May 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour one of the Tuesday, May 6, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Why we're in the midst of Jack's final days...
- Joe goes to the Met Gala...
- Three-point shooting in the NBA...
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and Dickie and he
Armsrong Kennedy live from the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Se Se Sen, you are a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He put in the powels of the Armstrong and Getting
Communications Compound. Hey, y'all, Tuesday, we're under the tutelage of
our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hey, who is your laderman? Your local air traffic controllers?
Why is that our general manager?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Our nation's idiotic, antiquated, dysfunctional, dangerous air traffic control system
is under scrutiny, and by Gully, the Secretary of Transportation.
In contrast to the last one, it was useless.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
He says he's gonna fix it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We're gonna have a major all overall bring it into
the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, I'll believe that when I see it. I believe it.
I believe it firmly.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There is a guy in the White House, mister non believer,
who was willing to shake things up. I was reading
about the contrast between Pete boot Ed Jedge, who kept
trying to blame the airlines for the miserable state of
our air traffic control system.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And Trump's guy is saying, no, this is terrible. We've
got to rebuild it. That we've got to take on
that challenge.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's great, that is good, but how has it been
this bad for this long? The stories yesterday of well,
fill us in on the headline story that got this
conversation started yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, there was a loss of radar availability for sixty
to ninety seconds at the incredibly busy, dysfunctional Newark Airport
right outside of New York City and forty thousand pass
It carries forty thousand passengers day, and it left the
control tower unable to communicate with any incoming aircraft, which
led to all sorts of chaos and fear and then
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cascading delays.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And for just a minute and a half, they couldn't
talk to anybody, or couldn't hear anybody, didn't know anybody.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Was, and the pilots were just talking to each other saying, hey,
I just heard that they've got no radar contact.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh really, holy cow?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, okay, so everybody was just kind of improvising and
then trying to stay safe during that time. But it
is a beautiful example which was well, I guess so
animated and started literally pounding the table. It is a
perfect example of nobody in government willing to say this
needs to be fixed. Here's what needs to be fixed,
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here's how we're going to fix it. Let's do this.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, they just collect their paychecks and shuffle their paper. Well, right,
get into how long this has been going on. So
then the stories throughout the day of like they got
computers running floppy discs. Yeah, I mean so how many
decades ago is that?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The eighties?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, administration after minute stra has just kind of kicked
the can down the road, to cite the cliche.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So that's the frustrating thing, and everybody should be frustrated.
But even if you're a big government liberal, you should
be frustrated by that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But we spend so much freaking money on so many
freaking things.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, and you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Can't update a computer in air traffic control from something
that uses floppy disks along the way.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, if there were three competing companies and private companies
and one of them was run that poorly, it would
go away in the blink of an eye. It would
go out of business. And and good riddance to it,
because it's a government monopoly. It continues with its its awful, wasteful,
dangerous dysfunction, you know, year after a year, but not anymore.
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I say, put him in alcatra. Whoever is in charge
of that, put him in Alcola drive. Yes, everything. Trump
doubled down. He said, you know who else will put
an alcatraz? Those judges who won't let us do our immigration.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, fill it up and then like go upward, make
it four or five stories high, whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They're gonna put the judges in alcatraz. I feel like
that's a controversial statement.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, but he didn't mean it, Which brings me to
another thing I'm kind of anxious to talk about, excited
to talk about.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Nobody paid attention other than a couple of.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Snippets to Trump's commencement speech at University of Alabama. Matthew
Countinetti did. He watched the whole thing, and he said
it was really an amazing distillation of Trump's life philosophy,
and it struck me in reading it. Essentially, Trump goes
through the ten points he thinks are most important for
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being successful in life.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And number one get a hot wife.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It struck me, and then Trader in when you know
you get tired of her. It struck me that the
media especially spends a lot of time talking about stuff
Trump clearly doesn't mean, and then ignores when he says,
all right, here's what I really believe. And he's clearly
being sincere because it's not as exciting. But we'll go
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through that speech. I think you'll find it interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It won't be nearly as fascinating as the incritasies of
air traffic control, but it'll be good.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I am.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think today's my last day. I think today's the
day I finally die from this disease I've got. So
I suppose anything I've got to say I should say today.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Since I'm probably gonna die.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
How does it work with your last words? I mean,
at doing what we do for a living. You could say, okay,
these are my last words. The only thing that matters
is family and God. But then by contract, we have
to keep talking. So and you'd hate for your last
words to be We'll talk about Trump's commencement speech in
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just a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Stay with us. You know that would be dumb trouble
with the royal family. Those are my last words. That'd
be horrible.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The conclave stretches on, will bring you an update. Yeah,
that would that would be terrible. So let's just designate
your last words then I will I will agree to
promote them as quote unquote your last words, right, that
is it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yes, historians, because historians have obviously would be writing about me,
would say his last words were highlights from the Diddy trial.
Nobody knows why my last words are my last words?
Will be a list of the people I hate the most.
That'll be That's what I'm going to go with. The
enemy's list, exactly. Vengeance right right to the grave.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Right, that is healthy.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Take keep breath right right as they're lowering you, you
should be muttering the names of those.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You hope to take vengeance against in the afterlife.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, and my fourth grade gym teacher him, let's start
the show officially.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, monthly in
now May the six, the year twenty twenty five, war
armstrung and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Okay, let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The show starts at mark.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
His lawyers are aiming to convince the jury the government
is trying to police consensual sex by a swinger who
they say invited others into his bedroom. Yeah, yeah, the
heavy hand of the law.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Wow, consensual adult sex.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right, Friends and neighbors getting together with a createle loob
and enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What's wrong with that? Wow? Bunch of puritans? Right? Poor?
Did he being persecuted? Oh my god, that's the defense.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, and he's got a hell of a team of lawyers.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, well, yeah, we if you're old enough to remember, OJ,
you know, you have some really good, expensive lawyers.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's amazing what they can come up with.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You're gonna hearton himself said that the colors of justice
are not black and white.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The color of justice is green. If you're on that.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Thanks, So Jay, if you're on that jury, are you
going to hear and see some pretty sexy stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna be hardcore porn really in short?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's accurate.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I suppose there'll be a bunch of women and
men there describing in great detail what they did.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Or were forced to do well.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And remember, dude kept loads of video right partly to
enforce omerta. Is that all it's silence, the code of silence? Yeah,
uh so.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, And if it's entered into evidence, you got to
let the jury see it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It'd be easy to get distracted as a jur Oh
that's right, this is a trial.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yes, yes, it could cause unwanted emotional and physical reactions
as you're trying to figure out whether this guy's a
monster who you know, compelled people to perform various acts
sex traffic, so she.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Probably shouldn't like you throw on the jury and you
finally get to your first deliberation. You get in there
in the room, say, let's just start with what was
your favorite part? O? What my favorite part was. Hey,
we'll get to deliberate and in a minute. Yeah, let's
just it's just somebody, it's just everybody lay out.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
What was your favorite part?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What do you think was the hottest part? Oh, my god,
that's I'll bet it's it ends up just being troubling.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, it will be, because there's so much violence and
drugging and everything like that. It's gonna it's gonna turn
pretty sick pretty fast, I think.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Uh yeah, yeah, given his violence against women and testimony
to that effect.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I wonder how many famous people are worried about their
names and pictures and videos all of a sudden coming
up in this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It might be a probably a good number.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, yeah, certainly if you're a New York hip hop
mogul or adjacent to them, perhaps a pop star, movie star, girl,
friend wife, even if you're not like somebody who does
horrible things, you know, particularly want to be have your
name and face attached to some of those parties if.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
People otherwise didn't know you were, you know, adjacent.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
To that lifestyle, right, Yeah, I don't have a firm grasp,
No pun intended on.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Charge you with a thousand bottles of baby oiled to
have a firm grasp to anything, very slipper.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I don't have a firm grasp on the list of
folks who might be called to testify or identified.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But yeah, it'll be uh, it'll be notable.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And then I'm always confused with the jury stuff. So
do you you have to You can't find people that
don't know anything about it. You have to find people
who basically say, I've heard about it, but I don't care.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I just oll like I can. I'll keep it up
in mind. I think I could I really do.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh yeah yeah, Well, for one thing, i'd consider it
like a sacred vow under the Constitution. So yeah, I
got the idea that, yeah, he's kind of a perv
and may have done these things, but now the government
has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. That's an
easy proposition to internalize for me anyway. And what did
our reporter just say there? It's just some adults engaging
in conceptual sex. Quit being such a prude.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So it's funny. A couple of things just clicked into
my head. One of the themes of the Cane Mutiny,
which I just read, the classic World War two novel,
which is just you think you're reading a great book.
Then you get to the end and you realize you've
been reading a really, really great book.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Cool, I've never read it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Just it's again, it's an incredibly compelling narrative. And then
the theme kind of gets flipped on its head at
the end and the author I'm not going to give
away too much here, but the author essentially says, yeah,
how do I I don't want to spoil this even
though it's a many several generations old novel, because you're
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taking on an emotional intellectual journey, very much like the
characters in the novel, and then at the end you
learn something as they're learning something. I will just say that,
and I found it absolutely fascinating and just an author
that brilliant ought have the reputation does Anyway, the.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Book is three quarters of a century old.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I think you get a pass for spoilers on books
that old, but it's up to you.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm thinking about our relationship with the good folks in
the audience.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
They're thinking the Cane Mutiny. I've never read that I'm
gonna read. I don't want to ruin it for them.
Ahab never catches the whale. What you know, I tell
you what.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I will.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Reveal the odd parallel between the Cane Mutiny and our
jury system. Right after this, okay, we got news of
the headlines mail bag, all the stuff Trump's serious about,
the whole pay and illegals to get out of the
buying a plane ticket and giving them some cash to
have him get out. Christi Noma says, one person has
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taken advantage of that program so far, one like the
number one.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hey, it's a start, an acorn, oak tree, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Longest journey, one step, et cetera. Yes, right, all on
the way.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Say here, Mark Alprin writing that really there are two stories,
really only. I mean, if you're following politics, how this
tariff thing turns out and everything else, those are the
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two stories. That's how big the tariff thing is. It's
that and everything else. I mean, this is going to
be insanely disruptive if it goes the way most people predict.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, and it's going to start landing soon.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And nobody's sure exactly how it's gonna go though, who
means what how long it's gonna last? It's just question marks,
pylon question marks. So a couple of things. First of all,
one of the one of the themes, one of the
interesting things said in the King Mutiny is by one
of the officers who was explaining to another guy. Look,
the United States Navy is a system designed by geniuses
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to be run by idiots. In other words, it's designed
so that even if there's an idiot in a position,
it continues to function and minimizes the damage done by
the idiot. I go further down that road because it's
really interesting. But that's what was said. The jury system,
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and I've had the privilege and the really interesting experience
of serving on a handful of juries and being in
a couple more jury pools. It is a system designed
by geniuses.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
To be implemented by idiots.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Every single jury I have been part of, and it's
just been two or three, have had people on there
who scared me. They were incapable of rational thought. So
I understand, Yeah, I assume you have to assume that
that's always the case. I more often than not, I
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would guess. You know, the multiple of anecdote does not
equal data. But the more I saw, the more disturbed
I was. There are some people who react completely emotionally.
They can't think critically. They're easily swayed by their own
prejudices to the point that you think this person is
an idiot. And prosecutors know this, and so that's why
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jury selection is so important, and they're looking for things
you wouldn't even guess. They just want people who can
listen to evidence.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I'd go into detail, but we're pressed for time. Can't
wait for Katie to get back tomorrow so she can
handle the news headlines during this segment Number one, because
it's fun. Number two, it's less work for us, but
a handful of things going on, big stories. First of all,
we've got one guess per hour for our four hours
to talk about the MET gala and the fashions, the
incredible outfits we saw there.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
God, that is. The coverage that that gets is just incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It is so for those familiar with our reference it's
a reenactment of the Capital from the Hunger Games movies.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, I've never seen.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
A super rich adorned in bizarro fashions completely drowning in
their own self regard, living in a world that's so
foreign from the rest of ours, and it's unrecognizable from
either side. Well, right, And it fits in with a
theme I've mentioned, like in the last week or so,
about the number of people in America that don't want
to live that lifestyle and the people who live that
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lifestyle don't believe it. Trust me, I don't want to
be at the gal at the MET. It's not because
I'm jealous or anything like that. I sincerely actually don't
want to be part of that crowd and not out
of any sort.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Of reverse makes me cool. I just think it's.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Ridiculous because you don't know what designer to go with,
Armani or Gavinci.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So all your talk about it, you're not making me
feel like I'm left out or anything.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
So Israel proved plans to seize all of the Gaza strip,
Germany's in chaos because their newly formed government just got
voted out. Essentially, it's really pretty interesting and some really
fun conclave history. If you're into the Pope coming up,
stay with us.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
More to come, Armstrong and Getty games off to Brown
Bridges there they want to come back. You're gonna game
one when for New York. A couple of upsets last night.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Denver upset okay See and the Knicks upset the Celtics
game one of the semi finals. Great games. Knicks were
down by twenty. But here's the interesting thing. I'm watching
more basketball because I'm sick. I'm seeing more. But the
sport has changed so much. There was a record set
last week in three pointers. Celtics beat it. Last night
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they lost by one basket in overtime, missing forty.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Five three pointers the game is just so different.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
People come flying down the court on a fast break,
doesn't matter. If there's no defense under the basket, you
could get wide open shots of any length. Everybody takes
a three pointer as if that's the only option. That's
just the way the game is now. And I don't
know why they've all decided that's a good idea. Why
there isn't a team that has said, hey, you know,
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for the last eighty years of the sport, you throw
it to a guy who makes a twelve footer.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And it's a gimme every single time.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But they data, they don't data. They've all done the
cybermetrics thing. They've analyzed if we take a.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Certain number of three point shots so we're more likely
to win.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well, I to.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Assume they know more about it than I do. But
they missed forty five three pointers.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well, Jack, as a student of warfare, you'd be certainly
familiar with this concept. If the defenses evolve to, you know,
defend against that philosophy, that's when you shake it up.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I would think, So, you know, maybe.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You're right, you're actually ahead of your time.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I just came across this. I thought this was.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Really good or writing about again. And then I was
reading this piece today about how there are really only
two political stories out there, the tariff story and everything else.
That's how big the whole tariff thing is, because if
it goes the direction most people are predicting, it'll be
the only story maybe on the planet, the loan in
the United States, and.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Then we'll be dealing with shortages of both pencils and dolls.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
President right, hey, do you have that Coldbert joke? Play
that Coldbert joke about the dolls? It's just too good.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The crazy continued on Air Force One when Trump doubled
down on the dollies.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Fifteen year old does indeed thirty seven dollars, she can
be very happy with two or three or.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Four or five.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Buddy, teen year old girl is not going to be
happy with two or three or four or five dolls,
because a fifteen year old girl isn't happy with anything.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And if you, like me, are a parent of a
teenager and I have, that's what dad, I have.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Boys, It makes me feel better to hear that, because it's.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Just like, how am I failing so badly that he's
constantly miserable?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And it's notably different with girls too. There's a special Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
My god, if it's another level of that, I can't
even imagine.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, it's difficult to describe.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And I don't know how many fifteen year old girls
want dolls, even in their best moods.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's a toy friend a younger set.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But yeah, but the point remains cheap excess to consumerism,
blah blah blah. I don't agree with him. Well, I
agree with him philosophically, but not governmentally.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But here's the writing I was talking about. They're talking
about Trump's inner circle and everything like that, and uh
elon Musk, you know, Stephen Miller, a variety of people
around him. While there's no doubt that these vote, these
folks are very wealthy and very professionally successful attack and
other endeavors. As one close observer of the cohort told
me Monday night on the topic, they really believe they
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know everything, and you'd be amazed.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
At how little they actually know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
This is the thing I talk about a lot because
I've I've observed.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
This in my life over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Anybody that's success, not anybody, but most people who are
successful in any area of life think they know everything
about every other area. Also, it's just the way we're billed,
I guess, and I'm sorry. Who are we talking about here,
specifically the people around Trump, the inner circle of reality
of geniuses who say this is gonna work out. You're Lutnix,
you're Elon's, you're whoever, who have jumped on boorm and
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that has been my experience, and this in this person
anonymously telling Mark Alburn, they really believe they know everything,
you'd be amazed at how little they actually know. And
I think that's quite possibly the case with some of
these people who have come in. And then he goes
on to say, one of history's great error is that
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far too many smart people don't know that.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The Halberstam title of the famous Vietnam War book.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
The Best in the Brightest was meant ironically, smartest folks
in the world who presided over many, many mistakes and dumbness. Yeah, yeah,
you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
A little closer to home, Jack and I've been discussing
this for many, many years, having had a long, mediocre
career together, and that is that as we rose up
from from small towns to medium to big towns to giant,
you know, the number one media market in the world
or in the country. Certainly, we had expected that we
would see higher and higher levels of competence, intelligence, creativity,
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just effectiveness in short, and there wasn't none of that.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But there wasn't nearly as much as we thought.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And there were a plenty of dopes and ineffective people
and fools at the at the highest levels. They were
just wrong about stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And it's so difficult, I think for most Americans to imagine,
for instance, the incredible dishonesty and incompetence of the Biden
White House. You've got a senile fool. I mean, he's
always been a fool, come on, but a senile fool
announcing unconstitutional programs, denying what was clearly true, steering the
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ship of state directly into an iceberg. Also, they could
hang on to their jobs for one more term, get
the old man through the election, then we'll know, we'll
figure out what to do that. But the important part
is we keep our jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, the West wing of the White House was those people.
And it's not impossible to believe.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Trump's got some people around him who may be a
little overconfident about one idea or another.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, as I have said over and over again, and
I mean it, I want to be wrong. I will
happily say, look, wow, they knew what they were doing
all along.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I shouldn't have doubted them. Look at me, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I'm fine saying that six months from now, a year
from now, if this all turns out, right, I.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Share hope it does.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, I just my My great hope is that a
lot of the tariff talk is bluff to get better
trade deals, because our trade deals, many of them, are
bad and can be improved. And all the stuff about
oh I love tariffs, we're gonna we're gonna solve the budget,
We're gonna pay off the debt with tariffs. We're gonna
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on shore all the manufacturing. That's it's a bluff. That'd
be fine if it works. And besides, you'll have too
many pencils anyway. I'm disgusted by the number of pencils
you people have. I look at you, either come out
of your ears, out of your pockets. Oh, pencils everywhere exactly. Yeah,
that actually factors in a mailbag, weirdly enough, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Jon Stewart has a funny clip about Trump and his
view of toys.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Oh on, they don't need to have two hundred and
fifty pencils, they can have five.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Trump has such a Depression era of view of what
kids play with in twenty twenty five. Tends don't need
twenty sets of those hoops you hit with a stick
as you go down the street.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Just one hoop is Jim Dandy.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
So he used some odd examples, the point being yes,
cheap Chinese goods and consumerism, etc.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I'm on board coming up later.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I'm working on crafting this in a way that does
not drain your life force from you and make you
wish for death. The upcoming battle over Medicaid is so important,
and it is going to be some of the worst,
most stupid demagogy politics you've ever seen in your life.
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In fact, it's already begun. The Republicans are coming after
your medicaid. Medicaid is a scam, not not at its core,
but it's become this money spigot, state government scam that
needs so desperately to be straightened out, and it the
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amount of growth in Medicaid dwarfs all the other social
security type programs. The entitlement programs really important. We'll try
to explain it in a way that is understandable. What
did you get What time did you get back from
the met gala last night? I know you were your
giant Statue of Liberty costume. Oh like two thirty in
the morning, right, Yeah, Well, I went to an after party,
(26:48):
then an after after party. I was at jay Z's
after party. You know, we talked a little about Diddy,
but you kept your voice down, and.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I saw you with a Kadashian Al Sharpton. Yeah, some
twenty five year old pop singer.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I didn't know. Yeah, Oduo Lipa.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
We danced a lot and she tried to make a move.
It was late, she was drunk. I said, no, no,
I'm married. No, hey, this has been fun, but hands off, sweetheart,
and I knew it was time to go home.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Exactly. You don't want to get yourself in trouble. So
we got mail bag coming up next day. Here, this
is a good text. We got Sean Diddy. Combs is
guilty of one thing. He loved too much and way
too weirdly.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
To continue our discussion from the last segment, a longtime
friend of mine In Friend of the Show, Mike the
Lawyer in Chicago says there's an incredible bias in the
legal community of big city lawyers against country lawyers. They
think they're smarter and better because they make more money.
But there's also a saying among lawyers with wisdom that says,
somebody tells you I'm just a country.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Lawyer, You're probably going to lose.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
They're just as bright, if not brighter, than so many
city lawyers.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Center. That's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I got a friend who moved from California to Tennessee
and his kids. He's not a California He's from the Midwest. Actually,
he moved with his family who had grown up in
California to Tennessee small town, and his kids thought they
were going to walk into school and be so far
ahead all and they were so far behind all the
other kids.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Oh yeah, he said.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Everybody in the California thinks they're smarter than everybody else,
but they're not.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How interesting. Yeah, some of the best, most talented people
we've ever known in the radio business decided, no, I'm
going to make my life and raise my children in
Cincinnati or you know, Jolie Illinois or whatever. They're every
bit as talented and smart as anybody else. They just
made a different life choice.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Here's to you in your life choices, friends, Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day from the great Patrick Henry.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will
be secure when the transactions of their rulers may be
concealed from them. Oh Man, Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, that's that
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you're resting in peace right now.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
The transactions of our rulers are so incredibly opaque and
complex it would take a lifetime study to understand one
one thousandth of them.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Mailbag, Well, we'll keep trying.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Drop his note mail bag at Armstrong you getty dot
com is our email address.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Mail bagget Armstrong, you getty dot com.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
On the topic of the rock reopening, Alcatraz is a
prison Alvin and Berkeley right there by the ock, says
Nancy Pelosi can see Alcatraz from her mansion on Russian Hill.
Should she be worried?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I hope so he can a stick Nancy Pelosi at Alcatraz.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Back to the kentupy can Entucky derby horse. Not to
beat a dead horse, but rites Kevin, I was thinking,
what could be even more appropriate than a horse named
Sovereignty to win the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Under our current political climate would.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Have been the horse named journalism win, only to have
been disqualified later for doping while beaten ridden by an
illegal alien MS thirteen gang member with a free Palestine
neck tattoo. That's about the state of journalism. Yes, journalism
the horse performed well better than journalism the profession, but
(30:33):
it did not win. If Journalism the profession ran in
the Kentucky Derby, it would have stumbled out of the
gate and crawled to the finish an hour after the
other horses had won or finished. There's nothing but Congress
with a lower approval rating than journalism. Right now, let's
see different topic. Trump's dolls and pencils. Eric, who is
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a construction guy, says, dere big freedoman jack the What
does that say?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
On the topic of abundance and pencils. I use the
pencils from our home for my professional fence gardening layout stuff,
and I get the idea. Sometimes they disappear because he's
using them for work. This irritated the Princess. I turned
to Amazon where I purchased three hundred pencils for a
few ducats. I proceeded to add pencils to every possible
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place in our home. We need to keep our trade
relations with China, so it can continue to troll my
wife or we could be adults. So she was gripe
and had him for their lack of pencils, So he
bought three hundred of them and sprinkles them everywhere.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That is some good marital trolling.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I remember when I was that way with the kids
when they were little. I get so frustrated over there
was never a binkie around when I needed one. I
wanted to have so many binkies in the house that
you walked ankle deepened binkies from room to room so
there was always one at hand.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
M let's see mess rights, Dear ang. This includes a
coarse word for testicles, and I apologize for using it
in advance. Once again, you two of parading around the
unwelcome idea that microplastics and men's balls are the reason
for declining birth rates. I say, nay, I blame American chicks.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Plastics started taking a foothold in the sixties. Feminism took
a stronger foothold in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The timeline for both fits.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
But are other species also showing the precipitous decline in
birth rates? Have baboons lost their desire to mate? Our
raccoons invulnerable to having plastic in their balls, even though
they wallow around in our dumpsters? And are the men
in Afghanistan and every other neanderthal country somehow more resilient
to the microplastics?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Imp? No, they all do lack feminism.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well I don't know about that point, but yeah, it
doesn't seem to be effecting the birth rate of your
hellholes for whatever reason. And they got as much plastic,
if not more, right? Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, I don't That's an interesting thought. I don't know,
but I appreciate the note. How about this? John no
Age rites guys? Uh oh omg. He writes, he listened
to the podcast yesterday. I've officially been lectured more by
you than my own mother about having kids sooner rather
than later. I'm starting to get antsy over here listening
to the podcast. Let's not make this a regular thing. No,
(33:18):
I was not hectoring anybody to having kids, have kids younger.
I was just saying that having Judy and I had
our kids young by today's standards, and you never hear
anybody advocating for the ways in which that's really really good.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying you should.
I'm just saying that nobody ever explains the advantages of it,
for some reason, because you're going against the tide, I
guess or the.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't know. I think the advantages seem obvious, and
I did it the other way around. Yeah. Yeah, anyway,
let's see do we have time for this year? We
do excellent.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Frequent correspondent Powello writes, guys, there's some controversy over the
public funding of religious schools. I should mention I've got
some trumpy emails here for mailbag, but we've talked enough
about Trump this hour, so kind of skip them for now.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
We'll get to them later.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
But there's some controversy about the public funding of religious
schools because that could amount to state sponsored religion.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That would not be good, and he quotes The New
York Times.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
The main question in the case is whether the First
Amendment permits states to sponsor and if finance, religious charge schools.
In other words, the Supreme Court is deciding whether charter schools,
which are publicly funded and privately run are fundamentally private
or public, and Paolo says, that's fine question, but why
does it matter? The relevant question is how do we
most effectively teach children the things that we all agree
are important for them to learn, and not impose a
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state sponsored religion while we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
How about this, there's.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
The three RS set of things everybody. Everybody agrees we
want children to be taught. Any schools certified to teach
that required curriculum can teach it. The state will provide
schools that teach that curriculum and only that curriculum public schools,
or it will call those. In addition, the state will
pay any school certified to teach the required curriculum some
fixed amounts, and the schools so certified will be measured
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by testing whatever means are appropriate to you. Sure they're
effectively teaching anything else they teach beyond that is What
is required is between the parents and the schools. It
doesn't add up to the states sponsoring a religion. Yeah,
I agree completely, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
School choice Friends, school choice.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
More and more states are are moving more and more
in that direction, and as we discussed several days ago,
the data so far is glowing school choice works.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
So if you miss a segment or now, we can
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We got a lot more news of the day and
there's lots happening to come, so stay
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and Dickie and he
Armsrong Kennedy live from the studio.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Se Se Sen, you are a dimly lit room.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He put in the powels of the Armstrong and Getting
Communications Compound. Hey, y'all, Tuesday, we're under the tutelage of
our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Hey, who is your laderman? Your local air traffic controllers?
Why is that our general manager?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Our nation's idiotic, antiquated, dysfunctional, dangerous air traffic control system
is under scrutiny, and by Gully, the Secretary of Transportation.
In contrast to the last one, it was useless.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
He says he's gonna fix it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We're gonna have a major all overall bring it into
the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, I'll believe that when I see it. I believe it.
I believe it firmly.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
There is a guy in the White House, mister non believer,
who was willing to shake things up. I was reading
about the contrast between Pete boot Ed Jedge, who kept
trying to blame the airlines for the miserable state of
our air traffic control system.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And Trump's guy is saying, no, this is terrible. We've
got to rebuild it. That we've got to take on
that challenge.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
It's great, that is good, but how has it been
this bad for this long? The stories yesterday of well,
fill us in on the headline story that got this
conversation started yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, there was a loss of radar availability for sixty
to ninety seconds at the incredibly busy, dysfunctional Newark Airport
right outside of New York City and forty thousand pass
It carries forty thousand passengers day, and it left the
control tower unable to communicate with any incoming aircraft, which
led to all sorts of chaos and fear and then
(02:08):
cascading delays.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And for just a minute and a half, they couldn't
talk to anybody, or couldn't hear anybody, didn't know anybody.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Was, and the pilots were just talking to each other saying, hey,
I just heard that they've got no radar contact.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh really, holy cow?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, okay, so everybody was just kind of improvising and
then trying to stay safe during that time. But it
is a beautiful example which was well, I guess so
animated and started literally pounding the table. It is a
perfect example of nobody in government willing to say this
needs to be fixed. Here's what needs to be fixed,
(02:42):
here's how we're going to fix it. Let's do this.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, they just collect their paychecks and shuffle their paper. Well, right,
get into how long this has been going on. So
then the stories throughout the day of like they got
computers running floppy discs. Yeah, I mean so how many
decades ago is that?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
The eighties?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, administration after minute stra has just kind of kicked
the can down the road, to cite the cliche.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So that's the frustrating thing, and everybody should be frustrated.
But even if you're a big government liberal, you should
be frustrated by that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But we spend so much freaking money on so many
freaking things.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, and you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Can't update a computer in air traffic control from something
that uses floppy disks along the way.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, if there were three competing companies and private companies
and one of them was run that poorly, it would
go away in the blink of an eye. It would
go out of business. And and good riddance to it,
because it's a government monopoly. It continues with its its awful, wasteful,
dangerous dysfunction, you know, year after a year, but not anymore.
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I say, put him in alcatra. Whoever is in charge
of that, put him in Alcola drive. Yes, everything. Trump
doubled down. He said, you know who else will put
an alcatraz? Those judges who won't let us do our immigration.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, fill it up and then like go upward, make
it four or five stories high, whatever it takes.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
They're gonna put the judges in alcatraz. I feel like
that's a controversial statement.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, but he didn't mean it, Which brings me to
another thing I'm kind of anxious to talk about, excited
to talk about.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Nobody paid attention other than a couple of.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Snippets to Trump's commencement speech at University of Alabama. Matthew
Countinetti did. He watched the whole thing, and he said
it was really an amazing distillation of Trump's life philosophy,
and it struck me in reading it. Essentially, Trump goes
through the ten points he thinks are most important for
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being successful in life.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And number one get a hot wife.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It struck me, and then Trader in when you know
you get tired of her. It struck me that the
media especially spends a lot of time talking about stuff
Trump clearly doesn't mean, and then ignores when he says,
all right, here's what I really believe. And he's clearly
being sincere because it's not as exciting. But we'll go
(05:10):
through that speech. I think you'll find it interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
It won't be nearly as fascinating as the incritasies of
air traffic control, but it'll be good.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I am.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think today's my last day. I think today's the
day I finally die from this disease I've got. So
I suppose anything I've got to say I should say today.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Since I'm probably gonna die.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
How does it work with your last words? I mean,
at doing what we do for a living. You could say, okay,
these are my last words. The only thing that matters
is family and God. But then by contract, we have
to keep talking. So and you'd hate for your last
words to be We'll talk about Trump's commencement speech in
(05:53):
just a minute.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Stay with us. You know that would be dumb trouble
with the royal family. Those are my last words. That'd
be horrible.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The conclave stretches on, will bring you an update. Yeah,
that would that would be terrible. So let's just designate
your last words then I will I will agree to
promote them as quote unquote your last words, right, that
is it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yes, historians, because historians have obviously would be writing about me,
would say his last words were highlights from the Diddy trial.
Nobody knows why my last words are my last words?
Will be a list of the people I hate the most.
That'll be That's what I'm going to go with. The
enemy's list, exactly. Vengeance right right to the grave.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Right, that is healthy.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Take keep breath right right as they're lowering you, you
should be muttering the names of those.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
You hope to take vengeance against in the afterlife.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, and my fourth grade gym teacher him, let's start
the show officially.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, monthly in
now May the six, the year twenty twenty five, war
armstrung and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Okay, let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The show starts at mark.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
His lawyers are aiming to convince the jury the government
is trying to police consensual sex by a swinger who
they say invited others into his bedroom. Yeah, yeah, the
heavy hand of the law.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Wow, consensual adult sex.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Right, Friends and neighbors getting together with a createle loob
and enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What's wrong with that? Wow? Bunch of puritans? Right? Poor?
Did he being persecuted? Oh my god, that's the defense.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, and he's got a hell of a team of lawyers.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, well, yeah, we if you're old enough to remember, OJ,
you know, you have some really good, expensive lawyers.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's amazing what they can come up with.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You're gonna hearton himself said that the colors of justice
are not black and white.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The color of justice is green. If you're on that.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Thanks, So Jay, if you're on that jury, are you
going to hear and see some pretty sexy stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's gonna be hardcore porn really in short?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's accurate.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I suppose there'll be a bunch of women and
men there describing in great detail what they did.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Or were forced to do well.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And remember, dude kept loads of video right partly to
enforce omerta. Is that all it's silence, the code of silence? Yeah,
uh so.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, And if it's entered into evidence, you got to
let the jury see it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It'd be easy to get distracted as a jur Oh
that's right, this is a trial.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yes, yes, it could cause unwanted emotional and physical reactions
as you're trying to figure out whether this guy's a
monster who you know, compelled people to perform various acts
sex traffic, so she.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Probably shouldn't like you throw on the jury and you
finally get to your first deliberation. You get in there
in the room, say, let's just start with what was
your favorite part? O? What my favorite part was. Hey,
we'll get to deliberate and in a minute. Yeah, let's
just it's just somebody, it's just everybody lay out.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
What was your favorite part?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What do you think was the hottest part? Oh, my god,
that's I'll bet it's it ends up just being troubling.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, it will be, because there's so much violence and
drugging and everything like that. It's gonna it's gonna turn
pretty sick pretty fast, I think.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Uh yeah, yeah, given his violence against women and testimony
to that effect.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I wonder how many famous people are worried about their
names and pictures and videos all of a sudden coming
up in this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It might be a probably a good number.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Yeah, yeah, certainly if you're a New York hip hop
mogul or adjacent to them, perhaps a pop star, movie star, girl,
friend wife, even if you're not like somebody who does
horrible things, you know, particularly want to be have your
name and face attached to some of those parties if.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
People otherwise didn't know you were, you know, adjacent.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
To that lifestyle, right, Yeah, I don't have a firm grasp,
No pun intended on.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Charge you with a thousand bottles of baby oiled to
have a firm grasp to anything, very slipper.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I don't have a firm grasp on the list of
folks who might be called to testify or identified.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But yeah, it'll be uh, it'll be notable.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And then I'm always confused with the jury stuff. So
do you you have to You can't find people that
don't know anything about it. You have to find people
who basically say, I've heard about it, but I don't care.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I just oll like I can. I'll keep it up
in mind. I think I could I really do.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh yeah yeah, Well, for one thing, i'd consider it
like a sacred vow under the Constitution. So yeah, I
got the idea that, yeah, he's kind of a perv
and may have done these things, but now the government
has to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. That's an
easy proposition to internalize for me anyway. And what did
our reporter just say there? It's just some adults engaging
in conceptual sex. Quit being such a prude.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So it's funny. A couple of things just clicked into
my head. One of the themes of the Cane Mutiny,
which I just read, the classic World War two novel,
which is just you think you're reading a great book.
Then you get to the end and you realize you've
been reading a really, really great book.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Cool, I've never read it.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Just it's again, it's an incredibly compelling narrative. And then
the theme kind of gets flipped on its head at
the end and the author I'm not going to give
away too much here, but the author essentially says, yeah,
how do I I don't want to spoil this even
though it's a many several generations old novel, because you're
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taking on an emotional intellectual journey, very much like the
characters in the novel, and then at the end you
learn something as they're learning something. I will just say that,
and I found it absolutely fascinating and just an author
that brilliant ought have the reputation does Anyway, the.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Book is three quarters of a century old.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I think you get a pass for spoilers on books
that old, but it's up to you.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm thinking about our relationship with the good folks in
the audience.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
They're thinking the Cane Mutiny. I've never read that I'm
gonna read. I don't want to ruin it for them.
Ahab never catches the whale. What you know, I tell
you what.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I will.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Reveal the odd parallel between the Cane Mutiny and our
jury system. Right after this, okay, we got news of
the headlines mail bag, all the stuff Trump's serious about,
the whole pay and illegals to get out of the
buying a plane ticket and giving them some cash to
have him get out. Christi Noma says, one person has
(12:56):
taken advantage of that program so far, one like the
number one.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Hey, it's a start, an acorn, oak tree, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Longest journey, one step, et cetera. Yes, right, all on
the way.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Say here, Mark Alprin writing that really there are two stories,
really only. I mean, if you're following politics, how this
tariff thing turns out and everything else, those are the
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two stories. That's how big the tariff thing is. It's
that and everything else. I mean, this is going to
be insanely disruptive if it goes the way most people predict.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, and it's going to start landing soon.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And nobody's sure exactly how it's gonna go though, who
means what how long it's gonna last? It's just question marks,
pylon question marks. So a couple of things. First of all,
one of the one of the themes, one of the
interesting things said in the King Mutiny is by one
of the officers who was explaining to another guy. Look,
the United States Navy is a system designed by geniuses
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to be run by idiots. In other words, it's designed
so that even if there's an idiot in a position,
it continues to function and minimizes the damage done by
the idiot. I go further down that road because it's
really interesting. But that's what was said. The jury system,
(14:29):
and I've had the privilege and the really interesting experience
of serving on a handful of juries and being in
a couple more jury pools. It is a system designed
by geniuses.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
To be implemented by idiots.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Every single jury I have been part of, and it's
just been two or three, have had people on there
who scared me. They were incapable of rational thought. So
I understand, Yeah, I assume you have to assume that
that's always the case. I more often than not, I
(15:09):
would guess. You know, the multiple of anecdote does not
equal data. But the more I saw, the more disturbed
I was. There are some people who react completely emotionally.
They can't think critically. They're easily swayed by their own
prejudices to the point that you think this person is
an idiot. And prosecutors know this, and so that's why
(15:36):
jury selection is so important, and they're looking for things
you wouldn't even guess. They just want people who can
listen to evidence.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I'd go into detail, but we're pressed for time. Can't
wait for Katie to get back tomorrow so she can
handle the news headlines during this segment Number one, because
it's fun. Number two, it's less work for us, but
a handful of things going on, big stories. First of all,
we've got one guess per hour for our four hours
to talk about the MET gala and the fashions, the
incredible outfits we saw there.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
God, that is. The coverage that that gets is just incredible.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It is so for those familiar with our reference it's
a reenactment of the Capital from the Hunger Games movies.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, I've never seen.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
A super rich adorned in bizarro fashions completely drowning in
their own self regard, living in a world that's so
foreign from the rest of ours, and it's unrecognizable from
either side. Well, right, And it fits in with a
theme I've mentioned, like in the last week or so,
about the number of people in America that don't want
to live that lifestyle and the people who live that
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lifestyle don't believe it. Trust me, I don't want to
be at the gal at the MET. It's not because
I'm jealous or anything like that. I sincerely actually don't
want to be part of that crowd and not out
of any sort.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Of reverse makes me cool. I just think it's.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Ridiculous because you don't know what designer to go with,
Armani or Gavinci.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So all your talk about it, you're not making me
feel like I'm left out or anything.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Trust me.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
So Israel proved plans to seize all of the Gaza strip,
Germany's in chaos because their newly formed government just got
voted out. Essentially, it's really pretty interesting and some really
fun conclave history. If you're into the Pope coming up,
stay with us.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
More to come, Armstrong and Getty games off to Brown
Bridges there they want to come back. You're gonna game
one when for New York. A couple of upsets last night.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Denver upset okay See and the Knicks upset the Celtics
game one of the semi finals. Great games. Knicks were
down by twenty. But here's the interesting thing. I'm watching
more basketball because I'm sick. I'm seeing more. But the
sport has changed so much. There was a record set
last week in three pointers. Celtics beat it. Last night
(18:01):
they lost by one basket in overtime, missing forty.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Five three pointers the game is just so different.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
People come flying down the court on a fast break,
doesn't matter. If there's no defense under the basket, you
could get wide open shots of any length. Everybody takes
a three pointer as if that's the only option. That's
just the way the game is now. And I don't
know why they've all decided that's a good idea. Why
there isn't a team that has said, hey, you know,
(18:30):
for the last eighty years of the sport, you throw
it to a guy who makes a twelve footer.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And it's a gimme every single time.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But they data, they don't data. They've all done the
cybermetrics thing. They've analyzed if we take a.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Certain number of three point shots so we're more likely
to win.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well, I to.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Assume they know more about it than I do. But
they missed forty five three pointers.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well, Jack, as a student of warfare, you'd be certainly
familiar with this concept. If the defenses evolve to, you know,
defend against that philosophy, that's when you shake it up.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I would think, So, you know, maybe.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You're right, you're actually ahead of your time.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I just came across this. I thought this was.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Really good or writing about again. And then I was
reading this piece today about how there are really only
two political stories out there, the tariff story and everything else.
That's how big the whole tariff thing is, because if
it goes the direction most people are predicting, it'll be
the only story maybe on the planet, the loan in
the United States, and.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Then we'll be dealing with shortages of both pencils and dolls.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
President right, hey, do you have that Coldbert joke? Play
that Coldbert joke about the dolls? It's just too good.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
The crazy continued on Air Force One when Trump doubled
down on the dollies.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Fifteen year old does indeed thirty seven dollars, she can
be very happy with two or three or.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Four or five.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Buddy, teen year old girl is not going to be
happy with two or three or four or five dolls,
because a fifteen year old girl isn't happy with anything.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And if you, like me, are a parent of a
teenager and I have, that's what dad, I have.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Boys, It makes me feel better to hear that, because it's.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Just like, how am I failing so badly that he's
constantly miserable?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And it's notably different with girls too. There's a special Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
My god, if it's another level of that, I can't
even imagine.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, it's difficult to describe.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And I don't know how many fifteen year old girls
want dolls, even in their best moods.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's a toy friend a younger set.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But yeah, but the point remains cheap excess to consumerism,
blah blah blah. I don't agree with him. Well, I
agree with him philosophically, but not governmentally.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But here's the writing I was talking about. They're talking
about Trump's inner circle and everything like that, and uh
elon Musk, you know, Stephen Miller, a variety of people
around him. While there's no doubt that these vote, these
folks are very wealthy and very professionally successful attack and
other endeavors. As one close observer of the cohort told
me Monday night on the topic, they really believe they
(21:19):
know everything, and you'd be amazed.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
At how little they actually know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
This is the thing I talk about a lot because
I've I've observed.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
This in my life over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Anybody that's success, not anybody, but most people who are
successful in any area of life think they know everything
about every other area. Also, it's just the way we're billed,
I guess, and I'm sorry. Who are we talking about here,
specifically the people around Trump, the inner circle of reality
of geniuses who say this is gonna work out. You're Lutnix,
you're Elon's, you're whoever, who have jumped on boorm and
(21:56):
that has been my experience, and this in this person
anonymously telling Mark Alburn, they really believe they know everything,
you'd be amazed at how little they actually know. And
I think that's quite possibly the case with some of
these people who have come in. And then he goes
on to say, one of history's great error is that
(22:16):
far too many smart people don't know that.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The Halberstam title of the famous Vietnam War book.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
The Best in the Brightest was meant ironically, smartest folks
in the world who presided over many, many mistakes and dumbness. Yeah, yeah,
you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
A little closer to home, Jack and I've been discussing
this for many, many years, having had a long, mediocre
career together, and that is that as we rose up
from from small towns to medium to big towns to giant,
you know, the number one media market in the world
or in the country. Certainly, we had expected that we
would see higher and higher levels of competence, intelligence, creativity,
(22:56):
just effectiveness in short, and there wasn't none of that.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
But there wasn't nearly as much as we thought.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And there were a plenty of dopes and ineffective people
and fools at the at the highest levels. They were
just wrong about stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
And it's so difficult, I think for most Americans to imagine,
for instance, the incredible dishonesty and incompetence of the Biden
White House. You've got a senile fool. I mean, he's
always been a fool, come on, but a senile fool
announcing unconstitutional programs, denying what was clearly true, steering the
(23:37):
ship of state directly into an iceberg. Also, they could
hang on to their jobs for one more term, get
the old man through the election, then we'll know, we'll
figure out what to do that. But the important part
is we keep our jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, the West wing of the White House was those people.
And it's not impossible to believe.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Trump's got some people around him who may be a
little overconfident about one idea or another.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well, as I have said over and over again, and
I mean it, I want to be wrong. I will
happily say, look, wow, they knew what they were doing
all along.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I shouldn't have doubted them. Look at me, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I'm fine saying that six months from now, a year
from now, if this all turns out, right, I.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Share hope it does.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, I just my My great hope is that a
lot of the tariff talk is bluff to get better
trade deals, because our trade deals, many of them, are
bad and can be improved. And all the stuff about
oh I love tariffs, we're gonna we're gonna solve the budget,
We're gonna pay off the debt with tariffs. We're gonna
(24:40):
on shore all the manufacturing. That's it's a bluff. That'd
be fine if it works. And besides, you'll have too
many pencils anyway. I'm disgusted by the number of pencils
you people have. I look at you, either come out
of your ears, out of your pockets. Oh, pencils everywhere exactly. Yeah,
that actually factors in a mailbag, weirdly enough, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Jon Stewart has a funny clip about Trump and his
view of toys.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Oh on, they don't need to have two hundred and
fifty pencils, they can have five.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Trump has such a Depression era of view of what
kids play with in twenty twenty five. Tends don't need
twenty sets of those hoops you hit with a stick
as you go down the street.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Just one hoop is Jim Dandy.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
So he used some odd examples, the point being yes,
cheap Chinese goods and consumerism, etc.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I'm on board coming up later.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I'm working on crafting this in a way that does
not drain your life force from you and make you
wish for death. The upcoming battle over Medicaid is so important,
and it is going to be some of the worst,
most stupid demagogy politics you've ever seen in your life.
(26:05):
In fact, it's already begun. The Republicans are coming after
your medicaid. Medicaid is a scam, not not at its core,
but it's become this money spigot, state government scam that
needs so desperately to be straightened out, and it the
(26:25):
amount of growth in Medicaid dwarfs all the other social
security type programs. The entitlement programs really important. We'll try
to explain it in a way that is understandable. What
did you get What time did you get back from
the met gala last night? I know you were your
giant Statue of Liberty costume. Oh like two thirty in
the morning, right, Yeah, Well, I went to an after party,
(26:48):
then an after after party. I was at jay Z's
after party. You know, we talked a little about Diddy,
but you kept your voice down, and.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I saw you with a Kadashian Al Sharpton. Yeah, some
twenty five year old pop singer.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I didn't know. Yeah, Oduo Lipa.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
We danced a lot and she tried to make a move.
It was late, she was drunk. I said, no, no,
I'm married. No, hey, this has been fun, but hands off, sweetheart,
and I knew it was time to go home.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Exactly. You don't want to get yourself in trouble. So
we got mail bag coming up next day. Here, this
is a good text. We got Sean Diddy. Combs is
guilty of one thing. He loved too much and way
too weirdly.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
To continue our discussion from the last segment, a longtime
friend of mine In Friend of the Show, Mike the
Lawyer in Chicago says there's an incredible bias in the
legal community of big city lawyers against country lawyers. They
think they're smarter and better because they make more money.
But there's also a saying among lawyers with wisdom that says,
somebody tells you I'm just a country.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Lawyer, You're probably going to lose.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
They're just as bright, if not brighter, than so many
city lawyers.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Center. That's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I got a friend who moved from California to Tennessee
and his kids. He's not a California He's from the Midwest. Actually,
he moved with his family who had grown up in
California to Tennessee small town, and his kids thought they
were going to walk into school and be so far
ahead all and they were so far behind all the
other kids.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Oh yeah, he said.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Everybody in the California thinks they're smarter than everybody else,
but they're not.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How interesting. Yeah, some of the best, most talented people
we've ever known in the radio business decided, no, I'm
going to make my life and raise my children in
Cincinnati or you know, Jolie Illinois or whatever. They're every
bit as talented and smart as anybody else. They just
made a different life choice.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Here's to you in your life choices, friends, Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day from the great Patrick Henry.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will
be secure when the transactions of their rulers may be
concealed from them. Oh Man, Patrick, Patrick, Patrick, that's that
(29:16):
you're resting in peace right now.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
The transactions of our rulers are so incredibly opaque and
complex it would take a lifetime study to understand one
one thousandth of them.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Mailbag, Well, we'll keep trying.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Drop his note mail bag at Armstrong you getty dot
com is our email address.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Mail bagget Armstrong, you getty dot com.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
On the topic of the rock reopening, Alcatraz is a
prison Alvin and Berkeley right there by the ock, says
Nancy Pelosi can see Alcatraz from her mansion on Russian Hill.
Should she be worried?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I hope so he can a stick Nancy Pelosi at Alcatraz.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Back to the kentupy can Entucky derby horse. Not to
beat a dead horse, but rites Kevin, I was thinking,
what could be even more appropriate than a horse named
Sovereignty to win the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Under our current political climate would.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Have been the horse named journalism win, only to have
been disqualified later for doping while beaten ridden by an
illegal alien MS thirteen gang member with a free Palestine
neck tattoo. That's about the state of journalism. Yes, journalism
the horse performed well better than journalism the profession, but
(30:33):
it did not win. If Journalism the profession ran in
the Kentucky Derby, it would have stumbled out of the
gate and crawled to the finish an hour after the
other horses had won or finished. There's nothing but Congress
with a lower approval rating than journalism. Right now, let's
see different topic. Trump's dolls and pencils. Eric, who is
(30:54):
a construction guy, says, dere big freedoman jack the What
does that say?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
On the topic of abundance and pencils. I use the
pencils from our home for my professional fence gardening layout stuff,
and I get the idea. Sometimes they disappear because he's
using them for work. This irritated the Princess. I turned
to Amazon where I purchased three hundred pencils for a
few ducats. I proceeded to add pencils to every possible
(31:23):
place in our home. We need to keep our trade
relations with China, so it can continue to troll my
wife or we could be adults. So she was gripe
and had him for their lack of pencils, So he
bought three hundred of them and sprinkles them everywhere.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That is some good marital trolling.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I remember when I was that way with the kids
when they were little. I get so frustrated over there
was never a binkie around when I needed one. I
wanted to have so many binkies in the house that
you walked ankle deepened binkies from room to room so
there was always one at hand.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
M let's see mess rights, Dear ang. This includes a
coarse word for testicles, and I apologize for using it
in advance. Once again, you two of parading around the
unwelcome idea that microplastics and men's balls are the reason
for declining birth rates. I say, nay, I blame American chicks.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Plastics started taking a foothold in the sixties. Feminism took
a stronger foothold in the sixties.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The timeline for both fits.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
But are other species also showing the precipitous decline in
birth rates? Have baboons lost their desire to mate? Our
raccoons invulnerable to having plastic in their balls, even though
they wallow around in our dumpsters? And are the men
in Afghanistan and every other neanderthal country somehow more resilient
to the microplastics?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Imp? No, they all do lack feminism.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well I don't know about that point, but yeah, it
doesn't seem to be effecting the birth rate of your
hellholes for whatever reason. And they got as much plastic,
if not more, right? Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, I don't That's an interesting thought. I don't know,
but I appreciate the note. How about this? John no
Age rites guys? Uh oh omg. He writes, he listened
to the podcast yesterday. I've officially been lectured more by
you than my own mother about having kids sooner rather
than later. I'm starting to get antsy over here listening
to the podcast. Let's not make this a regular thing. No,
(33:18):
I was not hectoring anybody to having kids, have kids younger.
I was just saying that having Judy and I had
our kids young by today's standards, and you never hear
anybody advocating for the ways in which that's really really good.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying you should.
I'm just saying that nobody ever explains the advantages of it,
for some reason, because you're going against the tide, I
guess or the.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't know. I think the advantages seem obvious, and
I did it the other way around. Yeah. Yeah, anyway,
let's see do we have time for this year? We
do excellent.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Frequent correspondent Powello writes, guys, there's some controversy over the
public funding of religious schools. I should mention I've got
some trumpy emails here for mailbag, but we've talked enough
about Trump this hour, so kind of skip them for now.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
We'll get to them later.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
But there's some controversy about the public funding of religious
schools because that could amount to state sponsored religion.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That would not be good, and he quotes The New
York Times.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
The main question in the case is whether the First
Amendment permits states to sponsor and if finance, religious charge schools.
In other words, the Supreme Court is deciding whether charter schools,
which are publicly funded and privately run are fundamentally private
or public, and Paolo says, that's fine question, but why
does it matter? The relevant question is how do we
most effectively teach children the things that we all agree
are important for them to learn, and not impose a
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state sponsored religion while we're doing it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
How about this, there's.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
The three RS set of things everybody. Everybody agrees we
want children to be taught. Any schools certified to teach
that required curriculum can teach it. The state will provide
schools that teach that curriculum and only that curriculum public schools,
or it will call those. In addition, the state will
pay any school certified to teach the required curriculum some
fixed amounts, and the schools so certified will be measured
(34:58):
by testing whatever means are appropriate to you. Sure they're
effectively teaching anything else they teach beyond that is What
is required is between the parents and the schools. It
doesn't add up to the states sponsoring a religion. Yeah,
I agree completely, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
School choice Friends, school choice.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
More and more states are are moving more and more
in that direction, and as we discussed several days ago,
the data so far is glowing school choice works.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
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