October 22, 2025 • 34 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- AI searches & cuteness
- Portland "harm reduction" teams & drug use
- Israel/Hamas conflict
- 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, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty you're
just joining us. We got into a big conversation about
AI and groc and me my conversations with Grok because
(00:30):
Tesla has it in there, and so I use it
almost every day asking a question about something, and it's
a female voice, and we have conversations. And then I
rejoined the conversations later. And it's like having a friend
in the car. It's really weird.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And we were talking about how even guys like us
who are like super critical of the idea of becoming
more detached from real life, having fewer real friends, fewer
real relationships, having a computer girlfriend and watching porn all
the time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I mean, it's it's all incredibly unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But we were talking about how when you know Siri
or groc or or I use chat ept for amount,
Oh my god, my Siri lit up.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, I don't want to talk to you. Stop it.
Let me alone, I would say, I was talking about you,
not to you, stop it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And and how even guys like us have an emotional
reaction when you have an exchange with you know who
and and they say a cherry thank you, or in
Jack's case, said hey, if you really like that song,
you gotta check out the live version.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And in spite of ourselves, we have this emotional reaction
to it as if it's a human being. And I
don't think human beings can can resist that that attraction.
I don't know how how it would happen, especially the masses,
because most people don't think.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
About this stuff at all.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Right, Yeah, anyway, so I was thinking, Katie, and this
is I cracked myself up. I was gonna say, okay,
everybody has to reveal their last three AI searches.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh boy, And I looked at.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Mine and they are, do I need a vent free
gas insert for my gas fireplace? And it explained to
me vent free and what that means and stuff. Also,
what the hell is this currency? Saw a price that
was listed in Indian rupees and I didn't recognize that
the sign. But then this one, this is my third
(02:37):
to last one. How many species of animals eat their young?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Such a guy search?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, I remember I sent you that video of a
big alligator eating a little alligator. Right, and Katie, you replied,
I could have gone the rest of my life without
seeing that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I stand by that well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And I was going to reply the number of species
that will eat their young or eat smaller members of
that species, there are lots and lots of them, but
I decided, no, she's a pregnant lady. You don't need
to argue in favor of eating you're young.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So I didn't excuse me. But that's why I was
looking for. That.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Turns out lots and lots of species, lots of them.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So I just did mine and eliminating show stuff that
I've done today, specifically for the show, just my own
personal last three espresso with cream options because I was
trying to figure out if people drank espresso with cream
or not. Isn't that called something different? Meaning meaning of
a couple of letters in a text? Because this happens
(03:48):
to me all the time, where a young person, usually
my son, texts me something. It's just a couple letters. Now,
don't have any idea what it means, so I have
to go on GPT and figure out will you be
home for dinner tonight? RF? Right? Exactly? Actually b FS
for sure? Yeah, he's always hitting me with that. And
then because I got lost the other day on this
(04:09):
is who's a word? Who se But is that right?
Because I voice texted and it put on there and
for some reason, you know, sometimes the word doesn't look
right right and it turns out it's okay, But like
just all of a sudden, it hits you like, that's
not right. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Or if you say the words three times in a row,
no longer sounds like a word to you. It just
sounds like reflection the noises, right.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
My last three that are not work involved fall decorating ideas.
Oh nice, pregnancy pain will say when the girls hurt,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh, and Boobe fairy comes to visit and sometimes it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, they're killing me.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And convert this dog into a royal painting.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Into a royal painting.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, took a picture of my friend's dog and turned
it into like a dapper royal night's Wow, that's.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Great, sounds funny. One of my searchings searches was what's
canyon piercing? Because I heard so many reference at the
other day and I didn't know what it was. That's
can you say it on the air. Yeah, it's the
it's above your butt cleft, be cleft there putting putting
a bar through right above there. It's called a canyon peer.
I guess it's kind of popular. It's like a step
(05:25):
beyond the tramp tramp stamp if you ever are observing
a woman from that angle.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
For some reason, on pierced ladies, for some reason, you're
a grand canyon if you will, depends on the person,
your canyon is grand.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Uh anyway, Yeah, so that's a piercing int.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, and that's another thing my life could have done
without Jack Canyon.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
One of my searches was asparagus storage tips. You are
a fun guy. Wow, here you are on the stair line.
It's like it's like being in the circus. It's so
much fun. All right, why don't we do this?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Katie brought this to us speaking of children and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Does this need any set up?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The little girl clips like she's arguing with her dog
about her snacks.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's a golden retriever.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, yeah, yes, you can't say.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Actually awesome. Oh my god, you're you're inside boys? Oh
is that what she said?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, she said, you're your inside voice.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
God that is Oh no, I'm breaking out in hives.
I'm addicted. I'm allergic to cute, and I'm having a
reaction that is super cute. Oh that's spectacular. All right,
all right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh so, just to touch on something we were talking
about earlier about oh, I want to get in to
the insurance costs and Bernie Sanders I agree with him
for once, maybe later on in the hour. But in
my looking at various major left to left center publications,
(07:15):
there are several articles out today all saying essentially the
same thing, and I wonder if it has something to
do with Mom Donnie. But they're all saying in Politico,
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, we gotta lose
our left flank Democrats. They're crazy that we're running crack
pot candidates who've got to stop. And I came across
(07:38):
this in the Journal some of their political writers, who
are not as conservative as you might think writing for
the journal. But the headline is democratic donors sit on
sidelines as party schism persists. The RNC, the Republican National Committee,
had eighty six million dollars in cash sitting around at
the beginning of last month or this month, rather eighty
(08:00):
six million, it's twelve million for the DNC. The big
donors are closing their checkbooks and sitting on their hands.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Too many crazy people in your party.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And what's amazing is how few people were willing to
say that until recently.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, and also big donors who, uh, there's plenty of
capitalists who are Democrats, but oh, he's the chunk of
the Democratic Party that is anti capitalism. They're probably not
that excited to fund right right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And to return to the theme once again, the great
feminization of America that we've been talking about for a
couple of days, and how cancel culture is about ostracizing
somebody who says something we don't like and you don't
argued out with them, You cancel them, You declare them untouchable.
(08:59):
You say anybody he goes to coffee with them as
a bad person, a very feminine squeezing somebody out of
the friend group thing. You combine that with the fact
that on the left, especially women, tend to be more
acceptance motivated than truth motivated. They want to be accepted
in the group. So it makes perfect sense that it
(09:22):
took a very long time for progressive or I should
just say Democrats who have that acceptance lens to stand
up and say, excuse me. The group I'm in is wrong,
And I think a lot of us agree. Those people
have been running the show. They've been bullying everybody. They
need to stop. Let's all stand up to them. Takes
(09:43):
a while to do that on the left in a
way that it doesn't on the right. Hell, we're arguing
with each other all the time on the right, saying no,
you're wrong, that's not true, or that's not.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Going to work. The whole acceptance thing on the left
doesn't permit that. I've been saying this for a couple
of years. I have a lot of right leaning podcasts
I listened to where the people regularly don't agree. I mean,
it's like one of the things that makes the podcast interesting.
Are there such a thing on the left? I'm not
aware of them. Where you have you know, a mainstream
(10:15):
democrat and a progressive that don't agree on these subjects
like happens in the right wing podcast. If you know
of one, push it my way, I'd love to. I'd
love to listen to it. I just think that's further
proof of the of the premise that I can ever
remember her name.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Helen Andrews had in her Great Feminization, a piece that
we talked about at length yesterday hour two of the show.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
If you want to grab the podcast Armstrong and get
on demand.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But that's part of it is that women, generally speaking,
I can find this really quickly. All cancelations are feminine.
Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are
enough of them to get in a given organization or field.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh where is that?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's just so well explained that women prize acceptance and cohesion.
There it is substance fits everything you think of as
wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine. And think
about this in the context of moderate lefties standing up
to far left lefties. Uh, empathy over rationality, safety over risk,
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cohesion over competition.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
On that one, couldn't you just go with the premise
of the movie Mean Girls, just that with girls, you're
just you're either part of the in group or you're ostracized. Right,
that doesn't exist at the same level for guys at all.
Uh No, No, So I thought that Oregon had done
(11:52):
the experiment in allowing people to do hard drugs and
decided it was a bad idea. But they're still facilitating
hard drug use a variety of ways for some reason.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What's really interesting is if you talk to the people
doing the hard drugs, they sound like conservatives.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Wow, I want to hear that. Among other things coming up,
stay here, guy running for the Senate in Maine has
a Nazi tattoo. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, he's actually exhibit one in the hole. We got
to stop running crazy people. Peace and Politico by Jonathan Martin.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What kind of Nazi tattoo? Is it a swastika? No,
you know what, I actually don't think it is.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's he was a marine and it's like a death
head thing that they got as marines. Not knowing it's
reminiscent of the death said.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Brigade that it's a totem cop, the German word typically
referring to him in image of a skull and crossbones. Okay,
so it's not necessarily right.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, he's got plenty of actual sins to account for.
He's a very Beto Auroric like character. There's another guy
in Texas now who's going to be new Beddo. But
Jonathan Martin's point was you can't fall in love with
these people without vetting them or whatever, just because they
talk a good game or like Mumdannie's charming, great, but
he's a freaking communist anyway. So, speaking of progressive policies
(13:13):
that don't work, Katie, we're about to hear from a
young lady in Portland, I believe.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Tell us about her.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, she's probably early twenties, beautiful girl actually, but she's
clearly sitting in a woodsy homeless encampment and clearly an addict. Yeah,
there harm reduction people come out here and give you
supplies like harm.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Reduction, like the clean syringes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, there's a couple of them. But then there's a few.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Of them that came out in a varin and they
start passing out.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Stuff like pipes and snorting kids and things like that.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Like why is making it so much easier and more
comfortable for people to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Be like oh okay, now I don't even have to
go anywhere. Stuff like that is definitely enabling.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It doesn't have it enabling actually makes it more harmful
because once people get comfortable enough doing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Stuff a certain way, like why do anything else? So obvious?
No back in the day, the original thing with needles
would spread an HIV around. Okay, you could make an
argument for that, but beyond that, what's the argument for
the paraphernalia handing out hard to drug users.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's so strange. I don't know. I mean, because you
could get I don't know, a coal or herpes or
COVID by sharing a straw you're snorting meth with. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't think it has anything to do with that.
It's some sort of I don't know what it is,
misplaced compassion.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I guess, yeah, this is compassion I think would be
the answer. It's yet another great example of the feminization
of America where people have completely lost track of the
fact that you have to have negative consequences for bad behavior.
You'll get more of it. That girl's like, no, you're
enabling people, and she didn't make the point put I.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Thought she was going to say.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And if you make it really comfortable for people to
be addicted, they get more addicted and it gets harder
and harder.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
To get off the stuff. Something I had a story
I was going to get to maybe I'll do it
tomorrow about these rehabs that are ripping people off. Not
only do the rehabs that aren't trying to rip you
off fail, like ninety nine percent of the time, there's
a whole bunch of them that are they're designed to
rip you off.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
They're all, that's funny, that's I've got a trio of stories.
That's number one. Drug rehabs lore in patience for insurance money.
Then leave them on street.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, So rehabs don't work when they're trying, and they're legit,
they've very rarely worked. These are just trying to steal
your money.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Huge number of scammers, yeah, Wall Street Journal and no
marijuana users. Ye, so sick and twisted because you're almost
always taking the money of well, an insurance company. But
you got a husband or a wife, or a mom
or a dad who are just you know, they they've
been misled into believing these rehabs or what fixed people
and all the time, and it's just it's just tragic that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You're doing that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, they spend their life savings. Yeah yeah, and then
you got this headline, more marijuana users are crash dummies.
High on pot drivers are contributing to more highway accident deaths.
New study found that more than forty percent of drivers
who died in car accidents in at least one US
county over the last six years had elevated levels of THC.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
In their Really, that's interesting now, it is, of course,
I'd need to know. Is that hire a lot by
a lot than it used to be before it was legal.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Over the last six years anyway, and then an article
asking did Pot make the Dallas ice shooter? You remember
that a couple of weeks ago he was anti ice
and he ended up killing some illegal immigrants. Did Pot
make the Dallas ice shooter psychotic? He was a heavy
pot user and was starting to develop psychotic symptoms. Heavy
(16:58):
pots absolutely makes psychosis more likely one and pot's way
stronger than it used to be, so it'd be exactly
easier to get there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, that's troubling, are strong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Meantime, Vice President Vans touching down in Israel, denying reports
he was dispatched quote to try to keep mister Netanyahu
from resuming an all out assault against Hamas after weekend
attacks prompted each side to accuse the other of violating
the ceasefire.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
My visit had nothing to do with events in the
past forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We had actually tried to.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Plan this visit frankly months ago, and now we thought
this would be a good time.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
To do it. So it's JD. Vance who was in
Israel yesterday. They're trying to hold together the ceasefire, and
both sides are saying they are still committed. So that's good.
I guess here's a little more from JD. Vance in
Israel yesterday.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I woant to say that there is this weird attitude
I've since in the American media, in the Western media,
where there's almost this desire to rooin for failure, that
every time something bad happens, that every time that there's
an act of violence, there's this inclination to say, oh,
this is the end of the ceasefire, this is the
end of the peace plan. It's not the end. It is,
in fact, exactly how this is going to have to
(18:13):
happen when you have people who hate each other, who
have been fighting against each other for a very long time.
We are doing very well. We are in a very
good place. We're going to have to keep working on it,
but I think we have the team to do exactly that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, and I heard him say, we have many countries
that have already offered to help in the international peacekeeping force. Okay,
let's see how quickly that comes together with actual human
beings on the ground, with guns which they'll have to have,
and some sort of rules of engagement. Somebody will have
to be in charge of it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, and you know, the the Trump always chickens out
thing was completely silly. Trump does frequently over promise, though,
and there are a bunch of examples, like the investment deals.
Japan's gonna invest three billion dollars in the United States,
and South Korea is part of our trade deal is
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gonna invest five trillion, And if you look into it,
it's like that's two and a half percent of their GDP.
It's more than they spend on defense. It's just it's
never going to happen. But Trump hangs the trophy on
his wall and moves on. And the problem with this
situation and JD, there's no way in hell I'm rooting
for this to fail. I'm rooting for it to succeed.
He got the Emiordis and all of the Gulf States
(19:28):
to agree, yes, this is a good plan. We were
backing it partly because of the force of his personality.
And a hell of a good job by his team.
Hell of a good job, historic job. But here's the question,
do the Arab Muslim actors have the will to actually
do the ugly, dirty stuff it's gonna take to make
(19:51):
this work. That's where my doubt comes in.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So I heard somebody pointing out today that we're still
in phase one and Phase one's got ways to go.
So don't get all worried about phase two, because I
was talking about phase two yesterday, which includes Hamas laying
down their arms, the installation of a government, and the
arrival of a peacekeeping force. I'm glad that they're saying
(20:16):
they're still in phase one, because all three of those
things seem like they're a long way off. I mean,
especially the installation of a new government. What who? How
many people? What well is.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It going to be that minister? No cratic Council of Peace.
But you know, I'll have a lot of questions. I
hope it works out. I wanted to work out. I
wanted to get to this. Stevie utter defeat of Hamas
would would accomplish it. It's the only choice. I will
be saying that in another couple of years. By the way,
if you ask me.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
So.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Somehow I have in my mind that author Stephen Stephen
Pinker is a lefty. I don't know why. Why don't
I have that in my mind? He's a humanist, he's
like a secular humanist.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Maybe it's because he's written a lot of has he
written anti god stuff? I don't know. Anyway, I have
in my mind he's the left. And maybe I'm just
wrong because I went to Amazon to look up his
books because I'm about to quote him, and Enlightenment Now
is one of his famous books and just took that
off the shelf the other day, which is just a
fantastic book and about how and he writs, which seems
(21:24):
conservative to me, endlessly about how much better the world
is now than it was fifty years ago or one
hundred year ago or two hundred years ago. I mean,
just so much better in every category quality of life
all around the world, Western civilization and market economy, because
a free market economy is in Western civilization, and you know,
the poor people are way way less poor and blah
(21:45):
blah blah. So he's a big fan of that. But
he's got a peace out today. Some of you are
going to hate this, but I he said, they don't
believe it either, Gaza's genocide accusation. And he writes, the
Gaza genocide, I never know how to say this word.
C A l U M n Y. I can read it,
but I can't say it. How do you say that, Calumny?
(22:06):
I believe that's how you say? Eh, somebody looking at
what would be a good subject way. I've always said,
I don't use the word in real life. What's your
best substitute for it? We'll just substitute a different word.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Uh disaster, cataclysm, uh.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, a situation in negative situation. The Gaza genocide situation
has become the left's equivalent of the stolen election for
the American right. It's not based on much fact. It's
just allegiance, precisely because it shows your ideological direction. It's
more about that than anything else. And I happen to
(22:43):
believe that's true. I know some believe hardcore stolen election,
but I think it's more of a signal that no,
I'm really really on this side. And he says that
it's true of the genocide, although it's just such a
horrible thing to make your I'm gonna pretend I believe
this because it's knows what side of the argument I'm
on to call something a genocide. Right.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh, by the way, I stand correct that I was
thinking of a different word. Calumny is the making of false,
in defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Slander in other words, Okay, so the slander that is
the gods of genocide is just like the stolen election.
It's more of claiming a direction of who you're with
and who you're against. And that's pretty awful, is his point.
You can't be going around throwing around the term genocide
or calling people, accusing people of committing a genocide when
(23:34):
all you're saying is you know, I'm anti Israel. That's
pretty over. But that's where we are. That's where we
are in our discussions. You have to you know, everybody's
either got to be hitler or you got to take everything.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
To the nth degree. Right, Yeah, yeah, not good for
it's not good for anything anything. It's not good for anything. Yes,
you summarized it. Well yeah, Oh, by the way, kind
of a stray topic here, unless you were you in
the middle of something. Okay, we were talking about the
(24:08):
ballroom that the president is trying to.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Well, he's not trying to he's building out to the
White House. Please settle this for me. That's two days
in a row on MSNBC that they've made this their lead
story about the horror of tearing down the historic building
that is the White House. Now, is this happening or not? No? No,
absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So the White House was built way back in the day,
burnt partly to the ground in eighteen twelve, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
By the British.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Never forget Teddy Roosevelt built the west wing. Okay, so
that was you know, early twentieth century. Taft made the
Oval office. Oval probably fit him because he's a big
old boy.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I just want a round room. Made him look less fat,
right exactly, was slimming.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Fdr added the entire east wing and included an indoor
pool for himself. Truman gutted and redid the entire White House.
Nixon famously, you added a bowling alley.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Obama, that's what we needed at that time. We were
in a cold war, a bowling alley. Right. Obama added
a basketball court.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And Trump is building a ballroom at no expense to
the taxpayers. Attached to the East Wing, which was built
by FDR back in the day.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Although this ballroom is going to be ginormous. It's a
big room. Now, I somebody said, did you say it, Hanson,
that it's square footage, it's bigger than.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The White House, than the Mansion. Yeah, I believe that
to be true.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, you know, I'm not making an argument of any kind,
but it is going to look way different. You add
on something to your house that's bigger than your house,
that's going to be the dominant feature. So the dominant
feature of the most famous house in the world is
going to be the ballroom.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I guess no, unless you're like standing next to it,
because like when you look at the White House from
the front, you don't see the East Wing and West
Wing really, you just see the mansion. True, they're like
super hidden. Yeah, So I don't know how prominent it's
going to be. Honestly, I don't care.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
My god.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
We have so much bigger problems in the US, in
the world than this damn ballroom.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But the Democrats are just.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Desperate to rally some everybody up around some issue. They
keep trying and keep failing.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Do you got me, decent size nine hundred people. I
read yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That's like a big hotel ballroom. Yeah, that's a big joint.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
But his Trump's argument is that currently, like if you
have a gathering more than a small gathering, there's no
place to put people where you can like somebody can
speak to them and then you can go into another
room and have a meal. Correct.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, the east room where all the big banquets are,
can fit two hundred people.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
It's tight, you can do two hundred. Yeah. I don't
have an opinion on this either way.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So no, I mean in the list of issues pressing Americans,
it's way way way down the list.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
That picture is what looked bad because it looks like
you're tearing down a an historic building. That picture of
that wall torn off the side of the White House.
I think that's what that means for forties, arguably thirties.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's just the east wing is historic, but it's just
the architecture is made to match the original mansion. They're
tearing down the walls so they can tie the new
structure into it. Is it any architecture will precisely mimic
the old mansion.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now because it's Trump, is it going to look like
a Chinese restaurant on the inside. That's a gold this
and that more than you can believe. I'm sure, gold silverware,
gold pictures, gold glasses, gold cups. Yeah, Milanie got a
roll in it because she's got style. Oh hell, it's
style for Miles. Are you kidding? I don't know, I
(27:43):
don't care. I have such a good thing for our
One More Thing podcast. So we do this radio show
every day, and then when we get off the air,
because we're just not done talking, we do another segment
called one More Thing that does not air on the radio.
You should check it out on our podcast. But I
got a good one for it today. I don't want
to I don't. I don't want to tease it because
it kind of gives away the punchline to it. But
(28:04):
it's uh no, I can't even tease it. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I lost my businessle the other day and we're dropping
f bombs all over the place, completely inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That was because sometimes there are swears. That was all
because of my anger of not being able to ring
up the pie at Costco in the self checkout line
and understand your anger, and I want to go pie
so badly, damn that's a good apple pie at Costco.
It's the best store bought apple pie I've ever had anywhere.
You should eaten You should have eaten it right there
as a protest. I should have with my hands. Yeah,
(28:35):
just set there. You just scooped it up like set
between my legs. Yeah, exactly. Okay, we will finish the
food court, Yeah, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Authorities in Los Angeles are looking for a woman who
allegedly used dating apps to find wealthy elderly men, pose
as a girlfriend, and then burglar their homes. They're also
still looking for a wealthy old man who mines.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, it worked out for me. I couldn't take it
with me burglarize their homes. That's interesting, all right, something
to watch out for. As I am an old man.
I wanted to hear a joke too. I haven't heard
this story either.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Tesla recently unveiled the cheaper version of its Model three
sedan that costs approximately thirty seven thousand dollars as opposed
to the cyber truck, which will cost you your friends
and family.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's kind of happened to me. Uh so they got
a new version coming out. Okay, I'm going to continue
trying to make electric cars work. We'll see if that happens.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
And finally, the food brand Johnsonville will reportedly release a
new Doctor Pepper flavored sausage. Makes perfect sense, says, nobody
knows what that's made from either.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
M not great jokes. No, I mostly I wasn't looking
to them for humor. I was interested in the stories.
So there's a new Doctor Pepper sausage out. Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Run into uh if you're at a fancy barbecue place.
Dr Pepper barbecue sauce or cocrilla is often used for
the sweetness and barbecue sauce.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I did not know that. Sure learned something every day. Okay,
cool and loves barbecue. Oh yeah. So do you think
these women were so they were just like chatting online
and then they figure out the guy's got stuff and
then rob's his house. Yeah exactly. Well that sucks.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, it's it's why you don't get a friends with
benefits relationship going with various uh women of ill repute
because their boyfriend is gonna rob your play sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Oh yeah, luckily I'm not doing that. Yeah. The modern world, man,
which the modern world is going to factor in the
One More Thing podcast, which is coming up after the show,
and then we'll post it. I was talking to a
parent about this the other day, realizing that every young
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person in history says times are harder now than they
were before, and every parent says it's harder to raise
kids now that was before. But it is legit got
to be harder to raise kids now than it was
twenty five years ago. It just legitimately has to be.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As a guy who literally raised his kids twenty five
years ago, one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Not when they were little. It is the same as
it always has been, but now they're older and out
into the.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Lessons teenagers place. Yeah, no comparison shocking.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, I know, I know. It's awful, and we haven't
wrapped our heads around it. I mentioned to start the
show today. I was disturbed that I've heard the news
story twice that a new study has come out that
shows that if you eliminate cell phones in classrooms, test
scores go up. Well, thanks for that study.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
What check Clark GISs time stop, Jack and Joe Live
go and if they don't give, Canvale bebacks tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
That's true? Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Joe Getty, Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody
on the crew. Wouldn't that be delightful? Michael Langelo pressing
the buttons in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Jack I really liked the idea of you protesting self
checkouts by just eating the food right there on the floor.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
No matter what it is, you just open it up
and start eating it. Well, I'll try to ring it. Oh,
I'll try to ring it up once. But if it
starts with the whole place the item on the train.
I didn't place the item on the train. Then I'm
just gonna eat it right there.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now, did you not pie somebody in the face? You
have a pie? You're unhappy? That's the time honored Katie
Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Hillary popped off about the demolition of the East Waning
in the White House, and one of the responses to
her tweet with someone promptly letting her know about what
her husband did in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Oh, don't talk to us about desecrating the White House,
old lady. That's a decent point, Jackie. Final thought for
h In case you didn't hear me say this earlier.
My son in his public school class. Literally there are
girls sitting in the class with their phones out in
earbuds in watching TikTok videos during class while the teacher's
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talking right right.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
My final thought, Wow, that's a little long and complicated.
I probably shouldn't go with that one. My final thought,
I'm going to quote one of my favorite Twitter accounts
who noticed the study we talked about a week or
two ago that the number of adolescents identicifying is transgender has.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Been cut in half in like two years. That's a
big story.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
And he says, reminder, people got canceled for suggesting that
this was a social contagion. They lost their jobs a
couple full of years ago. Question authority, leftist authority, especially always.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
So many people, thanks a little time. Go to armstrong
Giddy dot com. A lot of great clicks for you. You
got to check out the podcast The Great Feminization of America.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We did it yesterday, hour two. Check it out. See
you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. Let's
be clear, they're loco, they're locking up my toothpasts.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's the crazy meaning.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
No, what do we want to be? Losers or winners?
I want winner. You're a loser right words. I have
to laugh at that. Yeah, but mister speaker, it isn't
enough to say sorry, I'm going to cool my lawyer.
It is over that, I know. Thanks you all very much,
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty you're
just joining us. We got into a big conversation about
AI and groc and me my conversations with Grok because
(00:30):
Tesla has it in there, and so I use it
almost every day asking a question about something, and it's
a female voice, and we have conversations. And then I
rejoined the conversations later. And it's like having a friend
in the car. It's really weird.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And we were talking about how even guys like us
who are like super critical of the idea of becoming
more detached from real life, having fewer real friends, fewer
real relationships, having a computer girlfriend and watching porn all
the time.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I mean, it's it's all incredibly unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But we were talking about how when you know Siri
or groc or or I use chat ept for amount,
Oh my god, my Siri lit up.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
No, I don't want to talk to you. Stop it.
Let me alone, I would say, I was talking about you,
not to you, stop it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And and how even guys like us have an emotional
reaction when you have an exchange with you know who
and and they say a cherry thank you, or in
Jack's case, said hey, if you really like that song,
you gotta check out the live version.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And in spite of ourselves, we have this emotional reaction
to it as if it's a human being. And I
don't think human beings can can resist that that attraction.
I don't know how how it would happen, especially the masses,
because most people don't think.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
About this stuff at all.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Right, Yeah, anyway, so I was thinking, Katie, and this
is I cracked myself up. I was gonna say, okay,
everybody has to reveal their last three AI searches.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh boy, And I looked at.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Mine and they are, do I need a vent free
gas insert for my gas fireplace? And it explained to
me vent free and what that means and stuff. Also,
what the hell is this currency? Saw a price that
was listed in Indian rupees and I didn't recognize that
the sign. But then this one, this is my third
(02:37):
to last one. How many species of animals eat their young?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Such a guy search?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, I remember I sent you that video of a
big alligator eating a little alligator. Right, and Katie, you replied,
I could have gone the rest of my life without
seeing that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I stand by that well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And I was going to reply the number of species
that will eat their young or eat smaller members of
that species, there are lots and lots of them, but
I decided, no, she's a pregnant lady. You don't need
to argue in favor of eating you're young.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So I didn't excuse me. But that's why I was
looking for. That.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Turns out lots and lots of species, lots of them.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So I just did mine and eliminating show stuff that
I've done today, specifically for the show, just my own
personal last three espresso with cream options because I was
trying to figure out if people drank espresso with cream
or not. Isn't that called something different? Meaning meaning of
a couple of letters in a text? Because this happens
(03:48):
to me all the time, where a young person, usually
my son, texts me something. It's just a couple letters. Now,
don't have any idea what it means, so I have
to go on GPT and figure out will you be
home for dinner tonight? RF? Right? Exactly? Actually b FS
for sure? Yeah, he's always hitting me with that. And
then because I got lost the other day on this
(04:09):
is who's a word? Who se But is that right?
Because I voice texted and it put on there and
for some reason, you know, sometimes the word doesn't look
right right and it turns out it's okay, But like
just all of a sudden, it hits you like, that's
not right. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Or if you say the words three times in a row,
no longer sounds like a word to you. It just
sounds like reflection the noises, right.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
My last three that are not work involved fall decorating ideas.
Oh nice, pregnancy pain will say when the girls hurt,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh, and Boobe fairy comes to visit and sometimes it's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, they're killing me.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And convert this dog into a royal painting.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Into a royal painting.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, took a picture of my friend's dog and turned
it into like a dapper royal night's Wow, that's.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Great, sounds funny. One of my searchings searches was what's
canyon piercing? Because I heard so many reference at the
other day and I didn't know what it was. That's
can you say it on the air. Yeah, it's the
it's above your butt cleft, be cleft there putting putting
a bar through right above there. It's called a canyon peer.
I guess it's kind of popular. It's like a step
(05:25):
beyond the tramp tramp stamp if you ever are observing
a woman from that angle.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
For some reason, on pierced ladies, for some reason, you're
a grand canyon if you will, depends on the person,
your canyon is grand.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Uh anyway, Yeah, so that's a piercing int.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, and that's another thing my life could have done
without Jack Canyon.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
One of my searches was asparagus storage tips. You are
a fun guy. Wow, here you are on the stair line.
It's like it's like being in the circus. It's so
much fun. All right, why don't we do this?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Katie brought this to us speaking of children and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Does this need any set up?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
The little girl clips like she's arguing with her dog
about her snacks.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's a golden retriever.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, yeah, yes, you can't say.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Actually awesome. Oh my god, you're you're inside boys? Oh
is that what she said?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, she said, you're your inside voice.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
God that is Oh no, I'm breaking out in hives.
I'm addicted. I'm allergic to cute, and I'm having a
reaction that is super cute. Oh that's spectacular. All right,
all right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh so, just to touch on something we were talking
about earlier about oh, I want to get in to
the insurance costs and Bernie Sanders I agree with him
for once, maybe later on in the hour. But in
my looking at various major left to left center publications,
(07:15):
there are several articles out today all saying essentially the
same thing, and I wonder if it has something to
do with Mom Donnie. But they're all saying in Politico,
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, we gotta lose
our left flank Democrats. They're crazy that we're running crack
pot candidates who've got to stop. And I came across
(07:38):
this in the Journal some of their political writers, who
are not as conservative as you might think writing for
the journal. But the headline is democratic donors sit on
sidelines as party schism persists. The RNC, the Republican National Committee,
had eighty six million dollars in cash sitting around at
the beginning of last month or this month, rather eighty
(08:00):
six million, it's twelve million for the DNC. The big
donors are closing their checkbooks and sitting on their hands.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Too many crazy people in your party.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And what's amazing is how few people were willing to
say that until recently.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, and also big donors who, uh, there's plenty of
capitalists who are Democrats, but oh, he's the chunk of
the Democratic Party that is anti capitalism. They're probably not
that excited to fund right right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And to return to the theme once again, the great
feminization of America that we've been talking about for a
couple of days, and how cancel culture is about ostracizing
somebody who says something we don't like and you don't
argued out with them, You cancel them, You declare them untouchable.
(08:59):
You say anybody he goes to coffee with them as
a bad person, a very feminine squeezing somebody out of
the friend group thing. You combine that with the fact
that on the left, especially women, tend to be more
acceptance motivated than truth motivated. They want to be accepted
in the group. So it makes perfect sense that it
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took a very long time for progressive or I should
just say Democrats who have that acceptance lens to stand
up and say, excuse me. The group I'm in is wrong,
And I think a lot of us agree. Those people
have been running the show. They've been bullying everybody. They
need to stop. Let's all stand up to them. Takes
(09:43):
a while to do that on the left in a
way that it doesn't on the right. Hell, we're arguing
with each other all the time on the right, saying no,
you're wrong, that's not true, or that's not.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Going to work. The whole acceptance thing on the left
doesn't permit that. I've been saying this for a couple
of years. I have a lot of right leaning podcasts
I listened to where the people regularly don't agree. I mean,
it's like one of the things that makes the podcast interesting.
Are there such a thing on the left? I'm not
aware of them. Where you have you know, a mainstream
(10:15):
democrat and a progressive that don't agree on these subjects
like happens in the right wing podcast. If you know
of one, push it my way, I'd love to. I'd
love to listen to it. I just think that's further
proof of the of the premise that I can ever
remember her name.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Helen Andrews had in her Great Feminization, a piece that
we talked about at length yesterday hour two of the show.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
If you want to grab the podcast Armstrong and get
on demand.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But that's part of it is that women, generally speaking,
I can find this really quickly. All cancelations are feminine.
Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are
enough of them to get in a given organization or field.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh where is that?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's just so well explained that women prize acceptance and cohesion.
There it is substance fits everything you think of as
wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine. And think
about this in the context of moderate lefties standing up
to far left lefties. Uh, empathy over rationality, safety over risk,
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cohesion over competition.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
On that one, couldn't you just go with the premise
of the movie Mean Girls, just that with girls, you're
just you're either part of the in group or you're ostracized. Right,
that doesn't exist at the same level for guys at all.
Uh No, No, So I thought that Oregon had done
(11:52):
the experiment in allowing people to do hard drugs and
decided it was a bad idea. But they're still facilitating
hard drug use a variety of ways for some reason.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What's really interesting is if you talk to the people
doing the hard drugs, they sound like conservatives.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Wow, I want to hear that. Among other things coming up,
stay here, guy running for the Senate in Maine has
a Nazi tattoo. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, he's actually exhibit one in the hole. We got
to stop running crazy people. Peace and Politico by Jonathan Martin.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What kind of Nazi tattoo? Is it a swastika? No,
you know what, I actually don't think it is.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's he was a marine and it's like a death
head thing that they got as marines. Not knowing it's
reminiscent of the death said.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Brigade that it's a totem cop, the German word typically
referring to him in image of a skull and crossbones. Okay,
so it's not necessarily right.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, he's got plenty of actual sins to account for.
He's a very Beto Auroric like character. There's another guy
in Texas now who's going to be new Beddo. But
Jonathan Martin's point was you can't fall in love with
these people without vetting them or whatever, just because they
talk a good game or like Mumdannie's charming, great, but
he's a freaking communist anyway. So, speaking of progressive policies
(13:13):
that don't work, Katie, we're about to hear from a
young lady in Portland, I believe.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Tell us about her.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, she's probably early twenties, beautiful girl actually, but she's
clearly sitting in a woodsy homeless encampment and clearly an addict. Yeah,
there harm reduction people come out here and give you
supplies like harm.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Reduction, like the clean syringes and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah, there's a couple of them. But then there's a few.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Of them that came out in a varin and they
start passing out.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Stuff like pipes and snorting kids and things like that.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Like why is making it so much easier and more
comfortable for people to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Be like oh okay, now I don't even have to
go anywhere. Stuff like that is definitely enabling.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It doesn't have it enabling actually makes it more harmful
because once people get comfortable enough doing.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Stuff a certain way, like why do anything else? So obvious?
No back in the day, the original thing with needles
would spread an HIV around. Okay, you could make an
argument for that, but beyond that, what's the argument for
the paraphernalia handing out hard to drug users.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
It's so strange. I don't know. I mean, because you
could get I don't know, a coal or herpes or
COVID by sharing a straw you're snorting meth with. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I don't think it has anything to do with that.
It's some sort of I don't know what it is,
misplaced compassion.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I guess, yeah, this is compassion I think would be
the answer. It's yet another great example of the feminization
of America where people have completely lost track of the
fact that you have to have negative consequences for bad behavior.
You'll get more of it. That girl's like, no, you're
enabling people, and she didn't make the point put I.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Thought she was going to say.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And if you make it really comfortable for people to
be addicted, they get more addicted and it gets harder
and harder.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
To get off the stuff. Something I had a story
I was going to get to maybe I'll do it
tomorrow about these rehabs that are ripping people off. Not
only do the rehabs that aren't trying to rip you
off fail, like ninety nine percent of the time, there's
a whole bunch of them that are they're designed to
rip you off.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
They're all, that's funny, that's I've got a trio of stories.
That's number one. Drug rehabs lore in patience for insurance money.
Then leave them on street.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, So rehabs don't work when they're trying, and they're legit,
they've very rarely worked. These are just trying to steal
your money.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Huge number of scammers, yeah, Wall Street Journal and no
marijuana users. Ye, so sick and twisted because you're almost
always taking the money of well, an insurance company. But
you got a husband or a wife, or a mom
or a dad who are just you know, they they've
been misled into believing these rehabs or what fixed people
and all the time, and it's just it's just tragic that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You're doing that.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, they spend their life savings. Yeah yeah, and then
you got this headline, more marijuana users are crash dummies.
High on pot drivers are contributing to more highway accident deaths.
New study found that more than forty percent of drivers
who died in car accidents in at least one US
county over the last six years had elevated levels of THC.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
In their Really, that's interesting now, it is, of course,
I'd need to know. Is that hire a lot by
a lot than it used to be before it was legal.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Over the last six years anyway, and then an article
asking did Pot make the Dallas ice shooter? You remember
that a couple of weeks ago he was anti ice
and he ended up killing some illegal immigrants. Did Pot
make the Dallas ice shooter psychotic? He was a heavy
pot user and was starting to develop psychotic symptoms. Heavy
(16:58):
pots absolutely makes psychosis more likely one and pot's way
stronger than it used to be, so it'd be exactly
easier to get there.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, that's troubling, are strong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Meantime, Vice President Vans touching down in Israel, denying reports
he was dispatched quote to try to keep mister Netanyahu
from resuming an all out assault against Hamas after weekend
attacks prompted each side to accuse the other of violating
the ceasefire.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
My visit had nothing to do with events in the
past forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
We had actually tried to.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Plan this visit frankly months ago, and now we thought
this would be a good time.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
To do it. So it's JD. Vance who was in
Israel yesterday. They're trying to hold together the ceasefire, and
both sides are saying they are still committed. So that's good.
I guess here's a little more from JD. Vance in
Israel yesterday.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I woant to say that there is this weird attitude
I've since in the American media, in the Western media,
where there's almost this desire to rooin for failure, that
every time something bad happens, that every time that there's
an act of violence, there's this inclination to say, oh,
this is the end of the ceasefire, this is the
end of the peace plan. It's not the end. It is,
in fact, exactly how this is going to have to
(18:13):
happen when you have people who hate each other, who
have been fighting against each other for a very long time.
We are doing very well. We are in a very
good place. We're going to have to keep working on it,
but I think we have the team to do exactly that.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, and I heard him say, we have many countries
that have already offered to help in the international peacekeeping force. Okay,
let's see how quickly that comes together with actual human
beings on the ground, with guns which they'll have to have,
and some sort of rules of engagement. Somebody will have
to be in charge of it.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, and you know, the the Trump always chickens out
thing was completely silly. Trump does frequently over promise, though,
and there are a bunch of examples, like the investment deals.
Japan's gonna invest three billion dollars in the United States,
and South Korea is part of our trade deal is
(19:06):
gonna invest five trillion, And if you look into it,
it's like that's two and a half percent of their GDP.
It's more than they spend on defense. It's just it's
never going to happen. But Trump hangs the trophy on
his wall and moves on. And the problem with this
situation and JD, there's no way in hell I'm rooting
for this to fail. I'm rooting for it to succeed.
He got the Emiordis and all of the Gulf States
(19:28):
to agree, yes, this is a good plan. We were
backing it partly because of the force of his personality.
And a hell of a good job by his team.
Hell of a good job, historic job. But here's the question,
do the Arab Muslim actors have the will to actually
do the ugly, dirty stuff it's gonna take to make
(19:51):
this work. That's where my doubt comes in.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
So I heard somebody pointing out today that we're still
in phase one and Phase one's got ways to go.
So don't get all worried about phase two, because I
was talking about phase two yesterday, which includes Hamas laying
down their arms, the installation of a government, and the
arrival of a peacekeeping force. I'm glad that they're saying
(20:16):
they're still in phase one, because all three of those
things seem like they're a long way off. I mean,
especially the installation of a new government. What who? How
many people? What well is.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It going to be that minister? No cratic Council of Peace.
But you know, I'll have a lot of questions. I
hope it works out. I wanted to work out. I
wanted to get to this. Stevie utter defeat of Hamas
would would accomplish it. It's the only choice. I will
be saying that in another couple of years. By the way,
if you ask me.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
So.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Somehow I have in my mind that author Stephen Stephen
Pinker is a lefty. I don't know why. Why don't
I have that in my mind? He's a humanist, he's
like a secular humanist.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Maybe it's because he's written a lot of has he
written anti god stuff? I don't know. Anyway, I have
in my mind he's the left. And maybe I'm just
wrong because I went to Amazon to look up his
books because I'm about to quote him, and Enlightenment Now
is one of his famous books and just took that
off the shelf the other day, which is just a
fantastic book and about how and he writs, which seems
(21:24):
conservative to me, endlessly about how much better the world
is now than it was fifty years ago or one
hundred year ago or two hundred years ago. I mean,
just so much better in every category quality of life
all around the world, Western civilization and market economy, because
a free market economy is in Western civilization, and you know,
the poor people are way way less poor and blah
(21:45):
blah blah. So he's a big fan of that. But
he's got a peace out today. Some of you are
going to hate this, but I he said, they don't
believe it either, Gaza's genocide accusation. And he writes, the
Gaza genocide, I never know how to say this word.
C A l U M n Y. I can read it,
but I can't say it. How do you say that, Calumny?
(22:06):
I believe that's how you say? Eh, somebody looking at
what would be a good subject way. I've always said,
I don't use the word in real life. What's your
best substitute for it? We'll just substitute a different word.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Uh disaster, cataclysm, uh.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, a situation in negative situation. The Gaza genocide situation
has become the left's equivalent of the stolen election for
the American right. It's not based on much fact. It's
just allegiance, precisely because it shows your ideological direction. It's
more about that than anything else. And I happen to
(22:43):
believe that's true. I know some believe hardcore stolen election,
but I think it's more of a signal that no,
I'm really really on this side. And he says that
it's true of the genocide, although it's just such a
horrible thing to make your I'm gonna pretend I believe
this because it's knows what side of the argument I'm
on to call something a genocide. Right.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh, by the way, I stand correct that I was
thinking of a different word. Calumny is the making of false,
in defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Slander in other words, Okay, so the slander that is
the gods of genocide is just like the stolen election.
It's more of claiming a direction of who you're with
and who you're against. And that's pretty awful, is his point.
You can't be going around throwing around the term genocide
or calling people, accusing people of committing a genocide when
(23:34):
all you're saying is you know, I'm anti Israel. That's
pretty over. But that's where we are. That's where we
are in our discussions. You have to you know, everybody's
either got to be hitler or you got to take everything.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
To the nth degree. Right, Yeah, yeah, not good for
it's not good for anything anything. It's not good for anything. Yes,
you summarized it. Well yeah, Oh, by the way, kind
of a stray topic here, unless you were you in
the middle of something. Okay, we were talking about the
(24:08):
ballroom that the president is trying to.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Well, he's not trying to he's building out to the
White House. Please settle this for me. That's two days
in a row on MSNBC that they've made this their lead
story about the horror of tearing down the historic building
that is the White House. Now, is this happening or not? No? No,
absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So the White House was built way back in the day,
burnt partly to the ground in eighteen twelve, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
By the British.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Never forget Teddy Roosevelt built the west wing. Okay, so
that was you know, early twentieth century. Taft made the
Oval office. Oval probably fit him because he's a big
old boy.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I just want a round room. Made him look less fat,
right exactly, was slimming.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Fdr added the entire east wing and included an indoor
pool for himself. Truman gutted and redid the entire White House.
Nixon famously, you added a bowling alley.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Obama, that's what we needed at that time. We were
in a cold war, a bowling alley. Right. Obama added
a basketball court.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And Trump is building a ballroom at no expense to
the taxpayers. Attached to the East Wing, which was built
by FDR back in the day.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Although this ballroom is going to be ginormous. It's a
big room. Now, I somebody said, did you say it, Hanson,
that it's square footage, it's bigger than.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The White House, than the Mansion. Yeah, I believe that
to be true.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, you know, I'm not making an argument of any kind,
but it is going to look way different. You add
on something to your house that's bigger than your house,
that's going to be the dominant feature. So the dominant
feature of the most famous house in the world is
going to be the ballroom.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I guess no, unless you're like standing next to it,
because like when you look at the White House from
the front, you don't see the East Wing and West
Wing really, you just see the mansion. True, they're like
super hidden. Yeah, So I don't know how prominent it's
going to be. Honestly, I don't care.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
My god.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
We have so much bigger problems in the US, in
the world than this damn ballroom.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
But the Democrats are just.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Desperate to rally some everybody up around some issue. They
keep trying and keep failing.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Do you got me, decent size nine hundred people. I
read yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That's like a big hotel ballroom. Yeah, that's a big joint.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
But his Trump's argument is that currently, like if you
have a gathering more than a small gathering, there's no
place to put people where you can like somebody can
speak to them and then you can go into another
room and have a meal. Correct.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, the east room where all the big banquets are,
can fit two hundred people.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
It's tight, you can do two hundred. Yeah. I don't
have an opinion on this either way.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So no, I mean in the list of issues pressing Americans,
it's way way way down the list.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
That picture is what looked bad because it looks like
you're tearing down a an historic building. That picture of
that wall torn off the side of the White House.
I think that's what that means for forties, arguably thirties.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It's just the east wing is historic, but it's just
the architecture is made to match the original mansion. They're
tearing down the walls so they can tie the new
structure into it. Is it any architecture will precisely mimic
the old mansion.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now because it's Trump, is it going to look like
a Chinese restaurant on the inside. That's a gold this
and that more than you can believe. I'm sure, gold silverware,
gold pictures, gold glasses, gold cups. Yeah, Milanie got a
roll in it because she's got style. Oh hell, it's
style for Miles. Are you kidding? I don't know, I
(27:43):
don't care. I have such a good thing for our
One More Thing podcast. So we do this radio show
every day, and then when we get off the air,
because we're just not done talking, we do another segment
called one More Thing that does not air on the radio.
You should check it out on our podcast. But I
got a good one for it today. I don't want
to I don't. I don't want to tease it because
it kind of gives away the punchline to it. But
(28:04):
it's uh no, I can't even tease it. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I lost my businessle the other day and we're dropping
f bombs all over the place, completely inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That was because sometimes there are swears. That was all
because of my anger of not being able to ring
up the pie at Costco in the self checkout line
and understand your anger, and I want to go pie
so badly, damn that's a good apple pie at Costco.
It's the best store bought apple pie I've ever had anywhere.
You should eaten You should have eaten it right there
as a protest. I should have with my hands. Yeah,
(28:35):
just set there. You just scooped it up like set
between my legs. Yeah, exactly. Okay, we will finish the
food court, Yeah, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Authorities in Los Angeles are looking for a woman who
allegedly used dating apps to find wealthy elderly men, pose
as a girlfriend, and then burglar their homes. They're also
still looking for a wealthy old man who mines.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, it worked out for me. I couldn't take it
with me burglarize their homes. That's interesting, all right, something
to watch out for. As I am an old man.
I wanted to hear a joke too. I haven't heard
this story either.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Tesla recently unveiled the cheaper version of its Model three
sedan that costs approximately thirty seven thousand dollars as opposed
to the cyber truck, which will cost you your friends
and family.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That's kind of happened to me. Uh so they got
a new version coming out. Okay, I'm going to continue
trying to make electric cars work. We'll see if that happens.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
And finally, the food brand Johnsonville will reportedly release a
new Doctor Pepper flavored sausage. Makes perfect sense, says, nobody
knows what that's made from either.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
M not great jokes. No, I mostly I wasn't looking
to them for humor. I was interested in the stories.
So there's a new Doctor Pepper sausage out. Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Run into uh if you're at a fancy barbecue place.
Dr Pepper barbecue sauce or cocrilla is often used for
the sweetness and barbecue sauce.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
I did not know that. Sure learned something every day. Okay,
cool and loves barbecue. Oh yeah. So do you think
these women were so they were just like chatting online
and then they figure out the guy's got stuff and
then rob's his house. Yeah exactly. Well that sucks.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, it's it's why you don't get a friends with
benefits relationship going with various uh women of ill repute
because their boyfriend is gonna rob your play sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Oh yeah, luckily I'm not doing that. Yeah. The modern world, man,
which the modern world is going to factor in the
One More Thing podcast, which is coming up after the show,
and then we'll post it. I was talking to a
parent about this the other day, realizing that every young
(31:22):
person in history says times are harder now than they
were before, and every parent says it's harder to raise
kids now that was before. But it is legit got
to be harder to raise kids now than it was
twenty five years ago. It just legitimately has to be.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As a guy who literally raised his kids twenty five
years ago, one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Not when they were little. It is the same as
it always has been, but now they're older and out
into the.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Lessons teenagers place. Yeah, no comparison shocking.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, I know, I know. It's awful, and we haven't
wrapped our heads around it. I mentioned to start the
show today. I was disturbed that I've heard the news
story twice that a new study has come out that
shows that if you eliminate cell phones in classrooms, test
scores go up. Well, thanks for that study.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
What check Clark GISs time stop, Jack and Joe Live
go and if they don't give, Canvale bebacks tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
That's true? Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Joe Getty, Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody
on the crew. Wouldn't that be delightful? Michael Langelo pressing
the buttons in the control room. Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Jack I really liked the idea of you protesting self
checkouts by just eating the food right there on the floor.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
No matter what it is, you just open it up
and start eating it. Well, I'll try to ring it. Oh,
I'll try to ring it up once. But if it
starts with the whole place the item on the train.
I didn't place the item on the train. Then I'm
just gonna eat it right there.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Now, did you not pie somebody in the face? You
have a pie? You're unhappy? That's the time honored Katie
Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Hillary popped off about the demolition of the East Waning
in the White House, and one of the responses to
her tweet with someone promptly letting her know about what
her husband did in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Oh, don't talk to us about desecrating the White House,
old lady. That's a decent point, Jackie. Final thought for
h In case you didn't hear me say this earlier.
My son in his public school class. Literally there are
girls sitting in the class with their phones out in
earbuds in watching TikTok videos during class while the teacher's
(33:29):
talking right right.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
My final thought, Wow, that's a little long and complicated.
I probably shouldn't go with that one. My final thought,
I'm going to quote one of my favorite Twitter accounts
who noticed the study we talked about a week or
two ago that the number of adolescents identicifying is transgender has.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Been cut in half in like two years. That's a
big story.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
And he says, reminder, people got canceled for suggesting that
this was a social contagion. They lost their jobs a
couple full of years ago. Question authority, leftist authority, especially always.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
So many people, thanks a little time. Go to armstrong
Giddy dot com. A lot of great clicks for you. You
got to check out the podcast The Great Feminization of America.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
We did it yesterday, hour two. Check it out. See
you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty. Let's
be clear, they're loco, they're locking up my toothpasts.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
It's the crazy meaning.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
No, what do we want to be? Losers or winners?
I want winner. You're a loser right words. I have
to laugh at that. Yeah, but mister speaker, it isn't
enough to say sorry, I'm going to cool my lawyer.
It is over that, I know. Thanks you all very much,
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