August 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Smelling salts, ESPN & tariffs
- Katie Green's Headlines & Jack's coffee spills... PLURAL
- Redistricting in TX, meeting with Putin & Jack's jeans/genes
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jetty and he Arms from Studio C.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
See we're in a dimly lit room on a little Friday,
deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
And hey y'all today we're under the tutelage of our
general manager. No smelling salts. What were those sounds you
were making. I did not like those noises you're making.
(01:00):
Those could have been That could have been a number
of things going on there. That's I'm not responsible for
your perverse thoughts, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So the NFL is banning smelling salts and the players
are angry.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
What that's interesting? So that's the that's the stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You get your bell rung, as they used to call it,
which means you've damaged your brain, perhaps irreparably. H They
come out with the smelling salts to wake you back
up again. She can get it back out there and
smash your head around some more.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And it turns out some guys use them like before
every drive, before they run on the field, just to
get jolt.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Of Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, well that's probably that probably needs to be banned, right,
it's mean it's a four in that stiffness was America? Huh,
I guess that was wrong. I'm sure you can take
caffeine though. So the smelling salts something buy over the
counter or not. I don't even know. And it's it's
like ammonia and a couple of other ingredients in there.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And yeah, often can you buy that over the counter.
You can buy it at the drug store. You should
be able to use it. If you need a prescription,
you probably shouldn't. That's my ruling. I know nothing about
quote unquote smelling salts. We didn't get into yesterday. The
big giant deal that ESPN has made with the NFL,
(02:17):
and there's all kinds of other networks involved. Anyway, it's
going to be a whole bunch of different NFL packages
that are available on all the ESPN channels, and then
all kinds of moving games around to all these different
networks to try to promote the different networks. So, if
you know, we were headed this direction, but there are
(02:39):
going to be a lot more different places to find
your NFL games than in the past. It wasn't that
many years ago. It seemed to me when I was
a big NFL fan, if I wanted to watch the NFC,
it was on CBS. If I want to watch the
AFC was on NBC. Period. End of story. I mean,
I knew exactly where to find my game. Now you
need to figure out what channel it's on, and then
(03:01):
it's a question whether or not you have that channel.
You have to decide whether you want to pay extra
to get that channel to see your Chiefs game or
your forty nine Ers game or whatever your own to watch. Right, Yeah, yeah,
I'll just have to wait and see it. Is it
going to be more confusing than it is now already
or less? I mean, is it all going to be
ESPN related? Most of the stuff I read about it
(03:23):
yesterday was indicating that it's going to be more confusing,
but that could just be naysayers.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There's also some decisions to be made. I saw some
good mockery of this yesterday with lots of bundling that's
going on of different channels, and somebody making the comment
that would be interesting if they had all the channels
bundled together, and we could call it, I don't know,
cable or something, and all your channels are coming one spot,
(03:50):
you know, because oh boy, you could get them from
one provider right right, which it seems to be the
direction we're kind of headed. So I don't know, but
it does speak to the ever changing nature of where
we get our information and how we get it. I mean,
it's got a lot to do with why Stephen Colbert
is going away despite people's talk about is politics. Just
(04:14):
all the different outlets out there for entertainment and how
you get it, and most people who watch the late
night shows, I watch every single moment of television on
my phone, never on my television. So and I'm sure
lots of young people do how do they count that?
Do they count that? I don't even know streaming numbers,
and just the greater economy of entertainment and information is
(04:38):
just so quickly changing.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, I don't know what a ratings even mean.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You hear people referencing ratings please well in a quaint
term of yesterdayear well. One of the reasons the ratings
are so inaccurate is the purpose of ratings. As people
who are in this business, the purpose of ratings or
not to let you the listener know what's the number
one show or the number five show or whatever it's
let advertisers know where's the best place to put their
(05:03):
ads or how many eyeballs or earballs are gonna catch
their ad.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, when.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
The TV show in question could have been watched on
CBS at eight o'clock, there's those ads on there, or
in bits and pieces on YouTube with different ads, or
maybe on Instagram with even different ads, or wherever, or
on the CBS streaming service with different ads. There's no
reason for the advertisers to get an overall rating of
(05:31):
CBS for instance, right right, So then you left out
Maybe you have the ad free package right somewhere and
you're paying a premium for that, and that money is
just a good point. I pay extra to have YouTube,
so I don't get the ads, but that money gets
spread out somehow.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I don't even know what to the various shows.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, you know, there's something about the random placement of
the ads in YouTube that made me completely insane and
made me spring for it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So you'd be like.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Mid song, sentence, mid plot twist, whatever, and just all
of a sudden, Yeah, So that's effective.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We got to start doing it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
That is brought to you better just right in the
middle of a sentence. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Where you find your Bengals Chargers game in October is
probably a minor question compared to what do these tariffs
that kicked in overnight due to the economy. Nobody knows.
We're all gonna wait and see. But all the rest
of the stuff kicked in today, and now we are,
in Ian Remmers's we're in a global trade war. It's
(06:34):
just there's a global trade war going on now. I
don't know if that overstates it or not, but it's
sure interesting that one guy can kick that off. One
guy on planet Earth out of eight billion can kick
off a global trade war. He did run on this,
so it's not like it's a surprise or shouldn't be
a surprise to his voters. But you wouldn't think one
guy would have the power to do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, yeah, as I often say, it's possible to do
the right thing in the wrong way as well. And
you know, Trump claims a lot of stuff. I'm not
sure people pictured this unfolly. Here's your key takeaway, I think,
and I based this on extensive study of the question.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
There are rumbles.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now clearly, especially on the producer level, of the effects
of the massive tax increase that the tariff is. It
is a massive tax increase. Who ends up paying? The
text obviously is you know, still a question. I don't
think we the consumer will truly feel it until October ish.
(07:40):
That's my guesstimate based on what I've been reading. October
or maybe a little sooner, maybe a little later than that.
But if you're looking around and there are like Trump
boosting channels where we try very very hard to be
a truth telling show as opposed to a Trump bashing
or a Trump boosting, I personally want to know. I
want to know, Yeah, I know, Actually, what's going to
(08:01):
happen with these tariffs? On your Trump boosting channels they're saying,
say they've predicted it and be terrible, and there'll be inflation,
and there's not and the economy's good. Well, okay, Number one,
they were talking about the whole Liberation Day madness and
that never happened. Secondly, those birds have not yet come
home to roost for a variety of reasons. I think
will truly be feeling what this is going to be
(08:22):
like in the latter part of this year, and I
think it'll be ugly and honestly, for all of my
vociferous support for a lot of what the Trump administration
is doing, I think this will be a scene as
a serious misstep and might even be the unfortunate legacy
(08:44):
oh of the Trump heres.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I hope it's not.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm rooting for it not to be, but it's not
hard to picture it being the only thing people say
about Donald Trump fifty years from now that had become
joking sort of historic moment.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I've jokingly said many times I'd rather be right than happy.
I would.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I want very very much to be wrong on this one.
I don't I'm not making a prediction, but I hope
it doesn't go the way you just said. I was
listening to the News Nation and they their analysis was,
according to some poll or something like that, sixty some
percent of businesses say they're going to have to pass
the tariff cost on to consumers to a pretty great degree,
(09:26):
with a third of those saying ninety percent of the
tariffs are going to be passed on to consumers if
that happens shortly. Because the question is in October when
they land. Is it going to be a yeah, I
guess prices seem a little higher. Or is it going
to be like during COVID where every time you buy
anything you go holy crap.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah. Yeah. And one big caveat is was Trump because.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
This and part of the concern about this whole process
has is that it's been so nuts. I mean, it's
been so unpredictable and quickly changing and whip saw ish.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
There's absolutely chance that on September first he announces all right,
I've made my point, We're going blanket eight percent tariffs.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Let's do some business.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's possible Wall Street has not reacted yet for whatever
that might mean.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I had one more COVID or a tariff note, I
don't remember what it was. Well it has though, but
I don't want to argue that point. A great piece.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I was just reading about how the economy would be
doing right now without all the uncertainty and madness. It
might be the juggernaut golden age that Trump had promised.
I guess my only point is, well, the stock market
didn't open a thousand points lower.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Because of the tariff starting today right.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The other Trump thing is, uh, is there going to
be a meeting between Putin and Trump face to face
within days with Zelensky. That's the claim of the Trump administration. Anyway,
we'll talk about that more or later. We need to
start the show officially, or we get tariff. There's an
eighty percent on a tariff. We're not starting to show
on time. Start then I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this. It is Thursday, August seventh, year, twenty twenty five,
(11:12):
or Armstrong and getting and we approve of its program. Okay,
then let's begin officially according to CC rules of regulations.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Look, the whole thing is a hoax, is put out
by the Democrats because we've had the most successful six
months in the.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
History of our country.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
And that's just a way of trying to divert attention
to something that's total both.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
What's he talking about Epstein thing? Oh, the Epstein thing. Okay,
a knee bomb. Already on the show, I saw ro Kanna,
the popular congressman from California who's now barn storming in
South Carolina, which is weird. He's run for president. He's
looking into it anyway, he's saying it out loud. Yeah,
(11:55):
he's exploring the idea of running for president. The other
thing he's saying out loud is yeah, the Epstein thing
is a great way to drive a wedge between the
Trump base. Sure, different parts of the Trump base. So yeah,
that's why we're hammering it.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Maybe it's that there's so much political talk going on
right now and the headlines are feverish and everybody's in
their media bubbles. You can actually now say that out loud.
Oh yeah, we don't care about this. We're just trying
to screw up his base. And is that because it
won't reach enough people to ruin it?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, it was funny. At first, I was like, oh
my god, he said that out loud. But then I realized, well,
wait a minute, you're hardcore. There's a giant jew driven
sex cabal crowd either will never hear that, or won't
believe it, or.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
They won't hear it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
No, No, they're not taking in the news where Rokonni
gets quoted. Right, that's interesting. Okay, we got Katie's headlines
on the way. We got more news of the day,
that whole Trump putin Zolensky summit thing which could happen
in days, according to Trump, is quite a story. So
that another thing to stay with it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I just showed my coffee all over the place, Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Clumsy, oaf damn Klett, and I had gotten just the
right combination of coffee and cream to the temperature just
just perfect.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It takes me back to my original point. You need
a sippy cup like the child you are.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh my, that's sense frank talk, but probably probably appropriate, the.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Armstrong getty sippy cup.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And it's all over my shirt, so I'll be stained
shirt guy for the whole day.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That'll be fun. That suck. That's a good look.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Worst thing ever, that's an easy way to be taken seriously,
why don't you just pluck out one of your front
teeth too.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You might as well go sit outside of the hobo,
maybe walk around with one.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Shoe on, shave off the eyebrow, put a non functioning
washing machine on your front porch. Why not with your cat.
Let's figure out who's reporting what the least story? Yes,
a clearly a couch Katie. It's the least story of Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Katie.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
CNN planned dinner for Trump officials to discusp Epstein appears
to have been moved amid media scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I can't figure out if this leaked out on purpose.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I doubt it. So were they going to meet about
Epstein and then.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
It leaked and as all crap because then everybody was
reporting it, and then they had to claim, no, we're
not meeting about Epstein, and then they just didn't meet
at all. Uh yeah, I suspect that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
From the Financial Times, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to
meet in coming days, says Kremlin.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
That what's interesting about that?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So that's from the Financial Times because the Kremlin says
Trump called for a meeting, the White House says Putin
called for a meeting, which is true. I do not
know well, and I've got that feeling where, you know,
the other drug lord is invited to the first drug
lord to a meeting to settle our differences, and it
(15:04):
just feels like a trap of some sort.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Wherever they meet, I would hide a pistol at the
top of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
In the bathroom. What that's dirty for Godfather's style? Because
who knows what's going to go on here?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
From The Independent, DJ investigating Senator Adam.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Schiff for mortgage fraud. Yeah, is that real or not?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's impossible that a just absolutely, it's a career liar
like that conducts the rest of his life with honor
and integrity. That's a good point right there. Why would
you out loud be a lling you can't trust anything
you say, but in your private life, no, you're by
the book.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why would that be? Got the smallest, thinnest neck. I've
ember seen all right that too, And listen to this
load of crap from the AP.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hesbola struggle to recover.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh wow, I saw that. You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Very sympathetic, long article about Yeah, Johnny Gihad, he took
shrapnel to the eye and has now had to learned
how many how many articles has the AP done about
families who had daughter raped to death at concert?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Struggle to recover? Right now? I haven't seen that. It
hasn't gone away yet. Guys from the New York Post, Lizzo.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Name drops Sydney Sweeney and new song over American Eagle
Jeans fiasco.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh my god, I haven't heard that well.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And to note Lizzo is wearing a beautiful blonde.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Wig in this video. Wait, is this where her career is?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This where her career is that she's got to step
into a controversy like this to get some in. I
guess I do kind of like the trend of the
insta song though, whether it's a rap war or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He can reply to somebody else's song tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
And finally, the Babylon b W.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I just got my coffee again and now the rest
of it has been poured out. I need a minder
of I need a helper take my keys away. I
want to hear the WNPA headline maybe after the break?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Did I do that twice in fifteen minutes? He's helpless?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So before we get to some actual news, we'll let
Katie finish off her headlines, which got interrupted by me
spilling my coffee twice in a five minute period, which
is unprecedented. I'm not sure anybody's ever done that before.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, much like.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The damage done in recent years, was not done by COVID,
but by the government response to COVID, Katie's headline was
blocked not by the spilling of the coffee but the angry,
unhinged ranting after the spilling.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Of the coffee. Yeah, Katie.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Also please, coming from the only man on the show
who doesn't have a lid on his cup.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Well you can't blame that though. That's like.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Coffee cups are a thing. I don't know if you've
ever been to a store. Lots of people drink out
of coffee cups, but they don't spill.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Them all over themselves all the time. Your child anyway,
from the Babylon b.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
WNBA warns if you throw anything onto the court, you
will be forced to attend ten more WNBA games.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Now that's appendly.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh that story factors in the mail bag as well.
Coming up, the chucking of marital aids onto the court
has now become well, I won't Well, you know how
you can bet on anything on a sports game? Now?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Really, stay with us? Can you bet on the size
and color? Also, I'm going medium red. Then I'll place
my wager. Before we get to the other headline, I
wanted to get this one on. Mark Alpern on his
newscast that I watched a little of this morning, said,
(19:06):
the media continues to make heroes out of all the
Democrats in Texas who are talking about redistricting or Democrats
all across the country. Mark Alpern said and has written,
I'll continue to say, if you're outraged about what Texas
is doing, you should be outraged about what.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Illinois already did, and outraged about what New York already
did and what California already did.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The mainstream media is is it because they're all young
and stupid or are they purposefully leaving out the fact
that this is not a new invention redistricting to try
to get the maximum number of your party right, And indeed,
if Texas is one hundred percent successful in their nefarious aims,
(19:48):
they will be slightly more jerrymannered than New York, but
substantially less than California and Illinois.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What we got to play the clip to Colbert's credit.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So Colbert had the gup of Illinois on the other
day Pritzker night before last and held up a map
to him and showed, I got to ask you about this.
These are Illinois districts and look at this one. What
is this a scorpion with the tale that goes all
the way up there? He said, Isn't this basically what
Texas is trying to do? So good for Colbert, and
we'll play that in the answer a little bit later.
(20:20):
Different different story. Trump's guy meeting with Putin yesterday to
discuss ending the war in a ceasefire, which well, and
what came out of that is pretty interesting. Here's ABC
News version of it.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
President Trump saying there is a good prospect that there
could be a summit with Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Zelenski.
This follows a face to face meeting between Putin and
Trumps Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff in Moscow. Witkoff told President
Trump that Putin would like to meet with him, which
President Trump said he is open to if, and this
(20:59):
is a.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Very big if.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Putin also meets with Zelensky. So while he sounded optimistic,
even President Trump said he would not call this a breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So do you think Putin wants to meet with Trump
and Zolensky or not?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Two answers to that.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
First of all, little background, normally m mmm, until really
the Trump hears you wouldn't have a quote unquote summit
unless everything was decided. The summit is kind of the
ceremony where you have meetings.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't like that, though. I prefer Trump's version. I don't.
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I don't like the people's saying this breaks all the norms. Yeah,
where you have like fifty meetings over a year and
a half, just sit down, figure it out, get the
deciders around the table, and hash it out. So I
was gonna say, so this summit definitely you know it
could be successful, neutral, or unsuccessful, unlike ones in the past.
(21:54):
The second answer your question is does Putin actually want it?
If I every single interaction with Putin must be approached
as though you're playing cards with a professional cheater. Well,
just a high, high degree of defensiveness and skepticism. There's
(22:15):
that he also plays lots of mind games, as we
all know. That's part of what he did for a
living in the KGB. I would think it would be
to his advantage to sit there with Zolensky and find
a way, probably with Trump's help, to make Zelensky twist off.
I think that would be to Putin's advantage. I don't
(22:36):
know how Zelensky could sit there and stay calm in
the face of some of the things Putin would be
likely to say, just flat out lies about Ukraine started
it or we're not bombing civilians or whatever. After everything
Zolensky's been through emotionally, and know Trump might join in
(22:56):
on Putin's side in that meeting, and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
How you'd keep your temper.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And Zelensky's at a disadvantage because he has a living
soul and Putin does not right or Putin who again,
if you underestimate Putin for a single second, you are
a fool.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
He you know, and this is like the best case.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
He comes with a quote unquote bargain that is way
more than Zelensky could accept, really, but insists I laid
down my arms tomorrow if we reach this bargain. Knowing
Trump for a variety of reasons, some of which are
very admirable and interesting, Trump is desperate to end the killing,
and so Putin hands him here's how to end the killing.
(23:42):
Swear to God, I'll lay it down my arms tomorrow.
But it's a maximalist, you know demand set of demands.
I keep the land that I've already taken. I don't
know this and the other thing, I don't know any
reparations for damage done right about the things? Uh yeah,
I've got. In short, I got a bad feeling about it.
(24:05):
I just don't know how as a human being, Zelensky
could keep from losing his mind if you ended up
with like an Oval office tone from that famous meeting
there with Putin sitting there and Trump goes with some
sort of look. Both sides have plenty of blame here.
I mean, I would flip the table over if he
(24:26):
says you started it. He says you started it, so
come on right? Yeah, no, No, that'd be hard to
take when you've seen all the dead bodies of old,
young and in between, and soldiers and the families and
everything like that. I think Zelensky would do it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
How would he not.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
If it's an opportunity to stop this, But god dang it,
and it's also possible. My first thought when I heard
this was, okay, the sanctions kick in on India Friday,
and that India is the number two buyer of Russia's
oil something like forty China is the number one buyer,
(25:11):
and Putin might be just dragging this out the way
he does. If I can drag this out for another week,
why not claiming a summit that I have no intention
of actually doing right And as a bonus, driving a
wedge between India and the United States. Where would they
can where would the summit be? Putin can't really leave Russia,
(25:33):
can he?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah? Other than going to China, some.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Like Belarus, some very friendly country, don't I don't know.
Interesting question, and just the prospect of a handshake or whatever.
How could you, well, you tell me if you could you,
if you're Zelensky, could you walk into that room and
shake hands and sit there and and and let the
thing be portrayed?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
As you know, there's blame on both sides.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, with all respect to your and I agree with you,
actually a description of how Trump's summits are actual negotiations
and meetings as opposed to the old ceremonies. If I'm Zelensky,
I can't accept that. I'm not going to go into
a room with the volatile Trump and the master mind
evil Putin and just see how I do. That sounds
(26:23):
like a terrible idea, unless you have to having done
that once with Trump, and it went very sideways, as
we all remember, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And Zelensky's to blame for some of that to a
large extent.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
But for the reasons I was just saying, people say
some things that cause you to lose your temper, which
could easily happen there in front of Trump and Putin.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Oh god, that would be a disaster.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
If Putin wants it. I am extremely suspicious of it period.
I think he's just delaying to try to stave off the.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Tariffs. Yeah, I think he nailed it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
He's going to delay as much as possible, then maybe
go ahead, and then when it goes off the rails
or is just unsuccessful, he's got a plausible means to
or reason to blame Zelensky for the.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Lack of success.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So a lot of people are watching to see is
Trump gonna come out today and say tariffs are on
hold with India because of the budding summit talks, which
would be exactly what Putin wants. I think as opposed
to know, tariffs go straight ahead until there's a ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Tariffs are on We'll see.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It was pointed out as watching Morning Joe today and
he said, for all the taco talk and everything else
about Trump, he did give it Iran a sixty day deadline,
and then when they didn't meet, it bombed the crap.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Out of them. Yeah, Israels a nod? And then followed up.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
So there is some serious precedent of following through on
these threads, like really recently, like world history making, bombing Iran.
So who knows what's gonna happen, but dang it, that's
quite the development now on the mind games of who
asked for it? The Kremlin saying Trump asked fort and
Trump saying the Kremlin ass wort.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Which is true, Michael, this one's for you, and I
think all of it is just an effort to distract
from the Epstein thing.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Wow, doubled him.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Over, doubled him over right in the solar plexus.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Didn't see that come. You got him good. Luckily.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Even though I spilled my coffee and got on my shirt,
none of it got on my new American Eagle Nazi jeans.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm wearing white supremacy jeans today. Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It reeks. It drips of eugenics. I drip of coffee
and eugenics. Wow in Nuremberg blue. That's a good shade.
I posted a picture last night in an all dentim
outfit in my Sydney Sweeney pose, and apparently it was
taken seriously by some people. I thought like I was
trying to like I was trying to be sexy. I
(29:06):
thought a sixty year old bald man posing in the
Sydney Sweeney outfit would be, on its face, ridiculous enough.
But that's what I was going.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
For, is ridiculous. You are pretty good, though. I like
them For thirty eight dollars. I'm sure they're fine. For
thirty eight dollars, they're fine. I do you know? They
make me walk like this? Though?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh oh oh yeah, you get loosen those You gotta
break those puppies in.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
What makes you? Probably got a bit of the Frankenstein watch.
Walking like a I'm stepping like a goose, is what
I'm doing?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh no, no, oh no, oh stop you we have windows.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I think it's because they're too tight. Wow, what causes that?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We've got mail bag on the way and more news
of the day, and what do you think of the summit?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Who?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
What's gonna happen there? Text line four one five two
nine five KFTC really hateful texts coming my way about
spilling my coffee. We'll get into some more news of
the day. Tariff's kicking in. What's that going to do
to the world economy? A couple other things. NFL season
(30:14):
kicking off. There's some new things happening with broadcasts and
rules and all that sort of thing. It is the
biggest television show in America. Preseason really getting underway this weekend.
More on that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of
the day. I love this, sent along by alert listener.
I don't have the name here, but thank you whoever
you were from. Caesar Bonusana di Beccaria, Okay, who was
(30:39):
an Enlightenment thinker, lived in the seventeen hundreds, an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist,
and politician.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Whose work I was not familiar with.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The quote's terrific if it's legit, and I think it is,
judging on judging by what I've read about them. Anyway,
he said, laws that forbid the carrying of arms arm
only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better
for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to
(31:10):
prevent homicides. For an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed man. I would agree with you,
saysar and well said, mailbag. By the way, I misspoke,
the NFL season preseason really kicks off today. You know
how Thursday half football is. Think there are three games today,
(31:30):
three NFL games.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's fun to watch the.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
First few minutes, and if you're really really into it,
to watch the prospects and see how they come along. Anyway,
moving along, drop his note mailbag at Armstrong and getty
dot com.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Pat the California refugee Rights.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Seriously, I can't believe Jack spent the whole show on
Tuesday teasing the story about his sailing lessons. Didn't pay
it off. Listen again Wednesday, whole show, no payoff. Finally
get to Wednesday's one more thing, and the payoff to
the story that he's been teasing for two old days
now is that there are no freaking sailing lessons.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's fraud. Pat, I would sue.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You enjoy any of the other commentary about our outfits
and Pam Bondi involved, or a RFK junior or somebody
sue is pants off. Moving along. This is an idea
from Rick. Just emailed the new suggested new ad to
American Eagle. Picture Sidney Sweeney walking down the street and
then a nice pair of jeans, halter top. It's obviously
(32:26):
very hot outside. She stops, takes an ice cube out
of a container, and wipes her forehead. Her only line
is when things get hot, that's that's it. No, the
hotter it gets, the more you need ice. As the
cambel pulls away, she's standing in front of Ice headquarters.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
New rage equals new notice equals new revenue, new prophets.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh my god, that is funny. Note from Karen here,
Dear Joe, long long time listener. Please don't call Europeans euros,
that is their currency, and please pronounce psychopathy correctly. It's
not psychopathy and it is pathological liar, not congenital liar.
(33:08):
All right, how do you pronounce pedantic pain in the ask?
Just out of curiosity? Hipes, that's not an effort to
be friends. Fine, middle ground, moving along? Are you now?
Jack's got me not wanting to say the word. It's
a certain marital aid, a penile man k a fake
(33:30):
schansticker dildo anyway, any anything that's not to help get
pregnant and have a baby shouldn't be occurring in the bedroom.
Are you guys betting on dildo's yet perhaps you should
be Apparently spot betting is now a thing in the NBA,
blah blah blah, and the polymarkets is actually taking bets
(33:55):
on whether throw or someone will throw a sex toy
on the court during the course of a w NBA game.
We may have reached peak silliness. Well, Katie, do women
say that word regularly or no?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah they do?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yes, Okay, you are actually the only person I know
that has a problem saying it.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I bet my mom doesn't say it. It's it's impolite.
It was never uttered in public. No, twenty years ago, now,
maybe even ten years ago. But that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Right. Well, there's lots of things, but they're called your
privates because you ought to keep them private. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And again I'm saying, unless a baby is going to
be had, this shouldn't even a.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Rye pope leo the dope, Thank you we go. How
much time do we have, Michael oh Man? Do we
have time for this? A very very serious note?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
A show historian Mike from San Francisco points out that,
according to the book Target Tokyo, Jimmy Doolittle in The
Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor. In response to the Chinese
helping the pilots is escape safely when they had to
ditch in China, the Japanese Imperial forces killed two hundred
and fifty thousand Chinese in retribution. Sounds about right, Yeah, yeah,
(35:11):
all sorts of quiet, prayerful memorials yesterday on all the
network news in Hiroshima, right, they all covered it. Nobody
covered those two hundred and fifty thousand Chinese that were slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Where's the memorial for them? Huh? No kidding.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
If you missed a segment or now, or get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jetty and he Arms from Studio C.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
See we're in a dimly lit room on a little Friday,
deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
And hey y'all today we're under the tutelage of our
general manager. No smelling salts. What were those sounds you
were making. I did not like those noises you're making.
(01:00):
Those could have been That could have been a number
of things going on there. That's I'm not responsible for
your perverse thoughts, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So the NFL is banning smelling salts and the players
are angry.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
What that's interesting? So that's the that's the stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You get your bell rung, as they used to call it,
which means you've damaged your brain, perhaps irreparably. H They
come out with the smelling salts to wake you back
up again. She can get it back out there and
smash your head around some more.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And it turns out some guys use them like before
every drive, before they run on the field, just to
get jolt.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Of Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Okay, well that's probably that probably needs to be banned, right,
it's mean it's a four in that stiffness was America? Huh,
I guess that was wrong. I'm sure you can take
caffeine though. So the smelling salts something buy over the
counter or not. I don't even know. And it's it's
like ammonia and a couple of other ingredients in there.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And yeah, often can you buy that over the counter.
You can buy it at the drug store. You should
be able to use it. If you need a prescription,
you probably shouldn't. That's my ruling. I know nothing about
quote unquote smelling salts. We didn't get into yesterday. The
big giant deal that ESPN has made with the NFL,
(02:17):
and there's all kinds of other networks involved. Anyway, it's
going to be a whole bunch of different NFL packages
that are available on all the ESPN channels, and then
all kinds of moving games around to all these different
networks to try to promote the different networks. So, if
you know, we were headed this direction, but there are
(02:39):
going to be a lot more different places to find
your NFL games than in the past. It wasn't that
many years ago. It seemed to me when I was
a big NFL fan, if I wanted to watch the NFC,
it was on CBS. If I want to watch the
AFC was on NBC. Period. End of story. I mean,
I knew exactly where to find my game. Now you
need to figure out what channel it's on, and then
(03:01):
it's a question whether or not you have that channel.
You have to decide whether you want to pay extra
to get that channel to see your Chiefs game or
your forty nine Ers game or whatever your own to watch. Right, Yeah, yeah,
I'll just have to wait and see it. Is it
going to be more confusing than it is now already
or less? I mean, is it all going to be
ESPN related? Most of the stuff I read about it
(03:23):
yesterday was indicating that it's going to be more confusing,
but that could just be naysayers.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There's also some decisions to be made. I saw some
good mockery of this yesterday with lots of bundling that's
going on of different channels, and somebody making the comment
that would be interesting if they had all the channels
bundled together, and we could call it, I don't know,
cable or something, and all your channels are coming one spot,
(03:50):
you know, because oh boy, you could get them from
one provider right right, which it seems to be the
direction we're kind of headed. So I don't know, but
it does speak to the ever changing nature of where
we get our information and how we get it. I mean,
it's got a lot to do with why Stephen Colbert
is going away despite people's talk about is politics. Just
(04:14):
all the different outlets out there for entertainment and how
you get it, and most people who watch the late
night shows, I watch every single moment of television on
my phone, never on my television. So and I'm sure
lots of young people do how do they count that?
Do they count that? I don't even know streaming numbers,
and just the greater economy of entertainment and information is
(04:38):
just so quickly changing.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, I don't know what a ratings even mean.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You hear people referencing ratings please well in a quaint
term of yesterdayear well. One of the reasons the ratings
are so inaccurate is the purpose of ratings. As people
who are in this business, the purpose of ratings or
not to let you the listener know what's the number
one show or the number five show or whatever it's
let advertisers know where's the best place to put their
(05:03):
ads or how many eyeballs or earballs are gonna catch
their ad.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, when.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
The TV show in question could have been watched on
CBS at eight o'clock, there's those ads on there, or
in bits and pieces on YouTube with different ads, or
maybe on Instagram with even different ads, or wherever, or
on the CBS streaming service with different ads. There's no
reason for the advertisers to get an overall rating of
(05:31):
CBS for instance, right right, So then you left out
Maybe you have the ad free package right somewhere and
you're paying a premium for that, and that money is
just a good point. I pay extra to have YouTube,
so I don't get the ads, but that money gets
spread out somehow.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I don't even know what to the various shows.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, you know, there's something about the random placement of
the ads in YouTube that made me completely insane and
made me spring for it.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So you'd be like.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Mid song, sentence, mid plot twist, whatever, and just all
of a sudden, Yeah, So that's effective.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We got to start doing it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
That is brought to you better just right in the
middle of a sentence. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Where you find your Bengals Chargers game in October is
probably a minor question compared to what do these tariffs
that kicked in overnight due to the economy. Nobody knows.
We're all gonna wait and see. But all the rest
of the stuff kicked in today, and now we are,
in Ian Remmers's we're in a global trade war. It's
(06:34):
just there's a global trade war going on now. I
don't know if that overstates it or not, but it's
sure interesting that one guy can kick that off. One
guy on planet Earth out of eight billion can kick
off a global trade war. He did run on this,
so it's not like it's a surprise or shouldn't be
a surprise to his voters. But you wouldn't think one
guy would have the power to do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, yeah, as I often say, it's possible to do
the right thing in the wrong way as well. And
you know, Trump claims a lot of stuff. I'm not
sure people pictured this unfolly. Here's your key takeaway, I think,
and I based this on extensive study of the question.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
There are rumbles.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now clearly, especially on the producer level, of the effects
of the massive tax increase that the tariff is. It
is a massive tax increase. Who ends up paying? The
text obviously is you know, still a question. I don't
think we the consumer will truly feel it until October ish.
(07:40):
That's my guesstimate based on what I've been reading. October
or maybe a little sooner, maybe a little later than that.
But if you're looking around and there are like Trump
boosting channels where we try very very hard to be
a truth telling show as opposed to a Trump bashing
or a Trump boosting, I personally want to know. I
want to know, Yeah, I know, Actually, what's going to
(08:01):
happen with these tariffs? On your Trump boosting channels they're saying,
say they've predicted it and be terrible, and there'll be inflation,
and there's not and the economy's good. Well, okay, Number one,
they were talking about the whole Liberation Day madness and
that never happened. Secondly, those birds have not yet come
home to roost for a variety of reasons. I think
will truly be feeling what this is going to be
(08:22):
like in the latter part of this year, and I
think it'll be ugly and honestly, for all of my
vociferous support for a lot of what the Trump administration
is doing, I think this will be a scene as
a serious misstep and might even be the unfortunate legacy
(08:44):
oh of the Trump heres.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I hope it's not.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I'm rooting for it not to be, but it's not
hard to picture it being the only thing people say
about Donald Trump fifty years from now that had become
joking sort of historic moment.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I've jokingly said many times I'd rather be right than happy.
I would.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I want very very much to be wrong on this one.
I don't I'm not making a prediction, but I hope
it doesn't go the way you just said. I was
listening to the News Nation and they their analysis was,
according to some poll or something like that, sixty some
percent of businesses say they're going to have to pass
the tariff cost on to consumers to a pretty great degree,
(09:26):
with a third of those saying ninety percent of the
tariffs are going to be passed on to consumers if
that happens shortly. Because the question is in October when
they land. Is it going to be a yeah, I
guess prices seem a little higher. Or is it going
to be like during COVID where every time you buy
anything you go holy crap.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah. Yeah. And one big caveat is was Trump because.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
This and part of the concern about this whole process
has is that it's been so nuts. I mean, it's
been so unpredictable and quickly changing and whip saw ish.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
There's absolutely chance that on September first he announces all right,
I've made my point, We're going blanket eight percent tariffs.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Let's do some business.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's possible Wall Street has not reacted yet for whatever
that might mean.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I had one more COVID or a tariff note, I
don't remember what it was. Well it has though, but
I don't want to argue that point. A great piece.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I was just reading about how the economy would be
doing right now without all the uncertainty and madness. It
might be the juggernaut golden age that Trump had promised.
I guess my only point is, well, the stock market
didn't open a thousand points lower.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Because of the tariff starting today right.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The other Trump thing is, uh, is there going to
be a meeting between Putin and Trump face to face
within days with Zelensky. That's the claim of the Trump administration. Anyway,
we'll talk about that more or later. We need to
start the show officially, or we get tariff. There's an
eighty percent on a tariff. We're not starting to show
on time. Start then I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this. It is Thursday, August seventh, year, twenty twenty five,
(11:12):
or Armstrong and getting and we approve of its program. Okay,
then let's begin officially according to CC rules of regulations.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Here we go at Mark.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Look, the whole thing is a hoax, is put out
by the Democrats because we've had the most successful six
months in the.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
History of our country.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
And that's just a way of trying to divert attention
to something that's total both.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
What's he talking about Epstein thing? Oh, the Epstein thing. Okay,
a knee bomb. Already on the show, I saw ro Kanna,
the popular congressman from California who's now barn storming in
South Carolina, which is weird. He's run for president. He's
looking into it anyway, he's saying it out loud. Yeah,
(11:55):
he's exploring the idea of running for president. The other
thing he's saying out loud is yeah, the Epstein thing
is a great way to drive a wedge between the
Trump base. Sure, different parts of the Trump base. So yeah,
that's why we're hammering it.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Maybe it's that there's so much political talk going on
right now and the headlines are feverish and everybody's in
their media bubbles. You can actually now say that out loud.
Oh yeah, we don't care about this. We're just trying
to screw up his base. And is that because it
won't reach enough people to ruin it?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, it was funny. At first, I was like, oh
my god, he said that out loud. But then I realized, well,
wait a minute, you're hardcore. There's a giant jew driven
sex cabal crowd either will never hear that, or won't
believe it, or.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
They won't hear it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
No, No, they're not taking in the news where Rokonni
gets quoted. Right, that's interesting. Okay, we got Katie's headlines
on the way. We got more news of the day,
that whole Trump putin Zolensky summit thing which could happen
in days, according to Trump, is quite a story. So
that another thing to stay with it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I just showed my coffee all over the place, Oh.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Clumsy, oaf damn Klett, and I had gotten just the
right combination of coffee and cream to the temperature just
just perfect.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
It takes me back to my original point. You need
a sippy cup like the child you are.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh my, that's sense frank talk, but probably probably appropriate, the.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Armstrong getty sippy cup.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
And it's all over my shirt, so I'll be stained
shirt guy for the whole day.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That'll be fun. That suck. That's a good look.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Worst thing ever, that's an easy way to be taken seriously,
why don't you just pluck out one of your front
teeth too.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You might as well go sit outside of the hobo,
maybe walk around with one.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Shoe on, shave off the eyebrow, put a non functioning
washing machine on your front porch. Why not with your cat.
Let's figure out who's reporting what the least story? Yes,
a clearly a couch Katie. It's the least story of Katie.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Katie.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
CNN planned dinner for Trump officials to discusp Epstein appears
to have been moved amid media scrutiny.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I can't figure out if this leaked out on purpose.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I doubt it. So were they going to meet about
Epstein and then.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
It leaked and as all crap because then everybody was
reporting it, and then they had to claim, no, we're
not meeting about Epstein, and then they just didn't meet
at all. Uh yeah, I suspect that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
From the Financial Times, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to
meet in coming days, says Kremlin.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
That what's interesting about that?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So that's from the Financial Times because the Kremlin says
Trump called for a meeting, the White House says Putin
called for a meeting, which is true. I do not
know well, and I've got that feeling where, you know,
the other drug lord is invited to the first drug
lord to a meeting to settle our differences, and it
(15:04):
just feels like a trap of some sort.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Wherever they meet, I would hide a pistol at the
top of the toilet.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
In the bathroom. What that's dirty for Godfather's style? Because
who knows what's going to go on here?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
From The Independent, DJ investigating Senator Adam.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Schiff for mortgage fraud. Yeah, is that real or not?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's impossible that a just absolutely, it's a career liar
like that conducts the rest of his life with honor
and integrity. That's a good point right there. Why would
you out loud be a lling you can't trust anything
you say, but in your private life, no, you're by
the book.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why would that be? Got the smallest, thinnest neck. I've
ember seen all right that too, And listen to this
load of crap from the AP.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hesbola struggle to recover.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh wow, I saw that. You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Very sympathetic, long article about Yeah, Johnny Gihad, he took
shrapnel to the eye and has now had to learned
how many how many articles has the AP done about
families who had daughter raped to death at concert?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Struggle to recover? Right now? I haven't seen that. It
hasn't gone away yet. Guys from the New York Post, Lizzo.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Name drops Sydney Sweeney and new song over American Eagle
Jeans fiasco.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh my god, I haven't heard that well.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
And to note Lizzo is wearing a beautiful blonde.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Wig in this video. Wait, is this where her career is?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
This where her career is that she's got to step
into a controversy like this to get some in. I
guess I do kind of like the trend of the
insta song though, whether it's a rap war or whatever.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He can reply to somebody else's song tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
And finally, the Babylon b W.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I just got my coffee again and now the rest
of it has been poured out. I need a minder
of I need a helper take my keys away. I
want to hear the WNPA headline maybe after the break?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Did I do that twice in fifteen minutes? He's helpless?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So before we get to some actual news, we'll let
Katie finish off her headlines, which got interrupted by me
spilling my coffee twice in a five minute period, which
is unprecedented. I'm not sure anybody's ever done that before.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, much like.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The damage done in recent years, was not done by COVID,
but by the government response to COVID, Katie's headline was
blocked not by the spilling of the coffee but the angry,
unhinged ranting after the spilling.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Of the coffee. Yeah, Katie.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Also please, coming from the only man on the show
who doesn't have a lid on his cup.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Well you can't blame that though. That's like.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Coffee cups are a thing. I don't know if you've
ever been to a store. Lots of people drink out
of coffee cups, but they don't spill.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Them all over themselves all the time. Your child anyway,
from the Babylon b.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
WNBA warns if you throw anything onto the court, you
will be forced to attend ten more WNBA games.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Now that's appendly.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh that story factors in the mail bag as well.
Coming up, the chucking of marital aids onto the court
has now become well, I won't Well, you know how
you can bet on anything on a sports game? Now?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Really, stay with us? Can you bet on the size
and color? Also, I'm going medium red. Then I'll place
my wager. Before we get to the other headline, I
wanted to get this one on. Mark Alpern on his
newscast that I watched a little of this morning, said,
(19:06):
the media continues to make heroes out of all the
Democrats in Texas who are talking about redistricting or Democrats
all across the country. Mark Alpern said and has written,
I'll continue to say, if you're outraged about what Texas
is doing, you should be outraged about what.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Illinois already did, and outraged about what New York already
did and what California already did.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
The mainstream media is is it because they're all young
and stupid or are they purposefully leaving out the fact
that this is not a new invention redistricting to try
to get the maximum number of your party right, And indeed,
if Texas is one hundred percent successful in their nefarious aims,
(19:48):
they will be slightly more jerrymannered than New York, but
substantially less than California and Illinois.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What we got to play the clip to Colbert's credit.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So Colbert had the gup of Illinois on the other
day Pritzker night before last and held up a map
to him and showed, I got to ask you about this.
These are Illinois districts and look at this one. What
is this a scorpion with the tale that goes all
the way up there? He said, Isn't this basically what
Texas is trying to do? So good for Colbert, and
we'll play that in the answer a little bit later.
(20:20):
Different different story. Trump's guy meeting with Putin yesterday to
discuss ending the war in a ceasefire, which well, and
what came out of that is pretty interesting. Here's ABC
News version of it.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
President Trump saying there is a good prospect that there
could be a summit with Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Zelenski.
This follows a face to face meeting between Putin and
Trumps Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff in Moscow. Witkoff told President
Trump that Putin would like to meet with him, which
President Trump said he is open to if, and this
(20:59):
is a.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Very big if.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Putin also meets with Zelensky. So while he sounded optimistic,
even President Trump said he would not call this a breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So do you think Putin wants to meet with Trump
and Zolensky or not?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Two answers to that.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
First of all, little background, normally m mmm, until really
the Trump hears you wouldn't have a quote unquote summit
unless everything was decided. The summit is kind of the
ceremony where you have meetings.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't like that, though. I prefer Trump's version. I don't.
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I don't like the people's saying this breaks all the norms. Yeah,
where you have like fifty meetings over a year and
a half, just sit down, figure it out, get the
deciders around the table, and hash it out. So I
was gonna say, so this summit definitely you know it
could be successful, neutral, or unsuccessful, unlike ones in the past.
(21:54):
The second answer your question is does Putin actually want it?
If I every single interaction with Putin must be approached
as though you're playing cards with a professional cheater. Well,
just a high, high degree of defensiveness and skepticism. There's
(22:15):
that he also plays lots of mind games, as we
all know. That's part of what he did for a
living in the KGB. I would think it would be
to his advantage to sit there with Zolensky and find
a way, probably with Trump's help, to make Zelensky twist off.
I think that would be to Putin's advantage. I don't
(22:36):
know how Zelensky could sit there and stay calm in
the face of some of the things Putin would be
likely to say, just flat out lies about Ukraine started
it or we're not bombing civilians or whatever. After everything
Zolensky's been through emotionally, and know Trump might join in
(22:56):
on Putin's side in that meeting, and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
How you'd keep your temper.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And Zelensky's at a disadvantage because he has a living
soul and Putin does not right or Putin who again,
if you underestimate Putin for a single second, you are
a fool.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
He you know, and this is like the best case.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
He comes with a quote unquote bargain that is way
more than Zelensky could accept, really, but insists I laid
down my arms tomorrow if we reach this bargain. Knowing
Trump for a variety of reasons, some of which are
very admirable and interesting, Trump is desperate to end the killing,
and so Putin hands him here's how to end the killing.
(23:42):
Swear to God, I'll lay it down my arms tomorrow.
But it's a maximalist, you know demand set of demands.
I keep the land that I've already taken. I don't
know this and the other thing, I don't know any
reparations for damage done right about the things? Uh yeah,
I've got. In short, I got a bad feeling about it.
(24:05):
I just don't know how as a human being, Zelensky
could keep from losing his mind if you ended up
with like an Oval office tone from that famous meeting
there with Putin sitting there and Trump goes with some
sort of look. Both sides have plenty of blame here.
I mean, I would flip the table over if he
(24:26):
says you started it. He says you started it, so
come on right? Yeah, no, No, that'd be hard to
take when you've seen all the dead bodies of old,
young and in between, and soldiers and the families and
everything like that. I think Zelensky would do it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
How would he not.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
If it's an opportunity to stop this, But god dang it,
and it's also possible. My first thought when I heard
this was, okay, the sanctions kick in on India Friday,
and that India is the number two buyer of Russia's
oil something like forty China is the number one buyer,
(25:11):
and Putin might be just dragging this out the way
he does. If I can drag this out for another week,
why not claiming a summit that I have no intention
of actually doing right And as a bonus, driving a
wedge between India and the United States. Where would they
can where would the summit be? Putin can't really leave Russia,
(25:33):
can he?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah? Other than going to China, some.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Like Belarus, some very friendly country, don't I don't know.
Interesting question, and just the prospect of a handshake or whatever.
How could you, well, you tell me if you could you,
if you're Zelensky, could you walk into that room and
shake hands and sit there and and and let the
thing be portrayed?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
As you know, there's blame on both sides.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, with all respect to your and I agree with you,
actually a description of how Trump's summits are actual negotiations
and meetings as opposed to the old ceremonies. If I'm Zelensky,
I can't accept that. I'm not going to go into
a room with the volatile Trump and the master mind
evil Putin and just see how I do. That sounds
(26:23):
like a terrible idea, unless you have to having done
that once with Trump, and it went very sideways, as
we all remember, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And Zelensky's to blame for some of that to a
large extent.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
But for the reasons I was just saying, people say
some things that cause you to lose your temper, which
could easily happen there in front of Trump and Putin.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Oh god, that would be a disaster.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
If Putin wants it. I am extremely suspicious of it period.
I think he's just delaying to try to stave off the.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Tariffs. Yeah, I think he nailed it.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
He's going to delay as much as possible, then maybe
go ahead, and then when it goes off the rails
or is just unsuccessful, he's got a plausible means to
or reason to blame Zelensky for the.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Lack of success.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
So a lot of people are watching to see is
Trump gonna come out today and say tariffs are on
hold with India because of the budding summit talks, which
would be exactly what Putin wants. I think as opposed
to know, tariffs go straight ahead until there's a ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Tariffs are on We'll see.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It was pointed out as watching Morning Joe today and
he said, for all the taco talk and everything else
about Trump, he did give it Iran a sixty day deadline,
and then when they didn't meet, it bombed the crap.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Out of them. Yeah, Israels a nod? And then followed up.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
So there is some serious precedent of following through on
these threads, like really recently, like world history making, bombing Iran.
So who knows what's gonna happen, but dang it, that's
quite the development now on the mind games of who
asked for it? The Kremlin saying Trump asked fort and
Trump saying the Kremlin ass wort.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I don't have any idea.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Which is true, Michael, this one's for you, and I
think all of it is just an effort to distract
from the Epstein thing.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Wow, doubled him.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Over, doubled him over right in the solar plexus.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Didn't see that come. You got him good. Luckily.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Even though I spilled my coffee and got on my shirt,
none of it got on my new American Eagle Nazi jeans.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm wearing white supremacy jeans today. Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
It reeks. It drips of eugenics. I drip of coffee
and eugenics. Wow in Nuremberg blue. That's a good shade.
I posted a picture last night in an all dentim
outfit in my Sydney Sweeney pose, and apparently it was
taken seriously by some people. I thought like I was
trying to like I was trying to be sexy. I
(29:06):
thought a sixty year old bald man posing in the
Sydney Sweeney outfit would be, on its face, ridiculous enough.
But that's what I was going.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
For, is ridiculous. You are pretty good, though. I like
them For thirty eight dollars. I'm sure they're fine. For
thirty eight dollars, they're fine. I do you know? They
make me walk like this? Though?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh oh oh yeah, you get loosen those You gotta
break those puppies in.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
What makes you? Probably got a bit of the Frankenstein watch.
Walking like a I'm stepping like a goose, is what
I'm doing?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh no, no, oh no, oh stop you we have windows.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I think it's because they're too tight. Wow, what causes that?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We've got mail bag on the way and more news
of the day, and what do you think of the summit?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Who?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
What's gonna happen there? Text line four one five two
nine five KFTC really hateful texts coming my way about
spilling my coffee. We'll get into some more news of
the day. Tariff's kicking in. What's that going to do
to the world economy? A couple other things. NFL season
(30:14):
kicking off. There's some new things happening with broadcasts and
rules and all that sort of thing. It is the
biggest television show in America. Preseason really getting underway this weekend.
More on that later. Here's your freedom loving quote of
the day. I love this, sent along by alert listener.
I don't have the name here, but thank you whoever
you were from. Caesar Bonusana di Beccaria, Okay, who was
(30:39):
an Enlightenment thinker, lived in the seventeen hundreds, an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist,
and politician.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Whose work I was not familiar with.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The quote's terrific if it's legit, and I think it is,
judging on judging by what I've read about them. Anyway,
he said, laws that forbid the carrying of arms arm
only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better
for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to
(31:10):
prevent homicides. For an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed man. I would agree with you,
saysar and well said, mailbag. By the way, I misspoke,
the NFL season preseason really kicks off today. You know
how Thursday half football is. Think there are three games today,
(31:30):
three NFL games.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's fun to watch the.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
First few minutes, and if you're really really into it,
to watch the prospects and see how they come along. Anyway,
moving along, drop his note mailbag at Armstrong and getty
dot com.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Pat the California refugee Rights.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Seriously, I can't believe Jack spent the whole show on
Tuesday teasing the story about his sailing lessons. Didn't pay
it off. Listen again Wednesday, whole show, no payoff. Finally
get to Wednesday's one more thing, and the payoff to
the story that he's been teasing for two old days
now is that there are no freaking sailing lessons.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's fraud. Pat, I would sue.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You enjoy any of the other commentary about our outfits
and Pam Bondi involved, or a RFK junior or somebody
sue is pants off. Moving along. This is an idea
from Rick. Just emailed the new suggested new ad to
American Eagle. Picture Sidney Sweeney walking down the street and
then a nice pair of jeans, halter top. It's obviously
(32:26):
very hot outside. She stops, takes an ice cube out
of a container, and wipes her forehead. Her only line
is when things get hot, that's that's it. No, the
hotter it gets, the more you need ice. As the
cambel pulls away, she's standing in front of Ice headquarters.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
New rage equals new notice equals new revenue, new prophets.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh my god, that is funny. Note from Karen here,
Dear Joe, long long time listener. Please don't call Europeans euros,
that is their currency, and please pronounce psychopathy correctly. It's
not psychopathy and it is pathological liar, not congenital liar.
(33:08):
All right, how do you pronounce pedantic pain in the ask?
Just out of curiosity? Hipes, that's not an effort to
be friends. Fine, middle ground, moving along? Are you now?
Jack's got me not wanting to say the word. It's
a certain marital aid, a penile man k a fake
(33:30):
schansticker dildo anyway, any anything that's not to help get
pregnant and have a baby shouldn't be occurring in the bedroom.
Are you guys betting on dildo's yet perhaps you should
be Apparently spot betting is now a thing in the NBA,
blah blah blah, and the polymarkets is actually taking bets
(33:55):
on whether throw or someone will throw a sex toy
on the court during the course of a w NBA game.
We may have reached peak silliness. Well, Katie, do women
say that word regularly or no?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah they do?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yes, Okay, you are actually the only person I know
that has a problem saying it.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
I bet my mom doesn't say it. It's it's impolite.
It was never uttered in public. No, twenty years ago, now,
maybe even ten years ago. But that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Right. Well, there's lots of things, but they're called your
privates because you ought to keep them private. Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And again I'm saying, unless a baby is going to
be had, this shouldn't even a.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Rye pope leo the dope, Thank you we go. How
much time do we have, Michael oh Man? Do we
have time for this? A very very serious note?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
A show historian Mike from San Francisco points out that,
according to the book Target Tokyo, Jimmy Doolittle in The
Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor. In response to the Chinese
helping the pilots is escape safely when they had to
ditch in China, the Japanese Imperial forces killed two hundred
and fifty thousand Chinese in retribution. Sounds about right, Yeah, yeah,
(35:11):
all sorts of quiet, prayerful memorials yesterday on all the
network news in Hiroshima, right, they all covered it. Nobody
covered those two hundred and fifty thousand Chinese that were slaughtered.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Where's the memorial for them? Huh? No kidding.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
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