December 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Joe's new business, C.O.W. Clips of the Week, Zelensky's powerful post & Nicki Minaj
- Michael Jordan/Kevin Hart beef & bonus Mailbag!
- Ulysses & will Beijing try to conquer Taiwan?
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty as you have to launch into it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
But you know what, I'm gonna wait till after this
video that President Zelensky just put out. I want to
I want to discuss in a few minutes. It's something,
it is something I realized.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I want to talk about Cardi B blasting Gavin Newsom,
Cardi B the singer, Yes, what the hell is going on? No,
Cardi B the architect, Yeah, Cardi B the singer.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Carti be the architect.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh, speaking of ways to make a living, you've inspired me.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You and Katie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You're making fun of me for bringing misery, And I thought, well,
wait a minute, that the heck guy, I'm pretty good
at that. I could picture myself like you have a
holiday party and people are just not getting the hint
and leaving, and I would work the room. Hey how
about all that bloodshed in Ukraine? It's incredible. Can you
imagine seeing your neighbors die in front of you? You know,
(01:13):
I just make a couple of stuff. People be gone
gone in ten minutes. Yea, A meeting's out of hand.
You know, it's like you know, they won't shut up
and listen. I'd stand up and say, look, AI is
going to take two thirds of your jobs. Look on
your right and left, all those people are going to
be gone. Now look in the mirror you are too,
(01:33):
and it's not gonna take long. Now it's all settled down.
The boss would shake my hand. I'd walk out.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I like you showing up to people's Christmas parties at
the end, helping them get the last guests out of
the house, as usually the last guest standing there in
the kitchen, not taking the hint, drinking your booze. You're
like Debbie Downer from the old Saturday Night Live thing?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What like that?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Have you heard about the rise in feline leukemia?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Beautiful? All right, lots to squeeze in the final hour
of the week, But first let's take a fun look
back at the week it was. It's cow clips of
the week. Your word is affordability. I wonder what grade
you would give A plus A plus.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
A plus plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
This deal, if it is allowed to move forward, will
actually be the death of the theatrical movie business.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
In Hollywood. We're sitting here today trying to save it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We're the United States of America. That's who we are.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Lucia has cos we're back into Europe and if you
must be prepared for the skill of our grandparents and
great grandparents and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The binary Justice Department called it the largest COVID fraud
scheme in the country. This also has an impact on smallies.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Do you think that the video should be released in
full to the American public?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, but whatever they have we certainly released. No problem.
This video was profoundly shaking. I didn't find it distressing
or disturbing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It looks like any number of dozens of strikes we've seen. Senator,
have you seen the video? I have seen the video.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You have seen the classified video. No, I've not seen
the actual video.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, we keep it. I guess there have been cameras
all over me, analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile,
my every tear. We deserve to have cameras in there.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I would cause Eric will be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You know, it could screw up the proceeding and the
results might not be what everybody thinks they should be.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I think as long as uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Old women are annoying if you ever have sex.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, absolutely not, Wow, says the god who's never got
like Charon war Overnight basically being fired and then detained
by police. Something about it excited me, and uh, it's
kind of one of those deals. The door opens and
you get to walk through it and find out if
you can do it or run from it.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
A California woman recently gave birth in a self driving
Waymo taxi. Then, to even things out, the waimo ran
over a pedestrian.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory and text
to me back he killed my dad. My god, if
I had to say.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Like, there's only one thing you can ever have for
the rest of time, which admittedly would be a bit monotonous,
but it would probably be a chooser there.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's clips of the week, So serious first or CARDI
b first. Oh, let's get serious out of the way.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So we were talking yesterday about the ridiculousness of various
privileged crap. What am I supposed to do? What you
want me to do? Feel bad all day long? And
that teacher we had who walks up to kids and
tells them they should feel bad. But anyway, as a
legislator on the Education Committee who thinks state policy ought
(05:24):
to be telling little white kids they should walk through
their day feeling bad sick anyway, So in general, I
don't believe in the whole privilege thing, one privileged thing
that we should all we don't need to feel bad,
but you should feel freaking fortunate every damn day of
your life that you live in the biggest, most powerful
country in the world. So you've gotten no threat, zero
threat of some country coming in and shooting your kids,
(05:48):
raping your wife. I mean, all of these horrible things
that happen all over the world, including Ukraine, and I've
always been it really gets to me really easy people
who are literally fighting for their lives and their family lives. Anyway,
President Zelensky just put out a video a couple hours ago,
and I'm sure the reason he did it was the
(06:08):
conversation that's being had between Trump and European leaders in
which Trump says Ukraine's losing and they need to sign on.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
To this peace deal. And then there's a piece in
the Wall Street.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Journal they going back and forth about whether Ukraine's losing
President Zelensky broadcast a video from the front a town
that Russia had been claiming for weeks they took, and
Zelensky's standing in the middle of that town saying, well,
this is the town Russia says they took. They don't
have it anymore. We have it, and then he ends
it with keep fighting, lads, and I just oh wow,
it's me like, whoa, I mean, those are people seriously
(06:44):
laying it all on the line for their fans.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Can we start calling the alleged piece plan a conditional
surrender plan since that's a much more accurate description of
what it is. And you can see the look on
Zelensky's face when he says keep fighting lads, I.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Mean you mean Neil, Yeah, mean it?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah? AnyWho? That's heavy.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That is heavy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
If we have a privilege in the United States, it's
that we don't have to worry about that at all.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Transition music, Michael, I wish.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We had some Cardi B music.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't know if she has any music that's not
so filthy we couldn't play it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is she the lady? She's the lady.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
When a time that she was home in the same
then maybe get to.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Come above time. I like this tells about.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Isn't the same? What is that?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If I recall correctly, this was the Italian pop star
put out a single in fake English, making fun of
the way Europeans single along to American pop songs, not
having any idea what they're saying, so he just went
with nonsense. It's really funny music, though it sounds like
Joon Batist can time.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Away.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You're gonna make it stop now, Michael, it worked. I
don't remember what we were talking about, which is the
goal of transition music? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So uh.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Nicki Minaj is blasting Gavvy Newsome for his being so
hot to trot for kids to have sex changes.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I get Cardi B and Nicki Minaj mixed up. They're
different people.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They may be which one said coronavirus and which one
said it's which one sang the WAP song?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's this nick this one Nicki MINAJH.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I don't know, are you?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They're both Cardi B? What Nicki minaje do that?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I should know anything somebody hits, she stays for something.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I'm pretty sure they've they've had a beef going on
for a while. They're very similar she got a big booty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yes, wow, Okay. So rap Bengas star Nicki Minaj is
blasting Gabby Newsom saying he wants to see trans kids.
That's an episode. That's an interview he did with Ezra
Kline in The New York Times in which he bragged
about the fact that California is the first and the
best and the biggest sanctuary state for confused adolescents who
(09:23):
want to get their bodies mutilated. He's very, very proud
of that. So she says she had a series of
X posts saying, it's the end of the road for you, Oh,
Gavy pooh, it only gets worse from here for you, buddy,
It's the end of the road for you, my love.
Get on the nearest jet ski and let that beautiful
hair blow in the wind. It will make you happier
(09:44):
than this race that you will not win. Enjoy life peace.
In a follow up, she said Gavin is the cute
boy who got everything handed to him because how cute
and sexy and hot and spoking. He was, Oh, look
at him sitting there in that suit with the sneakers on.
He thinks he's Tom Cruise. Only difference is his mission
is impossible. He shouldn't get another leading role. Let's see,
(10:04):
imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids.
Ha ha. Not even a trans adult would run on that.
Normal adults wake up and think they want to see healthy, safe,
happy kids, not gav The gav knots gave out sending
the next guy, I'm bored, Wow, Cardi B. Like so
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many folks, is Black America, Nicki minaj Nicki minaj by
Cardi B, I mean different. I'm just why the hell
am I saying? I have no idea? Oh it's because
the next I'm sorry, the next couple of sentences have
to do with the Cardi B So Nicki.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Minaje, I just asked. Grok is known as the Queen
of Rap.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
She sold in the modern era one hundred million records worldwide.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
In the two thousands.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
She is a big deal Nicki Minaje Yeah so anyway,
and has a large booty. Like so many Black Americans,
she has no patience for the convincing kids their trans sickness.
In twenty twenty three, the California governor became the first
sanctuary state for transgender identifying children who are seeking drugs
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and surgeries to alter themselves. Anyway, way to go, whichever
rapper woman you are, because you're right on this one. Okay, huh.
Jd Vance actually brought Cardi b into this conversation for
reasons that I will not bother elaborating on because I
(11:33):
don't care, and I'm sure you don't either. All Right,
do you know if Kevin Hart and Michael Jordan actually
hate each other?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Have you heard about this story?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Have you watched the most recent Kevin Hart Netflix special
that just got released? I think this week no very funny.
I find Kevin Hart freaking hilarious. And he's forty five now,
so he's got a lot of stuff about ag in there.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That I think you might find relatable as an aging dead.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But he claims, I don't know, maybe they're friends, and
this is a joke that he and Michael Jordan hate
each other, and it all goes way back to something
many many years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
He's got some seriously funny, really edgy smack about Michael
Jordan's Really yeah, I thought it was quite funny. Anyway,
I'll try to figure out if that's real or not,
and then we'll get the real news of some sort
or commentary Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
A Norwegian metal detector enthusiasts recently discovered a gilded figuring
of Jesus Christ that is believed to be nine hundred
years old. He rushed home to tell his wife, but
then he remembered he was a metal detector enthusiast.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's not nice, so I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, the feud between Kevin Hart the comedian and Michael
Jordan the basketball player appears to be real, and the
full ten minutes of his special that Kevin Hart spends
making taking shots at Michael Jordan and quite a hilarious fashion.
I'll go back goes back to a fewd many many
years ago where Kevin Hart was the MC at a
celebrity something or other and Jordan showed up late, and
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Kevin Hart didn't dig it, and then made some jokes
about Jordan was dressed, his pants were up too high,
and he dresses like a pregnant lesbian and very variety
of things, and he said, and Jordan sat there, glum
faced the whole time, never laughed anything, and then afterwards
shook his hand and squeezed really hard. So he still
makes big shots at Jordan being a loser of a
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dad and pitching a dud with his kids who have failed.
And I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Pretty hard stuff, but it's also it's also hilarious. But
I mean it's it's the sort of thing that would
make a guy mad. Wow, I've gotten to that age
where I got no EPs to give.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I just don't care.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right, he's a funny guy. So a little bonus mail
bag here. You can drop us note if you want
mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot
of interesting stuff from this. Tony writs. The United States
season that Venezuela and oil tanker Gavin Newsom was quoted
as saying, my hair jails on that boat.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's kind of oily looking. Let's see, got this one.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
My hair jails on that boat. That's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it is Allnonymous says. I've heard Jack discussing these
conversations with AI for some time now. I've also heard
Jack talk about alcoholism. I'm an alcoholic, and I've admitted
it in a completely new way that was not possible
just a year ago. Yesterday, I started talking to Grok
about why I drink and how I ended up drinking
as much as I do, GROC has quite possibly given
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me the advice I need to quit drinking. It's going
to be a long road, starting with some pill that
should help. But I may just make it heard so
much doom and gloom about AI while I have my
luddite hesitations, Groc may just have saved my lifetime.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Will tell wow. That's something.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was talking about doctor yesterday, and he said, I
wonder if I'm going to be, you know, replaced by AI.
And I said, I don't know about medical doctors. But
and I said therapists. He was completely unaware of this.
I said, therapists better find a new line of work,
because the I is really good.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, I would detest. And then this from Drew
The Millennial Guys Ulysses by James Joyce sucks. Jack has
been discussing his slogging his way through that amazing classic
of literature.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You claim to, but you don't anyway, Drew writes, Let's
see it sucks with four s's. I hate that stupid book.
At a certain point, esoteric rhetorical creativity has no value.
It's just silly. I remember the chapter he referred to today,
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nine months of gestation is an allegory for the development
of human language. Ooh, and I'll write some rambling incomprehensible
book about how the Creation of Christianity is a parable
for the West Coast offense, just so people who pretend
to understand it can prag to each other. It's a joke.
It's Andy Warhol's soup camp. Anyway, love the show that's
pretty good. Hates the book, loves the Show's that's some
(16:05):
good writing. The Creation of Christianity is a parable for
the West Coast offense. I would say it, that's good.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I think it's interesting that I tried to read that
book many times throughout my life and couldn't, and then
after continuing to read very difficult stuff for the past
twenty five years or however long, I got to the
point where I could read it. So there's some like,
there's some like ability to appreciate it that I gained
by reading other difficult literature, Like I like I worked
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myself up to it, and that I classical music like
in the way that I don't even understand.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. That description reminds me of
some philosophy that I just can't get into. I know
a lot of people are into it, and I would
like to say that I am because it makes me
look smart, But I just I get a certain depth
into it. I think this is a complete waste of time.
This is just ruminating about stuff that doesn't matter. I
need to go make a living. Excuse me.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, I think Joyce is actually the exact opposite of
ruminating about something that doesn't matter. But maybe another time,
we've got some more news of the day. We ought
to get to some stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
That just happened Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What would it look like if China tries to invade Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Got some interesting stuff on that in just a second.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But I wanted to get back to this briefly, and
I promise it's brief.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
If you're rolling your eyes at this. The why.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
James Joyce's Ulysses is a big piece of art that
has lasted as long as it has, but I really
think is interesting. So it's the whole book is the day,
one day in the life of three people. It's just
it's one day, June sixteenth, nineteen oh four in Dublin Island.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But the idea one page is long.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's like eight hundred pages long. But and it's it's
kind of based on the Odyssey. But his point is
all of literature up until that point, really and art
was all about kings and queens and soldiers and conquerors
and all these different sorts of things, and the Odyssey
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is that sort of thing. His point is that we all,
as human beings with the most mundane of lives, live
all of the fear, love, success, envy, hate, everything lust
that mankind can have, that a human inspirations can have
on a near daily basis as just regular people. It's
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not only something for kings, queens and people that have won.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And conquered in battles or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's for every single individual to experience the full gamut
of human emotions, just in regular life, just raising kids,
dealing with your wife and coworkers and blah blah blah.
What supplemental material have you found most helpful in reading it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I've actually been using the chatbots a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
There are all kinds of books out there, but it's
faster for me to just go to the chatbot and
ask a specific question.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It gives me the answer.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Give us some for instance, just to help me understand
what that process looks.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Like like the other day, I said, I am really
slogging getting the run down and trying to read chapter twelve,
which is called the Oxen's something or other, and I said,
what can you do for me here? And which is
one of the things I love about chatbots, as you
can talk to them like that. It says, yeah, lots
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of people quit here, that's where most people quit. So
try to fight your way through it. Here's what's happening.
Here's a way to approach it. Don't get too caught
up and trying to figure out what's actually occurring. Just
keep moving forward. It'll have a payoff in the end.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh wow, wow, wow, that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's amazing. Now these chatbots are amazing for lots of
different stuff. Anyway, back to this v This is according
to an article on the Wall Street Journal, and they're writers,
which I found really really interesting. The biggest geopolitical unknown
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facing the entire planet with everything that's going on is
weather Beijing will try to conquer Taiwan in the near future.
The close second to that question is will the U
United States come to Taiwan's defense as a response. Those
are some major questions. They lay it out in this
(20:24):
very long article in the Wall Street Journal. If you're
interested in this topic, I highly recommend trying to figure
out how to read it. Wall Street Journal is pretty
good at paywalling people making you pay for their content.
Here's how it would start.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Five miles off Taiwan's coast ZTD, five amphibious vehicles from
China roll out of ships and zip over the water
amid a halo artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have
their orders seize the beach or die trying. Close by,
China's airborne troops are taking losses. They arrived before dawn
(20:58):
in low flying aircraft have to seize the airport. Taiwanese
defenders down several planes of paratroopers that landed scattered, and
race to assault the airfield before Taiwan wrecks it. This
hypothetical battle scenario imagines a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Its militari's,
policy makers and war gamers are doing all over the
world to try to predict what would happen and when
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it might happen. An amphibious invasion would be one of
the toughest military operations to execute, and an all out
war would be extremely bloody, devastate the global economy, and
change the course of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, yeah, worth noting speaking of literature and reading and
that sort of thing, the modern article and I have
to have read that one where you like scroll and
it gives you graphics and like moving maps and stuff
is so cool. Yeah, I still want to unplug the Internet.
I admit that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
It's roughly one hundred and ten miles from the Chinese
mainland to Taiwan. The Taiwan Strait is a daunting obstacle.
Tens of thousands of Chinese troops would need to cross
it with tanks, trucks and more, while Taiwan's missiles and
mines and possibly US bombers and submarines.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Target the invading fleet. Man, that's the big wild guard.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
With Trump as president or Biden or whoever as president,
I'm not sure how any US president would react. The
strait can be hostile without any of that, because the
weather is really rough around there. As they point out,
Taiwan is only like eight weeks a year where it's
at all a good idea to cross it, which I
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found interesting, kind of handy is a defense to know
that you probably have to attack during a specific window,
so it makes it easier to know when it's coming.
Taiwan is much bigger than Okinawa or Euajima, the nearby
Japanese islands that US forces captured in World War Two battles,
And if you're a fan of that, you know what
an ugly.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Struggle that was.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The nineteen forty five Battle of Okinawa was the last
time a very large scale amphibious operation has happened on
planet Earth. And that was pretty simple compared to what
an invasion.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Of Taiwan would be.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I remember, and this was a full year ago, probably
when I was listening to the National Review podcast with
all their writers on there, very republican magazine, conservative people,
people that care about you know, they're not isolation as
most of them.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And they did a around the horn. Who thinks we
would come to the defense of Taiwan if China attacked?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Not a one of them thought we would. I think
this is when Biden was president, but.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
And that's something I had been living with, this assumption
that we are going to help defend Daiwan, but maybe
not well.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Every day, certainly every month, the math changes. How powerful
are the Chinese. How intertwined are our economies? You know,
what's what's the state of the readiness of our forces,
what's the commander in chief's attitude. It's ever changing. I've
come to believe they're not going to invade, by the way,
and I believe it pretty firmly because I could certainly
be wrong, but because the other option, from Xijin Ping's
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point of view, is to let to do it politically speaking,
have a little more patience and let the wheels of
politics in Taiwan turn. There's already a substantial pro China
pro let's have happy relations with China part of their
internal politics. I think they're legislators like anti China, but
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their executive branch is pro China. At this point, I
might have it backwards. Forgive me, I'm not an expert,
but there are definitely green shoots, as people like to
say these say these days, for look, maybe we could
get something going like Hong Kong was supposed to be
two systems, one country. There are plenty of people within
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Taiwan who want that, and China's just going to keep
working that angle as hard as they can with every
tool they have.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, that be the smart thing to do.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
My biggest agreement disagreement with people like Ian Bremer and
other writers is they always assume people are going to
do the smart thing. People regularly don't do the smart
thing for all kinds of reasons. And the reading on
Jijingping's personality and entire life is this is what he
cares more about than practically anything in the world, is
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taking Taiwan, and he might do it just because he
wants to, and he's the guy that makes the call.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, is it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Would it be a good idea? No, I absolutely don't
think it would be a good idea for him.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, I could see the US and you know, China's
other allies, some of the them are kind of new
to the scene. Japan, for instance, is like militantly pro Taiwan,
not China's allies, Taiwan's sillies in a way that's surprising,
give them the history. But I could see even if
you know, we don't send our warships and all the
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engage in direct battles like a serious effort to finance
and aid Taiwan's resistance. Anyway, we could because that article
points out in great detail amphibious invasions, particularly of a
place like Taiwan with their defenses and their topography would
be horrifically costly.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I'll give you a little more of this and then
if you're interested, you can seek it out and read
it yourself. Most of Taiwan's twenty three million people are
concentrated along the coast that faces China, so they're closest
to you know, where they actually have. Taiwan is increasingly
preparing to bog down Chinese forces in deadly urban combat.
According to people that you know work with the various
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think tanks and everything in Taiwan. Defenders know the cities
can set up sniper positions and make it difficult for
China identify strongholds nested in the concrete. Can you imagine
living somewhere where this is a reality in your lifetime
that you might be invaded by one of the biggest
superpowers on the planet and be an urban combat Wow?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Right, And Taiwan has money and incredible technology to make
that extra lethal too, So it would be again just
mind bogglingly cost.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And maybe the most important ally on Earth. Maybe.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah. But same time, to your point about She's and
Ping being kind of fixated on this sort of thing. Remember,
he's the sort of leader who would think nothing nothing
of spending a million lives in the next six months.
He wouldn't even miss lunch, never mind being awake at night.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Which we can't wrap our heads around. Because if we
lost nine hundred guys, it would be the biggest story
in America by far.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, there would be giant memorials. Well, hope that doesn't
happen in my lifetime. We will finish strong.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Next, I noticed my wife had started eating, and she
started choking and gasping, and after she had had a
couple bites of food, she actually threw up, and I
had to look at the bag and seeing that there
was some kind of spray or something, the bag had
been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera
and seen that the lady that dropped the food off
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had actually tampered with it. We assume it's pepper spray.
It's more than likely what it is. But now in
this day age, it could have been anything. Could have
been ratboism, could have been fentanel. We live in a
terrible world right now. Horrific people are mean for no reason.
There was no reason to do what she done.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Uh, that's a pretty rough story. So you brought that
to us the other day, Katie. So somebody, some weirdo,
some door dash weirdo, pepper sprays the food. It's like
a random act of meanness. But I assume, so I.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Don't know, you're making an assumption. Maybe the person ordering
it's send a note, hey, make sure there's pepper. Add
some pep brings some pepper packets, and like was really
bugging the guy. He thought, I'll give you some pepper.
You don't know, you bastard.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I assume somewhere in there he calls nine to one
one or something. If the person I'm meeting with starts
to sweat, cough, convulsian, then vomit, and I realize the
food's been daffered with, I'm thinking, holy.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Crap, somebody might die here. Sure, yeah, it's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So, like you said, it could have been rat poison
or anything I don't know about the world is a
mess and everyone's evil.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Because of that one instance.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I think that was the most revealing and interesting thing
that was said, because it was funny. I was thinking
about this story and I thought, up until very very recently,
I never would have heard that story, and I wouldn't
spend a single second of my life worrying about door
dash drivers pepper sprang my food. And I wouldn't need
to because it will never ever happen.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I worry about the meat in my fries.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yes, now, wait, now we're talking.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And I'm not even as worried about the Meeting of
Christ because there's more fries. There's gonna be more fries
in the bag than I need anyway. I just don't
want your grubby, greasy fingers in there.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I don't want your hands in my bag. Your pardon
the expression, Oh no, well, yes I will.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There's a dag and hands involved. It's fine. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry. I'm distracted by French fries, which are deliciously evil,
absolutely evil. Do you have an air fryer yet? Do
you have a toaster oven that can do air frying?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I have an air fryer. I'm not great at using it,
but I have one.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
What I was just thinking, fries to go, fries left
over and similar fair. They can be brought back to
life and be damn near, if not as delicious as.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
They ever were. God dang it, I have so little
self control. I'm having McDonald's fries today. Those are my
favorite fries. I love McDonald's fries, but I also like
a big, thick potatoy fry. It's like pub fry. Yes,
like I know when this makes me a very pedestrian person,
but I really like Red Robin's French fries.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And it's bottomless.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Just in case, one hundred French fries when they first
bring you, Yeah they're good, aren't enough? They'll bring you
another one hundred French fries. Those are some good French fries.
Though got slabbered with ketchup. Give give me that right now.
I need a big bowl of that bag of that
box of it.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Utah is relocating it's beavers. Do you want to hear
about that? We were talking earlier about I I prefaced
some critical of Trump' stuff with the fact that Trump
does some stuff that I think is great, and he's
the only guy to do it because he doesn't he
gives zero s's. And I remember what story it was.
(31:26):
We brought the story from the Free Beacon the other
day about how there are a bunch of tech companies,
many of them in California, that openly say no US
citizens need apply. That's maddening, which is incredibly maddening. Trump
Justice Department is going after it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, if my kids applied for a job when they're
getting out there in the workplace and they can't get
it because they're US citizens, Oh, that's maddening.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well right, right, But the again, Pam Bondi and crew
got hold of this, they found out about it. Donald
J probably saw it in the Free Beacon and they
said this will not stand and they are going to
unleash holy hell on companies that would dare say that,
which is great.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And that's why Utah is relocating their beavers.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Right, yeah, no, unrelated. As a matter of fact, their
dams cause floods and that gets them in trouble with humans.
But in the right place, more water can be a
big help. So you don't need beavers, damn and stuff
up over here. Damn it beavers. But instead of an
expensive infrastructure project over there, you just relocate your beavers.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Why do I know as much about beavers and dam
building as I do from school?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Why did they, at least in my schooling. I don't
know my kids learned this. They seem to think it
was really important that I knew a lot about beavers
and what they do, and dams and the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I have never spent a second talking about, thinking about,
or reading about beavers that I didn't enjoy. No, No,
it's enjoyable. But I'm just surprising that somebody does about
the flat tail, right, yeah, about that, right? My little
tunnel's in the damn and everything like that. The way
the build, it's pretty cool. Here's this lady who's a
(33:08):
beaver specialist. She works with beavers and relocating him and studying.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
She's probably very happy.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I'll bet she's happier than hell to go to work. Well,
it's tough to tell the sex of a beaver. Do
you know that?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I did?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Not? Well know you do, and you enjoyed it. Like
every moment I've ever spent contemplating beaver's He can't just
for another fascinating revelation.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
He can't just flip a beaver over and say crank
or no, it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
It's more complicated.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Nope, Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty, Beaver's mate
for life. By the way, that's right, We learned that
the other day. Maybe that Michigan football coach ought to
stop being such a wolverine be more of a beaver. Huh.
And let's get a final thought from everybody on the
(34:01):
crew to wrap up the show for the day in
the week. Michael Aangelo ar Technical director, lead us off. Michael,
all Right, our show has a problem.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yesterday we mentioned cheeseburgers on the area a cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Today it's gonna be fries.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
It was mentioned on the air.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
If we keep this up, I know it doesn't on
a stick.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
For everybody knows that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Happen with salad Russell sprouts.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, it doesn't work quite the same way, does it.
Katie green or esteemed the Muse woman. As a final thought, Katie,
I just want to thank Joe for ruining deck the
Halls because I'll never unhear with the bowels. Oh boy,
that was gratuitous. Jack, do you have a final thought
you'd like to share?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, I'm just gonna throw in this news item that
fired Michigan football coach has been charged with three crimes,
including home.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Invasion and stalking. He could spend a long time in
prison over this.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Wow Wow, My final thought is slightly self serving. You
gotta go to Armstrong and Getty dot com and or
wherever you like to download podcasts. If you think you're
in favor of cameras in the courtroom, listen to our
conversation with Judge Larry Goodman, a retired Superior court judge,
talking about how cameras are insidious in courtrooms and all
(35:11):
the problems they cause. Super interesting. That was the best
thing we did today, more interesting than Beaver's. Armstrong and
Getty wrapping up another grueling, four hour worthday. So many people.
Thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getty dot
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Speaker 2 (35:44):
Time is running out, the pressure is on.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
See you Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'm strong and get you as.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I love che Come out, Come on and don't give
me that. Come on, Let's go, let's go. We're gonna
have thrnal. We want a cheezleerk, come on everything cheese
like what cheese are coming? Chee?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And I want to chaseeburg It's too early for a Chaseburger.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Put a cheese like her. Look cheese, but I got cheese.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Take your look, your cheater Burger. The Armstrong and Gaddy
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty as you have to launch into it.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
But you know what, I'm gonna wait till after this
video that President Zelensky just put out. I want to
I want to discuss in a few minutes. It's something,
it is something I realized.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I want to talk about Cardi B blasting Gavin Newsom,
Cardi B the singer, Yes, what the hell is going on? No,
Cardi B the architect, Yeah, Cardi B the singer.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Carti be the architect.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh, speaking of ways to make a living, you've inspired me.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You and Katie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You're making fun of me for bringing misery, And I thought, well,
wait a minute, that the heck guy, I'm pretty good
at that. I could picture myself like you have a
holiday party and people are just not getting the hint
and leaving, and I would work the room. Hey how
about all that bloodshed in Ukraine? It's incredible. Can you
imagine seeing your neighbors die in front of you? You know,
(01:13):
I just make a couple of stuff. People be gone
gone in ten minutes. Yea, A meeting's out of hand.
You know, it's like you know, they won't shut up
and listen. I'd stand up and say, look, AI is
going to take two thirds of your jobs. Look on
your right and left, all those people are going to
be gone. Now look in the mirror you are too,
(01:33):
and it's not gonna take long. Now it's all settled down.
The boss would shake my hand. I'd walk out.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I like you showing up to people's Christmas parties at
the end, helping them get the last guests out of
the house, as usually the last guest standing there in
the kitchen, not taking the hint, drinking your booze. You're
like Debbie Downer from the old Saturday Night Live thing?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What like that?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Have you heard about the rise in feline leukemia?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Beautiful? All right, lots to squeeze in the final hour
of the week, But first let's take a fun look
back at the week it was. It's cow clips of
the week. Your word is affordability. I wonder what grade
you would give A plus A plus.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
A plus plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
This deal, if it is allowed to move forward, will
actually be the death of the theatrical movie business.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
In Hollywood. We're sitting here today trying to save it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We're the United States of America. That's who we are.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Lucia has cos we're back into Europe and if you
must be prepared for the skill of our grandparents and
great grandparents and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The binary Justice Department called it the largest COVID fraud
scheme in the country. This also has an impact on smallies.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Do you think that the video should be released in
full to the American public?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, but whatever they have we certainly released. No problem.
This video was profoundly shaking. I didn't find it distressing
or disturbing.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It looks like any number of dozens of strikes we've seen. Senator,
have you seen the video? I have seen the video.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You have seen the classified video. No, I've not seen
the actual video.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, we keep it. I guess there have been cameras
all over me, analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile,
my every tear. We deserve to have cameras in there.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I would cause Eric will be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You know, it could screw up the proceeding and the
results might not be what everybody thinks they should be.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I think as long as uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Old women are annoying if you ever have sex.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, absolutely not, Wow, says the god who's never got
like Charon war Overnight basically being fired and then detained
by police. Something about it excited me, and uh, it's
kind of one of those deals. The door opens and
you get to walk through it and find out if
you can do it or run from it.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
A California woman recently gave birth in a self driving
Waymo taxi. Then, to even things out, the waimo ran
over a pedestrian.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory and text
to me back he killed my dad. My god, if
I had to say.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Like, there's only one thing you can ever have for
the rest of time, which admittedly would be a bit monotonous,
but it would probably be a chooser there.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's clips of the week, So serious first or CARDI
b first. Oh, let's get serious out of the way.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So we were talking yesterday about the ridiculousness of various
privileged crap. What am I supposed to do? What you
want me to do? Feel bad all day long? And
that teacher we had who walks up to kids and
tells them they should feel bad. But anyway, as a
legislator on the Education Committee who thinks state policy ought
(05:24):
to be telling little white kids they should walk through
their day feeling bad sick anyway, So in general, I
don't believe in the whole privilege thing, one privileged thing
that we should all we don't need to feel bad,
but you should feel freaking fortunate every damn day of
your life that you live in the biggest, most powerful
country in the world. So you've gotten no threat, zero
threat of some country coming in and shooting your kids,
(05:48):
raping your wife. I mean, all of these horrible things
that happen all over the world, including Ukraine, and I've
always been it really gets to me really easy people
who are literally fighting for their lives and their family lives. Anyway,
President Zelensky just put out a video a couple hours ago,
and I'm sure the reason he did it was the
(06:08):
conversation that's being had between Trump and European leaders in
which Trump says Ukraine's losing and they need to sign on.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
To this peace deal. And then there's a piece in
the Wall Street.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Journal they going back and forth about whether Ukraine's losing
President Zelensky broadcast a video from the front a town
that Russia had been claiming for weeks they took, and
Zelensky's standing in the middle of that town saying, well,
this is the town Russia says they took. They don't
have it anymore. We have it, and then he ends
it with keep fighting, lads, and I just oh wow,
it's me like, whoa, I mean, those are people seriously
(06:44):
laying it all on the line for their fans.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Can we start calling the alleged piece plan a conditional
surrender plan since that's a much more accurate description of
what it is. And you can see the look on
Zelensky's face when he says keep fighting lads, I.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Mean you mean Neil, Yeah, mean it?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah? AnyWho? That's heavy.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That is heavy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
If we have a privilege in the United States, it's
that we don't have to worry about that at all.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Transition music, Michael, I wish.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We had some Cardi B music.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't know if she has any music that's not
so filthy we couldn't play it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Is she the lady? She's the lady.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
When a time that she was home in the same
then maybe get to.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Come above time. I like this tells about.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Isn't the same? What is that?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If I recall correctly, this was the Italian pop star
put out a single in fake English, making fun of
the way Europeans single along to American pop songs, not
having any idea what they're saying, so he just went
with nonsense. It's really funny music, though it sounds like
Joon Batist can time.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Away.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You're gonna make it stop now, Michael, it worked. I
don't remember what we were talking about, which is the
goal of transition music? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So uh.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Nicki Minaj is blasting Gavvy Newsome for his being so
hot to trot for kids to have sex changes.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I get Cardi B and Nicki Minaj mixed up. They're
different people.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They may be which one said coronavirus and which one
said it's which one sang the WAP song?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's this nick this one Nicki MINAJH.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I don't know, are you?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They're both Cardi B? What Nicki minaje do that?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I should know anything somebody hits, she stays for something.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I'm pretty sure they've they've had a beef going on
for a while. They're very similar she got a big booty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yes, wow, Okay. So rap Bengas star Nicki Minaj is
blasting Gabby Newsom saying he wants to see trans kids.
That's an episode. That's an interview he did with Ezra
Kline in The New York Times in which he bragged
about the fact that California is the first and the
best and the biggest sanctuary state for confused adolescents who
(09:23):
want to get their bodies mutilated. He's very, very proud
of that. So she says she had a series of
X posts saying, it's the end of the road for you, Oh,
Gavy pooh, it only gets worse from here for you, buddy,
It's the end of the road for you, my love.
Get on the nearest jet ski and let that beautiful
hair blow in the wind. It will make you happier
(09:44):
than this race that you will not win. Enjoy life peace.
In a follow up, she said Gavin is the cute
boy who got everything handed to him because how cute
and sexy and hot and spoking. He was, Oh, look
at him sitting there in that suit with the sneakers on.
He thinks he's Tom Cruise. Only difference is his mission
is impossible. He shouldn't get another leading role. Let's see,
(10:04):
imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids.
Ha ha. Not even a trans adult would run on that.
Normal adults wake up and think they want to see healthy, safe,
happy kids, not gav The gav knots gave out sending
the next guy, I'm bored, Wow, Cardi B. Like so
(10:25):
many folks, is Black America, Nicki minaj Nicki minaj by
Cardi B, I mean different. I'm just why the hell
am I saying? I have no idea? Oh it's because
the next I'm sorry, the next couple of sentences have
to do with the Cardi B So Nicki.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Minaje, I just asked. Grok is known as the Queen
of Rap.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
She sold in the modern era one hundred million records worldwide.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
In the two thousands.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
She is a big deal Nicki Minaje Yeah so anyway,
and has a large booty. Like so many Black Americans,
she has no patience for the convincing kids their trans sickness.
In twenty twenty three, the California governor became the first
sanctuary state for transgender identifying children who are seeking drugs
(11:12):
and surgeries to alter themselves. Anyway, way to go, whichever
rapper woman you are, because you're right on this one. Okay, huh.
Jd Vance actually brought Cardi b into this conversation for
reasons that I will not bother elaborating on because I
(11:33):
don't care, and I'm sure you don't either. All Right,
do you know if Kevin Hart and Michael Jordan actually
hate each other?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Have you heard about this story?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Have you watched the most recent Kevin Hart Netflix special
that just got released? I think this week no very funny.
I find Kevin Hart freaking hilarious. And he's forty five now,
so he's got a lot of stuff about ag in there.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That I think you might find relatable as an aging dead.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But he claims, I don't know, maybe they're friends, and
this is a joke that he and Michael Jordan hate
each other, and it all goes way back to something
many many years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
He's got some seriously funny, really edgy smack about Michael
Jordan's Really yeah, I thought it was quite funny. Anyway,
I'll try to figure out if that's real or not,
and then we'll get the real news of some sort
or commentary Stay tuned.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
A Norwegian metal detector enthusiasts recently discovered a gilded figuring
of Jesus Christ that is believed to be nine hundred
years old. He rushed home to tell his wife, but
then he remembered he was a metal detector enthusiast.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's not nice, so I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, the feud between Kevin Hart the comedian and Michael
Jordan the basketball player appears to be real, and the
full ten minutes of his special that Kevin Hart spends
making taking shots at Michael Jordan and quite a hilarious fashion.
I'll go back goes back to a fewd many many
years ago where Kevin Hart was the MC at a
celebrity something or other and Jordan showed up late, and
(13:10):
Kevin Hart didn't dig it, and then made some jokes
about Jordan was dressed, his pants were up too high,
and he dresses like a pregnant lesbian and very variety
of things, and he said, and Jordan sat there, glum
faced the whole time, never laughed anything, and then afterwards
shook his hand and squeezed really hard. So he still
makes big shots at Jordan being a loser of a
(13:31):
dad and pitching a dud with his kids who have failed.
And I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Pretty hard stuff, but it's also it's also hilarious. But
I mean it's it's the sort of thing that would
make a guy mad. Wow, I've gotten to that age
where I got no EPs to give.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I just don't care.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Right, he's a funny guy. So a little bonus mail
bag here. You can drop us note if you want
mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot
of interesting stuff from this. Tony writs. The United States
season that Venezuela and oil tanker Gavin Newsom was quoted
as saying, my hair jails on that boat.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's kind of oily looking. Let's see, got this one.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
My hair jails on that boat. That's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, it is Allnonymous says. I've heard Jack discussing these
conversations with AI for some time now. I've also heard
Jack talk about alcoholism. I'm an alcoholic, and I've admitted
it in a completely new way that was not possible
just a year ago. Yesterday, I started talking to Grok
about why I drink and how I ended up drinking
as much as I do, GROC has quite possibly given
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me the advice I need to quit drinking. It's going
to be a long road, starting with some pill that
should help. But I may just make it heard so
much doom and gloom about AI while I have my
luddite hesitations, Groc may just have saved my lifetime.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Will tell wow. That's something.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I was talking about doctor yesterday, and he said, I
wonder if I'm going to be, you know, replaced by AI.
And I said, I don't know about medical doctors. But
and I said therapists. He was completely unaware of this.
I said, therapists better find a new line of work,
because the I is really good.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, I would detest. And then this from Drew
The Millennial Guys Ulysses by James Joyce sucks. Jack has
been discussing his slogging his way through that amazing classic
of literature.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You claim to, but you don't anyway, Drew writes, Let's
see it sucks with four s's. I hate that stupid book.
At a certain point, esoteric rhetorical creativity has no value.
It's just silly. I remember the chapter he referred to today,
(15:43):
nine months of gestation is an allegory for the development
of human language. Ooh, and I'll write some rambling incomprehensible
book about how the Creation of Christianity is a parable
for the West Coast offense, just so people who pretend
to understand it can prag to each other. It's a joke.
It's Andy Warhol's soup camp. Anyway, love the show that's
pretty good. Hates the book, loves the Show's that's some
(16:05):
good writing. The Creation of Christianity is a parable for
the West Coast offense. I would say it, that's good.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I think it's interesting that I tried to read that
book many times throughout my life and couldn't, and then
after continuing to read very difficult stuff for the past
twenty five years or however long, I got to the
point where I could read it. So there's some like,
there's some like ability to appreciate it that I gained
by reading other difficult literature, Like I like I worked
(16:34):
myself up to it, and that I classical music like
in the way that I don't even understand.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. That description reminds me of
some philosophy that I just can't get into. I know
a lot of people are into it, and I would
like to say that I am because it makes me
look smart, But I just I get a certain depth
into it. I think this is a complete waste of time.
This is just ruminating about stuff that doesn't matter. I
need to go make a living. Excuse me.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, I think Joyce is actually the exact opposite of
ruminating about something that doesn't matter. But maybe another time,
we've got some more news of the day. We ought
to get to some stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
That just happened Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What would it look like if China tries to invade Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Got some interesting stuff on that in just a second.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But I wanted to get back to this briefly, and
I promise it's brief.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
If you're rolling your eyes at this. The why.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
James Joyce's Ulysses is a big piece of art that
has lasted as long as it has, but I really
think is interesting. So it's the whole book is the day,
one day in the life of three people. It's just
it's one day, June sixteenth, nineteen oh four in Dublin Island.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
But the idea one page is long.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's like eight hundred pages long. But and it's it's
kind of based on the Odyssey. But his point is
all of literature up until that point, really and art
was all about kings and queens and soldiers and conquerors
and all these different sorts of things, and the Odyssey
(18:09):
is that sort of thing. His point is that we all,
as human beings with the most mundane of lives, live
all of the fear, love, success, envy, hate, everything lust
that mankind can have, that a human inspirations can have
on a near daily basis as just regular people. It's
(18:31):
not only something for kings, queens and people that have won.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And conquered in battles or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's for every single individual to experience the full gamut
of human emotions, just in regular life, just raising kids,
dealing with your wife and coworkers and blah blah blah.
What supplemental material have you found most helpful in reading it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I've actually been using the chatbots a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
There are all kinds of books out there, but it's
faster for me to just go to the chatbot and
ask a specific question.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
It gives me the answer.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Give us some for instance, just to help me understand
what that process looks.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Like like the other day, I said, I am really
slogging getting the run down and trying to read chapter twelve,
which is called the Oxen's something or other, and I said,
what can you do for me here? And which is
one of the things I love about chatbots, as you
can talk to them like that. It says, yeah, lots
(19:28):
of people quit here, that's where most people quit. So
try to fight your way through it. Here's what's happening.
Here's a way to approach it. Don't get too caught
up and trying to figure out what's actually occurring. Just
keep moving forward. It'll have a payoff in the end.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh wow, wow, wow, that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's amazing. Now these chatbots are amazing for lots of
different stuff. Anyway, back to this v This is according
to an article on the Wall Street Journal, and they're writers,
which I found really really interesting. The biggest geopolitical unknown
(20:03):
facing the entire planet with everything that's going on is
weather Beijing will try to conquer Taiwan in the near future.
The close second to that question is will the U
United States come to Taiwan's defense as a response. Those
are some major questions. They lay it out in this
(20:24):
very long article in the Wall Street Journal. If you're
interested in this topic, I highly recommend trying to figure
out how to read it. Wall Street Journal is pretty
good at paywalling people making you pay for their content.
Here's how it would start.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Five miles off Taiwan's coast ZTD, five amphibious vehicles from
China roll out of ships and zip over the water
amid a halo artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have
their orders seize the beach or die trying. Close by,
China's airborne troops are taking losses. They arrived before dawn
(20:58):
in low flying aircraft have to seize the airport. Taiwanese
defenders down several planes of paratroopers that landed scattered, and
race to assault the airfield before Taiwan wrecks it. This
hypothetical battle scenario imagines a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Its militari's,
policy makers and war gamers are doing all over the
world to try to predict what would happen and when
(21:18):
it might happen. An amphibious invasion would be one of
the toughest military operations to execute, and an all out
war would be extremely bloody, devastate the global economy, and
change the course of the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, yeah, worth noting speaking of literature and reading and
that sort of thing, the modern article and I have
to have read that one where you like scroll and
it gives you graphics and like moving maps and stuff
is so cool. Yeah, I still want to unplug the Internet.
I admit that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
It's roughly one hundred and ten miles from the Chinese
mainland to Taiwan. The Taiwan Strait is a daunting obstacle.
Tens of thousands of Chinese troops would need to cross
it with tanks, trucks and more, while Taiwan's missiles and
mines and possibly US bombers and submarines.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Target the invading fleet. Man, that's the big wild guard.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
With Trump as president or Biden or whoever as president,
I'm not sure how any US president would react. The
strait can be hostile without any of that, because the
weather is really rough around there. As they point out,
Taiwan is only like eight weeks a year where it's
at all a good idea to cross it, which I
(22:33):
found interesting, kind of handy is a defense to know
that you probably have to attack during a specific window,
so it makes it easier to know when it's coming.
Taiwan is much bigger than Okinawa or Euajima, the nearby
Japanese islands that US forces captured in World War Two battles,
And if you're a fan of that, you know what
an ugly.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Struggle that was.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The nineteen forty five Battle of Okinawa was the last
time a very large scale amphibious operation has happened on
planet Earth. And that was pretty simple compared to what
an invasion.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Of Taiwan would be.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I remember, and this was a full year ago, probably
when I was listening to the National Review podcast with
all their writers on there, very republican magazine, conservative people,
people that care about you know, they're not isolation as
most of them.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And they did a around the horn. Who thinks we
would come to the defense of Taiwan if China attacked?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Not a one of them thought we would. I think
this is when Biden was president, but.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
And that's something I had been living with, this assumption
that we are going to help defend Daiwan, but maybe
not well.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Every day, certainly every month, the math changes. How powerful
are the Chinese. How intertwined are our economies? You know,
what's what's the state of the readiness of our forces,
what's the commander in chief's attitude. It's ever changing. I've
come to believe they're not going to invade, by the way,
and I believe it pretty firmly because I could certainly
be wrong, but because the other option, from Xijin Ping's
(24:12):
point of view, is to let to do it politically speaking,
have a little more patience and let the wheels of
politics in Taiwan turn. There's already a substantial pro China
pro let's have happy relations with China part of their
internal politics. I think they're legislators like anti China, but
(24:33):
their executive branch is pro China. At this point, I
might have it backwards. Forgive me, I'm not an expert,
but there are definitely green shoots, as people like to
say these say these days, for look, maybe we could
get something going like Hong Kong was supposed to be
two systems, one country. There are plenty of people within
(24:53):
Taiwan who want that, and China's just going to keep
working that angle as hard as they can with every
tool they have.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, that be the smart thing to do.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
My biggest agreement disagreement with people like Ian Bremer and
other writers is they always assume people are going to
do the smart thing. People regularly don't do the smart
thing for all kinds of reasons. And the reading on
Jijingping's personality and entire life is this is what he
cares more about than practically anything in the world, is
(25:21):
taking Taiwan, and he might do it just because he
wants to, and he's the guy that makes the call.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, is it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Would it be a good idea? No, I absolutely don't
think it would be a good idea for him.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, I could see the US and you know, China's
other allies, some of the them are kind of new
to the scene. Japan, for instance, is like militantly pro Taiwan,
not China's allies, Taiwan's sillies in a way that's surprising,
give them the history. But I could see even if
you know, we don't send our warships and all the
(25:53):
engage in direct battles like a serious effort to finance
and aid Taiwan's resistance. Anyway, we could because that article
points out in great detail amphibious invasions, particularly of a
place like Taiwan with their defenses and their topography would
be horrifically costly.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I'll give you a little more of this and then
if you're interested, you can seek it out and read
it yourself. Most of Taiwan's twenty three million people are
concentrated along the coast that faces China, so they're closest
to you know, where they actually have. Taiwan is increasingly
preparing to bog down Chinese forces in deadly urban combat.
According to people that you know work with the various
(26:36):
think tanks and everything in Taiwan. Defenders know the cities
can set up sniper positions and make it difficult for
China identify strongholds nested in the concrete. Can you imagine
living somewhere where this is a reality in your lifetime
that you might be invaded by one of the biggest
superpowers on the planet and be an urban combat Wow?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Right, And Taiwan has money and incredible technology to make
that extra lethal too, So it would be again just
mind bogglingly cost.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And maybe the most important ally on Earth. Maybe.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah. But same time, to your point about She's and
Ping being kind of fixated on this sort of thing. Remember,
he's the sort of leader who would think nothing nothing
of spending a million lives in the next six months.
He wouldn't even miss lunch, never mind being awake at night.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Which we can't wrap our heads around. Because if we
lost nine hundred guys, it would be the biggest story
in America by far.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, there would be giant memorials. Well, hope that doesn't
happen in my lifetime. We will finish strong.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Next, I noticed my wife had started eating, and she
started choking and gasping, and after she had had a
couple bites of food, she actually threw up, and I
had to look at the bag and seeing that there
was some kind of spray or something, the bag had
been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera
and seen that the lady that dropped the food off
(28:08):
had actually tampered with it. We assume it's pepper spray.
It's more than likely what it is. But now in
this day age, it could have been anything. Could have
been ratboism, could have been fentanel. We live in a
terrible world right now. Horrific people are mean for no reason.
There was no reason to do what she done.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Uh, that's a pretty rough story. So you brought that
to us the other day, Katie. So somebody, some weirdo,
some door dash weirdo, pepper sprays the food. It's like
a random act of meanness. But I assume, so I.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Don't know, you're making an assumption. Maybe the person ordering
it's send a note, hey, make sure there's pepper. Add
some pep brings some pepper packets, and like was really
bugging the guy. He thought, I'll give you some pepper.
You don't know, you bastard.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I assume somewhere in there he calls nine to one
one or something. If the person I'm meeting with starts
to sweat, cough, convulsian, then vomit, and I realize the
food's been daffered with, I'm thinking, holy.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Crap, somebody might die here. Sure, yeah, it's horrifying.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So, like you said, it could have been rat poison
or anything I don't know about the world is a
mess and everyone's evil.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Because of that one instance.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I think that was the most revealing and interesting thing
that was said, because it was funny. I was thinking
about this story and I thought, up until very very recently,
I never would have heard that story, and I wouldn't
spend a single second of my life worrying about door
dash drivers pepper sprang my food. And I wouldn't need
to because it will never ever happen.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I worry about the meat in my fries.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yes, now, wait, now we're talking.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
And I'm not even as worried about the Meeting of
Christ because there's more fries. There's gonna be more fries
in the bag than I need anyway. I just don't
want your grubby, greasy fingers in there.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I don't want your hands in my bag. Your pardon
the expression, Oh no, well, yes I will.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There's a dag and hands involved. It's fine. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry. I'm distracted by French fries, which are deliciously evil,
absolutely evil. Do you have an air fryer yet? Do
you have a toaster oven that can do air frying?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I have an air fryer. I'm not great at using it,
but I have one.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
What I was just thinking, fries to go, fries left
over and similar fair. They can be brought back to
life and be damn near, if not as delicious as.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
They ever were. God dang it, I have so little
self control. I'm having McDonald's fries today. Those are my
favorite fries. I love McDonald's fries, but I also like
a big, thick potatoy fry. It's like pub fry. Yes,
like I know when this makes me a very pedestrian person,
but I really like Red Robin's French fries.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And it's bottomless.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Just in case, one hundred French fries when they first
bring you, Yeah they're good, aren't enough? They'll bring you
another one hundred French fries. Those are some good French fries.
Though got slabbered with ketchup. Give give me that right now.
I need a big bowl of that bag of that
box of it.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Utah is relocating it's beavers. Do you want to hear
about that? We were talking earlier about I I prefaced
some critical of Trump' stuff with the fact that Trump
does some stuff that I think is great, and he's
the only guy to do it because he doesn't he
gives zero s's. And I remember what story it was.
(31:26):
We brought the story from the Free Beacon the other
day about how there are a bunch of tech companies,
many of them in California, that openly say no US
citizens need apply. That's maddening, which is incredibly maddening. Trump
Justice Department is going after it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, if my kids applied for a job when they're
getting out there in the workplace and they can't get
it because they're US citizens, Oh, that's maddening.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well right, right, But the again, Pam Bondi and crew
got hold of this, they found out about it. Donald
J probably saw it in the Free Beacon and they
said this will not stand and they are going to
unleash holy hell on companies that would dare say that,
which is great.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And that's why Utah is relocating their beavers.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Right, yeah, no, unrelated. As a matter of fact, their
dams cause floods and that gets them in trouble with humans.
But in the right place, more water can be a
big help. So you don't need beavers, damn and stuff
up over here. Damn it beavers. But instead of an
expensive infrastructure project over there, you just relocate your beavers.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Why do I know as much about beavers and dam
building as I do from school?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Why did they, at least in my schooling. I don't
know my kids learned this. They seem to think it
was really important that I knew a lot about beavers
and what they do, and dams and the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I have never spent a second talking about, thinking about,
or reading about beavers that I didn't enjoy. No, No,
it's enjoyable. But I'm just surprising that somebody does about
the flat tail, right, yeah, about that, right? My little
tunnel's in the damn and everything like that. The way
the build, it's pretty cool. Here's this lady who's a
(33:08):
beaver specialist. She works with beavers and relocating him and studying.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
She's probably very happy.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I'll bet she's happier than hell to go to work. Well,
it's tough to tell the sex of a beaver. Do
you know that?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I did?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Not? Well know you do, and you enjoyed it. Like
every moment I've ever spent contemplating beaver's He can't just
for another fascinating revelation.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
He can't just flip a beaver over and say crank
or no, it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
It's more complicated.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Nope, Hey, kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and Getty.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty, Beaver's mate
for life. By the way, that's right, We learned that
the other day. Maybe that Michigan football coach ought to
stop being such a wolverine be more of a beaver. Huh.
And let's get a final thought from everybody on the
(34:01):
crew to wrap up the show for the day in
the week. Michael Aangelo ar Technical director, lead us off. Michael,
all Right, our show has a problem.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yesterday we mentioned cheeseburgers on the area a cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Today it's gonna be fries.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
It was mentioned on the air.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
If we keep this up, I know it doesn't on
a stick.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
For everybody knows that doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Happen with salad Russell sprouts.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, it doesn't work quite the same way, does it.
Katie green or esteemed the Muse woman. As a final thought, Katie,
I just want to thank Joe for ruining deck the
Halls because I'll never unhear with the bowels. Oh boy,
that was gratuitous. Jack, do you have a final thought
you'd like to share?
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, I'm just gonna throw in this news item that
fired Michigan football coach has been charged with three crimes,
including home.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Invasion and stalking. He could spend a long time in
prison over this.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Wow Wow, My final thought is slightly self serving. You
gotta go to Armstrong and Getty dot com and or
wherever you like to download podcasts. If you think you're
in favor of cameras in the courtroom, listen to our
conversation with Judge Larry Goodman, a retired Superior court judge,
talking about how cameras are insidious in courtrooms and all
(35:11):
the problems they cause. Super interesting. That was the best
thing we did today, more interesting than Beaver's. Armstrong and
Getty wrapping up another grueling, four hour worthday. So many people.
Thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong and Getty dot
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(35:32):
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this weekend. I've got to I'm up against the wall.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Time is running out, the pressure is on.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
See you Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'm strong and get you as.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I love che Come out, Come on and don't give
me that. Come on, Let's go, let's go. We're gonna
have thrnal. We want a cheezleerk, come on everything cheese
like what cheese are coming? Chee?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And I want to chaseeburg It's too early for a Chaseburger.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
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