August 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- NFL beefing up security, Hamas stealing aid in Gaza & sugar daddies
- Chinese celebrated record box office sales
- The happiness pillars & feeding pets to zoo animals
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty Enough He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The NFL season is just a few weeks away, and
they're urging team and league facilities nationwide to beef up
security following that deadly and targeted attack at its Manhattan headquarters.
Now a memo obtained by esp and recommends updated threat assessments,
more armed security or law enforcement presence, and weapons screening
similar to game day measures to protect players, staff and visitors.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I've never understood this kind of reaction to terrorism or
crime or whatever. One nutjob who may or may not
have had the messed up brain from football, but one
nuts goes to the building where the NFL is headquartered
and they're going to beef up security significantly at stadiums
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all around the country for.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The whole season and practice facilities in front offices.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's a nuts reaction.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, I would like to talk to a team of
anthropologists about it, because I think there's something very primal
about it, mixed with liability, mixed with something something the
modern age. Because you're right, there's absolutely zero evidence that
it's an ongoing threat of any sort. In fact, it's
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the exception that makes it clear that, oh, that's right.
Nobody in the last seventy five years has thought, you know,
what I need to do is take a shot at
the NFL for some grievance or another. It's the exception
that proves the rule is that confusing saying goes, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That's true. I didn't know what that clip was. I'm
glad we played it because that's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I would My only counter argument, and it's not a
good one.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There are absolutely a shocking number of people who think
it is appropriate for them to address their grievance by
shooting a bunch of people. And the NFL has a
high profile. But I would say in that regard, then okay,
the NBA, Major League Baseball, and the Pro Golf Tour,
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and well not the w NBA. They mostly have sex
toys being thrown thrown on the floor. But uh, and
and you know a dozen other things that don't leap
to mind immediately, but just big high profile endeavors of
whatever sort general motors I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Now, if you get heard at a WNBA game, a
fake dingis is gonna blindside you in You're right? Oh god,
what was that? Lose ear or something? Seems unlikely? So
do you want serious or not serious? Next? What would
be the best flow? Probably serious? Then not serious?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, well go ahead, and then I've got a philosophical
topic I'd like to bring up later in the show.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So I just wanted to pay this off. I've heard
this a couple of places, but we haven't mentioned has
to do.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
With feeding your pet to a lion anyway, begs you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I've heard this a couple of places, but not here,
and I just want to make sure you all heard it.
The whole supposed famine that's going on in Gaza. Oh yeah,
there's been a fair amount of decent pushback on that,
not from mainstream media. But why don't you see lots
of Well, first of all, Jonah Goldberg has written several
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pieces about this. He wrote one in the La Times
the other day about famine is a plural word, as in,
the whole point of a famine is there are lots
and lots and lots of people starving. If there are
lots and lots and lots of people starving, why are
you just showing the one kid in like every publication
the same weekend or only kids? Have had anybody seen
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a single skinny adult? I mean, what is going on there?
So that's that's kind of weird too. And then just
specifically on that one kid, which you probably all know
the story, horrific looking scene. Turns out the kids got
a number of health issues and most likely looked like
that before the Gaza invasion. The poor kid. The New
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York Times posted out on the front page and on
their Twitter account to fifty five million followers to try
to show, look, there's this look look at this bony
bent child starved by the Israelis. And it turns out
that wasn't true why the kid looked like that? Their correction.
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They ran a correction, but not on the same Twitter
feed with fifty five million and followers. On their pr
page that has eighty nine thousand followers. Oh my gosh,
How unbelievably non journalistic is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, that is abandoning the principles and doing the bare
minimum to pretend you have principles.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, If you're gonna be that weak, don't bother.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, you say, you know what I'm in I'm on
Hamasa's side in this one. I'm just gonna publish stuff
that tends to help them.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It'd have been better off not printing a correction than
making it. Oh okay, you're not interested in all in
the truth. Okay, now I get it. And that's the
most important newspaper in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Why don't you just make your your correction the wordle
for the next eleven days in a row. There you go,
New York Times, There you go. You printed your correction, didn't. Yeah,
that's weird, honey. Today's word is eleven letters long. It's
you know, you know, clarification.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You know, it's only one step removed from Hey, i
AI show me what a kid would look like if
he was starving to death, and then putting that picture
on there. It's only one step removed from that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Poor little child with muscular dystrophe in this case.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah. Anyway, So I've said what
I need to say about that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Do you you know I want to throw this Yeah,
throw this in just because and I'll just hit the headlines.
I'd like to get into it in more detail, because
it absolutely deserves it. But a couple of different publications uh.
Both the Washington Free Beacon, which is terrific. In the
Wall Street Journal, headline number one, Federal investigators compile evidence
of systematic Hamas aid theft, undercutting the leaked US AID report,
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and they have the word report in quotes Hamas commandeer's
aid trucks and places terrorists and you n facilities routinely.
It's part of their business plan. And the second headline,
this one from the Wall Street Journal, how humanitarian aid
feeds war machines.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Donors need better rules to.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Stop warlords, militias, and authoritarian regimes from stealing assistance. And
this writer goes around the world from Somalia to Afghanistan,
to Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia and Gaza and explains how
the aid trucks that we see doubles cash machines for warlords, militias,
and authoritarian regimes.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It is absolutely routine. Bill Clinton could tell you that,
Oh yeah, absolutely. The New York Times can't tell you that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Well, they've got it buried in a recipe for bone
broth in their cooking section. That's where they put that correction.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, here's my stupid story. It's awful. Florida predator given
probation for pepper spring rich men and stealing luxury watches
off their wrists. This twenty year old attractive woman would
hit up on guys who should know better, and whenever
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she got her got them in a hotel, parking garage.
In effect, anytime she got them alone, she'd pepper spray
them in the face, take their fancy watch off of
their wrist, and run off. And she did that to
quite a few dudes in Florida before she got caught.
We got a picture. Uh yeah, do tell quite average
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in her mugshot, But I'm guessing she's all dulled up
with lots of makeup. She would be quite attractive, but
I imagines skanky, semi attractive blonde, a BIPOC. Skanky semi
attractive BIPOC with a lot of makeup would.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Lack indigenous people of color some undeterminate ethnic group.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, but I've if she gets semi made up and
makes it clear that she wants to jump your bones,
good enough for a lot of dudes. For a fat
old guy, Yeah, so here's here's my thin old guy.
Why you're body shaming. Here's my tip. Because I've been
following these stories my whole life, dudes, me, all of us,
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all guys. If all of a sudden, somebody completely out
of your depth, your weight range, all of a sudden
your league hitting on you out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Think that over.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's never happened before in your whole life. Or maybe
it did in high school when you were fit, but
not since then, or whatever your situation is. If all
of a sudden, this a third your age hottie is
interested in you, think about that for a second, you moron,
before you say sure, I'll go back to a hotel
with you.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
There is a Darwinian aspect to this, Katie, is there not?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh? There is?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But then again, it could be true love, you know,
God not are you gonna take my watch? I'm not
wearing a watch.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
If it's love, you shouldn't be headed to the hotel
ten minutes after you met.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Things happen fast when it's passionate jack.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
When it's magic, when it's your soulmate.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
When it's true magic, it's true love. That's the key
it's all about. When it's true love, not the other
kind of love you've had before, True love.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right, Nothing says true love like hustling off to the
Motel six. Michael, I was thinking of Bill Belichick. I
guess true love there, twenty four year old.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I guess, well, yeah, okay, so maybe that's it. You're
retting more of a long con. You're a rich guy.
Because you're wearing a luxury watch. You're probably a rich guy.
So maybe you do have women that look like that
hitting on your regularly for a less illegal way of
getting some money out of you. Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It reminds me Judy and my my wife and my ear.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You're so nate, that's funny. Oh my god, you're my soulmate.
I just met you a drink ago.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hey, let's let's grab some ice on our way to
you know, consummate our soulmatehood out of the machine. Damn it,
this one doesn't work. Go upstairs. So my wife and
my daughter, my daughter who is in law school right now.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I can't remember how it came out, came up exactly,
but she was talking to the sugar daddy thing among
college girls, college women, grad school women, how they will
form a fiscal relationship with a generous older fella with
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duties to be assigned by the general manager, and it
can vary between just conversation or pictures or going out together,
or sometimes I lift up my shirt or sometimes I'm
just I'm a long term prostitute, and it varies.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But it was funny.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
As Delaney was describing to this, my earnest, sweet Midwestern
wife was like, what, oh my gosh, college girls are
doing this, And so Bill Belichick's a squeeze. She's not
gonna spray pepper, spray ice and grab his wristwatch. She
has a somewhat different approach to the problem. We worked
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with a guy and he surely is not alive. He's
had to have died by a heart attack by now.
We worked with the guy at radio station years ago
as a client. Had a fair amount of money and
older fact rich guy, and hung out with him quite
a bit. We had fun, we drank together.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But anyway, he had some stripper chick that he would
meet at a hotel and he told me, he said
they'd just get together and like watch TV and have pizza.
They didn't do anything, but he bought her stuff all
the time. That was his relationship. I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And that always just kind of makes me sad because
it's like you're blatantly being news used, you know it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know that you said for him or for
her for him, but so allegedly, and I believe I
believe his account to your account if he was.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, that that that's sad though.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That he just wants to be in a room with
an attractive un doesn't that bummy out a little?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, it's it's like being in a room with a
delicious pepperoni pizza. To me, it's worse than not being
in a room with the pizza.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Pizza. I can't eat it unless you're paid for, unless
you're a really odd duck. A pizza does not feed
your ego. It does feed your ego squestion of desire
and paying off the desire. It's a perfect metaphor. You
have a delicious one, you have the desire to be
wanted by an attractive young woman. I'm guessing here, I
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don't get it either. I'm just guessing that that fills
some need where the pizza doesn't do anything for your ego.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I have no need to be desired by a pizza.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You're right, I'm the sort of guy that can, you know,
hang around a pizza like this. I would also but
it's you. But you're delusional because it's utterly.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Clear from the relationships she doesn't desire you at all.
Back to the perfection of my pizza metaphor, I please,
I rest my case.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's weird, stay here.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
CNN's Casey Hunt is under fire for asking if wheelchair
bound Texas Governor Greg.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Abbott had a leg to stand on.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Hant says it was a poor choice of words, and
she's really sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's not funny, wow making fun of the CNN anchor
ats there, Greg Guttfeldt happen to be reading that China
out ship builds us whatever it is, eighteen to one
or something like that, is investing heavily in building a
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supermodern navy, and our shipbuilding capabilities have withered to practically nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
God, all this is going to catch up with us
at some point, isn't it. Well? And here computer chips,
the ships, the medicines, the AI technology, whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, and here's the insignificant side story that I think
speaks loudly. The Chinese state newspaper Global Time celebrated that
the country's box office hit a single day record for
movies box office returns for a summer day, earning nine
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hundred and seventy two million dollars on a single day.
Whoa on the.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Back of almost a billion dollars in one day.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, on the back of three different patriotic war propaganda
films demonizing the Japanese, which is interesting because freak their
propaganda war films demonized the United States. But it's usually
China or the United States. And as they increasingly close
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off their market to Hollywood films and are pushing very
hard to get more you know, patriotic blockbusters into their theaters.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You got people. Chinese people turn it out.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
In droves to go raw raw against the brave Chinese army,
defeating the evil Westerners, including Japan.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I don't remember where I read this many many years
ago about the expanding, growing culture versus the receding shrinking culture.
But a culture that people are turning out to watch
their heroes fight the bad guy is gonna dominate. A
culture that puts out movies where you're the bad guy
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and everybody else is the good guy.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Although having you know, gone through the entire educational system,
as say a twenty five year old, you don't need
to see a movie that makes your own country the
bad guy. You're thoroughly convinced of that already.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, that is something.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, I don't want to be depressing or anything, but
I mean it's it doesn't take a political scientist to
project those trend lines going forward. You know what they mean,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
The happiest people do four things every day. They pay
attention to their faith or life philosophy. They pay attention
to their families, They cultivate their friendships, and they try
to serve other people through their work. Faith, family, friends,
and serving other people through your work. Those are those
are the happiness pillars. That's the happiness four oh one
K plan.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Arthur Brooks. Yes, they left out money and that's and
clicks likes who likes.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, they left money and likes. That was Arthur Brooks,
who's an author and scientists. He's studied happiness and that
sort of thing for years now. On Brett Bear's show
last night, he had a great deal more to say
on that topic. And it goes along reasonably well with
what the New Chicago Pope said du Pope to recently.
We're fleshing that out and we'll bring that to you
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tomorrow probably roughly this time of day on the Armstrong
and Getty Show. I hope you can join us then,
So I've gone through a journey Jack, a personal journey,
and deciding how to address this this next story.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I found myself in the woods in midlife. That's the
beginning of Dante's Inferno. Oh really lost in the woods
in midlife?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Then what happens? Spoiler alert?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why you trying to figure out your purpose? Like you're just.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Talking about Yeah? Indeed, and again more on that tomorrow.
It's always appropriate. So here's my personal journey. And Katie
I believe, brought this up as one of her headlines.
And Katie, please feel free to jump in. A zoo
in Denmark wants to feed your pets to its predators.
A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion animals nearing
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life's in to donate them uh as food for captive lynxes, lions,
and other carnivores.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
This is sounding like a pretty darn good idea. Why
haven't we met about this in the United States?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know what's funny is I don't know if it's
intentionally or unintentionally. The subhead in the head from the
New York Times don't make it clear whether your animal
is alive in this scenario or not.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Right, I was wondering about that. But we got shelters
full of cats and zoos ful hungry lions. How we
haven't put those two things together?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Oh right, I'm not playing along with them.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, well, and so my.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The first thing I thought, in looking this article over
and skimming it real quickly, was, man, this is a
because they make it clear that these animals would be
gently euthanized by trained employees, used for food by the zoos,
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predators like the ear and links, lions and tigers, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah for me, even I don't want to feel alive
stray kitten who is going to be euthanized at the shelter?
Too long relying? But uh, why not? You know, give
a not knock it out a little bit and then
give it to the line.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
All right, well, it'll be euthanized, it'll be dead the
circle of life. It won't be asleep, it'll be dead.
But anyway, enough, knock.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It out a little bit. You know, I won't really
know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Right, Give it a xanax. It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, give it a half a ben a drill and
put it in the lion cage.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
So I've got to admit I was thinking, as I
often do, as the the dedicated realist, that all right,
this is a pretty good dividing line that makes perfect
sense to me.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Of course it does. You have these animals in the zoo.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
People love them, they admire them, they learn about conservation,
blah blah blah. The animals are eating meat, obviously, they're
feeding them their natural diet, and as the zeo says,
this way nothing goes to waste, and we ensure natural behavior,
nutrition and well being for our predators because it mimics
the natural food chain by feeding whole prey to its predators.
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So it is absolutely biologically zoologically not only defensible, it's ideal.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I'll have to do.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I thought, here's a great dividing line. Can you handle
that or not? Do you understand that your pet, when
it's gone, it's gone, and you'll be doing a good thing.
And then I thought about my dog, And it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Is harder when you think about your own dog. I
can still do it. I'll I'll have to ask Henry
if he'd be okay if Pugsito got eaten by a lion.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh my do you dare ask him that not prior
to the age of twenty thirty, and he'll be eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He'll be on a therapist's couch and say, I remember
it today, Gladys, he'll say, and Gladys will play the
harp and he'll say. I was thirteen years old and
my dad came in and said, would it be okay
if we fed Pugsito to a.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Lion, your beloved dog companion? Good Lord, you'd be lucky
if he doesn't take you out anyway, Sorry, Judy. And
I just got done with Department Q. It's on Netflix.
Really good, Murder, Mystery, Misfit Cop, Conspiracy, Weirdness, What Lies Beneath?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Really really good Emmy nomination. It's not just my opinion,
but Department Q really really good. Anyway. So I I
was thinking about Baxy, who is my dog, my half
lab half Border Collie, and he's getting on in years definitely.
He's thirteen now, which a dog. No, I don't I
have a mutt man it like me. He's a mutt anyway,
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and I started thinking, oh my god, that just I
just don't think about it, don't think about it, don't
think about it. It's like know, when the dentist gives
you that shot at it's fine, it doesn't hurt that
bad as long as you don't think about it.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I do, all right. I think it bothers me, although
I've been always been a big Once i'm dead, I
don't care what you do with me. You can put
me in a trash bag up, but on Tuesday morning
when the truck comes by, because I'm dead, it's just
my body. At that point, it doesn't mean anything. So
if I feel that way about me, I think I
feel that way about my dog.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, I've got to admit we have been of the
habit of Because at the VET they will helpfully for
some people go ahead and cremate your beloved departed pet
and gift you with the ashes and an urn and
a display of whatever. It's like, you know, funeral home.
They're happy to I've done an issue.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I've done that whole thing with somebody who wanted to
do that. It was my idea of But yeah, done
that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
And everybody has different emotional needs, and I get that
we have been. No, we have our pictures in our memories.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
The Judy and I happen to agree on that topic,
like we do on most things.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But I get other people have other needs.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But so I've got to believe that I could, after
a brief talk with myself, think.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know what. My only problem is do I get
to be many? They explain that in the late going
in this article, I was so intrigued by the ethnic
Yes you did, just finish reading it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're just not throwing the dog in there? Run run run?
You know it's not like that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well right, And I don't want to make everybody sad,
but certainly the you know, as we've had to do
in the past, I will be there at the end,
and I don't need a zoo keeper to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Backstage of the lion exhibit, now we have Katie's a
dog owner. What's your opinion?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
This whole conversation is just not could you feed that?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
What's that little white fluffy dog?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You got?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Frank?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Now, if I couldn't, I could not. I could not.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Fe understand the diet of the great apes.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
But what's that little white fluffy thing you have?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
The post linked to the zoo's website describes the process
for donating horses as food.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I'm not alive. Right again, I'm not shouting. Do they
do you?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Now?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Do they take it alive and then they euthanize it?
Because I could not handle see that. So you're still
handing over a live animal?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yes, to the zoo? Yeah, I think this is now.
They also accept chickens and your dogs and gigs. You're
a quick question, why are we at the zoo? And
where am I going?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And why are you not coming with me? Oh lord, no, no,
I can't even contemplate.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's too dark, it's too terrible. But notice what at
the zoo?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
So they mentioned the we've never been to the zoo before.
The horse will be delivered alive to the zoo where
it will be euthanized by a zoo keeper and a
veterinarian and then slaughtered the zoo's website.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Or so they tell you. Right now, here's where it
gets weird.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The zoo also accepts chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs during
weekdays between ten am and one pm, but no more
than four at a time.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh okay, jeez, I have six. I'll have to go
two days in a row. Oh my god, and.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Your lower form of beasts that don't know what from
what I feel this, for instance, I feel different about
them than I do about like, say, a very bright dog. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't think this is going to
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catch on a lot. I don't like the.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Idea of handing them over alive. I feel like, I
don't know, they need to euthanize them before like there.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I don't know how that would work out.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Rough rough So when we got in the car, I
thought perhaps where we were added to a church or
a hospital. This, Oh, for God's sake, stop with that.
It seems to be the lost zoo.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Is anybody enjoying Jack's hilarious dog unaware that it's about
to be put to death? Bit it's hilarious, it's great.
Oh my god. Yeah, working with the Lenny Bruce over here.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You just wanted me to see the zoo once before
we go to the hospital. Rice, I'm just gonna interrupt.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Signy Flyvolme, who lives in Denmark and has visited the
zoo for the past forty years, said the social media
post made her want to donate her horse. She could
make a difference by being used as food. She's a
very loved horse.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
That it were n'm carrie. He has a horse face.
So why a horse?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Two thousand pound horse, by the way, that's going to
keep the lions fed for a while.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's a big damn horse. But so would you just
put the whole horse horse carcass in there and let
the lions pull it apart?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And the particulars I don't know. I doubt they would,
certainly not. While the zoo is open.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Right from grade Field trip right exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
They could sell feature tickets, could be the all thing.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, well, feeding time at the zoo is an enormous
attraction right now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And what do you think they're feeding those animals that
need meat? It was a it was a live at
one point. Whatever it was. It wasn't my dog. It
was not your dog. This is true.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Probably not right. Oh, I'm sorry I brought it up.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, good way to go, Joel.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, I blamed myself because they've fed all kinds of
live fish to the dolphins.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
At the dolphins show we went to in Florida when
Henry got to ride the dolphins. Are they live? They
were alive? They were scuirming around.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh really, Uh, well, that's a good indication that they're alive,
unless they're puppet fish.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Henry got to do the thing where he had a
dolphin on each side of and he had his hands
on their fin and they pulled it really fast through
the water. Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's a cool video.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, Pettle will probably stop that soon.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's cool. Yeah in Florida you can do that. Probably
not in California. Oh yeah, Okay, Well, I'm glad Joe
reads the email hit it lots of email about the
whole feeding your dog to the Lion's story.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, it wasn't a show stopper, but it certainly slowed
it down.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, we will finish strong next time. Paperwork for back
to school. The amount of paperwork in the modern world
is insane, and almost all of it's driven by lawyers,
damn it. Uh yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I was tempted to launch back into the Russia Ukraine thing,
but I'm thinking it make corese sense to address it
again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh yeah, because there might be new ripples. There's apparently
Europe is feeling like, should we get involved in this?
We ought to get involved in this before Friday, so
they're running out of time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well, I think part of the reason is it's become
clear what the Russian strategy is, and that is to
turn the Ukraine situation into merely one aspect of a
much bigger agreement and thereby get what they want out
of Ukraine. And I get why that would appeal to
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Trump and the United States. On a purely practical level,
it is, as usual with Putin, an extremely astute effort
at manipulation.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, it could be the sort of thing where, if
you're looking at it as an America first guy, you
think this is the best thing for the United States.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah. The great caveat to that, of course, is that
Putin will violate agreements. You know, he'll sign it, then
while you're signing it, he'll violate it. So that takes
some of the fun out of hating.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
To includes some sort of assurance, though, like ironclad assurance
that he doesn't, you know, continue the war six months
or a year from now. And I don't see how
anything would other than troops, European troops, NATO troops would
do the trick.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Well, yeah, there's no assurance other than a trip wire,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The troops should be assurance, right, He's not going to
go to war with NATO troops yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I was just differentiating between like a written assurance and
a kinetic fact that well exactly, yeah, yeah, a fact
on the ground that assures he won't screw around because
he can't.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But well so, a couple of quick notes.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
The fabulous Nelly Bowls writing in the Free Press, she's
absolutely hilarious. In other news of the Jews, an Austrian
heiress to the industrial dynasty whose company manufactured Zyklon B,
the chemical used to gas Jews during the Holocaust. One
of the heiresses of that company is set to sail
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on a freedom flotilla to Gaza.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Wow. And, as Nelly writes, there's something.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Tender about carrying on family traditions.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Wow, there's a hole in the show and you know
it's time to go.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's time for final thoughts. On your feet. You have
to know the backstory on that one, but it's a
good one. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. Michaelangelo, our
technical director, our capta is on the air the whole time.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Michael, what's your final thought? Yeah, after today's show, I'm
craving pizza.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I'm gonna go home and hug my cats, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
May never go to the zoo again. How many cats
is at seven? Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
No, time, let's move along. Katie Green are a Steve
Newswoman has a cat? Has a final thought?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Katie not a cat pervert.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
No, I love the zoo and I like to go
to the feeding time and both of you, jerk's ruined
it for me. So thanks a lot, both of you.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Well wow, yeah, just pretend that was what artificial meat
creating in a lab, you fool saw jack a final thought?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, no, I was just saying about all this paperwork
I'm filling out for school. Did my parents have to
sign a single piece of paper when I went back
to school? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't. And
is there any way to get out of this? So
what doesn't keep doing? I mean, there's like fifty things
you have to sign to make lawyers happy, and they
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probably wouldn't do any good if it went to court anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Who hi, karumba. Gosh my final thought, I got a heavy,
important one, but I'm not in the mood. Join us
tomorrow for more, Oh clanker, that's the new word you
need to know.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Clanker.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
That's any AI or other technology that doesn't work the
way it's supposed to, makes your life worse, Waste your time,
doesn't save it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Clanker. I needed that word. I've needed that word for
a long time. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
If you yell representative into the phone ten times just
to talk to you a human being, that's a clanker.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
So many doodle think we'll see tomorrow, see tomorrow. God
bless America. It's not mystery show. He asked, what undred
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and seventy three you have? All that's wow? So stung
at game? So we'll be back to Farro. Stung at
a game, My sw
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jetty Enough He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The NFL season is just a few weeks away, and
they're urging team and league facilities nationwide to beef up
security following that deadly and targeted attack at its Manhattan headquarters.
Now a memo obtained by esp and recommends updated threat assessments,
more armed security or law enforcement presence, and weapons screening
similar to game day measures to protect players, staff and visitors.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I've never understood this kind of reaction to terrorism or
crime or whatever. One nutjob who may or may not
have had the messed up brain from football, but one
nuts goes to the building where the NFL is headquartered
and they're going to beef up security significantly at stadiums
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all around the country for.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The whole season and practice facilities in front offices.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
That's a nuts reaction.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, I would like to talk to a team of
anthropologists about it, because I think there's something very primal
about it, mixed with liability, mixed with something something the
modern age. Because you're right, there's absolutely zero evidence that
it's an ongoing threat of any sort. In fact, it's
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the exception that makes it clear that, oh, that's right.
Nobody in the last seventy five years has thought, you know,
what I need to do is take a shot at
the NFL for some grievance or another. It's the exception
that proves the rule is that confusing saying goes, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That's true. I didn't know what that clip was. I'm
glad we played it because that's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I would My only counter argument, and it's not a
good one.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
There are absolutely a shocking number of people who think
it is appropriate for them to address their grievance by
shooting a bunch of people. And the NFL has a
high profile. But I would say in that regard, then okay,
the NBA, Major League Baseball, and the Pro Golf Tour,
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and well not the w NBA. They mostly have sex
toys being thrown thrown on the floor. But uh, and
and you know a dozen other things that don't leap
to mind immediately, but just big high profile endeavors of
whatever sort general motors I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Now, if you get heard at a WNBA game, a
fake dingis is gonna blindside you in You're right? Oh god,
what was that? Lose ear or something? Seems unlikely? So
do you want serious or not serious? Next? What would
be the best flow? Probably serious? Then not serious?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, well go ahead, and then I've got a philosophical
topic I'd like to bring up later in the show.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So I just wanted to pay this off. I've heard
this a couple of places, but we haven't mentioned has
to do.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
With feeding your pet to a lion anyway, begs you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I've heard this a couple of places, but not here,
and I just want to make sure you all heard it.
The whole supposed famine that's going on in Gaza. Oh yeah,
there's been a fair amount of decent pushback on that,
not from mainstream media. But why don't you see lots
of Well, first of all, Jonah Goldberg has written several
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pieces about this. He wrote one in the La Times
the other day about famine is a plural word, as in,
the whole point of a famine is there are lots
and lots and lots of people starving. If there are
lots and lots and lots of people starving, why are
you just showing the one kid in like every publication
the same weekend or only kids? Have had anybody seen
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a single skinny adult? I mean, what is going on there?
So that's that's kind of weird too. And then just
specifically on that one kid, which you probably all know
the story, horrific looking scene. Turns out the kids got
a number of health issues and most likely looked like
that before the Gaza invasion. The poor kid. The New
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York Times posted out on the front page and on
their Twitter account to fifty five million followers to try
to show, look, there's this look look at this bony
bent child starved by the Israelis. And it turns out
that wasn't true why the kid looked like that? Their correction.
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They ran a correction, but not on the same Twitter
feed with fifty five million and followers. On their pr
page that has eighty nine thousand followers. Oh my gosh,
How unbelievably non journalistic is that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, that is abandoning the principles and doing the bare
minimum to pretend you have principles.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, If you're gonna be that weak, don't bother.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, you say, you know what I'm in I'm on
Hamasa's side in this one. I'm just gonna publish stuff
that tends to help them.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
It'd have been better off not printing a correction than
making it. Oh okay, you're not interested in all in
the truth. Okay, now I get it. And that's the
most important newspaper in the world.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Why don't you just make your your correction the wordle
for the next eleven days in a row. There you go,
New York Times, There you go. You printed your correction, didn't. Yeah,
that's weird, honey. Today's word is eleven letters long. It's
you know, you know, clarification.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You know, it's only one step removed from Hey, i
AI show me what a kid would look like if
he was starving to death, and then putting that picture
on there. It's only one step removed from that.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Poor little child with muscular dystrophe in this case.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah. Anyway, So I've said what
I need to say about that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Do you you know I want to throw this Yeah,
throw this in just because and I'll just hit the headlines.
I'd like to get into it in more detail, because
it absolutely deserves it. But a couple of different publications uh.
Both the Washington Free Beacon, which is terrific. In the
Wall Street Journal, headline number one, Federal investigators compile evidence
of systematic Hamas aid theft, undercutting the leaked US AID report,
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and they have the word report in quotes Hamas commandeer's
aid trucks and places terrorists and you n facilities routinely.
It's part of their business plan. And the second headline,
this one from the Wall Street Journal, how humanitarian aid
feeds war machines.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Donors need better rules to.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Stop warlords, militias, and authoritarian regimes from stealing assistance. And
this writer goes around the world from Somalia to Afghanistan,
to Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia and Gaza and explains how
the aid trucks that we see doubles cash machines for warlords, militias,
and authoritarian regimes.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It is absolutely routine. Bill Clinton could tell you that,
Oh yeah, absolutely. The New York Times can't tell you that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Well, they've got it buried in a recipe for bone
broth in their cooking section. That's where they put that correction.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Okay, here's my stupid story. It's awful. Florida predator given
probation for pepper spring rich men and stealing luxury watches
off their wrists. This twenty year old attractive woman would
hit up on guys who should know better, and whenever
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she got her got them in a hotel, parking garage.
In effect, anytime she got them alone, she'd pepper spray
them in the face, take their fancy watch off of
their wrist, and run off. And she did that to
quite a few dudes in Florida before she got caught.
We got a picture. Uh yeah, do tell quite average
(08:32):
in her mugshot, But I'm guessing she's all dulled up
with lots of makeup. She would be quite attractive, but
I imagines skanky, semi attractive blonde, a BIPOC. Skanky semi
attractive BIPOC with a lot of makeup would.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Lack indigenous people of color some undeterminate ethnic group.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, but I've if she gets semi made up and
makes it clear that she wants to jump your bones,
good enough for a lot of dudes. For a fat
old guy, Yeah, so here's here's my thin old guy.
Why you're body shaming. Here's my tip. Because I've been
following these stories my whole life, dudes, me, all of us,
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all guys. If all of a sudden, somebody completely out
of your depth, your weight range, all of a sudden
your league hitting on you out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Think that over.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's never happened before in your whole life. Or maybe
it did in high school when you were fit, but
not since then, or whatever your situation is. If all
of a sudden, this a third your age hottie is
interested in you, think about that for a second, you moron,
before you say sure, I'll go back to a hotel
with you.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
There is a Darwinian aspect to this, Katie, is there not?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh? There is?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
But then again, it could be true love, you know,
God not are you gonna take my watch? I'm not
wearing a watch.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
If it's love, you shouldn't be headed to the hotel
ten minutes after you met.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Things happen fast when it's passionate jack.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
When it's magic, when it's your soulmate.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
When it's true magic, it's true love. That's the key
it's all about. When it's true love, not the other
kind of love you've had before, True love.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right, Nothing says true love like hustling off to the
Motel six. Michael, I was thinking of Bill Belichick. I
guess true love there, twenty four year old.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I guess, well, yeah, okay, so maybe that's it. You're
retting more of a long con. You're a rich guy.
Because you're wearing a luxury watch. You're probably a rich guy.
So maybe you do have women that look like that
hitting on your regularly for a less illegal way of
getting some money out of you. Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It reminds me Judy and my my wife and my ear.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You're so nate, that's funny. Oh my god, you're my soulmate.
I just met you a drink ago.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hey, let's let's grab some ice on our way to
you know, consummate our soulmatehood out of the machine. Damn it,
this one doesn't work. Go upstairs. So my wife and
my daughter, my daughter who is in law school right now.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I can't remember how it came out, came up exactly,
but she was talking to the sugar daddy thing among
college girls, college women, grad school women, how they will
form a fiscal relationship with a generous older fella with
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duties to be assigned by the general manager, and it
can vary between just conversation or pictures or going out together,
or sometimes I lift up my shirt or sometimes I'm
just I'm a long term prostitute, and it varies.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But it was funny.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
As Delaney was describing to this, my earnest, sweet Midwestern
wife was like, what, oh my gosh, college girls are
doing this, And so Bill Belichick's a squeeze. She's not
gonna spray pepper, spray ice and grab his wristwatch. She
has a somewhat different approach to the problem. We worked
(12:26):
with a guy and he surely is not alive. He's
had to have died by a heart attack by now.
We worked with the guy at radio station years ago
as a client. Had a fair amount of money and
older fact rich guy, and hung out with him quite
a bit. We had fun, we drank together.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But anyway, he had some stripper chick that he would
meet at a hotel and he told me, he said
they'd just get together and like watch TV and have pizza.
They didn't do anything, but he bought her stuff all
the time. That was his relationship. I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And that always just kind of makes me sad because
it's like you're blatantly being news used, you know it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know that you said for him or for
her for him, but so allegedly, and I believe I
believe his account to your account if he was.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, that that that's sad though.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That he just wants to be in a room with
an attractive un doesn't that bummy out a little?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Well, it's it's like being in a room with a
delicious pepperoni pizza. To me, it's worse than not being
in a room with the pizza.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Pizza. I can't eat it unless you're paid for, unless
you're a really odd duck. A pizza does not feed
your ego. It does feed your ego squestion of desire
and paying off the desire. It's a perfect metaphor. You
have a delicious one, you have the desire to be
wanted by an attractive young woman. I'm guessing here, I
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don't get it either. I'm just guessing that that fills
some need where the pizza doesn't do anything for your ego.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I have no need to be desired by a pizza.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You're right, I'm the sort of guy that can, you know,
hang around a pizza like this. I would also but
it's you. But you're delusional because it's utterly.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Clear from the relationships she doesn't desire you at all.
Back to the perfection of my pizza metaphor, I please,
I rest my case.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's weird, stay here.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
CNN's Casey Hunt is under fire for asking if wheelchair
bound Texas Governor Greg.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Abbott had a leg to stand on.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Hant says it was a poor choice of words, and
she's really sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's not funny, wow making fun of the CNN anchor
ats there, Greg Guttfeldt happen to be reading that China
out ship builds us whatever it is, eighteen to one
or something like that, is investing heavily in building a
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supermodern navy, and our shipbuilding capabilities have withered to practically nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
God, all this is going to catch up with us
at some point, isn't it. Well? And here computer chips,
the ships, the medicines, the AI technology, whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, and here's the insignificant side story that I think
speaks loudly. The Chinese state newspaper Global Time celebrated that
the country's box office hit a single day record for
movies box office returns for a summer day, earning nine
(15:38):
hundred and seventy two million dollars on a single day.
Whoa on the.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Back of almost a billion dollars in one day.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yes, on the back of three different patriotic war propaganda
films demonizing the Japanese, which is interesting because freak their
propaganda war films demonized the United States. But it's usually
China or the United States. And as they increasingly close
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off their market to Hollywood films and are pushing very
hard to get more you know, patriotic blockbusters into their theaters.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You got people. Chinese people turn it out.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
In droves to go raw raw against the brave Chinese army,
defeating the evil Westerners, including Japan.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I don't remember where I read this many many years
ago about the expanding, growing culture versus the receding shrinking culture.
But a culture that people are turning out to watch
their heroes fight the bad guy is gonna dominate. A
culture that puts out movies where you're the bad guy
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and everybody else is the good guy.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Although having you know, gone through the entire educational system,
as say a twenty five year old, you don't need
to see a movie that makes your own country the
bad guy. You're thoroughly convinced of that already.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, that is something.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, I don't want to be depressing or anything, but
I mean it's it doesn't take a political scientist to
project those trend lines going forward. You know what they mean,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
The happiest people do four things every day. They pay
attention to their faith or life philosophy. They pay attention
to their families, They cultivate their friendships, and they try
to serve other people through their work. Faith, family, friends,
and serving other people through your work. Those are those
are the happiness pillars. That's the happiness four oh one
K plan.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Arthur Brooks. Yes, they left out money and that's and
clicks likes who likes.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, they left money and likes. That was Arthur Brooks,
who's an author and scientists. He's studied happiness and that
sort of thing for years now. On Brett Bear's show
last night, he had a great deal more to say
on that topic. And it goes along reasonably well with
what the New Chicago Pope said du Pope to recently.
We're fleshing that out and we'll bring that to you
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tomorrow probably roughly this time of day on the Armstrong
and Getty Show. I hope you can join us then,
So I've gone through a journey Jack, a personal journey,
and deciding how to address this this next story.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I found myself in the woods in midlife. That's the
beginning of Dante's Inferno. Oh really lost in the woods
in midlife?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Then what happens? Spoiler alert?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why you trying to figure out your purpose? Like you're just.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Talking about Yeah? Indeed, and again more on that tomorrow.
It's always appropriate. So here's my personal journey. And Katie
I believe, brought this up as one of her headlines.
And Katie, please feel free to jump in. A zoo
in Denmark wants to feed your pets to its predators.
A Danish zoo is asking owners of companion animals nearing
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life's in to donate them uh as food for captive lynxes, lions,
and other carnivores.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
This is sounding like a pretty darn good idea. Why
haven't we met about this in the United States?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know what's funny is I don't know if it's
intentionally or unintentionally. The subhead in the head from the
New York Times don't make it clear whether your animal
is alive in this scenario or not.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Right, I was wondering about that. But we got shelters
full of cats and zoos ful hungry lions. How we
haven't put those two things together?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Oh right, I'm not playing along with them.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, well, and so my.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The first thing I thought, in looking this article over
and skimming it real quickly, was, man, this is a
because they make it clear that these animals would be
gently euthanized by trained employees, used for food by the zoos,
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predators like the ear and links, lions and tigers, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah for me, even I don't want to feel alive
stray kitten who is going to be euthanized at the shelter?
Too long relying? But uh, why not? You know, give
a not knock it out a little bit and then
give it to the line.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
All right, well, it'll be euthanized, it'll be dead the
circle of life. It won't be asleep, it'll be dead.
But anyway, enough, knock.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It out a little bit. You know, I won't really
know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Right, Give it a xanax. It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, give it a half a ben a drill and
put it in the lion cage.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
So I've got to admit I was thinking, as I
often do, as the the dedicated realist, that all right,
this is a pretty good dividing line that makes perfect
sense to me.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Of course it does. You have these animals in the zoo.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
People love them, they admire them, they learn about conservation,
blah blah blah. The animals are eating meat, obviously, they're
feeding them their natural diet, and as the zeo says,
this way nothing goes to waste, and we ensure natural behavior,
nutrition and well being for our predators because it mimics
the natural food chain by feeding whole prey to its predators.
(21:11):
So it is absolutely biologically zoologically not only defensible, it's ideal.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I'll have to do.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I thought, here's a great dividing line. Can you handle
that or not? Do you understand that your pet, when
it's gone, it's gone, and you'll be doing a good thing.
And then I thought about my dog, And it.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Is harder when you think about your own dog. I
can still do it. I'll I'll have to ask Henry
if he'd be okay if Pugsito got eaten by a lion.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Oh my do you dare ask him that not prior
to the age of twenty thirty, and he'll be eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He'll be on a therapist's couch and say, I remember
it today, Gladys, he'll say, and Gladys will play the
harp and he'll say. I was thirteen years old and
my dad came in and said, would it be okay
if we fed Pugsito to a.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Lion, your beloved dog companion? Good Lord, you'd be lucky
if he doesn't take you out anyway, Sorry, Judy. And
I just got done with Department Q. It's on Netflix.
Really good, Murder, Mystery, Misfit Cop, Conspiracy, Weirdness, What Lies Beneath?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Really really good Emmy nomination. It's not just my opinion,
but Department Q really really good. Anyway. So I I
was thinking about Baxy, who is my dog, my half
lab half Border Collie, and he's getting on in years definitely.
He's thirteen now, which a dog. No, I don't I
have a mutt man it like me. He's a mutt anyway,
(22:53):
and I started thinking, oh my god, that just I
just don't think about it, don't think about it, don't
think about it. It's like know, when the dentist gives
you that shot at it's fine, it doesn't hurt that
bad as long as you don't think about it.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I do, all right. I think it bothers me, although
I've been always been a big Once i'm dead, I
don't care what you do with me. You can put
me in a trash bag up, but on Tuesday morning
when the truck comes by, because I'm dead, it's just
my body. At that point, it doesn't mean anything. So
if I feel that way about me, I think I
feel that way about my dog.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, I've got to admit we have been of the
habit of Because at the VET they will helpfully for
some people go ahead and cremate your beloved departed pet
and gift you with the ashes and an urn and
a display of whatever. It's like, you know, funeral home.
They're happy to I've done an issue.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I've done that whole thing with somebody who wanted to
do that. It was my idea of But yeah, done
that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
And everybody has different emotional needs, and I get that
we have been. No, we have our pictures in our memories.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
The Judy and I happen to agree on that topic,
like we do on most things.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But I get other people have other needs.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But so I've got to believe that I could, after
a brief talk with myself, think.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know what. My only problem is do I get
to be many? They explain that in the late going
in this article, I was so intrigued by the ethnic
Yes you did, just finish reading it.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're just not throwing the dog in there? Run run run?
You know it's not like that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well right, And I don't want to make everybody sad,
but certainly the you know, as we've had to do
in the past, I will be there at the end,
and I don't need a zoo keeper to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Backstage of the lion exhibit, now we have Katie's a
dog owner. What's your opinion?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
This whole conversation is just not could you feed that?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
What's that little white fluffy dog?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You got?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Frank?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Now, if I couldn't, I could not. I could not.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Fe understand the diet of the great apes.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
But what's that little white fluffy thing you have?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
The post linked to the zoo's website describes the process
for donating horses as food.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I'm not alive. Right again, I'm not shouting. Do they
do you?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Now?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Do they take it alive and then they euthanize it?
Because I could not handle see that. So you're still
handing over a live animal?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yes, to the zoo? Yeah, I think this is now.
They also accept chickens and your dogs and gigs. You're
a quick question, why are we at the zoo? And
where am I going?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And why are you not coming with me? Oh lord, no, no,
I can't even contemplate.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's too dark, it's too terrible. But notice what at
the zoo?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
So they mentioned the we've never been to the zoo before.
The horse will be delivered alive to the zoo where
it will be euthanized by a zoo keeper and a
veterinarian and then slaughtered the zoo's website.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Or so they tell you. Right now, here's where it
gets weird.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
The zoo also accepts chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs during
weekdays between ten am and one pm, but no more
than four at a time.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh okay, jeez, I have six. I'll have to go
two days in a row. Oh my god, and.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Your lower form of beasts that don't know what from
what I feel this, for instance, I feel different about
them than I do about like, say, a very bright dog. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't think this is going to
(26:48):
catch on a lot. I don't like the.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Idea of handing them over alive. I feel like, I
don't know, they need to euthanize them before like there.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I don't know how that would work out.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Rough rough So when we got in the car, I
thought perhaps where we were added to a church or
a hospital. This, Oh, for God's sake, stop with that.
It seems to be the lost zoo.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Is anybody enjoying Jack's hilarious dog unaware that it's about
to be put to death? Bit it's hilarious, it's great.
Oh my god. Yeah, working with the Lenny Bruce over here.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
You just wanted me to see the zoo once before
we go to the hospital. Rice, I'm just gonna interrupt.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Signy Flyvolme, who lives in Denmark and has visited the
zoo for the past forty years, said the social media
post made her want to donate her horse. She could
make a difference by being used as food. She's a
very loved horse.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
That it were n'm carrie. He has a horse face.
So why a horse?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Two thousand pound horse, by the way, that's going to
keep the lions fed for a while.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's a big damn horse. But so would you just
put the whole horse horse carcass in there and let
the lions pull it apart?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
And the particulars I don't know. I doubt they would,
certainly not. While the zoo is open.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Right from grade Field trip right exactly.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
They could sell feature tickets, could be the all thing.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, well, feeding time at the zoo is an enormous
attraction right now.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And what do you think they're feeding those animals that
need meat? It was a it was a live at
one point. Whatever it was. It wasn't my dog. It
was not your dog. This is true.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Probably not right. Oh, I'm sorry I brought it up.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, good way to go, Joel.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, I blamed myself because they've fed all kinds of
live fish to the dolphins.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
At the dolphins show we went to in Florida when
Henry got to ride the dolphins. Are they live? They
were alive? They were scuirming around.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh really, Uh, well, that's a good indication that they're alive,
unless they're puppet fish.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Henry got to do the thing where he had a
dolphin on each side of and he had his hands
on their fin and they pulled it really fast through
the water. Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's a cool video.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, Pettle will probably stop that soon.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's cool. Yeah in Florida you can do that. Probably
not in California. Oh yeah, Okay, Well, I'm glad Joe
reads the email hit it lots of email about the
whole feeding your dog to the Lion's story.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, it wasn't a show stopper, but it certainly slowed
it down.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, we will finish strong next time. Paperwork for back
to school. The amount of paperwork in the modern world
is insane, and almost all of it's driven by lawyers,
damn it. Uh yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I was tempted to launch back into the Russia Ukraine thing,
but I'm thinking it make corese sense to address it
again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh yeah, because there might be new ripples. There's apparently
Europe is feeling like, should we get involved in this?
We ought to get involved in this before Friday, so
they're running out of time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Well, I think part of the reason is it's become
clear what the Russian strategy is, and that is to
turn the Ukraine situation into merely one aspect of a
much bigger agreement and thereby get what they want out
of Ukraine. And I get why that would appeal to
(30:42):
Trump and the United States. On a purely practical level,
it is, as usual with Putin, an extremely astute effort
at manipulation.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, it could be the sort of thing where, if
you're looking at it as an America first guy, you
think this is the best thing for the United States.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah. The great caveat to that, of course, is that
Putin will violate agreements. You know, he'll sign it, then
while you're signing it, he'll violate it. So that takes
some of the fun out of hating.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
To includes some sort of assurance, though, like ironclad assurance
that he doesn't, you know, continue the war six months
or a year from now. And I don't see how
anything would other than troops, European troops, NATO troops would
do the trick.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Well, yeah, there's no assurance other than a trip wire,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The troops should be assurance, right, He's not going to
go to war with NATO troops yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
I was just differentiating between like a written assurance and
a kinetic fact that well exactly, yeah, yeah, a fact
on the ground that assures he won't screw around because
he can't.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But well so, a couple of quick notes.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
The fabulous Nelly Bowls writing in the Free Press, she's
absolutely hilarious. In other news of the Jews, an Austrian
heiress to the industrial dynasty whose company manufactured Zyklon B,
the chemical used to gas Jews during the Holocaust. One
of the heiresses of that company is set to sail
(32:29):
on a freedom flotilla to Gaza.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Wow. And, as Nelly writes, there's something.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Tender about carrying on family traditions.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Wow, there's a hole in the show and you know
it's time to go.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
It's time for final thoughts. On your feet. You have
to know the backstory on that one, but it's a
good one. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. Michaelangelo, our
technical director, our capta is on the air the whole time.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Michael, what's your final thought? Yeah, after today's show, I'm
craving pizza.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I'm gonna go home and hug my cats, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
May never go to the zoo again. How many cats
is at seven? Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
No, time, let's move along. Katie Green are a Steve
Newswoman has a cat? Has a final thought?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Katie not a cat pervert.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
No, I love the zoo and I like to go
to the feeding time and both of you, jerk's ruined
it for me. So thanks a lot, both of you.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Well wow, yeah, just pretend that was what artificial meat
creating in a lab, you fool saw jack a final thought?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, no, I was just saying about all this paperwork
I'm filling out for school. Did my parents have to
sign a single piece of paper when I went back
to school? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't. And
is there any way to get out of this? So
what doesn't keep doing? I mean, there's like fifty things
you have to sign to make lawyers happy, and they
(33:54):
probably wouldn't do any good if it went to court anyway.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Who hi, karumba. Gosh my final thought, I got a heavy,
important one, but I'm not in the mood. Join us
tomorrow for more, Oh clanker, that's the new word you
need to know.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Clanker.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
That's any AI or other technology that doesn't work the
way it's supposed to, makes your life worse, Waste your time,
doesn't save it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Clanker. I needed that word. I've needed that word for
a long time. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
If you yell representative into the phone ten times just
to talk to you a human being, that's a clanker.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
So many doodle think we'll see tomorrow, see tomorrow. God
bless America. It's not mystery show. He asked, what undred
(35:05):
and seventy three you have? All that's wow? So stung
at game? So we'll be back to Farro. Stung at
a game, My sw
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