August 5, 2025 • 35 mins
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- The TX fleeing democrats, gerrymandering & flying cars
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- A full Israel occupation of Gaza
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and Jackie and he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms live from the studio scene Sea Signor. It is
a dially lit room deeper from the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all on Tuesday front
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of the two legitard general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The Texas Rangers, not the baseball team, the law enforcement guys.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
They're gonna go to Illinois. They're gonna lasso those.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Wandering legislators and drag them back to far some frontier justice.
Interesting by brand them, I certainly hope so, it seems
in case they run off, Yes, so they can be
easily identified. It seems cruel and unusual to start branding people,
but it's not unusual if you do.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Whatever you got to do to make sure they're your
cattle or your legislators. How am I just recognize my
legislator if they don't have a big brand on their neck?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What if they like run off to Louisiana start legislating,
or Louisiana snatches them up for instance, or Oklahoma. I
suppose it wouldn't have to be on their neck. But
just for instance, well it's Andy, uh huh uh. Well, okay,
So I watch a bunch of different cable news channels
and a lot of people were talking about that, the
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whole Texas redistricting. How big a story is this. It
seems like Texas legally can do it. If they do it,
they're gonna end up with five the House will have
five more Republican seats in a basically tied house.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That seems like a pretty big deal. Yeah, it's a
huge deal.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It breaks the precedent the mostly followed President that the
only redistrict after the census, so you have a new
snapshot of your population, that sort of thing. We could
be entering an era of constant redistricting. Also, the Supreme Court,
as I mentioned yesterday, is looking at a big case
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that has to do with our the ridiculous state of
our racial laws about redistricting, which are self contradictory and foolish.
And so yeah, this could be an element in a
big change in the way congressional districts are drawn going forward. Yeah,
but I don't quite know because it's hard to find
non partisan actors on this. But our old friend David
(02:42):
Drucker was talking about what I was saying yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Every district.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Not every district because some states it doesn't matter, but
lots of districts across the country are already jerry mandered
to death. They have been doing this, Both parties have
been doing this forever. In case you don't know this,
this is one of the most important things to know
about the country. The two main parties work together and
draw the lines. You have that one, that'll be a
safe Democratic seat for you. You'll never have to worry about
(03:09):
losing it ever. Okay, you have this one. You draw
it this way, you'll have a safe Republican seat and
never have to worry about together. And then they allow
for like twenty to thirty out of four hundred and
thirty five. They allow for like twenty or thirty competitive
districts in the whole freaking country that you can fight
over the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Rest of them.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
They drew the line so they'd be safe in that
the two parties will always run run the country. Right,
not to mention the problems with jerry mandering that if
you ever look at a map, it just it doesn't
make any sense. You end up with people that live
two hundred miles away from you in a rural lifestyle
and you live in the city or vice versa. But
they drew the line, so you'd be the same politics,
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and like what your town is doing might have four
different congressional districts in it, which is nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The only thing I'd add to your just cription, which
is correct, is that in your one party states like hell,
you know, Corneer or Illinois or Texas, the one party
can you know, abandon that whole Let's cooperate and you know,
as we'll take fifty five, you take forty five percent,
and they'll just grab everything they can. I mean, for instance,
the great state of Illinois, fourteen out of seventeen seats
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are Democrat. Well that's what I was gonna' That's what
I was going to say. Next, here's where it gets
hard to get the nonpartisan reporting on this, and I'm
not interested enough to do a deep dive myself. But California, Illinois,
and New York, according to some of my favorite pundits,
did this long ago. Oh yeah, they maximize the number
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of seats they could have. Texas is just catching up
to them. So this is the old will you did
it first, so now I'm doing it. Race to the
bottom that we've done with absolutely everything in politics nowadays,
it's a race to the bottom and you blame the
other side. Well you did it, so I'm now reacting,
and everybody has their own starting point. It's like the
Palestinians in the Israelis. It is cute to see the Gavins,
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Newsom and the Kathy's Hocal of the World from New
York saying, is this redistricting, this gerrymandering is outrageous, This
is unacceptable. We're gonna have to fight back. No, you've
been doing it forever. Look at your crazy quilt congressional map.
That's not an accident. But in the so much hypocrisy.
I've seen this movie before. Now the stories are coming
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out about the Texans hanging out in Illinois and the
partying they're.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Doing and that. I mean, it's just it's a tired
old movie. Yeah. I saw some polling on the whole
and it's all a stunt. By the way.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Abbat just has to wait them out, the governor. They'll
get the redistricting passed eventually. There's no use to this.
It's just a publicity stunt. That is true, but the
gerrymandering in general is not a stunt, and it happens
all over the place, and we shouldn't do it. I
would like it to go away. I don't know how
we would. They've made it so it'd be almost impossible
to vote that out. I saw some polling on this yesterday.
(06:02):
What this is from you gov. What Americans think about
the ability to draw electoral districts in a way that
makes it harder for members of a particular party to
elect their.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Candidates should be legal.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Nine percent of Americans think it's a good idea to
be able to draw districts so that they're safe.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But that's what we do.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's already done, and I don't see how you would
ever end it since, like.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I said, they've.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now got it all dialed in, so same party is
going to win every time. They're not going to go
into Congress and vote for changing it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The Supreme Court would have to.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Issue some sort of big decisive judgment about how districting
ought to go, but that's extremely unlikely because I think
they'd say no, that's for the legislature to decide.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's not our job.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean, we will protect the constitution, make sure everybody
has the vote and is represented. But we're not going
to go too far down this road. They're going to
eliminate a lot of the idiotic, racist, racial stuff I
think next year. But yeah, this will be a mess
for the rest of our lives and our.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Children's as well. That's unfortunate. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I heard the best news I've heard in a long
time today. We'll have more details in this coming up later.
Volkswagen announced their flying car and put out a video,
and if you haven't watched it, it's pretty damn cool.
I've been promised this since I was five years old.
And now is it a flying car or is it
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a driving helicopter? It looks like a driving flying vehicle
more than a flying car. But either way, right, I
mean clearly the whole propelling you along the ground thing
is it's not that advanced at this point. It's the
flying part that really needs to get the emphasis from
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the engineers.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
If you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And I got a flying car, I want them to
get that flying part right. Any compromise you gotta make,
I can't have as many cup holders to keep this
thing aloft.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Fine, like does it have like my cyber truck?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Now the update on the software, the material lighting pulses
with the music if you want it to, like you're
in a.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Nightclub, so you can dance while you drive.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I've got it set to do that. And I
listen to mostly talk radio, so it pulses to talk radio,
which is kind of funny. So the question I have
with the flying car. I know how to drive a car.
I do not know how to fly a plane. So
is there any training that comes with this? Or I
feel like I feel.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Like, here's the case, what's the worst that could happen?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I feel like there should be some other level of
certification I get before I start flying around in this thing.
The guy, the tech guy, sits next to you in
the passenger seat. He programs, you know, your your phone
number into there, He connects your phone for you, goes
through the That's how you go up in the that's
how you come back down, and that's kind of the
steering thing. And then he shakes your hand and you
(09:05):
try you fly off exactly. I never understand nobody ever,
nobody ever covers this part of drone deliveries or flying
cars or a that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Who's gonna how's gonna navigate this? Aren't we We're gonna
have to have some rules. We can't just.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Have everybody gets a flying car and takes off whenever
they want to and goes up in the air and
starts flying straight to work.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's not gonna work. It's not a workable situation.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Indeed, they're about three hundred thousand dollars, so it's pretty pricey,
although it includes a plane. I mean, if you basically
have a plane, it's not that pricey. I mean if
I can get to I mean, this is really in theory.
I don't think this will ever be happen or be allowed.
But if I can get to, you know, between San
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Francisco and Los Angeles in an hour in my Volkswagen
car plane, that's a pretty pretty handy piece of equipment.
I think you're asking a lot. I don't, Well, you
know more about this than me, but I don't see
this as being a long range deal at this point.
I would guess what's you's gonna hop over? Traffic jams?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Is that the way you're looking at it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's like the motorcycle's lane splitting, but you're doing it vertically.
Oh cool, and it'll because as long it'll work as
long as there's only a couple of people that have them.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So if I get one before.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They become really popular, then maybe I can do it
that I was in a traffic jam last night. I
just raise up and with my newfound skills as a pilot,
fly over the top of the cars and land safely,
I guess, and drive off. More like you'll raise up
and immediately get smashed into About the guy in baki
you who raised up seconds before and is now shooting forward,
or raise up and hit the overpass or a bunch
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of overhead electric wires, or all kinds.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Of different things. Oh wow, good point.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm not a pilot. Okay, let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday,
August fifth year two or Armstrong and getting and we
approve of this program. Okay, then the show starts officially
now according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go
at Mark.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The Sydney smieniad have you seen it?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh yes, I have?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Trying to calm myself, but that would uh wow, I
guess we have a bunch of those people, uh.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, asking young but pierced, bahar dyed women what they
think of it, and they all dutifully recite the cult
talking points.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They've been taught that, And.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Then we got to take a break. So at the
what State Fair the other day? And when you walk
in the state California State Fair, they take a picture
of all you together and then they try to sell
you it to you at the end of the thing.
You know, we've all done that at Disneyland or wherever
you are. So we walk in and I got my
two boys with me, and they want to take a
picture in this uh woman, I think she'd probably gotten
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angry if I had to call to her a woman.
She said, stand there and take and so my kids
will never smile, so ilways have to come up with
something that will make them laugh.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's the only way I'm gonna get a smile out
of them.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And I said, say nose ring, and they both got
big smiles and it ended up being a good enough picture.
I actually paid for the picture, and I felt guilty
about it. I shouldn't have said that because I don't
think she heard me. But if she had heard me,
and her feelings would have been hurt. Say nose ring
got a smile out of them, though I'm still laughing.
I don't know. I'll see if I can find some
guilt in here somewhere. But that's kind of funny. Well,
(12:35):
I have I know some people, I really really really
like great people who have nose rings. So since I'm
not like super anti or make a ton of assumptions,
I make some assumptions.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And they're probably right. We've got headlines on the way.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We got mail bag later all on the way stay here.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We were on an AD.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We just ran an AD and I don't know which
station's on. We're like, what are we on sixty indeed
something stations? So I don't know where it's running, but
it's it's always mentioning human composting.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Is that what I think it is? It is? It
is what I think it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Is, ashes, ashes, dust to dust, dirt to dirt. Jack, Well,
you're talking about the human body? Are you talking about
my leavings while I'm alive?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
No?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
You?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh okay, oh your your corpus. Oh, I'm fine with that.
I thought it was people who are collecting.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Their own poo. Oh you can say it and then
hoo composting it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
There's even emoji, an emoji for it. These days, we're
comfortable talking about boop.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm not. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, no human composting is is you your body? Israel
to the earth, as they say, Israel with a giant
announcement last night. We got to get to also, Michael,
remind me to ask me. Remind to ask me. So
I talk about my sailing lessons that I'm taking, I.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Want to hear about this.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, I'm going to get the hat, the ascot. I'm
gonna start calling people mate the whole thing right, and
I want Christopher Cross music under his description. Please let's
figure out who's rearding what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Hit It starting with NBC.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Trump says EU imports to face thirty five percent tariff
if the EU does not invest six hundred billion dollars
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And there is a question around all these investments whether
we can hold these various places to them. They're throwing
around some big numbers, and then will they actually come
through with the money. In some cases, there's no belief
that they can come through with the money.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The numbers are too big.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It just seems to be grand standing, Just silly, hollow
grand standing.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
From ABC.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Texas governor orders police to find and arrest Democrats who
fled over redistricting.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
This whole game. Tell you what do you get up
behind them?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You lasso the legs, you throw them to the ground
that you put the rope around the arms and legs.
It was said, jump up thing and get your time.
Then you drag them back to Texas amb them.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
From The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
India defies Trump on Russian oil despite tariff threats.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, Trump's gonna tariff the hell out of India for
buying oil from Russia. India is saying, we're the biggest
country in the world, were one of the biggest economies.
Other people aren't gonna tell us where we get our oil.
That's an interesting standoff.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
From CNN. Trump says that Scott Bessont is no longer
in the running for fed share.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, I'll adjust accordingly. Please wake me when it's over.
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Airbnb tries to stick traveler with seven thousand dollars repair
bill after the host used an AI generated image to
claim damage.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Generated a picture via AI to make it look like
this person messed the apartment up.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
This is from the same corner of the human psyche
as the rental car companies that just hit more or
less everybody. Yeah, certain companies with a hey, yeah, there
was a big scratch. That'll be two hundred and fifty bucks,
and they just hope you know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You don't fight it. Some of the most famous rental
companies are doing that. Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
From the New York Times, a zoo in Denmark wants
to feed your pets to its predators.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
They're saying, if you have an animal that is near
end of life, you can give it to the zoo
and they'll euthanize it and feed it to the lions.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Kind of Joe's ashes to asses, dust to dust, thing
a circle of life. As a practical man, I can
think of no moral argument against this. Henry, on the
other hand, I don't love the idea. Henry comes home
and says, worst pup pup. I say, I took him
to the zoo and they fed him to the lions.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it was time and it was very sad. But
now he's being eaten by lime.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
So yeah, boof and Finally, the Babylon Bee Texas begins
construction on northern border wall to keep Democrat lawmakers from returning.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh boy, Net and Yahoo announced last night this morning
plans for a full occupation of Gaza. Well, that'll be
something to watch, among other things to talk about today,
Stay with.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Images of Israeli hostage Eviotade da Vid spread around the
world after Hamas released a video showing him digging his
own grave. His brother Eli hopes that an agreement will
be reached to bring Evietad home along with the other
forty nine hostages and nineteen others whom are believed to
be alive.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
He should be treated as a human being and not
as a puppet, not as a human skeleton.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The israelis Well, we're about to hear from the rather
of one of the held hostages that looked like they
were starving. There is the evidence for whether or not
gozens are being starved is difficult to figure out. The
Evidence as to whether the hostages are being starved is
pretty nailed down. Oh yeah, yeah, they have all reported
(18:20):
back similarly.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah. Next clip.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
The Israeli security Cabinet will meet to determine the next
phase of the war. As ceasefire negotiations remain at an impasse,
local media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo is
considering an expansion of military operations across the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
We must continue to stand together and fight together to
achieve all our war objectives, the defeat of the enemy,
the release of our hostages, and the assurance that guards
who will no longer pose a threat to Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So as Benjamin Netanyahoo actually going to occupy all of Gaza,
like he said yesterday.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, that is so interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I've been reading a great deal about, you know, the
sentiment in Israeli society and the different ideas and plans
people have going forward, and I was a little surprised
to hear that he's talking about going one hundred percent hardcore.
Let's just do this thing to the end, because it
seems like the trend is going in the other direction
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in Israel, people thinking we can't finish the job. It
would take years and years, it'd take fifty years a
guerrilla warfare. We've got to come up with a plan
B that ensures, you know, sufficient fortifications that October seventh
never happens again and get some sort of international something
or other into Gaza to maintain order, which to that's
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not even a easy thing to say. To implement it
is really difficult, true, but to the point of surprise
that they're going to occupy all of God, here's Leland
Vittert doing analysis on news Nation today.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
So Israel is not really left with a choice for
two reasons. One because they need their hostages back and
they can't have a terror state living next to them.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But two, the pressure by France.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
And the UK and the Canadians and now democrats on
the left in the United States, the progressive left that
talks about recognizing a Palestinian state, only forces Israel's hand.
When Israel is supported, they are more likely to make concessions.
When Israel feels isolated and alone, they have to for
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their own survival push harder. Weakness in the Middle East
is provocative and it is dangerous, and Israel can't be
seen by the world in their eyes as cow taling
to pressure.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
His main point being, as he goes on, what's the choice,
what's your other choice? You said, Plan B, But what's
the other choice other than occupying all of Gaza? Hamas
isn't agreeing to our latest final offer, according to the
New York Times, of give back the hostages and lay
down your arms. Not a peep out of Hamas. Obviously
they won't do that, So what's your other choice? I agree,
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how the hell are you gonna do that? But what's
your other option?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I read another great piece I wish I had in
front of me, where the guy was making the point
that the there was just another sorry, idiotic waste of
time to state solution conference in some European capital where
all the diplomats from the euro countries got together and
a couple of Arab countries and jawed about you know
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what sort of deal they might strike and blah blah blah.
And the point the writer made was, you're talking about
a deal that one of the sides does not want.
They've rejected it over and over again. And I'm talking
about the Palestinian side, the Hamas side of a state.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
They want the Jews to go. So unless your solution
includes that, they're not going to agree to it. And
if your solution includes that, well that's a non starter anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So there's a certain contingent. I swear I'm sorry, just
one more thought.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I honestly don't understand whether these people are just delusional
they can't do that diplomatic math in their heads, or
they're not aware of it, or they're hoping it's not true.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's it. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I've wondered that for many, many years. So this Leland
Vitter character that we just heard from, he I don't
know his act, but he was on News Nation and
he said, I've lived in Israel for I think he
said fifteen years or something like that. He said he
was the correspondent from Israel on Fox News for ages.
He said, even being on the ground here, he said,
the politics are impossible to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But so I heard some.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Noises yesterday from a crowd in Israel that says Hamas,
we've decimated them, they're no longer a threat, so we
should pull out, and you know, the remaining Hamas is
not a threat to Israel and let them deal with gods.
And and that's an interesting argument because okay, Japan attacks
US and then we leave some of the Japanese military behind.
(23:12):
You know, we've we've getten a pretty good whooping, but
we'll go ahead and pull out.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
At this point, it seems I don't think we would
have done that. Well, we didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We didn't do that eighty years ago tomorrow, right right
to the point that we the Allies were going to
invade the Japanese mainland and inture horrific Actually we actually wornked,
which is the new piece of information that has come
out in the last thirty years. I can't wait to
talk about that later. What. Yeah, even absent the bomb,
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Even absent the bomb, the Navy had decided we can't
do it. They we had gotten information that they had.
We thought they had about three hundred thousand troops ready
to push off our D Day type landing on Japan,
which was going to be so much bloodier than D
Day in France. I mean not even close. They had
almost a million men ready to defend Japan, and we
(24:03):
decided that ain't gonna work. Can't do it. Not an
option going to surround the island. We are going to
starve them out, which would have killed way.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
More people than the bombs killed.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, yeah, wow, Harry. And it gets back to as
a similar situation of what you got going on in Israel. Yeah,
what are you, What are you going to do with
the remaining people who are dead enders, who are vowing
to destroy you and kill you and need to chance
you get Are you gonna leave them alone? Well, the
only alternative was what I referred to earlier. You seal
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them off. Essentially, you render them unable to do significant damage.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
The idea that.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That idea would win the day post October seventh seems
really unlikely to me. I just think I had a
conversation with a friend over the weekend about this.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
This is two things.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It is the first time the modern digital iPhone world
has been able to a catastrophic military defeat, and how
ugly it is and how sad it is. Well, right,
I taken it back to World War Two, and the
end of the war has always been taken it back
to August eighty years ago. So one of the biggest
(25:17):
concerns by the Army of the Navy and President Truman
Roosevelt too, but President Truman had just taken over, was
how much are Americans willing to put up with.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
In terms of dead marines we lost.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I've got the stats and I'll look them up. We
lost over half the marine losses were in like the
last month of the fighting. I mean, it had gotten
really really awful, really really fast, and so the idea
of an invasion. They finally decided with a million people
opposing us, our population will not stand for those kind
of losses, will not support the war any longer. The
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Japanese knew that in democracies, that's the problem you have.
If you can kill enough people in a democracy of
a democracy, the people.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Will start to get a weak need.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And if you can you imagine if there had been
TikTok videos of Ewo, Jima and Okinawa and Guadalcanal and
all that sort of stuff. Who knows what public opinion
might have been. Oh right, right, And that's what they
have in Israel right now, right, or constant footage of
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the people of Dresden or Hiroshima or whatever on you know,
on your phone all day long. They're suffering, and people
lose their stomach for it because it's sickening. There's a
reason that most armies in the history of the world
have not trotted their civilian populations out to watch the bloodshed,
certainly not in the modern world. It's because it's tough
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to take so two things. One we're seeing a catastrophic
military defeat, and it's tough to take because it's sad
and siken people die and are hungry, and it's terrible.
Second thing is and I made this point months ago.
I read it and it's absolute true, and if you
can come up with a counter argument, I would love
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to hear it. But the point made was that in
the last several centuries, there has never been an example
of a country launching an unprovoked attack on its neighbor
then being defeated, that they didn't lose their land, their sovereignty,
or both. That always happens. How about you're on the
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hook for feeding them right right, No, you and your
attacking regime are not left intact, never for reasons that.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Are pretty obvious. So I just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Gerald Baker with his opinion piece in the Wall Street
Journal today, Maybe we'll read from it later.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It's got some gruesome pictures in it.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Hamas starves Jews and Palestinians, and Israel gets blamed. The
Western press and politicians play along with the terror group's
ghastly propaganda campaign, and they do because they hate Israel. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Politically, it's a problem. World opinion turns against you.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
If if the United States had to make calculations against Japan,
which was the most evil force on Earth. More stats
on that later, they were worse than the Nazis. Why
we always credit the Nazis. Japanese were beyond worse than
the Nazis, but and what they were doing to all
the countries in their area. If we, even in that situation,
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had to worry about public opinion back in the day
when you had more of a US raw raw press,
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Israel possibly deals with this.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's definitely a conundrum of the modern world, which is
why you completely a moral regime like Vladimir Putins for instance,
Theirs Shijin Pings has a distinct advantage. They don't care,
no kidding, They don't have to worry about it, and
their people don't see the news, or they see news,
but they don't see the news the real news.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Got mail back on the way.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You could weigh in on this topic at any time,
please do text line four one five two nine five KFDC.
Reading up on Volkswagen's new flying car that they announced.
I'll get into the details next hour, but thirty foot
wing span, I feel like.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That's not gonna fit my garage. Maybe if I move
the lawn.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Moarn not.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I don't think it's gonna fit.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh not unless you've got like extra wide doors. We'd
have to have a damn big garage and wide doors. Yeah,
too bad. I was all excited about it. My hoa says,
no parking vehicles outside. Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Continuing on with our series from Javier Milay, the miracle
worker in Argentina, the champion of free markets. I'd love
to see him debate old Mamdami the kami. Huh, Javier says,
Let no one tell you he was talking to business people.
Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral.
If you make money, it's because you offer a better
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product at a better price, thereby contributing to general well being.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
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Bag, drop us a note if you like mail bag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Great variety today, Great
variety of topics here is. Robert writes, Guys, you remember
a while back you talked about the definition of stupid
and the author Carlo Sippola came up with a definition
of a stupid person as and I love this a stupid,
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and he's got a point here.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
A stupid person is a person.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Who causes losses to another.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Person or to a group of persons.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
While himself deriving no gain or even possibly incurring losses.
That's pretty so that differentiates you from being a devious
person or a dishonest person, or all you do is
damage anyway, he said. The WNBA is that definition. What
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they're doing with Clark right now, nothing but damage and.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Incurring losses themselves. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's a good point.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'd forgotten about that simple a definition. That's really good.
Let's see. Jose from Beautiful Round Rock, Texas writes on
the topic of vaccines, and I'm gonna skip ahead a
little bit. He talks about how childhood vaccines often need
to be boostered to work in.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
As an adult.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
He says, a no vaccine is absolutely one hundred percent effective.
I'm sorry, he's in the field. He's a retired pediatric nurse.
No vaccine is absolutely one hundred percent effective. No vaccine
is absolutely one hundred percent safe. Because of this, parents
are already anxious about childhood vaccines. I will add, particularly
these days when there's so damn many of them. Then
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the medical establishment outright lied about the COVID vaccines. It
is absolutely safe and effective. You won't spread covid if
you've had the vaccine. Children need to be vaccined against COVID.
And about the pandemic fourteen days stop spread. Masks are effective.
Protests won't spread covid. It started in a wet market.
As a result, the anti vax wackos were given credence
and the medical establishment was delegitimized. People stopped trusting all vaccines.
(32:14):
Fury kids are vaccinated and disease spreads. Of course, having
millions of unvaccinated people coming in from unvetted third world
countries doesn't help either.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Right, that is good to get at that.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So like me and everybody else in the country has
never gotten a booster for whooping cough, And I got
whooping cough and it was horrible, and now it's on
the rise like it hasn't been in half a century
because it was introduced to the country. Again, I didn't
need a booster because I wasn't going to come in
contact with whooping cough. But now you are right, yeah, true, Well,
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and the other point is, and you could write a
book certainly on this, and we've talked about it plenty
of times. But the dishonesty and willingness to exercise highly
questionable emergency powers and tramp on people's rights during COVID,
those people who are half smart who are doing that thought, no,
this is important, We'll get away with it, and they
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didn't think about, all right, what are the the second
tier effects of completely losing our credibility down the road?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you think people are just gonna forget?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
No kidding, I'll never.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Look at the I'll never hear CDC says the way
I did before COVID, right.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Means almost nothing to me.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh yeah, it's six feet stand six of peet apart,
which I know is completely made up out of whole clove. Right,
So now it's just a suggestion. Yeah yeah. Moving along,
Mike Rights on the topic of the late night shows,
thanks for your kind words. First of all, Mike scrolling
through the Cable Guy on TV to see if anything
was decent on when I noticed a trend Colpet's having
(33:47):
an actress on Fine. Then Robert Reich, former US Labor
secretary under Clinton who doubled back to work with Obama.
He is a way lefty right man. I thought, hmm,
that's odd an old dude who leans left. So I
continue on his lineup on Tuesday is Fred Armison fine
and JB. Pritzker, the far left child mutilating governor of
(34:07):
New York of Illinois rather Wednesday Wednesday regular celebrities.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I guess yes, he's overweight as well.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Uh Thursday Alex Padilla is on the Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's that crusading.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Senator who threatened the Christy Nome and got wrestled to
the ground of the Ris Cobert who wants to see
the governor of Illinois on a late night show anyway,
Kimmel was having Stacy Abrams on again later this week.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
God hasn't she isn't the bloom off that rose? Good?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Lord? Yeah, I give Follon credited show is variou celebrities,
but he's having the Jonas Brothers.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Then Greg Guttfeld on Thursday. Cool. That's interesting, Like Jimmy Fallon,
I guess Trump is right. Late night is dying.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Thanks for the new h not much time huh amani Right,
So I was listening to the show when you're read
an angry climate change email from a listener. Here's What
drives me crazy about climate change? How did we arrive
at a place where the assumption is that the climate
is supposed to stay in the ideal range for humans
to live happily in raise crops when our species has
only been on the planet for a nearly unrecognizable blink
(35:11):
of an eye. Geologically speaking, evidence of climate change, Yeah,
it's the only evidence out there.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
The climate has always been changing, et cetera, et cetera.
More on that later.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
No race crops only in certain areas. If it becomes
easier to raise crops in a different area but harder
in this area, that's clearly a crime, even though that,
I mean, look at Special Crisis was a lush garden once.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
What happened, right, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
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Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all on Tuesday front
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of the two legitard general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The Texas Rangers, not the baseball team, the law enforcement guys.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
They're gonna go to Illinois. They're gonna lasso those.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Wandering legislators and drag them back to far some frontier justice.
Interesting by brand them, I certainly hope so, it seems
in case they run off, Yes, so they can be
easily identified. It seems cruel and unusual to start branding people,
but it's not unusual if you do.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Whatever you got to do to make sure they're your
cattle or your legislators. How am I just recognize my
legislator if they don't have a big brand on their neck?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What if they like run off to Louisiana start legislating,
or Louisiana snatches them up for instance, or Oklahoma. I
suppose it wouldn't have to be on their neck. But
just for instance, well it's Andy, uh huh uh. Well, okay,
So I watch a bunch of different cable news channels
and a lot of people were talking about that, the
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whole Texas redistricting. How big a story is this. It
seems like Texas legally can do it. If they do it,
they're gonna end up with five the House will have
five more Republican seats in a basically tied house.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That seems like a pretty big deal. Yeah, it's a
huge deal.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It breaks the precedent the mostly followed President that the
only redistrict after the census, so you have a new
snapshot of your population, that sort of thing. We could
be entering an era of constant redistricting. Also, the Supreme Court,
as I mentioned yesterday, is looking at a big case
(02:22):
that has to do with our the ridiculous state of
our racial laws about redistricting, which are self contradictory and foolish.
And so yeah, this could be an element in a
big change in the way congressional districts are drawn going forward. Yeah,
but I don't quite know because it's hard to find
non partisan actors on this. But our old friend David
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Drucker was talking about what I was saying yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Every district.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Not every district because some states it doesn't matter, but
lots of districts across the country are already jerry mandered
to death. They have been doing this, Both parties have
been doing this forever. In case you don't know this,
this is one of the most important things to know
about the country. The two main parties work together and
draw the lines. You have that one, that'll be a
safe Democratic seat for you. You'll never have to worry about
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losing it ever. Okay, you have this one. You draw
it this way, you'll have a safe Republican seat and
never have to worry about together. And then they allow
for like twenty to thirty out of four hundred and
thirty five. They allow for like twenty or thirty competitive
districts in the whole freaking country that you can fight
over the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Rest of them.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
They drew the line so they'd be safe in that
the two parties will always run run the country. Right,
not to mention the problems with jerry mandering that if
you ever look at a map, it just it doesn't
make any sense. You end up with people that live
two hundred miles away from you in a rural lifestyle
and you live in the city or vice versa. But
they drew the line, so you'd be the same politics,
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and like what your town is doing might have four
different congressional districts in it, which is nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The only thing I'd add to your just cription, which
is correct, is that in your one party states like hell,
you know, Corneer or Illinois or Texas, the one party
can you know, abandon that whole Let's cooperate and you know,
as we'll take fifty five, you take forty five percent,
and they'll just grab everything they can. I mean, for instance,
the great state of Illinois, fourteen out of seventeen seats
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are Democrat. Well that's what I was gonna' That's what
I was going to say. Next, here's where it gets
hard to get the nonpartisan reporting on this, and I'm
not interested enough to do a deep dive myself. But California, Illinois,
and New York, according to some of my favorite pundits,
did this long ago. Oh yeah, they maximize the number
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of seats they could have. Texas is just catching up
to them. So this is the old will you did
it first, so now I'm doing it. Race to the
bottom that we've done with absolutely everything in politics nowadays,
it's a race to the bottom and you blame the
other side. Well you did it, so I'm now reacting,
and everybody has their own starting point. It's like the
Palestinians in the Israelis. It is cute to see the Gavins,
(05:02):
Newsom and the Kathy's Hocal of the World from New
York saying, is this redistricting, this gerrymandering is outrageous, This
is unacceptable. We're gonna have to fight back. No, you've
been doing it forever. Look at your crazy quilt congressional map.
That's not an accident. But in the so much hypocrisy.
I've seen this movie before. Now the stories are coming
(05:24):
out about the Texans hanging out in Illinois and the
partying they're.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Doing and that. I mean, it's just it's a tired
old movie. Yeah. I saw some polling on the whole
and it's all a stunt. By the way.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Abbat just has to wait them out, the governor. They'll
get the redistricting passed eventually. There's no use to this.
It's just a publicity stunt. That is true, but the
gerrymandering in general is not a stunt, and it happens
all over the place, and we shouldn't do it. I
would like it to go away. I don't know how
we would. They've made it so it'd be almost impossible
to vote that out. I saw some polling on this yesterday.
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What this is from you gov. What Americans think about
the ability to draw electoral districts in a way that
makes it harder for members of a particular party to
elect their.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Candidates should be legal.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Nine percent of Americans think it's a good idea to
be able to draw districts so that they're safe.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But that's what we do.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It's already done, and I don't see how you would
ever end it since, like.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I said, they've.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now got it all dialed in, so same party is
going to win every time. They're not going to go
into Congress and vote for changing it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The Supreme Court would have to.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Issue some sort of big decisive judgment about how districting
ought to go, but that's extremely unlikely because I think
they'd say no, that's for the legislature to decide.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's not our job.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I mean, we will protect the constitution, make sure everybody
has the vote and is represented. But we're not going
to go too far down this road. They're going to
eliminate a lot of the idiotic, racist, racial stuff I
think next year. But yeah, this will be a mess
for the rest of our lives and our.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Children's as well. That's unfortunate. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I heard the best news I've heard in a long
time today. We'll have more details in this coming up later.
Volkswagen announced their flying car and put out a video,
and if you haven't watched it, it's pretty damn cool.
I've been promised this since I was five years old.
And now is it a flying car or is it
(07:32):
a driving helicopter? It looks like a driving flying vehicle
more than a flying car. But either way, right, I
mean clearly the whole propelling you along the ground thing
is it's not that advanced at this point. It's the
flying part that really needs to get the emphasis from
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the engineers.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
If you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And I got a flying car, I want them to
get that flying part right. Any compromise you gotta make,
I can't have as many cup holders to keep this
thing aloft.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Fine, like does it have like my cyber truck?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Now the update on the software, the material lighting pulses
with the music if you want it to, like you're
in a.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Nightclub, so you can dance while you drive.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I've got it set to do that. And I
listen to mostly talk radio, so it pulses to talk radio,
which is kind of funny. So the question I have
with the flying car. I know how to drive a car.
I do not know how to fly a plane. So
is there any training that comes with this? Or I
feel like I feel.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Like, here's the case, what's the worst that could happen?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I feel like there should be some other level of
certification I get before I start flying around in this thing.
The guy, the tech guy, sits next to you in
the passenger seat. He programs, you know, your your phone
number into there, He connects your phone for you, goes
through the That's how you go up in the that's
how you come back down, and that's kind of the
steering thing. And then he shakes your hand and you
(09:05):
try you fly off exactly. I never understand nobody ever,
nobody ever covers this part of drone deliveries or flying
cars or a that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Who's gonna how's gonna navigate this? Aren't we We're gonna
have to have some rules. We can't just.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Have everybody gets a flying car and takes off whenever
they want to and goes up in the air and
starts flying straight to work.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
That's not gonna work. It's not a workable situation.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Indeed, they're about three hundred thousand dollars, so it's pretty pricey,
although it includes a plane. I mean, if you basically
have a plane, it's not that pricey. I mean if
I can get to I mean, this is really in theory.
I don't think this will ever be happen or be allowed.
But if I can get to, you know, between San
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Francisco and Los Angeles in an hour in my Volkswagen
car plane, that's a pretty pretty handy piece of equipment.
I think you're asking a lot. I don't, Well, you
know more about this than me, but I don't see
this as being a long range deal at this point.
I would guess what's you's gonna hop over? Traffic jams?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Is that the way you're looking at it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's like the motorcycle's lane splitting, but you're doing it vertically.
Oh cool, and it'll because as long it'll work as
long as there's only a couple of people that have them.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So if I get one before.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
They become really popular, then maybe I can do it
that I was in a traffic jam last night. I
just raise up and with my newfound skills as a pilot,
fly over the top of the cars and land safely,
I guess, and drive off. More like you'll raise up
and immediately get smashed into About the guy in baki
you who raised up seconds before and is now shooting forward,
or raise up and hit the overpass or a bunch
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of overhead electric wires, or all kinds.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Of different things. Oh wow, good point.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm not a pilot. Okay, let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this It is Tuesday,
August fifth year two or Armstrong and getting and we
approve of this program. Okay, then the show starts officially
now according to FCC rules and regulations, here we go
at Mark.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
The Sydney smieniad have you seen it?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh yes, I have?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Trying to calm myself, but that would uh wow, I
guess we have a bunch of those people, uh.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, asking young but pierced, bahar dyed women what they
think of it, and they all dutifully recite the cult
talking points.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They've been taught that, And.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Then we got to take a break. So at the
what State Fair the other day? And when you walk
in the state California State Fair, they take a picture
of all you together and then they try to sell
you it to you at the end of the thing.
You know, we've all done that at Disneyland or wherever
you are. So we walk in and I got my
two boys with me, and they want to take a
picture in this uh woman, I think she'd probably gotten
(12:02):
angry if I had to call to her a woman.
She said, stand there and take and so my kids
will never smile, so ilways have to come up with
something that will make them laugh.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's the only way I'm gonna get a smile out
of them.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And I said, say nose ring, and they both got
big smiles and it ended up being a good enough picture.
I actually paid for the picture, and I felt guilty
about it. I shouldn't have said that because I don't
think she heard me. But if she had heard me,
and her feelings would have been hurt. Say nose ring
got a smile out of them, though I'm still laughing.
I don't know. I'll see if I can find some
guilt in here somewhere. But that's kind of funny. Well,
(12:35):
I have I know some people, I really really really
like great people who have nose rings. So since I'm
not like super anti or make a ton of assumptions,
I make some assumptions.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And they're probably right. We've got headlines on the way.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
We got mail bag later all on the way stay here.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We were on an AD.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
We just ran an AD and I don't know which
station's on. We're like, what are we on sixty indeed
something stations? So I don't know where it's running, but
it's it's always mentioning human composting.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Is that what I think it is? It is? It
is what I think it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Is, ashes, ashes, dust to dust, dirt to dirt. Jack, Well,
you're talking about the human body? Are you talking about
my leavings while I'm alive?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
No?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
You?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh okay, oh your your corpus. Oh, I'm fine with that.
I thought it was people who are collecting.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Their own poo. Oh you can say it and then
hoo composting it.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
There's even emoji, an emoji for it. These days, we're
comfortable talking about boop.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm not. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, no human composting is is you your body? Israel
to the earth, as they say, Israel with a giant
announcement last night. We got to get to also, Michael,
remind me to ask me. Remind to ask me. So
I talk about my sailing lessons that I'm taking, I.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Want to hear about this.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yes, I'm going to get the hat, the ascot. I'm
gonna start calling people mate the whole thing right, and
I want Christopher Cross music under his description. Please let's
figure out who's rearding what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Hit It starting with NBC.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Trump says EU imports to face thirty five percent tariff
if the EU does not invest six hundred billion dollars
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And there is a question around all these investments whether
we can hold these various places to them. They're throwing
around some big numbers, and then will they actually come
through with the money. In some cases, there's no belief
that they can come through with the money.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The numbers are too big.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It just seems to be grand standing, Just silly, hollow
grand standing.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
From ABC.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Texas governor orders police to find and arrest Democrats who
fled over redistricting.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
This whole game. Tell you what do you get up
behind them?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You lasso the legs, you throw them to the ground
that you put the rope around the arms and legs.
It was said, jump up thing and get your time.
Then you drag them back to Texas amb them.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
From The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
India defies Trump on Russian oil despite tariff threats.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, Trump's gonna tariff the hell out of India for
buying oil from Russia. India is saying, we're the biggest
country in the world, were one of the biggest economies.
Other people aren't gonna tell us where we get our oil.
That's an interesting standoff.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
From CNN. Trump says that Scott Bessont is no longer
in the running for fed share.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Okay, I'll adjust accordingly. Please wake me when it's over.
From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Airbnb tries to stick traveler with seven thousand dollars repair
bill after the host used an AI generated image to
claim damage.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Generated a picture via AI to make it look like
this person messed the apartment up.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
This is from the same corner of the human psyche
as the rental car companies that just hit more or
less everybody. Yeah, certain companies with a hey, yeah, there
was a big scratch. That'll be two hundred and fifty bucks,
and they just hope you know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You don't fight it. Some of the most famous rental
companies are doing that. Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
From the New York Times, a zoo in Denmark wants
to feed your pets to its predators.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
They're saying, if you have an animal that is near
end of life, you can give it to the zoo
and they'll euthanize it and feed it to the lions.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Kind of Joe's ashes to asses, dust to dust, thing
a circle of life. As a practical man, I can
think of no moral argument against this. Henry, on the
other hand, I don't love the idea. Henry comes home
and says, worst pup pup. I say, I took him
to the zoo and they fed him to the lions.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, it was time and it was very sad. But
now he's being eaten by lime.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
So yeah, boof and Finally, the Babylon Bee Texas begins
construction on northern border wall to keep Democrat lawmakers from returning.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh boy, Net and Yahoo announced last night this morning
plans for a full occupation of Gaza. Well, that'll be
something to watch, among other things to talk about today,
Stay with.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Images of Israeli hostage Eviotade da Vid spread around the
world after Hamas released a video showing him digging his
own grave. His brother Eli hopes that an agreement will
be reached to bring Evietad home along with the other
forty nine hostages and nineteen others whom are believed to
be alive.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
He should be treated as a human being and not
as a puppet, not as a human skeleton.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The israelis Well, we're about to hear from the rather
of one of the held hostages that looked like they
were starving. There is the evidence for whether or not
gozens are being starved is difficult to figure out. The
Evidence as to whether the hostages are being starved is
pretty nailed down. Oh yeah, yeah, they have all reported
(18:20):
back similarly.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah. Next clip.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
The Israeli security Cabinet will meet to determine the next
phase of the war. As ceasefire negotiations remain at an impasse,
local media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo is
considering an expansion of military operations across the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
We must continue to stand together and fight together to
achieve all our war objectives, the defeat of the enemy,
the release of our hostages, and the assurance that guards
who will no longer pose a threat to Israel.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
So as Benjamin Netanyahoo actually going to occupy all of Gaza,
like he said yesterday.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, that is so interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I've been reading a great deal about, you know, the
sentiment in Israeli society and the different ideas and plans
people have going forward, and I was a little surprised
to hear that he's talking about going one hundred percent hardcore.
Let's just do this thing to the end, because it
seems like the trend is going in the other direction
(19:27):
in Israel, people thinking we can't finish the job. It
would take years and years, it'd take fifty years a
guerrilla warfare. We've got to come up with a plan
B that ensures, you know, sufficient fortifications that October seventh
never happens again and get some sort of international something
or other into Gaza to maintain order, which to that's
(19:51):
not even a easy thing to say. To implement it
is really difficult, true, but to the point of surprise
that they're going to occupy all of God, here's Leland
Vittert doing analysis on news Nation today.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
So Israel is not really left with a choice for
two reasons. One because they need their hostages back and
they can't have a terror state living next to them.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
But two, the pressure by France.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
And the UK and the Canadians and now democrats on
the left in the United States, the progressive left that
talks about recognizing a Palestinian state, only forces Israel's hand.
When Israel is supported, they are more likely to make concessions.
When Israel feels isolated and alone, they have to for
(20:38):
their own survival push harder. Weakness in the Middle East
is provocative and it is dangerous, and Israel can't be
seen by the world in their eyes as cow taling
to pressure.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
His main point being, as he goes on, what's the choice,
what's your other choice? You said, Plan B, But what's
the other choice other than occupying all of Gaza? Hamas
isn't agreeing to our latest final offer, according to the
New York Times, of give back the hostages and lay
down your arms. Not a peep out of Hamas. Obviously
they won't do that, So what's your other choice? I agree,
(21:13):
how the hell are you gonna do that? But what's
your other option?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I read another great piece I wish I had in
front of me, where the guy was making the point
that the there was just another sorry, idiotic waste of
time to state solution conference in some European capital where
all the diplomats from the euro countries got together and
a couple of Arab countries and jawed about you know
(21:38):
what sort of deal they might strike and blah blah blah.
And the point the writer made was, you're talking about
a deal that one of the sides does not want.
They've rejected it over and over again. And I'm talking
about the Palestinian side, the Hamas side of a state.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
They want the Jews to go. So unless your solution
includes that, they're not going to agree to it. And
if your solution includes that, well that's a non starter anyway.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So there's a certain contingent. I swear I'm sorry, just
one more thought.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I honestly don't understand whether these people are just delusional
they can't do that diplomatic math in their heads, or
they're not aware of it, or they're hoping it's not true.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's it. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I've wondered that for many, many years. So this Leland
Vitter character that we just heard from, he I don't
know his act, but he was on News Nation and
he said, I've lived in Israel for I think he
said fifteen years or something like that. He said he
was the correspondent from Israel on Fox News for ages.
He said, even being on the ground here, he said,
the politics are impossible to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But so I heard some.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Noises yesterday from a crowd in Israel that says Hamas,
we've decimated them, they're no longer a threat, so we
should pull out, and you know, the remaining Hamas is
not a threat to Israel and let them deal with gods.
And and that's an interesting argument because okay, Japan attacks
US and then we leave some of the Japanese military behind.
(23:12):
You know, we've we've getten a pretty good whooping, but
we'll go ahead and pull out.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
At this point, it seems I don't think we would
have done that. Well, we didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We didn't do that eighty years ago tomorrow, right right
to the point that we the Allies were going to
invade the Japanese mainland and inture horrific Actually we actually wornked,
which is the new piece of information that has come
out in the last thirty years. I can't wait to
talk about that later. What. Yeah, even absent the bomb,
(23:41):
Even absent the bomb, the Navy had decided we can't
do it. They we had gotten information that they had.
We thought they had about three hundred thousand troops ready
to push off our D Day type landing on Japan,
which was going to be so much bloodier than D
Day in France. I mean not even close. They had
almost a million men ready to defend Japan, and we
(24:03):
decided that ain't gonna work. Can't do it. Not an
option going to surround the island. We are going to
starve them out, which would have killed way.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
More people than the bombs killed.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, yeah, wow, Harry. And it gets back to as
a similar situation of what you got going on in Israel. Yeah,
what are you, What are you going to do with
the remaining people who are dead enders, who are vowing
to destroy you and kill you and need to chance
you get Are you gonna leave them alone? Well, the
only alternative was what I referred to earlier. You seal
(24:36):
them off. Essentially, you render them unable to do significant damage.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
The idea that.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That idea would win the day post October seventh seems
really unlikely to me. I just think I had a
conversation with a friend over the weekend about this.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
This is two things.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It is the first time the modern digital iPhone world
has been able to a catastrophic military defeat, and how
ugly it is and how sad it is. Well, right,
I taken it back to World War Two, and the
end of the war has always been taken it back
to August eighty years ago. So one of the biggest
(25:17):
concerns by the Army of the Navy and President Truman
Roosevelt too, but President Truman had just taken over, was
how much are Americans willing to put up with.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
In terms of dead marines we lost.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I've got the stats and I'll look them up. We
lost over half the marine losses were in like the
last month of the fighting. I mean, it had gotten
really really awful, really really fast, and so the idea
of an invasion. They finally decided with a million people
opposing us, our population will not stand for those kind
of losses, will not support the war any longer. The
(25:51):
Japanese knew that in democracies, that's the problem you have.
If you can kill enough people in a democracy of
a democracy, the people.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Will start to get a weak need.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And if you can you imagine if there had been
TikTok videos of Ewo, Jima and Okinawa and Guadalcanal and
all that sort of stuff. Who knows what public opinion
might have been. Oh right, right, And that's what they
have in Israel right now, right, or constant footage of
(26:23):
the people of Dresden or Hiroshima or whatever on you know,
on your phone all day long. They're suffering, and people
lose their stomach for it because it's sickening. There's a
reason that most armies in the history of the world
have not trotted their civilian populations out to watch the bloodshed,
certainly not in the modern world. It's because it's tough
(26:44):
to take so two things. One we're seeing a catastrophic
military defeat, and it's tough to take because it's sad
and siken people die and are hungry, and it's terrible.
Second thing is and I made this point months ago.
I read it and it's absolute true, and if you
can come up with a counter argument, I would love
(27:06):
to hear it. But the point made was that in
the last several centuries, there has never been an example
of a country launching an unprovoked attack on its neighbor
then being defeated, that they didn't lose their land, their sovereignty,
or both. That always happens. How about you're on the
(27:28):
hook for feeding them right right, No, you and your
attacking regime are not left intact, never for reasons that.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Are pretty obvious. So I just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Gerald Baker with his opinion piece in the Wall Street
Journal today, Maybe we'll read from it later.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It's got some gruesome pictures in it.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Hamas starves Jews and Palestinians, and Israel gets blamed. The
Western press and politicians play along with the terror group's
ghastly propaganda campaign, and they do because they hate Israel. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Politically, it's a problem. World opinion turns against you.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
If if the United States had to make calculations against Japan,
which was the most evil force on Earth. More stats
on that later, they were worse than the Nazis. Why
we always credit the Nazis. Japanese were beyond worse than
the Nazis, but and what they were doing to all
the countries in their area. If we, even in that situation,
(28:32):
had to worry about public opinion back in the day
when you had more of a US raw raw press,
I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Israel possibly deals with this.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
It's definitely a conundrum of the modern world, which is
why you completely a moral regime like Vladimir Putins for instance,
Theirs Shijin Pings has a distinct advantage. They don't care,
no kidding, They don't have to worry about it, and
their people don't see the news, or they see news,
but they don't see the news the real news.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Got mail back on the way.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You could weigh in on this topic at any time,
please do text line four one five two nine five KFDC.
Reading up on Volkswagen's new flying car that they announced.
I'll get into the details next hour, but thirty foot
wing span, I feel like.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
That's not gonna fit my garage. Maybe if I move
the lawn.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Moarn not.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I don't think it's gonna fit.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh not unless you've got like extra wide doors. We'd
have to have a damn big garage and wide doors. Yeah,
too bad. I was all excited about it. My hoa says,
no parking vehicles outside. Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Continuing on with our series from Javier Milay, the miracle
worker in Argentina, the champion of free markets. I'd love
to see him debate old Mamdami the kami. Huh, Javier says,
Let no one tell you he was talking to business people.
Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral.
If you make money, it's because you offer a better
(30:00):
product at a better price, thereby contributing to general well being.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Obbs Obs mail.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Bag, drop us a note if you like mail bag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Great variety today, Great
variety of topics here is. Robert writes, Guys, you remember
a while back you talked about the definition of stupid
and the author Carlo Sippola came up with a definition
of a stupid person as and I love this a stupid,
(30:31):
and he's got a point here.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
A stupid person is a person.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Who causes losses to another.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Person or to a group of persons.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
While himself deriving no gain or even possibly incurring losses.
That's pretty so that differentiates you from being a devious
person or a dishonest person, or all you do is
damage anyway, he said. The WNBA is that definition. What
(30:59):
they're doing with Clark right now, nothing but damage and.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Incurring losses themselves. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's a good point.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'd forgotten about that simple a definition. That's really good.
Let's see. Jose from Beautiful Round Rock, Texas writes on
the topic of vaccines, and I'm gonna skip ahead a
little bit. He talks about how childhood vaccines often need
to be boostered to work in.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
As an adult.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
He says, a no vaccine is absolutely one hundred percent effective.
I'm sorry, he's in the field. He's a retired pediatric nurse.
No vaccine is absolutely one hundred percent effective. No vaccine
is absolutely one hundred percent safe. Because of this, parents
are already anxious about childhood vaccines. I will add, particularly
these days when there's so damn many of them. Then
(31:50):
the medical establishment outright lied about the COVID vaccines. It
is absolutely safe and effective. You won't spread covid if
you've had the vaccine. Children need to be vaccined against COVID.
And about the pandemic fourteen days stop spread. Masks are effective.
Protests won't spread covid. It started in a wet market.
As a result, the anti vax wackos were given credence
and the medical establishment was delegitimized. People stopped trusting all vaccines.
(32:14):
Fury kids are vaccinated and disease spreads. Of course, having
millions of unvaccinated people coming in from unvetted third world
countries doesn't help either.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Right, that is good to get at that.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
So like me and everybody else in the country has
never gotten a booster for whooping cough, And I got
whooping cough and it was horrible, and now it's on
the rise like it hasn't been in half a century
because it was introduced to the country. Again, I didn't
need a booster because I wasn't going to come in
contact with whooping cough. But now you are right, yeah, true, Well,
(32:45):
and the other point is, and you could write a
book certainly on this, and we've talked about it plenty
of times. But the dishonesty and willingness to exercise highly
questionable emergency powers and tramp on people's rights during COVID,
those people who are half smart who are doing that thought, no,
this is important, We'll get away with it, and they
(33:07):
didn't think about, all right, what are the the second
tier effects of completely losing our credibility down the road?
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you think people are just gonna forget?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
No kidding, I'll never.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Look at the I'll never hear CDC says the way
I did before COVID, right.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Means almost nothing to me.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh yeah, it's six feet stand six of peet apart,
which I know is completely made up out of whole clove. Right,
So now it's just a suggestion. Yeah yeah. Moving along,
Mike Rights on the topic of the late night shows,
thanks for your kind words. First of all, Mike scrolling
through the Cable Guy on TV to see if anything
was decent on when I noticed a trend Colpet's having
(33:47):
an actress on Fine. Then Robert Reich, former US Labor
secretary under Clinton who doubled back to work with Obama.
He is a way lefty right man. I thought, hmm,
that's odd an old dude who leans left. So I
continue on his lineup on Tuesday is Fred Armison fine
and JB. Pritzker, the far left child mutilating governor of
(34:07):
New York of Illinois rather Wednesday Wednesday regular celebrities.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I guess yes, he's overweight as well.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Uh Thursday Alex Padilla is on the Friday.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's that crusading.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Senator who threatened the Christy Nome and got wrestled to
the ground of the Ris Cobert who wants to see
the governor of Illinois on a late night show anyway,
Kimmel was having Stacy Abrams on again later this week.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
God hasn't she isn't the bloom off that rose? Good?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Lord? Yeah, I give Follon credited show is variou celebrities,
but he's having the Jonas Brothers.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Then Greg Guttfeld on Thursday. Cool. That's interesting, Like Jimmy Fallon,
I guess Trump is right. Late night is dying.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Thanks for the new h not much time huh amani Right,
So I was listening to the show when you're read
an angry climate change email from a listener. Here's What
drives me crazy about climate change? How did we arrive
at a place where the assumption is that the climate
is supposed to stay in the ideal range for humans
to live happily in raise crops when our species has
only been on the planet for a nearly unrecognizable blink
(35:11):
of an eye. Geologically speaking, evidence of climate change, Yeah,
it's the only evidence out there.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
The climate has always been changing, et cetera, et cetera.
More on that later.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
No race crops only in certain areas. If it becomes
easier to raise crops in a different area but harder
in this area, that's clearly a crime, even though that,
I mean, look at Special Crisis was a lush garden once.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
What happened, right, Armstrong and Getty
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