August 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Redistricting states & gerrymandering
- Crowd purchasing
- Putin summit on Friday & Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- Taylor Swift's new album
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm
Strong and Jetty and Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Furry bodies, wide eyes and a truthy grint reselling for
hundreds of dollars and now a very obvious target.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
My little boob who got stolen.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Someone stole my lab Boo Boo, La Boo boo, the
summer's most sought after toy at the center of a
crime wave in southern California. The theft amount to tens
of thousands of dollars, the latest in Chino, valued at
approximately thirty grand.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The fact that, you know, some people think that, hey,
it's just la Boo Boo's No, you know, it's more.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's it's an organized retail theft.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You know. Uh, it's so liberating to be able to
just ignore crazies. You know, you just choose not to
be involved.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm not into organized crime, as that person says there.
It's about organized crime rings and we need to worry
about that and crack down on them.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But in terms of it's a huge problem in cal Unicorney,
especially in terms.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Of the craze of labuboos. If you just decide, you know,
I don't. I'm not going to participate.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's over for you. You don't need to want for one,
you don't need to shop for one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You just it's over.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I was listening to a podcast yesterday, actually the Dispatch podcast,
which is very informative about the whole redistricting argument, and
they hit me with some stats and had a conversation,
and I thought, I've been thinking this for years. I
watched the Sunday talk shows pretty regularly. They used to
matter a lot. I don't think they matter much anymore,
although they probably do have outweighed influence on other politicians
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in DC. They probably watch Meet the Press and Face
the Nation even if you don't, and it has an
impact on their conversation among themselves. But the Republicans have
always been bad at pushing back. I don't think there's
ever been a public and is good as Nancy Pelosi,
for instance, and going on those shows and be loaded
with loaded with facts and figures and a spin on
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their story and be willing to just reject the narrative
framework that they use to frame every topic right, just
question their very premises, be friendly but aggressive. Margaret Brennan
is not going to hurt you. You can go ahead
and argue with her.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I don't know if it's because they got to live
in Washington, DC and so many of their friends or
Dems and they don't want to be like, you know,
the skunk at the party, nobody wants to hang around
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The big redistricting thing, So Texas is going to redistrict
in the uh middle of the decade, which is not common,
but legally they can do it. States decide they're what
they're going to do redistricting wise, the federal government has said, hey,
you do you which is the way we want to
build our country as opposed to have the federal government
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make these decisions.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And Texas can do this legally.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So they're gonna redistrict based on the last census and
get five more Republican House seats most likely. And then
of course says you know, if you've been following the
story at all, the Democrats took off left the state
and have been claiming Hitler Nazi jerrymandering crap, and the
mainstream media is bought into it. One hundred percent and
left out the fact that Democrats have been jerrymandering two
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for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There's a whole bunch of example.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
They ran to Illinois and better, they're better at They're
better have been.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Better at it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The Democrats in Texas ran to Illinois, which is one
of the most jerrymandered states in the entire country. That
woman that clip we had the other day, I should
have had to grab it. Who called Trump at Timu Hitler,
which is pretty clever. She is in like the third
most jerrymandered district in the entire country. Looks like a
snake winding around through things to make sure she can
stay in a safe seat anyway. Oh and a woman
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from governor Massachusetts said the other day, we are gonna
have to fight back. They're gonna play dirty. We're gonna
have to play dirty. Massachusetts completely jerrymandered.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
They have no.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Republicans in the state whatsoever. So I don't know how
you're gonna fight back. There's nothing you can do. You've
already maxed for Republican congress people. Yeah, you know, Republican
congress people, even though they probably have I didn't look
it up, but probably at least a third of the
people in the state are Republicans. He got no representation
whatsoever because you jerry mandered. I didn't know this until
I heard it on the dispatch. Once you get north
of New York, there are no Republican congressmen because every
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state is so jerrymandered, not one north of New York,
with all those states going toward the border, which is incredible.
Texas was a democratic state for forty years if you're
old enough or no history to know before it flipped
a red back in the day, but it was a
democratic state for forty years.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And they jerry mandered the crap.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Out of that state to have the maximum number of
Democrats and as few Republicans possible.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
When they were in charge.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But now that the Republicans are in charge, them doing
it now you're hitler, Now you're anti Teleco.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We were losing our democracy, right.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But there was pretty interesting conversation that the history of
this isn't all. Doesn't always turn out the way you
hope it do. You get a short term game gain,
but you can end up with like a next cycle,
real disaster because you, by definition weakened a lot of
your districts so you have a very very solid say
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in this case, if you're the Democrats jerry mandering, you
have a very solid Democratic You got to a Democrat
who's winning by thirty points in election, it's not even close. Well,
then you take chunks of that person's out to try
to get more Democratic seats, and all of a sudden,
you're plus ten because you've had to, you know, mix
it up a little bit. You're still gonna win. Well,
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then you get one one of those wave elections where
people are unhappy with the current power and you can
get flipped upside down really fast. And historically there's lots
of examples of that happening, right right, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, you borrow from your seats, safe enough, we're gonna
borrow fifteen percent of your voters they need to help
over there.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I'm pretty soon you get it down to where you're
winning by eight instead of thirty. And uh yeah, it
doesn't take much of a wave for things to go
south for you. And it's happened for both teams quite
a few times. So that's what California would be in
danger of to get to squeeze out five more Democratic
seats in California they're gonna have to water down a
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whole bunch of Democratic House seats.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, and I'm not sure that's going to happen, partly
because I've just read this email from alert listener Mike,
absolutely terrific note about the state of cal Unicornia. The
California Assembly quietly posted a public comment page to their
terrible redistricting idea they just cooked up, but there are
no details. There are no maps, which is like word
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for word against the California Constitution. Asking for public comment
while not publishing the actual maps is unconstitutionally goes into
the article of the constitution specifically mandates public input processes
that require maps and data would be publicly available, has
a specific timeline and notice requirements. California State constitution prohibits
the state from taking any redistricting action mid cycle that
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is not consistent with the clear timeline established by the
voters in an initiative in twenty ten, which past state
constitution prohibits the state legislature from being involved in any
map creation or map adoption. Instead, the state vest this
authority solely with the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is imperfect,
but it's better than the legislators, and he goes into
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the chapter and verse of the Constitution and the law,
every article, every item and sub item. It's incredibly well researched.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
An Article twenty one, Section two item of the State
Constitution reads quotes Districts shall not be drawn for the
purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent political candidate
or political party. And he says, if this is a
Democratic Party power grab er, if you try to act,
it will go badly for you, badly in the courts.
(08:05):
I don't think they're actually going to go very far
down this road. I think Gavey is just Gaviy Newsom
is just desperate to establish as bona fides is the
great fighting Democrat who's going to take on the Timo
Hitler Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And they understand that we have a timo' hitler and
the White House.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Right now, this story's off the front page for now,
and it might be off for.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Good and you'll never hear it about it again.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Out of Gavin Newsom, it was just a great I'm
the leader of this charge and it worked for him.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It was pointed out by.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
The political pros that it did give the Democrats something
to talk about for like at least a week and
maybe longer, depending on how things go. Where they didn't
have anything to talk about. That was you know, that
was a concern of Democrats. What have we got to
run on? I mean, we're just getting killed everywhere? And
this kind of bailed out a lot of Democrats with
something to talk about.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, they are kind of desperate. I mean it was
just yesterday I heard I can't remember what the topic
because it is and it really doesn't matter, but some
big name Democrat was saying, you're just doing that to
distract from the Epstein mess. And I'm like, nobody's talking
about that, right, what are you talking about? Well, on
the other hand, Jack, I saw quite the demonstration against
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the Texas redistricting. I wonder what percentage of those people
were paid to be there? Inside the crowd rental industry,
you've heard about this, You've wondered, is that true?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh yeah, it's one hundred percent true. Wow, I want
to rent a crowd. I want to hear about this.
So lots on the way stay here, bun.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Lows, can someone help us catch the bird flying around
in here?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
American eagle? So we're gonna lay low for a bit.
Baskin Robbins.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
You'll find us inside Duncan, which is inside of Pizza Hut,
which is inside of Nathan's Auto designer shoe warehouse. One
of these things is true, and it's not designer or
a shoe.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Boy. We don't want to jinx it. But it's been
a while since, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Right, Wow, Paramount plus stears you can.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Watch Wow, Wow, Now that was clever.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
The American eagle one? Is that just the perception on
the left? Oh, American eagle got shamed? And man, I'll
bet they're laying low now. No, they're not not at all.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Nobody bought that Sydney sweety as a eugenicist crap.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We're laughing at it.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Jimmy, I like, Low's could somebody help us catch this bird?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah? But who is uttering those words? Oh there are
no employees? Yeah, I got it. Remember anyway, I thought
this was so interesting. Jack and I have joked about
this both on and off the air for a very
long time. You have a protest wherever, whatever topic, and
number one you have the news camera is pressed in
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close enough always to have the crowd fill the frame.
And so whether it's one hundred people or forty or
seven they fill the frame, so it looks like a
significant protest. Okay, that's old hat. You probably know that already.
Second thing I always like to point out is that
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you know, you'll have people chatting on the steps of say,
the capital of California, not far from the radio ranch,
demanding that Gavin Newsom let boys compete in girls' sports, right,
And I like to compare the size of those crowds
to the size of the crowd at your local little
league game last night. It is usually pretty similar standing
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around watching thirteen year olds run around bases. That number
of people was there at an individual little league game.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So why am I seeing this exactly? And now this
third factor?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And boy, the left does love to demonstrate and chant
in March especially, and the right doesn't do it but
and show me their toes dirty footed hippies. Anyway, this
is so interesting. This sort of thing used to just
exists in the shadows, I guess. And I had heard
about it and was intrigued by it. But a couple
of times I brought it up and people have acted
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like I'm nuts. That is rent to crowds. But the
CEO of the biggest rent a crowd company in Washington,
d C. Which is the national capital of rent a crowds.
I mean, this guy's important in the industry. Adam Schwartz
is the CEO of Crowds on Demand and he did
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an interview with Alexandria hoff Offox Digital qutie and said, yeah,
right now, inquiries in DC are up roughly four hundred
percent compared to the same period last year since Trump
announced he was going to take over policing in DC.
But so, how does this work?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Are you you give your email address, phone number to
somebody and then then they text you and say, hey,
Saturday at four o'clock, we need you to be at
the you know, down with Trump rally or the up
with this rally or whatever. Right, and the payment is
twenty three dollars an hour. Right, we need you there
for two hours. That's a certain kind of person. I mean,
how much would you have to get paid before you
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would show? Drive over there, wait, get in line, grab
a sign, stand there for two hours.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It'd be a lot before. Well, yeah, but are you
asking current me or twenty three year old me? Twenty
three year old me, you'd be like, I didn't have
anything going anyway, yell, chant whatever the hell you want
for fifty bucks on a Saturday afternoon. So anyway, yeah,
giant skyrocket and demand. He told ms Hoff. The company
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always sees a spike in requests during what mister Schwartz
calls quote.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
High stakes political moments quote, A large share are focused.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Oh. Then he goes into a screen about how you
know people are worried about government over each On the
other hand, there's crime.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
In DC, blah blah blah. I don't need your analysis, sir,
but he said, the vast majority of people at political
or advocacy events in DC are in some way paid.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The vast majority. Yes, Wow, a picture please, when the
Supreme Court is in session and you see thirty people
chanting on the steps of the Supreme Court wearing their
beautifully prepared, obviously professional placards. Hit Wawman's right, hands off
my body wawmans et, he said. Quote. Most people don't
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know this, but many protesters are literally on the payroll.
Capitol Hill staffers from both parties are expected to show
up at rallies and protests on their own time. It's
part of the job. So yes, most attendees are being
paid or are there because it's part of their job.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Why.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It doesn't mean they don't support the cause, but it
does mean that these crowds aren't as organic as they
appear on TV. Well yeah, but the point of news
coverage of a protest is to tell you, look, how
many people are so passionately moved by this issue that
they took time out of their lives to travel here.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
If all that last part is fake, took time out
of their lives to drive here because they're so passionate.
But if that's all fake, well then yeah, that's a
non story.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well right, the unspoken part has always been part of
the message they're sending by showing you that protest. Uh huh.
These are average American citizens who are really fired up.
If they're this fired up, maybe you should pay attention
to be fired up too.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Not.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, a bunch of Capitol Hill staffers and paid people
who didn't know what they were protesting until they showed
up are now chanting badly semi in unison. Oh my, exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
So here's a whole bunch of young people who needed
beer money for a Friday night who showed up with
their placards handed to them. I don't even know what
the protests about, right right, that's very very interesting that
should be reported on more often.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I know, well, the mainstream media is never going to
do it because the chanting crowd. What is it with
chanting among you lefties and rhymes? If you can make
it rhyme, do you think that actually like moves hearts
and minds and votes? What if you just like laid
it out prose style. I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I'm seriously more chanting, No more chanting?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What do we want? Are you a time machine? When
do we want it? Irrelevant?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Or or are you yourself convinced by rhyming?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Do you find it so alluring, such a fish hook
that just set your upper lipt that you just can't
resist it? I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
We got a lot more on the way if you
missed the segment of the podcast Armstrong in Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry saying once again
that for them, this upcoming summit is not only going
to be about the conflict in Ukraine, but about other
issues as well, accumulated issues. As the Russians have said,
they're saying that they also wanted to talk about a
reset of US Russian relations and possible better business relations
in the future. So for them, they think that the
agenda could be broader. He also said that the Russian territory,
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as he put it, is enthrined in Russia's constitution, which
seems to pour cold water on some of the things
that President Trump has said about territory possibly being swapped.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Okay, so that's the Russian point of view that this
is going to be about more than Russia Ukraine, as
Trump I have that mindset, or is he going to
walk in there with a no, no, no, no, none
of that other stuff. We're gonna have a ceasefire. You
are you willing to have a ceasefire?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Not?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And then, as I've been reporting all week, Yeah, they
are trying to make it part of a grand agreement.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well do you think Trump will say we can talk
about that after you agree to the ceasefire or yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I suspect you will, judging by his rhetoric lately. Yeah,
so this is confumed he will also, though I suspect
be pretty intrigued by the idea.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
This is confirmed now Wall Street General and others there
will be a press conference Trump and Putin standing side
by side taking questions from the media after this meeting tomorrow.
I can't imagine what that's gonna look like. Has that
ever happened? Can I think of it a time? I mean,
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because at.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The early stages of negotiation during a bloody armed conflict.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Not even that. Putin's one of the worst people on
the planet. He's bombing schools, in hospit bittles a press
conference where he stands there next to the President of
the United States as like an equal and takes questions
from the press. I'm trying to think of an example
of this.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No, I can't. I can't either. That's wild.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
So they're good. They're gonna meet one on one. I
assume they'll have translators. But that's what just says there
one on one meeting in the Wall Street Journal. Now,
remember Putin and Zolynsky met completely alone there in the
Vatican when the Trump when they had the pope funeral.
Zelensky speaks English though Putin doesn't. Does Putin speak English?
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I don't remember, just a tiny bit. So there have
to be translators. But anyway, so they're gonna meet one
on one. Then there's gonna be some sort of lunch
with delegations from both sides. And then as soon as
that lunch is over, Putin and Trump taken questions from
the media, and I God, this has an opportunity to
be some history making stuff depending on who says what
and how Trump reacts to it wide right. Yeah, I'm
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going to try to be I don't know what time
of day that's gonna happen, but I'm gonna try to
be wherever I can to watch that twelve three thirty
Eastern time, three thirty Eastern time for what for the
meeting supposed last year? Who knows how long the meeting
is going to be? Is it going to be an
hour or three hours? And then they've got the lunch
which is two minutes, like topas said many times, right,
and then they get the lunch afterwards, which might be
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an hour or three hours. So but that's good news, Michael.
That gives me at least a range for paying attention
to it. There'll be people reporting out of there like
crazy as soon as they can. I want to get
this on. I heard this yesterday. This is from the
reporting from the London Telegraph and some of the reporters
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who are very pro Ukraine, but seem to be incredibly
fair reporters as they they will often point out downsides
to Ukraine or when when Russia seems to be winning
in that sort of thing. Zelensky is still mostly popular.
He took a dip there when they announced that the
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government was gonna take he was going to take control
of the whole rooting out corruption thing, and there were
protests in the street. But then he said no, no, no, no, okay,
we won't do that, and uh and then so so
his popularity seems to be okay.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Amazingly though.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Population doesn't believe in like any of the government or
anything like that, any of their institutions other than Zelensky.
Really they believe in Zelensky in the military, everything else
not at all, partially because they're snatching people on the
off the streets now the recruiters and you're in the
army now, I'm what they're in Ukraine because they're so
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desperate for people. Seventy five percent don't trust the draft offices.
That's how upside down they are, while they've got ninety
percent trust for the military. Not distinguishing that they're basically
the same thing. The draft offices are obviously part of
the whole military establishment, but ninety percent trust in the military.
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Seventy five percent don't trust the draft offices. But Zelensky, somehow,
as a wartime leader or his personality or whatever, continues
to stay high. But that's something to keep an eye on, right, Yeah.
I mean, that's obviously a troubling thing.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
But you know, it's not like the draft or conscription
is a new phenomenon in human affairs.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, But apparently there are videos making their way around
Ukraine of like young men turning in a corner and
there's some people coming to get them from the draft
office and they go running down the street and they're
chased down.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I mean that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Wow, Yeah, i'd say, wow, you're in the army, now
learned direstraints. Yeah, I would say, all right, complete transition
to a couple of domestic matters. First of all, I'm
gonna flesh this out next.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
If you don't get Next Hour a grab it via podcast,
maybe even subscribe or follow Armstrong and Getty on demand
wherever you like to get podcasts. But it is fleshing
out a lawsuit that was quietly settled in Washington, d C.
The same day, Trump said, you know what, We're gonna
get the National Guard out in Washington, d C. To
get the streets safer. Well, a cop sued the department,
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saying they have been systematically ordering their underlings to the
brass has to under report crime. And when you get
into the specifics of it, I mean, it is as
crystal clear as a thing can be, how deceptive it was.
But anyway, we will flesh that out next hour. Wanted
to get this on just because it's becoming a big
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store and we haven't even touched on it yet. And
I hope this, you know, gets the attention, raises the
eyebrows of people in places blue states like California or Massachusetts,
and they're a handful of others Illinois where they either
have passed are trying to pass these laws that say
the teacher and the administrators, the counselors, if little Jimmy
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wants to be called Jenny, we don't have to tell
the parents that would In fact, we have to keep
it secret to protect the child from abuse or whatever.
Just the wedge between the state and the family not
to go off on too long a tangent, but an
an idea was introduced. I think I was eighteen nineteen
years old. I was sitting in a classroom at the
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University of Illinois and one of my philosophy professors of
somebody some check I can picture, but I can't remember
what class. It was just casually mentioned that, of course,
the nuclear family is a structure of oppression and that
kids and society would be much better off if the
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state were raising the children.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
And like, nobody raised their hand and said, excuse me,
what now.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
My recollection is somewhat fuzzy of the day other than
that statement, but I was like, this chick's a lunatic.
That's such a crazy thing to say or believe. She
was a Marxist. I didn't realize it at the time,
but she was a Marxist. So anyway, the ah the
idea of no, no, no, no no. The parents don't need
to worry about this, The school will take care of
this for you. That is absolutely from the Marxist playbook
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of dismantling the nuclear family, because that's one of the
institutions that is that supersedes the state, and nothing can
supersede the state. Anyway. Having said that, Virginia.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
School officials arranged and paid for multiple students abortions without
parental consent, according to report that's just come out. This
is the infamous woke Fairfax County, Virginia that I'm pretty
familiar with.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
One of my kids went to school right there college.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Two former Fairfax County High School, Virginia High School students
have come forward saying that school officials arranged and funded
their abortions without informing their parents, and these students have
provided letters, audio recordings, and additional documents showing that staff
arranged and paid for the abortions, one when she was
five months pregnant without notifying parents, a direct violation of
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Virginia's parental notification statute.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Wrote a journalist. One of the girls that her abortion
took place in twenty twenty one, when she was only seventeen,
while the other one was five months pregnant and pleading
to keep her baby. It includes a handwritten statement for
the first student about how school social worker Carolina Diaz
scheduled the student's appointment at the Fairfax Healthcare Center and
paid the abortion fee. Diaz also allegedly told the second
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student that she had no other choice than to get
an abortion. And again these two former high school students
are out with their names on the dotted line saying
this happened to me and I can prove it. And
a final quote, this is not an abortion debate, it's
state sponsored child coercion and a flashing red siren for
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parental rights. Fairfax Counties bureaucrats skipped.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Cops, judges and moms and dads to push terrified teams
through a clinic door.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And every official who signed off must face a criminal probe.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And that same thing happens when little Johnny wants to
be called Jenny or vice versa.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And it's for a reason they don't want you involved. Anyway,
On a more positive note, and I remember it was
probably six months ago I brought to your attention and
opinion piece about what Trump had to do. In fact,
it might have been during the transition.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Come to think of that, what Trump in the administration
had to do to actually end woke or you know,
push neo Marxism backward. And one of the main facets
of it. Education was one, but the other one was
they've we've got to get a hold of our our museums.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's so annoying. It's so annoying.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I've been to a lot of museums in the last
couple of years with my kids, so damn annoying. Good lord,
I want to read about you know, this dinosaur or
this historical artifact or whatever it is, and they always
got to throw in climate change or male oppression or
white supremacy orth and every single time. Yeah, I guess
Britain's terrible too on that. But anyway, the White House
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is announced a comprehensive review of the Smithsonian exhibitions. The
New York Times, of course, is aghast by this, but
they said they would begin a wide ranging review of
current and planned exhibitions at the Smithsonian, scouring Waltech's websites
and social media quote to assess tone, historical framing, and
alignment with American ideals, or.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Just leave it out.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Just tell me when the Tyrannosaurus lived, what at ate,
how tall it was. You don't need to work in
climate change or something like that. Yeah, that's a particularly
regious example.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But a lot of it is socio political, which climate
change is, I guess. But a lot of it, like
at the American History Museum or a handful of others
is directly designed to counter and defeat the traditional telling
of the American story and supplant it with Howard's and
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Marxism stuff. Excuse me, it's incredibly egregious at the history museums,
the White House that it's reviewed. Quote aims to ensure
alignment with the presidents directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove
divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared
cultural institutions. It adds that the goal is not to
interfere with the day to day operations of curators or staff,
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but rather to support a broad vision of excellence that
highlights historically accurate, uplifting, and inclusive portrayals of Americans America's
heritage debate over which, of course, is being portrayed in
the exact same way of im, I'm going to put
some porn in the schools, and then you come along
and say, I don't think there ought to be porn
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in the schools. You need to take that out.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
You're a book banner and a book burner and a fascist.
It's forbidden books week read some porn anyway. The left,
the left which put all of this postmodern Marxist rhetoric
in all the museums is now saying, oh, this is terrible.
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We've been doing a great job. This is a fascism
blah blah blah. No, this is a great, great effort,
and I support them one hundred percent. So coming up,
what your reaction to Taylor Swift being on the Kelsey
Brothers podcast says about your personality which I just made
up in my own head.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We'll play a little bit of that and discuss it,
among other things. Stay here can you do? Drummer?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Last track track twelve, the title track The Life of
a show Girl featuring Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
That's a lot of exuberation from a couple of NFL
football players. With Taylor Swift on the podcast of the
Kelsey Brothers announcing track by track, I guess what her
new album is and who's on who else is playing
on each track. She also announced this what she is
very excited about.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
She was like, you got you got your music, and
I just like very dramatically hit the floor for real,
like honestly just started a long time bawling my eyes
out and I'm just like just weeping.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
She got her albums back, So with all kinds of
disputes over copyrights and who owns what and everything like
that she didn't own her like what first six albums
of her life am off, like a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Of creative artists do. And she bought them back, finally
made a deal.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, somehow she got them back, and she talked about
how she cried and Travis cried.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I don't know, I saw.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I saw chunks of this, and I just think it's interesting,
the phenomenon on needing to hate on various things. Like
I try not to like things just because they're popular,
or hate things just because they're popular. I try to
just either like it or not like it, based on
whether I like it or not like it, which seems
like a better way to go. But I know there's
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there's a chunk of people that gotta hate on Taylor
Swift and the whole Travis Kelsey thing. And I listened
to part of that and I thought, Okay, they seem
like a young couple, like in love, and the two
brothers seem like they're really good friends. And you know,
it's not my cup of tea to listen to the
topic matter, but it doesn't make me angry or I
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don't need to hate it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I just I'm just going to.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
You're better than all of us, Saint Jack, congratulations. People
are sick of hearing about it, which then kind of
leeches over into it. Seems like they hate They're probably
indifferent to Taylor Swift. They hate the hype. They hate
the game, not the play man. To quote Taylor Swift,
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to quote Way to quote Taylor Swift as you take
her down, that's very clever.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm quoting popular culture.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I think anyway, if I did, it was an accident,
and I apologize for it, please. I was pretty surprised
at how into it the Kelsey brothers seem to be.
I mean, Travis has to at least pretend he cares
which crown Molding may get for the living room because
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it's his girlfriend. But I was surprised his brother was
so into track by track. What was on each song
of the album?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I can't speak for
those lads. It's funny. I think of them as grizzled
veterans of the NFL, but they're both what their thirties.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, there's also the and I try not to do
this either, because this is a real natural human emotion.
That I have to fight hard to want to hate him,
because they're really good looking, really rich, and really happy.
And if you're you know, at that particular moment, none
of those three that can roll be the wrong way,
just for all kinds of human emotion reasons, which is
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not healthy either, because they are very good looking, very rich,
and very happy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
With themselves and everyone knows it, and everyone knows it.
Right again, it's not I don't think it's the particulars
as much as the hype that people the fact that
it makes the CBS Evening News well, the fact that
I have zero interest in the story and I've heard
about it twelve times on my own show. That's the
sort of thing people get a little worn out.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Can you name a and this this makes your point?
Can you name ash show? I don't care if it's
about gardening that hasn't mentioned this in the.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Last my show. If I had my way.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Would have completely it would have been a hypothetical, would
have been a black hole of Kelsey tra Taylor Swift stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's it's fine. If the music makes you happy, listen
to it. If it doesn't, don't, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Our four we do. We do a fourth hour we do,
we do four hours, We do lots of take much.
If you miss something, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 1 (35:27):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm
Strong and Jetty and Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Furry bodies, wide eyes and a truthy grint reselling for
hundreds of dollars and now a very obvious target.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
My little boob who got stolen.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Someone stole my lab Boo Boo, La Boo boo, the
summer's most sought after toy at the center of a
crime wave in southern California. The theft amount to tens
of thousands of dollars, the latest in Chino, valued at
approximately thirty grand.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
The fact that, you know, some people think that, hey,
it's just la Boo Boo's No, you know, it's more.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's it's an organized retail theft.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You know. Uh, it's so liberating to be able to
just ignore crazies. You know, you just choose not to
be involved.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I'm not into organized crime, as that person says there.
It's about organized crime rings and we need to worry
about that and crack down on them.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But in terms of it's a huge problem in cal Unicorney,
especially in terms.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Of the craze of labuboos. If you just decide, you know,
I don't. I'm not going to participate.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's over for you. You don't need to want for one,
you don't need to shop for one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You just it's over.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I was listening to a podcast yesterday, actually the Dispatch podcast,
which is very informative about the whole redistricting argument, and
they hit me with some stats and had a conversation,
and I thought, I've been thinking this for years. I
watched the Sunday talk shows pretty regularly. They used to
matter a lot. I don't think they matter much anymore,
although they probably do have outweighed influence on other politicians
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in DC. They probably watch Meet the Press and Face
the Nation even if you don't, and it has an
impact on their conversation among themselves. But the Republicans have
always been bad at pushing back. I don't think there's
ever been a public and is good as Nancy Pelosi,
for instance, and going on those shows and be loaded
with loaded with facts and figures and a spin on
(02:07):
their story and be willing to just reject the narrative
framework that they use to frame every topic right, just
question their very premises, be friendly but aggressive. Margaret Brennan
is not going to hurt you. You can go ahead
and argue with her.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I don't know if it's because they got to live
in Washington, DC and so many of their friends or
Dems and they don't want to be like, you know,
the skunk at the party, nobody wants to hang around
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
The big redistricting thing, So Texas is going to redistrict
in the uh middle of the decade, which is not common,
but legally they can do it. States decide they're what
they're going to do redistricting wise, the federal government has said, hey,
you do you which is the way we want to
build our country as opposed to have the federal government
(03:00):
make these decisions.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And Texas can do this legally.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So they're gonna redistrict based on the last census and
get five more Republican House seats most likely. And then
of course says you know, if you've been following the
story at all, the Democrats took off left the state
and have been claiming Hitler Nazi jerrymandering crap, and the
mainstream media is bought into it. One hundred percent and
left out the fact that Democrats have been jerrymandering two
(03:24):
for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There's a whole bunch of example.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
They ran to Illinois and better, they're better at They're
better have been.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Better at it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The Democrats in Texas ran to Illinois, which is one
of the most jerrymandered states in the entire country. That
woman that clip we had the other day, I should
have had to grab it. Who called Trump at Timu Hitler,
which is pretty clever. She is in like the third
most jerrymandered district in the entire country. Looks like a
snake winding around through things to make sure she can
stay in a safe seat anyway. Oh and a woman
(03:54):
from governor Massachusetts said the other day, we are gonna
have to fight back. They're gonna play dirty. We're gonna
have to play dirty. Massachusetts completely jerrymandered.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
They have no.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Republicans in the state whatsoever. So I don't know how
you're gonna fight back. There's nothing you can do. You've
already maxed for Republican congress people. Yeah, you know, Republican
congress people, even though they probably have I didn't look
it up, but probably at least a third of the
people in the state are Republicans. He got no representation
whatsoever because you jerry mandered. I didn't know this until
I heard it on the dispatch. Once you get north
of New York, there are no Republican congressmen because every
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state is so jerrymandered, not one north of New York,
with all those states going toward the border, which is incredible.
Texas was a democratic state for forty years if you're
old enough or no history to know before it flipped
a red back in the day, but it was a
democratic state for forty years.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And they jerry mandered the crap.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Out of that state to have the maximum number of
Democrats and as few Republicans possible.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
When they were in charge.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But now that the Republicans are in charge, them doing
it now you're hitler, Now you're anti Teleco.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We were losing our democracy, right.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But there was pretty interesting conversation that the history of
this isn't all. Doesn't always turn out the way you
hope it do. You get a short term game gain,
but you can end up with like a next cycle,
real disaster because you, by definition weakened a lot of
your districts so you have a very very solid say
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in this case, if you're the Democrats jerry mandering, you
have a very solid Democratic You got to a Democrat
who's winning by thirty points in election, it's not even close. Well,
then you take chunks of that person's out to try
to get more Democratic seats, and all of a sudden,
you're plus ten because you've had to, you know, mix
it up a little bit. You're still gonna win. Well,
(05:46):
then you get one one of those wave elections where
people are unhappy with the current power and you can
get flipped upside down really fast. And historically there's lots
of examples of that happening, right right, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, you borrow from your seats, safe enough, we're gonna
borrow fifteen percent of your voters they need to help
over there.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I'm pretty soon you get it down to where you're
winning by eight instead of thirty. And uh yeah, it
doesn't take much of a wave for things to go
south for you. And it's happened for both teams quite
a few times. So that's what California would be in
danger of to get to squeeze out five more Democratic
seats in California they're gonna have to water down a
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whole bunch of Democratic House seats.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, and I'm not sure that's going to happen, partly
because I've just read this email from alert listener Mike,
absolutely terrific note about the state of cal Unicornia. The
California Assembly quietly posted a public comment page to their
terrible redistricting idea they just cooked up, but there are
no details. There are no maps, which is like word
(06:52):
for word against the California Constitution. Asking for public comment
while not publishing the actual maps is unconstitutionally goes into
the article of the constitution specifically mandates public input processes
that require maps and data would be publicly available, has
a specific timeline and notice requirements. California State constitution prohibits
the state from taking any redistricting action mid cycle that
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is not consistent with the clear timeline established by the
voters in an initiative in twenty ten, which past state
constitution prohibits the state legislature from being involved in any
map creation or map adoption. Instead, the state vest this
authority solely with the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is imperfect,
but it's better than the legislators, and he goes into
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the chapter and verse of the Constitution and the law,
every article, every item and sub item. It's incredibly well researched.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
An Article twenty one, Section two item of the State
Constitution reads quotes Districts shall not be drawn for the
purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent political candidate
or political party. And he says, if this is a
Democratic Party power grab er, if you try to act,
it will go badly for you, badly in the courts.
(08:05):
I don't think they're actually going to go very far
down this road. I think Gavey is just Gaviy Newsom
is just desperate to establish as bona fides is the
great fighting Democrat who's going to take on the Timo
Hitler Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And they understand that we have a timo' hitler and
the White House.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Right now, this story's off the front page for now,
and it might be off for.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Good and you'll never hear it about it again.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Out of Gavin Newsom, it was just a great I'm
the leader of this charge and it worked for him.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It was pointed out by.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
The political pros that it did give the Democrats something
to talk about for like at least a week and
maybe longer, depending on how things go. Where they didn't
have anything to talk about. That was you know, that
was a concern of Democrats. What have we got to
run on? I mean, we're just getting killed everywhere? And
this kind of bailed out a lot of Democrats with
something to talk about.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, they are kind of desperate. I mean it was
just yesterday I heard I can't remember what the topic
because it is and it really doesn't matter, but some
big name Democrat was saying, you're just doing that to
distract from the Epstein mess. And I'm like, nobody's talking
about that, right, what are you talking about? Well, on
the other hand, Jack, I saw quite the demonstration against
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the Texas redistricting. I wonder what percentage of those people
were paid to be there? Inside the crowd rental industry,
you've heard about this, You've wondered, is that true?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh yeah, it's one hundred percent true. Wow, I want
to rent a crowd. I want to hear about this.
So lots on the way stay here, bun.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Lows, can someone help us catch the bird flying around
in here?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
American eagle? So we're gonna lay low for a bit.
Baskin Robbins.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
You'll find us inside Duncan, which is inside of Pizza Hut,
which is inside of Nathan's Auto designer shoe warehouse. One
of these things is true, and it's not designer or
a shoe.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Boy. We don't want to jinx it. But it's been
a while since, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Right, Wow, Paramount plus stears you can.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Watch Wow, Wow, Now that was clever.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
The American eagle one? Is that just the perception on
the left? Oh, American eagle got shamed? And man, I'll
bet they're laying low now. No, they're not not at all.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Nobody bought that Sydney sweety as a eugenicist crap.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We're laughing at it.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Jimmy, I like, Low's could somebody help us catch this bird?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah? But who is uttering those words? Oh there are
no employees? Yeah, I got it. Remember anyway, I thought
this was so interesting. Jack and I have joked about
this both on and off the air for a very
long time. You have a protest wherever, whatever topic, and
number one you have the news camera is pressed in
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close enough always to have the crowd fill the frame.
And so whether it's one hundred people or forty or
seven they fill the frame, so it looks like a
significant protest. Okay, that's old hat. You probably know that already.
Second thing I always like to point out is that
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you know, you'll have people chatting on the steps of say,
the capital of California, not far from the radio ranch,
demanding that Gavin Newsom let boys compete in girls' sports, right,
And I like to compare the size of those crowds
to the size of the crowd at your local little
league game last night. It is usually pretty similar standing
(12:03):
around watching thirteen year olds run around bases. That number
of people was there at an individual little league game.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
So why am I seeing this exactly? And now this
third factor?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And boy, the left does love to demonstrate and chant
in March especially, and the right doesn't do it but
and show me their toes dirty footed hippies. Anyway, this
is so interesting. This sort of thing used to just
exists in the shadows, I guess. And I had heard
about it and was intrigued by it. But a couple
of times I brought it up and people have acted
(12:38):
like I'm nuts. That is rent to crowds. But the
CEO of the biggest rent a crowd company in Washington,
d C. Which is the national capital of rent a crowds.
I mean, this guy's important in the industry. Adam Schwartz
is the CEO of Crowds on Demand and he did
(13:00):
an interview with Alexandria hoff Offox Digital qutie and said, yeah,
right now, inquiries in DC are up roughly four hundred
percent compared to the same period last year since Trump
announced he was going to take over policing in DC.
But so, how does this work?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Are you you give your email address, phone number to
somebody and then then they text you and say, hey,
Saturday at four o'clock, we need you to be at
the you know, down with Trump rally or the up
with this rally or whatever. Right, and the payment is
twenty three dollars an hour. Right, we need you there
for two hours. That's a certain kind of person. I mean,
how much would you have to get paid before you
(13:40):
would show? Drive over there, wait, get in line, grab
a sign, stand there for two hours.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It'd be a lot before. Well, yeah, but are you
asking current me or twenty three year old me? Twenty
three year old me, you'd be like, I didn't have
anything going anyway, yell, chant whatever the hell you want
for fifty bucks on a Saturday afternoon. So anyway, yeah,
giant skyrocket and demand. He told ms Hoff. The company
(14:06):
always sees a spike in requests during what mister Schwartz
calls quote.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
High stakes political moments quote, A large share are focused.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Oh. Then he goes into a screen about how you
know people are worried about government over each On the
other hand, there's crime.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
In DC, blah blah blah. I don't need your analysis, sir,
but he said, the vast majority of people at political
or advocacy events in DC are in some way paid.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The vast majority. Yes, Wow, a picture please, when the
Supreme Court is in session and you see thirty people
chanting on the steps of the Supreme Court wearing their
beautifully prepared, obviously professional placards. Hit Wawman's right, hands off
my body wawmans et, he said. Quote. Most people don't
(14:58):
know this, but many protesters are literally on the payroll.
Capitol Hill staffers from both parties are expected to show
up at rallies and protests on their own time. It's
part of the job. So yes, most attendees are being
paid or are there because it's part of their job.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Why.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It doesn't mean they don't support the cause, but it
does mean that these crowds aren't as organic as they
appear on TV. Well yeah, but the point of news
coverage of a protest is to tell you, look, how
many people are so passionately moved by this issue that
they took time out of their lives to travel here.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
If all that last part is fake, took time out
of their lives to drive here because they're so passionate.
But if that's all fake, well then yeah, that's a
non story.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well right, the unspoken part has always been part of
the message they're sending by showing you that protest. Uh huh.
These are average American citizens who are really fired up.
If they're this fired up, maybe you should pay attention
to be fired up too.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Not.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh, a bunch of Capitol Hill staffers and paid people
who didn't know what they were protesting until they showed
up are now chanting badly semi in unison. Oh my, exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
So here's a whole bunch of young people who needed
beer money for a Friday night who showed up with
their placards handed to them. I don't even know what
the protests about, right right, that's very very interesting that
should be reported on more often.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I know, well, the mainstream media is never going to
do it because the chanting crowd. What is it with
chanting among you lefties and rhymes? If you can make
it rhyme, do you think that actually like moves hearts
and minds and votes? What if you just like laid
it out prose style. I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I'm seriously more chanting, No more chanting?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What do we want? Are you a time machine? When
do we want it? Irrelevant?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Or or are you yourself convinced by rhyming?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Do you find it so alluring, such a fish hook
that just set your upper lipt that you just can't
resist it? I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
We got a lot more on the way if you
missed the segment of the podcast Armstrong in Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry saying once again
that for them, this upcoming summit is not only going
to be about the conflict in Ukraine, but about other
issues as well, accumulated issues. As the Russians have said,
they're saying that they also wanted to talk about a
reset of US Russian relations and possible better business relations
in the future. So for them, they think that the
agenda could be broader. He also said that the Russian territory,
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as he put it, is enthrined in Russia's constitution, which
seems to pour cold water on some of the things
that President Trump has said about territory possibly being swapped.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Okay, so that's the Russian point of view that this
is going to be about more than Russia Ukraine, as
Trump I have that mindset, or is he going to
walk in there with a no, no, no, no, none
of that other stuff. We're gonna have a ceasefire. You
are you willing to have a ceasefire?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Not?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And then, as I've been reporting all week, Yeah, they
are trying to make it part of a grand agreement.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well do you think Trump will say we can talk
about that after you agree to the ceasefire or yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I suspect you will, judging by his rhetoric lately. Yeah,
so this is confumed he will also, though I suspect
be pretty intrigued by the idea.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
This is confirmed now Wall Street General and others there
will be a press conference Trump and Putin standing side
by side taking questions from the media after this meeting tomorrow.
I can't imagine what that's gonna look like. Has that
ever happened? Can I think of it a time? I mean,
(18:48):
because at.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
The early stages of negotiation during a bloody armed conflict.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Not even that. Putin's one of the worst people on
the planet. He's bombing schools, in hospit bittles a press
conference where he stands there next to the President of
the United States as like an equal and takes questions
from the press. I'm trying to think of an example
of this.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
No, I can't. I can't either. That's wild.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
So they're good. They're gonna meet one on one. I
assume they'll have translators. But that's what just says there
one on one meeting in the Wall Street Journal. Now,
remember Putin and Zolynsky met completely alone there in the
Vatican when the Trump when they had the pope funeral.
Zelensky speaks English though Putin doesn't. Does Putin speak English?
(19:38):
I don't remember, just a tiny bit. So there have
to be translators. But anyway, so they're gonna meet one
on one. Then there's gonna be some sort of lunch
with delegations from both sides. And then as soon as
that lunch is over, Putin and Trump taken questions from
the media, and I God, this has an opportunity to
be some history making stuff depending on who says what
and how Trump reacts to it wide right. Yeah, I'm
(20:02):
going to try to be I don't know what time
of day that's gonna happen, but I'm gonna try to
be wherever I can to watch that twelve three thirty
Eastern time, three thirty Eastern time for what for the
meeting supposed last year? Who knows how long the meeting
is going to be? Is it going to be an
hour or three hours? And then they've got the lunch
which is two minutes, like topas said many times, right,
and then they get the lunch afterwards, which might be
(20:24):
an hour or three hours. So but that's good news, Michael.
That gives me at least a range for paying attention
to it. There'll be people reporting out of there like
crazy as soon as they can. I want to get
this on. I heard this yesterday. This is from the
reporting from the London Telegraph and some of the reporters
(20:44):
who are very pro Ukraine, but seem to be incredibly
fair reporters as they they will often point out downsides
to Ukraine or when when Russia seems to be winning
in that sort of thing. Zelensky is still mostly popular.
He took a dip there when they announced that the
(21:06):
government was gonna take he was going to take control
of the whole rooting out corruption thing, and there were
protests in the street. But then he said no, no, no, no, okay,
we won't do that, and uh and then so so
his popularity seems to be okay.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Amazingly though.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Population doesn't believe in like any of the government or
anything like that, any of their institutions other than Zelensky.
Really they believe in Zelensky in the military, everything else
not at all, partially because they're snatching people on the
off the streets now the recruiters and you're in the
army now, I'm what they're in Ukraine because they're so
(21:50):
desperate for people. Seventy five percent don't trust the draft offices.
That's how upside down they are, while they've got ninety
percent trust for the military. Not distinguishing that they're basically
the same thing. The draft offices are obviously part of
the whole military establishment, but ninety percent trust in the military.
(22:11):
Seventy five percent don't trust the draft offices. But Zelensky, somehow,
as a wartime leader or his personality or whatever, continues
to stay high. But that's something to keep an eye on, right, Yeah.
I mean, that's obviously a troubling thing.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
But you know, it's not like the draft or conscription
is a new phenomenon in human affairs.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, But apparently there are videos making their way around
Ukraine of like young men turning in a corner and
there's some people coming to get them from the draft
office and they go running down the street and they're
chased down.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I mean that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Wow, Yeah, i'd say, wow, you're in the army, now
learned direstraints. Yeah, I would say, all right, complete transition
to a couple of domestic matters. First of all, I'm
gonna flesh this out next.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
If you don't get Next Hour a grab it via podcast,
maybe even subscribe or follow Armstrong and Getty on demand
wherever you like to get podcasts. But it is fleshing
out a lawsuit that was quietly settled in Washington, d C.
The same day, Trump said, you know what, We're gonna
get the National Guard out in Washington, d C. To
get the streets safer. Well, a cop sued the department,
(23:24):
saying they have been systematically ordering their underlings to the
brass has to under report crime. And when you get
into the specifics of it, I mean, it is as
crystal clear as a thing can be, how deceptive it was.
But anyway, we will flesh that out next hour. Wanted
to get this on just because it's becoming a big
(23:45):
store and we haven't even touched on it yet. And
I hope this, you know, gets the attention, raises the
eyebrows of people in places blue states like California or Massachusetts,
and they're a handful of others Illinois where they either
have passed are trying to pass these laws that say
the teacher and the administrators, the counselors, if little Jimmy
(24:07):
wants to be called Jenny, we don't have to tell
the parents that would In fact, we have to keep
it secret to protect the child from abuse or whatever.
Just the wedge between the state and the family not
to go off on too long a tangent, but an
an idea was introduced. I think I was eighteen nineteen
years old. I was sitting in a classroom at the
(24:29):
University of Illinois and one of my philosophy professors of
somebody some check I can picture, but I can't remember
what class. It was just casually mentioned that, of course,
the nuclear family is a structure of oppression and that
kids and society would be much better off if the
(24:50):
state were raising the children.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
And like, nobody raised their hand and said, excuse me,
what now.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
My recollection is somewhat fuzzy of the day other than
that statement, but I was like, this chick's a lunatic.
That's such a crazy thing to say or believe. She
was a Marxist. I didn't realize it at the time,
but she was a Marxist. So anyway, the ah the
idea of no, no, no, no no. The parents don't need
to worry about this, The school will take care of
this for you. That is absolutely from the Marxist playbook
(25:24):
of dismantling the nuclear family, because that's one of the
institutions that is that supersedes the state, and nothing can
supersede the state. Anyway. Having said that, Virginia.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
School officials arranged and paid for multiple students abortions without
parental consent, according to report that's just come out. This
is the infamous woke Fairfax County, Virginia that I'm pretty
familiar with.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
One of my kids went to school right there college.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Two former Fairfax County High School, Virginia High School students
have come forward saying that school officials arranged and funded
their abortions without informing their parents, and these students have
provided letters, audio recordings, and additional documents showing that staff
arranged and paid for the abortions, one when she was
five months pregnant without notifying parents, a direct violation of
(26:17):
Virginia's parental notification statute.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Wrote a journalist. One of the girls that her abortion
took place in twenty twenty one, when she was only seventeen,
while the other one was five months pregnant and pleading
to keep her baby. It includes a handwritten statement for
the first student about how school social worker Carolina Diaz
scheduled the student's appointment at the Fairfax Healthcare Center and
paid the abortion fee. Diaz also allegedly told the second
(26:44):
student that she had no other choice than to get
an abortion. And again these two former high school students
are out with their names on the dotted line saying
this happened to me and I can prove it. And
a final quote, this is not an abortion debate, it's
state sponsored child coercion and a flashing red siren for
(27:06):
parental rights. Fairfax Counties bureaucrats skipped.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Cops, judges and moms and dads to push terrified teams
through a clinic door.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And every official who signed off must face a criminal probe.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
And that same thing happens when little Johnny wants to
be called Jenny or vice versa.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And it's for a reason they don't want you involved. Anyway,
On a more positive note, and I remember it was
probably six months ago I brought to your attention and
opinion piece about what Trump had to do. In fact,
it might have been during the transition.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Come to think of that, what Trump in the administration
had to do to actually end woke or you know,
push neo Marxism backward. And one of the main facets
of it. Education was one, but the other one was
they've we've got to get a hold of our our museums.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's so annoying. It's so annoying.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I've been to a lot of museums in the last
couple of years with my kids, so damn annoying. Good lord,
I want to read about you know, this dinosaur or
this historical artifact or whatever it is, and they always
got to throw in climate change or male oppression or
white supremacy orth and every single time. Yeah, I guess
Britain's terrible too on that. But anyway, the White House
(28:28):
is announced a comprehensive review of the Smithsonian exhibitions. The
New York Times, of course, is aghast by this, but
they said they would begin a wide ranging review of
current and planned exhibitions at the Smithsonian, scouring Waltech's websites
and social media quote to assess tone, historical framing, and
alignment with American ideals, or.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Just leave it out.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Just tell me when the Tyrannosaurus lived, what at ate,
how tall it was. You don't need to work in
climate change or something like that. Yeah, that's a particularly
regious example.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But a lot of it is socio political, which climate
change is, I guess. But a lot of it, like
at the American History Museum or a handful of others
is directly designed to counter and defeat the traditional telling
of the American story and supplant it with Howard's and
(29:23):
Marxism stuff. Excuse me, it's incredibly egregious at the history museums,
the White House that it's reviewed. Quote aims to ensure
alignment with the presidents directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove
divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared
cultural institutions. It adds that the goal is not to
interfere with the day to day operations of curators or staff,
(29:45):
but rather to support a broad vision of excellence that
highlights historically accurate, uplifting, and inclusive portrayals of Americans America's
heritage debate over which, of course, is being portrayed in
the exact same way of im, I'm going to put
some porn in the schools, and then you come along
and say, I don't think there ought to be porn
(30:06):
in the schools. You need to take that out.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
You're a book banner and a book burner and a fascist.
It's forbidden books week read some porn anyway. The left,
the left which put all of this postmodern Marxist rhetoric
in all the museums is now saying, oh, this is terrible.
(30:28):
We've been doing a great job. This is a fascism
blah blah blah. No, this is a great, great effort,
and I support them one hundred percent. So coming up,
what your reaction to Taylor Swift being on the Kelsey
Brothers podcast says about your personality which I just made
up in my own head.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We'll play a little bit of that and discuss it,
among other things. Stay here can you do? Drummer?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Last track track twelve, the title track The Life of
a show Girl featuring Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
That's a lot of exuberation from a couple of NFL
football players. With Taylor Swift on the podcast of the
Kelsey Brothers announcing track by track, I guess what her
new album is and who's on who else is playing
on each track. She also announced this what she is
very excited about.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
She was like, you got you got your music, and
I just like very dramatically hit the floor for real,
like honestly just started a long time bawling my eyes
out and I'm just like just weeping.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
She got her albums back, So with all kinds of
disputes over copyrights and who owns what and everything like
that she didn't own her like what first six albums
of her life am off, like a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Of creative artists do. And she bought them back, finally
made a deal.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, somehow she got them back, and she talked about
how she cried and Travis cried.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I don't know, I saw.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I saw chunks of this, and I just think it's interesting,
the phenomenon on needing to hate on various things. Like
I try not to like things just because they're popular,
or hate things just because they're popular. I try to
just either like it or not like it, based on
whether I like it or not like it, which seems
like a better way to go. But I know there's
(32:30):
there's a chunk of people that gotta hate on Taylor
Swift and the whole Travis Kelsey thing. And I listened
to part of that and I thought, Okay, they seem
like a young couple, like in love, and the two
brothers seem like they're really good friends. And you know,
it's not my cup of tea to listen to the
topic matter, but it doesn't make me angry or I
(32:50):
don't need to hate it.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I just I'm just going to.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
You're better than all of us, Saint Jack, congratulations. People
are sick of hearing about it, which then kind of
leeches over into it. Seems like they hate They're probably
indifferent to Taylor Swift. They hate the hype. They hate
the game, not the play man. To quote Taylor Swift,
(33:16):
to quote Way to quote Taylor Swift as you take
her down, that's very clever.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I'm quoting popular culture.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I think anyway, if I did, it was an accident,
and I apologize for it, please. I was pretty surprised
at how into it the Kelsey brothers seem to be.
I mean, Travis has to at least pretend he cares
which crown Molding may get for the living room because
(33:43):
it's his girlfriend. But I was surprised his brother was
so into track by track. What was on each song
of the album?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I can't speak for
those lads. It's funny. I think of them as grizzled
veterans of the NFL, but they're both what their thirties.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, there's also the and I try not to do
this either, because this is a real natural human emotion.
That I have to fight hard to want to hate him,
because they're really good looking, really rich, and really happy.
And if you're you know, at that particular moment, none
of those three that can roll be the wrong way,
just for all kinds of human emotion reasons, which is
(34:21):
not healthy either, because they are very good looking, very rich,
and very happy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
With themselves and everyone knows it, and everyone knows it.
Right again, it's not I don't think it's the particulars
as much as the hype that people the fact that
it makes the CBS Evening News well, the fact that
I have zero interest in the story and I've heard
about it twelve times on my own show. That's the
sort of thing people get a little worn out.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Can you name a and this this makes your point?
Can you name ash show? I don't care if it's
about gardening that hasn't mentioned this in the.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Last my show. If I had my way.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Would have completely it would have been a hypothetical, would
have been a black hole of Kelsey tra Taylor Swift stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
It's it's fine. If the music makes you happy, listen
to it. If it doesn't, don't, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
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