great indicator off so many things
were getting wrong. I'd say, yeah, Okay, let's take a
fun look back at the week that was. It's the
beloved Friday tradition. It's col clips of the week.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We've deported millions so far.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Fal if I had to say, like, there's only one
thing you can ever have for the rest of time,
which admitally would be a bit monotonous, but it would
probably be a.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Cheeseburger, So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory and
context of me back he killed my dad?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
My god, Oh, women are annoying if you ever had sex? No,
absolutely not, Wow, says the guy who's never got light.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think Islam as uniquely indigestible or a secular mindset.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And another moment with one of these humanoid robots, this
time kicking its CEO.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It has simulated face off in China, the robot landing
a forceful strike.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And shows you how to take lise.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So Travis Kelsey Bought is teaching a fifteen year old
to do Coohan.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, I don't feel good about being white every day
for a lot of reasons, because it's a point.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Of privilege, scrape in the ass end and education. You
can't even spell as assend. What has happened to you?
Did you have a stroke? The new word is affordability.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I wonder what grade you would give A plus A
plus A plus plus plus plus plus. This deal, if
it is allowed to move forward, will actually be the
death of the theatrical movie business in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
We're sitting here today trying to save it. We're the
United States of American, That's who we are. Lucia has bols.
We're back to Europe and.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If you must be prepared for the skill of our
grandparents and great grandparents and Georgia. The binary Justice Department
called it the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This also has an impact on somalis. Do you think
that the video should be released in full to the
American public? Yeah, but whatever they have we certainly released
no problem. This video was profoundly shaking. I didn't find
it distressing or disturbing. It looks like any number of
(20:24):
dozens of strikes we've seen. Senator, have you seen the video?
I have seen the video. You have seen the classified video.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
No, I've not seen the actual video, and I guess
it's clips of the week.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
What a week, as every week is in the modern world.
Too much stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Trump has promised yesterday on the Armstrong and Getty Show
sign in an executive order around AI to try to
keep fifty different states from having fifty different sets of
rules making it impossible for AI to try to come
about in a way that we can compete against China.
We'll talk about that a little bit later. That's pretty interesting.
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And now it's just a very odd thing to try
to do to something Internet related in the United States
of America. Yeah yeah, And I see in California, it's
gotta be Gavin running this. He's going to try to
fight that. Donald Trump is going to allow this wild
out of control technology to blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And well, we're not going to allow that to happen.
So that's going to become a wedge thing there.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
So goff Gav with Silicon Valley, the only productive sector
practically of California, is now going to choke it out. Okay,
all right, good. So all those people up in Minnesota
stole all that money.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
A billion dollars in one not very big state.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, got stolen. And again this is near as biggest
story as it probably should be. Why because Donald Trump
blamed Somali's so the mainstream media feels like it's evil
and they got to.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Stay away from the story. I guess this is pretty
interesting anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Barry Weiss, who runs CBS News and is a real
journalist and covers things that are interesting regardless of what
you know.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Sacred cows, they touch.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Luxury cars, private villas, and overseas wire transfers. CBS News
has obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how
Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions of dollars in
taxpayer dollars as part of one of the biggest COVID
era fraud schemes in the entire country. Again, Minnesota's It's
not like it's California or New York or Texas. A
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billion dollars in Minnesota. The files document a spending spree
in which defendants, many of Somali descent.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Good for you, Berry Weiss, throwing that in there to.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Taxpayer money meant to feed hungry children and used it
to buy cars, property and jewel. Video show them popping
champagne at an opulent Maldives resort. In a text message,
one defendant boast You're gonna be the richest twenty five
year old in Shalla.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know. Is that a term? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
if Ala is willing. Oh, okay, I got you. That's
what that's. Oh, that's what that means. Okay. Uh, well
that's nice. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
The documents feature exhibits from a recent federal trial, many
of which are being made public by CBS News for
the first time. The exhibits include a confirmation email first
stay in an overwater villa with a private pool at
the Radisson Blue Resort in Maldives, lakefront property in Minnesota,
RECEIAT showing wire transfers to China and East Africa.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh awesome, so.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
People here, people here from China sending money back to China.
That's fantastic. Soling from the taxpayer, that's absolutely just great.
Beautiful first class tickets to Istanbul and Amsterdam. Well, if
you're gonna fly now, you might as well fly first
class now that you're living off the taxpayer. Certainly, somebody
bought a Porsche stacks to stretch out over the Atlantic relax,
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stacks of cash. Somebody bought a Porse Porsche where others
saw a crisis and rush to help. You saw money
and rush to steal, said the US district judge, trying
to make these people feel bad, and they probably don't.
They feel bad that they got caught. I doubt that
they feel bad that they did it. One person those
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sentenced to ten years in prison. That's a long time
in order to pay nearly forty eight million dollars in
restitution for roll in the frost brow. Yeah, so how
does that work out when you're told to pay back
forty eight million dollars And I'm guessing this is just
a regular person that makes a regular living.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That's a great question. I've never had to enforce that
sort of order.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I think essentially for the rest of your life, a
portion of what you make so you have to go
to a restitution.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That would be my guess. And I have no idea
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You can text her email, but I'll bet you're allowed
enough to live on a pretty meager life and everything
above that goes to pay off your debt for the
rest of your life, which sounds awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That seems like a perfect penalty.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Oh you're greedy. Now you're sentenced to life life of
barely getting by. Nice scheme, you know, it's almost this
whole thing, this whole Somali's Minneapolis ripoff scandal. It's like
Satan designer. Maybe God would to open our eyes, but
Satan was sitting around with his henchman, rubbing his goatee
(25:29):
and gin. Everybody knows Satan has a goateea. My sister
once said to me, Joe, your go team makes you
look like Satan. Really yeah, really yeah, I'm back when
it was much darker. Anyway, I don't remember. We're Matt,
We were friendly, we used to hang out together. I
was never a dad to his island. Yes, I don't
remember your Satan period, and I look at you every day.
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But well, the greatest trick the devil ever played was
convincing the world he didn't exist.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
So Satan's involvement in all of this.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
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And of course I got other stuff that's not red meat.
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The son that didn't like red meat will eat every
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joke eddies goatee, and so you're saying to himself, we
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need to design the perfect debacle. We need to combine
rampant unchet immigration. And one of his henchmen would say,
make sure it's from a place that's hostile to the
principles of the United States. Ah, an excellent idea, bl zibob.
So rampant immigration from a hostile place. How about an
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insulated community that does not assimilate from a culture where
corruption is routine. Can we sprinkle that with some of
the bloated American welfare states utter lack of interest in
any protecting taxpayer's money. They just just spray it like
like the fire hose. And how about the little political
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correctness in there?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yes, a little.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Wokeness can be leven little wokeness spice into this delicious recipe.
To be fair, I think you need to throw in
a very large dash of the public doesn't care enough
about where taxpayer money goes. Wow, yeah, okay, So a
little bit of narrow the tax pace so that the
average taxpayer doesn't care. And that's this situation ion Hersan Ali,
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who is the absolutely brilliant Somali immigrant to.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
She's I think in the UK at this point.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
She's married to the great Neil Ferguson and has dropped
out of Islam, which has earned her you know, the
Fatwah writing about the dynamics, the specifically Somali dynamics of
this scandal, which are definitely worth touching on at some point.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But it's true, it's not racism. Point out that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Fraud and theft in that part of the world is
absolutely rampant because legitimate interaction with the government and its
programs or business or whatever, they practically don't exist. Well, yeah,
that's interesting and I am I am more than willing
to talk about that. And we do need to do
something about letting people into this country that have no
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respect for it or the taxpayer or even like the country.
But you know, one of the biggest frauds of all
the COVID Minnesota billion dollars bigger fraud in California by
mostly people born here. It's amazing how many people are
willing to steal I just like I would never ever
consider doing that, and I don't even exactly know why.
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But I just wouldn't take borls millions of dollars from
the taxpayer, and certainly then think, you know what I'm
gonna do is go fly first class or whatever. But
if you're from another country and you don't like the country,
I just picturing like if I ended up in China
and I don't like the Chinese government obviously, and somehow
I end up in a situation where I could steal
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a million dollars of CCP money.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I don't care I live in China. That's their problem.
If I thought I could get away.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
With it, I don't think my morals would come into
play there, which is interesting, so that you know, that's
a double layer for the people from countries that don't
even like us, all right, That's why there are so many,
like I was pointing out aspects of this that need
to be addressed at some point. To your point, the
bank that just every night they forget to lock the vault.
They can bitch all they want about the dishonest townspeople
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who come and help themselves to the loot, but at
some point, hey, you've got a responsibility here too.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Can we put a fencer on that thing or something?
Hire a night Watchman. Yeah, I don't know. That's that's
an interesting question.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I think I'd be perfectly willing to steal money from
the Chinese government if I lived in China and thought
I could get away with it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So where are then, Well, right, yeah, I mean right,
we have an array of problems here. Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So yeah, so you bring in people who don't like
the country, and then you add in the fact that
there's plenty of people willing to steal no matter what,
and you have a culture where if I call the
Chinese authorities who came to my house racists and they're.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Like, oh, oh sorry, sorry, I.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Mean, come on, yeah, you're only after me because I'm white,
I say, in China, that wouldn't work, and they'd retreat quickly.
Oh no, no, I don't want anybody to yell at
me please. I mean, if you were described as to
a space alien, they would think, no, there's no country
like that. We've got mail bag on the way and
lots of good stuff to get to. I just came
up with a long list of bad jokes that I
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feel like, if you have them all in a row,
they're funny.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Maybe we'll do that later. It's Friday for Grind Out Loud,
Stay here Wall Street Journal. Today, Trump says Ukraine is
losing the war.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That gives you a little cling as to why he
feels the way he feels about the current peace process.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Maybe we'll get into that a little later. He thinks
Ukraine is losing.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Hey, yeah, the I happen to see that article, the
point of which is that the Ukrainian military disagrees strongly.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So interesting. Here's your freedom loving quote of today.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Following up yesterday, Will Durant said, a great civilization is
not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Let's follow up with something absolutely fabulous from the great
Thomas Sowell. Just as any moron can destroy a priceless
ming vase, so the shallow and ill educated people who
run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a
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great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create
and maintain.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well, that's troubling, wolf Wow mail bag.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Pretty good description of our perverse government schools as well.
Jared Missouri writing to our mail bag at Armstrongygeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's the email address. Mail bag at Armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Progressives will say natural things like the family or social constructs,
while calling social constructs like transgenderism natural.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's odd. Yeah, it's a good point shared. Huh.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Doctor Brian writes, I can't believe I would ever side
with Jack Armstrong. Joe, your euphemisms for hot dogs make
me never want to eat water or a sausage ever. Again,
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Jack.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
This is all on you.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Your made your bed, now sleep in it. At least
my comforters try. Hot dog euphemisms are disgusting. I agree
Joe takes one of the great pleasures in life, the
hot dog, and ruins it with disgusting terms for it. Finally,
one more sentence. If you want back the number one slot,
you better try harder. Until then, I'm on tiem Armstrong,
Well go to help, doctor Brian.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I would submit to you that tube steak you is?
Why is that in you? And it's clearly a.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Tube and it's calling it a steak, which elevates the
humble hot dog. Yeah, Katie's make it a face too.
None of us are finding that appealing. Yes, something about it,
it's just bad. Yes, it's not appeal If I'm sitting
there on the couch. Anybody want a hot dog?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yes? Anybody want a tube steak?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh well, sensitive little children tube steaks for everyone. Moving along,
you're gonna veer from topic to topic here, Mark, uh
uh uh oh no, see you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You can't do that. We'll have to do that another time.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
If you want to be anonymous, make it clear at
the outset, not in some tiny eight point font thing
at the very end. I really want to read that email,
but later you protect sources I do. I have never
gotten anybody in trouble. You're the Bob Woodward of morning
radio email A.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Lot like that.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Marina from San Diego frequently the source of some fascinating thoughts.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
The whole experiment on children on social media and devices
unsupervised as a tragedy. However, it's how America does things
almost from the beginning. Our freedom allows us to invent
anything and everything balls to the walls, and then it's
just unleashed with no regulation or testing, not until we
see the damage it causes to begin to make corrections.
Some things take longer than others, take seat belts, cigarettes,
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lawn darts, or metabol life The reality is enough people
and children have to die or be severely injured before
change happens. There's a great show on the History Channel
called Hazardous History with Henry Winkler the Fawns. It's about
the crazy s that people have invented that we're either
dangerous or deadly. The idea that we used to allow
them in this country is insane. Someday we'll look back
and think the same stupid does hurt It hurts us all.
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My only gripe with that email, which I find excellent,
is lawn darts. If you don't know enough to stay
out of the way of the lawn dart hurtling through
the air, you deserve a puncture one. Joe Getty's America
isn't quite so soft as Marina say. Yeah, not knowing
cigarettes to kill you isn't. You can be excused for
not knowing a lawn dart could do what a lawn
dart can do. The hell it's a weighted spike throat
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flying through the air. Think about it. Let's see we
got thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I've heard that if Republicans don't extend the Obamacare subsidies,
thousands will die. Gee, how many people's died of starvation
when the Somali stole a billion dollars designating to feed
the food insecure.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
What a bunch of bolshizzle starve the lazy. Thank give
her that.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We're gonna talk to Katie's dad, who was a judge
about the trial that started up the killer of Charlie
Kirk in hour two.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
If you don't get a good podcast, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong
and Jetty and keep arms all.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Live.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's from Studio C. See senor dimly let her excuse me.
Oh golly, oh boy man.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I warmed up in my car all the way to
work thinking today I'm gonna start without spraying flem.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
All over everyone, good lord, but I was not successful.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Uh deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Communications compound. Today we're into the tutelage of art and
it's frye. We're under the toutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm torn. I'm torn.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
The interview have gone well, but we have multiple general
managers candidates. Do you have any especially excited about Jack today?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't know. I'm feeling very Christmas. Yeah, I get
my Christmas at on please.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Nothing better than that. The Christmas season. Let's remember it's
about joy, togetherness and not get stressed out, not get
too stressed out, not get so stressed out you commit
a crime. Well, just let's set the bar there, go
and try to leap that bar.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Here's something I've learned. We used to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Going way back to the beginning of our knowing each other,
we both had the fortune of like enjoying Christmas time
and it was always a good thing, and hearing people
complain about Thanksgiving and Christmas always seemed weird to us.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We always seemed weird to me. It's like, what freaking
love it? It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
But that was because my families everybody got along, and
families weren't tact as a divorced family, and then trying
to put everything together everything like that, It's a lot
of stress and annoyance and things that you'd rather not
deal with. So a lot of the I love Christmas
Thanksgiving is you should be thankful.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
For your situation. That's oh yeah, I mean attitude.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Attitude definitely, that definitely plays a difference in well, everything
in life. But it was easier to enjoy the Christmas
season when I wasn't trying to manage this whole deal. Right, Yeah,
I have follow up questions, obviously, but I'll let you
figure out how far you want to go down that road.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I will just tell you this.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
At our mega Thanksgiving gathering several days ago, in which
folks converged from both coasts and all over the place,
and multiple generations. It was a semi frequent topic of conversation.
You know how fortunate it is to be in a
family where everybody get The worst thing that happens is
somebody is a little goofy and there's an eye roll
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and you move on.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's fine. But yeah, it's a blessing. It's an incredible blessing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, my nuclear family, it's just me and my brothers,
my mom and dad, the same five I started with
as a child. We all get together for all this
tum and it's fantastic. Well, I want to hear go ahead,
I was gonna mention. My niece sent pictures of her
hand with a ring on it the other day. My
oldest niece, she's getting married and she's so excited. Good
for her. I hope she's very happy. You want to
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hear something. It's funny. Communing with my in particular my
youngest daughter's friends, has given me a lot more perspective
about the world of families. I mean, I've known plenty
of people and observed plenty of things throughout my life,
but for instance, this one's unbelievable. I'll leave names out.
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One of her law school buddies. Several of them came
and we had a great time. And actually it was
some non law school buddies too. But we're playing a
game and one of the girls, one of the young
women I will refer to her as Jenny. Jenny made
a real nice throw in the game and I said,
(04:07):
great throw, Jenny, Yes, And she spent the rest of
the day thinking about it because this was passed on
to me. That was the first time in her life
a father figure had encouraged her.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Wow. Wow, I know, I know it was heartbreaking. That
is something yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Anyway, so those of us who've been so blessed by fate,
genetics and the Lord above or whatever, you want to
attribute it to your own great character, you know, with
happy families. What's that line from Kara Maza from Dostoevsky.
I'm sorry the other Russian guy too. Many Russian authors
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got a limit. All happy families are alike. Unhappy families
are all unhappy in their own way. I think that's
the beginning of and Coronna.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes, but that seems to be true.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The happy family is just everybody's nice to everybody and
respects everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The end. I mean, it's not real.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Complicated, yeah, but do you get into the unhappy ones,
and there's all kinds of oh boy, it gets very
complicated very fast.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, happy Holidays, very Christmas. So I guess
the way.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
To portray this would be I have grown and I
have more sympathy for people who find this time a
year stressful as a opposed to only joyous. I still
find it mostly joyous and enjoy it and everything like that.
And I'm looking forward to My son's birthday is two
days before Christmas, always a wrenching things. I'm hoping he
reaches the age at some point where he agrees to
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what lots of people suggest, doing the half birthday in
the middle of the summer so it's not so closed
to Christmas, and everybody seems to benefit from that. But
as a kid, he doesn't dig that, which I can understand,
because when you're a kid, six months might as well
be five years, right right, I think, And I've studied
entitlements in government long enough to know this will probably work.
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You give him the full on birthday this year in
a few days, and then you give him the full
on birthday in the summertime now, granted, come next year
and then come next Christmas. Let's see if that works.
You remember that summer when we did it. Yeah, but
I just kind of feel like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mean, this is my actual birthday. Doesn't heally care
about me? Oh boy, oh boy? Something?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We might have Katie's dad on later. We haven't nailed
that down yet. To talk a little bit about the
dude that murdered Charlie Kirk. The scumbag has been in
court the last couple of days and some of the
things they've decided to do in the courtroom, like cameras
in the courtroom. Katie's father, who was a judge for
very long time, has some comments on and I'd like
to talk about that. It's so interesting because many legal
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experts are not big fans of cameras in the courtroom,
but Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, is staunchly.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In favor of it. That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It explains why fairly eloquently and powerfully.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Okay, we'll have to get to that a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I'm against courts and cameras in all cour courtrooms, and
it runs counter to everything most people believe about transparency
in this and that and getting involved. We've all seen
how what the reality of it is. Anybody old enough
to have watched OJ has Yeah. Yeah, Well, let's start
the show officially on a Friday. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this It is Friday, December twelfth, the
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year twenty twenty five, Armstrong and getting we approve of
this program? Did Christopher Darden never pull on a glove
that was wet and it had been kind of crumpled
in his whole life?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Ever, how do you make that mistake?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
All right, let's begin the show officially now, how Mark,
Now that's a throwback. Yeah, goddamn liberal probably gotten around
them all day.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We do.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And that's calling on Tara. That's uh, you don't have balls.
You're throwing cold contact the part tripping it back to
the box Top thirty one too. That's a little hard
to understand. That was a pilot saying what Katie?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He was leaving, uh, San Jose and he was just saying,
you bunch of liberal fs. Wow, they're probably all out
there driving their f and Hyundais and you're not. You
don't have balls unless you're rolling coal.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, I find that humorous.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But I just don't know if I want my pilot
to ever be that angry about anything ever. Wow, that
was the Rootinus Tutinist pilot on Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Apparently that was a few years ago. That is, uh, yeah,
I want com pilots.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
I want like kind of wearing the life like a
loose fit suit of clothes, as Jesus says, I, I
don't want you uptied about anything up there.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just sounded like, you know, one of the great awful
stupid trends of kind of the last phase of the
idiotic modern world. This is not as hot as it
was initially, but people acting as if private conversations between buddies,
between friends, between spouses, whatever were exactly the same as
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a speech you would give to the nation in prime time,
and that everything you cracked wise about to your buddies
ought to be seen as the same level as an
official pronounce.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
We might get to wrestle with this as humanity.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I was talking about this with my kids the other day,
and that's around that experiment that's being done. It's really
to help people that have body brain problems they get
further every single day, and the ability to like use
a computer with just your mind or type out words
with just your mind. But the most recent, the most
(10:05):
recent one they had where a guy was able to
type out words with his mind.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
They were having.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Trouble with the computer knowing, well, is this just a
thought or is this something he wants to say?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How interesting?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So if all of our thoughts at some point are
hearable or come out, then we're gonna have to wrestle
with as humankind, which would be actually pretty fascinating. Has
anybody ever writ it and written a book about this
or made a movie maybe to have but where human
beings just had to wrestle with the fact that, Wow,
we all obviously say and think.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Horrific things, I mean, just horrific things about people we
love and things we don't mean at all, and just
just random thoughts.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's just the way we are built. Sometimes I think
it's healthy. It's like the rain running off the roof
into the gutter. You think it, you express it to yourself,
you let it go because that impulse, that animal impulse.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Is not something you want to hang on to. So
it's incredibly healthy, it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, clearly human nature because we all do it well,
and I think we've gotten a little better at my
original point too, understanding, Yeah, people crack wise, they make jokes,
they try to shock their friends. That's not an official
pronouncement of their view of humanity. So we get to
persecute them because we love to persecute people, because that
makes us feel better and more important and more moral
(11:25):
and more powerful. Oh, I despised that trend, which reminds me.
I never got to the trans woman who was put
under for surgery but secretly recorded the doctor's conversation and
the things she heard in the way she reacted. Never
got to that story yesterday. It's pretty interesting. It's way
into what you were just describing people's private case. Did no, no, no, no, no,
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it didn't even come close. I just did a little
bit of it and teased that later we would get
the rest, and we never got to the rest.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So oh, we'll do that today. It's kind of a
fun conversation.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
We antaalize. We got Katie's headlines on the way and
lots of good stuff. So stay here, how y'all doing.
I've got a bunch of news to catch you up
on and a lot of the political news I find incredibly,
incredibly annoying, and I wonder why anybody pays any attention
to it. So I don't know if I'm the best
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person to ask about any of it. Yeah, yeah, I
feel like like eighty percent of political stories I hear.
My first thought is you realize there's better things to
do in life than talk about this.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Wednesday, during the show, I was actually applying for other work.
During the show, I was quiet quitting. I left my
resume on the cop here I got busted. That's a
fairy old school reference. Well, that's a great thing about
our situation. Nobody's making us talk about any of those things.
All right here, here, let's figure out who's talking about what.
It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Katie hit it well prepared to be annoyed.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh boy, oh oh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Top headline on a few of the websites. NBC White
House says US intends to seize oil from tanker captured
near Venezuela. ABC satellite images suggest sees tanker deliberately deliberately
manipulated location data, and Reuters US preparing to seize more
tankers off of Venezuela's.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Coast after the first ship taken. Yeah, I find that interesting.
That's the first of many tankers we're going to start grabbing,
which will have an impact on the whole illegal oil
supply that I guess has been a thing forever. Well
in every regime, including Democratic ones, depend on money flowing
out of the treasury to keep the scam going. And
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if Maduro can't be paying off people, his his hold
on the regime is weakened significantly.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
From the Washington Post, Senate blocks Democrats bill to extend
expiring Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Well, so neither the Republican's idea or the Democrats idea
going to pass, and then we'll be starting from scratch.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I guess at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
From CBS luxury cars and private villas, how Minnesota fraudsters
spent millions intended for hungry kids.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Wow, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And it's becoming more and more clear how importantly you're
a racist accusation was when anybody tried to look into
all of this. In Minnesota, the land of George Floyd especially,
everybody was terrified of being called a racist. You could
get a you could you know, shoot somebody in front
of a cop and call them a racist, and they'd
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pull back.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
In Minneapolis in that period if they said, I think
you killed somebody.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
They had a period there in America where you had
good reason to be terrified because you were going to
lose your career.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
From the New York Times.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
From chips to security, China is getting much of it
of what it wants from the United States who wrote
that New York Times. From the Wall Street Journal, AI
gadgets are bad right now, but their promise is huge.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Which gadgets are they saying is bad, like the dolls
and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And no, they're talking about the wearable ones like the metaglasses,
wrisk Ai and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I know a few people who really likes the metaglasses.
This scal who's terrific. I can't remember her name, but
she has tried all of these things and written about them.
It's entertaining and interesting. But yeah, they're all not quite ready,
I guess. But you've met some glasses fans.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Interesting. Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We talked about this a little bit yesterday during Local
from the New York Post. Dynamic pricing used to raise
costs of everything from food and uber rides to museum visits.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I've gotta believe that is a future. We got to
talk about that more later. That's clearly coming from study fines.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Pop music has grown darker and more stressed over the
last fifty years, tracking with America's.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Rising distress, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I think about that a lot, thinking to listening to
young people's music, like Through I mean, I really feel
like it took off in the nineties, the angst and
then I mean, angst has always been in rock world,
but it really got angsty in the nineties and then in.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The two thousands. It's just some of the music my kids.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
It's just there's so much my life sucks, the world sucks,
and so hard to be a human sorts of songs.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And finally from the Babylon Bee Hospital adds wing for
patients to recover after seeing their bill.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Ah to the music thing, that makes sense though, art
generally reflects life going on at the time, right, whether
whether it's paintings or music or writing or whatever. So, yeah,
which is leading? Which I feel like there's a suggestion
there that the music is leading the kids. I think
it's a reflection of the kids. Don't you think that's right?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, I would agree absolutely that which catches on reflects
what they are thinking and feeling. Sure, yeah, maybe we'll
talk about that too. That's a pretty interesting topic. We
got clips of the week, We got some serious news
we need to get into. There are more spending numbers
out of each continuing to spend. We gotta spend to
keep the economy going, even though your own personal economy
might be damaged. Do the right thing for America and
(17:14):
max out your credit card.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I guess if you missed seg get the podcast Armstrong
and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Barry Weiss, who Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson was on
THEO Vaughan's podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's an interesting thing, but he called Barry Weiss unimpressive. Anyway,
I disagree.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Barry Weiss, who's running CBS News now and it's one
of the more impressive journalists ever, has a follow up
on the fraud Minnesota thing.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That's pretty interesting. We'll get to that in a little bit. Mm. Excellent.
That's a story that keeps on giving. Oh god, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It is such a great indicator off so many things
were getting wrong. I'd say, yeah, Okay, let's take a
fun look back at the week that was. It's the
beloved Friday tradition. It's col clips of the week.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
We've deported millions so far.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Fal if I had to say, like, there's only one
thing you can ever have for the rest of time,
which admitally would be a bit monotonous, but it would
probably be a.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Cheeseburger, So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory and
context of me back he killed my dad?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
My god, Oh, women are annoying if you ever had sex? No,
absolutely not, Wow, says the guy who's never got light.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think Islam as uniquely indigestible or a secular mindset.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And another moment with one of these humanoid robots, this
time kicking its CEO.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It has simulated face off in China, the robot landing
a forceful strike.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
And shows you how to take lise.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So Travis Kelsey Bought is teaching a fifteen year old
to do Coohan.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, I don't feel good about being white every day
for a lot of reasons, because it's a point.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Of privilege, scrape in the ass end and education. You
can't even spell as assend. What has happened to you?
Did you have a stroke? The new word is affordability.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I wonder what grade you would give A plus A
plus A plus plus plus plus plus. This deal, if
it is allowed to move forward, will actually be the
death of the theatrical movie business in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
We're sitting here today trying to save it. We're the
United States of American, That's who we are. Lucia has bols.
We're back to Europe and.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If you must be prepared for the skill of our
grandparents and great grandparents and Georgia. The binary Justice Department
called it the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This also has an impact on somalis. Do you think
that the video should be released in full to the
American public? Yeah, but whatever they have we certainly released
no problem. This video was profoundly shaking. I didn't find
it distressing or disturbing. It looks like any number of
(20:24):
dozens of strikes we've seen. Senator, have you seen the video?
I have seen the video. You have seen the classified video.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
No, I've not seen the actual video, and I guess
it's clips of the week.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
What a week, as every week is in the modern world.
Too much stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Trump has promised yesterday on the Armstrong and Getty Show
sign in an executive order around AI to try to
keep fifty different states from having fifty different sets of
rules making it impossible for AI to try to come
about in a way that we can compete against China.
We'll talk about that a little bit later. That's pretty interesting.
(21:12):
And now it's just a very odd thing to try
to do to something Internet related in the United States
of America. Yeah yeah, And I see in California, it's
gotta be Gavin running this. He's going to try to
fight that. Donald Trump is going to allow this wild
out of control technology to blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And well, we're not going to allow that to happen.
So that's going to become a wedge thing there.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
So goff Gav with Silicon Valley, the only productive sector
practically of California, is now going to choke it out. Okay,
all right, good. So all those people up in Minnesota
stole all that money.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
A billion dollars in one not very big state.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, got stolen. And again this is near as biggest
story as it probably should be. Why because Donald Trump
blamed Somali's so the mainstream media feels like it's evil
and they got to.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Stay away from the story. I guess this is pretty
interesting anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Barry Weiss, who runs CBS News and is a real
journalist and covers things that are interesting regardless of what
you know.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Sacred cows, they touch.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Luxury cars, private villas, and overseas wire transfers. CBS News
has obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how
Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions of dollars in
taxpayer dollars as part of one of the biggest COVID
era fraud schemes in the entire country. Again, Minnesota's It's
not like it's California or New York or Texas. A
(22:44):
billion dollars in Minnesota. The files document a spending spree
in which defendants, many of Somali descent.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Good for you, Berry Weiss, throwing that in there to.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Taxpayer money meant to feed hungry children and used it
to buy cars, property and jewel. Video show them popping
champagne at an opulent Maldives resort. In a text message,
one defendant boast You're gonna be the richest twenty five
year old in Shalla.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know. Is that a term? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
if Ala is willing. Oh, okay, I got you. That's
what that's. Oh, that's what that means. Okay. Uh, well
that's nice. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
The documents feature exhibits from a recent federal trial, many
of which are being made public by CBS News for
the first time. The exhibits include a confirmation email first
stay in an overwater villa with a private pool at
the Radisson Blue Resort in Maldives, lakefront property in Minnesota,
RECEIAT showing wire transfers to China and East Africa.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh awesome, so.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
People here, people here from China sending money back to China.
That's fantastic. Soling from the taxpayer, that's absolutely just great.
Beautiful first class tickets to Istanbul and Amsterdam. Well, if
you're gonna fly now, you might as well fly first
class now that you're living off the taxpayer. Certainly, somebody
bought a Porsche stacks to stretch out over the Atlantic relax,
(24:07):
stacks of cash. Somebody bought a Porse Porsche where others
saw a crisis and rush to help. You saw money
and rush to steal, said the US district judge, trying
to make these people feel bad, and they probably don't.
They feel bad that they got caught. I doubt that
they feel bad that they did it. One person those
(24:27):
sentenced to ten years in prison. That's a long time
in order to pay nearly forty eight million dollars in
restitution for roll in the frost brow. Yeah, so how
does that work out when you're told to pay back
forty eight million dollars And I'm guessing this is just
a regular person that makes a regular living.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
That's a great question. I've never had to enforce that
sort of order.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I think essentially for the rest of your life, a
portion of what you make so you have to go
to a restitution.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That would be my guess. And I have no idea
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
You can text her email, but I'll bet you're allowed
enough to live on a pretty meager life and everything
above that goes to pay off your debt for the
rest of your life, which sounds awesome.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
That seems like a perfect penalty.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Oh you're greedy. Now you're sentenced to life life of
barely getting by. Nice scheme, you know, it's almost this
whole thing, this whole Somali's Minneapolis ripoff scandal. It's like
Satan designer. Maybe God would to open our eyes, but
Satan was sitting around with his henchman, rubbing his goatee
(25:29):
and gin. Everybody knows Satan has a goateea. My sister
once said to me, Joe, your go team makes you
look like Satan. Really yeah, really yeah, I'm back when
it was much darker. Anyway, I don't remember. We're Matt,
We were friendly, we used to hang out together. I
was never a dad to his island. Yes, I don't
remember your Satan period, and I look at you every day.
(25:49):
But well, the greatest trick the devil ever played was
convincing the world he didn't exist.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
So Satan's involvement in all of this.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
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joke eddies goatee, and so you're saying to himself, we
(27:19):
need to design the perfect debacle. We need to combine
rampant unchet immigration. And one of his henchmen would say,
make sure it's from a place that's hostile to the
principles of the United States. Ah, an excellent idea, bl zibob.
So rampant immigration from a hostile place. How about an
(27:41):
insulated community that does not assimilate from a culture where
corruption is routine. Can we sprinkle that with some of
the bloated American welfare states utter lack of interest in
any protecting taxpayer's money. They just just spray it like
like the fire hose. And how about the little political
(28:03):
correctness in there?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yes, a little.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Wokeness can be leven little wokeness spice into this delicious recipe.
To be fair, I think you need to throw in
a very large dash of the public doesn't care enough
about where taxpayer money goes. Wow, yeah, okay, So a
little bit of narrow the tax pace so that the
average taxpayer doesn't care. And that's this situation ion Hersan Ali,
(28:30):
who is the absolutely brilliant Somali immigrant to.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
She's I think in the UK at this point.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
She's married to the great Neil Ferguson and has dropped
out of Islam, which has earned her you know, the
Fatwah writing about the dynamics, the specifically Somali dynamics of
this scandal, which are definitely worth touching on at some point.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But it's true, it's not racism. Point out that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Fraud and theft in that part of the world is
absolutely rampant because legitimate interaction with the government and its
programs or business or whatever, they practically don't exist. Well, yeah,
that's interesting and I am I am more than willing
to talk about that. And we do need to do
something about letting people into this country that have no
(29:22):
respect for it or the taxpayer or even like the country.
But you know, one of the biggest frauds of all
the COVID Minnesota billion dollars bigger fraud in California by
mostly people born here. It's amazing how many people are
willing to steal I just like I would never ever
consider doing that, and I don't even exactly know why.
(29:46):
But I just wouldn't take borls millions of dollars from
the taxpayer, and certainly then think, you know what I'm
gonna do is go fly first class or whatever. But
if you're from another country and you don't like the country,
I just picturing like if I ended up in China
and I don't like the Chinese government obviously, and somehow
I end up in a situation where I could steal
(30:08):
a million dollars of CCP money.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I don't care I live in China. That's their problem.
If I thought I could get away.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
With it, I don't think my morals would come into
play there, which is interesting, so that you know, that's
a double layer for the people from countries that don't
even like us, all right, That's why there are so many,
like I was pointing out aspects of this that need
to be addressed at some point. To your point, the
bank that just every night they forget to lock the vault.
They can bitch all they want about the dishonest townspeople
(30:37):
who come and help themselves to the loot, but at
some point, hey, you've got a responsibility here too.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Can we put a fencer on that thing or something?
Hire a night Watchman. Yeah, I don't know. That's that's
an interesting question.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I think I'd be perfectly willing to steal money from
the Chinese government if I lived in China and thought
I could get away with it.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So where are then, Well, right, yeah, I mean right,
we have an array of problems here. Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So yeah, so you bring in people who don't like
the country, and then you add in the fact that
there's plenty of people willing to steal no matter what,
and you have a culture where if I call the
Chinese authorities who came to my house racists and they're.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Like, oh, oh sorry, sorry, I.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Mean, come on, yeah, you're only after me because I'm white,
I say, in China, that wouldn't work, and they'd retreat quickly.
Oh no, no, I don't want anybody to yell at
me please. I mean, if you were described as to
a space alien, they would think, no, there's no country
like that. We've got mail bag on the way and
lots of good stuff to get to. I just came
up with a long list of bad jokes that I
(31:45):
feel like, if you have them all in a row,
they're funny.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Maybe we'll do that later. It's Friday for Grind Out Loud,
Stay here Wall Street Journal. Today, Trump says Ukraine is
losing the war.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That gives you a little cling as to why he
feels the way he feels about the current peace process.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Maybe we'll get into that a little later. He thinks
Ukraine is losing.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Hey, yeah, the I happen to see that article, the
point of which is that the Ukrainian military disagrees strongly.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So interesting. Here's your freedom loving quote of today.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Following up yesterday, Will Durant said, a great civilization is
not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Let's follow up with something absolutely fabulous from the great
Thomas Sowell. Just as any moron can destroy a priceless
ming vase, so the shallow and ill educated people who
run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a
(32:37):
great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create
and maintain.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well, that's troubling, wolf Wow mail bag.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Pretty good description of our perverse government schools as well.
Jared Missouri writing to our mail bag at Armstrongygeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That's the email address. Mail bag at Armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Progressives will say natural things like the family or social constructs,
while calling social constructs like transgenderism natural.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's odd. Yeah, it's a good point shared. Huh.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Doctor Brian writes, I can't believe I would ever side
with Jack Armstrong. Joe, your euphemisms for hot dogs make
me never want to eat water or a sausage ever. Again,
I can't believe I'm agreeing with Jack.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
This is all on you.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Your made your bed, now sleep in it. At least
my comforters try. Hot dog euphemisms are disgusting. I agree
Joe takes one of the great pleasures in life, the
hot dog, and ruins it with disgusting terms for it. Finally,
one more sentence. If you want back the number one slot,
you better try harder. Until then, I'm on tiem Armstrong,
Well go to help, doctor Brian.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I would submit to you that tube steak you is?
Why is that in you? And it's clearly a.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Tube and it's calling it a steak, which elevates the
humble hot dog. Yeah, Katie's make it a face too.
None of us are finding that appealing. Yes, something about it,
it's just bad. Yes, it's not appeal If I'm sitting
there on the couch. Anybody want a hot dog?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yes? Anybody want a tube steak?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh well, sensitive little children tube steaks for everyone. Moving along,
you're gonna veer from topic to topic here, Mark, uh
uh uh oh no, see you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You can't do that. We'll have to do that another time.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
If you want to be anonymous, make it clear at
the outset, not in some tiny eight point font thing
at the very end. I really want to read that email,
but later you protect sources I do. I have never
gotten anybody in trouble. You're the Bob Woodward of morning
radio email A.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Lot like that.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Marina from San Diego frequently the source of some fascinating thoughts.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
The whole experiment on children on social media and devices
unsupervised as a tragedy. However, it's how America does things
almost from the beginning. Our freedom allows us to invent
anything and everything balls to the walls, and then it's
just unleashed with no regulation or testing, not until we
see the damage it causes to begin to make corrections.
Some things take longer than others, take seat belts, cigarettes,
(35:16):
lawn darts, or metabol life The reality is enough people
and children have to die or be severely injured before
change happens. There's a great show on the History Channel
called Hazardous History with Henry Winkler the Fawns. It's about
the crazy s that people have invented that we're either
dangerous or deadly. The idea that we used to allow
them in this country is insane. Someday we'll look back
and think the same stupid does hurt It hurts us all.
(35:40):
My only gripe with that email, which I find excellent,
is lawn darts. If you don't know enough to stay
out of the way of the lawn dart hurtling through
the air, you deserve a puncture one. Joe Getty's America
isn't quite so soft as Marina say. Yeah, not knowing
cigarettes to kill you isn't. You can be excused for
not knowing a lawn dart could do what a lawn
dart can do. The hell it's a weighted spike throat
(36:03):
flying through the air. Think about it. Let's see we
got thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I've heard that if Republicans don't extend the Obamacare subsidies,
thousands will die. Gee, how many people's died of starvation
when the Somali stole a billion dollars designating to feed
the food insecure.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
What a bunch of bolshizzle starve the lazy. Thank give
her that.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We're gonna talk to Katie's dad, who was a judge
about the trial that started up the killer of Charlie
Kirk in hour two.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
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