October 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week, Putin meeting & acting roles
- Giving tomahawks to Ukraine
- China purging high ranking commanders, Hamas & KISS
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and no He Armstrong and Getty. Dumdum
but dumb but dub Dub Music's Jamin, Isn't it Huh?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Sure it is? Yes. Speaking of show business, a couple
of notes, I will continue our discussion of the utter
ridiculous racist idiocy of the progressive left and insisting only
a Korean person can play this role, et cetera, et cetera.
(00:49):
We're talking about at the end of last hour, because
there's more great ridiculous examples.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
John Bolton has pled not guilty to mishandling classified information
he yesterday, which is technically true. But it's not like
he was hold up in a barn with weapons right
in a shootout with the elliot ness. He's got a
nail file hidden in his mustache. He'll be able to
(01:16):
break out a jail, but a chainsaw on my time anyway.
All sorts of good stuff to squeeze into the last
hour of the week. But first, it's Friday tradition. Let's
take a fun look back at the week it was.
It's cow clips of the week, indicted by a federal
grand jury. Sure, bad, but the way it goes, that's
(01:38):
the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
They discovered the material that Iran had hacked through a
US intelligence penetration.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Of a rack. Twenty newly freed hostages and their families hug, cry, kiss,
screen and pray and God bless the Middle East. Thank you, everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I really command President Trump. I've commend the Qatars, the Egyptians,
and the President. This is not going to be a
bloodless process.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. President
Trump says, US forces struck another small boat carrying drugs
in the waters off Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I did actually say, would you mind if I gave
a couple of thousand tomahawks too your opposition.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I did say that to him. I said it just
that way.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You have to be a little bit lighthearted sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Is it a silver bullet? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nothing nothing is an Operation Summer Heat included more than
eighty six hundred arrests.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Meantime across the border DHS as Mexican criminal gangs are
placing bouties on the heads of federal law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I'm going to be strongly recommending that you start to
looking at San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
This is not a job for a first timer.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Any day.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I have a hurricane and you were a health pandemic.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
And if we have a health pandemic, then why would
New Yorkers turn back to the governor who sent seniors
to their death in nursing homes.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So after we realized there was a boy on the team,
and let me just say, this person is eighteen years old,
so it's he's a grown man.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Black oh down a sidelight and slay or sap of
the Sixers Higgins. Brilliant, just brilliant. Here I go. So
Trump was on the phone with Putting for two hours
yesterday and claims he brought up the whole Tomahawks thing,
said what did you think if I sent a whole
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bunch of Tomawks Ukraine? Now? When do you think of that?
And he said Putin didn't like that much. I didn't
like that. I'll tell you that. So where that goes,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Know what's going to be different this time. It's my question.
We tried this in Alaska. There could be a perfectly
reasonable answer to that. But I'm curious more pressure, so
got to be much more pressure me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The Financial Times, I think had an article with some
stuff I hadn't seen it before. Talking to people both
in Russia that were around the meeting and people in
the United States all talking on conditions of anonymity that
what happened there in Russia was in Russia. In Alaska,
when Trump met with Putin in that room, it was
(04:22):
only him Putin, like a handful of people, including in translators.
Putin did that whole launching into the history of Russia
and Ukraine, going back to the year six hundred thing
for a long time, and Trump got really upset about it,
threatened to get up and leave. At one point, was
clearly super pissed off that he was playing that game.
(04:47):
And that's what ended up canceling the You know, they're
supposed to have a press conference and a lunch and
all that sort of stuff, and he canceled it. After that,
he was he did not dig that at all. Why
he thinks it's going to be different this time, I
don't know. Maybe he just is ready to immediately no, no, no,
no history lessons, we ain't doing that again, or something.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I don't know. Right, yeah, huh yeah, Okay, I remain
uneasy with Trump's relationship with Putin, but you know it'll
play out in front of us. So back to the
topic of the last hour, which is the idiotic progressive
insistence on what do they even call it? You've got
to have if you have a Hispanic gay man as
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a character in a play or movie or whatever, it's
got to be played by a Hispanic gay man. Right.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And this rule, by the way, has been around for
like five minutes. I mean, because some of the best
acting performances in world history have been by people that
weren't specifically that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right, And this account that we shared starts with a woman,
an author, an.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Act went back up just a second, What is even
the theory behind that? So Tom Hanks one?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Otherwise it's an imitation of race. It's practically blackface Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Tom Hanks won the Oscar for playing a gay guy
with AIDS in the movie Philadelphia. That would be a
completely out of bounds I guess by all Mota standards,
one hundred percent a gay man with aids to play
the role.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I don't know. I don't know if they've gone that far.
But anyway, so this author who was doing selections from
her book Women Warriors about heroic woman and was informed
she could not do any black characters because she was
a white woman. Couldn't even talk about them, I guess
just or read their words because that would be wrong.
And she's filed suit. It's just idiotic because she said, no,
(06:42):
I'm not going to do just white women. I've got
this sensial selection of all different women regardless of the race,
and the woke library said you will not do any
women of color. How sick this is? And we mentioned
another movie example. If you didn't get it, grabbed the
podcast Armstrong and getting on demanded last hour. But here's
here's perhaps my favorite, uh, this year's Tony Award winner
(07:03):
for Best Music Well, which, of course, Michael you know
is maybe Happy Ending. I know you've seen it three
times on Broadway. Yeah, it's become an unwitting example of
the theater community self defeating barriers. The get this Now
The musical is a love story set in South Korea
about two decombition decommissioned robots.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
When the show announced that Andrew Barth Feldman would take
over the lead role, when Darren Chris leaves their production.
The news did not sit well for many on Broadway,
with some saying that this casting decision caused quote pain
and profound disappointment, and that it was quote a hard
slap in the face robots. That is because Feldman, the
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new guy is white and the old guy is half Filipino,
and critics are convinced that only Asian actors can play
the lead. The show's very creators defended the new guy,
clarifying that their intention was the for the show quote
to be comfortably performed by anyone anywhere. The robot leads
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don't have Korean names, even in the Korean version of
the show. They were meant to be ethnically undefined. And
don't even ask how a half Filipino actor was deemed
Korean adjacent enough by race obsessed critics. Let's not even
go there. And interestingly enough, Korean American actor Daniel Day
(08:31):
Kim explained recently that he was emphatically opposed to ethnic
specific casting, arguing there's been an over correction by casting directors.
Quote and here's a thinking man. There are very often
times when the role itself has not been thought through.
It doesn't require any kind of specificity in the stories
it's being told, or in the specifics of the character,
because very often if it's not even being written, because
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very often it's not even being written by an Asian person,
so they don't know the difference in what they're asking
for or and yet casting is very specific.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Was this the one that the comedian is it? Ronnie Cheng.
He's one of the hosts of the Daily show stand
up Comedian. He's got specials on Netflix, Super Funny Guy Chinese.
Was this one or some other one? But anyway, he
was asked about the controversy and he said, it's all stupid.
I don't care. It doesn't make any difference, right, And.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Then this piece in the National Review mentions a handful
of great roles played by black people through the years
that were written by white people, and they point out
that it's just a short step from only an Asian
actor can play this character to only a white actor
can play this character too, Only a white actor can
(09:44):
read the brilliant words in a script written by a
white man. We won't put those words in the mouth
of a black person, right, I mean, these it's insane.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's a cult. And obviously it would be pretty limiting
on art. Sure, going down that road.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And you know what, ed, it's hard and this is
my last word on the topic. But it and this
is the most ugly awful part of all this. It
denies the common humanity of different people. If you know
the you know they mentioned this Asian half Filipino actor
(10:22):
I've never heard of. If his longtime love leaves him,
he will feel very much like I do, and very
much like they mentioned Interrace Elba, the great Black British actor,
he'll feel about the same as well. This this you know,
the boyfriend of this lady who wanted to read about
the the woman heroes. We're all humans, for God's sake.
(10:44):
The most obscene part is that it tries to deny that.
But as always with these people, it's not because they
sincerely believe this, or if they do, they're stupid. It's
an effort to take control of stuff. You don't know
what to do anymore, you don't know what's sok anymore,
So you tell them you be in charge. Because I'm
tired of being called a racist. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So Zelensky's about to show up to the White House.
I'm keeping my eye on the cable news because if
he's not in a.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Slight tie and tails, he needs to look like Lipperachi.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
If he's not in his suit, I say you tomahawk him.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I don't need to be messing with somebody. He's not
even willing to wear a suit. You see that. The
interesting thing about all these little deals is they could
be world history changing on a major level.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Like for sometimes we get caught up in streneous details
that really aren't that important. But such is the modern world.
As we were just discussing extraneous details that really aren't iportant.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well, if I get caught up with them, it doesn't matter.
If Donald J. Trump gets caught up with him, that matters.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I took in a podcast yesterday about well, I'm gonna
say the teas won't be any good. I'm just gonna
tell you it's interesting. It's an historical thing that I
want to get to.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Also, speaking of tomahawk missiles, we ought to play a
little bit of Mike Lines was on the show yesterday
and you might not have heard it, explaining how much
benefit or lack thereof, there would be to giving Ukraine
tomahawk missiles. I feel like nobody has been pointing that out.
People could just keep throwing around the term, and Trump's
thrown around the term as if we all know what
tomahawk missiles are and what they're capable of, what they
(12:32):
would do. I don't. So we got all that coming
up this hour stick around.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Putin told Trump what he's been saying publicly for some time,
which is that these missiles, these Tomahawks, even though they've
got a long range of more than fifteen hundred miles,
even though they could potentially target Moscow and Saint Petersburg,
they could help Ukraine target energy infrastructure locations around there,
at least in the new European parts of Russia. Putin
(13:03):
saying he does not believe that these will have a
significant impact on the battlefield.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now, of course you would say that if you were
a Putin. But we had Mike Lines, one of our
favorite go to military analysts, on yesterday, and my first
question to him was, I feel like all news reports
about Tomahawk missiles leave out one important thing, like what
are they, what are they capable of? What are they
(13:29):
not capable of? All that sort of stuff. They just
throw it around like we're all familiar with this because
we're all military experts, and we're not. So we talked
to Mike Lions who is and asked him about the
Tomahawks missile Tomahawk missiles which Trump is going to discuss
with Zelensky today in the Oval Office. Now, how big
a deal it would be.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, it's not an easy cast to all of a
sudden give Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Ukrainians because there's
no land based firing system. I from him that if
you notice they're called vertical launchers v launchers. They have
to launch as a rocket, They go up straight in
the air and then they get propels, then they get
they get you know, to go into their target from there.
So it's not an easy solution. Now, however, they would
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provide deep strike capability for Ukraine. Should there be this
land based, land based solution to that. The Raytheon says
that they have. We haven't. We haven't seen that, but
it would it would provide much deeper strikes into Russia
that they would have to defend against, and it would
allow Ukraine this increase capability. Is it a silver bullet? No,
(14:31):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Nothing, nothing, is was that fifty six or fifty seven?
I feel like I guess fifty six. He says silver
bullet in the next Okay, But anyway, he made the
point that I hadn't heard anybody else say, because you
when you ever hear tomahawk missiles used in the news,
if you've ever been paid intention for these, it was
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fired from the USS whatever that was in the Black
Sea and landed in Iran or something. They get fired
from ships, and so he was confused as to how
the's ever going to be used. Now there is a claim,
like he said that there is a way to fire
him for land, but he's never seen it before. It's
never been used before, so that'd be a kind of
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I wouldn't think Trump would be talking about it
if it wasn't doable. But I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I would hope, But I'm often surprised on how journalists
don't take the time to dig into these stories at all.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Speaking of warfare, I was listening to a podcast yesterday
The Rest is History. If you've never if you're a
history fan and you've never listened to the Rest of History, Oh,
my god, gazillions episode. Just scroll through and find one
of your favorite topics. It's so good. But they're talking.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
There's still much good content. I call for the government
to throttle it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No kidding, there is so much good content. Here's the lesson.
Don't I'm talking to me here. Don't let yourself waste
any time watching or listening to something that's just average.
If you all of a sudden you find yourself you're
watching or listening to this thing and it's just kind
of not digging it. There's so many great things out there.
(16:07):
Only listen to or watch great That's what I'm That
needs to be my new standard because there's so.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Much people clicking out all over America. Nice job, idiot.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But anyway, they were doing the big battle with Admiral
Nelson there in England and Trafalgar and all that sort
of stuff when they took on the French in the
Spanish one of the great naval battles in the history
of the world, and kind of did in Napoleon's plans
of taking over England. You're probably you were just there.
You're probably in Trafalgar Square and saw the giant pull
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that goes up in the air of the Neilson thing.
But the description of what those naval battles were like
back in the day, Holy crap. None of us ever
do anything that horrifying or gruesome ever in our lives.
I highly recommend looking into that if you want to.
But man, you're gonna get your arms blown off and
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be seasick and rats everywhere, and just incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's so funny how you can closs over it with
a couple of sentences and then the great naval bottle
of y. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, we got a lot more on the wife. You
missed a segment get.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Podcast, Armstrong and Getty coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm trying to get executive producer Hanson working on it.
He's got we got audio of Hilaria Baldwin is then
how you say your name? She close She got kicked
off Dancing with the Stars, and she put out an
Instagram video complaining about the bullying she received. It's kind
of funny. So anyway, maybe next maybe we can get
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to that next segment.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Fabulous something to look forward to. Michael, I'd asked for
twenty Did you not hear me? Twenty? Did we do twenty?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell falling at the Capitol in the
eighty three year old falling while being asked a question
about the ice crackdowns. He got up and continued walking
with the help of staff. Earlier this year, he said
he would not be seeking re election.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, but he's running for reelection in twenty twenty seven.
According to my math, that's like the year after next.
So no way he lasts. I think we may be
moving beyond what would you call it an octagen c gentocracy.
People have called it, Yeah, genttocracy. That's a good worse octagenttocracy. Anyway. Yeah,
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there's a seth Moulten's challenging ed Marky is that the
guy's name, a seventy nine and a half year old
senator is running for reelection. No, guy's eighty and he's
running for reelection. That's ridiculous. Anyway, Speaking of who's in
who's out, I found this very interesting. Xjin Ping China
has purged its second most senior general and eight other
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high ranking military commanders. As in The Wall Street Journal
takes this seriously, which is interesting if you've studied communist regimes.
But it says, as leader Shejan Ping dials up a
crackdown on corruption disloyalty in the armed forces.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Uh yeah, what are you seriously?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Are you a freshman in political science or yeah, you
take that seriously. It's just that's what you say when
you decide to get rid of someone.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But dictators regularly get rid of all the generals because
you are scared they're scheming against you. See it, turn
them over quickly on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
General he Wide Dong. That's quite a name, lower ranking
of two vice chairmen on the Communist Party's top decision
to making military body blah blah blah has been dismissed
from the party in the military for severe disciplinary violations
and abuses of power. According to the spokesman, who knows
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what actually was happening.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And it could be nothing like I said. That was
the history with Stalin and Sadam and name your dictator.
Every once in a while, you get rid of the
generals because you start doing Hey, guys, look at me.
Kind of funny, wasn't he Yeah, there wasn't that weird
what he said the other day? And you just get
paranoid about the powerful people close to you. See it,
turn them over on a regular basis, and once thing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's kind of counterintuitive, or at least it was for
me is I hadn't realized. And interestingly enough, slave owners
do the same thing. Dictators will sometimes get rid of
people for no reason whatsoever, So everybody's going around saying,
what the hell did he do? What? Why did they
get rid of him? Which instills your desperation to please
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the dictator? And Chesen Ping is evil incarnate, but he's
really really good at his job. I wish a guy
like that would write a book toward the end of
his reign, Jesien Ping, Here's how I did it? Or
don't call me pooh, the Xesien Ping story.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Anyway, moving along to a different malign part of the world,
what's Stephonic? At least Stephonic and Tom Cotton are urging
the Trump administration to investigate the Council on Islamic American
Islamic Relation care they're links to Hamas. According to the
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letter obtained by the Free Beacon. If you've studied this
at all, the so called legit groups that just happen
to hate Israel and are up with Islam and the
rest of it, they get just far enough from the
really evil guys to have plausible deniability, but it doesn't
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take a lot of dot connecting.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, my favorite critique of the way things have gone
down this past week is how people aren't who have
been so critical, critical and talking about genocide don't seem
to be so excited about the fact that the genocide
has come to a close, and not to mention the
fact that they were never worked up about any of
the other Arab on Arab killings that have been going
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on for the past decade or so. I mean, just
hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered in Syria and Yemen,
and you know, you name the country by other Arabs
and just nobody cares. Nobody kill you.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They're a handful of going out in Africa, or Arabs
killing black people in Africa, nobody cares. Nope, nope. Just
the one with the Jews, which is clearly not a
genocide for a dozen reasons I could cite for you,
including that the Jews just signed an agreement saying, yeah, okay,
the war's over if everybody abides by the worlds. Yeah,
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that's a poor genocide. They're not very good at it anyway.
It should be really interesting to see how this investigation
comes out. And by interesting I mean completely predictable. I
had quite a number of sources in the FBI right
after nine to eleven, the couple of years after nine
to eleven. Initially the FBI said, hey, we got to
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have outreach to Muslim organizations. Number one, so we can
all live together in peace. And number two so if
there are any radicals, they can tell us about it
and we won't mistake good America loving Muslims for radicals.
And they started working with care and it wasn't very
long after that where they realized, oh, wait a minute,
you really take a look at this organization. They are
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not at all what they claim to be. And they stopped.
So anyway, more on that to come. And finally, I'm
just going to hit you with this headline, and then
I've got to admit I am in favor of a
jarring transition. But the headline, it's the Israeli hostages who
were held and starved and beaten and tortured and terrified
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and mock executions and the rest of it. One of
the worst I heard was one of the guys held
for two years when the Hamas people finally were letting
him go. They had one of those camera, those weird
on stage pr events staged by Hamas. This was the
last round of guys before this final round. They said, look,
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just look into the camera, emphasize how excited you are
to see your wife and your daughters, and blah blah blah.
Talk about that. He said, all right, yeah, whatever, and
he goes on and on about that. Well, Hamas knew
all along they'd murdered his wife and dogs.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh my god, but.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That was their final brutal emotional tortures.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Knowingly they're subhuman, they're monsters. So anyway, here's one of
the guys in the latest round there. I said, so yeah, yeah,
and I hope the US has a hand in it.
Here's the headline for you. His captors were teachers, university lecturers,
and doctors. Israeli hostage reveals. One of the guards was
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the first grade teacher, another was a lecture at university,
another was a doctor. He said, this is Shoham. What's
his first name? Do we have? Oh, tal Shoham. These
are normal people become terrorists, he described as captors. Hamas
captors is so brainwashed him, so full of hate that
his five hundred and five days into Captivity included a
(24:58):
lot of torture and cruelty. Yeah, unbelievable. All right, Uh Michael,
how about a little transit transition music.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh wow, that's a good one, hennoid bringing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I like how the guy goes yodel.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And just random chicken oid. This is a mister.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Piece is a masterpiece. Anyway, I don't remember speaking of music.
Quickly turn it off before we're all insane. I was
never a big Kiss fan back when I was a
young lad. I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Jiv and stupid Joe was too good for Kiss.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well. I was pretentious and picky, like all teenage music freaks.
But now I look back and I'm marvel at their
a entrepreneurial spirit and merchandising and creativity and the rest
of it. And honestly, I look back they did something
completely different and stuck with it. And I've read about
(26:10):
when they were starting in the New York clubs and
everybody's like, what the f is this?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Now they crafted a thing which is pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It is. I wasn't a big fan of the songs,
but you've got to admire their their sense of purpose,
and dedication and sticking their necks out.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Me and the boys are playing and we just can't
find the sound.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh that's frustrating. Oh yeah, but you need to shut
up because we're practicing anyway. I've not heard this, but
this is the great Tom Snyder, great interviewer of the seventies, eighties, eighties,
talking to Ace Freely, the original league guitaris from Kiss
who just passed away. It's clip number twenty four. Michael,
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bought your outfits? I mean, did you design your own outfits?
All of you? And tell me what each out that means?
And I'll start with you.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
A well, that means self explanatory. I mean, you know
this is part of a kind of a V shape.
This is my utility belt, and we don't want to
go any belower than my waist area because that's reserved
for constant players.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And then and they say, this.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Is I still Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you know I have my But you're kind of
like a space man.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
No, actually, I'm a plumber. Listen. I got a little
piece of pipe bastage I'd like to have you work on.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
But I like that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, only one reason you to joke.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
That much, you see.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But I'll tell you I read on the sheet that
they gave me where they said that it's hard to
get you out of your shelf.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So you know, it's funny. I was reminded for the
empteenth time that they're a bunch of like working class
New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, Hanson watched the video. He said, when you watch
it one, it's obvious that aces out of his mind
on whatever is why he's laughing so much. And Gene Simmons,
the real businessman in the band, was completely stone cold
sober as he has been his whole life, and was
not digging the way they were acting at all. Oh wow,
he was not digging it. How interest like, you know,
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this is not professional, this is not helping us. This
is which is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
This is a great opportunity for us.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
My takeaway on this, and I try to remember that
as a parent now is just I was not really
a Kiss fan, but I knew how culturally like parents
across the country were worried about their kids listening to
Kiss music and the blood and the devil imagery and
all the different sort of stuff and where is this headed?
And godlessness and blah, blah and all just seems ridiculous
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looking back on it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just the provocative for the sake of
being provocative thing and a lot of people going along
with it. Uh yeah. I remember all those controversies, as
you know, music freak. I was paying attention to all
of them. I actually watched the damn hearings where like
d Snyder and Frank Zapple were testifying in front of
Tipper Gore in Congress about whether there should be parental
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advisory stickers and you know, censorship or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Lord, and then the music my son listens to now
that my oldest son listens to, and that sometimes I'll
let him have ox as they call it, and he
can run the music in the car on the way home.
And I mean, it's just so freaking filthy. I mean,
it's just as pornograph pornographic as anything could possibly be
compared to. Parents are worried about kids.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh my god, did you ever talk to him about it?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, it doesn't seem to mean anything to him, that's
my observation. To him and his friends, it's just like
it's just it's just words. It's just like it's a
put on kind of like with kiss. I guess it's
just act. It's not really doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Right, Gene Simmons doesn't actually like for some reason, believe
from his gums he really needs to floss, really really
needs some good dental hygiene out there.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I think you need your wisdom teeth out. Something has
gone wrong there is funny, but yeah, I I I
initially when my son was listening to that music, especially,
I was letting him listen to it. He's gonna be
sixteen soon. But it just it doesn't seem to resonate.
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It's just like it's an act. It's a they like
the beat and all that sort of stuff. I don't
think the words matter that much. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Interesting. Yeah, I remember Alice Cooper and the outrage that
created that band back in the day, and as their
lead singers now kind of become known as Alice Cooper.
He he's in England teacher, and he just thought a
little like Haunted House Imagery would be kind of cool
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and different on stage. The idea that English teacher Vincent
Furnier is some sort of satan. The guy's a golf enthusiast,
for God's sake. He just thought, oh, this would kind
of be mysterious and dangerous and stuff, but it was
taken so seriously.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
He's also a Republican only oh yeah, yeah, Alec Baldwin's
wife did something kind of funny. We'll finish with that.
We'll finish strong coming up. Stay tuned, so almost out
of time. I gotta get right to this. I haven't
been watching season thirty seven of Dancing with the Stars,
but Hilaria Baldwin, Alec Baldwin's wife, just got booted off
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early in the season. And it's kind of interesting. Given
the fact that she is a professional ballroom dancer dancing
with another professional, you'd think it would give her a
leg up. But as The New York Post rights, Hillary
Baldwin thought she'd go on Dancing with the Stars, shimmy
her way into America's hearts and we'd forget that she's
been pretending to be a Spanish woman for a whole decade. People,
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because you get voted off. It's a popularity contest, so
it's your dancing. But also they got to kind of
like you, you know, like American Idol used to be.
The people clearly didn't like her because she's a narcissist
who posed as a woman called Hilaria from Spain, when
in reality she's Hillary from Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston,
which we've talked about a whole bunch of times. But
to Halaria, her early exit is the dastardly work of
(32:27):
a vast online network of mean girls who don't appreciate
her unique burden of being bilingual. And she posted a
video complaining about how rough it was. And she's in
her video where she's very very serious being booted off
Dancing with the Stars. She says, I'd be remiss if
I didn't mention that today is World Mental Health Day
and all the bullying that went on behind the scenes
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dancing with the Stars, and blah blah blah blah blah.
She is a piece of work. Boo Dallak Balward was
probably trying to kill himself when he hit that tree.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I got another comment on that, but I'll save it
for final thoughts. Here's your host, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. In the week,
Michaelangelow or technical director Michael final thought, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Joe, you really tick off my funny bone.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We were talking about Geene Simmons and now he's bleeding
from the gums.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That he needs the floss. I'd be laughing about that
all day.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Well, it's a good reminder. Im portant mental hija was
dental hygiene is Katie Greener Steve Mues woman As a
final thought, Katie, one of the best days I had.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I went from a Raider game at the Oakland Coliseum,
walked one hundred yards and went and saw a kiss
at Oracle Arena. Oh, same day. That's a good day.
It was cool.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
So many scary costumes all in one day. Yeah, no kidding, Jack.
Final thought for us so Alec Bald.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
There's a chance that he at some point figured out
what he's into and he's thinking, I'm seventy years old,
I got seven kids with this fake Spanish wife who's
an absolute just piece of work. A tiring way to live.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hey. My final thought, I wish you've gotten time to
talk about this on the show. I had an experience
yesterday where I got part of the story from somebody
who seemed very authoritative, and I came to a conclusion.
Then I found out that that was only a small
part of the story. There was countervailing evidence, and I'd
been completely misled exactly in the way conspiracy theories get people.
(34:23):
They take a piece of evidence, they ignore mountains perhaps
of opposing evidence, but they spin a yarn and suck
people along.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You have to talk more about that next week. That
is a phenomenon. Armstrong and Yetty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So many people to thank, so little time. Go to
Armstrong oneddy dot com. We have a lot of great
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Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, we'll see you Monday. God bless America. I love
Jewish people, but I also I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
You can take a crack at each one.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, one's just a total con artist. Disgusting makes me sick.
The other guy did a good job.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm not gonna have the cheeks of their torn off.
Enough talk, do you understand?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
No sign?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (35:17):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing note, Hi, good night everybody.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
A great Friday Mother, the Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and no He Armstrong and Getty. Dumdum
but dumb but dub Dub Music's Jamin, Isn't it Huh?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Sure it is? Yes. Speaking of show business, a couple
of notes, I will continue our discussion of the utter
ridiculous racist idiocy of the progressive left and insisting only
a Korean person can play this role, et cetera, et cetera.
(00:49):
We're talking about at the end of last hour, because
there's more great ridiculous examples.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
John Bolton has pled not guilty to mishandling classified information
he yesterday, which is technically true. But it's not like
he was hold up in a barn with weapons right
in a shootout with the elliot ness. He's got a
nail file hidden in his mustache. He'll be able to
(01:16):
break out a jail, but a chainsaw on my time anyway.
All sorts of good stuff to squeeze into the last
hour of the week. But first, it's Friday tradition. Let's
take a fun look back at the week it was.
It's cow clips of the week, indicted by a federal
grand jury. Sure, bad, but the way it goes, that's
(01:38):
the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
They discovered the material that Iran had hacked through a
US intelligence penetration.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Of a rack. Twenty newly freed hostages and their families hug, cry, kiss,
screen and pray and God bless the Middle East. Thank you, everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I really command President Trump. I've commend the Qatars, the Egyptians,
and the President. This is not going to be a
bloodless process.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. President
Trump says, US forces struck another small boat carrying drugs
in the waters off Venezuela.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I did actually say, would you mind if I gave
a couple of thousand tomahawks too your opposition.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I did say that to him. I said it just
that way.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You have to be a little bit lighthearted sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Is it a silver bullet? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Nothing nothing is an Operation Summer Heat included more than
eighty six hundred arrests.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Meantime across the border DHS as Mexican criminal gangs are
placing bouties on the heads of federal law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I'm going to be strongly recommending that you start to
looking at San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
This is not a job for a first timer.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Any day.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I have a hurricane and you were a health pandemic.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
And if we have a health pandemic, then why would
New Yorkers turn back to the governor who sent seniors
to their death in nursing homes.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So after we realized there was a boy on the team,
and let me just say, this person is eighteen years old,
so it's he's a grown man.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Black oh down a sidelight and slay or sap of
the Sixers Higgins. Brilliant, just brilliant. Here I go. So
Trump was on the phone with Putting for two hours
yesterday and claims he brought up the whole Tomahawks thing,
said what did you think if I sent a whole
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bunch of Tomawks Ukraine? Now? When do you think of that?
And he said Putin didn't like that much. I didn't
like that. I'll tell you that. So where that goes,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Know what's going to be different this time. It's my question.
We tried this in Alaska. There could be a perfectly
reasonable answer to that. But I'm curious more pressure, so
got to be much more pressure me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The Financial Times, I think had an article with some
stuff I hadn't seen it before. Talking to people both
in Russia that were around the meeting and people in
the United States all talking on conditions of anonymity that
what happened there in Russia was in Russia. In Alaska,
when Trump met with Putin in that room, it was
(04:22):
only him Putin, like a handful of people, including in translators.
Putin did that whole launching into the history of Russia
and Ukraine, going back to the year six hundred thing
for a long time, and Trump got really upset about it,
threatened to get up and leave. At one point, was
clearly super pissed off that he was playing that game.
(04:47):
And that's what ended up canceling the You know, they're
supposed to have a press conference and a lunch and
all that sort of stuff, and he canceled it. After that,
he was he did not dig that at all. Why
he thinks it's going to be different this time, I
don't know. Maybe he just is ready to immediately no, no, no,
no history lessons, we ain't doing that again, or something.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I don't know. Right, yeah, huh yeah, Okay, I remain
uneasy with Trump's relationship with Putin, but you know it'll
play out in front of us. So back to the
topic of the last hour, which is the idiotic progressive
insistence on what do they even call it? You've got
to have if you have a Hispanic gay man as
(05:32):
a character in a play or movie or whatever, it's
got to be played by a Hispanic gay man. Right.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And this rule, by the way, has been around for
like five minutes. I mean, because some of the best
acting performances in world history have been by people that
weren't specifically that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Right, And this account that we shared starts with a woman,
an author, an.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Act went back up just a second, What is even
the theory behind that? So Tom Hanks one?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Otherwise it's an imitation of race. It's practically blackface Jack.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Tom Hanks won the Oscar for playing a gay guy
with AIDS in the movie Philadelphia. That would be a
completely out of bounds I guess by all Mota standards,
one hundred percent a gay man with aids to play
the role.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I don't know. I don't know if they've gone that far.
But anyway, so this author who was doing selections from
her book Women Warriors about heroic woman and was informed
she could not do any black characters because she was
a white woman. Couldn't even talk about them, I guess
just or read their words because that would be wrong.
And she's filed suit. It's just idiotic because she said, no,
(06:42):
I'm not going to do just white women. I've got
this sensial selection of all different women regardless of the race,
and the woke library said you will not do any
women of color. How sick this is? And we mentioned
another movie example. If you didn't get it, grabbed the
podcast Armstrong and getting on demanded last hour. But here's
here's perhaps my favorite, uh, this year's Tony Award winner
(07:03):
for Best Music Well, which, of course, Michael you know
is maybe Happy Ending. I know you've seen it three
times on Broadway. Yeah, it's become an unwitting example of
the theater community self defeating barriers. The get this Now
The musical is a love story set in South Korea
about two decombition decommissioned robots.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
When the show announced that Andrew Barth Feldman would take
over the lead role, when Darren Chris leaves their production.
The news did not sit well for many on Broadway,
with some saying that this casting decision caused quote pain
and profound disappointment, and that it was quote a hard
slap in the face robots. That is because Feldman, the
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new guy is white and the old guy is half Filipino,
and critics are convinced that only Asian actors can play
the lead. The show's very creators defended the new guy,
clarifying that their intention was the for the show quote
to be comfortably performed by anyone anywhere. The robot leads
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don't have Korean names, even in the Korean version of
the show. They were meant to be ethnically undefined. And
don't even ask how a half Filipino actor was deemed
Korean adjacent enough by race obsessed critics. Let's not even
go there. And interestingly enough, Korean American actor Daniel Day
(08:31):
Kim explained recently that he was emphatically opposed to ethnic
specific casting, arguing there's been an over correction by casting directors.
Quote and here's a thinking man. There are very often
times when the role itself has not been thought through.
It doesn't require any kind of specificity in the stories
it's being told, or in the specifics of the character,
because very often if it's not even being written, because
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very often it's not even being written by an Asian person,
so they don't know the difference in what they're asking
for or and yet casting is very specific.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Was this the one that the comedian is it? Ronnie Cheng.
He's one of the hosts of the Daily show stand
up Comedian. He's got specials on Netflix, Super Funny Guy Chinese.
Was this one or some other one? But anyway, he
was asked about the controversy and he said, it's all stupid.
I don't care. It doesn't make any difference, right, And.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Then this piece in the National Review mentions a handful
of great roles played by black people through the years
that were written by white people, and they point out
that it's just a short step from only an Asian
actor can play this character to only a white actor
can play this character too, Only a white actor can
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read the brilliant words in a script written by a
white man. We won't put those words in the mouth
of a black person, right, I mean, these it's insane.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's a cult. And obviously it would be pretty limiting
on art. Sure, going down that road.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And you know what, ed, it's hard and this is
my last word on the topic. But it and this
is the most ugly awful part of all this. It
denies the common humanity of different people. If you know
the you know they mentioned this Asian half Filipino actor
(10:22):
I've never heard of. If his longtime love leaves him,
he will feel very much like I do, and very
much like they mentioned Interrace Elba, the great Black British actor,
he'll feel about the same as well. This this you know,
the boyfriend of this lady who wanted to read about
the the woman heroes. We're all humans, for God's sake.
(10:44):
The most obscene part is that it tries to deny that.
But as always with these people, it's not because they
sincerely believe this, or if they do, they're stupid. It's
an effort to take control of stuff. You don't know
what to do anymore, you don't know what's sok anymore,
So you tell them you be in charge. Because I'm
tired of being called a racist. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So Zelensky's about to show up to the White House.
I'm keeping my eye on the cable news because if
he's not in a.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Slight tie and tails, he needs to look like Lipperachi.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
If he's not in his suit, I say you tomahawk him.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I don't need to be messing with somebody. He's not
even willing to wear a suit. You see that. The
interesting thing about all these little deals is they could
be world history changing on a major level.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Like for sometimes we get caught up in streneous details
that really aren't that important. But such is the modern world.
As we were just discussing extraneous details that really aren't iportant.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well, if I get caught up with them, it doesn't matter.
If Donald J. Trump gets caught up with him, that matters.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I took in a podcast yesterday about well, I'm gonna
say the teas won't be any good. I'm just gonna
tell you it's interesting. It's an historical thing that I
want to get to.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Also, speaking of tomahawk missiles, we ought to play a
little bit of Mike Lines was on the show yesterday
and you might not have heard it, explaining how much
benefit or lack thereof, there would be to giving Ukraine
tomahawk missiles. I feel like nobody has been pointing that out.
People could just keep throwing around the term, and Trump's
thrown around the term as if we all know what
tomahawk missiles are and what they're capable of, what they
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would do. I don't. So we got all that coming
up this hour stick around.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Putin told Trump what he's been saying publicly for some time,
which is that these missiles, these Tomahawks, even though they've
got a long range of more than fifteen hundred miles,
even though they could potentially target Moscow and Saint Petersburg,
they could help Ukraine target energy infrastructure locations around there,
at least in the new European parts of Russia. Putin
(13:03):
saying he does not believe that these will have a
significant impact on the battlefield.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now, of course you would say that if you were
a Putin. But we had Mike Lines, one of our
favorite go to military analysts, on yesterday, and my first
question to him was, I feel like all news reports
about Tomahawk missiles leave out one important thing, like what
are they, what are they capable of? What are they
(13:29):
not capable of? All that sort of stuff. They just
throw it around like we're all familiar with this because
we're all military experts, and we're not. So we talked
to Mike Lions who is and asked him about the
Tomahawks missile Tomahawk missiles which Trump is going to discuss
with Zelensky today in the Oval Office. Now, how big
a deal it would be.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, it's not an easy cast to all of a
sudden give Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Ukrainians because there's
no land based firing system. I from him that if
you notice they're called vertical launchers v launchers. They have
to launch as a rocket, They go up straight in
the air and then they get propels, then they get
they get you know, to go into their target from there.
So it's not an easy solution. Now, however, they would
(14:09):
provide deep strike capability for Ukraine. Should there be this
land based, land based solution to that. The Raytheon says
that they have. We haven't. We haven't seen that, but
it would it would provide much deeper strikes into Russia
that they would have to defend against, and it would
allow Ukraine this increase capability. Is it a silver bullet? No,
(14:31):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Nothing, nothing, is was that fifty six or fifty seven?
I feel like I guess fifty six. He says silver
bullet in the next Okay, But anyway, he made the
point that I hadn't heard anybody else say, because you
when you ever hear tomahawk missiles used in the news,
if you've ever been paid intention for these, it was
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fired from the USS whatever that was in the Black
Sea and landed in Iran or something. They get fired
from ships, and so he was confused as to how
the's ever going to be used. Now there is a claim,
like he said that there is a way to fire
him for land, but he's never seen it before. It's
never been used before, so that'd be a kind of
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I wouldn't think Trump would be talking about it
if it wasn't doable. But I don't know the answer.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I would hope, But I'm often surprised on how journalists
don't take the time to dig into these stories at all.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Speaking of warfare, I was listening to a podcast yesterday
The Rest is History. If you've never if you're a
history fan and you've never listened to the Rest of History, Oh,
my god, gazillions episode. Just scroll through and find one
of your favorite topics. It's so good. But they're talking.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
There's still much good content. I call for the government
to throttle it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No kidding, there is so much good content. Here's the lesson.
Don't I'm talking to me here. Don't let yourself waste
any time watching or listening to something that's just average.
If you all of a sudden you find yourself you're
watching or listening to this thing and it's just kind
of not digging it. There's so many great things out there.
(16:07):
Only listen to or watch great That's what I'm That
needs to be my new standard because there's so.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Much people clicking out all over America. Nice job, idiot.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
But anyway, they were doing the big battle with Admiral
Nelson there in England and Trafalgar and all that sort
of stuff when they took on the French in the
Spanish one of the great naval battles in the history
of the world, and kind of did in Napoleon's plans
of taking over England. You're probably you were just there.
You're probably in Trafalgar Square and saw the giant pull
(16:37):
that goes up in the air of the Neilson thing.
But the description of what those naval battles were like
back in the day, Holy crap. None of us ever
do anything that horrifying or gruesome ever in our lives.
I highly recommend looking into that if you want to.
But man, you're gonna get your arms blown off and
(16:57):
be seasick and rats everywhere, and just incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's so funny how you can closs over it with
a couple of sentences and then the great naval bottle
of y. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, we got a lot more on the wife. You
missed a segment get.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Podcast, Armstrong and Getty coming up.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I'm trying to get executive producer Hanson working on it.
He's got we got audio of Hilaria Baldwin is then
how you say your name? She close She got kicked
off Dancing with the Stars, and she put out an
Instagram video complaining about the bullying she received. It's kind
of funny. So anyway, maybe next maybe we can get
(17:38):
to that next segment.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Fabulous something to look forward to. Michael, I'd asked for
twenty Did you not hear me? Twenty? Did we do twenty?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell falling at the Capitol in the
eighty three year old falling while being asked a question
about the ice crackdowns. He got up and continued walking
with the help of staff. Earlier this year, he said
he would not be seeking re election.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, but he's running for reelection in twenty twenty seven.
According to my math, that's like the year after next.
So no way he lasts. I think we may be
moving beyond what would you call it an octagen c gentocracy.
People have called it, Yeah, genttocracy. That's a good worse octagenttocracy. Anyway. Yeah,
(18:23):
there's a seth Moulten's challenging ed Marky is that the
guy's name, a seventy nine and a half year old
senator is running for reelection. No, guy's eighty and he's
running for reelection. That's ridiculous. Anyway, Speaking of who's in
who's out, I found this very interesting. Xjin Ping China
has purged its second most senior general and eight other
(18:47):
high ranking military commanders. As in The Wall Street Journal
takes this seriously, which is interesting if you've studied communist regimes.
But it says, as leader Shejan Ping dials up a
crackdown on corruption disloyalty in the armed forces.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Uh yeah, what are you seriously?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Are you a freshman in political science or yeah, you
take that seriously. It's just that's what you say when
you decide to get rid of someone.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But dictators regularly get rid of all the generals because
you are scared they're scheming against you. See it, turn
them over quickly on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
General he Wide Dong. That's quite a name, lower ranking
of two vice chairmen on the Communist Party's top decision
to making military body blah blah blah has been dismissed
from the party in the military for severe disciplinary violations
and abuses of power. According to the spokesman, who knows
(19:41):
what actually was happening.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And it could be nothing like I said. That was
the history with Stalin and Sadam and name your dictator.
Every once in a while, you get rid of the
generals because you start doing Hey, guys, look at me.
Kind of funny, wasn't he Yeah, there wasn't that weird
what he said the other day? And you just get
paranoid about the powerful people close to you. See it,
turn them over on a regular basis, and once thing.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's kind of counterintuitive, or at least it was for
me is I hadn't realized. And interestingly enough, slave owners
do the same thing. Dictators will sometimes get rid of
people for no reason whatsoever, So everybody's going around saying,
what the hell did he do? What? Why did they
get rid of him? Which instills your desperation to please
(20:25):
the dictator? And Chesen Ping is evil incarnate, but he's
really really good at his job. I wish a guy
like that would write a book toward the end of
his reign, Jesien Ping, Here's how I did it? Or
don't call me pooh, the Xesien Ping story.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Anyway, moving along to a different malign part of the world,
what's Stephonic? At least Stephonic and Tom Cotton are urging
the Trump administration to investigate the Council on Islamic American
Islamic Relation care they're links to Hamas. According to the
(21:08):
letter obtained by the Free Beacon. If you've studied this
at all, the so called legit groups that just happen
to hate Israel and are up with Islam and the
rest of it, they get just far enough from the
really evil guys to have plausible deniability, but it doesn't
(21:28):
take a lot of dot connecting.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, my favorite critique of the way things have gone
down this past week is how people aren't who have
been so critical, critical and talking about genocide don't seem
to be so excited about the fact that the genocide
has come to a close, and not to mention the
fact that they were never worked up about any of
the other Arab on Arab killings that have been going
(21:51):
on for the past decade or so. I mean, just
hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered in Syria and Yemen,
and you know, you name the country by other Arabs
and just nobody cares. Nobody kill you.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
They're a handful of going out in Africa, or Arabs
killing black people in Africa, nobody cares. Nope, nope. Just
the one with the Jews, which is clearly not a
genocide for a dozen reasons I could cite for you,
including that the Jews just signed an agreement saying, yeah, okay,
the war's over if everybody abides by the worlds. Yeah,
(22:23):
that's a poor genocide. They're not very good at it anyway.
It should be really interesting to see how this investigation
comes out. And by interesting I mean completely predictable. I
had quite a number of sources in the FBI right
after nine to eleven, the couple of years after nine
to eleven. Initially the FBI said, hey, we got to
(22:45):
have outreach to Muslim organizations. Number one, so we can
all live together in peace. And number two so if
there are any radicals, they can tell us about it
and we won't mistake good America loving Muslims for radicals.
And they started working with care and it wasn't very
long after that where they realized, oh, wait a minute,
you really take a look at this organization. They are
(23:06):
not at all what they claim to be. And they stopped.
So anyway, more on that to come. And finally, I'm
just going to hit you with this headline, and then
I've got to admit I am in favor of a
jarring transition. But the headline, it's the Israeli hostages who
were held and starved and beaten and tortured and terrified
(23:29):
and mock executions and the rest of it. One of
the worst I heard was one of the guys held
for two years when the Hamas people finally were letting
him go. They had one of those camera, those weird
on stage pr events staged by Hamas. This was the
last round of guys before this final round. They said, look,
(23:54):
just look into the camera, emphasize how excited you are
to see your wife and your daughters, and blah blah blah.
Talk about that. He said, all right, yeah, whatever, and
he goes on and on about that. Well, Hamas knew
all along they'd murdered his wife and dogs.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh my god, but.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That was their final brutal emotional tortures.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Knowingly they're subhuman, they're monsters. So anyway, here's one of
the guys in the latest round there. I said, so yeah, yeah,
and I hope the US has a hand in it.
Here's the headline for you. His captors were teachers, university lecturers,
and doctors. Israeli hostage reveals. One of the guards was
(24:36):
the first grade teacher, another was a lecture at university,
another was a doctor. He said, this is Shoham. What's
his first name? Do we have? Oh, tal Shoham. These
are normal people become terrorists, he described as captors. Hamas
captors is so brainwashed him, so full of hate that
his five hundred and five days into Captivity included a
(24:58):
lot of torture and cruelty. Yeah, unbelievable. All right, Uh Michael,
how about a little transit transition music.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh wow, that's a good one, hennoid bringing.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I like how the guy goes yodel.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And just random chicken oid. This is a mister.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Piece is a masterpiece. Anyway, I don't remember speaking of music.
Quickly turn it off before we're all insane. I was
never a big Kiss fan back when I was a
young lad. I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Jiv and stupid Joe was too good for Kiss.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well. I was pretentious and picky, like all teenage music freaks.
But now I look back and I'm marvel at their
a entrepreneurial spirit and merchandising and creativity and the rest
of it. And honestly, I look back they did something
completely different and stuck with it. And I've read about
(26:10):
when they were starting in the New York clubs and
everybody's like, what the f is this?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Now they crafted a thing which is pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It is. I wasn't a big fan of the songs,
but you've got to admire their their sense of purpose,
and dedication and sticking their necks out.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Me and the boys are playing and we just can't
find the sound.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh that's frustrating. Oh yeah, but you need to shut
up because we're practicing anyway. I've not heard this, but
this is the great Tom Snyder, great interviewer of the seventies, eighties, eighties,
talking to Ace Freely, the original league guitaris from Kiss
who just passed away. It's clip number twenty four. Michael,
(26:55):
bought your outfits? I mean, did you design your own outfits?
All of you? And tell me what each out that means?
And I'll start with you.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
A well, that means self explanatory. I mean, you know
this is part of a kind of a V shape.
This is my utility belt, and we don't want to
go any belower than my waist area because that's reserved
for constant players.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And then and they say, this.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Is I still Flash Gordon.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
And you know I have my But you're kind of
like a space man.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
No, actually, I'm a plumber. Listen. I got a little
piece of pipe bastage I'd like to have you work on.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
But I like that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, only one reason you to joke.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
That much, you see.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But I'll tell you I read on the sheet that
they gave me where they said that it's hard to
get you out of your shelf.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So you know, it's funny. I was reminded for the
empteenth time that they're a bunch of like working class
New Yorkers.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, Hanson watched the video. He said, when you watch
it one, it's obvious that aces out of his mind
on whatever is why he's laughing so much. And Gene Simmons,
the real businessman in the band, was completely stone cold
sober as he has been his whole life, and was
not digging the way they were acting at all. Oh wow,
he was not digging it. How interest like, you know,
(28:30):
this is not professional, this is not helping us. This
is which is kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
This is a great opportunity for us.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
My takeaway on this, and I try to remember that
as a parent now is just I was not really
a Kiss fan, but I knew how culturally like parents
across the country were worried about their kids listening to
Kiss music and the blood and the devil imagery and
all the different sort of stuff and where is this headed?
And godlessness and blah, blah and all just seems ridiculous
(28:59):
looking back on it.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just the provocative for the sake of
being provocative thing and a lot of people going along
with it. Uh yeah. I remember all those controversies, as
you know, music freak. I was paying attention to all
of them. I actually watched the damn hearings where like
d Snyder and Frank Zapple were testifying in front of
Tipper Gore in Congress about whether there should be parental
(29:21):
advisory stickers and you know, censorship or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Lord, and then the music my son listens to now
that my oldest son listens to, and that sometimes I'll
let him have ox as they call it, and he
can run the music in the car on the way home.
And I mean, it's just so freaking filthy. I mean,
it's just as pornograph pornographic as anything could possibly be
compared to. Parents are worried about kids.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh my god, did you ever talk to him about it?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, it doesn't seem to mean anything to him, that's
my observation. To him and his friends, it's just like
it's just it's just words. It's just like it's a
put on kind of like with kiss. I guess it's
just act. It's not really doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Right, Gene Simmons doesn't actually like for some reason, believe
from his gums he really needs to floss, really really
needs some good dental hygiene out there.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I think you need your wisdom teeth out. Something has
gone wrong there is funny, but yeah, I I I
initially when my son was listening to that music, especially,
I was letting him listen to it. He's gonna be
sixteen soon. But it just it doesn't seem to resonate.
(30:36):
It's just like it's an act. It's a they like
the beat and all that sort of stuff. I don't
think the words matter that much. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Interesting. Yeah, I remember Alice Cooper and the outrage that
created that band back in the day, and as their
lead singers now kind of become known as Alice Cooper.
He he's in England teacher, and he just thought a
little like Haunted House Imagery would be kind of cool
(31:05):
and different on stage. The idea that English teacher Vincent
Furnier is some sort of satan. The guy's a golf enthusiast,
for God's sake. He just thought, oh, this would kind
of be mysterious and dangerous and stuff, but it was
taken so seriously.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
He's also a Republican only oh yeah, yeah, Alec Baldwin's
wife did something kind of funny. We'll finish with that.
We'll finish strong coming up. Stay tuned, so almost out
of time. I gotta get right to this. I haven't
been watching season thirty seven of Dancing with the Stars,
but Hilaria Baldwin, Alec Baldwin's wife, just got booted off
(31:43):
early in the season. And it's kind of interesting. Given
the fact that she is a professional ballroom dancer dancing
with another professional, you'd think it would give her a
leg up. But as The New York Post rights, Hillary
Baldwin thought she'd go on Dancing with the Stars, shimmy
her way into America's hearts and we'd forget that she's
been pretending to be a Spanish woman for a whole decade. People,
(32:06):
because you get voted off. It's a popularity contest, so
it's your dancing. But also they got to kind of
like you, you know, like American Idol used to be.
The people clearly didn't like her because she's a narcissist
who posed as a woman called Hilaria from Spain, when
in reality she's Hillary from Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston,
which we've talked about a whole bunch of times. But
to Halaria, her early exit is the dastardly work of
(32:27):
a vast online network of mean girls who don't appreciate
her unique burden of being bilingual. And she posted a
video complaining about how rough it was. And she's in
her video where she's very very serious being booted off
Dancing with the Stars. She says, I'd be remiss if
I didn't mention that today is World Mental Health Day
and all the bullying that went on behind the scenes
(32:49):
dancing with the Stars, and blah blah blah blah blah.
She is a piece of work. Boo Dallak Balward was
probably trying to kill himself when he hit that tree.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I got another comment on that, but I'll save it
for final thoughts. Here's your host, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
How about a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show for the day. In the week,
Michaelangelow or technical director Michael final thought, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Joe, you really tick off my funny bone.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We were talking about Geene Simmons and now he's bleeding
from the gums.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That he needs the floss. I'd be laughing about that
all day.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Well, it's a good reminder. Im portant mental hija was
dental hygiene is Katie Greener Steve Mues woman As a
final thought, Katie, one of the best days I had.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I went from a Raider game at the Oakland Coliseum,
walked one hundred yards and went and saw a kiss
at Oracle Arena. Oh, same day. That's a good day.
It was cool.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
So many scary costumes all in one day. Yeah, no kidding, Jack.
Final thought for us so Alec Bald.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
There's a chance that he at some point figured out
what he's into and he's thinking, I'm seventy years old,
I got seven kids with this fake Spanish wife who's
an absolute just piece of work. A tiring way to live.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Hey. My final thought, I wish you've gotten time to
talk about this on the show. I had an experience
yesterday where I got part of the story from somebody
who seemed very authoritative, and I came to a conclusion.
Then I found out that that was only a small
part of the story. There was countervailing evidence, and I'd
been completely misled exactly in the way conspiracy theories get people.
(34:23):
They take a piece of evidence, they ignore mountains perhaps
of opposing evidence, but they spin a yarn and suck
people along.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
You have to talk more about that next week. That
is a phenomenon. Armstrong and Yetty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So many people to thank, so little time. Go to
Armstrong oneddy dot com. We have a lot of great
clicks for you, Katie's corner, the hot lengths ag swag
drop us. Note if there's some who ought to be
talking about you, see over the weekends and in a
long mail bag at Armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, we'll see you Monday. God bless America. I love
Jewish people, but I also I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
You can take a crack at each one.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, one's just a total con artist. Disgusting makes me sick.
The other guy did a good job.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'm not gonna have the cheeks of their torn off.
Enough talk, do you understand?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
No sign?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (35:17):
And on that possibly nightmare inducing note, Hi, good night everybody.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
A great Friday Mother, the Armstrong and Getty
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