August 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The jobs numbers & Loni Anderson dies
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Tariff deadlines, submarines & Japanese walking
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty
and He Armstrong and Ketty who live from Studio C
(00:23):
see signor. We are in a dimly lit room deep
within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound
and all its glitz and glory, and today to kick
off a brand new week we are under the tutelage
of our general manager, Erica Macintarfer. Okay, I don't know
who that is. She is the former Bureau of Labor
(00:44):
Statistics commissioner. That he's the lady responsible for the scam
job numbers according to Trump who's lost his mind and
is a dictator or something. Right, So, I don't know.
See there a story four here. It's not always one
what y'all pay attention to over the weekend. But you
know and what you don't know? You know, we have
(01:05):
to guess on that. I don't know how you know
it's your summer weekend. I hung around with a couple
of normal people over the weekend that I smart, smart
successful people that I guarantee you are completely unaware of
this story. Normies huh, like normal people would be. But
if you're a news jackey, it was like the number
one story over the weekend, So right, it's always difficult
(01:25):
to know. It's kind of funny when you do what
we do for a living to hang around like like
I said, normal successful like and these are people that
like aren't checked out from politics. They vote, have strong opinions.
I know, I can. I know enough of how they
vote from the way they talk, but they don't pay
attention to stuff like this or are unaware of it
most of the time. So just I don't know, I
(01:46):
don't know. I know they're bad Americans. I have a
good hour and a half on the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
how they do what they do, and how it went
so terribly wrong. Stay with them. There are two stories that, uh,
there's another side to that ought to at least be presented,
which we can do on the show today. Two of them.
One is that firing that Labor stats woman. Every news
(02:08):
outlet I watched over the weekend all had the same
version of the story about how Trump is a budding authoritarian,
and Larry Summers said this is something Nixon never even
dreamed of doing, which I thought, is a crazy thing
to say. But then Scott Bessent, Trump's whatever he is,
a financial economic guy, was on one of the shows
(02:30):
yesterday explaining why, and I thought, oh, okay, that makes sense.
It's another example of the way Trump said. It makes
it sound crazy, But then somebody else explains what's actually
going on and it didn't sound crazy at all. So
we can play that for you and see if you agree.
The other story that's just like that is what's going
on in Texas. So Texas, if they get their way,
they're adding five new districts that will be Republican, which
(02:54):
will add five people, five Republicans to the House, correct
which given the fact that it's basically tied now, would
be a huge deal. Well, there's an outcry over that,
and how once again it's the magaite, it's cherrymandering, it's racist.
But I came across some information actually last week and
(03:16):
never got to it during the week. Last week. California
did this a long time ago, and I got you
the information on how California shouldn't be as heavy on
Democrat House members as it is given. If you ever
see the maps, how many chunks of California are read,
(03:36):
so Texas is just doing what California did a long
time ago. Right. Well, not only that, but as the
Armstrong and Getty legal analysts since I nearly went to
law school, the state of the law on redistricting, specifically
as it applies to race is hilariously dopey. I mean,
(03:57):
it's very difficult to leave that we got to a
place this dumb and difficult to understand. But that's one
of the reasons the SCOTUS has recently said, yeah, we're
going to take a serious look at this in October.
So there are a couple of different laws and or
rulings that are almost directly contradictory to each other about
(04:18):
to what extent you can consider race when you're drawing
congressional districts, and you know, if you want to get
even more thirty thousand footish, it just illustrates for the
millionth time how idiotic, ugly, and unproductive identity politics is
just terrible. Trump shouldn't be going around nobody any good
(04:40):
except those who scam and profit from it. Back to you.
Trump shouldn't be going around saying this woman manipulated the
numbers to help Democrats because there's zero evidence of that,
but there is evidence that that department, their formula doesn't
work in the modern economy and has been wrong for
quite a while, needs to be redone. And if he
(05:01):
had come out and made that argument the way Scott
Bessont does, we'd have a different Although this might have
been his goal. You know what I didn't hear once
yesterday on the Sunday talk shows. Huh he killed Epstein again? Oh? Well,
said sir, Yeah, that was the point. But this obliterated Epstein.
(05:22):
Epstein's finally over is a story, thank god, and I
don't want to bring it back the whole. Trump finds
it completely impossible to explain himself, but then sends smart
people out that make it all makes sense. Phenomenon is
It's interesting, it is And I wish you could have
listened to our pre show meeting. Yes, we have a
pre show meeting and the show still ends up like this.
(05:43):
I wish you could have heard our pre show meeting
in which we got into the how important is the
death of Lonnie Anderson conversation? Thanks got a little heated,
which frankly, Joe thinks she's not worth discussing, and Hanson
and I think she's a much bigger cultural touchstone. Oh
it turned ugly. I almost didn't come in. I understand
(06:03):
I was getting lots of text yesterday for people because
she was a giant cultural touchtone. And it wasn't just
because she was on that show, you know whatever, giant stupid,
meaningless cultural touchdown. Because she had a bright smile and
big blond air and big boobs bears. I'm never gonn.
She was like, that kind of woman has never been
attractive to me, even as a teenager. It's like, what
(06:24):
are you talking about? I don't I've never too much.
I've never had a thing for that kind of woman
at all, even when I was thirteen or whenever she was.
But she was just I don't understand how you can
talk about this at all, what with the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in turmoil. Lannie Anderston was like Britney Spears,
Paris Hilton, and I don't know another one of those
(06:47):
people rolled into one for like a decade as a
tabloid representative of a certain thing person sure, sex symbol.
She's also a fine comedic actress, honestly fine. There's lots
of those, so sure, and every time one of the
old ones dies. We don't, you know, stop the show.
But she was she and then she married Burt Reynolds,
(07:07):
and then that became a huge deal. I remember when
Larry King would cover the Burt Reynolds Lonnie Anderson divorce
every night for like two years back when ce it
then mattered. Wow, wow, See, this is the sort of
thing you have to do to finance seven divorces or
how many did let you have? I have to get
down there and the monk who knows, maybe he was
(07:28):
really interested in it. But can you imagine if we
had to come in and talk about celebrity divorce every day?
Lonnie Lennie Anderson had four or five herself. I think
quite a few. Yeah, so her love life wasn't as
placid as her character on WKRP was. Okay, let's start
the show officially. We'll get We've got a full hour
retrospect on Lonnie Anderson later, so we'll get to that.
(07:50):
Actually I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It
is Monday, August, good god, it's August, the fourth of
year twenty twenty five. Where I'm strong. You're getting approve
of this program let's leave in action then co According
to FCC rules of Regulations, the show starts at Mark.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
In response to the American Eagle, ad Abra, Crombie and
Fitch launched a new Genes commercial with plus sized women,
which raised concerns among viewers who panicked that someone had
eaten Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What's a joke? Bill Maher went pretty big on his
show Friday night on the If the woke left keeps
doing this, We're never going to win any elections. We
him saying we He's a Democrat, Yes, I hope they
keep doing it because I love it. If the Democrats
never won any more elections, But he's saying, We're never
gonna win any elections. She's a beautiful, regular person, and
(08:47):
we attack her and call people Nazis who find her attractive,
whereas if she was some sort of weird looking transceno
under plus sized that doesn't represent much of America we
would be standing up for and we can't. What are
we doing here? Which is an excellent point. We'll get
to that later. Also, well, the Republican Party can just
(09:08):
be on vacation right now because the Democrats are undoing
themselves running Communists for the mayor of some of our
major cities, including Minneapolis. We haven't talked about this nightmare
of a guy who just got the endorsement of the
Democratic Party in that state. Good lord, we got volcanoes
erupting that haven't erupted in six hundred years, So that's trouble.
(09:30):
Got to watch out for that. We'll pair that with
the Lonnie Anderson story. I do want to oh, Japanese walking.
Are you doing Japanese walking? That's a hot new fitness craze.
I'm pretty sure I'm not. And this last ditch take
it or leave it, all or nothing peace plan from
(09:53):
US and Israeli officials and Hamas, which doesn't sound like
it's got a chance of working. To me, this is
your last chance plan. This is your take it or
leave it. Okay, we'll get to that later too. Meanwhile,
decide that all the college kids love is putting out
videos of emaciated Israelis digging their own graves and tunnels,
(10:15):
So just lovelys Harmas put that out. Yeah, what did
they think they were accomplishing by showing hey, by the way, Yeah,
we still have hostages and we're starving them to death
and basically torturing them. Uh what were they hoping to
gain with that? Trying to make the Israeli public desperate
to rescue them. There's only a lot of way to
watch images of sadness and pathos and just desperation to
(10:40):
save these poor souls. Giant protests in the street in
Israel saying bring the hostages back. We're trying I think
YEAHO would say, how would you suggest we do it? Well,
a lot of folks in the streets would say, we're
not going to defeat Hamas. We just got to call
off the whole war and see what happens. But get
(11:01):
the hostages back. That is our number one priority. That's
what they would say. They believe we'll sort the rest
out later. They believe that if you pulled out of Gaza,
Hamas would give the hostages back. I don't know exactly
believe they're desolate. I don't believe that. No, it's their
only leverage. No, I think they will, at every single
(11:21):
step of the process give back or do the bare minimum,
including not fulfilling the obligations they made yesterday. You know,
if if you strike a deal with them today, they
will give you two thirds of what they agreed tomorrow
and then say, hey, that's the best we can do. Sorry,
you want your other hostages back, come to heal Israel. Okay,
(11:44):
Well hit our headlines. We got mail bag this hour,
some other news of the day to catch up on. Oh,
it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be good. You'll learn
about Japanese walking, which could change your life. Stay here.
Text line is four one five nine KFTC. I just
seconds ago sent Katie Gary in a new headline because
it's kind of funny to make sure we could get
(12:05):
that into our headlines today from the New York Post.
So we are, we're you're adjusting the show up to
the last seconds. Huh something. We all need a smile
in these troubled times. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the leads story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Katie alrighty, starting with ABC News, Trump envoy Whitcoff to
head to Russia for quote last chance Ukraine cease fire talks.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, we need to talk about the submarines going over there.
Let's do that at the bottom of the hour. As
Joe straightened out the submarine story. Though it's not due
all right, Though it's not a minor thing. But uh yeah,
I think you were right with your tweet over the weekend. Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
From NBC Texas Democrats flee to Illinois to deny Republicans redistricting.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Has that ever worked? I know Republicans have done it
various places, and Democrats have done it. Where you you
take off and leave the states, you can't vote, but
that never it's a stunt. Right governor threatens to charge
you with felonies and send the state police after you
and all sorts of It's great fun, it's very but
it's always a stunt. Legislation moves forward. I mean, you
can't run a country where one side could just take off. Yeah,
(13:11):
there's probably some case in American history where they came
to a compromise that was a little better than they
would have gotten otherwise. But no, it's it's all silly.
From the Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
More than a dozen states sue Trump administration over access
to care.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
For its transgender youth. Soe away, perverse weird hos sue away.
Let's see how it goes in court.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
From CNN, Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
A major scam. Yeah, I don't think that's it. Well,
we'll play the explanation from Scott Bessen. It's their formula
is out of date for the modern economy, and they've
had to revise their numbers by so much so many times.
For me, clearly doesn't work anymore. Like the number they
(14:03):
put out on Friday, they downgraded the months from one
hundred and forty four thousand to nineteen thousand. Scotts, that's
not what a good survey. No, Scott Messen said when
they send him the numbers, he's he looked at it
and thought, did you get a decimal wrong? He had
to call him up. I mean, is this right? So
it's just out of date and needs to be revised,
and so you could Well, we'll talk about it morning.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
From the New York Post, Trump praises Sydney Sweeney after
learning she's a registered Republican as woke mob torches her
American Eagle jeans ad.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Trump, of course, weighing into the blue jeans commercial, knowing
there's he reached more people with that, I guarantee you
than people arguing about the firing of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics person. Trump a big fan of selective brading
is he marries a new supermodel every few years and
turns out some more gorgeous children.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
From Newsweek is oz Olympic face driving a cosmetic surgery.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Boom, Wow, you get the saggy face because you lost
so much weight so fast. Yeah, and then you got
to get your snipped. Yeah, you gotta get your eyelids
put back up a higher on your face or whatever
they do.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
From study finds language anxiety keeps millions of Americans from
international travel.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Really, is that new or has that always been true?
It's easier to do it now with the thing on
your phone than it's ever been.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
It's onn AD the other day for a pair of
headphones that will actually translate live time.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh wow, yeah, so it'd be like you're listening to
a translation of the un or something like that. That's cool. Yeah,
it's amazing. And remember we played Joe audio. If you
can do it in the speaker's own voice, now, oh yeah,
I just immediately models the computer voice that sound exactly
like the person's speaking. It's it's freaky.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And finally the Babylon Bee, well this is awkward. Obama
and Hillary hire same hit.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Man to kill each other. We'll have to get into
some of the Byron York of the Washington Examiner reporting
over the latest revelations about the Clinton campaign's effort to
get that whole Russia thing going. It's more and more
obvious to what happened there. I still don't think any
of there's going to be any nobody's going to pay
a price for this, nobody's going to go to jail,
(16:24):
nobody's gonna get fired or anything like that. But it's
pretty interesting, I would agree. It's it's becoming more and
more clear what happened. Did that? And it's nefarious? It's ugly.
Did that hot twenty something Sidney Sweeney want to become
a political be labeled the rest of her life as
one side or the other. I doubt when she set
out to do this genius commercial she did changed her life.
(16:45):
I'm sure Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
President Trump's Special envoy Steve Witkoff, sent to travel to
Russia ahead of the president's Friday deadline for the Kremlin
to halt it's war against Ukraine. Six months into office, Trump,
suggesting his patients with President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Has waned, yeah, and he said a couple of things
over the weekend that showed that I didn't realize. So
Friday's the supposed deadline for the tariff's hitting the timeline
that Trump gave Russia. Okay, India made some statements over
the weekend. Hey, we're gonna keep buying oil from Russia.
(17:24):
We can't be one of the biggest, the biggest country
population wise on Earth and have other countries tell us
who we can and can't buy our oil from. Was
basically their statement fair enough. So we'll see how that
turns out. I mean, there's gonna be a fair amount
of pain if Trump follows through with what he's going
(17:44):
to follow through on, you know, punishing tariff sanctions on
any country that does business with Russia. So we'll see
how all that plays out. But the story that happened
in the resultant shocks to our economy, which are certainly
still possible. Yeah, oh of course. Wow. And there's so
many different things around that yet to come the economy.
(18:06):
But so the announcement on Friday, right as we went
off the air, the headlines and I heard it again
this morning on NPR. Trump has sent two nuclear submarines
to near Russia. And you believe there's an implication in
that headline that oh, yeah, misleads people. Yeah, because everybody
(18:27):
always says two nuclear submarines like that, And I could
give you a dozen examples of it because I kept
seeing it time after time, and I just happened to
tweet as longtime listeners to the show. No, my brother
was a career naval officer in submarine service, and so
as a result, I know a little more than the
average schmuck about the submarines. And it's funny. Everybody says
(18:50):
they've sent nuclear submarines hinting. I think that they mean
submarines armed in nuclear weapons. But all of our submarines
are nuclear submarines, so they're powered by nuclear power plants
they run. It's kind of cool. They're electric submarines, but
we create the electricity with nuclear power. Well, do they
have nuclear weapons on them or not? The boomers do
(19:11):
you have not to get overly technical. You have attack subs,
which are the smaller, faster moving ones, which generally have
a complement of Tomahawk cruise missiles which can lay a
hell of an ass wooman on you if you're looking
for one. But then you've got the boomers which are
the big nuclear weapon platforms that lurk deep under the
(19:31):
sea and they don't maneuver nearly as much, and they're
essentially mobile. They're part of the nuclear triad of mobile
in two cases, launch platforms for nuclear weapons. Well did
we send those? Not clear to me was the was
Trump announcing we're sending nuclear submarines meant to indicate that
(19:52):
we're sending those sorts of submarines. I don't know it's
possible that because I saw a subsequent report that say,
he just said two submarines. Okay, So I didn't know
all the submarines were powered by nuclear. I knew just
because of being on this show. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
But just because you've been saying this for years, I
knew that nuclear meant powered by nuclear as opposed to
(20:13):
has nuclear weapons on it. But I thought that our
nuclear submarines, the ones powered by nuclear, were the big daddies.
But you're saying they're not. They're all nuclear. Yeah, they
all run a nuclear Okay, Well that would be a
pretty big distinction. That's like sending we sent like saying
we sent a boat to the Middle East. Well, did
we send two guys rowing a canoe or did we
send an aircraft carrier? We sent a diesel destroyer to
(20:36):
patrol the shore. Oh diesel. Yeah, it's the same thing. Well,
I need to nail that down. And I would like
to know if the Pentagon or whoever made the announcement
meant to indicate we sent two of our subs that
are part of the nuclear program or not nuclear weapon program. Yeah,
I don't, I don't know, well, right, And it was funny.
(21:00):
I was reading one piece and I'm never sure how
to how seriously to take this stuff. But the fact
that whether it was putin with his dark hinting or
his online troll Medydyev, who was actually threatening the use
of nuclear weapons in a more specific way, there's a
real taboo against saying and we might nukyah, and that's
(21:22):
it's like strictly adhered to in the capitals of the world,
those who have it. But so maybe they hesitated to
say we are sending two nuclear weapon armed submarines to
right off the coast there. Vlads so enjoy it, particularly
with Wednesday being the eightieth anniversary of the first time
anybody had ever used a nuclear weapon and nobody's used
(21:46):
a weapon since eighty years ago on Friday Saturday on
that date, So that'll be talked about more in the future.
The other couple are more very charming Russia Ukraine stories.
Russia is now indiscriminately continuing to bomb apartment complexes in
the Key of the capital and just killing people and
(22:06):
children as they go of out their lives, just to
surely to terrorize the population. But they're also selling off
the homes of all the folks in the places they
occupy to Russian people and having them move in, and
so they are literally ethnic cleansing and colonizing Ukraine, right,
they're ethnic cleansing. They are way closer to trying to
(22:29):
commit a genocide than israel Is. But it's all white people,
so the college kids can't get excited about it. Yes,
they're that's stupid. So I always mention this Telegraph podcast
that I check in on every day. It's the best
news on the whole Ukraine War you can find anywhere.
They mentioned the over the weekend. The disgusting attack on
Key was the deadliest of the year so far in
(22:50):
terms of people killed from Russian's drone strikes. And also
they think it's tragically, criminally undercovered the number of children
that Russia has taken Ukrainian children that they've snatched up
and just taken across the border and having military schools
(23:12):
or schools to just retrain their minds onto who the
re education re education caps, but a whole bunch of
them they're putting into military schools and re educating them
and then are going to have them in the military
fighting on the Russian side. I mean, that's horrific. Tens
of thousands of kids. It is tragically undercovered. Okay, different
hotspot briefly, because this was the big story in the
(23:35):
New York Times yesterday. We and Israel are making one
giant all or nothing plea for peace that Trump and
net and Yahoo anyway are claiming. This is it take
it or leave it. I think it's interesting because it's
so basic and it's what we It's what lots of
us have been saying since October seventh. The all or
(23:55):
nothing proposal is give back all the hostages and lay
down your arms, or we'll continue doing what we're doing.
I kind of felt like that was the under unspoken
case this entire time, right, Is that a new all
or nothing peace proposal. I don't know. It doesn't sound
(24:17):
like to me. I kind of thought that was what
the deal was the entire time. I wonder if there
are particulars behind the scenes we don't get to hear.
I don't The Times didn't have any. It was the
same reaction that you have. It was like one sentence long,
give back all the hostages and lay down your arms
or else we continue to when we're doing okay, wow,
(24:38):
Well we'll see how that plays out too. So there
are those two hotspots, which you know obviously have been
going on for quite some time, are really coming to
a what's gonna happen now point? I have no idea, no, no,
nor do I. That's very exciting. Okay, do you want
to hear about Japanese walking before we take a break?
(25:00):
All right? You don't sound exciting about it. If you're
not excited about it, all I don't know. I'll just
tell my friends at the coffee shop. Anybody who's been
to any tourist spot on the West Coast has seen
plenty of Japanese people walking, and they seem to walk
away very similar to the way I do. But go on, Katie,
is Katie busy? Or because Katie is our fitness go
to Katie's always at the gym and working out. Are
(25:21):
you familiar with the hot trend of Japanese walking? I
am not okay. Japanese walking is the fitness trend worth trying.
According to The New York Times, it's a very simple workout.
The health benefits are backed by decades of research. I'll
give you a quick headline, punchline. It's the latest in
(25:42):
many studies over the last couple of years about how,
for some reason, going really hard than going soft, going
really hard than going soft, with all kinds of exercising
has tremendous benefits. There's been a bunch of those studies
come out over the last couple of years. It seems
that that's just the way we're built, which kind of
makes sense because you can imagine through evolution that's what
(26:02):
we are doing all the time. Holy crap, the other
tribes after us, you'd run really hard and then you'd stop.
Oh there's a buffalow, let's go get it on. Hungry,
run really fast and stop. Anthropologist Jack Armstrong. This is
the way we're built. So all of those kind of
exercises have just incredible benefits for some reason, and that's
what Japanese walking is. That's the way the Japanese have
(26:22):
been exercising for a very very long time. And basically
what you do is you walk really hard for three minutes,
walk so fast that you can barely carry a conversation.
Then you slow down to a genterle stroll for three minutes.
Then you walk as fast as you can for three minutes,
then you and you do that for twenty to thirty minutes,
so you go through several cycles, and there are so
(26:44):
many more benefits from that than a continuous stroll or
a continuous hard walk. You're much better off doing this,
according to a fairly large research. Excellent, excellent walk. I
keep doing what I'm doing. Then on the elliptical, but
you know, as weather permits outside love it? Do you
go really hard then soft on your liptical? Oh y yeah?
(27:07):
Ups and downs? Yeah? And what's the uh? Two on
one off or three on one off? Do you call
that Scandinavian ellipical or do you have a name for it?
I die? You have not named it? To my discredit. Yeah,
that's why I have so few Instagram followers. I'm just
not good at branding. Uh huh, Okay, I might start
throwing the Japanese walking. I'll be just strolling along. People
be altering, and all of a sudden, I'm walking early
early fest my arm swinging and might stroll along. I
(27:29):
look like a crazy person. What are you gonna do? Okay,
So we got mail bag on the way and we'll
catch you up on uh the firing. This is like
the most boring tease I think we've ever done in
thirty years. Oh, you find dictators boring? You find totalitarianism boring?
Do you sorry? We'll try to jazz it up for you.
(27:50):
As Trump becomes the new you know who, we'll get
into the firing of the head of the Bureau of
Labor and Statistics. I mean, that's just not a good
that's of sexy tease. Well, she'd gotten to the she'd
reached the summit, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Well,
little kid in America doesn't grow up dreaming of those glories.
(28:12):
I met a kid the other day, great kid motivated.
He's off to college, his first year in college, and
as a friend of my son's, and I asked him
what he's going to do? And he said, I'm going
to be an actuary. He's studying to be an actuary,
and I thought that is so interesting. There are people that,
(28:33):
as teenagers decide that's what they want to do. Did
a great job? Pay? Really well? It's every year, every
year it's on that list of the less least stressful
job in America. Every year it's the least stressful job
in America. There's openings already, but I just who knew.
So it's like this lady she said, it was a
dream of my life to be the head of the
Bureau of Labor. Really, there are people who lay in
(28:55):
bed at night dreaming someday they'll be the head of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I hope you're young friend
has heard of AI and has looked into it. Yeah,
I don't know anything about what AI will do with that.
It seems like it would do a lot, but I
have no idea. We got mailbag on the way, stay here.
So three more hours left in the Armstrong Ingetty Show.
(29:17):
With Lonnie Anderson's death, We've got next hour will be
the WKRP years, then the post WKRP years, and then
the final area. A final hour will be the Burt
Reynold Jeers. So we went the next three hours planned
out for you. Re Lonnie Anderson. Good lord, here's your
freedom loving quote of the day, continuing our series from
Javier Milay, the fabulous Argentinian president who's turning that entire
(29:41):
society around through free enterprise, the free market, free people.
Is given a big speech to business people and he
said quote, don't do not be intimidated by the political
cast or by parasites who live off the state. You
are social benefactors, You are heroes. You are the creators
(30:03):
of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we've ever seen.
God I like referring to people who live off the state. Yeah, yeah,
need to do more of that, mailbag. Feel free to
write rough us a note mail bag at Armstrong and
getdi dot com Scott in beautiful Hillsburg, California. Guys. Last week,
(30:25):
the topic of bots talking to bots on the Internet
came up a few times. Yeah. There's a theory called
the dead Internet theory that suggests the vast majority of
content on the Internet today is created by computers, and
the majority of interactions are computer to computer. The Internet
is considerably bigger than most people understand. Most of what
happens there happens quietly in the dark, so to speak,
(30:46):
the behind the scenes minute of daily life and the
Internet age AI like Chack, GBD and Grocker learning from
computers more than they're learning from people. It's painting a
massive feedback loop with as yet unknown consequences. Unplugged the
Internet before or it's too late. Excellent point. We didn't
get into all the statistics last week. From that, I
think Fortune magazine article that over half of the activity
(31:07):
on the Internet is bots. And then if you have
bots talking to bots, and then language learning models of
AI learning from that, there are no humans involved. Yeah, yeah,
heavy note from Alvin, but it's an interesting point. I've
been thinking that most government bureaucratic programs are rarely and
eliminated even though they're completely unsuccessful, largely wasteful and corrupt.
(31:31):
But I think there is one program supported by the
government which has been very successful, Planned parenthood. It's been
responsible for millions of US abortions and has particularly affected
African American families, and now the US has dropped below
the crucial reproduction or replacement weight rate of births per women.
It's a devastating outcome, but that was the ultimate goal.
(31:51):
I think there are probably many people who are pleased
by this. I say, good ridden staving taxpayers pay for
this awful program. Interesting. Yeah, because even quoted Ruth Bader
Ginsburg last week from you know a number of years ago,
when she said she was surprised by a Supreme Court
ruling because she thought everybody agreed the population is too big,
(32:12):
particularly among certain folks, that we don't need too many of.
I don't, wow, I don't know how much abortion plays
into the declining number of kids we have. We've stopped
dating and reproducing, we're not trying, so both things are happening. Yeah. Indeed, Yeah,
it's complicated. Let's see Powell with a good point. Guys,
(32:33):
Texas is attempting partisan congressional redistrict and call it jerryman
jerrymandering if you like. The left, with Gaviy Newsome endeavoring
to take the lead, is trying to fight fire with fire.
Newsom wants to jerrymander California. He sends the headline along
he has enthusiic, enthusiastic support Democratic governor's advises strong counter offensive,
(32:54):
but he points out what's funny is that the left's
rallying cry is that we're losing our democracy. This is oligarchy,
this is dictatorship what Texas is doing. So let's do it.
I've said a million times. They pretend to have principles,
They put them on and take them off like they're
(33:16):
you know, a windbreaker on a spring day. Let's see.
Oh this is heavy, guys. I wonder when and if
the media will display the photo of the emaciated hostages
side by side with the hungry kids in Gaza. Where
is the outcry regarding them? That's pretty good, that's good question.
(33:38):
Jonah Goldberg asked a good question on their podcast the
other day. What is that? What the emaciated kids and
then their parents look normal? Are the parents eating the
food or right? That's kind of an interesting situation. Well,
in a couple of notable cases, they are pictures of
children with terrible illnesses, and yeah they and and Fai
(34:00):
MISSILEI The New York Times and others cropped mom out
of the frame and cropped brother out of the frame,
both of whom look just fine, thin ish by American centers,
but fine because it lacks the dramatic impact. It's disgusting. God,
i'd say, don't quite have time to squeeze this in.
(34:20):
We will. But Oregon legislature reading Aloud a book that
was introduced into the school library and is now in
trouble for reading that book in front of the legislature
because it graphically describes sex between two teen characters, so
you couldn't read it in front of other adults. But
it was in a kid's library. No, in a discussion
(34:41):
in the legislature as to whether it ought to be
in the library. It's way too racy to read on
the floor, you people, seriously, Wow, Okay, we do a
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and all its glitz and glory, and today to kick
off a brand new week we are under the tutelage
of our general manager, Erica Macintarfer. Okay, I don't know
who that is. She is the former Bureau of Labor
(00:44):
Statistics commissioner. That he's the lady responsible for the scam
job numbers according to Trump who's lost his mind and
is a dictator or something. Right, So, I don't know.
See there a story four here. It's not always one
what y'all pay attention to over the weekend. But you
know and what you don't know? You know, we have
(01:05):
to guess on that. I don't know how you know
it's your summer weekend. I hung around with a couple
of normal people over the weekend that I smart, smart
successful people that I guarantee you are completely unaware of
this story. Normies huh, like normal people would be. But
if you're a news jackey, it was like the number
one story over the weekend, So right, it's always difficult
(01:25):
to know. It's kind of funny when you do what
we do for a living to hang around like like
I said, normal successful like and these are people that
like aren't checked out from politics. They vote, have strong opinions.
I know, I can. I know enough of how they
vote from the way they talk, but they don't pay
attention to stuff like this or are unaware of it
most of the time. So just I don't know, I
(01:46):
don't know. I know they're bad Americans. I have a
good hour and a half on the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
how they do what they do, and how it went
so terribly wrong. Stay with them. There are two stories that, uh,
there's another side to that ought to at least be presented,
which we can do on the show today. Two of them.
One is that firing that Labor stats woman. Every news
(02:08):
outlet I watched over the weekend all had the same
version of the story about how Trump is a budding authoritarian,
and Larry Summers said this is something Nixon never even
dreamed of doing, which I thought, is a crazy thing
to say. But then Scott Bessent, Trump's whatever he is,
a financial economic guy, was on one of the shows
(02:30):
yesterday explaining why, and I thought, oh, okay, that makes sense.
It's another example of the way Trump said. It makes
it sound crazy, But then somebody else explains what's actually
going on and it didn't sound crazy at all. So
we can play that for you and see if you agree.
The other story that's just like that is what's going
on in Texas. So Texas, if they get their way,
they're adding five new districts that will be Republican, which
(02:54):
will add five people, five Republicans to the House, correct
which given the fact that it's basically tied now, would
be a huge deal. Well, there's an outcry over that,
and how once again it's the magaite, it's cherrymandering, it's racist.
But I came across some information actually last week and
(03:16):
never got to it during the week. Last week. California
did this a long time ago, and I got you
the information on how California shouldn't be as heavy on
Democrat House members as it is given. If you ever
see the maps, how many chunks of California are read,
(03:36):
so Texas is just doing what California did a long
time ago. Right. Well, not only that, but as the
Armstrong and Getty legal analysts since I nearly went to
law school, the state of the law on redistricting, specifically
as it applies to race is hilariously dopey. I mean,
(03:57):
it's very difficult to leave that we got to a
place this dumb and difficult to understand. But that's one
of the reasons the SCOTUS has recently said, yeah, we're
going to take a serious look at this in October.
So there are a couple of different laws and or
rulings that are almost directly contradictory to each other about
(04:18):
to what extent you can consider race when you're drawing
congressional districts, and you know, if you want to get
even more thirty thousand footish, it just illustrates for the
millionth time how idiotic, ugly, and unproductive identity politics is
just terrible. Trump shouldn't be going around nobody any good
(04:40):
except those who scam and profit from it. Back to you.
Trump shouldn't be going around saying this woman manipulated the
numbers to help Democrats because there's zero evidence of that,
but there is evidence that that department, their formula doesn't
work in the modern economy and has been wrong for
quite a while, needs to be redone. And if he
(05:01):
had come out and made that argument the way Scott
Bessont does, we'd have a different Although this might have
been his goal. You know what I didn't hear once
yesterday on the Sunday talk shows. Huh he killed Epstein again? Oh? Well,
said sir, Yeah, that was the point. But this obliterated Epstein.
(05:22):
Epstein's finally over is a story, thank god, and I
don't want to bring it back the whole. Trump finds
it completely impossible to explain himself, but then sends smart
people out that make it all makes sense. Phenomenon is
It's interesting, it is And I wish you could have
listened to our pre show meeting. Yes, we have a
pre show meeting and the show still ends up like this.
(05:43):
I wish you could have heard our pre show meeting
in which we got into the how important is the
death of Lonnie Anderson conversation? Thanks got a little heated,
which frankly, Joe thinks she's not worth discussing, and Hanson
and I think she's a much bigger cultural touchstone. Oh
it turned ugly. I almost didn't come in. I understand
(06:03):
I was getting lots of text yesterday for people because
she was a giant cultural touchtone. And it wasn't just
because she was on that show, you know whatever, giant stupid,
meaningless cultural touchdown. Because she had a bright smile and
big blond air and big boobs bears. I'm never gonn.
She was like, that kind of woman has never been
attractive to me, even as a teenager. It's like, what
(06:24):
are you talking about? I don't I've never too much.
I've never had a thing for that kind of woman
at all, even when I was thirteen or whenever she was.
But she was just I don't understand how you can
talk about this at all, what with the Bureau of
Labor Statistics in turmoil. Lannie Anderston was like Britney Spears,
Paris Hilton, and I don't know another one of those
(06:47):
people rolled into one for like a decade as a
tabloid representative of a certain thing person sure, sex symbol.
She's also a fine comedic actress, honestly fine. There's lots
of those, so sure, and every time one of the
old ones dies. We don't, you know, stop the show.
But she was she and then she married Burt Reynolds,
(07:07):
and then that became a huge deal. I remember when
Larry King would cover the Burt Reynolds Lonnie Anderson divorce
every night for like two years back when ce it
then mattered. Wow, wow, See, this is the sort of
thing you have to do to finance seven divorces or
how many did let you have? I have to get
down there and the monk who knows, maybe he was
(07:28):
really interested in it. But can you imagine if we
had to come in and talk about celebrity divorce every day?
Lonnie Lennie Anderson had four or five herself. I think
quite a few. Yeah, so her love life wasn't as
placid as her character on WKRP was. Okay, let's start
the show officially. We'll get We've got a full hour
retrospect on Lonnie Anderson later, so we'll get to that.
(07:50):
Actually I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty on this. It
is Monday, August, good god, it's August, the fourth of
year twenty twenty five. Where I'm strong. You're getting approve
of this program let's leave in action then co According
to FCC rules of Regulations, the show starts at Mark.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
In response to the American Eagle, ad Abra, Crombie and
Fitch launched a new Genes commercial with plus sized women,
which raised concerns among viewers who panicked that someone had
eaten Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What's a joke? Bill Maher went pretty big on his
show Friday night on the If the woke left keeps
doing this, We're never going to win any elections. We
him saying we He's a Democrat, Yes, I hope they
keep doing it because I love it. If the Democrats
never won any more elections, But he's saying, We're never
gonna win any elections. She's a beautiful, regular person, and
(08:47):
we attack her and call people Nazis who find her attractive,
whereas if she was some sort of weird looking transceno
under plus sized that doesn't represent much of America we
would be standing up for and we can't. What are
we doing here? Which is an excellent point. We'll get
to that later. Also, well, the Republican Party can just
(09:08):
be on vacation right now because the Democrats are undoing
themselves running Communists for the mayor of some of our
major cities, including Minneapolis. We haven't talked about this nightmare
of a guy who just got the endorsement of the
Democratic Party in that state. Good lord, we got volcanoes
erupting that haven't erupted in six hundred years, So that's trouble.
(09:30):
Got to watch out for that. We'll pair that with
the Lonnie Anderson story. I do want to oh, Japanese walking.
Are you doing Japanese walking? That's a hot new fitness craze.
I'm pretty sure I'm not. And this last ditch take
it or leave it, all or nothing peace plan from
(09:53):
US and Israeli officials and Hamas, which doesn't sound like
it's got a chance of working. To me, this is
your last chance plan. This is your take it or
leave it. Okay, we'll get to that later too. Meanwhile,
decide that all the college kids love is putting out
videos of emaciated Israelis digging their own graves and tunnels,
(10:15):
So just lovelys Harmas put that out. Yeah, what did
they think they were accomplishing by showing hey, by the way, Yeah,
we still have hostages and we're starving them to death
and basically torturing them. Uh what were they hoping to
gain with that? Trying to make the Israeli public desperate
to rescue them. There's only a lot of way to
watch images of sadness and pathos and just desperation to
(10:40):
save these poor souls. Giant protests in the street in
Israel saying bring the hostages back. We're trying I think
YEAHO would say, how would you suggest we do it? Well,
a lot of folks in the streets would say, we're
not going to defeat Hamas. We just got to call
off the whole war and see what happens. But get
(11:01):
the hostages back. That is our number one priority. That's
what they would say. They believe we'll sort the rest
out later. They believe that if you pulled out of Gaza,
Hamas would give the hostages back. I don't know exactly
believe they're desolate. I don't believe that. No, it's their
only leverage. No, I think they will, at every single
(11:21):
step of the process give back or do the bare minimum,
including not fulfilling the obligations they made yesterday. You know,
if if you strike a deal with them today, they
will give you two thirds of what they agreed tomorrow
and then say, hey, that's the best we can do. Sorry,
you want your other hostages back, come to heal Israel. Okay,
(11:44):
Well hit our headlines. We got mail bag this hour,
some other news of the day to catch up on. Oh,
it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be good. You'll learn
about Japanese walking, which could change your life. Stay here.
Text line is four one five nine KFTC. I just
seconds ago sent Katie Gary in a new headline because
it's kind of funny to make sure we could get
(12:05):
that into our headlines today from the New York Post.
So we are, we're you're adjusting the show up to
the last seconds. Huh something. We all need a smile
in these troubled times. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the leads story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Katie alrighty, starting with ABC News, Trump envoy Whitcoff to
head to Russia for quote last chance Ukraine cease fire talks.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yes, we need to talk about the submarines going over there.
Let's do that at the bottom of the hour. As
Joe straightened out the submarine story. Though it's not due
all right, Though it's not a minor thing. But uh yeah,
I think you were right with your tweet over the weekend. Okay.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
From NBC Texas Democrats flee to Illinois to deny Republicans redistricting.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Has that ever worked? I know Republicans have done it
various places, and Democrats have done it. Where you you
take off and leave the states, you can't vote, but
that never it's a stunt. Right governor threatens to charge
you with felonies and send the state police after you
and all sorts of It's great fun, it's very but
it's always a stunt. Legislation moves forward. I mean, you
can't run a country where one side could just take off. Yeah,
(13:11):
there's probably some case in American history where they came
to a compromise that was a little better than they
would have gotten otherwise. But no, it's it's all silly.
From the Washington Post.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
More than a dozen states sue Trump administration over access
to care.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
For its transgender youth. Soe away, perverse weird hos sue away.
Let's see how it goes in court.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
From CNN, Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
A major scam. Yeah, I don't think that's it. Well,
we'll play the explanation from Scott Bessen. It's their formula
is out of date for the modern economy, and they've
had to revise their numbers by so much so many times.
For me, clearly doesn't work anymore. Like the number they
(14:03):
put out on Friday, they downgraded the months from one
hundred and forty four thousand to nineteen thousand. Scotts, that's
not what a good survey. No, Scott Messen said when
they send him the numbers, he's he looked at it
and thought, did you get a decimal wrong? He had
to call him up. I mean, is this right? So
it's just out of date and needs to be revised,
and so you could Well, we'll talk about it morning.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
From the New York Post, Trump praises Sydney Sweeney after
learning she's a registered Republican as woke mob torches her
American Eagle jeans ad.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Trump, of course, weighing into the blue jeans commercial, knowing
there's he reached more people with that, I guarantee you
than people arguing about the firing of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics person. Trump a big fan of selective brading
is he marries a new supermodel every few years and
turns out some more gorgeous children.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
From Newsweek is oz Olympic face driving a cosmetic surgery.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Boom, Wow, you get the saggy face because you lost
so much weight so fast. Yeah, and then you got
to get your snipped. Yeah, you gotta get your eyelids
put back up a higher on your face or whatever
they do.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
From study finds language anxiety keeps millions of Americans from
international travel.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Really, is that new or has that always been true?
It's easier to do it now with the thing on
your phone than it's ever been.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
It's onn AD the other day for a pair of
headphones that will actually translate live time.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh wow, yeah, so it'd be like you're listening to
a translation of the un or something like that. That's cool. Yeah,
it's amazing. And remember we played Joe audio. If you
can do it in the speaker's own voice, now, oh yeah,
I just immediately models the computer voice that sound exactly
like the person's speaking. It's it's freaky.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And finally the Babylon Bee, well this is awkward. Obama
and Hillary hire same hit.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Man to kill each other. We'll have to get into
some of the Byron York of the Washington Examiner reporting
over the latest revelations about the Clinton campaign's effort to
get that whole Russia thing going. It's more and more
obvious to what happened there. I still don't think any
of there's going to be any nobody's going to pay
a price for this, nobody's going to go to jail,
(16:24):
nobody's gonna get fired or anything like that. But it's
pretty interesting, I would agree. It's it's becoming more and
more clear what happened. Did that? And it's nefarious? It's ugly.
Did that hot twenty something Sidney Sweeney want to become
a political be labeled the rest of her life as
one side or the other. I doubt when she set
out to do this genius commercial she did changed her life.
(16:45):
I'm sure Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
President Trump's Special envoy Steve Witkoff, sent to travel to
Russia ahead of the president's Friday deadline for the Kremlin
to halt it's war against Ukraine. Six months into office, Trump,
suggesting his patients with President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Has waned, yeah, and he said a couple of things
over the weekend that showed that I didn't realize. So
Friday's the supposed deadline for the tariff's hitting the timeline
that Trump gave Russia. Okay, India made some statements over
the weekend. Hey, we're gonna keep buying oil from Russia.
(17:24):
We can't be one of the biggest, the biggest country
population wise on Earth and have other countries tell us
who we can and can't buy our oil from. Was
basically their statement fair enough. So we'll see how that
turns out. I mean, there's gonna be a fair amount
of pain if Trump follows through with what he's going
(17:44):
to follow through on, you know, punishing tariff sanctions on
any country that does business with Russia. So we'll see
how all that plays out. But the story that happened
in the resultant shocks to our economy, which are certainly
still possible. Yeah, oh of course. Wow. And there's so
many different things around that yet to come the economy.
(18:06):
But so the announcement on Friday, right as we went
off the air, the headlines and I heard it again
this morning on NPR. Trump has sent two nuclear submarines
to near Russia. And you believe there's an implication in
that headline that oh, yeah, misleads people. Yeah, because everybody
(18:27):
always says two nuclear submarines like that, And I could
give you a dozen examples of it because I kept
seeing it time after time, and I just happened to
tweet as longtime listeners to the show. No, my brother
was a career naval officer in submarine service, and so
as a result, I know a little more than the
average schmuck about the submarines. And it's funny. Everybody says
(18:50):
they've sent nuclear submarines hinting. I think that they mean
submarines armed in nuclear weapons. But all of our submarines
are nuclear submarines, so they're powered by nuclear power plants
they run. It's kind of cool. They're electric submarines, but
we create the electricity with nuclear power. Well, do they
have nuclear weapons on them or not? The boomers do
(19:11):
you have not to get overly technical. You have attack subs,
which are the smaller, faster moving ones, which generally have
a complement of Tomahawk cruise missiles which can lay a
hell of an ass wooman on you if you're looking
for one. But then you've got the boomers which are
the big nuclear weapon platforms that lurk deep under the
(19:31):
sea and they don't maneuver nearly as much, and they're
essentially mobile. They're part of the nuclear triad of mobile
in two cases, launch platforms for nuclear weapons. Well did
we send those? Not clear to me was the was
Trump announcing we're sending nuclear submarines meant to indicate that
(19:52):
we're sending those sorts of submarines. I don't know it's
possible that because I saw a subsequent report that say,
he just said two submarines. Okay, So I didn't know
all the submarines were powered by nuclear. I knew just
because of being on this show. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
But just because you've been saying this for years, I
knew that nuclear meant powered by nuclear as opposed to
(20:13):
has nuclear weapons on it. But I thought that our
nuclear submarines, the ones powered by nuclear, were the big daddies.
But you're saying they're not. They're all nuclear. Yeah, they
all run a nuclear Okay, Well that would be a
pretty big distinction. That's like sending we sent like saying
we sent a boat to the Middle East. Well, did
we send two guys rowing a canoe or did we
send an aircraft carrier? We sent a diesel destroyer to
(20:36):
patrol the shore. Oh diesel. Yeah, it's the same thing. Well,
I need to nail that down. And I would like
to know if the Pentagon or whoever made the announcement
meant to indicate we sent two of our subs that
are part of the nuclear program or not nuclear weapon program. Yeah,
I don't, I don't know, well, right, And it was funny.
(21:00):
I was reading one piece and I'm never sure how
to how seriously to take this stuff. But the fact
that whether it was putin with his dark hinting or
his online troll Medydyev, who was actually threatening the use
of nuclear weapons in a more specific way, there's a
real taboo against saying and we might nukyah, and that's
(21:22):
it's like strictly adhered to in the capitals of the world,
those who have it. But so maybe they hesitated to
say we are sending two nuclear weapon armed submarines to
right off the coast there. Vlads so enjoy it, particularly
with Wednesday being the eightieth anniversary of the first time
anybody had ever used a nuclear weapon and nobody's used
(21:46):
a weapon since eighty years ago on Friday Saturday on
that date, So that'll be talked about more in the future.
The other couple are more very charming Russia Ukraine stories.
Russia is now indiscriminately continuing to bomb apartment complexes in
the Key of the capital and just killing people and
(22:06):
children as they go of out their lives, just to
surely to terrorize the population. But they're also selling off
the homes of all the folks in the places they
occupy to Russian people and having them move in, and
so they are literally ethnic cleansing and colonizing Ukraine, right,
they're ethnic cleansing. They are way closer to trying to
(22:29):
commit a genocide than israel Is. But it's all white people,
so the college kids can't get excited about it. Yes,
they're that's stupid. So I always mention this Telegraph podcast
that I check in on every day. It's the best
news on the whole Ukraine War you can find anywhere.
They mentioned the over the weekend. The disgusting attack on
Key was the deadliest of the year so far in
(22:50):
terms of people killed from Russian's drone strikes. And also
they think it's tragically, criminally undercovered the number of children
that Russia has taken Ukrainian children that they've snatched up
and just taken across the border and having military schools
(23:12):
or schools to just retrain their minds onto who the
re education re education caps, but a whole bunch of
them they're putting into military schools and re educating them
and then are going to have them in the military
fighting on the Russian side. I mean, that's horrific. Tens
of thousands of kids. It is tragically undercovered. Okay, different
hotspot briefly, because this was the big story in the
(23:35):
New York Times yesterday. We and Israel are making one
giant all or nothing plea for peace that Trump and
net and Yahoo anyway are claiming. This is it take
it or leave it. I think it's interesting because it's
so basic and it's what we It's what lots of
us have been saying since October seventh. The all or
(23:55):
nothing proposal is give back all the hostages and lay
down your arms, or we'll continue doing what we're doing.
I kind of felt like that was the under unspoken
case this entire time, right, Is that a new all
or nothing peace proposal. I don't know. It doesn't sound
(24:17):
like to me. I kind of thought that was what
the deal was the entire time. I wonder if there
are particulars behind the scenes we don't get to hear.
I don't The Times didn't have any. It was the
same reaction that you have. It was like one sentence long,
give back all the hostages and lay down your arms
or else we continue to when we're doing okay, wow,
(24:38):
Well we'll see how that plays out too. So there
are those two hotspots, which you know obviously have been
going on for quite some time, are really coming to
a what's gonna happen now point? I have no idea, no, no,
nor do I. That's very exciting. Okay, do you want
to hear about Japanese walking before we take a break?
(25:00):
All right? You don't sound exciting about it. If you're
not excited about it, all I don't know. I'll just
tell my friends at the coffee shop. Anybody who's been
to any tourist spot on the West Coast has seen
plenty of Japanese people walking, and they seem to walk
away very similar to the way I do. But go on, Katie,
is Katie busy? Or because Katie is our fitness go
to Katie's always at the gym and working out. Are
(25:21):
you familiar with the hot trend of Japanese walking? I
am not okay. Japanese walking is the fitness trend worth trying.
According to The New York Times, it's a very simple workout.
The health benefits are backed by decades of research. I'll
give you a quick headline, punchline. It's the latest in
(25:42):
many studies over the last couple of years about how,
for some reason, going really hard than going soft, going
really hard than going soft, with all kinds of exercising
has tremendous benefits. There's been a bunch of those studies
come out over the last couple of years. It seems
that that's just the way we're built, which kind of
makes sense because you can imagine through evolution that's what
(26:02):
we are doing all the time. Holy crap, the other
tribes after us, you'd run really hard and then you'd stop.
Oh there's a buffalow, let's go get it on. Hungry,
run really fast and stop. Anthropologist Jack Armstrong. This is
the way we're built. So all of those kind of
exercises have just incredible benefits for some reason, and that's
what Japanese walking is. That's the way the Japanese have
(26:22):
been exercising for a very very long time. And basically
what you do is you walk really hard for three minutes,
walk so fast that you can barely carry a conversation.
Then you slow down to a genterle stroll for three minutes.
Then you walk as fast as you can for three minutes,
then you and you do that for twenty to thirty minutes,
so you go through several cycles, and there are so
(26:44):
many more benefits from that than a continuous stroll or
a continuous hard walk. You're much better off doing this,
according to a fairly large research. Excellent, excellent walk. I
keep doing what I'm doing. Then on the elliptical, but
you know, as weather permits outside love it? Do you
go really hard then soft on your liptical? Oh y yeah?
(27:07):
Ups and downs? Yeah? And what's the uh? Two on
one off or three on one off? Do you call
that Scandinavian ellipical or do you have a name for it?
I die? You have not named it? To my discredit. Yeah,
that's why I have so few Instagram followers. I'm just
not good at branding. Uh huh, Okay, I might start
throwing the Japanese walking. I'll be just strolling along. People
be altering, and all of a sudden, I'm walking early
early fest my arm swinging and might stroll along. I
(27:29):
look like a crazy person. What are you gonna do? Okay,
So we got mail bag on the way and we'll
catch you up on uh the firing. This is like
the most boring tease I think we've ever done in
thirty years. Oh, you find dictators boring? You find totalitarianism boring?
Do you sorry? We'll try to jazz it up for you.
(27:50):
As Trump becomes the new you know who, we'll get
into the firing of the head of the Bureau of
Labor and Statistics. I mean, that's just not a good
that's of sexy tease. Well, she'd gotten to the she'd
reached the summit, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Well,
little kid in America doesn't grow up dreaming of those glories.
(28:12):
I met a kid the other day, great kid motivated.
He's off to college, his first year in college, and
as a friend of my son's, and I asked him
what he's going to do? And he said, I'm going
to be an actuary. He's studying to be an actuary,
and I thought that is so interesting. There are people that,
(28:33):
as teenagers decide that's what they want to do. Did
a great job? Pay? Really well? It's every year, every
year it's on that list of the less least stressful
job in America. Every year it's the least stressful job
in America. There's openings already, but I just who knew.
So it's like this lady she said, it was a
dream of my life to be the head of the
Bureau of Labor. Really, there are people who lay in
(28:55):
bed at night dreaming someday they'll be the head of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I hope you're young friend
has heard of AI and has looked into it. Yeah,
I don't know anything about what AI will do with that.
It seems like it would do a lot, but I
have no idea. We got mailbag on the way, stay here.
So three more hours left in the Armstrong Ingetty Show.
(29:17):
With Lonnie Anderson's death, We've got next hour will be
the WKRP years, then the post WKRP years, and then
the final area. A final hour will be the Burt
Reynold Jeers. So we went the next three hours planned
out for you. Re Lonnie Anderson. Good lord, here's your
freedom loving quote of the day, continuing our series from
Javier Milay, the fabulous Argentinian president who's turning that entire
(29:41):
society around through free enterprise, the free market, free people.
Is given a big speech to business people and he
said quote, don't do not be intimidated by the political
cast or by parasites who live off the state. You
are social benefactors, You are heroes. You are the creators
(30:03):
of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we've ever seen.
God I like referring to people who live off the state. Yeah, yeah,
need to do more of that, mailbag. Feel free to
write rough us a note mail bag at Armstrong and
getdi dot com Scott in beautiful Hillsburg, California. Guys. Last week,
(30:25):
the topic of bots talking to bots on the Internet
came up a few times. Yeah. There's a theory called
the dead Internet theory that suggests the vast majority of
content on the Internet today is created by computers, and
the majority of interactions are computer to computer. The Internet
is considerably bigger than most people understand. Most of what
happens there happens quietly in the dark, so to speak,
(30:46):
the behind the scenes minute of daily life and the
Internet age AI like Chack, GBD and Grocker learning from
computers more than they're learning from people. It's painting a
massive feedback loop with as yet unknown consequences. Unplugged the
Internet before or it's too late. Excellent point. We didn't
get into all the statistics last week. From that, I
think Fortune magazine article that over half of the activity
(31:07):
on the Internet is bots. And then if you have
bots talking to bots, and then language learning models of
AI learning from that, there are no humans involved. Yeah, yeah,
heavy note from Alvin, but it's an interesting point. I've
been thinking that most government bureaucratic programs are rarely and
eliminated even though they're completely unsuccessful, largely wasteful and corrupt.
(31:31):
But I think there is one program supported by the
government which has been very successful, Planned parenthood. It's been
responsible for millions of US abortions and has particularly affected
African American families, and now the US has dropped below
the crucial reproduction or replacement weight rate of births per women.
It's a devastating outcome, but that was the ultimate goal.
(31:51):
I think there are probably many people who are pleased
by this. I say, good ridden staving taxpayers pay for
this awful program. Interesting. Yeah, because even quoted Ruth Bader
Ginsburg last week from you know a number of years ago,
when she said she was surprised by a Supreme Court
ruling because she thought everybody agreed the population is too big,
(32:12):
particularly among certain folks, that we don't need too many of.
I don't, wow, I don't know how much abortion plays
into the declining number of kids we have. We've stopped
dating and reproducing, we're not trying, so both things are happening. Yeah. Indeed, Yeah,
it's complicated. Let's see Powell with a good point. Guys,
(32:33):
Texas is attempting partisan congressional redistrict and call it jerryman
jerrymandering if you like. The left, with Gaviy Newsome endeavoring
to take the lead, is trying to fight fire with fire.
Newsom wants to jerrymander California. He sends the headline along
he has enthusiic, enthusiastic support Democratic governor's advises strong counter offensive,
(32:54):
but he points out what's funny is that the left's
rallying cry is that we're losing our democracy. This is oligarchy,
this is dictatorship what Texas is doing. So let's do it.
I've said a million times. They pretend to have principles,
They put them on and take them off like they're
(33:16):
you know, a windbreaker on a spring day. Let's see.
Oh this is heavy, guys. I wonder when and if
the media will display the photo of the emaciated hostages
side by side with the hungry kids in Gaza. Where
is the outcry regarding them? That's pretty good, that's good question.
(33:38):
Jonah Goldberg asked a good question on their podcast the
other day. What is that? What the emaciated kids and
then their parents look normal? Are the parents eating the
food or right? That's kind of an interesting situation. Well,
in a couple of notable cases, they are pictures of
children with terrible illnesses, and yeah they and and Fai
(34:00):
MISSILEI The New York Times and others cropped mom out
of the frame and cropped brother out of the frame,
both of whom look just fine, thin ish by American centers,
but fine because it lacks the dramatic impact. It's disgusting. God,
i'd say, don't quite have time to squeeze this in.
(34:20):
We will. But Oregon legislature reading Aloud a book that
was introduced into the school library and is now in
trouble for reading that book in front of the legislature
because it graphically describes sex between two teen characters, so
you couldn't read it in front of other adults. But
it was in a kid's library. No, in a discussion
(34:41):
in the legislature as to whether it ought to be
in the library. It's way too racy to read on
the floor, you people, seriously, Wow, Okay, we do a
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