April 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Some restaurant talk & the WI judge who escorted illegal criminal out of court
- Joe's 133rd jihad & moving
- Ultra processed food is killing us, 3D printed calamari & the crime of the century
- Stretching is good for your health!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty
and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Chipotle has announced that it plans to open a restaurant
in Mexico next year. Meanwhile, the Olive Garden in Italy
was just burned to the ground. Is sonata basta?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I haven't eaten at the OG in a long time.
I should take the kids see what they think of it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
George w. Bush was striding the halls of the White House.
I believe last time I was in an olive garden,
you're still good of that level. Food is like anything else.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And what's the name of that those kind of restaurants
Olive Garden, Red Robin, Applebee's, What's Fast Casual maybe something
like that. They're all about the same but the same price,
but same taste no matter what.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It is a shocking number of calories for a surprisingly
reasonable price, right right, yeah, yeah, coming up. The House
actually did something yesterday, Jack, which is odd or this
week anyway, as the House of Representatives Congress, the Article
one branch of the Constitution does nothing anymore. As I
(01:28):
pointed out, last, or they're like the Queen of England.
They have purely ceremonial duties. Anyway, more on that to
come a shocking number of calories, is right. I was
thinking about the salad at someplace like that the other day,
Applebee's something like that. The salad was like twenty two
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hundred calories. It's just insane. That's something, you know. It's
partly age, I think, in partly a self recognition and
on my part that I have no self control. But
I've gone from really pleased that a restaurant gives me
ridiculous portions because I'm getting my money's worth, to being
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really pleased when they don't.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh yeah, I don't think I've ever enjoyed the giant portion.
It's like, why is this so big? I think every
time they said it in front of me, I've gotten
better at especially if it's just Henry and me, we
order something and cut it in half. First of all,
it costs half as much to eat, and secondly we
both get stuffed eating is half of.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
What they sent us. I am a fan of the
First Amendment, as anybody who listens to this show knows,
beyond a shadow of doubtfit I would like to see
government restrictions on the serving size of French fries. Oh
my god, how many French fries are enough? Like Red Robin,
which I think has the best French fries around. I
love their French fries. They're good, aren't they, Michael, They're delicious.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh my god, those are good French fries. But they
have bottomless French fries. So the consonant you, what do
you want more? You want us to bring you another
bucket of French fries?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh? The frea. Oh and I love him. I love
him so much. If you know I'm going to be
executed finally for all of my crimes, my last meal
might just be French fries. That's funny, Henry.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Henry and I had that penciple is a food. We
got into that last night walking home from the gym.
For some reason. Henry hit me with if if you're
going to be executed, what would be last meal? And
of course I had to go with the caveat of well,
I think I'd be so remorseful over the horrifying crime
that committed. He said, you were unjustly accused, You're wrongfully accused.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow, that's a clever dodge by your boy. What a
fine lad he is. Anyway, did you settle on something?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, some sort of fried chicken, gravy mashed potato
sort of thing for me.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wow, good call, very good call. Sorry about your unjust execution,
but excellent choice that meal. So you may recall we
talked about this.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I'll just put the complete failure of the justicism aside
and enjoy this meal. And indeed the most urious an
irrevocable sanction a government can lay upon a citizen administered unjustly.
On the other hand, that meal was finger licking. So
anyway way, you win some, you lose some.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You may recall us discussing the wayward wisconstant judge who
aided and embedded the escape of a felon, Yes, a felon,
I will explain in a moment or two. John Roberts
and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, were discussing the case
on Fox News. And this is as good a play
by play as we've come across. So here it is.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
So let me read a little bit from the criminal
complaint here, and Judge Dugan says, despite having been advised
of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores Ruiz.
Judge Dugan then escorted Flores Ruiz and his counsel out
of the courtroom through the jury door, which leads to
a non public area of the courthouse.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A foot chase ensued.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The agents pursued Flora's Ruiz for the entire link to
the courthouse, and ultimately apprehended him. According to this complaint,
Judge Jiggin was visibly angry that Ice was there to
arrest Flores Ruiz even tried to kick the deportation agents
out of the courthouse.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, and to set the stage for you and Sandra
that this was truly horrific. This guy was in court
being prosecuted by a state prosecutor for domestic violence battery.
He had beat up two people, a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And a girl.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Beat the guy, the hif guy thirty times, knocked him
to the ground, choked him, beat up a woman so
badly they both had to go to the hospital. And John,
you know, it's so rare for victims to want to cooperate.
They wanted to cooperate. They were sitting in the courtroom
with the state prosecutor. The judge learns that Ice was
outside to get the guy because he had been deported
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in twenty thirteen, came back in our country, commits these crimes.
Charged with committing these crimes. Victims in court. Judge finds out.
She goes out in the hallway, screams at the immigration officers.
She's furious, visibly shaken, upset, sends them off to talk
to the chief judge. She comes back in the courtroom.
Here canna believe this, takes the defendant, the defense attorney
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back in her chambers, takes him out of private exit,
and tells him to leave while a state prosecutor and
victims of domestic violence are sitting in the courtroom.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know, we were talking last hour about how Trump
overreached on some of these kicking people out of the
country and you know, did more harm than good. The
Democrats are really overreaching, unsupporting this person.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh yeah, and several others. Yeah, yeah, I know what
we'll do. We'll stand up for illegal alien gang member felons.
That's the ticket back to power. How about the judge
visibly shaken? Yeah, because I showed up. You're nut. You
should not be a judge. You have bad judgment. Yeah,
(06:43):
she's an ideological extremist. No, doubt Interestingly, I was reading
Andy McCarthy in the National Review. He's a legal expert
who we've talked to many times, but he says prosecuting
her could be tougher than you think for various constitutional reasons.
She has a pretty good defense. But from a strictly
politics running a society, how crazy are these people angle?
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She is way overboard.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Here is a guy who is not only a gang member,
a woman beater, beat up BA Jesus out of a
fella over a stupid domestic concern.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He is an illegal immigrant who has and I don't
have the legal code in front of me, and it's
odd this article admits it. But he had the immediate
deportation without a hearing ruling on him having snuck in,
committed crimes, gotten booted out, snuck in again. He had
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the if you see this guy put his ass on.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
A plane and get rid of him, you don't have
to ask a judge ruling. And this guy's back in
court for victimizing more people, and this judge is so outraged,
maybe for reasons of state jurisdiction versus the federal government,
blah blah blah. I've been reading about it, but I've
filed a writ of circus Maximus Jack, and I don't
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believe that defense is going to hold up. I'm still
waiting for the paperwork to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But the idea that you would usher this guy out
practically a fire escape. Not just tell the marshals, no,
we don't cooperate with the federal authorities. You can't use
the state's you know, mechanisms to do federal stuff. That's
not the way the constitution works.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
No, she personally ushered this guy out, like into the
parking lot so we could make a run for it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Trumped arrangement syndrome is an actual thing on both sides, actually,
but it's an actual thing.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It makes people crazy. Yeah yeah, and you know there's
a certain percentage of people who suffer from Trump I'm
in love syndrome.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, that was applying the same term to both sides.
You're deranged, You're overlooking some obvious things either way, but
that's you're shaking. You're so upset that this guy's going
to get booted out.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Really yeah yeah, well, certainly this gal is going to
be booted out of the judge ship. There are a
couple of similar cases back in the day in various
very blue cities where judges did something similar. And again,
the proven the criminal charges is kind of fraught for
reasons I don't want to get into. It's a little complicated,
(09:35):
but they certainly ought not to be a judge. Absolutely
outrageous and idiotic. Yeah, that's probably enough Trump talk for now.
But the poll number. Can you imagine the poll numbers
if you're just a very simple and neutral description of
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the facts of the case and then put it before Americans,
Oh please, it'd be ninety five to five. So that
five percent are probably trendy IRAGUA members.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
So CNN's headline on one of the big stories of
the day, economic growth sharply declines. Is it sharply declined?
It's it's shrinking. Our GDP actually sharply shrunker point three percent.
I guess if we were cruising along at growth of whatever,
it was two and a half percent. That's a three
percent drop any good, almost three percent.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's brutal. Ultra processed foods may be linked to early death.
Speaking of your dietary choices, I'm telling you I don't
go for food crazes, not pro not con I don't
have a pantry full of keen.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't meant anything smaller than my fist, or anything
that a caveman wouldn't beaten, or all kinds of different
rules I have because I follow every diet.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't really, but I'm telling you the the evidence
is really starting to pile up about ultra processed foods.
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's not hard to believe that if it's in a
sealed plastic sack and it could stay perfectly okay for
like nine years in that sack, it's not good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It's not hard to worry. I pointed out the other day.
The health of this animal has changed completely, its body shape,
its function, everything. Well, it's eating something completely different than
it's eaten for its entire history on Earth.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No, that's not it, all right, Joe's become RFK Junior. Okay,
we got more on the ways.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Stay here. Every time we.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether or not the
anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to shape shift into
a perfect Hispanic accent.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Police arrested twenty five year old elan Alain Sanchez.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And I mean that, honestly. Why do we do that?
When I say Alejandra Myorcis. I just say Alejandra Myorcis,
but on CNN it's Alejandra Majorkis.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I'm Irish.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't
say police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie mcglothin.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Stop that stop fabulous. That's pretty funny. I love that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, it really stands out on NPR, does it over
the top? Everything was Wow, that's such a well do
it with Asian names? Come on now?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Wow? Right, Oh this is gonna be my let me
count one hundred and thirty third jihad this topic. Wow,
I'm really gonna have to use AI to schedule it?
Rantings and ravings? What did I come across with AI yesterday?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Something AI that was just phenomenal around video stuff Again,
that's where AI is clearly making a mark. I don't
know if it's going to take over the world in
a lot of the other ways that they've been claiming,
but man, the stuff it can do with video with
just you know, a couple of prompts is.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Stunning, mind blowing. My favorite amusing interesting piece of journalism
about AI next hour. There are various apps jack that
record everything you say for your own good what they
do with that information will jacque. Actually, it's it's thought.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Provoking records everything on my that my phone can hear. H.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, it's a device you wear, but yeah, it works
through your phone. It works through your phone. Yeah essentially. Yeah. Wow,
So this is getting some mockery. Oh it was good.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
There's an article in the New York Times, a hot
accessory at the intersection of faith and culture, seen on influencers,
pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
life or across necklace.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
At some point.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So the idea that The New York Times is acting
like this is some interesting intersection of faith and culture
that has occurred is just an example of how out
of touch they are with the giant chunk of America that,
for instance, has voted for Trump twice. New York is
a fascinating place in so many ways. I am pro
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New York, but New Yorker's self regard has annoyed me since.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was eleven years old, No kidding. The rest of
us are quite happy and fascinated by life and have
many opportunities for art, culture, the outdoors, et cetera. Whatever
we prefer, we're fine. We're not lesser being well. Right.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
The thing that annoys me about New York and to
a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
but in particular New York and LA is the people
who live there, their assumption that we all want to
be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
there yet trying, we just haven't been successful enough to
live there. And you know, they're and that's fine. I
(15:07):
love New York and Los Angeles. But everybody doesn't want
to live there. There are some people, I know, that's funny.
I was listening to Jonah Goldberg the other day on
a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side,
you know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
he grew up. And he was saying some things that
I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
(15:28):
with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
you for not knowing you grew up with a completely
different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
people who might kill themselves if they had to live
in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
to live in New.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
York, right, right, I'll never forget. And it's universal. I mean,
we've talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount.
You live in Kansas, they talk about how stupid Missourians are,
sure whatever, and you're in France they say Belgians are
more just everybody likes to you know, it's a human foible,
But I'll never forget. I was having a conversation with
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a friend in the San Francisco Bay Area years ago,
and at the conclusion of a long conversation about his
brutal commute and his awful taxes and is incomprehensible mortgage
payments and the rest of it, a town outside the
Bay area came up, and he was like, oh, poor bastards, right,
(16:26):
if only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
never mind, anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
One thing about moving my whole life, and then as
an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from,
and I wish just more people would understand you like
where you're from.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's perfectly fine. You don't need to hate on other places.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You like where you're from because it's what you're familiar with,
your people, your friends, your stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's perfectly all right.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But you don't have to pretend that you have to
hate all the other places. But everybody does.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're all Americans. Except
for legal immigrants, you're not get out except for twenty
million illegal immigrants. I know what you're thinking. Did they
correctly solve the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Maybe you
weren't thinking that that case might get blown wide open.
State A lot of good stuff to come, I know.
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Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
The child at the museum scratching a fifty six million
dollar painting in Rotterdam. Museum workers having to remove the
famous painting by artist Mark Rothko. They say it was
scratched in several places. The museum believes it can be restored.
No word on whether the family will he be held
responsible in any sort of way.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
How about if you're looking at a fifty six million
dollar painting, you don't let your kid go up and
have so much time alone with the painting that they
scratch it multiple times with their little fingers.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, I know. I looked at this painting, though,
and I like art. I'd buy art, not like expensive art,
but and I like abstract art. I can't, for the
life of me, understand how this painting could be worth
tens of millions of dollars. It reminds me of some
of the what are the forkingness sakes, the electronic WHATSITs
(18:13):
that people bought for like a week and a half NFTs. Yeah,
reminds me of NFTs. The value of that painting is
that other people think it has value. There's nothing intrinsically
great about it. It's okay, I guess in general, I
said this after I got back from Washington, d C.
And going to a bunch of museums.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
There's a lot of people take to their kids to
museums and places like that. The kids have zero interest
in being there zero. I guess you feel like you're
exposing them to culture or something, but they're paying no
attention and they have no interest.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So plenty of politics to talk about. I think a
lot of us are a little burned out after the
frenzy of Trump's first one hundred days blah blah blah,
never ending yelling at each other, so, at least for
one segment, some decidedly non political stuff. The evidence is
mounting both US researchers and European researchers saying that people
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who eat lots of ultra processed foods may be at
greater risk of dyeing. A study in eight countries, including
the UK and the US, suggest.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Greater risk of dying. That's right up there on your
health concerns. Among things I'd like to avoid. Yeah, processed meats.
My wife and I talked about this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
She is like, by even American standards, a bacon enthusiast. Boy,
I am doing yeah, yeah, probably for it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I probably have bacon half a day's Oh wow, it's
not good for you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Why is it not good for you? It's processed, processed.
What does that mean? It's the salt and smoke and
all sorts of I don't remember what. Am I a chemist?
But yes, I consider it a process meat.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I get why I shouldn't eat cheese, its or all
kinds of things in plastic sacks, but bacon really?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So anyway? Processed meats, look it up, cookies, fizzy during
soft drinks, ice cream. Some breakfast cereals. Upfs, ultra processed
foods tend to contain more than five ingredients which are
not usually found in home cooking, such as additive sweeteners
and chemicals to improve the food's texture or appearance.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
That's interesting some cereals, because like I eat grape nuts
and I think there's or cheerios. There's like two ingredients
on cheerios oats and I think that's it. Same with
grape nuts. So is that it's in a plastic sack.
There's something going on.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You know. The rule of thumb I always see cited
is look for ingredients you don't know what they are
or you don't have in your kitchen. That's that's a
pretty good standard. Now it's worth pointing out. Some experts
say it's not really clear why upfs are linked to
poor health. There's little evidence it's down to the processing itself.
Could be because the these foods contain high levels of fat, salt,
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and sugar and are associated with poorer lifestyle choice. That's
what I was going to say. Whatever you call that.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Could it be people that eat the simplest to eat foods,
have all kinds of other things.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
They most likely do.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You're more likely to not exercise, to smoke, to drink more,
to all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's certainly possible.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's not surprising that people like me, who you know,
go for the easy food in a plastic sack, have.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
A bunch of other non healthy things going on. Yeah,
if you have a well designed study, you tease out
all of those other factors. But it's extremely difficult to do.
And you're talking about lifestyle, general lifestyle, overall, diet, exercise,
of health, wealth, you know all those habits. Anyway, but
they looked at people's diets and data on deaths from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia,
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mech the UK, and the US. That's a pretty broad
swath or mortal enemy. Oh no, no, oh boy, don't
get me started anyway. Uh moving along, I thought this
was interesting. Speaking of diet, scientists have created three D
printed calamari with more protein than real squid.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So many questions, Wow, no kidding, three D printed calamari, Yes,
and using mung bean protein and what and microalgae? But
in what sense is it calamari couldn't you call it
whatever you want? This is birthday cake, this is calamari,
this is steak, it's none of those things.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well I was going to say, well, yeah, it was,
surely it would have the taste and texture of calamari.
But then it says the uh blah blah blah, producing
calamari mimics that were softer, spring here and structurally similar
to real calamari without relying on fished marine resources.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Three D printed calamari, I just I just don't see
myself eating that.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah. Yeah, this innovation highlights a promising future for sustainable
seafood alternatives, leveraging under used crops like mung beans and
algae to reduce pressure on ocean ecosystems.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Do they all have to be in favor of that?
Do they all have to be appetizers? Can you fax
me some onion rings?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't know, but they've successfully three D printed plant
based calamari rings that closely mimic both the texture and
protein content of real squid. How the damn stuff taste?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I think they since we were tiny kids, and probably
before that, they've been working all these things that people
are never going to need or do I feel like
they're prepared before when when first there's not going to
be any food, So you know, we got to eat
stuff out of a tube that kind of looks like
steak and you spread it on your your fake bread
or something.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But why why they're always doing this is there?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I believe that we're gonna have a real serious food
shortage worldwide at some point. Well over fishery of the
oceans is Overfishing is a thing, as the kids say,
it's a concern. But with the population probably having peaked
in decline it now, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know. A completely different topic. I mentioned this
earlier one to pay it Off. Eighty nine years ago
this month, a man named Bruno Richard Hoptman was executed
by the state of New Jersey for what the press
was calling the crime of the century.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
He's stood accused of kidnapping and murdering Charles Lindbergh Junior,
the twenty month old son of the most admired man
in America, of the famous Charles Lindberg. Just a trans
atlantic flight, blah blah blah, Just a horrible story. Like
the biggest celebrity in America was Charles Lindberg. So pick
whoever the biggest celebrity is now maybe Elon. Somebody sneaks
in the house and takes a twenty month old and
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kills them.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, brutal. Yeah. So I'd always been dimly aware of
the controversy surrounding this case, but it just hasn't been
one of those things I've bothered to look into in
my life. But the more I look into it, the
more intriguing slash troubling it is. Quoting from Jonas Eara
and Poppy Damon in the Free Press, there have been long,
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long been questions about whether Hopmann was in fact the
kidnapped or kidnapper, questions that could be easily answered with
DNA testing, which the state of New Jersey has long resisted,
and some researchers have filed suit to compel the state
to allow forensic scientists to do the testing. And it's
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thought pretty strongly that if they do the testing, this
guy's guilt or innocence will be established. They mentioned that
kidnapping children of the rich for ransom money was fairly
common during the depression. Wow, but Little Lindy's kidnapping, as
they called him, was a media sensation for reasons obviously,
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it was discovered ten weeks later the baby had died.
Believe it or not, Americans were so eager to see
Hoppman fried that there were actually execution parties at local
hotel ballrooms on the night he was put to death
in Trenton. The lights dimmed as the deed was carried
out because electric chairs required so much electricity in the thirties.
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But there's always been a great deal of doubt about
Hoppman's guilt, starting with the governor at the time, Harold Hoffmann.
Haupman was a German immigrant, and in the thirties, anti
German sentiment was running high. To be like now, yeah, yeah,
although our justice system is a lot more regimented and
(26:46):
transparent now, but public opinion wise, yes, yes, agreed, yeah.
Or an Iranian maybe well or not really it were
with Iran anyway, Well, we weren't at war with Germany
at the time. So the investigation was a slap dash
affair full of leads that were ignored in an astonishing breach,
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the New Jersey State Police, who were in charge, let
Lindberg himself call the shots. What's more, Housman Hopman's trial
was a travesty, with prosecutors pushing the evidence beyond all
bounds where he tried. By today's standards, it is a
near certainty that Hoppman would be found not guilty. Really. Yeah,
and that's a couple of pretty responsible journalists because they
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believe he didn't do it, or they just think there's
there there wouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
There's not enough to find him guilty and convictim. Yeah,
the evidence was very, very thin. But it's been a
long time. I mean, if there had been in somebody
else who was responsible.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oughn't that would have come out by now.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Somebody would have admitted to it, or a friend would
have admitted to it. Yeah, I was my old friend Bill,
he did it or something.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah. There have probably have been all sorts of false
confessions that sort. Maybe a true one, I don't know.
But final note on this Today, all the Lindbergh evidence
resides at the New Jersey State Police Museum. The journalists
say we've visited and seen for ourselves. The latter allegedly
used to access the child's bedroom window and handwriting samples
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in a public display, but one can find in an
archive archive that is not accessible to the public. The
fifteen ransom notes sent to the Lindberghs during their ordeal.
To send those ransom notes, the kidnapper would have had
to lick the stamps and seal the envelopes. That's where
the DNA evidence likely resides. Evidently people didn't use sponges
to seal envelopes back then. Maybe they didn't need to.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I've never used a sponge to seal an envelope in
my life. I've always licked them. You don't lick it,
you know.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I only did because I had to seal lots of
them working in a mail room as a college student.
But but in general from home, if you have an envelope,
you lick it, I know, But I do put spit
on my finger. Really now, I'm not gonna lick it
and get a tongue full of gloses. What am I
an animal? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I've done every every envelope I've ever used in my life,
I've done it like that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I just link it. I know, I'm just kidding, but no, no,
I did. I realized how bad they taste. Yeah, I
have licked my envelopes. To me, I can apply saliva
to this envelope without getting a mouthful of glue by
doing this, it is a horrible flavor. How do you
do it? Katie?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I used to lick them until I actually got a
paper cut on my tongue.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That was the day that stopped. That's horrible. Oh my god,
slice your tongue open. So I'm fine. All over the envelope.
It was really it was great. No, everybody in America
is cringing, No, you're done? Okay, good? Why is New
Jersey so adamantly opposed to the DNA testing? And nobody's
really sure. Some officials say they're worried about setting a precedent.
(29:52):
If any case can be reopened at the whim of
the public, then they all can. But some conspiracy theorists
think the state it has something to hide. Yeah, a slapdash,
crappy investigation that puts somebody to death without justification.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
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Speaker 3 (31:11):
Our three will get to some of the Trump interview
from ABC Primetime last night that included I thought a
very entertaining exchange about Pete Heggs at the Secretary of Defense,
among other things.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Stay with Us Armstrong.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Actor Terrence Howard says he turned down the role of
singer Marvin Gay because he couldn't kiss a man, the
same reason he won't play Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
What is that? What the heck? What is that?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So? Greg gut fechell, Obama's a man and Brock's gay?
Is that a regular theme of Greg Gutville.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I don't know if he just fills in that blank,
but I'm not quite sure, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Okay, just came across his headline and that I saw
stretching should be part of your bedtime routine and reminded me.
The best thing I've practically done on the health front
in many, many years is when I started stretching, like
nine months ago, finally ditto, and it's amazing what that
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has done for me. It's just and I don't spend
a lot of time on it. I kind of do
it between sets at the gym and stuff like that.
But the total stretching might be I don't know, fifteen
twenty minutes and like zero, it's eliminated. I didn't have
much back pain anyway, but it's just eliminated. It is
a thing completely and just quality of life, just the
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ability to like you know, get in and out of cars,
up and downstairs, whatever I want to do.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I don't know why I didn't start this earlier, even
though everybody in the world had told me so, I
hope I can keepin I say, yeah, I hope I
can keep that up the rest of my life. This
didn't get enough attention. Yesterday, Harvard University released two separate
reports commissioned by themselves to find out that there's a
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lot of an anti Semitism and anti Muslim bias on campus.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Two different reports.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
They're quite different kinds of reports, but focusing on the
anti Semitism part of it. Anti Semitic bias, the report found,
and again this was something Harvard did themselves, had severely
escalated following Hamas's October seventh attack, though it noted that
anti Jewish bigotry was a big issue before the wars start,
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and they found all kinds of examples of faculty being
is saying, doing anti Jewish things, classes that were clearly
designed to be anti Israel or anti.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Jew entire departments.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
See, yeah, this is absolutely amazing from the university that
regularly lectures us on bigotry, inequity and fairness and all
kinds of BS. Well, that stuff's not BS, but it
is if you're not living it. Same thing with the
anti is Islamic stuff, although that was almost entirely asking
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students and students saying that they feel like they can't
say what they want. So I don't know if that's
exactly the same thing as the anti Semitism report.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
And it's interesting that every time Harvard or Penn or
any of these universities addresses anti Semitism, they also throw
in and there's a Islamophobia too, right, right, even though
it's really that's funny because we hadn't heard or seen
a lot of complaints about that. There weren't Islamic students
barred from doing anything, or in any Islamic students surrounded
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by angry, jeering spectators who spit on them or prevented
them from going into the library. But thanks for pointing
it out.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well right in the if the complaints from the Muslim
students are I don't feel like I can say what
I want when what a lot of you were saying
is all Jews want to.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Die to the Jews.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yes, okay, yeah, I'm sure that's quite the same thing.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, and plus it's got kind of a dysfunctional arguing
feel to it. Honey, you just shot the dog to death,
Well you didn't do the dishes, you know. Yeah, okay,
why don't we talk about the two separately?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
By the way, and I think you mentioned this the
other day, Harvard has renamed the Office for Equity, Diversity
and Inclusion because that has become, you know, a bad
phrase for a lot of us. They just renamed it
to the Belonging to the Community and Campus Life Office,
in which they're probably going to do exactly the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, oh yeah. The idea that we were telling them
you can't do that anymore and they would comply is hilarious.
I am not a paranoid lunatic when I tell.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
You that this is a a strongly held, near religious
belief by these people.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Trust me when I tell you it's true. They will
hide it.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
They will ou skate, they will lie, they will cheat,
They will keep it going anyway they can. Somewhat contentious
interview between Trump and an ABC reporter on Primetime last night.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
We'll have some highlights in hour three. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty
and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Chipotle has announced that it plans to open a restaurant
in Mexico next year. Meanwhile, the Olive Garden in Italy
was just burned to the ground. Is sonata basta?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I haven't eaten at the OG in a long time.
I should take the kids see what they think of it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
George w. Bush was striding the halls of the White House.
I believe last time I was in an olive garden,
you're still good of that level. Food is like anything else.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And what's the name of that those kind of restaurants
Olive Garden, Red Robin, Applebee's, What's Fast Casual maybe something
like that. They're all about the same but the same price,
but same taste no matter what.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It is a shocking number of calories for a surprisingly
reasonable price, right right, yeah, yeah, coming up. The House
actually did something yesterday, Jack, which is odd or this
week anyway, as the House of Representatives Congress, the Article
one branch of the Constitution does nothing anymore. As I
(01:28):
pointed out, last, or they're like the Queen of England.
They have purely ceremonial duties. Anyway, more on that to
come a shocking number of calories, is right. I was
thinking about the salad at someplace like that the other day,
Applebee's something like that. The salad was like twenty two
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hundred calories. It's just insane. That's something, you know. It's
partly age, I think, in partly a self recognition and
on my part that I have no self control. But
I've gone from really pleased that a restaurant gives me
ridiculous portions because I'm getting my money's worth, to being
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really pleased when they don't.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh yeah, I don't think I've ever enjoyed the giant portion.
It's like, why is this so big? I think every
time they said it in front of me, I've gotten
better at especially if it's just Henry and me, we
order something and cut it in half. First of all,
it costs half as much to eat, and secondly we
both get stuffed eating is half of.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
What they sent us. I am a fan of the
First Amendment, as anybody who listens to this show knows,
beyond a shadow of doubtfit I would like to see
government restrictions on the serving size of French fries. Oh
my god, how many French fries are enough? Like Red Robin,
which I think has the best French fries around. I
love their French fries. They're good, aren't they, Michael, They're delicious.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh my god, those are good French fries. But they
have bottomless French fries. So the consonant you, what do
you want more? You want us to bring you another
bucket of French fries?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh? The frea. Oh and I love him. I love
him so much. If you know I'm going to be
executed finally for all of my crimes, my last meal
might just be French fries. That's funny, Henry.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Henry and I had that penciple is a food. We
got into that last night walking home from the gym.
For some reason. Henry hit me with if if you're
going to be executed, what would be last meal? And
of course I had to go with the caveat of well,
I think I'd be so remorseful over the horrifying crime
that committed. He said, you were unjustly accused, You're wrongfully accused.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow, that's a clever dodge by your boy. What a
fine lad he is. Anyway, did you settle on something?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh yeah, some sort of fried chicken, gravy mashed potato
sort of thing for me.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Wow, good call, very good call. Sorry about your unjust execution,
but excellent choice that meal. So you may recall we
talked about this.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I'll just put the complete failure of the justicism aside
and enjoy this meal. And indeed the most urious an
irrevocable sanction a government can lay upon a citizen administered unjustly.
On the other hand, that meal was finger licking. So
anyway way, you win some, you lose some.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You may recall us discussing the wayward wisconstant judge who
aided and embedded the escape of a felon, Yes, a felon,
I will explain in a moment or two. John Roberts
and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, were discussing the case
on Fox News. And this is as good a play
by play as we've come across. So here it is.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
So let me read a little bit from the criminal
complaint here, and Judge Dugan says, despite having been advised
of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores Ruiz.
Judge Dugan then escorted Flores Ruiz and his counsel out
of the courtroom through the jury door, which leads to
a non public area of the courthouse.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A foot chase ensued.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The agents pursued Flora's Ruiz for the entire link to
the courthouse, and ultimately apprehended him. According to this complaint,
Judge Jiggin was visibly angry that Ice was there to
arrest Flores Ruiz even tried to kick the deportation agents
out of the courthouse.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, and to set the stage for you and Sandra
that this was truly horrific. This guy was in court
being prosecuted by a state prosecutor for domestic violence battery.
He had beat up two people, a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And a girl.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Beat the guy, the hif guy thirty times, knocked him
to the ground, choked him, beat up a woman so
badly they both had to go to the hospital. And John,
you know, it's so rare for victims to want to cooperate.
They wanted to cooperate. They were sitting in the courtroom
with the state prosecutor. The judge learns that Ice was
outside to get the guy because he had been deported
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in twenty thirteen, came back in our country, commits these crimes.
Charged with committing these crimes. Victims in court. Judge finds out.
She goes out in the hallway, screams at the immigration officers.
She's furious, visibly shaken, upset, sends them off to talk
to the chief judge. She comes back in the courtroom.
Here canna believe this, takes the defendant, the defense attorney
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back in her chambers, takes him out of private exit,
and tells him to leave while a state prosecutor and
victims of domestic violence are sitting in the courtroom.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You know, we were talking last hour about how Trump
overreached on some of these kicking people out of the
country and you know, did more harm than good. The
Democrats are really overreaching, unsupporting this person.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Oh yeah, and several others. Yeah, yeah, I know what
we'll do. We'll stand up for illegal alien gang member felons.
That's the ticket back to power. How about the judge
visibly shaken? Yeah, because I showed up. You're nut. You
should not be a judge. You have bad judgment. Yeah,
(06:43):
she's an ideological extremist. No, doubt Interestingly, I was reading
Andy McCarthy in the National Review. He's a legal expert
who we've talked to many times, but he says prosecuting
her could be tougher than you think for various constitutional reasons.
She has a pretty good defense. But from a strictly
politics running a society, how crazy are these people angle?
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She is way overboard.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Here is a guy who is not only a gang member,
a woman beater, beat up BA Jesus out of a
fella over a stupid domestic concern.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He is an illegal immigrant who has and I don't
have the legal code in front of me, and it's
odd this article admits it. But he had the immediate
deportation without a hearing ruling on him having snuck in,
committed crimes, gotten booted out, snuck in again. He had
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the if you see this guy put his ass on.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
A plane and get rid of him, you don't have
to ask a judge ruling. And this guy's back in
court for victimizing more people, and this judge is so outraged,
maybe for reasons of state jurisdiction versus the federal government,
blah blah blah. I've been reading about it, but I've
filed a writ of circus Maximus Jack, and I don't
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believe that defense is going to hold up. I'm still
waiting for the paperwork to come back.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But the idea that you would usher this guy out
practically a fire escape. Not just tell the marshals, no,
we don't cooperate with the federal authorities. You can't use
the state's you know, mechanisms to do federal stuff. That's
not the way the constitution works.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
No, she personally ushered this guy out, like into the
parking lot so we could make a run for it.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Trumped arrangement syndrome is an actual thing on both sides, actually,
but it's an actual thing.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It makes people crazy. Yeah yeah, and you know there's
a certain percentage of people who suffer from Trump I'm
in love syndrome.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, that was applying the same term to both sides.
You're deranged, You're overlooking some obvious things either way, but
that's you're shaking. You're so upset that this guy's going
to get booted out.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Really yeah yeah, well, certainly this gal is going to
be booted out of the judge ship. There are a
couple of similar cases back in the day in various
very blue cities where judges did something similar. And again,
the proven the criminal charges is kind of fraught for
reasons I don't want to get into. It's a little complicated,
(09:35):
but they certainly ought not to be a judge. Absolutely
outrageous and idiotic. Yeah, that's probably enough Trump talk for now.
But the poll number. Can you imagine the poll numbers
if you're just a very simple and neutral description of
(09:56):
the facts of the case and then put it before Americans,
Oh please, it'd be ninety five to five. So that
five percent are probably trendy IRAGUA members.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
So CNN's headline on one of the big stories of
the day, economic growth sharply declines. Is it sharply declined?
It's it's shrinking. Our GDP actually sharply shrunker point three percent.
I guess if we were cruising along at growth of whatever,
it was two and a half percent. That's a three
percent drop any good, almost three percent.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's brutal. Ultra processed foods may be linked to early death.
Speaking of your dietary choices, I'm telling you I don't
go for food crazes, not pro not con I don't
have a pantry full of keen.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't meant anything smaller than my fist, or anything
that a caveman wouldn't beaten, or all kinds of different
rules I have because I follow every diet.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I don't really, but I'm telling you the the evidence
is really starting to pile up about ultra processed foods.
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's not hard to believe that if it's in a
sealed plastic sack and it could stay perfectly okay for
like nine years in that sack, it's not good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
It's not hard to worry. I pointed out the other day.
The health of this animal has changed completely, its body shape,
its function, everything. Well, it's eating something completely different than
it's eaten for its entire history on Earth.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No, that's not it, all right, Joe's become RFK Junior. Okay,
we got more on the ways.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Stay here. Every time we.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether or not the
anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to shape shift into
a perfect Hispanic accent.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Police arrested twenty five year old elan Alain Sanchez.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And I mean that, honestly. Why do we do that?
When I say Alejandra Myorcis. I just say Alejandra Myorcis,
but on CNN it's Alejandra Majorkis.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I'm Irish.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't
say police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie mcglothin.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Stop that stop fabulous. That's pretty funny. I love that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, it really stands out on NPR, does it over
the top? Everything was Wow, that's such a well do
it with Asian names? Come on now?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Wow? Right, Oh this is gonna be my let me
count one hundred and thirty third jihad this topic. Wow,
I'm really gonna have to use AI to schedule it?
Rantings and ravings? What did I come across with AI yesterday?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Something AI that was just phenomenal around video stuff Again,
that's where AI is clearly making a mark. I don't
know if it's going to take over the world in
a lot of the other ways that they've been claiming,
but man, the stuff it can do with video with
just you know, a couple of prompts is.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Stunning, mind blowing. My favorite amusing interesting piece of journalism
about AI next hour. There are various apps jack that
record everything you say for your own good what they
do with that information will jacque. Actually, it's it's thought.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Provoking records everything on my that my phone can hear. H.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, it's a device you wear, but yeah, it works
through your phone. It works through your phone. Yeah essentially. Yeah. Wow,
So this is getting some mockery. Oh it was good.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
There's an article in the New York Times, a hot
accessory at the intersection of faith and culture, seen on influencers,
pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
life or across necklace.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
At some point.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So the idea that The New York Times is acting
like this is some interesting intersection of faith and culture
that has occurred is just an example of how out
of touch they are with the giant chunk of America that,
for instance, has voted for Trump twice. New York is
a fascinating place in so many ways. I am pro
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New York, but New Yorker's self regard has annoyed me since.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was eleven years old, No kidding. The rest of
us are quite happy and fascinated by life and have
many opportunities for art, culture, the outdoors, et cetera. Whatever
we prefer, we're fine. We're not lesser being well. Right.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
The thing that annoys me about New York and to
a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
but in particular New York and LA is the people
who live there, their assumption that we all want to
be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
there yet trying, we just haven't been successful enough to
live there. And you know, they're and that's fine. I
(15:07):
love New York and Los Angeles. But everybody doesn't want
to live there. There are some people, I know, that's funny.
I was listening to Jonah Goldberg the other day on
a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side,
you know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
he grew up. And he was saying some things that
I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
(15:28):
with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
you for not knowing you grew up with a completely
different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
people who might kill themselves if they had to live
in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
to live in New.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
York, right, right, I'll never forget. And it's universal. I mean,
we've talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount.
You live in Kansas, they talk about how stupid Missourians are,
sure whatever, and you're in France they say Belgians are
more just everybody likes to you know, it's a human foible,
But I'll never forget. I was having a conversation with
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a friend in the San Francisco Bay Area years ago,
and at the conclusion of a long conversation about his
brutal commute and his awful taxes and is incomprehensible mortgage
payments and the rest of it, a town outside the
Bay area came up, and he was like, oh, poor bastards, right,
(16:26):
if only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
never mind, anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
One thing about moving my whole life, and then as
an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from,
and I wish just more people would understand you like
where you're from.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's perfectly fine. You don't need to hate on other places.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You like where you're from because it's what you're familiar with,
your people, your friends, your stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's perfectly all right.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But you don't have to pretend that you have to
hate all the other places. But everybody does.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're all Americans. Except
for legal immigrants, you're not get out except for twenty
million illegal immigrants. I know what you're thinking. Did they
correctly solve the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Maybe you
weren't thinking that that case might get blown wide open.
State A lot of good stuff to come, I know.
(17:18):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
The child at the museum scratching a fifty six million
dollar painting in Rotterdam. Museum workers having to remove the
famous painting by artist Mark Rothko. They say it was
scratched in several places. The museum believes it can be restored.
No word on whether the family will he be held
responsible in any sort of way.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
How about if you're looking at a fifty six million
dollar painting, you don't let your kid go up and
have so much time alone with the painting that they
scratch it multiple times with their little fingers.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, yeah, I know. I looked at this painting, though,
and I like art. I'd buy art, not like expensive art,
but and I like abstract art. I can't, for the
life of me, understand how this painting could be worth
tens of millions of dollars. It reminds me of some
of the what are the forkingness sakes, the electronic WHATSITs
(18:13):
that people bought for like a week and a half NFTs. Yeah,
reminds me of NFTs. The value of that painting is
that other people think it has value. There's nothing intrinsically
great about it. It's okay, I guess in general, I
said this after I got back from Washington, d C.
And going to a bunch of museums.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
There's a lot of people take to their kids to
museums and places like that. The kids have zero interest
in being there zero. I guess you feel like you're
exposing them to culture or something, but they're paying no
attention and they have no interest.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So plenty of politics to talk about. I think a
lot of us are a little burned out after the
frenzy of Trump's first one hundred days blah blah blah,
never ending yelling at each other, so, at least for
one segment, some decidedly non political stuff. The evidence is
mounting both US researchers and European researchers saying that people
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who eat lots of ultra processed foods may be at
greater risk of dyeing. A study in eight countries, including
the UK and the US, suggest.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Greater risk of dying. That's right up there on your
health concerns. Among things I'd like to avoid. Yeah, processed meats.
My wife and I talked about this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
She is like, by even American standards, a bacon enthusiast. Boy,
I am doing yeah, yeah, probably for it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I probably have bacon half a day's Oh wow, it's
not good for you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Why is it not good for you? It's processed, processed.
What does that mean? It's the salt and smoke and
all sorts of I don't remember what. Am I a chemist?
But yes, I consider it a process meat.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I get why I shouldn't eat cheese, its or all
kinds of things in plastic sacks, but bacon really?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So anyway? Processed meats, look it up, cookies, fizzy during
soft drinks, ice cream. Some breakfast cereals. Upfs, ultra processed
foods tend to contain more than five ingredients which are
not usually found in home cooking, such as additive sweeteners
and chemicals to improve the food's texture or appearance.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
That's interesting some cereals, because like I eat grape nuts
and I think there's or cheerios. There's like two ingredients
on cheerios oats and I think that's it. Same with
grape nuts. So is that it's in a plastic sack.
There's something going on.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You know. The rule of thumb I always see cited
is look for ingredients you don't know what they are
or you don't have in your kitchen. That's that's a
pretty good standard. Now it's worth pointing out. Some experts
say it's not really clear why upfs are linked to
poor health. There's little evidence it's down to the processing itself.
Could be because the these foods contain high levels of fat, salt,
(21:02):
and sugar and are associated with poorer lifestyle choice. That's
what I was going to say. Whatever you call that.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Could it be people that eat the simplest to eat foods,
have all kinds of other things.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
They most likely do.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You're more likely to not exercise, to smoke, to drink more,
to all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's certainly possible.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's not surprising that people like me, who you know,
go for the easy food in a plastic sack, have.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
A bunch of other non healthy things going on. Yeah,
if you have a well designed study, you tease out
all of those other factors. But it's extremely difficult to do.
And you're talking about lifestyle, general lifestyle, overall, diet, exercise,
of health, wealth, you know all those habits. Anyway, but
they looked at people's diets and data on deaths from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia,
(21:59):
mech the UK, and the US. That's a pretty broad
swath or mortal enemy. Oh no, no, oh boy, don't
get me started anyway. Uh moving along, I thought this
was interesting. Speaking of diet, scientists have created three D
printed calamari with more protein than real squid.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So many questions, Wow, no kidding, three D printed calamari, Yes,
and using mung bean protein and what and microalgae? But
in what sense is it calamari couldn't you call it
whatever you want? This is birthday cake, this is calamari,
this is steak, it's none of those things.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well I was going to say, well, yeah, it was,
surely it would have the taste and texture of calamari.
But then it says the uh blah blah blah, producing
calamari mimics that were softer, spring here and structurally similar
to real calamari without relying on fished marine resources.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Three D printed calamari, I just I just don't see
myself eating that.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah. Yeah, this innovation highlights a promising future for sustainable
seafood alternatives, leveraging under used crops like mung beans and
algae to reduce pressure on ocean ecosystems.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Do they all have to be in favor of that?
Do they all have to be appetizers? Can you fax
me some onion rings?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't know, but they've successfully three D printed plant
based calamari rings that closely mimic both the texture and
protein content of real squid. How the damn stuff taste?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I think they since we were tiny kids, and probably
before that, they've been working all these things that people
are never going to need or do I feel like
they're prepared before when when first there's not going to
be any food, So you know, we got to eat
stuff out of a tube that kind of looks like
steak and you spread it on your your fake bread
or something.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
But why why they're always doing this is there?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I believe that we're gonna have a real serious food
shortage worldwide at some point. Well over fishery of the
oceans is Overfishing is a thing, as the kids say,
it's a concern. But with the population probably having peaked
in decline it now, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't know. A completely different topic. I mentioned this
earlier one to pay it Off. Eighty nine years ago
this month, a man named Bruno Richard Hoptman was executed
by the state of New Jersey for what the press
was calling the crime of the century.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
He's stood accused of kidnapping and murdering Charles Lindbergh Junior,
the twenty month old son of the most admired man
in America, of the famous Charles Lindberg. Just a trans
atlantic flight, blah blah blah, Just a horrible story. Like
the biggest celebrity in America was Charles Lindberg. So pick
whoever the biggest celebrity is now maybe Elon. Somebody sneaks
in the house and takes a twenty month old and
(24:56):
kills them.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, brutal. Yeah. So I'd always been dimly aware of
the controversy surrounding this case, but it just hasn't been
one of those things I've bothered to look into in
my life. But the more I look into it, the
more intriguing slash troubling it is. Quoting from Jonas Eara
and Poppy Damon in the Free Press, there have been long,
(25:19):
long been questions about whether Hopmann was in fact the
kidnapped or kidnapper, questions that could be easily answered with
DNA testing, which the state of New Jersey has long resisted,
and some researchers have filed suit to compel the state
to allow forensic scientists to do the testing. And it's
(25:40):
thought pretty strongly that if they do the testing, this
guy's guilt or innocence will be established. They mentioned that
kidnapping children of the rich for ransom money was fairly
common during the depression. Wow, but Little Lindy's kidnapping, as
they called him, was a media sensation for reasons obviously,
(26:01):
it was discovered ten weeks later the baby had died.
Believe it or not, Americans were so eager to see
Hoppman fried that there were actually execution parties at local
hotel ballrooms on the night he was put to death
in Trenton. The lights dimmed as the deed was carried
out because electric chairs required so much electricity in the thirties.
(26:21):
But there's always been a great deal of doubt about
Hoppman's guilt, starting with the governor at the time, Harold Hoffmann.
Haupman was a German immigrant, and in the thirties, anti
German sentiment was running high. To be like now, yeah, yeah,
although our justice system is a lot more regimented and
(26:46):
transparent now, but public opinion wise, yes, yes, agreed, yeah.
Or an Iranian maybe well or not really it were
with Iran anyway, Well, we weren't at war with Germany
at the time. So the investigation was a slap dash
affair full of leads that were ignored in an astonishing breach,
(27:08):
the New Jersey State Police, who were in charge, let
Lindberg himself call the shots. What's more, Housman Hopman's trial
was a travesty, with prosecutors pushing the evidence beyond all
bounds where he tried. By today's standards, it is a
near certainty that Hoppman would be found not guilty. Really. Yeah,
and that's a couple of pretty responsible journalists because they
(27:31):
believe he didn't do it, or they just think there's
there there wouldn't be.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
There's not enough to find him guilty and convictim. Yeah,
the evidence was very, very thin. But it's been a
long time. I mean, if there had been in somebody
else who was responsible.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oughn't that would have come out by now.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Somebody would have admitted to it, or a friend would
have admitted to it. Yeah, I was my old friend Bill,
he did it or something.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah. There have probably have been all sorts of false
confessions that sort. Maybe a true one, I don't know.
But final note on this Today, all the Lindbergh evidence
resides at the New Jersey State Police Museum. The journalists
say we've visited and seen for ourselves. The latter allegedly
used to access the child's bedroom window and handwriting samples
(28:18):
in a public display, but one can find in an
archive archive that is not accessible to the public. The
fifteen ransom notes sent to the Lindberghs during their ordeal.
To send those ransom notes, the kidnapper would have had
to lick the stamps and seal the envelopes. That's where
the DNA evidence likely resides. Evidently people didn't use sponges
to seal envelopes back then. Maybe they didn't need to.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I've never used a sponge to seal an envelope in
my life. I've always licked them. You don't lick it,
you know.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I only did because I had to seal lots of
them working in a mail room as a college student.
But but in general from home, if you have an envelope,
you lick it, I know, But I do put spit
on my finger. Really now, I'm not gonna lick it
and get a tongue full of gloses. What am I
an animal? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I've done every every envelope I've ever used in my life,
I've done it like that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I just link it. I know, I'm just kidding, but no, no,
I did. I realized how bad they taste. Yeah, I
have licked my envelopes. To me, I can apply saliva
to this envelope without getting a mouthful of glue by
doing this, it is a horrible flavor. How do you
do it? Katie?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I used to lick them until I actually got a
paper cut on my tongue.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That was the day that stopped. That's horrible. Oh my god,
slice your tongue open. So I'm fine. All over the envelope.
It was really it was great. No, everybody in America
is cringing, No, you're done? Okay, good? Why is New
Jersey so adamantly opposed to the DNA testing? And nobody's
really sure. Some officials say they're worried about setting a precedent.
(29:52):
If any case can be reopened at the whim of
the public, then they all can. But some conspiracy theorists
think the state it has something to hide. Yeah, a slapdash,
crappy investigation that puts somebody to death without justification.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
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Speaker 3 (31:11):
Our three will get to some of the Trump interview
from ABC Primetime last night that included I thought a
very entertaining exchange about Pete Heggs at the Secretary of Defense,
among other things.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Stay with Us Armstrong.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Actor Terrence Howard says he turned down the role of
singer Marvin Gay because he couldn't kiss a man, the
same reason he won't play Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
What is that? What the heck? What is that?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So? Greg gut fechell, Obama's a man and Brock's gay?
Is that a regular theme of Greg Gutville.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I don't know if he just fills in that blank,
but I'm not quite sure, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Okay, just came across his headline and that I saw
stretching should be part of your bedtime routine and reminded me.
The best thing I've practically done on the health front
in many, many years is when I started stretching, like
nine months ago, finally ditto, and it's amazing what that
(32:24):
has done for me. It's just and I don't spend
a lot of time on it. I kind of do
it between sets at the gym and stuff like that.
But the total stretching might be I don't know, fifteen
twenty minutes and like zero, it's eliminated. I didn't have
much back pain anyway, but it's just eliminated. It is
a thing completely and just quality of life, just the
(32:45):
ability to like you know, get in and out of cars,
up and downstairs, whatever I want to do.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I don't know why I didn't start this earlier, even
though everybody in the world had told me so, I
hope I can keepin I say, yeah, I hope I
can keep that up the rest of my life. This
didn't get enough attention. Yesterday, Harvard University released two separate
reports commissioned by themselves to find out that there's a
(33:14):
lot of an anti Semitism and anti Muslim bias on campus.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Two different reports.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
They're quite different kinds of reports, but focusing on the
anti Semitism part of it. Anti Semitic bias, the report found,
and again this was something Harvard did themselves, had severely
escalated following Hamas's October seventh attack, though it noted that
anti Jewish bigotry was a big issue before the wars start,
(33:42):
and they found all kinds of examples of faculty being
is saying, doing anti Jewish things, classes that were clearly
designed to be anti Israel or anti.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Jew entire departments.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
See, yeah, this is absolutely amazing from the university that
regularly lectures us on bigotry, inequity and fairness and all
kinds of BS. Well, that stuff's not BS, but it
is if you're not living it. Same thing with the
anti is Islamic stuff, although that was almost entirely asking
(34:21):
students and students saying that they feel like they can't
say what they want. So I don't know if that's
exactly the same thing as the anti Semitism report.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
And it's interesting that every time Harvard or Penn or
any of these universities addresses anti Semitism, they also throw
in and there's a Islamophobia too, right, right, even though
it's really that's funny because we hadn't heard or seen
a lot of complaints about that. There weren't Islamic students
barred from doing anything, or in any Islamic students surrounded
(34:53):
by angry, jeering spectators who spit on them or prevented
them from going into the library. But thanks for pointing
it out.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well right in the if the complaints from the Muslim
students are I don't feel like I can say what
I want when what a lot of you were saying
is all Jews want to.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Die to the Jews.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yes, okay, yeah, I'm sure that's quite the same thing.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, and plus it's got kind of a dysfunctional arguing
feel to it. Honey, you just shot the dog to death,
Well you didn't do the dishes, you know. Yeah, okay,
why don't we talk about the two separately?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
By the way, and I think you mentioned this the
other day, Harvard has renamed the Office for Equity, Diversity
and Inclusion because that has become, you know, a bad
phrase for a lot of us. They just renamed it
to the Belonging to the Community and Campus Life Office,
in which they're probably going to do exactly the same stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yeah, oh yeah. The idea that we were telling them
you can't do that anymore and they would comply is hilarious.
I am not a paranoid lunatic when I tell.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
You that this is a a strongly held, near religious
belief by these people.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Trust me when I tell you it's true. They will
hide it.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
They will ou skate, they will lie, they will cheat,
They will keep it going anyway they can. Somewhat contentious
interview between Trump and an ABC reporter on Primetime last night.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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