August 17, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour One of the Monday August 17, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- The triumphant return of Jack Armstrong...
- Katie Green has The Lead Story...
- The cancelled US/South Korea military drills...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and get.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Katy and now He Armstrong and yet.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Love from Studio se Jason Your It is a dimly
lit room deepen from the bowels of the Armstrong and
Getty Communications compound. We are kicking off a brand new week.
This could be the week where everything goes right in
your life or the week where off maybe alf Fole's
part you don't.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But today we are toiling. Under the title of the
show a deal. We'd like to mulla it over if
you prefer. According to the left, murder is okay if
you're mad, reference to the Mangioni trial now commencing in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's the second dip on mulla it over? Is that
the first time you've heard?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I don't think I've a doubled it, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's good enough to use more than ones. I like it.
I would like to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Defer my plea your honor until we can check the record.
I would I'm like doctor Fauci. Jack is obsessed with me.
He's hell bent on getting me. Uh stuck with a
burgery charge.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So what's the deal with Mangoni.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, he pled guilty to murder because he murdered that
fella in cold blood because something something healthcare.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But this is a change or a end or what is?
What is? What is the news?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
There's all sorts of stuff going on. I hate to
platform them, but some of the people who are quote
unquote supporters of the cold blooded, confused, murdering young man
are out making their political speeches and making jackasses of themselves.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And again I hate to even give them any heed.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And also there's a conversation about the state and federal charges,
whether it would be double jeopardy to try him for
different for the same act in different ways. Gotcha, that's
a part of the law that's long confused me. I
don't quite get it. When I almost went to law school,
I didn't almost sign up for that class.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So I really I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
On the whole. You hate to platform these idiots us
thinking that about that Hassan Piker dude. The interesting thing
is the number of people that are willing to go
on his podcast, cozy up to him, have him on
stage with him politically, but in terms of like giving
him attention, which we're going.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
To today because there's lots of clips.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
But I just especially when I look at it, I
look at him, and I can I can see on
his face he's he's phony. He doesn't even believe the
crap he's saying. He's just a grifter, but he you know,
he says this stuff, and the people following him believe it,
enter into it, and people on stage are probably cynical
about it too, but they know the crowd is into it.
(03:04):
So I don't know what you do with a situation
like that, But he is just he is just a
what can I say today? To get attention sort of guy?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But to what end? And you would suggest it's to
acquire wealth. I guess that's what you're suggesting by he's
a grifter.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Working so far.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know if you saw the Wall Street Journal
profile piece on him today and his multimillion dollar Hollywood home.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That he leaves, and so it's working for you all
for him.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah. And I mentioned last week that he went on
a visit to Cuba to study the glorious communism there,
wearing fourteen hundred dollars sunglasses, which is just a lovely touch,
but I need to disagree with you kind of subtly
on a couple of points. Number One, the reason I
want to play the clips we have is so people
understand this guy and what he's saying. Because if it
(03:52):
is fair game, if I'm running for whatever the Congress
and I'm handing I'm hanging out with the Grand Imperial
Wizard of my local clan chapter, people have right to
know that, and they have a right to know what.
You know what, I actually believe this guy, Hassan Piker,
is that far out there and the things he's said
(04:15):
and says regularly ought to utterly disqualify him from any
politician hanging out with him or being buddies with him,
or even appearing.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
On a show.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's it's, you know, the clearest yet example of the
double standard that the media has. But it's it's absolutely terrible.
I also believe him to be an Islamist. I'm not
one hundred percent certain on this. He says parents were
immigrants from Turkey, and I believe he is a revolutionary leftist.
Whether he wants to tear down Western civilization in the
(04:46):
name of Karl Marx or Muhammad, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, Like I said, the troubling part is that politicians
go on his podcasts and stand up next to him.
So that's where he has influenced. I mean, because he's
like like the Nick Fuentas crazy character on the right.
You don't need to pay attention to him because there
aren't politicians going on his podcast or having him on.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Stage or whatever. Yeah, he's twice removed.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Really, he has some influence on some young men, certainly
who will tend to vote on the right. Jd Vance
is acutely aware of him and his effects. But no, no,
you don't platform him in the same way you know
the left is platforming these lunatics on the.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Left, weird weird man.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, we'll play some crazy clips from that dude coming
up a little bit later. So he was at a
pool party, I guess, the night before the election, hanging
out with that l Sayed up in Michigan. So they
you know, the politicians haven't distanced themselves yet. I still
have the question of will Barack Obama be on stage
with asan piker at some point, That's what I wonder
with Al said or hassan piker, hassan piker wow wow,
(05:55):
or El said also, but I think he almost has to. Well,
Piper's going to be there as who was it that
was writing about that one of our favorite writers was
writing about. Is Barack Obama gonna be in the green
room with Piker at ELSI, Ed's get together he and
Michelle and just say hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Like your work? I mean what, yeah? Wow, yeah, oh troubling.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That'll be fun to see. I have so many different
stories from vacation. I can't wait to talk about them,
Lots and lots of different things, everything from things I
saw to.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Parenting to everything in between.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Excellent Number one notable wildlife encounter. I was tossed by
that bison, as you know, when I was on vacation.
I'm still limping a little bit. How about you fighting wildlife.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'd have to think about it for a little bit.
Saw a fair amount of wildlife. If you drive across Canada,
you will see a lot of wildlife. I'll have to
think about it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Might be ocean related, as we spend a fair amount
of time on a boat with our minivan going back
and forth. Yes, Michael, you look like you have something
to say.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, no, I have anything. That's just a look on
your face. Yeah, it's just a look of you know,
how are you doing, Katie? Oh, we're doing good, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, using the royal way these days now. Of course
you're speaking for yourself and you're infant.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I did, I did, Uh, I did tag your
photo on Twitter yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think that's your cutest picture yet. Baby and dog.
Baby and Dog's hard to beat. It's hard to beat
baby and dog for a photo.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I almost passed out when they were doing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That, so almost too much.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You might give somebody a sweet overdose and then you'd
be responsible.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'm diabetic and it was tough. Yeah. On the vacation thing.
Was it just something just popped in my head as
it goes.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh, I don't understand why why the mini van has
the repid has it does? And I understand, you know
it's it's I'm a I'm a I'm a single grown man.
I'm not going to drive a mini van thinking that's
gonna get me the dates I want to get.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But it's such a practical vehicle. We had to remember
me saying that for years.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, we had the option of so we flew to Denver,
rented a vehicle, then drove up all the way up
through South Dakota, through into Canada, then all the way
across Canada than down, and then all the way down from.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Seattle to Canadian border, all the way back down to Lord, California.
Long drive.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But so, when I was gonna rent a vehicle, usually
I rent to an suv, like you know, Chevy Tahoe
or whatever the hell Ford Expedition or something like that.
But the minivan was so much cheaper, and I thought,
you know what, it's actually more comfortable anyway, So I
got the minivan, who like half the prices, Like, this
is way better than driving an suv, so much better,
so much more comfortable than an suv. Rides better that
(08:39):
getting in and out with the sliding doors is so
much better, the seating's better. It's just way better. People
drive SUVs for minivan reasons. It's not like you're, you know,
pulling a boat in the snow.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're picking up your kids from school and go to Starbucks.
You know, you are like everybody else. That's fine, that's
what I do.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But why do we do that? Why don't we all
drive minivans? There's so much better, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I hate to judge people Iraq your look the way
Irock you look. You find yourself image where you find it.
We all do different things. But yeah, when I was
a dad of kids in the house, I love the
minivan partly because everybody had plenty of room to spread out,
and we had three kids. You know, nobody was on
top of each other. He's touching me, you know, and
(09:22):
like I'd put the loudest kid in the third row
so when they're overly loud, it wouldn't kill my ears.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And it so was so great.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
By the way, I spent the weekend, part of it
long weekend on our nation's interstate system, a salute to
President Eisenhower and is forward thinking. But two drivers in
particular were driving like efing lunatics. There are plenty of
people who drive a little fast, a little aggressively, but
two e fing lunatics, both in minivans, which I thought
was interesting. I don't know what's going on there psychologically exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, I've often said, no ticket.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The ticket should be different for people driving one hundred
miles an hour in cars that aren't.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Made to go that fast. It's more dangerous. It's clearly
more dangerous. Yeah, you're right. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He's Joe Getty on this it is Monday, August seventeenth,
first day of high school for my youngest, first day
of high school.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Big moment in your life.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yere twenty twenty six. We are Armstrong. You getting We
approve of this program. Let's sleep into action. Then officially
the show begins according to FCC rules. Rags at Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Okay, you dude, I mean, seriously, you old lady. Shut
the up, you stupid, idiotic old lady with your stupid
gamer headset.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It was that.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That is the beginning of Hassan Piker's response to a
Vietnamese immigrant to the United States who said, we suffered
so horribly under communism, Please don't move toward communism.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That was his response to that woman. Yeah, he can't
engage him in conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, no. As I mentioned before, went on vacation, I
watched one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Of his shows, spent spent quite a bit of time
with it. You should, you should log some time. He's
got a talent, he's got a thing, there's no doubt
about it. But it looks to me like a grift.
The unfortunate part is lots of people are going along
with it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
That's the problem, right right to talk about today, we
got to talk about the the Jason our Day thing
at Cambridge, the young professor.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
We talked about a fair amount. Will You're gone last week?
The dei hire is now oft himself.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So you think he killed him? So oh clearly? Yeah,
well according to you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I don't know, but come on what that ex Kendy dude.
According to him it was a media lynching.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, because he had white supremacy that killed him.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And we will have to talk about that. That's an
interesting story. Hey, you have headlines for us coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I do. So you have babies with dogs and headlines
covering all the bases, all the big bases exactly. That's
on the way next. Stay here, Hettie.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Here's my headline from the CBS poll yesterday about socialism
and everything like that. They got a lot of tension
on face toination. We'll have to talk more about that later.
Among democrats, their view of socialism for the college degree democrats,
Democrats with the college degree.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Seventy one percent have a positive view of socialism. Good lord,
that's a high number.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh my god, do we have a fight on our hands.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yikes.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story with Katy Green Katie.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Alrighty, The Alphabet Network, CNN.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Trump threatens oman as US Iran agreement expires. NBC quote
revenge is inevitable. Iran ramps up propaganda war with violent
billboards and Fox. Iran reportedly places thirty thousand dollars bounty
on US troops.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
The fact that today is the deadline for the MoU,
why that's getting any attention? You know, clearly the mo
you got blown up a long time ago, the deadline
with no meaning whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The whole thing ended months ago.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It does kind of point out the I was trying
to avoid saying meaningless. The meaninglessness of Trump's various negotiations
is pronouncements.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They just don't mean anything.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
From the Washington Post, Trump reduces military exercises with South Korea.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Citing good ties with Kim Jong un.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
This seems to be mystifying everybody. Do you have an
idea what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
He posted pictures of him and Un together saying, or
him and Kim together saying, we get along great, We're buddies.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Does he actually think that I'm just trying to butter
him up? And how does he think buttering up these
people's works. I'm just hoping it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We can't do military exercises. We're stretched too thin.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I hope it ain't that. Oh man, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
USA today.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Quote polyester is gen Z's newest viral insult.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh insult? How do you use it in a sentenced
You know? Oh, I would call Jack, You're so polyester? Okay,
and that means I'm old.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Or no, it's gen zs are using this to call
something or someone low quality or cheap.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay. I thought it meant. I thought it was going
to be artificial. I'm really not hip. I thought it
meant I was wrinkle free. That too, good Lord.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
From the New York Post gen Z's three dollars hack
to beat the soaring cost of going out, Tiny canned
cocktails that pack a fierce punch.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The drunk first. Yeah, we know you didn't invade anything,
you morons.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Those buzzballs man, gross.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
They don't drink anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The young people too, so the few that do do
that nice All about the buzzballs. Yes, yes, pregaming, we
used to call it again, kids, you've invented nothing.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Study finds men who.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Drink more coffee show higher testosterone levels.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Right, yeah, damn right ladies.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh yeah, And finally, the Babylon Bee sad W NBA
task Force fails to define a woman after spending the
entire meeting trying to pick a restaurant for lunch.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I get it. The testosterone coffee thing.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Is that a h.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's not a cause causal thing. That's just the sort
of try to imagine the kind of person. I've known
a few normal dudes that didn't drink any caffeine, but
not many. Mostly if you're I don't drink caffeine, you're
kind of not really trying to get much out of
life sort of person.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But Mormon.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Maybe, yeah, so you don't think it's causing effect. I
think it's probably causing effect. Really yeah, although I don't know,
maybe Katie could bring us the facts. But coffee studies lately.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But you're trying to grab the world by the neck
and get the most out of it, are you know?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Are kind of they got lots of testosterone and they're
going to drink a lot of coffee so they can
grab the world.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
By the aforementioned neck. I can't say you're wrong. I'm
going to shake the world's hand, Jack.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But you do whatever you think. So for a freement,
I can't say you're wrong with your theory. I kind
of like it. I feel like the best way to
get things is to grab people by the neck. I
don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, boy.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
More Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly
pretty soon, I'll be declaring the Hormoe Straight a territory
of the United States. Shad say yes, letter, we have
the blockade.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So Trump announced at a rally over the weekend that
we're going to declare. He just stated it like it's
going to happen, going to declare the Strait of Horror
Moves a territory of the United States, which he obviously
is not going to do it.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I just I can't imagine unless he's just trying to
get applause from that crowd in that room, I can't
imagine how he thinks he's furthering his agenda and any
of these statements that he isn't planned to follow through on.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I don't know. I'm so confused by it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, I don't want to go I don't want to
beat people at death with this stuff. And I'm just
going through the alleged great deals that were going to happen,
and how they're coming along, from Ukraine and Russia to
North Korea to a ram and you know, every aspect
of the Iran thing, from the straight to the nuclear stuff,
and it's just it's going nowhere. And even the you know,
(18:08):
the situation with Israel and Hamas, you got Jared kissing
Hamas ass right now trying desperately to cement some sort
of deal. Trump's still saying Israel, you can't attack him.
They've agreed to give up their arms, which is laughable.
I just I don't know what to make of any
of it. I think he's lost his mind.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So to pivot to the one of the big news
stories of the day.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Some people are wondering why we are at war to
stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, which I think
is a worthwhile venture. But at the same time, another
rogue state that already has nuclear weapons were calling off
our exercises with South Korea because North Korea is such
(18:50):
a good actor or something.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, Okay, let me go over there. I'm essentially I
think Trump thinks. And again I'm so mystified by this.
I'm doing my best to guess, but I think Trump
thinks that buttering up these dictators does something. And so
Kim Jong un has said that these exercises that we
have every year with the South Koreans because there's such
(19:14):
an important ally and have been for decades, that these
exercises are too provocative, and Kim Jong un says, I'm
only being mean and belligerent because you guys are doing that.
And if you stop doing that, if you stop preparing
for having to fight me, then we could probably be buddies.
And I'll bet we could have a big, big deal.
We could cut a big deal that'll make everybody look
(19:35):
super smart, including you, mister president.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
But he has absolutely no intention to do that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So they were planned to start today these exercises with
South Korea, so it definitely was a last second calling
it off, which is not handy as you might imagine
with a giant project that is a big military exercise.
Why he waited to the last second to call it
off of is you know, another open.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Question, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So you think it's a it's a personal buttering these
people up. I guess I was hoping for some sort
of three dimensional jets that I don't understand whether it's
a good thing or bad thing, Like we just can't
have that many resources paying attention to a military exercise
right now because we're stretched thin.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I don't know. I'm making up reasons.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Why you wouldn't want to admit that even though you
are true. Trump has said it's it's just too expensive.
And what else did he said? Say? Actually, you know what,
the South Korean president, who's a bit of an appeaser
in my mind, does not hate this move because she.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is it a she at this point women president?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I know, is that incredible or what I suggested scaling
back to joint exercises to improve the chances for engagement
with North Korea. But Trump's order on the eve of
the eleven days of exercises is raised concerns among military
officials and advisers about undermining military readiness, and various think
tankers and retired admirals have weighed in saying this is
(21:11):
a terrible mistake because North Korea is more dangerous than ever.
They have inherited a bunch of knowledge and weapons from Russia,
because as we've touted the Ukrainian's incredible steep learning curve
with the drone warfare and counter drone warfare and the
rest of it, some of which we are getting trained
on now, thank god. But North Korea has benefited from
(21:32):
that as well, as they furnished machine gun fodder, meat
puppets to be mowed down in minutes to the Russians
in return got to weaponry and financial aid and that
sort of thing. Yeah, they're more dangerous than they've ever been.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, I forgot to bring up that angle of it.
So you can't really make the announcement that North Korea
has been a good actor over the past however many years,
and that's why you know, we're going to give them
for some reason not having a military exercise that would
be all about attacking them. They haven't been a good actor,
as they're sending tens of thousands of troops to Russia today.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So in twenty eighteen, Trump did the same thing. He
suspended the joint drills during a summit with Kim as
a concession to move forward in denuclearization talks. He scaled
down other exercises the following year, and then just this Saturday,
Trump posted a social media photo of Kim and himself
during their twenty nineteen meeting there at the Korean border,
and they're both kind of scowling, and Trump posted this,
(22:33):
despite the unfriendly look and this particular picture, there are
many where we're smiling. Kim Jong own and I get
along great, he wrote. That was their last meeting, that
picture before talks fell through. By the way, the whole
we get along great, We've got a good relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Seriously, he can't be that naive. I don't know. I
don't even really have a speculation on this.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Can anybody and feel fright? Can anybody think of in
any sense, how like a Kim Jong un or Vladimir
Putin hears? Oh, he thinks we have a great relationship
that's nice and like it helps us? Or does it
just make him seem weak and.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Needy?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You would think even if he went into his presidency
with that view, by now he would have realized, Oh, okay,
Vladimir Putin, you know, he'll smile and shake your hand,
but that doesn't mean he likes you.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I guess I've learned that lesson. I mean, I'm no potus.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
But we've been in many heated negotiations for various reasons,
or negotiations where we knew the other side, you know,
they were in a really tough spot themselves, and it
would be really tough to reach an agreement that was
acceptable whatever the situation was, and whether I had a
cheery relationship with the person in charge of the negotiations
(24:03):
on the other side. I mean, it's not nothing, but
it doesn't mean anything. It's not gonna get you know,
more money, more benefits, a greater revenue share or whatever
they have, the position they have, And you're talking about
Kim Jong un and Vledier putin, I'm sorry, how about
Xijin Ping?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You think jes Jijien ping things?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Oh you know, honey, I wasn't sure how Donald thought
about me, but it says here he really likes me
in all caps. Again, I don't even know what he's
trying to do, so but yeah, North here's the takeaway.
And you know, let's hope that the strategic you know,
(24:44):
the balance continues and nobody does anything too crazy. But
North Korea is more dangerous than ever. And Trump, to
his credits, trying to figure out what to do about
it because you have to, but don't. I don't see
much light at the end of this particular tunnel.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, I'm not particularly worried about North Korea, so you know,
but I I don't understand calling off the military exercises.
But the story, the Iran story that got my attention
the most over the weekend was finding out that at
the very beginning of the war, like moment one, Iran
(25:19):
obliterated our base that we were going to use for
all logistics, absolutely obliterated it, and then we had to
improvise and change.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Everything and move to Diego, Garcia.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But a lot of the decisions we've made since day
one around who's going to be where and how long
you have to be at sea, and it factors in
with that ship that got so much attention over the
weekend because it's now been at sea longer than any
aircraft carrier in US history, and all that sort of
stuff is because Iran obliterated our logistics hub moment one,
(25:54):
which didn't really make the news until a couple of
days ago. But yeah, they they're their plan to hit
us back was better and more effective than has been reported.
As usual, nothing wrong with you know, keeping that a secret.
I suppose if the point is uh, fog of war,
(26:15):
don't let your enemy have a blah blah blah. But yeah,
that was that's some pretty interesting news to find out
they they not only hit our our our intelligence hub
there in the Middle East where we're gonna work everything from,
they completely blew it up.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I mean it was unusable afterwards. Wow, I missed that.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, big story and uh and and a problem. So
I don't know that. I feel like that's going to
be in the history of this war and how it started.
The Iranian attack retaliation for the US Israel Assaultant Turrn
destroyed the base as it went up in smoke. So
did a major the major logistics hub that the Navy
(26:57):
has relied on for decades and was planning to rely
on for this entire war.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It just to on at some point.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's a problem, all right me And more geopolitical nastiness
and other stuff. After a word from our friends at
in Cogni. This is so interesting. When police searched the
car of the man who assassinated in the Minnesota lawmaker
her husband in their own home, you probably remember that
they found a notebook inside a handwritten list of eleven
websites not weapons sites, data brokers.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
People search sites that sell your home address for a
couple of bucks. Did you know that type your name
into one right now. There you are, your address, your phone,
your family's names, a photo of your front door. Anyone
can look you up in seconds and you'll never know
who did.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's why we use incognita.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It forces data brokers and people search sites to delete
you then keeps checking because deleted data creeps back, and
Cognia has scrubbed us from hundreds and hundreds of sites
while we did exactly nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yep, you lock your doors every night tonight, lock down
your address, go to in cognity dot com slash armstrong
for sixty percent off. That's in cognity dot com slash
armstrong because the next time a stranger searches your name,
let them find nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
In cognity dot com slash armstrong sixty percent off. H Yeah,
all of this stuff is troubling and crazy and nutty,
and I don't know where it's going. You know, when
we get a certain distance down the road and discussing
this stuff, I've got to admit I think, okay, great,
there's nothing I can do about that. There's plenty we
can do about our domestic political scene slash culture, and
(28:33):
that's certainly going to be a big part of the
show today as the socialists and the Islamists are forging
ahead and trying to get more and more done. Jack
I mentioned last week that so one of our our
some of our learned associates at the National reviewer're talking
about woke one in AOC's ridiculous quote about woke one
(28:53):
that was crazy.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Like it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
One of the people put she can get as hard
as she could, And they're like, will there be a
woke too?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And I'm like, oh my god, you don't get it.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
There is a philosophy, there's a belief system that wants
to tear down our political system, our constitution, courts, et cetera,
Neo Marxism. They will adapt and change strategy five hundred
and sixty times. The question isn't will there be a
woke two point zero? It's what will their next strategy
look like? What will they say? What arguments will they make,
(29:30):
What quasi moral arguments will they make to you know,
completely change the way Western So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, that's a good one. I didn't get really to
weigh in on the whole Woke one AOC view of things.
We'll have to talk more about that later. Was that
really clever or really dumb that statement from her?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's an open question.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
If you if that doesn't make you angry hearing that
you're person than me, Uh, it makes me angry every
time I hear it.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, we're gonna go over.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
We're gonna remind you of some of the specific aspects
of what Woke one us. That was just crazy, No,
that was super smart. It's the they've been called out
for their strategy and are now disavowing it, changing the
party line, and everybody's cow to catch up and be
(30:27):
on it, which is why it's one of the reasons
they cut the old Francesca Hong loose in Wisconsin because
she was still hewing too close to Woke one, and
AOC knew it, and she's like, nah, she's she's still
stuck in you know, twenty twenty two, so she's no
good strategy.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Plus it kind of declares it over so people can
people who aren't paying attention can say, oh, okay, cool,
that's over. Wellll I can go back to my life then, right, Even,
like I said, the learned commentators at the National Review,
I could not believe how naive.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
They were about this. Yeah. Cool, we got mail bag
on the way and lots of other stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So I just saw a news report where they they
were reporting it as Trump called off these exercises to
punish South Korea because they weren't willing to help us
with the war effort in Iran.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
So that, oh, that was a factor too, Yeah, that was. Yeah,
it's hard to say which was. You know, he has
been lashing out at various countries who did not help.
So yeah, that's a factor for sure. Yeah, left that out,
and I apologize deeply to humbly. Here's your freedom loving
Code of the Day. Continuing our series from Nikita Khrushchev
the Kami premiere in the Soviet Union middle part of
(31:42):
the twentieth century. The comrades, we must abolish the cult
of the individual decisively, once and for all.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wow, the culture like individual individual rights? Do you the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Communist socialists they hate that. They want to stomp them out. Yeah. Yeah,
and then this one, speaking of you know, evildoers.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They have to be watched.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I like that, especially because I had a conversation with
Tim Sandford the other day about his book, and he
refutes a couple of arguments made by the very famous
best selling historian Joseph Ellis, and they are idiotic arguments
and I will never read another word, mister Ellis writes again. Yeah,
there are so many ways you can twist history and
(32:34):
really give people a distorted view. Mailbag who drops no
mailbag at Armstrong and giddy dot commists dive right into it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
It's Brett, he says. Guys.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
People failed to realize who the deciders are in socialism.
I've taken the liberty to correct the manifesto. From each
according to his ability is decided by the government. Two
each according to his needs is decided by the government.
And of course this from each according to the government's needs,
two each according to his value to the government. That's
(33:04):
really good, Really like that second part. If the people
need a ditch, poets are going to be digging a ditch.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
If you don't.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Provide value, your needs won't be met. Is decided by
the government, free will won't exist. This is the first draft.
Well done, Bratt, well done. How about this thoughts on
flock cameras from tnonymous, second generation friend of Armstrong and Eddy.
Listen to me talking to Anastasia Poden about mass surveillance
(33:32):
in the Fourth Amendment and the flock cameras, the license
plate cameras, whether it's or not, there's no public space
station experts believe the Founding.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
So I wish I missed out on the Hona Stata
conversation about that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I will. So there's two.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Segments that I'm going to have to listen to. I'll
have to listen to the Tim send Per segment and
off to listen to the Anastagia segment, because both of
us sound very interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Me.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I've been asking for years that whole license plate reader thing,
if that's a did we No, I don't remember ever
voted on that. I don't remember anybody river running on
that thing, and yet it happened.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Right, Let's see, So what the founding papas have been
content knowing American citizens could not leave their private residences
without having their every move surveilled by the state. He mentions,
he passes a half a dozen of these on the
way to work. Don't remember ever voting on the issue.
I've seen nothing but videos of city council meetings where
the entire citizen re shows up against these cameras, but
(34:35):
it always seems to happen. I find it incredibly hard
to believe that they would pass constitutional muster. And then
te anonymous doesn't even want to have his name on
the air in case, you know, he's flagged and put
on a list somewhere.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, what's what's the short takeaway?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
She felt like, this is uh something the government shouldn't
be doing, or it's perfectly okay.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Uh, it's it's a tough one. It's a really tough
nut to crack.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The fact that it's already happened gives them a great
advantage because you would.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Have to unwind it.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, what do we have Michael a minute?
This is too good. The title is my company was
targeted by Palestinian protesters or anti Israel protesters, and it
is a story that is both informational and amusing. But
I would hate to rip through it and leave out
the good part. So maybe we'll squeeze that in next hour.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Here's a good tease for hour two. So maybe you've
been thinking about the golp one weight loss drug which
now one out of twenty people are on, and they
expect it to be more like five out of twenty
by two years from now are on the golp one drugs.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
How hard is it to get on? I've got a
tail for you.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
You'll find out how easy it is to get on,
like incredibly easy, Like you could be on it this
afternoon if you.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Wanted to be. I'm actually seeing my doctor tomorrow. Who knows.
I'm a bit porky, let's admit.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It anyway, So all that coming up our two of
you miss a segment get the podcast Armstrong Eddy on
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Speaker 2 (36:04):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Katy and now He Armstrong and yet.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Love from Studio se Jason Your It is a dimly
lit room deepen from the bowels of the Armstrong and
Getty Communications compound. We are kicking off a brand new week.
This could be the week where everything goes right in
your life or the week where off maybe alf Fole's
part you don't.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But today we are toiling. Under the title of the
show a deal. We'd like to mulla it over if
you prefer. According to the left, murder is okay if
you're mad, reference to the Mangioni trial now commencing in
New York City.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's the second dip on mulla it over? Is that
the first time you've heard?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I don't think I've a doubled it, but it's not.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's good enough to use more than ones. I like it.
I would like to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Defer my plea your honor until we can check the record.
I would I'm like doctor Fauci. Jack is obsessed with me.
He's hell bent on getting me. Uh stuck with a
burgery charge.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
So what's the deal with Mangoni.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well, he pled guilty to murder because he murdered that
fella in cold blood because something something healthcare.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
But this is a change or a end or what is?
What is? What is the news?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
There's all sorts of stuff going on. I hate to
platform them, but some of the people who are quote
unquote supporters of the cold blooded, confused, murdering young man
are out making their political speeches and making jackasses of themselves.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
And again I hate to even give them any heed.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And also there's a conversation about the state and federal charges,
whether it would be double jeopardy to try him for
different for the same act in different ways. Gotcha, that's
a part of the law that's long confused me. I
don't quite get it. When I almost went to law school,
I didn't almost sign up for that class.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So I really I don't know anything.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
On the whole. You hate to platform these idiots us
thinking that about that Hassan Piker dude. The interesting thing
is the number of people that are willing to go
on his podcast, cozy up to him, have him on
stage with him politically, but in terms of like giving
him attention, which we're going.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
To today because there's lots of clips.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
But I just especially when I look at it, I
look at him, and I can I can see on
his face he's he's phony. He doesn't even believe the
crap he's saying. He's just a grifter, but he you know,
he says this stuff, and the people following him believe it,
enter into it, and people on stage are probably cynical
about it too, but they know the crowd is into it.
(03:04):
So I don't know what you do with a situation
like that, But he is just he is just a
what can I say today? To get attention sort of guy?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But to what end? And you would suggest it's to
acquire wealth. I guess that's what you're suggesting by he's
a grifter.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Working so far.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I don't know if you saw the Wall Street Journal
profile piece on him today and his multimillion dollar Hollywood home.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That he leaves, and so it's working for you all
for him.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah. And I mentioned last week that he went on
a visit to Cuba to study the glorious communism there,
wearing fourteen hundred dollars sunglasses, which is just a lovely touch,
but I need to disagree with you kind of subtly
on a couple of points. Number One, the reason I
want to play the clips we have is so people
understand this guy and what he's saying. Because if it
(03:52):
is fair game, if I'm running for whatever the Congress
and I'm handing I'm hanging out with the Grand Imperial
Wizard of my local clan chapter, people have right to
know that, and they have a right to know what.
You know what, I actually believe this guy, Hassan Piker,
is that far out there and the things he's said
(04:15):
and says regularly ought to utterly disqualify him from any
politician hanging out with him or being buddies with him,
or even appearing.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
On a show.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's it's, you know, the clearest yet example of the
double standard that the media has. But it's it's absolutely terrible.
I also believe him to be an Islamist. I'm not
one hundred percent certain on this. He says parents were
immigrants from Turkey, and I believe he is a revolutionary leftist.
Whether he wants to tear down Western civilization in the
(04:46):
name of Karl Marx or Muhammad, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, Like I said, the troubling part is that politicians
go on his podcasts and stand up next to him.
So that's where he has influenced. I mean, because he's
like like the Nick Fuentas crazy character on the right.
You don't need to pay attention to him because there
aren't politicians going on his podcast or having him on.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Stage or whatever. Yeah, he's twice removed.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Really, he has some influence on some young men, certainly
who will tend to vote on the right. Jd Vance
is acutely aware of him and his effects. But no, no,
you don't platform him in the same way you know
the left is platforming these lunatics on the.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Left, weird weird man.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, we'll play some crazy clips from that dude coming
up a little bit later. So he was at a
pool party, I guess, the night before the election, hanging
out with that l Sayed up in Michigan. So they
you know, the politicians haven't distanced themselves yet. I still
have the question of will Barack Obama be on stage
with asan piker at some point, That's what I wonder
with Al said or hassan piker, hassan piker wow wow,
(05:55):
or El said also, but I think he almost has to. Well,
Piper's going to be there as who was it that
was writing about that one of our favorite writers was
writing about. Is Barack Obama gonna be in the green
room with Piker at ELSI, Ed's get together he and
Michelle and just say hey, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Like your work? I mean what, yeah? Wow, yeah, oh troubling.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That'll be fun to see. I have so many different
stories from vacation. I can't wait to talk about them,
Lots and lots of different things, everything from things I
saw to.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Parenting to everything in between.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Excellent Number one notable wildlife encounter. I was tossed by
that bison, as you know, when I was on vacation.
I'm still limping a little bit. How about you fighting wildlife.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'd have to think about it for a little bit.
Saw a fair amount of wildlife. If you drive across Canada,
you will see a lot of wildlife. I'll have to
think about it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Might be ocean related, as we spend a fair amount
of time on a boat with our minivan going back
and forth. Yes, Michael, you look like you have something
to say.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No, no, I have anything. That's just a look on
your face. Yeah, it's just a look of you know,
how are you doing, Katie? Oh, we're doing good, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, using the royal way these days now. Of course
you're speaking for yourself and you're infant.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I did, I did, Uh, I did tag your
photo on Twitter yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think that's your cutest picture yet. Baby and dog.
Baby and Dog's hard to beat. It's hard to beat
baby and dog for a photo.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I almost passed out when they were doing.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That, so almost too much.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You might give somebody a sweet overdose and then you'd
be responsible.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'm diabetic and it was tough. Yeah. On the vacation thing.
Was it just something just popped in my head as
it goes.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh, I don't understand why why the mini van has
the repid has it does? And I understand, you know
it's it's I'm a I'm a I'm a single grown man.
I'm not going to drive a mini van thinking that's
gonna get me the dates I want to get.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But it's such a practical vehicle. We had to remember
me saying that for years.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, we had the option of so we flew to Denver,
rented a vehicle, then drove up all the way up
through South Dakota, through into Canada, then all the way
across Canada than down, and then all the way down from.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Seattle to Canadian border, all the way back down to Lord, California.
Long drive.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But so, when I was gonna rent a vehicle, usually
I rent to an suv, like you know, Chevy Tahoe
or whatever the hell Ford Expedition or something like that.
But the minivan was so much cheaper, and I thought,
you know what, it's actually more comfortable anyway, So I
got the minivan, who like half the prices, Like, this
is way better than driving an suv, so much better,
so much more comfortable than an suv. Rides better that
(08:39):
getting in and out with the sliding doors is so
much better, the seating's better. It's just way better. People
drive SUVs for minivan reasons. It's not like you're, you know,
pulling a boat in the snow.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're picking up your kids from school and go to Starbucks.
You know, you are like everybody else. That's fine, that's
what I do.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But why do we do that? Why don't we all
drive minivans? There's so much better, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I hate to judge people Iraq your look the way
Irock you look. You find yourself image where you find it.
We all do different things. But yeah, when I was
a dad of kids in the house, I love the
minivan partly because everybody had plenty of room to spread out,
and we had three kids. You know, nobody was on
top of each other. He's touching me, you know, and
(09:22):
like I'd put the loudest kid in the third row
so when they're overly loud, it wouldn't kill my ears.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And it so was so great.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
By the way, I spent the weekend, part of it
long weekend on our nation's interstate system, a salute to
President Eisenhower and is forward thinking. But two drivers in
particular were driving like efing lunatics. There are plenty of
people who drive a little fast, a little aggressively, but
two e fing lunatics, both in minivans, which I thought
was interesting. I don't know what's going on there psychologically exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, I've often said, no ticket.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The ticket should be different for people driving one hundred
miles an hour in cars that aren't.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Made to go that fast. It's more dangerous. It's clearly
more dangerous. Yeah, you're right. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He's Joe Getty on this it is Monday, August seventeenth,
first day of high school for my youngest, first day
of high school.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Big moment in your life.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yere twenty twenty six. We are Armstrong. You getting We
approve of this program. Let's sleep into action. Then officially
the show begins according to FCC rules. Rags at Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Okay, you dude, I mean, seriously, you old lady. Shut
the up, you stupid, idiotic old lady with your stupid
gamer headset.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It was that.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That is the beginning of Hassan Piker's response to a
Vietnamese immigrant to the United States who said, we suffered
so horribly under communism, Please don't move toward communism.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
That was his response to that woman. Yeah, he can't
engage him in conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, no. As I mentioned before, went on vacation, I
watched one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Of his shows, spent spent quite a bit of time
with it. You should, you should log some time. He's
got a talent, he's got a thing, there's no doubt
about it. But it looks to me like a grift.
The unfortunate part is lots of people are going along
with it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
That's the problem, right right to talk about today, we
got to talk about the the Jason our Day thing
at Cambridge, the young professor.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
We talked about a fair amount. Will You're gone last week?
The dei hire is now oft himself.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
So you think he killed him? So oh clearly? Yeah,
well according to you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I don't know, but come on what that ex Kendy dude.
According to him it was a media lynching.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, because he had white supremacy that killed him.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And we will have to talk about that. That's an
interesting story. Hey, you have headlines for us coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I do. So you have babies with dogs and headlines
covering all the bases, all the big bases exactly. That's
on the way next. Stay here, Hettie.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Here's my headline from the CBS poll yesterday about socialism
and everything like that. They got a lot of tension
on face toination. We'll have to talk more about that later.
Among democrats, their view of socialism for the college degree democrats,
Democrats with the college degree.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Seventy one percent have a positive view of socialism. Good lord,
that's a high number.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh my god, do we have a fight on our hands.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yikes.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story with Katy Green Katie.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Alrighty, The Alphabet Network, CNN.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Trump threatens oman as US Iran agreement expires. NBC quote
revenge is inevitable. Iran ramps up propaganda war with violent
billboards and Fox. Iran reportedly places thirty thousand dollars bounty
on US troops.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
The fact that today is the deadline for the MoU,
why that's getting any attention? You know, clearly the mo
you got blown up a long time ago, the deadline
with no meaning whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The whole thing ended months ago.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It does kind of point out the I was trying
to avoid saying meaningless. The meaninglessness of Trump's various negotiations
is pronouncements.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
They just don't mean anything.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
From the Washington Post, Trump reduces military exercises with South Korea.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Citing good ties with Kim Jong un.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
This seems to be mystifying everybody. Do you have an
idea what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
He posted pictures of him and Un together saying, or
him and Kim together saying, we get along great, We're buddies.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Does he actually think that I'm just trying to butter
him up? And how does he think buttering up these
people's works. I'm just hoping it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We can't do military exercises. We're stretched too thin.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I hope it ain't that. Oh man, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
USA today.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Quote polyester is gen Z's newest viral insult.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh insult? How do you use it in a sentenced
You know? Oh, I would call Jack, You're so polyester? Okay,
and that means I'm old.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Or no, it's gen zs are using this to call
something or someone low quality or cheap.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay. I thought it meant. I thought it was going
to be artificial. I'm really not hip. I thought it
meant I was wrinkle free. That too, good Lord.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
From the New York Post gen Z's three dollars hack
to beat the soaring cost of going out, Tiny canned
cocktails that pack a fierce punch.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The drunk first. Yeah, we know you didn't invade anything,
you morons.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Those buzzballs man, gross.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
They don't drink anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The young people too, so the few that do do
that nice All about the buzzballs. Yes, yes, pregaming, we
used to call it again, kids, you've invented nothing.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Study finds men who.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Drink more coffee show higher testosterone levels.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Right, yeah, damn right ladies.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh yeah, And finally, the Babylon Bee sad W NBA
task Force fails to define a woman after spending the
entire meeting trying to pick a restaurant for lunch.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I get it. The testosterone coffee thing.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Is that a h.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's not a cause causal thing. That's just the sort
of try to imagine the kind of person. I've known
a few normal dudes that didn't drink any caffeine, but
not many. Mostly if you're I don't drink caffeine, you're
kind of not really trying to get much out of
life sort of person.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
But Mormon.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Maybe, yeah, so you don't think it's causing effect. I
think it's probably causing effect. Really yeah, although I don't know,
maybe Katie could bring us the facts. But coffee studies lately.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But you're trying to grab the world by the neck
and get the most out of it, are you know?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Are kind of they got lots of testosterone and they're
going to drink a lot of coffee so they can
grab the world.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
By the aforementioned neck. I can't say you're wrong. I'm
going to shake the world's hand, Jack.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But you do whatever you think. So for a freement,
I can't say you're wrong with your theory. I kind
of like it. I feel like the best way to
get things is to grab people by the neck. I
don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, boy.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
More Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly
pretty soon, I'll be declaring the Hormoe Straight a territory
of the United States. Shad say yes, letter, we have
the blockade.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
So Trump announced at a rally over the weekend that
we're going to declare. He just stated it like it's
going to happen, going to declare the Strait of Horror
Moves a territory of the United States, which he obviously
is not going to do it.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I just I can't imagine unless he's just trying to
get applause from that crowd in that room, I can't
imagine how he thinks he's furthering his agenda and any
of these statements that he isn't planned to follow through on.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I don't know. I'm so confused by it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, I don't want to go I don't want to
beat people at death with this stuff. And I'm just
going through the alleged great deals that were going to happen,
and how they're coming along, from Ukraine and Russia to
North Korea to a ram and you know, every aspect
of the Iran thing, from the straight to the nuclear stuff,
and it's just it's going nowhere. And even the you know,
(18:08):
the situation with Israel and Hamas, you got Jared kissing
Hamas ass right now trying desperately to cement some sort
of deal. Trump's still saying Israel, you can't attack him.
They've agreed to give up their arms, which is laughable.
I just I don't know what to make of any
of it. I think he's lost his mind.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So to pivot to the one of the big news
stories of the day.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Some people are wondering why we are at war to
stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, which I think
is a worthwhile venture. But at the same time, another
rogue state that already has nuclear weapons were calling off
our exercises with South Korea because North Korea is such
(18:50):
a good actor or something.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, Okay, let me go over there. I'm essentially I
think Trump thinks. And again I'm so mystified by this.
I'm doing my best to guess, but I think Trump
thinks that buttering up these dictators does something. And so
Kim Jong un has said that these exercises that we
have every year with the South Koreans because there's such
(19:14):
an important ally and have been for decades, that these
exercises are too provocative, and Kim Jong un says, I'm
only being mean and belligerent because you guys are doing that.
And if you stop doing that, if you stop preparing
for having to fight me, then we could probably be buddies.
And I'll bet we could have a big, big deal.
We could cut a big deal that'll make everybody look
(19:35):
super smart, including you, mister president.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
But he has absolutely no intention to do that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So they were planned to start today these exercises with
South Korea, so it definitely was a last second calling
it off, which is not handy as you might imagine
with a giant project that is a big military exercise.
Why he waited to the last second to call it
off of is you know, another open.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Question, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So you think it's a it's a personal buttering these
people up. I guess I was hoping for some sort
of three dimensional jets that I don't understand whether it's
a good thing or bad thing, Like we just can't
have that many resources paying attention to a military exercise
right now because we're stretched thin.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I don't know. I'm making up reasons.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Why you wouldn't want to admit that even though you
are true. Trump has said it's it's just too expensive.
And what else did he said? Say? Actually, you know what,
the South Korean president, who's a bit of an appeaser
in my mind, does not hate this move because she.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Is it a she at this point women president?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I know, is that incredible or what I suggested scaling
back to joint exercises to improve the chances for engagement
with North Korea. But Trump's order on the eve of
the eleven days of exercises is raised concerns among military
officials and advisers about undermining military readiness, and various think
tankers and retired admirals have weighed in saying this is
(21:11):
a terrible mistake because North Korea is more dangerous than ever.
They have inherited a bunch of knowledge and weapons from Russia,
because as we've touted the Ukrainian's incredible steep learning curve
with the drone warfare and counter drone warfare and the
rest of it, some of which we are getting trained
on now, thank god. But North Korea has benefited from
(21:32):
that as well, as they furnished machine gun fodder, meat
puppets to be mowed down in minutes to the Russians
in return got to weaponry and financial aid and that
sort of thing. Yeah, they're more dangerous than they've ever been.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, I forgot to bring up that angle of it.
So you can't really make the announcement that North Korea
has been a good actor over the past however many years,
and that's why you know, we're going to give them
for some reason not having a military exercise that would
be all about attacking them. They haven't been a good actor,
as they're sending tens of thousands of troops to Russia today.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So in twenty eighteen, Trump did the same thing. He
suspended the joint drills during a summit with Kim as
a concession to move forward in denuclearization talks. He scaled
down other exercises the following year, and then just this Saturday,
Trump posted a social media photo of Kim and himself
during their twenty nineteen meeting there at the Korean border,
and they're both kind of scowling, and Trump posted this,
(22:33):
despite the unfriendly look and this particular picture, there are
many where we're smiling. Kim Jong own and I get
along great, he wrote. That was their last meeting, that
picture before talks fell through. By the way, the whole
we get along great, We've got a good relationship.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Seriously, he can't be that naive. I don't know. I
don't even really have a speculation on this.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Can anybody and feel fright? Can anybody think of in
any sense, how like a Kim Jong un or Vladimir
Putin hears? Oh, he thinks we have a great relationship
that's nice and like it helps us? Or does it
just make him seem weak and.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Needy?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You would think even if he went into his presidency
with that view, by now he would have realized, Oh, okay,
Vladimir Putin, you know, he'll smile and shake your hand,
but that doesn't mean he likes you.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I guess I've learned that lesson. I mean, I'm no potus.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
But we've been in many heated negotiations for various reasons,
or negotiations where we knew the other side, you know,
they were in a really tough spot themselves, and it
would be really tough to reach an agreement that was
acceptable whatever the situation was, and whether I had a
cheery relationship with the person in charge of the negotiations
(24:03):
on the other side. I mean, it's not nothing, but
it doesn't mean anything. It's not gonna get you know,
more money, more benefits, a greater revenue share or whatever
they have, the position they have, And you're talking about
Kim Jong un and Vledier putin, I'm sorry, how about
Xijin Ping?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You think jes Jijien ping things?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Oh you know, honey, I wasn't sure how Donald thought
about me, but it says here he really likes me
in all caps. Again, I don't even know what he's
trying to do, so but yeah, North here's the takeaway.
And you know, let's hope that the strategic you know,
(24:44):
the balance continues and nobody does anything too crazy. But
North Korea is more dangerous than ever. And Trump, to
his credits, trying to figure out what to do about
it because you have to, but don't. I don't see
much light at the end of this particular tunnel.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, I'm not particularly worried about North Korea, so you know,
but I I don't understand calling off the military exercises.
But the story, the Iran story that got my attention
the most over the weekend was finding out that at
the very beginning of the war, like moment one, Iran
(25:19):
obliterated our base that we were going to use for
all logistics, absolutely obliterated it, and then we had to
improvise and change.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Everything and move to Diego, Garcia.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But a lot of the decisions we've made since day
one around who's going to be where and how long
you have to be at sea, and it factors in
with that ship that got so much attention over the
weekend because it's now been at sea longer than any
aircraft carrier in US history, and all that sort of
stuff is because Iran obliterated our logistics hub moment one,
(25:54):
which didn't really make the news until a couple of
days ago. But yeah, they they're their plan to hit
us back was better and more effective than has been reported.
As usual, nothing wrong with you know, keeping that a secret.
I suppose if the point is uh, fog of war,
(26:15):
don't let your enemy have a blah blah blah. But yeah,
that was that's some pretty interesting news to find out
they they not only hit our our our intelligence hub
there in the Middle East where we're gonna work everything from,
they completely blew it up.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I mean it was unusable afterwards. Wow, I missed that.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, big story and uh and and a problem. So
I don't know that. I feel like that's going to
be in the history of this war and how it started.
The Iranian attack retaliation for the US Israel Assaultant Turrn
destroyed the base as it went up in smoke. So
did a major the major logistics hub that the Navy
(26:57):
has relied on for decades and was planning to rely
on for this entire war.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
It just to on at some point.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's a problem, all right me And more geopolitical nastiness
and other stuff. After a word from our friends at
in Cogni. This is so interesting. When police searched the
car of the man who assassinated in the Minnesota lawmaker
her husband in their own home, you probably remember that
they found a notebook inside a handwritten list of eleven
websites not weapons sites, data brokers.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
People search sites that sell your home address for a
couple of bucks. Did you know that type your name
into one right now. There you are, your address, your phone,
your family's names, a photo of your front door. Anyone
can look you up in seconds and you'll never know
who did.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's why we use incognita.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
It forces data brokers and people search sites to delete
you then keeps checking because deleted data creeps back, and
Cognia has scrubbed us from hundreds and hundreds of sites
while we did exactly nothing.
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your address, go to in cognity dot com slash armstrong
for sixty percent off. That's in cognity dot com slash
armstrong because the next time a stranger searches your name,
let them find nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
In cognity dot com slash armstrong sixty percent off. H Yeah,
all of this stuff is troubling and crazy and nutty,
and I don't know where it's going. You know, when
we get a certain distance down the road and discussing
this stuff, I've got to admit I think, okay, great,
there's nothing I can do about that. There's plenty we
can do about our domestic political scene slash culture, and
(28:33):
that's certainly going to be a big part of the
show today as the socialists and the Islamists are forging
ahead and trying to get more and more done. Jack
I mentioned last week that so one of our our
some of our learned associates at the National reviewer're talking
about woke one in AOC's ridiculous quote about woke one
(28:53):
that was crazy.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Like it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
One of the people put she can get as hard
as she could, And they're like, will there be a
woke too?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And I'm like, oh my god, you don't get it.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
There is a philosophy, there's a belief system that wants
to tear down our political system, our constitution, courts, et cetera,
Neo Marxism. They will adapt and change strategy five hundred
and sixty times. The question isn't will there be a
woke two point zero? It's what will their next strategy
look like? What will they say? What arguments will they make,
(29:30):
What quasi moral arguments will they make to you know,
completely change the way Western So we'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, that's a good one. I didn't get really to
weigh in on the whole Woke one AOC view of things.
We'll have to talk more about that later. Was that
really clever or really dumb that statement from her?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
That's an open question.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Woke one was crazy.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
If you if that doesn't make you angry hearing that
you're person than me, Uh, it makes me angry every
time I hear it.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, we're gonna go over.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
We're gonna remind you of some of the specific aspects
of what Woke one us. That was just crazy, No,
that was super smart. It's the they've been called out
for their strategy and are now disavowing it, changing the
party line, and everybody's cow to catch up and be
(30:27):
on it, which is why it's one of the reasons
they cut the old Francesca Hong loose in Wisconsin because
she was still hewing too close to Woke one, and
AOC knew it, and she's like, nah, she's she's still
stuck in you know, twenty twenty two, so she's no
good strategy.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Plus it kind of declares it over so people can
people who aren't paying attention can say, oh, okay, cool,
that's over. Wellll I can go back to my life then, right, Even,
like I said, the learned commentators at the National Review,
I could not believe how naive.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
They were about this. Yeah. Cool, we got mail bag
on the way and lots of other stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
So I just saw a news report where they they
were reporting it as Trump called off these exercises to
punish South Korea because they weren't willing to help us
with the war effort in Iran.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
So that, oh, that was a factor too, Yeah, that was. Yeah,
it's hard to say which was. You know, he has
been lashing out at various countries who did not help.
So yeah, that's a factor for sure. Yeah, left that out,
and I apologize deeply to humbly. Here's your freedom loving
Code of the Day. Continuing our series from Nikita Khrushchev
the Kami premiere in the Soviet Union middle part of
(31:42):
the twentieth century. The comrades, we must abolish the cult
of the individual decisively, once and for all.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Wow, the culture like individual individual rights? Do you the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Communist socialists they hate that. They want to stomp them out. Yeah. Yeah,
and then this one, speaking of you know, evildoers.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
They have to be watched.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I like that, especially because I had a conversation with
Tim Sandford the other day about his book, and he
refutes a couple of arguments made by the very famous
best selling historian Joseph Ellis, and they are idiotic arguments
and I will never read another word, mister Ellis writes again. Yeah,
there are so many ways you can twist history and
(32:34):
really give people a distorted view. Mailbag who drops no
mailbag at Armstrong and giddy dot commists dive right into it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
It's Brett, he says. Guys.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
People failed to realize who the deciders are in socialism.
I've taken the liberty to correct the manifesto. From each
according to his ability is decided by the government. Two
each according to his needs is decided by the government.
And of course this from each according to the government's needs,
two each according to his value to the government. That's
(33:04):
really good, Really like that second part. If the people
need a ditch, poets are going to be digging a ditch.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
If you don't.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Provide value, your needs won't be met. Is decided by
the government, free will won't exist. This is the first draft.
Well done, Bratt, well done. How about this thoughts on
flock cameras from tnonymous, second generation friend of Armstrong and Eddy.
Listen to me talking to Anastasia Poden about mass surveillance
(33:32):
in the Fourth Amendment and the flock cameras, the license
plate cameras, whether it's or not, there's no public space
station experts believe the Founding.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
So I wish I missed out on the Hona Stata
conversation about that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I will. So there's two.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Segments that I'm going to have to listen to. I'll
have to listen to the Tim send Per segment and
off to listen to the Anastagia segment, because both of
us sound very interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Me.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I've been asking for years that whole license plate reader thing,
if that's a did we No, I don't remember ever
voted on that. I don't remember anybody river running on
that thing, and yet it happened.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Right, Let's see, So what the founding papas have been
content knowing American citizens could not leave their private residences
without having their every move surveilled by the state. He mentions,
he passes a half a dozen of these on the
way to work. Don't remember ever voting on the issue.
I've seen nothing but videos of city council meetings where
the entire citizen re shows up against these cameras, but
(34:35):
it always seems to happen. I find it incredibly hard
to believe that they would pass constitutional muster. And then
te anonymous doesn't even want to have his name on
the air in case, you know, he's flagged and put
on a list somewhere.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, what's what's the short takeaway?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
She felt like, this is uh something the government shouldn't
be doing, or it's perfectly okay.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Uh, it's it's a tough one. It's a really tough
nut to crack.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The fact that it's already happened gives them a great
advantage because you would.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Have to unwind it.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, what do we have Michael a minute?
This is too good. The title is my company was
targeted by Palestinian protesters or anti Israel protesters, and it
is a story that is both informational and amusing. But
I would hate to rip through it and leave out
the good part. So maybe we'll squeeze that in next hour.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Here's a good tease for hour two. So maybe you've
been thinking about the golp one weight loss drug which
now one out of twenty people are on, and they
expect it to be more like five out of twenty
by two years from now are on the golp one drugs.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
How hard is it to get on? I've got a
tail for you.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
You'll find out how easy it is to get on,
like incredibly easy, Like you could be on it this
afternoon if you.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Wanted to be. I'm actually seeing my doctor tomorrow. Who knows.
I'm a bit porky, let's admit.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It anyway, So all that coming up our two of
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