September 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Featured within Hour One of the Tuesday September 2, 2025 edition of Armstrong & Getty On Demand...
- Jack & Joe return from the long holiday weekend with a fresh proclamation!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Arm Strong and Jetty and arms All.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Right, stop the music, Michael, stop the music. This is
it's It's Summer's over. Labor day. Summer's over. The fun,
the frivolity, the joking around, the hot dogs, the parades,
the laying in the sun, being on a bolt, all
that craps over.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We understand that. Now summers all for music. What are
you in?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Time for the serious part of life? Life gets serious now. Wow,
Congress is back in session, kids are back in school,
taxes will be here. The fun is over. Time to
grow up? Is everybody ready to grow up? Put on
your big boy pants, show up, put helmet, grab a
paint brush, right.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Take off my Hawaiian shirt. Take off your Hawaiian shirt? Yeah?
What are you doing in a Hawaiian shirt?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
This is the serious part of the year after labor,
not Hawaii, and you're not in Hawaii. I was gonna
announce my attention to smoke dope and not pay attention
to any of this crap everything as long as I live.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Maybe during this we're out of step.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Maybe during the summer, but not now because it is
post labor day.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh and today we are.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Under the tutelage of our general manager, who cares nothing matters,
and so what if it did? Or Chuck, my good
friend Chuck made a new friend in Britain, Chuck, you
know him as King Charles. But we really hit it off, okay,
and you know it's sat around having a pint at
the end of the day and compareing notes and a
couple of chuckles.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Good stuff. Really enjoyed it. And you said that Diana
long day. Huh what?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh, come on, God rest her soul, of course, he said, oh, yes, no,
it's a general manager.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The mess, the mess, back to the mess. Yeah, we
have this revelation every time we go on vacations. Joe's
on a full vacation in England. I took half the
week off, went to the Midwest, went to Iowa, saw
a lot of my family history with my son Henry,
who really loved that and look forward to look forward
(02:40):
to talking about that later. But I barely paid attention
to the news. I paid attention to the news less
than I usually do. On vacation, but I was aware
enough of there were like six one day Trump firestorm
stories that I don't even know what they were, and
I'd have to work to look them up now, because
(03:00):
one week later nobody cares, let alone, did it not
change the face of history. One week later, nobody even
remembers that happened. But they were everything everybody was talking
about for a day, And I think I'm glad I
missed that. I don't mind that I didn't have.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
To talk about that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Why was anybody talking about it if one week later
it doesn't matter to anyone?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
There's a lot of big stuff going on, a lot
of important stuff. Alladoring stuff, certainly, but that's use, resting, amusing, etc.
The big important stuff is usually not what's being talked about, though,
at least on cable news and talk radio in the
front pages of newspapers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right, you know, it's funny, you should bring that up.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I was getting ready for the show and flipping through
various news sources and my wife was across the tail
couldn't see the screen I was watching, and people were
yelling at each other, and she said, what are you watching?
I said, it's just a city council meeting somewhere where
they're disagreeing about something that they don't really explain because
(03:57):
there's probably two sides of this story, but it conflict,
and so they're showing it to me, right, And it's
just tiresome, particularly when you back off for a little
bit and you get a little perspective.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And I know a lot of you good people, you know,
you drop us.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Notes and say, you know, the constant just stress and anger,
and I don't know that I can take it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, I can't. I don't intend to. What doesn't do
anybody any good?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Learning more information about a non important story is of
no benefit to anyone. Added division and angst is of course,
of no benefit to society.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
In what weird way.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And I'm sure some neuropsychologists could explain this to us,
you know, the whole endorphin phenomenon, where we've gone from
a world of reading and watching long things and thinking
to you know, just quick hitters, to now TikTok videos
and just endorphins. It's endorphins society. We're not even entertained anymore,
(04:57):
or just hit with little doses of endorphins. There's got
to be well. Obviously there's a dark side of that,
the negative, the endorphins you get from negative stuff. That's
what I'm babbling my way toward of conflict and anger
and that person sucks and I hate them, but you
(05:20):
get an endorphin shot out of that. People love to
hate things. Yeah, We've talked over the years about people
who have that family dynamic where being mad about something
or someone is part of the deal in your family
and it kind of keeps it and you know, people
who like chaos. But yeah, we've expanded that from like
(05:42):
our families, for our workplaces or whatever too. Just the
whole country got it angry every day about something and
if there's not something to be angry about, let's exaggerate
one or make one up, right, right, what's important is
the constant state of vegitation, right, whether there's good reason
for it's like you're saying, it must feel good on
some level or makes you feel alive.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, And it's funny because I'm part of a large,
large organization slash community.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Are you a sir?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Do we have to call you sir? When you're England?
Do you place? Don't place? Don't? I did?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, but don't bother Sir Elton. That might be okay
for him to me, it's high falutin. I'm I'm just
old Joe, Sir Joe. Anyway, Ah, what was I saying? Oh,
I'm part of a community that it's got the negativity
poison growing within and the whole people bond more quickly
(06:42):
over what they don't like and more like deeply over
what they hate than what they love. It's a weird
and corrossive aspect of human beings. But that negative energy
is growing to the point that the glass being eighty
eight point four percent full is practically ignored, and everybody's
(07:04):
hyper focused on the negativity. And I wonder if that's
just the human conditioner, that's part of the mark the
modern world or what. But it's absolutely a temptation in
these royal, confusing, fast changing days to be obsessed with
the negative stuff. I came so close for having to
(07:27):
be or getting to be. It depends on how you
look at it. M a viral video of fighting a
guy on an airplane, like, so close.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, what's your big chance? It was? Yeah, it was
so close.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And the great thing, of course, is I would have
been one hundred percent justified with lots of witnesses, so
I would have had no I would have had all
of the hero stops, lunatic coverage. Yes, the good guy
gone fire. Yeah, exactly right, exactly so they dot you anyway.
But let's not think about that.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Right of course.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And I actually was thinking about how when they interviewed
me one night, because I'm sure they would have had
to like take us both off the plane as we
were rolling around on the floor. I would have worked
in a mention of it. I will tell more of
the story on the Armstrong and Getty show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Would have been brilliant, I know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But I'll have to tell the near fight story, which
parents particularly will really enjoy. I'm sure Joe's got plenty
of stories.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll tell you the biggest thing that happened, and I'm
not going to go on in it. I just the sentence.
The biggest thing that happened over the weekend for the
whole world for the next thousand years or a hundred
years anyway, is that meeting with Putin and Mody and
she China, India Russia getting together in their summit is huge.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That is a that's a major thing going on right there.
But we won't go on to it right now.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, that's fine, I will I will hold back my
thoughts on how that came to be, that unfortunate triumphrate
of are you serious?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Came to be?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
All right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armser.
I got a that's exciting too. I caught a cold
started yesterday, started yesterday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, September, second year,
twenty twenty five. Oh, brand new month. Rent is due,
dang it. We are Armstrong in getting and we approve
of this program. Any opinions on the relative size.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Of the rent? Anybody on your radar screen at all? Yes?
Or no? Michael, the rent it's too damn There we
go there he is all right. Let's beg in the
show officially now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
According de FCC Rules of Regulations ten rested and read ready,
here we go at Mark.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Football player Travis Kelsey is expected to retire after the
twenty twenty six NFL season. So he marries rich then
stops working. Who does he think he is a woman?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Groans A friend of mine who's a big gutfelt Tent
explained to me that his snarky, like mean teenager punch
lines are a running joke on the show, and he
makes fun of himself. Okay, okay, so it's supposed to
be over the top. That's part of the bit.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right here, I am doing that again, I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Okay, Yeah, I can see that in context with a
bunch of them in a row, how that would be
a thing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, right. That is.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
One of the big stories that we missed over the
time we were off was Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey
getting engaged, which that's.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
An utterly insignificant story.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's as meaningless as Trump's latest argument with whomever. Yeah,
we all tried to call you to have some sort
of group phone call, but we couldn't figure out how
to dial internationally. So yeah, I think there's a plus
involved eleven or I don't know. Anyway, We've got Katie's
headlines on the way and so much. Here's a text
line in case you want to join in. Text line
(10:50):
is four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Hey ranks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We were off for a week basically, and now we're
back and Congress comes back in session, and I heard
several places that Epstein is going to be one of
the main focuses. Oh my god, I know that hurt.
I you everybody had the same reaction. It's going to
come from several different directions, several different like sub Epstein
(11:25):
strategies and and you know, priorities within the whole Epstein universe.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh, it's quite shocked. I shared this was it on Twitter?
I think so?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
The headline of the Sunday Times of London as I
was kicking around at the airport reading British newspapers, front
page story, front page story, Prince Andrew in touch with
Epstein up to five years later than he'd claimed. Really
front page stuff people into it. Yeah, well that brought
(11:57):
down a big royal and I yes, they care about that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know. Did you get a sense of that
in England, how much they care about the row?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Actually I did. I talked to a number of people
about it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That and immigration were two topics I found very interesting
engaging Brits in conversation about. Okay, but having read the story,
it was just very gossipy and of no greater significance
than somebody caught being bad.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I feel like your teeth or crooked even after a week.
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
That is interesting. I hadn't noticed. I didn't think that
would happen so fast. You know, one thing I learned
on vacation is if you walk five to seven miles
every single day, you can eat and drink whatever you want. Yeah,
I've done that, Kane White, I've done that on many vacations.
I did not do that on this one, where I
was either sitting on a plane or in a car
(12:48):
pretty much the entire time. Eight Like I was in
a contest and practically broke my scale this morning.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So wow, wow as a hog. Yeah, well done.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I lost all sense of decency and control for like
five days. I mean just like all sense, Like like
I forgot that eating caring about was a thing, like
I was an eight year old, Like you just eat
whatever's in front of you and you don't even think
about it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's what happened to me for some reason. I don't
know if I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But when you say you lost all sense of decency,
I mean you didn't come a sex crimes and you
know the horrors or anything like that. No, just eating
and drinking eating wise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did a
bang bangs assaulting elderly people, was defecating in public.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I lost all sense of decens I had robbed a school.
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
So many deserts like I had a pie at a
restaurant and then Henry and I get to the hotel
and there's a McDonald's across the street. You want to
go to get a mcfluory, Sure, I say, and we
go after eating. You know, just so again, so wow,
I don't know what happened to me. Something happened. I
do want to get into the big meeting that's happening
on the other side of the world between she and
Putin and the things that are saying. It is absolutely horrifying.
(14:04):
And if you don't care about that sort of thing,
fine you should. It's going to rechange the way the
entire world structures. We've got the eightieth anniversary of the
end of World War II, the official signing of the
document I think tomorrow. In the global order since then
pretty much has been dominated by us.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That is coming to an end, I believe.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And they're working as hard as they can to accomplish
that very thing. In a closely related story. You probably
heard on Friday that the US Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit world seven of four that Trump's whole
tariff thing overstepped the bounds of presidential power, the emergency.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Authority i ee PA thing was abused.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now that's all been put on hold until the Supreme
Court can take a serious look at it. This is
going to be one of the block busters of court
versus executive power history.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was reading Mark Alprin's take on it, and according
to the smart people he is interviewing one, the Supreme
Court is really really going to take their time on this,
so it will It's not like we're going to get
a snap judgment.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It could be quite a while.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And he said all indications from the smart people he
talks to are the Supreme Courts going to say, sure.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You can do what you were doing. Really yeah, which
surprised me.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Huh, Yeah, I would be surprised if that is correct.
But it is intriguing indeed that mister Helpern believes, so
I would be shocked. And the reason that's closely you
know related, unless you're not in case you're not familiar
with this is Trump partly to punish Russia and punish
India for doing business with Russia and buying oil. Has
(15:49):
leveled these devastating tariffs against India just when India was
really cozying up to the United States. And essentially, perhaps
you believe rightfully, I don't, but maybe you do. He
is essentially driven mody in the Indians into the arms
of Shijinping and by extension, the war criminal of Ukraine,
(16:09):
Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But they were.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Already buying oil anyway, so are already kind of in
the arms. Yeah, yeah, but you could, you could lure
them away. They were moving toward the United States. It
was never going to be you know, easy nor quick.
But two, you know, close to three billion of the
(16:35):
population of the earth gathering together there with their three
world leaders. It's it's it's a major deal, and smiling
and shaking hands and pretty much agree in the one
thing we got to do is screw the United States.
It's it's it's not a minor story, right, And then
a little fat headed North Korea is going to join
him here soon. So that's the first time that's ever happened.
(16:56):
You know what I just read. He's taken his super
secut You're a super luxurious train, partly because they don't
have a plane good enough to ride on. All they
have is like crappy Soviet era planes, and they're not
safe enough for him to be on. It's one of
the reasons he always takes the train. He travels by
train because they don't really have air travel, right.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
They have ICBMs, but not reliable airplanes.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Wow, I do have to tell the story about the
near fight on the airplane, among a whole bunch of
other things.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
We got to get to Newswise. I hope you can
stick around.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Arm Strong and Geeddy, my brother and his wife, Kayla.
This was their first time to burning Man. Kayla woke up,
wasn't filling. My brother Casey ran oh and said I
need help. Within minutes they had like an obg I
n in there in his underwear helping. There were no
signs of pregnancy. We were at the lake the weekend before.
(17:49):
She was in a swimming suit. She did not look pregnant.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah that's a woman, uh talking about how her niece.
I guess because that's the end had a baby at
burning Man and didn't know she was pregnant. So that's
a good story for the kid when the kid grows up. Yeah,
I had you at Burning Man. Thank god there happened
to be a doctor there. I didn't even know I
was pregnant while I was partying at Burning Man.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's good story right there.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's a that's for ninety nine point nine percent of
women on earth. That story is chest ahead. Scrap, no kidding,
You didn't know from women to men. This is going
to lead me into my nearly getting in a fight
on a plane story front page USA Today, cover story,
Male anger finds.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
A new home online. Dun duntuon.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Here's the thing to be afraid of, all right, And
it's about how the online focus on masculinity comes at
a time when study after study shows men in America
experiencing unprecedented levels of loneliness, fatigue, depression, and suicide.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That is all.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
True and probably should be discus more. I wonder if
that has anything to do with the fifty five shootings
in Chicago over the weekend. Eight deaths so far. They're
still counting, because I haven't got all the numbers in yet.
I don't know how it is at the end of
the summer. You're just yelling at us yourself earlier on
(19:16):
how it's time to get down to business and do
you get serious and the rest of it. You know,
you get to the end of the summer, you realize, God,
there's like five six people I've meant to shoot the
summer and I haven't yet.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I've got to get this done.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, you say to yourself, going to be snowing soon.
You say to yourself, where did summer go? So many
rivals I haven't shot, and here it is so many
minor conflicts I'm meant to settle with deadly force.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I better get to it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Anyway, back to the USA today, and all those awful
statistics about men coming to their apparent rescue are groomed,
muscular men in polished videos, smoking cigars, sitting in a
private jet doing push ups, and whispering that men's pain
is because of women. Women are greedy, untr where the
weak and inferior, these influencers say, and then they get
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into how this is affecting young men.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't have any idea. I know that exists.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't have any idea now how big an influence
that is on the men of the world. I really
don't know. I personally don't know any that are into
that one.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I have a great, great story about the whole online
influencer thing that I want to get to later. But yeah,
I mean that sort of thing does exist, and some
of these guys have followings, absolutely true. But the number
of men who are demonized merely for being men and
told that their masculinity is by definition in itself toxic.
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It doesn't have to be toxic, just to be masculine
is ugly, and they're given that message as little boys
at school that they need to sit down and shut
up and act like the little girls.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The number of guys who have to deal with that
crap as opposed to the vanishingly small number that want
to go all tape Brothers on womankind. This plays please.
It's a elephant and an ant. So that's an odd
lead into this. I don't know if it has anything
to do with it, But there was an angry man
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on a plane I got on you so flying domestically
over the weekend. One charming thing that I learned with
a couple of different airports was nobody has any idea
what the new rules are for what you put on
what you take off, what you take out of your bag,
what you can leave in your bag. Nobody has any idea,
apparently including the TSA agents, because it just it varies
(21:28):
from person to person. Even had one TSA agent say
to me, you can leave that on, then the next
TSA agency said, you got agent said you got to
take that off, and the behind me rolled his eyes. Okay,
the here he goes again, like, if y'all can't get together
on anyway, what do you want out of us?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So I get on this plane and I'm walking down
the aisle headed back to my proletariat seats. I don't
sit up in the first class section. I'm back with
the restless. And I'm walking back to my seat, and
there is a mom who I had seen in the
waiting line in the airport.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
She's got like a one and a half year old.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And she's, you know, doing the bouncing up and down,
trying to keep the one and a half year old
calm and all that sort of stuff. And she's sitting there,
and then there's this guy, and I see the whole thing.
I end up seeing the whole thing because I'm just
standing right there waiting to get back. She says, my
husband's not booked to be sitting with us. Would you
mind it trading seats with him? And he said plan better,
(22:31):
and she said, I'm sorry what he said, plan better?
And she said, you don't need to be so plan better.
All I did was that plan better. What is wrong
with you, Sarah, I'm just plan better. I mean, he's screaming,
and he is right next to my elbow. I mean
his head is right next to my elbow because I'm
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standing in the aisle and he's about like mid late thirties,
skinny guy, shaved head, dressed like he's, you know, not
a crazy person, but with the look of a he's
the expression of a crazy person. Anyway, everybody was like
immediately on edge because this guy was clearly unhinged. And
uh and I thought, if he touches that woman holding
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that baby, I am gonna choke this guy out.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I mean, because I was right there.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I mean I put I put my bag in my
other arm.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It would have taken nothing to do this.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But then then and her husband, who's two rows further up,
same exact seats, So it would have changed this guy's
life not at all.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
He doesn't have to change seats. He could have said no,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Or or he could have done what I would have
done and said sure, it's exactly the same seat to
Wars Forward. What do I care? But the husband said, hey,
you don't need to You don't need to talk to
my wife like that plan better.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I've f foot with my kid before I planned better. Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow, this guy's some sort of motivational speaker, evidently with
a very narrow focus to his presentation and be summed
up in two words.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And so he was so over the top, so quick.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I think everybody was stunned, like what do you even
where do you even go with this conversation?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
My favorite part of the whole.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Thing was though, coming from behind me as a British accent,
you all the reason that society is breaking down. There's
people like you and acting like this that is a
problem with society. It's like what he said, and it
sounded like we had a narrator. It was like David
Attenborough from the Wilderness shows. Here we see the young
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man in his natural habitat angry I a woman who has.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
A kid or what.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That is so funny that it was a brit because
while I was in England, then you can get on
with the story. While I was in England, I thought
I was meant to be British.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I'm more comfortable here.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Everybody's a bit more restrained on her light and considerably
I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So the only thing left of the story is so
the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It makes it pretty clear that he is not going
to do anything physically, and the line's moving, so I
got a move.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So I get back to my seat.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I sit down and I say to the two seat
mates I've got, including this one guy who turns out
to be wound so flipp and tight. I mean, this guy,
he was chomping his gun the whole time, tapping his
fingers on his keyboard. I don't know if he like
did cocaine before he got on the plane, or if
that's just the way he rolls all the time, big tall, strong,
young dude. And I'm telling him the story and he says,
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oh where is he?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Where is he? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Man, I don't care if I get on CNN, I'm
ready to take this guy out. What he is fantastic.
There's like five people on this plane ready to fight
right now. Wow, So you've got the brit who's kind
of functioning as a as a very restrained, dignified, intelligent
commentator on the good and the bad that is laid
(25:54):
arrayed before us. There's a mother and a young man,
a mother and a baby she needs to protect from
the wild demand.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Let's see how it goes well.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And then the young man's like, you know, you make
a good point, granddad, let's whoop some ass, which you know,
also standing up for decency. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
what happened. It looked like a whole bunch of people
moved their row, like all of them, like two entire
rows moved to accommodate the mom, kid and husband because
it didn't make any difference. They were in that section
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where all the seats are the same, and then they
all stared at Baldy mcrage the rest of the flight.
Guy next to me though, he just he spent all
his time looking down the aisle, like, come on, do something, guy,
do something.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know why he had so much energy he
needed to work out well who he got on the
plane angry at. It's funny how I we hear these stories.
We talk about him all the time, where somebody's acting
out on a plane, and I think.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
How is there not some young guy to take care
of this on my plane?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
For whatever reason, just the luck of the draw, there
seemed to be a whole bunch of people that we're
looking forward to the opportunity to take care.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Waffle House Airlines exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Exactly. Waffle House has an airline. Now, yeah, we fly
at two in the morning. Sin as the waffle house closes,
everybody goes straight from the waffle House, the bar, to
the waffle House onto the plane. That's the way the
waffle House Airlines works.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And there's a lot of fighting.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Waffle House air Oh oh no, no oh, why any who?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You know, I gotta remember that line though.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
My wife says, you know, I really should have brought
some heelslag gutter.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, just and immediately go to eleven. Exactly. Yeah, shriek
that at people more often.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
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They have the La Rams at number six as the
sixth best team in the NFL headed into the season.
Number five, Your Buffalo Bills, who can ever see to
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get past the Chiefs?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Number four Green Bay Packers this year, that's okay, storied franchise.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Number three they've been to the Super Bowl five years
in a row or something like that. Your Kansas City
Chiefs are the third best team, although it does talk
about the distraction. That may be the whole wedding Travis
Kelcey Taylor Swift thing. Who knows everybody's older. Number two
Baltimore Ravens MM and number one defending champ Tush push
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Philadelphia Eagles season starts Thursday with your Thursday night games.
Then you got Chargers Chiefs in Brazil. A ten thousand
mile road trip for those two teams. Wow, quoth the
Ravens never more Eagles. There were Ravens at the Tower
of London, which we visited in Britain. Man, that's a
(29:50):
scary bird. It's like a crow was you know, too
close to a nuclear leak. It is just gigantic. I
mean it's like the world's biggest crow. You're terrified they
watch you with their beady black eyes. We have so
many more vacation stories. We got mail bag, we got
some news of the day, We got lots to get
to stay with us.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
A federal judge said it was illegal for Trump to
send troops to LA. That story is breaking in that
will either get overturned or not. And wake me when
that's over. That's all I got to say about that. Yeah,
fair enough. You can get a federal judge to declare
about anything.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Here's your freedom.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Loving close of the day, in honor of my recent
trip to the UK, going with quotes from English authors
this week and other Well, I guess Winston Churchill was
an author. Indeed, quick aside, Holy cow, everybody said, go
to the Winston Churchill War Rooms Displaying museum and how
great it was. You were absolutely right. It was absolutely fanned.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, whether you're a Churchill file or not,
just as a preservation of history in a museum is wonderful.
But from Churchill, and I've quoted this, I paraphrased this
several times, talking about several different topics that frequently come up. Now,
this is not the end, It is not even the
beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end
of the beginning. He lost before World War Two was
(31:25):
even older. He got booted out as prime minister. Oh yeah, yeah,
and then it was brought back several years later and
had a miserable, unsuccessful time of him.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Life's like that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Sometimes mailbago save the world.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
They fire you.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Oh, let's see like this note from Lee, as outrageous
as it is, I popped into my first grade daughter's
classroom the day before school they introduce ourselves to the
new teacher. Was immediately shocked by the sight of the
latest intersex inclusive Progress Pride flag in place of the
American flag. No American flag in sight, I wrote the principle,
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immediately met him in the morning with a flag just
in case. The answer was, oh, we just have a
shortage of American flags.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I brought my own.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I'm gratified to report that the principal had already handled it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Returned the American flag through its rightful place.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
After finding it under the teacher's desk dead context. This
teacher is actually a very nice person, just young and misled.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Is from another country.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Can you imagine taking down the country of the flag
in which you are a guest and replacing it with
one of your ideology.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No, unless you're a complete lunatic.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I have to tell you what they did on the
first day of history class in my son's school.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It is something oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And then she goes on to mention that parenteaching teacher conferences,
as we do every year, we'll be respectfully letting the
teacher know that we are not at all okay with
gender ideology being introduced and discussed in the classroom. I
hope everyone listening does the same. This message needs to
be coming from every sane, reasonable, regular parent amonga.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
We need to become the majority.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
If schools are flooded with this message, it'll be harder
to ignore. And her husband is referring to her as
the new Captain Freedom.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
What an honor.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I would agree, it's funny. Having discussed it before vacation,
now I see it everywhere, the idea of a what's
the preference distortion?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Maybe the right term. It's close enough.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Where so many people sit silently thinking, yeah, I better
not say anything because I hate this, but nobody else
is saying anything. I must be in a minority or
a small minority. And then when somebody finally speaks up
a preference cascade where you realize, wait a minute, we're
all thinking this was insane and we're just sitting there
taking it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I agree with her completely, respectfully, with kindness, but every
single damn person needs to say, by the way, I
don't approve of this.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I think it's wrong, and I don't think you should
be doing it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I've crossed over to the side where I think we
need to just get rid of the public school system.
We need to start over, do away with it, give
people money to go to private schools or hire private tutors.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
The whole thing just needs to go. Yeah, I want
to hear more about that.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I absolutely I don't know that the body can be
saved because the infection has gone so far what I mean, Yeah, yeah,
speaking of things that have gone very very far. And
Luisa and very very hot Lamesa California Rights, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
We missed you. Thanks, it's sweet, Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
We're curious how much you heard from locals about the
immigration issue in England. There seem to have been a
lot of anti immigration protests in the last couple of weeks. Yeah,
in all sorts of countries, including there are a bunch
of them in Australia. Also, there came that shocking news
about a fourteen year old girl who has arrested for
carrying a knife to try to protect her twelve year
old sister from adult Pakistani men. Sadly, it seems like
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one part of the Britain government spends more time punishing legal
citizens for expressing their opinions and prosecuting and legal immigrants
for actual violent crimes. Yeah, that's absolutely true. It was striking.
The first three Brits who I talked to at length
all brought up the immigration situation. One I kind of
(35:19):
nudged to bring it up, and they were all very
polite about it and very British about it, but all
of them said, way too much. It's changing our society
way too quickly, and these people believe things that are
abhorrent to us, and they find our beliefs abhorrent.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It was not a.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Mild ha ha. Why can't they speak English over there?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
It was absolutely a feeling of being threatened.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Ah, but the you know, the cow is out of
the barn or whatever before you would use what what
what could happen?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Now? Well, that's that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It relates to a great piece I came across about
how the French government, and this was not supposed to
get out, but it got out, is explaining how the
Muslim Brotherhood is trying to take over France through peaceful,
mostly political social maneuvers, and so at this point, I
think all that's left is to resist that as hard
(36:30):
as you can, unless you want to be live under
sharia law.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, you'll have to talk more about that. We got
a bunch of stuff to get to.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
If you miss an hour or a segment, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
A lot on the way
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Arm Strong and Jetty and arms All.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Right, stop the music, Michael, stop the music. This is
it's It's Summer's over. Labor day. Summer's over. The fun,
the frivolity, the joking around, the hot dogs, the parades,
the laying in the sun, being on a bolt, all
that craps over.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We understand that. Now summers all for music. What are
you in?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Time for the serious part of life? Life gets serious now. Wow,
Congress is back in session, kids are back in school,
taxes will be here. The fun is over. Time to
grow up? Is everybody ready to grow up? Put on
your big boy pants, show up, put helmet, grab a
paint brush, right.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Take off my Hawaiian shirt. Take off your Hawaiian shirt? Yeah?
What are you doing in a Hawaiian shirt?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
This is the serious part of the year after labor,
not Hawaii, and you're not in Hawaii. I was gonna
announce my attention to smoke dope and not pay attention
to any of this crap everything as long as I live.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Maybe during this we're out of step.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Maybe during the summer, but not now because it is
post labor day.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Oh and today we are.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Under the tutelage of our general manager, who cares nothing matters,
and so what if it did? Or Chuck, my good
friend Chuck made a new friend in Britain, Chuck, you
know him as King Charles. But we really hit it off, okay,
and you know it's sat around having a pint at
the end of the day and compareing notes and a
couple of chuckles.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Good stuff. Really enjoyed it. And you said that Diana
long day. Huh what?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh, come on, God rest her soul, of course, he said, oh, yes, no,
it's a general manager.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The mess, the mess, back to the mess. Yeah, we
have this revelation every time we go on vacations. Joe's
on a full vacation in England. I took half the
week off, went to the Midwest, went to Iowa, saw
a lot of my family history with my son Henry,
who really loved that and look forward to look forward
(02:40):
to talking about that later. But I barely paid attention
to the news. I paid attention to the news less
than I usually do. On vacation, but I was aware
enough of there were like six one day Trump firestorm
stories that I don't even know what they were, and
I'd have to work to look them up now, because
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one week later nobody cares, let alone, did it not
change the face of history. One week later, nobody even
remembers that happened. But they were everything everybody was talking
about for a day, And I think I'm glad I
missed that. I don't mind that I didn't have.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
To talk about that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Why was anybody talking about it if one week later
it doesn't matter to anyone?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
There's a lot of big stuff going on, a lot
of important stuff. Alladoring stuff, certainly, but that's use, resting, amusing, etc.
The big important stuff is usually not what's being talked about, though,
at least on cable news and talk radio in the
front pages of newspapers.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right, you know, it's funny, you should bring that up.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I was getting ready for the show and flipping through
various news sources and my wife was across the tail
couldn't see the screen I was watching, and people were
yelling at each other, and she said, what are you watching?
I said, it's just a city council meeting somewhere where
they're disagreeing about something that they don't really explain because
(03:57):
there's probably two sides of this story, but it conflict,
and so they're showing it to me, right, And it's
just tiresome, particularly when you back off for a little
bit and you get a little perspective.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And I know a lot of you good people, you know,
you drop us.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Notes and say, you know, the constant just stress and anger,
and I don't know that I can take it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, I can't. I don't intend to. What doesn't do
anybody any good?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Learning more information about a non important story is of
no benefit to anyone. Added division and angst is of course,
of no benefit to society.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
In what weird way.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And I'm sure some neuropsychologists could explain this to us,
you know, the whole endorphin phenomenon, where we've gone from
a world of reading and watching long things and thinking
to you know, just quick hitters, to now TikTok videos
and just endorphins. It's endorphins society. We're not even entertained anymore,
(04:57):
or just hit with little doses of endorphins. There's got
to be well. Obviously there's a dark side of that,
the negative, the endorphins you get from negative stuff. That's
what I'm babbling my way toward of conflict and anger
and that person sucks and I hate them, but you
(05:20):
get an endorphin shot out of that. People love to
hate things. Yeah, We've talked over the years about people
who have that family dynamic where being mad about something
or someone is part of the deal in your family
and it kind of keeps it and you know, people
who like chaos. But yeah, we've expanded that from like
(05:42):
our families, for our workplaces or whatever too. Just the
whole country got it angry every day about something and
if there's not something to be angry about, let's exaggerate
one or make one up, right, right, what's important is
the constant state of vegitation, right, whether there's good reason
for it's like you're saying, it must feel good on
some level or makes you feel alive.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, And it's funny because I'm part of a large,
large organization slash community.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Are you a sir?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Do we have to call you sir? When you're England?
Do you place? Don't place? Don't? I did?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, but don't bother Sir Elton. That might be okay
for him to me, it's high falutin. I'm I'm just
old Joe, Sir Joe. Anyway, Ah, what was I saying? Oh,
I'm part of a community that it's got the negativity
poison growing within and the whole people bond more quickly
(06:42):
over what they don't like and more like deeply over
what they hate than what they love. It's a weird
and corrossive aspect of human beings. But that negative energy
is growing to the point that the glass being eighty
eight point four percent full is practically ignored, and everybody's
(07:04):
hyper focused on the negativity. And I wonder if that's
just the human conditioner, that's part of the mark the
modern world or what. But it's absolutely a temptation in
these royal, confusing, fast changing days to be obsessed with
the negative stuff. I came so close for having to
(07:27):
be or getting to be. It depends on how you
look at it. M a viral video of fighting a
guy on an airplane, like, so close.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh, what's your big chance? It was? Yeah, it was
so close.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And the great thing, of course, is I would have
been one hundred percent justified with lots of witnesses, so
I would have had no I would have had all
of the hero stops, lunatic coverage. Yes, the good guy
gone fire. Yeah, exactly right, exactly so they dot you anyway.
But let's not think about that.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Right of course.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And I actually was thinking about how when they interviewed
me one night, because I'm sure they would have had
to like take us both off the plane as we
were rolling around on the floor. I would have worked
in a mention of it. I will tell more of
the story on the Armstrong and Getty show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Would have been brilliant, I know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
But I'll have to tell the near fight story, which
parents particularly will really enjoy. I'm sure Joe's got plenty
of stories.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'll tell you the biggest thing that happened, and I'm
not going to go on in it. I just the sentence.
The biggest thing that happened over the weekend for the
whole world for the next thousand years or a hundred
years anyway, is that meeting with Putin and Mody and
she China, India Russia getting together in their summit is huge.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That is a that's a major thing going on right there.
But we won't go on to it right now.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No, that's fine, I will I will hold back my
thoughts on how that came to be, that unfortunate triumphrate
of are you serious?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Came to be?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
All right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armser.
I got a that's exciting too. I caught a cold
started yesterday, started yesterday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday, September, second year,
twenty twenty five. Oh, brand new month. Rent is due,
dang it. We are Armstrong in getting and we approve
of this program. Any opinions on the relative size.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Of the rent? Anybody on your radar screen at all? Yes?
Or no? Michael, the rent it's too damn There we
go there he is all right. Let's beg in the
show officially now.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
According de FCC Rules of Regulations ten rested and read ready,
here we go at Mark.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Football player Travis Kelsey is expected to retire after the
twenty twenty six NFL season. So he marries rich then
stops working. Who does he think he is a woman?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Groans A friend of mine who's a big gutfelt Tent
explained to me that his snarky, like mean teenager punch
lines are a running joke on the show, and he
makes fun of himself. Okay, okay, so it's supposed to
be over the top. That's part of the bit.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Right here, I am doing that again, I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Okay, Yeah, I can see that in context with a
bunch of them in a row, how that would be
a thing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, right. That is.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
One of the big stories that we missed over the
time we were off was Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey
getting engaged, which that's.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
An utterly insignificant story.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
That's as meaningless as Trump's latest argument with whomever. Yeah,
we all tried to call you to have some sort
of group phone call, but we couldn't figure out how
to dial internationally. So yeah, I think there's a plus
involved eleven or I don't know. Anyway, We've got Katie's
headlines on the way and so much. Here's a text
line in case you want to join in. Text line
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is four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Hey ranks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
We were off for a week basically, and now we're
back and Congress comes back in session, and I heard
several places that Epstein is going to be one of
the main focuses. Oh my god, I know that hurt.
I you everybody had the same reaction. It's going to
come from several different directions, several different like sub Epstein
(11:25):
strategies and and you know, priorities within the whole Epstein universe.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh, it's quite shocked. I shared this was it on Twitter?
I think so?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
The headline of the Sunday Times of London as I
was kicking around at the airport reading British newspapers, front
page story, front page story, Prince Andrew in touch with
Epstein up to five years later than he'd claimed. Really
front page stuff people into it. Yeah, well that brought
(11:57):
down a big royal and I yes, they care about that.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know. Did you get a sense of that
in England, how much they care about the row?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Actually I did. I talked to a number of people
about it.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That and immigration were two topics I found very interesting
engaging Brits in conversation about. Okay, but having read the story,
it was just very gossipy and of no greater significance
than somebody caught being bad.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I feel like your teeth or crooked even after a week.
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
That is interesting. I hadn't noticed. I didn't think that
would happen so fast. You know, one thing I learned
on vacation is if you walk five to seven miles
every single day, you can eat and drink whatever you want. Yeah,
I've done that, Kane White, I've done that on many vacations.
I did not do that on this one, where I
was either sitting on a plane or in a car
(12:48):
pretty much the entire time. Eight Like I was in
a contest and practically broke my scale this morning.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So wow, wow as a hog. Yeah, well done.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I lost all sense of decency and control for like
five days. I mean just like all sense, Like like
I forgot that eating caring about was a thing, like
I was an eight year old, Like you just eat
whatever's in front of you and you don't even think
about it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's what happened to me for some reason. I don't
know if I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But when you say you lost all sense of decency,
I mean you didn't come a sex crimes and you
know the horrors or anything like that. No, just eating
and drinking eating wise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did a
bang bangs assaulting elderly people, was defecating in public.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I lost all sense of decens I had robbed a school.
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
So many deserts like I had a pie at a
restaurant and then Henry and I get to the hotel
and there's a McDonald's across the street. You want to
go to get a mcfluory, Sure, I say, and we
go after eating. You know, just so again, so wow,
I don't know what happened to me. Something happened. I
do want to get into the big meeting that's happening
on the other side of the world between she and
Putin and the things that are saying. It is absolutely horrifying.
(14:04):
And if you don't care about that sort of thing,
fine you should. It's going to rechange the way the
entire world structures. We've got the eightieth anniversary of the
end of World War II, the official signing of the
document I think tomorrow. In the global order since then
pretty much has been dominated by us.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That is coming to an end, I believe.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
And they're working as hard as they can to accomplish
that very thing. In a closely related story. You probably
heard on Friday that the US Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit world seven of four that Trump's whole
tariff thing overstepped the bounds of presidential power, the emergency.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Authority i ee PA thing was abused.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now that's all been put on hold until the Supreme
Court can take a serious look at it. This is
going to be one of the block busters of court
versus executive power history.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was reading Mark Alprin's take on it, and according
to the smart people he is interviewing one, the Supreme
Court is really really going to take their time on this,
so it will It's not like we're going to get
a snap judgment.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It could be quite a while.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And he said all indications from the smart people he
talks to are the Supreme Courts going to say, sure.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You can do what you were doing. Really yeah, which
surprised me.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Huh, Yeah, I would be surprised if that is correct.
But it is intriguing indeed that mister Helpern believes, so
I would be shocked. And the reason that's closely you
know related, unless you're not in case you're not familiar
with this is Trump partly to punish Russia and punish
India for doing business with Russia and buying oil. Has
(15:49):
leveled these devastating tariffs against India just when India was
really cozying up to the United States. And essentially, perhaps
you believe rightfully, I don't, but maybe you do. He
is essentially driven mody in the Indians into the arms
of Shijinping and by extension, the war criminal of Ukraine,
(16:09):
Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But they were.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Already buying oil anyway, so are already kind of in
the arms. Yeah, yeah, but you could, you could lure
them away. They were moving toward the United States. It
was never going to be you know, easy nor quick.
But two, you know, close to three billion of the
(16:35):
population of the earth gathering together there with their three
world leaders. It's it's it's a major deal, and smiling
and shaking hands and pretty much agree in the one
thing we got to do is screw the United States.
It's it's it's not a minor story, right, And then
a little fat headed North Korea is going to join
him here soon. So that's the first time that's ever happened.
(16:56):
You know what I just read. He's taken his super
secut You're a super luxurious train, partly because they don't
have a plane good enough to ride on. All they
have is like crappy Soviet era planes, and they're not
safe enough for him to be on. It's one of
the reasons he always takes the train. He travels by
train because they don't really have air travel, right.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
They have ICBMs, but not reliable airplanes.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Wow, I do have to tell the story about the
near fight on the airplane, among a whole bunch of
other things.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
We got to get to Newswise. I hope you can
stick around.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Arm Strong and Geeddy, my brother and his wife, Kayla.
This was their first time to burning Man. Kayla woke up,
wasn't filling. My brother Casey ran oh and said I
need help. Within minutes they had like an obg I
n in there in his underwear helping. There were no
signs of pregnancy. We were at the lake the weekend before.
(17:49):
She was in a swimming suit. She did not look pregnant.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah that's a woman, uh talking about how her niece.
I guess because that's the end had a baby at
burning Man and didn't know she was pregnant. So that's
a good story for the kid when the kid grows up. Yeah,
I had you at Burning Man. Thank god there happened
to be a doctor there. I didn't even know I
was pregnant while I was partying at Burning Man.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's good story right there.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's a that's for ninety nine point nine percent of
women on earth. That story is chest ahead. Scrap, no kidding,
You didn't know from women to men. This is going
to lead me into my nearly getting in a fight
on a plane story front page USA Today, cover story,
Male anger finds.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
A new home online. Dun duntuon.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Here's the thing to be afraid of, all right, And
it's about how the online focus on masculinity comes at
a time when study after study shows men in America
experiencing unprecedented levels of loneliness, fatigue, depression, and suicide.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That is all.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
True and probably should be discus more. I wonder if
that has anything to do with the fifty five shootings
in Chicago over the weekend. Eight deaths so far. They're
still counting, because I haven't got all the numbers in yet.
I don't know how it is at the end of
the summer. You're just yelling at us yourself earlier on
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how it's time to get down to business and do
you get serious and the rest of it. You know,
you get to the end of the summer, you realize, God,
there's like five six people I've meant to shoot the
summer and I haven't yet.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I've got to get this done.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, you say to yourself, going to be snowing soon.
You say to yourself, where did summer go? So many
rivals I haven't shot, and here it is so many
minor conflicts I'm meant to settle with deadly force.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I better get to it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Anyway, back to the USA today, and all those awful
statistics about men coming to their apparent rescue are groomed,
muscular men in polished videos, smoking cigars, sitting in a
private jet doing push ups, and whispering that men's pain
is because of women. Women are greedy, untr where the
weak and inferior, these influencers say, and then they get
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into how this is affecting young men.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't have any idea. I know that exists.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't have any idea now how big an influence
that is on the men of the world. I really
don't know. I personally don't know any that are into
that one.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I have a great, great story about the whole online
influencer thing that I want to get to later. But yeah,
I mean that sort of thing does exist, and some
of these guys have followings, absolutely true. But the number
of men who are demonized merely for being men and
told that their masculinity is by definition in itself toxic.
(20:38):
It doesn't have to be toxic, just to be masculine
is ugly, and they're given that message as little boys
at school that they need to sit down and shut
up and act like the little girls.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
The number of guys who have to deal with that
crap as opposed to the vanishingly small number that want
to go all tape Brothers on womankind. This plays please.
It's a elephant and an ant. So that's an odd
lead into this. I don't know if it has anything
to do with it, But there was an angry man
(21:07):
on a plane I got on you so flying domestically
over the weekend. One charming thing that I learned with
a couple of different airports was nobody has any idea
what the new rules are for what you put on
what you take off, what you take out of your bag,
what you can leave in your bag. Nobody has any idea,
apparently including the TSA agents, because it just it varies
(21:28):
from person to person. Even had one TSA agent say
to me, you can leave that on, then the next
TSA agency said, you got agent said you got to
take that off, and the behind me rolled his eyes. Okay,
the here he goes again, like, if y'all can't get together
on anyway, what do you want out of us?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So I get on this plane and I'm walking down
the aisle headed back to my proletariat seats. I don't
sit up in the first class section. I'm back with
the restless. And I'm walking back to my seat, and
there is a mom who I had seen in the
waiting line in the airport.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
She's got like a one and a half year old.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And she's, you know, doing the bouncing up and down,
trying to keep the one and a half year old
calm and all that sort of stuff. And she's sitting there,
and then there's this guy, and I see the whole thing.
I end up seeing the whole thing because I'm just
standing right there waiting to get back. She says, my
husband's not booked to be sitting with us. Would you
mind it trading seats with him? And he said plan better,
(22:31):
and she said, I'm sorry what he said, plan better?
And she said, you don't need to be so plan better.
All I did was that plan better. What is wrong
with you, Sarah, I'm just plan better. I mean, he's screaming,
and he is right next to my elbow. I mean
his head is right next to my elbow because I'm
(22:52):
standing in the aisle and he's about like mid late thirties,
skinny guy, shaved head, dressed like he's, you know, not
a crazy person, but with the look of a he's
the expression of a crazy person. Anyway, everybody was like
immediately on edge because this guy was clearly unhinged. And
uh and I thought, if he touches that woman holding
(23:15):
that baby, I am gonna choke this guy out.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I mean, because I was right there.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I mean I put I put my bag in my
other arm.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It would have taken nothing to do this.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But then then and her husband, who's two rows further up,
same exact seats, So it would have changed this guy's
life not at all.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
He doesn't have to change seats. He could have said no,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Or or he could have done what I would have
done and said sure, it's exactly the same seat to
Wars Forward. What do I care? But the husband said, hey,
you don't need to You don't need to talk to
my wife like that plan better.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I've f foot with my kid before I planned better. Wow.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow, this guy's some sort of motivational speaker, evidently with
a very narrow focus to his presentation and be summed
up in two words.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
And so he was so over the top, so quick.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I think everybody was stunned, like what do you even
where do you even go with this conversation?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
My favorite part of the whole.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Thing was though, coming from behind me as a British accent,
you all the reason that society is breaking down. There's
people like you and acting like this that is a
problem with society. It's like what he said, and it
sounded like we had a narrator. It was like David
Attenborough from the Wilderness shows. Here we see the young
(24:30):
man in his natural habitat angry I a woman who has.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
A kid or what.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That is so funny that it was a brit because
while I was in England, then you can get on
with the story. While I was in England, I thought
I was meant to be British.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I'm more comfortable here.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Everybody's a bit more restrained on her light and considerably
I want to hear.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So the only thing left of the story is so
the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It makes it pretty clear that he is not going
to do anything physically, and the line's moving, so I
got a move.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So I get back to my seat.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I sit down and I say to the two seat
mates I've got, including this one guy who turns out
to be wound so flipp and tight. I mean, this guy,
he was chomping his gun the whole time, tapping his
fingers on his keyboard. I don't know if he like
did cocaine before he got on the plane, or if
that's just the way he rolls all the time, big tall, strong,
young dude. And I'm telling him the story and he says,
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oh where is he?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Where is he? Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Man, I don't care if I get on CNN, I'm
ready to take this guy out. What he is fantastic.
There's like five people on this plane ready to fight
right now. Wow, So you've got the brit who's kind
of functioning as a as a very restrained, dignified, intelligent
commentator on the good and the bad that is laid
(25:54):
arrayed before us. There's a mother and a young man,
a mother and a baby she needs to protect from
the wild demand.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Let's see how it goes well.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And then the young man's like, you know, you make
a good point, granddad, let's whoop some ass, which you know,
also standing up for decency. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
what happened. It looked like a whole bunch of people
moved their row, like all of them, like two entire
rows moved to accommodate the mom, kid and husband because
it didn't make any difference. They were in that section
(26:24):
where all the seats are the same, and then they
all stared at Baldy mcrage the rest of the flight.
Guy next to me though, he just he spent all
his time looking down the aisle, like, come on, do something, guy,
do something.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know why he had so much energy he
needed to work out well who he got on the
plane angry at. It's funny how I we hear these stories.
We talk about him all the time, where somebody's acting
out on a plane, and I think.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
How is there not some young guy to take care
of this on my plane?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
For whatever reason, just the luck of the draw, there
seemed to be a whole bunch of people that we're
looking forward to the opportunity to take care.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Waffle House Airlines exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Exactly. Waffle House has an airline. Now, yeah, we fly
at two in the morning. Sin as the waffle house closes,
everybody goes straight from the waffle House, the bar, to
the waffle House onto the plane. That's the way the
waffle House Airlines works.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And there's a lot of fighting.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Waffle House air Oh oh no, no oh, why any who?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You know, I gotta remember that line though.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
My wife says, you know, I really should have brought
some heelslag gutter.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, just and immediately go to eleven. Exactly. Yeah, shriek
that at people more often.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Hey, the NFL season starts on Thursday, so I'm kind
of excited about that. In USA today has got the
rankings as we head into the season, the power rankings,
who's at the top, who's at the bottom. Will hit
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Prize Picks use the code armstrong. Here's the power rankings
for USA today. I'll count up from I'll count up
from six just because we're on our beloved Los Angeles station.
They have the La Rams at number six as the
sixth best team in the NFL headed into the season.
Number five, Your Buffalo Bills, who can ever see to
(29:01):
get past the Chiefs?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Number four Green Bay Packers this year, that's okay, storied franchise.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Number three they've been to the Super Bowl five years
in a row or something like that. Your Kansas City
Chiefs are the third best team, although it does talk
about the distraction. That may be the whole wedding Travis
Kelcey Taylor Swift thing. Who knows everybody's older. Number two
Baltimore Ravens MM and number one defending champ Tush push
(29:29):
Philadelphia Eagles season starts Thursday with your Thursday night games.
Then you got Chargers Chiefs in Brazil. A ten thousand
mile road trip for those two teams. Wow, quoth the
Ravens never more Eagles. There were Ravens at the Tower
of London, which we visited in Britain. Man, that's a
(29:50):
scary bird. It's like a crow was you know, too
close to a nuclear leak. It is just gigantic. I
mean it's like the world's biggest crow. You're terrified they
watch you with their beady black eyes. We have so
many more vacation stories. We got mail bag, we got
some news of the day, We got lots to get
to stay with us.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
A federal judge said it was illegal for Trump to
send troops to LA. That story is breaking in that
will either get overturned or not. And wake me when
that's over. That's all I got to say about that. Yeah,
fair enough. You can get a federal judge to declare
about anything.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Here's your freedom.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Loving close of the day, in honor of my recent
trip to the UK, going with quotes from English authors
this week and other Well, I guess Winston Churchill was
an author. Indeed, quick aside, Holy cow, everybody said, go
to the Winston Churchill War Rooms Displaying museum and how
great it was. You were absolutely right. It was absolutely fanned.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, whether you're a Churchill file or not,
just as a preservation of history in a museum is wonderful.
But from Churchill, and I've quoted this, I paraphrased this
several times, talking about several different topics that frequently come up. Now,
this is not the end, It is not even the
beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end
of the beginning. He lost before World War Two was
(31:25):
even older. He got booted out as prime minister. Oh yeah, yeah,
and then it was brought back several years later and
had a miserable, unsuccessful time of him.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Life's like that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Sometimes mailbago save the world.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
They fire you.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Oh, let's see like this note from Lee, as outrageous
as it is, I popped into my first grade daughter's
classroom the day before school they introduce ourselves to the
new teacher. Was immediately shocked by the sight of the
latest intersex inclusive Progress Pride flag in place of the
American flag. No American flag in sight, I wrote the principle,
(32:04):
immediately met him in the morning with a flag just
in case. The answer was, oh, we just have a
shortage of American flags.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I brought my own.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I'm gratified to report that the principal had already handled it.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Returned the American flag through its rightful place.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
After finding it under the teacher's desk dead context. This
teacher is actually a very nice person, just young and misled.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Is from another country.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Can you imagine taking down the country of the flag
in which you are a guest and replacing it with
one of your ideology.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No, unless you're a complete lunatic.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I have to tell you what they did on the
first day of history class in my son's school.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
It is something oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
And then she goes on to mention that parenteaching teacher conferences,
as we do every year, we'll be respectfully letting the
teacher know that we are not at all okay with
gender ideology being introduced and discussed in the classroom. I
hope everyone listening does the same. This message needs to
be coming from every sane, reasonable, regular parent amonga.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
We need to become the majority.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
If schools are flooded with this message, it'll be harder
to ignore. And her husband is referring to her as
the new Captain Freedom.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
What an honor.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I would agree, it's funny. Having discussed it before vacation,
now I see it everywhere, the idea of a what's
the preference distortion?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Maybe the right term. It's close enough.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Where so many people sit silently thinking, yeah, I better
not say anything because I hate this, but nobody else
is saying anything. I must be in a minority or
a small minority. And then when somebody finally speaks up
a preference cascade where you realize, wait a minute, we're
all thinking this was insane and we're just sitting there
taking it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I agree with her completely, respectfully, with kindness, but every
single damn person needs to say, by the way, I
don't approve of this.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I think it's wrong, and I don't think you should
be doing it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I've crossed over to the side where I think we
need to just get rid of the public school system.
We need to start over, do away with it, give
people money to go to private schools or hire private tutors.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
The whole thing just needs to go. Yeah, I want
to hear more about that.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I absolutely I don't know that the body can be
saved because the infection has gone so far what I mean, Yeah, yeah,
speaking of things that have gone very very far. And
Luisa and very very hot Lamesa California Rights, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
We missed you. Thanks, it's sweet, Joe.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
We're curious how much you heard from locals about the
immigration issue in England. There seem to have been a
lot of anti immigration protests in the last couple of weeks. Yeah,
in all sorts of countries, including there are a bunch
of them in Australia. Also, there came that shocking news
about a fourteen year old girl who has arrested for
carrying a knife to try to protect her twelve year
old sister from adult Pakistani men. Sadly, it seems like
(34:59):
one part of the Britain government spends more time punishing legal
citizens for expressing their opinions and prosecuting and legal immigrants
for actual violent crimes. Yeah, that's absolutely true. It was striking.
The first three Brits who I talked to at length
all brought up the immigration situation. One I kind of
(35:19):
nudged to bring it up, and they were all very
polite about it and very British about it, but all
of them said, way too much. It's changing our society
way too quickly, and these people believe things that are
abhorrent to us, and they find our beliefs abhorrent.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It was not a.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Mild ha ha. Why can't they speak English over there?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
It was absolutely a feeling of being threatened.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Ah, but the you know, the cow is out of
the barn or whatever before you would use what what
what could happen?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Now? Well, that's that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It relates to a great piece I came across about
how the French government, and this was not supposed to
get out, but it got out, is explaining how the
Muslim Brotherhood is trying to take over France through peaceful,
mostly political social maneuvers, and so at this point, I
think all that's left is to resist that as hard
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as you can, unless you want to be live under
sharia law.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, you'll have to talk more about that. We got
a bunch of stuff to get to.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
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