May 23, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Border crossings on the rise in San Diego...
- Fun facts about a delightful country...
- The Brat Pack are featured in a documentary...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Border Patrol San Diego sector is now seeing the most
illegal crossings of anywhere on the southern border. It's the
first time that has happened since the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Now, so why are we running a clip from years ago?
That can't be yesterday, because it would be nuts if
the sitting president, knowing this is the number two issue
in America right behind the economy, is still allowing records
to be broken in terms of illegal immigration. So that
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must have been an old clip from a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, absolutely was a throwback Thursday. No, that was from yesterday.
And it's also striking that as Greg Abbott and Texas
have demanded and assisted in a crackdown on border crossings there,
it's just moved right to San Diego, good old times
or back again. You've called this one of the great
failures of democracy that we've ever witnessed, and it is.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I was just sitting here contemplating the issue, and it's enormity,
it's severity, it's ubiquity.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Meaning everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Virtually everybody's aware of it now, even the mainstream lefty media.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
At least several months ago.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We're going pretty big with the millions of people acrossing
the border, and yet nothing's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's a failure of democracy because close to ninety percent
of people want our border secure and don't want people
coming into the country illegally. You'd think if practically everybody,
including both parties, wants something to happen, it would happen.
But it doesn't in this case. So something's wrong there,
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right right.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And I was actually reading up on the proposed compromised
legislation that Chuck Schumer is going to attempt to pass
again in the Senate to make Republicans look bad for
turning it down. It's an effort to neutralize the issue
going into the election in November, and I was reading
about some of the objections that a lot of Republicans
have to the bill because it does substantially liberalize, I mean,
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like it increases the annual number of green cards given
a foreign nationals by fifty thousand, provides work permits to
the adult children of h one B visa holders green
cards to tens of thousands of Afgrand migrants. A lot
of them helped us in the war, and they deserve
it for what it's worth. Expedited work permits to those
who snuck across the border recently, taxpayer funded lawyers to
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certain onun a company, to alien children and mentally incompetent migrants.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Good lord.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And the bill allows some thirty five thousand migrants encounters
of the southern border before the Department of Homeland Security,
before DHS can even use border controls to detain quickly
remove new arrivals. It is highly, highly imperfect, but it
is going to be used again to make it look
like Republicans aren't serious about immigration anyway. Having said all that,
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what is the current situation?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bill?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Mallusion of Fox News doing a hell of a job
describing it. This is, I mean, if you clear your
mind of the kind of yeah I've been hearing about
this and just look at it and new how amazing
this is. It's well amazing. Start with sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The San Diego sector where we are has now become
ground zero for massive illegal crossings of adult men from
the Middle East in Asia, and they really don't seem
to have any fear of consequences or deportation when they
get here. It's right here in Hukumba or I'm standing.
During the overnight hours, as we saw numerous men from
all around the world crossing illegally, very nonchalantly as they
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turn themselves in to be picked up.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
By border patrol.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Several of them were what are known as special interest aliens,
meaning they come from countries with potential national secure he
already concerns and should be subject to additional DHS vetting.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Why do you suppose they have no fear of deportation
or consequences. Can't imagine, because nobody's getting deported or having
any consequences. Also, those who make this point are very
very correct. If you're still thinking, like sometimes I think
that this is all about people coming in from Mexico
to pick tomatoes, That's not what it is anymore. Oh
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not even close now.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Speaking of which, listen to this geographic checklist if you
would next clip, Where.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Are you guys from? Well country? Next time?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Pakistan, India, India, Turkey, Yeah, Turkey, Okay, Where you guys
from China, China, Ecuador, Iran, Iran, Iran?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Why'd you come? No freedom? No freedom, yes, Oh interesting, Hey,
college kids who hate this country. People from all over
the world have heard the best country on earth is
letting me in with no penalty. So people are coming
from all over the planet. You know how hard it
would be to get here from some of those places,
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Oh my god. But they're willing to do it because
it's a much better place to be, it is, and
yet we must vet them and figure out who we're
letting in. One more clip from that report, and.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We also met up with a local resident out here,
Corey Godoro. He goes out and he collects all of
these discarded passports and IDs that he says illegal immigrants
are dropping as soon as they cross here in Hookumba.
He's got hundreds of them from China, from Afghanistan, from Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, many others.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Some of them are burned, cut and shredded.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
They're just dropping this stuff on the ground to come
here and assume a new identity. So that's a little
bit scary. From my military background and seeing the people
that are coming across that mail mail mail. These are
all military males. People keep saying that I've got the
proof right here.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
A squad of fifteen guys pulls off some sort of
horrifying terrorist attack. Is anybody gonna be the least bit surprised?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And when everybody cries out, how did this happen? I mean,
I don't know that I can inhale the air it
would take to answer the question.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It's just so exhausting. I don't know if anybody even will.
They'll be the you know, breaking news, some horrifying terrorist attack,
a giant oil refinery blown up, or whatever the hell
it is, you know, fifteen guys from the Middle East suspected.
I think we'll all say, oh yeah, probably probably snuck
across the border because we knew that would happen. So well,
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there'll be an inquiry into that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
The New York Times headline will be Republicans pounce accused
Democrats of letting terrorists. And even if there's videotape of
all the terrorists walking in saying hey, we're terrorists and
we're coming in, the New York Times will will and
their ilk will you know, spin it as wild Republican
conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
China doesn't want to pull off a terrorist attack, but
they got gazillion spies probably coming into the country and saboteurs. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I came across this article on the Free Press, which
is Barry Weiss's substack who and.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
She has lots of great writers who write.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I was really struck by this headline, why some US
border agents are contemplating suicide? And I thought, what the hell,
that's pretty sensationalistic, and it's a hell of a headline.
But then I read a good chunk of it and man,
it is harrowing. And this is a bit off topic.
But then I'm gonna get closer to the topic of
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those pieces of.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Audio we just played you.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But here's Brian talking about stories where he he sees.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
These two toddlers.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
A cartel member emerged from the Rio Grande carrying two toddlers,
one boy, one girl, wearing nothing but diapers. Man darted
across the border, dropped the children fifty feet away, and
raced back into the river New Mexico. So Brian, who
was a tenyurre veteran, says, I picked up these toddlers
and looked fifty yards south. That's when we saw six
adult immigrants running across the border as fast as they could.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
The children, he realized had been a decoy.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
They used these kids to distract us so they can
run their illegals up in other places. As he helped
the children in safety, he was outraged when I couldn't
pursue those men. I felt like I was letting the
American people down. Who are those little children, those toddlers,
Where did they come from? Who are they? And the
cartels are using them as a head fake?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Good God, that's a horrifying story.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So anyway, then, well that's the live kids. He comes across.
The border is secure?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Come on, Michael, agents is secure.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Chinese agents infiltrated your your keyboard there, Let's get let's
do our jobs.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Ah. So that is just harrowing but getting. But the
fact that Trump is tied with Biden, given the landscape,
is amazing one of the top issues in the country.
Trump has made it very clear he cares about the
border wants to do something about it. Poll after poll
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has shown that people preferred Trump's policies on the border
to Biden's policy. Yet it's tied.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So here are a couple more guys they quote here
in the Free Press. This is I think what's this
guy's name Mark. We all knew under this administration there'd
be a change. We expect that every time there's a
political change. But when it turned out that the job
became nothing more than processing and releasing these people, that
was very hard to take. Before the crisis, processing migrants
was secondary to working the line, controlling the border and
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patrolling the boarder. Today, because of sheer numbers of people
coming into the country, there's little time for anything else
beside processing. Quote, it feels like a bait and switch,
said Mark. We're meant to serve a law enforcement purpose.
That's what we signed up or and they're trained for.
But suddenly we're now expected to act as a humanitarian
relief agency, which requires an entirely different set of skills, expectations, resources,
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and responsibilities, ones that most of us didn't have. Now
here's the part that I really wanted to get to.
In terms of the vetting, this is a guy Clinton,
n and Clem. Even when agents spot something suspicious, there's
little they can do for the reasons that Mark just
made clear. Quote, even if my spidy senses go off,
I have to ask myself how much time can I
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devote to this Because I've got two hundred people more
in line I have to process. They even took away
our ability to use DNA testing, so we no longer
have the resources to see whether we're not we're processing
a real family unit that's claiming to be a family unit.
A lot of agents are just trying to go to
work and survive, and that's not where you want to
be when you're in law enforcement. So these guys are
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so overtaxed with the humanitarian processing duty. They see somebody
they don't like, they think, I can't I can't take
the half an hour it would take. I got two
hundred people waiting in line in the sun I do.
I can't even look into this guy, ay Kromba. It's
a stunning failure democracy.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And it's you know, like we've said, it's not just
changing demographics or people with that don't have our cultural
norms or all that sort of stuff, which is a
big problem. I mean, you import millions and millions and
millions people who aren't invested in you know, democracy or
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rule of law or whatever, depending on what country come from. Right,
there's gonna be some sort of terrorist attack. There's gonna
be something happened where we realize, Oh all those Chinese
saboteurs spies that came in, Oh that's what they were
up to. It's gonna happen. Sure, absolutely, Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Sam Harris, who I really like. He's a great thinker
and writers. I've been thinking and talking and writing about
this recently. I'm going to bring you some of it
next week. But he's talking about the well, essentially what
Jack just said, the utter predictability and insanity of knowingly
bringing in a huge number of humans who specifically aggressively
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reject your culture, reject your principles, reject your morals, reject
everything that makes your country your country. Taking all of
those people in and expecting nothing terrible to happen is well,
it's it's it's beyond stupidity, it's close to insanity.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Done it great Britain has done it, and they're groaning
under the weight.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Countries all across Europe have done it, and they're enduring
and will soon endure even worse. You know, trials not
to mention the tribulations, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
We got to lighten up now, I guess we do.
We do a log en up. We will when we
will we'll come up with something to lighten up with
and to memorial late weekend for crying out loud? What
are you gonna do? Boat? Eat hot dogs? Hot dogs?
Certainly boating? Probably not, although if anybody offers me a
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boating excursion, I will accept it. Gotta love a good
boating excursion. Please.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
What's not to like? The not being able to pee?
That's what's not to like?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What you pee under the water? What you stay? I'm
in mixed company. Tell them to look the other way, pig. Yes,
you know more about boating than us, Katie, Well, how
do you pee? You use the bathroom on the boat?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, if you've got a giant boat with the bathroom,
all right, Princess, all right? You know what is that
that third right after the gym and the uh, the
exercise or that's the same.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Thing, Joe, Yeah, that's next to the bedroom. So if
you're on a smaller boat, though, and guys say, will
you avert your eyes and need to pee? Is that
okay or not? I would think, So what are you
gonna go? It ain't the classiest, but exactly yeah, what
else are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're gonna jump in the water and get a far
off look in your eyes and try to go under
water from a floating more the way, stay here at
hey yetty, This truck here was bought a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
He was bought by his mom.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Which is my great grandma, and him for fifty dollars
in a hog.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So it's an emotional deal for him for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
How long do you think it's vin since you drove it? Yeah,
it's been a long time. So it's a grandson who
found grandpa's old truck, refurbished, this seventy year old truck. Yeah,
that he bought for fifty dollars in a hog. Back,
when you buy a truck for not just cash but
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also a farm animal, tell.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You what, I'll give you forty five dollars in a
hog for that truck. Will you get that up to
fifty dollars in a hog?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
We got a deal. So how about sixty bucks in
a chicken? A chicken?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Gosh, at least eighty eight and a chicken? Again, I
must re iterate fifty dollars in a hog. By gully,
they struck the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Jack. That's the free market at work, isn't it exactly? It?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It is so folks, Oh my God, the tragedy of it,
the heartbreak of it. University of Pennsylvania sophomore Eleana Atienza
placed on mandatory leave for participating in an illegal anti
Israel encampment, the violence, the love of Hamas, et cetera. Well,
she's made it clear that she is now a downtrodden
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victim of quote administrative violence, she said, according to an
interview of the Philadelphia Inquirer, that's the big paper there.
That she's forced to vacate her campus storm, leaving her
homeless with no family in the United States to turn
to Holy Cow, a victim of administrative violence. Except that
her dad is an incredibly rich celebrity in the Philippines
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who regularly instagrams himself on international flights where he flies
in some sort of thing that includes a bed and
a shower.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, and he gets caviare cavia.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
She instagram's constantly about their global vacations, a dinosaur egg collection,
vintage motorcycles. Her grandpa was a prominent politician. These people
are richer than God. And she's portraying herself to the
local press as homeless. I live on campus the universe
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that he just barred me from entering In other words,
they've made me homeless.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm an international student. University knows this. This is their weapon.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm so disappointed to attend an institution that resorts to
administrative violence. Rich little Marxist biacs. Please, Oh that is
so maddening. I can hardly stand it. And what does
that shower thing cost?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
John A Flight, Kansas City chiefs quotabat Patrick Mahomes is
defending his teammate kicker Harrison Butker. Butker faced backlash for
his commencement address at Benedictine College, telling women graduates while
they're excited about their careers, he knows they're likely most
excited about getting married and having children. He said their
most important title should be homemaker a home saying he
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doesn't agree with Buttker, but quote, I judge him by
the character he shows every day, calling un quote a
great person.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Doesn't agree with him. I don't care, Pat, all right,
why don't you just stay out of that? No, I
get what he said. I can't say, Look, this is
a great dude, all right? Lighting a hell up? I
think people should weigh in on less stuff. Yeah, you know,
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in general. Yeah, I can't disagree, says a guy weighs
in on everything for a living. Yeah wait a minute, yeah,
this is we mentioned this story in the week. I
think US Defense Department announced tuesday that Russia launched a
space weapon last week that would have the ability to
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take out some of our satellites.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Okay, got that story. Then you got this story, clear right,
what's that? Perhaps nuclear nuclear equipped the weapon up there
in space.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Eventually, then you got this story out of Great Britain
that said yesterday China is providing lethal aid rather than
the previously known dual use technology and economic buttressing supporting
Russia's war against Ukraine, China is providing lethal aid to
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Russia as they fight in Ukraine. Great Britain said today
I can reveal that we have evidence that Russia and
China are collaborating on combat equipment for use in Ukraine.
Lethal aid is now or will be flowing from China
to Russia into Ukraine. That's according to Great Britain, our
closest ally. Joe Biden said that was a red line
for him. If China did that, we'll see if there's
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any price to pay for crossing yet another one of
Joe Biden's red lines.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, yeah, I was just reading about the state of
What was the specific terminology they used. It's the minerals war,
the desperate need, especially in the wake of new technologies emerging,
whether it's computers, defense, green technologies, all of these critical minerals,
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the supply chain, and how the US and other countries
have tried like crazy to ramp it up and get
going and be self sufficient, and the Chinese so control
the markets and they can sew dump material to lower prices,
to blot out competitors, that the attempts to get some
sort of self sufficiency so far have been floundering failures.
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And that led me, of course to the continuing, just
unanswerable question of this is a force for evil and
would be dominance of the world to commit more evil
and we're just completely economically intertwined with them. How does
that work?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And I've been complaining about cheap Chinese crap for many,
many years, long before we decided China was our number
one enemy? Is there any way to unwind that as
part of the whole deal. I realized we'd have to
change people's attitudes. I thought of this on Sunday when
I was setting up an umbrella for my son's flag
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football tournament. I bought this umbrella so that I wouldn't
bake in the sun at Big five Sporting Goods. It
was ridiculously inexpensive, and it was also crap. It was
just crap. It was so flimsily built, and every little
part of it was cheap, thin plastic that if it
didn't break, will break soon. It's just flimsy crap and
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made in China, of course crap. And it was like
forty bucks. It would have been better if it was
eighty bucks, but as a good, solid umbrella that you
would have for the rest of your life and maybe
give to your kids when they go off to college.
How do we break away from our addiction to cheap
Chinese crap that keeps us so intertwined? Is there any
way out of that? I don't know. We're such a
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big company and we're so wealthy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I think as every generation of Americans becomes adults, they
fall for the cheap Chinese crap trap, partly because they
don't have the money to do otherwise, or they don't
think they do it.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Could that be it?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Because I mean, at this point in my life, I
don't buy the cheapest or the crappiest. I'll look for
something of quality, but I can afford it. I don't know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I tell about you're burning money when you buy this
cheap Chinese crap because it breaks and it ends up
in the garage in the corner because part of it
broke off a long time ago, and you just heal itself. Yeah,
like it's gonna heal itself in your lawn chair or
some sort of weed whacker thingy or whatever that was
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made in China that no longer works. It's so frustrating
to me. I feel like, at least on the young end,
we're going in the other direction.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I keep worading about this fast fashion stuff, the vin
and you gals probably know the brand names.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I can't keep them in my mind.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But where you can go on in the hit of
the hottest hippis stuff is available at like laughably low
prices and you wear it for two three months, then
it's out anyway, and the fact that it's falling apart,
you don't care. That's that's a big thing in fashion
right now. Fast fashion interesting.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I know someone who is young and I assume doesn't
make much money, but is really well dressed all the time.
I'll bet that's what they're doing. Yeah, they're always very trendy.
They're probably doing that that I get. If this shape
of jeens is only going to be in style for
one season, I don't need to be very good. A
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couple of polls that I won't spend much time on.
The latest major poll to come out, Trump still leads
in seven of the eight battleground states. That has been
that way for a while. The only thing that can
change the direction of that is some world event or
the debate, which is not that many weeks away. Holy crap,
that's going to be something. But I like this poll,
Siena College poll about the protesters, you know, the whole
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college campus protest thing that we were all following for
a while. Yes, and this is another one of those
real life versus what you get through the media. Percent
of New Yorkers say the campus protests went too far
and support police being called in seventy percent of New
Yorkers Wow, not even the regular country, And sixty one
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percent think the demonstrators forgot Hama started the war. And
it feels like the demonstrations have crossed the line into
anti semitism.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You know that rich Filipino girl we were just citing
in the previous segment for just typical neo Marxist, I
read a quote from her in the Philadelphia Inquirer that
the settler colonial state of Israel has been perpetrating violence
against the Palestinians since the beginning, and they are solely
responsible for any violence or bloodshed. So that's that's the
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line from the committed little Marxists, the stupid little tools
of powers.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
They don't even understand. Ay, sort of on that topic,
I didn't know how to interpret this, so we mentioned
the whole bunch of countries that are allies of the
United States that recognized Palasgine as a state or a
recognized Palestinian statehood, which is something I don't even get
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what that means, because, Okay, where's it going to be,
what's the government? Yeah, who's going to run it? Anyway,
the map of the world shows that practically the whole
world recognizes Palestinian statehood. Really, the only countries that aren't
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are United States, Canada, Greenland, and Australia. It looks like
that's it pretty much in the entire planet.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Good look, good looking out Greenland. Thanks for being with US, buddy.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Anyway, is it Greenland or Iceland? Which one's the big
island off of the United States? Is that Greenland? Greenland? Greenland? Okay, Greenland?
Greenland is icy and Iceland is green? Gotcha? Ian Bremmer
tweeted that out and said the West is on the
wrong side of this one. Which which part of the West?
The US? Well, I guess he means, yeah, the US
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and Greenland, the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Australia gets
credit for being the West. So he believes we're on
the wrong side of not recognizing Palestinian statehood. How's that possible?
I don't. I would love to discuss that with him.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I would too, I don't. I don't even get the
argument no, and I don't have the energy to relitigate it.
But no, given all of the negotiations, through all of
the years, all of the incredibly generous offers backed up
by the entire civilized world, that the radical Palestinians turned
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down over and over again, because their raison dietra is
not to have a state that looks to the needs
of the Palestinian people. It's to wipe out the Jews
and achieve Islamic supremacy throughout the world.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's what they want. Yeah, you see, most of the
Palestinians don't believe in Israeli statehood is.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The problem, right, Oh yeah, they want to wipe it
off the face of the earth. Okay, So describe Aga
in your two state solution.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Fifty seven thousand, Jack, fifty seven thousand. That is roughly
the population of Greenland.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
What, No, it's not. Yes, it is that great big
land mass has fifty seven thousand people.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
That is correct, sir. Yes, wow, it is a Danish
protectorate or territory.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
But they never have traffic jams.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh, almost never. Yeah, citizens are full. I'm sorry, the
citizen of Greenland are full citizens of Denmark.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I'm moving in Greenland.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's the world's largest island location of the northernmost area
of the world covered Clobon Island off the northern coast.
It's the world's northernmost undisputed point of land.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Huh, what do more people want to live in Greenland?
It's it's cold, right cold a f dude. I'm from
southern Winds. I'm out of here. No polar bears are
like f this. I'm heading south to the Yukon. Can
you see that? I mean, it's it's like that's Arctic circle.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, I know, I'm looking at the map. It makes
South Dakota seem like Florida. So yeah, the fifty other
people I could not cross, I wouldn't have come within
a million people of that. I would have guessed a
low number, like a million and a half people. But wow,
that's interesting. I got I got more.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I got more Greenland Front plans eighty nine point five
percent Inuit Okay, including multi ethnic European Inuit, mainly Danish
and other Northern Nordics who got together with the Inuit
people and said, hey, if the iglues hoppens don't bother knocking, right, yeah,
you're for it being so cold seven point five percent
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Danish one point one percent, Nordic two percent others.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
What's the number one export seal tongues? What spob barrick?
I don't think they don't export anything cold air. That's it.
We will finish strong next time Strong.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
On June tenth, nineteen eighty five, New York Magazine publish
Hollywood's Brought Back. I just remember seeing that cover and thinking, oh,
if you were coming of age in the nineteen eighties,
the brat Pack was near the center of your cultural awareness.
But for those of us experiencing it from the inside,
the brad Pack was something very different. I've never talked
(30:17):
to anybody about what that was like, so I thought
it might be interesting to try and contact everyone who
was in the Black Pack. Hey, Emelios, this is Andrew
McCarthy calling you. Hey, Allie, pay to me, Hey, Molly,
let's call raw Hello.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But I'm not gonna say we were the Beatles or anything.
We didn't Stadius nineteen eighty five. I think we could have.
I don't know why I find that repulsive. So in
the eighties, if you're too young to know, there are
a whole bunch of most of them pretty good movies,
but very popular movies that all had the same actors
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and actresses in them, and they called them the brat Pack.
But every movie had the same people in it. But anyway,
I don't know about this nostalgic look back. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It's a documentary. Watch that documentary. I would like to
buy your time from you. I mean I like something out, Yes,
I love Breakfast Club. I mean, that's that's a fantastic
movie and pretty and picking some of those. But whatever, okay, fine,
a bunch of pretty people who had their big break
(31:22):
and started the same.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Not whatever now fishing sea food? But what now? Fishing?
Shut up?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Arnold Fish and seafood the greatest exports of Greenland by far.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
That's that's ninety percent of their exports. So I was
close the rest. The seal tongues.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Good lord, you got a bunch of seals having a
run around doing sign language because brutes like you are
harvesting their tongues.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I wanted to hit these numbers again. We did it yesterday.
I heard it a few places yesterday. It's extraordinary. It
explains a lot of our politics right now. A poll
about the economy and how wrong Americans are about the
current economic situation. Though I understand exactly why they feel
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the way they feel, because I feel the same way.
We all feel the way we feel because of inflation
and everything is so damned expensive. But over half of
Americans believe the economy is shrinking and believe that we
are in a recession. That's not true. The economy is growing.
We are not in a recession. But over half of
Americans think that half of Americans believe the S and
(32:33):
P five hundred is down for twenty twenty four. It's
actually up double digits. And then this one is the
most amazing. Half of people believe unemployment is at a
fifty year high. It's actually at a fifty year low.
People are completely wrong about the numbers of the national economy. Yeah,
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I will point out.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
We got an email one bloke pointing out that labor
participants is less than it's been traditionally. So people might
be looking around and seeing a hell of a lot
of people who don't seem to be working. I see
that on their impression of the unemployment rate. I see
that myself and thinking, how do you not have a job?
How do you survive a lot of government handouts? I guess,
(33:21):
But yeah, So the the big kahuna for economics, how
you feel about the economy is what things cost you
on a daily basis.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Just is and always will be.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
If America is saying I'm scared about money, and you
say and yet the S and P is up a
certain percentage, They're like, shut up, I'm scared about money.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Nothing else matters, Right.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
I have some final thoughts, and some people say they
are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if
you look at what's happening, I would have to say
Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thought. They are
right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. This kind
of final thought from everybody on the crew. There he
is Michaelangelore, Technical director. Michael final thought. Yeah, this is
for Jack. Don't be afraid. Just get a bib, put
kiss the cook on it, get a chef's hat, and
give grill In a chance this weekend. Give it a chance.
Kiss the cook. Katie Greener esteemed a Newswoman as a
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final thought.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
Katie, after that earlier story about the kid finding the
grandfather's truck that he paid for with fifty bucks in
a hog, I have decided I'm gonna start bartering with
farm animals. I don't have any, but I'm gonna try
it just to see if it'll work.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So you're like kind of short selling farm animals. I'm
buying a hog to sell it later.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, it's interesting. Jack a final thought for us. I
don't know if he was considered an official member. Of
the brat pack, but he was certainly in a lot
of those movies. The one that's had the longest career
to me is James Spader, which I think is he's
so interesting. He was the bad guy, you hated him,
super good looking, long blonde hair, bully kid in all
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those movies, and now he's on the Blacklist if you
ought to. He's an old, bald, fat guy, and he's
still a great actor. I just find that I had
to actually show my son because he loves the Blacklist.
Say this is what James Spader was when I was
your age. Isn't it amazing He's made a career. Good
for him.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
My final thought is, heck ya, I'm gonna have a
couple of drinks. You know, I'm gonna play some golf,
have some barbecue and some fun that sort of thing.
But please, let's all of us remember what Memorial Day is.
It's a celebration of those who've sacrificed so we can
enjoy the incredible country and the liberty we have.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
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Speaker 3 (36:00):
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Hang on, guys, I'm Strong and Getty. How many more
hours am I doing? When it comes on for you
to go, you'll have to go. I'm leaving a personal privilege.
A little too much talking dog, So let's go with
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of my best work on that I know. Thank you
all very much, Armstrong and Getty.
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Border Patrol San Diego sector is now seeing the most
illegal crossings of anywhere on the southern border. It's the
first time that has happened since the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Now, so why are we running a clip from years ago?
That can't be yesterday, because it would be nuts if
the sitting president, knowing this is the number two issue
in America right behind the economy, is still allowing records
to be broken in terms of illegal immigration. So that
(00:46):
must have been an old clip from a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, absolutely was a throwback Thursday. No, that was from yesterday.
And it's also striking that as Greg Abbott and Texas
have demanded and assisted in a crackdown on border crossings there,
it's just moved right to San Diego, good old times
or back again. You've called this one of the great
failures of democracy that we've ever witnessed, and it is.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I was just sitting here contemplating the issue, and it's enormity,
it's severity, it's ubiquity.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Meaning everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Virtually everybody's aware of it now, even the mainstream lefty media.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
At least several months ago.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We're going pretty big with the millions of people acrossing
the border, and yet nothing's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's a failure of democracy because close to ninety percent
of people want our border secure and don't want people
coming into the country illegally. You'd think if practically everybody,
including both parties, wants something to happen, it would happen.
But it doesn't in this case. So something's wrong there,
(01:53):
right right.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And I was actually reading up on the proposed compromised
legislation that Chuck Schumer is going to attempt to pass
again in the Senate to make Republicans look bad for
turning it down. It's an effort to neutralize the issue
going into the election in November, and I was reading
about some of the objections that a lot of Republicans
have to the bill because it does substantially liberalize, I mean,
(02:18):
like it increases the annual number of green cards given
a foreign nationals by fifty thousand, provides work permits to
the adult children of h one B visa holders green
cards to tens of thousands of Afgrand migrants. A lot
of them helped us in the war, and they deserve
it for what it's worth. Expedited work permits to those
who snuck across the border recently, taxpayer funded lawyers to
(02:39):
certain onun a company, to alien children and mentally incompetent migrants.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Good lord.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And the bill allows some thirty five thousand migrants encounters
of the southern border before the Department of Homeland Security,
before DHS can even use border controls to detain quickly
remove new arrivals. It is highly, highly imperfect, but it
is going to be used again to make it look
like Republicans aren't serious about immigration anyway. Having said all that,
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what is the current situation?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bill?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Mallusion of Fox News doing a hell of a job
describing it. This is, I mean, if you clear your
mind of the kind of yeah I've been hearing about
this and just look at it and new how amazing
this is. It's well amazing. Start with sixty.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The San Diego sector where we are has now become
ground zero for massive illegal crossings of adult men from
the Middle East in Asia, and they really don't seem
to have any fear of consequences or deportation when they
get here. It's right here in Hukumba or I'm standing.
During the overnight hours, as we saw numerous men from
all around the world crossing illegally, very nonchalantly as they
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turn themselves in to be picked up.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
By border patrol.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Several of them were what are known as special interest aliens,
meaning they come from countries with potential national secure he
already concerns and should be subject to additional DHS vetting.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Why do you suppose they have no fear of deportation
or consequences. Can't imagine, because nobody's getting deported or having
any consequences. Also, those who make this point are very
very correct. If you're still thinking, like sometimes I think
that this is all about people coming in from Mexico
to pick tomatoes, That's not what it is anymore. Oh
(04:28):
not even close now.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Speaking of which, listen to this geographic checklist if you
would next clip, Where.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Are you guys from? Well country? Next time?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Pakistan, India, India, Turkey, Yeah, Turkey, Okay, Where you guys
from China, China, Ecuador, Iran, Iran, Iran?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Why'd you come? No freedom? No freedom, yes, Oh interesting, Hey,
college kids who hate this country. People from all over
the world have heard the best country on earth is
letting me in with no penalty. So people are coming
from all over the planet. You know how hard it
would be to get here from some of those places,
(05:09):
Oh my god. But they're willing to do it because
it's a much better place to be, it is, and
yet we must vet them and figure out who we're
letting in. One more clip from that report, and.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We also met up with a local resident out here,
Corey Godoro. He goes out and he collects all of
these discarded passports and IDs that he says illegal immigrants
are dropping as soon as they cross here in Hookumba.
He's got hundreds of them from China, from Afghanistan, from Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, many others.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Some of them are burned, cut and shredded.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
They're just dropping this stuff on the ground to come
here and assume a new identity. So that's a little
bit scary. From my military background and seeing the people
that are coming across that mail mail mail. These are
all military males. People keep saying that I've got the
proof right here.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
A squad of fifteen guys pulls off some sort of
horrifying terrorist attack. Is anybody gonna be the least bit surprised?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And when everybody cries out, how did this happen? I mean,
I don't know that I can inhale the air it
would take to answer the question.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It's just so exhausting. I don't know if anybody even will.
They'll be the you know, breaking news, some horrifying terrorist attack,
a giant oil refinery blown up, or whatever the hell
it is, you know, fifteen guys from the Middle East suspected.
I think we'll all say, oh yeah, probably probably snuck
across the border because we knew that would happen. So well,
(06:40):
there'll be an inquiry into that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
The New York Times headline will be Republicans pounce accused
Democrats of letting terrorists. And even if there's videotape of
all the terrorists walking in saying hey, we're terrorists and
we're coming in, the New York Times will will and
their ilk will you know, spin it as wild Republican
conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
China doesn't want to pull off a terrorist attack, but
they got gazillion spies probably coming into the country and saboteurs. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I came across this article on the Free Press, which
is Barry Weiss's substack who and.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
She has lots of great writers who write.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I was really struck by this headline, why some US
border agents are contemplating suicide? And I thought, what the hell,
that's pretty sensationalistic, and it's a hell of a headline.
But then I read a good chunk of it and man,
it is harrowing. And this is a bit off topic.
But then I'm gonna get closer to the topic of
(07:37):
those pieces of.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Audio we just played you.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But here's Brian talking about stories where he he sees.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
These two toddlers.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
A cartel member emerged from the Rio Grande carrying two toddlers,
one boy, one girl, wearing nothing but diapers. Man darted
across the border, dropped the children fifty feet away, and
raced back into the river New Mexico. So Brian, who
was a tenyurre veteran, says, I picked up these toddlers
and looked fifty yards south. That's when we saw six
adult immigrants running across the border as fast as they could.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
The children, he realized had been a decoy.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
They used these kids to distract us so they can
run their illegals up in other places. As he helped
the children in safety, he was outraged when I couldn't
pursue those men. I felt like I was letting the
American people down. Who are those little children, those toddlers,
Where did they come from? Who are they? And the
cartels are using them as a head fake?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Good God, that's a horrifying story.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So anyway, then, well that's the live kids. He comes across.
The border is secure?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Come on, Michael, agents is secure.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Chinese agents infiltrated your your keyboard there, Let's get let's
do our jobs.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I've got a busy day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Ah. So that is just harrowing but getting. But the
fact that Trump is tied with Biden, given the landscape,
is amazing one of the top issues in the country.
Trump has made it very clear he cares about the
border wants to do something about it. Poll after poll
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has shown that people preferred Trump's policies on the border
to Biden's policy. Yet it's tied.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So here are a couple more guys they quote here
in the Free Press. This is I think what's this
guy's name Mark. We all knew under this administration there'd
be a change. We expect that every time there's a
political change. But when it turned out that the job
became nothing more than processing and releasing these people, that
was very hard to take. Before the crisis, processing migrants
was secondary to working the line, controlling the border and
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patrolling the boarder. Today, because of sheer numbers of people
coming into the country, there's little time for anything else
beside processing. Quote, it feels like a bait and switch,
said Mark. We're meant to serve a law enforcement purpose.
That's what we signed up or and they're trained for.
But suddenly we're now expected to act as a humanitarian
relief agency, which requires an entirely different set of skills, expectations, resources,
(10:08):
and responsibilities, ones that most of us didn't have. Now
here's the part that I really wanted to get to.
In terms of the vetting, this is a guy Clinton,
n and Clem. Even when agents spot something suspicious, there's
little they can do for the reasons that Mark just
made clear. Quote, even if my spidy senses go off,
I have to ask myself how much time can I
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devote to this Because I've got two hundred people more
in line I have to process. They even took away
our ability to use DNA testing, so we no longer
have the resources to see whether we're not we're processing
a real family unit that's claiming to be a family unit.
A lot of agents are just trying to go to
work and survive, and that's not where you want to
be when you're in law enforcement. So these guys are
(10:50):
so overtaxed with the humanitarian processing duty. They see somebody
they don't like, they think, I can't I can't take
the half an hour it would take. I got two
hundred people waiting in line in the sun I do.
I can't even look into this guy, ay Kromba. It's
a stunning failure democracy.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And it's you know, like we've said, it's not just
changing demographics or people with that don't have our cultural
norms or all that sort of stuff, which is a
big problem. I mean, you import millions and millions and
millions people who aren't invested in you know, democracy or
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rule of law or whatever, depending on what country come from. Right,
there's gonna be some sort of terrorist attack. There's gonna
be something happened where we realize, Oh all those Chinese
saboteurs spies that came in, Oh that's what they were
up to. It's gonna happen. Sure, absolutely, Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Sam Harris, who I really like. He's a great thinker
and writers. I've been thinking and talking and writing about
this recently. I'm going to bring you some of it
next week. But he's talking about the well, essentially what
Jack just said, the utter predictability and insanity of knowingly
bringing in a huge number of humans who specifically aggressively
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reject your culture, reject your principles, reject your morals, reject
everything that makes your country your country. Taking all of
those people in and expecting nothing terrible to happen is well,
it's it's it's beyond stupidity, it's close to insanity.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Done it great Britain has done it, and they're groaning
under the weight.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Countries all across Europe have done it, and they're enduring
and will soon endure even worse. You know, trials not
to mention the tribulations, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
We got to lighten up now, I guess we do.
We do a log en up. We will when we
will we'll come up with something to lighten up with
and to memorial late weekend for crying out loud? What
are you gonna do? Boat? Eat hot dogs? Hot dogs?
Certainly boating? Probably not, although if anybody offers me a
(13:26):
boating excursion, I will accept it. Gotta love a good
boating excursion. Please.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
What's not to like? The not being able to pee?
That's what's not to like?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What you pee under the water? What you stay? I'm
in mixed company. Tell them to look the other way, pig. Yes,
you know more about boating than us, Katie, Well, how
do you pee? You use the bathroom on the boat?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well, if you've got a giant boat with the bathroom,
all right, Princess, all right? You know what is that
that third right after the gym and the uh, the
exercise or that's the same.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Thing, Joe, Yeah, that's next to the bedroom. So if
you're on a smaller boat, though, and guys say, will
you avert your eyes and need to pee? Is that
okay or not? I would think, So what are you
gonna go? It ain't the classiest, but exactly yeah, what
else are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're gonna jump in the water and get a far
off look in your eyes and try to go under
water from a floating more the way, stay here at
hey yetty, This truck here was bought a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
He was bought by his mom.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Which is my great grandma, and him for fifty dollars
in a hog.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
So it's an emotional deal for him for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
How long do you think it's vin since you drove it? Yeah,
it's been a long time. So it's a grandson who
found grandpa's old truck, refurbished, this seventy year old truck. Yeah,
that he bought for fifty dollars in a hog. Back,
when you buy a truck for not just cash but
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also a farm animal, tell.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You what, I'll give you forty five dollars in a
hog for that truck. Will you get that up to
fifty dollars in a hog?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
We got a deal. So how about sixty bucks in
a chicken? A chicken?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Gosh, at least eighty eight and a chicken? Again, I
must re iterate fifty dollars in a hog. By gully,
they struck the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Jack. That's the free market at work, isn't it exactly? It?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It is so folks, Oh my God, the tragedy of it,
the heartbreak of it. University of Pennsylvania sophomore Eleana Atienza
placed on mandatory leave for participating in an illegal anti
Israel encampment, the violence, the love of Hamas, et cetera. Well,
she's made it clear that she is now a downtrodden
(15:56):
victim of quote administrative violence, she said, according to an
interview of the Philadelphia Inquirer, that's the big paper there.
That she's forced to vacate her campus storm, leaving her
homeless with no family in the United States to turn
to Holy Cow, a victim of administrative violence. Except that
her dad is an incredibly rich celebrity in the Philippines
(16:21):
who regularly instagrams himself on international flights where he flies
in some sort of thing that includes a bed and
a shower.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, and he gets caviare cavia.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
She instagram's constantly about their global vacations, a dinosaur egg collection,
vintage motorcycles. Her grandpa was a prominent politician. These people
are richer than God. And she's portraying herself to the
local press as homeless. I live on campus the universe
(16:55):
that he just barred me from entering In other words,
they've made me homeless.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm an international student. University knows this. This is their weapon.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm so disappointed to attend an institution that resorts to
administrative violence. Rich little Marxist biacs. Please, Oh that is
so maddening. I can hardly stand it. And what does
that shower thing cost?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
John A Flight, Kansas City chiefs quotabat Patrick Mahomes is
defending his teammate kicker Harrison Butker. Butker faced backlash for
his commencement address at Benedictine College, telling women graduates while
they're excited about their careers, he knows they're likely most
excited about getting married and having children. He said their
most important title should be homemaker a home saying he
(17:39):
doesn't agree with Buttker, but quote, I judge him by
the character he shows every day, calling un quote a
great person.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Doesn't agree with him. I don't care, Pat, all right,
why don't you just stay out of that? No, I
get what he said. I can't say, Look, this is
a great dude, all right? Lighting a hell up? I
think people should weigh in on less stuff. Yeah, you know,
(18:08):
in general. Yeah, I can't disagree, says a guy weighs
in on everything for a living. Yeah wait a minute, yeah,
this is we mentioned this story in the week. I
think US Defense Department announced tuesday that Russia launched a
space weapon last week that would have the ability to
(18:32):
take out some of our satellites.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Okay, got that story. Then you got this story, clear right,
what's that? Perhaps nuclear nuclear equipped the weapon up there
in space.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Eventually, then you got this story out of Great Britain
that said yesterday China is providing lethal aid rather than
the previously known dual use technology and economic buttressing supporting
Russia's war against Ukraine, China is providing lethal aid to
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Russia as they fight in Ukraine. Great Britain said today
I can reveal that we have evidence that Russia and
China are collaborating on combat equipment for use in Ukraine.
Lethal aid is now or will be flowing from China
to Russia into Ukraine. That's according to Great Britain, our
closest ally. Joe Biden said that was a red line
for him. If China did that, we'll see if there's
(19:29):
any price to pay for crossing yet another one of
Joe Biden's red lines.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, yeah, I was just reading about the state of
What was the specific terminology they used. It's the minerals war,
the desperate need, especially in the wake of new technologies emerging,
whether it's computers, defense, green technologies, all of these critical minerals,
(19:57):
the supply chain, and how the US and other countries
have tried like crazy to ramp it up and get
going and be self sufficient, and the Chinese so control
the markets and they can sew dump material to lower prices,
to blot out competitors, that the attempts to get some
sort of self sufficiency so far have been floundering failures.
(20:19):
And that led me, of course to the continuing, just
unanswerable question of this is a force for evil and
would be dominance of the world to commit more evil
and we're just completely economically intertwined with them. How does
that work?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And I've been complaining about cheap Chinese crap for many,
many years, long before we decided China was our number
one enemy? Is there any way to unwind that as
part of the whole deal. I realized we'd have to
change people's attitudes. I thought of this on Sunday when
I was setting up an umbrella for my son's flag
(20:57):
football tournament. I bought this umbrella so that I wouldn't
bake in the sun at Big five Sporting Goods. It
was ridiculously inexpensive, and it was also crap. It was
just crap. It was so flimsily built, and every little
part of it was cheap, thin plastic that if it
didn't break, will break soon. It's just flimsy crap and
(21:21):
made in China, of course crap. And it was like
forty bucks. It would have been better if it was
eighty bucks, but as a good, solid umbrella that you
would have for the rest of your life and maybe
give to your kids when they go off to college.
How do we break away from our addiction to cheap
Chinese crap that keeps us so intertwined? Is there any
way out of that? I don't know. We're such a
(21:43):
big company and we're so wealthy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I think as every generation of Americans becomes adults, they
fall for the cheap Chinese crap trap, partly because they
don't have the money to do otherwise, or they don't
think they do it.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Could that be it?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Because I mean, at this point in my life, I
don't buy the cheapest or the crappiest. I'll look for
something of quality, but I can afford it. I don't know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I tell about you're burning money when you buy this
cheap Chinese crap because it breaks and it ends up
in the garage in the corner because part of it
broke off a long time ago, and you just heal itself. Yeah,
like it's gonna heal itself in your lawn chair or
some sort of weed whacker thingy or whatever that was
(22:30):
made in China that no longer works. It's so frustrating
to me. I feel like, at least on the young end,
we're going in the other direction.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I keep worading about this fast fashion stuff, the vin
and you gals probably know the brand names.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I can't keep them in my mind.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But where you can go on in the hit of
the hottest hippis stuff is available at like laughably low
prices and you wear it for two three months, then
it's out anyway, and the fact that it's falling apart,
you don't care. That's that's a big thing in fashion
right now. Fast fashion interesting.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I know someone who is young and I assume doesn't
make much money, but is really well dressed all the time.
I'll bet that's what they're doing. Yeah, they're always very trendy.
They're probably doing that that I get. If this shape
of jeens is only going to be in style for
one season, I don't need to be very good. A
(23:26):
couple of polls that I won't spend much time on.
The latest major poll to come out, Trump still leads
in seven of the eight battleground states. That has been
that way for a while. The only thing that can
change the direction of that is some world event or
the debate, which is not that many weeks away. Holy crap,
that's going to be something. But I like this poll,
Siena College poll about the protesters, you know, the whole
(23:49):
college campus protest thing that we were all following for
a while. Yes, and this is another one of those
real life versus what you get through the media. Percent
of New Yorkers say the campus protests went too far
and support police being called in seventy percent of New
Yorkers Wow, not even the regular country, And sixty one
(24:16):
percent think the demonstrators forgot Hama started the war. And
it feels like the demonstrations have crossed the line into
anti semitism.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You know that rich Filipino girl we were just citing
in the previous segment for just typical neo Marxist, I
read a quote from her in the Philadelphia Inquirer that
the settler colonial state of Israel has been perpetrating violence
against the Palestinians since the beginning, and they are solely
responsible for any violence or bloodshed. So that's that's the
(24:49):
line from the committed little Marxists, the stupid little tools
of powers.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
They don't even understand. Ay, sort of on that topic,
I didn't know how to interpret this, so we mentioned
the whole bunch of countries that are allies of the
United States that recognized Palasgine as a state or a
recognized Palestinian statehood, which is something I don't even get
(25:17):
what that means, because, Okay, where's it going to be,
what's the government? Yeah, who's going to run it? Anyway,
the map of the world shows that practically the whole
world recognizes Palestinian statehood. Really, the only countries that aren't
(25:40):
are United States, Canada, Greenland, and Australia. It looks like
that's it pretty much in the entire planet.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Good look, good looking out Greenland. Thanks for being with US, buddy.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Anyway, is it Greenland or Iceland? Which one's the big
island off of the United States? Is that Greenland? Greenland? Greenland? Okay, Greenland?
Greenland is icy and Iceland is green? Gotcha? Ian Bremmer
tweeted that out and said the West is on the
wrong side of this one. Which which part of the West?
The US? Well, I guess he means, yeah, the US
(26:15):
and Greenland, the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Australia gets
credit for being the West. So he believes we're on
the wrong side of not recognizing Palestinian statehood. How's that possible?
I don't. I would love to discuss that with him.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I would too, I don't. I don't even get the
argument no, and I don't have the energy to relitigate it.
But no, given all of the negotiations, through all of
the years, all of the incredibly generous offers backed up
by the entire civilized world, that the radical Palestinians turned
(26:54):
down over and over again, because their raison dietra is
not to have a state that looks to the needs
of the Palestinian people. It's to wipe out the Jews
and achieve Islamic supremacy throughout the world.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's what they want. Yeah, you see, most of the
Palestinians don't believe in Israeli statehood is.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The problem, right, Oh yeah, they want to wipe it
off the face of the earth. Okay, So describe Aga
in your two state solution.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Fifty seven thousand, Jack, fifty seven thousand. That is roughly
the population of Greenland.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
What, No, it's not. Yes, it is that great big
land mass has fifty seven thousand people.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
That is correct, sir. Yes, wow, it is a Danish
protectorate or territory.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
But they never have traffic jams.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh, almost never. Yeah, citizens are full. I'm sorry, the
citizen of Greenland are full citizens of Denmark.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
I'm moving in Greenland.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's the world's largest island location of the northernmost area
of the world covered Clobon Island off the northern coast.
It's the world's northernmost undisputed point of land.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Huh, what do more people want to live in Greenland?
It's it's cold, right cold a f dude. I'm from
southern Winds. I'm out of here. No polar bears are
like f this. I'm heading south to the Yukon. Can
you see that? I mean, it's it's like that's Arctic circle.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, I know, I'm looking at the map. It makes
South Dakota seem like Florida. So yeah, the fifty other
people I could not cross, I wouldn't have come within
a million people of that. I would have guessed a
low number, like a million and a half people. But wow,
that's interesting. I got I got more.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I got more Greenland Front plans eighty nine point five
percent Inuit Okay, including multi ethnic European Inuit, mainly Danish
and other Northern Nordics who got together with the Inuit
people and said, hey, if the iglues hoppens don't bother knocking, right, yeah,
you're for it being so cold seven point five percent
(29:20):
Danish one point one percent, Nordic two percent others.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
What's the number one export seal tongues? What spob barrick?
I don't think they don't export anything cold air. That's it.
We will finish strong next time Strong.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
On June tenth, nineteen eighty five, New York Magazine publish
Hollywood's Brought Back. I just remember seeing that cover and thinking, oh,
if you were coming of age in the nineteen eighties,
the brat Pack was near the center of your cultural awareness.
But for those of us experiencing it from the inside,
the brad Pack was something very different. I've never talked
(30:17):
to anybody about what that was like, so I thought
it might be interesting to try and contact everyone who
was in the Black Pack. Hey, Emelios, this is Andrew
McCarthy calling you. Hey, Allie, pay to me, Hey, Molly,
let's call raw Hello.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But I'm not gonna say we were the Beatles or anything.
We didn't Stadius nineteen eighty five. I think we could have.
I don't know why I find that repulsive. So in
the eighties, if you're too young to know, there are
a whole bunch of most of them pretty good movies,
but very popular movies that all had the same actors
(30:53):
and actresses in them, and they called them the brat Pack.
But every movie had the same people in it. But anyway,
I don't know about this nostalgic look back. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It's a documentary. Watch that documentary. I would like to
buy your time from you. I mean I like something out, Yes,
I love Breakfast Club. I mean, that's that's a fantastic
movie and pretty and picking some of those. But whatever, okay, fine,
a bunch of pretty people who had their big break
(31:22):
and started the same.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Not whatever now fishing sea food? But what now? Fishing?
Shut up?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Arnold Fish and seafood the greatest exports of Greenland by far.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
That's that's ninety percent of their exports. So I was
close the rest. The seal tongues.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Good lord, you got a bunch of seals having a
run around doing sign language because brutes like you are
harvesting their tongues.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I wanted to hit these numbers again. We did it yesterday.
I heard it a few places yesterday. It's extraordinary. It
explains a lot of our politics right now. A poll
about the economy and how wrong Americans are about the
current economic situation. Though I understand exactly why they feel
(32:11):
the way they feel, because I feel the same way.
We all feel the way we feel because of inflation
and everything is so damned expensive. But over half of
Americans believe the economy is shrinking and believe that we
are in a recession. That's not true. The economy is growing.
We are not in a recession. But over half of
Americans think that half of Americans believe the S and
(32:33):
P five hundred is down for twenty twenty four. It's
actually up double digits. And then this one is the
most amazing. Half of people believe unemployment is at a
fifty year high. It's actually at a fifty year low.
People are completely wrong about the numbers of the national economy. Yeah,
(32:54):
I will point out.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
We got an email one bloke pointing out that labor
participants is less than it's been traditionally. So people might
be looking around and seeing a hell of a lot
of people who don't seem to be working. I see
that on their impression of the unemployment rate. I see
that myself and thinking, how do you not have a job?
How do you survive a lot of government handouts? I guess,
(33:21):
But yeah, So the the big kahuna for economics, how
you feel about the economy is what things cost you
on a daily basis.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Just is and always will be.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
If America is saying I'm scared about money, and you
say and yet the S and P is up a
certain percentage, They're like, shut up, I'm scared about money.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Nothing else matters, Right.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
I have some final thoughts, and some people say they
are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if
you look at what's happening, I would have to say
Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thought. They are
right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. This kind
of final thought from everybody on the crew. There he
is Michaelangelore, Technical director. Michael final thought. Yeah, this is
for Jack. Don't be afraid. Just get a bib, put
kiss the cook on it, get a chef's hat, and
give grill In a chance this weekend. Give it a chance.
Kiss the cook. Katie Greener esteemed a Newswoman as a
(34:29):
final thought.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
Katie, after that earlier story about the kid finding the
grandfather's truck that he paid for with fifty bucks in
a hog, I have decided I'm gonna start bartering with
farm animals. I don't have any, but I'm gonna try
it just to see if it'll work.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So you're like kind of short selling farm animals. I'm
buying a hog to sell it later.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, it's interesting. Jack a final thought for us. I
don't know if he was considered an official member. Of
the brat pack, but he was certainly in a lot
of those movies. The one that's had the longest career
to me is James Spader, which I think is he's
so interesting. He was the bad guy, you hated him,
super good looking, long blonde hair, bully kid in all
(35:09):
those movies, and now he's on the Blacklist if you
ought to. He's an old, bald, fat guy, and he's
still a great actor. I just find that I had
to actually show my son because he loves the Blacklist.
Say this is what James Spader was when I was
your age. Isn't it amazing He's made a career. Good
for him.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
My final thought is, heck ya, I'm gonna have a
couple of drinks. You know, I'm gonna play some golf,
have some barbecue and some fun that sort of thing.
But please, let's all of us remember what Memorial Day is.
It's a celebration of those who've sacrificed so we can
enjoy the incredible country and the liberty we have.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Don't forget Armstrong and Getty Rabi another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
So many people who thanks so little time. Good Armstrong
and Getty Dot com load great hot links there for you.
Pick up an ANG T shirt that makes a fabulous gift.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
To the ANG fan in your life. Drops line.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
If there's something we ought to be talking about, send
it to mail bag at arms from a getty.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Dot com See you later, God bless America. Whoa, whoa,
Hang on, guys, I'm Strong and Getty. How many more
hours am I doing? When it comes on for you
to go, you'll have to go. I'm leaving a personal privilege.
A little too much talking dog, So let's go with
a bang? And what do we want? Public defecation? When
(36:21):
do we want it? I mean about three minutes. That's
the worst thing you ever said. Yeah, I don't want
to be associated with it any of that. That's some
of my best work on that I know. Thank you
all very much, Armstrong and Getty.
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