June 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Tom McClintock talks to Joe Getty!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week Part 2 & Israel's work behind the scenes
- Jack Armstrong checks in from Florida topless beach
- 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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty, thank you very much, Flanked by everyday workers.
The President talking up his big beautiful bill today.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Will deliver a record tax cut, a record spending cut,
a record investment in border security.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And revealing a new trade deal with China, although with
very few specifics.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We just signed with China yesterday, right, just signed with
China in the China Deal. We're starting to open up China.
Things that never really could have happened.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I remember when the summer was kind of slow news
wise back in the day.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It sure isn't anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
So much going on, so much talk about with Congressman
Tom McClintock of the fifth District of California, longtime friend
of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Tom, how are you, sir?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I'm doing fine. You're right. They've been busy little bees
around here.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah. Yeah, And we will get to that in a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I thought you might be interested to know what just
wrapped up A great conversation with Tim Sanderfer of the
Goldwater Institute about Independence Day since we're off next week,
and the Declaration of Independence and in its role in
the nation's history and ethics and the rest of it.
And as you are one of the great lovers of
liberty I've ever met in politics are out. When you
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think about the Declaration of Independence, what do you think about?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What comes to mind?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, there's this revolutionary concept that there are certain rights
that don't.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Come to us from government.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
They come to us from what the founders call the
laws of nature, and of Nature's God, God creates these rights.
We create governments to protect these rights, and that's their
only legitimate function.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, I expressed to Tim, I've come to the belief
that the idea of liberty is just kind of background noise.
It's almost like wallpaper in the American scene these days,
and people think that the role of government is to
be well, is to do things for us and give
things to us, and liberty needs to be an ever
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present word, I think, or idea as we're discussing the
politics of our time, and I think that's been lost,
particularly among young people.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well, if you want to know the entire history of
human civilization and four words, it's freedom, works, socialism, sucks,
you know. And I talk to young people all the time,
who's a whole well Socialism that's sharing and taking care
of one another, and capitalism that's just doggy dog lookout
for yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And I try to explain.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
To them, you've got it exactly backwards. The only possible
way to prosper and secces feed in a capitalist system
is you've got to figure out what somebody else needs
and how to get it for them better than they
can get it for themselves. There's no other way. It
might be mowing their lawn, it might be doing brain
surgery on their child, whatever it is, you've got to
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help your neighbor if you're going to succeed and prosper.
Socialism is taking from one person what they've earned by
helping their neighbor and giving it to somebody who hasn't.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And it's true.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
If I take a dollar from Peter and give it
to Paul, Paul's got an extra dollar to spend, Paul's
a happy man. Peter's got one less dollar to spend,
So you haven't helped the economy at all. But what
you've really done is you've robbed from both of them.
A dollar's worth of incentive to help each other, Paul
because he no longer needs to, and Peter because he
no longer profits from it. And that's why socialism always
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dissolves the bonds that hold a society together and ultimately
requires lots and lots of government force because you've got
to force people to act against their own interests.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
All right, You've removed the incentives the reward, so all
that remains is the punishments. And I love your illustration
of capitalism too. Are the free market, as I prefer
to phrase it, because I've got to do whatever I'm
doing to your satisfaction to profit from it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It's an entirely voluntary arrangement. Whereas socialism you've got to
apply enormous amounts of force.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And that's why.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Socialist socialism dissolves first of all, the bonds that hold
the society together, creates enormous misery and deprivation, and ultimately
has to be enforced at the point of a bayonet.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Right, which is why I'm so astounded by the perhaps
probable election of this Zorondabi character in.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
New York City.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
The idea that you could run rent control up the
flagpole and anyone would salute. We just we need to
do a better job, speaking of America's young people, of
teaching the basic economics.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
If you choke off the supply of something.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
If you remove the incentives for supplying it, you don't
get more of it, for instance, rental properties.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, and I think young people are figuring it out.
You're seeing that in all the polling data. Now, this
young generation is turning into the most conservative generation we've
had since the days of Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And if you recall, Ronald.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Reagan's success was driven by the youngest voters in the electorate.
They understood their futures were at stake, and they spend
a lot of time figuring things out, connecting the dots
and starting to make very good decisions. That's what democracies
are all about. In normal times, they may go haywire,
but when things get tough, people start putting all of
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their attention into their decisions. They start making very good decisions,
and they set things right. And I think that's what
happened across America in twenty twenty four. I think it's
one of the great realigning elections of American history. New
York is obviously an aberration and frankly, I've developed this
morbid curiosity to see just how completely they can destroy
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a city, and I think they've just got the guy
to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
That may be the only way to cure people of
their illusion that this stuff actually works. Maybe you have
to hit bottom like a drunk. Anyway, in my introduction
to Tom, i'd meant to mention that the congressman was
voted the best vote for taxpayers two years in a
row in the House of Representative Citizens against Government Waste
recently named Tom McClintock one of only two perfect votes
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in the House fighting wasteful government spending. And in that spirit, sir,
as you keep an eye on the so called big
beautiful bill getting kicked around now in the Senate. What's
your perception of where we are and how optimistic are
you that we will birth something worth having.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, it's going to pass because it absolutely has to
pass without it, and average families taxes are going to
rise twenty two percent next year. That's about seventeen hundred
dollars a year, and additional taxes that'll make it the
biggest tax increase in American history. That's already on the books.
This bill stops that tax increase from taking effect, and
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at the same time it removes taxes on tips, and
over time it increases the standard deduction for seniors to
protect their Social Security earnings. So that by itself makes
it absolutely imperative that it passed. But it does a
lot of other very good things too. I could go
you know, through the list, among them increasing the border
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patrol and securing the repatriation of the millions of illegal
aliens that the Biden administration led into this country, you know,
unleashing America's vast energy resources. But most importantly it comes
down to this. The only economic indicator that really matters
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is how people answer this question next year. Are you
better off to day than you were two years ago.
You can't spend the answer to that question. Every person
in their own lives how they're doing. If we can
get this bill into effect this summer, it'll have a
full year to work before people will be called upon
to ask that question in the next election. And that's
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why it's going to pass, because it has to well.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
And a third reference to America's young people. I think
there could be no more important issue than breaking the
choke hold that the teachers' unions have on our government
schools through competition and innovation. And I know there's some
really inspiring or interesting things in the bill pushing school choice,
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So I was glad to hear about that.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Well and well an Aeriel Durant wrote in their history Civilization,
what may support a good car Chevrolet competition? You want
to improve the public schools, restore competition, Allow parents the
means and the freedom to make their own decision on
the school that best meets their own child's needs, and
you will see a huge improvement in the public and
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private schools.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Congressman Tom McClintock is on the line, I couldn't agree more. Hey,
in the time, we have left your reaction to a
couple of geopolitical happenings, the stunning Israeli raid on Iran
and the US's role in helping out what do you
make of all that?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Well, I mean, without divulsion classified information, I think I
can safely say that that if you've ever seen the
film classic Bambi meets Godzilla, sort of.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Like that, the efficiency and skill of not only the
United States fighting forces but our allies in Israel are
just awesome to behold.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, and they did a splendid job. I mean, Israeli intelligence,
the UN, the Iran Foreign minister all agree that the
Iranian nuclear capability has been, in President Trump's word, obliterated.
You know, the only people are saying otherwise are the
Supreme Mola of Iran and a CNN rep order. But
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you know, ultimately, anything can be destroyed can be rebuilt.
The Iranian regimes made it clear that it intends to
acquire nuclear weapons and once acquired, to use them first
against Israel, then against US. And until they acquire that ability,
they're still going to be the prime sponsor of terrorism
around the world. I mean, they fund and direct the
hoodies hezbe Lajamas, and there's no reason to believe they're
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going to stop. The good news is that regime is
like a rotting porch. It is just waiting to collapse.
They've oppressed the Iranian people for decades. There is a
very strong resistance movement there and in the Iranian diaspora abroad.
And the problem was every time it was on the
verge of revolution, the Obama and Biden administration stepped in.
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They sent the cargo pallets of cash to the moulahs.
They relaxed the sanctions. That's not going to happen under Trump.
So I think ultimately the only way to permanently resolve
this danger short of a bloody war is to bring
matt regime crashing down from within.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And maybe now is the time.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
To start assisting the opposition groups in any way that
we can well.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And it's just great to see deterrence back on the
scene because serious deterrence leads to peace. Congressman Tom McLintock
of the fifth District of California, Congressman, is always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Thanks. Happy Independence Day to you and yours and we'll
talk again soon. Thanks Joe, great talking to you. Likewise.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Clips of the week coming up in a moment or two,
and then a report from Jack in Sunny Florida.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Stay with us.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Tower grows hungrier with the eating. It's one of those
principles that we have either forgotten or just been duped
out of ignoring in the modern day, the fantasy that
government will just give us everything we need and that
there isn't any cost for it. And I don't just
mean literally the cost in tax dollars and confiscations and
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the rest of it, but that it won't be in
love with its own power and metastasize, because it always
does and every example through human history, but we as
humans somehow lose that reality.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Happy Independence Day a week early to you and yours.
Jackie is going to be weighing in from Florida in
a couple of minutes where he is on vacation. Lovely
of him to join us in enjoying the conversations with
Tim Sandford and Tom McClintock and all sorts of people
about the declaration and the US and freedom and the
rest of it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hope you've enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It too, if you're just joining us, grab the podcast
Armstrong and Getty on demand. All right, So we had
to put it off to accommodate the congressman schedule. But
it's time for the Friday tradition. Let's take fun look
back at the week that was. It's cow clips of
the week.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That place was demolished, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated, obliteration.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Whips of the week.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Mam bom bom bomber.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
US Central Command executed Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Started with the decoy group of two B two bombers
heading west towards Guam.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
From one world was looking the other way. Seven will
be twos taking off directly towards Iran.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
With a total of fourteen mops dropped against two nuclear
target areas.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This is not a game playing president. When he says
he's going to do something, he will do it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
The President obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Iran's response came in the form of a missile strike.
They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
You understand that questions remain about the fate of Iran's
enriched uranium.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
At least two of the Iranian nuclear facilities targeted were
not completely destroyed.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
But I think CNN is a gut lists group of people.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I know that better than you know that, and I
know that that's not the case. But I'm not see
whether the order was given, and the people say that
it doesn't matter the order was given. They have everything
they need to build nuclear weapons.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
If you want to make an assessment of what happened
at four doh, you better get a big shovel and
go really deep.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
If I'm the president, we will attack iron. We would
be able to totally obliterate.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Them, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It was called obliteration.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
On all midnight Hammer clips of the Week. We might
play the fun one later on in the hour, because
we have an alternate Clips of the week that Hansen
is prepared for US. I was reading about a great
piece written by Credit where it's due Dove Lieber inside
Operation Narnia, the Daring attack. Israel feared it couldn't pull off,
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and my gosh, it's compelling. At midnight on June thirteenth,
Israel's general's gathered in a bunker beneath Israel Air Force
Headquarters Israeli Air Force Headquarters and watched his jets descended
on Tehran in an operation they called Red Wedding. Ooh,
anybody familiar with the Game of Thrones gets that reference.
Hours later, in one thousand miles away, Iran's top military
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commanders were dead, a mass killing much like the famous
wedding scene from the show Game of Thrones. The combination
of intelligence, information, military precision that enabled the attack surprised
people around the world, but it wasn't the only improbable success.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
At the outset of the twelve day campaign.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Another key part of the initial attack considered so fantastical
even by its planners, that it was called Operation Narnia
after the fictional C. S.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Lewis series.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
It successfully killed nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously
at their homes in Tehran, the key being that pulling
off the attacks, which required elaborate ruses to ensure surprise
at the last moment they nearly fell apart.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But the point being both the scientists and.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
The generals, it had to be carefully coordinated, because you know,
the regime is sensitive to the fact that Israel was
on high alert and maybe coming for them the US
as well, And if one general got it, everybody else
would have gone to ground, and if one scientist got it,
all the rest would have vanished into the woodwork.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So it all had to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
A thousand miles away, nearly simultaneously. And you know, part
of the untold story, well untold till now, is that
Israel's been conducting drills to get the skills down to
do this in very innocent seeming ways, flying large groups
of aircraft to Greece and refueling them over and over
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again on the way without landing, in a way that
seemed odd to people, but they've been working on this
for years and years and pulled it off off against
all odds, and at least for now, the Mullahs don't
have nukes. That story will be ongoing, obviously, much more
to come.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Geddy. A couple more segments
to go.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We're going to finish Strong if we possibly can, including
with this special guest appearance by the co host of
the show, mister Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Jack, where are you now? I took my talents to
South Beach.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Way to go? So first question, you're there in Florida.
Is anybody alive? Because I remember they are calling Ron
de Santis ron death sentence during COVID.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Are there any Floridians? Yes, they seem to be alive
and scantily clad. Katie.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Maybe Katie can explain this. Why are bikinis so expensive
since they're so little material involved, especially in the modern era.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Please figure that out for me, because I don't know.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Good Lord, So I have two teenage boys. We're on
the beach in South Beach and they're both playing it cool.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
But I.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
I don't know that i'd want to be a fifteen
year old boy in this environment. It would be a distracting,
torturous I.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Would guess, Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
And I was talking to somebody before I came here,
and they said, man, you gotta really be careful to
not end up because I was explaining to my younger
Henry associates like scantily clad with a with danger for
some reason, like you're in a dangerous neighborhood if you're
seeing scantily clad people.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And I was talking to somebody about that and they said, Oh.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
It's very easy to end up on a beach where
you know it's topless hearing to see a lot of nudity,
and he will freak out if he sees that.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So I'm trying to try to avoid that. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I would never think of that as a concern on
a trip to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But there you are so much nudity. How hot is it?
It's freaking hot? Oh my god, Mooie Colliente. So I
got here last night. This is kind of funny. So
I'm staying at one of those.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
If you've ever seen pictures of South Beach, Miami, the
colorful art deco hotels that are like in every postcard,
we're staying in one of those. And we, because of
Southwest weirdness, we got here like two and a half
hours later than we were supposed to, of course, sitting
on the tarmac for an hour fifteen in Houston for
no explanation whatsoever, and just that sort of thing. But
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so we get to the hotel and we get dropped
off at one am and the doors open.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
We walk in.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
There's nobody at the front desk and there's like no
bell to ring or anything. And I thought, oh, you know, fine,
they're in the bathroom wherever. So we wait and we wait,
and like a half hour goes by and I call
the number and the phone rings there right in front
of me, and.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Anyway pick up answer.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Two hours of a waiting from one am to three
am with nobody around, we eventually walked down the street
and got some pizza because we were starving, and there
was nobody there.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And I mean the bar was there.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I could have walked into the bar and poured myself
a top shelf drain if I wanted to. I could
have stolen many many things, and there was just nobody there.
It was so strange.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Boy, it's not like you're.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
In some sort of village in northwestern Norway or somebody.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, right right.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
I wasn't visiting Greenland. I was in South Beach, Miami,
and I mean there's people everywhere, and the bars are.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Thumping and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Anyway, so I went next door to a hotel and
had even though I'd already paid for three rooms at
this one, I went next door and got a couple
of rooms just because we needed somewhere to sleep.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
That it was now, that was three am, and I
got a street. Not today.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
I took some video, some funny videos though, that I
showed to the manager today, and somebody's getting fired. They
even left their keys sitting on the desk, like the
I'm the janitor keys with like eight thousand keys on it,
and all the keys were labeled like bar, you know,
a master key for the rooms, you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Know, all the different stuff, and they just left it there.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Whoever it was, I don't know if they passed out
or had a hook up in one of the rooms
what happened, But wow, good gracious, Okay, I could have
made I could have made quite the reality show video
out of that if I had been willing to break
the law. Just gone into the bar and you know,
go room to room, Jess, good night. How are you
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doing in there? Yeah, get in. Everybody's sleeping. Okay, great,
I'm the manager. Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Freak like I was worrying. It's right.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Anybody need a foot rub or anything? Okay, it gets stabbed.
It is so freaking hot here though. If you're not
used to humidity, like I'm not, it's just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, Judy and I were hunting to figure out where
are you know, semi golden years pad would be, and
we're focused on South Carolina and where we ended up
and uh and and somebody said to us, well, it's
really hot, but it's not Florida hot. And I thought,
good god, there's like a whole nother gradation.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
You know, what I'm noticing is how I explained this
to the kids, because we just we just ate the
whole Cuban Hispanic culture is so much different than the
I'm from Mexico's Hispanic culture. It's just different. It's just
like a different well it's a different culture. It's like
and I suppose that's obvious, but you know, you think
Spanish and often the people together. But the Marco Rubio
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Hispanic crowd is much different than the you know, California
Hispanic crowd in all kinds of different ways that I'll
talk about when when we come back. Here's the coolest
thing that's happened to me today that doesn't really even
have anything to do with my vacation.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's more about AI and chat GPT.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
So I could not figure out an espresso machine in
the room, and like, I need coffee or I'm going
to pull somebody's head off, you know. And it was
a new kind of an espresso machine that I'd never
seen before, and just I couldn't get it to work.
I took a picture of it on my phone, pressed
one button and said, how do you make this thing work?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
It went to chat GPT and it came.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Back and so do you press that button to the
left and that other one after it blink and it
just it looked at it, figured out what it was,
got thet ructions and told me, how awesome is that?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That is great? We did Jack.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Perhaps you can listen to the podcast. Armstrong and Getty
on Demand did a little ab with an article about
a galoo was using AI as her career counselor, and
how incredibly great it was in ways that I won't redescribe.
But and then the b was an article about how,
with very few tweaks it could give you some really
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fine ideas for wiping out the Jews or wiping out
white people, or a backdoor portal into the White House
it system or whatever just turned evil at the drop
of a hat.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
So yeah, I'm sure how to make a bomb out
of crockpot if you wanted to, or something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh boobs, I see him right over there. Boobs, hair
boobscar boobs. There are bear boobs here. Sam's head is
going to pop off.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
When I was a fifteen year old high school boy,
I never saw anything like this before. Oh my got
he is going to be He's going to be texting
his friends on the download.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Dudes, you can't believe this. Free the nipple?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
What is it, hey, Katie? What is the appeal of
a topless beach? Is it tanlines? Is it like feminism?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Probably a mixture of both. The tanlines can get really
tacky if you get dark.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So does it make you feel wild or like seen?
Or I just I.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
Don't even understand, I've never gone to a topless beach,
so I don't know what they are feeling in that
exact moment. I would assume they feel quite free. I'll
go ask her a nice.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Breeze do it? Do it compliment? Or two? You look
very fit? Do you work out?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Oh? My god, I just help here and tell her
how pretty her eyes are.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Man, if it's this hot here on the beach by
the water, We're going to the Everglades on Sunday, where
it's supposed to be significantly more humid and hot. I
can't imagine what that's going to you. Like, I'll be
wishing an alligator would bite my head off.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yeah, speaking of which, have you seen any of the
big lizards with the boys yet?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
No? We just we are.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
We are.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
We arrived, as I explained it, three in the morning, basically,
so we haven't done much yet.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
I just had a U I just had a lobster
onlet that was pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh, I'll bet, I'll bet so.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Is there surf there or there crashing waves or is
it pretty placid?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's I'd say it's in between.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
It's like perfect for being out there in the water
and bob up and down, but not going to drag
you out to see and kill you.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I might run a jet ski and had to Cuba
the good Man.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, the little reverse mary l boat left good idea. Yeah,
they'll welcome you with open arms. H isn't it crazy
how warm the Atlantic is compared.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
To the Pacific.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
And then yet but salmon henry are out there right now,
and sam and hates cold water, so it must be
pretty comfy.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I still remember the shock of stepping into the Pacific
Ocean for the first time, having grown up is kid
who vacationed on the East Coast and thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Sweet mother, God, go wrong. No, the Atlantic Ocean in
the summertime is like a path. Seriously.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, it's like so all those beach boys songs, you know,
all the surfing you know, they're all shrunk up underneath
those shorts.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It's freezing cool, right, or they're wearing wet suits or whatever,
But certainly more than.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The harlots of South Beach. I don't approve.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
I liked the way everybody on the plane last night
just accepted the fact that we sat there for an
hour fifteen with no explanation whatsoever. Before we took off,
and everybody just accepts that now because it's just part
of the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, nobody felt the need to explain. Nobody even ask.
You just think, well, I guess this is just the
way it is flying now. Didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Somebody would have made a big deal out of the
fact that we've been sitting here for an hour fifteen
before we took off and we're gonna be late for everything.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's just part of the deal.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Now, switching to my business reporter hat, it'll be interesting
to see the evolution of Southwest airlines as they have evolved.
Somewhat the late night comedians making jokes about Spirit and
Jet Blue and all those other alternate airlines. That's not
from nothing. They didn't make that stuff up. That derision
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came from somewhere. Which direction does the great Southwest go?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Who knows?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, you don't want to end up being like a
Spirit or a Bowling, where you're just an endless punchline.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely not so obviously. Rest of today that
way more boobs. I gotta gotta turn my head this way.
I don't want to be I don't anybody think I'm staring.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'll look this.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
There's a cop car over there. I'll stare at the
cop car. That's what ill did, Jack have vacation in
the South of France. You'll get used to it, They'll
get used to it. Everything will be fine, very very
soone we have the breast arm. The breast alarm has sounded.
Ladies and gentlemen, head to the shelters.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
I don't want to be old guy at the beach
staring at twenty year old's boobs, So I got to
make sure my head is going the right direction.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You're not gonna stay. But you don't have to look
at a cop car either. But do you have to
right to look in the direction you choose?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Jack, this is America. That's trouble.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
You wouldn't You wouldn't be able to tell it because
I haven't heard anybody speak English and quite some time.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, Although, getting back to the Cuban culture thing, it's
a shame that goddamn communists are in charge of Cuba,
because the food is incredible, the music is wonderful, the
people are hardworking and industrious.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
It's it's a shame.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
I was thinking that last night, this whole South Beach
vibe would be all of Cuba, and people would be
traveling from all over the world to spend the kind
of money they spend here in Cuba. Those idiot communists, uh,
you know, missing out on all that.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Well, that's what used to happen until Chae Guovera and
old weird Beard Castro got the nod. But what are
you gonna do? Nothing's forever anything exciting this afternoon, or
you just chill out after your all night shirts in Miami.
Oh my god, punch of minute. Probably not quite as
cool to do. Yeah, no kidding, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Excuse me, excuse me, you and the T shirt.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, Jacob Vera and his guys they executed my grandfather
for no reason other than he was a school teacher.
So yeah, yeah, try that in South Beach beaches. Anyway,
go vacation, have a good time.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Did we lose him? That's fine, We're going to break anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Jack weighing in from the hot, steamy beaches of Miami.
We'll be back and finished wrong. Next funny coincidence. There's
breaking news is I'm speaking these words that the University
of Virginia president has resigned. The Justice Department was after
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him because he had been enthusiastically continuing illegal DEI programs,
specifically racial discrimination, you know, relying on the ridiculous but
popular canard that the way you fix any racial problems
of history through lots and lots of racism. The Justice
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Department was looking into the schools clinging to DEI efforts
and good, I'm glad he quit. It's it's a step
in the right direction anyway, because our universities and schools
are hotbeds of this stuff. And also the Supreme Court
earlier today had ruled that yes, parents can absolutely demand
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that their kids can opt out of so called lgbt
Q plus minus over the power of three stories in
Maryland schools as they were teaching kids radical gender theory
in like third grade, and the parents are saying, you've
got to give us, We've got to be able to
take our kids out of school and and and not
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hear that stuff. It's it's absolutely antithetical to our religion
and our morals and our beliefs about the world and
the rest of it. So that's that's another a great blow.
Oppression comes from the left and the right alike always
has in fact, you know, whether it's you want to
cite the horseshoe theory that you know, towards the you know,
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end of the horseshoe, the left and right are pretty
close to each other.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
And who was it? Oh? Was it?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Iin Ran somebody made the brilliant point that affectional that effectively,
there's really no difference between left and right. They throw
different phony academic rationales at you as to why they
ought to be in charge of everything, but what they
share is a systematic subjugation of individual rights in favor
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of government control. And it's funny that those two things
should break as I'm getting ready to finish up the
last show before Independence Day next week.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
We're all on vacation next week.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
But after Thomas, Jefferson and Adams, mostly with some help
from Ben Franklin, drafted the Declaration of Independence and went
through Continental Congress and everything. The first paragraph is just saying, look,
we're breaking with England, and we owe everybody an explanation why.
It's a famous paragraph, but I'm going to skip to
the second one. We hold these truths to be self evident,
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that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed. Anything that
departs from that, no matter the excuse, no matter the
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long explanation, the eloquent to Ebrame's kindibook or the phony
sixteen nineteen project or what have you, anything that departs
from those couple of sentences, feel free to reject it
with confidence, because they are false words of false prophets.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
To listen to the thought from a strong again.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, thanks, weird singing guy.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap up the week. There he's pressing the buttons, Michelangelo, Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Real quick?
Speaker 8 (33:20):
This childhood memory involved uh an entire brick of firecrackers
and a lot of bottle rockets and a trip to
a certain state with loose firework laws. And that's all
I'll say. It's just a fictional, you know thing, but it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Was fun, beloved American tradition. That's right, Katie Green or
a steam Newswoman. As a final thought.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Katie, it has been so long since I have had
zero plans, and I have zero plans for next week.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm excited about it.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
You know I've occasionally quoted Paul McCartney to my my wife,
Oh at magic feeling nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, it's nice sometimes, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I'm going to guest guess ad Jack's final thought, look
boobs as he is there in South Beach where sometimes
the nipple is indeed free. My final thoughts, Happy Independence Day,
God bless this country. Read the Declaration of Independence again.
It's worth it, It's really really important.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I hope everybody has a great week.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
We have some very carefully prepared best of and stuff
you've never heard, it's never aired before. We'll see you
next Monday, God bless them. Ere Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
You're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats,
no Roman candles or screaming mamies.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, Oh, come on, man, you don't got no.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Lady fingers, buzz butterles, sneaker bombs, church burners, finger blasters,
gut busters, zif he do dies or craft flappers.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell
me you don't have no whistling bungholes, No, spleen splitters,
whisker biscuits, honkey ladders, hooskerdoos, hoosker don'ts cherry bombs, nips
and dazers, whether without the scooter stick or one single
whistling kiddy jaser.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
What that might be a problem.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
It's not what you like.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It's the consumer. Armstrong and getty,
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty, thank you very much, Flanked by everyday workers.
The President talking up his big beautiful bill today.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Will deliver a record tax cut, a record spending cut,
a record investment in border security.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And revealing a new trade deal with China, although with
very few specifics.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We just signed with China yesterday, right, just signed with
China in the China Deal. We're starting to open up China.
Things that never really could have happened.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I remember when the summer was kind of slow news
wise back in the day.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It sure isn't anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
So much going on, so much talk about with Congressman
Tom McClintock of the fifth District of California, longtime friend
of the Armstrong and Getty Show. Tom, how are you, sir?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I'm doing fine. You're right. They've been busy little bees
around here.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah. Yeah, And we will get to that in a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I thought you might be interested to know what just
wrapped up A great conversation with Tim Sanderfer of the
Goldwater Institute about Independence Day since we're off next week,
and the Declaration of Independence and in its role in
the nation's history and ethics and the rest of it.
And as you are one of the great lovers of
liberty I've ever met in politics are out. When you
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think about the Declaration of Independence, what do you think about?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What comes to mind?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Well, there's this revolutionary concept that there are certain rights
that don't.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Come to us from government.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
They come to us from what the founders call the
laws of nature, and of Nature's God, God creates these rights.
We create governments to protect these rights, and that's their
only legitimate function.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, I expressed to Tim, I've come to the belief
that the idea of liberty is just kind of background noise.
It's almost like wallpaper in the American scene these days,
and people think that the role of government is to
be well, is to do things for us and give
things to us, and liberty needs to be an ever
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present word, I think, or idea as we're discussing the
politics of our time, and I think that's been lost,
particularly among young people.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well, if you want to know the entire history of
human civilization and four words, it's freedom, works, socialism, sucks,
you know. And I talk to young people all the time,
who's a whole well Socialism that's sharing and taking care
of one another, and capitalism that's just doggy dog lookout
for yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And I try to explain.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
To them, you've got it exactly backwards. The only possible
way to prosper and secces feed in a capitalist system
is you've got to figure out what somebody else needs
and how to get it for them better than they
can get it for themselves. There's no other way. It
might be mowing their lawn, it might be doing brain
surgery on their child, whatever it is, you've got to
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help your neighbor if you're going to succeed and prosper.
Socialism is taking from one person what they've earned by
helping their neighbor and giving it to somebody who hasn't.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And it's true.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
If I take a dollar from Peter and give it
to Paul, Paul's got an extra dollar to spend, Paul's
a happy man. Peter's got one less dollar to spend,
So you haven't helped the economy at all. But what
you've really done is you've robbed from both of them.
A dollar's worth of incentive to help each other, Paul
because he no longer needs to, and Peter because he
no longer profits from it. And that's why socialism always
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dissolves the bonds that hold a society together and ultimately
requires lots and lots of government force because you've got
to force people to act against their own interests.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
All right, You've removed the incentives the reward, so all
that remains is the punishments. And I love your illustration
of capitalism too. Are the free market, as I prefer
to phrase it, because I've got to do whatever I'm
doing to your satisfaction to profit from it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It's an entirely voluntary arrangement. Whereas socialism you've got to
apply enormous amounts of force.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And that's why.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Socialist socialism dissolves first of all, the bonds that hold
the society together, creates enormous misery and deprivation, and ultimately
has to be enforced at the point of a bayonet.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Right, which is why I'm so astounded by the perhaps
probable election of this Zorondabi character in.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
New York City.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
The idea that you could run rent control up the
flagpole and anyone would salute. We just we need to
do a better job, speaking of America's young people, of
teaching the basic economics.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
If you choke off the supply of something.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
If you remove the incentives for supplying it, you don't
get more of it, for instance, rental properties.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Well, and I think young people are figuring it out.
You're seeing that in all the polling data. Now, this
young generation is turning into the most conservative generation we've
had since the days of Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And if you recall, Ronald.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Reagan's success was driven by the youngest voters in the electorate.
They understood their futures were at stake, and they spend
a lot of time figuring things out, connecting the dots
and starting to make very good decisions. That's what democracies
are all about. In normal times, they may go haywire,
but when things get tough, people start putting all of
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their attention into their decisions. They start making very good decisions,
and they set things right. And I think that's what
happened across America in twenty twenty four. I think it's
one of the great realigning elections of American history. New
York is obviously an aberration and frankly, I've developed this
morbid curiosity to see just how completely they can destroy
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a city, and I think they've just got the guy
to do it.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
That may be the only way to cure people of
their illusion that this stuff actually works. Maybe you have
to hit bottom like a drunk. Anyway, in my introduction
to Tom, i'd meant to mention that the congressman was
voted the best vote for taxpayers two years in a
row in the House of Representative Citizens against Government Waste
recently named Tom McClintock one of only two perfect votes
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in the House fighting wasteful government spending. And in that spirit, sir,
as you keep an eye on the so called big
beautiful bill getting kicked around now in the Senate. What's
your perception of where we are and how optimistic are
you that we will birth something worth having.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, it's going to pass because it absolutely has to
pass without it, and average families taxes are going to
rise twenty two percent next year. That's about seventeen hundred
dollars a year, and additional taxes that'll make it the
biggest tax increase in American history. That's already on the books.
This bill stops that tax increase from taking effect, and
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at the same time it removes taxes on tips, and
over time it increases the standard deduction for seniors to
protect their Social Security earnings. So that by itself makes
it absolutely imperative that it passed. But it does a
lot of other very good things too. I could go
you know, through the list, among them increasing the border
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patrol and securing the repatriation of the millions of illegal
aliens that the Biden administration led into this country, you know,
unleashing America's vast energy resources. But most importantly it comes
down to this. The only economic indicator that really matters
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is how people answer this question next year. Are you
better off to day than you were two years ago.
You can't spend the answer to that question. Every person
in their own lives how they're doing. If we can
get this bill into effect this summer, it'll have a
full year to work before people will be called upon
to ask that question in the next election. And that's
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why it's going to pass, because it has to well.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
And a third reference to America's young people. I think
there could be no more important issue than breaking the
choke hold that the teachers' unions have on our government
schools through competition and innovation. And I know there's some
really inspiring or interesting things in the bill pushing school choice,
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So I was glad to hear about that.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Well and well an Aeriel Durant wrote in their history Civilization,
what may support a good car Chevrolet competition? You want
to improve the public schools, restore competition, Allow parents the
means and the freedom to make their own decision on
the school that best meets their own child's needs, and
you will see a huge improvement in the public and
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private schools.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Congressman Tom McClintock is on the line, I couldn't agree more. Hey,
in the time, we have left your reaction to a
couple of geopolitical happenings, the stunning Israeli raid on Iran
and the US's role in helping out what do you
make of all that?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Well, I mean, without divulsion classified information, I think I
can safely say that that if you've ever seen the
film classic Bambi meets Godzilla, sort of.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Like that, the efficiency and skill of not only the
United States fighting forces but our allies in Israel are
just awesome to behold.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, and they did a splendid job. I mean, Israeli intelligence,
the UN, the Iran Foreign minister all agree that the
Iranian nuclear capability has been, in President Trump's word, obliterated.
You know, the only people are saying otherwise are the
Supreme Mola of Iran and a CNN rep order. But
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you know, ultimately, anything can be destroyed can be rebuilt.
The Iranian regimes made it clear that it intends to
acquire nuclear weapons and once acquired, to use them first
against Israel, then against US. And until they acquire that ability,
they're still going to be the prime sponsor of terrorism
around the world. I mean, they fund and direct the
hoodies hezbe Lajamas, and there's no reason to believe they're
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going to stop. The good news is that regime is
like a rotting porch. It is just waiting to collapse.
They've oppressed the Iranian people for decades. There is a
very strong resistance movement there and in the Iranian diaspora abroad.
And the problem was every time it was on the
verge of revolution, the Obama and Biden administration stepped in.
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They sent the cargo pallets of cash to the moulahs.
They relaxed the sanctions. That's not going to happen under Trump.
So I think ultimately the only way to permanently resolve
this danger short of a bloody war is to bring
matt regime crashing down from within.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
And maybe now is the time.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
To start assisting the opposition groups in any way that
we can well.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And it's just great to see deterrence back on the
scene because serious deterrence leads to peace. Congressman Tom McLintock
of the fifth District of California, Congressman, is always a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Thanks. Happy Independence Day to you and yours and we'll
talk again soon. Thanks Joe, great talking to you. Likewise.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Clips of the week coming up in a moment or two,
and then a report from Jack in Sunny Florida.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Stay with us.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Tower grows hungrier with the eating. It's one of those
principles that we have either forgotten or just been duped
out of ignoring in the modern day, the fantasy that
government will just give us everything we need and that
there isn't any cost for it. And I don't just
mean literally the cost in tax dollars and confiscations and
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the rest of it, but that it won't be in
love with its own power and metastasize, because it always
does and every example through human history, but we as
humans somehow lose that reality.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Happy Independence Day a week early to you and yours.
Jackie is going to be weighing in from Florida in
a couple of minutes where he is on vacation. Lovely
of him to join us in enjoying the conversations with
Tim Sandford and Tom McClintock and all sorts of people
about the declaration and the US and freedom and the
rest of it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Hope you've enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It too, if you're just joining us, grab the podcast
Armstrong and Getty on demand. All right, So we had
to put it off to accommodate the congressman schedule. But
it's time for the Friday tradition. Let's take fun look
back at the week that was. It's cow clips of
the week.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That place was demolished, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated, obliteration.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Whips of the week.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Mam bom bom bomber.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
US Central Command executed Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Started with the decoy group of two B two bombers
heading west towards Guam.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
From one world was looking the other way. Seven will
be twos taking off directly towards Iran.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
With a total of fourteen mops dropped against two nuclear
target areas.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This is not a game playing president. When he says
he's going to do something, he will do it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
The President obliterated the Iranian nuclear program.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Iran's response came in the form of a missile strike.
They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
You understand that questions remain about the fate of Iran's
enriched uranium.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Everything underneath that mountain is in bad shape.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
At least two of the Iranian nuclear facilities targeted were
not completely destroyed.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
But I think CNN is a gut lists group of people.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I know that better than you know that, and I
know that that's not the case. But I'm not see
whether the order was given, and the people say that
it doesn't matter the order was given. They have everything
they need to build nuclear weapons.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
If you want to make an assessment of what happened
at four doh, you better get a big shovel and
go really deep.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
If I'm the president, we will attack iron. We would
be able to totally obliterate.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Them, totally obliterated, obliterated, obliterated.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It was called obliteration.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
On all midnight Hammer clips of the Week. We might
play the fun one later on in the hour, because
we have an alternate Clips of the week that Hansen
is prepared for US. I was reading about a great
piece written by Credit where it's due Dove Lieber inside
Operation Narnia, the Daring attack. Israel feared it couldn't pull off,
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and my gosh, it's compelling. At midnight on June thirteenth,
Israel's general's gathered in a bunker beneath Israel Air Force
Headquarters Israeli Air Force Headquarters and watched his jets descended
on Tehran in an operation they called Red Wedding. Ooh,
anybody familiar with the Game of Thrones gets that reference.
Hours later, in one thousand miles away, Iran's top military
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commanders were dead, a mass killing much like the famous
wedding scene from the show Game of Thrones. The combination
of intelligence, information, military precision that enabled the attack surprised
people around the world, but it wasn't the only improbable success.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
At the outset of the twelve day campaign.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Another key part of the initial attack considered so fantastical
even by its planners, that it was called Operation Narnia
after the fictional C. S.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Lewis series.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
It successfully killed nine top Iranian nuclear scientists almost simultaneously
at their homes in Tehran, the key being that pulling
off the attacks, which required elaborate ruses to ensure surprise
at the last moment they nearly fell apart.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But the point being both the scientists and.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
The generals, it had to be carefully coordinated, because you know,
the regime is sensitive to the fact that Israel was
on high alert and maybe coming for them the US
as well, And if one general got it, everybody else
would have gone to ground, and if one scientist got it,
all the rest would have vanished into the woodwork.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So it all had to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
A thousand miles away, nearly simultaneously. And you know, part
of the untold story, well untold till now, is that
Israel's been conducting drills to get the skills down to
do this in very innocent seeming ways, flying large groups
of aircraft to Greece and refueling them over and over
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again on the way without landing, in a way that
seemed odd to people, but they've been working on this
for years and years and pulled it off off against
all odds, and at least for now, the Mullahs don't
have nukes. That story will be ongoing, obviously, much more
to come.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Geddy. A couple more segments
to go.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We're going to finish Strong if we possibly can, including
with this special guest appearance by the co host of
the show, mister Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Jack, where are you now? I took my talents to
South Beach.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Way to go? So first question, you're there in Florida.
Is anybody alive? Because I remember they are calling Ron
de Santis ron death sentence during COVID.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Are there any Floridians? Yes, they seem to be alive
and scantily clad. Katie.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Maybe Katie can explain this. Why are bikinis so expensive
since they're so little material involved, especially in the modern era.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Please figure that out for me, because I don't know.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Good Lord, So I have two teenage boys. We're on
the beach in South Beach and they're both playing it cool.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
But I.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
I don't know that i'd want to be a fifteen
year old boy in this environment. It would be a distracting,
torturous I.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Would guess, Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
And I was talking to somebody before I came here,
and they said, man, you gotta really be careful to
not end up because I was explaining to my younger
Henry associates like scantily clad with a with danger for
some reason, like you're in a dangerous neighborhood if you're
seeing scantily clad people.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And I was talking to somebody about that and they said, Oh.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
It's very easy to end up on a beach where
you know it's topless hearing to see a lot of nudity,
and he will freak out if he sees that.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So I'm trying to try to avoid that. Wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I would never think of that as a concern on
a trip to Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But there you are so much nudity. How hot is it?
It's freaking hot? Oh my god, Mooie Colliente. So I
got here last night. This is kind of funny. So
I'm staying at one of those.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
If you've ever seen pictures of South Beach, Miami, the
colorful art deco hotels that are like in every postcard,
we're staying in one of those. And we, because of
Southwest weirdness, we got here like two and a half
hours later than we were supposed to, of course, sitting
on the tarmac for an hour fifteen in Houston for
no explanation whatsoever, and just that sort of thing. But
(19:26):
so we get to the hotel and we get dropped
off at one am and the doors open.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
We walk in.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
There's nobody at the front desk and there's like no
bell to ring or anything. And I thought, oh, you know, fine,
they're in the bathroom wherever. So we wait and we wait,
and like a half hour goes by and I call
the number and the phone rings there right in front
of me, and.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Anyway pick up answer.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Two hours of a waiting from one am to three
am with nobody around, we eventually walked down the street
and got some pizza because we were starving, and there
was nobody there.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And I mean the bar was there.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
I could have walked into the bar and poured myself
a top shelf drain if I wanted to. I could
have stolen many many things, and there was just nobody there.
It was so strange.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Boy, it's not like you're.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
In some sort of village in northwestern Norway or somebody.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, right right.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
I wasn't visiting Greenland. I was in South Beach, Miami,
and I mean there's people everywhere, and the bars are.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Thumping and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Anyway, so I went next door to a hotel and
had even though I'd already paid for three rooms at
this one, I went next door and got a couple
of rooms just because we needed somewhere to sleep.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
That it was now, that was three am, and I
got a street. Not today.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
I took some video, some funny videos though, that I
showed to the manager today, and somebody's getting fired. They
even left their keys sitting on the desk, like the
I'm the janitor keys with like eight thousand keys on it,
and all the keys were labeled like bar, you know,
a master key for the rooms, you.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Know, all the different stuff, and they just left it there.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
Whoever it was, I don't know if they passed out
or had a hook up in one of the rooms
what happened, But wow, good gracious, Okay, I could have
made I could have made quite the reality show video
out of that if I had been willing to break
the law. Just gone into the bar and you know,
go room to room, Jess, good night. How are you
(21:13):
doing in there? Yeah, get in. Everybody's sleeping. Okay, great,
I'm the manager. Enjoy your stay.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Freak like I was worrying. It's right.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Anybody need a foot rub or anything? Okay, it gets stabbed.
It is so freaking hot here though. If you're not
used to humidity, like I'm not, it's just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Well, Judy and I were hunting to figure out where
are you know, semi golden years pad would be, and
we're focused on South Carolina and where we ended up
and uh and and somebody said to us, well, it's
really hot, but it's not Florida hot. And I thought,
good god, there's like a whole nother gradation.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
You know, what I'm noticing is how I explained this
to the kids, because we just we just ate the
whole Cuban Hispanic culture is so much different than the
I'm from Mexico's Hispanic culture. It's just different. It's just
like a different well it's a different culture. It's like
and I suppose that's obvious, but you know, you think
Spanish and often the people together. But the Marco Rubio
(22:18):
Hispanic crowd is much different than the you know, California
Hispanic crowd in all kinds of different ways that I'll
talk about when when we come back. Here's the coolest
thing that's happened to me today that doesn't really even
have anything to do with my vacation.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's more about AI and chat GPT.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
So I could not figure out an espresso machine in
the room, and like, I need coffee or I'm going
to pull somebody's head off, you know. And it was
a new kind of an espresso machine that I'd never
seen before, and just I couldn't get it to work.
I took a picture of it on my phone, pressed
one button and said, how do you make this thing work?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
It went to chat GPT and it came.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Back and so do you press that button to the
left and that other one after it blink and it
just it looked at it, figured out what it was,
got thet ructions and told me, how awesome is that?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That is great? We did Jack.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Perhaps you can listen to the podcast. Armstrong and Getty
on Demand did a little ab with an article about
a galoo was using AI as her career counselor, and
how incredibly great it was in ways that I won't redescribe.
But and then the b was an article about how,
with very few tweaks it could give you some really
(23:27):
fine ideas for wiping out the Jews or wiping out
white people, or a backdoor portal into the White House
it system or whatever just turned evil at the drop
of a hat.
Speaker 9 (23:41):
So yeah, I'm sure how to make a bomb out
of crockpot if you wanted to, or something like that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Oh boobs, I see him right over there. Boobs, hair
boobscar boobs. There are bear boobs here. Sam's head is
going to pop off.
Speaker 9 (23:54):
When I was a fifteen year old high school boy,
I never saw anything like this before. Oh my got
he is going to be He's going to be texting
his friends on the download.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Dudes, you can't believe this. Free the nipple?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
What is it, hey, Katie? What is the appeal of
a topless beach? Is it tanlines? Is it like feminism?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (24:17):
Probably a mixture of both. The tanlines can get really
tacky if you get dark.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
So does it make you feel wild or like seen?
Or I just I.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
Don't even understand, I've never gone to a topless beach,
so I don't know what they are feeling in that
exact moment. I would assume they feel quite free. I'll
go ask her a nice.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Breeze do it? Do it compliment? Or two? You look
very fit? Do you work out?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
Oh? My god, I just help here and tell her
how pretty her eyes are.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Man, if it's this hot here on the beach by
the water, We're going to the Everglades on Sunday, where
it's supposed to be significantly more humid and hot. I
can't imagine what that's going to you. Like, I'll be
wishing an alligator would bite my head off.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yeah, speaking of which, have you seen any of the
big lizards with the boys yet?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
No? We just we are.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
We are.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
We arrived, as I explained it, three in the morning, basically,
so we haven't done much yet.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
I just had a U I just had a lobster
onlet that was pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh, I'll bet, I'll bet so.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Is there surf there or there crashing waves or is
it pretty placid?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's I'd say it's in between.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
It's like perfect for being out there in the water
and bob up and down, but not going to drag
you out to see and kill you.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I might run a jet ski and had to Cuba
the good Man.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, the little reverse mary l boat left good idea. Yeah,
they'll welcome you with open arms. H isn't it crazy
how warm the Atlantic is compared.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
To the Pacific.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
And then yet but salmon henry are out there right now,
and sam and hates cold water, so it must be
pretty comfy.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I still remember the shock of stepping into the Pacific
Ocean for the first time, having grown up is kid
who vacationed on the East Coast and thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Sweet mother, God, go wrong. No, the Atlantic Ocean in
the summertime is like a path. Seriously.
Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, it's like so all those beach boys songs, you know,
all the surfing you know, they're all shrunk up underneath
those shorts.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It's freezing cool, right, or they're wearing wet suits or whatever,
But certainly more than.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The harlots of South Beach. I don't approve.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
I liked the way everybody on the plane last night
just accepted the fact that we sat there for an
hour fifteen with no explanation whatsoever. Before we took off,
and everybody just accepts that now because it's just part
of the deal.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, nobody felt the need to explain. Nobody even ask.
You just think, well, I guess this is just the
way it is flying now. Didn't used to be that way.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Somebody would have made a big deal out of the
fact that we've been sitting here for an hour fifteen
before we took off and we're gonna be late for everything.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
That's just part of the deal.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Now, switching to my business reporter hat, it'll be interesting
to see the evolution of Southwest airlines as they have evolved.
Somewhat the late night comedians making jokes about Spirit and
Jet Blue and all those other alternate airlines. That's not
from nothing. They didn't make that stuff up. That derision
(27:15):
came from somewhere. Which direction does the great Southwest go?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Who knows?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Yeah, you don't want to end up being like a
Spirit or a Bowling, where you're just an endless punchline.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely not so obviously. Rest of today that
way more boobs. I gotta gotta turn my head this way.
I don't want to be I don't anybody think I'm staring.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I'll look this.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
There's a cop car over there. I'll stare at the
cop car. That's what ill did, Jack have vacation in
the South of France. You'll get used to it, They'll
get used to it. Everything will be fine, very very
soone we have the breast arm. The breast alarm has sounded.
Ladies and gentlemen, head to the shelters.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
I don't want to be old guy at the beach
staring at twenty year old's boobs, So I got to
make sure my head is going the right direction.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You're not gonna stay. But you don't have to look
at a cop car either. But do you have to
right to look in the direction you choose?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Jack, this is America. That's trouble.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
You wouldn't You wouldn't be able to tell it because
I haven't heard anybody speak English and quite some time.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, Although, getting back to the Cuban culture thing, it's
a shame that goddamn communists are in charge of Cuba,
because the food is incredible, the music is wonderful, the
people are hardworking and industrious.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
It's it's a shame.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
I was thinking that last night, this whole South Beach
vibe would be all of Cuba, and people would be
traveling from all over the world to spend the kind
of money they spend here in Cuba. Those idiot communists, uh,
you know, missing out on all that.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Well, that's what used to happen until Chae Guovera and
old weird Beard Castro got the nod. But what are
you gonna do? Nothing's forever anything exciting this afternoon, or
you just chill out after your all night shirts in Miami.
Oh my god, punch of minute. Probably not quite as
cool to do. Yeah, no kidding, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Excuse me, excuse me, you and the T shirt.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, Jacob Vera and his guys they executed my grandfather
for no reason other than he was a school teacher.
So yeah, yeah, try that in South Beach beaches. Anyway,
go vacation, have a good time.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Did we lose him? That's fine, We're going to break anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Jack weighing in from the hot, steamy beaches of Miami.
We'll be back and finished wrong. Next funny coincidence. There's
breaking news is I'm speaking these words that the University
of Virginia president has resigned. The Justice Department was after
(29:40):
him because he had been enthusiastically continuing illegal DEI programs,
specifically racial discrimination, you know, relying on the ridiculous but
popular canard that the way you fix any racial problems
of history through lots and lots of racism. The Justice
(30:04):
Department was looking into the schools clinging to DEI efforts
and good, I'm glad he quit. It's it's a step
in the right direction anyway, because our universities and schools
are hotbeds of this stuff. And also the Supreme Court
earlier today had ruled that yes, parents can absolutely demand
(30:27):
that their kids can opt out of so called lgbt
Q plus minus over the power of three stories in
Maryland schools as they were teaching kids radical gender theory
in like third grade, and the parents are saying, you've
got to give us, We've got to be able to
take our kids out of school and and and not
(30:50):
hear that stuff. It's it's absolutely antithetical to our religion
and our morals and our beliefs about the world and
the rest of it. So that's that's another a great blow.
Oppression comes from the left and the right alike always
has in fact, you know, whether it's you want to
cite the horseshoe theory that you know, towards the you know,
(31:11):
end of the horseshoe, the left and right are pretty
close to each other.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
And who was it? Oh? Was it?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Iin Ran somebody made the brilliant point that affectional that effectively,
there's really no difference between left and right. They throw
different phony academic rationales at you as to why they
ought to be in charge of everything, but what they
share is a systematic subjugation of individual rights in favor
(31:40):
of government control. And it's funny that those two things
should break as I'm getting ready to finish up the
last show before Independence Day next week.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
We're all on vacation next week.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
But after Thomas, Jefferson and Adams, mostly with some help
from Ben Franklin, drafted the Declaration of Independence and went
through Continental Congress and everything. The first paragraph is just saying, look,
we're breaking with England, and we owe everybody an explanation why.
It's a famous paragraph, but I'm going to skip to
the second one. We hold these truths to be self evident,
(32:14):
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed. Anything that
departs from that, no matter the excuse, no matter the
(32:37):
long explanation, the eloquent to Ebrame's kindibook or the phony
sixteen nineteen project or what have you, anything that departs
from those couple of sentences, feel free to reject it
with confidence, because they are false words of false prophets.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
To listen to the thought from a strong again.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, thanks, weird singing guy.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap up the week. There he's pressing the buttons, Michelangelo, Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Real quick?
Speaker 8 (33:20):
This childhood memory involved uh an entire brick of firecrackers
and a lot of bottle rockets and a trip to
a certain state with loose firework laws. And that's all
I'll say. It's just a fictional, you know thing, but it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Was fun, beloved American tradition. That's right, Katie Green or
a steam Newswoman. As a final thought.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Katie, it has been so long since I have had
zero plans, and I have zero plans for next week.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm excited about it.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
You know I've occasionally quoted Paul McCartney to my my wife,
Oh at magic feeling nowhere to go.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah, it's nice sometimes, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I'm going to guest guess ad Jack's final thought, look
boobs as he is there in South Beach where sometimes
the nipple is indeed free. My final thoughts, Happy Independence Day,
God bless this country. Read the Declaration of Independence again.
It's worth it, It's really really important.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I hope everybody has a great week.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
We have some very carefully prepared best of and stuff
you've never heard, it's never aired before. We'll see you
next Monday, God bless them. Ere Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
You're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats,
no Roman candles or screaming mamies.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, Oh, come on, man, you don't got no.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Lady fingers, buzz butterles, sneaker bombs, church burners, finger blasters,
gut busters, zif he do dies or craft flappers.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell
me you don't have no whistling bungholes, No, spleen splitters,
whisker biscuits, honkey ladders, hooskerdoos, hoosker don'ts cherry bombs, nips
and dazers, whether without the scooter stick or one single
whistling kiddy jaser.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones I like.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
What that might be a problem.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
It's not what you like.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It's the consumer. Armstrong and getty,
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