March 14, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W Clips of the Week & Gene Hackman's kids not in the will
- Campus Madness!
- Our last meals & the civil rights divisions operations
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and Getty and
he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
My son took a girl to a movie the other
day for about ten minutes because they were a movie
because they were downtown, and they decided they wanted to
go to a movie. But because they weren't with an adult,
they couldn't go to any real movie. So the only
movie they could get into was something that was way
(00:43):
too young for them, And they got in the movie
theater and realized they could only see some movie they
didn't want to see.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So enforced by anybody, I know. I was kind of
surprised by that.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Although my son's a rule follower too, so he might
have just on his own, he might have self police,
but you know, I don't. I'm all for ratings and
that sort of stuff. But man, you get into your
mid high school years, the idea you can only watch
kids movies is kind of silly. Yeah, yeah, but you know,
(01:21):
I didn't parental discretion. I would like to have some
parental discretion on which movies he season, which ones he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So that's the whole point. Yeah, I don't think we
have an issue these days with kids hold on to
childhood too long. They're no innocent for too long and
exposed to too little violence and sex. No, but I.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Would say that the rating system for TV and movies
is behind the reality of everything kids see on their
phones all the time. I mean, they got no stop
YouTube videos and TikTok videos and all this sort of stuff.
And they can't go to this movie because there's some
sexual suggestive words or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It is a little quaint. Yeah, so a lot of
good stuff to squeeze in this hour. What are you
most excited about. I'm kind of excited about what the
Trump administration has said to Columbia they have to do
to get the federal funding back. And and if we
don't get to this today, we'll certainly get to it Monday.
How Europe's military combined the EU, you know, folks with Britain,
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compares to Russia's if the US was not on their side,
How do they look? How do they stack up? We'll
try to get to that as well, But first it's
time to take fond look back at the week that was.
It's cow Clips of the Week. And I guess we're
going to find out who was right.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
We're going to release the animal spirits today, the questions.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It works for the week. Hello everybody, it's JV. Are
you say them or uncle? Pronouns here in Ireland. Moved
here in January fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm still battling with some of that guilt and that
shame in that dysphoria that was projected onto me during
that time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This is a tornado. Seek shelter. Immediately, get under your desks, guys, anchors,
under the desks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh, I needed to cancel it before I got the
service to get the discount.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You're only eligible for the discount is here. I'm insured.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No president in modern American history has had a more
eventful and consequential first seven weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Canada should honestly become our fifty first seat.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It makes a lot of sense. The Canadians are always
ready when someone else drops the gloves.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
President Trump has a clear message for those that are
in our country illegally.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Leave now.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The Consumer Price Index shows annual inflation at two point
eight percent.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Why are you expecting a reception this year? I hate
to predict things like that. I'm not like a block
they just I won't delay. I have it's called flexibility.
If you look at China, they have one hundred year perspective.
We have a quarter. We go by quarters. And I
think he's right about that.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Our interest payments are higher than our Defense department budgets.
I think was the real wake up call for me,
which is most of the federal spendings and titlements. That's
that's like the big one to eliminate.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Tesla is a perfect example what we're calling the Tesla
Chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Mosk says his social media platform acts or formerly known
as Twitter, was hit by a cyber attack.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
A woman was arrested for throwing molotov cocktails at the
dealership and spray painting the word Nazi on the cars.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He didn't have to do this, He didn't have to
go through this. Look on the right side. I mean,
what are you doing this?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
He always looked on the right side of life.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He runs a very special person. Well trust around Trump's nut.
Now here's the bed drues.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm not allowed to drive because I haven't driven a
car in a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You've gotta come down to White House. Tesla autom all.
I love Tesler. You gotta come down to White House,
Tesla autumn.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
All.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is really amazing. I laugh every time I hear that.
Fake it's funny.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Why not DOGE plans to cancel office and building leases
all across the United States, which I've read about. There's
a ton of government space that's not being used or
used very inefficiently, and it's just sitting there and we're
paying for it.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, like more than a half. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,
it's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then I heard I don't know if it was
on an NPR, I read it somewhere on a lefty
but thing about just how awful that's going to be
for various neighborhoods where.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now they'll be this empty.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, fine, but you can't have taxpayers paying for empty
I mean, you talk about communism. Taxpayers paying for buildings
to sit empty just so they're getting their rent. Now,
that's communism. The ability of people like that to.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Find the cloud in a huge silver lining is amazing, right,
you know, Oh, well they're gonna you know, end leases
on buildings that were just squandering tach pair of money
and have been for years. And it's an astounding amount
of money that's gonna be tough on those neighborhoods. Well
they can deal with it. Open up a school or
a hockey rink, ry literally fing anything. Let's quit wasting
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people's hard earned money. Oh, speaking of money, can I
just say this for the record comment on cow. I've
often said my favorite term from watching the markets is
the market is looking for a firm bottom. My second
favorite term is animal spirits. Really like that term. If
the animal spirits going? Tonight's Friday Night.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I have a tendency as a active single parent. I
get to bed earlier on Friday nights and any other
night of the week. It just seems to work out
that way. Don't have homework, don't got to get ready
for work. I finally embedded at a decent time. So
my Friday answer that inbed at nine. Gene Hackman's kids
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not mentioned in his will. What will happen to his
eighty million dollar fortune? This article says he's got eighty
million dollars. Kids aren't in the will. I have no
I don't know anything about his relationship with his kids.
Gotta believe there's going to be some sort of legal
action claiming that he.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Wasn't mentally with it enough to make these decisions. Yeah,
where there's eighty million dollars, there's somebody trying to figure
out who how to get it, maybe wrongfully, or maybe
he had a terrible relationship with his kids. I don't know.
Have you ever have you seen pictures of their quote
unquote house? Not there in the hills. It's spectacular, It's
it's a compound. It's the kind of place where if
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you like, left your phone in the bedroom and you
walked all the way to whatever your studio and and
I'm picturing him painting and stuff like that, then he realized,
oh damn, I forgot my phone, it'd be a ten
minute walk. And it was all kind of interconnected, but
in a gorgeous setting. Yeah, a lot of haunted virus around,
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so you know, wear a mask or something funny, how
you're a housekeeper, hose the place down or something.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So right after he died, there was a lot an
outpouring of oh so much must be miss blah blah
blah uh and he was maybe my favorite actor of
all time. But since then I've seen a bunch of
interviews going through my feed on YouTube of people saying, oh,
he was such a jerk to work with, so difficult
to work with. He was so mean to people. He
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was so mean to other younger actors. He was so
mean to directors.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wow, you know it doesn't mean he needed to you know,
pass out and die in the mudroom and stumble around
the house for a week trying to figure out where
to find some food but.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
End up mumma fied. Yeah, yeah, that is. It's interesting though.
He did play really mean guys always. Wow. Oh, he
was always angry.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I don't remember the first time I ever saw him
my life the Poseidon Adventure in the seventies, and I
saw that on TV.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Was an angry priest. I mean, he just intense was
his thing.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And apparently he was just he had he had no
time for people, you know, not doing what he wanted
on a movie set. Yeah, huh. Speaking of movies, here's
the best news I've heard in quite a while. I
just watched the trailers for Spinal Tap two with the
original three dudes. Wow, if you're a Spinal Tap fan
(09:36):
and the trailers. One of the trailers is pretty cool.
It's just an amplifier and him reaching over and turning
it up to eleven.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The whole.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It'll either be awesomer, it'll be horrible. It's all in
the writing. But the fact that the original three guys
are back together that's cool.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, and most of it's ad libbed, right true. A
lot of it was improvd Yeah, that's why some of
it felt pretty flat. But I love that movie. Yeah,
so freaking funny.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
As Rob Reiner attached, I don't know he was originally
the guy behind it for this rockumentary. This documentary, a
rockumentary if you will, as he says, I might watch
that in the theater alone, probably because nobody would want
to go.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We've got more stuff on the way. Stay here. I
don't want to get hung up on this.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But the two things I'm really looking forward to following
this weekend. Trump gonna follow through on his threat to
hamas really strong threat he made a week ago.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He hasn't followed up yet.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How's he going to handle Trump jerking around the ceasefire
thing that we orchestrated and he put a lot of
political capital into. I'm gonna keep my eye on both
those things.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Hmm. I'll be watching the Players Championship a little golf
on TV, so it'll all work the golf desk relaxing. Uh,
this could be a campus madness update, but that would
entail getting the theme ready and telling Michael and it's Friday,
and frankly, we're just going through the motions on all
of this.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So drunk made dakeries earlier. You're just half drunk to
keep up, you baby, your husband, and drink so.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
As The Free Beacon reports, Illinois runs a scholarship that
excludes white applicants that could get the state's top universities defunded.
The state program, run by JB. Communist fat child mutilating Pritzker,
includes Northwestern the University of Chicago. It's patently unlawful. We
can go into detail maybe next week. But that sort
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of thing is falling like ripe fruit from the trees
as the Trump administration is hammering, as promised, the whole
woke colleges and university thing. This is one of my
favorite aspects of what they're doing so far. Here's the
headline from the Wall Street Journal. University scramble to avoid
being Trump's next target amid di Dei backlash and funding threats.
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University's nationwide cancel events, recent grad school offers. You know,
the only note of caution I would strike is that
it's the forces of neo Marxism which have captured the universities,
I mean almost completely. They will go from running the
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capital to being a gorilla force laying low in the
mountains at best. The idea that some of these measures
have defeated them is just way, way premature. They will
hide what they're doing, they will change names, they will
lay low and just try to wait out Trump. Then
they will you know, continue on with their Marxism. But
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this specifically, I thought is really interesting. Trump administration lays
out demands to Columbia to restore federal funding. Jack would
love your comments on this as we go. Feel free
to just hit it whatever you want. The Trump administration
is demanding Columbia make far reaching changes from banning masks
at protests, which are.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Already illegal, I understand, but in a lot of plats
around the country because of the Koukook's Klan, that's where
the masks that you can't couldn't cover your face, and
they decided to stop enforcing it during George Floyd riots
and during all of these riots.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But that's a good start, right, Oh, let's dive into this.
So last week, the government said it was called canceling
hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts
to Columbia. I've heard four million, Yeah, yeah, yeah. The
school has a thirty day period in which it can
try to address the government's concerns and potentially reinstate the funding.
All right, So in a letter addressed to doctor Katrina Armstrong,
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because every university president has to be a woman these days,
it outlines steps the school must take as a precondition.
Blah blah. The demands include banning masks that conceal identity,
giving the university president rather than faculty, disciplinary power over students.
Oh wow, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, I think that's just we can't trust the faculty
to discipline them because they agree with them.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
There are a bunch of flaming anti semi Marxists. Yeah,
an empowering campus law enforcement to be able to quote
arrest agitators who foster an unsafe for hostile work or
study environment. I mean, you got to the hypocrisy of
the left is astounding. I've got a couple of stories
that are examples of that, where if it's our side, well,
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they were young and you know, let's we got to
forgive it. And if it's their side, habra murder them,
drive about of that profession. Well, the same offense.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And it was a cup of coffee ago that we
were finding out on these Ivy League campuses that microaggressions
were the same as violence.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, right, exactly. So to ask a black woman do
you use hair conditioner? I was just curious because your
hair is different than mine. That was bigotry. That was
at least a microaggression, and that could get you severely
sanctioned by your school, That could get you throw out
of your school. But saying Jews can't pass here, no
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Jews is fine locking the door to the library for
Jews UCLA Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely obscene. Where was I
arresting outside agitators? Then they go into the history of
the pro Palestinian pro hamas anti Israel, They don't call
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it that demonstrations that disrupted campuses last year, and they
restrain what we mentioned earlier that a lot of the Milan,
a lot some of the faculty are saying reasonable people,
primarily in the sciences, and they've been dying for an
opportunity to say out loud, Hey, this university is a chaotic,
ugly mess thanks to the utter non enforcement of all
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the rules. So they're loving this.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, the fact that they actually are expelling some of
the students that caused the most mayhem is a heck
of a development and would not have happened if the
Trump administration hadn't held that four hundred million dollars out
as the threat.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It also asked the school to implement restrictions on protests
to prevent disruptions of teaching, research, and campus life. It
requests a plan to reform admissions quote to conform with
federal law and policy. Well, that's a hell of unasked
conform to the law. Why I never Government negotiators want
to school to place the Department of Middle East, South
Asian and African Studies under a quote, academic receivership for
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a minimum of five years. That means it would no
longer be under the control of the faculty and is
considered a sign of mismanagement because it's become a radical Marxist,
anti Jewish department. The letter also asked that the school
disciplined students I know. On Thursday, before the letter had
been delivered, the University Judicial Board announced that students involved
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in the occupation of those buildings had been formally disciplined,
the punishment including suspensions and expulsions. Hallelujah. This is one
of the greatest things that's happening. It's going to be
long battle, but hey, this is good stuff for anybody
who thinks it didn't make any difference.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know, you didn't like Trump or whatever would have
been okay with Kamala, none of this stuff would have happened.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
None of this stuff would happen, Armstrong and getdy. I
read that.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
So far this month, the price of eggs has rapidly fallen. Yes,
or is everyone who just bought a bunch of backyard
chickens put it fan ef fantastic?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That is a pretty funny joke. Although Michael is a
booze hound. I'd like to hear a number six please.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
President Trump threatened Europe with a two tariff on.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Champagne and wine.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
People buying champagne and wine were like, what's next caviar
and tuffles? Trump's plenty a dangerous game. Nobody wants to
attend to Mike's hard lemonade and cheese party.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know what I'm sayings Nobody knows the truffles I've seen.
I appreciate the brackyard chicken joke. I like that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, if you like, because well, I've had chickens
a number of different times, if you like, went through
all the effort to get a chicken coop and chickens
and chicken feed, and then figure out how to deal
with the excrement that comes out of chickens and everything
that goes with being a chicken owner. Because eggs are
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so expensive, I just.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I think you over reacted. I really think you over reacted.
I don't think you're correctly factoring in costs all costs. Well,
even if you're putting just a monetary cost honestly.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well yeah, but even if you come out ahead, yeah yeah,
and you got a factor in your labor, that's an
awful lot.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Again, how many eggs do you eat? How important are
eggs to you?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Do you have some sort of special If I don't
eat three eggs a day, I dye a diet or
something or.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, man, I love that. Though I love dishes that
include eggs. The eggs themselves are delightful themselves. They're an
important part of the meal, but it's it's the stuff
around it that really makes it hum.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I like eggs too. I like a lot of different things. Oh,
this is funny, interesting conversation with my son last night.
Because I don't like care much about food. He also
doesn't care much about food. Now his brother does. Brother
really likes food, and mom likes food. But Sam and
I both are people that don't care about food at all.
And he agreed with me. And I've come across very
few people who do this. That if they invented a pill,
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he said, or a paste would work fine. That like
you could get up in the morning, you just squeeze
this no flavor paste into your mouth and it gives
you all the nutrients need for the day and you're
not hungry for the day. I would absolutely do that
every day the rest of my life and eliminates the
need for food.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Whereas I know a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
They like the they like the process, they like restaurants,
they like shopping at the grocery store, they like preparing
the meal. They like texture, which I've never even undertood
as sad as a concept like eating it. But you
don't understand texture is a concept.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I do not. I don't really right, I mean I
could try to explain it, but I'm like, that would
really be throwing pearls before. Well, I know a good
man and my longtime partner, I know exactly, not a swine.
I know what texture is. I just can't imagine caring. Wow,
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how interesting. See you've got a nice caesar salad, you
got the crispy romaine, You've got some nice shaved parmesan,
which is a different thing. You got to dressing, just
lightly but perfectly dressed. Then you've got your critical times.
You take no pleasure in that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
No, it has the same meaning to me as like
crown molding a in somebody's living room.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's just like, see, why would not anybody care about
this at all? Ever, I would spend months to get
in shape and join them in the militia and fight
and die to preserve the to enjoy delicious foods. Michael,
what's your favorite breakfast food all time? Doesn't matter whether
it's good for you or not, what your last meal.
You're finally gonna get executed for the terrible crimes we
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all know you've committed.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Where breakfast would be bacon, just bacon, bacon? Yeah, alright,
remember I don't know, remember answer except for yours just.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Last year, execute you and through and through the electric
chair too. It's gonna be gruesome. Oh, it's gonna be
a pizza, no doubt, the best pizza.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, you don't have to worry about your diabetes anymore.
You whatever you want, the whole breakfast food.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm asking about breakfast, right, Well, then you work.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
With a collection of the never mind, I've never eaten
last night's pizza for breakfast, but I've done that a
few hundred times.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And how yeah, Katie, I'd go biscuits and gravy. Oh
tough to be so good?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You gotta you gotta name of particular places biscuits and gravy,
because sometimes biscuits and gravy is awful.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, no, this is not your game. This is not
your game. My god, folks, do you hear what's transpired here?
He confesses not caring in the least about food, then
tries to jump in and run my game. You're a monster.
Biscuits and gravy is an excellent answer, and it is fabulous.
A little leg over easy on that? Or do you
like to keep it pure or keep it simple?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I like the scrambled with that okay to each there.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm a corn beef hash guy. It's got to be
not out of a freaking can either, real corn beef, onions, peppers, potatoes.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I have to say, I make a mean corn beef
hash with the leftovers from Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Do tell okay, anyway, we're going to talk about something else.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I think I've tried to choke down corn beef on
a number of Saint Patrick's Day to be nice to
the people who made it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I'm just like, what is the appeala that this
is wrong with you? Yeah? I know I've been asking
that question for like thirty years, a monster. I don't
remember what my point was ahead of them. I don't
even remember what you've brought up because it about you
didn't care about food. It was, well, that's originally brought
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I brought up.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Would I would like to throw people this direction though
we talked about this earlier in the show, and won't
redo the whole thing. This piece in the Wall Street
Journal today about one of the most important departments in
our government that doesn't get any attention but rules a
lot of your life. What Eric Holder once called the
crown jewel of the Department, the Justice Department, the Civil
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Rights Division, which for decades has been able to repel
any effort at reform or oversight, and is completely, to
use our word of the day, captured by the ultra left,
like not just Democrats, but like the leftist of the
left lawyers, and it just it's just they run the
whole thing, and they do whatever the hell they want.
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They make whatever laws, rules that you have to follow
if you have to follow a rule to law. And
Trump is appointed a new person to try to reform that,
but it's going to be quite the uphill battle. But
to me, it was a real illustration of I don't
actually understand the government that I regularly talk about and
complain about, and neither does anybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
And it's frightening. I find it frightening as hell. Yeah,
they have just crusaded for progressive causes, what causes now
for a couple of generations. And what's worse is if
somebody like Carmi K. Dillon, who we've talked to before,
who's appointed to turn it around, as she goes in
there and says we're going to prosecute this case, the
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lawyers will openly be insubordinate or not file the paperwork
or lose it or sabotage the case intentionally. And if
you try to fire them, they say, you can't fire us,
and they just wait till the next democratic administration comes along.
It is blatantly, blatantly undemocratic. Yeah, and that they are
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completely unanswerable to voters.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, they don't have to answer to a boss, let
alone voters, so it doesn't matter if any new boss
comes along.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So yeah, it's very, very troubling. It makes me feel well.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There's been a lot of talk and writing about this
over the years. That's part of what the book This
Town was about, really is just there's a whole big
thing going on that is not the presidential elections and
the midterms and the conversations that they have on cable
news panels and all that sort of stuff where you
feel like you, you know, you have a say in
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all this. There's a whole chunk of the government that
runs things that we don't ever talk about. We don't
elect anybody. I mean, it makes it even way more hilarious,
this idea of Elon Musk. No, but who voted for
Elon Musk and now he's doing this or doing that
there are so many powerful people in the government doing
this or that that weren't elected. In fact, that's most
(25:53):
of the government. Here's a metaphor you might find useful.
I think a lot of Americans think that government.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Is the say, a showroom of a Ford dealer. That's
the part that they show us and advertise and talk about.
Ford Motor Company. Is Ford Motor Company. That showroom is
just a shiny little babble at the top of it.
The government's exactly the same. The part that we argue about,
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the little the elected officials and you know, the issues
they claim to care about, or what they're going to
do when they get an office, that's like the showroom.
The giant, vast enterprise of government, it's like Ford Motor
Company is huge. There's a tremendous amount of money at stake.
I mean, well, actually a federal budget is known more
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or less, but incomprehensible amounts of money change hands. Government
is a for profit enterprise and it's enormous.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And I have zero belief that there's anything we can
do about that. And that's why Milton Friedman's idea of
the only power you have is to restrict the amount
of money they have is more true today than before
I read this article. That's the only power you have
is to give them less money. But I don't know
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how much hope for that either.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Jack doesn't think we can do anything about it. I
might set myself on fire on the steps of the
mint or I might eat mints on the steps of
the fire department. I haven't decided it's one or the other.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh wow, before we take a break, Before we take
a break, there is one more of those plane stories.
There seems to be one a week where you know,
something bad happens on an airplane and the media is
trying to build this narrative that I don't know, flying
has become dangerous, or musk has cut too many people
from the fa or something. But did you see the
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one with the plane smoking like crazy and everybody's standing
on the wing.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
That is some video.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So you're in this giant Boeing jet, all the passengers
are standing.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
On the wing. It's on the tarmac, it's not flying
at the time, sitting there in the atomac excellent distinction,
smoke billowing out of it, and they got everybody out
of there.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't know why they didn't slide down the ramps order.
But they're all standing on the wing. I would have
been frightened. This is not one of those who are
I think, I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm standing
on the wing of the plane smoke, but I'm thinking
we're just seconds away from a giant explosion that engulfs
us all in flames.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, wouldn't you. I think I'd have jumped off of there.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's a long way. I had to break my ankles
and run. Yeah, God, that little break your ankles and roll. Yeah, Carl,
he got broken ankles.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I thought you were going to bring up the guy
who thought he was under demonic attack on the plane
and went crazy. That story broke he like he was
I can't remember what he said, that Satan's children were
on the plane and were gonna eat his soul or something,
and so he fought as towartis and with.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Their details Katie green Well, he fought a stewardess and
then he swallowed a rosary.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah. I guess that's like extra in you now, but
I don't think that's required, not call so yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Uh, Yeah, who subdued him, other flight attendants or passengers.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Both here it is. I was looking for the story.
Hang on, well, Jim, I've been a couple.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Of times on planes where I thought, hmm, I wonder
if this is gonna be one of those deals where
I have to help restrain this dude because he's close
enough to me and seeming pretty agitated. So far, it
hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, let's see. He was convinced that Satan's disciples had
followed him onto the aircraft, so he swallowed rosary beads
and kicked a flight attendant in the chest. Points for
flexibility in me then thirty one, Yeah, I could have
been a dwarf. Flight attendant. Thirty one year old DeLonge
Augustin began yelling and shaking. Crew first assumed he was
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having a seizure, only discovered he thought there was some
kind of demon spirit in the cabin. Might have been
was swallowing rosary beads to protect himself from what an
FBI report on the incident described as Satan's disciples. God,
if I'm sitting next to somebody that crazy and that's
no good.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Subdued by passengers and arrested by airport police after they
had to turn the plane around, which would just piss
me off.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, and light from Savannah, Georgia, which turned into a
flight to Savannah, Georgia.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Good on the passengers who were able to subdue the
crazy person.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
His sister, who was with him on the flight, told
authorities they'd been traveling to Haiti to flee religious attacks
of a spiritual nature. Hmm, okay, so you're gonna go
to Haiti. Your sister's crazy too. There's a lot to
not like about your plan. Can we talk about this.
We'll finish strong next. This is not about free speech.
(30:53):
This is about people that don't have a right to
be in the United States. To begin with, No one
has a right to a student visa. No one has
a right to a green card. By the way, I'm
interested in this topic, of course.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
The Columbia leader of the protests who got is he
arrested or not arrested or what is he?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I don't know what you take it?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Contained detained leading the protests, and then you know there
are free speech advocates saying that we've just detained somebody
or punishing him for just expressing their opinions. Marco Rubio
and others are saying this has got nothing to do
with free speech. He's you can't advocate for terrorist organizations
no matter who you are, where you are.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
So I'm I'm not not just because Marco Rubio doesn't
think you should. No, that's the law, right.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So I don't know where I am on this story,
yet I look forward to a couple of courts weighing
in on it and figuring it out.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I think this is good. It's fine. I'm not worried
about the fact that the courts are looking at it
and some are saying no, because we're finally enforcing these laws,
which are in place for a reason. And there's the law.
So if we're gonna hone in on the particulars and
figure out exactly who gets outed and who doesn't, that's fine,
that's healthy. But let's enforce the damn law.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, So I should read up on this because I
find it a fascinating distinction. The Obviously, with free speech,
you can talk as much as you want about the
benefits of communism, but at what point are you advocating
for because people have been detained or kicked out or
whatever for being up with the Soviet Union? For instance,
(32:29):
When does it cross the line from free speech into
your advocating for a foreign power.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's an enemy of the United States. Yeah, but what
we're talking about here is a specific statute about supporting
a terrorist organization. And if you don't like that, change
the law. As you've often said, you don't like the law,
change it. You can't ignore it. Hey, kids, it's that
time again with Armstrong and Getty. Here's your host for
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final thoughts, Joe Getty. How about a final thought from
everybody on the crew. Wouldn't that be fun and a
good way to wrap up the day. There he is Michaelangeloor,
Technical director. Michael final thought. Well, they got me again
this year.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
They were extra cute. The brownie says, I bought Girl
Scout cookies even though I can't eat them, so I'm.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Waiting like one.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Well, I eat like one at a time. You know,
it's been very, very slow, but anyway, I made an
excellent gift.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, see,
I try to keep that stuff out of the house.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
And then my husband came home last week with four
boxes of Girl Scout cookies and now I walk by
the men flavor thin mint samoas and the chocolate peanut
butter ones.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
If you can eat a thin mint without finishing the sleeve,
you're a different person than.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Me finishing the sleeve right now. Oh yeah, you got
to have them in the front.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Jack final thought for us man, there are a number
of big stories I really look forward to following over
the weekend. How how is Trump going to respond to
putin jerk everybody around on the seaspire thing? I have
no guests, Katie, not one, but two of my favorite
restaurants have biscuits. A couple of US biscuits, split open
fried chicken on top of it like a butterfly chicken
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breast fried, covered with sausage gravy, and then I throw
an egg over easy on top of all of it.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Out of their rivals, the Humble Corn Beef, Hash.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Soka, arms strung he getty wraping up another ruling, four
hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
So many people, Thanks so many the whole little time
go to Armstrong egetdy dot com. You got your hot links,
you got your Katie's corner, you got your ang swag.
Pick up an ANG T shirt or hoodie for your
favorite a G fan, Maybe it's even.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
You and the ongoing stories there are so many of them.
Will have the latest for you on Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
They're both great guys and by the way, they both
get along fantastically well.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay, I love the beautiful face. Yes, I think it
was the real wake up for me. I don't think
that's right.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And listen, give me a joke, and I think he's
right about that. We're going to release the animal spirits, and.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I guess we're going to find out who was right right. Bye, Bye,
a great Friday, You, Mother, Armstrong and Gaddy.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and Getty and
he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
My son took a girl to a movie the other
day for about ten minutes because they were a movie
because they were downtown, and they decided they wanted to
go to a movie. But because they weren't with an adult,
they couldn't go to any real movie. So the only
movie they could get into was something that was way
(00:43):
too young for them, And they got in the movie
theater and realized they could only see some movie they
didn't want to see.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So enforced by anybody, I know. I was kind of
surprised by that.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Although my son's a rule follower too, so he might
have just on his own, he might have self police,
but you know, I don't. I'm all for ratings and
that sort of stuff. But man, you get into your
mid high school years, the idea you can only watch
kids movies is kind of silly. Yeah, yeah, but you know,
(01:21):
I didn't parental discretion. I would like to have some
parental discretion on which movies he season, which ones he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So that's the whole point. Yeah, I don't think we
have an issue these days with kids hold on to
childhood too long. They're no innocent for too long and
exposed to too little violence and sex. No, but I.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Would say that the rating system for TV and movies
is behind the reality of everything kids see on their
phones all the time. I mean, they got no stop
YouTube videos and TikTok videos and all this sort of stuff.
And they can't go to this movie because there's some
sexual suggestive words or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It is a little quaint. Yeah, so a lot of
good stuff to squeeze in this hour. What are you
most excited about. I'm kind of excited about what the
Trump administration has said to Columbia they have to do
to get the federal funding back. And and if we
don't get to this today, we'll certainly get to it Monday.
How Europe's military combined the EU, you know, folks with Britain,
(02:19):
compares to Russia's if the US was not on their side,
How do they look? How do they stack up? We'll
try to get to that as well, But first it's
time to take fond look back at the week that was.
It's cow Clips of the Week. And I guess we're
going to find out who was right.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
We're going to release the animal spirits today, the questions.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It works for the week. Hello everybody, it's JV. Are
you say them or uncle? Pronouns here in Ireland. Moved
here in January fifteenth.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm still battling with some of that guilt and that
shame in that dysphoria that was projected onto me during
that time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This is a tornado. Seek shelter. Immediately, get under your desks, guys, anchors,
under the desks.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh, I needed to cancel it before I got the
service to get the discount.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You're only eligible for the discount is here. I'm insured.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No president in modern American history has had a more
eventful and consequential first seven weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Canada should honestly become our fifty first seat.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It makes a lot of sense. The Canadians are always
ready when someone else drops the gloves.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
President Trump has a clear message for those that are
in our country illegally.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Leave now.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The Consumer Price Index shows annual inflation at two point
eight percent.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Why are you expecting a reception this year? I hate
to predict things like that. I'm not like a block
they just I won't delay. I have it's called flexibility.
If you look at China, they have one hundred year perspective.
We have a quarter. We go by quarters. And I
think he's right about that.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Our interest payments are higher than our Defense department budgets.
I think was the real wake up call for me,
which is most of the federal spendings and titlements. That's
that's like the big one to eliminate.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Tesla is a perfect example what we're calling the Tesla
Chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Mosk says his social media platform acts or formerly known
as Twitter, was hit by a cyber attack.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
A woman was arrested for throwing molotov cocktails at the
dealership and spray painting the word Nazi on the cars.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He didn't have to do this, He didn't have to
go through this. Look on the right side. I mean,
what are you doing this?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
He always looked on the right side of life.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He runs a very special person. Well trust around Trump's nut.
Now here's the bed drues.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm not allowed to drive because I haven't driven a
car in a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You've gotta come down to White House. Tesla autom all.
I love Tesler. You gotta come down to White House,
Tesla autumn.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
All.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
This is really amazing. I laugh every time I hear that.
Fake it's funny.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Why not DOGE plans to cancel office and building leases
all across the United States, which I've read about. There's
a ton of government space that's not being used or
used very inefficiently, and it's just sitting there and we're
paying for it.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, like more than a half. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah,
it's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And then I heard I don't know if it was
on an NPR, I read it somewhere on a lefty
but thing about just how awful that's going to be
for various neighborhoods where.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Now they'll be this empty.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, fine, but you can't have taxpayers paying for empty
I mean, you talk about communism. Taxpayers paying for buildings
to sit empty just so they're getting their rent. Now,
that's communism. The ability of people like that to.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Find the cloud in a huge silver lining is amazing, right,
you know, Oh, well they're gonna you know, end leases
on buildings that were just squandering tach pair of money
and have been for years. And it's an astounding amount
of money that's gonna be tough on those neighborhoods. Well
they can deal with it. Open up a school or
a hockey rink, ry literally fing anything. Let's quit wasting
(06:30):
people's hard earned money. Oh, speaking of money, can I
just say this for the record comment on cow. I've
often said my favorite term from watching the markets is
the market is looking for a firm bottom. My second
favorite term is animal spirits. Really like that term. If
the animal spirits going? Tonight's Friday Night.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I have a tendency as a active single parent. I
get to bed earlier on Friday nights and any other
night of the week. It just seems to work out
that way. Don't have homework, don't got to get ready
for work. I finally embedded at a decent time. So
my Friday answer that inbed at nine. Gene Hackman's kids
(07:13):
not mentioned in his will. What will happen to his
eighty million dollar fortune? This article says he's got eighty
million dollars. Kids aren't in the will. I have no
I don't know anything about his relationship with his kids.
Gotta believe there's going to be some sort of legal
action claiming that he.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Wasn't mentally with it enough to make these decisions. Yeah,
where there's eighty million dollars, there's somebody trying to figure
out who how to get it, maybe wrongfully, or maybe
he had a terrible relationship with his kids. I don't know.
Have you ever have you seen pictures of their quote
unquote house? Not there in the hills. It's spectacular, It's
it's a compound. It's the kind of place where if
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you like, left your phone in the bedroom and you
walked all the way to whatever your studio and and
I'm picturing him painting and stuff like that, then he realized,
oh damn, I forgot my phone, it'd be a ten
minute walk. And it was all kind of interconnected, but
in a gorgeous setting. Yeah, a lot of haunted virus around,
(08:14):
so you know, wear a mask or something funny, how
you're a housekeeper, hose the place down or something.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So right after he died, there was a lot an
outpouring of oh so much must be miss blah blah
blah uh and he was maybe my favorite actor of
all time. But since then I've seen a bunch of
interviews going through my feed on YouTube of people saying, oh,
he was such a jerk to work with, so difficult
to work with. He was so mean to people. He
(08:43):
was so mean to other younger actors. He was so
mean to directors.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wow, you know it doesn't mean he needed to you know,
pass out and die in the mudroom and stumble around
the house for a week trying to figure out where
to find some food but.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
End up mumma fied. Yeah, yeah, that is. It's interesting though.
He did play really mean guys always. Wow. Oh, he
was always angry.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I don't remember the first time I ever saw him
my life the Poseidon Adventure in the seventies, and I
saw that on TV.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Was an angry priest. I mean, he just intense was
his thing.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And apparently he was just he had he had no
time for people, you know, not doing what he wanted
on a movie set. Yeah, huh. Speaking of movies, here's
the best news I've heard in quite a while. I
just watched the trailers for Spinal Tap two with the
original three dudes. Wow, if you're a Spinal Tap fan
(09:36):
and the trailers. One of the trailers is pretty cool.
It's just an amplifier and him reaching over and turning
it up to eleven.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The whole.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It'll either be awesomer, it'll be horrible. It's all in
the writing. But the fact that the original three guys
are back together that's cool.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, and most of it's ad libbed, right true. A
lot of it was improvd Yeah, that's why some of
it felt pretty flat. But I love that movie. Yeah,
so freaking funny.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
As Rob Reiner attached, I don't know he was originally
the guy behind it for this rockumentary. This documentary, a
rockumentary if you will, as he says, I might watch
that in the theater alone, probably because nobody would want
to go.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
We've got more stuff on the way. Stay here. I
don't want to get hung up on this.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But the two things I'm really looking forward to following
this weekend. Trump gonna follow through on his threat to
hamas really strong threat he made a week ago.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He hasn't followed up yet.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How's he going to handle Trump jerking around the ceasefire
thing that we orchestrated and he put a lot of
political capital into. I'm gonna keep my eye on both
those things.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Hmm. I'll be watching the Players Championship a little golf
on TV, so it'll all work the golf desk relaxing. Uh,
this could be a campus madness update, but that would
entail getting the theme ready and telling Michael and it's Friday,
and frankly, we're just going through the motions on all
of this.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
So drunk made dakeries earlier. You're just half drunk to
keep up, you baby, your husband, and drink so.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
As The Free Beacon reports, Illinois runs a scholarship that
excludes white applicants that could get the state's top universities defunded.
The state program, run by JB. Communist fat child mutilating Pritzker,
includes Northwestern the University of Chicago. It's patently unlawful. We
can go into detail maybe next week. But that sort
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of thing is falling like ripe fruit from the trees
as the Trump administration is hammering, as promised, the whole
woke colleges and university thing. This is one of my
favorite aspects of what they're doing so far. Here's the
headline from the Wall Street Journal. University scramble to avoid
being Trump's next target amid di Dei backlash and funding threats.
(11:55):
University's nationwide cancel events, recent grad school offers. You know,
the only note of caution I would strike is that
it's the forces of neo Marxism which have captured the universities,
I mean almost completely. They will go from running the
(12:18):
capital to being a gorilla force laying low in the
mountains at best. The idea that some of these measures
have defeated them is just way, way premature. They will
hide what they're doing, they will change names, they will
lay low and just try to wait out Trump. Then
they will you know, continue on with their Marxism. But
(12:39):
this specifically, I thought is really interesting. Trump administration lays
out demands to Columbia to restore federal funding. Jack would
love your comments on this as we go. Feel free
to just hit it whatever you want. The Trump administration
is demanding Columbia make far reaching changes from banning masks
at protests, which are.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Already illegal, I understand, but in a lot of plats
around the country because of the Koukook's Klan, that's where
the masks that you can't couldn't cover your face, and
they decided to stop enforcing it during George Floyd riots
and during all of these riots.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But that's a good start, right, Oh, let's dive into this.
So last week, the government said it was called canceling
hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts
to Columbia. I've heard four million, Yeah, yeah, yeah. The
school has a thirty day period in which it can
try to address the government's concerns and potentially reinstate the funding.
All right, So in a letter addressed to doctor Katrina Armstrong,
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because every university president has to be a woman these days,
it outlines steps the school must take as a precondition.
Blah blah. The demands include banning masks that conceal identity,
giving the university president rather than faculty, disciplinary power over students.
Oh wow, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, I think that's just we can't trust the faculty
to discipline them because they agree with them.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
There are a bunch of flaming anti semi Marxists. Yeah,
an empowering campus law enforcement to be able to quote
arrest agitators who foster an unsafe for hostile work or
study environment. I mean, you got to the hypocrisy of
the left is astounding. I've got a couple of stories
that are examples of that, where if it's our side, well,
(14:24):
they were young and you know, let's we got to
forgive it. And if it's their side, habra murder them,
drive about of that profession. Well, the same offense.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And it was a cup of coffee ago that we
were finding out on these Ivy League campuses that microaggressions
were the same as violence.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, right, exactly. So to ask a black woman do
you use hair conditioner? I was just curious because your
hair is different than mine. That was bigotry. That was
at least a microaggression, and that could get you severely
sanctioned by your school, That could get you throw out
of your school. But saying Jews can't pass here, no
(15:04):
Jews is fine locking the door to the library for
Jews UCLA Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely obscene. Where was I
arresting outside agitators? Then they go into the history of
the pro Palestinian pro hamas anti Israel, They don't call
(15:26):
it that demonstrations that disrupted campuses last year, and they
restrain what we mentioned earlier that a lot of the Milan,
a lot some of the faculty are saying reasonable people,
primarily in the sciences, and they've been dying for an
opportunity to say out loud, Hey, this university is a chaotic,
ugly mess thanks to the utter non enforcement of all
(15:49):
the rules. So they're loving this.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, the fact that they actually are expelling some of
the students that caused the most mayhem is a heck
of a development and would not have happened if the
Trump administration hadn't held that four hundred million dollars out
as the threat.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It also asked the school to implement restrictions on protests
to prevent disruptions of teaching, research, and campus life. It
requests a plan to reform admissions quote to conform with
federal law and policy. Well, that's a hell of unasked
conform to the law. Why I never Government negotiators want
to school to place the Department of Middle East, South
Asian and African Studies under a quote, academic receivership for
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a minimum of five years. That means it would no
longer be under the control of the faculty and is
considered a sign of mismanagement because it's become a radical Marxist,
anti Jewish department. The letter also asked that the school
disciplined students I know. On Thursday, before the letter had
been delivered, the University Judicial Board announced that students involved
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in the occupation of those buildings had been formally disciplined,
the punishment including suspensions and expulsions. Hallelujah. This is one
of the greatest things that's happening. It's going to be
long battle, but hey, this is good stuff for anybody
who thinks it didn't make any difference.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know, you didn't like Trump or whatever would have
been okay with Kamala, none of this stuff would have happened.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
None of this stuff would happen, Armstrong and getdy. I
read that.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
So far this month, the price of eggs has rapidly fallen. Yes,
or is everyone who just bought a bunch of backyard
chickens put it fan ef fantastic?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That is a pretty funny joke. Although Michael is a
booze hound. I'd like to hear a number six please.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
President Trump threatened Europe with a two tariff on.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Champagne and wine.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
People buying champagne and wine were like, what's next caviar
and tuffles? Trump's plenty a dangerous game. Nobody wants to
attend to Mike's hard lemonade and cheese party.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You know what I'm sayings Nobody knows the truffles I've seen.
I appreciate the brackyard chicken joke. I like that.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, if you like, because well, I've had chickens
a number of different times, if you like, went through
all the effort to get a chicken coop and chickens
and chicken feed, and then figure out how to deal
with the excrement that comes out of chickens and everything
that goes with being a chicken owner. Because eggs are
(18:29):
so expensive, I just.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I think you over reacted. I really think you over reacted.
I don't think you're correctly factoring in costs all costs. Well,
even if you're putting just a monetary cost honestly.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well yeah, but even if you come out ahead, yeah yeah,
and you got a factor in your labor, that's an
awful lot.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Again, how many eggs do you eat? How important are
eggs to you?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Do you have some sort of special If I don't
eat three eggs a day, I dye a diet or
something or.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, man, I love that. Though I love dishes that
include eggs. The eggs themselves are delightful themselves. They're an
important part of the meal, but it's it's the stuff
around it that really makes it hum.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I like eggs too. I like a lot of different things. Oh,
this is funny, interesting conversation with my son last night.
Because I don't like care much about food. He also
doesn't care much about food. Now his brother does. Brother
really likes food, and mom likes food. But Sam and
I both are people that don't care about food at all.
And he agreed with me. And I've come across very
few people who do this. That if they invented a pill,
(19:34):
he said, or a paste would work fine. That like
you could get up in the morning, you just squeeze
this no flavor paste into your mouth and it gives
you all the nutrients need for the day and you're
not hungry for the day. I would absolutely do that
every day the rest of my life and eliminates the
need for food.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Whereas I know a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
They like the they like the process, they like restaurants,
they like shopping at the grocery store, they like preparing
the meal. They like texture, which I've never even undertood
as sad as a concept like eating it. But you
don't understand texture is a concept.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I do not. I don't really right, I mean I
could try to explain it, but I'm like, that would
really be throwing pearls before. Well, I know a good
man and my longtime partner, I know exactly, not a swine.
I know what texture is. I just can't imagine caring. Wow,
(20:27):
how interesting. See you've got a nice caesar salad, you
got the crispy romaine, You've got some nice shaved parmesan,
which is a different thing. You got to dressing, just
lightly but perfectly dressed. Then you've got your critical times.
You take no pleasure in that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
No, it has the same meaning to me as like
crown molding a in somebody's living room.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's just like, see, why would not anybody care about
this at all? Ever, I would spend months to get
in shape and join them in the militia and fight
and die to preserve the to enjoy delicious foods. Michael,
what's your favorite breakfast food all time? Doesn't matter whether
it's good for you or not, what your last meal.
You're finally gonna get executed for the terrible crimes we
(21:10):
all know you've committed.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Where breakfast would be bacon, just bacon, bacon? Yeah, alright,
remember I don't know, remember answer except for yours just.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Last year, execute you and through and through the electric
chair too. It's gonna be gruesome. Oh, it's gonna be
a pizza, no doubt, the best pizza.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, you don't have to worry about your diabetes anymore.
You whatever you want, the whole breakfast food.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm asking about breakfast, right, Well, then you work.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
With a collection of the never mind, I've never eaten
last night's pizza for breakfast, but I've done that a
few hundred times.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And how yeah, Katie, I'd go biscuits and gravy. Oh
tough to be so good?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
You gotta you gotta name of particular places biscuits and gravy,
because sometimes biscuits and gravy is awful.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
No, no, this is not your game. This is not
your game. My god, folks, do you hear what's transpired here?
He confesses not caring in the least about food, then
tries to jump in and run my game. You're a monster.
Biscuits and gravy is an excellent answer, and it is fabulous.
A little leg over easy on that? Or do you
like to keep it pure or keep it simple?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I like the scrambled with that okay to each there.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'm a corn beef hash guy. It's got to be
not out of a freaking can either, real corn beef, onions, peppers, potatoes.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I have to say, I make a mean corn beef
hash with the leftovers from Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Do tell okay, anyway, we're going to talk about something else.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I think I've tried to choke down corn beef on
a number of Saint Patrick's Day to be nice to
the people who made it.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I'm just like, what is the appeala that this
is wrong with you? Yeah? I know I've been asking
that question for like thirty years, a monster. I don't
remember what my point was ahead of them. I don't
even remember what you've brought up because it about you
didn't care about food. It was, well, that's originally brought
(23:09):
I brought up.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Would I would like to throw people this direction though
we talked about this earlier in the show, and won't
redo the whole thing. This piece in the Wall Street
Journal today about one of the most important departments in
our government that doesn't get any attention but rules a
lot of your life. What Eric Holder once called the
crown jewel of the Department, the Justice Department, the Civil
(23:31):
Rights Division, which for decades has been able to repel
any effort at reform or oversight, and is completely, to
use our word of the day, captured by the ultra left,
like not just Democrats, but like the leftist of the
left lawyers, and it just it's just they run the
whole thing, and they do whatever the hell they want.
(23:52):
They make whatever laws, rules that you have to follow
if you have to follow a rule to law. And
Trump is appointed a new person to try to reform that,
but it's going to be quite the uphill battle. But
to me, it was a real illustration of I don't
actually understand the government that I regularly talk about and
complain about, and neither does anybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
And it's frightening. I find it frightening as hell. Yeah,
they have just crusaded for progressive causes, what causes now
for a couple of generations. And what's worse is if
somebody like Carmi K. Dillon, who we've talked to before,
who's appointed to turn it around, as she goes in
there and says we're going to prosecute this case, the
(24:34):
lawyers will openly be insubordinate or not file the paperwork
or lose it or sabotage the case intentionally. And if
you try to fire them, they say, you can't fire us,
and they just wait till the next democratic administration comes along.
It is blatantly, blatantly undemocratic. Yeah, and that they are
(24:56):
completely unanswerable to voters.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, they don't have to answer to a boss, let
alone voters, so it doesn't matter if any new boss
comes along.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So yeah, it's very, very troubling. It makes me feel well.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There's been a lot of talk and writing about this
over the years. That's part of what the book This
Town was about, really is just there's a whole big
thing going on that is not the presidential elections and
the midterms and the conversations that they have on cable
news panels and all that sort of stuff where you
feel like you, you know, you have a say in
(25:30):
all this. There's a whole chunk of the government that
runs things that we don't ever talk about. We don't
elect anybody. I mean, it makes it even way more hilarious,
this idea of Elon Musk. No, but who voted for
Elon Musk and now he's doing this or doing that
there are so many powerful people in the government doing
this or that that weren't elected. In fact, that's most
(25:53):
of the government. Here's a metaphor you might find useful.
I think a lot of Americans think that government.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Is the say, a showroom of a Ford dealer. That's
the part that they show us and advertise and talk about.
Ford Motor Company. Is Ford Motor Company. That showroom is
just a shiny little babble at the top of it.
The government's exactly the same. The part that we argue about,
(26:20):
the little the elected officials and you know, the issues
they claim to care about, or what they're going to
do when they get an office, that's like the showroom.
The giant, vast enterprise of government, it's like Ford Motor
Company is huge. There's a tremendous amount of money at stake.
I mean, well, actually a federal budget is known more
(26:41):
or less, but incomprehensible amounts of money change hands. Government
is a for profit enterprise and it's enormous.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And I have zero belief that there's anything we can
do about that. And that's why Milton Friedman's idea of
the only power you have is to restrict the amount
of money they have is more true today than before
I read this article. That's the only power you have
is to give them less money. But I don't know
(27:11):
how much hope for that either.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Jack doesn't think we can do anything about it. I
might set myself on fire on the steps of the
mint or I might eat mints on the steps of
the fire department. I haven't decided it's one or the other.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh wow, before we take a break, Before we take
a break, there is one more of those plane stories.
There seems to be one a week where you know,
something bad happens on an airplane and the media is
trying to build this narrative that I don't know, flying
has become dangerous, or musk has cut too many people
from the fa or something. But did you see the
(27:48):
one with the plane smoking like crazy and everybody's standing
on the wing.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
That is some video.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So you're in this giant Boeing jet, all the passengers
are standing.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
On the wing. It's on the tarmac, it's not flying
at the time, sitting there in the atomac excellent distinction,
smoke billowing out of it, and they got everybody out
of there.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't know why they didn't slide down the ramps order.
But they're all standing on the wing. I would have
been frightened. This is not one of those who are
I think, I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm standing
on the wing of the plane smoke, but I'm thinking
we're just seconds away from a giant explosion that engulfs
us all in flames.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, wouldn't you. I think I'd have jumped off of there.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's a long way. I had to break my ankles
and run. Yeah, God, that little break your ankles and roll. Yeah, Carl,
he got broken ankles.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I thought you were going to bring up the guy
who thought he was under demonic attack on the plane
and went crazy. That story broke he like he was
I can't remember what he said, that Satan's children were
on the plane and were gonna eat his soul or something,
and so he fought as towartis and with.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Their details Katie green Well, he fought a stewardess and
then he swallowed a rosary.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah. I guess that's like extra in you now, but
I don't think that's required, not call so yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Uh, Yeah, who subdued him, other flight attendants or passengers.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Both here it is. I was looking for the story.
Hang on, well, Jim, I've been a couple.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Of times on planes where I thought, hmm, I wonder
if this is gonna be one of those deals where
I have to help restrain this dude because he's close
enough to me and seeming pretty agitated. So far, it
hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, let's see. He was convinced that Satan's disciples had
followed him onto the aircraft, so he swallowed rosary beads
and kicked a flight attendant in the chest. Points for
flexibility in me then thirty one, Yeah, I could have
been a dwarf. Flight attendant. Thirty one year old DeLonge
Augustin began yelling and shaking. Crew first assumed he was
(29:57):
having a seizure, only discovered he thought there was some
kind of demon spirit in the cabin. Might have been
was swallowing rosary beads to protect himself from what an
FBI report on the incident described as Satan's disciples. God,
if I'm sitting next to somebody that crazy and that's
no good.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Subdued by passengers and arrested by airport police after they
had to turn the plane around, which would just piss
me off.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, and light from Savannah, Georgia, which turned into a
flight to Savannah, Georgia.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Good on the passengers who were able to subdue the
crazy person.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
His sister, who was with him on the flight, told
authorities they'd been traveling to Haiti to flee religious attacks
of a spiritual nature. Hmm, okay, so you're gonna go
to Haiti. Your sister's crazy too. There's a lot to
not like about your plan. Can we talk about this.
We'll finish strong next. This is not about free speech.
(30:53):
This is about people that don't have a right to
be in the United States. To begin with, No one
has a right to a student visa. No one has
a right to a green card. By the way, I'm
interested in this topic, of course.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
The Columbia leader of the protests who got is he
arrested or not arrested or what is he?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I don't know what you take it?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Contained detained leading the protests, and then you know there
are free speech advocates saying that we've just detained somebody
or punishing him for just expressing their opinions. Marco Rubio
and others are saying this has got nothing to do
with free speech. He's you can't advocate for terrorist organizations
no matter who you are, where you are.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
So I'm I'm not not just because Marco Rubio doesn't
think you should. No, that's the law, right.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So I don't know where I am on this story,
yet I look forward to a couple of courts weighing
in on it and figuring it out.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I think this is good. It's fine. I'm not worried
about the fact that the courts are looking at it
and some are saying no, because we're finally enforcing these laws,
which are in place for a reason. And there's the law.
So if we're gonna hone in on the particulars and
figure out exactly who gets outed and who doesn't, that's fine,
that's healthy. But let's enforce the damn law.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah, So I should read up on this because I
find it a fascinating distinction. The Obviously, with free speech,
you can talk as much as you want about the
benefits of communism, but at what point are you advocating
for because people have been detained or kicked out or
whatever for being up with the Soviet Union? For instance,
(32:29):
When does it cross the line from free speech into
your advocating for a foreign power.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's an enemy of the United States. Yeah, but what
we're talking about here is a specific statute about supporting
a terrorist organization. And if you don't like that, change
the law. As you've often said, you don't like the law,
change it. You can't ignore it. Hey, kids, it's that
time again with Armstrong and Getty. Here's your host for
(32:56):
final thoughts, Joe Getty. How about a final thought from
everybody on the crew. Wouldn't that be fun and a
good way to wrap up the day. There he is Michaelangeloor,
Technical director. Michael final thought. Well, they got me again
this year.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
They were extra cute. The brownie says, I bought Girl
Scout cookies even though I can't eat them, so I'm.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Waiting like one.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Well, I eat like one at a time. You know,
it's been very, very slow, but anyway, I made an
excellent gift.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, see,
I try to keep that stuff out of the house.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
And then my husband came home last week with four
boxes of Girl Scout cookies and now I walk by
the men flavor thin mint samoas and the chocolate peanut
butter ones.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
If you can eat a thin mint without finishing the sleeve,
you're a different person than.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Me finishing the sleeve right now. Oh yeah, you got
to have them in the front.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Jack final thought for us man, there are a number
of big stories I really look forward to following over
the weekend. How how is Trump going to respond to
putin jerk everybody around on the seaspire thing? I have
no guests, Katie, not one, but two of my favorite
restaurants have biscuits. A couple of US biscuits, split open
fried chicken on top of it like a butterfly chicken
(34:14):
breast fried, covered with sausage gravy, and then I throw
an egg over easy on top of all of it.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Out of their rivals, the Humble Corn Beef, Hash.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Soka, arms strung he getty wraping up another ruling, four
hour workday.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
So many people, Thanks so many the whole little time
go to Armstrong egetdy dot com. You got your hot links,
you got your Katie's corner, you got your ang swag.
Pick up an ANG T shirt or hoodie for your
favorite a G fan, Maybe it's even.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
You and the ongoing stories there are so many of them.
Will have the latest for you on Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
They're both great guys and by the way, they both
get along fantastically well.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay, I love the beautiful face. Yes, I think it
was the real wake up for me. I don't think
that's right.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
And listen, give me a joke, and I think he's
right about that. We're going to release the animal spirits, and.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I guess we're going to find out who was right right. Bye, Bye,
a great Friday, You, Mother, Armstrong and Gaddy.
Hosts And Creators
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong
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