October 1, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Anything not important & Pete Hegseth's meeting with military leaders
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- The conflict in the Middle East
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Jettie and he armsrong Edy Why from Studio C see Senior.
How exciting it is to be in a brand new monk,
deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and getting communications compounded.
(00:41):
Today we are under the tutelage of our general manager ze.
I don't know baseball playoffs. I took in a couple
of games yesterday. Parts of games yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I really enjoying that. And it's nice to do something
like that. Yeah, oh, we take.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It in the baseball It's just the thing that's just
the pleasurable as opposed to important. Pleasure is pleasurable.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And I'll tell you this, it's great if you're if
your big horse pitcher is doing well, you leave.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Him in, You leave him in. I don't like the
modern way blah blah blah, saber metrics problem. I don't like. Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I was listening to Pete Hegsith on the way in
more of him some stuff that I hadn't heard yet.
We'll have to play today. From his big speech yesterday,
he gave to the generals where he said no more
fat generals.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
US. That was certainly part of the message. Yeah, there's
absolutely part of that, no more fat generals. I don't
want to see any more fat generals and admirals walk
in the halls of the Pentagon. Yeah. Oh, I'm telling
you how many guts are going to be sucked in today?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
As they strolled all well, there had to be a
few guys who think, oh, Betty's talking about me.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh my god, I got an office on those same FLOORA.
But he's talking about me. But the new grooming standards
and fitness standards, I'm wondering if we shouldn't bring them
to the Armstrong and Getty show ship. He's calling it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He says, it's the broken windows policy applied to the Pentagon.
So what Pete said, Yeah, I gotta start shaving, do
some pushups, Michael, do something about those eyebrows. They're contributed
to a complete lack of discipline.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'll work on them. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It looked like they could attack somebody. This is the
War Department. But one thing I heard mentioned today. But
I need to do a little research to figure out
what it is that he wants to uh bring back
the policy that drill instructors can put their hands on recruits.
Apparently they had. I knew that they had outlawed at partially.
I know this because of my dad and my brother,
(02:43):
so my it must have. Maybe it's when they outlawed
drill sergeants being able to touch recruits at all. My
brother was talking about when he went through basic training,
which would have been in the eighties, they would they
would occasionally smack you, like on the rifle range. If
your head was too up, they come by smack you
on that. Might need to keep your head down. But
my dad when he went through the well probably.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Worth pointing out so it doesn't get blown off in combat.
And your dad, right, are horribly crippled. Right, yes, but
my dad said that when he went through basic training
they could punch you. That was part of the deal, right. Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I don't know if that's necessary or not. Although you
do want tough people and yet yeah, I don't know.
Do you want people that the first time they've ever
been punched or had any physical adversity when they're actually
in a battle.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't know. I don't know. I have no experience
real life experience in this area. I would say if
you pulled warriors over the last five thousand years and
asked him that series of questions, the answer would not
be well, woke, okay. It would probably not be the
kind and gentle Barney the dinosaur style of you know,
(03:55):
dealing with human beings that is in vogue these days, right,
because we're not taught talking about coaches hitting players well,
how to toughening up your players for a sport, or
you know. I don't know that gets pretty you wish,
but people are actually going to head into battle and
defend themselves in the country and the people around them.
I don't know. That's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But all the coverage I've heard, outside of some Fox
commentators and you know, people like us, has all been
oh boy, I don't know about this. I was even
listening to a news nation today and they presented some
of Pete's clips and he's going to He's going to
hold people to one standard for physical fitness, even if
(04:40):
that means fewer women in combat. Jim, how do we
feel about that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
If you think that is controversial, I don't even know
how to talk to you right right, what that illustrates
is the unbelievable extent to which people will repeat what
they think they're supposed to say and come to believe it.
It's absolutely I hate to use the term no brainer.
(05:05):
It makes it sound like I have no brain, but
it is a no brainer that you don't give somebody
a break in terms of physical fitness for combat based
on anything. What else? Maybe they it's a congenital condition
he has that one of his arms doesn't work very well.
It's not his faults, so we're going to lower a stand. No,
(05:25):
it's about keeping people alive. It's not a jobs program
or the country alive. Well right, yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But the fact that anybody can present that is controversial
to me. I don't even know where I would start
having a conversation with you. I feel like there'd be
no point. We're so far apart, there's no point in
even trying to because if it isn't self evident that
that's a good idea, well then we're just.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So far apart in our worldview. Well, I don't think
that being far apart is the problem, because if they
were to come up with a well reasoned set of
ideas backing up their opinion, then all right, let's get
it on, let's talk to each other. I'll bet this
will be interesting. But if they are merely parroting what
they think they're supposed to say, and in this case,
(06:09):
it's going to be ninety nine to one percentage wise
the number of people who say it's it's wrong and
discriminatory to hold women to the same standards for combatists men.
They are so clearly not a person who can think
independently that you're wasting your time. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It'll be interesting to see if he's actually able to
implement some of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know, I'm hoping the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Media is an outlier in terms of people's view on
this sort of thing, because, like I said, most of
the coverage was, well, I don't know, we're gonna have
fewer women because they have a different standard. They're not
gonna have a different standard for men and women. Women
aren't quite as strong. Why would we have the same standard.
It's like, I get it, I don't even know where
to start.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, you are looking at a different goal than the
rest of us, right, Your goal is to have the
proper quota of women and people with a withered arm
or whatever. In combat, ours is to win and protect
the country. You know, I take back what I said
about you're wasting your time because they have no independent thought.
The simple truth is a large number of voters are sheep.
(07:16):
They don't think independently. They say what they think they're
supposed to say. And you know, so you have to
sway a certain number of them and sit them down
and talk to them and explain to them, Well, if
somebody gets wounded and he weighs two hundred and forty pounds,
that gal that you're advocating for can't save his life.
She just can't. She might want to, and I know
(07:37):
the stories of mothers pulling cars up into the air
to save their baby, blah blah blah, but she just can't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well, I hope the implementation can go. No more
fat generals, that's what he said, No more fat generals.
Let's start the show officially, because you know it's a
big one, jem.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Sorry, my emphasis needs to be on fat admirals because
a general at least is operating mostly on the ground,
where you have fairly unlimited space. An admiral is on
a ship. I mean, there's limited square footage on a
ship certainly a submarine. So fat Admirals are getting off
easy in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Plus a good sink you just think it rub right, duh,
you have to displace more water to keep you afloat.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Thank you. It's just physics there, all right. I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, October first,
the rent is due, the rent. It's too damn.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Damn right, it is he you're twenty twenty five or
Armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Fat Admirals would be a pretty good band. Tamw Okay,
let's beg in the show officially now according to the
f SEC rules or eggs. Here we go. The show
starts at Mark fer Service. The facility is closed to
allow for vehicular remain on the side one across the street.
Everyone must be in this restricted to depart the area.
(09:07):
So that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So that's Ai Trump ordering malcontents to disperse around federal buildings.
Is that like an official government thing? Or is that
a joke? Or I well, it's both. He was he
it they The.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Computer was reading the official legal warning to protesters who
were violating the law. But it was in Trump's voice
to troll them, so it was both by the book
and hilarious.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Speaking of trolling, we talked to yesterday about the AI
video that Trump put out about the shutdown that had
Schumer there and Hakim Jeffreys there, and Schumer was saying
things in Schumer's voice that weren't accurate but were funny,
and Hakim Jefferys was wearing a sombrero and had a
big mustache with mariachi music playing in the background, with
the idea being that they're trying to get it healthcare
(10:01):
for illegals. Yes, he put out a new video today
that is similar with Schumer saying even more crazy things,
but this includes Trump as the mariachi band. It's all
a bunch of Trumps playing the trumpet and the big
guitar and all that sort of.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
On his official site. These are odd times, especially with
the nightmare of the government shut down.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Here's my favorite stat about that whole thing. The government
shut down for a full month the last time we
did it. Do you even remember shut down for entire month?
And John even remember that it happened?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Honestly, what I remember is how hard they tried to
make it hurt normal people, right, because without those efforts,
most people would just go about their business.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I was listening to some of the doom and gloom
on one of the channels, and I thought, man, if
you have to try this hard to come up with
something that is bad with the government shutting down, there's
too much government. You shouldn't have to work this hard
to come up with anything that could possibly upset anyone.
(11:16):
You know, I have some example. Here's my example. On
the news, they said, for instance, Friday inflation numbers are
supposed to be coming out. A lot of people are
looking forward to those, and those numbers will not come
out on time.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I thought, that's that's your Oh my god, the government
shut down. I gotta text my wife. We're not going
to feed the dog until the government shutdown is over.
We can't, I mean, just not knowing the inflation numbers.
It's just we've got to take precautions, honey. Turn off
the water at the main valve outside of the house,
cancel the natural gas. Uh yeah. Here's my only analysis
(11:51):
of it. It's a very weird shutdown because it's not
over anything specific. It is merely the democratic party desperate
to show that they're fighting Trump because they're aware of
their miserable, miserable unpopularity. And you know whether this works
or not, we'll all find out together and it'll be fine.
But it is a real gamble by a beast that
(12:16):
is in its death throws.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's going to open this evening or Friday night while
you're sleep, or next Tuesday, and you'll never think about
it again in your life.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's where it's here's the Armstrong and Getty challenge. Please
note in your own life, if you'd have noticed it
without being told that the government shut down and then
when it opens, would you have noticed that without being
told on any lefl No, that's a unicorn. That person
(12:47):
will not exist.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Who is a You're not a federal employee, obviously that
you would have noticed it shutting down or starting back up. No,
not a chance. Okay, we've got headlines on the way
and much more news to get to. Hope you can
stay here. I took in some of Yankees Red Sox
and Dodgers Reds, but Yankees Red Sox, I mean, you
(13:09):
cannot get better than this for Major League Baseball. Yankee Stadium,
bottom of the ninth bases loaded. That's as good as
it gets for all of baseball.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Crazy so awesome. Yeah, Yankees lost, by the way. Oh
it's good. It's good. Bases loaded, no outs and Yankees lost,
says the New York centric mainstream media figure Jack Armstrong.
Do you mean the Red Sox one? Well, no, it's media.
Bases loaded, no outs in a close game and the
(13:44):
pitcher went strikeout, flyout, strikeout and got out of the end.
It was awesome. Yeah, it's like the tension of a
last second fifty yard field goal stretched over ten minutes. Yeah,
it was cool. Oh my god, is it in? Is
it in? Is it? But for ten straight? That's what
I love about baseball at its best. Let's figure out
(14:05):
who's reporting what it's The Lee's story with Katie Green.
Delighted to have you back, Katie Hey.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Friends, all right, starting with the Free Beacon. Dozens of
ships in Greta Tuneberg's flotilla quote secretly owned.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
By Hamas really really? Oh she probably doesn't know that,
but that's not surprising. Well that reminds me coming up
great analysis of why the Arab States have lined up
behind this deal. Oh okay, I want to hear that
it will shock you.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
From NBC, members of Congress to still get paid during
government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They always make sure of that, Thank God.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
From USA today, many Americans fear that they can't afford
pets anymore due.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
To rising vet costs. Eh, none of my business.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But the number of people I know who openly state
that they're struggling and have of one to three petsdang it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
What of the reasons I didn't have a dog when
I was young and poor? Is there expensive? Oh yeah, yeah,
you have no idea how expensive until you get one?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Even cats From Fox News, Diddy's ex Cassie fears swift
retribution if Rapper walks free, as prosecutors pushed for eleven year.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Sentence, he can walk free.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, there's a chance he's getting sentenced on.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Friday, all right. Yeah, the defense is asking for time served.
He'll get more than that.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
From the Washington Post, Fat Bear Week has a new champion,
and he is a total chunk.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I saw good looking bear has a broken jaw. They
should have fat General Week where we all see pictures
of fat generals to pick our favorite line. Oh right,
fun and I texted everybody the concert poster for fat
Admirals their first show. He check your text.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yes, that will be going on the wall of my
studio at my house, by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Excellent from the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
According to new survey, sixty five percent of Americans have
already planned their own funerals.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Two thirds have I haven't. I'm in the minority. I haven't,
And I'm closer to the grave than you know, the
average person's true true my life.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Study fines two billion people feast on insects regularly.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Is it time that we embraced a hybrid diet? Oh
they've been pushing this on me since I was a kid.
Are you beating bugs? Someday? I'm not. They've got lots
of protein, et cetera, et cetera. You know in Africa,
et cetera, et cetera, ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And finally from the Babylon b NFL hoping to win
back conservatives with Super Bowl performance by Spanish speaking man.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
In address Nah, good one.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh boy, I thought I had heard a couple of
not that long ago that bugs actually don't have really
more protein or anything than of other things.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So there's no many deat bugs. There's plenty of other
alternatives rights. My life has been living proof of that.
I think I've eaten very few bugs.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Indeeds, I had a whole plate of bugs in Mexico
one time, not knowing it. Ants and crickets and all
kinds of.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
They crawled onto your I'll have to tell the story sometimes,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
The two year anniversary of the October seventh Hamas terror
attack that started this war is a week from today.
Hamas has less time than that to review the twenty
point peace plan and get back to the White House
with a yes or no.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We're going to do about three or four days. We'll
see how it is. That means.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Hamas has told this weekend to accept President Trump's twenty
principles of peace or prepare for an Israeli military onslaught
backed by the United States.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Hamas has to agree they don't. There's got to be
very tough on them. But it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I didn't realize they'd put a deadline on that soon.
So this weekend Hamas has got to come back with
a yes or no.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, and the first of all the newsy stuff before
the analysis. The militant group has told mediators that it
is absolutely seriously looking at it. It has reservations about
some of the terms of the twenty point plan, including
the stipulation that it disarm and destroy its weapons, which
is it is previously rejected over and over again. Amas
(18:25):
also says releasing all forty eight hostages within three days
is laid out in the Trump Plan, would be difficult
because it has lost contact in recent weeks with some
other militant groups holding a number of them. Wow, I
don't know. I would suggest that you try really really
hard to find them.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, the fact that Israel is saying you lay down
your arms and we'll you know, we'll forgive, forgive you.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They don't use that word, but we won't. We won't
come after you anymore. We'll call it off.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's a heck of a thing for people that came
into your country and murdered babies and grandma's.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, it's an amnesty at right, right. So anyway, one
I came across two pieces of analysis that I thought
were great, won by Michael Orrin in the Free Press,
and his problem with it is that there's a real
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lack of timetables, and he, like me, believes that Hamas
will act like it's complying or it agrees or what
have you. But then the foot dragging, the tiptoeing right
up to the line of violating the agreement or actually
violating it will begin, and they will begin sewing chaos
as quickly as possible. And he's troubled by the lack
(19:44):
of structure here. I have a feeling that will come along,
especially with Trump involved, if they in a Putin like way,
although Trump's response to Putin hasn't been everything I think
it should be. But if they in a Putin like
way string him along over and over again, he's going
to say, all right, you got a week to achieve
these three goals, or it's all off. We're going to
(20:06):
attack you anyway. Michael larn by the way, a badass warrior.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
From the way back in the day in some of
Israel's biggest wars and wrote a fantastic book called Six
Days of War.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
If you ever want to read about that one an
excellent tip. Six Days of War terrific. So this guy
has no illusions about Hamas cooperating. His belief is that
they will only cooperate to the extent that they are
forced to cooperate. And he says, potentially fatal flaw on
the plan is its assumption that after nearly forty years
of radical Islamism, countless terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented level
(20:37):
of international support, HAMAS will change its DNA, Which is
what I was saying yesterday. If their stated purpose is
to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth,
specifically Israel, becoming some sort of men's club or civic
organization is going to be a difficult transition.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, I still think the hope is if they agree
to it. You get so many countries involved, including a
whole bunch of Arab countries that are running that Gaza strip,
and HAMAS just isn't in no position to do what
they've done in the past.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, they die for lack of you know, fertilizer support relevance.
So here's the thing I found really really interesting why
Katar changed course on Hamas. And this is written by
Emit Siegel, who was is a chief political commentator in
Israeli media and the author of a book of history
(21:32):
about Israeli politics and that sort of thing. He says,
it's too early to know if they'll only be an
agreement to the warrant Gaza and whether it'll be implemented.
But there is a reason for President Trump's optimism that
Hamas might release hostages, give up its weapons, and leave power.
Change is afoot not in Gaza, but in Doha, capital
(21:53):
of Qatar. The government of Qatar is pressuring its proteges
to accept the deal. The regime which thwarted the last
hostage deal changed its mind because the war has reached
its home. After the IDF operated in five Muslim capitals Gaza, Beirut, Damascus,
Sanna and Tehran, it hit Doha the attempted killing of
(22:16):
senior MAAS officials in broad daylight, and Katar signaled to
the natural gas Emirate that it could not continue the
double game it has played in recent years. Despite the
threats against Israel, the Qataris are now working to make
Hamas except the demands from Jerusalem.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Wow, that's interesting if that's true, If that made the difference,
And that's a heck of a thing that Netanyaho called
from the oval opposed.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Sorry about that precisely. He let cutter lotterr save face.
That's why that call was made, That's why it was
done publicly. Netin Yahoo made a show of I'm sorry
I did that. I want peace between us. I'm absolutely
not pushing you or bullying you or threatening you. So
(23:02):
you have credibility in the eyes of your people. But
the Katari leadership is like, holy crap, now they're coming
at us. This is over. Hamas, Is this guy right?
He sure makes a convincing case. I'll bet he's right.
Makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And and and just logically, you finally get to some
of those gazillionaires, they're like, I got a really great
life here. I live on the entire floor of one
of the tallest buildings in the world. I got six
different bent leafs and a harem of women, and I
don't really want to get involved in the nitty gritty
of this.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So right, and if you're the Kataris who really fancy
themselves that the world diplomats and and all, and just
because they've got an enormous trove of natural gas under them, uh,
the idea that they're gonna get punched in the face
repeatedly to what hide Hamas, These guys are thinking, no way,
for the reasons you just enunciated.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Qatar had recently defended this gent rights Hamas's efforts from
Maiden Power and its demands for a full Israeli withdrawal
in exchange for leasing the hostages full Israeli withdrawal. Now
Doah is among those threatening Hamas with destruction if it
won't accept this deal, which is pretty much the opposite,
and Prime Minister Netanya Who's telephone apology for violating Cutter's
(24:22):
sovereignty is lip service to devert divert attention from the Emirates. Turnaround.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I think Hamas has got no choice but to say
yes to this and then maybe they try to wriggle
out of it or whatever, but I think you know,
by this weekend they got to say yes.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Can you imagine the way.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Israel is going to roll in there given what they
said the other day in the Oval Office where Netya
who said we'll do what we gotta do and Trump said,
go ahead, we got you, got you got our we
got your back.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh my god, do what you need to do. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree. The The only question mark is how
does this unfold over time as coalitions start to pursue
their own self interest and are threatened to buy this
development at home or over how much restive fundamentalist population.
In a couple of million years, the sun's going to
(25:15):
burn out and we're all going to freeze to death.
I mean, how much time next? Yeah, well, no, that's
what that's that's the whole point. Things are nice and
tight for three weeks. It's like, do you remember when
who was asking the question? Was it? I think it
may have been one of the podcasts the National Review
guys do right after October seventh? Right after I think
(25:36):
it was Rich Lowry asked the panel, all right, how
long until Israel's support starts to fracture among the Western governments?
And you know, the guy said a week, one guy said,
two weeks, one guy said three months. Whatever, will the
the solidity, the strength of will that exists right now
(25:57):
still exist in two months, two years? That'll be the
interesting part.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I don't know, but the cratering support for Israel in
the United States is a problem because we're definitely their
biggest cheerleader and.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Give them tons of money in military equipment. Yeah. It
seems though that the elites in both parties say, yeah,
the voters don't know what they're talking about. Are the
people taking the support in our ally?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
But for Now the next generation of leaders might not
feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Especially if there's some sort of Mumdani type. Yeah, it's
almost certainly going to be the mayor of New York. Now,
I've resigned myself to it.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
You know, AOC is probably going to run against Schumer.
Schumer will be out, you know, the old school like him,
Democrats that were in support Israel.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
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Speaker 2 (27:20):
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
Josh Allen, quarterback for one of the only two unbeaten
teams in the NFL, the Buffalo Bill. Did you see
that long run he had the other day? Someday you
gotta look that up on YouTube or something. He puts
his He did the opposite of what every quarterback does.
He put his head down with stiff arming people and
running people over right in the middle of the field.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, boy, as big as a house, right, that helps? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And dainty little Patrick Mahomes, Wow, you've turned on him.
I haven't turned on him. He's just he shouldn't be
trying to pop people over.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Dainty is no compliment to an NFL player. Limping around
a dainty limper, says you why, I gotta just see
some gal ripped. Pat Mahomes was handing out, like his wristband,
his headband to young fans at the tunnel entrance, and
he handed his headband to a little girl who was
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a Chiefs fan and a Giants fan. Lady snatched it
away from the little girl, and now, of course she's
gone viral.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
And the Kansas City Karen Okay, I saw I saw
a Kansas City Karen thing up on the screen yester
day and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Know what it was. Yeah, okay, we're supposed to be
angry about her threatener fired. Oh boy, oh boy. Yeah,
I need to know all about her. I want to
see some tweet that she put out five years ago,
lose their job, run out of her house.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It was funny. We were going over the audio that
we have available for the show today and it will
amuse and delight you, I promise, But a number of
the clips struck me as and these are fairly big stories,
so it's it's absolutely appropriate that that our fabulous crack
staff brings them. But a lot of them fall into
the category of things I think we're supposed to be
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mad about or offended by. I've got a story. It's
so good. I can't wait to tell it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
And hats off to the San Francisco Chronicle for going
big on the first social equity weed store. How it
went under but everybody got rich even as it went under.
It's classic socialism. I mean, just Eric, you wanna Yeah,
And and good for the Chronicle for laying that story out.
Maybe we'll get to that how or too. I mean,
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it's just it's absolutely classic why socialism doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah. And we also have a special, very special gender
Madness Celebrity edition. Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh, and I got to talk about the lift driver
I had the other day who was from Lebanon. Great
story he told me as he drove me around, lots
of stuff on the way. We got mailbag next day
here I named the wrong s whole country. My lyft
driver was from Syria. But I do want to tell
that story, him coming to this country and raising his
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kids and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It is fantastic. Maybe we'll get to that next hour.
Love that. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day,
continuing our theme of change. This from John D. Rockefeller. Ah,
I'm a big I wrote a very large biography about
him once. One of the few Americans who still reads
according to you yesterday, don't be afraid to give up
the good to go for the great.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Of course, here was a man who thought big, dream big.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
He ran the standard oil. He was one of the
richest people that's ever lived to justin for inflation. Gave
ten percent of his money always from the beginning to
the end, back to the church.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Because he was very religious. Man. Interesting mailbag woot woot,
drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty
dot com. Number of comments on Pete Heggss's speech to
the troops yesterday. This is from alien anonymous. I'm so
excited to hear hegsas pep talk. My son is West
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Point grad currently working through his service at port List.
Both senior leadership and enlisted regularly fallout when they go
on their two mile jogs because they aren't fit enough
to even run two miles. Oh my god. And he
said the average mile time for those that do finish
is twelve minutes. Not okay? Is that with a packer,
just like in shorts and T shirts? It's just pta
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I think, oh man, twelve minutes and half of them
can't even do it. Yeah, yeah, or quite a few
of them anyway. Then this from a kerlonel in the
United States Air Force, Colonel Anonymous. I want to give
you some insight from those serving currently on the sec
war's speech. And the colonel is currently serving in the Pentagon,
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by the way, and he says not fat I'm assuming
apparently not that we might want to hear indeed his perspective,
and we do. He said, this was the biggest breath
of fresh air I've heard in years, possibly decades, if
we follow through on it. It's all about merit, war
fighting standards, focus. These things are sorely lacking in the
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department today, taken over by hundreds of hours of mandatory
online training, lowered standards, fearing retention, and a focus on
feelings not the mission. Fat, out of shape and undertrained
members litter the halls of the Pentagon. Yes, many generals,
all the way down to our combat units. Things like shaving,
waivers and fitness may seem frivolous to the public, but
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they are the little standards that build a foundation for
the bigger ones. His example of broken window is perfect
for this the time of leaders fearing risk taking and
innovation is hopefully over. I have more on that too.
Until yesterday, commanders would fear any mistake because it would
probably be the end of their career. That's what I
was reading about, the one mistake culture, where if anything
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goes the least bit wrong, it's a permanent blot on
your record in your career is essentially over. So nobody
dares innovate anyway, Bubba. Until yesterday, Oh, there it is
end of their career. This stifled risk taking and trying
something new. We're at the weakest we have ever been
since I've been in the military from a resourcing and
capability standpoint. This shift in mindset and standards will hopefully
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help fix some of that. I have a son who's
about to join in. Many of the policies and issues
have made me double think recommending it to him. Peak's
Golden rule is exactly how we need to be fighting
and leading. And then Colonel Isle summarizes, I know this
speech will rile a lot of feathers, but everyone I
serve with that I've talked to is one hundred percent
on board with this message and ready to move out
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making our military more lethal and establishing the deterrence the
world needs.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Wow, every cable news panel I saw outside of Fox
was just you know, the generals were just sitting there
hating every bit.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Of this and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know some might be and they need to go
and they should lead's and that Pete said that, actually
he said, and if you're not digging this, if you're thinking,
oh no, well and you probably should retire, do the
right thing for your country. We thank you for your service,
but retire right right amen to that.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
You know, we're constantly saying, remember, the kids didn't raise themselves. Well,
the Pentagon didn't raise itself. Now you can understand why
a lot of the leadership that's been bad. You can
understand why there are some people who think I rose
up through the ranks doing what I was told to
do by making an emphasis on making sure we got
enough women and trans people and that nobody feels offended
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and triggered.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And now you're gonna get rid of me. But you
know that's we can't worry about that. We got to
have a lethal fighting force. And what we see here
is the power of leadership. Marxists in particular like to
pretend that everything is the result of these uh, these
you know, shifts in humanity, these broad trends and blah blah.
Leadership doesn't really matter. It's all more or less inevitable.
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No leadership matters a lot. Moving on to a different topic,
This is uh Judy from Portland reading an article on
coin six news website that's one of the big news
stations in Portland.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
The article is titled Portland We're not a war zone.
That's what you'd expect people that live close saying the
protests aren't a big deal. It's generally peaceful, blah blah blah,
we don't need the federal government blah blah blah, except
you can't really walk your dog in that area because
of the tear gas and minor inconveniences like that. But
the last paragraph was my favorite. She writes. Coin six
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News contacted several businesses in the area, but all declined
to speak on camera for fear of retaliation from protest. Wow.
Nothing to see in Portland, just local business people universally
afraid of the peaceful protesters. Do these reporters not read
the words they write? Wow? Great note, Judy, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, that's really interesting stuff. I can feel it in
my bones. This is going to be a good one today.
We've only got one hour down. We got three hours
to go in my bones. Or maybe I'm just not
drinking enough milk. It's hard to tell. But if you
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I don't know baseball playoffs. I took in a couple
of games yesterday. Parts of games yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I really enjoying that. And it's nice to do something
like that. Yeah, oh, we take.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It in the baseball It's just the thing that's just
the pleasurable as opposed to important. Pleasure is pleasurable.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And I'll tell you this, it's great if you're if
your big horse pitcher is doing well, you leave.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Him in, You leave him in. I don't like the
modern way blah blah blah, saber metrics problem. I don't like. Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I was listening to Pete Hegsith on the way in
more of him some stuff that I hadn't heard yet.
We'll have to play today. From his big speech yesterday,
he gave to the generals where he said no more
fat generals.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
US. That was certainly part of the message. Yeah, there's
absolutely part of that, no more fat generals. I don't
want to see any more fat generals and admirals walk
in the halls of the Pentagon. Yeah. Oh, I'm telling
you how many guts are going to be sucked in today?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
As they strolled all well, there had to be a
few guys who think, oh, Betty's talking about me.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh my god, I got an office on those same FLOORA.
But he's talking about me. But the new grooming standards
and fitness standards, I'm wondering if we shouldn't bring them
to the Armstrong and Getty show ship. He's calling it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He says, it's the broken windows policy applied to the Pentagon.
So what Pete said, Yeah, I gotta start shaving, do
some pushups, Michael, do something about those eyebrows. They're contributed
to a complete lack of discipline.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'll work on them. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It looked like they could attack somebody. This is the
War Department. But one thing I heard mentioned today. But
I need to do a little research to figure out
what it is that he wants to uh bring back
the policy that drill instructors can put their hands on recruits.
Apparently they had. I knew that they had outlawed at partially.
I know this because of my dad and my brother,
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so my it must have. Maybe it's when they outlawed
drill sergeants being able to touch recruits at all. My
brother was talking about when he went through basic training,
which would have been in the eighties, they would they
would occasionally smack you, like on the rifle range. If
your head was too up, they come by smack you
on that. Might need to keep your head down. But
my dad when he went through the well probably.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Worth pointing out so it doesn't get blown off in combat.
And your dad, right, are horribly crippled. Right, yes, but
my dad said that when he went through basic training
they could punch you. That was part of the deal, right. Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I don't know if that's necessary or not. Although you
do want tough people and yet yeah, I don't know.
Do you want people that the first time they've ever
been punched or had any physical adversity when they're actually
in a battle.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't know. I don't know. I have no experience
real life experience in this area. I would say if
you pulled warriors over the last five thousand years and
asked him that series of questions, the answer would not
be well, woke, okay. It would probably not be the
kind and gentle Barney the dinosaur style of you know,
(03:55):
dealing with human beings that is in vogue these days, right,
because we're not taught talking about coaches hitting players well,
how to toughening up your players for a sport, or
you know. I don't know that gets pretty you wish,
but people are actually going to head into battle and
defend themselves in the country and the people around them.
I don't know. That's a tough one.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But all the coverage I've heard, outside of some Fox
commentators and you know, people like us, has all been
oh boy, I don't know about this. I was even
listening to a news nation today and they presented some
of Pete's clips and he's going to He's going to
hold people to one standard for physical fitness, even if
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that means fewer women in combat. Jim, how do we
feel about that?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
If you think that is controversial, I don't even know
how to talk to you right right, what that illustrates
is the unbelievable extent to which people will repeat what
they think they're supposed to say and come to believe it.
It's absolutely I hate to use the term no brainer.
(05:05):
It makes it sound like I have no brain, but
it is a no brainer that you don't give somebody
a break in terms of physical fitness for combat based
on anything. What else? Maybe they it's a congenital condition
he has that one of his arms doesn't work very well.
It's not his faults, so we're going to lower a stand. No,
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it's about keeping people alive. It's not a jobs program
or the country alive. Well right, yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
But the fact that anybody can present that is controversial
to me. I don't even know where I would start
having a conversation with you. I feel like there'd be
no point. We're so far apart, there's no point in
even trying to because if it isn't self evident that
that's a good idea, well then we're just.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So far apart in our worldview. Well, I don't think
that being far apart is the problem, because if they
were to come up with a well reasoned set of
ideas backing up their opinion, then all right, let's get
it on, let's talk to each other. I'll bet this
will be interesting. But if they are merely parroting what
they think they're supposed to say, and in this case,
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it's going to be ninety nine to one percentage wise
the number of people who say it's it's wrong and
discriminatory to hold women to the same standards for combatists men.
They are so clearly not a person who can think
independently that you're wasting your time. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It'll be interesting to see if he's actually able to
implement some of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know, I'm hoping the mainstream.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Media is an outlier in terms of people's view on
this sort of thing, because, like I said, most of
the coverage was, well, I don't know, we're gonna have
fewer women because they have a different standard. They're not
gonna have a different standard for men and women. Women
aren't quite as strong. Why would we have the same standard.
It's like, I get it, I don't even know where
to start.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, you are looking at a different goal than the
rest of us, right, Your goal is to have the
proper quota of women and people with a withered arm
or whatever. In combat, ours is to win and protect
the country. You know, I take back what I said
about you're wasting your time because they have no independent thought.
The simple truth is a large number of voters are sheep.
(07:16):
They don't think independently. They say what they think they're
supposed to say. And you know, so you have to
sway a certain number of them and sit them down
and talk to them and explain to them, Well, if
somebody gets wounded and he weighs two hundred and forty pounds,
that gal that you're advocating for can't save his life.
She just can't. She might want to, and I know
(07:37):
the stories of mothers pulling cars up into the air
to save their baby, blah blah blah, but she just can't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, well, I hope the implementation can go. No more
fat generals, that's what he said, No more fat generals.
Let's start the show officially, because you know it's a
big one, jem.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Sorry, my emphasis needs to be on fat admirals because
a general at least is operating mostly on the ground,
where you have fairly unlimited space. An admiral is on
a ship. I mean, there's limited square footage on a
ship certainly a submarine. So fat Admirals are getting off
easy in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Plus a good sink you just think it rub right, duh,
you have to displace more water to keep you afloat.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Thank you. It's just physics there, all right. I'm Jack Armstrong.
He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, October first,
the rent is due, the rent. It's too damn.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Damn right, it is he you're twenty twenty five or
Armstrong in getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Fat Admirals would be a pretty good band. Tamw Okay,
let's beg in the show officially now according to the
f SEC rules or eggs. Here we go. The show
starts at Mark fer Service. The facility is closed to
allow for vehicular remain on the side one across the street.
Everyone must be in this restricted to depart the area.
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So that's great.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So that's Ai Trump ordering malcontents to disperse around federal buildings.
Is that like an official government thing? Or is that
a joke? Or I well, it's both. He was he
it they The.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Computer was reading the official legal warning to protesters who
were violating the law. But it was in Trump's voice
to troll them, so it was both by the book
and hilarious.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Speaking of trolling, we talked to yesterday about the AI
video that Trump put out about the shutdown that had
Schumer there and Hakim Jeffreys there, and Schumer was saying
things in Schumer's voice that weren't accurate but were funny,
and Hakim Jefferys was wearing a sombrero and had a
big mustache with mariachi music playing in the background, with
the idea being that they're trying to get it healthcare
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for illegals. Yes, he put out a new video today
that is similar with Schumer saying even more crazy things,
but this includes Trump as the mariachi band. It's all
a bunch of Trumps playing the trumpet and the big
guitar and all that sort of.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
On his official site. These are odd times, especially with
the nightmare of the government shut down.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Here's my favorite stat about that whole thing. The government
shut down for a full month the last time we
did it. Do you even remember shut down for entire month?
And John even remember that it happened?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Honestly, what I remember is how hard they tried to
make it hurt normal people, right, because without those efforts,
most people would just go about their business.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I was listening to some of the doom and gloom
on one of the channels, and I thought, man, if
you have to try this hard to come up with
something that is bad with the government shutting down, there's
too much government. You shouldn't have to work this hard
to come up with anything that could possibly upset anyone.
(11:16):
You know, I have some example. Here's my example. On
the news, they said, for instance, Friday inflation numbers are
supposed to be coming out. A lot of people are
looking forward to those, and those numbers will not come
out on time.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I thought, that's that's your Oh my god, the government
shut down. I gotta text my wife. We're not going
to feed the dog until the government shutdown is over.
We can't, I mean, just not knowing the inflation numbers.
It's just we've got to take precautions, honey. Turn off
the water at the main valve outside of the house,
cancel the natural gas. Uh yeah. Here's my only analysis
(11:51):
of it. It's a very weird shutdown because it's not
over anything specific. It is merely the democratic party desperate
to show that they're fighting Trump because they're aware of
their miserable, miserable unpopularity. And you know whether this works
or not, we'll all find out together and it'll be fine.
But it is a real gamble by a beast that
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is in its death throws.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's going to open this evening or Friday night while
you're sleep, or next Tuesday, and you'll never think about
it again in your life.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's where it's here's the Armstrong and Getty challenge. Please
note in your own life, if you'd have noticed it
without being told that the government shut down and then
when it opens, would you have noticed that without being
told on any lefl No, that's a unicorn. That person
(12:47):
will not exist.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Who is a You're not a federal employee, obviously that
you would have noticed it shutting down or starting back up. No,
not a chance. Okay, we've got headlines on the way
and much more news to get to. Hope you can
stay here. I took in some of Yankees Red Sox
and Dodgers Reds, but Yankees Red Sox, I mean, you
(13:09):
cannot get better than this for Major League Baseball. Yankee Stadium,
bottom of the ninth bases loaded. That's as good as
it gets for all of baseball.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Crazy so awesome. Yeah, Yankees lost, by the way. Oh
it's good. It's good. Bases loaded, no outs and Yankees lost,
says the New York centric mainstream media figure Jack Armstrong.
Do you mean the Red Sox one? Well, no, it's media.
Bases loaded, no outs in a close game and the
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pitcher went strikeout, flyout, strikeout and got out of the end.
It was awesome. Yeah, it's like the tension of a
last second fifty yard field goal stretched over ten minutes. Yeah,
it was cool. Oh my god, is it in? Is
it in? Is it? But for ten straight? That's what
I love about baseball at its best. Let's figure out
(14:05):
who's reporting what it's The Lee's story with Katie Green.
Delighted to have you back, Katie Hey.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Friends, all right, starting with the Free Beacon. Dozens of
ships in Greta Tuneberg's flotilla quote secretly owned.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
By Hamas really really? Oh she probably doesn't know that,
but that's not surprising. Well that reminds me coming up
great analysis of why the Arab States have lined up
behind this deal. Oh okay, I want to hear that
it will shock you.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
From NBC, members of Congress to still get paid during
government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They always make sure of that, Thank God.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
From USA today, many Americans fear that they can't afford
pets anymore due.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
To rising vet costs. Eh, none of my business.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But the number of people I know who openly state
that they're struggling and have of one to three petsdang it.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
What of the reasons I didn't have a dog when
I was young and poor? Is there expensive? Oh yeah, yeah,
you have no idea how expensive until you get one?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Even cats From Fox News, Diddy's ex Cassie fears swift
retribution if Rapper walks free, as prosecutors pushed for eleven year.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Sentence, he can walk free.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, there's a chance he's getting sentenced on.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Friday, all right. Yeah, the defense is asking for time served.
He'll get more than that.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
From the Washington Post, Fat Bear Week has a new champion,
and he is a total chunk.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I saw good looking bear has a broken jaw. They
should have fat General Week where we all see pictures
of fat generals to pick our favorite line. Oh right,
fun and I texted everybody the concert poster for fat
Admirals their first show. He check your text.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yes, that will be going on the wall of my
studio at my house, by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Excellent from the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
According to new survey, sixty five percent of Americans have
already planned their own funerals.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Two thirds have I haven't. I'm in the minority. I haven't,
And I'm closer to the grave than you know, the
average person's true true my life.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Study fines two billion people feast on insects regularly.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Is it time that we embraced a hybrid diet? Oh
they've been pushing this on me since I was a kid.
Are you beating bugs? Someday? I'm not. They've got lots
of protein, et cetera, et cetera. You know in Africa,
et cetera, et cetera, ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And finally from the Babylon b NFL hoping to win
back conservatives with Super Bowl performance by Spanish speaking man.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
In address Nah, good one.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh boy, I thought I had heard a couple of
not that long ago that bugs actually don't have really
more protein or anything than of other things.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So there's no many deat bugs. There's plenty of other
alternatives rights. My life has been living proof of that.
I think I've eaten very few bugs.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Indeeds, I had a whole plate of bugs in Mexico
one time, not knowing it. Ants and crickets and all
kinds of.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
They crawled onto your I'll have to tell the story sometimes,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
The two year anniversary of the October seventh Hamas terror
attack that started this war is a week from today.
Hamas has less time than that to review the twenty
point peace plan and get back to the White House
with a yes or no.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We're going to do about three or four days. We'll
see how it is. That means.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Hamas has told this weekend to accept President Trump's twenty
principles of peace or prepare for an Israeli military onslaught
backed by the United States.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Hamas has to agree they don't. There's got to be
very tough on them. But it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I didn't realize they'd put a deadline on that soon.
So this weekend Hamas has got to come back with
a yes or no.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, and the first of all the newsy stuff before
the analysis. The militant group has told mediators that it
is absolutely seriously looking at it. It has reservations about
some of the terms of the twenty point plan, including
the stipulation that it disarm and destroy its weapons, which
is it is previously rejected over and over again. Amas
(18:25):
also says releasing all forty eight hostages within three days
is laid out in the Trump Plan, would be difficult
because it has lost contact in recent weeks with some
other militant groups holding a number of them. Wow, I
don't know. I would suggest that you try really really
hard to find them.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, the fact that Israel is saying you lay down
your arms and we'll you know, we'll forgive, forgive you.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They don't use that word, but we won't. We won't
come after you anymore. We'll call it off.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
That's a heck of a thing for people that came
into your country and murdered babies and grandma's.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, it's an amnesty at right, right. So anyway, one
I came across two pieces of analysis that I thought
were great, won by Michael Orrin in the Free Press,
and his problem with it is that there's a real
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lack of timetables, and he, like me, believes that Hamas
will act like it's complying or it agrees or what
have you. But then the foot dragging, the tiptoeing right
up to the line of violating the agreement or actually
violating it will begin, and they will begin sewing chaos
as quickly as possible. And he's troubled by the lack
(19:44):
of structure here. I have a feeling that will come along,
especially with Trump involved, if they in a Putin like way,
although Trump's response to Putin hasn't been everything I think
it should be. But if they in a Putin like
way string him along over and over again, he's going
to say, all right, you got a week to achieve
these three goals, or it's all off. We're going to
(20:06):
attack you anyway. Michael larn by the way, a badass warrior.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
From the way back in the day in some of
Israel's biggest wars and wrote a fantastic book called Six
Days of War.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
If you ever want to read about that one an
excellent tip. Six Days of War terrific. So this guy
has no illusions about Hamas cooperating. His belief is that
they will only cooperate to the extent that they are
forced to cooperate. And he says, potentially fatal flaw on
the plan is its assumption that after nearly forty years
of radical Islamism, countless terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented level
(20:37):
of international support, HAMAS will change its DNA, Which is
what I was saying yesterday. If their stated purpose is
to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth,
specifically Israel, becoming some sort of men's club or civic
organization is going to be a difficult transition.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, I still think the hope is if they agree
to it. You get so many countries involved, including a
whole bunch of Arab countries that are running that Gaza strip,
and HAMAS just isn't in no position to do what
they've done in the past.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, they die for lack of you know, fertilizer support relevance.
So here's the thing I found really really interesting why
Katar changed course on Hamas. And this is written by
Emit Siegel, who was is a chief political commentator in
Israeli media and the author of a book of history
(21:32):
about Israeli politics and that sort of thing. He says,
it's too early to know if they'll only be an
agreement to the warrant Gaza and whether it'll be implemented.
But there is a reason for President Trump's optimism that
Hamas might release hostages, give up its weapons, and leave power.
Change is afoot not in Gaza, but in Doha, capital
(21:53):
of Qatar. The government of Qatar is pressuring its proteges
to accept the deal. The regime which thwarted the last
hostage deal changed its mind because the war has reached
its home. After the IDF operated in five Muslim capitals Gaza, Beirut, Damascus,
Sanna and Tehran, it hit Doha the attempted killing of
(22:16):
senior MAAS officials in broad daylight, and Katar signaled to
the natural gas Emirate that it could not continue the
double game it has played in recent years. Despite the
threats against Israel, the Qataris are now working to make
Hamas except the demands from Jerusalem.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Wow, that's interesting if that's true, If that made the difference,
And that's a heck of a thing that Netanyaho called
from the oval opposed.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Sorry about that precisely. He let cutter lotterr save face.
That's why that call was made, That's why it was
done publicly. Netin Yahoo made a show of I'm sorry
I did that. I want peace between us. I'm absolutely
not pushing you or bullying you or threatening you. So
(23:02):
you have credibility in the eyes of your people. But
the Katari leadership is like, holy crap, now they're coming
at us. This is over. Hamas, Is this guy right?
He sure makes a convincing case. I'll bet he's right.
Makes sense to me.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And and and just logically, you finally get to some
of those gazillionaires, they're like, I got a really great
life here. I live on the entire floor of one
of the tallest buildings in the world. I got six
different bent leafs and a harem of women, and I
don't really want to get involved in the nitty gritty
of this.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So right, and if you're the Kataris who really fancy
themselves that the world diplomats and and all, and just
because they've got an enormous trove of natural gas under them, uh,
the idea that they're gonna get punched in the face
repeatedly to what hide Hamas, These guys are thinking, no way,
for the reasons you just enunciated.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Qatar had recently defended this gent rights Hamas's efforts from
Maiden Power and its demands for a full Israeli withdrawal
in exchange for leasing the hostages full Israeli withdrawal. Now
Doah is among those threatening Hamas with destruction if it
won't accept this deal, which is pretty much the opposite,
and Prime Minister Netanya Who's telephone apology for violating Cutter's
(24:22):
sovereignty is lip service to devert divert attention from the Emirates. Turnaround.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I think Hamas has got no choice but to say
yes to this and then maybe they try to wriggle
out of it or whatever, but I think you know,
by this weekend they got to say yes.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Can you imagine the way.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Israel is going to roll in there given what they
said the other day in the Oval Office where Netya
who said we'll do what we gotta do and Trump said,
go ahead, we got you, got you got our we
got your back.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Oh my god, do what you need to do. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree. The The only question mark is how
does this unfold over time as coalitions start to pursue
their own self interest and are threatened to buy this
development at home or over how much restive fundamentalist population.
In a couple of million years, the sun's going to
(25:15):
burn out and we're all going to freeze to death.
I mean, how much time next? Yeah, well, no, that's
what that's that's the whole point. Things are nice and
tight for three weeks. It's like, do you remember when
who was asking the question? Was it? I think it
may have been one of the podcasts the National Review
guys do right after October seventh? Right after I think
(25:36):
it was Rich Lowry asked the panel, all right, how
long until Israel's support starts to fracture among the Western governments?
And you know, the guy said a week, one guy said,
two weeks, one guy said three months. Whatever, will the
the solidity, the strength of will that exists right now
(25:57):
still exist in two months, two years? That'll be the
interesting part.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I don't know, but the cratering support for Israel in
the United States is a problem because we're definitely their
biggest cheerleader and.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Give them tons of money in military equipment. Yeah. It
seems though that the elites in both parties say, yeah,
the voters don't know what they're talking about. Are the
people taking the support in our ally?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
But for Now the next generation of leaders might not
feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Especially if there's some sort of Mumdani type. Yeah, it's
almost certainly going to be the mayor of New York. Now,
I've resigned myself to it.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
You know, AOC is probably going to run against Schumer.
Schumer will be out, you know, the old school like him,
Democrats that were in support Israel.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
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He put his head down with stiff arming people and
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Well, boy, as big as a house, right, that helps? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And dainty little Patrick Mahomes, Wow, you've turned on him.
I haven't turned on him. He's just he shouldn't be
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Dainty is no compliment to an NFL player. Limping around
a dainty limper, says you why, I gotta just see
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his headband to young fans at the tunnel entrance, and
he handed his headband to a little girl who was
(28:34):
a Chiefs fan and a Giants fan. Lady snatched it
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Speaker 3 (28:41):
And the Kansas City Karen Okay, I saw I saw
a Kansas City Karen thing up on the screen yester
day and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Know what it was. Yeah, okay, we're supposed to be
angry about her threatener fired. Oh boy, oh boy. Yeah,
I need to know all about her. I want to
see some tweet that she put out five years ago,
lose their job, run out of her house.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It was funny. We were going over the audio that
we have available for the show today and it will
amuse and delight you, I promise, But a number of
the clips struck me as and these are fairly big stories,
so it's it's absolutely appropriate that that our fabulous crack
staff brings them. But a lot of them fall into
the category of things I think we're supposed to be
(29:25):
mad about or offended by. I've got a story. It's
so good. I can't wait to tell it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
And hats off to the San Francisco Chronicle for going
big on the first social equity weed store. How it
went under but everybody got rich even as it went under.
It's classic socialism. I mean, just Eric, you wanna Yeah,
And and good for the Chronicle for laying that story out.
Maybe we'll get to that how or too. I mean,
(29:51):
it's just it's absolutely classic why socialism doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah. And we also have a special, very special gender
Madness Celebrity edition. Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh, and I got to talk about the lift driver
I had the other day who was from Lebanon. Great
story he told me as he drove me around, lots
of stuff on the way. We got mailbag next day
here I named the wrong s whole country. My lyft
driver was from Syria. But I do want to tell
that story, him coming to this country and raising his
(30:27):
kids and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It is fantastic. Maybe we'll get to that next hour.
Love that. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day,
continuing our theme of change. This from John D. Rockefeller. Ah,
I'm a big I wrote a very large biography about
him once. One of the few Americans who still reads
according to you yesterday, don't be afraid to give up
the good to go for the great.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Of course, here was a man who thought big, dream big.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
He ran the standard oil. He was one of the
richest people that's ever lived to justin for inflation. Gave
ten percent of his money always from the beginning to
the end, back to the church.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Because he was very religious. Man. Interesting mailbag woot woot,
drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty
dot com. Number of comments on Pete Heggss's speech to
the troops yesterday. This is from alien anonymous. I'm so
excited to hear hegsas pep talk. My son is West
(31:26):
Point grad currently working through his service at port List.
Both senior leadership and enlisted regularly fallout when they go
on their two mile jogs because they aren't fit enough
to even run two miles. Oh my god. And he
said the average mile time for those that do finish
is twelve minutes. Not okay? Is that with a packer,
just like in shorts and T shirts? It's just pta
(31:47):
I think, oh man, twelve minutes and half of them
can't even do it. Yeah, yeah, or quite a few
of them anyway. Then this from a kerlonel in the
United States Air Force, Colonel Anonymous. I want to give
you some insight from those serving currently on the sec
war's speech. And the colonel is currently serving in the Pentagon,
(32:10):
by the way, and he says not fat I'm assuming
apparently not that we might want to hear indeed his perspective,
and we do. He said, this was the biggest breath
of fresh air I've heard in years, possibly decades, if
we follow through on it. It's all about merit, war
fighting standards, focus. These things are sorely lacking in the
(32:32):
department today, taken over by hundreds of hours of mandatory
online training, lowered standards, fearing retention, and a focus on
feelings not the mission. Fat, out of shape and undertrained
members litter the halls of the Pentagon. Yes, many generals,
all the way down to our combat units. Things like shaving,
waivers and fitness may seem frivolous to the public, but
(32:55):
they are the little standards that build a foundation for
the bigger ones. His example of broken window is perfect
for this the time of leaders fearing risk taking and
innovation is hopefully over. I have more on that too.
Until yesterday, commanders would fear any mistake because it would
probably be the end of their career. That's what I
was reading about, the one mistake culture, where if anything
(33:18):
goes the least bit wrong, it's a permanent blot on
your record in your career is essentially over. So nobody
dares innovate anyway, Bubba. Until yesterday, Oh, there it is
end of their career. This stifled risk taking and trying
something new. We're at the weakest we have ever been
since I've been in the military from a resourcing and
capability standpoint. This shift in mindset and standards will hopefully
(33:40):
help fix some of that. I have a son who's
about to join in. Many of the policies and issues
have made me double think recommending it to him. Peak's
Golden rule is exactly how we need to be fighting
and leading. And then Colonel Isle summarizes, I know this
speech will rile a lot of feathers, but everyone I
serve with that I've talked to is one hundred percent
on board with this message and ready to move out
(34:02):
making our military more lethal and establishing the deterrence the
world needs.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Wow, every cable news panel I saw outside of Fox
was just you know, the generals were just sitting there
hating every bit.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Of this and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You know some might be and they need to go
and they should lead's and that Pete said that, actually
he said, and if you're not digging this, if you're thinking,
oh no, well and you probably should retire, do the
right thing for your country. We thank you for your service,
but retire right right amen to that.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
You know, we're constantly saying, remember, the kids didn't raise themselves. Well,
the Pentagon didn't raise itself. Now you can understand why
a lot of the leadership that's been bad. You can
understand why there are some people who think I rose
up through the ranks doing what I was told to
do by making an emphasis on making sure we got
enough women and trans people and that nobody feels offended
(34:53):
and triggered.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And now you're gonna get rid of me. But you
know that's we can't worry about that. We got to
have a lethal fighting force. And what we see here
is the power of leadership. Marxists in particular like to
pretend that everything is the result of these uh, these
you know, shifts in humanity, these broad trends and blah blah.
Leadership doesn't really matter. It's all more or less inevitable.
(35:17):
No leadership matters a lot. Moving on to a different topic,
This is uh Judy from Portland reading an article on
coin six news website that's one of the big news
stations in Portland.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
The article is titled Portland We're not a war zone.
That's what you'd expect people that live close saying the
protests aren't a big deal. It's generally peaceful, blah blah blah,
we don't need the federal government blah blah blah, except
you can't really walk your dog in that area because
of the tear gas and minor inconveniences like that. But
the last paragraph was my favorite. She writes. Coin six
(35:53):
News contacted several businesses in the area, but all declined
to speak on camera for fear of retaliation from protest. Wow.
Nothing to see in Portland, just local business people universally
afraid of the peaceful protesters. Do these reporters not read
the words they write? Wow? Great note, Judy, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, that's really interesting stuff. I can feel it in
my bones. This is going to be a good one today.
We've only got one hour down. We got three hours
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