February 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week!
- Iran is dangerously close to having a nuclear weapon
- English official language of US & hotline to report offensive jokes
- Explosive meeting between Trump, Vance & Zelensky
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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
Getty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty, so big doing it at the White
House today, big doings at the White House practically every
day for.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The first I was about to say two months. It's
been a month and a week.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's unbelievable that Trump's been president for only a month
and a week.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It seems like a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Which I also wonder if there's because every president, even
the popular ones in my lifetime, by the time you
get like through that second term, people are ready for
them to go. You just get fatigued about hearing their name.
That happened with Reagan, Clinton and Obama. I mean, even
though they were popular, it's just like.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Okay, I'm just certainly the second term, yeah, the second term.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
But I wonder if that's gonna happen with Trump, just
because he's so I'm the president in the news all
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I don't know, but I had a plate. Oh he
was asked.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't know if he has asked anything, but today
he revealed conversation he had with Joe Biden, who Joe
Biden blames.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
For his loss. Trump revealed that today and it's really
it's kind of interesting, So I miss that. Yeah, we'll
get to that coming up.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And then you've got to prominent Biden advisor coming out
and doing press now saying oh, yeah, yeah, we knew
he was. See now we're gaslighting everybody. I think that's
the word. Yes, So yeah, well we noticed. We really
didn't need your confirmation, but thank you for coming out
now that you're.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I think the response should be or a trader to
your country, enjoy these leg irons.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, oh indeed, leg irons.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
There you go, dungeon, maybe iron mask, I don't know,
thinking out loud. Hey, a lot to get to to
squeeze in this final hour of the week. But first
let's take a find look back of the week that was.
It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
This is the kind of treasure he's some week.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
MSNBC canceled Joy Reads TV show.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, what I was doing? He value and value personally.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I think it is a bad mistake to let her
walk out the door.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You could peel on my leg, but don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's rain Happer writing this book is like Hannibal Lecter.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Writing one on the dangers of cannibalism.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
As I said, you'd think, you know, I'm a guy,
I would wear some sort of underwear.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
If I was wearing those pants, I wouldn't be uh,
you know, fb in it if you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Will, right, it's just sensible.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's right. When I don't have a friend pink like,
why but pink in the window.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
My message to young men is, don't allow this broken
culture to send you a message that you're a bad person.
There is a difference between the word woman and being
a biological female.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know your gender. I don't know canvases. I
don't know mine. You don't know my gender. I don't
do I look like a woman. I don't know what
a woman looks like.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
Another doge disruption.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
You're the White House. We say.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hell no to dismantling the postal service.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mention, Saint your postman, can you count the people
in the house?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
What day can he do the census? Monday? How about Wednesday?
Goes every day a grit.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
To achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction, it requires saving
full billion dollars per day every day.
Speaker 10 (03:49):
I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
We're gonna have Europe do that.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine,
they get their money back.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
In fact, to be frank, we beat it.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
If you believe that. It's okay with me.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. Fair
to say, it's a very complicated situation.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
And haha, there's Ukraine which has Chernobyl and some radiation
proved dogs Chris Dugs.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's rip from it immediately turns to the Maverick space.
Speaker 10 (04:28):
If you put your effort in concentration into playing to
your potential to.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
Be the best that you can be.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end
of the game.
Speaker 10 (04:36):
In my book, we're going to be winners, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Gene Hackman in Happier.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Times, substantially happier. Yeah, it was interesting what you informed
use of earlier in the week that Hackman thought Who's
yours was going to be a bomb?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, he thought it was embarrassing in schmlty and.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And Dennis Hopper drunk all the time, couldn't have helped. Oh,
that was his character.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think it's interesting that stars regularly don't get it
wrong about what's gonna be popular or whatever. I was
reading trying of Michael Stipe of ram hated losing my religion,
didn't want even want on the album, let alone. The
first single on the album hit the radio. I thought
it was a disaster of a song. There's no hook,
there's no course, there's and it's their biggest hit.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And I'm the same with John Mayer guitar player. It
was just like his early albums. There is some something
he didn't want to do and he hated and everything,
and it became his like defining song. It's just it's
interesting that the people closest to it sometimes are wrong
about it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, I suppose I was gonna say that music is
a little different, but it has enough in common. The
one thing that strikes me is super interesting about movies.
And I wish I could remember who said this, because
I've heard it's kind of echoed by others through the years.
But you never know if the movie is gonna work
(06:07):
until it's done and you watch it. And sometimes you
have something you thought was incredibly promising and you edit
it and you watch it and you think that does
not hang together, and you re edit it, then you
shoot another scene because you realize the gap in the
narrative whatever, and it just you can't get it to work.
(06:28):
And then sometimes it just it tumbles together beautifully.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I'd love to take a shot at it sometime just
to go through that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I learned the most about that from Woody Allen's memoir
where he talked about various script rewrites or things it
didn't work and why it didn't work and everything like that.
Because you're right, if you watch a bad movie, sometimes
it just like you can't even quite put your finger
on it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It just doesn't hang together.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The you didn't build enough tension between those two for
this development to happen or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right, either you don't don't care, or you don't get it. Yeah, yeah,
that is exactly right. You don't care, you don't get it.
That's perfect.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, not like one of those mind bending is it
Charlie Kaufman who writes those crazy you're never quite sure
what reality is movies like Endless, Sunshine of the Spotless
Jim Carrey or whatever that movie was.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, anyway, I got a question for you before I
get to this Trump thing. Did we ever come up
with a good word or did somebody come up with
a good word when you're stymied by technological things that.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Feeling that exhausted frustration. We did, but I can't remember
what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Last night was trying to get some tickets for my son,
and I won't get into the details because they're boring,
but we've all been there, and it just ended up
being a you need to have an account, and then
you try to get an account, it says you've already
gotten account, and then you try to get the password,
and then it says you need to set up an
account to get the password, but when you try to
do that, it says you've already gotten account. You know
that sort of thing. I think it was texhaustion, and
(07:58):
it's just so it's just so frustrated.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's trying to explain that to my son.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That we've been trying to come up with a name
for it, because it's its a long, unique feeling, I
think because it's an inanimate.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Object or something, but it's just ah, and you feel
so helpless.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well, and it's such a multi layered frustration, I mean,
because every step is stymied by you know, the evil
gods of computers.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Can you try to log out or log back in
or unplug it or whatever the hell you try to do?
And it's just, oh god, I hate that feeling. That's
my least favorite emotion. I think it may have been texhaustion.
You are texhausted. Oh okay. So here's what Trump said
and kind of interesting. Trump told Spectator World. So that
(08:45):
is that a British thing? Uh, the Spectator is a
British publication. I don't know what that is. He just
did a press conference with the Prime Ministry yesterday. Anyway,
he had visited the White House to meet with what
he called an angry by and shortly after he beat
Kamala Harris. We all remember that, sitting there in the
Oval office with Biden, who was smiling and treating him
(09:08):
like he didn't think he was Hitler, or that he
didn't think it was in the United States, which he
had said.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Over and over again, or no, or maybe he had
a plot to blow up a bomb under the table.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh no, that was the actual Hitler.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Never mind, I asked him, Trump says, I ask him,
so who do you blame?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because he was very angry, you know, he was a
very angry guy.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Actually, and he said, I blame Barack Trump said, And
he said, I also blame Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I said, what about the vice president? You know?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Trump saying, how about the person I actually ran against?
Did she come in for a kicking?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
No, I don't blame her, which was interesting, said Trump.
He didn't blame Harris. He blamed me. He told me,
he blamed those two people, Barack and Nancy.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He hates Barack Obama.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Well, at this point he probably doesn't remember who he is,
but back when he did, he hates Obama. Obama undermined
him and cut him off with the these multiple times.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Right, Yeah, he does not. He actually believes that if
he hadn't been pushed out, he'd won.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well, and he also believes that if he hadn't been
wrastled out in twenty sixteen, that he would have beat
Hillary in the primary and then beaten Trump in twenty
sixteen and been a successful two termer before he was
old in senile right.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know, once you're really old, though maybe you don't
even have to be really old, why not hang on
to delusion if it makes you happy?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
What's the harm? Generally? I feel like, you know, dealing
with the truth is best, but some delusions, I don't know.
Might as well take him to my grave makes me
feel better. What's the hell side?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
But for Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, one piece
of advice, four simple words. Turn on each other, not
each other. Go to the press, name names, Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Iran if it decides to his days from having nuclear
weapons quite a few of them, by the way, and
Israel and probably the United States, that being Donald Trump,
are gonna have to make a decision about that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We'll get to that at some point this hour. Among
other things, are.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
The rare earth minerals deal with Ukraine. What a genius
historic can move that accomplishes two fundamental.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Things it wants.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
It creates a pathway for Ukraine to have American involvement
and the security that comes with America's economic development in Ukraine.
And at the same time, it repays America for all
of the money that we've.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Spent on Ukraine.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
And I would also add actually a third point, which
is that it solves the ustern two problem of inadequate
access to rare earth minerals.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So that's Stephen Miller High level advisor to Donald Trump.
If you're a Trump hater, you believe Trump's going after
the mineral rights just you know, get money to extort
someone even though they're.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Mostly an ally.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
If you're a little more charitable toward Trump, it's closer
to what Stephen Miller just said that. No, it's it's
having us invested in Ukraine in a way that would,
you know, help with the security guarantees the Ukraine needs
to make some sort of peace deal.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I hate the idea of the way Trump's put some
stuff and as always you you can't hang your.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Hat on what he says. It's what he does.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
But acting like this was a loan, because it was
never a loan, no financing Ukraine. It was in our
geopolitical interests to stop Rusher from ushering in a new
wave of conquest in Europe.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Blah blah blah. We've talked about that plenty.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
On the other hand, I can I certainly see Trump
thinking all right, to make this look good for me,
given my philosophies, it's got to be something more concrete.
Our supporting Ukraine has got to yield something more concrete.
Then this is good for the democracies of the world
and to stand up against depression, because I just don't
(13:19):
think Trump cares about that the way other people do.
So he's saying, all right, let's go ahead and give
Russia a stiff arm and defend Ukraine. But it'll be
really profitable for the US and it'll take care of
our really serious need for some of the rarets and
minerals that Ukraine has. So it's a win win, and
(13:41):
that's the sort of deal he likes to be seen making.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, and it's a way to kind of sneak in
a security guarantee from the United States without.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Provoking putin head on.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Perhaps I don't want to give Trump too much credit
or too much you know, derision for this, because it's
possible it fits in with this the stuff about Iran
being close to a weapon.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I've been saying since before the inauguration.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think Trump is going to allow the United States
to be part of, if not take the lead, in
a major attack on Iran that takes out their nuclear program.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And that might be, you know, on the calendar.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
As soon as we get this whole Ukraine or Russia
thing to figure it out, we're about to enter a
war in the Middle East with the biggest player, Iran,
and we need to get this dealt with before we
move on.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Maybe that's part of the the whole thing. And it
just popped into my head.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Have you heard anything else from Mark Halpern or others
about this alleged grand bargain that's umbling behind the scenes
between the.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
US and Russian China? Right right?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Because I could picture and oh, by the way, you
gotta disarm Iran in return for this, that and the
other being part of that grand.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Bargain, right right.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
We aren't going to fight you on that Ukrainian territory
with Trump thinking there's no way to get it back anyway,
and we get Russia to give on quit being friends
with Iran, We're about to attack them. Do not come
to their aid possible Again, I don't want to give
them too much credit. But well, we'll all live through
this and we'll be able to, you know, figure out
what the plan was.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Let me read you this from the dispatch.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Since late October, Iran has grown at stockpile of uranium
enriched to sixty percent from a small number to big number,
a fifty percent increase, according to new findings by the
United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency. The Islamic Republic now
possesses enough enriched uranium for six bombs should it choose
to enrich to weapons grade, a process that would take
(15:42):
only a couple of days. At this point, the significantly
increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran,
the only non nuclear weapon state to produce such nuclear material,
is of serious concern. The Watchdog warned, there's no way
Israel can allow Iran to get six nuclear weapons, and
(16:02):
there's really no way we can allow it to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Trump has been unequivocal in his support for Israel, and
he's the guy who adamized old General Sulamani. Right, that
says to me, don't bet against us backing Israel in
a serious strike.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So I'm just saying this could be part of the
whole Russia Ukraine thing in a way that is not
clear yet.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't know if it is, but it certainly could be.
It's conceivable.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, I hate to just wait and see, especially because
you know, we analyze this sort of thing for a
living and take a look at it and try to
figure out what's going on. But there are so many
question marks. Much like the death of Gene Hackman. Jack,
so many question marks. Although I think I've nailed it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
How come they haven't released what the pills were that
you could have just read it on the bottle and told.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You too soon, too soon.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
You don't want to tip off the evil doer, thereny
and I don't think there are.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Ay, No, they could just read the bottle and say
it was a bottle of and it'd be something like, yeah,
that's what you take if you trying to kill yourself, or.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
No, that's just you know, you don't disclose that stuff.
Somebody's dead. So let's go through their medicine cabinet and say, oh,
having trouble with erections. Apparently I've had a bottle of viagara.
Let's see what else we got here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's not a thing, Jack Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Musk is sort of right there in saying that the
FAA's technology systems are old and aging and obsolete, and
really backed up by this Government Accountability Office report out
only two months ago.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It said urgent FAA.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Actions are needed to modernize aging systems. Ninety two percent
of the FAA's facility and equipment budget goes into sustaining
that old system.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Wow, they're causing chaos. He's unelected.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
A couple of headlines that I've come across just in
the last few minutes from the Wall Street Journal. America
has never had an official language. Trump plans to sign
an EO to make it English. It's going to sign
an executive order to make English the official language. I
don't know what that would mean in reality, because California
has English is the official language, and it doesn't seem
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to mean anything in reality.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now, thirty seven languages on the ballot, et cetera. Yeah,
be whether or not you enforced it, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And then this headline in New York Times that I
will read.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
The decline of the Christian population in the United States
appears to have halted, a shift in part fueled by
young people.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A major study is found. Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yes, I happen to see that the Pew Research study.
Most Americans say they hold one or more spiritual beliefs,
and the decline has stopped in church attendance and all
sorts of stuff, and it's being driven by the young.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's hard to suggest here, and that's really interesting. I
will read up on that and report back Monday. Excellent
the rise of the nuns.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
It was called jack not Nuns and Uns n O
n e s, a group that identifies with no religion.
That the rise in that grew to about thirty percent
a few years back, but it has stopped rising. Oh anyway, yeah,
that to come. I clicked away from what I was
going to talk about to echo your thoughts on that.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I apologize. Where is it, Tello? Why I tire myself
out sometimes?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
There it is. So this is I was trying to
figure out how.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
To, you know, present this, whether to ask you to
guess where this is happening England or the US, or
just make somebody guess something because this is so crazy
and outrageous you're gonna think it's fake. In January of
twenty twenty, top law enforcement agency in the state of
(19:59):
Oregon and launched a bias response hotline for students to
report offensive jokes. I'm sorry for residents to report offensive jokes.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
A hot line to report offensive jokes. Uh yeah, that's correct. Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Staffed by trauma informed operators. That's a quote and overseen
by the Oregon Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The hotline, which receives.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Thousands of calls a year, doesn't just solicit reports of
hate crimes or hiring discrimination.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It also asks for reports of quote.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Bias incidents, cases of quote non criminal expression that are
motivated in part by prejudice or hate. So Oregonians are
encouraged to report their fellow citizens for things like quote
creating racist images, quote mocking someone with a disability, and
quote sharing offensive jokes in quotes about someone's identity. One
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web page affiliate with hotline, which is available in two
hundred and forty language two hundred and forty languages.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So say somebody tells a dumb blonde joke, I tell it.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I got to hung up on
the two forty languages even lists imitating someone's cultural norm
as something we want to hear about.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Anyway, that to you, I.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Tell a dumb blonde joke. Katie's offended as a smart
blonde calls the hot line.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Then what did the people on the other end of
the hot line do?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well, they take a report and they well, you know,
I could describe it this way. The Washington Free Beacon
call the hotline and reported a fictitious incident. To see
how it goes and what happens? What they did was
They described themselves as a Muslim concerned about the genocide
and Gaza, and said he felt targeted by an Israeli
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flag on his neighbor's front door, adding that his neighbor
had displayed the flag after the two had an awkward
exchange about the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Within twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
The hotline operator had the display in a state database,
referred to it as a warning sign, and suggested installing
security cameras in case the situation escalates. He also informed
the reporter that quote as a victim of a bias incident,
a victim of a bias incident, he could apply for
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taxpayer funded therapy through the state's Crime Victim's Compensation program,
which covers counseling costs for bias incidents as well as
actual crimes.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So I say to Katie, I'm so drunk. Is the
mating call of the dumb blonde. And Katie is offended
by that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Son's that's a felonious bias incident. In my opinion, I'm
so offended.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
And then the agency suggests that she put a camera
on me to keep an eye on me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And also she.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Gets taxpayer funded therapy to deal with the having heard
my blonde joke much needed.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Keeping in mind that the free Beak and intentionally provided
zero evidence of danger and was just reporting a religious
and political symbol. But all that mattered, according to the operator,
was how the symbol had been perceived, a key aspect
of critical theory that we hammered back in the day
and is mostly going away, but apparently not an Oregon
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where if you're offended your right. If you're offended and
say I felt like he was racist, that proves it's racist,
which disempowers the other person and makes them sit down
and shut up. That's the exact reason for this technique anyway,
even if it is not very this is a quote
from the operator, Even if it's not very explicit, we
go with whatever the victim is experiencing. And if your
(23:41):
sense is that this is based on discrimination against your
faith or your country of origin, that's how I will
document it. So the hotline lets people report their neighbors
for offensive flags based solely on the feelings of the offended.
But Oregon is not an out liar. It's one of
a dozen democratic jurisdictions, including eight states, that have created
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bias reporting systems for residents report protected speech. Connecticut let's
users flag hate speech they heard about but did not see,
so secondhand is fine in Connecticut. Vermont tells residents to
report biased but protected speech directly to the police. Philadelphia
(24:25):
has an online online form that asks for quote, the
exact address of the hate incident, as well as the
name and gender identity of the offender. Information the city
uses to contact those accused of bias and request that
they attend voluntary sensitivity training.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That is extraordinary. We've got to beat these people, we
really do.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, Elon just I should have had hands and get
the audio. But Elon just retweeted something, a PSA sort
of thing, and it's some dude that appears to be Asian,
and he's sitting there and then he does this and
he says, I don't know if you can hear that. Yeah,
mich you could hear that, he said, you hear that sound.
(25:12):
That's the scariest sound in the world. So that's the
sound of living in a totalitarian country where you have
to worry about that knock on the door. So that's
the last sound I know my parents heard before they
were taken out of our home. And I never saw
them again, and I forget whichever god forsaken country who's
living in where this happened, and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He was able to come to the United States.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But his point being that, you know, this radical out
of control to totalitarianism is the most dangerous thing out
there and something we need to fight against. Everybody, every
school kids should know this. More people have been killed
by their own government than by wars in the last century.
(25:55):
Oh yeah, absolutely true. A couple of quick quotes before
we move on.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Nadine Strawson, who's a past president of the ACLU back
when it was sane, said, we associate snitching on neighbors
with some of the most oppressive regimes throughout history. The
stazzi comes to mind. That was the East German Secret Police,
I think, wasn't it. And then the beacon makes a
point that wokeness seems to be on the back foot,
(26:22):
but a lot of technologies and ideas pioneered on campuses
are being repursed repurposed by state governments Blue states, especially
Aaron Turr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for
Individual Rights and Expression FIRE, says, quote exporting campus bias
reporting systems to wider society is a disastrous idea. When
(26:44):
a state policy explicitly calls out quote offensive jokes, it's
past time to worry, I would agree, Oregon, my god,
check yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I don't know why this popped into my head. It's
only tangentially related to a couple of things. I thought
the thoughts were having as I am under the sway
of cold medicine. But I remember sitting outside of a restaurant,
and this was late at night in a college town,
and a bunch of guys like walking from one bar
(27:15):
to another. We're walking down the street and they were
chanting what do we want a girl with low self esteem?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Where do we want? When do we want her? Now?
Is what they were chanting as they walk from bar
to bar.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And the female companion I was with it at the
time said they'll find plenty.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, at least they're being upfront. Yeah, I mean most admirable. Yeah,
it's weird, it's it's funny.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
How like it's offensive and icky and exactly what's going on?
So I don't know, I don't know how you're supposed
to react to that. That's it's horrible. It is horrible
and accurate and what is happening a lot. Yes, it
was like one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It was late at night.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yeah, yes, yeah, oh boy, I know it was a
sobering story.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Jack. Ironically enough, we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
So we're scrambling to bring you up to speed on
a breaking news story of great importance that is happening
right now as we speak.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So Zelenski gets to d C. He's in the White House.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
He's there in the Oval Office and jd Vance and
Trump start yelling at him and scolding him.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Let's play a little of it on camera, on camera,
and uh whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
We don't have in this little clip, we'll fill in
the other details ex change of prisons.
Speaker 11 (28:38):
But he didn't do it. What kind of diplomacy? Gg
us became bold? What what do you?
Speaker 9 (28:44):
What do you?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to
end the destruction of your country.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
But mister President, mister President.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
With respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come
into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in
front of the American media. Right now, you guys are
going around and forcing con scripts to the front lines
because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the
president for trying to bring it into this.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Content into Ukraine that you say, what problems we have?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
I have been to come, I've actually I've actually watched
and seen the stories, and I know what happens is
you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour.
Mister president, are do you disagree that you've had problems?
Speaker 9 (29:23):
What bringing people in your military have and.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Do you think that it's respectful on to come.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
To the Oval Office of the United States of America
and attack the administration that is trying to trying to
prevent the destruction of your country.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning, short
fist wall.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
During the war, everybody has problems, even you. But you
have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will
feel it in diffusion.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Bless you.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
I'm blessed You're not. Don't tell us what we're going
to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell
us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you
because you're in no position to that.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
That's exactly what you're You're in.
Speaker 10 (30:00):
No position to dictate what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
We're gonna feel very good.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
Feel We're gonna feel very good and very strong, feel influenced.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
You're right now, not in a very good position. You've
allowed your son to be in.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
A very bad position, and he's happened to be right
about the very beginning of the war.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards
right now with us. You start having right now. You
don't your playing. You're gambling with the lives and billions
of people.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
You see, you're gambling with world War three. You're gambling
with World War three.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
This country.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
It's back to you far more than a lot of
people said they should have.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Have you said thank you once that no, in this
entire meeting that you said thank you. Went to Pennsylvania
and campaigned for the opposition in October, offer some words
of appreciation for the United States of America and the
president who's trying to save your country.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Please.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
You're saying that if you will speak very loudly about
the war.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Your country is in big trouble. No, No, You've done
a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.
I know you're not winning. You're not winning this. You
have a damn good chance. We're coming out okay because
of some president.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
We're staying in a country, staying strong. From the very
beginning of the war, we've been alone and we are
sankle I said, thanks, you haven't been giving it. He
gave you, this, stupid president, three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
You will.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
We gave you military equipment. You and you met up, Brad,
but they had to use our military one of you.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
If you didn't have our.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Military equipment, you didn't have our military equipment.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
This war would have been over in two weeks.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
In three days, I heard it from putting in three days.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
This is something maybe less in two weeks. Of course.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Yeah, it's gonna be a very hard thing to do
business like this.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I'm going to tell you just say thank you.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
I said it, except for American except that there are disagreements,
and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to
fight it out in the American media.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
When you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We know that you're wrong, but.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
You see, I think it's good for the American people
to see what's going on I think it's very important.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
That's why I kept this going so long.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
You have to be thankful you don't have the cars.
You're buried there, your people that die.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Tell you you're running low on soldiers. Listen, you're running
slow in soldiers.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
It would be a damn goodness. And then then you
tell us I don't want to cease fire. I don't
want to cease fire. I want to go and I
wanted this.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I
tell you you take it, so the bullet stopped flying,
and your ment stuff courting kills post.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We want to stop the war. But I'm saying you
don't want to see you.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
I want to see because you get a ceasefire faster
than any.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Greets colored people of all. Its final what they see.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
There wasn't me you, that wasn't with me.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
That was with a guy named Biden who was not
a smart person.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
That's okay, we gotta we want to jump in with
a couple of things before uh before we run out
of time here. First of all, this is historic on
many many different levels. There's never been anything like that
in public in the Oval Office.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Ever. I don't think uh no, I'm horrified on several
different levels.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Are you ever gonna raise your voice ever once to
Vladimir Putin like that?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Ever?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
In any way?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, you probably are not. Look for the barcessities a
simple bare necessities like final thoughts to end an other show.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I mean the bair necessities on Mother nage Sure's.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Recipes, like final thoughts from our most Jack and Joe.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Well, that was one of the most jarring trans in
the history of broadcast media.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I'm almost glad.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
The show is over. I'd really like to let the
dust settle for a bit before I comment.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Man, I know people are personally that loved that loved
Zelenskia getting yelled to like that.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm horrified by it. I think it is completely wrong.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah I disagree. If I disagreed, I don't disagree. I'm horrified.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Armstrong A Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Why did the biggest thing that happen in the last
month happen in the last two minutes of.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Our show today? Again, I'm half glad it did.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Go to Armstrong ageddy dot com hotlinks are there? Fabulous
drop us a note that great piece by Amy Gallagher
and Brittain about why woke is driving women crazy and
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at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You're yelling at the guy that got attacked because he's
not thrilled about giving up twenty percent of his country
and half of his mineral rights.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
What the hell is that? We will see a Monday?
God bless America, Armstrong and Getdy. You wait, hold my beer?
Speaker 9 (35:14):
Yes we drank beer. I liked beer.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I'm prepared to go back to muskets right. Well, don't
smell crack, are you by? Bro? It was so bizarre?
I so good. Okay, this is a beautiful moment.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
This is the sort of original sin.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But this is a joke.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
This is horrible.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
There is no point.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
Goodbye everyone, A great Friday, Mother, Armstrong and Geddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty, so big doing it at the White
House today, big doings at the White House practically every
day for.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
The first I was about to say two months. It's
been a month and a week.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's unbelievable that Trump's been president for only a month
and a week.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It seems like a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Which I also wonder if there's because every president, even
the popular ones in my lifetime, by the time you
get like through that second term, people are ready for
them to go. You just get fatigued about hearing their name.
That happened with Reagan, Clinton and Obama. I mean, even
though they were popular, it's just like.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Okay, I'm just certainly the second term, yeah, the second term.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
But I wonder if that's gonna happen with Trump, just
because he's so I'm the president in the news all
the time.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I don't know, but I had a plate. Oh he
was asked.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't know if he has asked anything, but today
he revealed conversation he had with Joe Biden, who Joe
Biden blames.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
For his loss. Trump revealed that today and it's really
it's kind of interesting, So I miss that. Yeah, we'll
get to that coming up.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And then you've got to prominent Biden advisor coming out
and doing press now saying oh, yeah, yeah, we knew
he was. See now we're gaslighting everybody. I think that's
the word. Yes, So yeah, well we noticed. We really
didn't need your confirmation, but thank you for coming out
now that you're.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I think the response should be or a trader to
your country, enjoy these leg irons.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, oh indeed, leg irons.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
There you go, dungeon, maybe iron mask, I don't know,
thinking out loud. Hey, a lot to get to to
squeeze in this final hour of the week. But first
let's take a find look back of the week that was.
It's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
This is the kind of treasure he's some week.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
MSNBC canceled Joy Reads TV show.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, what I was doing? He value and value personally.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I think it is a bad mistake to let her
walk out the door.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You could peel on my leg, but don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's rain Happer writing this book is like Hannibal Lecter.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Writing one on the dangers of cannibalism.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
As I said, you'd think, you know, I'm a guy,
I would wear some sort of underwear.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
If I was wearing those pants, I wouldn't be uh,
you know, fb in it if you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Will, right, it's just sensible.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's right. When I don't have a friend pink like,
why but pink in the window.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
My message to young men is, don't allow this broken
culture to send you a message that you're a bad person.
There is a difference between the word woman and being
a biological female.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know your gender. I don't know canvases. I
don't know mine. You don't know my gender. I don't
do I look like a woman. I don't know what
a woman looks like.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
Another doge disruption.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
You're the White House. We say.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hell no to dismantling the postal service.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mention, Saint your postman, can you count the people
in the house?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
What day can he do the census? Monday? How about Wednesday?
Goes every day a grit.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
To achieve a trillion dollar deficit reduction, it requires saving
full billion dollars per day every day.
Speaker 10 (03:49):
I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
We're gonna have Europe do that.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine,
they get their money back.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
In fact, to be frank, we beat it.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
If you believe that. It's okay with me.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. Fair
to say, it's a very complicated situation.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
And haha, there's Ukraine which has Chernobyl and some radiation
proved dogs Chris Dugs.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
It's rip from it immediately turns to the Maverick space.
Speaker 10 (04:28):
If you put your effort in concentration into playing to
your potential to.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
Be the best that you can be.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end
of the game.
Speaker 10 (04:36):
In my book, we're going to be winners, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Gene Hackman in Happier.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Times, substantially happier. Yeah, it was interesting what you informed
use of earlier in the week that Hackman thought Who's
yours was going to be a bomb?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, he thought it was embarrassing in schmlty and.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And Dennis Hopper drunk all the time, couldn't have helped. Oh,
that was his character.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think it's interesting that stars regularly don't get it
wrong about what's gonna be popular or whatever. I was
reading trying of Michael Stipe of ram hated losing my religion,
didn't want even want on the album, let alone. The
first single on the album hit the radio. I thought
it was a disaster of a song. There's no hook,
there's no course, there's and it's their biggest hit.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And I'm the same with John Mayer guitar player. It
was just like his early albums. There is some something
he didn't want to do and he hated and everything,
and it became his like defining song. It's just it's
interesting that the people closest to it sometimes are wrong
about it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, I suppose I was gonna say that music is
a little different, but it has enough in common. The
one thing that strikes me is super interesting about movies.
And I wish I could remember who said this, because
I've heard it's kind of echoed by others through the years.
But you never know if the movie is gonna work
(06:07):
until it's done and you watch it. And sometimes you
have something you thought was incredibly promising and you edit
it and you watch it and you think that does
not hang together, and you re edit it, then you
shoot another scene because you realize the gap in the
narrative whatever, and it just you can't get it to work.
(06:28):
And then sometimes it just it tumbles together beautifully.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I'd love to take a shot at it sometime just
to go through that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I learned the most about that from Woody Allen's memoir
where he talked about various script rewrites or things it
didn't work and why it didn't work and everything like that.
Because you're right, if you watch a bad movie, sometimes
it just like you can't even quite put your finger
on it.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It just doesn't hang together.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The you didn't build enough tension between those two for
this development to happen or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right, either you don't don't care, or you don't get it. Yeah, yeah,
that is exactly right. You don't care, you don't get it.
That's perfect.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, not like one of those mind bending is it
Charlie Kaufman who writes those crazy you're never quite sure
what reality is movies like Endless, Sunshine of the Spotless
Jim Carrey or whatever that movie was.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, anyway, I got a question for you before I
get to this Trump thing. Did we ever come up
with a good word or did somebody come up with
a good word when you're stymied by technological things that.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Feeling that exhausted frustration. We did, but I can't remember
what it is.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Last night was trying to get some tickets for my son,
and I won't get into the details because they're boring,
but we've all been there, and it just ended up
being a you need to have an account, and then
you try to get an account, it says you've already
gotten account, and then you try to get the password,
and then it says you need to set up an
account to get the password, but when you try to
do that, it says you've already gotten account. You know
that sort of thing. I think it was texhaustion, and
(07:58):
it's just so it's just so frustrated.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's trying to explain that to my son.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That we've been trying to come up with a name
for it, because it's its a long, unique feeling, I
think because it's an inanimate.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Object or something, but it's just ah, and you feel
so helpless.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Well, and it's such a multi layered frustration, I mean,
because every step is stymied by you know, the evil
gods of computers.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Can you try to log out or log back in
or unplug it or whatever the hell you try to do?
And it's just, oh god, I hate that feeling. That's
my least favorite emotion. I think it may have been texhaustion.
You are texhausted. Oh okay. So here's what Trump said
and kind of interesting. Trump told Spectator World. So that
(08:45):
is that a British thing? Uh, the Spectator is a
British publication. I don't know what that is. He just
did a press conference with the Prime Ministry yesterday. Anyway,
he had visited the White House to meet with what
he called an angry by and shortly after he beat
Kamala Harris. We all remember that, sitting there in the
Oval office with Biden, who was smiling and treating him
(09:08):
like he didn't think he was Hitler, or that he
didn't think it was in the United States, which he
had said.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Over and over again, or no, or maybe he had
a plot to blow up a bomb under the table.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh no, that was the actual Hitler.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Never mind, I asked him, Trump says, I ask him,
so who do you blame?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Because he was very angry, you know, he was a
very angry guy.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Actually, and he said, I blame Barack Trump said, And
he said, I also blame Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I said, what about the vice president? You know?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Trump saying, how about the person I actually ran against?
Did she come in for a kicking?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
No, I don't blame her, which was interesting, said Trump.
He didn't blame Harris. He blamed me. He told me,
he blamed those two people, Barack and Nancy.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He hates Barack Obama.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Well, at this point he probably doesn't remember who he is,
but back when he did, he hates Obama. Obama undermined
him and cut him off with the these multiple times.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Right, Yeah, he does not. He actually believes that if
he hadn't been pushed out, he'd won.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well, and he also believes that if he hadn't been
wrastled out in twenty sixteen, that he would have beat
Hillary in the primary and then beaten Trump in twenty
sixteen and been a successful two termer before he was
old in senile right.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know, once you're really old, though maybe you don't
even have to be really old, why not hang on
to delusion if it makes you happy?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
What's the harm? Generally? I feel like, you know, dealing
with the truth is best, but some delusions, I don't know.
Might as well take him to my grave makes me
feel better. What's the hell side?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
But for Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, one piece
of advice, four simple words. Turn on each other, not
each other. Go to the press, name names, Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Iran if it decides to his days from having nuclear
weapons quite a few of them, by the way, and
Israel and probably the United States, that being Donald Trump,
are gonna have to make a decision about that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We'll get to that at some point this hour. Among
other things, are.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
The rare earth minerals deal with Ukraine. What a genius
historic can move that accomplishes two fundamental.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Things it wants.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
It creates a pathway for Ukraine to have American involvement
and the security that comes with America's economic development in Ukraine.
And at the same time, it repays America for all
of the money that we've.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Spent on Ukraine.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
And I would also add actually a third point, which
is that it solves the ustern two problem of inadequate
access to rare earth minerals.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
So that's Stephen Miller High level advisor to Donald Trump.
If you're a Trump hater, you believe Trump's going after
the mineral rights just you know, get money to extort
someone even though they're.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Mostly an ally.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
If you're a little more charitable toward Trump, it's closer
to what Stephen Miller just said that. No, it's it's
having us invested in Ukraine in a way that would,
you know, help with the security guarantees the Ukraine needs
to make some sort of peace deal.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I hate the idea of the way Trump's put some
stuff and as always you you can't hang your.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Hat on what he says. It's what he does.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
But acting like this was a loan, because it was
never a loan, no financing Ukraine. It was in our
geopolitical interests to stop Rusher from ushering in a new
wave of conquest in Europe.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Blah blah blah. We've talked about that plenty.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
On the other hand, I can I certainly see Trump
thinking all right, to make this look good for me,
given my philosophies, it's got to be something more concrete.
Our supporting Ukraine has got to yield something more concrete.
Then this is good for the democracies of the world
and to stand up against depression, because I just don't
(13:19):
think Trump cares about that the way other people do.
So he's saying, all right, let's go ahead and give
Russia a stiff arm and defend Ukraine. But it'll be
really profitable for the US and it'll take care of
our really serious need for some of the rarets and
minerals that Ukraine has. So it's a win win, and
(13:41):
that's the sort of deal he likes to be seen making.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, and it's a way to kind of sneak in
a security guarantee from the United States without.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Provoking putin head on.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Perhaps I don't want to give Trump too much credit
or too much you know, derision for this, because it's
possible it fits in with this the stuff about Iran
being close to a weapon.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I've been saying since before the inauguration.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I think Trump is going to allow the United States
to be part of, if not take the lead, in
a major attack on Iran that takes out their nuclear program.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And that might be, you know, on the calendar.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
As soon as we get this whole Ukraine or Russia
thing to figure it out, we're about to enter a
war in the Middle East with the biggest player, Iran,
and we need to get this dealt with before we
move on.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Maybe that's part of the the whole thing. And it
just popped into my head.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Have you heard anything else from Mark Halpern or others
about this alleged grand bargain that's umbling behind the scenes
between the.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
US and Russian China? Right right?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Because I could picture and oh, by the way, you
gotta disarm Iran in return for this, that and the
other being part of that grand.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Bargain, right right.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
We aren't going to fight you on that Ukrainian territory
with Trump thinking there's no way to get it back anyway,
and we get Russia to give on quit being friends
with Iran, We're about to attack them. Do not come
to their aid possible Again, I don't want to give
them too much credit. But well, we'll all live through
this and we'll be able to, you know, figure out
what the plan was.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Let me read you this from the dispatch.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Since late October, Iran has grown at stockpile of uranium
enriched to sixty percent from a small number to big number,
a fifty percent increase, according to new findings by the
United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency. The Islamic Republic now
possesses enough enriched uranium for six bombs should it choose
to enrich to weapons grade, a process that would take
(15:42):
only a couple of days. At this point, the significantly
increased production and accumulation of high enriched uranium by Iran,
the only non nuclear weapon state to produce such nuclear material,
is of serious concern. The Watchdog warned, there's no way
Israel can allow Iran to get six nuclear weapons, and
(16:02):
there's really no way we can allow it to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Trump has been unequivocal in his support for Israel, and
he's the guy who adamized old General Sulamani. Right, that
says to me, don't bet against us backing Israel in
a serious strike.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So I'm just saying this could be part of the
whole Russia Ukraine thing in a way that is not
clear yet.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't know if it is, but it certainly could be.
It's conceivable.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah, I hate to just wait and see, especially because
you know, we analyze this sort of thing for a
living and take a look at it and try to
figure out what's going on. But there are so many
question marks. Much like the death of Gene Hackman. Jack,
so many question marks. Although I think I've nailed it.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
How come they haven't released what the pills were that
you could have just read it on the bottle and told.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You too soon, too soon.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
You don't want to tip off the evil doer, thereny
and I don't think there are.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Ay, No, they could just read the bottle and say
it was a bottle of and it'd be something like, yeah,
that's what you take if you trying to kill yourself, or.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
No, that's just you know, you don't disclose that stuff.
Somebody's dead. So let's go through their medicine cabinet and say, oh,
having trouble with erections. Apparently I've had a bottle of viagara.
Let's see what else we got here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's not a thing, Jack Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Musk is sort of right there in saying that the
FAA's technology systems are old and aging and obsolete, and
really backed up by this Government Accountability Office report out
only two months ago.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
It said urgent FAA.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Actions are needed to modernize aging systems. Ninety two percent
of the FAA's facility and equipment budget goes into sustaining
that old system.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Wow, they're causing chaos. He's unelected.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
A couple of headlines that I've come across just in
the last few minutes from the Wall Street Journal. America
has never had an official language. Trump plans to sign
an EO to make it English. It's going to sign
an executive order to make English the official language. I
don't know what that would mean in reality, because California
has English is the official language, and it doesn't seem
(18:15):
to mean anything in reality.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now, thirty seven languages on the ballot, et cetera. Yeah,
be whether or not you enforced it, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And then this headline in New York Times that I
will read.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
The decline of the Christian population in the United States
appears to have halted, a shift in part fueled by
young people.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A major study is found. Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yes, I happen to see that the Pew Research study.
Most Americans say they hold one or more spiritual beliefs,
and the decline has stopped in church attendance and all
sorts of stuff, and it's being driven by the young.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's hard to suggest here, and that's really interesting. I
will read up on that and report back Monday. Excellent
the rise of the nuns.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
It was called jack not Nuns and Uns n O
n e s, a group that identifies with no religion.
That the rise in that grew to about thirty percent
a few years back, but it has stopped rising. Oh anyway, yeah,
that to come. I clicked away from what I was
going to talk about to echo your thoughts on that.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I apologize. Where is it, Tello? Why I tire myself
out sometimes?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
There it is. So this is I was trying to
figure out how.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
To, you know, present this, whether to ask you to
guess where this is happening England or the US, or
just make somebody guess something because this is so crazy
and outrageous you're gonna think it's fake. In January of
twenty twenty, top law enforcement agency in the state of
(19:59):
Oregon and launched a bias response hotline for students to
report offensive jokes. I'm sorry for residents to report offensive jokes.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
A hot line to report offensive jokes. Uh yeah, that's correct. Wow.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Staffed by trauma informed operators. That's a quote and overseen
by the Oregon Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The hotline, which receives.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Thousands of calls a year, doesn't just solicit reports of
hate crimes or hiring discrimination.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It also asks for reports of quote.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Bias incidents, cases of quote non criminal expression that are
motivated in part by prejudice or hate. So Oregonians are
encouraged to report their fellow citizens for things like quote
creating racist images, quote mocking someone with a disability, and
quote sharing offensive jokes in quotes about someone's identity. One
(20:53):
web page affiliate with hotline, which is available in two
hundred and forty language two hundred and forty languages.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So say somebody tells a dumb blonde joke, I tell it.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I got to hung up on
the two forty languages even lists imitating someone's cultural norm
as something we want to hear about.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Anyway, that to you, I.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Tell a dumb blonde joke. Katie's offended as a smart
blonde calls the hot line.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Then what did the people on the other end of
the hot line do?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Well, they take a report and they well, you know,
I could describe it this way. The Washington Free Beacon
call the hotline and reported a fictitious incident. To see
how it goes and what happens? What they did was
They described themselves as a Muslim concerned about the genocide
and Gaza, and said he felt targeted by an Israeli
(21:46):
flag on his neighbor's front door, adding that his neighbor
had displayed the flag after the two had an awkward
exchange about the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Within twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
The hotline operator had the display in a state database,
referred to it as a warning sign, and suggested installing
security cameras in case the situation escalates. He also informed
the reporter that quote as a victim of a bias incident,
a victim of a bias incident, he could apply for
(22:19):
taxpayer funded therapy through the state's Crime Victim's Compensation program,
which covers counseling costs for bias incidents as well as
actual crimes.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So I say to Katie, I'm so drunk. Is the
mating call of the dumb blonde. And Katie is offended
by that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Son's that's a felonious bias incident. In my opinion, I'm
so offended.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
And then the agency suggests that she put a camera
on me to keep an eye on me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
And also she.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Gets taxpayer funded therapy to deal with the having heard
my blonde joke much needed.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Keeping in mind that the free Beak and intentionally provided
zero evidence of danger and was just reporting a religious
and political symbol. But all that mattered, according to the operator,
was how the symbol had been perceived, a key aspect
of critical theory that we hammered back in the day
and is mostly going away, but apparently not an Oregon
(23:18):
where if you're offended your right. If you're offended and
say I felt like he was racist, that proves it's racist,
which disempowers the other person and makes them sit down
and shut up. That's the exact reason for this technique anyway,
even if it is not very this is a quote
from the operator, Even if it's not very explicit, we
go with whatever the victim is experiencing. And if your
(23:41):
sense is that this is based on discrimination against your
faith or your country of origin, that's how I will
document it. So the hotline lets people report their neighbors
for offensive flags based solely on the feelings of the offended.
But Oregon is not an out liar. It's one of
a dozen democratic jurisdictions, including eight states, that have created
(24:04):
bias reporting systems for residents report protected speech. Connecticut let's
users flag hate speech they heard about but did not see,
so secondhand is fine in Connecticut. Vermont tells residents to
report biased but protected speech directly to the police. Philadelphia
(24:25):
has an online online form that asks for quote, the
exact address of the hate incident, as well as the
name and gender identity of the offender. Information the city
uses to contact those accused of bias and request that
they attend voluntary sensitivity training.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That is extraordinary. We've got to beat these people, we
really do.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, Elon just I should have had hands and get
the audio. But Elon just retweeted something, a PSA sort
of thing, and it's some dude that appears to be Asian,
and he's sitting there and then he does this and
he says, I don't know if you can hear that. Yeah,
mich you could hear that, he said, you hear that sound.
(25:12):
That's the scariest sound in the world. So that's the
sound of living in a totalitarian country where you have
to worry about that knock on the door. So that's
the last sound I know my parents heard before they
were taken out of our home. And I never saw
them again, and I forget whichever god forsaken country who's
living in where this happened, and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He was able to come to the United States.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But his point being that, you know, this radical out
of control to totalitarianism is the most dangerous thing out
there and something we need to fight against. Everybody, every
school kids should know this. More people have been killed
by their own government than by wars in the last century.
(25:55):
Oh yeah, absolutely true. A couple of quick quotes before
we move on.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Nadine Strawson, who's a past president of the ACLU back
when it was sane, said, we associate snitching on neighbors
with some of the most oppressive regimes throughout history. The
stazzi comes to mind. That was the East German Secret Police,
I think, wasn't it. And then the beacon makes a
point that wokeness seems to be on the back foot,
(26:22):
but a lot of technologies and ideas pioneered on campuses
are being repursed repurposed by state governments Blue states, especially
Aaron Turr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for
Individual Rights and Expression FIRE, says, quote exporting campus bias
reporting systems to wider society is a disastrous idea. When
(26:44):
a state policy explicitly calls out quote offensive jokes, it's
past time to worry, I would agree, Oregon, my god,
check yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I don't know why this popped into my head. It's
only tangentially related to a couple of things. I thought
the thoughts were having as I am under the sway
of cold medicine. But I remember sitting outside of a restaurant,
and this was late at night in a college town,
and a bunch of guys like walking from one bar
(27:15):
to another. We're walking down the street and they were
chanting what do we want a girl with low self esteem?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Where do we want? When do we want her? Now?
Is what they were chanting as they walk from bar
to bar.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And the female companion I was with it at the
time said they'll find plenty.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, at least they're being upfront. Yeah, I mean most admirable. Yeah,
it's weird, it's it's funny.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
How like it's offensive and icky and exactly what's going on?
So I don't know, I don't know how you're supposed
to react to that. That's it's horrible. It is horrible
and accurate and what is happening a lot. Yes, it
was like one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It was late at night.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Yeah, yes, yeah, oh boy, I know it was a
sobering story.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Jack. Ironically enough, we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
So we're scrambling to bring you up to speed on
a breaking news story of great importance that is happening
right now as we speak.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
So Zelenski gets to d C. He's in the White House.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
He's there in the Oval Office and jd Vance and
Trump start yelling at him and scolding him.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Let's play a little of it on camera, on camera,
and uh whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
We don't have in this little clip, we'll fill in
the other details ex change of prisons.
Speaker 11 (28:38):
But he didn't do it. What kind of diplomacy? Gg
us became bold? What what do you?
Speaker 9 (28:44):
What do you?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to
end the destruction of your country.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
But mister President, mister President.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
With respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come
into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in
front of the American media. Right now, you guys are
going around and forcing con scripts to the front lines
because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the
president for trying to bring it into this.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Content into Ukraine that you say, what problems we have?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
I have been to come, I've actually I've actually watched
and seen the stories, and I know what happens is
you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour.
Mister president, are do you disagree that you've had problems?
Speaker 9 (29:23):
What bringing people in your military have and.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Do you think that it's respectful on to come.
Speaker 7 (29:27):
To the Oval Office of the United States of America
and attack the administration that is trying to trying to
prevent the destruction of your country.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning, short
fist wall.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
During the war, everybody has problems, even you. But you
have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will
feel it in diffusion.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Bless you.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
I'm blessed You're not. Don't tell us what we're going
to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell
us what we're going to feel. I'm not telling you
because you're in no position to that.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
That's exactly what you're You're in.
Speaker 10 (30:00):
No position to dictate what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
We're gonna feel very good.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
Feel We're gonna feel very good and very strong, feel influenced.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
You're right now, not in a very good position. You've
allowed your son to be in.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
A very bad position, and he's happened to be right
about the very beginning of the war.
Speaker 10 (30:19):
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards
right now with us. You start having right now. You
don't your playing. You're gambling with the lives and billions
of people.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
You see, you're gambling with world War three. You're gambling
with World War three.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
This country.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
It's back to you far more than a lot of
people said they should have.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Have you said thank you once that no, in this
entire meeting that you said thank you. Went to Pennsylvania
and campaigned for the opposition in October, offer some words
of appreciation for the United States of America and the
president who's trying to save your country.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Please.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
You're saying that if you will speak very loudly about
the war.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
Your country is in big trouble. No, No, You've done
a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.
I know you're not winning. You're not winning this. You
have a damn good chance. We're coming out okay because
of some president.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
We're staying in a country, staying strong. From the very
beginning of the war, we've been alone and we are
sankle I said, thanks, you haven't been giving it. He
gave you, this, stupid president, three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 9 (31:38):
You will.
Speaker 10 (31:38):
We gave you military equipment. You and you met up, Brad,
but they had to use our military one of you.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
If you didn't have our.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Military equipment, you didn't have our military equipment.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
This war would have been over in two weeks.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
In three days, I heard it from putting in three days.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
This is something maybe less in two weeks. Of course.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
Yeah, it's gonna be a very hard thing to do
business like this.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I'm going to tell you just say thank you.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
I said it, except for American except that there are disagreements,
and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to
fight it out in the American media.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
When you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
We know that you're wrong, but.
Speaker 10 (32:15):
You see, I think it's good for the American people
to see what's going on I think it's very important.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
That's why I kept this going so long.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
You have to be thankful you don't have the cars.
You're buried there, your people that die.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Tell you you're running low on soldiers. Listen, you're running
slow in soldiers.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
It would be a damn goodness. And then then you
tell us I don't want to cease fire. I don't
want to cease fire. I want to go and I
wanted this.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I
tell you you take it, so the bullet stopped flying,
and your ment stuff courting kills post.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We want to stop the war. But I'm saying you
don't want to see you.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
I want to see because you get a ceasefire faster
than any.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Greets colored people of all. Its final what they see.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
There wasn't me you, that wasn't with me.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
That was with a guy named Biden who was not
a smart person.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
That's okay, we gotta we want to jump in with
a couple of things before uh before we run out
of time here. First of all, this is historic on
many many different levels. There's never been anything like that
in public in the Oval Office.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Ever. I don't think uh no, I'm horrified on several
different levels.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Are you ever gonna raise your voice ever once to
Vladimir Putin like that?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Ever?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
In any way?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, you probably are not. Look for the barcessities a
simple bare necessities like final thoughts to end an other show.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
I mean the bair necessities on Mother nage Sure's.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Recipes, like final thoughts from our most Jack and Joe.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Well, that was one of the most jarring trans in
the history of broadcast media.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
I'm almost glad.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
The show is over. I'd really like to let the
dust settle for a bit before I comment.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Man, I know people are personally that loved that loved
Zelenskia getting yelled to like that.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm horrified by it. I think it is completely wrong.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Yeah I disagree. If I disagreed, I don't disagree. I'm horrified.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Armstrong A Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Why did the biggest thing that happen in the last
month happen in the last two minutes of.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Our show today? Again, I'm half glad it did.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Go to Armstrong ageddy dot com hotlinks are there? Fabulous
drop us a note that great piece by Amy Gallagher
and Brittain about why woke is driving women crazy and
making them miserable. There's something we ought to be talking about,
you see over the weekend. Send it along mail bag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You're yelling at the guy that got attacked because he's
not thrilled about giving up twenty percent of his country
and half of his mineral rights.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
What the hell is that? We will see a Monday?
God bless America, Armstrong and Getdy. You wait, hold my beer?
Speaker 9 (35:14):
Yes we drank beer. I liked beer.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I'm prepared to go back to muskets right. Well, don't
smell crack, are you by? Bro? It was so bizarre?
I so good. Okay, this is a beautiful moment.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
This is the sort of original sin.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But this is a joke.
Speaker 9 (35:31):
This is horrible.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
There is no point.
Speaker 8 (35:33):
Goodbye everyone, A great Friday, Mother, Armstrong and Geddy
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