May 28, 2025 • 10 mins
The Wednesday May 28, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- The odd assortment of stories that make-up the NY Post...
- The new marketing campaign for the US military is spot-on!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man, if you don't get chills, there's something wrong with you.
It's one more thing I'm thing, or you're very center state.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, we're going to play the new military recruiting ad,
which fits in with our buddy Mike Lions, who said
on our show last year sometime they're talking about recruiting
being way way down, is that they need to bring
back the whole you know, being proud of yourself, be
all you can be. I mean, that's that's what inspired
young men to challenge themselves, not the crap that we're
(00:32):
doing now. But anyway, we'll get to that in a
second before we air that new ad for you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's been too long since we talked to Mike, by
the way, Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We got warn peace going on every freaking day.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And semi war. This from thee.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This is from the New York Post, which New York
Post is a weird newspaper. It's it's everything from completely
laughably stupid to take that with a grain of salt,
to hardcore news reporting nobody else is covering like earth
chattering news that they get right and nobody else does.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Right tough reporting because they don't run with the media
herd in a very admirable way. Plus stewartis fired says
my booves were too big, or or they make a
story out of Internet hates blah blah blah, and they
pick out three tweets and build a story around it.
I wish they wouldn't do that. Lessens the impact of
(01:37):
the real news stories. That way, when they say Hunter
Biden's laptop is real, all the people that dismiss him
as a tabloid get to ignore it. But anyway, I
didn't mean to get on that. We got this headline
from the New York Post three city killing asteroids could
strike Earth within weeks, generating a million times more energy
than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. It's a little misleading in
(01:59):
the headline. While it is true that they could strike
within weeks, they also could strike a year from now
or a thousand years from now. They don't have the
slightest idea, that's the whole point. But in the you
have no idea would include right now or the most
sweet meteors of death. Didn't see that come?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, this was in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics the
other day. It turns out there's a whole bunch of
asteroids out there that we don't have the ability to
see until they get quite close. And they've just learned
that for a variety of reasons, they're hidden behind other
planets and gravitational this and all kinds of different things.
But we didn't know that we can't see these pretty
(02:40):
decent sized asteroids. They're not giant giant, but they're big
enough they would leave a crater.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We killed them in. We called can I have Take two, Michael?
We call them in viceroids. I'm thinking of a fifties
horror movie, gliban sci fi movie.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The crater would be two miles wide from these size asteroids.
And again if the power of a million times more
energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroschma, so not
a minor deal. If it hits Los Angeles, in fact,
it would kill everyone probably well.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Then the shockwave from something that could achieve that level
of destruction would have to level buildings for many, many miles.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So there's no reason to think one's going to hit
like and within a couple of weeks, like the headline suggests.
But there's there's also mathematically no reason that it couldn't
without us seeing it until it was too late. So
that's an interesting development in the world of asteroids.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I'd say it's hard to know how seriously to
take this, because that's kind of a staple of tabloid
publications and websites and the rest of it is an
asteroid is coming to kill.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You, right, And I got to believe if it was
fairly likely, it would have led other news organizations, as
it would be a pretty big story, right indeed.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But I think we can all agree that a woman
forced to leave her field of employ because their breasts
are just that large is unfortunate and unfair.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So so the Pentagon for quite a few years has
miscalculated in thinking that as they lowered standards and crowed
about lowing standards and became more inclusive to a variety
of lifestyles that would increase recruitment. You've got lower standards
(04:27):
and you're including more people that you used to ban.
It has done the opposite. It has taken a whole
bunch of young men who I mean, this was the
reason I almost I came very very close to joining
the military and high school. I had the recruit at
my house and paperwork holding and as I often say,
I don't even remember why I changed my mind, but
I was going to join the Marine Corps, and it
(04:49):
was all about the challenge of, you know, seeing I could,
if I could do this. It wasn't the oh, I'm
glad they include uh trans people and they've lowered the standards.
That's not what was motivating. It was like I.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Could get to fight alongside a woman with skinny arms
who can't lift anything.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Or everybody can assume I got skinny arms and can't
lift anything because everybody knows the standards are so low. No,
you wanted to come out of the military having, you know,
feeling like a tough guy, and everybody I've ever else
feel like you're a tough guy because you've got to
be tough to do it. You a tough guy, a
strong guy, a resilient guy, all sorts of stuff, right,
(05:26):
And Mike Clins, who's our military analyst, if you don't
know that, said that's what he thought would bring recruiting
numbers back up, making it seem like a challenge to
young men, which.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Brings us to this new commercial video. I guess what's
a commercial these days? It goes viral on the web
and people see it, so nobody's buying sixty second spots
for this. Everybody who's watching it because they want to,
but it was recently put out by the Pentagon. You
will recognize the voices of Pete Hegxeth and Donald Trump
in particular. It's ninety seconds long. The visuals are terrific.
(06:04):
It is as you would expect, men of action and
high training and capability using the very most awesome, cool
and advanced tools of war, from attack helicopters to night
vision gear. Some great pictures of training. It's really beautifully produced.
(06:27):
Visually speaking, here's the audio.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No more distraction, no more electric tanks, no more gender confusion,
no more climate change worship. We are laser focused on
our mission of war five.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
We will measure our success not only by the battles
we win, but also by the wars we end, and
perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. It
go peace through strength.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You look into the eyes of these young Americans who
are giving up the best years of their lives in
a uniform to.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Serve their nation. They are incredible.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Through our power and might, we will leave the world
to peace. Our friends will respect us, our enemies will
fear us, and the whole world will admire the unrivaled
greatness of the United States military. We will replenish the
(07:38):
pride of our armed forces and the recruitment crisis.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We don't fight because we hate what's in front of us.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We fight because we love less behind us.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
God bless you, God bless our enforce, You, God bless
our men and women serving overseas, and God bless the
United States.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I've act.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Much more likely to recruit a young man who doesn't
know what he's doesn't know what his plans are for
the future than the other approach without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh my gosh, by Miles and Miles and Miles. It
wasn't Churchill, and it might have been Orwell who said
something similar. But people sleep peaceably in their beds at
night because rough men stand ready to do violence on
their behalf. Not We'll take anybody and you can see
(08:35):
interesting places. Right. It didn't work. It's terrible, it's stupid,
it's woke.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
My thirteen year old's pretty hell bent on joining the military.
But he's thirteen, and I know, you know, based on
my story, can change your mind many times before you
get to grown up age. But I highly encourage him.
I think it's a great path. My brother, his uncle
made a career out of it. My son, my thirteen
(09:02):
year old, who is I've talked about this on the
air a lot. He's he's been like a thirty year
old his whole life. He always has been. And I'm
not the only one who says that. Every doctor, therapy, teacher,
everybody says he's like talking to a grown up. I know,
I don't know why he's that way, but anyway, his
thing is when I after twenty years, you retire with
the pension, I'll only be thirty eight. I'll have my
(09:24):
whole life out of me. That's not the way I
looked at thirty eight when I was a kid. Thirty
eight was you might as well be seventy eight, right,
But that's his the way he looks at it. So whatever, Yeah, yeah, amazing,
but that is true. You put in twenty years in
the military and then get a decent sized check in
healthcare the rest of your life. You're thirty eight freaking
years old. You can do anything at that point.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're a young man, you know. My
final note is, and this is with all respect and
admiration to folks who serve in our military. Whether he
does that or not, we're called to serve our country.
Some of them with a uniform on, some with not,
some without that, some are not wearing one. Think about
(10:11):
how you can think about what blows you can strike
for truth justice in the American way.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You should create an ad around that. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It has the time. Nice job Pete, Hegseth and company though,
for putting that ad together. Pete. Pete is not a
perfect guy, but by god, he's got that part of
it right.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I guess that's it.
Man, if you don't get chills, there's something wrong with you.
It's one more thing I'm thing, or you're very center state.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, we're going to play the new military recruiting ad,
which fits in with our buddy Mike Lions, who said
on our show last year sometime they're talking about recruiting
being way way down, is that they need to bring
back the whole you know, being proud of yourself, be
all you can be. I mean, that's that's what inspired
young men to challenge themselves, not the crap that we're
(00:32):
doing now. But anyway, we'll get to that in a
second before we air that new ad for you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's been too long since we talked to Mike, by
the way, Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We got warn peace going on every freaking day.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And semi war. This from thee.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
This is from the New York Post, which New York
Post is a weird newspaper. It's it's everything from completely
laughably stupid to take that with a grain of salt,
to hardcore news reporting nobody else is covering like earth
chattering news that they get right and nobody else does.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Right tough reporting because they don't run with the media
herd in a very admirable way. Plus stewartis fired says
my booves were too big, or or they make a
story out of Internet hates blah blah blah, and they
pick out three tweets and build a story around it.
I wish they wouldn't do that. Lessens the impact of
(01:37):
the real news stories. That way, when they say Hunter
Biden's laptop is real, all the people that dismiss him
as a tabloid get to ignore it. But anyway, I
didn't mean to get on that. We got this headline
from the New York Post three city killing asteroids could
strike Earth within weeks, generating a million times more energy
than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. It's a little misleading in
(01:59):
the headline. While it is true that they could strike
within weeks, they also could strike a year from now
or a thousand years from now. They don't have the
slightest idea, that's the whole point. But in the you
have no idea would include right now or the most
sweet meteors of death. Didn't see that come?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, this was in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics the
other day. It turns out there's a whole bunch of
asteroids out there that we don't have the ability to
see until they get quite close. And they've just learned
that for a variety of reasons, they're hidden behind other
planets and gravitational this and all kinds of different things.
But we didn't know that we can't see these pretty
(02:40):
decent sized asteroids. They're not giant giant, but they're big
enough they would leave a crater.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We killed them in. We called can I have Take two, Michael?
We call them in viceroids. I'm thinking of a fifties
horror movie, gliban sci fi movie.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The crater would be two miles wide from these size asteroids.
And again if the power of a million times more
energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroschma, so not
a minor deal. If it hits Los Angeles, in fact,
it would kill everyone probably well.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Then the shockwave from something that could achieve that level
of destruction would have to level buildings for many, many miles.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So there's no reason to think one's going to hit
like and within a couple of weeks, like the headline suggests.
But there's there's also mathematically no reason that it couldn't
without us seeing it until it was too late. So
that's an interesting development in the world of asteroids.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I'd say it's hard to know how seriously to
take this, because that's kind of a staple of tabloid
publications and websites and the rest of it is an
asteroid is coming to kill.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You, right, And I got to believe if it was
fairly likely, it would have led other news organizations, as
it would be a pretty big story, right indeed.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
But I think we can all agree that a woman
forced to leave her field of employ because their breasts
are just that large is unfortunate and unfair.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So so the Pentagon for quite a few years has
miscalculated in thinking that as they lowered standards and crowed
about lowing standards and became more inclusive to a variety
of lifestyles that would increase recruitment. You've got lower standards
(04:27):
and you're including more people that you used to ban.
It has done the opposite. It has taken a whole
bunch of young men who I mean, this was the
reason I almost I came very very close to joining
the military and high school. I had the recruit at
my house and paperwork holding and as I often say,
I don't even remember why I changed my mind, but
I was going to join the Marine Corps, and it
(04:49):
was all about the challenge of, you know, seeing I could,
if I could do this. It wasn't the oh, I'm
glad they include uh trans people and they've lowered the standards.
That's not what was motivating. It was like I.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Could get to fight alongside a woman with skinny arms
who can't lift anything.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Or everybody can assume I got skinny arms and can't
lift anything because everybody knows the standards are so low. No,
you wanted to come out of the military having, you know,
feeling like a tough guy, and everybody I've ever else
feel like you're a tough guy because you've got to
be tough to do it. You a tough guy, a
strong guy, a resilient guy, all sorts of stuff, right,
(05:26):
And Mike Clins, who's our military analyst, if you don't
know that, said that's what he thought would bring recruiting
numbers back up, making it seem like a challenge to
young men, which.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Brings us to this new commercial video. I guess what's
a commercial these days? It goes viral on the web
and people see it, so nobody's buying sixty second spots
for this. Everybody who's watching it because they want to,
but it was recently put out by the Pentagon. You
will recognize the voices of Pete Hegxeth and Donald Trump
in particular. It's ninety seconds long. The visuals are terrific.
(06:04):
It is as you would expect, men of action and
high training and capability using the very most awesome, cool
and advanced tools of war, from attack helicopters to night
vision gear. Some great pictures of training. It's really beautifully produced.
(06:27):
Visually speaking, here's the audio.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No more distraction, no more electric tanks, no more gender confusion,
no more climate change worship. We are laser focused on
our mission of war five.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
We will measure our success not only by the battles
we win, but also by the wars we end, and
perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. It
go peace through strength.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
You look into the eyes of these young Americans who
are giving up the best years of their lives in
a uniform to.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Serve their nation. They are incredible.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Through our power and might, we will leave the world
to peace. Our friends will respect us, our enemies will
fear us, and the whole world will admire the unrivaled
greatness of the United States military. We will replenish the
(07:38):
pride of our armed forces and the recruitment crisis.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
We don't fight because we hate what's in front of us.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
We fight because we love less behind us.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
God bless you, God bless our enforce, You, God bless
our men and women serving overseas, and God bless the
United States.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I've act.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Much more likely to recruit a young man who doesn't
know what he's doesn't know what his plans are for
the future than the other approach without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh my gosh, by Miles and Miles and Miles. It
wasn't Churchill, and it might have been Orwell who said
something similar. But people sleep peaceably in their beds at
night because rough men stand ready to do violence on
their behalf. Not We'll take anybody and you can see
(08:35):
interesting places. Right. It didn't work. It's terrible, it's stupid,
it's woke.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
My thirteen year old's pretty hell bent on joining the military.
But he's thirteen, and I know, you know, based on
my story, can change your mind many times before you
get to grown up age. But I highly encourage him.
I think it's a great path. My brother, his uncle
made a career out of it. My son, my thirteen
(09:02):
year old, who is I've talked about this on the
air a lot. He's he's been like a thirty year
old his whole life. He always has been. And I'm
not the only one who says that. Every doctor, therapy, teacher,
everybody says he's like talking to a grown up. I know,
I don't know why he's that way, but anyway, his
thing is when I after twenty years, you retire with
the pension, I'll only be thirty eight. I'll have my
(09:24):
whole life out of me. That's not the way I
looked at thirty eight when I was a kid. Thirty
eight was you might as well be seventy eight, right,
But that's his the way he looks at it. So whatever, Yeah, yeah, amazing,
but that is true. You put in twenty years in
the military and then get a decent sized check in
healthcare the rest of your life. You're thirty eight freaking
years old. You can do anything at that point.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're a young man, you know. My
final note is, and this is with all respect and
admiration to folks who serve in our military. Whether he
does that or not, we're called to serve our country.
Some of them with a uniform on, some with not,
some without that, some are not wearing one. Think about
(10:11):
how you can think about what blows you can strike
for truth justice in the American way.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You should create an ad around that. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It has the time. Nice job Pete, Hegseth and company though,
for putting that ad together. Pete. Pete is not a
perfect guy, but by god, he's got that part of
it right.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I guess that's it.
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