July 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Jack's awful metaphors & jobs/economy!
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo!
- Putin continues his attacks & Trump's conversations with Putin
- Professional clown weighs in on Trump
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Gatty,
and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So McCrone, the leader of France, was meeting with Starmer,
who sounds like he should be the leader of Germany
but is the leader of Britain. Mccron was in London
yesterday and getting the full uh you know, treatment of
a carriage ride down the street and horses and people
applauding and all that sort of stuff. But anyway, the
important stuff is really making some significant announcements about how
(00:46):
Britain and France are united in a way that they've
never been before, particularly nuclear arsenal wise, announcements aimed directly
at Russia, like don't think we're not ready for you.
We can talk more about that later. It's something, yeah,
I would say. And I want to get to get
(01:08):
our all purpose theme music ready there, Michael, I'm going
to need that in a second. I got to read
this this email from Tim addressed to Jack, and I
hate to be critical via Tim, I'm sure you do,
Tim wrights that. Earlier in the show, Jack described how
in the near assassination of Donald Trump America dodged a bullet,
(01:32):
then pointed out that the war in Ukraine might explode.
What's next, Jack describing a tuzzle between two knines at
a dog park as a real dogfight, or as a
collision of two locomotives as a real train wreck. You
need to go to metaphor school, son, Tim, Tim, that
is unnecessarily Oh boy, it was a train wreck when
(01:56):
the cow trans ran into Amtrak yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
What a train I tell you what. There's a huge
trash receptor reciprocal.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know, a big container outside the back door that
it was caught on fire.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I tell you it was a dumpster fire.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You you can't know, No, no receptacle.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That was the word I was looking for. Michael. It's
time for jobs in the economy. It's our frontet.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
All kind of loosely related, but I found all of
them interested. How about this headline, think work life balance
is overrated. You're hired, You're hired. Employers are getting brutally
honest with applicants, warning them of long hours and few boundaries.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Companies are in control. Again. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Anti at least taking a look at work life balance,
but every successful person I know put quite a bit
into their work. Yeah, there's kind of a sliding scale.
I think a lot of people are willing to really
really get after it when they're young, and then maybe
as their career matures cut back a little bit. But
(03:11):
you know, it's up to the individual, you know, Yeah,
it is up to the individual. You do you but
recognize that the person that emphasizes work over life is
likely to get ahead of you, and you know, just
accept that. If you're fine with that, fine, But that's
just the reality. Well, I tell you what, I am
familiar with a couple of different people who I love
very much. You may or may not be the fruit
(03:32):
of my loins A terrible phrase. Oh my god, anytime
you mention your loins, I feel like I want to
run from the room.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I have lovely loins. What are you talking anyway?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Anyway, one is extremely driven and ambitious and the other
one is fine with kind of minimal success and financial means.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I think I'm raising one of those myself. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Anyway, back to this article, Shopify wants a product manager
who can keep up with an unrelenting pace. In one ad, Solus,
a healthcare marketplace, tells job seekers, if you're looking for
work life balance, this isn't it. A job posting for
a senior engineer at software company Rilla urges applicants quote,
please don't join unless you're eager to work seventy hours
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a week in person.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We worked for a radio station.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Actually we worked we worked for a building that had
several radio stations, and we were luckily not on the
radio station I'm going to talk about, but this one
radio station that was the dominant radio station in town.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They worked their.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
People insanely, like you worked all week long and all
weekend long, year round, and they had great success with it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But I mean you had to be crazy dedicated to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And some of it was not like completely paid either.
That was just the dues you'd have to pay if
you wanted to rise up. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, oh no,
most of this stuff I would be talking about you
wouldn't get paid for. It's just like I had I
when we were in Charlotte, North Carolina. That's a big
banking city. I don't know if you know that or not,
but it is. And I knew a number of people
(05:06):
that went off to New York, which is like a
move up the banking capital of the world. And I
knew one guy in particular who was working for Chase Manhattan,
and he was twenty four years old something like that.
He was working one hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Hours a week.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He would be in a suit and tie in the
office at seven am on a Sunday, knowing he was
going to work all day long, and he was happy
about it because he was going to be a go
getter and climb the ladder.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But that's what they expected out of you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Google co founder serge Ay Brinn in February told employees
that sixty hours a week was the sweet spot of
productivity and the back at that Rilla company, they tell candidates,
we don't have any strict work policies, but we tend
to work sixty to eighty hours every week. Don't lie
to yourself if you have a gut feeling that you
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don't agree with the culture. Yeah, like this guy I
was talking about, and I've known a few other they
were proud of the fact that they were part of
the group that worked this hard, like where the alphas
were the people that are gonna get somewhere right. The
sons of a couple of friends of mine are doing
of mine or doing something similar.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Meanwhile, Oh, that's right. It was gonna have you get
some Beach.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Boys music ready, Michael, do you have any Beach Boys
music that jo surfing?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now everybody's learning how VON and the Sun means the
v W micro Boss. The good times are back. Don't
worry about it, Jack sang for us instead.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It was only a couple of years ago that the
head of v W hopped onto a Huntington Beach, California
stage flank by surfboards to announce the rebirth of an
automotive icon, the Volkswagon micro Boss.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah those are cool. I saw one in behind me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh you did well, you saw the only one many
in the United miserable failure. Well, I thought they weren't
allowed in you in the United States. It's funny. It
came up with my son. I said, hey, there's one
of those volts Wagons behind me, and he said, yeah,
they don't. There aren't many in the United States for
a variety of reasons, which I am about to talking
to you. Indeed, number one, their range is pathetic by
(07:08):
electric vehicle standards. Well that's saying something because even the
ones that do well don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, and then they had a recall, a big recall.
It was a huge pain in the ass, but it's
a plus. Now you've got tariffs and all, and so
they're way too expensive that they look start at sixty
thousand plus.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But they look super cool. They are cool looking.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, if you know, if you have nostalgia for that
sort of thing, I think that helps.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But I thought you would find this very interesting. Jack.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The very expensive and incredibly inconvenient recall was that the
third row seats were too broad, too comfortable. That would
allow three passengers to squeeze into a space equipped with
only two seat belts. So the federal government made v
W insert like plastic parts to make that third row
(08:02):
less wide and comfortable, so three people couldn't possibly evade
the seat belt laws, or.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
One person couldn't. God, I hate that sort of crap
so much.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We rented a Toyota Siena Van, which is like the
best minivan you can get, fantastic fan but the safety
stuff on this.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh my god, it was oppressive. Quick will you I'm okay,
I don't need to be reminded of these nine different things, righting? Wow?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, yeah, another jobs of the academy. Sorry, if you
want to get crazy rich, I would work as hard
as you can to become an AI expert.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Right now, boy, all of the big companies are.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Raiding each other's employees to whatever extent contract law allows,
like hot, heavy, and hard, to the point that Meta
is offering huge pay packages a hundred million dollars for
some to attract talent to their unit.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And the the.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, the the unit has valued at like twenty nine
billion dollars. The quest to be the leader of AI
is so intense. Oh yeah, if you're one of these experts,
they will offer you fifty seventy one hundred million dollars
to cross the street. Yeah, I'm not surprised by that.
I mean, if you become the Google of AI, the Kleenex,
(09:31):
the Xerox, if you will, there's so much money in that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, So I don't know, get to chat GPT going
and learn to like plan a trip with it, and
maybe Mark Zuckerberg will hire you.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
For one hundred million dollars next week.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
There's probably more to it than that. I think you
got to know something about code or something. Man, everybody's
guessing on the whole AI thing. It's so much every
aspect of it. Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait
to watch it unfold. Even though I think it's going
to be disastrous. I maybe it's just my personality. I
expect it to be more negative than positive, even though
(10:07):
I've been loving and using chat GPT. I mean, it's
one of a great thing that has happened in my
life in the last month is chat GPT. But ultimately
I think it's going to be horrible. So complete change
of topic, just very briefly. I'm excited about this because
I just finished editing it came across was reminded of
one of the great pieces of writing ever that completely
(10:29):
dismantles the stupidity of DEI an affirmative action and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
This happened to be in reference to colleges, but it
almost doesn't matter. It was a concurring opinion by Neil
Gorsuch in the famous Harvard case a couple of years ago.
It is eloquent, easily understandable by anybody, and a complete
dismantling of the moronic hypocrisy of these programs. I want
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to shore that with you next hour, our four of
the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You're thinking, good God, you people do four hours. That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
If you don't get it or you can't stick around,
just grab it ya podcast. Subscribe wherever you like to
get podcasts at Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I'll hit you with that. It's terrific.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hey. According to the La Times, Gavin Newsom is mulling
a twenty twenty eight presidential bid. Oh really I heard
that stay with us more in the way.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He don't understand this correctly.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That the back seat in the Volkswagen minibus they made
nice and comfortable to fit the modern American ass so
two people could sit back there and have plenty of room.
And the federal government and all its wisdom decided, no,
three people might sit back there if it's that wide
and there are only two seat belts, so you got
to make it smaller. That sort of stuff makes me insane. Yeah,
(11:58):
the worst sort of nanny status. The right stop they made,
connecting else from ourselves. They made VW. Bolton plastic to
make the seat less wide. Good Lord, that's sort of
thinking prevailed in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
We we remember Joe Biden, don't. We don't mess with
them in a work unless you want to get the back.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And though his presidency and soon his breathing will be
in the past, that was insensitive and I apologize for it.
Come on, there are a couple of notes on the
Biden administration I'd like to squeeze in partly so I
can close these tabs. First of all, the current US
Secretary of Energy, who we all know is of course,
(12:44):
Chris Wright, is slamming the you know, the Biden administration
for what he calls an absolutely infuriating last minute spending spree,
revealing that more than ninety billion with a b ninety
billion dollars in green energy loans were pushed through by
the Department of Energy's Loan Program's office in the weeks
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between Trump's reelection and the inauguration. That is what Trump
was talking about yesterday. Okay, I just saw a clip
of him talking about what they did at the end
is criminal. Well, line in this green New Deal crap
that nobody wanted, so they revealed it. More than ninety
billion dollars in loans were closed or committed in the
seventy six days between election day and inauguration day.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That amount exceeds the total loan volume issued by the
office over its entire fifteen year history.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
To put that in context, over fifteen years we had
we'd put out forty three billion dollars. Then we had
an election on November fifth, Right, President Trump won that election.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Set election that to a certain extent, rejected this sort
of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, just absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Next question, nobody pays a price for that stuff. She's
the she Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Nancy Pelosi raked in between seven point eight and forty
two and a half million dollars in twenty twenty four.
That's quite a spa spread meeting. Her estimated net worth
with her venture capitalist hubby is probably around four hundred
and thirteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But she's a half a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Is that her portfolio outperformed every single large hedge fund
with stunning returns?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Anti Pelosi and her husband great investors. I should ask
her about what I should buy. They might be the
best investors in history. Market research term quite for quantitative,
which estimates a single figure bl blah blah bah. Here's oh,
A large chunk of the couple of fortune has come
(14:51):
from a sizable stock portfolio. And timely trades, all done
in Paul Pelosi's name.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
For instance, timely trades.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, the former House speaker who's so infamous for trading
that Josh Hawley named a Bill Effer, and she and
her husband dumped five thousand shares of Microsoft stock worth
an estimated two point two million dollars in July, one
of their biggest transactions in years, just a couple of
months before the FTC announced an anti trust investigation into
(15:22):
the tech giant. Yeah, if we're being too hip for
the room, assuming too much it's it would you'd have
to work at being in Congress or the Senate and
not investing on knowledge that other people don't have. I mean,
you'd have to go out of your way, right. For instance,
(15:43):
they sold two thousand shares worth more than a half
a million dollars of Visa stock just a couple of
months before the credit card company is hit with a
DJ monopoly law lawsuit. But their best trade might have
been exercising a call option in December. Google it Chat
in late twenty twenty three, at an estimated premium of
(16:04):
one point eight million dollars, allowing them to nab fifty
thousand shares of hot Ai chip stock in Nvidia for
twelve bucks a pop, less than one tenth of its
market price. Blah blah blah, because they knew what was
going to go on. Couple also paid between six hundred
thousand and one point twenty five million for a call
option on a Cybulge security company. Same week, it was
(16:25):
revealed the White House brief lawmakers on a serious national
security threat related to Russia.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They were the perfect therm firm to respond to that.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I mean that one's so obvious it's not even worth
commenting on. It's just amazing that we can't get this
done away with. That's one of the reasons she hates AOC.
AOC really wants to crack down on this, the ability
for people in the House to trade stock while they're
in office.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And the final note to President Chumpter just threw out
a federal rule from Biden that gave collective bargaining rights
to foreign farm workers immigrants, including illegals, but denied them
to Americans working on farms. What are you trying to
do today? Thank god, it's over the Biden years, oh
Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Just hours after President Trump railed against Vladimir Putin, the
Russian leader unleashing his largest aerials sold yet on Ukraine,
firing more than seven hundred drones into the country. It
comes as Trump makes it clear his patience when Putin
is wearing thin, the administration now resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine,
President Trump saying He's now considering sending even more weapons
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to Ukraine, including granting their requests for another Patriot air
defense system.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What is going on there? What is Putin thinking? On
the day before his top spokesman, Lavrov was going to
meet with Trumps Secretary of State Rubio. They met today.
The day before that happens. The two days before that happens,
Russia launches the biggest drone attacks of the entire war
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on Kiev. So what kind of message is that sending?
As soon as he gets off the phone with Trump
the other day, he launches that seven hundred drone attack.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
What is he up to? Right there?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Ian Bremer A friend of the Armstrong and get to
show who we like but don't always.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Agree with it. I agree with this.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Trump has changed his view on Putin more dramatically than
on any other foreign policy issue of his presidency. Putin
doesn't seem to appreciate or care about the strategic mistake
that he has made here. Yeah, he has lost Trump
and he must think I don't again, like Ian said,
he doesn't care that the United States is going to
(18:40):
gradually or quickly give Ukraine way more support. And who
knows how far Trump will go if his feelings get hurt,
if he feels like Putin's really jobbing him. It was
so bad the other day the drone attack on Kiev,
NATO actually scrambled jets for the first time, with Putin
launching that large drone attack, stoking fears of Russia escalating
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production of more drones. But there were so many drones
coming in that NATO couldn't be sure where they were
headed or how this was gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Unfold, so they scrambled jets first time. It's happened during
the war.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But I mean, that's getting that's getting pretty dicey when
that starts to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's kind of escalating. Huh. I would say, you got
the whole.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Sanctions bill that's in the Senate, like really really tough sanctions,
five hundred percent penalty on anybody who's doing business with Russia.
That Lindsey Graham authored and eighty senators of the one hundred,
which obviously includes a whole bunch of Democrats and Republicans,
have signed on to and said yeah, we're all for this,
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So that's ready to go. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House,
came out yesterday and said, we love that here in
the House. So it looks like the it would come
out of the Senate and the House would like it too,
and Trump could sign it, So that could happen like
like today, if Trump pulls the trigger on it. They're
just holding back, waiting for the nod from the you know,
the the tangerine tornado.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Right right. I don't want groupthink.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I love dissent, but I've got to admit I had
misperceived how much consensus there is on this issue, how
much agreement there is across the aisle that No, you
can't have Vladimir Putin invading European countries just because he
doesn't particularly like which way they swing.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
We don't want that. We need to discourage that.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, a little more on the politics of that in
a second. But yesterday I keep mentioning that Macrone was
in London meeting with the Prime Minister and with all
kinds of talks all around this topic and a declaration
signed yesterday as Emmanuel Macrone of France visited London. The
UK and France agreed for the first time ever to
coordinate their use of nuclear weapons, including nuclear arms, submarines
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and fighter jets in the case of a major conflict
or crisis in your Some people like to portray that
as Europe has to do this because they can't count
on the United States. Well, okay, and portray it that
way if you want, But I see this is a
good thing period that NATO is upping their game and
these countries are coming together as a force.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I'm happy about that, right.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Finally bringing something to the party, the NATO party. Back
to the kind of the politics of this and Trump,
I guess because he is the politics of this. He
can he can sway the Republican Party, as we've all
seen a lot in a day by which direction he goes.
But he seems to be feeling like Putin's treating him
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like a punk. If one of these days these drone
attacks work, because the goal is to overwhelm the Ukrainian
air defense system and then be able to get the
missiles through. So you send seven hundred drones off all
their different air defense and they can't keep up and
(22:03):
the drones get through. If that happens and they kill hundreds,
maybe thousands of Ukrainian civilians, Trump seems to really hate
death in war. How is Trump going to react to that?
And that could happen this afternoon. I just wonder how
Trump's going to react to that.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Wow, that's an intriguing question and the troubling one, obviously.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What do you think Putin's game is? What do you
think he's up to?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
My guess is that he is probing as hard as
he can to figure out where Trump's limits are and
how he will react, because that's his history. He probes
for weakness, and where he finds it, he exploits it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Jijinping does exactly the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's no mystery why their buddies at this point, He's
there are two techniques you can either do that. You
can either push really hard until you trigger a response,
or you can calculate just short of that line, constantly
getting as much as you can without triggering that response.
I think Putin wants to take the measure of Donald
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Trump and and and he's a megalomaniac intent on restoring
the grandeur of the Soviet Union, and and so that
is his ultimate goal. And he will by hook er
by crook get there if if you know, if he can.
I agree with Ian Bremer. I think this is a
major strategic mistake on Putin's part. I think he's misreading Trump.
(23:40):
Taco is not going to apply here. And you know
where where this ends. I have no idea. But different topic, Shirley,
I'm sorry. One more thought, Shirley. He took a note
of the attack on the fourtoh nuclear facility in Iran.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Right, you would think so, you would think that would
have gotten his attention. And speaking of that sort of thing,
did this happen for real or not? This audio came
out the other day. This is from twenty twenty four.
Trump is not in office at the time. I don't
even remember who he's talking to. It doesn't really matter.
(24:18):
He's recounting conversations he had with Vladimir Putin and President
je First his Trump recounting his conversation with Vladimir Putin.
So this is twenty twenty four Trump talking about when
he was well, it's a little mystifying as to when
he was talking to Putin, but this is what it
sounds like.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
If you go in I'm telling you how.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I said.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
She said no way, in a way I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Does he believe?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's really hard to understand.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Clearly, he's speaking in a men's room somewhere at the
far end of it, right, but he's Trump says, I
hate to use the word claims because that's prejudicial.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I find it hard to believe this conversation happened.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But he says he talked to Putin and said, if
you go into Ukraine, I'm going to bomb the s
out of Moscow. And Putin said no way. And Trump,
having seen Wayne's world, said way excellent. And uh, then
it's a little hard to hear and understand it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know that we need to play the president.
She portioned, because it's as hard to hear. But Trump says,
I said the same thing to President She, if you
go into Taiwan, I'm going to bomb the s out
of Beijing. Did he tell the president of China we
would bomb the s out of Beijing? WHOA That makes
mister Gorbachev tear down. This all seem like how you
(26:01):
do it? Trump is so prone to trying to come
off as the hard ass.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't know that could be.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
One percent true, one hundred percent untrue, or any percentage
in between. Would Putin say I don't believe you, no way,
and Trump say way.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Party on excellent Darth.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Or I could I could see it be you know,
he was summarizing, obviously, I could. I could picture that
couched in more diplomatic language, him saying yeah, there would
be severe repercussions, even including blah blah bah, and Putin
saying I don't think you would do that. Well, clearly
(26:52):
Putin doesn't think Trump would do that if they had
that conversation because he he invaded Ukraine. Obviously Trump was
and President Biden was. But Trump's president now, and he's
upping his game on a daily basis. And I mean,
if Trump actually said, Tom, I'll bomb the s out
of Moscow if you do that, he must not believe him.
(27:14):
No no, allthough, and I don't We're not going to
bomb the s out of Moscow. Although you have to remember,
when you're analyzing Putin and what he might do, you
have to remember that he is more than willing to
sacrifice hundreds of thousands, or indeed millions of Russians if
he can achieve his aims. So I'm just kind of
playing this out in my mind. I could see Putin thinking, okay,
(27:35):
US attacks Moscow.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Oh, that'd be full on war.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Would it overreach escalation? We mobilize our nuclear forces, the
world comes together, and I say, the only way I
don't start nuclear armageddon is if we get Estonia, Lithuanian
and Latvia back and I win, yes, bomb Moscow.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We get a lot of vote thrown at US by Putin. Well,
first of all, I hope that scenario is not going
to play out.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'm just I'm trying to answer your question. I could
see Putin making that calculation absolutely, or President G since
he's the Chinese, are always President G is known has
said something about I'd lose a million people for that.
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They don't care. We can't even imagine it. We lose
a couple of thousand soldiers, and it's you know, it's
a national conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But they'd be willing to either of those guys.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Well, Putin already has lost a million guys for no
reason whatsoever, and lost a handful of thousands of North
Koreans along with them. Yeah, I I hope we're not
headed this direction. But it's certainly well I said earlier,
and I believe it. This could become the biggest story
in the world pretty quickly, if if Trump actually follows
(29:03):
through on some of the things he's saying, or if
he's actually had it with Putin and then he got
France in England saying we're a we're a combined nuclear
force now right right, So if it doesn't come to that, yeah,
I'd say, so, what what would what would the correct
what would the correct answer be if Putin said you
give me Estonian whatever else you said there, or I
(29:25):
start armageddon?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
What would what would what would the world do? Estonia
sh m Estonia? Ah?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Do I have to answer that question. I'm a humble
radio host. I should not be asked these questions. What
what would the world do?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I think we might find out with Taiwan if basically
she says you want Taiwan enough to go to full
on war with China, or because I don't think we do,
and Trump has said as much, I'm not going to
go to war with China over Taiwan. I think the
only proper response is, we will obliterate you. You do
what you think you have to do, well, you will
(30:07):
have no empire, you will have no people, You will
have no lungs because we're gonna pull them out of
your chest.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, we're getting down to basic human nature.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But if you allow either Putin or she to take
anything with that threat, you think they're gonna stop with that?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Certainly, of course not. They will grow hungrier with the eating.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So wow, Well, let's hope none of this plays out
over before your before your weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
He said, no way, And I said, wait, hey, can
you hand me some toilet paper under the stall?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Here?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I got to run out over here. What the heck
are they?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, he's uh, he's in the men's room, sitting and uh,
he's just recounting to someone in the stall next to
him about ali threat in nuclear war.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Once. That's what you do when you're in the stall,
You killing time.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Woww the acoustics in his solid gold bathrooms are different
than mine? Any thoughts on this text? Line four one
five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Harry Coleman's ex wife failed a lie detector test, leaving
many to believe she was involved in his death. I know, right,
bet right now Gary is turning over in his shoe box.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
He would have laughed, Wow, Hoddie, it's just a flat
out short joke. Here's the funniest thing I've seen today.
This is an actual Washington Post headline, in which one
commentator said, if this was an Onion headline, I would
say the Onion's not that funny anymore. This is an
actual headline from an opinion piece in the Washington Post.
Oh oh, Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know.
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Real clowns bring joy to the world, not chaos to Washington.
Oh mile horriden by a professional clown.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Oh my goodness, Donald Trump is not a clown. I
should know.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Can you picture a sort of person who would say,
oh my god, that would be so powerful to have
an actual clown explain how Trump is no clown. Wait
a minute, are you trying to be ironic? Wow? Wow, Wow,
we have virtually no time. Oh my god, yeah wow.
(32:28):
Mark Alpern had a thing last night. I almost grabbed it.
He was reading a letter from somebody explaining the Trump
phenomenon and specifically how there are so many millions of
people that supported Trump and support Trump who don't dig
all of his act I'd be in that camp who are, like,
you know, he's a crazy person on them so many fronts,
(32:48):
but he's the easily better alternative than the crazy he's
over there and they're complete nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Wa could do? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Right? View of the world right right? Speaking of which
generation Z the useful idiot generation a powerful argument not
just disparaging the young, and some really unbelievably interesting writing
on something I've been talking about for the longest time,
the radicalization of young women, not just in the United
(33:25):
States but around the world. Just one quick statistic for you.
During that whole Columbia Library vandalism takeover scuffle blah blah blah,
eighty protesters are arrested. Sixty one of them were women.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
And they go through a bunch of that sort of
incident and organization and it is hugely heavily female. I'd
like to talk to that, if we talk about that,
if we get to it. But as I mentioned earlier,
I'm super excited about reading you a magnificant chunk of
Neil Gorsich's concurrence in a case from a couple of
(34:03):
years ago about DEI in Affirmative Action. I was reminded
of its existence the other day, and it is one
of the most brilliant things ever written on how utterly incoherent,
counterproductive and unconstitutional all of that crap is end every
(34:23):
DEI program everywhere wherever it exists today.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Donald Trump is not a clown I should know. Well,
that's powerful. What next?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Donald Trump is called a jackass. I raise jackasses for
a living and rent them to farms. Donald Trump is
no jackass. The jackass works hard. And this, seriously, you
are being ironic, right, the clown thing. This is a joke, right, Okay,
So we do four hours every day. That's lots of segments.
(34:58):
If you miss one or an you can get the podcast.
You should subscribe Armstrong and Getty on demand. I'm telling
you this Gorsuch stuff is just terrific.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
That good.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
For instance, if you can't grab it, you can listen
to it whenever you want via podcast. Thank you for
being here, so much more to come.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Hang around if you can. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Gatty,
and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So McCrone, the leader of France, was meeting with Starmer,
who sounds like he should be the leader of Germany
but is the leader of Britain. Mccron was in London
yesterday and getting the full uh you know, treatment of
a carriage ride down the street and horses and people
applauding and all that sort of stuff. But anyway, the
important stuff is really making some significant announcements about how
(00:46):
Britain and France are united in a way that they've
never been before, particularly nuclear arsenal wise, announcements aimed directly
at Russia, like don't think we're not ready for you.
We can talk more about that later. It's something, yeah,
I would say. And I want to get to get
(01:08):
our all purpose theme music ready there, Michael, I'm going
to need that in a second. I got to read
this this email from Tim addressed to Jack, and I
hate to be critical via Tim, I'm sure you do,
Tim wrights that. Earlier in the show, Jack described how
in the near assassination of Donald Trump America dodged a bullet,
(01:32):
then pointed out that the war in Ukraine might explode.
What's next, Jack describing a tuzzle between two knines at
a dog park as a real dogfight, or as a
collision of two locomotives as a real train wreck. You
need to go to metaphor school, son, Tim, Tim, that
is unnecessarily Oh boy, it was a train wreck when
(01:56):
the cow trans ran into Amtrak yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
What a train I tell you what. There's a huge
trash receptor reciprocal.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You know, a big container outside the back door that
it was caught on fire.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I tell you it was a dumpster fire.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You you can't know, No, no receptacle.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That was the word I was looking for. Michael. It's
time for jobs in the economy. It's our frontet.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
All kind of loosely related, but I found all of
them interested. How about this headline, think work life balance
is overrated. You're hired, You're hired. Employers are getting brutally
honest with applicants, warning them of long hours and few boundaries.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Companies are in control. Again. I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Anti at least taking a look at work life balance,
but every successful person I know put quite a bit
into their work. Yeah, there's kind of a sliding scale.
I think a lot of people are willing to really
really get after it when they're young, and then maybe
as their career matures cut back a little bit. But
(03:11):
you know, it's up to the individual, you know, Yeah,
it is up to the individual. You do you but
recognize that the person that emphasizes work over life is
likely to get ahead of you, and you know, just
accept that. If you're fine with that, fine, But that's
just the reality. Well, I tell you what, I am
familiar with a couple of different people who I love
very much. You may or may not be the fruit
(03:32):
of my loins A terrible phrase. Oh my god, anytime
you mention your loins, I feel like I want to
run from the room.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I have lovely loins. What are you talking anyway?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Anyway, one is extremely driven and ambitious and the other
one is fine with kind of minimal success and financial means.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I think I'm raising one of those myself. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Anyway, back to this article, Shopify wants a product manager
who can keep up with an unrelenting pace. In one ad, Solus,
a healthcare marketplace, tells job seekers, if you're looking for
work life balance, this isn't it. A job posting for
a senior engineer at software company Rilla urges applicants quote,
please don't join unless you're eager to work seventy hours
(04:17):
a week in person.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We worked for a radio station.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Actually we worked we worked for a building that had
several radio stations, and we were luckily not on the
radio station I'm going to talk about, but this one
radio station that was the dominant radio station in town.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They worked their.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
People insanely, like you worked all week long and all
weekend long, year round, and they had great success with it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But I mean you had to be crazy dedicated to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
And some of it was not like completely paid either.
That was just the dues you'd have to pay if
you wanted to rise up. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, oh no,
most of this stuff I would be talking about you
wouldn't get paid for. It's just like I had I
when we were in Charlotte, North Carolina. That's a big
banking city. I don't know if you know that or not,
but it is. And I knew a number of people
(05:06):
that went off to New York, which is like a
move up the banking capital of the world. And I
knew one guy in particular who was working for Chase Manhattan,
and he was twenty four years old something like that.
He was working one hundred.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Hours a week.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
He would be in a suit and tie in the
office at seven am on a Sunday, knowing he was
going to work all day long, and he was happy
about it because he was going to be a go
getter and climb the ladder.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But that's what they expected out of you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Google co founder serge Ay Brinn in February told employees
that sixty hours a week was the sweet spot of
productivity and the back at that Rilla company, they tell candidates,
we don't have any strict work policies, but we tend
to work sixty to eighty hours every week. Don't lie
to yourself if you have a gut feeling that you
(05:54):
don't agree with the culture. Yeah, like this guy I
was talking about, and I've known a few other they
were proud of the fact that they were part of
the group that worked this hard, like where the alphas
were the people that are gonna get somewhere right. The
sons of a couple of friends of mine are doing
of mine or doing something similar.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Meanwhile, Oh, that's right. It was gonna have you get
some Beach.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Boys music ready, Michael, do you have any Beach Boys
music that jo surfing?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now everybody's learning how VON and the Sun means the
v W micro Boss. The good times are back. Don't
worry about it, Jack sang for us instead.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
It was only a couple of years ago that the
head of v W hopped onto a Huntington Beach, California
stage flank by surfboards to announce the rebirth of an
automotive icon, the Volkswagon micro Boss.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah those are cool. I saw one in behind me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Oh you did well, you saw the only one many
in the United miserable failure. Well, I thought they weren't
allowed in you in the United States. It's funny. It
came up with my son. I said, hey, there's one
of those volts Wagons behind me, and he said, yeah,
they don't. There aren't many in the United States for
a variety of reasons, which I am about to talking
to you. Indeed, number one, their range is pathetic by
(07:08):
electric vehicle standards. Well that's saying something because even the
ones that do well don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, and then they had a recall, a big recall.
It was a huge pain in the ass, but it's
a plus. Now you've got tariffs and all, and so
they're way too expensive that they look start at sixty
thousand plus.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But they look super cool. They are cool looking.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, if you know, if you have nostalgia for that
sort of thing, I think that helps.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But I thought you would find this very interesting. Jack.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The very expensive and incredibly inconvenient recall was that the
third row seats were too broad, too comfortable. That would
allow three passengers to squeeze into a space equipped with
only two seat belts. So the federal government made v
W insert like plastic parts to make that third row
(08:02):
less wide and comfortable, so three people couldn't possibly evade
the seat belt laws, or.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
One person couldn't. God, I hate that sort of crap
so much.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We rented a Toyota Siena Van, which is like the
best minivan you can get, fantastic fan but the safety
stuff on this.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh my god, it was oppressive. Quick will you I'm okay,
I don't need to be reminded of these nine different things, righting? Wow?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, yeah, another jobs of the academy. Sorry, if you
want to get crazy rich, I would work as hard
as you can to become an AI expert.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Right now, boy, all of the big companies are.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Raiding each other's employees to whatever extent contract law allows,
like hot, heavy, and hard, to the point that Meta
is offering huge pay packages a hundred million dollars for
some to attract talent to their unit.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And the the.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, the the unit has valued at like twenty nine
billion dollars. The quest to be the leader of AI
is so intense. Oh yeah, if you're one of these experts,
they will offer you fifty seventy one hundred million dollars
to cross the street. Yeah, I'm not surprised by that.
I mean, if you become the Google of AI, the Kleenex,
(09:31):
the Xerox, if you will, there's so much money in that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, So I don't know, get to chat GPT going
and learn to like plan a trip with it, and
maybe Mark Zuckerberg will hire you.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
For one hundred million dollars next week.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
There's probably more to it than that. I think you
got to know something about code or something. Man, everybody's
guessing on the whole AI thing. It's so much every
aspect of it. Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait
to watch it unfold. Even though I think it's going
to be disastrous. I maybe it's just my personality. I
expect it to be more negative than positive, even though
(10:07):
I've been loving and using chat GPT. I mean, it's
one of a great thing that has happened in my
life in the last month is chat GPT. But ultimately
I think it's going to be horrible. So complete change
of topic, just very briefly. I'm excited about this because
I just finished editing it came across was reminded of
one of the great pieces of writing ever that completely
(10:29):
dismantles the stupidity of DEI an affirmative action and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
This happened to be in reference to colleges, but it
almost doesn't matter. It was a concurring opinion by Neil
Gorsuch in the famous Harvard case a couple of years ago.
It is eloquent, easily understandable by anybody, and a complete
dismantling of the moronic hypocrisy of these programs. I want
(10:59):
to shore that with you next hour, our four of
the Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
You're thinking, good God, you people do four hours. That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
If you don't get it or you can't stick around,
just grab it ya podcast. Subscribe wherever you like to
get podcasts at Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I'll hit you with that. It's terrific.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Hey. According to the La Times, Gavin Newsom is mulling
a twenty twenty eight presidential bid. Oh really I heard
that stay with us more in the way.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He don't understand this correctly.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That the back seat in the Volkswagen minibus they made
nice and comfortable to fit the modern American ass so
two people could sit back there and have plenty of room.
And the federal government and all its wisdom decided, no,
three people might sit back there if it's that wide
and there are only two seat belts, so you got
to make it smaller. That sort of stuff makes me insane. Yeah,
(11:58):
the worst sort of nanny status. The right stop they made,
connecting else from ourselves. They made VW. Bolton plastic to
make the seat less wide. Good Lord, that's sort of
thinking prevailed in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
We we remember Joe Biden, don't. We don't mess with
them in a work unless you want to get the back.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And though his presidency and soon his breathing will be
in the past, that was insensitive and I apologize for it.
Come on, there are a couple of notes on the
Biden administration I'd like to squeeze in partly so I
can close these tabs. First of all, the current US
Secretary of Energy, who we all know is of course,
(12:44):
Chris Wright, is slamming the you know, the Biden administration
for what he calls an absolutely infuriating last minute spending spree,
revealing that more than ninety billion with a b ninety
billion dollars in green energy loans were pushed through by
the Department of Energy's Loan Program's office in the weeks
(13:04):
between Trump's reelection and the inauguration. That is what Trump
was talking about yesterday. Okay, I just saw a clip
of him talking about what they did at the end
is criminal. Well, line in this green New Deal crap
that nobody wanted, so they revealed it. More than ninety
billion dollars in loans were closed or committed in the
seventy six days between election day and inauguration day.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That amount exceeds the total loan volume issued by the
office over its entire fifteen year history.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
To put that in context, over fifteen years we had
we'd put out forty three billion dollars. Then we had
an election on November fifth, Right, President Trump won that election.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Set election that to a certain extent, rejected this sort
of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, just absolutely stunning.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Next question, nobody pays a price for that stuff. She's
the she Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Nancy Pelosi raked in between seven point eight and forty
two and a half million dollars in twenty twenty four.
That's quite a spa spread meeting. Her estimated net worth
with her venture capitalist hubby is probably around four hundred
and thirteen million dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But she's a half a billionaire.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Is that her portfolio outperformed every single large hedge fund
with stunning returns?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Anti Pelosi and her husband great investors. I should ask
her about what I should buy. They might be the
best investors in history. Market research term quite for quantitative,
which estimates a single figure bl blah blah bah. Here's oh,
A large chunk of the couple of fortune has come
(14:51):
from a sizable stock portfolio. And timely trades, all done
in Paul Pelosi's name.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
For instance, timely trades.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, the former House speaker who's so infamous for trading
that Josh Hawley named a Bill Effer, and she and
her husband dumped five thousand shares of Microsoft stock worth
an estimated two point two million dollars in July, one
of their biggest transactions in years, just a couple of
months before the FTC announced an anti trust investigation into
(15:22):
the tech giant. Yeah, if we're being too hip for
the room, assuming too much it's it would you'd have
to work at being in Congress or the Senate and
not investing on knowledge that other people don't have. I mean,
you'd have to go out of your way, right. For instance,
(15:43):
they sold two thousand shares worth more than a half
a million dollars of Visa stock just a couple of
months before the credit card company is hit with a
DJ monopoly law lawsuit. But their best trade might have
been exercising a call option in December. Google it Chat
in late twenty twenty three, at an estimated premium of
(16:04):
one point eight million dollars, allowing them to nab fifty
thousand shares of hot Ai chip stock in Nvidia for
twelve bucks a pop, less than one tenth of its
market price. Blah blah blah, because they knew what was
going to go on. Couple also paid between six hundred
thousand and one point twenty five million for a call
option on a Cybulge security company. Same week, it was
(16:25):
revealed the White House brief lawmakers on a serious national
security threat related to Russia.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They were the perfect therm firm to respond to that.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I mean that one's so obvious it's not even worth
commenting on. It's just amazing that we can't get this
done away with. That's one of the reasons she hates AOC.
AOC really wants to crack down on this, the ability
for people in the House to trade stock while they're
in office.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And the final note to President Chumpter just threw out
a federal rule from Biden that gave collective bargaining rights
to foreign farm workers immigrants, including illegals, but denied them
to Americans working on farms. What are you trying to
do today? Thank god, it's over the Biden years, oh
Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Just hours after President Trump railed against Vladimir Putin, the
Russian leader unleashing his largest aerials sold yet on Ukraine,
firing more than seven hundred drones into the country. It
comes as Trump makes it clear his patience when Putin
is wearing thin, the administration now resuming weapons shipments to Ukraine,
President Trump saying He's now considering sending even more weapons
(17:31):
to Ukraine, including granting their requests for another Patriot air
defense system.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
What is going on there? What is Putin thinking? On
the day before his top spokesman, Lavrov was going to
meet with Trumps Secretary of State Rubio. They met today.
The day before that happens. The two days before that happens,
Russia launches the biggest drone attacks of the entire war
(17:58):
on Kiev. So what kind of message is that sending?
As soon as he gets off the phone with Trump
the other day, he launches that seven hundred drone attack.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
What is he up to? Right there?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Ian Bremer A friend of the Armstrong and get to
show who we like but don't always.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Agree with it. I agree with this.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Trump has changed his view on Putin more dramatically than
on any other foreign policy issue of his presidency. Putin
doesn't seem to appreciate or care about the strategic mistake
that he has made here. Yeah, he has lost Trump
and he must think I don't again, like Ian said,
he doesn't care that the United States is going to
(18:40):
gradually or quickly give Ukraine way more support. And who
knows how far Trump will go if his feelings get hurt,
if he feels like Putin's really jobbing him. It was
so bad the other day the drone attack on Kiev,
NATO actually scrambled jets for the first time, with Putin
launching that large drone attack, stoking fears of Russia escalating
(19:04):
production of more drones. But there were so many drones
coming in that NATO couldn't be sure where they were
headed or how this was gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Unfold, so they scrambled jets first time. It's happened during
the war.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But I mean, that's getting that's getting pretty dicey when
that starts to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's kind of escalating. Huh. I would say, you got
the whole.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Sanctions bill that's in the Senate, like really really tough sanctions,
five hundred percent penalty on anybody who's doing business with Russia.
That Lindsey Graham authored and eighty senators of the one hundred,
which obviously includes a whole bunch of Democrats and Republicans,
have signed on to and said yeah, we're all for this,
(19:46):
So that's ready to go. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House,
came out yesterday and said, we love that here in
the House. So it looks like the it would come
out of the Senate and the House would like it too,
and Trump could sign it, So that could happen like
like today, if Trump pulls the trigger on it. They're
just holding back, waiting for the nod from the you know,
the the tangerine tornado.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Right right. I don't want groupthink.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I love dissent, but I've got to admit I had
misperceived how much consensus there is on this issue, how
much agreement there is across the aisle that No, you
can't have Vladimir Putin invading European countries just because he
doesn't particularly like which way they swing.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
We don't want that. We need to discourage that.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, a little more on the politics of that in
a second. But yesterday I keep mentioning that Macrone was
in London meeting with the Prime Minister and with all
kinds of talks all around this topic and a declaration
signed yesterday as Emmanuel Macrone of France visited London. The
UK and France agreed for the first time ever to
coordinate their use of nuclear weapons, including nuclear arms, submarines
(20:56):
and fighter jets in the case of a major conflict
or crisis in your Some people like to portray that
as Europe has to do this because they can't count
on the United States. Well, okay, and portray it that
way if you want, But I see this is a
good thing period that NATO is upping their game and
these countries are coming together as a force.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I'm happy about that, right.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Finally bringing something to the party, the NATO party. Back
to the kind of the politics of this and Trump,
I guess because he is the politics of this. He
can he can sway the Republican Party, as we've all
seen a lot in a day by which direction he goes.
But he seems to be feeling like Putin's treating him
(21:43):
like a punk. If one of these days these drone
attacks work, because the goal is to overwhelm the Ukrainian
air defense system and then be able to get the
missiles through. So you send seven hundred drones off all
their different air defense and they can't keep up and
(22:03):
the drones get through. If that happens and they kill hundreds,
maybe thousands of Ukrainian civilians, Trump seems to really hate
death in war. How is Trump going to react to that?
And that could happen this afternoon. I just wonder how
Trump's going to react to that.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Wow, that's an intriguing question and the troubling one, obviously.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What do you think Putin's game is? What do you
think he's up to?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
My guess is that he is probing as hard as
he can to figure out where Trump's limits are and
how he will react, because that's his history. He probes
for weakness, and where he finds it, he exploits it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Jijinping does exactly the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
It's no mystery why their buddies at this point, He's
there are two techniques you can either do that. You
can either push really hard until you trigger a response,
or you can calculate just short of that line, constantly
getting as much as you can without triggering that response.
I think Putin wants to take the measure of Donald
(23:15):
Trump and and and he's a megalomaniac intent on restoring
the grandeur of the Soviet Union, and and so that
is his ultimate goal. And he will by hook er
by crook get there if if you know, if he can.
I agree with Ian Bremer. I think this is a
major strategic mistake on Putin's part. I think he's misreading Trump.
(23:40):
Taco is not going to apply here. And you know
where where this ends. I have no idea. But different topic, Shirley,
I'm sorry. One more thought, Shirley. He took a note
of the attack on the fourtoh nuclear facility in Iran.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Right, you would think so, you would think that would
have gotten his attention. And speaking of that sort of thing,
did this happen for real or not? This audio came
out the other day. This is from twenty twenty four.
Trump is not in office at the time. I don't
even remember who he's talking to. It doesn't really matter.
(24:18):
He's recounting conversations he had with Vladimir Putin and President
je First his Trump recounting his conversation with Vladimir Putin.
So this is twenty twenty four Trump talking about when
he was well, it's a little mystifying as to when
he was talking to Putin, but this is what it
sounds like.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
If you go in I'm telling you how.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I said.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
She said no way, in a way I don't believe.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Does he believe?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's really hard to understand.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Clearly, he's speaking in a men's room somewhere at the
far end of it, right, but he's Trump says, I
hate to use the word claims because that's prejudicial.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I find it hard to believe this conversation happened.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But he says he talked to Putin and said, if
you go into Ukraine, I'm going to bomb the s
out of Moscow. And Putin said no way. And Trump,
having seen Wayne's world, said way excellent. And uh, then
it's a little hard to hear and understand it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't know that we need to play the president.
She portioned, because it's as hard to hear. But Trump says,
I said the same thing to President She, if you
go into Taiwan, I'm going to bomb the s out
of Beijing. Did he tell the president of China we
would bomb the s out of Beijing? WHOA That makes
mister Gorbachev tear down. This all seem like how you
(26:01):
do it? Trump is so prone to trying to come
off as the hard ass.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I don't know that could be.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
One percent true, one hundred percent untrue, or any percentage
in between. Would Putin say I don't believe you, no way,
and Trump say way.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Party on excellent Darth.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Or I could I could see it be you know,
he was summarizing, obviously, I could. I could picture that
couched in more diplomatic language, him saying yeah, there would
be severe repercussions, even including blah blah bah, and Putin
saying I don't think you would do that. Well, clearly
(26:52):
Putin doesn't think Trump would do that if they had
that conversation because he he invaded Ukraine. Obviously Trump was
and President Biden was. But Trump's president now, and he's
upping his game on a daily basis. And I mean,
if Trump actually said, Tom, I'll bomb the s out
of Moscow if you do that, he must not believe him.
(27:14):
No no, allthough, and I don't We're not going to
bomb the s out of Moscow. Although you have to remember,
when you're analyzing Putin and what he might do, you
have to remember that he is more than willing to
sacrifice hundreds of thousands, or indeed millions of Russians if
he can achieve his aims. So I'm just kind of
playing this out in my mind. I could see Putin thinking, okay,
(27:35):
US attacks Moscow.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Oh, that'd be full on war.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Would it overreach escalation? We mobilize our nuclear forces, the
world comes together, and I say, the only way I
don't start nuclear armageddon is if we get Estonia, Lithuanian
and Latvia back and I win, yes, bomb Moscow.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We get a lot of vote thrown at US by Putin. Well,
first of all, I hope that scenario is not going
to play out.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'm just I'm trying to answer your question. I could
see Putin making that calculation absolutely, or President G since
he's the Chinese, are always President G is known has
said something about I'd lose a million people for that.
(28:30):
They don't care. We can't even imagine it. We lose
a couple of thousand soldiers, and it's you know, it's
a national conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But they'd be willing to either of those guys.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Well, Putin already has lost a million guys for no
reason whatsoever, and lost a handful of thousands of North
Koreans along with them. Yeah, I I hope we're not
headed this direction. But it's certainly well I said earlier,
and I believe it. This could become the biggest story
in the world pretty quickly, if if Trump actually follows
(29:03):
through on some of the things he's saying, or if
he's actually had it with Putin and then he got
France in England saying we're a we're a combined nuclear
force now right right, So if it doesn't come to that, yeah,
I'd say, so, what what would what would the correct
what would the correct answer be if Putin said you
give me Estonian whatever else you said there, or I
(29:25):
start armageddon?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
What would what would what would the world do? Estonia
sh m Estonia? Ah?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Do I have to answer that question. I'm a humble
radio host. I should not be asked these questions. What
what would the world do?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I think we might find out with Taiwan if basically
she says you want Taiwan enough to go to full
on war with China, or because I don't think we do,
and Trump has said as much, I'm not going to
go to war with China over Taiwan. I think the
only proper response is, we will obliterate you. You do
what you think you have to do, well, you will
(30:07):
have no empire, you will have no people, You will
have no lungs because we're gonna pull them out of
your chest.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, we're getting down to basic human nature.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But if you allow either Putin or she to take
anything with that threat, you think they're gonna stop with that?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Certainly, of course not. They will grow hungrier with the eating.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So wow, Well, let's hope none of this plays out
over before your before your weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
He said, no way, And I said, wait, hey, can
you hand me some toilet paper under the stall?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Here?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I got to run out over here. What the heck
are they?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, he's uh, he's in the men's room, sitting and uh,
he's just recounting to someone in the stall next to
him about ali threat in nuclear war.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Once. That's what you do when you're in the stall,
You killing time.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Woww the acoustics in his solid gold bathrooms are different
than mine? Any thoughts on this text? Line four one
five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Harry Coleman's ex wife failed a lie detector test, leaving
many to believe she was involved in his death. I know, right,
bet right now Gary is turning over in his shoe box.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
He would have laughed, Wow, Hoddie, it's just a flat
out short joke. Here's the funniest thing I've seen today.
This is an actual Washington Post headline, in which one
commentator said, if this was an Onion headline, I would
say the Onion's not that funny anymore. This is an
actual headline from an opinion piece in the Washington Post.
Oh oh, Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know.
(31:47):
Real clowns bring joy to the world, not chaos to Washington.
Oh mile horriden by a professional clown.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Oh my goodness, Donald Trump is not a clown. I
should know.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Can you picture a sort of person who would say,
oh my god, that would be so powerful to have
an actual clown explain how Trump is no clown. Wait
a minute, are you trying to be ironic? Wow? Wow, Wow,
we have virtually no time. Oh my god, yeah wow.
(32:28):
Mark Alpern had a thing last night. I almost grabbed it.
He was reading a letter from somebody explaining the Trump
phenomenon and specifically how there are so many millions of
people that supported Trump and support Trump who don't dig
all of his act I'd be in that camp who are, like,
you know, he's a crazy person on them so many fronts,
(32:48):
but he's the easily better alternative than the crazy he's
over there and they're complete nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Wa could do? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Right? View of the world right right? Speaking of which
generation Z the useful idiot generation a powerful argument not
just disparaging the young, and some really unbelievably interesting writing
on something I've been talking about for the longest time,
the radicalization of young women, not just in the United
(33:25):
States but around the world. Just one quick statistic for you.
During that whole Columbia Library vandalism takeover scuffle blah blah blah,
eighty protesters are arrested. Sixty one of them were women.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
And they go through a bunch of that sort of
incident and organization and it is hugely heavily female. I'd
like to talk to that, if we talk about that,
if we get to it. But as I mentioned earlier,
I'm super excited about reading you a magnificant chunk of
Neil Gorsich's concurrence in a case from a couple of
(34:03):
years ago about DEI in Affirmative Action. I was reminded
of its existence the other day, and it is one
of the most brilliant things ever written on how utterly incoherent,
counterproductive and unconstitutional all of that crap is end every
(34:23):
DEI program everywhere wherever it exists today.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Donald Trump is not a clown I should know. Well,
that's powerful. What next?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Donald Trump is called a jackass. I raise jackasses for
a living and rent them to farms. Donald Trump is
no jackass. The jackass works hard. And this, seriously, you
are being ironic, right, the clown thing. This is a joke, right, Okay,
So we do four hours every day. That's lots of segments.
(34:58):
If you miss one or an you can get the podcast.
You should subscribe Armstrong and Getty on demand. I'm telling
you this Gorsuch stuff is just terrific.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
That good.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
For instance, if you can't grab it, you can listen
to it whenever you want via podcast. Thank you for
being here, so much more to come.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
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