October 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The Nobel Piece Of Crap prize & young men going to war
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & analysis of the peace deal
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty arm Strong and
Jettie and he arms wrong. I'm from Studio c S
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a Gimla let room and he put on the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. It's Friay and
today we're under the jutelage of our general manager. The
Nobel Piece of crap, That's what I say. Trump didn't
get it. The Nobel pizza crap. Can't keep it from
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seven of yours. Yeah, they announced Nobel Piece Prize. It's
some chick who's fighting communism or something whatever, bravely had
risk of her own life every single day. That's right, Yeah,
some incredibly courageous you know something or other. Now Trump
wasn't expecting to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year,
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was he? I mean, oh yeah, yeah. There was an
eleventh hour like hardcore press really because I just would
assumed all the voting and all the decision making was
done at least a week ago, if not a month ago.
You know who chooses the winner? Five Norwegian jackasses? I know,
(01:34):
I've why did we do a deep dive on this
a couple of oh when Barack Obama won it, I think,
which was ridiculous and he knew it. But we did
a deep dive on the Nobel Peace Prize and figured
out as everybody does it. Yeah, it's five Norwegian jackasses.
Anybody can be nominated, Like if you got a friend
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who works at a university, you can get nominated for
the Nobo piece press. And I mean it's just like
a twenty five dollar fee. Ar was at the time,
congratulations on the guy who invented dynamite and had a
bunch of money left over and decided to set up
this prize system to try to encourage people to do
good science and write good books and you know, work
(02:18):
for peace. How it got elevated to like God's own
word of what is the best of this is? Yeah,
I don't know how that happened. You know, it's a
peculiar aspect of Trump's ego that he really wants the
prize to put on the shelf and so he can
claim he got it. I heard the fabulous historian Neil
Ferguson say the other day, really, after high school, you
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shouldn't be worried about awards. The achievement is the award.
You've done it. You don't need some five Norwegian jackasses
according to some sources to give you a certificate. Come
on and well for one thing. A year from now,
I think this will seem so far in the distance past,
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plus all of the all the complications will have shown themselves,
so it might look completely different. So it'd be tough
for him to win next year. I think. Yeah, he's
made the case that he's intervened in a positive way
in quite a number of conflicts. He's kind of exaggerated
how many, in what effect the US had and some
of them. But it wouldn't have been unquestionable. He is
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on a crusade to stop people slaughtering each other. It
wouldn't have been crazy to give him the Nobel Prize,
not at all at all. Oh, you know, I was
thinking about that. People keep talking about the whole He
seems to be like really bothered by death in wars
and stuff like that. My son was watching the ridiculous
movie Primitive War, which, once again, if you have not
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heard of it, it was in the theaters for like
a day, but before they realized, oh geez, nobody wants
to see this, and then they so they re released
it on streaming services. I gotta watch it. It's it's
Apocalypse Now meets Jurassic Park. It's a serious Vietnam war
movie with dinosaurs, right, and it's so it's such a
(04:04):
ridiculous present. Francis for Kopla is kicking himself as we speak.
I should have had dinosaurs, Marlon Brando and dinosaurs. And
it's got some real actors in it, known actors turning
in serious performances. It's like, it's not like a Sharknado
where they were trying to be funny, right, They're not
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trying to be funny in this movie. They're trying to
be completely serious. You get me those marines back, you
know who just got eaten by a dinosaur. Anyway, it
was my point. Oh, I was watching the movie and
I just I think it's age. I just like the
idea of young men dying because they were told to
go take that hill just is so awful to me
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at this point in my life, regardless whether Russians or
Americans or whoever. Just the whole premise is so horrible,
and I wonder, as an old man if he isn't
you know, in that stage of life where you just
it just seems so awful that it ever has to happen,
and he wants to stop these wars wherever you can't.
It takes a little life experience and a little perspective
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to understand what you are sacrificing. You're sacrificing everything that
happens after that age, right, Yeah, maybe that's it. Yeah,
maybe that probably is it. You know, when you're twenty
and you don't care if you find me, I'll die,
die by thirty and leave it to and corpse, you know,
when you're twenty, And that doesn't sound like the best
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idea when you're sixty. But so he might be really
really into this idea of stopping wars, but it wouldn't
have been a crazy idea to give it to him.
But there's a quote I heard a couple of times
this week. I think it was Tony Blair going off
to some Middle East piece something or other and saying
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to Bill Clinton, if I won the Nobel Prize, you'll
know I failed with the idea that the Nobel Peace
Prize has gone to the people for things that didn't
work out many many times. Yeah, right right. Yeah, I
think it's just as you indicated, it's just overrated as
a thing. It's like the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. It's
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the woke Pultzer folks saying, yeah, you argued my point
of view realized, so I'm gonna give it to you.
I mean, there's been some wonderful journalism that's won those prizes,
but it's just kind of it's tainted these days. So
just do the good work. The good work is the
reward for the good work. True, but you don't get
to put a good work metal on your wall, point
to it, or on your resume. Does Trump need a resume?
(06:35):
Well no, just in general. Mm hm oh yeah, I
would look good. It'd be in the first line of
his obituary. Speaking of Pulitzers. Yeah, that's good point. First
line my obituary would be overrated underachieving radio guy is
finally dead, mainly dead. So I don't know who wrote
this obituary, but he'll win zero Pulitzers. Not a friend obviously.
(06:58):
You know what, I think the smartestes typewriter tapper in
America might be Peggy Noonan. She is a brilliant currently
editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, Longsbury to Reagan
speechwriter et cetera her analysis of the Trump Peace Deal
and Trump and all it blew away virtually everything else
(07:20):
I read. Well, that's overstates it, because I read some
good stuff. It was, it was uniquely wise. So we'll
share that with you. You have some of that for us,
because I actually haven't read it. I just saw a
link to it, and uh oh it's so good. Yeah,
so good. It doesn't surprise. Let's start the show officially.
That'll give us a little something to talk about. And
we got clips of the week today. I'm not going
to forget it because I've forgotten the last two weeks,
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and I've gotten the buzzer, and I've gotten all the
harsh criticism that comes with forgetting clips of the weeks.
We are going we would have won a Marconi by
now if you weren't so damn forget the probably instead
it went to some chick fighting communism, right, some brave
crusader forr I don't know something. Starting the show officially,
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It's Friday,
October tenth, the year twenty twenty five, where I'm strong
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and getty, and we approve of this program. All right,
let's go officially now. According to FCC rules and regulations,
the show begins at Mark no balls in a straight
has breaks his bat, Kirk ring gotta fight. It goes
to the play. Oh my goodness, it throws it away,
and the Dodgers have one for Dodgers when and the
(08:28):
they are moving on to the NLCS. And the pitcher
stands there with his hands on his knees, staring the ground,
trying to sink into the ground will never be seen again.
So that's good. Un So it's the bottom of the
eleventh inning, bases loaded elimination game to go to the
(08:51):
league Championship Series. I mean it's high drama, yeah, And
the pitcher makes the sort of error I make playing
little league baseball, and all your the other players look
at you like, how did you do that? Jack? Good lord?
Wi are you on my team? A Major league baseball player?
Did it? Little teak? Beyond the scenes, Michaelangelo is off.
Executive producer Mike Hanson is running the board. He is
(09:13):
on the microphone. Hanson what Mike Hanson actual actual little
league coach and a longtime baseball coach. If a twelve
year old made that mistake, you shake your head and
you think, all right, we got to keep working on
that stuff. Fourteen year old makes that mistake, or sixteen
year old, you'd think, come on, we've gone over this.
(09:35):
The play's are one major leaguer does that? You're thinking,
I guess I'll go play golf. That's what you're thinking
because your season is over. Yeah, that was something. And
he you know, he was the best player on his
little league team as a kid, and then his high
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school team, and the best player on his college team. Sure,
and been in the major leagues for a long time,
and then he does that. Yeah, what I would like
to know is and a lot of it was cool
because in team sports you should have the attitude is
we wouldn't lose as a team, and blah blah blah
all that for real. But man, all the players that
came over to try to you know, say it's okay
(10:17):
or whatever. But the manager really grabbed him and talked
to him for a long time. Did you see that
when he was going into the tunnel I with I
thought was cool. I would love to know what he
said to him, because he talked to him for quite
a while. Did he say to him, Look, I think
you're going to become you remember Billy Buckner. I think
you're going to become a household name. There are gonna
be a lot of memes if you'd kill myself, stay
(10:38):
off the internet, stay probably get a new job, change
your name, grow a fake mustache, Listen to a lot
of jobs in HVAC. These days. The trades are hot.
But you probably it's over for you. Everything you've ever
cared about is over? Is that what he said? He
can go key coach at college, well, high school team,
but they're going to bring it up all the time.
(10:59):
Even as a coach in the high school team, every player,
every year, the new freshman's gonna say, what was it
like that? One time? And you made the most embarrassing
play anybody'd ever seen on national television. Son, I got
a question for you. If John Wilkes Booth was still alive,
how often do you think they'd ask him about acting?
Never is the answer? Never shooting Lincoln. This is your
shooting Lincoln. Okay, Oh he must not have known there
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was two outers. I forgot there was two out there.
Who knows well yeah, wells as not only a former
baseball player but a pitcher. You are so close to
home plate and you have a force out anywhere, it's
easy to forget that. The guy on third was poised
like a sprinter halfway up the line to come home.
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The batter was screwing himself into the batter's box trying
to hit the ball. He's still standing there. You've got
all day to throw to first. But the temptation look
home plates right there. It's such a short play it well,
and it was a terrible throw. So, I mean, not
only was it the wrong place, but it was the
catcher couldn't catch it. Well, he rushed it because he
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had to rush it. But enough baseball talk. Probably Well,
I didn't want to make a baseball talk. I wanted
to make it failing in life talk, which anybody can
relate to. I mean, just a huge, huge, giant Oh
my god, how did I make this mistake? How am
I going to live with this? How am I going
to forget that I did this? Right? Wow, it's a
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two foot putt to win the Masters scenario, although you
know they weren't necessarily gonna win, but they would have
stayed alive anyway, poor kid, I don't know what you
could relate it to another life like you. I don't know.
You didn't get the paperwork in on a giant business
deal all time or something. I don't know what. But
that is rough. That is rough. We do have clips
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of the week. We got headlines from Katie Green coming up.
We got the text line I'm wearing a Dodger's hat today.
Here you go, I got there. I got the right
metaphor for you. You've just closed a zillion dollar deal
with a real hard assed businessman and you text your
boss what an a hole this guy is, but you
accidentally text the client that's a good one and lose
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the deal. A woman says she'll marry you, Yes, gorgeous
gal charm, as long as you're on time for dinner tonight.
And you get the a MPM wrong on your uh
alarm clocks. Okay, we got to take a breaks the here.
Remember how I ended up in the er from drinking
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too much coffee a couple of months ago. I gotta
I gotta watch that today. I'm kinda kind of hitting
the coffee head, kind of getting wound tight. Here, gotta
take her down. A notch. Yeah, I'll end up there
and the all them things on my chest, in my
head and then measuring my heart deep breaths or breathe
into a bag or something.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I just don't understand why you continue to drink too
much coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's like being an alcoholic. It's it factors into being
an alcoholic. Why do you keep drinking when you're already
hammered drunk fair enough? Why did not mysecond still remember
one of my problems? All right, let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with the sober Katie Green,
Katie from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Ceasefire is in effect as IDF repositions.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So one of the most amazing parts of the agreement
is uh is Israel pulling out a gaza. Nobody would
have ever suspected that that was going to be, you know,
sort of thing that they would get an agreement on. Yeah,
with a force to replace them, and they're pulling out
notch by notch too. It's worth rememory. Oh and I
(14:43):
don't know if you if I'm stealing your headline, but
this is one of the biggest headlines of the day.
We're taking we're sending a couple of one hundred US troops.
A couple hundred US troops. I mean, that is so
anti maga ish. I can't even imagine if I haven't
heard any blowback or seen any blowback though on it. Yeah,
there are non combat support roles allegedly, but more on
(15:04):
that to come. But you're right, that's a huge hit
off from NBC News.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Trump to get semi annual physical after previous check up
back in spring.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I just saw him sitting at the desk there in
the Oval office talking to reporters. I feel great, feel great.
I'm headed over there now to get checked and then
we'll get the hilarious results height and weight that don't
seem to match up with his mosique and the statement
that he is the healthiest man of his age ever,
he's healthier than most twenty three year old Olympic athletes, etc.
(15:36):
From the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Americans are falling behind on their car payments.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yes, we are going to dive deep into this. It's
like record setting, falling behind all time record setting. It
is troubling. It's weird that we have a population that
is completely self indulgent to the point of spending itself
into oblivion and government. That's just the same.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
From the New York Post, Florida man stole seven thousand
dollars in scratch off lottery tickets and then returned to
the same store to redeem.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Them just hours later. That's a guy with a good plan.
That is a well thought out plan, Sir.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
From Study Fines Runny noses black toenails and quote corgasms
seven weird ailments that can be triggered by exercise.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Umm, I'd like to know what a coregasm is. We're
gonna have to look into that. We'll get to that
story later. That sounds like a good Friday story, Oh boyd.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And finally, from the Babylon b Trump broker's historic peace
deal between Yankees and Red Sox fans.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Say, good luck might be a little harder than what
he's engaged in right now. So I'll bring you Heggy
Newton's fabulous perspective on the peace deal coming up in
a few minutes, and then we'll figure out what orgasm is. Yeah,
a couple one hundred US troops to Gaza. That's that's
that is amazing that that has slipped in the last
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twenty four hours and haven't heard what the JD Vance
crowd things of that, but we'll talk more about that later.
A lot of good stuff if you missed a segment
good the podcast Armstrong and Getty. Oh my god, I
was just reading an amazing article about AI and the
New York Times, which includes one of the top AI
scientists in the world who's a professor at some university
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who can't sleep at night currently so convinced AI is
going to destroy humankind. His close friend and collaborator, who
happens to work for Meta, says that's going to be great.
And they're friends and both study the same thing. Anyway,
more on that later. Good Lord. Yeah, I have a great,
(17:52):
great deal to say on that topic, but I will
remain disciplined for once and move on. We have that
fabulous Peggy Noonon analysis of the Trump the Israel Hamas
peace deal. But first it's time to take fond look
back at the week that was its cow Clips of
the Week eclips as.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
The ooh ya, Navy, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Doing the Super Bowl half done show.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I wanted you to know that I'm not dying and
I'm not ready to die yet.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No, you're disrespectful, you're entitled and you're being primosed right now.
King James's highly anticipated announcement. It turned out to be
an ad Sanchez again advanced towards the driver, saying, the
driver thought this guy's trying to kill me. Both Israel
and Hamas have signed on to the first phase of
his twenty point piece plan. The world has come together
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around this deal. It's gonna be a different world. Do
you guys have to say a President Trump, you gotta
start working out and put the bottle down, because I
really want to see how this all plays. I love
it that we need at least fifty of the Palestinian
government to be trans women and two phase real I
(19:19):
uh tolt this flag that from that man that was
burning it in the streets. Do you know who he is?
That're the Attorney general and let's start prosecutions. Senator, I
don't think a lot of people like they were out
rotesting with a team box. You're a vehicle driven by
Border patrol agents, was allegedly rammed and boxed in by
two cars. One of the things I've been dealing with
(19:41):
all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies.
So when this person is committing six or seven crimes.
I don't know his or her story. Maybe they were
abused as a child, maybe they're hungry. And then this
is the most stupid thing I think I've ever witnessed
in Washington, DC. You're a complete total embarrassment. Yeah, you're
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embarrassing yourself in your district right now. So I'm anxious
to immure the to her. J Jones sent texts that
imagine shooting the Republican Speaker of the House. Can you
tell me why my phone records when I'm the chairman
of the Judiciary Committee were sought by the Jack Smith agents.
(20:25):
What do you say to the forty percent of California
voters who you'll need in order to win, who voted
for Trump? How would I need them in order to win?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Man? Well to those voters, Okay, so you I don't
want to keep doing this, I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh, thank you, and mistake could lose four you're out
of my phone shop. The Hey, no, that's too many
things that have happened this week. Here by declaire, we
need fewer things to happen. I would say three a day,
four if the fourth one is fun. Four things can
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happen per day and that's enough. But it's a week
that Katie Porter woman would like to try again.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Get out of my shot.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I'm not a shot. You herbungulous. She has she has
got to be one of those people that has hundreds
of persons in her wake rooting for her to fail
because she has made them so angry. Correct. Correct, We
could philosophize on that, but we don't really have time.
Let's see the other side I was going to make.
I can wait. So my two favorite analyses of the
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peace deal. First one comes from a trio of reporters
in the Wall Street Journal who really highlight the fact
that forever the tradition has been your lower level guys,
your diplomats work for weeks, months, years to iron out
differences behind the scenes, getting way, way way into the
weeds and the neuchet and only when that is hashed
(21:55):
out do the leaders swoop in and say we have
a deal. And Trump did it upside down. He said,
you agree to the basics, right, you agree to the basics. Right,
we have an agreement. We're going to hash out the details.
But if anybody flakes, somebody kill you. In essence, that's
a grosser of simplification. Of the pressures he could exert
as the president of the United States. But that's essentially
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the way it went, and it's you know, you'll get paywalled.
I'd put the link up, but I'm not sure you
can get to it. But it's great analysis. It's a
very different way to do things. It's very real estate developers.
But my fave of I heard somebody saying yesterday about
how it was an advantage that he doesn't come with
any ideological baggage of like really being invested in the
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Palestinian cause if here on that side, or you know,
Christenham being saved along with Judeo blah blah, and he
has none of that. It's just right making a deal
with all of that extraneous stuff not involved. I actually
heard somebody who I really like and respect talking, but
they come at a lot of this from an academic background,
and we're mentioning all sorts of paradigms and structural analyses
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and theories of governmental organization and interaction and the rest
of it. Sometimes that stuff helps, sometimes it's just academic
claptrap in my opinion anyway, So Peggy Noonan with a
great piece in the Journal. I'm gonna skip over a
bunch of it and summarize it for you. First of all,
she says, give Trump your applause. Fully, she has a
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wink at how Trump and his announcement was that it
was a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one
of the greatest days ever in civilization, and that is funny.
She describes the multi part piece plan. She says, here,
any reliable pundit would counsel caution, it could all fall apart.
My joy may be premature, all true, but I'll take
my joy premature, bartender. She makes the point that you've
(23:47):
been making. We haven't come this close and forever, really,
And then she talks about the Barnman and Bailey aspect
of the Trump administration, not the chaos, but like the
color or the human, non gray academic feel to it.
Talks about Trump's support, but then she gets to the
part I really like, I want to pay tribute to
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the wonderful, creative insanity Donald Trump can display on the
international front. At moments when the Mideast is blowing up,
American presidents always begin to ape the language, preoccupations, and
granular knowledge of the regional experts, some of whom follow
from White House to White House. It's always into the
weeds with them. The settler issue may complicate the loan
guarantee schedule if the sixty seven lines are even retrievable.
(24:34):
It was all opaque and meaningless and meant to be.
That isn't what mister Trump did in this crisis. He
looked at the whole complicated picture, the long history, the
writing etched on the stones of the oldest archaeological sites,
and said, that's fabulous. Beachfront property going a waste. We
can build a luxury resort with hotels, casinos, beaches, a
slide for the kids. And she says, decorous bordellos with
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golden stairways. Actually, what he said in February was that goaz,
it could be the riviera of the Middle East. It
has the best weather, etc. Generated those Ai pictures that
we all chuckled at. A few days later, Peggy Wrice,
I saw a friend who knows his foreign affairs, and
he said, do you believe the idiocy of this guy?
And I surprised him. I kind of liked it. I
think I love it, I said, because it was absurdist.
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And here's the part, Peggy Noon is so smart because
it was absurdist. It changed the picture you have in
your head. It was a reorienting thought. The world knows
it's ridiculous, and yet yeah, that land would come cheap
and it could be a gold mind gold mine. It
was so trumpion. He thinks everything can be a big
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building with his name on it. But in his insane way,
he was saying, imagine it differently, and for a second
you did. The region is full of greedy, grasping men
on all sides. They feel more secure in their palaces
when their people are employed. And an eighteen year old
boy on the street would think, I'd like to not
live in a sand hole. But we're a tuxedo and
a casino with girls and sequins walking by. Can't we
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rely on simple human vice for progress anymore? I'd like
to not live in a sand hole. Yes, here is
something the world needs more of. It comes from the
old parable of the prisoners in the cell, and it
has many variations. A handful of prisoners are chained to
a wall in a room and only one of them
can see through the window high up. Instead of saying
the truth, there's nothing out there, just there, he describes
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for his cellmate's beautiful scenes, people strolling on the street,
a pretty girl, the sun is shining. He dies, and
new prisoners dragged in and put in his chains. He
can see the window and they ask what's outside today.
He almost speaks, looks at them, realizes everything. He has
a job give them something to live for. He looks
out the window and says, there's a parade and a
great princess is walking by in all her finery. It
isn't bad to give people something to live for. And
(26:45):
she says, I close with the special force of the
idiotic idea. Sometimes in life you're an idiot. You make
the investment based on insufficient data because you got a
feeling in your gut. You marry the guy you met
three days ago. Sometimes you go broke and tell your
funny story about the importance of due diligence the young investors.
Sometimes you tell your story about the Elvis Chapelin Vegas
on your thirty eighth anniversary as your grandchildren eat chocolate cake.
(27:07):
It isn't the worst thing to have a good story
to tell, and some do end well, that's it. But
I really really liked that part about how about we
just chuck everything and reimagine what this area could be.
I'll bet Donald Trump doesn't even know what you're talking
about when you talk about the sixty seven lines, I'll
bet he has no concept of that and doesn't care
(27:27):
and doesn't care. Says what difference would that make? What's
that got to do with any right? Right? Yeah? Well,
the Ballthorne declaration, What are you even talking about? Oy?
It's an odd person to quote, and I hesitate to
even mention who I heard say this. It was Donald Rumsfeld,
who had some good ideas and some bad ideas, and
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some good ideas he implemented horrifically. But he said something
really interesting. When you have an intractable problem, make it bigger.
And that's what Trump did. And Jared Kushner and I
don't know what Steve Whitkoff's actual involvement was, but his team,
Trump's team, they looked at the Israel Hamas thing Gaza
(28:11):
October seventh, and they made the problem bigger. The whole
Middle East is screwed up. You have these forces, and
these forces, what if we could get all of them
to agree on precepts? Who do we have to punch
in the mouth and who do we have to bribe
and they went to work. Yeah, And as we were
talking about yesterday, one of his greatest strengths is he
doesn't care what anybody thinks. And one of his biggest,
(28:33):
you know things that holds him back is he doesn't
care what anybody thinks. But they're pointing out this morning
on MSNBC the amazing thing that was him going to
Middle East and visiting all those Arab countries and not
going to Israel. How many times do you hear is
the first time a US president has gone to the
Middle East and not visited Israel. He went to all
those Arab countries, met with all those people talking about
(28:53):
this stuff apparently, and skipped Israel. He didn't care that
no president had ever done that before. The the detractors
say that is as a bad look, but he didn't care.
It signals blah blah blah. Right, a few weeks later,
a few days later, nobody cared and yeah, right, and
he reached out to bbe if he thought it was necessary,
and obviously things worked out fine. Well, the point was
(29:16):
it made all those Arab leaders think, Okay, he's serious
about trying to, you know, figure out our end of
the deal, right right, absolutely true. And this all follows
on the heels of his courageous for some reason finally saying, yeah,
the capital of Israel is Jerusalem, Norse, it is shocking,
(29:38):
Earth's shaking. Oh my god, President's setting. Every president has
said it, but nobody would let them do it. And
the Trump said, what the hell are we doing here? Yeah,
that's a good one quick before we take a break,
just because you brought it up. I've been watching the
Tucker Carlson nine to eleven documentary in five parts. I'm
two parts in anyway, it's got some rumspelled clips on it.
(29:59):
And I've always wondered why people mock the Donald Rumsfeld
moment where he talked about their known unknowns their unknown unknowns,
and it's always mocked, And I think that's a brilliant
way to look at things. Oh yeah, yeah, why is
that mocked? Like silly or simplified or something. I don't
(30:19):
know why that is. It has been something like a
word game of some sort. I don't know. I don't
know either. That's a great way to look at at
life or problems. Yeah, we got known knowns, known unknowns
and unknown unknowns, right, I don't know. I don't know
why that's a problem. Anyway, we got mailbag on the way,
a bunch of other stuff stay here. So you know,
(30:42):
a job I would like to have if I were smarter,
I'd like to be an AI jail breaker. I was
just reading about that in the Times. That would be
a cool job. We'll explain that in our two really
interesting AI story. Also, I've been reading Katie's thing she
brought us earlier. Running noses, black toenails, and coregasms, weird
(31:03):
ailments that can be triggered by exercising and trap running nose.
I'm familiar with black toenails. I'd rather not have. But
the third one is the intriguing. Well, there's a couple
others that I won't even say right now, rough things
that can happen when you're exercising. Here's your freedom love
you quote of the day. It's from Gina Jenny Rimetti,
whoever that is, and it doesn't really matter. Continuing our
(31:26):
finishing up our series on change, I like this one.
Growth and comfort do not coexist. Wow, that is. I
like a lot of these, but the want to write
them down and carry them in my pocket or few
and far between. I want to write that one down
and garriyt in my pocket. Yeah say it again. Growth
(31:46):
and comfort do not coexist. So true pain as now
you end up with black fingernails and toenails in the gym.
I'm familiar with this phrase. Pain is the touch tone
of spiritual growth. It's a very similar thing. Now now, wow,
comfort does not go along with growth. That's a good one.
More or less. Yes, a mailbag drops note mail bag
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at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Here's a note from David.
If I'm arrested in California and sam a female, I
go to female prison. If I sam a furry do
I go to it kennel? Yes, I don't know. If
you want to eat a kettle with a bunch of
bit bull puppies, then he says, Jack, the kid cooking
breakfast thing is not that amazing. Getting them to clean
(32:32):
up would be the amazing thing. Took me five years
to get them to at least put the dishes in
the sink. Another two to the dish offer. That's from
the One More Thing podcast the other day. If you
didn't hear it, you should be listening to that on
a regular basis. That doesn't air on the radio show. Right,
we have plenty of serious stuff about the Middle East.
Maybe we'll carve out a part of the show to
read your thoughts on that later. But sticking with the
(32:53):
more lighthearted stuff here, what about the protesters? Bury from
Thailand rights very concerned? What will to Tunberg do with
her life now that her two principal causes are in
the dust? Bind? Let us pray for this lovable little muppet.
Poor girl. I have nothing but compassion for the whirlwind
she got tossed into. Yeah, she is obnoxious, but she
(33:18):
has some incredibly good excuses for being obnoxious. Well, she
was an upset kid with uh autistic kid. Autistic kid,
and then you know, the world grabbed hold of her,
and then that could happen anybody with activist, progressive parents
who thought, yes, people are paying attention to her because
she's cute and young. Let's trot her out moving along.
(33:41):
Republicans suck at messaging, right, Steve from ever Washington, Always true.
Democrats unanimously chose to raise rates on Obamacare at the
end of this year. They chose the sunset date they did,
which explicitly stated in the Inflation Reduction Act of twenty
twenty two, blah blah blah blah. So when Schumer d
Durban and crazy maze from a why catterwall about the
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rates going up, Republicans should from Republicans should remind the
American public. The Democrats unanimously chose it to play out
this way. The commercials right themselves. Why are Republicans so
bad at pushing back on like your Sunday talk shows?
They're terrible at it, always have that. I don't know.
They feel like they have to explain everything, like using
(34:23):
the words and approaches of the host, as opposed to saying, no,
you've got this completely wrong. It's backwards. It's the opposite
of what you're claiming. Moving along, number of emails on
Nasty Nasty Katie Porter of California, Guys, I'm down here
in Orange County, behind the Orange Curtain where Katie Porter
was is my former representative. Because of the incident with
(34:47):
her ex husband, she's affectionately known here as missus potato head.
Ah my shot, all right, don't sit on me, uh,
Margaret Rites, I must correct your references and pronunciation to
Katie who is running for governor of California. It's Katie porker,
not Porter. That is childish and wrong. That's even if
you're a woman. Margaret, there's no that's a shot at
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her physique and I don't approve of that. Mike, don't
sit on me. Had nothing to do with that. Wow.
Once again I must disavow what the co host has
said here, I disavow. Yeah, well she brought it on herself.
What an unappealing human being. We have a lot an
hour two. If you miss any of it, get the
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a Gimla let room and he put on the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. It's Friay and
today we're under the jutelage of our general manager. The
Nobel Piece of crap, That's what I say. Trump didn't
get it. The Nobel pizza crap. Can't keep it from
(00:52):
seven of yours. Yeah, they announced Nobel Piece Prize. It's
some chick who's fighting communism or something whatever, bravely had
risk of her own life every single day. That's right, Yeah,
some incredibly courageous you know something or other. Now Trump
wasn't expecting to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year,
(01:13):
was he? I mean, oh yeah, yeah. There was an
eleventh hour like hardcore press really because I just would
assumed all the voting and all the decision making was
done at least a week ago, if not a month ago.
You know who chooses the winner? Five Norwegian jackasses? I know,
(01:34):
I've why did we do a deep dive on this
a couple of oh when Barack Obama won it, I think,
which was ridiculous and he knew it. But we did
a deep dive on the Nobel Peace Prize and figured
out as everybody does it. Yeah, it's five Norwegian jackasses.
Anybody can be nominated, Like if you got a friend
(01:54):
who works at a university, you can get nominated for
the Nobo piece press. And I mean it's just like
a twenty five dollar fee. Ar was at the time,
congratulations on the guy who invented dynamite and had a
bunch of money left over and decided to set up
this prize system to try to encourage people to do
good science and write good books and you know, work
(02:18):
for peace. How it got elevated to like God's own
word of what is the best of this is? Yeah,
I don't know how that happened. You know, it's a
peculiar aspect of Trump's ego that he really wants the
prize to put on the shelf and so he can
claim he got it. I heard the fabulous historian Neil
Ferguson say the other day, really, after high school, you
(02:41):
shouldn't be worried about awards. The achievement is the award.
You've done it. You don't need some five Norwegian jackasses
according to some sources to give you a certificate. Come
on and well for one thing. A year from now,
I think this will seem so far in the distance past,
(03:01):
plus all of the all the complications will have shown themselves,
so it might look completely different. So it'd be tough
for him to win next year. I think. Yeah, he's
made the case that he's intervened in a positive way
in quite a number of conflicts. He's kind of exaggerated
how many, in what effect the US had and some
of them. But it wouldn't have been unquestionable. He is
(03:21):
on a crusade to stop people slaughtering each other. It
wouldn't have been crazy to give him the Nobel Prize,
not at all at all. Oh, you know, I was
thinking about that. People keep talking about the whole He
seems to be like really bothered by death in wars
and stuff like that. My son was watching the ridiculous
movie Primitive War, which, once again, if you have not
(03:44):
heard of it, it was in the theaters for like
a day, but before they realized, oh geez, nobody wants
to see this, and then they so they re released
it on streaming services. I gotta watch it. It's it's
Apocalypse Now meets Jurassic Park. It's a serious Vietnam war
movie with dinosaurs, right, and it's so it's such a
(04:04):
ridiculous present. Francis for Kopla is kicking himself as we speak.
I should have had dinosaurs, Marlon Brando and dinosaurs. And
it's got some real actors in it, known actors turning
in serious performances. It's like, it's not like a Sharknado
where they were trying to be funny, right, They're not
(04:24):
trying to be funny in this movie. They're trying to
be completely serious. You get me those marines back, you
know who just got eaten by a dinosaur. Anyway, it
was my point. Oh, I was watching the movie and
I just I think it's age. I just like the
idea of young men dying because they were told to
go take that hill just is so awful to me
(04:47):
at this point in my life, regardless whether Russians or
Americans or whoever. Just the whole premise is so horrible,
and I wonder, as an old man if he isn't
you know, in that stage of life where you just
it just seems so awful that it ever has to happen,
and he wants to stop these wars wherever you can't.
It takes a little life experience and a little perspective
(05:07):
to understand what you are sacrificing. You're sacrificing everything that
happens after that age, right, Yeah, maybe that's it. Yeah,
maybe that probably is it. You know, when you're twenty
and you don't care if you find me, I'll die,
die by thirty and leave it to and corpse, you know,
when you're twenty, And that doesn't sound like the best
(05:29):
idea when you're sixty. But so he might be really
really into this idea of stopping wars, but it wouldn't
have been a crazy idea to give it to him.
But there's a quote I heard a couple of times
this week. I think it was Tony Blair going off
to some Middle East piece something or other and saying
(05:50):
to Bill Clinton, if I won the Nobel Prize, you'll
know I failed with the idea that the Nobel Peace
Prize has gone to the people for things that didn't
work out many many times. Yeah, right right. Yeah, I
think it's just as you indicated, it's just overrated as
a thing. It's like the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. It's
(06:11):
the woke Pultzer folks saying, yeah, you argued my point
of view realized, so I'm gonna give it to you.
I mean, there's been some wonderful journalism that's won those prizes,
but it's just kind of it's tainted these days. So
just do the good work. The good work is the
reward for the good work. True, but you don't get
to put a good work metal on your wall, point
to it, or on your resume. Does Trump need a resume?
(06:35):
Well no, just in general. Mm hm oh yeah, I
would look good. It'd be in the first line of
his obituary. Speaking of Pulitzers. Yeah, that's good point. First
line my obituary would be overrated underachieving radio guy is
finally dead, mainly dead. So I don't know who wrote
this obituary, but he'll win zero Pulitzers. Not a friend obviously.
(06:58):
You know what, I think the smartestes typewriter tapper in
America might be Peggy Noonan. She is a brilliant currently
editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, Longsbury to Reagan
speechwriter et cetera her analysis of the Trump Peace Deal
and Trump and all it blew away virtually everything else
(07:20):
I read. Well, that's overstates it, because I read some
good stuff. It was, it was uniquely wise. So we'll
share that with you. You have some of that for us,
because I actually haven't read it. I just saw a
link to it, and uh oh it's so good. Yeah,
so good. It doesn't surprise. Let's start the show officially.
That'll give us a little something to talk about. And
we got clips of the week today. I'm not going
to forget it because I've forgotten the last two weeks,
(07:43):
and I've gotten the buzzer, and I've gotten all the
harsh criticism that comes with forgetting clips of the weeks.
We are going we would have won a Marconi by
now if you weren't so damn forget the probably instead
it went to some chick fighting communism, right, some brave
crusader forr I don't know something. Starting the show officially,
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It's Friday,
October tenth, the year twenty twenty five, where I'm strong
(08:04):
and getty, and we approve of this program. All right,
let's go officially now. According to FCC rules and regulations,
the show begins at Mark no balls in a straight
has breaks his bat, Kirk ring gotta fight. It goes
to the play. Oh my goodness, it throws it away,
and the Dodgers have one for Dodgers when and the
(08:28):
they are moving on to the NLCS. And the pitcher
stands there with his hands on his knees, staring the ground,
trying to sink into the ground will never be seen again.
So that's good. Un So it's the bottom of the
eleventh inning, bases loaded elimination game to go to the
(08:51):
league Championship Series. I mean it's high drama, yeah, And
the pitcher makes the sort of error I make playing
little league baseball, and all your the other players look
at you like, how did you do that? Jack? Good lord?
Wi are you on my team? A Major league baseball player?
Did it? Little teak? Beyond the scenes, Michaelangelo is off.
Executive producer Mike Hanson is running the board. He is
(09:13):
on the microphone. Hanson what Mike Hanson actual actual little
league coach and a longtime baseball coach. If a twelve
year old made that mistake, you shake your head and
you think, all right, we got to keep working on
that stuff. Fourteen year old makes that mistake, or sixteen
year old, you'd think, come on, we've gone over this.
(09:35):
The play's are one major leaguer does that? You're thinking,
I guess I'll go play golf. That's what you're thinking
because your season is over. Yeah, that was something. And
he you know, he was the best player on his
little league team as a kid, and then his high
(09:56):
school team, and the best player on his college team. Sure,
and been in the major leagues for a long time,
and then he does that. Yeah, what I would like
to know is and a lot of it was cool
because in team sports you should have the attitude is
we wouldn't lose as a team, and blah blah blah
all that for real. But man, all the players that
came over to try to you know, say it's okay
(10:17):
or whatever. But the manager really grabbed him and talked
to him for a long time. Did you see that
when he was going into the tunnel I with I
thought was cool. I would love to know what he
said to him, because he talked to him for quite
a while. Did he say to him, Look, I think
you're going to become you remember Billy Buckner. I think
you're going to become a household name. There are gonna
be a lot of memes if you'd kill myself, stay
(10:38):
off the internet, stay probably get a new job, change
your name, grow a fake mustache, Listen to a lot
of jobs in HVAC. These days. The trades are hot.
But you probably it's over for you. Everything you've ever
cared about is over? Is that what he said? He
can go key coach at college, well, high school team,
but they're going to bring it up all the time.
(10:59):
Even as a coach in the high school team, every player,
every year, the new freshman's gonna say, what was it
like that? One time? And you made the most embarrassing
play anybody'd ever seen on national television. Son, I got
a question for you. If John Wilkes Booth was still alive,
how often do you think they'd ask him about acting?
Never is the answer? Never shooting Lincoln. This is your
shooting Lincoln. Okay, Oh he must not have known there
(11:24):
was two outers. I forgot there was two out there.
Who knows well yeah, wells as not only a former
baseball player but a pitcher. You are so close to
home plate and you have a force out anywhere, it's
easy to forget that. The guy on third was poised
like a sprinter halfway up the line to come home.
(11:45):
The batter was screwing himself into the batter's box trying
to hit the ball. He's still standing there. You've got
all day to throw to first. But the temptation look
home plates right there. It's such a short play it well,
and it was a terrible throw. So, I mean, not
only was it the wrong place, but it was the
catcher couldn't catch it. Well, he rushed it because he
(12:06):
had to rush it. But enough baseball talk. Probably Well,
I didn't want to make a baseball talk. I wanted
to make it failing in life talk, which anybody can
relate to. I mean, just a huge, huge, giant Oh
my god, how did I make this mistake? How am
I going to live with this? How am I going
to forget that I did this? Right? Wow, it's a
(12:28):
two foot putt to win the Masters scenario, although you
know they weren't necessarily gonna win, but they would have
stayed alive anyway, poor kid, I don't know what you
could relate it to another life like you. I don't know.
You didn't get the paperwork in on a giant business
deal all time or something. I don't know what. But
that is rough. That is rough. We do have clips
(12:50):
of the week. We got headlines from Katie Green coming up.
We got the text line I'm wearing a Dodger's hat today.
Here you go, I got there. I got the right
metaphor for you. You've just closed a zillion dollar deal
with a real hard assed businessman and you text your
boss what an a hole this guy is, but you
accidentally text the client that's a good one and lose
(13:14):
the deal. A woman says she'll marry you, Yes, gorgeous
gal charm, as long as you're on time for dinner tonight.
And you get the a MPM wrong on your uh
alarm clocks. Okay, we got to take a breaks the here.
Remember how I ended up in the er from drinking
(13:36):
too much coffee a couple of months ago. I gotta
I gotta watch that today. I'm kinda kind of hitting
the coffee head, kind of getting wound tight. Here, gotta
take her down. A notch. Yeah, I'll end up there
and the all them things on my chest, in my
head and then measuring my heart deep breaths or breathe
into a bag or something.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I just don't understand why you continue to drink too
much coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
It's like being an alcoholic. It's it factors into being
an alcoholic. Why do you keep drinking when you're already
hammered drunk fair enough? Why did not mysecond still remember
one of my problems? All right, let's figure out who's
reporting what. It's the lead story with the sober Katie Green,
Katie from ABC News.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Ceasefire is in effect as IDF repositions.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So one of the most amazing parts of the agreement
is uh is Israel pulling out a gaza. Nobody would
have ever suspected that that was going to be, you know,
sort of thing that they would get an agreement on. Yeah,
with a force to replace them, and they're pulling out
notch by notch too. It's worth rememory. Oh and I
(14:43):
don't know if you if I'm stealing your headline, but
this is one of the biggest headlines of the day.
We're taking we're sending a couple of one hundred US troops.
A couple hundred US troops. I mean, that is so
anti maga ish. I can't even imagine if I haven't
heard any blowback or seen any blowback though on it. Yeah,
there are non combat support roles allegedly, but more on
(15:04):
that to come. But you're right, that's a huge hit
off from NBC News.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Trump to get semi annual physical after previous check up
back in spring.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I just saw him sitting at the desk there in
the Oval office talking to reporters. I feel great, feel great.
I'm headed over there now to get checked and then
we'll get the hilarious results height and weight that don't
seem to match up with his mosique and the statement
that he is the healthiest man of his age ever,
he's healthier than most twenty three year old Olympic athletes, etc.
(15:36):
From the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Americans are falling behind on their car payments.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yes, we are going to dive deep into this. It's
like record setting, falling behind all time record setting. It
is troubling. It's weird that we have a population that
is completely self indulgent to the point of spending itself
into oblivion and government. That's just the same.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
From the New York Post, Florida man stole seven thousand
dollars in scratch off lottery tickets and then returned to
the same store to redeem.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Them just hours later. That's a guy with a good plan.
That is a well thought out plan, Sir.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
From Study Fines Runny noses black toenails and quote corgasms
seven weird ailments that can be triggered by exercise.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Umm, I'd like to know what a coregasm is. We're
gonna have to look into that. We'll get to that
story later. That sounds like a good Friday story, Oh boyd.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
And finally, from the Babylon b Trump broker's historic peace
deal between Yankees and Red Sox fans.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Say, good luck might be a little harder than what
he's engaged in right now. So I'll bring you Heggy
Newton's fabulous perspective on the peace deal coming up in
a few minutes, and then we'll figure out what orgasm is. Yeah,
a couple one hundred US troops to Gaza. That's that's
that is amazing that that has slipped in the last
(17:10):
twenty four hours and haven't heard what the JD Vance
crowd things of that, but we'll talk more about that later.
A lot of good stuff if you missed a segment
good the podcast Armstrong and Getty. Oh my god, I
was just reading an amazing article about AI and the
New York Times, which includes one of the top AI
scientists in the world who's a professor at some university
(17:32):
who can't sleep at night currently so convinced AI is
going to destroy humankind. His close friend and collaborator, who
happens to work for Meta, says that's going to be great.
And they're friends and both study the same thing. Anyway,
more on that later. Good Lord. Yeah, I have a great,
(17:52):
great deal to say on that topic, but I will
remain disciplined for once and move on. We have that
fabulous Peggy Noonon analysis of the Trump the Israel Hamas
peace deal. But first it's time to take fond look
back at the week that was its cow Clips of
the Week eclips as.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
The ooh ya, Navy, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Doing the Super Bowl half done show.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I wanted you to know that I'm not dying and
I'm not ready to die yet.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
No, you're disrespectful, you're entitled and you're being primosed right now.
King James's highly anticipated announcement. It turned out to be
an ad Sanchez again advanced towards the driver, saying, the
driver thought this guy's trying to kill me. Both Israel
and Hamas have signed on to the first phase of
his twenty point piece plan. The world has come together
(18:54):
around this deal. It's gonna be a different world. Do
you guys have to say a President Trump, you gotta
start working out and put the bottle down, because I
really want to see how this all plays. I love
it that we need at least fifty of the Palestinian
government to be trans women and two phase real I
(19:19):
uh tolt this flag that from that man that was
burning it in the streets. Do you know who he is?
That're the Attorney general and let's start prosecutions. Senator, I
don't think a lot of people like they were out
rotesting with a team box. You're a vehicle driven by
Border patrol agents, was allegedly rammed and boxed in by
two cars. One of the things I've been dealing with
(19:41):
all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies.
So when this person is committing six or seven crimes.
I don't know his or her story. Maybe they were
abused as a child, maybe they're hungry. And then this
is the most stupid thing I think I've ever witnessed
in Washington, DC. You're a complete total embarrassment. Yeah, you're
(20:01):
embarrassing yourself in your district right now. So I'm anxious
to immure the to her. J Jones sent texts that
imagine shooting the Republican Speaker of the House. Can you
tell me why my phone records when I'm the chairman
of the Judiciary Committee were sought by the Jack Smith agents.
(20:25):
What do you say to the forty percent of California
voters who you'll need in order to win, who voted
for Trump? How would I need them in order to win?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Man? Well to those voters, Okay, so you I don't
want to keep doing this, I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh, thank you, and mistake could lose four you're out
of my phone shop. The Hey, no, that's too many
things that have happened this week. Here by declaire, we
need fewer things to happen. I would say three a day,
four if the fourth one is fun. Four things can
(20:59):
happen per day and that's enough. But it's a week
that Katie Porter woman would like to try again.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Get out of my shot.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I'm not a shot. You herbungulous. She has she has
got to be one of those people that has hundreds
of persons in her wake rooting for her to fail
because she has made them so angry. Correct. Correct, We
could philosophize on that, but we don't really have time.
Let's see the other side I was going to make.
I can wait. So my two favorite analyses of the
(21:32):
peace deal. First one comes from a trio of reporters
in the Wall Street Journal who really highlight the fact
that forever the tradition has been your lower level guys,
your diplomats work for weeks, months, years to iron out
differences behind the scenes, getting way, way way into the
weeds and the neuchet and only when that is hashed
(21:55):
out do the leaders swoop in and say we have
a deal. And Trump did it upside down. He said,
you agree to the basics, right, you agree to the basics. Right,
we have an agreement. We're going to hash out the details.
But if anybody flakes, somebody kill you. In essence, that's
a grosser of simplification. Of the pressures he could exert
as the president of the United States. But that's essentially
(22:15):
the way it went, and it's you know, you'll get paywalled.
I'd put the link up, but I'm not sure you
can get to it. But it's great analysis. It's a
very different way to do things. It's very real estate developers.
But my fave of I heard somebody saying yesterday about
how it was an advantage that he doesn't come with
any ideological baggage of like really being invested in the
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Palestinian cause if here on that side, or you know,
Christenham being saved along with Judeo blah blah, and he
has none of that. It's just right making a deal
with all of that extraneous stuff not involved. I actually
heard somebody who I really like and respect talking, but
they come at a lot of this from an academic background,
and we're mentioning all sorts of paradigms and structural analyses
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and theories of governmental organization and interaction and the rest
of it. Sometimes that stuff helps, sometimes it's just academic
claptrap in my opinion anyway, So Peggy Noonan with a
great piece in the Journal. I'm gonna skip over a
bunch of it and summarize it for you. First of all,
she says, give Trump your applause. Fully, she has a
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wink at how Trump and his announcement was that it
was a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one
of the greatest days ever in civilization, and that is funny.
She describes the multi part piece plan. She says, here,
any reliable pundit would counsel caution, it could all fall apart.
My joy may be premature, all true, but I'll take
my joy premature, bartender. She makes the point that you've
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been making. We haven't come this close and forever, really,
And then she talks about the Barnman and Bailey aspect
of the Trump administration, not the chaos, but like the
color or the human, non gray academic feel to it.
Talks about Trump's support, but then she gets to the
part I really like, I want to pay tribute to
(24:11):
the wonderful, creative insanity Donald Trump can display on the
international front. At moments when the Mideast is blowing up,
American presidents always begin to ape the language, preoccupations, and
granular knowledge of the regional experts, some of whom follow
from White House to White House. It's always into the
weeds with them. The settler issue may complicate the loan
guarantee schedule if the sixty seven lines are even retrievable.
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It was all opaque and meaningless and meant to be.
That isn't what mister Trump did in this crisis. He
looked at the whole complicated picture, the long history, the
writing etched on the stones of the oldest archaeological sites,
and said, that's fabulous. Beachfront property going a waste. We
can build a luxury resort with hotels, casinos, beaches, a
slide for the kids. And she says, decorous bordellos with
(24:56):
golden stairways. Actually, what he said in February was that goaz,
it could be the riviera of the Middle East. It
has the best weather, etc. Generated those Ai pictures that
we all chuckled at. A few days later, Peggy Wrice,
I saw a friend who knows his foreign affairs, and
he said, do you believe the idiocy of this guy?
And I surprised him. I kind of liked it. I
think I love it, I said, because it was absurdist.
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And here's the part, Peggy Noon is so smart because
it was absurdist. It changed the picture you have in
your head. It was a reorienting thought. The world knows
it's ridiculous, and yet yeah, that land would come cheap
and it could be a gold mind gold mine. It
was so trumpion. He thinks everything can be a big
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building with his name on it. But in his insane way,
he was saying, imagine it differently, and for a second
you did. The region is full of greedy, grasping men
on all sides. They feel more secure in their palaces
when their people are employed. And an eighteen year old
boy on the street would think, I'd like to not
live in a sand hole. But we're a tuxedo and
a casino with girls and sequins walking by. Can't we
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rely on simple human vice for progress anymore? I'd like
to not live in a sand hole. Yes, here is
something the world needs more of. It comes from the
old parable of the prisoners in the cell, and it
has many variations. A handful of prisoners are chained to
a wall in a room and only one of them
can see through the window high up. Instead of saying
the truth, there's nothing out there, just there, he describes
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for his cellmate's beautiful scenes, people strolling on the street,
a pretty girl, the sun is shining. He dies, and
new prisoners dragged in and put in his chains. He
can see the window and they ask what's outside today.
He almost speaks, looks at them, realizes everything. He has
a job give them something to live for. He looks
out the window and says, there's a parade and a
great princess is walking by in all her finery. It
isn't bad to give people something to live for. And
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she says, I close with the special force of the
idiotic idea. Sometimes in life you're an idiot. You make
the investment based on insufficient data because you got a
feeling in your gut. You marry the guy you met
three days ago. Sometimes you go broke and tell your
funny story about the importance of due diligence the young investors.
Sometimes you tell your story about the Elvis Chapelin Vegas
on your thirty eighth anniversary as your grandchildren eat chocolate cake.
(27:07):
It isn't the worst thing to have a good story
to tell, and some do end well, that's it. But
I really really liked that part about how about we
just chuck everything and reimagine what this area could be.
I'll bet Donald Trump doesn't even know what you're talking
about when you talk about the sixty seven lines, I'll
bet he has no concept of that and doesn't care
(27:27):
and doesn't care. Says what difference would that make? What's
that got to do with any right? Right? Yeah? Well,
the Ballthorne declaration, What are you even talking about? Oy?
It's an odd person to quote, and I hesitate to
even mention who I heard say this. It was Donald Rumsfeld,
who had some good ideas and some bad ideas, and
(27:49):
some good ideas he implemented horrifically. But he said something
really interesting. When you have an intractable problem, make it bigger.
And that's what Trump did. And Jared Kushner and I
don't know what Steve Whitkoff's actual involvement was, but his team,
Trump's team, they looked at the Israel Hamas thing Gaza
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October seventh, and they made the problem bigger. The whole
Middle East is screwed up. You have these forces, and
these forces, what if we could get all of them
to agree on precepts? Who do we have to punch
in the mouth and who do we have to bribe
and they went to work. Yeah, And as we were
talking about yesterday, one of his greatest strengths is he
doesn't care what anybody thinks. And one of his biggest,
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you know things that holds him back is he doesn't
care what anybody thinks. But they're pointing out this morning
on MSNBC the amazing thing that was him going to
Middle East and visiting all those Arab countries and not
going to Israel. How many times do you hear is
the first time a US president has gone to the
Middle East and not visited Israel. He went to all
those Arab countries, met with all those people talking about
(28:53):
this stuff apparently, and skipped Israel. He didn't care that
no president had ever done that before. The the detractors
say that is as a bad look, but he didn't care.
It signals blah blah blah. Right, a few weeks later,
a few days later, nobody cared and yeah, right, and
he reached out to bbe if he thought it was necessary,
and obviously things worked out fine. Well, the point was
(29:16):
it made all those Arab leaders think, Okay, he's serious
about trying to, you know, figure out our end of
the deal, right right, absolutely true. And this all follows
on the heels of his courageous for some reason finally saying, yeah,
the capital of Israel is Jerusalem, Norse, it is shocking,
(29:38):
Earth's shaking. Oh my god, President's setting. Every president has
said it, but nobody would let them do it. And
the Trump said, what the hell are we doing here? Yeah,
that's a good one quick before we take a break,
just because you brought it up. I've been watching the
Tucker Carlson nine to eleven documentary in five parts. I'm
two parts in anyway, it's got some rumspelled clips on it.
(29:59):
And I've always wondered why people mock the Donald Rumsfeld
moment where he talked about their known unknowns their unknown unknowns,
and it's always mocked, And I think that's a brilliant
way to look at things. Oh yeah, yeah, why is
that mocked? Like silly or simplified or something. I don't
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know why that is. It has been something like a
word game of some sort. I don't know. I don't
know either. That's a great way to look at at
life or problems. Yeah, we got known knowns, known unknowns
and unknown unknowns, right, I don't know. I don't know
why that's a problem. Anyway, we got mailbag on the way,
a bunch of other stuff stay here. So you know,
(30:42):
a job I would like to have if I were smarter,
I'd like to be an AI jail breaker. I was
just reading about that in the Times. That would be
a cool job. We'll explain that in our two really
interesting AI story. Also, I've been reading Katie's thing she
brought us earlier. Running noses, black toenails, and coregasms, weird
(31:03):
ailments that can be triggered by exercising and trap running nose.
I'm familiar with black toenails. I'd rather not have. But
the third one is the intriguing. Well, there's a couple
others that I won't even say right now, rough things
that can happen when you're exercising. Here's your freedom love
you quote of the day. It's from Gina Jenny Rimetti,
whoever that is, and it doesn't really matter. Continuing our
(31:26):
finishing up our series on change, I like this one.
Growth and comfort do not coexist. Wow, that is. I
like a lot of these, but the want to write
them down and carry them in my pocket or few
and far between. I want to write that one down
and garriyt in my pocket. Yeah say it again. Growth
(31:46):
and comfort do not coexist. So true pain as now
you end up with black fingernails and toenails in the gym.
I'm familiar with this phrase. Pain is the touch tone
of spiritual growth. It's a very similar thing. Now now, wow,
comfort does not go along with growth. That's a good one.
More or less. Yes, a mailbag drops note mail bag
(32:11):
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Here's a note from David.
If I'm arrested in California and sam a female, I
go to female prison. If I sam a furry do
I go to it kennel? Yes, I don't know. If
you want to eat a kettle with a bunch of
bit bull puppies, then he says, Jack, the kid cooking
breakfast thing is not that amazing. Getting them to clean
(32:32):
up would be the amazing thing. Took me five years
to get them to at least put the dishes in
the sink. Another two to the dish offer. That's from
the One More Thing podcast the other day. If you
didn't hear it, you should be listening to that on
a regular basis. That doesn't air on the radio show. Right,
we have plenty of serious stuff about the Middle East.
Maybe we'll carve out a part of the show to
read your thoughts on that later. But sticking with the
(32:53):
more lighthearted stuff here, what about the protesters? Bury from
Thailand rights very concerned? What will to Tunberg do with
her life now that her two principal causes are in
the dust? Bind? Let us pray for this lovable little muppet.
Poor girl. I have nothing but compassion for the whirlwind
she got tossed into. Yeah, she is obnoxious, but she
(33:18):
has some incredibly good excuses for being obnoxious. Well, she
was an upset kid with uh autistic kid. Autistic kid,
and then you know, the world grabbed hold of her,
and then that could happen anybody with activist, progressive parents
who thought, yes, people are paying attention to her because
she's cute and young. Let's trot her out moving along.
(33:41):
Republicans suck at messaging, right, Steve from ever Washington, Always true.
Democrats unanimously chose to raise rates on Obamacare at the
end of this year. They chose the sunset date they did,
which explicitly stated in the Inflation Reduction Act of twenty
twenty two, blah blah blah blah. So when Schumer d
Durban and crazy maze from a why catterwall about the
(34:01):
rates going up, Republicans should from Republicans should remind the
American public. The Democrats unanimously chose it to play out
this way. The commercials right themselves. Why are Republicans so
bad at pushing back on like your Sunday talk shows?
They're terrible at it, always have that. I don't know.
They feel like they have to explain everything, like using
(34:23):
the words and approaches of the host, as opposed to saying, no,
you've got this completely wrong. It's backwards. It's the opposite
of what you're claiming. Moving along, number of emails on
Nasty Nasty Katie Porter of California, Guys, I'm down here
in Orange County, behind the Orange Curtain where Katie Porter
was is my former representative. Because of the incident with
(34:47):
her ex husband, she's affectionately known here as missus potato head.
Ah my shot, all right, don't sit on me, uh,
Margaret Rites, I must correct your references and pronunciation to
Katie who is running for governor of California. It's Katie porker,
not Porter. That is childish and wrong. That's even if
you're a woman. Margaret, there's no that's a shot at
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her physique and I don't approve of that. Mike, don't
sit on me. Had nothing to do with that. Wow.
Once again I must disavow what the co host has
said here, I disavow. Yeah, well she brought it on herself.
What an unappealing human being. We have a lot an
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