March 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump talks to Putin today & Israel attacks Gaza
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty Armstrong and
Jettie and keep arms wrong get the Frum studio C
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signor they are in a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You put them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Communications Compound on a war footing. And today we're under
the tutlage of our general manager, Donald J. Trump and
Vladimir Putin on the phone. I wonder if they're going
to catch up first before they get down the business.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's nice to hear your voice so flat.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You how you hear many wives foot older?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Your ex wife's other fun? Wow? How's your bracket looking? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I mentioned war footing because of the bombing in
Israel overnight. So you got that going on too, which
is not directly Donald Trump's delio, but I'm sure he's
keeping an eye on it. And then he's on the
phone with Putin as we speak, at least in theory.
Last time they talked for ninety minutes, so it could
be a while before the world gets any news out
of how that phone call went. The I was reading
(01:34):
Ian Bremer's stuff last night. He's a guy that takes
a look at the world.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That's his job. Brief description. But yeah's accurate enough.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, And he said, this is easily the most consequential
phone call thus far of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And you know, a lot on the line. So we'll
see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And so man, being president be something, I mean, just
for anybody. You're gonna be on the phone for Putin
for however long, making some really serious like historic decisions,
and then probably within in a couple of hours, be
on the phone with bb Net and Yahoo who's bombing
the by Jesus out Igaza and uh and you know,
(02:15):
dealing with that and then the ramifications there.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
If it were only the trade stuff that has been
much discussed these days, that would be pressure enough, stress enough,
complexity enough, I think for any one human being.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I do notice that.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And I since most people listen to this show are
kind of into the news, you're probably aware that Israel
started bombing the Palestinians were humas again yesterday. It is
the Palestinians according to the mainstream media. I noticed the
mainstream media, man ay, there is there is there is
no hedging on this whatsoever. Immediately jumped into the how
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many people have died according to the Health Ministry, many
of them children.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I mean this, Israel launches deadly attacks, was the headline
in the New York Times. Most attacks in war are
that's kind of the idea.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Right, And then quoting the enemy for how many people
die and taking.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Their word for how many of them are children? It's
just insane.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, it went from It was criticized to do that.
Even Joe Biden himself criticized it. You can't take their
word for it, he once said, but got so much pushback,
and now all mainstream media goes with their numbers. According
to Hitler, this many German children have been killed in
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Allied bombing and then you report.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That as you imagine. No, it's nuts, right.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I kept coming across the phrase the peace talks, specifically
the talks over the next phase of the peace process
had stalled. And there are days I feel like I'm
in the midst of the Emperor's new clothes and everybody
around me is walking around saying.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Oh, the Emperor has a two state solution. Oh we
love your two state solution, mister emperor. And anybody with
any sanity is saying, let's see, let's check with the mass.
Are you still vowing to wipe Israel off the face
of the map the first chance you get?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes? Check.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Are you still vowing to wipe out the Jews and
when you're done with them the Christians the moment you
have the opportunity, Yes, So explain to me again the
two states of solution and how that's going to work?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Are you fantasy? Last?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Are you still doing mocking touchdown dance celebrations when you
hand over dead bodies you once claimed we're alive, sometimes
not even the actual body.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The talks have stalled, Jack, So it all ties together?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Or should.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Trump bombing the crap out of the houthies and now
Israel Obama the crap out of Hamas it's all about
Iran and so Trump said this in a Truth Social
post late last night. Every shot fired by the houthies
will be looked upon from this point forward as being
a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran
in all capitals, and Iran in capital letters will be
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held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will
be dire, he wrote on Truth Social. So it's all
tied together Huthis and Hamas. It's all about, hey, Ran,
get your act together. Finally we'll see, finally, a little leadership.
This violence, I believe will end much of the violence.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Not immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It depends on which specific you're talking about, but the
whole don't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And if you do, oh well we won't do much.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We saw what that got us. Let's try something different.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Please. Well.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Politically, what's interesting is I don't know how much of
Trump's bases the Tucker Carlson crowd don't. I really don't know.
I don't know if it's one percent or twenty percent.
I wish I had a better handle on that. But
Tucker Carlson tweeted out yesterday, it's worth pointing out that
a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly
result in thousands of American deaths at Bay throughout the
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Middle East and cost the United States tens of billions
of dollars the cost of future acts of terrorism on
American soil, maybe even higher. Those aren't guesses, those are
the Pentagon's own estimates, says Tucker Carlson. A bombing campaign
against Iran will set off a war, and it will
be America's war. Don't let the propagandists lie to you.
And that was repeated by n Coulter and Candae Owens
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and a variety of people out there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Sure, I think at least some of that is probably true.
All right, Tucker, Now do if we continue to withdraw
from the strategic parts of the world a la Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What's it going to be like that? How many people
will tie? Then?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, as the evildoers of the world are empowered, go ahead,
do that one now.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
When I read that from Tucker Carlson, I was actually
thinking we at some point, and this is grim, I realize,
and easy to say when it's not you or your kid.
My brother's no longer active military, but I'd be saying
the same thing if he was still active in going
into the Middle East. At some point, the United States
is going to have a return to reality and history
(07:05):
with wars where you lose thousands of people and it's
not like you immediately pull out of the country because
you lost people, because that's the way wars were.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, that's going to happen at some point.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I don't want it to happen, but it's inevitable, especially
with Russia and China continuing to push, at some point
we're actually going to have to fight and take losses
and have to overcome them politically, not just you know,
just not just strategically.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
The fantasy that you can stop pushing outward, and I
don't mean like geographically or spreading yourself centner and it
cinner and a cinner, I mean being willing to project power.
The fantasy that if you lose that willingness there will
be peace is so incredibly foolish. And there's some very
very intelligent people pushing it, and I'm a little mystified
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as to their thinking what they think will happen next.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
This could end up being a big political rupture, definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, yeah, Well, political ruptures seem to be the norm
right now, and our delights loping clip will illustrate in
a moment. And I have a theory as to why,
and it's a good one. It's a solid one.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Okay, So let's start the show officially, Why the heck not?
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Tuesday, Oh,
the day after Saint Patrick's Day. Oh, feeling a little
green today? You're twenty twenty five. We are armstrong in
getting we approved of this program. Second day of green,
no extra charge, as it turns out.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, all right, let's begin officially according to FCC rules
and regulations.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Here we go leaping into action.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
At mark poll numbers for Democrats, only twenty seven percent
of voters have a positive view of the party, the
lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC's polling.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You're a twenty seven person.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
You've got to get Trump to lose eight points of
poppy hilarity just for you to get to the point
where you're thirteen points below him. Your approval is only
seven points above where it turns red and goes into
low power mode.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's John start talking about the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Democrats approval rating which is historically low right now, of course,
as so as the Republicans. It's just not as low
as the Democrats. People are not into their big parties
right now. No, indeed, and.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Honestly, the worst thing you can possibly do for your
approval rating generally is get power and be in charge
the opposition party has it, cush Man, That is the
way to be. You just howl about whoever's doing what
in office, and you promise your followers that when you
get office, by God, you will bring the paradise we've
(09:53):
all expected and deserved.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You know what. It's kind of like, kind of like
being a non parent.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You can really hang on to your beliefs of how
you would raise it right, or what they're probably doing
wrong to cause that kid to act that way.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Right exactly, You're the smug military officer back at headquarters
explaining how the battle ought to be going.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, Uh so, we got Katie's headlines on
the way, We've got some mail bag, we'll get some
more news of the day, and man, as soon as
any information comes out of that Trump Putin phone call,
I'm interested in that. But he has not allowed readoubts
of a lot of these calls with Putin in sort
of the typical way like if you know, if you're
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on the phone with Macron or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And I've found Trump's strategy so far to be kind
of mystifying. And that speaks to the fact that he's
keeping his cards close to his vest, and I suspect
he will continue to do so after the call, So
I don't expect much enlightenment.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Wow, Okay, Well, that's disappointing anyway, disappointment on the way.
Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFDC.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So we haven't been covering this story at all. I'm
not interested in bringing you up to speed.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
If you if you don't know what I'm talking about,
just wait thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It'll be over.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But the parents of that missing college student want her
declared dead?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
What is that all about?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And a video came out yesterday of her puking by
the hotel.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Probably has to do with Dominican law and whether they
can hold the the quote unquote witness that they've been questioning.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Is your best guess that she was hammered, drunk, went
in the water, got swept out to see.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, maybe or maybe the two chance is involved. I
don't know. It's hard.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You get a couple of drunk people in the wee
hours on the beach, in the water, nobody around is
like four in the morning, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it
could be very very difficult to determine whatever happened. But yeah,
so there is so much I want to get to today.
Got a great Gender Benning Madness update, an explainer or
two about kind of complicated stories going on in the
(12:02):
news that are mystifying, and I've taken a little time
to boil them down to the essence, including the shipping
the gang members off to El Salvador and did the
Trump administration defy and order stuff. It's actually pretty interesting
when you get past the half wit news anchors and
various administration people yelling at each other. So hope you
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can stay tuned. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Thank you, guys, starting with the Washington Post. More than
four hundred killed as Israel strikes Gaza, breaking ceasefire with Hamas.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, I don't like that wording. What's that? From the
well to the Washington Posts.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Don't like that at all? Breaking the ceasefire. Gaza broke
the ceasefire problem, not Gaza. Hamas broke the ceasefire by
not agreeing to their end of it, which was returning
hostages on time right.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They had no intention of furthering the negotiations.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Israel knew it. And then now it's time to get back.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
To the war.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And as we already stated, that death number you're going
is the enemy's death number.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
From the Free Beacon Columbia declined.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
To investigate swastika's sprawled throughout the Hamilton Hall because they
were written in shock and could be erased.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The hypocrisy and double standard of these walk institutions, including universities,
are hilarious and more people ought to be aware of it.
You go through lists of who got canceled for what,
and then who got excused for Well, they were young
and impressionable and made a mistake. It is exactly divided
by your politics.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
From Politico, Trump Nixon's Secret Service protection for Hunter and
Ashley Biden details totally about thirty agents to protect the
president's adult children.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, the Secret Service guys would be in too much
danger from old drug dealer and art dealer people who
are angry at Hunter.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
So Hunter Biden was he going to get Secret Service
protection for the rest of his life?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I paid for us.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Bios for the next six months.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh, okay, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's only required through age sixteen, I heard, which is interesting.
It was literally it's granted if needed.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Okay. From NBC.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
After nine months in space, NASA astronauts who flew on
Boeing's capsule are on their way home.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Rescued by whose company m They don't want to say.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I believe that's accurate from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
We are turning too many people into medical patients. They're saying,
this is the swift rise for diagnosis for everything.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I pass through the journal every day. I missed that one.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I have some really interesting stuff on xanax nation, but I'll.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Have to seek that out. Yeah, I would like to.
I would like to read that. Also.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It reminds me of my doctor's saying to me a
while back, what are we trying to do here? We
got into the conversation about keeping people alive longer, but
you're not really dig in life, were able to do much,
and the doctor saying.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What is our goal here?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I am not like full on wound up about big
pharma like some people are. On the other hand, where
there is enormous profit, there are perverse incentives to turn
you into a medical case or treat you or druggy
or whatever. There's a hell of a lot of money
to be made from CBS.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Sports next heat game delayed after comedian Tracy Morgan appears
to vomit on Madison Square Garden Court.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I didn't feel good.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It did not appear.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
He absolutely did vomit. Yeah, he peered.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, maybe he saw the video of the guy in
the Bronx eating the rat. Heard about that. More on
that lane, Liz Lemon, I need to book it from Breitbart.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Hilaria Baldwin defends her Spanish accent as quote code switching.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Man, that's what it is saying. They mean to me,
it is in a different way.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's I'm code switching to somebody more exotic and interesting
for the media.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Now I'm code switching back to my actual accent. Right,
I am how you say? A Sony.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
From the Daily Mail, Little People rally outside of Disney's
studio in protest of Snow White remake amid outrage over
decision to replace them with CGI.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Right, I missed this story. Somehow we got to get
into this. So Okay, old Dinklage, Dinkleman, whatever his name,
and the most famous small person in the world. He
is involved in this and now know Little People and
now CGI and something.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh, that's that's just one.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
That's one of the dwarfs of outrage being directed at.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This terrible movie.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Okay, and finally, the Babylon Bee, single woman constantly stressed
with no man around to tell her to relax.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, a multi layer joke. Relax, relax, hey smile, Oh
you're trying today, No kidding, it's so.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Cold of there. We got holding the news. Joe mentioned
a bunch of other stuff on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty. What's next?
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Another flight, another flight? Every day. The teams and teams
are going to be out there every day, every day.
The men and women of ICE are going to be
in the neighborhoods of this nation, arresting criminal, illegal alien,
public state they thrusts and National security thrust. Laurence, you're
not going to stop us. I'm probably be a part
of this administration. We're not stopping. I don't care what
the judges think. I don't care the left tanks.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
We're coming as old wholemaner likes a booting out ofllegals
in We'll be talking more about that later. And man
it it polls well too, So that's tough if you're
the party that's trying to be against that, because it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Bowls really well.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Also have the latest on the snow White and the
seven CGI Dwarves story, which here's controversy around. Usually controversy
like this is completely bogus, and it's just to let
you know there's a new movie out. This is real
because of wolfism. So we'll get into that maybe an
hour or two.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Although my only comment, because we will discuss it next hour,
is that if that were the only problem with this
steaming pile of non entertainment, but my god, the organist.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Has gone wild. Sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I believe it's a drug problem anyway. You know, musicians
are you know, please where was it?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yes, if that were the only problem this steaming pile
of non entertainment had, well that would be something, but no,
they wish that there was a real dwarf controversy because
then people might actually want to see it. But more
to come on that. A lot of people talking about tariffs,
a lot of headlines these days. Fever pitch has always
because Donald Jay is involved, and I and Jack have
(19:03):
also at times said we wish Trump was being a
little more explicit on what he's trying to accomplish, what
the goal is and why it's good for America. And
there's been some information on we got to bring manufacturing
back and that sort of thing, and I think everybody's
in favor of that. As long as you know the
means of getting there aren't too insane. But I've been
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surprised he hasn't done a Reaganesque speech. And I don't
mean just Reaganesque generally, but Reagan at the beginning of
his first term, when inflation was rampant, he went before
the nation and he said, look, here's my plan. It's
going to be rough in the short term, but we're
going to squash inflation and then things are going to
be rosy.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And a lot of America believed them.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
And he did it and it worked out almost precisely
the way he said. And I've just kind of been
waiting for Trump to do that, well, you know, in
a more here's a speech kind of way. I mean,
he talks to the American people every day, multiply interesting way.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, so both I was reading in The New York
Times last night, both Tom Friedman and David Sanger, two
of their more respected journalists, and for different reasons on
different topics, but both of them were talking about how
Trump has been the most disruptive and disruptive is not
always a negative word, but have been the most disruptive
president in eighty years. I mean since World War Two
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in the first fifty days. Would you agree with that
or not? Oh yeah, wow, most president in eighty years.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
If he's not number one, he's tied for it. That's true.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I mean, yeah, even if I'm going to quibble that,
you have to be in be in that top couple.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Absolutely, top tier. Sure.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
So the reception being, Hey, the World War Two, let's
cruise along, this is going great, the post World War
Two cruise along.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Everything's going great.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Period looks like it's coming to an end, and we
ought to be a little proactive. Well, right, So that
was the Ross doth Fat column that I read from
the New York Times. Also, he's a conservative leaning gentlemen.
His whole column was all about these things were already true.
Trump's just recognizing they're truer saying it out loud. The
economy is different, the world order is different. These things
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were already real, and he's just like.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Leaning into it. So this is an interesting take.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Right, Yeah, indeed, and there's a lot of truth to it.
I think, you know, some of the means they're going
about to do this stuff. I think he's a little
ham handed, and maybe the communications not great, but you know,
they'll work that out anyway. The folks involved in the
tariff policy discussion, I think are aware of people like
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me saying, what are you guys doing? And so they're
starting to talk to reporters and or whether on the
record or off the record, and leaking and that sort
of thing. And the strategy is becoming more clear. And
the Journal has a piece They've got four guys working
on this, and they're talking about some of the negotiations
that have been going on behind the scenes, which really
help illuminate what they're trying to do. Officials have recently
(22:03):
weighed whether to simplify the complex tax task rather of
devising new teriff rates for our hundreds of trading partners,
by sorting the countries into one of three tariff tiers.
You know, fair countries that are good friends, kind of
medium countries, and countries that are sticking us with tariffs,
or I gotta stick family tariffs and try to sort
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them out. They later ruled out that proposal because they're
still trying to sort out how to implement the rates
and how to figure out who's who and so, and
Trump has told them that the folks working on this,
that you've got like till it's April second to come
up with your plan, and so they're scrambling like crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
But the goal of all of this.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Is to get to a much more reciprocal world where
all right, just to pick out, you know, Germany, if
you're going to impose a tariff on our fine automobiles
at thirty percent, well your BMW's and nowadis and VW's,
we're gonna hit you with.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
The same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And by the way, which which I think is completely defensible,
because speaking of the post WW two era, when America
stood astride the manufacturing old world like a colossus.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Europe was in ruins.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Asia was either in ruins or living in huts, right,
I mean, we'd say, all right, yeah, you can put
a twenty percent tariff on our stuff so you can
get your industry up and run in and we didn't care.
But that that period is over now. So anyway, they're
trying to get to reciprocal tariffs. You tax us thirty percent,
we tax you at thirty percent. Oh you don't want that,
Well how about we go with something low and reasonable.
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So they're trying to figure out how to get there.
It's going to be a Rocky Ride. And complicating all
this is these countries are not stupid, so you have
even like a Germany for instance, as long as we're
talking about them, and China is doing the same thing.
But let's put China over there because there are mortal enemy.
But Germany's saying, oh, oh yeah, you get to thirty
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percent on German cars now, but only ten percent in
Mexico because of the free trade agreement Trump himself negotiated.
So Galigi, we're setting up a plant now in Mexico
with the same effective situation of our cars are way
cheaper to sell in the US than your cars are
to sell in Germany. And where are we going to
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set up a plant that Germany doesn't have a Mexico,
so we're at a disadvantage. So again that's joy over
the day. Germany doesn't have a Mexico. They need a Mexico.
Doesn't everybody need a Mexico. Evidently, jd Vance has taken
a big role now in the trade agenda development and
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has been hosting some of the hours long meetings at
the Naval Observatory, which is for some reason where the
Vice President lives in Washington.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
But it makes more sense to me, now interesting, but it's.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
So complicated because again, okay, so we're super great buddies
with the l Salvador or England or whatever, and you
figure that out as China, you think, ok, we'll just
manufacture there, We'll send our crap through there because they
don't have a high terriff on us, and then the
US ends up not getting their tariff. So it's it's
tough stuff anyway. So I think that's what they're they're
(25:27):
working on.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Following up on the other thing we were talking about
earlier in the hour, and so Trump bombs the heck
out of the Hoot, these Israel bombs the heck out
of Hamas. Those are both Iranian backed groups. It's basically,
you know, part of the proxy war with Iran. And
Trump has threatened in the last couple of weeks that
(25:48):
Iran needs to, you know, make a deal. He sent
a letter to the Ietola you need to make a
deal on this whole Iranian nuclear program you've got, or
we're gonna take it out and it's going to be
really bad for you. And Iran has not responded. And
then I so I mentioned that Tucker Carlson, who's got
millions and millions of followers, and not just like literal
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actual follower his Twitter account and his website, but people
in that ideology. We got this text Tucker was on
with Bongino's replacement yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
And Tucker said, Pakistan has nuclear weapons. North Korea has
nuclear weapons. I don't want Iran to get nukes, but
those other countries have nukes. So I guess suggesting letting
Iran get a nuclear weapon would be better than military
action with them that could turn into an actual war,
which I do not agree with.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But no, particularly because well, Pakistan's a wobbler. I was
going to say, North Korea isn't run by religious fanatics
who are bent on bending the war to Allah's will.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Your average Presbyterian in the US, or I'm not religious,
I'm spiritual. They can't conceive of what a religious fundamentalist,
how he sees the world raised from you when you're
a baby. To believe that Islam should rule the entire
world and anywhere it doesn't is a humiliation to God Almighty.
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And it is your sacred duty to spend every day
of your life to to take care of that and
spread Islam and make Islam the government of all of
the earth. They don't they don't get that.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
This is just like solidified in my mind in the
last dozen hours or so, and then I will get
off this. But and I know I'm going to be
accused of being a neo khan or chickenhawk or all
those sorts of terms for a neo hawk, an chicken khan,
a chicken con which is the worst. God help you
if one moves in next door to you.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Similar to the topic of recognizing reality in a certain
in a bunch of different areas, the economics, world order
are different stuff. We might have to realize that the
we're gonna have to fight some of the bad people.
We're gonna have to fight some of the bad people,
actually engage with them, lose people, and fight them and win.
That's going to have to happen like has always happened
throughout history and.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Were carefully and judiciously and never for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
We haven't really done that in a long time, right, right,
But that I think that's coming, and it would be
really obviously somewhat ironic. Is as often the cases with
a case when people get elected president. Very sort of
thing that they ran on ends up being in their
lap and they have to make some decisions that he
wanted to make. Trump, who ran a lot on, you know,
getting this out of wars, and all these di's say
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he might have to be more engaged as a war
president than any we've had in a long time. Quite possibly,
that has happened so many times in history.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's the George W. Bush story.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, though he took it way too far and lost
his mind in my opinion. But anyway, my grand unifying
theory on why both parties are so divided and how
everything's crumbling.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Next hour, cool, hopey, say.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
We'll get into the dwarf controversy CGI dwarves taking jobs
away from little people.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Cruel, absolutely cruel.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm working on the headline little Men, Big controversy. Oh wow,
it's a little heavy hand of the little men.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, it's Some of the quotes are something Joe's got
mailbag on the waisty here, Trump and Putin are on
the phone.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Are they carving up Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Making a deal without Ukraine being involved in the conversation
at home?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Might be anyway as soon as details leak out. We'll
have them for you.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Got a lot to come next hour, indeed, including a
freedom loving Quote of the day bassetball addition at least partly,
I'm sorry, a gender bending Madness update basketball edition partly.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Now it's time for the freedom loving Quote of the bit.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Somebody really needs to write this on a whiteboard in
front of me. I need Q cards like I'm on
Saturday Night Live. This is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sent along
by anonymous person interrupting our series of Teddy Roosevelt quotes.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Just for the day.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I'll give you the short version, Jack, Can you tell
me if you want the longer version? Stupidity is a
more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
One may protest against evil.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It can be exposed, and if need be prevented by
use of force. Against stupidity, we are defenseless.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That's pretty good. That is pretty good. I'll read you
a little more.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I've been reading, been meeting to read more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I just never get around to it.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion,
in that it leaves behind in human beings, at least
a sense of unease against stupidity. We are defenseless. Neither
protests nor the use of accomplish anything. Here reason falls
on deaf ears. Facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need
not be believed. In such moments, the stupid person even becomes critical,
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and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as, inconsequential,
as incidental and all this. The stupid person, in contrast
to the malicious one, is utterly satisfied and being easily irritated,
becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason,
greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid
person than with a malicious one.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That'd be my life experience.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That is one of the greatest breakdowns in dealing with
a stupid person I've ever come across.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Mail Bag drop us a note.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Mail Bag at armstrong in getty dot com is the
email address mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com.
Data on the topic of Americans used to be much
more mobile, and there was a big giant moving day
once a year.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
If you didn't hear.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
It, it was our three of yesterday's show. Grab it
via podcast Armstrong in Getty on demand Data says I
was one hundred percent agreement with you about people just
picking up and moving and how great that was to
chase where the opportunities are the way we used to.
But it dawned on me that most households are made
up to working people. Only one of those people has
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lost their job. Makes it harder to pick up and move.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Wow, very wise, perception of being definitely degrees more difficult.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Because of the length of the piece we're discussing yesterday,
I left that out. The author did point that out,
and also that in divorced couples, child custody agreements make
it much harder to pick.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Up it right, right, So the complexity of.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The modern world has definitely hurt our ability to find opportunity.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Wherever it lies, no doubt. Wow, rich and beautiful green
organ rites.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
In fact, well, yeah, picking up and leaving when you
got two careers that have to the in the same
location start over again at the same time, it's a
pretty daunting task.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It is very complicated.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, guys, how can we hear little about SpaceX rescuing
these stranded astronauts. The ten day mission turns into nine months.
The government can't get them. I would point out the
Boeing folks floundered Elon to the rescue, but the media
barely mentions it. Yeah, well that's because he's a bad guy.
Now he's evil, He's evil. Mfaae my favorite African American
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Elon rich and Oregon.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I don't know if I'm supposed to sing this, but
another Jay in San Jose writes on the sixth level
of chess Trump gave to US. Iran nukes are part
of the Russian deal. It's all part of that giant
Omni deal Russia, China, Iran, god arafs.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I play.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
I play one dimensional chess with my son, and I
have lost eight times in a row.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Now eight times in a row. Wow, the student has
become the master. The master needs to up his game. See,
I still call the Knight the Horsey. So I don't
get any game currently. Concentration is my biggest foe. I
just I space out and then I make mistakes. Yeah,
tell me about it. Magnus and Tucson writes, aquifer depletion
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dust bowl. I remember hearing that we're depleting all the
water in the aquifers in the Midwest, the West too,
and when it's gone there will be a Midwest dust
bowl for decades. Yeah, the climate change stuff is way overblown.
It's a profit center for green new scammers. The pumping
out the aquifers too fast stuff. I have talked to
people who are completely responsible, saying, people who point out
(34:31):
that just means underground water. Essentially, we're pumping it out
way faster than nature. Then nature can replenish it, and
we're making a serious mistake.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I believe that to be true.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, dust storms that are causing fifty car pile ups
in the Midwest that hasn't been around for a long time.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
And then this, I don't think we have time. We'll
just start it and we'll finish it off next hour.
But Eric, frequent correspondent guy it writes guys, because accuracy
is your hallmark, I am compelled to respond to John
from Kansas, who suggested yesterday's mail bag that the term
woman is derived from the Old English womb plus man
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to mean woman. Well, this makes for a good story,
I'm afraid is not supported by the literature. Yeah, even
as I said it, I knew this is you know,
it's it's disputed. All these things are other Oh yeah, absolutely,
I won't dispute that. The other possible explanations where the
term woman came from coming up next hour.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Okay, and if you miss a segment, get the podcast
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty Armstrong and
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signor they are in a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You put them the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Communications Compound on a war footing. And today we're under
the tutlage of our general manager, Donald J. Trump and
Vladimir Putin on the phone. I wonder if they're going
to catch up first before they get down the business.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's nice to hear your voice so flat.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You how you hear many wives foot older?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Your ex wife's other fun? Wow? How's your bracket looking? Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I mentioned war footing because of the bombing in
Israel overnight. So you got that going on too, which
is not directly Donald Trump's delio, but I'm sure he's
keeping an eye on it. And then he's on the
phone with Putin as we speak, at least in theory.
Last time they talked for ninety minutes, so it could
be a while before the world gets any news out
of how that phone call went. The I was reading
(01:34):
Ian Bremer's stuff last night. He's a guy that takes
a look at the world.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That's his job. Brief description. But yeah's accurate enough.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, And he said, this is easily the most consequential
phone call thus far of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And you know, a lot on the line. So we'll
see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And so man, being president be something, I mean, just
for anybody. You're gonna be on the phone for Putin
for however long, making some really serious like historic decisions,
and then probably within in a couple of hours, be
on the phone with bb Net and Yahoo who's bombing
the by Jesus out Igaza and uh and you know,
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dealing with that and then the ramifications there.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
If it were only the trade stuff that has been
much discussed these days, that would be pressure enough, stress enough,
complexity enough, I think for any one human being.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I do notice that.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And I since most people listen to this show are
kind of into the news, you're probably aware that Israel
started bombing the Palestinians were humas again yesterday. It is
the Palestinians according to the mainstream media. I noticed the
mainstream media, man ay, there is there is there is
no hedging on this whatsoever. Immediately jumped into the how
(02:50):
many people have died according to the Health Ministry, many
of them children.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I mean this, Israel launches deadly attacks, was the headline
in the New York Times. Most attacks in war are
that's kind of the idea.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Right, And then quoting the enemy for how many people
die and taking.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Their word for how many of them are children? It's
just insane.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, it went from It was criticized to do that.
Even Joe Biden himself criticized it. You can't take their
word for it, he once said, but got so much pushback,
and now all mainstream media goes with their numbers. According
to Hitler, this many German children have been killed in
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Allied bombing and then you report.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That as you imagine. No, it's nuts, right.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I kept coming across the phrase the peace talks, specifically
the talks over the next phase of the peace process
had stalled. And there are days I feel like I'm
in the midst of the Emperor's new clothes and everybody
around me is walking around saying.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Oh, the Emperor has a two state solution. Oh we
love your two state solution, mister emperor. And anybody with
any sanity is saying, let's see, let's check with the mass.
Are you still vowing to wipe Israel off the face
of the map the first chance you get?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes? Check.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Are you still vowing to wipe out the Jews and
when you're done with them the Christians the moment you
have the opportunity, Yes, So explain to me again the
two states of solution and how that's going to work?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Are you fantasy? Last?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Are you still doing mocking touchdown dance celebrations when you
hand over dead bodies you once claimed we're alive, sometimes
not even the actual body.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The talks have stalled, Jack, So it all ties together?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Or should.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Trump bombing the crap out of the houthies and now
Israel Obama the crap out of Hamas it's all about
Iran and so Trump said this in a Truth Social
post late last night. Every shot fired by the houthies
will be looked upon from this point forward as being
a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran
in all capitals, and Iran in capital letters will be
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held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will
be dire, he wrote on Truth Social. So it's all
tied together Huthis and Hamas. It's all about, hey, Ran,
get your act together. Finally we'll see, finally, a little leadership.
This violence, I believe will end much of the violence.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Not immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It depends on which specific you're talking about, but the
whole don't.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And if you do, oh well we won't do much.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We saw what that got us. Let's try something different.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Please. Well.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Politically, what's interesting is I don't know how much of
Trump's bases the Tucker Carlson crowd don't. I really don't know.
I don't know if it's one percent or twenty percent.
I wish I had a better handle on that. But
Tucker Carlson tweeted out yesterday, it's worth pointing out that
a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly
result in thousands of American deaths at Bay throughout the
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Middle East and cost the United States tens of billions
of dollars the cost of future acts of terrorism on
American soil, maybe even higher. Those aren't guesses, those are
the Pentagon's own estimates, says Tucker Carlson. A bombing campaign
against Iran will set off a war, and it will
be America's war. Don't let the propagandists lie to you.
And that was repeated by n Coulter and Candae Owens
(06:23):
and a variety of people out there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Sure, I think at least some of that is probably true.
All right, Tucker, Now do if we continue to withdraw
from the strategic parts of the world a la Joe Biden?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What's it going to be like that? How many people
will tie? Then?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, as the evildoers of the world are empowered, go ahead,
do that one now.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
When I read that from Tucker Carlson, I was actually
thinking we at some point, and this is grim, I realize,
and easy to say when it's not you or your kid.
My brother's no longer active military, but I'd be saying
the same thing if he was still active in going
into the Middle East. At some point, the United States
is going to have a return to reality and history
(07:05):
with wars where you lose thousands of people and it's
not like you immediately pull out of the country because
you lost people, because that's the way wars were.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, that's going to happen at some point.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I don't want it to happen, but it's inevitable, especially
with Russia and China continuing to push, at some point
we're actually going to have to fight and take losses
and have to overcome them politically, not just you know,
just not just strategically.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
The fantasy that you can stop pushing outward, and I
don't mean like geographically or spreading yourself centner and it
cinner and a cinner, I mean being willing to project power.
The fantasy that if you lose that willingness there will
be peace is so incredibly foolish. And there's some very
very intelligent people pushing it, and I'm a little mystified
(07:58):
as to their thinking what they think will happen next.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
This could end up being a big political rupture, definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, yeah, Well, political ruptures seem to be the norm
right now, and our delights loping clip will illustrate in
a moment. And I have a theory as to why,
and it's a good one. It's a solid one.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Okay, So let's start the show officially, Why the heck not?
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Tuesday, Oh,
the day after Saint Patrick's Day. Oh, feeling a little
green today? You're twenty twenty five. We are armstrong in
getting we approved of this program. Second day of green,
no extra charge, as it turns out.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, all right, let's begin officially according to FCC rules
and regulations.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Here we go leaping into action.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
At mark poll numbers for Democrats, only twenty seven percent
of voters have a positive view of the party, the
lowest favorability rating in the history of NBC's polling.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You're a twenty seven person.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
You've got to get Trump to lose eight points of
poppy hilarity just for you to get to the point
where you're thirteen points below him. Your approval is only
seven points above where it turns red and goes into
low power mode.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That's John start talking about the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Democrats approval rating which is historically low right now, of course,
as so as the Republicans. It's just not as low
as the Democrats. People are not into their big parties
right now. No, indeed, and.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Honestly, the worst thing you can possibly do for your
approval rating generally is get power and be in charge
the opposition party has it, cush Man, That is the
way to be. You just howl about whoever's doing what
in office, and you promise your followers that when you
get office, by God, you will bring the paradise we've
(09:53):
all expected and deserved.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You know what. It's kind of like, kind of like
being a non parent.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You can really hang on to your beliefs of how
you would raise it right, or what they're probably doing
wrong to cause that kid to act that way.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Right exactly, You're the smug military officer back at headquarters
explaining how the battle ought to be going.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, Uh so, we got Katie's headlines on
the way, We've got some mail bag, we'll get some
more news of the day, and man, as soon as
any information comes out of that Trump Putin phone call,
I'm interested in that. But he has not allowed readoubts
of a lot of these calls with Putin in sort
of the typical way like if you know, if you're
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on the phone with Macron or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And I've found Trump's strategy so far to be kind
of mystifying. And that speaks to the fact that he's
keeping his cards close to his vest, and I suspect
he will continue to do so after the call, So
I don't expect much enlightenment.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Wow, Okay, Well, that's disappointing anyway, disappointment on the way.
Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFDC.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So we haven't been covering this story at all. I'm
not interested in bringing you up to speed.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
If you if you don't know what I'm talking about,
just wait thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It'll be over.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But the parents of that missing college student want her
declared dead?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
What is that all about?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And a video came out yesterday of her puking by
the hotel.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Probably has to do with Dominican law and whether they
can hold the the quote unquote witness that they've been questioning.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Is your best guess that she was hammered, drunk, went
in the water, got swept out to see.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, maybe or maybe the two chance is involved. I
don't know. It's hard.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You get a couple of drunk people in the wee
hours on the beach, in the water, nobody around is
like four in the morning, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it
could be very very difficult to determine whatever happened. But yeah,
so there is so much I want to get to today.
Got a great Gender Benning Madness update, an explainer or
two about kind of complicated stories going on in the
(12:02):
news that are mystifying, and I've taken a little time
to boil them down to the essence, including the shipping
the gang members off to El Salvador and did the
Trump administration defy and order stuff. It's actually pretty interesting
when you get past the half wit news anchors and
various administration people yelling at each other. So hope you
(12:23):
can stay tuned. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
the lead story with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Thank you, guys, starting with the Washington Post. More than
four hundred killed as Israel strikes Gaza, breaking ceasefire with Hamas.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, I don't like that wording. What's that? From the
well to the Washington Posts.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Don't like that at all? Breaking the ceasefire. Gaza broke
the ceasefire problem, not Gaza. Hamas broke the ceasefire by
not agreeing to their end of it, which was returning
hostages on time right.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They had no intention of furthering the negotiations.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Israel knew it. And then now it's time to get back.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
To the war.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
And as we already stated, that death number you're going
is the enemy's death number.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
From the Free Beacon Columbia declined.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
To investigate swastika's sprawled throughout the Hamilton Hall because they
were written in shock and could be erased.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The hypocrisy and double standard of these walk institutions, including universities,
are hilarious and more people ought to be aware of it.
You go through lists of who got canceled for what,
and then who got excused for Well, they were young
and impressionable and made a mistake. It is exactly divided
by your politics.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
From Politico, Trump Nixon's Secret Service protection for Hunter and
Ashley Biden details totally about thirty agents to protect the
president's adult children.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, the Secret Service guys would be in too much
danger from old drug dealer and art dealer people who
are angry at Hunter.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
So Hunter Biden was he going to get Secret Service
protection for the rest of his life?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I paid for us.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Bios for the next six months.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh, okay, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's only required through age sixteen, I heard, which is interesting.
It was literally it's granted if needed.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Okay. From NBC.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
After nine months in space, NASA astronauts who flew on
Boeing's capsule are on their way home.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Rescued by whose company m They don't want to say.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I believe that's accurate from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
We are turning too many people into medical patients. They're saying,
this is the swift rise for diagnosis for everything.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I pass through the journal every day. I missed that one.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I have some really interesting stuff on xanax nation, but I'll.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Have to seek that out. Yeah, I would like to.
I would like to read that. Also.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It reminds me of my doctor's saying to me a
while back, what are we trying to do here? We
got into the conversation about keeping people alive longer, but
you're not really dig in life, were able to do much,
and the doctor saying.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What is our goal here?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I am not like full on wound up about big
pharma like some people are. On the other hand, where
there is enormous profit, there are perverse incentives to turn
you into a medical case or treat you or druggy
or whatever. There's a hell of a lot of money
to be made from CBS.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
Sports next heat game delayed after comedian Tracy Morgan appears
to vomit on Madison Square Garden Court.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I didn't feel good.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
It did not appear.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
He absolutely did vomit. Yeah, he peered.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, maybe he saw the video of the guy in
the Bronx eating the rat. Heard about that. More on
that lane, Liz Lemon, I need to book it from Breitbart.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Hilaria Baldwin defends her Spanish accent as quote code switching.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Man, that's what it is saying. They mean to me,
it is in a different way.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's I'm code switching to somebody more exotic and interesting
for the media.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Now I'm code switching back to my actual accent. Right,
I am how you say? A Sony.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
From the Daily Mail, Little People rally outside of Disney's
studio in protest of Snow White remake amid outrage over
decision to replace them with CGI.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Right, I missed this story. Somehow we got to get
into this. So Okay, old Dinklage, Dinkleman, whatever his name,
and the most famous small person in the world. He
is involved in this and now know Little People and
now CGI and something.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh, that's that's just one.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
That's one of the dwarfs of outrage being directed at.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This terrible movie.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Okay, and finally, the Babylon Bee, single woman constantly stressed
with no man around to tell her to relax.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, a multi layer joke. Relax, relax, hey smile, Oh
you're trying today, No kidding, it's so.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Cold of there. We got holding the news. Joe mentioned
a bunch of other stuff on the way.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty. What's next?
Speaker 9 (17:27):
Another flight, another flight? Every day. The teams and teams
are going to be out there every day, every day.
The men and women of ICE are going to be
in the neighborhoods of this nation, arresting criminal, illegal alien,
public state they thrusts and National security thrust. Laurence, you're
not going to stop us. I'm probably be a part
of this administration. We're not stopping. I don't care what
the judges think. I don't care the left tanks.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
We're coming as old wholemaner likes a booting out ofllegals
in We'll be talking more about that later. And man
it it polls well too, So that's tough if you're
the party that's trying to be against that, because it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Bowls really well.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Also have the latest on the snow White and the
seven CGI Dwarves story, which here's controversy around. Usually controversy
like this is completely bogus, and it's just to let
you know there's a new movie out. This is real
because of wolfism. So we'll get into that maybe an
hour or two.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Although my only comment, because we will discuss it next hour,
is that if that were the only problem with this
steaming pile of non entertainment, but my god, the organist.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Has gone wild. Sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I believe it's a drug problem anyway. You know, musicians
are you know, please where was it?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yes, if that were the only problem this steaming pile
of non entertainment had, well that would be something, but no,
they wish that there was a real dwarf controversy because
then people might actually want to see it. But more
to come on that. A lot of people talking about tariffs,
a lot of headlines these days. Fever pitch has always
because Donald Jay is involved, and I and Jack have
(19:03):
also at times said we wish Trump was being a
little more explicit on what he's trying to accomplish, what
the goal is and why it's good for America. And
there's been some information on we got to bring manufacturing
back and that sort of thing, and I think everybody's
in favor of that. As long as you know the
means of getting there aren't too insane. But I've been
(19:24):
surprised he hasn't done a Reaganesque speech. And I don't
mean just Reaganesque generally, but Reagan at the beginning of
his first term, when inflation was rampant, he went before
the nation and he said, look, here's my plan. It's
going to be rough in the short term, but we're
going to squash inflation and then things are going to
be rosy.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And a lot of America believed them.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
And he did it and it worked out almost precisely
the way he said. And I've just kind of been
waiting for Trump to do that, well, you know, in
a more here's a speech kind of way. I mean,
he talks to the American people every day, multiply interesting way.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, so both I was reading in The New York
Times last night, both Tom Friedman and David Sanger, two
of their more respected journalists, and for different reasons on
different topics, but both of them were talking about how
Trump has been the most disruptive and disruptive is not
always a negative word, but have been the most disruptive
president in eighty years. I mean since World War Two
(20:24):
in the first fifty days. Would you agree with that
or not? Oh yeah, wow, most president in eighty years.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
If he's not number one, he's tied for it. That's true.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I mean, yeah, even if I'm going to quibble that,
you have to be in be in that top couple.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Absolutely, top tier. Sure.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
So the reception being, Hey, the World War Two, let's
cruise along, this is going great, the post World War
Two cruise along.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Everything's going great.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Period looks like it's coming to an end, and we
ought to be a little proactive. Well, right, So that
was the Ross doth Fat column that I read from
the New York Times. Also, he's a conservative leaning gentlemen.
His whole column was all about these things were already true.
Trump's just recognizing they're truer saying it out loud. The
economy is different, the world order is different. These things
(21:12):
were already real, and he's just like.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Leaning into it. So this is an interesting take.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Right, Yeah, indeed, and there's a lot of truth to it.
I think, you know, some of the means they're going
about to do this stuff. I think he's a little
ham handed, and maybe the communications not great, but you know,
they'll work that out anyway. The folks involved in the
tariff policy discussion, I think are aware of people like
(21:39):
me saying, what are you guys doing? And so they're
starting to talk to reporters and or whether on the
record or off the record, and leaking and that sort
of thing. And the strategy is becoming more clear. And
the Journal has a piece They've got four guys working
on this, and they're talking about some of the negotiations
that have been going on behind the scenes, which really
help illuminate what they're trying to do. Officials have recently
(22:03):
weighed whether to simplify the complex tax task rather of
devising new teriff rates for our hundreds of trading partners,
by sorting the countries into one of three tariff tiers.
You know, fair countries that are good friends, kind of
medium countries, and countries that are sticking us with tariffs,
or I gotta stick family tariffs and try to sort
(22:27):
them out. They later ruled out that proposal because they're
still trying to sort out how to implement the rates
and how to figure out who's who and so, and
Trump has told them that the folks working on this,
that you've got like till it's April second to come
up with your plan, and so they're scrambling like crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
But the goal of all of this.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Is to get to a much more reciprocal world where
all right, just to pick out, you know, Germany, if
you're going to impose a tariff on our fine automobiles
at thirty percent, well your BMW's and nowadis and VW's,
we're gonna hit you with.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
The same thing.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
And by the way, which which I think is completely defensible,
because speaking of the post WW two era, when America
stood astride the manufacturing old world like a colossus.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Europe was in ruins.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Asia was either in ruins or living in huts, right,
I mean, we'd say, all right, yeah, you can put
a twenty percent tariff on our stuff so you can
get your industry up and run in and we didn't care.
But that that period is over now. So anyway, they're
trying to get to reciprocal tariffs. You tax us thirty percent,
we tax you at thirty percent. Oh you don't want that,
Well how about we go with something low and reasonable.
(23:47):
So they're trying to figure out how to get there.
It's going to be a Rocky Ride. And complicating all
this is these countries are not stupid, so you have
even like a Germany for instance, as long as we're
talking about them, and China is doing the same thing.
But let's put China over there because there are mortal enemy.
But Germany's saying, oh, oh yeah, you get to thirty
(24:08):
percent on German cars now, but only ten percent in
Mexico because of the free trade agreement Trump himself negotiated.
So Galigi, we're setting up a plant now in Mexico
with the same effective situation of our cars are way
cheaper to sell in the US than your cars are
to sell in Germany. And where are we going to
(24:29):
set up a plant that Germany doesn't have a Mexico,
so we're at a disadvantage. So again that's joy over
the day. Germany doesn't have a Mexico. They need a Mexico.
Doesn't everybody need a Mexico. Evidently, jd Vance has taken
a big role now in the trade agenda development and
(24:50):
has been hosting some of the hours long meetings at
the Naval Observatory, which is for some reason where the
Vice President lives in Washington.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
But it makes more sense to me, now interesting, but it's.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
So complicated because again, okay, so we're super great buddies
with the l Salvador or England or whatever, and you
figure that out as China, you think, ok, we'll just
manufacture there, We'll send our crap through there because they
don't have a high terriff on us, and then the
US ends up not getting their tariff. So it's it's
tough stuff anyway. So I think that's what they're they're
(25:27):
working on.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Following up on the other thing we were talking about
earlier in the hour, and so Trump bombs the heck
out of the Hoot, these Israel bombs the heck out
of Hamas. Those are both Iranian backed groups. It's basically,
you know, part of the proxy war with Iran. And
Trump has threatened in the last couple of weeks that
(25:48):
Iran needs to, you know, make a deal. He sent
a letter to the Ietola you need to make a
deal on this whole Iranian nuclear program you've got, or
we're gonna take it out and it's going to be
really bad for you. And Iran has not responded. And
then I so I mentioned that Tucker Carlson, who's got
millions and millions of followers, and not just like literal
(26:14):
actual follower his Twitter account and his website, but people
in that ideology. We got this text Tucker was on
with Bongino's replacement yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
And Tucker said, Pakistan has nuclear weapons. North Korea has
nuclear weapons. I don't want Iran to get nukes, but
those other countries have nukes. So I guess suggesting letting
Iran get a nuclear weapon would be better than military
action with them that could turn into an actual war,
which I do not agree with.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But no, particularly because well, Pakistan's a wobbler. I was
going to say, North Korea isn't run by religious fanatics
who are bent on bending the war to Allah's will.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Your average Presbyterian in the US, or I'm not religious,
I'm spiritual. They can't conceive of what a religious fundamentalist,
how he sees the world raised from you when you're
a baby. To believe that Islam should rule the entire
world and anywhere it doesn't is a humiliation to God Almighty.
(27:25):
And it is your sacred duty to spend every day
of your life to to take care of that and
spread Islam and make Islam the government of all of
the earth. They don't they don't get that.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
This is just like solidified in my mind in the
last dozen hours or so, and then I will get
off this. But and I know I'm going to be
accused of being a neo khan or chickenhawk or all
those sorts of terms for a neo hawk, an chicken khan,
a chicken con which is the worst. God help you
if one moves in next door to you.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Similar to the topic of recognizing reality in a certain
in a bunch of different areas, the economics, world order
are different stuff. We might have to realize that the
we're gonna have to fight some of the bad people.
We're gonna have to fight some of the bad people,
actually engage with them, lose people, and fight them and win.
That's going to have to happen like has always happened
throughout history and.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Were carefully and judiciously and never for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
We haven't really done that in a long time, right, right,
But that I think that's coming, and it would be
really obviously somewhat ironic. Is as often the cases with
a case when people get elected president. Very sort of
thing that they ran on ends up being in their
lap and they have to make some decisions that he
wanted to make. Trump, who ran a lot on, you know,
getting this out of wars, and all these di's say
(28:52):
he might have to be more engaged as a war
president than any we've had in a long time. Quite possibly,
that has happened so many times in history.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That's the George W. Bush story.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, though he took it way too far and lost
his mind in my opinion. But anyway, my grand unifying
theory on why both parties are so divided and how
everything's crumbling.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Next hour, cool, hopey, say.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
We'll get into the dwarf controversy CGI dwarves taking jobs
away from little people.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Cruel, absolutely cruel.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm working on the headline little Men, Big controversy. Oh wow,
it's a little heavy hand of the little men.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, it's Some of the quotes are something Joe's got
mailbag on the waisty here, Trump and Putin are on
the phone.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Are they carving up Ukraine?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Making a deal without Ukraine being involved in the conversation
at home?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Might be anyway as soon as details leak out. We'll
have them for you.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Got a lot to come next hour, indeed, including a
freedom loving Quote of the day bassetball addition at least partly,
I'm sorry, a gender bending Madness update basketball edition partly.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Now it's time for the freedom loving Quote of the bit.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Somebody really needs to write this on a whiteboard in
front of me. I need Q cards like I'm on
Saturday Night Live. This is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sent along
by anonymous person interrupting our series of Teddy Roosevelt quotes.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Just for the day.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I'll give you the short version, Jack, Can you tell
me if you want the longer version? Stupidity is a
more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
One may protest against evil.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
It can be exposed, and if need be prevented by
use of force. Against stupidity, we are defenseless.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That's pretty good. That is pretty good. I'll read you
a little more.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I've been reading, been meeting to read more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I just never get around to it.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion,
in that it leaves behind in human beings, at least
a sense of unease against stupidity. We are defenseless. Neither
protests nor the use of accomplish anything. Here reason falls
on deaf ears. Facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need
not be believed. In such moments, the stupid person even becomes critical,
(31:10):
and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as, inconsequential,
as incidental and all this. The stupid person, in contrast
to the malicious one, is utterly satisfied and being easily irritated,
becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason,
greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid
person than with a malicious one.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That'd be my life experience.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
That is one of the greatest breakdowns in dealing with
a stupid person I've ever come across.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Mail Bag drop us a note.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Mail Bag at armstrong in getty dot com is the
email address mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com.
Data on the topic of Americans used to be much
more mobile, and there was a big giant moving day
once a year.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
If you didn't hear.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
It, it was our three of yesterday's show. Grab it
via podcast Armstrong in Getty on demand Data says I
was one hundred percent agreement with you about people just
picking up and moving and how great that was to
chase where the opportunities are the way we used to.
But it dawned on me that most households are made
up to working people. Only one of those people has
(32:11):
lost their job. Makes it harder to pick up and move.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Wow, very wise, perception of being definitely degrees more difficult.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Because of the length of the piece we're discussing yesterday,
I left that out. The author did point that out,
and also that in divorced couples, child custody agreements make
it much harder to pick.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Up it right, right, So the complexity of.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The modern world has definitely hurt our ability to find opportunity.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Wherever it lies, no doubt. Wow, rich and beautiful green
organ rites.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
In fact, well, yeah, picking up and leaving when you
got two careers that have to the in the same
location start over again at the same time, it's a
pretty daunting task.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It is very complicated.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, guys, how can we hear little about SpaceX rescuing
these stranded astronauts. The ten day mission turns into nine months.
The government can't get them. I would point out the
Boeing folks floundered Elon to the rescue, but the media
barely mentions it. Yeah, well that's because he's a bad guy.
Now he's evil, He's evil. Mfaae my favorite African American
(33:17):
Elon rich and Oregon.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I don't know if I'm supposed to sing this, but
another Jay in San Jose writes on the sixth level
of chess Trump gave to US. Iran nukes are part
of the Russian deal. It's all part of that giant
Omni deal Russia, China, Iran, god arafs.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I play.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
I play one dimensional chess with my son, and I
have lost eight times in a row.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Now eight times in a row. Wow, the student has
become the master. The master needs to up his game. See,
I still call the Knight the Horsey. So I don't
get any game currently. Concentration is my biggest foe. I
just I space out and then I make mistakes. Yeah,
tell me about it. Magnus and Tucson writes, aquifer depletion
(34:11):
dust bowl. I remember hearing that we're depleting all the
water in the aquifers in the Midwest, the West too,
and when it's gone there will be a Midwest dust
bowl for decades. Yeah, the climate change stuff is way overblown.
It's a profit center for green new scammers. The pumping
out the aquifers too fast stuff. I have talked to
people who are completely responsible, saying, people who point out
(34:31):
that just means underground water. Essentially, we're pumping it out
way faster than nature. Then nature can replenish it, and
we're making a serious mistake.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I believe that to be true.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, dust storms that are causing fifty car pile ups
in the Midwest that hasn't been around for a long time.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
And then this, I don't think we have time. We'll
just start it and we'll finish it off next hour.
But Eric, frequent correspondent guy it writes guys, because accuracy
is your hallmark, I am compelled to respond to John
from Kansas, who suggested yesterday's mail bag that the term
woman is derived from the Old English womb plus man
(35:07):
to mean woman. Well, this makes for a good story,
I'm afraid is not supported by the literature. Yeah, even
as I said it, I knew this is you know,
it's it's disputed. All these things are other Oh yeah, absolutely,
I won't dispute that. The other possible explanations where the
term woman came from coming up next hour.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
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