July 9, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour One of the Thursday July 9, 2026 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- The passing of a legend...
- Heather Myers has The Lead Story...
- The President's travel plans, changed for security reasons...
- The dangers of Kraton.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and show Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Armstrong and Jodie and he.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Arms turning around, Bright Eye. Welcome to another live presentation
of the Armstrong A. Getty Program, live from studio. See
a dimly.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Lit room deep within the bowels of where we do
our thang. That's bang with an A. And today we're
toiling under the title of the show that Joe is
coming back very very soon from his longest vacation of
his life. He keeps calling it to celebrate his fortieth
wedding anniversary with his wife Judy, and we might be
(00:53):
hearing from him today. And I think he's back tomorrow
and then beg things are back to normal for a while.
How y'all doing? Turn around, Bright Eye. If you're of
a certain age, you know the lyric from the classic
song total Eclips of the Heart. Maybe if you're not
even of that age, but you've sung karaoke or just
I think it lives on in like in Oldiesville, was
(01:15):
as a smaltz fest, right Totally Clips of the Heart.
We can't play it because of various copyright rules that
now exist for us in podcasting the Bonnie Tyler Classics.
She died last night at the age of seventy five.
So I've heard this a little clips from the song
a lot in the last couple of days. I could
see you in there in your studio, Michael go. Oh yeah,
(01:36):
that's too bad. Too. Is seventy five years old, which
is not that old. But she didn't write the song.
This guy named Jim Steineman who wrote them all these
schmaltzy songs way back in the eighties and nineties and seventies. Really,
let's go through a little bit of the lyrics, just
a little bit. I've turned around bright Eyes, the total
clips of the heart song. Turn around every now and
(01:57):
then I get a little bit lonely, and you're never
coming round. Turn around every now and then I get
a little bit tired of listening to the sound of
my tears, and you can hear your tears. That's bad.
Turn around every now and then I get a little
bit nervous that the best of all the years have
gone by. Oh that's rough. Actually, kind of get into
me here, Bonnie. Turn around every now and then I
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get a little bit terrified, And then I see the
look in your eyes. Turn around bright eyes every now
and then I fall apart. Turn around bright eyes, every
now and then I fall apart. A little more lyrics
before we get to the part that is my favorite.
Every now and then I get a little bit restless
and dream of something wild. Turn around every now and
then I get a little bit helpless, and I'm lying
(02:40):
like a child in your arms. I like this one
turn around. Uh where was that line? Because because there's
several more lines of this, I thought it was really
really good. Every now and then I get a little
bit angry and I know I've got to get out
and cry in there. And then I fall apart and
(03:01):
I need you now tonight, and I need you more
than ever. This is the part you really scream if
you're at a karaoke bar. This is the part you're
really howling with your drunking for your drunken friends. And
if you only hold me tight, we'll be holding on forever,
and we'll be making it right because we're never be wrong. Together.
We can make it to the end of the line.
Your love is like a shadow on me. All of
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the time. I didn't realize that what she was saying.
I've been singing the song in my car when it
would come on the radio. I was a DJ. I
played this song when it was brand new as a
music DJ, as a young person. Back It came out
in eighty three, but I started being a music DJ
at eighty four. I don't know, actually eighty three. Yeah,
So I've been playing the song since it was brand new.
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I had no idea that was a line. Your love
is like a shadow on me all of the time. Wow,
all of the time. They sing in the background and
I don't know what to do, and I'm always in
the dark. And if I is at karaoke right now,
I would bellow this at the top of my lungs.
We're living in a keg and giving off sparks. I
(04:03):
really need you tonight. Forever's gonna start tonight. The great
Bonnie Tyler turn Around Bright Eyes maybe the greatest karaoke
song of all time. And she just passed to the
age of seventy five. So on this Thursday, which is
known as a Little Friday among us drunks, if you
are at a karaoke bar tonight, in honor of the
great big haired fake blonde. I think she's Welsh singer
(04:27):
Bonnie Tyler, who passed to the age of seventy five.
Belt out at the top of your lungs with a
beer bottle in your hand, turn around, bright eyes. Every
now and then we fall apart. I think we owe that,
don't we we do? Okay, a couple of big things
that happened, and I'm gonna break on time today so
that we can thoroughly get into the headlines with Heather
(04:48):
Myers coming up in a little bit. But one of
the biggest headlines to me is Trump agreed to yesterday.
This didn't get enough attention. I don't think to allow
Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles, so I didn't know that
that's the way it worked. I thought we gave them
this stuff that we manufactured and gave it to them,
(05:09):
but or I didn't know we could stop them from manufacturing.
And but I guess there's you know, patent laws and
everything around the technology. But the best missile defense program
platform on Earth is the Patriot missile that the United
States has, and we give it to Israel and some
of our friends. Trump told Zelensky yesterday that they can
(05:30):
start manufacturing them, and I'm sure they already started like
an hour after Trump said that, and they'll have those things,
and when they have Patriot missiles surrounding Kiev, they'll be
able to stop a lot of these horrifying attacks that
have been coming in from Moscow and Putin in the
last several days. So that's a pretty big deal that
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had to get Putin's attention a little bit. We've got
more on the diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine and trump
involvement from the NATO summit. Trump is back in the
United States now, and then of course there's stuff with
the Iran that we have to hit on because we
pounded the heck out of Iran last night and Trump
(06:13):
saying the war is not back on, But man, if
you lived in Iran, it sure looked like the war
was back on. I think I think we had ninety
targets eighty on the night before ninety last night, air
defence systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites,
naval capabilities, military logistics infrastructure. We bombed ninety different sites
(06:34):
last night in an attempt to get Iran to realize
that this is a no win situation for them militarily.
But Trump on the plane last night. This is one
of the things I was worried about yesterday. Trump on
the plane last night, he said, I just talked to them.
They want to make a deal, very bad. They really
want to make a deal. Where is that coming from.
(06:54):
Did they actually say that? Even if they did, why
do you believe them? Well, putin want to make a deal.
The Mullas want to make a deal. No, they don't.
I don't know why he says that. Hopefully he doesn't
actually believe it. But that's where we are on those
two things. We need to start the show officially because
that will bring us into one of the other bigger
(07:15):
stories of the last twenty four hours that you're probably
aware of. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
it is Little Friday. We call it Thursday, July ninth,
the year twenty twenty six. We are Armstrong and Getty
and we approve of this program. Begin the show at Mark.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
We went toe to toe with one of the most
entrenched political systems in the history of the world, and
we won. We beat them on June ninth in overwhelming numbers.
And now they are not going to let us have it.
Not if it's me, and so we're suspending campaign operations.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Grand Platnir, the fake oyster farmer, possible rapist from Maine
who was the Democratic nominee for the Senate, as the
Democrats are hoping to knock out moderate Republican Susan Collins,
who's been the senator up there forever, and perhaps take
(08:12):
control of the Senate, which would be a very very
big deal because everybody expects the Democrats to take the
House in November. If they took the House and the Senate,
that would really be something. So Graham Platner puts out
and you know the rape allegations that came out, We
played that woman talking on CNN about how he forced
his way into her home and raped her, and she
(08:32):
sounds very believable, and she told friends at the time,
corroborating evidence, et cetera, et cetera. So Platner puts out
an eleven minute emotional video last night that as you
could hear with the traffic noise in the background, had
that whole live on TikTok look that young people seem
to like so much, and he did get pretty emotional.
(08:55):
Sometimes we'll play eclipse from that. As you just heard there.
He's portraying it. Hold on, I got a cough and
I'm gonna press my cough, but I forgot to turn
my microphone back on. Now it's just talking to myself.
He portrays it as the powerful trying to stop any
(09:15):
upstarts from coming along. And that is a true thing.
Is we've talked about for many, many years, whether it
was the Tea Party or Bernie Sanders at the time,
the entrenched Republican and Democrat infrastructure will try to kill
any outsider quick before they get into any momentum going
(09:35):
because they do not want any rogue people. They want
to have full control over their party, et cetera, et cetera.
The problem with that narrative in this case is Bernie
said you gotta get out, and Mayor Mamdanni said you
gotta get out. If it were the entrenched Democratic Party
of Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or whatever, he could
(09:56):
make the argument. But when Bernie and Mamdannie say you
got to get out, than yeah, who exactly are you
appealing to. But one of the questions I want to
ask lonhe Chen later one of our favorite political analysts,
is the issue of character. Just over when it comes
to our politics. I was reading Mark Alprin's newsletter just
(10:16):
a little bit ago, and as he said, the a
lot so much of this was known about Platiner, Plant Platner,
Graham Platner when he won the nomination. So much of
this was known, and the voters voted for him anyway.
It wasn't all a vetting problem. Some of it was,
(10:38):
but it wasn't all a vetting problem. When people found
out about his Nazi tattoo and a lot of his
not being a good boyfriend, and horrible things he'd said
about women and veterans and communism and stuff online, people
still voted for him. So what does that mean about
the electric and where we are. We'll talk to Lannie
Chin about that a little bit later. I think that's
(10:58):
a missing part of this story. People knew most of
this stuff, and still we're willing to make m a
US senator. So what does that mean. We'll talk to
Annie about that later. We'll play some of Plattner's emotional
eleven minute I'm getting out of the speech, and a
whole bunch of other stuff that we got to get
to today. But we've got all the headlines with Heather Myers, next.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Armstrong, Hey Yetti.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Once upon a time I was falling in love, but
now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do.
A total eclipse of the heart. Bonnie Tyler dead at
age seventy five. I like the fact that the headline
say Bonnie Tyler known for such hits, as it's the
only hit she was known for. But it was a
very big button, There's no doubt about that. Totally clips
(11:46):
of the heart. I wish we could play it. I
wish we could just play it every hour and all
sing along. Let's get some headlines now if Heather Myers,
what are people talking about all over the world.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, that is one of the stories that people are
talking about this morning, and we will talk more about
that here in just a moment. But let's also talk
about some of the big headlines that the networks are
covering and the different way the networks cover the news.
Starting with NBC News, US and Iran exchange intense new
attacks after Trump says ceasefire is over. From CBS News,
US and Iran ramp up tit for tat strikes, and
(12:17):
from Newsmax, Iran promises Hormu's closure more attacks after latest
US strikes.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I kinel like tit for tat strikes makes them sound
like they're small and insignificant, and just gestures those ninety
strikes that we all those bombs we dropped on Iran
last night, where that was a pretty big deal. Yeah,
sure was.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I'm starting to feel like a broken record reading sating.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
He's hadlines with this story.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah from the hill, Trump returning to US on old
Air Force run amid Iran threats.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, so he had his new plane there. Remember that
Qatar gave us a plane and he accepted it, and
that was controversial. And then the headline broke yesterday that
the Secret Service told him, yeah, don't fly in that plane.
He was going to fly back on the Katari plane,
and I was thinking, oh my god, are they worried
that somehow some terrorists got into the plane or something
(13:14):
like that. And I guess the story is, it's just
not up to full technological abilities that we expect out
of our Air Force one planes, from missile defense and
all kinds of different things.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yet, so where did President Trump land when he did
come back to the US. Well, Palm Beach International Airport
has officially become President Donald J. Trump International Airport with
air Force one being one of the first aircraft to
land with the new name.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And I've seen some mainstream media left pushback on naming
an airport after him. Trump is one of the biggest
political figures in a century. There's just no getting around it.
You can hate him all you want, but he has
been a really, really big deal. The fact that there
will be an airport named after him shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Talking and interesting. Help the networks are covering that compared
to the local news coverage out of Pompeach. Sure, very
different headlines there from ABC News' main Democratic Senate candidate
Grand Platnir suspends campaign after sexual assault allegation. No surprise there.
From News Nation, this is interesting. Texas hospital accused of
(14:21):
childbirth tourism and citizenship packages. Right.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I saw that they're actually advertising come have your baby
here and be a US citizen after the Supreme Court
ruled that that's the way we're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, billboards in Mexico. In fact from the Washington Examiner,
White House floats Trump accounts for grown ups. We know
about the child accounts that were unveiled, and now there
are Trump accounts for grownups underway.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It appears back to that hospital. I find it really unpatable,
unpalatable and gross and annoying, and I hate everything about it.
But legally speaking, if people are already doing that, and
the Supreme Court said, yeah, that's fine, I suppose you
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make it clear that, hey, you're going to come here
and have a baby somewhere, make it here. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Hotfully Bikes from CBS News. June twenty twenty six was
Western Europe's hottest on record, second hottest globally.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Was it really yea? From the Washington Warming or worry
about it every day, Heather, It's on your list?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
From the Washington Post. Cancer cases worldwide are expected to
soar in coming decades. A new report finds why they're
saying that. They are talking about worldwide cancer cases and
for some of the Third world countries that don't have
the advancements that many other countries do, that those folks
(15:51):
will likely see cancer cases sore.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So okay, I got a news. I got a big
cancer story about how life expectancy deaths from cancer are
way down, and lots of good news around cancer, even
though more cases are being diagnosed I'll get into that
a little bit later. It's pretty interesting, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I actually did one of those full body MRIs recently
where they can check for any tumors or aneurysms or
anything like that, and I was nervous going into it
because of gosh, what are they going to find? And
then complete relief leaving that. I'm so glad that I
had some answers.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So so you'd recommend it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I would definitely recommend it. It's very claustrophobic, but other
than that, I feel like you it's like getting ahead
of what could be a disaster later. So from ABC News,
this is a story that you talked about. Bonnie Tyler,
singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died at
the age of seventy five.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You're a lot younger than me, so you're familiar with
that song.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh I love that song.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's a great My sense is that people of all
ages are aware of that song.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh, such a great one. For finally, this morning from
the Babylon Bee, this is their but yeah, get some
attention democrats quietly, ad have you raped anyone to questionnaire
for aspiring candidates?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wow? Just to quick get it out of the way,
so we don't waste our time here. Yes, exactly, Thank
you very much, Heather. More with Heather a little bit
later and we'll get into some more news of the
day with a little more depth on coming up. If
you miss it podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
President Trum's still hoping for that deal. He arrived back
at Joyce Bate Andrews after one this morning, flying part
way home on an old Air Force one, not the
new recently revealed jet. President brushed off this having to
do with potential security concerns, but did acknowledge in Turkey
the ever present threat he faces.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
The life of a president is very dangerous. It's five
point two percent. You know what a race card driver
is one tenth of one percent to very dangerous profession. No,
I'm number one on the killer list for.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Eran, So sat right, five point two percent are killed?
Would that be right? How many presidents have been assessed?
I mean, we've only had forty seven and you've just
got you know, a handful. Yeah, I suppose it's about right. Wow,
it's more dangerous than being a race car driver to
be president of the United States in terms of threat
(18:20):
to your life. And there are probably more threats to
Trump's life than your average president, I would guess by
quite a bit. So Trump flew to Turkey on that
new plane that they want to make air Force one.
Air Force one is whatever plane the president is on.
(18:41):
It's a it's just a security slash logistical term for
whatever the plane, whatever plane the president is on. But
so he flew on what would have been air Force
one while he was on it, that new plane that
Qatar gave to him on the way there. So I
didn't know that. I was just reading in the New
York Times. So the fact that he flew to Turkey
(19:02):
on that plane means they thought it was safe enough.
Then what happened while he was in Turkey for a
couple of days and he decided to come back on
a different plane. I'm not buying what the President's saying.
And this is clearly one of those stories where we
don't need to know. The Secret Service or the CIA
or whoever may have uncovered some sort of threat. Sure
(19:26):
as hell doesn't need to alert the bad guys that
we have a mole or we figured it out or
something like that. We don't need to know. But then
Trump flew out of Turkey last night on the old
Air Force one instead of the new Katari Boweing seven
forty seven DASH eight as a security precaution related to
(19:47):
the resumption of hostilities with Iran. That's an interesting thing,
according to sources in the know that The New York
Times talked to, So because the hostilities had started back
up in Iran, they switched planes. It just seems odd
to me. The swap deepens questions about whether the new plane,
(20:08):
which the President had pressed to be ready as soon
as possible, was retrofeted with sufficient security measures. Well, again,
it had enough security measures to fly him to there
to Turkey while we're at war with Iran. As the
President has said recently, there are many enemies of America,
(20:28):
said one of the spokesmen who have their sights on him,
and we use every tool at our disposal, including distraction misdirection,
to address those threats. Okay, so you know you fool
him by sending him back on a different plane than
you send him there. Maybe that was just the precaution.
But people briefed on the new plane's capabilities who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues,
(20:51):
told the New York Times that the new plane does
not have all the features of the older plane. The
switch in the president's aircraft when he departed Turkey was
a precautionary measure, not because of a specific threat. That's
what they're saying. I don't know if I buy that completely.
Trump said that the reason is Trump. He always puts
(21:12):
people in this position. People come out and say something,
and then his explanation for things is different, and that
doesn't match up. He said they switched planes because they
wanted the cool new plane that Katar gave us to
go around to different military bases and show it off
to the troops so they could see it. That was
Trump's He said he wanted the new plane to make
(21:34):
stops at our military bases in the area to show
off to the troops because the aircraft is magnificent. But
when pressed by reporters in Turkey about the reason for
the change, Trump also repeatedly noted that he was Iran's
number one target and referred to one point to having
seen or been briefed on a list of Turan's targets
in recent days. So he said he's seen the intelligence
(21:58):
around the Ranian's time targets and he's number one on
their list of targets. So I'm thinking there was some
solid ish, an if enough plot out there that the
Secret Service thought, now, let's go, let's go with the
old plane. One, let's fool them by not using the
same plane. And two because as it said here uh
(22:23):
in the New York Times, Trump departed Turkey, he boarded
the old aircraft unusually quickly, before the journalists traveling with
him could watch or photograph him as sending the steps
as they typically do. Passengers on board will were instructed
to pull their window shades down before takeoff. Doesn't this
sound a little weird to you? Then instead of the
(22:43):
normal they get all the camera shots of the president
walking up the steps and he turns around and he
salutes before he gets in. They didn't do that. They
hurt him onto the plane and told everybody, pull your
window shades down before we take off. That's not a nothing.
There was some reason for that, which of course is
very very scary. God, can you imagine the turmoil of
(23:06):
the world if a ran somehow brought down Trump's plane?
Holy crap, that would not be good. And how JD
Vance would respond to it. And there's a novel for
you to write if you want to. The older plane
has been widely reported to be equipped with a system
designed to blind an incoming anti aircraft missile, along with chaff,
(23:30):
whatever that is that could be deployed to mislead a
missile and force it off course. I guess you spit
out some stuff that gets the missile's attention and then
you can fly away. And it's unclear how many, if any,
of these capabilities have been installed on the new plane. Man.
The fact that they rushed him on the plane and
told everybody to pull their window shades down, to me,
(23:50):
means there was something going on there which we might
not find out about, as I always say, for twenty
five years or fifty years, or whenever the information is
finally revealed for some book that's written after I'm dead.
Have a warning for parents. I mean, this is serious.
This is not talk radio trying to keep you tuned
in a serious warning, particularly if you have teenagers. I
(24:12):
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(24:32):
dark web or whatever. Your phone number is sitting on
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(24:54):
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you can't afford incognity. That would be my theory. So
I've talked about this before, This horrifying stuff that you
(25:36):
can buy at convenience stores. There's a couple of different
products that have been referred to by us and in
the media as convenience store heroin. But there's a particular
one seven oh Kreatum seven Oh. There's different Kreatum products,
but this one's seven oh, particularly insidious. A friend of
mine who's early twenty somethingter sun, went from a never
(26:02):
had had any problems in his life, great college career,
got his dream job, et cetera, to rehab number three
because of this stuff that, at least until very recently,
was available at convenience stores, and at some convenience stores
it still is. I'm gonna tell you a little bit
more about it when we come back. Horrifying. I've talked
to my kids about it. I mean, this is for real.
(26:24):
The fact that this stuffer ever got on shelves in
stores is insane. Is it designed to get your kid
to be a heroin addict or something? Anyway, I've got
some more information on this highly troubling stuff coming up.
Stay here, Armstrong, Heyetty, No real.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Someone has to ask the guy at a California campground
who dropped his sunglasses into a toilet, tried to retrieve them,
fell down into the toilet and had to be rescued
by firefighters. How mad were you when you're finding back
to the campsite and somebody said, what'd you do?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Fall in?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know that I thought that joke was that good,
But we did that story a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
how badly do you need those sunglasses? Are they like Prada?
Like four hundred dollars? My son tried on these four
hundred dollars Prada sunglasses that he really liked when we
were in Las Vegas. Yeah, you can really like them
all you want, Go out and get a job and
buy them if you'd like. But that's ridiculous. I don't
(27:32):
know if I'd crawl down into the sewage for a
four hundred dollars sunglasses. Even I talked about this a
couple of weeks ago. It has been in the news,
I don't know, for a year or so, this idea
of gas station heroin. There's a couple of different things
they call that. This particular one is the worst and
it's quite possible. You've never even heard of it. I
(27:53):
hadn't until a friend of mine's kid ended up in
a rehab and their life. I mean, this has turned
this fan upside down. This kid early twenties, great job,
great degree, had never been into like partying or anything
like that. I think this stuff is marketed at convenience
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stores is like an energy drink or whatever. You know.
There's so much of that stuff up there at the
counter that's crap, and these little bottles of some kind
of energy or ridiculously concentrated caffeine and all these different things. Well,
this one particular thing called seven oh, which as of
a few days ago, is banned by the federal government,
(28:36):
but it wasn't up until a couple of days ago,
and it's still on shelves out there too, because there
are convenience stores. I know this because my friend went
to a convenience store said, hey, do you know this
stuff is banned? Because my kid is on it. It's banned,
And they called the cops and found out, yeah, it's banned.
This kratum seven to oz that they sell at convenience stores.
I don't quite understand the chemistry of it or what
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it's a plant from Southeast Asia, Kratum kr at o m.
And the raw leaf has got a tiny fracket fraction
of this stuff that barely hurts you at all. But
as so often happens in the United States, like what
we're doing with pot, we took pot like Willie Nelson
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and Jerry Garcia smoked, and now we concentrated so much
that the stuff that your kids buy in is a
completely different thing than the pot that you were smoking
twenty thirty fifty years ago. Completely different thing in terms
of its power and what it does to your brain
and whether or not it's addictive and all that. That's
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the way this Kretim thing is. The product showed up
in convenience stores, gas stations, vape shops, and a lot
of them still have it there, and maybe your kid
is using it and doesn't even know what he or
she's getting into. They're concentrated semi synthetics seven zero, engineered
to contain far more of the particularly addictive stuff than
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any leaf naturally would. And I guess that's how they
slipped this by regulators. They looked at the leaf, well, okay,
two percent or less in the leaf, and that's no
big deal. But this is concentrated and it gets you
it well should I read the science part of it
on how it works. It targets your various parts of
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your body in your system, and the way it reacts.
It binds to the same opioid receptors as drugs like
morphine and heroin. This seven zero that you can buy
for cheap at the vape shop or the seven to eleven.
At least until recently and probably still now depending on
where you live. Federal officials have cited increasing reports of misuse, dependence,
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and overdose, along with evidence that the compound poses health
risk health risks, how about destroy your life. This matters
for people because you build your tolerance really fast, your
cravings get really strong, and stopping it is like trying
to kick heroin or morphine or anything like that aches nausea, anxiety, insomnia, restlessness,
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to the point that you'll do anything to get more
of this stuff or a different product that solves the
same need. And that's what's happening to people. So this
friend of mine gets their kid into I think their
third rehab in two months, and first time at the
rehab he asks me like, hey, do you know anything
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about this Kratum seven zero stuff, and the guy at
the rehab actually said, Oh my god, I'm sorry to
hear that. That is horrible. This is going to be
really tough to deal with. About fifteen percent of the
people we got coming into the rehab now started on
this kratm seven to zero. It's going to be a
giant story nationwide. I'm surprised it isn't already. Well, it's not.
(31:56):
For some reason, it hasn't exploded as a giant story,
even though hospitals and rehabs they're aware of this and
how it's a really big deal and it's getting all
kinds of people hooked really fast on really bad stuff
and ruining lives, and I just I can't imagine we're
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so careful in this country. Here's an example. When I
came back from Italy years and years ago, I was
talking about how great the sausage and salami and cheese
was over there, and it was explained to me that
we have so many regulations around all of our food
that a lot of the taste of really good food
gets destroyed because we're so careful with our preservatives and
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making sure that nothing could ever made so how do
we live in a country like that where we drink
bland milk and we eat bland salami to make sure
everything is so safe and our bread and everything else
like that. But you can get a product like this
into the stores, it gets people hooked on hair her morphine.
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How's that even possible? Now? I know there's a lot
of stuff floating around online. A belief that it's some
sort of on purpose plan by I don't know the
government or the Jews or whoever you believe in the
conspiracy to get people hooked on stuff and going after
a specific socioeconomic class. I can tell you in this
specific economic socioeconomic class it was upscale, white kids with
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great degrees. I don't know. I don't think there's a
conspiracy behind it. But how in the world did this
slip by? And so the particular county I think it
was La County, which has already banned the stuff. My
friend went to a convenience store where their kid had
been buying this stuff, and it was still on the
shelf even though it was banned.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
And.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
The people that worked at the convenience store hadn't gotten
the word yet. So, as I said, the DEA issued
a new ruling that started just seven days ago. That's
how new this stuff is. They know about it the
rehabs and the emergency rooms already because lots of people
are hooked on it. But this is how new it
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is for the government and for law enforcement. Just seven
days ago, July first, the DEA issued two notices of
intent to begin temporarily placing the seven seven oh seven
h and a couple of other products that are similar
to it as a schedule one of the Controlled Substances Acts.
So once that goes into effect, and I don't know
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why that would take so long, manufacturing, selling, and possessing
illegal all across the country. Thank god, this is not
something that needs to exist at all, unless you're one
of those weird to my mind libertarians who wants to
make all hardcore drugs legal, which we've tried this in
a couple of different places Oregon. How did that work
(34:56):
out for you? Even Oregon decided that's not a very
good idea. But this stuff like this, we gotta stop.
I mean, this upsets me because I got a couple
of teenage boys that could have easily purchased this stuff themselves,
you know, like I said, right next to the energy
drinks and everything like that. And the next thing you know,
you got a heroin addict on your hand because of
something that's being sold into mean stars.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
How was this?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
How did this happen? Somebody needs to do a deep
dive expose on how this slipped by the government or
law enforcement or regulators or whatever. But be aware of it.
Talk to your kids about it, say hey, do you
know anything about this product? And if you come across it,
don't try it. It's not like the five hour energy
that's sitting next to the slim gyms at the seven eleven.
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This could ruin your life. Really a horrifying story. And
again the fact that the rehab said, oh my god,
this is going to be harder to kick. The guy
actually said, this is going to be harder to kick
than a lot of the other drugs that the kid
had ended up on. Because of this stuff. You're worried
about your kid doing meth. You're worried about your kid,
you know, doing whatever fentanyl. This is available at the
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convenience store and they go in and buy their Monster
Energy drink in the morning, or at least was until recently,
probably quite probably is today when you go into the
venience store, maybe look for it yourself, and you can
call the cops and say, this isn't supposed to be here,
do a little research on it, Google it, chat gpt it.
It's scary stuff. We've got a bunch of other things
(36:26):
on the way. We'll play a little of the whole
gram Platner eleven minute crying, getting out of the race apology,
among other things. If you miss a segment, to get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Armstrong and Jodie and he.
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Arms turning around, Bright Eye. Welcome to another live presentation
of the Armstrong A. Getty Program, live from studio. See
a dimly.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Lit room deep within the bowels of where we do
our thang. That's bang with an A. And today we're
toiling under the title of the show that Joe is
coming back very very soon from his longest vacation of
his life. He keeps calling it to celebrate his fortieth
wedding anniversary with his wife Judy, and we might be
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hearing from him today. And I think he's back tomorrow
and then beg things are back to normal for a while.
How y'all doing? Turn around, Bright Eye. If you're of
a certain age, you know the lyric from the classic
song total Eclips of the Heart. Maybe if you're not
even of that age, but you've sung karaoke or just
I think it lives on in like in Oldiesville, was
(01:15):
as a smaltz fest, right Totally Clips of the Heart.
We can't play it because of various copyright rules that
now exist for us in podcasting the Bonnie Tyler Classics.
She died last night at the age of seventy five.
So I've heard this a little clips from the song
a lot in the last couple of days. I could
see you in there in your studio, Michael go. Oh yeah,
(01:36):
that's too bad. Too. Is seventy five years old, which
is not that old. But she didn't write the song.
This guy named Jim Steineman who wrote them all these
schmaltzy songs way back in the eighties and nineties and seventies. Really,
let's go through a little bit of the lyrics, just
a little bit. I've turned around bright Eyes, the total
clips of the heart song. Turn around every now and
(01:57):
then I get a little bit lonely, and you're never
coming round. Turn around every now and then I get
a little bit tired of listening to the sound of
my tears, and you can hear your tears. That's bad.
Turn around every now and then I get a little
bit nervous that the best of all the years have
gone by. Oh that's rough. Actually, kind of get into
me here, Bonnie. Turn around every now and then I
(02:19):
get a little bit terrified, And then I see the
look in your eyes. Turn around bright eyes every now
and then I fall apart. Turn around bright eyes, every
now and then I fall apart. A little more lyrics
before we get to the part that is my favorite.
Every now and then I get a little bit restless
and dream of something wild. Turn around every now and
then I get a little bit helpless, and I'm lying
(02:40):
like a child in your arms. I like this one
turn around. Uh where was that line? Because because there's
several more lines of this, I thought it was really
really good. Every now and then I get a little
bit angry and I know I've got to get out
and cry in there. And then I fall apart and
(03:01):
I need you now tonight, and I need you more
than ever. This is the part you really scream if
you're at a karaoke bar. This is the part you're
really howling with your drunking for your drunken friends. And
if you only hold me tight, we'll be holding on forever,
and we'll be making it right because we're never be wrong. Together.
We can make it to the end of the line.
Your love is like a shadow on me. All of
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the time. I didn't realize that what she was saying.
I've been singing the song in my car when it
would come on the radio. I was a DJ. I
played this song when it was brand new as a
music DJ, as a young person. Back It came out
in eighty three, but I started being a music DJ
at eighty four. I don't know, actually eighty three. Yeah,
So I've been playing the song since it was brand new.
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I had no idea that was a line. Your love
is like a shadow on me all of the time. Wow,
all of the time. They sing in the background and
I don't know what to do, and I'm always in
the dark. And if I is at karaoke right now,
I would bellow this at the top of my lungs.
We're living in a keg and giving off sparks. I
(04:03):
really need you tonight. Forever's gonna start tonight. The great
Bonnie Tyler turn Around Bright Eyes maybe the greatest karaoke
song of all time. And she just passed to the
age of seventy five. So on this Thursday, which is
known as a Little Friday among us drunks, if you
are at a karaoke bar tonight, in honor of the
great big haired fake blonde. I think she's Welsh singer
(04:27):
Bonnie Tyler, who passed to the age of seventy five.
Belt out at the top of your lungs with a
beer bottle in your hand, turn around, bright eyes. Every
now and then we fall apart. I think we owe that,
don't we we do? Okay, a couple of big things
that happened, and I'm gonna break on time today so
that we can thoroughly get into the headlines with Heather
(04:48):
Myers coming up in a little bit. But one of
the biggest headlines to me is Trump agreed to yesterday.
This didn't get enough attention. I don't think to allow
Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles, so I didn't know that
that's the way it worked. I thought we gave them
this stuff that we manufactured and gave it to them,
(05:09):
but or I didn't know we could stop them from manufacturing.
And but I guess there's you know, patent laws and
everything around the technology. But the best missile defense program
platform on Earth is the Patriot missile that the United
States has, and we give it to Israel and some
of our friends. Trump told Zelensky yesterday that they can
(05:30):
start manufacturing them, and I'm sure they already started like
an hour after Trump said that, and they'll have those things,
and when they have Patriot missiles surrounding Kiev, they'll be
able to stop a lot of these horrifying attacks that
have been coming in from Moscow and Putin in the
last several days. So that's a pretty big deal that
(05:52):
had to get Putin's attention a little bit. We've got
more on the diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine and trump
involvement from the NATO summit. Trump is back in the
United States now, and then of course there's stuff with
the Iran that we have to hit on because we
pounded the heck out of Iran last night and Trump
(06:13):
saying the war is not back on, But man, if
you lived in Iran, it sure looked like the war
was back on. I think I think we had ninety
targets eighty on the night before ninety last night, air
defence systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites,
naval capabilities, military logistics infrastructure. We bombed ninety different sites
(06:34):
last night in an attempt to get Iran to realize
that this is a no win situation for them militarily.
But Trump on the plane last night. This is one
of the things I was worried about yesterday. Trump on
the plane last night, he said, I just talked to them.
They want to make a deal, very bad. They really
want to make a deal. Where is that coming from.
(06:54):
Did they actually say that? Even if they did, why
do you believe them? Well, putin want to make a deal.
The Mullas want to make a deal. No, they don't.
I don't know why he says that. Hopefully he doesn't
actually believe it. But that's where we are on those
two things. We need to start the show officially because
that will bring us into one of the other bigger
(07:15):
stories of the last twenty four hours that you're probably
aware of. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
it is Little Friday. We call it Thursday, July ninth,
the year twenty twenty six. We are Armstrong and Getty
and we approve of this program. Begin the show at Mark.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
We went toe to toe with one of the most
entrenched political systems in the history of the world, and
we won. We beat them on June ninth in overwhelming numbers.
And now they are not going to let us have it.
Not if it's me, and so we're suspending campaign operations.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Grand Platnir, the fake oyster farmer, possible rapist from Maine
who was the Democratic nominee for the Senate, as the
Democrats are hoping to knock out moderate Republican Susan Collins,
who's been the senator up there forever, and perhaps take
(08:12):
control of the Senate, which would be a very very
big deal because everybody expects the Democrats to take the
House in November. If they took the House and the Senate,
that would really be something. So Graham Platner puts out
and you know the rape allegations that came out, We
played that woman talking on CNN about how he forced
his way into her home and raped her, and she
(08:32):
sounds very believable, and she told friends at the time,
corroborating evidence, et cetera, et cetera. So Platner puts out
an eleven minute emotional video last night that as you
could hear with the traffic noise in the background, had
that whole live on TikTok look that young people seem
to like so much, and he did get pretty emotional.
(08:55):
Sometimes we'll play eclipse from that. As you just heard there.
He's portraying it. Hold on, I got a cough and
I'm gonna press my cough, but I forgot to turn
my microphone back on. Now it's just talking to myself.
He portrays it as the powerful trying to stop any
(09:15):
upstarts from coming along. And that is a true thing.
Is we've talked about for many, many years, whether it
was the Tea Party or Bernie Sanders at the time,
the entrenched Republican and Democrat infrastructure will try to kill
any outsider quick before they get into any momentum going
(09:35):
because they do not want any rogue people. They want
to have full control over their party, et cetera, et cetera.
The problem with that narrative in this case is Bernie
said you gotta get out, and Mayor Mamdanni said you
gotta get out. If it were the entrenched Democratic Party
of Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or whatever, he could
(09:56):
make the argument. But when Bernie and Mamdannie say you
got to get out, than yeah, who exactly are you
appealing to. But one of the questions I want to
ask lonhe Chen later one of our favorite political analysts,
is the issue of character. Just over when it comes
to our politics. I was reading Mark Alprin's newsletter just
(10:16):
a little bit ago, and as he said, the a
lot so much of this was known about Platiner, Plant Platner,
Graham Platner when he won the nomination. So much of
this was known, and the voters voted for him anyway.
It wasn't all a vetting problem. Some of it was,
(10:38):
but it wasn't all a vetting problem. When people found
out about his Nazi tattoo and a lot of his
not being a good boyfriend, and horrible things he'd said
about women and veterans and communism and stuff online, people
still voted for him. So what does that mean about
the electric and where we are. We'll talk to Lannie
Chin about that a little bit later. I think that's
(10:58):
a missing part of this story. People knew most of
this stuff, and still we're willing to make m a
US senator. So what does that mean. We'll talk to
Annie about that later. We'll play some of Plattner's emotional
eleven minute I'm getting out of the speech, and a
whole bunch of other stuff that we got to get
to today. But we've got all the headlines with Heather Myers, next.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Armstrong, Hey Yetti.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Once upon a time I was falling in love, but
now I'm only falling apart. There's nothing I can do.
A total eclipse of the heart. Bonnie Tyler dead at
age seventy five. I like the fact that the headline
say Bonnie Tyler known for such hits, as it's the
only hit she was known for. But it was a
very big button, There's no doubt about that. Totally clips
(11:46):
of the heart. I wish we could play it. I
wish we could just play it every hour and all
sing along. Let's get some headlines now if Heather Myers,
what are people talking about all over the world.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, that is one of the stories that people are
talking about this morning, and we will talk more about
that here in just a moment. But let's also talk
about some of the big headlines that the networks are
covering and the different way the networks cover the news.
Starting with NBC News, US and Iran exchange intense new
attacks after Trump says ceasefire is over. From CBS News,
US and Iran ramp up tit for tat strikes, and
(12:17):
from Newsmax, Iran promises Hormu's closure more attacks after latest
US strikes.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I kinel like tit for tat strikes makes them sound
like they're small and insignificant, and just gestures those ninety
strikes that we all those bombs we dropped on Iran
last night, where that was a pretty big deal. Yeah,
sure was.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I'm starting to feel like a broken record reading sating.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
He's hadlines with this story.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah from the hill, Trump returning to US on old
Air Force run amid Iran threats.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, so he had his new plane there. Remember that
Qatar gave us a plane and he accepted it, and
that was controversial. And then the headline broke yesterday that
the Secret Service told him, yeah, don't fly in that plane.
He was going to fly back on the Katari plane,
and I was thinking, oh my god, are they worried
that somehow some terrorists got into the plane or something
(13:14):
like that. And I guess the story is, it's just
not up to full technological abilities that we expect out
of our Air Force one planes, from missile defense and
all kinds of different things.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yet, so where did President Trump land when he did
come back to the US. Well, Palm Beach International Airport
has officially become President Donald J. Trump International Airport with
air Force one being one of the first aircraft to
land with the new name.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And I've seen some mainstream media left pushback on naming
an airport after him. Trump is one of the biggest
political figures in a century. There's just no getting around it.
You can hate him all you want, but he has
been a really, really big deal. The fact that there
will be an airport named after him shouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Talking and interesting. Help the networks are covering that compared
to the local news coverage out of Pompeach. Sure, very
different headlines there from ABC News' main Democratic Senate candidate
Grand Platnir suspends campaign after sexual assault allegation. No surprise there.
From News Nation, this is interesting. Texas hospital accused of
(14:21):
childbirth tourism and citizenship packages. Right.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I saw that they're actually advertising come have your baby
here and be a US citizen after the Supreme Court
ruled that that's the way we're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, billboards in Mexico. In fact from the Washington Examiner,
White House floats Trump accounts for grown ups. We know
about the child accounts that were unveiled, and now there
are Trump accounts for grownups underway.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It appears back to that hospital. I find it really unpatable,
unpalatable and gross and annoying, and I hate everything about it.
But legally speaking, if people are already doing that, and
the Supreme Court said, yeah, that's fine, I suppose you
(15:07):
make it clear that, hey, you're going to come here
and have a baby somewhere, make it here. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Hotfully Bikes from CBS News. June twenty twenty six was
Western Europe's hottest on record, second hottest globally.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Was it really yea? From the Washington Warming or worry
about it every day, Heather, It's on your list?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
From the Washington Post. Cancer cases worldwide are expected to
soar in coming decades. A new report finds why they're
saying that. They are talking about worldwide cancer cases and
for some of the Third world countries that don't have
the advancements that many other countries do, that those folks
(15:51):
will likely see cancer cases sore.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
So okay, I got a news. I got a big
cancer story about how life expectancy deaths from cancer are
way down, and lots of good news around cancer, even
though more cases are being diagnosed I'll get into that
a little bit later. It's pretty interesting, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I actually did one of those full body MRIs recently
where they can check for any tumors or aneurysms or
anything like that, and I was nervous going into it
because of gosh, what are they going to find? And
then complete relief leaving that. I'm so glad that I
had some answers.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So so you'd recommend it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I would definitely recommend it. It's very claustrophobic, but other
than that, I feel like you it's like getting ahead
of what could be a disaster later. So from ABC News,
this is a story that you talked about. Bonnie Tyler,
singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died at
the age of seventy five.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
You're a lot younger than me, so you're familiar with
that song.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh I love that song.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's a great My sense is that people of all
ages are aware of that song.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh, such a great one. For finally, this morning from
the Babylon Bee, this is their but yeah, get some
attention democrats quietly, ad have you raped anyone to questionnaire
for aspiring candidates?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wow? Just to quick get it out of the way,
so we don't waste our time here. Yes, exactly, Thank
you very much, Heather. More with Heather a little bit
later and we'll get into some more news of the
day with a little more depth on coming up. If
you miss it podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
President Trum's still hoping for that deal. He arrived back
at Joyce Bate Andrews after one this morning, flying part
way home on an old Air Force one, not the
new recently revealed jet. President brushed off this having to
do with potential security concerns, but did acknowledge in Turkey
the ever present threat he faces.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
The life of a president is very dangerous. It's five
point two percent. You know what a race card driver
is one tenth of one percent to very dangerous profession. No,
I'm number one on the killer list for.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Eran, So sat right, five point two percent are killed?
Would that be right? How many presidents have been assessed?
I mean, we've only had forty seven and you've just
got you know, a handful. Yeah, I suppose it's about right. Wow,
it's more dangerous than being a race car driver to
be president of the United States in terms of threat
(18:20):
to your life. And there are probably more threats to
Trump's life than your average president, I would guess by
quite a bit. So Trump flew to Turkey on that
new plane that they want to make air Force one.
Air Force one is whatever plane the president is on.
(18:41):
It's a it's just a security slash logistical term for
whatever the plane, whatever plane the president is on. But
so he flew on what would have been air Force
one while he was on it, that new plane that
Qatar gave to him on the way there. So I
didn't know that. I was just reading in the New
York Times. So the fact that he flew to Turkey
(19:02):
on that plane means they thought it was safe enough.
Then what happened while he was in Turkey for a
couple of days and he decided to come back on
a different plane. I'm not buying what the President's saying.
And this is clearly one of those stories where we
don't need to know. The Secret Service or the CIA
or whoever may have uncovered some sort of threat. Sure
(19:26):
as hell doesn't need to alert the bad guys that
we have a mole or we figured it out or
something like that. We don't need to know. But then
Trump flew out of Turkey last night on the old
Air Force one instead of the new Katari Boweing seven
forty seven DASH eight as a security precaution related to
(19:47):
the resumption of hostilities with Iran. That's an interesting thing,
according to sources in the know that The New York
Times talked to, So because the hostilities had started back
up in Iran, they switched planes. It just seems odd
to me. The swap deepens questions about whether the new plane,
(20:08):
which the President had pressed to be ready as soon
as possible, was retrofeted with sufficient security measures. Well, again,
it had enough security measures to fly him to there
to Turkey while we're at war with Iran. As the
President has said recently, there are many enemies of America,
(20:28):
said one of the spokesmen who have their sights on him,
and we use every tool at our disposal, including distraction misdirection,
to address those threats. Okay, so you know you fool
him by sending him back on a different plane than
you send him there. Maybe that was just the precaution.
But people briefed on the new plane's capabilities who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues,
(20:51):
told the New York Times that the new plane does
not have all the features of the older plane. The
switch in the president's aircraft when he departed Turkey was
a precautionary measure, not because of a specific threat. That's
what they're saying. I don't know if I buy that completely.
Trump said that the reason is Trump. He always puts
(21:12):
people in this position. People come out and say something,
and then his explanation for things is different, and that
doesn't match up. He said they switched planes because they
wanted the cool new plane that Katar gave us to
go around to different military bases and show it off
to the troops so they could see it. That was
Trump's He said he wanted the new plane to make
(21:34):
stops at our military bases in the area to show
off to the troops because the aircraft is magnificent. But
when pressed by reporters in Turkey about the reason for
the change, Trump also repeatedly noted that he was Iran's
number one target and referred to one point to having
seen or been briefed on a list of Turan's targets
in recent days. So he said he's seen the intelligence
(21:58):
around the Ranian's time targets and he's number one on
their list of targets. So I'm thinking there was some
solid ish, an if enough plot out there that the
Secret Service thought, now, let's go, let's go with the
old plane. One, let's fool them by not using the
same plane. And two because as it said here uh
(22:23):
in the New York Times, Trump departed Turkey, he boarded
the old aircraft unusually quickly, before the journalists traveling with
him could watch or photograph him as sending the steps
as they typically do. Passengers on board will were instructed
to pull their window shades down before takeoff. Doesn't this
sound a little weird to you? Then instead of the
(22:43):
normal they get all the camera shots of the president
walking up the steps and he turns around and he
salutes before he gets in. They didn't do that. They
hurt him onto the plane and told everybody, pull your
window shades down before we take off. That's not a nothing.
There was some reason for that, which of course is
very very scary. God, can you imagine the turmoil of
(23:06):
the world if a ran somehow brought down Trump's plane?
Holy crap, that would not be good. And how JD
Vance would respond to it. And there's a novel for
you to write if you want to. The older plane
has been widely reported to be equipped with a system
designed to blind an incoming anti aircraft missile, along with chaff,
(23:30):
whatever that is that could be deployed to mislead a
missile and force it off course. I guess you spit
out some stuff that gets the missile's attention and then
you can fly away. And it's unclear how many, if any,
of these capabilities have been installed on the new plane. Man.
The fact that they rushed him on the plane and
told everybody to pull their window shades down, to me,
(23:50):
means there was something going on there which we might
not find out about, as I always say, for twenty
five years or fifty years, or whenever the information is
finally revealed for some book that's written after I'm dead.
Have a warning for parents. I mean, this is serious.
This is not talk radio trying to keep you tuned
in a serious warning, particularly if you have teenagers. I
(24:12):
want to tell you about coming up in a little bit. First,
let me tell you about incogny. This is a warning. Also,
every spam call, every scam text, every sketchy email with
your name, they all start the same way. Somebody has
your info and has found you. They bought it from
a data broker, or it leaked out there on the
(24:32):
dark web or whatever. Your phone number is sitting on
data broker sites right now, your home address, your email,
your age names, your kids, all this stuff. It's all
searchable and for sale. You don't want hackers to get it,
and you can hide from these people. They can't scam
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Now it's a lot like the word incognito, it's just shorter.
(24:54):
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take back your privacy. That's in cognity dot com slash armstrong,
and it spells it here. If you can't spell armstrong,
you can't afford incognity. That would be my theory. So
I've talked about this before, This horrifying stuff that you
(25:36):
can buy at convenience stores. There's a couple of different
products that have been referred to by us and in
the media as convenience store heroin. But there's a particular
one seven oh Kreatum seven Oh. There's different Kreatum products,
but this one's seven oh, particularly insidious. A friend of
mine who's early twenty somethingter sun, went from a never
(26:02):
had had any problems in his life, great college career,
got his dream job, et cetera, to rehab number three
because of this stuff that, at least until very recently,
was available at convenience stores, and at some convenience stores
it still is. I'm gonna tell you a little bit
more about it when we come back. Horrifying. I've talked
to my kids about it. I mean, this is for real.
(26:24):
The fact that this stuffer ever got on shelves in
stores is insane. Is it designed to get your kid
to be a heroin addict or something? Anyway, I've got
some more information on this highly troubling stuff coming up.
Stay here, Armstrong, Heyetty, No real.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Someone has to ask the guy at a California campground
who dropped his sunglasses into a toilet, tried to retrieve them,
fell down into the toilet and had to be rescued
by firefighters. How mad were you when you're finding back
to the campsite and somebody said, what'd you do?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Fall in?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know that I thought that joke was that good,
But we did that story a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
how badly do you need those sunglasses? Are they like Prada?
Like four hundred dollars? My son tried on these four
hundred dollars Prada sunglasses that he really liked when we
were in Las Vegas. Yeah, you can really like them
all you want, Go out and get a job and
buy them if you'd like. But that's ridiculous. I don't
(27:32):
know if I'd crawl down into the sewage for a
four hundred dollars sunglasses. Even I talked about this a
couple of weeks ago. It has been in the news,
I don't know, for a year or so, this idea
of gas station heroin. There's a couple of different things
they call that. This particular one is the worst and
it's quite possible. You've never even heard of it. I
(27:53):
hadn't until a friend of mine's kid ended up in
a rehab and their life. I mean, this has turned
this fan upside down. This kid early twenties, great job,
great degree, had never been into like partying or anything
like that. I think this stuff is marketed at convenience
(28:13):
stores is like an energy drink or whatever. You know.
There's so much of that stuff up there at the
counter that's crap, and these little bottles of some kind
of energy or ridiculously concentrated caffeine and all these different things. Well,
this one particular thing called seven oh, which as of
a few days ago, is banned by the federal government,
(28:36):
but it wasn't up until a couple of days ago,
and it's still on shelves out there too, because there
are convenience stores. I know this because my friend went
to a convenience store said, hey, do you know this
stuff is banned? Because my kid is on it. It's banned,
And they called the cops and found out, yeah, it's banned.
This kratum seven to oz that they sell at convenience stores.
I don't quite understand the chemistry of it or what
(29:02):
it's a plant from Southeast Asia, Kratum kr at o m.
And the raw leaf has got a tiny fracket fraction
of this stuff that barely hurts you at all. But
as so often happens in the United States, like what
we're doing with pot, we took pot like Willie Nelson
(29:23):
and Jerry Garcia smoked, and now we concentrated so much
that the stuff that your kids buy in is a
completely different thing than the pot that you were smoking
twenty thirty fifty years ago. Completely different thing in terms
of its power and what it does to your brain
and whether or not it's addictive and all that. That's
(29:44):
the way this Kretim thing is. The product showed up
in convenience stores, gas stations, vape shops, and a lot
of them still have it there, and maybe your kid
is using it and doesn't even know what he or
she's getting into. They're concentrated semi synthetics seven zero, engineered
to contain far more of the particularly addictive stuff than
(30:06):
any leaf naturally would. And I guess that's how they
slipped this by regulators. They looked at the leaf, well, okay,
two percent or less in the leaf, and that's no
big deal. But this is concentrated and it gets you
it well should I read the science part of it
on how it works. It targets your various parts of
(30:28):
your body in your system, and the way it reacts.
It binds to the same opioid receptors as drugs like
morphine and heroin. This seven zero that you can buy
for cheap at the vape shop or the seven to eleven.
At least until recently and probably still now depending on
where you live. Federal officials have cited increasing reports of misuse, dependence,
(30:52):
and overdose, along with evidence that the compound poses health
risk health risks, how about destroy your life. This matters
for people because you build your tolerance really fast, your
cravings get really strong, and stopping it is like trying
to kick heroin or morphine or anything like that aches nausea, anxiety, insomnia, restlessness,
(31:13):
to the point that you'll do anything to get more
of this stuff or a different product that solves the
same need. And that's what's happening to people. So this
friend of mine gets their kid into I think their
third rehab in two months, and first time at the
rehab he asks me like, hey, do you know anything
(31:34):
about this Kratum seven zero stuff, and the guy at
the rehab actually said, Oh my god, I'm sorry to
hear that. That is horrible. This is going to be
really tough to deal with. About fifteen percent of the
people we got coming into the rehab now started on
this kratm seven to zero. It's going to be a
giant story nationwide. I'm surprised it isn't already. Well, it's not.
(31:56):
For some reason, it hasn't exploded as a giant story,
even though hospitals and rehabs they're aware of this and
how it's a really big deal and it's getting all
kinds of people hooked really fast on really bad stuff
and ruining lives, and I just I can't imagine we're
(32:16):
so careful in this country. Here's an example. When I
came back from Italy years and years ago, I was
talking about how great the sausage and salami and cheese
was over there, and it was explained to me that
we have so many regulations around all of our food
that a lot of the taste of really good food
gets destroyed because we're so careful with our preservatives and
(32:40):
making sure that nothing could ever made so how do
we live in a country like that where we drink
bland milk and we eat bland salami to make sure
everything is so safe and our bread and everything else
like that. But you can get a product like this
into the stores, it gets people hooked on hair her morphine.
(33:01):
How's that even possible? Now? I know there's a lot
of stuff floating around online. A belief that it's some
sort of on purpose plan by I don't know the
government or the Jews or whoever you believe in the
conspiracy to get people hooked on stuff and going after
a specific socioeconomic class. I can tell you in this
specific economic socioeconomic class it was upscale, white kids with
(33:26):
great degrees. I don't know. I don't think there's a
conspiracy behind it. But how in the world did this
slip by? And so the particular county I think it
was La County, which has already banned the stuff. My
friend went to a convenience store where their kid had
been buying this stuff, and it was still on the
shelf even though it was banned.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
And.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
The people that worked at the convenience store hadn't gotten
the word yet. So, as I said, the DEA issued
a new ruling that started just seven days ago. That's
how new this stuff is. They know about it the
rehabs and the emergency rooms already because lots of people
are hooked on it. But this is how new it
(34:13):
is for the government and for law enforcement. Just seven
days ago, July first, the DEA issued two notices of
intent to begin temporarily placing the seven seven oh seven
h and a couple of other products that are similar
to it as a schedule one of the Controlled Substances Acts.
So once that goes into effect, and I don't know
(34:35):
why that would take so long, manufacturing, selling, and possessing
illegal all across the country. Thank god, this is not
something that needs to exist at all, unless you're one
of those weird to my mind libertarians who wants to
make all hardcore drugs legal, which we've tried this in
a couple of different places Oregon. How did that work
(34:56):
out for you? Even Oregon decided that's not a very
good idea. But this stuff like this, we gotta stop.
I mean, this upsets me because I got a couple
of teenage boys that could have easily purchased this stuff themselves,
you know, like I said, right next to the energy
drinks and everything like that. And the next thing you know,
you got a heroin addict on your hand because of
something that's being sold into mean stars.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
How was this?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
How did this happen? Somebody needs to do a deep
dive expose on how this slipped by the government or
law enforcement or regulators or whatever. But be aware of it.
Talk to your kids about it, say hey, do you
know anything about this product? And if you come across it,
don't try it. It's not like the five hour energy
that's sitting next to the slim gyms at the seven eleven.
(35:41):
This could ruin your life. Really a horrifying story. And
again the fact that the rehab said, oh my god,
this is going to be harder to kick. The guy
actually said, this is going to be harder to kick
than a lot of the other drugs that the kid
had ended up on. Because of this stuff. You're worried
about your kid doing meth. You're worried about your kid,
you know, doing whatever fentanyl. This is available at the
(36:05):
convenience store and they go in and buy their Monster
Energy drink in the morning, or at least was until recently,
probably quite probably is today when you go into the
venience store, maybe look for it yourself, and you can
call the cops and say, this isn't supposed to be here,
do a little research on it, Google it, chat gpt it.
It's scary stuff. We've got a bunch of other things
(36:26):
on the way. We'll play a little of the whole
gram Platner eleven minute crying, getting out of the race apology,
among other things. If you miss a segment, to get
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