April 12, 2024 • 35 mins
We revisit C.O.W. Clips of the Week, gender bending madness, a person "briefed by Iranian leadership" talking about planned attacks and of course, our final thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show,
we get it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're retired.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, let's say one day.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
It is a situation, right, Maybe it's the forty nine ers,
Maybe you know, head to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Offense is great, Patriots, somebody, somebody raiders, could be you
never know, Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Forbid, somebody goes down.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Won't you pick up that phone?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm not opposed to it.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
If they would, I don't know if they're gonna let
me by becoming an owner of the NFL team, But
I don't know. If I don't know, I'm always going
to be a good shape, always be able to throw
the ball, so to come in for a little bit
like MJ coming back.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know if they let me, but I wouldn't
be opposed to it.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Well, I was just asking what that clip was. I
wasn't asking for it. But that's Tom Brady talking to
a barber who has a podcast with the groovy soul
music that runs behind it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Apparently, all right.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
So the Tom Brady would pick up the phone, Okay,
super I'm not fascinated by Tom Brady, like some people
tend to be out. He's a great quarterback, he's good,
he's old.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Stop it.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
You broke up your marriage over playing football. Don't be
a dope. Some audio that is it must be heard
to be believed or remembered. Coming up later in the show,
when OJ did that unspeakably distasteful. If I did it
book an interview as a money grab, a cash grab
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in the early two thousands, We'll reset that for you,
and then after today I'll never bring up OJ again,
I hope. But it's just I was. I'd forgotten how
horrifying that was that chapter. So that to come a
a bunch of other stuff from the news. If you
haven't heard about this, virtually anybody of out in geopolitics
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and diplomacy, the superpowers is saying, yeah, Arion's gonna attack
Israel at some point in the next couple of days.
How that's unfolding the threats and the counter threats and
the back channel diplomacy. It's really quite interesting if you
can stay tuned. But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's
pause to take a fund look back at the week
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that was. It's cow Clips of the Week.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And such double Why I don't know anything. I'm flabbergacid.
It works for the week. If it doesn't fit, you
must have quit. But Thursday we learned he lost his
battle with cancer.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
It is every three hundred and seventy five years for
a total solar eclipse to a cur that's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You're Unbelievable're lucky.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
To have an experience like that. We felt something truly new.
Rack up and uh, I want to do it again.
It was so wonderful. And the second verse is the
same as the first.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You can repeats as national champions It is perfection for
South Carolina forty eight games, thirty eight wins, and their
third national championship. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics approved
a new policy banning transgender women from participating in most
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of its sports programs.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wobod is an app on your phone kind of a
pocket therapist that uses the text function to help manage
problems like depression. We have to modernize psychotherapy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And so when these fools ask us if Israel has
the right to exist, the chant death to.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Israel has become the most logical chants.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The President condemn that.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yes, I think when he's joined his mistake, I don't
agree with his pro I think it's outrageous.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Ieron certainly will respond in the next five ten days,
probably go after an Israeli consulate. Altogether, this administration will
begin to cancel up to twenty thousand dollars in interest
for millions of borrowers.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And I said to you maybe before we started. I
don't remember how I said it. When we started.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
It is like a gigantic bark.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Herdie look Jacobs, and also some.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Check oh I need to check on the status of
the thirty milkshakes. And also some chicken T shirt designed
at Armstrong and getty dot com. It's funny every everybody,
everybody who works here on the show has said I'd wear.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That T shirt. I love that. Glad you're here.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
So I'm looking at the clock and thinking we have
just enough time to do this. The last segment of
the last hour had to super squeeze in the quote
from Voltaire in the context of it that I love
so much and is so revealing, the saying being anyone
who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's a translation from the French.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
But I was just reading an article about how that's
pretty damn good translation is legit, and I was reminded
of it by one of the clips of the week,
the Islamist lunatic there in Michigan, the guy who's leading
the chance of death to America and death to Israel,
and he was whipping people up in that sort of thing.
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Keeping in mind that if the theme is the excesses
of religion, what people almost always cite in criticizing Christianity
is centuries old, you know, violence in the name of Christianity,
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centuries ago, which says something you certainly single out, like
the Catholic Church for forgetting service to Jesus and covering
its own ass instead during the very sex and child
beast scandals. I mean, that was that was but that
was not in the name of Christianity exactly. It was
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more about the iron law of bureaucracy, where any organization
starts with a purpose, and over time the purpose of
the organization becomes the organization protecting the organization, protecting its wealth,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So I think that's a different case.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
But the excesses and violence and hatred of Islam, I
think are among a certain sect sector of Muslims are
active today, I mean today with modern weapons. I don't
need to give you the examples. And so you've got
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the religion aspect of what Voltaire was saying, because that
would was what he was talking about at the time.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I'll give you the content in a second.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
But the whole critical theory rubric, which includes critical race theory,
radical queer theory, gender theory, the whole gender bending madness
thing that is straight out of critical theory, which is
a philosophical practically a parlor game invented in Europe fifty
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seventy years ago that caught on an academia, has now
perverted the minds of so many young people. It will
go away as fast as it came on, I think.
But how much damage it does in the meantime is
the question. So anyway, you've got this critical theory rubric,
which is very cult like in that it's asking you
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to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears, like
Orwell warned us about, and to say things that are
or believe things that are absurdities. Men can compete in
women's sports because men don't have an advantage that is,
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in a word absurd. Six foot four inch Leah Thomas
with a penis and testicles is a woman that is,
in a word absurd, A confused adolescent who says, I
don't want to be a woman.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Well, let's turn you into a boy with chemicals and surgeries.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's absurd and horrifying.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Having set that up, here's the context of what Voltaire said,
quoting him entirely. Formerly, there were those who said, you
believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible, because we have
commanded you to believe them. Go then and do what
is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly,
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Whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
If the god given understanding of your mind does not
resist a demand to believe what is impossible, I'm gonna
jump in here. In other words, if you're sitting there
saying I know that's not true. I know that's not true,
but they browbe you, they bully you into accepting it.
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Back to Voltaire, then you will not resist a demand
to do wrong to that god given sense of justice
in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your
soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well,
and from this derives all those crimes of religion which
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have overrun the world. If they can get you on
your knees and force you to admit over and over
again that America was founded by racism and to perpetuate racism,
that's why it exists. That is patently false, that's provably false.
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If they can make you say a man is a
woman and a woman is a man, even though you
know in your heart it's not true. Bunch of other
examples we could give you. If they could make you
say that sex is a construct, it's not a biological reality.
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I mean, that's absurd. But if they can make you
say that and switch off that God given sense of
justice in your heart that Volterra is talking about, then
they give you your marching orders. As soon as one
faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will
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follow as well. They are trying to break you, because
whether it's marine boot camp or in a cult, one
being for the defense of the nation, the other for
servicing the cult. Once they break you, they can reform
you into a different person. And in one case, in
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the Marines. It is a courageous, honorable person who will
sacrifice for the team and do your sacred duty. In
a cult, it is to commit whatever perversities that cult
is into. Don't let them break you. And if we
can help, we certainly will more to come.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
If you promise, then you will not ask me another
question about it, ask you, we won't have to talk
about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Just did you do it?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
No? I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I did not do it.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I was Ojay and some giggling woman named Ruby Wax.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Who's Ruby Wax? I don't know that name. Sounds like
a women's salon. Relax, Yeah, that sounds like a porn
star name. She's a British American actress and comedian.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Okay, all right, everybody giggling about it. So back in
five and I had vague memories of this, oj participated
in a money grab that was obsceemely almost surreally inappropriate.
He wrote a book, well, he had a book written
for him or co wrote it, called If I Did It,
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the premise of it being no, of course I didn't
commit those crimes.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But if I did, here's how it would have gone.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I mean, the idea that anybody would participate in that.
And now, granted Nicole was a strange wife at that point,
her ex wife, but he claimed to still love her deeply.
The idea that anybody would participate in something like that
for money when a loved one was senselessly brutally killed
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in terror, I mean, it's it's incomprehensible. I mean, if
I needed money and I was in a similar situation,
I tell you what the list of things I would
do before I did that is very, very long. It's
nearly infinite, and includes selling a lung and robbing a bank. Anyway,
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those are two separate choices. They don't go together. I
can't see how one would aid in the other. But
here are some that became like an interview. They did
an audio version of it. Play you a couple of
clips of that. We'll start with thirty four Michael, when the.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Call fell and hurt herself and this guy kind of
got into a karate thing, and I said, well, let
me think you can kick my ass, and I remember
I grabbed a knife. I do remember that portion, taking
a knife from Charlie, And to be honest, after that,
I don't remember except I'm standing there and as all
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kind of stuff and.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
What kind of stuff? Button stuff around now. I hate
to say this, and.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Then he breaks down sobbing because of the horror of
the memory.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Or the idea of it.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
It could be either, again, what are you doing participating
in that?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
One? More?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
You right about removing a glove before taking the knife
from Charlie.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know, I had no conscious memory of doing.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
That, but obviously I must have because they found a
glove there.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yay, he removed the glove to check his cut. Does
anybody remember who Charlie was?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Charlie? Is that?
Speaker 6 (14:47):
I don't remember who this Charlie person is allegedly What
a bizarre idea. I know what I'll do. I'll write
a book pretending like I actually did it, even though
the whole world things I did and I got acquitted
for it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
It's tough to explain. Crazy, but again, it's the last
thing on earth I would do. Got a couple of
emails about our discussions so far about OJ that I
thought we're worth reading some.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Kind of critical which is fine. Guys.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
The prosecution lied and planted evidence in the trial. That
is why he was found not guilty. Lots of evidence
not brought to trial, but the lack of credibility by
the government was the problem. Now, the best evidence of
the trial came from OJ after the trial, and no
it was not his book. Want to know, ask me
and then give me credit. All right, I will write
back and ask you. I appreciate the note. That is true. Well,
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I talked about that a fair amount yesterday that I
actually believe that the lapd over egged the pudding, gilded
the lily, if you will, or to put it in
more plain English, they framed the guy who did it.
They wanted to make absolutely sure it was an open
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and shutcase, and so they piled on.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And you know, in.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Defense of the jury, there was definitely the whole racial
dynamic going on there, and that might have been enough
for some of the jurors because, as I recalled, the
jury was nine black women, one Hispanic man, and two
I can't remember, but it was an overwhelming, overwhelmingly black jury.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But so that was a factor.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
But you know what, they might have just thought, I'd
tell you what you lied to us, or it seems
like you lied to us on certain evidence. We don't
believe any of it. Got this note from Mike neither
you nor I will ever know the truth about what
happened because we taken our information through the lens of
the media. I was standing in the office of the
San Mateo Coroner when the chief corner very excitedly ran
into the office exclaimed he had just gotten off the
phone with La Coroner Yamaguchi. He said that OJ's eighteen
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year old son from his first marriage may have done it.
The DNA would match between father and son. The son
had the motive of seeing his stepmom screwing around with
bartender and hurting his father. Where a nation of laws,
he was acquitted of the crime case closed. All right, Mike,
I disagree that doesn't prove anything, but it's an interesting point,
and appreciate the note.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty, welcome.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
How you doing.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Jack had to leave unfortunately, I got a stomach thing going.
I understand the neuro virus is going around. That was
the one that like knocked out all those people on
cruise ships for a while.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That was back.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Before COVID knocked out all those people on cruise ships
and became a bit of a thing.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
As the kids say.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Perhaps you remember that speaking of a thing, that's definitely
a thing. The big story on Monday might well be.
In fact, I'd be mildly surprised if it isn't the
Iranian attack on Israel. According to various folks who are
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speaking to various media outlets from a position of pretty
good information, Iran is expected to attack Israel in the
next two days. That's the headline in the Wall Street Journal, anyway.
And one of my disappointments at Jack not being here
is we talked about this a little very early in
the show, and we prepare for this entirely separately and
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then come together. And he has different sources and perspectives
and thoughts on things, and conversation is a lot more
fun than a monologue. I think I can bring the
information pretty well, but we miss his input certainly.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Anyway. The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Is quoting a person briefed by Iranian leadership saying that
while plans to attack are being discussed, no final decision
has been made. So you've got the report that Israel's
preparing for a direct attack and it's expected today or tomorrow,
according to a person familiar with the matter. But the
contradiction is from somebody who's obviously in the Iranian inner circle,
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who I suspect very very strongly has been authorized to
go ahead and talk to the media, which is a
really intriguing notion. It's the story behind the story that
I find so compelling. Here you have Iran and Israel
in the United States and the various other countries that
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back each other at the allies, who it seems, are
trying very hard to avoid any sort of escalatory misunderstanding
and are signaling moves semi out in the open. Nobody
goes rogue on the republic Guard in Iran and talks
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to the media. There are no leaks out of the
Supreme Iyatola's inner circle. If this guy's talking to the media,
it's because Israel knocked out that consulate with an IRGs
the Iranian Republican Guard. They knocked out the consulate and
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killed a couple of fairly heavyweights in the IRG. And
to save face, if for no other reason, or you
could argue deterrens, Iran has to do something for.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Their domestic audience.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
They have to throw a punch, otherwise they're exposed as
weak and kind of a non player, and so Iran
is gonna throw some sort of punch. For a while,
the story was that one of their proxies would be
attacking Israeli assets, maybe not in the homeland, but a
consulate somewhere or something just POKEM in the eye. But now,
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for whatever reason, and grain of salt, absolutely taken with
a grain of salt, the story has become no, it's
going to be a direct attack on Israel from Iran,
which sounds, you know, super escalatory. But then you get
this development where somebody's clearly speaking from Tehran saying yeah, yeah,
we're still thinking about it. Nothing's been decided, I think,
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and I'm predicting with a fairly low level of certainty.
This smells to me like they're going to throw a
dramatic punch that has a non dramatic effect. They're signaling that, look,
we're gonna hit you. It's gonna be big old fireball.
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But it's, as I said earlier, going to be on
an equipment shed out in the hinterlands or something like that,
something fairly inconsequential. For a number of reasons, including primarily
the US came out again to make sure everybody understands
who's thinking what. The US came out, and even the spineless, feckless, useless.
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Biden administration said, you attack Israel, We're defending him. They're
our ally, We're with them one hundred percent. There's no
daylight between us. In spite of here. I know the
mixed signals about Hamas and Gaza and the rest of it,
which has just been incomprehensible and terrible leadership. But it's
so interesting to watch these things unfold and to see
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them play out where the back channel diplomacy is more
front channel. Now everything I've said previously might be wrong.
It could be that Tehran is going to try to
provoke the apocalypse. I doubt it, though, so I guess
we'll find out over the weekend. But yesterday the American
Embassy in Israel said US government employees and family members
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would be restricted from any personal travel outside of Central Israel,
Jerusalem and Birsheba until further notice. General Michael Eric Krilla,
who's the commander of US Central Command, which is responsible,
you may know, for Middle Eastern military operations, he was
in Israel on Thursday, defensive official set. Part of that
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I think is a signal too to Iran, We're gonna
put some of our high up guys right in Israel.
They're in there for meetings, and that's a deterrent. Benjamin Nett, Yahoo,
speaking from an airbase in southern Israel, also on Thursday,
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vowed to respond directly to any attack quote whoever harms us,
we will harm them. We are prepared to meet all
of the security needs of the State of Israel, both
defensively and offensively, again communicating to the Iranians that you
throw a big one at us, it's coming.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Right back at you.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Israeli military spokesman said intelligence showed the building hit in
Damascus that took out the the general and six other
Iranian militants. It was not a diplomatic facility, but a
building that the Kuds Force uses and is disguised as
a civilian site. Trying to build the case for the
international community there and earlier this week, Around's Revolutionary Guard
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contacted the country's supreme leader, Ayatola Khameini with several options
to strike Israeli interests. The scenarios under consideration include a
direct attack on Israel with sophisticated medium range missiles. Well
enough speculation, I guess we'll all find out together this
auto unfold in the next few days. I don't think
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it'd be anybody in anybody's interest to see this turn
into a real, you know, front burner, crazy escalated war.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But you just don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
History has a funny way of unfolding in ways that
to very few people saw coming. We will end strong
in minutes, stay with us, armstrong andngetti.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
The President announcing a new wave of student debt relief.
This is in addition to what the President said in
Wisconsin earlier this week. Let's take a look at the number.
Seven point four billion dollars an additional student debt relief
that's going to affect some tour in seventy seven thousand
students that could buy Ukraine's seven Patriot missile batteries, guys
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that defend against Russian missile attacks. For those keeping score
at home, we'd almost need a Carl Road whiteboard to
keep up with this. That's a grand total of one
hundred and fifty three billion dollars. If you have that,
there you go. This is getting closer in a double
the size of the Ukraine aid package that's stalled in
Congress right now.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Allow me to translate as I have been through the
Babbel Foreign language program, and the what's the other big one,
Rosetta Stone. I have not studied French nor Italian friends,
I have studied governmentees, and I can translate that whole
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student loan forgiveness program for you. It translates as, these
people vote for us reliably, so we're going to give
them your money. These people always vote for us, so
we're going to give them your money. It's like, you know,
so much of Black America votes reliably Democrats, so we're
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going to give them your money. The last thing in
the world we want to do is solve any of
the problems of Black America. That would be the worst
thing we could do as Democrats. We need to keep
those problems here so we can continue to give them
your money. There is your translation. So a bit of
a follow up. You may recall this video that we
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ran the other day. Go ahead and play seventy Michaels
is a young fellow by the name of Nick Sumners.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I make over three times the federal minimum wage, and
I cannot afford to live. I cannot afford to live
anywhere alone. A one bedroom apartment eighteen hundred dollars, two
bedroom apartment twenty two hundred dollars who the can afford that.
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It is embarrassing to come out and say that it
is a struggle to survive right now. But I know
so many people are struggling. Why are we allowing yet?
Why the American Dream is dead? It is over gone
and forgotten.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Now that's on the communist Chinese controlled TikTok, and we
wondered whether it was amplified by the commedies because it's
so critical of American the American dream. Fox and Friends
actually reached out to Nick and asked him a bunch
of questions about why he posted and that sort of thing.
And you know, so that was over the top, but
an a young fellow who's feeling, you know, trapped and
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upset to being over the top. That's what human beings do.
I'm willing to forgive and forget and hear what the
heck he has to say. Let's roll on with seventy one.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Michael.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I was very frustrated. You know, it's very frustrating seeing
these handouts being given out and the price of everything increasing,
and when I go home at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I'm still struggling.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I'm doing everything I need to do, and it is
extremely frustrating. And like the handouts and the foreign aid
given out, why would you water your neighbor's flowers while
your house is burning down. There is a serious problem
that needs to be fixed here.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Okay, dude knows his way around a clever phrase. I'll
give him that. What else does he have to say?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I mean, I just think that these handouts are not
going to continue to work anymore. The student loan forgiveness,
these things that they are just handing out are not
going to buy them the votes that they need. It's
very clear that it's getting desperate, and I just don't
know how they expect to continue to push Jo Biden.
A lot of people are realizing that it's nothing but
an issue to have him in office. It's unsustainable. I
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don't know how they expect to get around this.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Let's go ahead, and it's seventy three, Michael.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You know, I work in.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
The car industry. Came straight out of high school, didn't
go to college because the price of stud you know,
student loans are ridiculous and every year the price keeps increasing,
and even after college, I would still have to pay
off those loans and be you know, just stuck in
a hard spot like every other American is right now.
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But you know, I came right out into the workforce.
I'm trying my best. I'm doing everything I can, and
it seems to not be enough in this current economy.
It is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
One more point ripped from the big stories of the day,
Let's go with seventy five.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Oh might I have to say it must be nice
because me, as a birthright citizen, are not getting any
of the any of the accommodations that these illegal immigrants
are getting. People in my comments have said, if I'm
struggling so bad, just leave the country and come in
through the border, and I'll be better set than I am.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Now, that'd be a hell of a lot of trouble
to go to. But I see the point of that
sarcastic suggestion. This is no coincidence. Headline in the New
York Times, Immigrants in Maine are filling a labor gap.
It may be a preload for the US. A wave
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of rapid immigration is taxing local resources around the country
and drawing political ire, but it might leave America's economy
better off.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Now.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
The New York Times is so lacking an insight A
lot of their little bolk reporters that they can't connect
the dots, or they would, you know what I almost said,
would consider it editorializing.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
That's all they do.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
So never mind, how can you not connect the dots
of You got this kid who's working hard, Presumably I'm
going to take him at his word. He sounds sincere.
He can barely afford an apartment. He's got a good job,
he's been working at it for a.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Number of years.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Meanwhile, The New York Times is writing about this incredible
flood of millions of immigrants that are filling jobs that
Americans don't want to do, or refuse to do, or
what have you, which is an odd dynamic in itself.
But the other thing, and anybody who knows anything about
economics realizes, if you flood a market with something, it
lowers the price of that thing. If all of a sudden,
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there are fifty thousand, you know, brand new pickup trucks
to be sold in a single city, everybody's going to
drive a hard, hard bargain because those sellers are going
to be desperate to get rid of them, and it's
going to be it's going to depress the prices well,
labor is a market too, So you've got millions of
laborers flooding a market, you're going to depress the wages
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of a guy like Nick.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
There. And the fact that as.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Those people are waiting around for whatever paperwork you know,
mumbo jumbo, the Biden administration comes up with to let
them work, even though they're not lawful entrance to the
United States. While they're waiting around, we'll feed them and
clothe them and medicate them and educate their children and
the rest of it at great expense, while poor Nick
is trying to afford an apartment that doesn't suck in
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the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
That isn't terrifying.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
But oh, that's right, And here's where I strike my
rich mend north of Richmond. Note that last sentence in
the subhad but it might leave America's economy better off.
That's the flip side to what we're always saying. You're
not the economy. You manage your own life in which way,
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in whatever way you think is best, and maybe you
don't go with the don't run with the herd. If
the economy says this, figure out a way to do
better than that. Be original, be smart, be creative. But
on the other side of that coin is if it
quote might leave them America's economy better off. I'm not
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the economy. If I'm young nick In. My wages have
bit depressed and I can barely afford by place. But
the big corporations and the governments that get checks written
to them from those corporations, they're all better off.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
But that whole rising tide.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Lifts all boats, not if you keep importing millions of
other boats. If you hear what I'm saying, only the
fat cats benefit. So New York Times don't tell me,
but it might leave America's economy better off. Une Jack
(33:36):
cosgan to get final the echo, so haunting. Here's your
host for final thoughts.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Me.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day, beginning with our
technical director, who has been working like a rented mule
all day to keep us on the air. Michaelangelo. Michael
final thoughts.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Yeah, behind the scenes today has been crazy. I've cried
during every commercial break. I've soiled myself. I bit my
tongue swearing to myself that you know what, I still
love my job excellent?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Well, you still love it. You're a national treasure. And
happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
To you, my lad.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Thank you very much. Jim Yep, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie, that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Was my final thought as well.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Happy birthday, Michaelangelo, and you've done a superb job today.
I hope that you end up getting to do nothing
but relax all weekend.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
So Jack is dealing with an intestinal thing, could be
the neurovirus. We're not sure. He is going to consult
his local physician. My final thought, what the heck I'll
go along with it is when this stuff goes nuts,
go sideways. The computer systems and the software and everything.
The complexity of getting the show to the various audiences
(34:49):
and markets and platforms that we get it to is
so complicated. If we didn't have Michael and Mike Hanson,
our executive producer, who's like invaluable, Jack and I'd be
sitting there in the studio saying, what do you think
we ought to do?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I don't know, what do you think we ought to do?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
The show just wouldn't happen. So we appreciate you guys,
so many people. Thank so a little time. Armstrong and
Getty wrapping up before our workday. We'll see you Monday.
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Stop talking about it.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
I'm strong and get you with a quote.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
That's not inspiring, it's not fair, it seems irresponsible.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, it's not a victory. It's a it's a surrender.
It's it's it's so childish, it's so juvenile. Is this great?
Were now?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Bye?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Great Friday. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Armstrong and
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show,
we get it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You're retired.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, let's say one day.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
It is a situation, right, Maybe it's the forty nine ers,
Maybe you know, head to the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (00:23):
Offense is great, Patriots, somebody, somebody raiders, could be you
never know, Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Forbid, somebody goes down.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Won't you pick up that phone?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm not opposed to it.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
If they would, I don't know if they're gonna let
me by becoming an owner of the NFL team, But
I don't know. If I don't know, I'm always going
to be a good shape, always be able to throw
the ball, so to come in for a little bit
like MJ coming back.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know if they let me, but I wouldn't
be opposed to it.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Well, I was just asking what that clip was. I
wasn't asking for it. But that's Tom Brady talking to
a barber who has a podcast with the groovy soul
music that runs behind it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Apparently, all right.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
So the Tom Brady would pick up the phone, Okay,
super I'm not fascinated by Tom Brady, like some people
tend to be out. He's a great quarterback, he's good,
he's old.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Stop it.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
You broke up your marriage over playing football. Don't be
a dope. Some audio that is it must be heard
to be believed or remembered. Coming up later in the show,
when OJ did that unspeakably distasteful. If I did it
book an interview as a money grab, a cash grab
(01:36):
in the early two thousands, We'll reset that for you,
and then after today I'll never bring up OJ again,
I hope. But it's just I was. I'd forgotten how
horrifying that was that chapter. So that to come a
a bunch of other stuff from the news. If you
haven't heard about this, virtually anybody of out in geopolitics
(02:02):
and diplomacy, the superpowers is saying, yeah, Arion's gonna attack
Israel at some point in the next couple of days.
How that's unfolding the threats and the counter threats and
the back channel diplomacy. It's really quite interesting if you
can stay tuned. But first, it's the Friday tradition. Let's
pause to take a fund look back at the week
(02:23):
that was. It's cow Clips of the Week.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And such double Why I don't know anything. I'm flabbergacid.
It works for the week. If it doesn't fit, you
must have quit. But Thursday we learned he lost his
battle with cancer.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
It is every three hundred and seventy five years for
a total solar eclipse to a cur that's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You're Unbelievable're lucky.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
To have an experience like that. We felt something truly new.
Rack up and uh, I want to do it again.
It was so wonderful. And the second verse is the
same as the first.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You can repeats as national champions It is perfection for
South Carolina forty eight games, thirty eight wins, and their
third national championship. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics approved
a new policy banning transgender women from participating in most
(03:29):
of its sports programs.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Wobod is an app on your phone kind of a
pocket therapist that uses the text function to help manage
problems like depression. We have to modernize psychotherapy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And so when these fools ask us if Israel has
the right to exist, the chant death to.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Israel has become the most logical chants.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The President condemn that.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yes, I think when he's joined his mistake, I don't
agree with his pro I think it's outrageous.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Ieron certainly will respond in the next five ten days,
probably go after an Israeli consulate. Altogether, this administration will
begin to cancel up to twenty thousand dollars in interest
for millions of borrowers.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And I said to you maybe before we started. I
don't remember how I said it. When we started.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
It is like a gigantic bark.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Herdie look Jacobs, and also some.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Check oh I need to check on the status of
the thirty milkshakes. And also some chicken T shirt designed
at Armstrong and getty dot com. It's funny every everybody,
everybody who works here on the show has said I'd wear.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That T shirt. I love that. Glad you're here.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
So I'm looking at the clock and thinking we have
just enough time to do this. The last segment of
the last hour had to super squeeze in the quote
from Voltaire in the context of it that I love
so much and is so revealing, the saying being anyone
who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's a translation from the French.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
But I was just reading an article about how that's
pretty damn good translation is legit, and I was reminded
of it by one of the clips of the week,
the Islamist lunatic there in Michigan, the guy who's leading
the chance of death to America and death to Israel,
and he was whipping people up in that sort of thing.
(05:35):
Keeping in mind that if the theme is the excesses
of religion, what people almost always cite in criticizing Christianity
is centuries old, you know, violence in the name of Christianity,
(05:55):
centuries ago, which says something you certainly single out, like
the Catholic Church for forgetting service to Jesus and covering
its own ass instead during the very sex and child
beast scandals. I mean, that was that was but that
was not in the name of Christianity exactly. It was
(06:17):
more about the iron law of bureaucracy, where any organization
starts with a purpose, and over time the purpose of
the organization becomes the organization protecting the organization, protecting its wealth,
that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So I think that's a different case.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
But the excesses and violence and hatred of Islam, I
think are among a certain sect sector of Muslims are
active today, I mean today with modern weapons. I don't
need to give you the examples. And so you've got
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the religion aspect of what Voltaire was saying, because that
would was what he was talking about at the time.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I'll give you the content in a second.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
But the whole critical theory rubric, which includes critical race theory,
radical queer theory, gender theory, the whole gender bending madness
thing that is straight out of critical theory, which is
a philosophical practically a parlor game invented in Europe fifty
(07:25):
seventy years ago that caught on an academia, has now
perverted the minds of so many young people. It will
go away as fast as it came on, I think.
But how much damage it does in the meantime is
the question. So anyway, you've got this critical theory rubric,
which is very cult like in that it's asking you
(07:45):
to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears, like
Orwell warned us about, and to say things that are
or believe things that are absurdities. Men can compete in
women's sports because men don't have an advantage that is,
(08:06):
in a word absurd. Six foot four inch Leah Thomas
with a penis and testicles is a woman that is,
in a word absurd, A confused adolescent who says, I
don't want to be a woman.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Well, let's turn you into a boy with chemicals and surgeries.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's absurd and horrifying.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Having set that up, here's the context of what Voltaire said,
quoting him entirely. Formerly, there were those who said, you
believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible, because we have
commanded you to believe them. Go then and do what
is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly,
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Whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
If the god given understanding of your mind does not
resist a demand to believe what is impossible, I'm gonna
jump in here. In other words, if you're sitting there
saying I know that's not true. I know that's not true,
but they browbe you, they bully you into accepting it.
(09:21):
Back to Voltaire, then you will not resist a demand
to do wrong to that god given sense of justice
in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your
soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well,
and from this derives all those crimes of religion which
(09:41):
have overrun the world. If they can get you on
your knees and force you to admit over and over
again that America was founded by racism and to perpetuate racism,
that's why it exists. That is patently false, that's provably false.
(10:04):
If they can make you say a man is a
woman and a woman is a man, even though you
know in your heart it's not true. Bunch of other
examples we could give you. If they could make you
say that sex is a construct, it's not a biological reality.
(10:25):
I mean, that's absurd. But if they can make you
say that and switch off that God given sense of
justice in your heart that Volterra is talking about, then
they give you your marching orders. As soon as one
faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will
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follow as well. They are trying to break you, because
whether it's marine boot camp or in a cult, one
being for the defense of the nation, the other for
servicing the cult. Once they break you, they can reform
you into a different person. And in one case, in
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the Marines. It is a courageous, honorable person who will
sacrifice for the team and do your sacred duty. In
a cult, it is to commit whatever perversities that cult
is into. Don't let them break you. And if we
can help, we certainly will more to come.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
If you promise, then you will not ask me another
question about it, ask you, we won't have to talk
about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Just did you do it?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
No? I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I did not do it.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I was Ojay and some giggling woman named Ruby Wax.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Who's Ruby Wax? I don't know that name. Sounds like
a women's salon. Relax, Yeah, that sounds like a porn
star name. She's a British American actress and comedian.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Okay, all right, everybody giggling about it. So back in
five and I had vague memories of this, oj participated
in a money grab that was obsceemely almost surreally inappropriate.
He wrote a book, well, he had a book written
for him or co wrote it, called If I Did It,
(12:28):
the premise of it being no, of course I didn't
commit those crimes.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
But if I did, here's how it would have gone.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I mean, the idea that anybody would participate in that.
And now, granted Nicole was a strange wife at that point,
her ex wife, but he claimed to still love her deeply.
The idea that anybody would participate in something like that
for money when a loved one was senselessly brutally killed
(12:58):
in terror, I mean, it's it's incomprehensible. I mean, if
I needed money and I was in a similar situation,
I tell you what the list of things I would
do before I did that is very, very long. It's
nearly infinite, and includes selling a lung and robbing a bank. Anyway,
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those are two separate choices. They don't go together. I
can't see how one would aid in the other. But
here are some that became like an interview. They did
an audio version of it. Play you a couple of
clips of that. We'll start with thirty four Michael, when the.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Call fell and hurt herself and this guy kind of
got into a karate thing, and I said, well, let
me think you can kick my ass, and I remember
I grabbed a knife. I do remember that portion, taking
a knife from Charlie, And to be honest, after that,
I don't remember except I'm standing there and as all
(13:58):
kind of stuff and.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
What kind of stuff? Button stuff around now. I hate
to say this, and.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Then he breaks down sobbing because of the horror of
the memory.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Or the idea of it.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
It could be either, again, what are you doing participating
in that?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
One? More?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
You right about removing a glove before taking the knife
from Charlie.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know, I had no conscious memory of doing.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
That, but obviously I must have because they found a
glove there.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yay, he removed the glove to check his cut. Does
anybody remember who Charlie was?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Charlie? Is that?
Speaker 6 (14:47):
I don't remember who this Charlie person is allegedly What
a bizarre idea. I know what I'll do. I'll write
a book pretending like I actually did it, even though
the whole world things I did and I got acquitted
for it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
It's tough to explain. Crazy, but again, it's the last
thing on earth I would do. Got a couple of
emails about our discussions so far about OJ that I
thought we're worth reading some.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Kind of critical which is fine. Guys.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
The prosecution lied and planted evidence in the trial. That
is why he was found not guilty. Lots of evidence
not brought to trial, but the lack of credibility by
the government was the problem. Now, the best evidence of
the trial came from OJ after the trial, and no
it was not his book. Want to know, ask me
and then give me credit. All right, I will write
back and ask you. I appreciate the note. That is true. Well,
(15:41):
I talked about that a fair amount yesterday that I
actually believe that the lapd over egged the pudding, gilded
the lily, if you will, or to put it in
more plain English, they framed the guy who did it.
They wanted to make absolutely sure it was an open
(16:03):
and shutcase, and so they piled on.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And you know, in.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Defense of the jury, there was definitely the whole racial
dynamic going on there, and that might have been enough
for some of the jurors because, as I recalled, the
jury was nine black women, one Hispanic man, and two
I can't remember, but it was an overwhelming, overwhelmingly black jury.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But so that was a factor.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
But you know what, they might have just thought, I'd
tell you what you lied to us, or it seems
like you lied to us on certain evidence. We don't
believe any of it. Got this note from Mike neither
you nor I will ever know the truth about what
happened because we taken our information through the lens of
the media. I was standing in the office of the
San Mateo Coroner when the chief corner very excitedly ran
into the office exclaimed he had just gotten off the
phone with La Coroner Yamaguchi. He said that OJ's eighteen
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year old son from his first marriage may have done it.
The DNA would match between father and son. The son
had the motive of seeing his stepmom screwing around with
bartender and hurting his father. Where a nation of laws,
he was acquitted of the crime case closed. All right, Mike,
I disagree that doesn't prove anything, but it's an interesting point,
and appreciate the note.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty, welcome.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
How you doing.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Jack had to leave unfortunately, I got a stomach thing going.
I understand the neuro virus is going around. That was
the one that like knocked out all those people on
cruise ships for a while.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That was back.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Before COVID knocked out all those people on cruise ships
and became a bit of a thing.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
As the kids say.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Perhaps you remember that speaking of a thing, that's definitely
a thing. The big story on Monday might well be.
In fact, I'd be mildly surprised if it isn't the
Iranian attack on Israel. According to various folks who are
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speaking to various media outlets from a position of pretty
good information, Iran is expected to attack Israel in the
next two days. That's the headline in the Wall Street Journal, anyway.
And one of my disappointments at Jack not being here
is we talked about this a little very early in
the show, and we prepare for this entirely separately and
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then come together. And he has different sources and perspectives
and thoughts on things, and conversation is a lot more
fun than a monologue. I think I can bring the
information pretty well, but we miss his input certainly.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Anyway. The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Is quoting a person briefed by Iranian leadership saying that
while plans to attack are being discussed, no final decision
has been made. So you've got the report that Israel's
preparing for a direct attack and it's expected today or tomorrow,
according to a person familiar with the matter. But the
contradiction is from somebody who's obviously in the Iranian inner circle,
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who I suspect very very strongly has been authorized to
go ahead and talk to the media, which is a
really intriguing notion. It's the story behind the story that
I find so compelling. Here you have Iran and Israel
in the United States and the various other countries that
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back each other at the allies, who it seems, are
trying very hard to avoid any sort of escalatory misunderstanding
and are signaling moves semi out in the open. Nobody
goes rogue on the republic Guard in Iran and talks
(20:01):
to the media. There are no leaks out of the
Supreme Iyatola's inner circle. If this guy's talking to the media,
it's because Israel knocked out that consulate with an IRGs
the Iranian Republican Guard. They knocked out the consulate and
(20:23):
killed a couple of fairly heavyweights in the IRG. And
to save face, if for no other reason, or you
could argue deterrens, Iran has to do something for.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Their domestic audience.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
They have to throw a punch, otherwise they're exposed as
weak and kind of a non player, and so Iran
is gonna throw some sort of punch. For a while,
the story was that one of their proxies would be
attacking Israeli assets, maybe not in the homeland, but a
consulate somewhere or something just POKEM in the eye. But now,
(21:04):
for whatever reason, and grain of salt, absolutely taken with
a grain of salt, the story has become no, it's
going to be a direct attack on Israel from Iran,
which sounds, you know, super escalatory. But then you get
this development where somebody's clearly speaking from Tehran saying yeah, yeah,
we're still thinking about it. Nothing's been decided, I think,
(21:27):
and I'm predicting with a fairly low level of certainty.
This smells to me like they're going to throw a
dramatic punch that has a non dramatic effect. They're signaling that, look,
we're gonna hit you. It's gonna be big old fireball.
(21:48):
But it's, as I said earlier, going to be on
an equipment shed out in the hinterlands or something like that,
something fairly inconsequential. For a number of reasons, including primarily
the US came out again to make sure everybody understands
who's thinking what. The US came out, and even the spineless, feckless, useless.
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Biden administration said, you attack Israel, We're defending him. They're
our ally, We're with them one hundred percent. There's no
daylight between us. In spite of here. I know the
mixed signals about Hamas and Gaza and the rest of it,
which has just been incomprehensible and terrible leadership. But it's
so interesting to watch these things unfold and to see
(22:37):
them play out where the back channel diplomacy is more
front channel. Now everything I've said previously might be wrong.
It could be that Tehran is going to try to
provoke the apocalypse. I doubt it, though, so I guess
we'll find out over the weekend. But yesterday the American
Embassy in Israel said US government employees and family members
(22:59):
would be restricted from any personal travel outside of Central Israel,
Jerusalem and Birsheba until further notice. General Michael Eric Krilla,
who's the commander of US Central Command, which is responsible,
you may know, for Middle Eastern military operations, he was
in Israel on Thursday, defensive official set. Part of that
(23:21):
I think is a signal too to Iran, We're gonna
put some of our high up guys right in Israel.
They're in there for meetings, and that's a deterrent. Benjamin Nett, Yahoo,
speaking from an airbase in southern Israel, also on Thursday,
(23:41):
vowed to respond directly to any attack quote whoever harms us,
we will harm them. We are prepared to meet all
of the security needs of the State of Israel, both
defensively and offensively, again communicating to the Iranians that you
throw a big one at us, it's coming.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Right back at you.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Israeli military spokesman said intelligence showed the building hit in
Damascus that took out the the general and six other
Iranian militants. It was not a diplomatic facility, but a
building that the Kuds Force uses and is disguised as
a civilian site. Trying to build the case for the
international community there and earlier this week, Around's Revolutionary Guard
(24:26):
contacted the country's supreme leader, Ayatola Khameini with several options
to strike Israeli interests. The scenarios under consideration include a
direct attack on Israel with sophisticated medium range missiles. Well
enough speculation, I guess we'll all find out together this
auto unfold in the next few days. I don't think
(24:46):
it'd be anybody in anybody's interest to see this turn
into a real, you know, front burner, crazy escalated war.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But you just don't know.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
History has a funny way of unfolding in ways that
to very few people saw coming. We will end strong
in minutes, stay with us, armstrong andngetti.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
The President announcing a new wave of student debt relief.
This is in addition to what the President said in
Wisconsin earlier this week. Let's take a look at the number.
Seven point four billion dollars an additional student debt relief
that's going to affect some tour in seventy seven thousand
students that could buy Ukraine's seven Patriot missile batteries, guys
(25:31):
that defend against Russian missile attacks. For those keeping score
at home, we'd almost need a Carl Road whiteboard to
keep up with this. That's a grand total of one
hundred and fifty three billion dollars. If you have that,
there you go. This is getting closer in a double
the size of the Ukraine aid package that's stalled in
Congress right now.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Allow me to translate as I have been through the
Babbel Foreign language program, and the what's the other big one,
Rosetta Stone. I have not studied French nor Italian friends,
I have studied governmentees, and I can translate that whole
(26:08):
student loan forgiveness program for you. It translates as, these
people vote for us reliably, so we're going to give
them your money. These people always vote for us, so
we're going to give them your money. It's like, you know,
so much of Black America votes reliably Democrats, so we're
(26:29):
going to give them your money. The last thing in
the world we want to do is solve any of
the problems of Black America. That would be the worst
thing we could do as Democrats. We need to keep
those problems here so we can continue to give them
your money. There is your translation. So a bit of
a follow up. You may recall this video that we
(26:52):
ran the other day. Go ahead and play seventy Michaels
is a young fellow by the name of Nick Sumners.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I make over three times the federal minimum wage, and
I cannot afford to live. I cannot afford to live
anywhere alone. A one bedroom apartment eighteen hundred dollars, two
bedroom apartment twenty two hundred dollars who the can afford that.
(27:19):
It is embarrassing to come out and say that it
is a struggle to survive right now. But I know
so many people are struggling. Why are we allowing yet?
Why the American Dream is dead? It is over gone
and forgotten.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Now that's on the communist Chinese controlled TikTok, and we
wondered whether it was amplified by the commedies because it's
so critical of American the American dream. Fox and Friends
actually reached out to Nick and asked him a bunch
of questions about why he posted and that sort of thing.
And you know, so that was over the top, but
an a young fellow who's feeling, you know, trapped and
(28:03):
upset to being over the top. That's what human beings do.
I'm willing to forgive and forget and hear what the
heck he has to say. Let's roll on with seventy one.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Michael.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I was very frustrated. You know, it's very frustrating seeing
these handouts being given out and the price of everything increasing,
and when I go home at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I'm still struggling.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I'm doing everything I need to do, and it is
extremely frustrating. And like the handouts and the foreign aid
given out, why would you water your neighbor's flowers while
your house is burning down. There is a serious problem
that needs to be fixed here.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Okay, dude knows his way around a clever phrase. I'll
give him that. What else does he have to say?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I mean, I just think that these handouts are not
going to continue to work anymore. The student loan forgiveness,
these things that they are just handing out are not
going to buy them the votes that they need. It's
very clear that it's getting desperate, and I just don't
know how they expect to continue to push Jo Biden.
A lot of people are realizing that it's nothing but
an issue to have him in office. It's unsustainable. I
(29:05):
don't know how they expect to get around this.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Let's go ahead, and it's seventy three, Michael.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
You know, I work in.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
The car industry. Came straight out of high school, didn't
go to college because the price of stud you know,
student loans are ridiculous and every year the price keeps increasing,
and even after college, I would still have to pay
off those loans and be you know, just stuck in
a hard spot like every other American is right now.
(29:31):
But you know, I came right out into the workforce.
I'm trying my best. I'm doing everything I can, and
it seems to not be enough in this current economy.
It is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
One more point ripped from the big stories of the day,
Let's go with seventy five.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Oh might I have to say it must be nice
because me, as a birthright citizen, are not getting any
of the any of the accommodations that these illegal immigrants
are getting. People in my comments have said, if I'm
struggling so bad, just leave the country and come in
through the border, and I'll be better set than I am.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Now, that'd be a hell of a lot of trouble
to go to. But I see the point of that
sarcastic suggestion. This is no coincidence. Headline in the New
York Times, Immigrants in Maine are filling a labor gap.
It may be a preload for the US. A wave
(30:24):
of rapid immigration is taxing local resources around the country
and drawing political ire, but it might leave America's economy
better off.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Now.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
The New York Times is so lacking an insight A
lot of their little bolk reporters that they can't connect
the dots, or they would, you know what I almost said,
would consider it editorializing.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
That's all they do.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
So never mind, how can you not connect the dots
of You got this kid who's working hard, Presumably I'm
going to take him at his word. He sounds sincere.
He can barely afford an apartment. He's got a good job,
he's been working at it for a.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Number of years.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Meanwhile, The New York Times is writing about this incredible
flood of millions of immigrants that are filling jobs that
Americans don't want to do, or refuse to do, or
what have you, which is an odd dynamic in itself.
But the other thing, and anybody who knows anything about
economics realizes, if you flood a market with something, it
lowers the price of that thing. If all of a sudden,
(31:24):
there are fifty thousand, you know, brand new pickup trucks
to be sold in a single city, everybody's going to
drive a hard, hard bargain because those sellers are going
to be desperate to get rid of them, and it's
going to be it's going to depress the prices well,
labor is a market too, So you've got millions of
laborers flooding a market, you're going to depress the wages
(31:45):
of a guy like Nick.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
There. And the fact that as.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Those people are waiting around for whatever paperwork you know,
mumbo jumbo, the Biden administration comes up with to let
them work, even though they're not lawful entrance to the
United States. While they're waiting around, we'll feed them and
clothe them and medicate them and educate their children and
the rest of it at great expense, while poor Nick
is trying to afford an apartment that doesn't suck in
(32:09):
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
That isn't terrifying.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
But oh, that's right, And here's where I strike my
rich mend north of Richmond. Note that last sentence in
the subhad but it might leave America's economy better off.
That's the flip side to what we're always saying. You're
not the economy. You manage your own life in which way,
(32:35):
in whatever way you think is best, and maybe you
don't go with the don't run with the herd. If
the economy says this, figure out a way to do
better than that. Be original, be smart, be creative. But
on the other side of that coin is if it
quote might leave them America's economy better off. I'm not
(32:56):
the economy. If I'm young nick In. My wages have
bit depressed and I can barely afford by place. But
the big corporations and the governments that get checks written
to them from those corporations, they're all better off.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
But that whole rising tide.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Lifts all boats, not if you keep importing millions of
other boats. If you hear what I'm saying, only the
fat cats benefit. So New York Times don't tell me,
but it might leave America's economy better off. Une Jack
(33:36):
cosgan to get final the echo, so haunting. Here's your
host for final thoughts.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Me.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap things up for the day, beginning with our
technical director, who has been working like a rented mule
all day to keep us on the air. Michaelangelo. Michael
final thoughts.
Speaker 8 (33:58):
Yeah, behind the scenes today has been crazy. I've cried
during every commercial break. I've soiled myself. I bit my
tongue swearing to myself that you know what, I still
love my job excellent?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Well, you still love it. You're a national treasure. And
happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
To you, my lad.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Thank you very much. Jim Yep, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
As a final thought, Katie, that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Was my final thought as well.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Happy birthday, Michaelangelo, and you've done a superb job today.
I hope that you end up getting to do nothing
but relax all weekend.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
So Jack is dealing with an intestinal thing, could be
the neurovirus. We're not sure. He is going to consult
his local physician. My final thought, what the heck I'll
go along with it is when this stuff goes nuts,
go sideways. The computer systems and the software and everything.
The complexity of getting the show to the various audiences
(34:49):
and markets and platforms that we get it to is
so complicated. If we didn't have Michael and Mike Hanson,
our executive producer, who's like invaluable, Jack and I'd be
sitting there in the studio saying, what do you think
we ought to do?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I don't know, what do you think we ought to do?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
The show just wouldn't happen. So we appreciate you guys,
so many people. Thank so a little time. Armstrong and
Getty wrapping up before our workday. We'll see you Monday.
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Stop talking about it.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
I'm strong and get you with a quote.
Speaker 8 (35:29):
That's not inspiring, it's not fair, it seems irresponsible.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, it's not a victory. It's a it's a surrender.
It's it's it's so childish, it's so juvenile. Is this great?
Were now?
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Bye?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Great Friday. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
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