April 8, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Disaster hack & the genius that figured it out
- US & Iran negotiations
- Gender Bending Madness: Ruining kids for life
- 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 and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty, and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The Ittems two reached two hundred and fifty two thousand,
seven hundred and fifty six miles from Earth, or, as
The New York Times helpfully put it this morning, if
you took twenty two inch docksons and laid them nose
to tail, you'd need seven hundred and twenty eight million
dogs to cover the distance. If you took one of
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the docksoons on a brisk three mile per hour walk,
you'd need to walk for more than eighty four thousand
hours to get there. Man, Americans will do anything to
not use the metric system.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wow, Colbert re embracing being funny. That's a good joke.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I've never quite understood why everybody thinks that's a better
way to give you an idea of distance. That's if
you stacked pancakes, you'd take eight trillion pancakes. Cat can't
wrap my head around that. That doesn't help me any
more than miles.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Right, more than eight I just get dizzy to eat pancakes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It is funny.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
If you laid dollar bills and ten stretched around it,
We'll do anything to avoid the metric system. That's pretty funny.
That is really funny.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Hey, come up, here's your latest update. We'll get to
this later. What's going on with the ceasefire? Iran has
halted traffic in the straight of horse moves, according to CNN,
and Trump has said no fire and on Hesbela is
not part of the piece deal. That's a completely separate thing.
So he's on board with Israel attack and Hesbela, which
to me means this ain't going anywhere. But we'll see
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coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
A truly powerful gender bending madness update. I'll present this
without comment. Colorado's free healthcare program for illegal immigrant pregnant
persons and children costs seven times more than budgeted. There
you have it, all right, all right, So this is
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an interesting story and kind of inspiring in a way.
I think maybe you first need to understand the way
this uh.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
This computer hack. It's a college student who stopped a massive,
massive computer disaster. Hack hackers hackers.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hate hacks has to do with residential proxy networks, and
there are dozens of companies around the world that run
these networks that are made up of your phones, computers,
video players. Their processing power is sometimes you sign up
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for this, many many times you don't. Is used like
in the dark of the night by res proxy companies
that rent out access to Internet connections on the devices
to customers who want to look like they're surfing the
Internet from a genuine home address. It's kind of similar
to a what do you call it, but it's abused
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like crazy around the world.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I didn't know that. So one of the many books
I've read about AI, one of their worst case scenario
chapters was AI harnessing all the power in all our
computers and everything like that, right in a way that
I never didn't know as possible or none that thought of.
But I didn't know companies already do that. Yeah, that's
a great illustration of what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, indeed, So, so you want that anonymity. It's useful
for people who want privacy, or for companies that want
to masquerade as regular people to test out Internet feed
for instance, for a particular region, or scrape the web
for data. AI companies use the networks to get around
blocks on automated traffic so they can gather large amounts
of data to train their models. And then there are
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customers who want to hide their identity because they're ticket scalping,
defrauding banks, calling in bomb threats, stalking, child exploitation, hacking,
or espionage. So in other words, it can be legit,
but it is just abused like crazy by really evil
So that primer aside, or do you say primmer? You
got this college student at the Rochester Institute of Technology
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in Rochester, New York, Benjamin Brundage, It sounds like a
character in a movie. He was closing in on a
mystery that even seasoned Internet investigators had left them baffled,
and a cat meme helped him crack the case. So
a network of hack devices was launching the biggest cyber
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attacks ever seen on the Internet, biggest one ever. It
had become the most powerful cyber weapon ever ever assembled,
large enough to knock a state or even a small
country offline, and investigators didn't know exactly who had built
it or how. And Brundage, she was a tech student
and a computer whiz, had been following the attacks to
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between classes and was conducting his own investigation and In September,
the college senior started messaging online with an anonymous user
who seemed to have more knowledge than a person ought
to have about the attack, as they.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You're close to getting to a portion where you could
just start quacking or barking and I would understand it
as well, what's going on here? We need a young
person to explain this story to Jack stat.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay, So anyway, college kids aware of this giant super
cyber attack and is intrigued. I want to know how
they did it too, or how they were about to
do it. So he's chatting on discord with a bunch
of you know, hackers and programmers and computer whizzes, and
he comes across a guy you've seen a.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Human who wait a minute, how does he know that?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Brundage started to think, but he didn't want to come
He wanted more information because he thought I'm onto something,
but he didn't want to come off as too serious,
so he shut down the conversation. Then, every now and
and then he'd send a funny jiff to lighten the mood,
including a cat's owner adjusting a necktie on a cat.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
This guy's this brandage chap his savvy, his emotional intelligence
is what really impressed me about this.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He'd think a cat with a necktie. I know these
are odd times.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Cats are so formal, but if things were starting to
get serious, he'd say, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
He'd cut it off. Then he'd send a cat freaking
gift for Jeff.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Brundage was fluent in the memes, jokes and technical jargon
popular with young gamers and hackers who are extremely online.
He says quote, it was just a bit of just
asking over and over again, then being like a bit unseerious.
At one point he asked for some technical details. He
followed up with a cat meme, a six second clip
that showed a hand adjusting a necktie on a fluffy
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gray cat. Brundage didn't expect it to work, but he
got the information. It took me by surprise. He said
that the cattle wedding to go to. It's not clear
to me, but the cat is wearing both the black
necktie and a white collar. Eventually, the leaker hinted that
there was a new vulnerability on the Internet. Brundage, who
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was twenty two, would learn it threatened tens of millions
of consumers and as much as a quarter of the
world's corporations. As he unraveled the mystery, impressed veteran researchers
with his findings, including federal law enforcement, which took action
against the network a couple of weeks ago. A researcher
at a giant computer company that does this sort of
thing joked at one point that the entire Internet could
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go down if Brundage spent too much time studying for
his exams.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Wow. Wow, so savvy as that kid. Someday the whole
Internet's going to go down, or all of airlines know,
a major, major attack somewhere in the world, all over
the world, and it might be China, or as Trump
famously said, some three hundred pound guy in his basement
just knows how to do it. Yeah, especially given the nature.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Of this, the adjoining together of the devices that I
was talking about, the residential what do you call it.
It was a couple of years ago that Nokia's sensors
had picked up a series of increasingly powerful cyber attacks
coming from devices that hadn't previously been considered dangerous, called
a distributed denial of service or d DOOS attacks.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We've all heard of those.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think there were massive floods of junk Internet data
designed knock websites offline by overwhelming the data pipes that
connected them, sometimes launched by extortionists or even business rivals,
but Nokio saw hundreds of thousands of devices joining in
these attacks. One unprecedented attack leader in the year on
internet service provider cloud Fair was quote comparable to the
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combined populations of the UK, Germany and Spain all simultaneously
typing a website address and then hitting enter.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
At the same second. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
The network, which would become known as kim Wolf, which
sounds like an anime cartoon for adolescent girls, seemed to
be using residential proxy connections to launch its attacks, giving
it the potential to do massive damage. The basic message
was be afraid, said one computer expert. Anyway, craziness.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I've got a chat GBT being sued over something. Another
one of those kind of stories, this time around a
school shooter who may have got advice from chat GBT
on how to pull off a school shooting. Right, did
that happen or not? And you got the gender bending madness.
(10:09):
We had a lot this hour. I hope you can
stick around. So Trump with a true social post just
a few minutes ago that might help explain what's going
on with the confusion, because a lot of the things
being said about the supposed cease fire deal don't add up.
(10:32):
So something doesn't something doesn't square right. So Trump posted
this and I have lost it. Well, that is unfortunate.
I will find it in seconds to you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yet another kink in the quest for peace. Jack's misplacing
of the annalymis.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Trump said just a few minutes ago. Numerous agreements, lists,
and letters are being sent out by people that have
absolutely nothing to do with the USA Iran negotiations. In
many cases, they are total fraudsters, charlatans, and worse. I
don't know what's worse than a fraudster or charlatan, or
what the difference between those two things are. They will
be rapidly exposed after our federal investigation is completed. There
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is only one group of meaningful points that are acceptable
to the United States, and we will be discussing them
behind closed doors during these negotiations. In other words, that
you know, all the stuff that you're hearing about, this
is Iran's plan and this is ours plan. They don't
match up everything, Trump saying that's not true. You're hearing
all this kind of stuff and it's crap.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But they'll be negotiating something behind closed.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Doors, and Hegzev said early or Iran's lying about all
kinds of different things. So I.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
My guess would be on this is that there are
separate groups. We're dealing with some group that thinks that
they're in charge in Iran, and there's some other group
that doesn't agree with that group in Iran, different power
center that's putting out all this information.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
To try to blow up the deal. Yeah, that'd be
my guess. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I think the bottom line is there's just so much
uncertainty and so much conflicting information. The best you can
do is lay out these few possibilities might be happening,
but it's impossible to choose a favorite.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
We just don't have enough info. Came across this the
other day. I thought it was interesting in terms of
the world in war and that sort of thing. Most
of my life it was a fact that the United
States spent more on its military than every other country
in the world added together, which was always a stunning
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fact to me. That is how you end up with
the being the supreme power on planet Earth when you've
spent more on your military than any other country added together.
When I was originally thinking about that, learning about that
when I was much younger, it was about the understanding
that Europe lives off of our military, so they don't
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have to, right. But China started spending more money on
their military, so that is not any more completely true.
But next year's budget, if we go through with the
twenty twenty seven budget, it will once again we will
be spending more on our defense than every other country
in the world added together, including China and Russia. That's something.
(13:22):
Is that what we need to do to continue to
have the dominance that we have. I don't know who knows,
all right, it's a great question. Don't forget a lot
of those defense dollars go to keeping the economic might
of the United States intact because there's a rules based
international order more or less, more or less about as
best as you can get or hope for the entire
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world other than us, this year spent one point one
six trillion dollars, little over a trillion dollars. We spent
nine hundred and twenty one billion, little under a trillion dollars,
which is stunning, and China makes up about a quarter
of a trillion. Lot of countries they're incredible spending. Lately,
it's still that much less. A lot of countries just
do not spend that much money on defense. And because
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I'm re listening to this book about when Eisenhower was president, man,
he really you know his famous speech that he gave
going out the door about the beware of the military
industrial complex. He really really is a guy had been
in the military his whole life and run it at
the highest level. Did not trust the Pentagon to not
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always present the worst case scenario and try to convince
legislatures that we absolutely got to have this weapon, give
us the mind because you know, it's the only thing
that's keeping us from the Soviet Union overrunners. And I
fully didn't trust the generals to not give him the
straight scoop on that sort of stuff all our Congress service, Senator.
Oh yeah, of course he didn't trust the politicians, but
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he also didn't trust the generals to not be honest
with him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Wow, that's the great pushing pull of warfare. There's always profiteering,
always well, and yet not all war exists to help
the profiteers, as some people would have you believe.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Right, Yeah, man, figuring that out as a democracy, how
hard is that? Because you'd have people in the Pentagon, generals, whatever,
who fully believe you need this expensive weapons program, who
think we probably don't need this, but it'd be better
to have it than not. And then people that absolutely
know we don't need this program, but you know, my
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home district cares about it or whatever, and everything in between.
I'm not how you deal with that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So, getting back to the total expenditure on the military,
what's the dollar cost of No, it's a currency. Sometimes
there's a principle in economics I can never remember for
some reason, and I've got a mental block, but that
one thousand dollars in China buys you the same thing
as four thousand dollars in the United States, and their
wages are one quarter, but their buying power is roughly
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equal if you measure it in this way. So it
could just be that everything's more expensive in the US,
including our armaments. I don't know exactly, because it's an
international market. I have a feeling there's something in there,
but I'm too old and lazy to relearn all those
formulas they tried to teach me. Second note, there's an
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opinion piece written by Gillian Melchior, who what's her credential?
London based member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board.
She went along with a NATO drone war exercise in
Estonia and came away thinking, we're making progress, but we
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are nowhere near ready, especially the European militaries. And what
I was going to say earlier was, you know, they
depended on our security dollars, our military spending to protect them,
and what really pisses me off is that they spent
those savings on the magic beans of socialism and net
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zero climate crap, and now they're helpless.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I hope we're spending our pentagon dollars wisely. We got
some damn shocking stuff for you next, Armstrong and Getty.
Why I keep our eye on the ceasefire. If anything happens,
we'll let you know. Still a lot, a lot, a
lot of unknowns.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But first, it's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So I kept hearing about this thing called the loco.
We're a brave world, first of all, just a brief mention.
That's as I said earlier today.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
The forces of neo Marxism postmodernism haven't paused a bit.
They're forging ahead. They're trying to grow all this stuff.
They're just hiding it better. Here's the University of Southern California.
As a new initiative they're using men will be barred
from using parts of an on campus gym to make
women and non binary gym goers feel more comfortable while
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working out. The Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment push for
the new rules in partnership with the Lion Center, a
recreational facility controlled by the university.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
See a ban one of the two sexes from being
in the gym to help the third through fiftieth versions
of genders.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah yeah, you got a combination of real women and
fake women saying I'm not comfortable working out among a men.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So okay, all right, super great. And then you've got
this human, a woman I believe, who is presenting as
a man.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
A Leish Kazlowski is a Minnesota state representative arguing against
a bill in Minnesota that would bar boys from competing
in girls' sports.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you've been in.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
A coma, or we're in a cave, or perhaps Apollo
mission and just getting back to words, Yes, some states
let boys play in girls sports if they claim they're girls.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Here is the representative.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Talking about how gender binary was brought to these lands.
Gender binary is a colonial export and not an immutable
global truth. We do exist and have existence, time and
memorial simple facts.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's a simple fact colonial thing. Okay, wow, Settler colonialism.
It's the gender binary is part of that. That's actually
how the whole neo Marxist thing works.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It's you just claim each one is the other one,
and it's all a web of horrors and you've got
to be against all of it, the eternal omnik cause
I wish you luck with your imagined view of the universe.
So on a less humorous note, this is a a
young man by the name of Johnny Skinner, and we
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will let you tell his story. Is actually testifying in
front of the California Legislature, interestingly enough, trying to bring
some sanity to blue state activism, trying to twist troubled kids'
minds and convince them that your problem isn't that you're autistic,
or you're sexually assaulted, or you just a misfit, you're alienated, whatever,
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Maybe you have some mental illness problems.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's not your problem.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The problem is you're the wrong sex, and we're gonna
help you here at school. We have somebody you'd like
to talk we'd like you to talk to, and let's
not tell your mom and dad about it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So Johnny Skinner is testifying against that? Or yeah, against that?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Go ahead, Michael, good afternoon. My name is Johnny Skinner.
I'm here representing jenspect. When I was young, I was
a feminine child and I discovered trans influencers online. They said,
change your body and your life gets better. Don't and
it gets worse? Or is my doctor told my mom
I would commit suicide. The medical and mental health providers
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didn't bother to ask why I felt the way I did.
They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones, arresting my
puberty and messing with my development. The result, I'm a
twenty three year old gay man who's never had an
orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And he goes on.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I was rendered an orgasmic because once you say you
could be trans, that's a full stop. No exploration as
to why is allowed, even if you are a struggling kid.
The former president OFWPATH, doctor Marcy Bauers, the California surgeon
who had performed the surgery for Jazz Jennings at seventeen,
admitted on video that puberty blockers followed by cross sex
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hormones results in no orgasms and stunted genitals. Spin nine
thirty four guarantees that more people will end up like me,
the walking but wounded.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
By the way, if you haven't seen this video with
a Scott Wiener standing there watching this poor guy, talk
to him, dude, explain yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Sick, perverse Scott Wiener, Yeah, one of the worst people
in governments, certainly, mister Skinner goes on.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I could have been spared all of this if any
of my therapists would have explored why I felt dysphoric.
But they never did. They only led me to hate
my body more. The Supreme Court just ruled in a
rare bipartisan decision that laws like this our unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
This bill is an attempted workaround that will be used
to silence therapists who could have helped me avoid the
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irreversible harms to my body and the loss of my
sexual function. As is the same for many others. So
today I ask you to extend some empathy to survivors
like me and vote no for this bill. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Right, as I've said before, I know a therapist who
says she has talked a number of young people out
of going down the trans road quite quickly and easily.
And she knows other therapists who immediately you're off to
the doctor. Yeah, just you know, you don't you don't
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even question that it could possibly be anything other than
trans And let's start the medical stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And as we discussed in the way the Supreme courtoral
arguments the other day and the ruling the the activist
transgender crowd call even sayings to what, like what your
therapist friend would say, why don't we talk about the
other things going on in your life and what's troubling
you and maybe hold off on a minute for the
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transgender thing, and just let's talk. They call that conversion
therapy and outlaw California is trying to keep it outlawed.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Even getting to the bottom of.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It's autism. You're a victim of something, it's a mental
heal problem. Whatever they're trying to outlaw that. It's beyond sick.
Why are people moving away from California? Well, it's housing
is expressed.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
No, it's crap like that, it's unconscionable. And Gavin runs
for president, He's gonna have to answer for some of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, I would love the conversation to continue before more
kids are victimized.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's just it's horrifying to me.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's a gender bending madness update and it's sick. Yeah,
it's funny, it's cute. Yeah, you're sexy. Four hundred and
thirty days as a woman chilling for bud light. All right,
well we can take a break now, cleanse the mood
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a little bit. Everybody taking a little mood cleanser, and
come back with more.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I feel like I need more coffee, a little a
little short of mannic, So I gotta get just a
little more coffee. It's my favorite feeling. Have either had
too little coffee or too much. I don't know where
Jack arms Trump loves coffee. I do. Okay, we'll finish
strong next.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
But declaring victory and that we're hearing from the Islamic
Republic of Iran from Iranian state media and some of
these scenes of Iranians out in the streets of Tehran
waving their flag, in some cases burning US and Israeli flagged,
and there is still some skepticism out there. Iran's National
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Security Council put out a statement saying that quote, our
hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error
be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with
full force.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that's the most negative view of what happened in
the last eighteen hours. According to Trump and Pete Hegzeth,
those kind of statements are coming from the people that
aren't in charge. I guess is the story the headline
just down in the New York Times or on leases
(26:09):
releases ten points that says are basis for ceasefire talks.
But Hegsath, I'm guessing those include the well, you tell me,
what are the ten points? Is that the hard line stuff,
much of it consisted of maximilists demands that look difficult,
if not impossible, to reconcile with US. Aims. Okay, So
here's the question of the day. Who's releasing that stuff?
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Because Trump and eggs that are saying that's not who
we're talking to. We're not talking to those people. Oh boy,
We're talking to different people. That are actually in charge.
I don't know whether that's true or not. Why.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
This is a familiar problem to anybody who studies areas
of upheaval, whether Africa or the Middle East or whatever.
You're talking to one faction, but the other factions get
to say.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm not suggesting I think Trump and Eggzeth are lying
about that. I think they are talking to somebody and
working out a deal, whether or not that entity actually
has the ability to hold onto the country and end
up being the government who knows well, and even if
they clearly can do all those things, we're in the
period where the other factions are desperate to communicate the opposite. Sure,
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they'll be putting out statements like I just mentioned. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
a period of upheaval for sure, some serious game throne
stuff going on there, oh yeah, complete with severed heads. Yeah.
And so the bad guys, the people that want to
blow this cease fire up. They want they're happy that
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Israel's still shelling Hezbola probably, and they want this all
to fall apart, either because they want to run the
country someday or their actual religious nuts and think this
is the end times for them, right, Yeah, weird beards well.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And it's worth mentioning in this TikTok world that if
this shakes out over the course of the next five
years and saying people end up in power, that will
be a remarkably quick and positive outcome history wise.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, I would say so. So as I mentioned earlier,
So glad I'm an American. Oh no kidding. I was
watching this video from Israel. Did you see the woman
where the woman gets out of her car and a
shell hits nearby and knocks her down, and then she
gets up and walks on. Because you know, that's life there.
There's so many parts of the world where that can
(28:38):
just happen. And we do you talk about privilege, this
privilege or that privilege we have ain't gonna get bombed today. Privilege.
I never have to worry about it. Not a chance
in hell some other country sends a missile near me
or my loved ones.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
M that's some privilege. Yeah, speaking of war.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mentioned earlier on the show, I'm going to do
Springsteen concert Springsteen in the EA Street Band Monday night,
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
He do not hear that email I read to you earlier.
That's some woman emailed simply said Springsteen sucks. Well, he
doesn't the entire email, thanks for your His political speeches suck.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
His music, the non political music does not suck. But
and he's going to do some of both. But uh uh,
he's doing the West because he's doing and then a
couple of show, two shows in Los Angeles, I think
two shows in Los Angeles, which will be huge impact.
What's your what if you go into a Springsteen concert?
(29:41):
What song do you most want to hear? I know
Born to Run is that he puts that in part
of the finale. I've been looking at the setlist so
far I could live without seeing hearing that again. But
you know it's a classic. Yeah, I've always loved that song.
Oh yeah, that's an interesting and I'm glad my kids
will get to see it. You know it played live? Yeah,
music history. I mean, there are very few acts. I
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was trying to pitch this to my kids. There are
very few acts that have been as big a deal
for live concerts of Springsteen, Grateful Dead, Springsteen, maybe the Stones,
I don't know, are they big for their live shows?
Oh my god? Yeah? Okay, so oh maybe those three.
Is there anything that's a I don't know what else
would be in that category. No, No, I mean in
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the history of music. Yeah, yeah, I'm going back to
Caveman banging on our rocks. Eh, So what songs? I'd have
to think about that for a little while.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'd like freaking love Rosalite Alive. Yeah he's not, which
is generally the band intros, or it was for many years.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, he did that on the tour and I saw
him twenty years ago and that was pretty awesome. He's
not doing on this one, but he's doing a couple
of the other big horn section sing along classics.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
He had to knock that one out so he could
fit in the freaking streets of Minneapolis. That one's gonna
I'm gonna actually have to leave my seat. Didn't go
to the bathroom during that one.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You've got to have long talk with yourself. Don't start
drinking again, because it could drive you right to the
edge of sanity. I'll bet it's gonna be worse than
you're even picturing.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
He opens with war because the videos are out there,
and he goes out there and he gives a long
speech about peace and this and that, and the last
thing we need is war and they launch into it
and it sounds cool because he's got that giant horn
section and you know, the whole thing. But shut up, Yeah, hippie,
that's what I say. Shut up, you hippie. That's what
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I'll chant from my seat with all the other people who,
if they bought him, you know after market, spent more
than a thousand dollars for their seats. You know, that's
just hilarious to me. The hippie socialists playing to people
who have to spend four figures for as seat, or
obviously by definition, the elite of this country, and they
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will walk off stage and curse capitalism to each other
without any awareness of the irony. That's the amazing part
to me, and get into separate private jets as they
fly to Los Angeles for the next show. Yeah yeah,
I just I just I look at people like that,
almost like a dog. I can kind of communicate with thembody. Oh.
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I was showing a video of the Portland show to
my oldest son. You could probably guess what he said.
That's the guy from the Sopranos, the guitar player. That's right,
I'd say, exactly right. It's hard to not see cyll
and think, Hey, Tom, I don't know tonge. Oh boy,
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how happy are those guys to get to play again
and make whatever money they make off of this whole thing?
They Yeah, they're spending the last fifty years of their
lives waiting around, sometimes for years of a time. Hey, hunting,
did the phone ring?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
The phone did? I thought I heard the phone ring.
Thought it might be Bruce announcing another tour. No, okay,
I guess I'll just go back to whatever dies do
when I'm not touring.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Or you pick up the phone and it's Bruce and
he says, hey, how you doing. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm
taking a couple more years off you know. Oh yeah, boss,
that's fine as I totally get that. I understand it completely.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
And you hang up the phone. Oh lo, back to
the hall depot and put on the orange apron. Wow,
you think, what's his name? The other guitar player works
at home depot in between tour. Nil's Nils Gary w
talent the bassist.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I could go on, admit me chorus to this history,
who prologue like your humble patients, prey gently to hear,
kindly to judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Daddy East.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Max Weinberg had that job drumming for Conan all those years.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, remember when we used to talk to his daughter.
She's a reporter for ABC, was it or so? She
was terrific. Never got to meet the Mighty Max though.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Unfortunately. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty, Hey, Michael,
lead us off. Let's get a final thought from everybody
on the crew. I'm thinking about you know this whole
charging a toll for ships to go through.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Are they going to set up toll booths out in
the sea where these ships got to line.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Up, and like show you can get a fast track
sort of a fast tracked type of thing, exact change only.
Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, I'm
like a broken record. But we talked about In and
Out earlier, so I'm going today that can't help my.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Well, you're pregnant, so you're eating for two free pass,
free pass, so get a double double double yeah. Jack
a final thought for us, I liked it. In and
Out had a big sign on their door prior to
Easter that we we I mean it was a very
religious statement. A little sign on their door about you know,
honoring uh Jesus and the resurrection and blah blah blah,
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and we're gonna get everybody the day off and they
were completely closed on someday. Yeah. Yeah. My final thought
is too gifted and talented and popular musicians, you bring
joy and escape to people who have hard lives. When
you throw politics into it, it ruins that. So don't
do that. I know you want to. There's lots of
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stuff I want to do, but.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Maybe for the crowd that agrees with them, they enjoy it.
I don't know. I don't want to hear it, even
if I agree with it. Shut up your hippie, I
want to hear section. Shut up. Armstrong and Getty wrapping
up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So many hippies to thanks, so a little time. Go
to Armstrong Yetdy dot com for the hot langs, Katie's corners,
pick up some ang.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Swag, drop us a note.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
If there's something we ought to be talking about, or
you have a point of view that needs to be heard,
email us mail bag at armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
We will see tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I'm strong and the White House is already calling this
a win for President Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
There was the Iranian regime. President Trump forged this moment.
Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it
what comes next, especially militarily. The President of United States
is not one to mess around, So there is still
this tension that exists here.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Iran has been a threat to the United States and
the free world for forty seven years.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
No longer Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty, and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The Ittems two reached two hundred and fifty two thousand,
seven hundred and fifty six miles from Earth, or, as
The New York Times helpfully put it this morning, if
you took twenty two inch docksons and laid them nose
to tail, you'd need seven hundred and twenty eight million
dogs to cover the distance. If you took one of
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the docksoons on a brisk three mile per hour walk,
you'd need to walk for more than eighty four thousand
hours to get there. Man, Americans will do anything to
not use the metric system.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Wow, Colbert re embracing being funny. That's a good joke.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I've never quite understood why everybody thinks that's a better
way to give you an idea of distance. That's if
you stacked pancakes, you'd take eight trillion pancakes. Cat can't
wrap my head around that. That doesn't help me any
more than miles.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Right, more than eight I just get dizzy to eat pancakes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It is funny.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
If you laid dollar bills and ten stretched around it,
We'll do anything to avoid the metric system. That's pretty funny.
That is really funny.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Hey, come up, here's your latest update. We'll get to
this later. What's going on with the ceasefire? Iran has
halted traffic in the straight of horse moves, according to CNN,
and Trump has said no fire and on Hesbela is
not part of the piece deal. That's a completely separate thing.
So he's on board with Israel attack and Hesbela, which
to me means this ain't going anywhere. But we'll see
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coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
A truly powerful gender bending madness update. I'll present this
without comment. Colorado's free healthcare program for illegal immigrant pregnant
persons and children costs seven times more than budgeted. There
you have it, all right, all right, So this is
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an interesting story and kind of inspiring in a way.
I think maybe you first need to understand the way
this uh.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
This computer hack. It's a college student who stopped a massive,
massive computer disaster. Hack hackers hackers.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hate hacks has to do with residential proxy networks, and
there are dozens of companies around the world that run
these networks that are made up of your phones, computers,
video players. Their processing power is sometimes you sign up
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for this, many many times you don't. Is used like
in the dark of the night by res proxy companies
that rent out access to Internet connections on the devices
to customers who want to look like they're surfing the
Internet from a genuine home address. It's kind of similar
to a what do you call it, but it's abused
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like crazy around the world.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I didn't know that. So one of the many books
I've read about AI, one of their worst case scenario
chapters was AI harnessing all the power in all our
computers and everything like that, right in a way that
I never didn't know as possible or none that thought of.
But I didn't know companies already do that. Yeah, that's
a great illustration of what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, indeed, So, so you want that anonymity. It's useful
for people who want privacy, or for companies that want
to masquerade as regular people to test out Internet feed
for instance, for a particular region, or scrape the web
for data. AI companies use the networks to get around
blocks on automated traffic so they can gather large amounts
of data to train their models. And then there are
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customers who want to hide their identity because they're ticket scalping,
defrauding banks, calling in bomb threats, stalking, child exploitation, hacking,
or espionage. So in other words, it can be legit,
but it is just abused like crazy by really evil
So that primer aside, or do you say primmer? You
got this college student at the Rochester Institute of Technology
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in Rochester, New York, Benjamin Brundage, It sounds like a
character in a movie. He was closing in on a
mystery that even seasoned Internet investigators had left them baffled,
and a cat meme helped him crack the case. So
a network of hack devices was launching the biggest cyber
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attacks ever seen on the Internet, biggest one ever. It
had become the most powerful cyber weapon ever ever assembled,
large enough to knock a state or even a small
country offline, and investigators didn't know exactly who had built
it or how. And Brundage, she was a tech student
and a computer whiz, had been following the attacks to
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between classes and was conducting his own investigation and In September,
the college senior started messaging online with an anonymous user
who seemed to have more knowledge than a person ought
to have about the attack, as they.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You're close to getting to a portion where you could
just start quacking or barking and I would understand it
as well, what's going on here? We need a young
person to explain this story to Jack stat.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay, So anyway, college kids aware of this giant super
cyber attack and is intrigued. I want to know how
they did it too, or how they were about to
do it. So he's chatting on discord with a bunch
of you know, hackers and programmers and computer whizzes, and
he comes across a guy you've seen a.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Human who wait a minute, how does he know that?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Brundage started to think, but he didn't want to come
He wanted more information because he thought I'm onto something,
but he didn't want to come off as too serious,
so he shut down the conversation. Then, every now and
and then he'd send a funny jiff to lighten the mood,
including a cat's owner adjusting a necktie on a cat.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Just hilarious.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
This guy's this brandage chap his savvy, his emotional intelligence
is what really impressed me about this.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He'd think a cat with a necktie. I know these
are odd times.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Cats are so formal, but if things were starting to
get serious, he'd say, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
He'd cut it off. Then he'd send a cat freaking
gift for Jeff.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Brundage was fluent in the memes, jokes and technical jargon
popular with young gamers and hackers who are extremely online.
He says quote, it was just a bit of just
asking over and over again, then being like a bit unseerious.
At one point he asked for some technical details. He
followed up with a cat meme, a six second clip
that showed a hand adjusting a necktie on a fluffy
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gray cat. Brundage didn't expect it to work, but he
got the information. It took me by surprise. He said
that the cattle wedding to go to. It's not clear
to me, but the cat is wearing both the black
necktie and a white collar. Eventually, the leaker hinted that
there was a new vulnerability on the Internet. Brundage, who
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was twenty two, would learn it threatened tens of millions
of consumers and as much as a quarter of the
world's corporations. As he unraveled the mystery, impressed veteran researchers
with his findings, including federal law enforcement, which took action
against the network a couple of weeks ago. A researcher
at a giant computer company that does this sort of
thing joked at one point that the entire Internet could
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go down if Brundage spent too much time studying for
his exams.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Wow. Wow, so savvy as that kid. Someday the whole
Internet's going to go down, or all of airlines know,
a major, major attack somewhere in the world, all over
the world, and it might be China, or as Trump
famously said, some three hundred pound guy in his basement
just knows how to do it. Yeah, especially given the nature.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Of this, the adjoining together of the devices that I
was talking about, the residential what do you call it.
It was a couple of years ago that Nokia's sensors
had picked up a series of increasingly powerful cyber attacks
coming from devices that hadn't previously been considered dangerous, called
a distributed denial of service or d DOOS attacks.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We've all heard of those.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think there were massive floods of junk Internet data
designed knock websites offline by overwhelming the data pipes that
connected them, sometimes launched by extortionists or even business rivals,
but Nokio saw hundreds of thousands of devices joining in
these attacks. One unprecedented attack leader in the year on
internet service provider cloud Fair was quote comparable to the
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combined populations of the UK, Germany and Spain all simultaneously
typing a website address and then hitting enter.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
At the same second. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
The network, which would become known as kim Wolf, which
sounds like an anime cartoon for adolescent girls, seemed to
be using residential proxy connections to launch its attacks, giving
it the potential to do massive damage. The basic message
was be afraid, said one computer expert. Anyway, craziness.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I've got a chat GBT being sued over something. Another
one of those kind of stories, this time around a
school shooter who may have got advice from chat GBT
on how to pull off a school shooting. Right, did
that happen or not? And you got the gender bending madness.
(10:09):
We had a lot this hour. I hope you can
stick around. So Trump with a true social post just
a few minutes ago that might help explain what's going
on with the confusion, because a lot of the things
being said about the supposed cease fire deal don't add up.
(10:32):
So something doesn't something doesn't square right. So Trump posted
this and I have lost it. Well, that is unfortunate.
I will find it in seconds to you.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yet another kink in the quest for peace. Jack's misplacing
of the annalymis.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Trump said just a few minutes ago. Numerous agreements, lists,
and letters are being sent out by people that have
absolutely nothing to do with the USA Iran negotiations. In
many cases, they are total fraudsters, charlatans, and worse. I
don't know what's worse than a fraudster or charlatan, or
what the difference between those two things are. They will
be rapidly exposed after our federal investigation is completed. There
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is only one group of meaningful points that are acceptable
to the United States, and we will be discussing them
behind closed doors during these negotiations. In other words, that
you know, all the stuff that you're hearing about, this
is Iran's plan and this is ours plan. They don't
match up everything, Trump saying that's not true. You're hearing
all this kind of stuff and it's crap.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But they'll be negotiating something behind closed.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Doors, and Hegzev said early or Iran's lying about all
kinds of different things. So I.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
My guess would be on this is that there are
separate groups. We're dealing with some group that thinks that
they're in charge in Iran, and there's some other group
that doesn't agree with that group in Iran, different power
center that's putting out all this information.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
To try to blow up the deal. Yeah, that'd be
my guess. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I think the bottom line is there's just so much
uncertainty and so much conflicting information. The best you can
do is lay out these few possibilities might be happening,
but it's impossible to choose a favorite.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
We just don't have enough info. Came across this the
other day. I thought it was interesting in terms of
the world in war and that sort of thing. Most
of my life it was a fact that the United
States spent more on its military than every other country
in the world added together, which was always a stunning
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fact to me. That is how you end up with
the being the supreme power on planet Earth when you've
spent more on your military than any other country added together.
When I was originally thinking about that, learning about that
when I was much younger, it was about the understanding
that Europe lives off of our military, so they don't
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have to, right. But China started spending more money on
their military, so that is not any more completely true.
But next year's budget, if we go through with the
twenty twenty seven budget, it will once again we will
be spending more on our defense than every other country
in the world added together, including China and Russia. That's something.
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Is that what we need to do to continue to
have the dominance that we have. I don't know who knows,
all right, it's a great question. Don't forget a lot
of those defense dollars go to keeping the economic might
of the United States intact because there's a rules based
international order more or less, more or less about as
best as you can get or hope for the entire
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world other than us, this year spent one point one
six trillion dollars, little over a trillion dollars. We spent
nine hundred and twenty one billion, little under a trillion dollars,
which is stunning, and China makes up about a quarter
of a trillion. Lot of countries they're incredible spending. Lately,
it's still that much less. A lot of countries just
do not spend that much money on defense. And because
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I'm re listening to this book about when Eisenhower was president, man,
he really you know his famous speech that he gave
going out the door about the beware of the military
industrial complex. He really really is a guy had been
in the military his whole life and run it at
the highest level. Did not trust the Pentagon to not
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always present the worst case scenario and try to convince
legislatures that we absolutely got to have this weapon, give
us the mind because you know, it's the only thing
that's keeping us from the Soviet Union overrunners. And I
fully didn't trust the generals to not give him the
straight scoop on that sort of stuff all our Congress service, Senator.
Oh yeah, of course he didn't trust the politicians, but
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he also didn't trust the generals to not be honest
with him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Wow, that's the great pushing pull of warfare. There's always profiteering,
always well, and yet not all war exists to help
the profiteers, as some people would have you believe.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Right, Yeah, man, figuring that out as a democracy, how
hard is that? Because you'd have people in the Pentagon, generals, whatever,
who fully believe you need this expensive weapons program, who
think we probably don't need this, but it'd be better
to have it than not. And then people that absolutely
know we don't need this program, but you know, my
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home district cares about it or whatever, and everything in between.
I'm not how you deal with that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So, getting back to the total expenditure on the military,
what's the dollar cost of No, it's a currency. Sometimes
there's a principle in economics I can never remember for
some reason, and I've got a mental block, but that
one thousand dollars in China buys you the same thing
as four thousand dollars in the United States, and their
wages are one quarter, but their buying power is roughly
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equal if you measure it in this way. So it
could just be that everything's more expensive in the US,
including our armaments. I don't know exactly, because it's an
international market. I have a feeling there's something in there,
but I'm too old and lazy to relearn all those
formulas they tried to teach me. Second note, there's an
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opinion piece written by Gillian Melchior, who what's her credential?
London based member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board.
She went along with a NATO drone war exercise in
Estonia and came away thinking, we're making progress, but we
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are nowhere near ready, especially the European militaries. And what
I was going to say earlier was, you know, they
depended on our security dollars, our military spending to protect them,
and what really pisses me off is that they spent
those savings on the magic beans of socialism and net
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zero climate crap, and now they're helpless.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I hope we're spending our pentagon dollars wisely. We got
some damn shocking stuff for you next, Armstrong and Getty.
Why I keep our eye on the ceasefire. If anything happens,
we'll let you know. Still a lot, a lot, a
lot of unknowns.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But first, it's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
So I kept hearing about this thing called the loco.
We're a brave world, first of all, just a brief mention.
That's as I said earlier today.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
The forces of neo Marxism postmodernism haven't paused a bit.
They're forging ahead. They're trying to grow all this stuff.
They're just hiding it better. Here's the University of Southern California.
As a new initiative they're using men will be barred
from using parts of an on campus gym to make
women and non binary gym goers feel more comfortable while
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working out. The Student Assembly for Gender Empowerment push for
the new rules in partnership with the Lion Center, a
recreational facility controlled by the university.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
See a ban one of the two sexes from being
in the gym to help the third through fiftieth versions
of genders.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah yeah, you got a combination of real women and
fake women saying I'm not comfortable working out among a men.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So okay, all right, super great. And then you've got
this human, a woman I believe, who is presenting as
a man.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
A Leish Kazlowski is a Minnesota state representative arguing against
a bill in Minnesota that would bar boys from competing
in girls' sports.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
If you've been in.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
A coma, or we're in a cave, or perhaps Apollo
mission and just getting back to words, Yes, some states
let boys play in girls sports if they claim they're girls.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Here is the representative.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Talking about how gender binary was brought to these lands.
Gender binary is a colonial export and not an immutable
global truth. We do exist and have existence, time and
memorial simple facts.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's a simple fact colonial thing. Okay, wow, Settler colonialism.
It's the gender binary is part of that. That's actually
how the whole neo Marxist thing works.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It's you just claim each one is the other one,
and it's all a web of horrors and you've got
to be against all of it, the eternal omnik cause
I wish you luck with your imagined view of the universe.
So on a less humorous note, this is a a
young man by the name of Johnny Skinner, and we
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will let you tell his story. Is actually testifying in
front of the California Legislature, interestingly enough, trying to bring
some sanity to blue state activism, trying to twist troubled kids'
minds and convince them that your problem isn't that you're autistic,
or you're sexually assaulted, or you just a misfit, you're alienated, whatever,
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Maybe you have some mental illness problems.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's not your problem.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The problem is you're the wrong sex, and we're gonna
help you here at school. We have somebody you'd like
to talk we'd like you to talk to, and let's
not tell your mom and dad about it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So Johnny Skinner is testifying against that? Or yeah, against that?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Go ahead, Michael, good afternoon. My name is Johnny Skinner.
I'm here representing jenspect. When I was young, I was
a feminine child and I discovered trans influencers online. They said,
change your body and your life gets better. Don't and
it gets worse? Or is my doctor told my mom
I would commit suicide. The medical and mental health providers
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didn't bother to ask why I felt the way I did.
They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones, arresting my
puberty and messing with my development. The result, I'm a
twenty three year old gay man who's never had an
orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And he goes on.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I was rendered an orgasmic because once you say you
could be trans, that's a full stop. No exploration as
to why is allowed, even if you are a struggling kid.
The former president OFWPATH, doctor Marcy Bauers, the California surgeon
who had performed the surgery for Jazz Jennings at seventeen,
admitted on video that puberty blockers followed by cross sex
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hormones results in no orgasms and stunted genitals. Spin nine
thirty four guarantees that more people will end up like me,
the walking but wounded.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
By the way, if you haven't seen this video with
a Scott Wiener standing there watching this poor guy, talk
to him, dude, explain yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Sick, perverse Scott Wiener, Yeah, one of the worst people
in governments, certainly, mister Skinner goes on.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I could have been spared all of this if any
of my therapists would have explored why I felt dysphoric.
But they never did. They only led me to hate
my body more. The Supreme Court just ruled in a
rare bipartisan decision that laws like this our unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
This bill is an attempted workaround that will be used
to silence therapists who could have helped me avoid the
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irreversible harms to my body and the loss of my
sexual function. As is the same for many others. So
today I ask you to extend some empathy to survivors
like me and vote no for this bill. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Right, as I've said before, I know a therapist who
says she has talked a number of young people out
of going down the trans road quite quickly and easily.
And she knows other therapists who immediately you're off to
the doctor. Yeah, just you know, you don't you don't
(23:13):
even question that it could possibly be anything other than
trans And let's start the medical stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
And as we discussed in the way the Supreme courtoral
arguments the other day and the ruling the the activist
transgender crowd call even sayings to what, like what your
therapist friend would say, why don't we talk about the
other things going on in your life and what's troubling
you and maybe hold off on a minute for the
(23:43):
transgender thing, and just let's talk. They call that conversion
therapy and outlaw California is trying to keep it outlawed.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Even getting to the bottom of.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It's autism. You're a victim of something, it's a mental
heal problem. Whatever they're trying to outlaw that. It's beyond sick.
Why are people moving away from California? Well, it's housing
is expressed.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
No, it's crap like that, it's unconscionable. And Gavin runs
for president, He's gonna have to answer for some of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, I would love the conversation to continue before more
kids are victimized.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's just it's horrifying to me.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's a gender bending madness update and it's sick. Yeah,
it's funny, it's cute. Yeah, you're sexy. Four hundred and
thirty days as a woman chilling for bud light. All right,
well we can take a break now, cleanse the mood
(24:44):
a little bit. Everybody taking a little mood cleanser, and
come back with more.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I feel like I need more coffee, a little a
little short of mannic, So I gotta get just a
little more coffee. It's my favorite feeling. Have either had
too little coffee or too much. I don't know where
Jack arms Trump loves coffee. I do. Okay, we'll finish
strong next.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
But declaring victory and that we're hearing from the Islamic
Republic of Iran from Iranian state media and some of
these scenes of Iranians out in the streets of Tehran
waving their flag, in some cases burning US and Israeli flagged,
and there is still some skepticism out there. Iran's National
(25:38):
Security Council put out a statement saying that quote, our
hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error
be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with
full force.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that's the most negative view of what happened in
the last eighteen hours. According to Trump and Pete Hegzeth,
those kind of statements are coming from the people that
aren't in charge. I guess is the story the headline
just down in the New York Times or on leases
(26:09):
releases ten points that says are basis for ceasefire talks.
But Hegsath, I'm guessing those include the well, you tell me,
what are the ten points? Is that the hard line stuff,
much of it consisted of maximilists demands that look difficult,
if not impossible, to reconcile with US. Aims. Okay, So
here's the question of the day. Who's releasing that stuff?
(26:32):
Because Trump and eggs that are saying that's not who
we're talking to. We're not talking to those people. Oh boy,
We're talking to different people. That are actually in charge.
I don't know whether that's true or not. Why.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
This is a familiar problem to anybody who studies areas
of upheaval, whether Africa or the Middle East or whatever.
You're talking to one faction, but the other factions get
to say.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I'm not suggesting I think Trump and Eggzeth are lying
about that. I think they are talking to somebody and
working out a deal, whether or not that entity actually
has the ability to hold onto the country and end
up being the government who knows well, and even if
they clearly can do all those things, we're in the
period where the other factions are desperate to communicate the opposite. Sure,
(27:22):
they'll be putting out statements like I just mentioned. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
a period of upheaval for sure, some serious game throne
stuff going on there, oh yeah, complete with severed heads. Yeah.
And so the bad guys, the people that want to
blow this cease fire up. They want they're happy that
(27:43):
Israel's still shelling Hezbola probably, and they want this all
to fall apart, either because they want to run the
country someday or their actual religious nuts and think this
is the end times for them, right, Yeah, weird beards well.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And it's worth mentioning in this TikTok world that if
this shakes out over the course of the next five
years and saying people end up in power, that will
be a remarkably quick and positive outcome history wise.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, I would say so. So as I mentioned earlier,
So glad I'm an American. Oh no kidding. I was
watching this video from Israel. Did you see the woman
where the woman gets out of her car and a
shell hits nearby and knocks her down, and then she
gets up and walks on. Because you know, that's life there.
There's so many parts of the world where that can
(28:38):
just happen. And we do you talk about privilege, this
privilege or that privilege we have ain't gonna get bombed today. Privilege.
I never have to worry about it. Not a chance
in hell some other country sends a missile near me
or my loved ones.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
M that's some privilege. Yeah, speaking of war.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mentioned earlier on the show, I'm going to do
Springsteen concert Springsteen in the EA Street Band Monday night,
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
He do not hear that email I read to you earlier.
That's some woman emailed simply said Springsteen sucks. Well, he
doesn't the entire email, thanks for your His political speeches suck.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
His music, the non political music does not suck. But
and he's going to do some of both. But uh uh,
he's doing the West because he's doing and then a
couple of show, two shows in Los Angeles, I think
two shows in Los Angeles, which will be huge impact.
What's your what if you go into a Springsteen concert?
(29:41):
What song do you most want to hear? I know
Born to Run is that he puts that in part
of the finale. I've been looking at the setlist so
far I could live without seeing hearing that again. But
you know it's a classic. Yeah, I've always loved that song.
Oh yeah, that's an interesting and I'm glad my kids
will get to see it. You know it played live? Yeah,
music history. I mean, there are very few acts. I
(30:03):
was trying to pitch this to my kids. There are
very few acts that have been as big a deal
for live concerts of Springsteen, Grateful Dead, Springsteen, maybe the Stones,
I don't know, are they big for their live shows?
Oh my god? Yeah? Okay, so oh maybe those three.
Is there anything that's a I don't know what else
would be in that category. No, No, I mean in
(30:27):
the history of music. Yeah, yeah, I'm going back to
Caveman banging on our rocks. Eh, So what songs? I'd have
to think about that for a little while.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I'd like freaking love Rosalite Alive. Yeah he's not, which
is generally the band intros, or it was for many years.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yeah, he did that on the tour and I saw
him twenty years ago and that was pretty awesome. He's
not doing on this one, but he's doing a couple
of the other big horn section sing along classics.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
He had to knock that one out so he could
fit in the freaking streets of Minneapolis. That one's gonna
I'm gonna actually have to leave my seat. Didn't go
to the bathroom during that one.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You've got to have long talk with yourself. Don't start
drinking again, because it could drive you right to the
edge of sanity. I'll bet it's gonna be worse than
you're even picturing.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
He opens with war because the videos are out there,
and he goes out there and he gives a long
speech about peace and this and that, and the last
thing we need is war and they launch into it
and it sounds cool because he's got that giant horn
section and you know, the whole thing. But shut up, Yeah, hippie,
that's what I say. Shut up, you hippie. That's what
(31:39):
I'll chant from my seat with all the other people who,
if they bought him, you know after market, spent more
than a thousand dollars for their seats. You know, that's
just hilarious to me. The hippie socialists playing to people
who have to spend four figures for as seat, or
obviously by definition, the elite of this country, and they
(32:02):
will walk off stage and curse capitalism to each other
without any awareness of the irony. That's the amazing part
to me, and get into separate private jets as they
fly to Los Angeles for the next show. Yeah yeah,
I just I just I look at people like that,
almost like a dog. I can kind of communicate with thembody. Oh.
(32:25):
I was showing a video of the Portland show to
my oldest son. You could probably guess what he said.
That's the guy from the Sopranos, the guitar player. That's right,
I'd say, exactly right. It's hard to not see cyll
and think, Hey, Tom, I don't know tonge. Oh boy,
(32:51):
how happy are those guys to get to play again
and make whatever money they make off of this whole thing?
They Yeah, they're spending the last fifty years of their
lives waiting around, sometimes for years of a time. Hey, hunting,
did the phone ring?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
The phone did? I thought I heard the phone ring.
Thought it might be Bruce announcing another tour. No, okay,
I guess I'll just go back to whatever dies do
when I'm not touring.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Or you pick up the phone and it's Bruce and
he says, hey, how you doing. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm
taking a couple more years off you know. Oh yeah, boss,
that's fine as I totally get that. I understand it completely.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
And you hang up the phone. Oh lo, back to
the hall depot and put on the orange apron. Wow,
you think, what's his name? The other guitar player works
at home depot in between tour. Nil's Nils Gary w
talent the bassist.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
I could go on, admit me chorus to this history,
who prologue like your humble patients, prey gently to hear,
kindly to judge the final thoughts of Armstrong and Daddy East.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Max Weinberg had that job drumming for Conan all those years.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Yeah, remember when we used to talk to his daughter.
She's a reporter for ABC, was it or so? She
was terrific. Never got to meet the Mighty Max though.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Unfortunately. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty, Hey, Michael,
lead us off. Let's get a final thought from everybody
on the crew. I'm thinking about you know this whole
charging a toll for ships to go through.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Are they going to set up toll booths out in
the sea where these ships got to line.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Up, and like show you can get a fast track
sort of a fast tracked type of thing, exact change only.
Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, I'm
like a broken record. But we talked about In and
Out earlier, so I'm going today that can't help my.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Well, you're pregnant, so you're eating for two free pass,
free pass, so get a double double double yeah. Jack
a final thought for us, I liked it. In and
Out had a big sign on their door prior to
Easter that we we I mean it was a very
religious statement. A little sign on their door about you know,
honoring uh Jesus and the resurrection and blah blah blah,
(35:01):
and we're gonna get everybody the day off and they
were completely closed on someday. Yeah. Yeah. My final thought
is too gifted and talented and popular musicians, you bring
joy and escape to people who have hard lives. When
you throw politics into it, it ruins that. So don't
do that. I know you want to. There's lots of
(35:23):
stuff I want to do, but.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Maybe for the crowd that agrees with them, they enjoy it.
I don't know. I don't want to hear it, even
if I agree with it. Shut up your hippie, I
want to hear section. Shut up. Armstrong and Getty wrapping
up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So many hippies to thanks, so a little time. Go
to Armstrong Yetdy dot com for the hot langs, Katie's corners,
pick up some ang.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Swag, drop us a note.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
If there's something we ought to be talking about, or
you have a point of view that needs to be heard,
email us mail bag at armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
We will see tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I'm strong and the White House is already calling this
a win for President Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
There was the Iranian regime. President Trump forged this moment.
Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it
what comes next, especially militarily. The President of United States
is not one to mess around, So there is still
this tension that exists here.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Iran has been a threat to the United States and
the free world for forty seven years.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
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