December 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Aftyn Behn, the political whackadoole of the day!
- US trucking schools & the Tim Walz scandal
- Drug boat strikes in the Caribbean
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is a district Donald Trump won by twenty two
points last year. The fact that the special election has
become the center of the political universe, it's really a
testament to the excitement Democrats feel after sweeping key races
in New Jersey and Virginia last month and Republicans growing
concerns about the president's unpopularity and facing backlash in the
midterms next year.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They are describing a special congressional runoff race in Tennessee,
specifically the Nashville area, in which the Republican ought to
win it going away. But there's great excitement around this chick.
She's been and called the AOC of Tennessee for her
left wing views in antics. Her name is aften How
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perfect is that aften Ben? And she ought to be
the ideal Democrat for Republicans in a red face, red
state to face that used to be the thinking. But
again she's gotten a lot of support in the dude
who looks like a great candidate, who's the Republican whose
name is Van Apps. Matt Van Epps is the West
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Pointer flew helicopters for the Army Tennessee National Guard. Nice
America First Republican, lower regulation, more freedom, that sort of
thing seems ideal. And he's running against this aften Ben woman. Now, Katie,
I'm gonna need you to be the judge because I
generally stay away from people's appearances unless they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, she is.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Attractive ish, this aften Ben. But if I were at
say a Nashville bar, and we are having a drink
and a laugh and the light hitter just right, I
might think that's a dude, pretty man ish.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I'm not going to argue with that is a strong jaw, one.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That does not enter into her ability to govern successfully
or legislate Wisely, she's a freaking nutjob.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But so yeah, you're not wrong. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Anyway, So she's thirty six years old, a former community
activist the hell does that mean? And healthcare organizer? Hell
does that mean? She's now serving in the Tennessee House
again dub the AOC of Tennessee. So this woman is
is also very dodgy with a press. She won't answer
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questions straight, and what they keep asking her is does
she stand by her last her past public statements.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Here's just a little sampler for.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You a few years ago on the city she represents, Nashville.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I hate the city.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I
hate country music. I hate all of the things that
make Nashville barely in its city to the rest.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Of the country. But I hate it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, Okay, now she says she was just talking about
all the tourists that make it tough for her to
get to her house. Okay, how about on her state.
Let's go a little bigger. Let's pull back to ten
thousand feet on the state of Tennessee. This is an
interview with the Tennesseean newspaper. And again, this woman is
not twenty three, so we're not talking about when she
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was nineteen years old.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
She's thirty six. Quote.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Let me be clear, Tennessee is a racist state. Racism
is in the air we breathe, permeating the state capitol,
codified in the legislation being passed. To the detriment of women,
she means, to the detriment communities of color and the
working poor are problem with racism in the state is
wild and untamed. Okay, how about the whole defund the
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police thing. What's the proposal lettl dissolve the matt Nashville PD,
she asked online. Or if that's not enough for you,
how about this? She's nizzle. She tweeted this in June
of twenty twenty. Good morning, especially to the fifty four
percent of Americans that believe burning down a police station
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is justified.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Holy crap, good grief. Yeah. So.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
On CNN's Inside Politics Sunday, which I wouldn't condemn prisoners
to watching, host Manu Raju asked Miss Ben if she
regretted making these remarks instead of disavowing them. She answered
that she wouldn't post such remarks today because she has matured.
She added that those remarks were made when she was
a private citizen and not an elected lawmaker. But she
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doesn't say she doesn't believe it. She just says I
wouldn't have posted it. The difference between now and when
she made the remarks is that she since learned to
hide better what she really believes, so she can't be
called to account for it. And my final note on
the Democratic wakudoodle of the day. Aft in Ben is
this delicious note reported by The Free Beacon that she
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in the past called for white candidates, if they find
out they're in a race, a political race against a
non wait candidate, you should drop out of the race
preemptively because there are too many white voices already.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I quote, I'm probably.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Going to be trolled for this, but if you're a
white man running in a primary with a progressive PoCA,
that's a progressive people of color, I challenge you to
ask yourself in this moment, is my voice more important?
And if you think it is, your campaign is more
about you than your policy agenda.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh the white guilt.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, then on the other hand, she found herself in
a primary against a black dude.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Haha, that's perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
The only black candidate in the primary race who came
in last place in a four way struggle.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Ben beat him. Bla blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
During the primary, Dixie press his name was Vincent Dixie,
which is a great name. Yes, he really needs to
run a restaurant or a car dealer. Vince Dixie from
Vince Dixie for anyway. During the primary campaign, Dixie pressed
Ben at a candidate forum on how she would ensure
black constituents had a voice in Congress. Ben replied that
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she has always followed the lead of black women and
said she was grateful for their organizing. But Dixie then
called out Ben for only mentioning black women. I just
want to make sure you understand it's more than black
women in this world that you'll be representing. There are
also black men that need to be in this conversation,
he added.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But having already said that white.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
People should drop out if a black is in the race,
she had to kind of narrow it down.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I didn't mean black men. I just meant black women.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Let's see, she posted, liberals listen to black women. Black
women abolish the police, liberals listen. An other deleted posts,
she wrote that she wanted Nashville's police department to be dissolved,
supported a teachers union call that defunding the police should
be a condition for schools reopening during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
(07:32):
Wait a minute, look, she supported the teachers' unions, And
if you've ever doubted that teachers unions are a force
for evil, even as they're just trying to get wages
and benefits for teachers, which I get. It's a union,
and I have problems with public employee union in general.
But anyway, if they only did that, that would be
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one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But they are evil.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
During COVID they said we won't open schools unless you
defund the police. That's effing evil.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That has what to do with COVID, right right, It's
just crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So anyway, this crazy nut job Tennessee AOC is just
two points behind in the polls. I will tell you
that state poles tend to be inaccurate because the sample
sizes are pretty small and the national polls are not great.
But so we'll have to see if this l O
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la lola looking chick gets elected.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well that what another Kukola in Congress?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Great Scott, Great Scott, the progressive wave.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It's just I try to well, I don't try to
understand it because I'll go insane, but the mindset of
listening to her make any of those points and going, yes,
I like her, I'm with her.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
These people have no capacity for rational thought. How dumb
are you to want to defund the police?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Why didn't you.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Ask anybody in a tough neighborhood, a black neighborhood, a
Hispanic neighborhood. You morons, Do you want more police in
your neighborhood or fewer police? Oh, it's like the mins
are almost universally more.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It's like the woman that was just interviewed, I think
it was on News Nation actually who They asked her
how she felt about the National Guard being sent into Memphis,
and she thanked them and said, I haven't been able
to leave my house and feel safe in years.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh yeah, and now I can.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It's been the story for well over a month now
that Memphis is thrilled because Memphis has had a serious
crime problem. Yeah, the folks in Memphis are mostly thrilled
by the presidence of the National Guard. It's funny you
haven't heard that reported in the nations media.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's odd.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It must just be in oversight, all right, more to
come stay with us. This might be my favorite headline.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI.
Controversies are upted after twenty one percent of manuscript reviews
for an international AI conference were found to be generated
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by artificial intelligence. And we'll touch on that a little
bit more later. Plus the big climate conference that happened
in Brazil lately. I'm absolutely astounded at the lack of
self awareness by the lefty climate change zealots, and I
should probably be glad about it because it undermines them,
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you know, getting over you know, doing what they want
to do, which is mostly ruined the economy and accomplish nothing.
But you should shut up, you know what. That was harsh,
and I apologize. You should more carefully consider your words,
my dear. So closer to home, though, and of more
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immediate concern, given the fact that virtually all of us
drive back and forth virtually every day, if not every day,
a number of high profile truck accidents that have killed
innocent people have brought the nation's attention to the fact
that there are a hell of a lot of people
who have commercial driver's licenses that not only shouldn't, but
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there was no effort made to make sure they were qualified.
Absolutely shocking news.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Nation.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Marcus X Spinoza doing some pretty damn good reporting on it.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Yeah, there's been accidents that have really got the attention
across the country, and certainly of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
here and the government finding that nearly half, up to
forty four percent of US trucking driving schools do not
meet government standards at this point, and they risk facing
closure because of that particular issue. Out of the roughly
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sixteen thousand licensed truck driving programs of nationwide, the Transportation
Department says close to three thousand could lose accreditation unless
they fix serious training and record keeping failures within thirty days.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So nearly half of truck driving schools don't meet the standards.
And I don't get the idea that this is one
of those super picky, you know, hyper regulation things. I
think it's just making sure these guys have any idea
what they're doing. But this is a hell of a
lot of truck drivers on the road, is we're about
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to hear.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And another forty five hundred have been warned they may
face similar scrutiny. Now that means hundreds of thousands of
aspiring drivers could see their training and validated, slowing their
path to a commercial driver's license. Officials say many of
the schools were operating like quote CDL mills, offering quick
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turn courses without proper behind the wheel, classroom, beyond the
wheel or classroom training.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now I know that California in particular, was wildly giving
out out commercial driver's licenses to people who didn't even
speak English, couldn't read English, and that's one of the
very basic requirements. I wonder if the geographical location of
these places is disproportionately in Blue states. I don't know
that to be true. I knew there was I know
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there was a problem in Texas too. I'm not trying
to leap to any conclusion. I was just curious final clip,
and I.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Think it's really taken, you know, a number of high
profile crashes and other incidents to put a spotlight on
training in our industry in general and asking the question,
you know, are the are the rules or regulations we
have on the books?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Are they working? And if not, what do we need
to do about them?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
So we are absolutely throwing at ATA that the administration
is paying attention to this.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
That's an absolutely horrible, horrible failure of our licensing agencies,
dynamics schools.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How does it get that bad?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And why did it take multiple people dying for anybody
to even look at it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Imagine if we did that with pilots, Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, well yeah, too many people would die too quickly.
You kind of you get some recent Indian immigrant, for instance,
who can't speak English, you give him a driver's license.
Hope just self preservation keeps him on the road. But
as we've seen the number of people have been killed
because of that, that fingers crossed approach. I just it's
such a multi layered failure. Not only are these schools
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fake CDL mills, as they called them, but any regulatory
agencies that I should have been looking at it have
failed until now. The trucking schools don't give out the licenses.
You have to go to the DMV and pass the test,
which is why I wonder about which states are doing what,
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who is giving them out like candy, and who is not.
And again Texas had a bit of a scandal with this,
so it's not just a red blue thing. I think
it may be entirely. Look, we need cheap foreign truck drivers,
and we need a bunch of them, but quick, and
maybe that's just what drives this. I don't know, but
it's absolutely shocking. Let's hope they've gotten to the bottom
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of it and no more people will die. Speaking of
competence and lack thereof and state politics, we really haven't
touched on this much.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And do we have the.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Tim Waltz Kristen Welker tape from Meet the Press yesterday?
I don't even remember. We may have, but he was
on and she asked him about the more than a
billion dollars in taxpayer funds that were stolen from mostly
Somali migrants. And of course there are the people from
the left. It would be a mistake to demonize or
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immigrant community.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
How about we charge criminals with crimes. That's all anybody
wants to do. But well, Kristen Welker, no, you know,
Republican attack dog, good lord right, says to him, and
to quote, dozens of people of East African descent have
been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more than a
billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs during COVID.
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Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud
in your state? Well, the model for the New American
masculinity responded, well, I certainly take responsibility for putting people
in jail, he said, before pointing to Trump the president.
This president has cut a lot of inspector generals. He's
cut programs that could help us tackle this on.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Nobodys poor sentence.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's Donald Trump deflect demon eyes, come up with no solutions.
He's not going to help fix anything on fraud. I'm
just a regular guy.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I was a football coach. Oh boy, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
He could have been our.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Can you? Occasionally I allow myself to picture Kamala as
the president during the disturbulent times. I mean, Trump's nuts,
but good lord, Kamala Yike Simarta cum stay with us.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Grab the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Perhaps you are here Earlier.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Hour two of the show kicked off with an interview
with the fabulous Mike Lyons or military analyst about the
controversy over the strikes in the Caribbean, specifically the alleged
snuffing of two survivors of a strike on September. The
second Mike and definitely worth dipping into the podcast Armstrong
and Getting on demand hour two from today. He made
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the point that look, this sort of double tap to
make sure the threat is eliminated, whether the boat or
the people, is very, very common in warfare. There's a
little complication in that it's not clear that this is
a warfare per se or terrorism per se. It's a
drug cartel. This is kind of a new wrinkle on
executive power. But anyway, that's the backdrop, and we make
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no judgment here. There are too many facts that aren't
known yet. Mike was of the opinion that this was
just a very loyally effort to get the Trump administration,
specifically Pete Hegzeth, perhaps to hang a scalp on the
wall by Democrats. We countered that there seemed to be
plenty of Republicans who seem concerned with us too, But
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it's an interesting case.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And we will not prejudge here.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
On the Armstrong and Getty Show, having said that the
President is holding a cabinet meeting as we speak, and
both the President and Pete Hegzeth addressed this topic.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
As I've said, I'm saying again, we've only just begun
striking Narco boats and putting Narco terraces at the bottom
of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people,
and Joe Biden tried to approach it with kick loops,
allowed them to come across the border. Cartels takeover community,
twenty million people, hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned, and
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President Trump said no we're taking the bloves off. We're
taking the fight to these designated terror organizations.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And that's exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
So we're stopping the drugs, we're striking the boats, we're
defeating narco terrorists, and we're saying to you, may say
one thing that drugs coming in through the same by
seeing are down ninety percent, and I don't know who
the nine percent is.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
I'm not sure either are because down ninety one percent.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
By see, we've had a bit of a pause because
it's hard to find boats to strike right now, which
is the entire point. Right, deterrence has to matter, not arrested,
handover and then do it again, the rinse and repeat
approach of previous administrations. This is meant to get aft
after that approach. And I will just end by saying,
as President Trump always has our backs.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We always have the back of our commanders who.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Are making decisions in difficult situations, and we do in
this case and all these strikes. They're making judgment calls
and ensuring that they defend the American people.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They've done the right things.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
We'll keep doing that, and we had their backs.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Good ye think, wow, wow, pretty unequivocal statement.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
There, and that's new that just happened. Oh yeah, that
was the cabinet meeting that's going on right now as
we speak. Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't know if the chuckles were a good idea. Hey,
we've killed so many people we can't even find a
boat to shoot out of the water.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
People chuckled. People chuckled in the background, background chuckles. What
are you anti chuckling?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Now is your monster?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I haven't heard anybody mentioned this that Trump really hates drugs,
really hates him. He doesn't drink or do drugs or
even drink caffeine. And his kids, he's told this story
many times when they are grown up. First thing you
would say every morning, no drinking, no drugs, no tattoos,
he would say to his kids, just because he believes
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in that whole sales mantra thing you get into people's heads.
Apparently worked with his kids because they don't drink drug
or to do have tattoos.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But he hates his older brother right to addiction.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
He lost his older brother to addiction. Yeah, and so
it runs in his family. I think, actually, I think
Trump is a classic untreated alcoholic. But as all the
a or marks of that.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But because you're alcoholic, that means because he doesn't drink.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Well, the way many of us understand alcoholism, drinking has
absolutely nothing to do with it here right now. It's
a symptom of something your Your brain is not like
other people's in the way you interact with the world.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I've only had the one brain. It doesn't work
so good.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
The best way to deal with it is drinking or
something else to deal with the way you look at
the world. And there are you can be an alcoholic
and never drink in your life, is the belief.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of many alcoholics.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
But that aside, I won't go down that road.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
He he hates drugs.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
He definitely hates them and thinks they're bad for society,
which they the you know, very very often are, and
certainly the kind of stuff, the fentanyl and.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Everything like that.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
It's hard hard to come up with a good recreational
story about fentanyl, I think.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Right right, Oh yeah, just do a little fentanyl to
relax on the weekend after around of golf with my buddies.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I don't recall ever, hearing.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Helps me with my anxiety.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I tell you what this is difficult, and this is
a great case study if you enjoy wrestling with difficult questions,
because the ends do not justify the means always, you
know that very saying essentially says, I if the if
the result we get is good, then that justifies anything
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we did on the way, and that that can lead
to horrors, absolute horrors.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you can't do that. On the other hand, listening
to Pete talk.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
There saying, look, we've got to establish de terrence because
these drugs are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans' so
on the decline, partly because the Trump administration the border
at center, but still killing tens of thousands of Americans.
We have a limited period of absolute going apass and
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telling these cartels, not the.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
US, you're not selling here. Yeah we know we're a
great market.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah we know we got a lot of addicts, but
we're going to blow up your boat and snuff you
if you try. Well, it's not completely indefensible on a
moral level. No, And it's been presented as just a
given that because we're a big, rich country full of
people that are so affluent they got you know, time
and space to do drugs, that there's nothing you can
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do about it. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
And the Trump administration is saying, well, how about if
you can't get the drugs. How about if you can't
get the drugs, then people won't be doing as many drugs, right,
And no, I'm not looking for the easy answer. I
could make examples of you know, some things that would
be way over the line that we could do to
stop people from bringing drugs in a machine gun anybody
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who steps across the border.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That would take care of it. No, we can't do that.
It's too horrible, horrible, But this is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I don't like. This is kind of a pet peeve
of mine.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But designated terrorist organizations the word terrorist is now completely meaningless.
It's like fascist from the left. Fascist just means anybody
I don't like. I think terrorist just means any organization
that does stuff I don't like, that has a gun.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I guess it's useful politically, but.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I suppose you could argue that the cartels participated in
murder and mayhem for profit, whereas most quote unquote terrorist
organizations do it for political power or religious zelotry.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Well, I feel like the media, including us in the country,
just as a whole is being pretty relaxed about the
fact that we've got this big, giant cocked mill terry
fist done in Venezuela. Right that it looks like we're
gonna throw the punch at some point, and we're not
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having that much of a discussion about do we want
to do this? Do we want to do a regime change?
Do we want marine storm on the beach there in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I don't know what I'm approving or disapproving. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Do we want to do?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
What?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Tell me what I'm disapproving?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Well, I guess then I would start a number of Yeah,
I guess I would start with we should demand more,
what's the plan here? And then a conversation whether whether
we're on board with this or not. Right, it certainly
looks like we're about to do a regime change. It
looks like what it looked like in Iraq a couple
of different times, or Afghanistan or wherever. That's what it
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looks like.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well, and back when we had a congress worth a
pair of James Madison's underpants, they would have probably weighed
in in some way. But now they're just social media influencers.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
James Madison's underpants would have been very dainty, very tight.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, a little lacey. If you hear what
I'm saying, well, I dout know about that. I didn't
say lay neither. Is there's something wrong with my mic?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, these are odd times. I don't even
know what I'm being asked to approve.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
It's hard to get people's attention for anything other than
I'm mad at Trump. I'm happy with Trump about some
specific thing that's not even that important.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Me did it, it's great. If Trump did it, it's horrible.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I mean, it's similar to my AI. I won't start
that again. But he got you know, people saying there's
a fifty percent likely whod mankind gets wiped out?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh well, what you know? What did Trump say about what?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And the same thing with We're about to go to
war with Venezuela and you can't get any conversation going
about that, and maybe we are, maybe we aren't. I
don't know what about the midterms?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You know, Judy's out tonight. Maybe I'll watch Don't Look
Up again. It's very entertaining movie. I enjoyed it. Fat
Leo DiCaprio he went ahead and got Dowey and suburban.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
For the all I admire is played an uncool guy.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, I appreciate a really good looking guy who takes
a role that makes him look kind of weak and dopey.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That is, I think that's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
No, he's a scientist. You know what percentage of scientists
are buff?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Like? I know for a fact that like Steve McQueen,
only took roles that made him look like a really
cool badass worked for him, and it worked for him.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, anyway, this is neither here nor there, no nor anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right, it's just tough.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
These are the moral questions that I enjoyed wrestling with
because they're no easy answers. You cannot if somebody is
because a lot of these people are just guys in Venezuela.
They're fishermen. They got a little family business. They're a
laborer or whatever, but they're pretty good with a boat,
and they're hired often as a navigator or what's one
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of the other jobs I was reading about the different
jobs on the boat. These guys don't make a lot
of money by our standards, but they make a lot
of money by their standards. Just for like being the
guy to hold onto the cocaine. And oh, one of
the main roles is you got to keep the engines
fueled because they go through a lot of fuel because
they're running hot like crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You'd be terrified fast on the ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So these guys all they do, because they're good with
an engine, is they make sure the fuel keeps flowing.
And they get paid a certain amount of money for that. Now,
if you blow up a drug boat and that poor
son of a bitch is clinging to the wreckage, snuffing
him from above, is that okay as the United States
of America?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Or is it not not running your boats fast enough?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Apparently? Honey, you can't go faster than a missile. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Do they hear anything? Would you hear anything? Would you
see a plane? Would he be even aware there's a
plane in the sky?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
No? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, especially given the fact that you're zooming along at
high speed on the ocean. You're slapping up and down
on the waves, the engines are roaring.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
No, you have no idea you would just all of
a sudden you just cease to exist, correct, And then
maybe unless again, you're the poor sob clinging to the RCD.
Maybe there's just everything goes black and loud and the
next thing you know, you're bobbing.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
In the ocean. What the hell was that?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Until the second one that hexeth the orders comes right
then you're done. Yeah, well huh, I'd say, don't be
a you know, the guy who checks the oil on
the motor for a drug boat. Do something else.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
What if there had been cameras at the Battle of
the Bulge or you know, one of the great military victories,
would we be picking apart who got shot when and
whether that German guy was trying to surrender or not.
Cameras and lawyers unleashed on you know, the Battle of Gettysburg.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Right? Is this just untenable?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It reminds me of our discussion many times about the
situation in Gaza with Israel. This is the first iPhone
modern social media information war within a war.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
If Trump gets if the Democrats win the House, they
are going to impeach Trump. Everybody seems to be an
agreement on that. This is a possible possibly.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
One of the issues. Right. War in Venezuela, Mm hmm, yeah,
I think so. Or whatever in Venezuela, maybe.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Trump's just gonna go get some nice spicy chicken tacos
for the Marines and then go home.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
He can text us or email us anytime. We will
finish strong. Next TV News, the long awaited fifties and
It's Stranger Things is officially here.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Great. Yeah, over the week it actually crashed Netflix. Oh,
everyone's like this season is so scary, especially.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
The part where I was with my family for five
days and Netflix wouldn't load. That was It's interesting. I
saw quite a few people were watching Stranger Things the
new season on the plane when I was flying home
from the Midwest. And the kids are also old now,
you know, they had more than a season's worth of
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time in between several seasons, so they've grown here so much,
and they're like still trying to portray him his little kids,
and I don't know, I just don't know, Like the
Sopranos used to do sometimes, you know, it'd be like
three years between seasons and all of a sudden, AJ's
a foot taller and got a beard.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, Dad, I don't have to listen to you any
anybody on the crew. A Stranger Things.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Fan, I watched the first season and somewhat enjoyed it,
but it lost me after that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I should get into it because when my kids were
too young for when we first started watching it, and
it was a little too much for them, and I
should delve back into it now that they're older and
could handle it. I thought it was pretty cool. It
roped me in, but I never get further than the
first season. Actually, there's a list out of best TV
shows or something like that we're gonna get into tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Best episodes of all time.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yeah, which I'm looking forward to. I wonder if some
of them will be the episodes of the television show Friends,
which I saw where they store all the old Friends videotape.
Maybe some of you are aware of this, if you're
into movies or whatnot. There is a salt mine in
the middle of Kansas, which is where I was for Thanksgiving.
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I'd never toured this. I was aware of this tour
spot for many years. Like a lot of high school
field trips go there or whatever. I'd never gone.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I took the boys.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
So it's a salt mine way way underground that has
for whatever reasons with it's something to do with the
temperature staying the same and the lack of humidity. They
store old documents and film and stuff there because it
will not deteriorate at all. Like all the old episodes
of Johnny Carson, the original film of the Wizard of
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Oz is down there, All the episodes of Friends that
are on film are down there because they can't deteriorate
with the perfect just the right amount of humidity and
temperature being exactly the same down there. It's kind of
interesting and it's enormous. The salt mine. I've got to
go down on the salt mines. It's two hundred miles
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long and one hundred and twenty miles wide.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I mean, that's how big it hits.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Wait a minute, when nothing deteriorates down there, So they
have all the they started going down there in the
nineteen twenties, and all the garbage going back to the
nineteen twenties is still down there, and they have it
in a pile. And you can see all these old
fast food wrappers and coke bottles and cigarette boxes and
stuff like that. All the garbage is still there. It
looks exactly like if it was thrown out yesterday. Kind
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of a surprise aspect of the tour.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah it really is.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
And now final faults with Armstrong and getting engage.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
To wrap up the show. There is Michael Angelow pressing
the buttons in the control room. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know you mentioned the Wizard of Oz in that list. Jack,
I still have not seen that movie. What I know,
I just haven't gotten around to seeing it.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I don't like it because it insists upon itself.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh boy, and I vomited. Katie Greener esteemed and use
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Katie, we were talking.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
About supplements earlier and kind of the damage they can do.
Just keep an eye out if you're one of those
people that chases supplements on like Amazon.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Be careful. Oh oh yeah, yeah, it's so funny. Jack.
A final thought for us.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
I got more stories about being down in that salt mine.
I might have to put them into the One More
Thing podcast. A couple of really interesting things, including dead Burrows.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Stay tuned dead Burrows. Yes, good lord. My final thoughts.
He is a little self grandizing. I think that discussion
we had about inflation an hour three of the show
is absolutely absolutely worth going back and grabbing via podcast
Armstrong and Getty on demand. The fact that inflation is
not a rise in prices. That's what inflation causes it.
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Inflation is increasing the currency supply. It seems like a
distinction without a difference, but it's important.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Check out segment.
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Speaker 5 (35:40):
Couple of developing stories, including this whole striking on the
Venezuelan boat. We'll have the latest tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
God bless America.
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Dot com. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is a district Donald Trump won by twenty two
points last year. The fact that the special election has
become the center of the political universe, it's really a
testament to the excitement Democrats feel after sweeping key races
in New Jersey and Virginia last month and Republicans growing
concerns about the president's unpopularity and facing backlash in the
midterms next year.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They are describing a special congressional runoff race in Tennessee,
specifically the Nashville area, in which the Republican ought to
win it going away. But there's great excitement around this chick.
She's been and called the AOC of Tennessee for her
left wing views in antics. Her name is aften How
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perfect is that aften Ben? And she ought to be
the ideal Democrat for Republicans in a red face, red
state to face that used to be the thinking. But
again she's gotten a lot of support in the dude
who looks like a great candidate, who's the Republican whose
name is Van Apps. Matt Van Epps is the West
(01:27):
Pointer flew helicopters for the Army Tennessee National Guard. Nice
America First Republican, lower regulation, more freedom, that sort of
thing seems ideal. And he's running against this aften Ben woman. Now, Katie,
I'm gonna need you to be the judge because I
generally stay away from people's appearances unless they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, she is.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Attractive ish, this aften Ben. But if I were at
say a Nashville bar, and we are having a drink
and a laugh and the light hitter just right, I
might think that's a dude, pretty man ish.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I'm not going to argue with that is a strong jaw, one.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That does not enter into her ability to govern successfully
or legislate Wisely, she's a freaking nutjob.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But so yeah, you're not wrong. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Anyway, So she's thirty six years old, a former community
activist the hell does that mean? And healthcare organizer? Hell
does that mean? She's now serving in the Tennessee House
again dub the AOC of Tennessee. So this woman is
is also very dodgy with a press. She won't answer
(02:54):
questions straight, and what they keep asking her is does
she stand by her last her past public statements.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Here's just a little sampler for.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
You a few years ago on the city she represents, Nashville.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I hate the city.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I
hate country music. I hate all of the things that
make Nashville barely in its city to the rest.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Of the country. But I hate it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Okay, Okay, now she says she was just talking about
all the tourists that make it tough for her to
get to her house. Okay, how about on her state.
Let's go a little bigger. Let's pull back to ten
thousand feet on the state of Tennessee. This is an
interview with the Tennesseean newspaper. And again, this woman is
not twenty three, so we're not talking about when she
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was nineteen years old.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
She's thirty six. Quote.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Let me be clear, Tennessee is a racist state. Racism
is in the air we breathe, permeating the state capitol,
codified in the legislation being passed. To the detriment of women,
she means, to the detriment communities of color and the
working poor are problem with racism in the state is
wild and untamed. Okay, how about the whole defund the
(04:07):
police thing. What's the proposal lettl dissolve the matt Nashville PD,
she asked online. Or if that's not enough for you,
how about this? She's nizzle. She tweeted this in June
of twenty twenty. Good morning, especially to the fifty four
percent of Americans that believe burning down a police station
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is justified.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Holy crap, good grief. Yeah. So.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
On CNN's Inside Politics Sunday, which I wouldn't condemn prisoners
to watching, host Manu Raju asked Miss Ben if she
regretted making these remarks instead of disavowing them. She answered
that she wouldn't post such remarks today because she has matured.
She added that those remarks were made when she was
a private citizen and not an elected lawmaker. But she
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doesn't say she doesn't believe it. She just says I
wouldn't have posted it. The difference between now and when
she made the remarks is that she since learned to
hide better what she really believes, so she can't be
called to account for it. And my final note on
the Democratic wakudoodle of the day. Aft in Ben is
this delicious note reported by The Free Beacon that she
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in the past called for white candidates, if they find
out they're in a race, a political race against a
non wait candidate, you should drop out of the race
preemptively because there are too many white voices already.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I quote, I'm probably.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Going to be trolled for this, but if you're a
white man running in a primary with a progressive PoCA,
that's a progressive people of color, I challenge you to
ask yourself in this moment, is my voice more important?
And if you think it is, your campaign is more
about you than your policy agenda.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh the white guilt.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, then on the other hand, she found herself in
a primary against a black dude.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Haha, that's perfect.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
The only black candidate in the primary race who came
in last place in a four way struggle.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Ben beat him. Bla blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
During the primary, Dixie press his name was Vincent Dixie,
which is a great name. Yes, he really needs to
run a restaurant or a car dealer. Vince Dixie from
Vince Dixie for anyway. During the primary campaign, Dixie pressed
Ben at a candidate forum on how she would ensure
black constituents had a voice in Congress. Ben replied that
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she has always followed the lead of black women and
said she was grateful for their organizing. But Dixie then
called out Ben for only mentioning black women. I just
want to make sure you understand it's more than black
women in this world that you'll be representing. There are
also black men that need to be in this conversation,
he added.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But having already said that white.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
People should drop out if a black is in the race,
she had to kind of narrow it down.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I didn't mean black men. I just meant black women.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Let's see, she posted, liberals listen to black women. Black
women abolish the police, liberals listen. An other deleted posts,
she wrote that she wanted Nashville's police department to be dissolved,
supported a teachers union call that defunding the police should
be a condition for schools reopening during the COVID nineteen pandemic.
(07:32):
Wait a minute, look, she supported the teachers' unions, And
if you've ever doubted that teachers unions are a force
for evil, even as they're just trying to get wages
and benefits for teachers, which I get. It's a union,
and I have problems with public employee union in general.
But anyway, if they only did that, that would be
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one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But they are evil.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
During COVID they said we won't open schools unless you
defund the police. That's effing evil.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That has what to do with COVID, right right, It's
just crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
So anyway, this crazy nut job Tennessee AOC is just
two points behind in the polls. I will tell you
that state poles tend to be inaccurate because the sample
sizes are pretty small and the national polls are not great.
But so we'll have to see if this l O
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la lola looking chick gets elected.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well that what another Kukola in Congress?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Great Scott, Great Scott, the progressive wave.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It's just I try to well, I don't try to
understand it because I'll go insane, but the mindset of
listening to her make any of those points and going, yes,
I like her, I'm with her.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
These people have no capacity for rational thought. How dumb
are you to want to defund the police?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Why didn't you.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Ask anybody in a tough neighborhood, a black neighborhood, a
Hispanic neighborhood. You morons, Do you want more police in
your neighborhood or fewer police? Oh, it's like the mins
are almost universally more.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
It's like the woman that was just interviewed, I think
it was on News Nation actually who They asked her
how she felt about the National Guard being sent into Memphis,
and she thanked them and said, I haven't been able
to leave my house and feel safe in years.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh yeah, and now I can.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It's been the story for well over a month now
that Memphis is thrilled because Memphis has had a serious
crime problem. Yeah, the folks in Memphis are mostly thrilled
by the presidence of the National Guard. It's funny you
haven't heard that reported in the nations media.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's odd.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It must just be in oversight, all right, more to
come stay with us. This might be my favorite headline.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI.
Controversies are upted after twenty one percent of manuscript reviews
for an international AI conference were found to be generated
(10:13):
by artificial intelligence. And we'll touch on that a little
bit more later. Plus the big climate conference that happened
in Brazil lately. I'm absolutely astounded at the lack of
self awareness by the lefty climate change zealots, and I
should probably be glad about it because it undermines them,
(10:34):
you know, getting over you know, doing what they want
to do, which is mostly ruined the economy and accomplish nothing.
But you should shut up, you know what. That was harsh,
and I apologize. You should more carefully consider your words,
my dear. So closer to home, though, and of more
(10:55):
immediate concern, given the fact that virtually all of us
drive back and forth virtually every day, if not every day,
a number of high profile truck accidents that have killed
innocent people have brought the nation's attention to the fact
that there are a hell of a lot of people
who have commercial driver's licenses that not only shouldn't, but
(11:16):
there was no effort made to make sure they were qualified.
Absolutely shocking news.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Nation.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Marcus X Spinoza doing some pretty damn good reporting on it.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Yeah, there's been accidents that have really got the attention
across the country, and certainly of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
here and the government finding that nearly half, up to
forty four percent of US trucking driving schools do not
meet government standards at this point, and they risk facing
closure because of that particular issue. Out of the roughly
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sixteen thousand licensed truck driving programs of nationwide, the Transportation
Department says close to three thousand could lose accreditation unless
they fix serious training and record keeping failures within thirty days.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
So nearly half of truck driving schools don't meet the standards.
And I don't get the idea that this is one
of those super picky, you know, hyper regulation things. I
think it's just making sure these guys have any idea
what they're doing. But this is a hell of a
lot of truck drivers on the road, is we're about
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to hear.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
And another forty five hundred have been warned they may
face similar scrutiny. Now that means hundreds of thousands of
aspiring drivers could see their training and validated, slowing their
path to a commercial driver's license. Officials say many of
the schools were operating like quote CDL mills, offering quick
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turn courses without proper behind the wheel, classroom, beyond the
wheel or classroom training.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now I know that California in particular, was wildly giving
out out commercial driver's licenses to people who didn't even
speak English, couldn't read English, and that's one of the
very basic requirements. I wonder if the geographical location of
these places is disproportionately in Blue states. I don't know
that to be true. I knew there was I know
(13:15):
there was a problem in Texas too. I'm not trying
to leap to any conclusion. I was just curious final clip,
and I.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Think it's really taken, you know, a number of high
profile crashes and other incidents to put a spotlight on
training in our industry in general and asking the question,
you know, are the are the rules or regulations we
have on the books?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Are they working? And if not, what do we need
to do about them?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
So we are absolutely throwing at ATA that the administration
is paying attention to this.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
That's an absolutely horrible, horrible failure of our licensing agencies,
dynamics schools.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How does it get that bad?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And why did it take multiple people dying for anybody
to even look at it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Imagine if we did that with pilots, Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, well yeah, too many people would die too quickly.
You kind of you get some recent Indian immigrant, for instance,
who can't speak English, you give him a driver's license.
Hope just self preservation keeps him on the road. But
as we've seen the number of people have been killed
because of that, that fingers crossed approach. I just it's
such a multi layered failure. Not only are these schools
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fake CDL mills, as they called them, but any regulatory
agencies that I should have been looking at it have
failed until now. The trucking schools don't give out the licenses.
You have to go to the DMV and pass the test,
which is why I wonder about which states are doing what,
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who is giving them out like candy, and who is not.
And again Texas had a bit of a scandal with this,
so it's not just a red blue thing. I think
it may be entirely. Look, we need cheap foreign truck drivers,
and we need a bunch of them, but quick, and
maybe that's just what drives this. I don't know, but
it's absolutely shocking. Let's hope they've gotten to the bottom
(15:25):
of it and no more people will die. Speaking of
competence and lack thereof and state politics, we really haven't
touched on this much.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And do we have the.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Tim Waltz Kristen Welker tape from Meet the Press yesterday?
I don't even remember. We may have, but he was
on and she asked him about the more than a
billion dollars in taxpayer funds that were stolen from mostly
Somali migrants. And of course there are the people from
the left. It would be a mistake to demonize or
(16:00):
immigrant community.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Shut up.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
How about we charge criminals with crimes. That's all anybody
wants to do. But well, Kristen Welker, no, you know,
Republican attack dog, good lord right, says to him, and
to quote, dozens of people of East African descent have
been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more than a
billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs during COVID.
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Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud
in your state? Well, the model for the New American
masculinity responded, well, I certainly take responsibility for putting people
in jail, he said, before pointing to Trump the president.
This president has cut a lot of inspector generals. He's
cut programs that could help us tackle this on.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Nobodys poor sentence.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's Donald Trump deflect demon eyes, come up with no solutions.
He's not going to help fix anything on fraud. I'm
just a regular guy.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I was a football coach. Oh boy, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
He could have been our.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Can you? Occasionally I allow myself to picture Kamala as
the president during the disturbulent times. I mean, Trump's nuts,
but good lord, Kamala Yike Simarta cum stay with us.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Grab the podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Perhaps you are here Earlier.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Hour two of the show kicked off with an interview
with the fabulous Mike Lyons or military analyst about the
controversy over the strikes in the Caribbean, specifically the alleged
snuffing of two survivors of a strike on September. The
second Mike and definitely worth dipping into the podcast Armstrong
and Getting on demand hour two from today. He made
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the point that look, this sort of double tap to
make sure the threat is eliminated, whether the boat or
the people, is very, very common in warfare. There's a
little complication in that it's not clear that this is
a warfare per se or terrorism per se. It's a
drug cartel. This is kind of a new wrinkle on
executive power. But anyway, that's the backdrop, and we make
(18:02):
no judgment here. There are too many facts that aren't
known yet. Mike was of the opinion that this was
just a very loyally effort to get the Trump administration,
specifically Pete Hegzeth, perhaps to hang a scalp on the
wall by Democrats. We countered that there seemed to be
plenty of Republicans who seem concerned with us too, But
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it's an interesting case.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And we will not prejudge here.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
On the Armstrong and Getty Show, having said that the
President is holding a cabinet meeting as we speak, and
both the President and Pete Hegzeth addressed this topic.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
As I've said, I'm saying again, we've only just begun
striking Narco boats and putting Narco terraces at the bottom
of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people,
and Joe Biden tried to approach it with kick loops,
allowed them to come across the border. Cartels takeover community,
twenty million people, hundreds of thousands of Americans poisoned, and
(19:02):
President Trump said no we're taking the bloves off. We're
taking the fight to these designated terror organizations.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And that's exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
So we're stopping the drugs, we're striking the boats, we're
defeating narco terrorists, and we're saying to you, may say
one thing that drugs coming in through the same by
seeing are down ninety percent, and I don't know who
the nine percent is.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
I'm not sure either are because down ninety one percent.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
By see, we've had a bit of a pause because
it's hard to find boats to strike right now, which
is the entire point. Right, deterrence has to matter, not arrested,
handover and then do it again, the rinse and repeat
approach of previous administrations. This is meant to get aft
after that approach. And I will just end by saying,
as President Trump always has our backs.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
We always have the back of our commanders who.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Are making decisions in difficult situations, and we do in
this case and all these strikes. They're making judgment calls
and ensuring that they defend the American people.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They've done the right things.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
We'll keep doing that, and we had their backs.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Good ye think, wow, wow, pretty unequivocal statement.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
There, and that's new that just happened. Oh yeah, that
was the cabinet meeting that's going on right now as
we speak. Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I don't know if the chuckles were a good idea. Hey,
we've killed so many people we can't even find a
boat to shoot out of the water.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
People chuckled. People chuckled in the background, background chuckles. What
are you anti chuckling?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Now is your monster?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
I haven't heard anybody mentioned this that Trump really hates drugs,
really hates him. He doesn't drink or do drugs or
even drink caffeine. And his kids, he's told this story
many times when they are grown up. First thing you
would say every morning, no drinking, no drugs, no tattoos,
he would say to his kids, just because he believes
(20:52):
in that whole sales mantra thing you get into people's heads.
Apparently worked with his kids because they don't drink drug
or to do have tattoos.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But he hates his older brother right to addiction.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
He lost his older brother to addiction. Yeah, and so
it runs in his family. I think, actually, I think
Trump is a classic untreated alcoholic. But as all the
a or marks of that.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But because you're alcoholic, that means because he doesn't drink.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Well, the way many of us understand alcoholism, drinking has
absolutely nothing to do with it here right now. It's
a symptom of something your Your brain is not like
other people's in the way you interact with the world.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I've only had the one brain. It doesn't work
so good.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
The best way to deal with it is drinking or
something else to deal with the way you look at
the world. And there are you can be an alcoholic
and never drink in your life, is the belief.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Of many alcoholics.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
But that aside, I won't go down that road.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
He he hates drugs.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
He definitely hates them and thinks they're bad for society,
which they the you know, very very often are, and
certainly the kind of stuff, the fentanyl and.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Everything like that.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
It's hard hard to come up with a good recreational
story about fentanyl, I think.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Right right, Oh yeah, just do a little fentanyl to
relax on the weekend after around of golf with my buddies.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I don't recall ever, hearing.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Helps me with my anxiety.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I tell you what this is difficult, and this is
a great case study if you enjoy wrestling with difficult questions,
because the ends do not justify the means always, you
know that very saying essentially says, I if the if
the result we get is good, then that justifies anything
(22:40):
we did on the way, and that that can lead
to horrors, absolute horrors.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you can't do that. On the other hand, listening
to Pete talk.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
There saying, look, we've got to establish de terrence because
these drugs are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans' so
on the decline, partly because the Trump administration the border
at center, but still killing tens of thousands of Americans.
We have a limited period of absolute going apass and
(23:13):
telling these cartels, not the.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
US, you're not selling here. Yeah we know we're a
great market.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah we know we got a lot of addicts, but
we're going to blow up your boat and snuff you
if you try. Well, it's not completely indefensible on a
moral level. No, And it's been presented as just a
given that because we're a big, rich country full of
people that are so affluent they got you know, time
and space to do drugs, that there's nothing you can
(23:39):
do about it. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
And the Trump administration is saying, well, how about if
you can't get the drugs. How about if you can't
get the drugs, then people won't be doing as many drugs, right,
And no, I'm not looking for the easy answer. I
could make examples of you know, some things that would
be way over the line that we could do to
stop people from bringing drugs in a machine gun anybody
(24:02):
who steps across the border.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That would take care of it. No, we can't do that.
It's too horrible, horrible, But this is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I don't like. This is kind of a pet peeve
of mine.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But designated terrorist organizations the word terrorist is now completely meaningless.
It's like fascist from the left. Fascist just means anybody
I don't like. I think terrorist just means any organization
that does stuff I don't like, that has a gun.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I guess it's useful politically, but.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I suppose you could argue that the cartels participated in
murder and mayhem for profit, whereas most quote unquote terrorist
organizations do it for political power or religious zelotry.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Well, I feel like the media, including us in the country,
just as a whole is being pretty relaxed about the
fact that we've got this big, giant cocked mill terry
fist done in Venezuela. Right that it looks like we're
gonna throw the punch at some point, and we're not
(25:06):
having that much of a discussion about do we want
to do this? Do we want to do a regime change?
Do we want marine storm on the beach there in Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I don't know what I'm approving or disapproving. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Do we want to do?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
What?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Tell me what I'm disapproving?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Well, I guess then I would start a number of Yeah,
I guess I would start with we should demand more,
what's the plan here? And then a conversation whether whether
we're on board with this or not. Right, it certainly
looks like we're about to do a regime change. It
looks like what it looked like in Iraq a couple
of different times, or Afghanistan or wherever. That's what it
(25:43):
looks like.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well, and back when we had a congress worth a
pair of James Madison's underpants, they would have probably weighed
in in some way. But now they're just social media influencers.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
James Madison's underpants would have been very dainty, very tight.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, a little lacey. If you hear what
I'm saying, well, I dout know about that. I didn't
say lay neither. Is there's something wrong with my mic?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, these are odd times. I don't even
know what I'm being asked to approve.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
It's hard to get people's attention for anything other than
I'm mad at Trump. I'm happy with Trump about some
specific thing that's not even that important.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Me did it, it's great. If Trump did it, it's horrible.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
I mean, it's similar to my AI. I won't start
that again. But he got you know, people saying there's
a fifty percent likely whod mankind gets wiped out?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh well, what you know? What did Trump say about what?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And the same thing with We're about to go to
war with Venezuela and you can't get any conversation going
about that, and maybe we are, maybe we aren't. I
don't know what about the midterms?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You know, Judy's out tonight. Maybe I'll watch Don't Look
Up again. It's very entertaining movie. I enjoyed it. Fat
Leo DiCaprio he went ahead and got Dowey and suburban.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
For the all I admire is played an uncool guy.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Yeah, I appreciate a really good looking guy who takes
a role that makes him look kind of weak and dopey.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That is, I think that's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
No, he's a scientist. You know what percentage of scientists
are buff?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Like? I know for a fact that like Steve McQueen,
only took roles that made him look like a really
cool badass worked for him, and it worked for him.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, anyway, this is neither here nor there, no nor anywhere.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right, it's just tough.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
These are the moral questions that I enjoyed wrestling with
because they're no easy answers. You cannot if somebody is
because a lot of these people are just guys in Venezuela.
They're fishermen. They got a little family business. They're a
laborer or whatever, but they're pretty good with a boat,
and they're hired often as a navigator or what's one
(27:55):
of the other jobs I was reading about the different
jobs on the boat. These guys don't make a lot
of money by our standards, but they make a lot
of money by their standards. Just for like being the
guy to hold onto the cocaine. And oh, one of
the main roles is you got to keep the engines
fueled because they go through a lot of fuel because
they're running hot like crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You'd be terrified fast on the ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So these guys all they do, because they're good with
an engine, is they make sure the fuel keeps flowing.
And they get paid a certain amount of money for that. Now,
if you blow up a drug boat and that poor
son of a bitch is clinging to the wreckage, snuffing
him from above, is that okay as the United States
of America?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Or is it not not running your boats fast enough?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Apparently? Honey, you can't go faster than a missile. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Do they hear anything? Would you hear anything? Would you
see a plane? Would he be even aware there's a
plane in the sky?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
No? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, especially given the fact that you're zooming along at
high speed on the ocean. You're slapping up and down
on the waves, the engines are roaring.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
No, you have no idea you would just all of
a sudden you just cease to exist, correct, And then
maybe unless again, you're the poor sob clinging to the RCD.
Maybe there's just everything goes black and loud and the
next thing you know, you're bobbing.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
In the ocean. What the hell was that?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Until the second one that hexeth the orders comes right
then you're done. Yeah, well huh, I'd say, don't be
a you know, the guy who checks the oil on
the motor for a drug boat. Do something else.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
What if there had been cameras at the Battle of
the Bulge or you know, one of the great military victories,
would we be picking apart who got shot when and
whether that German guy was trying to surrender or not.
Cameras and lawyers unleashed on you know, the Battle of Gettysburg.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Right? Is this just untenable?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It reminds me of our discussion many times about the
situation in Gaza with Israel. This is the first iPhone
modern social media information war within a war.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
If Trump gets if the Democrats win the House, they
are going to impeach Trump. Everybody seems to be an
agreement on that. This is a possible possibly.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
One of the issues. Right. War in Venezuela, Mm hmm, yeah,
I think so. Or whatever in Venezuela, maybe.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Trump's just gonna go get some nice spicy chicken tacos
for the Marines and then go home.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
He can text us or email us anytime. We will
finish strong. Next TV News, the long awaited fifties and
It's Stranger Things is officially here.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Great. Yeah, over the week it actually crashed Netflix. Oh,
everyone's like this season is so scary, especially.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
The part where I was with my family for five
days and Netflix wouldn't load. That was It's interesting. I
saw quite a few people were watching Stranger Things the
new season on the plane when I was flying home
from the Midwest. And the kids are also old now,
you know, they had more than a season's worth of
(31:25):
time in between several seasons, so they've grown here so much,
and they're like still trying to portray him his little kids,
and I don't know, I just don't know, Like the
Sopranos used to do sometimes, you know, it'd be like
three years between seasons and all of a sudden, AJ's
a foot taller and got a beard.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, Dad, I don't have to listen to you any
anybody on the crew. A Stranger Things.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Fan, I watched the first season and somewhat enjoyed it,
but it lost me after that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I should get into it because when my kids were
too young for when we first started watching it, and
it was a little too much for them, and I
should delve back into it now that they're older and
could handle it. I thought it was pretty cool. It
roped me in, but I never get further than the
first season. Actually, there's a list out of best TV
shows or something like that we're gonna get into tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Best episodes of all time.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yeah, which I'm looking forward to. I wonder if some
of them will be the episodes of the television show Friends,
which I saw where they store all the old Friends videotape.
Maybe some of you are aware of this, if you're
into movies or whatnot. There is a salt mine in
the middle of Kansas, which is where I was for Thanksgiving.
(32:39):
I'd never toured this. I was aware of this tour
spot for many years. Like a lot of high school
field trips go there or whatever. I'd never gone.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I took the boys.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
So it's a salt mine way way underground that has
for whatever reasons with it's something to do with the
temperature staying the same and the lack of humidity. They
store old documents and film and stuff there because it
will not deteriorate at all. Like all the old episodes
of Johnny Carson, the original film of the Wizard of
(33:08):
Oz is down there, All the episodes of Friends that
are on film are down there because they can't deteriorate
with the perfect just the right amount of humidity and
temperature being exactly the same down there. It's kind of
interesting and it's enormous. The salt mine. I've got to
go down on the salt mines. It's two hundred miles
(33:28):
long and one hundred and twenty miles wide.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I mean, that's how big it hits.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Wait a minute, when nothing deteriorates down there, So they
have all the they started going down there in the
nineteen twenties, and all the garbage going back to the
nineteen twenties is still down there, and they have it
in a pile. And you can see all these old
fast food wrappers and coke bottles and cigarette boxes and
stuff like that. All the garbage is still there. It
looks exactly like if it was thrown out yesterday. Kind
(33:55):
of a surprise aspect of the tour.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah it really is.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
And now final faults with Armstrong and getting engage.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
To wrap up the show. There is Michael Angelow pressing
the buttons in the control room. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know you mentioned the Wizard of Oz in that list. Jack,
I still have not seen that movie. What I know,
I just haven't gotten around to seeing it.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I don't like it because it insists upon itself.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh boy, and I vomited. Katie Greener esteemed and use
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Katie, we were talking.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
About supplements earlier and kind of the damage they can do.
Just keep an eye out if you're one of those
people that chases supplements on like Amazon.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Be careful. Oh oh yeah, yeah, it's so funny. Jack.
A final thought for us.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
I got more stories about being down in that salt mine.
I might have to put them into the One More
Thing podcast. A couple of really interesting things, including dead Burrows.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Stay tuned dead Burrows. Yes, good lord. My final thoughts.
He is a little self grandizing. I think that discussion
we had about inflation an hour three of the show
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distinction without a difference, but it's important.
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Venezuelan boat. We'll have the latest tomorrow.
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