September 30, 2025 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and Joy and he arms drawn.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
A little tired. Kids and I were up late last
night praying a lot of crying. What around the government
shutdown opened up? Oh my God, praying that it wouldn't happen.
And I put my kids to bed and they were sobbing,
and they said, will it be all right?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Daddy? And I tried to assure them that it will
be okay. But I don't know. It's weird coming to work.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The street's empty now, cars, businesses boarded up. It's rough anyway,
Live from Studio C, a timplely lit room deeper than
the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey,
everybody today under the tutledge, last day of September, under
the tutelage of our General Manager.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Peace in the Middle East. I'm silighted. It's over. That
was crazy, wasn't it? That thousand years of conflict? Damned
hell was crazy, wasn't it. That's funny?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, you can either talk about the ten thousand years
of conflict or the seventy years since eighty years since
Israel was founded.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm really excited about Islam been around again. Has Islam
been around since about the year seven hundred That's what
I thought.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, okay, so we're looking at to carry one about
eight hundred years eighteen.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Uh, it's not even close. My math is terrible. Back
to you. So here's what's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Thing of what I've heard today that are in favor
of Trump's peace proposed that uh, they're presenting to Hamas,
and Hamas is really the only entity that hasn't given
the thumbs up on this so far.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
People that are in favor of it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
NPR, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Trump, obviously, Fox and Friends,
Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Netanya, who buy all appearances, Netan, Yahoo, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Indonesia.
It's unbelievable the support that this thing has.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And the only entity that hasn't said, uh, yeah, we'll
go ahead is so far is Hamas and they the
claim is that they're huddled and gathered and trying to
decide what they want to do here. They've got to realize, Wow,
this is uh, this is going to look bad if
we say no to this, given what I just said.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean when NPR is boy, there's a lot to
like here. That's what I heard this morning. Wow, that
is something. Yeah, yeah, it will be very interesting to
see what happens next.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I my knee.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Jerk instinct is that they will find a way to
reject it, because they are bent on nothing but the
destruction of Israel, and I.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Don't they can. I don't think they can reject it.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think what they will do is accept it on
the surface and melt into the Palestinian territories and reconstituteed
some sort of gorilla force and attack.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
When the moment is right.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Keeping in mind that Islamists look at thousand year timelines. Maybe,
but there is going to be a peacekeeping force made
up of a whole bunch of different countries there in
Gaza for the foreseeable future, made up above Indonesia and
Italy and a bunch of different countries, not the United.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
States, the Two Eyes. They call them, run by Tony Blair.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Trump's name is going to be on the name of
the I think it's called the Peace Force or something
like that. But Tony Blair, I'm a Prime Minister of
Great Britain, is gonna be the guy running.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
The whole thing, and it's It's quite the thing. I
haven't been this optimistic about the Middle East maybe ever
in terms of something good happening.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Given the apparent support of the Gulf States, the air
world in general, it does seem a hell of a
lot more promising. I just fool me seventeen times. Shame
on me, is my attitude. This is a big one though.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
This is right up there with with Carter Began and
Sadat back in the day, or Clinton, Yasser Air Fatten,
Olmar Herbert, whoever he was working with at the time.
This is one of those really really big moments and opportunities.
Now famously, I forget who said it, Kissinger or some
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many the Palestinians never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity.
But we'll see what happens here and the thing is
and we'll play this clip later. But Trump said, now,
if Hamas doesn't agree to it, Ben Biebie, you can
do whatever you gotta do, and you have the full
backing in the United States. That's what he said yesterday
standing the mixed and that yellow do what you gotta
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do and you have our full backing.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Wow. That's I just really like the.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Way you went through the Israeli Prime minister's name, Like
you were at a restaurant, singing Happy birthday to somebody
who's name didn't recall a birthday on.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Every birthday to you were at work.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He's like a hapy birthday to somebody at work, and
you realize, Oh, JE said, I don't know, really we
really should know her name.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I think we've worked together for like eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So you smile and you move your mouth line, say
happy birthday, and heavy. I had another thing to say.
What was the other thing? Say something about the Oh
so there's new pulling out? Uh, just a least yesterday
New York Times Siena pol support for Israel is the
lowest it's ever been in you know, modern polling, like
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since the seventies or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
On our attitude toward Israel.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Only only nineteen percent of Americans strongly support providing military
and economic aid to Israel at this point, only nineteen percent,
with twenty percent somewhat support. So you're way under half.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And it's always been the majority of the country was
in favor of supporting Israel economically and militarily, and now it's.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Way under half.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You've got thirty The biggest number is thirty five percent
strongly pos for young people, it's seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Percent, seventy per Sorry about support for Israel, it's the
story about propaganda and how it works. Yeah, that's what
I was thinking. It's amazing Israel has any support. Given
the news coverage since October seventh, it's been utterly, obscenely inaccurate,
one sided, and bizarre, starting like that, one of the
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most astounding things I've ever seen, starting like that first
week when New York Times and everybody else went hog
wild with the Israel bombs hospital kills five hundred, which
turned out to be untrue at every level. And that
was the beginning of a long slew of those kind
of stories that were untrue. So it's amazing Israel has
any sport at all. And then you combine that with
what their college kids are being taught in their schools.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh yeah, but that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Regardless of the why, it's a problem that support has
cratered for Israel in this country, right, I would agree.
I don't even know where to start. The media sucks,
The colleges suck. I was just reading about Columbia University.
You remember how their Department of the Middle East is
under some sort of federal supervisorship as part of the
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agreement with the Trump administration. Free Beacon just ran down
who's on the committee that guides that department, and four
of the seven are a vowed anti Israeli, anti Jew activists.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean serious.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
October seventh was the proper response of the oppressed to
the colonial oppressor types running the department. So, yeah, the
kids don't support Israel because they have no idea what.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The truth is as Israel is held to.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
A standard of civilian protection and indeed nurturing of the
civilian population of its adversaries that no force has ever
been held to in the history of warfare, going back
to like three cavemen, two of them thrown rocks in
a third guy. Well, and of course, if the United
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States had been attacked the way Israel was, or Germany was,
or France or you name the country, they would have
laid waste to whoever did it. Absolutely back to positive stuff.
I think it's just amazing that you have have all
those entities I mentioned NPR and Fox both saying yeah,
this is a good deal.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Is a good plan. Amasage say, yes, this is amazing.
I just was listening to MSNBC Morning Joe as I
was driving to work, and they were talking about this
is one case where where Trump says, only I can
do it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Only Trump could get all these Arab leaders on board
with a plan like this because they respect him so
much and listen to him, partially through the help of
his son in law Jared Kushner and all the work
that he's done over the years. It's just incredible when
the Washington Post is saying that sort of thing, and
Fox and Friends.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's just wow, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I was deep in thought about this very topic yesterday.
How Trump's great strength is that he will do anything.
He will chuck all a precedent and tradition, including a
hell of a lot of kind of timid Let's not
just mess with anything and cause any trouble.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Let's just take a very very cautious approach to this.
And he doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's also his great weakness, and I think, you know,
he does some some real damage where it doesn't need
to be done.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Some days I wonder is it even possible to get
the recklessness over here. The recklessness is the wrong word,
the utter lack of fear over in this sphere, and
not have it over here where a little caution would
probably be warranted. I don't know, but you know it's
it's a you keeck exercise. Anyway, we got the guy
(10:28):
we got. You can try to drag me back into
bad news. This is good news. This is a good thing.
That is bad news can't be fixed. All right, whatever
I thought I was making a good point. Hope somebody
enjoyed it. But he but, like you know, the you're
gonna give him a platform. This won't work with with
Putin and the red carpet, nothing came out of that,
(10:51):
but this one something comes out of it.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But the thing with Trump is the deal with Putin
ought to be a horror, fine humiliation, but he's like, nope,
he's a lion's scumbag.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It did no good.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Onto the next thing, right, and then I'm sure the
next well, I don't have to be sure.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The next thing is every bit is bold as the Putin.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Gampit god I wish, which is telling Ukraine all right,
here come the heavy arms.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Use him however you want I wish I had that ability.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He is like.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Cornerback. He's like an NFL cornerback. He has the ability
that if he gets burned for a touchdown, you just
put that out of your mind. You go on and
you have a positive attitude about the next play. I'm
not like that. I wallow in my mistakes. I regret
them till my deathbed.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's what they say in golf too. You gotta have
the memory of a goldfish. And you get a bad shot.
What bad shot? I don't remember it. Yeah, that's awesome.
It'd be an awesome way to live life. I can't
do that. Oh, I really screw that up, just like
I always screw everything up, and just like I'll probably
screw things.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Up in the future. That's the way.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That is not bold. No, it's not positive. No, it's
not I got to regain that positive mojo. Yeah, we
need to start the show a fish.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You jack a lot of shame, Yes, exactly, roll around
in my mistakes. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on
this it is. How did it already get to be
the last day of September? The year twenty twenty five?
Where armstrong in getting we.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And then the greatest thing about shame is that you
become ashamed of your shame. And it's like anxiety. You
start to be anxious about your anxiety. Oh boy, being human,
I tell you what ain't easy. All right, let's begin
officially now according to FCC rules Riggs, here we go
at Mark.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
From this moment forward, the only mission.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Of the newly.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Restored Department of War is this war fighting, preparing for war,
and preparing to win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Pete, he address in all the generals today. It's one
of the best things I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Now, we got to play more of that later, and
somebody go back, hands and do this. Write down Joe's
quote from right before we played the clip. That has
got to be the quote of the show, the quote
of the day, maybe the quote of the year.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wow, that would be unprecedented. That is a good one.
What's that being an even.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Exact way you said, I don't know what I said.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, if you can write that down, hands, and I
want to repeat it exactly after the break, it was perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's what we need to have on a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I also like to point out I think I more
or less nailed the BB and Trump piece deal yesterday,
that it would be very solid and good, but demand
all of the hostages immediately or you will suffer complete obliteration.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We are through blanket around.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, well, I didn't think you'd be able to get
to all of the lefties on board too, though, in
all those Arab countries. That is something I am surprised
by that we got Katie's headlines on the way and
a bunch of stuff stay here. I'm excited about Major
League Baseball playoffs starting to be a wildcard stuff, which
(13:53):
I don't quite get the wildcard thing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
They won the division, but they now they got to
play a three game series in the wild card. I
don't quite understand how that works.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's the weakest division winner, the weakest division winner.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But yeah, the East Coast is all about Yankees Red
Sox three game series, which will be hugely important to
that side of the country. Any who wanted to get
this on, this is what Joe said before we started
the show. Officially, I think this might qualify for the
quote of the year.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Being human, I tell you what a easy.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That is fantastic. I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna put
that in my kitchen. Being human. I'll tell you what
it ain't easy.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Being human, I tell you what easy easy. Yeah, that
sounds like the sort of thing you see on a
dish towel at a gift shop that you can buy
for your friends.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Maybe it resonates with me because after one of the
many bad things that I've created for myself happened to
me a couple of years ago, a friend of mine
said life is hard, and I was very helpful that.
So let me just say that you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It is. It is for everyone. It just is. Life
is hard. Be in human. I'll tell you what it
ain't easy.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
M human, I tell you what ain't easy. And it's
a good thing to remember. And I want my kids
to go out into the world, you know, recognizing that
then you'll you'll be less shocked when the various bad
things that happened to you happen to you. Well, that's
what I always taught my kids, that the things you
dream of doing and achieving, the vast you know, the
overwhelming likelihood is it's going to take longer and be
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harder than you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you can still do it.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So if it seems like, hey, this is taking longer
and is harder than I thought it would be.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Don't worry about it. Just keep grinding. Here's your lead
story without Katie Green, who is off today. Just a
handful of headlines. We've touched on some of them. Blah
blah blah, shut down, go ahead, shut it down. I
refuse to talk about it, although politically speaking, the Democrats,
who are less popular than paper cuts at this point,
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are really gambling.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I don't know if it makes any difference the idea
of who gets blamed? Does anybody get blamed by the
big picture, thirty thousand foot view of the government shutdown?
I was thinking yesterday, is.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Just our government's just dysfunctional. This shouldn't happen.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I mean, I'm not worried about it, not going to
talk about it, but it shouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
They should have their act together.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
They should pass a budget on time never, which never
happens anymore, hasn't happened in like two decades or something.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's just we're dysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You got your big piece deal Trump Net Yahoo, all
the Arab states and Hamas that we are talking about.
It'll be super, super interesting to see what happens in
the next seventy two hours. Oregon in the city of
Portland suing the Trump administration in an effort to block
the deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland. Got
a great clip from a junkie in Portland coming up
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next half hour. It's absolutely fambulous in its way. How
much time do you have, Michael, oh, thirty seconds? Let's
see how about Trump administration announced plans to increase cold production,
rollback regulations. Yes, let the energy flow. And finally this
from the Babylon pee. Why frustrated that husband doesn't realize
she wants him to be quiet and also talk to
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her and also leave her alone and also come talk
to her.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Uh oh uh? How do you like this? One? Idiot?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Noah bills an arc when he could have just paid
more taxes to stop climate change. Trump addressing all the
military leaders right now. We'll have highlights of that later
in the show.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I guarantee you Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm looking at the CBS headline up there, waiting for
Hamas response after Trump presents peace plan. I'm really excited
about watching this.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
This is like a this is a high level historic
geopolitical story right here on which direction this is going
to go? Oh and I forgot to mention on that
list of people who think this is a good plan
in homeost take it Tom freaking Freedman of the New
York Times, So he thinks Trump's plan is good. So
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does Fox and Friends. I mean, when does that happen?
That is something?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, I can they walk away from it? Yeah, that's
been you know, done it in decades past.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, can they find a way to walk away from it?
Because the reason I torture the phrase or the syntax
is that you could see an immediate acceptance and then
they find a way to walk away in the days
and weeks that come in months.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But who knows, A chance is better no chance.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There's a lot of Arab countries on board with trying
to make it go through if they sign on to it. Yeah, yeah,
I hope they're all committed. I mean truly committed for
the long term. But again, you know, some chance is
better than no chance. Enough on that for now. Pete
Hagsath is vowed to get rid of the fat generals.
Stay with us for live coverage of the precedent breaking
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meeting at the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Do we have fat generals? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That reminds me. Have you seen the trailer for Nuremberg. No,
it's focused on.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Guarring the Nazi who lived through the aftermath and was
put on trial. I thought of that because he was
a big fat general and played by Russell Crowe. And
it looks like it looks flipping fantastic, all bet, like
a really great movie. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, all right, let let's turn to this. The city
of Portland and the state of Oregon are suing the
Trump administration saying don't send the National Guard here. We've
turned things around. We don't have nightly violence anymore. It's
just like every other night radical leftists who terrorize federal employees.
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And by the way, if you send the troops then
people will go crazy and there will be violence. So
you just have to let Portland Portland. Okay, Portland, Portland.
We'll have to see how that goes. But this is great.
This is an interview of a tent dwelling junkie gal
in Portland describing how life works for her and people
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like her.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Does it like being homeless in Portland?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It's a piece of cake, really. I mean, that's why
you probably got so many out here, because they feed
you three meals a day. You don't have to do
stay in your tent or party or if you'd smoke
of a lot of dope, you can do that.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
What else?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What else in the list? And what else?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I say, Well, I'm being interviewed, now, that's really it. It's
like you wake up, you go eat a blanche, get high,
go eat a blanche for lunch, you get high, go
eat dinner, get high, And that's all you do all
day long, every day.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I'm being honest. I appreciate the honesty. Yeah, does it
feel like that's really helping anybody?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
It's not said, that's why you see all the tents.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That is so self evidently true to anybody with any sense.
I find myself wondering, is there or anybody hearing that
simple statement of what is obviously true?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Who is persuaded by it?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Or are they so steeped in their cultish beliefs about
compassion and whatever they don't even hear her. Yeah, my
headphones must have cut out. I missed the part where
she talked about it's because of home prices.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
That I am out here on the street, right in
the patriarchy or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
A name for me, please, if you will the recovery program,
be it private and expensive for movie stars or AA
or whatever that says. Look, if your loved one as
an addict, make it as easy as possible for them
to continue. If they need money, give them money. If
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they need to miss work, call the boss and make
an excuse for them. Just don't do anything to make
them uncomfortable in being junkie. Name that program for me, please,
I'd love to hear about it. That is the official
program of the Blue Cities of America, and it's insane well,
and it yields exactly the results you'd think it would.
She reminded me of a guy I got to know
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about probably fifteen years ago. I don't know what happened
to him. He's probably dead anyway. He was a street person,
a drunk. I don't know if he was doing drugs
or not. I know he was a drunk. And he
talked about how easy it was to be homeless in
the town where I live. He says, Oh, it's so
easy to have so much food, so many different places.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
If I'm on this end of town, I eat here.
If I'm on that end of down, I eat there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You never get arrested, certainly for drug offenses or just
you know, unleashed pit bulls pooping in the street, for indicating,
leaving needles, stealing whatever. So that isn't you know, a disincentive.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So what are you? What am I abdicating? Starve people
until they get.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Their act together. Enforce the law, you know. I don't
mean to be flip, but enforce the law all of them.
You see somebody breaking the laws, cite them, arrest them whatever,
including camping in the which is illegal. The Supreme Court
took the teeth out of the disastrous Grant's past ruling.
I don't remember precisely how toothless it is as toothless
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as that junkie gal. Perhaps, I don't know. But you
can enforce the law now, so do it. And it's compassion,
you know. Enforce drug possession laws for hard drugs, needles,
the rest of it. Enforce it all. Make it really
sucky to be a junkie. You know what people think,
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they'll think this sucks. I don't want to be a
junkie anymore and you'll have saved their life.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What do you not get about that? No?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No, no, we need to give them safe facilities and
needles and tents so then they can seek treatment and
seek rehab because there they are sitting in a nice
tent in Portland, getting high with all the friends. All
the time they eat, they drink their merry and someday
what their tentals spring a leak and that will make
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them want to get rehab, which usually doesn't work. Oh boy,
so your tease, Pete Heggsath said, no fat generals?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
What is the reason out to fat generals? Can't have
fat generals? Jack?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Do we have that big old fat tubs lard leading
our troops who are expected to be leaning me and it's.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
A bad example? Do we have fat generals?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Apparently I'm not aware of any personally, but mister Hegsath,
secretary of Hegsath.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Seems to think it is an issue. He's crazy fit though?
Do we all have to be as fit as him? See?
Is that?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Is it about war fighting preparedness which is a Stanzi'm
one hundred percent in favor of, or is it just a.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Super fit guy who's really judgmental. People who aren't well
and appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
People who are gonna have to carry backpacks and guns
through the desert or the jungle or wherever we're fighting
obviously need to be fit. But I certainly don't want
to uh bar the genius computer guy who has never
been able to do a single push up in his
life and has no interest in trying from being in
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the military.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
If he's a genius computer guy can fly a fleet
of AI drones like a ring and a bell.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, there is there a way to incorporate that, and
are they thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
On the other hand, if you need one of those
big C one thirty cargo jets just to get two
or three generals to the front lines because they're so fat, that's.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No good either.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I just always remember this mom. I knew she was
a mom on one of my son's best friends.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
She was in the FBI at the time, but she
had been in the military and she thought the standards
for physical fitness were ridiculous that she had to meet
and she did meet at the time, but she thought
they were ridiculous because she was a computer person. And
she said, if it gets to me having to physically
fight somebody. We've already lost, right, I mean, if whatever
(25:54):
horde of Chinese troops or Russians or whoever have gotten
to me in the basement running computer, you know, we
got bigger problems than whether or not I can do
twenty five push ups.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And I got to agree with that.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, I think we ought to have a cores of
people who have zero potential to get in combat.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, and you don't have to do a single push up.
I know for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's on my mind because I was just doing the
physical fitness thing with a bunch of boy scouts over
the weekend, and I was the guy writing down on
the clipboard.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
And there are people that just there are quite a
few people that can't do app push up and I
don't know if they ever will in their lives.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Wow, you know, reasonable fitness slash health I think is
located to me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Sure. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
If it comes down to it, you can you are
good drone, pilot, inventor, crafter, coder, whatever, I don't know.
Drink your energy, drink and vape. If you're good at it.
Sit there in the basement and do it.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We have a.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Five word standard here at the Armstrong and getting Pentagon.
Can you do the job you were given? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, probably narrows the uh various things you can go
into in the military. If you can't do a push
up and you vape all day long. But you know
you knew that on the.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Drone force, be a mouse clicker. That's fine, we need
mouse clickers. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah. I wonder for Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I'll bet there's a great examples in Ukraine of guys
who smoke cigarettes and drink beer, but they're putting together
drones in the garage that are amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Such a different time militarily speaking than it was even
twenty years ago, and a year from now it's going
to be different than it is right now.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So yeah, reimagining just the constitution.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Of our forces and you know, obviously how they fight
is going to be a never ending process. As I've
said many times, it's not the amount of change that's
making everybody insane these days and making demands on our military.
It's the pace of the change that's so unprecedented.
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We'll play some of that kicking off hour two. I'm
not exactly sure what that means.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We got mail bag on the way to a bunch
of other stuff. I hope you can stay here Strong.
Is it just my imagination or a lot of people's imaginations.
Did COVID break us somehow because it was such a
disruptor in our lives?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Or is it true that there are a bunch of
like human being changing things going on, Like we're at
an inflection point with a bunch of different things going
on right now. Doesn't it feel that way like major
(29:57):
titanic tectonic chip's happening in a bunch of areas.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yes to all of those things, I think just because.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I got an example, I'm gonna get too later The
Atlantic and then another publication together on the death of reading,
on how this has just been a seismic shift since
the smartphone came on the scene for the first time
in three hundred years since reading became a thing of
(30:29):
it disappearing again. And it's really interesting and I think
one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, here's your freedom. Lovely quote of the day about change.
You've inspired me. Here's a coup for you one the
oh soo quotable Winston Churchill. To improve is to change.
To be perfect is to change.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Often.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He was a big advocate of as he often said,
when the facts change, my opinion changes. Consistency for consistency's
sake is silly. But then I like this one from
Jack Welch, the legend they're a CEO of General General Electric.
That's right, Yeah, change before you have to.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
That is a good one that can avoid a lot
of headaches in life and heartaches, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Mail bag.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Drops note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
I believe John was inspired by our junkie girl named Portland, Oregon.
He is writing about Eugene, Oregon, which is just down
the road.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
There's a group in.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Eugene, Oregon called the Burrito Brigade. They feed the homeless.
The number of homeless keeps increasing. What they don't want
they dump in front.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Of my bill to get work.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Liberals feeding pigeons, happy to be on in Eugene?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
How do Eugene? Absolutely, my son lives there. He gets
to listen to you live. Oh, I'm sure he listens
every day. Hilarious. No, I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
He heard me every day of his life for the
first like eighteen years, and then intermittently during the college years.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That point. Yeah, let's see this is.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I will say, Anonymous, what makes you think the left
is waiting for the right to give them permission to
trample our rights? Jack in particular keeps saying if we
do X, the left will also do X when they
have power. You think they're waiting for ours to do
X first? Where you've been the last fifty years? If
the D's want to try to silence talk radio, they'll
not hesitate to do so, whether or not. The Republican
(32:33):
chairman of the FCC made some threatening noises about Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Stop being so tender and naive.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm constantly saying that to Jack behind the scenes, stop
being so tender and naive. The Democrats couldn't give the
first f about getting permission from the RS to use
any tactics.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You don't think we're in a two way race to
the bottom. I just, I just I don't buy it.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, you're and I see his point in that any
appeal to norms these days seems to fall on a
lot of deaf ears. Well, you got to hope that
it has some appeal, and if it doesn't, we're doomed.
But that's the only way out is for one side
to say, Okay, we're gonna stop with this. We're gonna
(33:20):
be grown ups.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
We're gonna hope that there's a majority of grown ups
in this country that are willing to back us, and
this this is what we're gonna do going forward.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So you're saying we need to walk into the bar
that is American and say norms, no cheers reference.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
They're very fact.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I was on like forty years ago, fifty was that
show on the eighties? George Washington watched it? Anyway, Moving along,
I know, sweetheart, you're so right. Nice note here from
Pallo Jack was making reference.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
To is this another Jack kicking email? Did you pick
only Jack? No?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, I'll do that, Yeah, me too. Maybe that'll be
the same tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Actually, it was your very gentlemanly.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Discussion of the relative driving abilities of various ethnic groups.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right, And I didn't name a particular group. No, you
did not.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You would never do anything so rude, although I hinted
it was the Irish. Powlllo writes, Guys, many racial and
ethnic stereotypes are assumed to have some inherent, unbreakable connection
to genetics. That's pretty much what racism is. But as
I believe Joe has more than once pointed out, it's
cultural differences that really matter. It's easy to confuse racial
(34:33):
and cultural factors because people the same race are often
culturally similar, like a bird's of a feather thing. But
their shared culture makes them similar far far more than
their shared genetics. Then, he says, and I read this
only to point out how insensitive our listeners can be
at times. He says about terrible Asian drivers. Many Asians
(34:56):
in the US, especially the recently arrived, are not carcentric.
They come from places where many people do not drive
at all or even ride very much in cars, where
they observe people close to driving them close to them.
Driving to those people driving is not at all familiar,
so they're often not very good at it. I know
it's easy to believe they look goofy and talk goofy,
so of course they drive goofy.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Not inaccurate or fair assessment. I will not pile on
this horrific stereotype.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Oh, it sounds like it sounds like Sydney Sweeney in
the Eugenics. Mey, I mean that whole Remember that whole
terrible episode which a journalist with the Wall Street Journal
wrote about. It was an interview with the CEO of
American Eagle, and they made one of the most stupid
culturally blind comments I've ever seen in journalism. Back to
(35:48):
our question of how do you people not recognize this?
Some people just do not have the powers of perception
of reality.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's a blindness specifically to certain groups and they're driving.
My son's theory was because where we drive county roads
a lot going to his school and back, and a
certain group of people that will never pass anybody, doesn't
matter how slow the person in front of them is going.
As they come from countries where you do not get
out of line. You do not make decisions on your own.
You do not, you know, take the reins and make
(36:17):
you know, you just don't do that. Keep your head
down and do not come to the attention of the
authorities for any reason, right, Yeah, that could be an
interesting cultural way to look at it. Yeah, really interesting observation.
There a little racist though, I'll be writing about it.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
You're going to write a letter, all right, We've got
a lot more. Pete Haggsith given a speech to all
the generals.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Will have that an hour two Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
A little tired. Kids and I were up late last
night praying a lot of crying. What around the government
shutdown opened up? Oh my God, praying that it wouldn't happen.
And I put my kids to bed and they were sobbing,
and they said, will it be all right?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Daddy? And I tried to assure them that it will
be okay. But I don't know. It's weird coming to work.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The street's empty now, cars, businesses boarded up. It's rough anyway,
Live from Studio C, a timplely lit room deeper than
the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And hey,
everybody today under the tutledge, last day of September, under
the tutelage of our General Manager.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Peace in the Middle East. I'm silighted. It's over. That
was crazy, wasn't it? That thousand years of conflict? Damned
hell was crazy, wasn't it. That's funny?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, you can either talk about the ten thousand years
of conflict or the seventy years since eighty years since
Israel was founded.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm really excited about Islam been around again. Has Islam
been around since about the year seven hundred That's what
I thought.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, okay, so we're looking at to carry one about
eight hundred years eighteen.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Uh, it's not even close. My math is terrible. Back
to you. So here's what's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Thing of what I've heard today that are in favor
of Trump's peace proposed that uh, they're presenting to Hamas,
and Hamas is really the only entity that hasn't given
the thumbs up on this so far.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
People that are in favor of it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
NPR, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Trump, obviously, Fox and Friends,
Lindsey Graham.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Netanya, who buy all appearances, Netan, Yahoo, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Indonesia.
It's unbelievable the support that this thing has.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And the only entity that hasn't said, uh, yeah, we'll
go ahead is so far is Hamas and they the
claim is that they're huddled and gathered and trying to
decide what they want to do here. They've got to realize, Wow,
this is uh, this is going to look bad if
we say no to this, given what I just said.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean when NPR is boy, there's a lot to
like here. That's what I heard this morning. Wow, that
is something. Yeah, yeah, it will be very interesting to
see what happens next.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I my knee.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Jerk instinct is that they will find a way to
reject it, because they are bent on nothing but the
destruction of Israel, and I.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Don't they can. I don't think they can reject it.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I think what they will do is accept it on
the surface and melt into the Palestinian territories and reconstituteed
some sort of gorilla force and attack.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
When the moment is right.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Keeping in mind that Islamists look at thousand year timelines. Maybe,
but there is going to be a peacekeeping force made
up of a whole bunch of different countries there in
Gaza for the foreseeable future, made up above Indonesia and
Italy and a bunch of different countries, not the United.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
States, the Two Eyes. They call them, run by Tony Blair.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Trump's name is going to be on the name of
the I think it's called the Peace Force or something
like that. But Tony Blair, I'm a Prime Minister of
Great Britain, is gonna be the guy running.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
The whole thing, and it's It's quite the thing. I
haven't been this optimistic about the Middle East maybe ever
in terms of something good happening.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Given the apparent support of the Gulf States, the air
world in general, it does seem a hell of a
lot more promising. I just fool me seventeen times. Shame
on me, is my attitude. This is a big one though.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
This is right up there with with Carter Began and
Sadat back in the day, or Clinton, Yasser Air Fatten,
Olmar Herbert, whoever he was working with at the time.
This is one of those really really big moments and opportunities.
Now famously, I forget who said it, Kissinger or some
(04:53):
many the Palestinians never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity.
But we'll see what happens here and the thing is
and we'll play this clip later. But Trump said, now,
if Hamas doesn't agree to it, Ben Biebie, you can
do whatever you gotta do, and you have the full
backing in the United States. That's what he said yesterday
standing the mixed and that yellow do what you gotta
(05:15):
do and you have our full backing.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Wow. That's I just really like the.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Way you went through the Israeli Prime minister's name, Like
you were at a restaurant, singing Happy birthday to somebody
who's name didn't recall a birthday on.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Every birthday to you were at work.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He's like a hapy birthday to somebody at work, and
you realize, Oh, JE said, I don't know, really we
really should know her name.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I think we've worked together for like eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So you smile and you move your mouth line, say
happy birthday, and heavy. I had another thing to say.
What was the other thing? Say something about the Oh
so there's new pulling out? Uh, just a least yesterday
New York Times Siena pol support for Israel is the
lowest it's ever been in you know, modern polling, like
(06:08):
since the seventies or whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
On our attitude toward Israel.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Only only nineteen percent of Americans strongly support providing military
and economic aid to Israel at this point, only nineteen percent,
with twenty percent somewhat support. So you're way under half.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And it's always been the majority of the country was
in favor of supporting Israel economically and militarily, and now it's.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Way under half.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
You've got thirty The biggest number is thirty five percent
strongly pos for young people, it's seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Percent, seventy per Sorry about support for Israel, it's the
story about propaganda and how it works. Yeah, that's what
I was thinking. It's amazing Israel has any support. Given
the news coverage since October seventh, it's been utterly, obscenely inaccurate,
one sided, and bizarre, starting like that, one of the
(07:06):
most astounding things I've ever seen, starting like that first
week when New York Times and everybody else went hog
wild with the Israel bombs hospital kills five hundred, which
turned out to be untrue at every level. And that
was the beginning of a long slew of those kind
of stories that were untrue. So it's amazing Israel has
any sport at all. And then you combine that with
what their college kids are being taught in their schools.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh yeah, but that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Regardless of the why, it's a problem that support has
cratered for Israel in this country, right, I would agree.
I don't even know where to start. The media sucks,
The colleges suck. I was just reading about Columbia University.
You remember how their Department of the Middle East is
under some sort of federal supervisorship as part of the
(07:50):
agreement with the Trump administration. Free Beacon just ran down
who's on the committee that guides that department, and four
of the seven are a vowed anti Israeli, anti Jew activists.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean serious.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
October seventh was the proper response of the oppressed to
the colonial oppressor types running the department. So, yeah, the
kids don't support Israel because they have no idea what.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The truth is as Israel is held to.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
A standard of civilian protection and indeed nurturing of the
civilian population of its adversaries that no force has ever
been held to in the history of warfare, going back
to like three cavemen, two of them thrown rocks in
a third guy. Well, and of course, if the United
(08:44):
States had been attacked the way Israel was, or Germany was,
or France or you name the country, they would have
laid waste to whoever did it. Absolutely back to positive stuff.
I think it's just amazing that you have have all
those entities I mentioned NPR and Fox both saying yeah,
this is a good deal.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Is a good plan. Amasage say, yes, this is amazing.
I just was listening to MSNBC Morning Joe as I
was driving to work, and they were talking about this
is one case where where Trump says, only I can
do it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Only Trump could get all these Arab leaders on board
with a plan like this because they respect him so
much and listen to him, partially through the help of
his son in law Jared Kushner and all the work
that he's done over the years. It's just incredible when
the Washington Post is saying that sort of thing, and
Fox and Friends.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's just wow, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I was deep in thought about this very topic yesterday.
How Trump's great strength is that he will do anything.
He will chuck all a precedent and tradition, including a
hell of a lot of kind of timid Let's not
just mess with anything and cause any trouble.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Let's just take a very very cautious approach to this.
And he doesn't give a damn.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It's also his great weakness, and I think, you know,
he does some some real damage where it doesn't need
to be done.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Some days I wonder is it even possible to get
the recklessness over here. The recklessness is the wrong word,
the utter lack of fear over in this sphere, and
not have it over here where a little caution would
probably be warranted. I don't know, but you know it's
it's a you keeck exercise. Anyway, we got the guy
(10:28):
we got. You can try to drag me back into
bad news. This is good news. This is a good thing.
That is bad news can't be fixed. All right, whatever
I thought I was making a good point. Hope somebody
enjoyed it. But he but, like you know, the you're
gonna give him a platform. This won't work with with
Putin and the red carpet, nothing came out of that,
(10:51):
but this one something comes out of it.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But the thing with Trump is the deal with Putin
ought to be a horror, fine humiliation, but he's like, nope,
he's a lion's scumbag.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It did no good.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Onto the next thing, right, and then I'm sure the
next well, I don't have to be sure.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The next thing is every bit is bold as the Putin.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Gampit god I wish, which is telling Ukraine all right,
here come the heavy arms.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Use him however you want I wish I had that ability.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He is like.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Cornerback. He's like an NFL cornerback. He has the ability
that if he gets burned for a touchdown, you just
put that out of your mind. You go on and
you have a positive attitude about the next play. I'm
not like that. I wallow in my mistakes. I regret
them till my deathbed.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's what they say in golf too. You gotta have
the memory of a goldfish. And you get a bad shot.
What bad shot? I don't remember it. Yeah, that's awesome.
It'd be an awesome way to live life. I can't
do that. Oh, I really screw that up, just like
I always screw everything up, and just like I'll probably
screw things.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Up in the future. That's the way.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That is not bold. No, it's not positive. No, it's
not I got to regain that positive mojo. Yeah, we
need to start the show a fish.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You jack a lot of shame, Yes, exactly, roll around
in my mistakes. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on
this it is. How did it already get to be
the last day of September? The year twenty twenty five?
Where armstrong in getting we.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And then the greatest thing about shame is that you
become ashamed of your shame. And it's like anxiety. You
start to be anxious about your anxiety. Oh boy, being human,
I tell you what ain't easy. All right, let's begin
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Speaker 4 (12:21):
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Of the newly.
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Restored Department of War is this war fighting, preparing for war,
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Speaker 1 (12:40):
Pete, he address in all the generals today. It's one
of the best things I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Now, we got to play more of that later, and
somebody go back, hands and do this. Write down Joe's
quote from right before we played the clip. That has
got to be the quote of the show, the quote
of the day, maybe the quote of the year.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Wow, that would be unprecedented. That is a good one.
What's that being an even.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Exact way you said, I don't know what I said.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, if you can write that down, hands, and I
want to repeat it exactly after the break, it was perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's what we need to have on a T shirt.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I also like to point out I think I more
or less nailed the BB and Trump piece deal yesterday,
that it would be very solid and good, but demand
all of the hostages immediately or you will suffer complete obliteration.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We are through blanket around.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, well, I didn't think you'd be able to get
to all of the lefties on board too, though, in
all those Arab countries. That is something I am surprised
by that we got Katie's headlines on the way and
a bunch of stuff stay here. I'm excited about Major
League Baseball playoffs starting to be a wildcard stuff, which
(13:53):
I don't quite get the wildcard thing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
They won the division, but they now they got to
play a three game series in the wild card. I
don't quite understand how that works.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's the weakest division winner, the weakest division winner.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
But yeah, the East Coast is all about Yankees Red
Sox three game series, which will be hugely important to
that side of the country. Any who wanted to get
this on, this is what Joe said before we started
the show. Officially, I think this might qualify for the
quote of the year.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Being human, I tell you what a easy.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That is fantastic. I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna put
that in my kitchen. Being human. I'll tell you what
it ain't easy.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Being human, I tell you what easy easy. Yeah, that
sounds like the sort of thing you see on a
dish towel at a gift shop that you can buy
for your friends.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Maybe it resonates with me because after one of the
many bad things that I've created for myself happened to
me a couple of years ago, a friend of mine
said life is hard, and I was very helpful that.
So let me just say that you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
It is. It is for everyone. It just is. Life
is hard. Be in human. I'll tell you what it
ain't easy.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
M human, I tell you what ain't easy. And it's
a good thing to remember. And I want my kids
to go out into the world, you know, recognizing that
then you'll you'll be less shocked when the various bad
things that happened to you happen to you. Well, that's
what I always taught my kids, that the things you
dream of doing and achieving, the vast you know, the
overwhelming likelihood is it's going to take longer and be
(15:26):
harder than you can imagine.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you can still do it.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So if it seems like, hey, this is taking longer
and is harder than I thought it would be.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Don't worry about it. Just keep grinding. Here's your lead
story without Katie Green, who is off today. Just a
handful of headlines. We've touched on some of them. Blah
blah blah, shut down, go ahead, shut it down. I
refuse to talk about it, although politically speaking, the Democrats,
who are less popular than paper cuts at this point,
(15:57):
are really gambling.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I don't know if it makes any difference the idea
of who gets blamed? Does anybody get blamed by the
big picture, thirty thousand foot view of the government shutdown?
I was thinking yesterday, is.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Just our government's just dysfunctional. This shouldn't happen.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I mean, I'm not worried about it, not going to
talk about it, but it shouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
They should have their act together.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
They should pass a budget on time never, which never
happens anymore, hasn't happened in like two decades or something.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's just we're dysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You got your big piece deal Trump Net Yahoo, all
the Arab states and Hamas that we are talking about.
It'll be super, super interesting to see what happens in
the next seventy two hours. Oregon in the city of
Portland suing the Trump administration in an effort to block
the deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland. Got
a great clip from a junkie in Portland coming up
(16:49):
next half hour. It's absolutely fambulous in its way. How
much time do you have, Michael, oh, thirty seconds? Let's
see how about Trump administration announced plans to increase cold production,
rollback regulations. Yes, let the energy flow. And finally this
from the Babylon pee. Why frustrated that husband doesn't realize
she wants him to be quiet and also talk to
(17:09):
her and also leave her alone and also come talk
to her.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Uh oh uh? How do you like this? One? Idiot?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Noah bills an arc when he could have just paid
more taxes to stop climate change. Trump addressing all the
military leaders right now. We'll have highlights of that later
in the show.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I guarantee you Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm looking at the CBS headline up there, waiting for
Hamas response after Trump presents peace plan. I'm really excited
about watching this.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
This is like a this is a high level historic
geopolitical story right here on which direction this is going
to go? Oh and I forgot to mention on that
list of people who think this is a good plan
in homeost take it Tom freaking Freedman of the New
York Times, So he thinks Trump's plan is good. So
(18:00):
does Fox and Friends. I mean, when does that happen?
That is something?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, I can they walk away from it? Yeah, that's
been you know, done it in decades past.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, can they find a way to walk away from it?
Because the reason I torture the phrase or the syntax
is that you could see an immediate acceptance and then
they find a way to walk away in the days
and weeks that come in months.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But who knows, A chance is better no chance.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There's a lot of Arab countries on board with trying
to make it go through if they sign on to it. Yeah, yeah,
I hope they're all committed. I mean truly committed for
the long term. But again, you know, some chance is
better than no chance. Enough on that for now. Pete
Hagsath is vowed to get rid of the fat generals.
Stay with us for live coverage of the precedent breaking
(18:52):
meeting at the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Do we have fat generals? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That reminds me. Have you seen the trailer for Nuremberg. No,
it's focused on.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Guarring the Nazi who lived through the aftermath and was
put on trial. I thought of that because he was
a big fat general and played by Russell Crowe. And
it looks like it looks flipping fantastic, all bet, like
a really great movie. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, all right, let let's turn to this. The city
of Portland and the state of Oregon are suing the
Trump administration saying don't send the National Guard here. We've
turned things around. We don't have nightly violence anymore. It's
just like every other night radical leftists who terrorize federal employees.
(19:44):
And by the way, if you send the troops then
people will go crazy and there will be violence. So
you just have to let Portland Portland. Okay, Portland, Portland.
We'll have to see how that goes. But this is great.
This is an interview of a tent dwelling junkie gal
in Portland describing how life works for her and people
(20:07):
like her.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Does it like being homeless in Portland?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It's a piece of cake, really. I mean, that's why
you probably got so many out here, because they feed
you three meals a day. You don't have to do
stay in your tent or party or if you'd smoke
of a lot of dope, you can do that.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
What else?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What else in the list? And what else?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
I say, Well, I'm being interviewed, now, that's really it. It's
like you wake up, you go eat a blanche, get high,
go eat a blanche for lunch, you get high, go
eat dinner, get high, And that's all you do all
day long, every day.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I'm being honest. I appreciate the honesty. Yeah, does it
feel like that's really helping anybody?
Speaker 5 (20:48):
It's not said, that's why you see all the tents.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
That is so self evidently true to anybody with any sense.
I find myself wondering, is there or anybody hearing that
simple statement of what is obviously true?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Who is persuaded by it?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Or are they so steeped in their cultish beliefs about
compassion and whatever they don't even hear her. Yeah, my
headphones must have cut out. I missed the part where
she talked about it's because of home prices.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
That I am out here on the street, right in
the patriarchy or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
A name for me, please, if you will the recovery program,
be it private and expensive for movie stars or AA
or whatever that says. Look, if your loved one as
an addict, make it as easy as possible for them
to continue. If they need money, give them money. If
(21:44):
they need to miss work, call the boss and make
an excuse for them. Just don't do anything to make
them uncomfortable in being junkie. Name that program for me, please,
I'd love to hear about it. That is the official
program of the Blue Cities of America, and it's insane well,
and it yields exactly the results you'd think it would.
She reminded me of a guy I got to know
(22:05):
about probably fifteen years ago. I don't know what happened
to him. He's probably dead anyway. He was a street person,
a drunk. I don't know if he was doing drugs
or not. I know he was a drunk. And he
talked about how easy it was to be homeless in
the town where I live. He says, Oh, it's so
easy to have so much food, so many different places.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
If I'm on this end of town, I eat here.
If I'm on that end of down, I eat there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You never get arrested, certainly for drug offenses or just
you know, unleashed pit bulls pooping in the street, for indicating,
leaving needles, stealing whatever. So that isn't you know, a disincentive.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So what are you? What am I abdicating? Starve people
until they get.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Their act together. Enforce the law, you know. I don't
mean to be flip, but enforce the law all of them.
You see somebody breaking the laws, cite them, arrest them whatever,
including camping in the which is illegal. The Supreme Court
took the teeth out of the disastrous Grant's past ruling.
I don't remember precisely how toothless it is as toothless
(23:11):
as that junkie gal. Perhaps, I don't know. But you
can enforce the law now, so do it. And it's compassion,
you know. Enforce drug possession laws for hard drugs, needles,
the rest of it. Enforce it all. Make it really
sucky to be a junkie. You know what people think,
(23:31):
they'll think this sucks. I don't want to be a
junkie anymore and you'll have saved their life.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What do you not get about that? No?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
No, no, we need to give them safe facilities and
needles and tents so then they can seek treatment and
seek rehab because there they are sitting in a nice
tent in Portland, getting high with all the friends. All
the time they eat, they drink their merry and someday
what their tentals spring a leak and that will make
(23:59):
them want to get rehab, which usually doesn't work. Oh boy,
so your tease, Pete Heggsath said, no fat generals?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
What is the reason out to fat generals? Can't have
fat generals? Jack?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Do we have that big old fat tubs lard leading
our troops who are expected to be leaning me and it's.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
A bad example? Do we have fat generals?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Apparently I'm not aware of any personally, but mister Hegsath,
secretary of Hegsath.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Seems to think it is an issue. He's crazy fit though?
Do we all have to be as fit as him? See?
Is that?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Is it about war fighting preparedness which is a Stanzi'm
one hundred percent in favor of, or is it just a.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Super fit guy who's really judgmental. People who aren't well
and appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
People who are gonna have to carry backpacks and guns
through the desert or the jungle or wherever we're fighting
obviously need to be fit. But I certainly don't want
to uh bar the genius computer guy who has never
been able to do a single push up in his
life and has no interest in trying from being in
(25:08):
the military.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
If he's a genius computer guy can fly a fleet
of AI drones like a ring and a bell.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, there is there a way to incorporate that, and
are they thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
On the other hand, if you need one of those
big C one thirty cargo jets just to get two
or three generals to the front lines because they're so fat, that's.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No good either.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I just always remember this mom. I knew she was
a mom on one of my son's best friends.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
She was in the FBI at the time, but she
had been in the military and she thought the standards
for physical fitness were ridiculous that she had to meet
and she did meet at the time, but she thought
they were ridiculous because she was a computer person. And
she said, if it gets to me having to physically
fight somebody. We've already lost, right, I mean, if whatever
(25:54):
horde of Chinese troops or Russians or whoever have gotten
to me in the basement running computer, you know, we
got bigger problems than whether or not I can do
twenty five push ups.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And I got to agree with that.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, I think we ought to have a cores of
people who have zero potential to get in combat.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, and you don't have to do a single push up.
I know for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's on my mind because I was just doing the
physical fitness thing with a bunch of boy scouts over
the weekend, and I was the guy writing down on
the clipboard.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
And there are people that just there are quite a
few people that can't do app push up and I
don't know if they ever will in their lives.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Wow, you know, reasonable fitness slash health I think is
located to me.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Sure. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
If it comes down to it, you can you are
good drone, pilot, inventor, crafter, coder, whatever, I don't know.
Drink your energy, drink and vape. If you're good at it.
Sit there in the basement and do it.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We have a.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Five word standard here at the Armstrong and getting Pentagon.
Can you do the job you were given? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, probably narrows the uh various things you can go
into in the military. If you can't do a push
up and you vape all day long. But you know
you knew that on the.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Drone force, be a mouse clicker. That's fine, we need
mouse clickers. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah. I wonder for Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I'll bet there's a great examples in Ukraine of guys
who smoke cigarettes and drink beer, but they're putting together
drones in the garage that are amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Such a different time militarily speaking than it was even
twenty years ago, and a year from now it's going
to be different than it is right now.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
So yeah, reimagining just the constitution.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Of our forces and you know, obviously how they fight
is going to be a never ending process. As I've
said many times, it's not the amount of change that's
making everybody insane these days and making demands on our military.
It's the pace of the change that's so unprecedented.
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We'll play some of that kicking off hour two. I'm
not exactly sure what that means.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
We got mail bag on the way to a bunch
of other stuff. I hope you can stay here Strong.
Is it just my imagination or a lot of people's imaginations.
Did COVID break us somehow because it was such a
disruptor in our lives?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Or is it true that there are a bunch of
like human being changing things going on, Like we're at
an inflection point with a bunch of different things going
on right now. Doesn't it feel that way like major
(29:57):
titanic tectonic chip's happening in a bunch of areas.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yes to all of those things, I think just because.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I got an example, I'm gonna get too later The
Atlantic and then another publication together on the death of reading,
on how this has just been a seismic shift since
the smartphone came on the scene for the first time
in three hundred years since reading became a thing of
(30:29):
it disappearing again. And it's really interesting and I think
one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, here's your freedom. Lovely quote of the day about change.
You've inspired me. Here's a coup for you one the
oh soo quotable Winston Churchill. To improve is to change.
To be perfect is to change.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Often.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He was a big advocate of as he often said,
when the facts change, my opinion changes. Consistency for consistency's
sake is silly. But then I like this one from
Jack Welch, the legend they're a CEO of General General Electric.
That's right, Yeah, change before you have to.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
That is a good one that can avoid a lot
of headaches in life and heartaches, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Mail bag.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Drops note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
I believe John was inspired by our junkie girl named Portland, Oregon.
He is writing about Eugene, Oregon, which is just down
the road.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
There's a group in.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Eugene, Oregon called the Burrito Brigade. They feed the homeless.
The number of homeless keeps increasing. What they don't want
they dump in front.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Of my bill to get work.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Liberals feeding pigeons, happy to be on in Eugene?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
How do Eugene? Absolutely, my son lives there. He gets
to listen to you live. Oh, I'm sure he listens
every day. Hilarious. No, I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
He heard me every day of his life for the
first like eighteen years, and then intermittently during the college years.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That point. Yeah, let's see this is.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I will say, Anonymous, what makes you think the left
is waiting for the right to give them permission to
trample our rights? Jack in particular keeps saying if we
do X, the left will also do X when they
have power. You think they're waiting for ours to do
X first? Where you've been the last fifty years? If
the D's want to try to silence talk radio, they'll
not hesitate to do so, whether or not. The Republican
(32:33):
chairman of the FCC made some threatening noises about Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Stop being so tender and naive.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I'm constantly saying that to Jack behind the scenes, stop
being so tender and naive. The Democrats couldn't give the
first f about getting permission from the RS to use
any tactics.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You don't think we're in a two way race to
the bottom. I just, I just I don't buy it.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, you're and I see his point in that any
appeal to norms these days seems to fall on a
lot of deaf ears. Well, you got to hope that
it has some appeal, and if it doesn't, we're doomed.
But that's the only way out is for one side
to say, Okay, we're gonna stop with this. We're gonna
(33:20):
be grown ups.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
We're gonna hope that there's a majority of grown ups
in this country that are willing to back us, and
this this is what we're gonna do going forward.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So you're saying we need to walk into the bar
that is American and say norms, no cheers reference.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
They're very fact.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I was on like forty years ago, fifty was that
show on the eighties? George Washington watched it? Anyway, Moving along,
I know, sweetheart, you're so right. Nice note here from
Pallo Jack was making reference.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
To is this another Jack kicking email? Did you pick
only Jack? No?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, I'll do that, Yeah, me too. Maybe that'll be
the same tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Actually, it was your very gentlemanly.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Discussion of the relative driving abilities of various ethnic groups.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right, And I didn't name a particular group. No, you
did not.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You would never do anything so rude, although I hinted
it was the Irish. Powlllo writes, Guys, many racial and
ethnic stereotypes are assumed to have some inherent, unbreakable connection
to genetics. That's pretty much what racism is. But as
I believe Joe has more than once pointed out, it's
cultural differences that really matter. It's easy to confuse racial
(34:33):
and cultural factors because people the same race are often
culturally similar, like a bird's of a feather thing. But
their shared culture makes them similar far far more than
their shared genetics. Then, he says, and I read this
only to point out how insensitive our listeners can be
at times. He says about terrible Asian drivers. Many Asians
(34:56):
in the US, especially the recently arrived, are not carcentric.
They come from places where many people do not drive
at all or even ride very much in cars, where
they observe people close to driving them close to them.
Driving to those people driving is not at all familiar,
so they're often not very good at it. I know
it's easy to believe they look goofy and talk goofy,
so of course they drive goofy.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Not inaccurate or fair assessment. I will not pile on
this horrific stereotype.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Oh, it sounds like it sounds like Sydney Sweeney in
the Eugenics. Mey, I mean that whole Remember that whole
terrible episode which a journalist with the Wall Street Journal
wrote about. It was an interview with the CEO of
American Eagle, and they made one of the most stupid
culturally blind comments I've ever seen in journalism. Back to
(35:48):
our question of how do you people not recognize this?
Some people just do not have the powers of perception
of reality.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's a blindness specifically to certain groups and they're driving.
My son's theory was because where we drive county roads
a lot going to his school and back, and a
certain group of people that will never pass anybody, doesn't
matter how slow the person in front of them is going.
As they come from countries where you do not get
out of line. You do not make decisions on your own.
You do not, you know, take the reins and make
(36:17):
you know, you just don't do that. Keep your head
down and do not come to the attention of the
authorities for any reason, right, Yeah, that could be an
interesting cultural way to look at it. Yeah, really interesting observation.
There a little racist though, I'll be writing about it.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
You're going to write a letter, all right, We've got
a lot more. Pete Haggsith given a speech to all
the generals.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Will have that an hour two Armstrong and Getty
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