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December 9, 2025 37 mins

Hour 3 of A&G features...

  • The truth of Islam
  • Killer robots & eye color
  • Releasing the boat strike video
  • Media time spent on important stories

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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, Katty arm Strong.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and he arms Strong and Yetty hurts intercepted
in and out the balls out. It hurts hims up
for the ball in his hands, he fumbles.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Chargers ball. Troy did hands up on the ball.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And what a massive a point of a game. Last
night of Monday Night football, Chargers beat Eagles in overtime
interception with the goal line to end the game.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Good.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I hate the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'm trying to remember. Has there been a time when
that both teams that played in the Super Bowl last
year didn't make the playoffs next year? But we might
have that this year. Chiefs and Eagles might not make the.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Point, Josh, I don't know. Yeah, interesting question.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Speaking of interesting questions, there's the whole who's going to
be in the Super Bowl? Then there's can the Western
world absorb enormous immigration from the Islamic world. That's a
really interesting question. I will tell you this a personal statement.
The word xenophobe is a tool to get people to

(01:30):
shut up.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's a bullying tool. I'm not a xenophobe.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm not a fobe about virtually anything. I Joe have
been studying political systems and how they've grown change since
I was a wee lad. It's my major in college,
and then I've been reading about it, and Jack and
I have been talking about it for decades now. And
as you know, honestly everybody looks at a diploma. If

(01:53):
you're a curious person, you learn thirty times more after
college than you learned in college. But anyway, so I
look at this is like a historian looking at the present.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm just interested in the phenomenon.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
I also happen to be a big fan of Western civilization.
I mean, like, really, I must stand for Western civilization
to use the terminology of fairly recently the whole Enlightenment thing,
individual liberty, free speech.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you could call me a big fan.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Anyway, Jack and I both became aware of Tom Holland.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
You read his big book Dominion a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Right, I have not read Dominion, but I've watched him
speak a number of times, like for an hour and
a half about it, and I know the full story.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Definitely, yes, a fascinating topic. The headline might be the
entire Western world, the modern Western world is a Christian world,
even if you're an atheist or a Jew, or to
a lesser extent, a Muslim, which we're about to talk about,
because so much of the way we see the world

(03:00):
and religion and religion's role in the world is based
on Christianity.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah, the way Christianity says you ought to relate to
the world.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
This historian Tom Holland, he's not a Christian, by the way,
and he makes it very clear in his book and
in all his speeches. But he wrote the book. He
was always a fan of the Greeks and the Romans
and thought they were responsible for all of Western civilization.
By writing this book, he came to believe that Christianity
is the dominant philosophy on planet Earth and the biggest

(03:32):
thing that has happened in humankind, and that we don't
recognize it in the same way that a fish doesn't
know he's wet. We're we're just in it constantly. The
views of about the way we approach each other in
life and everything like that, that is Christianity, whether whether
you're religious or not. He's from Great Britain and he
says we're not a religious country at all in the

(03:52):
United States has headed that direction. But we still swim
in this moral universe that was developed by Christianity.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Right, So let's unleash mister Holland for about a minute,
then discuss, particularly as it pertains to Islam and massive
immigration into the West from Islamic places.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
The clibate Michael Tom Harland.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
We are living through a great choke point in the
history of this country. What you saw in twenty twenty
and its aftermath was a deeply Christian movement. The institutional
character of Christianity is often rejected as part of the problem,
a part of what has to be rejected, even though
it is that institutional structure that has provided people with

(04:39):
the ideological framework that enables them to judge it as evil. Essentially,
what Christianity has that Islam does not is a concept
of the secular. Islam is a totalizing way of leading
your life. I think Islam is uniquely indigestible for a

(05:00):
a secular mindset, and people they won't admit that.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
And we'll get to that indigestible part in a minute.
But to explain his premise a little further, I love
that sentence about people have no idea that it's the
Christian philosophy and the governments that grew out of that
philosophy that gives them the tools to criticize Christianity. That
is practically unknown in world history to be able to

(05:28):
aggressively criticize.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
The dominant religion or one of the dominant religions.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But Christianity says, no, we're going to persuade you through
love and maybe logic and appeal to your conscience and
blah blah blah. But with a few exceptions in unfortunate
parts of Christian history, we're not going to force it
on you, and you get to criticize it.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
And I would argue, in those.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Periods where people were heard or killed for arguing against Christianity,
that was a terrible, terrible chapter in mankind. But anyway, certainly,
in the modern Christian world, we can all embrace our
Enlightenment values, free speech and individual liberty, blah blah blah. Anyway,
did you want to add anything to that before we

(06:11):
get into Islam stuff or so.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
And the other super intriguing thing.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
He points out that a lot of you know already
is there is no notion of the secular in Islam.
You're not people with religion, You're a people. Muslims are
a people. Religion is not something that is an accessory
to who you are.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
It is who you are.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
And he wrote in a way that was really interesting
about Jewish people used to be much more like that too.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
French Revolution.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
They said, you can practice your religion, but you're a
Frenchman first, you can't see yourself as a separate tribe anymore.
Blah blah blah. But Islam is a totalizing religion. It's everything.
And he points out that Mohammed was the seal of
the prophets, the last one. There will be no other,
and if Islam fails, humankind is eternally damned, and so

(07:09):
the spread of Islam across the world is the only
hope of humanity to true believers. Now, granted, there are
sects of Islam that are much more Yeah, it's a
personal faith for me, it's in my heart. But no,
I don't go with all of the literal stuff from
the Koran, just like there is in Christianity. But the

(07:30):
problem is there are plenty of people who see it
in a more fundamentalist way, and they're willing to kill
you for it. And he also pointed out, and I
found this fascinating, that the proof of the truth of
Islam for centuries was its victories. It conquered virtually every
land it set its mind to. To lose in war,
in politics is to risk the eternal fate of mankind.

(07:54):
That's part of the reason Israel being in that land
is so humiliating, horrifying to Muslims.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's refuting the truth.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Of Islam as long as it stands, because the victories
show the truth up until a little history lesson Napoleon
invaded Egypt, and then there is a sect of Islam
that was more like, Okay, maybe we're not about conquering
the world, We're about getting right with God. And those

(08:24):
people I can deal with all the time. I don't
care if they live next door to me. But so
there's a real division there. And he also makes the
point that when Protestantism really exploded in the United States,
some of it went very and Jack, I know you
know a lot about this. Some of it went very
religion is a coat you put on and off, not

(08:46):
very hardcore and stuff. But other Protestants said, no, no, no,
that's exactly the wrong way to go we're gonna go fundamentalist,
complete fundamentalist, and Islam did the same, but with Islamic fundamentals. Fundamentalism,
the Quran sanctions a tremendous amount of bloodshed, as as
Holland put it, if you go fundamentalist. So, I mean,

(09:10):
there's more of it. I could go on. But oh,
it's part about it being uniquely indigestible for the West.
There's a somewhat arrogant assumption in the secular West that
we can absorb anything because and that's partly based on
assumptions that everyone thinks like us. But he points out
Islam is an ancient, complex civilization and was for a
long time, a really long time, more powerful than the West.

(09:34):
And they don't see any reason to be digested. They
just think they're a really site of probably terrible metaphor.
They're a great baseball team that's lost four in a
row today, really ought to be the champs.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's a terrible metaphor given the stakes. Illustrative, But what
was your story that you had the other day about
in Germany there where they canceled some Christmas tradition that
they for hundreds of years.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, let me, I'll hit that in just a second.
Two more real quick points.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
They want Islam to be everywhere and everything, and the
more Muslims there are, the more those voices have weight
and will attempt to force adaptation of other people to
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Speaker 1 (11:35):
So there's actually a handful of headlines that I had.
The Trump administration warns of Europe's civilizational erasure through immigration.
They're talking about immigration from Muslim countries. In the United States.
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(11:57):
across the US. A watchdog report finds they are raised
and spending a tremendous amount of money to try to
islamize the United States of America, a lot of it illegal.
They don't have the right licenses and whatever. So anyway,
but to the Christmas markets thing, Judy and I were
in oh Glaston Gugen for part of Christmas, but no,

(12:19):
we were in Austria and Broadislava and a bunch of places.
We were actually in I think it was the Broadoslava, Slovakia.
On Christmas Day, it was snowing like crazy. It was
absolutely charming and magical. But they have these Christmas markets
that are like in the town square. They have rows
of booths with gifts and food and drink and everything,

(12:42):
and there's this smell of food and steam in the
air and everybody's feeling super festive. It's like a Christmas
festival every single day and it's just it's just charming.
Well in Germany, and this has been going on for centuries,
I don't know. They became an official German tradition, these

(13:06):
christ kindlemarkets in fourteen thirty four.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
They run through the advent season.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
A bunch of German cities have had to cancel their
Christmas markets because of the threat of Islamic terrorism. They
can't cover the security costs concrete barriers to stop vehicle attacks,
surveillance systems, armed guards stationed throughout the market, and they

(13:32):
just don't have the money for the counter terrorism and
so they are shutting down the Christmas markets.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
So for six hundred years you could have the Christmas markets,
but now because of so much immigration, you can't.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Berlin twenty sixteen, a terrorist and attractor trailer drove through
the bright shite plots Christmas market, killed twelve, injured fifty six.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I remember that.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Twenty seventeen and s and six Syrian nationals, including asylum
seekers who'd been in contact with ISIS, arrested on suspicion
of planning attack on the town's Christmas market with bombs
and farms twenty twenty three and Leverkusen authorities uncovered a
plot by two radicalized teenagers.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Magdeburg twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
A Saudi doctor plot is BMW through a Christmas market
at thirty miles per hour, leaving six dead three hundred
and thirty eight wounded. His trial began last month. It
is not some sort of fantasy that there's a threat.
It's real and they're having to shut down their tradition.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
You sound like an islamophobe, Okay? Any thoughts on any
of this? Text line four one, five, two nine five KFTC.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Another moment with one of these humanoid robots. This time
kicking its CEO and a simulated face off in China,
the robot landing quite a forceful strike, appearing to knock
the CEO of Engine AI right to the ground. The
CEO covered and padded gear for the battle, appearing to
be unharmed. The company says the moment of man versus
robot was about shutting down claims that other videos of

(14:53):
this same humanoid robot and his capabilities were just CGI.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay, so the CEO got it's ass kicked by the
robot to prove that something.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh all, you're watching the video, I am.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Did you take a pretty good smacking?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Well, and the swiftness with which this thing moves is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I never thought about that.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, oh boy, Chinese killer robots.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Good morning, uh chet gpt open Aye made a giant
announcement yesterday that could have an effect on the world.
We'll talk about that later, but first, Okay, do you
have a preference and eye color for your baby yet
to be born? No, don't care. No, I didn't care either,
But my son yesterday, I have two blue eyed kids,
or I did have two blue eyed kids, my thirteen

(15:45):
year old said to me. He said, my eyes aren't
blue anymore.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I said, what, Ah, He said, they're a different color now.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I guess I hadn't looked deeply into his eyes for
quite a while, because he walked up to me and
he said, I think they're hazel now, and I looked them.
You're right, they aren't blue anymore. And I didn't really
knew what hazel meant as a word, so I had
to google it and I got the eye chart and
everything like that, and damn right, his eyes are no
longer blue. They are hazel.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I had amazing eyes. Until I was a teenager. They
were hazel. They were green and brown, and then in
adolescence they just went all brown brown, which is mad.
I could add a completely different line.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Brown is the most popular eye color in the world
at eighty percent four out of five.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Life of the hazel eyed I could have lived it.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Four out of five people on planet Earth have brown eyes,
is very common. The next most popular is blue, which
I have eight to ten percent, then hazel, then only
five percent of people have hazel eyes, and then the
word the rarest of eyes outside of like you're some
sort of freak born with purple eyes or two different

(16:51):
colored eyes.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Or whatever, like for normal Liz Taylor lavender eyes.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Two percent of the world's population is green eyes, So
green hazel and then.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Blue are blue and green? What about bloodshot? I got those?

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is one of your eyes blue and the other one's
green or they're blue green both?

Speaker 5 (17:09):
They start they start blue on the outside and they're
green closer to the pupil.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay, yeah, so pay extra for that. I didn't know,
big price. We wondered if we missed something, so we
went back and looked at pictures of him on my
phone before he was little. I know he had bright
blue eyes when he was little. Now they're hazel, which.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
So I'm sorry they're blue and at this point blue
and what whatever?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Hazel is like a light brown. Yeah, it's kind of.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Brown green green brown, I would say, Okay, interesting.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, I didn't know your eyes changed color. Can it
happen again later in life or is it pretty much
in your teenager years and then you're done.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
I'm guessing what you just said there, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I would like to deep black eyes.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
I want red ones, red eyes, red pupils, bright red.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Hello your soul, I mean you're justed in an offer.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
The administration keeps going back and forth and whether or
not they're going to release this dang video of the
second strike on the boat. You think the controversy is
about over anyway?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
So yeah, I did till I heard.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
That, Oh, okay Armstrong and Geeddy, will you release video
of that strike so that the American people can see
for themselves?

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well, I don't know what they have, but whatever they have,
we certainly released, no problem.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Okay. That was last week to an ABC reporter. Then
a different ABC reporter asked him yesterday about the release
in the second video tape, mister President.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
You said you would have no problem with releasing the
full video of that strike on September second, off the
coast of Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Secretary Hegsett now.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Says you said that. I didn't say that. This is
ABC fankness.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
You said that you.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Would have no problem releasing the full bait. Okay, Well,
Secretary hegstat whatever.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Hess, what does he do?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Is okay?

Speaker 7 (18:53):
With?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I feel like I did hear him say that last
week that he would release the date, but then he
told her, who's ah, I never said that your fake
news anyway. So a different reporter at a different moment.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Releasing the full video, didn't I just tell you that
you said that.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
It was secretary obnoxious reporter in the whole place.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Let me just tell you are an obnoxious, a terrible
actually a terrible reporter.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
And it's always the same thing with you.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
I told you, whatever Pete Hegseth wants to do, is.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Okay with me?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Okay, he goes on, whatever he Seth wants to do,
is okay with you?

Speaker 3 (19:29):
He now says it's under review.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Are you ordering the secretary to release.

Speaker 8 (19:32):
That full video?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Whatever?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
He just okay with me?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
So they are were That's where we are, uh where
it's you're obnoxious, that's where we are.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well guilty, I'm wow. Okay, So why aren't they releasing it?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I don't know, but I think it is a bad
look to not release it.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
I don't know if it works strategy and tactic stuff.
I can't imagine what that would be. I don't believe
that for a second.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Do you.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
No, No, No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
I just think they think probably it'll be troubling to
people if they see it.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Although see that's the problem with not releasing it. People
don't cover up crimes they didn't do usually.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Senator Cotton coming out and saying, I'll tell you what
I saw. I saw a couple of people who are
trying to, you know, flip the board over and get
it going again and reattack the United States or whatever
that is that sender Cotton said. And if it can
be explained as that, go ahead and release it and
then let you know. And my guess would be and
this is really a revelation that most people who are

(20:47):
okay with Trump are going to see it one way,
and most people who hate Trump are going to see
it the other way, no matter what it looks like.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
See, that's the funny thing for me is that I
totally bought what Tom Cotton said. I thought that was
the most likely thing to begin with. Now it's come
out that the everybody on that boat was part of
a list of approved targets, and so hag Seth might
approve targets to kill sogs.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
And you can argue about whether that's appropriate or not.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's kind of a different topic, but so heg Seth
might have given something like a kill them all order,
not in that many words. But I just don't I
don't get why they're not releasing it. Well, and here's
the problem. They have to be utterly explicit about why
they're hesitating to release it.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Don't let the rumor mill take it up. Don't don't
let that.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Vacuum be created, because something will fill it. Well, you
got people like Senator Tom Cotton, Republican military guy, saying
it's it looks exactly like I would have ordered that strike.
It's perfectly fine in keeping with the United States interest.
Then you got Senator Tim Kaine, who was Hillary's running

(21:58):
mate Clip fifty seven, and Michael.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
I think what the American public is likely to see
based on what's been described as to struggling individuals clinging
to Flatsham after a shipwreck, without a radio, without ways
to either move or communicate, without weapons, clearly not posing
a danger to the United States, who are just slaughtered
in open water.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
How do you sess their lack of radio capability on
one of those videos?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Tim Y'll lion line.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
First of all, I assumed he was talking from first
hand knowledge having watched the video. He said, I think
what people would see based on what was described, So
he's just going on what the Washington Posts said.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
And then ladies and gentlemen, we give you it ought
to be Dana, not Dana Bash. And Senator Tammy Duckworth.
What is a duckworth? Not much judging by this audio tape.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
Senator, have you seen the video? I have seen the
video and it is deeply disturbing. I am mostly concerned
with the fact that we are putting our American servicemen
and women in jeopardy here. We're putting them in jeopardy
in case they ever get shot down. We're putting them
in legal jeopardy. They could be brought up in international
criminal courts. And so what we're doing here is taking

(23:12):
those professionals, or utmost professionals and putting them into harm's way.
And that's what bothers me the most about what Pete
hex said is doing. He is the least qualified secrety
defense in our nation's history, and he's very cavalier about
doing things. The fact of the matter is only Congress
can decide that we can go to war, and there
was no such declaration made.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
I just want to make sure that I get this accurate.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
You have seen the classified video of this particular strike,
the first strike and then the double tap as it's known.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
No, I've just seen what's been available in the media.
I've read the food report that I've not seen the
actual video. What.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yes, I've seen the video. She's seen the same video
we all saw. What Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
No, everybody public's endevor everybody overplays their hand all the time,
I wish and the lies they lie.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh it's so annoying. Why wouldn't you answer that question?
I don't know. I haven't seen the video.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Our politics is just sang it stupid And so she
wrote then.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
On why Pete Haggzeth is the least qualified in this
and that and blah blah blah, and then finally, Dana,
to her credit, nails are done. I just want to
make get this straight. Have you seen the video? No,
I haven't seen it, but from what I understand.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh shut up?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Why are we even goes with the only Congress can
declare war? I mean, okay, I get your point constitutionally speaking,
but where are you been the last seventy years?

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah? Well that's really maddening. M Well, let's let's hear
from Pete himself, secretary of Hegxeth, explaining the reattack of
this was something at the Reagan Library over the weekend fifty.

Speaker 9 (24:56):
I was told, hey, there had to be a reattack
because there were a couple folks that could still be
in the fight access to radios, there was a link
up point of another potential boat.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
From what I understood then and what I understand now,
I fully support that strike. I would have made the
same call myself.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
So his story has not been consistent, which is not
a good look of the Yeah, I was there, I
ordered it to the I didn't you know, I'm a
busy man. I got other things do. I can't hang
around for two hours to wait to see how these
things turn out. But he followed out my order to

(25:35):
kind of in between that answer seemed to be and
then but then you've got the testimony last week that look,
there was a jag there where there was an army
lawyer there, military lawyer there to look it over and declaring, yeah,
this is a valid target, let's go ahead and hit it,
and then did so. It's not like going off half
cocked wild West. Well right, yeah, let's just argue about

(25:56):
whether the jag lawyers were.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Right or not. But yeah, this as a scale handles go.
I just.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
But they're making it worse.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, I know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know what's interesting is I remember in Iraq and Afghanistan,
they're they're the internet's full of the videos of US
taking out various Al Qaeda guys and Taliban guys or
ISIS guys whatever, And in uh, some of the some
of the videos, you see the helicopter gunship chasing after
people and mowing them down with machine guns. And you know,

(26:29):
some of those people might have just been like the housekeeper,
the you know, the guy was there to fix the
plumbing or something like that. I don't know, but I
think we all acknowledged, all right, you know it's it's
it's a war situation.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
You know, you're in the wrong place, wrong time.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Sorry, Zuela shouldn't have knocked down those towers, That's what
I said.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Oh boy, that was good.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
So isn't our entire argument about the appropriateness of using
military force against cartel targets? And never mind the particulars
of one incident. I don't know, but again, listen to me.
You're an idiot. Somebody punched me. I'll punch myself in
the face. This is all about scoring political points and
making hay and getting contributions. The truth doesn't even matter.

(27:14):
The truth isn't even invited to the party.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
What am I thinking?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Tammy Duckworth doesn't give a crap about the truth, So
put the duck.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Back and then you got the Nobel Prize winner. Then
the actual Nobel Peace Prize winner, not the not the
FIFA Soccer Piece Prize winner, but the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
That chick from Venezuela, who's all for all this.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
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sustains itself. Right, Well, we sell no narcotics around here.
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Speaker 2 (28:45):
I heard Maduro this morning. He has given some speech
about how we are ready to protect the socialist paradise
of Venezuela where all workers have a free chance to
blah blah blah. Man, those guys never stop now with
their crap. Who's that for? None of the people believe

(29:05):
and who nobody believes it?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Who's it for?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Just reminding them of what they have to say if
they don't want to visit from the secret police.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Quickly, off the top of your head, where does this go?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Oh uh?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
We got like a quarter of our naval power on
the biggest navy on the planet right there off the
coast of Venezuela. Where's this going?

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm completely befuddled, but you're demanding that I make a
guess status quo for a long time, resulting in fewer
drug shipments to the US and no major military actions, and.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Then it just kind of fizzles out. We just start
to pull resources away that one, and we don't force
regime change. I'm you're surprised if we don't force regime
change somehow.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, I'm sure our spooks are working around the clock
behind the scenes right now trying to figure out what
the post Maduro reality would be.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Poisonous beard, exploding, cigar go.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Caspell again again. The snuffing them isn't.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
The hard part. That's the easy part. What comes next
is the hard part. No, they're not going to poison
his beard. I think they'll drop a bomb on his head.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
That hole. You break it, you own it. Whatever we
broke it, we're out. We're out the door.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh that always works out well.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh boy, Isis has established a major new foothold in Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Oops, boy, oops, is right.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
More of the way stay here like Dodgers just picked
up one of the best pictures in baseball for sixty
nine oh one affair.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
What unbelievable coming up? Major cheese news. The world of
cheese shaken by today's headlines.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Stayle speaking speaking of media.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is so interesting from our friends at the Media
Research Center, their NewsBusters. Let's see, they're updating a study
from a couple of days ago. ABC and NBC News
have spent a combined seventeen minutes and sixteen seconds on
their flagship news shows morning and evening on the Somali

(31:26):
the giant Somali Minneapolis ripoff.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Okay, very very little time.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Of that little time, only twenty one percent was spent
on the rampant welfare fraud scheme. The other eighty percent
was criticizing President Trump's comments and Republicans trying to make
hay with it. Yeah, so if four to one Republicans

(31:54):
pounce versus the actual crime.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
The billion dollar theft of taxpayer money, is not very interesting.
The calling Somali's bad people, now that's a story.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
If you combine ABC, CBS, and NBC, about thirty one
percent explained the year's long scheme and the other what
is that to the other two thirds, a little more
than two thirds was about Republicans pounce And they mentioned
CBS did better than the other networks because Margaret Brennan
had ilhan Omar on and they talked about it, but

(32:26):
that was pretty soft BALI.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
But anyway, that's switch. I guess it's not a shock
or anything.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
But you know, one of the other studies they've done recently,
the Media Research Centers less than twenty five percent, it
was this, twenty four percent of Americans know that Charlie
Kirk's killer was a left wing crazy person, less than
twenty five percent. I think it's probably mostly just a
crazy person in love with a crazy transgender person.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah. I don't know how I would have answered that question.
I don't I don't have in my mind that he's
a left wing crazy person either. I just have him
as a crazy person.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Well, it is unquestionably left wing, super into trans rights
and LGBTQ and hated Charlie Kirk and blah blah blah.
But as phenomenon phenomena go, I think it's it's mostly
just the crazy person who wants to hurt people, who
latches onto a cause kind of at the last minute.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Anyway, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
But the fact that only twenty four percent knew the
murders politics when it was clearly a political killing is
kind of troubling.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
But in major cheese news.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Jack, an American cheddarist, stunned global judges, beating out well
known European cheeses and sparking a world ride reaction.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
I had some goat cheese the other the night. Might
be the best cheese I ever had, goat cheese with crackers.
My son really like, Man, this is some damn good cheese.
We got to start buying this more often. Cheese made
in northern California. By the way, your whole mapple Wine
Valley area also very good for cheese.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, absolutely true, Kate, Katie, what is that look on
your face?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
There? At all the grocery stores sell it pretty much.
The blueberry goat cheese. Oh, very goat cheese.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yes, plays game changer. Oh, I tell you what I know.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Jack doesn't swig the crazy water the firewater like I do.
But man with a nice red wine, good cheese, just
crazy pruth that God loves us.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
And wants us to be happy anyway.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Humble New York made Cheddar surprised international judges at one
of the world's most prestigious cheese competitions, ranking in the
top ten among a crowded field of European winners.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
This is interesting to me, do Americans not usually farewell
in the cheese competitions?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yeah, yeah, it's mostly the to me, M not to
me because it's so regulated. It's like you've talked about well,
right when your buddy brought back the Italian salami.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yes, I'm aware of that, but I would have thought
we would have done well. Maybe they have to follow
the American loss.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
When I was in Italy, I was amazed at how
good their Salamian cheese was because they don't have all
the ridiculous, stupid rules that we have in the United States.
We're missing out on so much flavor because of our
ridiculous FDA.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know, I've been to the Masters now, So next
stop the World Cheese Awards in burn in Switzerland. I
love that a cave I actually would if they gave
out samples. A cave age cheddar sold by Murray's Cheese
in New York City, took fifth place outranking dozens of
long revered European producers earned additional trophies from various categories.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Cave age.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Do you say congratulations to Murray's Cheese? The stocking all
cheese is produced, nobody cares look it up?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
If you want to know. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Meanwhile, a Swiss cheese but not Swiss cheese, La Griere
aop vander Fultigen Special aged eighteen months was crowned the
World Champion cheese.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I wonder what that would cost. Hunk of that pretty expensive, probably.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
It was praised for its rich flavor, delicate crunch crystals,
and deep savory aroma.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
You probably can't get it in the United States because
that's too dangerous. So there could be all kinds of
bacteria or something like that could have gotten in there.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Probably, so there were so dumb.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Why are we like this? Our safety ism is nuts?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
The World Cheese Championships or whatever I called it, uh,
forty six countries sent more than five thousand, two hundred entries.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
I'm sure there's a lot of money to be made.
And if you get a good ribbon, oh yes, like
price and cheese. Yeah, just like wine.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, there's the experts in their yellow aprons eyeball in
the cheese.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Do they eat it just plain or do they put
it on a cracker or a sandwich or anything.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
A nice glass of cabaonet sauvignon. I don't actually know
they don't explain the mechanics of it. They look at it,
they sniff it, they grab a little bite of it. Clearly, well,
I do love cheese.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
That's that's the.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Point of this section, Joe. Like, we do twenty hours
of this sort of content every single week, and if
you need any more of it, I would like to
catch it on your own time. Armstrong and Getty on
demand is our podcast.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
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