October 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The B.R.I.C.S. Conference
- We've lost touch with the real world.
- Would you let Trump babysit your kids?
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy. You know, that
(00:22):
whole mommy party daddy party thing is a pretty decent
like shorthand for describing Republicans versus Democrats a lot. And uh,
you know, sometimes I hate the being the eat your
vegetables person because that's not like who I am in
real life. I never eat vegetables, but uh, just dealing
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with you know, the realities of life and things you
gotta do and that sort of thing. But that's a
little bit of what this segment is going to be.
So there's a Bricks conference going on in in Russia.
So the Bricks Group, back before we realized Putin was
completely evil, and definitely before we realized China was evil
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or were admitted to ourselves that China was evil, people
started talking about the bricks countries, the emerging economies and
countries that were going to play a big role in
the world stage. Brazil, Russia, India, China. It was just brick.
And now they've added South Africa to make it bricks.
And now they've actually gone plus where they add in
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a couple of other countries, including Iran. Now many of
these countries are enemies of the United States, but they're meeting.
They're having their big conference, kind of trying to offset
the g seventh Summit, which is like, you know, the
United States and Britain and France and people like that.
This bricks thing is in Russia. So this whole idea
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that Putin was going to become a pariah and isolated
on the world stage and their economy was going to
tank and no country would want to do business with them,
not so much. No, they started their own club. They
started their own club, and leaders of enough countries to
add up to well more than half the world's population
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are meeting Putin in Russia. And guess who's gonna be
there with them. The General Secretary of the UN unbelievable.
That guy's a monster. He is a piece of crap.
So he lectures Israel about committing a genocide or whatever,
but goes to Russia to meet with Putin and she
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for the Brick Summit. Here's a little news story about
what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This is the safest way out of Bahmut, but not
really safe at all. Video obtained by CNN of the
view from a Ukrainian armored vehicle shows the wasteland the
city has become. And it was in a vehicle like
this that Marina and Yevhenia escaped from Bahmut. Their building
was hid in a bombardment last Thursday, killing three among them.
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You have Hennia's thirty three year old grandson. I had
to help him, she recalls, but I couldn't do anything.
They waited in their ruined homes with the dead for
three days before the army could rescue them. Marina's daughter
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was married to Ye have Henya's grandson. What will I
tell my daughter? Cries Medina. She and my grandchildren are
in Poland. The shelter nearby, chase Yare, provides them some
comfort and warmth, but they're still not out of danger.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So Putin continues to bomb these little towns, just completely indiscriminately.
In fact, if it's a hospital or a school, that's
a better target. Just one more. This is a very
short clip of what Than's doing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
This town is well within range of Russian guns, and
since the battle for Bahmut began seven months ago, it
has regularly come under shelling. On this day, the Russians
were firing incendiary munitions over the city designed to cause
fires when resident showed a suspent capsule from the rocket.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So, how in the world can there be any public
opinion criticizing Israel for defending itself against Hamas and Iran
while being okay with Russia doing what they're doing in Ukraine.
I mean, how do you possibly square that circle?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Because most appeals to morality or principle, whether in domestic
politics or in international politics, are completely false. They are
a cover they are accustom for naked self interest.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So your theory is they don't believe the crap they're saying,
almost never at that level. So at the college kid level,
they believe it, but they're just ignorant of the reality
of the world. They were focused on the Israeli Palestinian
thing by professors and just don't have this on their radar,
the fact of what Russia is doing to Ukraine and
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over half the world's meeting there right now and slapping
backs and drinking fine wine and discussing finding a way
to be able to do this more often rather than
less often.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, the kids, the college kids were indoctrinated successfully by
the very people who I'm talking about, who again will
use principle or morality occasionally as an argument, but they
don't mean it for a second. It's all about the
raw exercise and accumulation of power that it's horrifying.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The whole world could look like bach Moot if Russia
and China get their way, and they're working on it,
where they just take whatever they want and they kill
whoever they want the whole I was listening to a
story today about how Israel bombed another hospital. It's funny,
you know, I live in an area not that much
different than the size of Gaza. We have like two hospitals.
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They seem to have a hospital on every block in Gaza.
It's always a hospital. They claim everything in the hospital,
but they actually bomb standalone hospitals. Russia does, and China
would do the same thing, and there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Going on at those hospitals except the care of patients,
in contrast to in the various Islamist sections of Lebanon
or Kaza.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And if you don't think Russia would do that to
the hospital near you and your town in wherever you
live in the United States or China would do the
same thing, or Iran would do the same thing. You're
just you're delusional. Yeah, it's a little tiring.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The Western world, in short and ato if you want,
was born of necessity and a recognition of cold reality,
and through the yers of success and affluence, we have
descended into a incredibly self indulgent, self congratulatory illusion that
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everything is about principle and morality.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's not, it's not. It is until the moment that
it's not.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The moment somebody is willing to challenge that with the
raw exercise of power, it gets back to being about
power period.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, it'd be horrifying that these countries are getting
together with Putin. Well, Putin can't go anywhere, he'd get
taken out or arrested by us. But the fact that
these countries are meeting Putin in Russia is unbelievable and
there should be protests in the street. Whether you care
about genocides or the environment, is the environment you think?
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These are the biggest polluters in the world, representing over
the half country. They don't give a crap about solar
and wind and recycling plastics and electric cars.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Other than if it helps out their economy. Are you nuts? Yeah,
I agree with you one hundred percent. My only quibbal
is that it's completely unsurprising that these people are meeting
with Putin in Russia if you understand the way the
world really works. The part that is astounding and you
want to slap people is that second half of what
you're saying, that people conveniently ignore it when the very
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principles they screeched at the top of their lungs, with
their eyes aflame and spittle falling on Jewish students, they
conveniently forget about the next week. If it isn't Israel
they're screaming about, it's just utterly moronic.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Iran, China and Russia getting together for a conference, and
then these other countries perfectly willing. I mean, India is
not evil, but they're perfectly willing to meet with these
people if it helps them out business wise. They're willing
to turn a blind eye to whatever China and Russia
does if it's a better business idea.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Power and self interest run the world. I always have,
always will correct well when we do it. This is
my favorite thing that Henry Kissinger would always say, countries
are it's okay for a country to look out for
its self interest, including the United States, but how many
ever includes the United States. Other countries can look out
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for their self interest, but not the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
When we do it, it's somehow awful.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well, yeah, according to Howard Zinn and our entire educational
system and what we've been teaching our kids for generations.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to just depress the crap
out of everybody, but we have. We are the limousine
liberals of the globe. The United States is that rich,
entitled person who has completely forgotten about how Grandpa built
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the wealth of the family two generations ago and the
work in the hard scrabble of reality, and now indulges
themselves in these you know, it gives it generously to
the opera in the art museum, and gush is on
and on about liberal values because that gets them cachet
among their fans friends. But if they lost their wealth
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and their limousine and were put out on the streets
and had to make a living and live in the
real world, they would fail immediately. They have completely lost survivability.
I feel that way about our country sometimes.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, I just wanted to bring up that bricks conference
just so if you end up in a situation where
you're talking with or arguing with people who are all
about the awful things Israel's doing. When you got the
UN Secretary General showing up to meet Putin and she
and the leaders of Iran in Russia, I've got some
perfect example of what I was drawning on about. Coming
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up next after a quick break has to do with
China and their infiltration of the United States. There is
a Chinese agent within ten miles of you if you
live anywhere but like farm country. Wow guaranteed. And Liz
Cheney actually brought up an interesting thing opposite direction of
what she was in intending about who you would let
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babysit your kids. I want to ask that questions. See
what Joe's answered, Michael's answer, Katie's answers. I know what
my answers, So we'll see what your answer is at home.
You can scream it at your radio. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Mastrongyoc asked election workers to go door to door to
interrupt Sunday's Philly Eagles game to encourage them to vote.
It's part of a new assisted suicide campaign.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, bother much of Eagles fans, Philly fans watch their
favorite teams.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Is that a sports joke, That's that's the point they're
intense fans. Jeck, Okay, gotcha, Yeah, that's the nature of
the joke.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So ranting earlier about how the United States and the
Western world has to a large extent become like an
aging limousine liberal our. The hard scrabble generations are years
in the past, and we've become very, very comfortable, and
we go from you know, wealthy person soiree to soaree
spouting you know, progressive valueues because we've built.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Such a secure and.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Prosperous world through the opposite of those values, that we
have the luxury to do that. And I worry that
that's just the natural trajectory of empires, and that we've
completely lost touch of what Jack and I were discussing
last segment, which is, in the real world, nothing matters
but power and self interest. If you can use your
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power and self interest to get yourself a certain amount
of security, then you can indulge those better angels of
your nature, to paraphrase Lincoln. But once you lose lose
sight of the fact that the quest for power around
the world is an utterly practical one and is not
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all flowery and filled with principle. Once you lose sight
of that, you're in serious danger. Anyway, I've referenced this
story many times because it's so instructive. And this was
a number of years ago that a certain federal counterintelligence
agency went to a certain major American university that may
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or may not rhyme with the Bouniversity of Ballifornia at Bavis.
I think enough years have passed that I can be
a little more specific than I used to be. And
they were alerting the university president that there were a
large number of Chinese nationals on the campus, many of
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whom were their in official capacities, that had close ties
to the Chinese Communist Party and had a pattern of
contacts that was highly suspicious, to say the least. The
response to that American university president, getting back to my
aging limousine liberal metaphor, the response to that president was
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get off my campus, euracists. So some of the most
practical people in America saying, hey, we've got foreign agents,
in all likelihood operating on your campus. The response was
go away, you racists. Because even to bring that up
was somehow racist. If that is not a triumph of
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self indulgent principle over practicality.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I can't think of a better example, because I would
assume that university president believes we spy on other countries. Well,
of course we do, right, But they don't believe China
would spy on us, what out of the goodness of
their hearts or what?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
To even alleged it is racist? Yeah, which is so
effing stupid. I want to slap them like a cartoon character.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
And a wackon awacon. Although I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Think that person has been in charge for a number
of years, but their successors, I'm sure I have similar attitudes.
But which brings us to this story from the Wall
Street Journal how Beijing recruited New York China towns for
its influence campaigns, and a congresswoman's link to a Communist
Party initiative ran through one of these local hometowns associations.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I will spell it out for you.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
In April of nineteen, a representative of Grace Meng was
launching into a busy legislative week on Capitol Hill. The
same day, in the central Chinese province of Henan, two
Meng associates were.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Delivering a letter of.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Appreciation from her to the chief of an international influence
operation managed by the Chinese Communist Party. She was sending
him a thank you note. A common denominator in both
the China trip and in Meng's political rises in New
York association of Chinese Americans.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Like her.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
The two travelers to China were leaders of the Heenan
Association of Eastern America, a fixture of Congresswoman Meng's life
for decades, including the over fifteen years the Democrat has
represented one of New York's chinatowns.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
The association is.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Central to bombshell federal allegations that Beijing had a mole.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You may remember the story in the New.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
York Governor's office, and the congresswoman is now distancing herself
from a group that for years described her as its
vice chair. The idea is these hometown associations, because their
members hail from the same place in Communist China, are
best known across the US for promoting lunar New Year parades.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And dragon dances and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But the same year Meng was elected to Congress, Shijinping
took power in Beijing. And breathed new life into a
Communist Party instrument known as the United Front Work Department,
which operates through these hometown associations. They're all across America
spreading pro Communist information, rooting out dissenters. You remember those
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secret jails we've talked about. We are absolutely infested with
Chinese intelligence agents and spies.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Would you let Trump babiesit your kids? Is a question
Liz Cheney asked yesterday, and I think she thought the
obvious answer would be no. Anyway, that and other stuff
on the way, stay tuned, arms strong, and getty. That's right.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It's gonna be the Yankees versus the Los Angeles Dodgers
in the World Series, and tickets are already going for
over one thousand dollars by Game three. The only people
who'll be able to afford tickets will be the players.
New York and LA are both great cities, but of
course they each have some danger. I mean, in LA
there's wildfires, flooding, mud slides, earthquakes, extreme heat, and in
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New York there's Times Square.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Do you think this will get huge ratings in the
back in the day, I mean, it's been forty years
since this has happened. But back in the day, a
Yankees Dodgers series would get huge, huge ratings. But I
don't know if that's the baseball is the same way anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Well for the modern era, for the present day, they
couldn't do better. I don't think will it equal the
ratings in you know, nineteen seventy eight, No as percentages,
But I think this is going to be a great series.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
But will people outside of LA and New York watch
because I just think so. I've been following this for
a couple of years. It's baseball more than the other sports.
For some reason, It's become so regional and people watch
if their local team is in and just don't have
much interest. As opposed to the NFL. People will watch,
you know, a Monday night football game with two teams
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that are very far away from them. They just like
the NFL. But it's not the same him for Major
League Baseball for some reason, that's true.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But this is as good as it gets with Sho
Hey o Tani and Aaron Judge and there are other stars.
If you're a baseball fan, you know their names, but
this is a great great.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Sure, you got Billy Martin and Tommy Lussorda and Reggie
Jackson and Ron Say and maybe you ought to hit
refresh there on your Internet. A couple of dumb things
I've come up with around the election. There is actually
something you can refer to as Trump derangement syndrome, where
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it makes people so crazy with their dislike of him
that they, well, they get crazy. I think there's all
kinds of reasons you can not want Trump to be
president of the United States, and on some of them
I would agree with you, But the he's going to
become a dictator or whateverything I just find nutty. Like,
for instance, Liz Cheney yesterday when she was campaigning with
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Kamala Harris, and I don't quite get that. I get
being against Trump. I don't get if you're a staunch
conservative standing up with the person that is a one
hundred and eighty degrees from you onlike every other topic
that you care about, seems weird to me. But it's bizarre,
it's indefensible, she said. One of our things she said
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on stage, Liz Cheney said, was if you wouldn't trust
a person to babysit your kids, how can you trust
them with our foreign policy, and I thought, it's to
me that you're taking that as a given you can
in a Kamala Harris rally, I think, but I think
Trump's all kinds of a whack job, But I'd be
fine with him watching my kids. Wouldn't bother me a bit?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh number before I dignify that notion with a response,
and I will.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
That's an idiotic framing of a foreign.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Please discussion exactly, so hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I did see some responses to it by I don't
know if I'd let Winston Churchill maybe sit my kids,
but I'm glad he was, you know, running England during
World War Two. It's not the way I choose my leaders.
I was going to offer up a different one, but
that one's better. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
In fact, I would definitely not trust Winston Churchill with
my children, not even close. On the other hand, as
foreign policy was spot on, that is an absolutely idiotic framing.
Having said that, even Hillary Clinton back in the day
famously that twenty sixteen debate question, say something nice about
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the other candidate, and Hillary said he's done a great
job with his kids, his kids are terrific. So idiotic
question and the opposite answer of what you intended, Liz,
other than that, thanks for your contribution to the National Conversation.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well, the reason I brought it up is the whole
Trump derangement syndrome where she hates him so much that
she just assumes there's giants swathes of America that think
he's not capable of watching kids because he's so deranged.
And I just okay, And for what it's worth, I
would I would be delighted to have Kamala Harris take
care of my kids when they were kids, like Lady
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Joe Biden hope but but nice or Joe Biden prior
to his dementia. I wouldn't now because he might, you know,
forget what he's doing. And I'd have to warn my kids.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Look, he's gonna sniff your hair a lot, all right,
just don't let it go beyond that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I wouldn't want to come home and they're sitting in
dirty diapers and haven't been feding three meals. Uh what
what damn it? Look it that's not a joke. And
I would warn my kids reach in the pool and
rub my leg down. Joe was trained and watched the
hair come back up again. That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He When I would tell my kids, look, if you
feel a little sick and doctor Jill offers to treat you,
she's not a real doctor.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
He would regale them with some interesting tales, none of
which are true, but they would be very entertaining stories.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Any kids, you ever leave the switch playing out on
the rain barrel, we get it all rusty, all right,
we're not having Joe and Jill you bang them on
the no no, and you're not baby singing our kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Right. I'd come home and the kids would tell he
told us this great story about how he got a
chain fight at the pool with this guy.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
If you around your head, if you bend your knife
and make it rusty, it leaves a jagged wound in
your enemies. Daddy, Okay, that's the last time you stay
at the bidens. So the other Trump arrangement thing before
we get to an ad that is the other side.
Just make him crap up so it happens all the
way around. Quit acting like the Republicans have cornered the
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market on deceptive ads or crazy talk or appealing to
the lowest common denominator.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Quit acting that way. That's what bothers me y'all do
it anyway. Here's an article in Politico this is new
the very real scenario where Trump loses power but takes
power anyway, on how Trump could lose the election but
end up just taking the presidency. The very real scenario
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says politically not, it's not not in the least reel.
So why would you put that again? Trump arrangement syndrome.
You think you have tons of readers that, yeah, that
could happen where he loses, but he just you know,
he orders the army to surround the White House or something.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You're crazy, Wow, that is some crazy bullplate, right, Oh, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
What I'm saying. It's all, isn't. And then this ad
that Joe, did you record this off of your television?
I did.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's old school man, and it started like in the
middle because the way that it DVR. But it's an
old gal talking about how much she needs her Social
Security tired.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I need that money for groceries and bills. But the
way Trump is talking about cutting social Security, it's crazy.
Cutting social Security is like giving the middle finger to
the middle class. Kamla Harris will protect social Security, not
cut it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Ef The fact is responsible for the content of this ad.
The only thing he's made more clear, perhaps than the
fact that he is not going to cut Social Security,
is that he will not sign an abortion band and
the Democrats are acting like he's going to do both
of those. So where's the whole.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Thing he claimed without evidence that Trump would cut Social Secure?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, you're never going to hear that, or where's the
have to fact check Trump because he lies constantly? Any
of that from the because that's an official Kamala Harris
had any of that from the Kamala hair that was
a pack Okay, fine, closely associated the same thing, Yeah,
same thing. So does anybody talking about how you need
to fact check the left when they make those two
claims about an abortion ban and he's gonna take away
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your social security flat out on four Pinocchio made up lies, yes,
which happens in politics all the time. Well everyone knows it. Again,
it makes my head explode that it's treated in all
of corporate media and our debates and everything else like
it's a one sided deal.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And that side that ran that ad insists to you
that they are so noble and above it all that
they should be gifted with the power to censor what
they perceive to be misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, which was
the greatest example ever of people using lots of words
to sound smart, even though those all are the same insane.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
God would load a crap. I know that's incredible, it
really is. That can't last, right, Don't enough people see
through this at this point? Then it becomes so cynical
that you just don't believe either side is telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
No, because the old stor who watches the Alphabet Networks
evening news heard that is terrified is going to vote
for Commlin.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's no time to get through to them.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And because a fascinating aspect of human psychology, which you've
highlighted through the years, you tend to believe that which
you hear first, even after it's refuted.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Boy, look for that in your own life. I run
into that pretty regularly, and now that I know that,
it sometimes pops into my head. Okay, you're fighting this
because you heard first that this is true and now
you know it's not, but you're still knee jerk fighting
for the original position. It's just the way our brains
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are built for some reason. It's troubling actually, and shows
you why salesmanship and politics are the way they are.
And one more thing I'm on to thrown about this. Oh,
there are two big articles today. The AP's got one
that The New York Times got one about how Trump
is basic going to base his first term off the
twenty twenty five project. It's just well known here are
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the ties between the Heritage fundation. And you know he's
said over and over that he's not that he doesn't
even know what it is. Which do you think Trump
has read the twenty twenty five project. I don't think
he's ever read anything.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, No, for goodness sakes again, project twenty twenty five
is like so many other things churned out by think tanks.
The Brookings Institution has cranked out some wish list of
progressive crap recently, I'm sure, and a bunch of Obama
heights and Biden Night's work at the Brookings Institution.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That doesn't mean Kamala Harris authored the damn thing. It's
just more phoniness. Why are they resorting to outright lies
and phone well? Can you can you think of a
single reason why?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Desperation? Maybe they're losing on the issues, So are you
gonna do any of the too sy Friday night when
you're partying. That's the hot new drug. I'm sorry, the
what now, tucy? That's the hot new drug some some
people some people t u s I. I'm not positive
you pronounce it w uh or pink cocaine, pink colorcane
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or the toosy. It's a cocktail that contains ketamine, ecstasy
in meth, actually doesn't have cocaine in it, but they call.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
It ketamine ecstasy and mad well it's a timesaver.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, wow? Is that for people? That's like meth just
not doing it for me, or ketamine or ecstasy.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
You know, I might have a glass of pinot with dinner,
but I'll pass on the toosi.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So if you hear anybody reference it, Hey, you want
to do a little tuosie before we go to the concert.
That's what it is. That would be a hard No.
The pink can, the pink cocaine which has no oh
cocaine in it. That's mislabeling kennemine rocks without evidence. That
blah blah blah. I have a warning for you if
you're thinking of getting the iPhone sixteen, I have a
warning before you do it. If you're at the Apple
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store right now, wait until you hear and my warning
among other things coming up. Stay tuned, he getty.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
So a woman in Australia got stuck upside down between
two rocks for seven hours, all because she lost her phone.
She dropped it was trying to get it back when
she fell into a ten foot crevice or is that curvross.
When rescuers were finally able to get her out, she
had only some scratches and bruises. The phone is still
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between the rocks.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
How do you fall and get wedged upside down and
not get hurt? I would think you'd be terribly hurt,
your head or somethinged and your head get it was
a classic wedge to me.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I don't know, so your hip Scott wedge, but your
head was not being squashed by rocks or whatever. Yeah, yeah, well, yeah,
maybe she's a little hippie. That doesn't make her a
bad woman, right, women tend to accumulate weight or in
the middle of the body.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's all right. That actually might be the answer. Yeah,
she might be shaped in such a way that yeah, yes.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Low center of gravity, Yeah, saved her life. Perhaps that's
why if she was built like a little boy, like
the damn magazine models.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's unrealistic. She just slipped right down and cracked her head.
She'd be dead now. Somebody texted this on the topic
of would you like Saved by the Booty? That would
be my headline, but the movie, the Hallmark movie, will
be called Saved by the Booty. M Ellen DeGeneres used
to do a comedy bit telling about how she won
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a survey once on who would be best to babysit
your kid? She'd say me a childless lesbian comedian, which
is pretty funny on the topic of would you let
Trump baby sit your kid? So, speaking of phone, so
you don't end up wedged upside down? Telling you about
the iPhone sixteen. So one cool feature kind of in theory,
it's a good idea is it's got a new button
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on the side that is quite sensitive. You click it
once and you're in camera mode. And so the idea
is instead of like, as something pops up you want
to take a picture of, you know, your kid or
I don't know, a fight starts at a McDonald's or
whatever it is you want to do. Yeah, you just
like just one click and you're you're immediately taking pictures
and if you hold it for a second and then
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you're immediately taken video. So it's it's kind of handy
and theory, but the problem is it's in a place
where I'm constantly accidentally switching on the camera or the
video all the time. And like, for instance, I was
going through my photos yesterday to try to find some
news thing. I screen capture news all day long. There's me,
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there's my wang, me completely naked. Oh lord, me completely
naked in my bathroom. I'd gotten on my phone, you know,
to check the news, and had taken a picture of
me out fresh out of the shower. And I've learned,
and I've never had picture like that in my phone,
and I did. I didn't even know it was there
because of that dang button. So you gotta be careful.
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I find all kinds of stray photos, like here's a
trash can, here's the inside of my car, here's or whatever,
because I grabbed and then I accidentally.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
But I'll text to a fifteen year old girl, you're
on her anthony waynter.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You got me, really careful or you're accidentally taking pictures
all the time, I shay guilty the court of Judge Joe,
why would I want that? That's the last thing I want.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I can't imagine final thought, sweet thing.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
But yeah, the fact that exists in the world is
horrifying to me. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Hey,
I about a final.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Thought from everybody in the cruder wrap things up for
the day. Michaelangelow Ar technical director, will lead the way, Michael, Well,
I was.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Looking at getting the iPhone sixteen, but after hearing that,
I might just go with thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
This, you know exactly don't need the newest stuff. No, no,
you know it's it's too dangerous, Michael. Katie Greener seemed
to Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, Yeah, I don't
know that whole I was looking at the news naked
and I accidentally took it. It sounds like groundwork there, Jack,
all of a sudden, somebody's going to get a picture.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Well, what I do mean too?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It was the platin Trust me, if I ever wanted
to take a picture like that, the lighting and angle
would be a lot better than was. That was not
a flattering No lord portray naked.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, you encouraged this conversation Katie, You're to blame Jackie.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
A final thought for us if yesterday was in the indication,
the lead story on ABC News being the ridiculousness about
minimum wage, this last two weeks of the election is
going to be a lot of really low brow pandering. Yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
My only final thought is that I've realized that Italian
food is my kryptonite.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
For whatever reason is.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
It's the tomato sauce, the spices at it, whether it's
pizza or I had this fabulous meat bald dish last
night and I knew I should stop it. I went
back for more. And I'm usually pretty disciplined, but it's
Italian food. I can't resist.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's the food of my childhood. Armstrong and Getty wrapping,
I'm another grueling four hour workday. What's the matter? You
put down? The fuck? So many people?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
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Speaker 1 (34:35):
Get it at the Ang store, drop us the line
mail bag at Armstrong Geddy dot com. Check out to
hot Legs. We will see you tomorrow. With all the foolishness.
God bless America. I'm man enough to enjoy it. I'm
strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I've been thinking that we really all need a hug.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
About I'm gonna stop you, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But I mentioned the burrito of deceit well, the tangy
salsa of irony.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh my god, I'm not feeling good today. I'm not
liking this. Can you do different metaphors that aren't like
food that would make me feel bad? Parsley on the
soup of deceit is they are very much armstrong and
getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy. You know, that
(00:22):
whole mommy party daddy party thing is a pretty decent
like shorthand for describing Republicans versus Democrats a lot. And uh,
you know, sometimes I hate the being the eat your
vegetables person because that's not like who I am in
real life. I never eat vegetables, but uh, just dealing
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with you know, the realities of life and things you
gotta do and that sort of thing. But that's a
little bit of what this segment is going to be.
So there's a Bricks conference going on in in Russia.
So the Bricks Group, back before we realized Putin was
completely evil, and definitely before we realized China was evil
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or were admitted to ourselves that China was evil, people
started talking about the bricks countries, the emerging economies and
countries that were going to play a big role in
the world stage. Brazil, Russia, India, China. It was just brick.
And now they've added South Africa to make it bricks.
And now they've actually gone plus where they add in
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a couple of other countries, including Iran. Now many of
these countries are enemies of the United States, but they're meeting.
They're having their big conference, kind of trying to offset
the g seventh Summit, which is like, you know, the
United States and Britain and France and people like that.
This bricks thing is in Russia. So this whole idea
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that Putin was going to become a pariah and isolated
on the world stage and their economy was going to
tank and no country would want to do business with them,
not so much. No, they started their own club. They
started their own club, and leaders of enough countries to
add up to well more than half the world's population
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are meeting Putin in Russia. And guess who's gonna be
there with them. The General Secretary of the UN unbelievable.
That guy's a monster. He is a piece of crap.
So he lectures Israel about committing a genocide or whatever,
but goes to Russia to meet with Putin and she
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for the Brick Summit. Here's a little news story about
what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
This is the safest way out of Bahmut, but not
really safe at all. Video obtained by CNN of the
view from a Ukrainian armored vehicle shows the wasteland the
city has become. And it was in a vehicle like
this that Marina and Yevhenia escaped from Bahmut. Their building
was hid in a bombardment last Thursday, killing three among them.
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You have Hennia's thirty three year old grandson. I had
to help him, she recalls, but I couldn't do anything.
They waited in their ruined homes with the dead for
three days before the army could rescue them. Marina's daughter
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was married to Ye have Henya's grandson. What will I
tell my daughter? Cries Medina. She and my grandchildren are
in Poland. The shelter nearby, chase Yare, provides them some
comfort and warmth, but they're still not out of danger.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So Putin continues to bomb these little towns, just completely indiscriminately.
In fact, if it's a hospital or a school, that's
a better target. Just one more. This is a very
short clip of what Than's doing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
This town is well within range of Russian guns, and
since the battle for Bahmut began seven months ago, it
has regularly come under shelling. On this day, the Russians
were firing incendiary munitions over the city designed to cause
fires when resident showed a suspent capsule from the rocket.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So, how in the world can there be any public
opinion criticizing Israel for defending itself against Hamas and Iran
while being okay with Russia doing what they're doing in Ukraine.
I mean, how do you possibly square that circle?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Because most appeals to morality or principle, whether in domestic
politics or in international politics, are completely false. They are
a cover they are accustom for naked self interest.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So your theory is they don't believe the crap they're saying,
almost never at that level. So at the college kid level,
they believe it, but they're just ignorant of the reality
of the world. They were focused on the Israeli Palestinian
thing by professors and just don't have this on their radar,
the fact of what Russia is doing to Ukraine and
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over half the world's meeting there right now and slapping
backs and drinking fine wine and discussing finding a way
to be able to do this more often rather than
less often.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, the kids, the college kids were indoctrinated successfully by
the very people who I'm talking about, who again will
use principle or morality occasionally as an argument, but they
don't mean it for a second. It's all about the
raw exercise and accumulation of power that it's horrifying.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The whole world could look like bach Moot if Russia
and China get their way, and they're working on it,
where they just take whatever they want and they kill
whoever they want the whole I was listening to a
story today about how Israel bombed another hospital. It's funny,
you know, I live in an area not that much
different than the size of Gaza. We have like two hospitals.
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They seem to have a hospital on every block in Gaza.
It's always a hospital. They claim everything in the hospital,
but they actually bomb standalone hospitals. Russia does, and China
would do the same thing, and there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Going on at those hospitals except the care of patients,
in contrast to in the various Islamist sections of Lebanon
or Kaza.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And if you don't think Russia would do that to
the hospital near you and your town in wherever you
live in the United States or China would do the
same thing, or Iran would do the same thing. You're
just you're delusional. Yeah, it's a little tiring.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The Western world, in short and ato if you want,
was born of necessity and a recognition of cold reality,
and through the yers of success and affluence, we have
descended into a incredibly self indulgent, self congratulatory illusion that
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everything is about principle and morality.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's not, it's not. It is until the moment that
it's not.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The moment somebody is willing to challenge that with the
raw exercise of power, it gets back to being about
power period.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, it'd be horrifying that these countries are getting
together with Putin. Well, Putin can't go anywhere, he'd get
taken out or arrested by us. But the fact that
these countries are meeting Putin in Russia is unbelievable and
there should be protests in the street. Whether you care
about genocides or the environment, is the environment you think?
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These are the biggest polluters in the world, representing over
the half country. They don't give a crap about solar
and wind and recycling plastics and electric cars.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Other than if it helps out their economy. Are you nuts? Yeah,
I agree with you one hundred percent. My only quibbal
is that it's completely unsurprising that these people are meeting
with Putin in Russia if you understand the way the
world really works. The part that is astounding and you
want to slap people is that second half of what
you're saying, that people conveniently ignore it when the very
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principles they screeched at the top of their lungs, with
their eyes aflame and spittle falling on Jewish students, they
conveniently forget about the next week. If it isn't Israel
they're screaming about, it's just utterly moronic.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Iran, China and Russia getting together for a conference, and
then these other countries perfectly willing. I mean, India is
not evil, but they're perfectly willing to meet with these
people if it helps them out business wise. They're willing
to turn a blind eye to whatever China and Russia
does if it's a better business idea.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Power and self interest run the world. I always have,
always will correct well when we do it. This is
my favorite thing that Henry Kissinger would always say, countries
are it's okay for a country to look out for
its self interest, including the United States, but how many
ever includes the United States. Other countries can look out
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for their self interest, but not the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
When we do it, it's somehow awful.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well, yeah, according to Howard Zinn and our entire educational
system and what we've been teaching our kids for generations.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to just depress the crap
out of everybody, but we have. We are the limousine
liberals of the globe. The United States is that rich,
entitled person who has completely forgotten about how Grandpa built
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the wealth of the family two generations ago and the
work in the hard scrabble of reality, and now indulges
themselves in these you know, it gives it generously to
the opera in the art museum, and gush is on
and on about liberal values because that gets them cachet
among their fans friends. But if they lost their wealth
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and their limousine and were put out on the streets
and had to make a living and live in the
real world, they would fail immediately. They have completely lost survivability.
I feel that way about our country sometimes.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, I just wanted to bring up that bricks conference
just so if you end up in a situation where
you're talking with or arguing with people who are all
about the awful things Israel's doing. When you got the
UN Secretary General showing up to meet Putin and she
and the leaders of Iran in Russia, I've got some
perfect example of what I was drawning on about. Coming
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up next after a quick break has to do with
China and their infiltration of the United States. There is
a Chinese agent within ten miles of you if you
live anywhere but like farm country. Wow guaranteed. And Liz
Cheney actually brought up an interesting thing opposite direction of
what she was in intending about who you would let
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babysit your kids. I want to ask that questions. See
what Joe's answered, Michael's answer, Katie's answers. I know what
my answers, So we'll see what your answer is at home.
You can scream it at your radio. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Mastrongyoc asked election workers to go door to door to
interrupt Sunday's Philly Eagles game to encourage them to vote.
It's part of a new assisted suicide campaign.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, bother much of Eagles fans, Philly fans watch their
favorite teams.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Is that a sports joke, That's that's the point they're
intense fans. Jeck, Okay, gotcha, Yeah, that's the nature of
the joke.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So ranting earlier about how the United States and the
Western world has to a large extent become like an
aging limousine liberal our. The hard scrabble generations are years
in the past, and we've become very, very comfortable, and
we go from you know, wealthy person soiree to soaree
spouting you know, progressive valueues because we've built.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Such a secure and.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Prosperous world through the opposite of those values, that we
have the luxury to do that. And I worry that
that's just the natural trajectory of empires, and that we've
completely lost touch of what Jack and I were discussing
last segment, which is, in the real world, nothing matters
but power and self interest. If you can use your
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power and self interest to get yourself a certain amount
of security, then you can indulge those better angels of
your nature, to paraphrase Lincoln. But once you lose lose
sight of the fact that the quest for power around
the world is an utterly practical one and is not
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all flowery and filled with principle. Once you lose sight
of that, you're in serious danger. Anyway, I've referenced this
story many times because it's so instructive. And this was
a number of years ago that a certain federal counterintelligence
agency went to a certain major American university that may
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or may not rhyme with the Bouniversity of Ballifornia at Bavis.
I think enough years have passed that I can be
a little more specific than I used to be. And
they were alerting the university president that there were a
large number of Chinese nationals on the campus, many of
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whom were their in official capacities, that had close ties
to the Chinese Communist Party and had a pattern of
contacts that was highly suspicious, to say the least. The
response to that American university president, getting back to my
aging limousine liberal metaphor, the response to that president was
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get off my campus, euracists. So some of the most
practical people in America saying, hey, we've got foreign agents,
in all likelihood operating on your campus. The response was
go away, you racists. Because even to bring that up
was somehow racist. If that is not a triumph of
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self indulgent principle over practicality.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I can't think of a better example, because I would
assume that university president believes we spy on other countries. Well,
of course we do, right, But they don't believe China
would spy on us, what out of the goodness of
their hearts or what?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
To even alleged it is racist? Yeah, which is so
effing stupid. I want to slap them like a cartoon character.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
And a wackon awacon. Although I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Think that person has been in charge for a number
of years, but their successors, I'm sure I have similar attitudes.
But which brings us to this story from the Wall
Street Journal how Beijing recruited New York China towns for
its influence campaigns, and a congresswoman's link to a Communist
Party initiative ran through one of these local hometowns associations.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I will spell it out for you.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
In April of nineteen, a representative of Grace Meng was
launching into a busy legislative week on Capitol Hill. The
same day, in the central Chinese province of Henan, two
Meng associates were.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Delivering a letter of.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Appreciation from her to the chief of an international influence
operation managed by the Chinese Communist Party. She was sending
him a thank you note. A common denominator in both
the China trip and in Meng's political rises in New
York association of Chinese Americans.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Like her.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
The two travelers to China were leaders of the Heenan
Association of Eastern America, a fixture of Congresswoman Meng's life
for decades, including the over fifteen years the Democrat has
represented one of New York's chinatowns.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
The association is.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Central to bombshell federal allegations that Beijing had a mole.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You may remember the story in the New.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
York Governor's office, and the congresswoman is now distancing herself
from a group that for years described her as its
vice chair. The idea is these hometown associations, because their
members hail from the same place in Communist China, are
best known across the US for promoting lunar New Year parades.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And dragon dances and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
But the same year Meng was elected to Congress, Shijinping
took power in Beijing. And breathed new life into a
Communist Party instrument known as the United Front Work Department,
which operates through these hometown associations. They're all across America
spreading pro Communist information, rooting out dissenters. You remember those
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secret jails we've talked about. We are absolutely infested with
Chinese intelligence agents and spies.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Would you let Trump babiesit your kids? Is a question
Liz Cheney asked yesterday, and I think she thought the
obvious answer would be no. Anyway, that and other stuff
on the way, stay tuned, arms strong, and getty. That's right.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It's gonna be the Yankees versus the Los Angeles Dodgers
in the World Series, and tickets are already going for
over one thousand dollars by Game three. The only people
who'll be able to afford tickets will be the players.
New York and LA are both great cities, but of
course they each have some danger. I mean, in LA
there's wildfires, flooding, mud slides, earthquakes, extreme heat, and in
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New York there's Times Square.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Do you think this will get huge ratings in the
back in the day, I mean, it's been forty years
since this has happened. But back in the day, a
Yankees Dodgers series would get huge, huge ratings. But I
don't know if that's the baseball is the same way anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Well for the modern era, for the present day, they
couldn't do better. I don't think will it equal the
ratings in you know, nineteen seventy eight, No as percentages,
But I think this is going to be a great series.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
But will people outside of LA and New York watch
because I just think so. I've been following this for
a couple of years. It's baseball more than the other sports.
For some reason, It's become so regional and people watch
if their local team is in and just don't have
much interest. As opposed to the NFL. People will watch,
you know, a Monday night football game with two teams
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that are very far away from them. They just like
the NFL. But it's not the same him for Major
League Baseball for some reason, that's true.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But this is as good as it gets with Sho
Hey o Tani and Aaron Judge and there are other stars.
If you're a baseball fan, you know their names, but
this is a great great.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Sure, you got Billy Martin and Tommy Lussorda and Reggie
Jackson and Ron Say and maybe you ought to hit
refresh there on your Internet. A couple of dumb things
I've come up with around the election. There is actually
something you can refer to as Trump derangement syndrome, where
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it makes people so crazy with their dislike of him
that they, well, they get crazy. I think there's all
kinds of reasons you can not want Trump to be
president of the United States, and on some of them
I would agree with you, But the he's going to
become a dictator or whateverything I just find nutty. Like,
for instance, Liz Cheney yesterday when she was campaigning with
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Kamala Harris, and I don't quite get that. I get
being against Trump. I don't get if you're a staunch
conservative standing up with the person that is a one
hundred and eighty degrees from you onlike every other topic
that you care about, seems weird to me. But it's bizarre,
it's indefensible, she said. One of our things she said
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on stage, Liz Cheney said, was if you wouldn't trust
a person to babysit your kids, how can you trust
them with our foreign policy, and I thought, it's to
me that you're taking that as a given you can
in a Kamala Harris rally, I think, but I think
Trump's all kinds of a whack job, But I'd be
fine with him watching my kids. Wouldn't bother me a bit?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh number before I dignify that notion with a response,
and I will.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
That's an idiotic framing of a foreign.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Please discussion exactly, so hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I did see some responses to it by I don't
know if I'd let Winston Churchill maybe sit my kids,
but I'm glad he was, you know, running England during
World War Two. It's not the way I choose my leaders.
I was going to offer up a different one, but
that one's better. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
In fact, I would definitely not trust Winston Churchill with
my children, not even close. On the other hand, as
foreign policy was spot on, that is an absolutely idiotic framing.
Having said that, even Hillary Clinton back in the day
famously that twenty sixteen debate question, say something nice about
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the other candidate, and Hillary said he's done a great
job with his kids, his kids are terrific. So idiotic
question and the opposite answer of what you intended, Liz,
other than that, thanks for your contribution to the National Conversation.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Well, the reason I brought it up is the whole
Trump derangement syndrome where she hates him so much that
she just assumes there's giants swathes of America that think
he's not capable of watching kids because he's so deranged.
And I just okay, And for what it's worth, I
would I would be delighted to have Kamala Harris take
care of my kids when they were kids, like Lady
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Joe Biden hope but but nice or Joe Biden prior
to his dementia. I wouldn't now because he might, you know,
forget what he's doing. And I'd have to warn my kids.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Look, he's gonna sniff your hair a lot, all right,
just don't let it go beyond that.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I wouldn't want to come home and they're sitting in
dirty diapers and haven't been feding three meals. Uh what
what damn it? Look it that's not a joke. And
I would warn my kids reach in the pool and
rub my leg down. Joe was trained and watched the
hair come back up again. That's right.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He When I would tell my kids, look, if you
feel a little sick and doctor Jill offers to treat you,
she's not a real doctor.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
He would regale them with some interesting tales, none of
which are true, but they would be very entertaining stories.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Any kids, you ever leave the switch playing out on
the rain barrel, we get it all rusty, all right,
we're not having Joe and Jill you bang them on
the no no, and you're not baby singing our kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Right. I'd come home and the kids would tell he
told us this great story about how he got a
chain fight at the pool with this guy.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
If you around your head, if you bend your knife
and make it rusty, it leaves a jagged wound in
your enemies. Daddy, Okay, that's the last time you stay
at the bidens. So the other Trump arrangement thing before
we get to an ad that is the other side.
Just make him crap up so it happens all the
way around. Quit acting like the Republicans have cornered the
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market on deceptive ads or crazy talk or appealing to
the lowest common denominator.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Quit acting that way. That's what bothers me y'all do
it anyway. Here's an article in Politico this is new
the very real scenario where Trump loses power but takes
power anyway, on how Trump could lose the election but
end up just taking the presidency. The very real scenario
(23:34):
says politically not, it's not not in the least reel.
So why would you put that again? Trump arrangement syndrome.
You think you have tons of readers that, yeah, that
could happen where he loses, but he just you know,
he orders the army to surround the White House or something.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You're crazy, Wow, that is some crazy bullplate, right, Oh, that's.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
What I'm saying. It's all, isn't. And then this ad
that Joe, did you record this off of your television?
I did.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
That's old school man, and it started like in the
middle because the way that it DVR. But it's an
old gal talking about how much she needs her Social
Security tired.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I need that money for groceries and bills. But the
way Trump is talking about cutting social Security, it's crazy.
Cutting social Security is like giving the middle finger to
the middle class. Kamla Harris will protect social Security, not
cut it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Ef The fact is responsible for the content of this ad.
The only thing he's made more clear, perhaps than the
fact that he is not going to cut Social Security,
is that he will not sign an abortion band and
the Democrats are acting like he's going to do both
of those. So where's the whole.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Thing he claimed without evidence that Trump would cut Social Secure?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, you're never going to hear that, or where's the
have to fact check Trump because he lies constantly? Any
of that from the because that's an official Kamala Harris
had any of that from the Kamala hair that was
a pack Okay, fine, closely associated the same thing, Yeah,
same thing. So does anybody talking about how you need
to fact check the left when they make those two
claims about an abortion ban and he's gonna take away
(25:21):
your social security flat out on four Pinocchio made up lies, yes,
which happens in politics all the time. Well everyone knows it. Again,
it makes my head explode that it's treated in all
of corporate media and our debates and everything else like
it's a one sided deal.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And that side that ran that ad insists to you
that they are so noble and above it all that
they should be gifted with the power to censor what
they perceive to be misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, which was
the greatest example ever of people using lots of words
to sound smart, even though those all are the same insane.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
God would load a crap. I know that's incredible, it
really is. That can't last, right, Don't enough people see
through this at this point? Then it becomes so cynical
that you just don't believe either side is telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
No, because the old stor who watches the Alphabet Networks
evening news heard that is terrified is going to vote
for Commlin.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's no time to get through to them.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
And because a fascinating aspect of human psychology, which you've
highlighted through the years, you tend to believe that which
you hear first, even after it's refuted.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Boy, look for that in your own life. I run
into that pretty regularly, and now that I know that,
it sometimes pops into my head. Okay, you're fighting this
because you heard first that this is true and now
you know it's not, but you're still knee jerk fighting
for the original position. It's just the way our brains
(26:57):
are built for some reason. It's troubling actually, and shows
you why salesmanship and politics are the way they are.
And one more thing I'm on to thrown about this. Oh,
there are two big articles today. The AP's got one
that The New York Times got one about how Trump
is basic going to base his first term off the
twenty twenty five project. It's just well known here are
(27:18):
the ties between the Heritage fundation. And you know he's
said over and over that he's not that he doesn't
even know what it is. Which do you think Trump
has read the twenty twenty five project. I don't think
he's ever read anything.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
No, No, for goodness sakes again, project twenty twenty five
is like so many other things churned out by think tanks.
The Brookings Institution has cranked out some wish list of
progressive crap recently, I'm sure, and a bunch of Obama
heights and Biden Night's work at the Brookings Institution.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That doesn't mean Kamala Harris authored the damn thing. It's
just more phoniness. Why are they resorting to outright lies
and phone well? Can you can you think of a
single reason why?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Desperation? Maybe they're losing on the issues, So are you
gonna do any of the too sy Friday night when
you're partying. That's the hot new drug. I'm sorry, the
what now, tucy? That's the hot new drug some some
people some people t u s I. I'm not positive
you pronounce it w uh or pink cocaine, pink colorcane
(28:25):
or the toosy. It's a cocktail that contains ketamine, ecstasy
in meth, actually doesn't have cocaine in it, but they call.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
It ketamine ecstasy and mad well it's a timesaver.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, wow? Is that for people? That's like meth just
not doing it for me, or ketamine or ecstasy.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
You know, I might have a glass of pinot with dinner,
but I'll pass on the toosi.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So if you hear anybody reference it, Hey, you want
to do a little tuosie before we go to the concert.
That's what it is. That would be a hard No.
The pink can, the pink cocaine which has no oh
cocaine in it. That's mislabeling kennemine rocks without evidence. That
blah blah blah. I have a warning for you if
you're thinking of getting the iPhone sixteen, I have a
warning before you do it. If you're at the Apple
(29:13):
store right now, wait until you hear and my warning
among other things coming up. Stay tuned, he getty.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
So a woman in Australia got stuck upside down between
two rocks for seven hours, all because she lost her phone.
She dropped it was trying to get it back when
she fell into a ten foot crevice or is that curvross.
When rescuers were finally able to get her out, she
had only some scratches and bruises. The phone is still
(29:45):
between the rocks.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
How do you fall and get wedged upside down and
not get hurt? I would think you'd be terribly hurt,
your head or somethinged and your head get it was
a classic wedge to me.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I don't know, so your hip Scott wedge, but your
head was not being squashed by rocks or whatever. Yeah, yeah, well, yeah,
maybe she's a little hippie. That doesn't make her a
bad woman, right, women tend to accumulate weight or in
the middle of the body.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It's all right. That actually might be the answer. Yeah,
she might be shaped in such a way that yeah, yes.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Low center of gravity, Yeah, saved her life. Perhaps that's
why if she was built like a little boy, like
the damn magazine models.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It's unrealistic. She just slipped right down and cracked her head.
She'd be dead now. Somebody texted this on the topic
of would you like Saved by the Booty? That would
be my headline, but the movie, the Hallmark movie, will
be called Saved by the Booty. M Ellen DeGeneres used
to do a comedy bit telling about how she won
(30:53):
a survey once on who would be best to babysit
your kid? She'd say me a childless lesbian comedian, which
is pretty funny on the topic of would you let
Trump baby sit your kid? So, speaking of phone, so
you don't end up wedged upside down? Telling you about
the iPhone sixteen. So one cool feature kind of in theory,
it's a good idea is it's got a new button
(31:13):
on the side that is quite sensitive. You click it
once and you're in camera mode. And so the idea
is instead of like, as something pops up you want
to take a picture of, you know, your kid or
I don't know, a fight starts at a McDonald's or
whatever it is you want to do. Yeah, you just
like just one click and you're you're immediately taking pictures
and if you hold it for a second and then
(31:33):
you're immediately taken video. So it's it's kind of handy
and theory, but the problem is it's in a place
where I'm constantly accidentally switching on the camera or the
video all the time. And like, for instance, I was
going through my photos yesterday to try to find some
news thing. I screen capture news all day long. There's me,
(31:54):
there's my wang, me completely naked. Oh lord, me completely
naked in my bathroom. I'd gotten on my phone, you know,
to check the news, and had taken a picture of
me out fresh out of the shower. And I've learned,
and I've never had picture like that in my phone,
and I did. I didn't even know it was there
because of that dang button. So you gotta be careful.
(32:15):
I find all kinds of stray photos, like here's a
trash can, here's the inside of my car, here's or whatever,
because I grabbed and then I accidentally.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
But I'll text to a fifteen year old girl, you're
on her anthony waynter.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You got me, really careful or you're accidentally taking pictures
all the time, I shay guilty the court of Judge Joe,
why would I want that? That's the last thing I want.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I can't imagine final thought, sweet thing.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
But yeah, the fact that exists in the world is
horrifying to me. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Hey,
I about a final.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Thought from everybody in the cruder wrap things up for
the day. Michaelangelow Ar technical director, will lead the way, Michael, Well,
I was.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Looking at getting the iPhone sixteen, but after hearing that,
I might just go with thirteen or fourteen.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
This, you know exactly don't need the newest stuff. No, no,
you know it's it's too dangerous, Michael. Katie Greener seemed
to Newswoman as a final thought. Katie, Yeah, I don't
know that whole I was looking at the news naked
and I accidentally took it. It sounds like groundwork there, Jack,
all of a sudden, somebody's going to get a picture.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Well, what I do mean too?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It was the platin Trust me, if I ever wanted
to take a picture like that, the lighting and angle
would be a lot better than was. That was not
a flattering No lord portray naked.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, you encouraged this conversation Katie, You're to blame Jackie.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
A final thought for us if yesterday was in the indication,
the lead story on ABC News being the ridiculousness about
minimum wage, this last two weeks of the election is
going to be a lot of really low brow pandering. Yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
My only final thought is that I've realized that Italian
food is my kryptonite.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
For whatever reason is.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
It's the tomato sauce, the spices at it, whether it's
pizza or I had this fabulous meat bald dish last
night and I knew I should stop it. I went
back for more. And I'm usually pretty disciplined, but it's
Italian food. I can't resist.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's the food of my childhood. Armstrong and Getty wrapping,
I'm another grueling four hour workday. What's the matter? You
put down? The fuck? So many people?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Thanks a little time good Armstrong Geeddy dot com. Oh
the Hot Dogs Are Dogs t shirt is flying off
the shelves.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Get it at the Ang store, drop us the line
mail bag at Armstrong Geddy dot com. Check out to
hot Legs. We will see you tomorrow. With all the foolishness.
God bless America. I'm man enough to enjoy it. I'm
strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I've been thinking that we really all need a hug.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
About I'm gonna stop you, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But I mentioned the burrito of deceit well, the tangy
salsa of irony.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Oh my god, I'm not feeling good today. I'm not
liking this. Can you do different metaphors that aren't like
food that would make me feel bad? Parsley on the
soup of deceit is they are very much armstrong and
getty
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