February 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Zelensky to meet with Trump & Gene Hackman theories
- The Oscars controversy & the Michelle Obama dance video
- Fake narratives & Maine's educational stats are awful
- Man gets locked in storage unit & the national buying boycott
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arms Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
President Zalinski's coming to see me on Friday. Friday morning,
and we're going to be signing really a very important
agreement for both sets, because it's really going to get
us into that country. We'll be working there, We'll have
a lot of people working there, and so in that sense,
it's very good. It's a backstop. You could say, I
don't think anybody's going to play around. If we're there
with a lot of workers and having to do with
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rare earths and other things which we need for our country,
then we appreciate it very much. And I look forward
to seeing him.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Are there areas specifically of Ukraine that you're talking about
in giving back specifically Crania.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll be talking about that. We're going to see if
we can get it back or get a lot of
it back.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
So he says he's gonna converse with Putin about getting
some of the land back.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's interesting.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
It's the first time I've heard him say that of
a Ukraine getting some of their land back. And then
also the first question was about whether or not we're
going to send troops or anything like that, and he said, no,
but we're gonna have a lot of people in there.
We're gonna have a lot of people, and I don't
think anybody will mess around us with us when we've
got you know, all these people working there.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So I don't it's.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hard to say with Trump always if that's a veiled
threat or an outright threat, or just an assumption that
if we have a whole bunch of USA dump trucks
and machinery and scientists and whatever else there, that's ours.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Right, right, or it might be red herring because sometimes
Trump throws those out. We've referred to it occasionally as
you know, you're in a negotiation and you demand an elephant,
and they yell, they they tell you we can't afford
an elephant.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
There's nowhere to put an elephant.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You say, no, got to have an element, and you
make the other side to spend a certain amount of
time and energy on getting the element, the elephant out
of the contract. You never wanted an elephant. Trump does
that too, so it's really difficult to discern what his
strategy is, which is part of his strategy.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No doubt. So you think it's possible.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I assume you're talking about he's trying to work Putin,
So you think Putin's gonna think I don't want the
United States invested heavily in Ukraine with equipment and manpower there.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That is not good.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Maybe I should give back some land or whatever to
keep that from happening.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Right, that's possible.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I was going to get into this factor a
little later, but we'll just go ahead and do it now.
The problem is, though, and often the folks on the
kind of New World Order Tucker Carlson Wright don't mention this,
Ukraine has zero interest in being under Russia's thumb. They
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would die literally, they're doing it before they accepted that
Russia and the Soviet Union interchangeable practically with Putin in charge,
starved tens of millions of their family to death. They
have slaughtered civilians, they have systematically tortured people. They have
kidnapped tens of thousands of their children. How would Americans
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react to a power that did that. We would fight
them until our dying day. If it took fifty generations,
and the Ukrainians feel the same way, So keep that
in mind anytime you talk about some brilliant broker ceasefire
that's going to include mineral rights or whatever. The other
factor that you really need to remember is that Putin
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will only keep an agreement until the minute it's more
profitable to abandon it. His word is worth nothing on
the international stage.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And you can start with when Ukraine yielded its nuclear
weapons in nineteen ninety four in exchange for security guarantees
from the US, UK and Russia. Moscow explicitly promised to
respect Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and refrained from economic coercion.
And they went back on that the minute it was convenient.
In three Russia began building a dam on the tiny
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Ukrainian island of Toslow without warning or permission. Ukraine responded
by deploying troops. Crisis diffused only after the current president
then struck a compromise with Putin on terms heavily favorable
to Moscow.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh Boy.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Moscow resorting to energy extortion to draw Kiev into its orbit.
After that, weaponized its trade with the Ukraine. In twenty thirteen,
they blocked Ukrainian exports at the border while backing a
puppet regime. There are all sorts of examples of their
agreements just falling apart again the minute it's convenient for
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Putin to blow it up.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I gotta believe though, since France and Britain have agreed
to thirty thousand troops boots on the ground there, and
we're talking about having you know, USA man power there
to get the minerals out and also probably some sort
of backstop that remains very misty, that would be suicide
for Putin to attack that. I mean, he'd be full
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on at war with NATO if he did that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, although you have long questioned are and
the other NATO powers commitment to actually living up to
their Article five obligations. If one are attacked, all are
attacked and we fight back. In fact, Trump is explicit
he said, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, there's a difference between I'm France and Tonia Estonia.
I don't know the name of some of these countries
gets attacked and I think, okay, do I want to
send French troops and French troops are being.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Attacked, Well, there are only like one hundred French troops
and they're wearing panties. So let's go with a country
with a real military. If we can find on Finland,
well that's so on, so on fire. Really, I don't know,
so I tell you the one thing I approached this
somewhat humbly, because nobody, including JD. Vance, probably knows exactly
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what Trump has in mind, what he considers an acceptable outcome,
and how that squares with what he talks to Selinski
out behind the scenes. Very difficult to know where this
could go. But back to your point and then be
done with it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Is the imagine if you're a Ukrainian and your kids
were taken at gunpoint from your home and now lives
somewhere in Russia and twenty percent of your land mass
is gone and all your buildings are rubble, and you're
just supposed to accept this.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Deal, right right, It's not going to happen, can't even
mean Yeah, guerrilla warfare for decades. Who knows what shape
it'll take. But I have no idea. I usually have
a theory how these things are going to shake out.
This one is just all wild cards speak thees. I
got a theory four year right after this.
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Run your game, okay, wife trips over space, heater drops
pills on the floor, hits her head dies. Okay, dog
dies in the grate, starves, which is horrible obviously. Oh
so Geen Jeane with dementia, sees wife doesn't know what
to do, gets confused, He's stumbling around the house. He
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does not do anything at this point in his life.
He's ninety five years old. He gets weak, falls, hits
his head and dies.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, even the broad outlines of it, even if some
of the details aren't there, hits her head and dies,
it doesn't happen a lot deceivable.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I got a.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Friend he tripped on the curb a couple years ago.
He was like sixty and he's dead.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, he's got for a walk with his wife, fall
in the bathroom, and then very old Gene Hackman.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I, Well, what I like about this theory is that
a weird odd event happens with the youngest healthiest one
in this one, and then you got a ninety five
year old on their own, and then anything could.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Happen, right, Yeah, And given the timetable and the mummification,
et cetera, it's entirely possible that he passed three days
after her, although if he was out of it then
he would have been getting full time care. I would
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think otherwise you would have called the cops. They had phones.
She would have been full time care for him, and
then she was dead. Yeah, it's possible. So your money
is on truly unfortunate string of events and not foul play.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Now I don't think there's foul play, but I'm still
going with He has a heart attack in the mud room.
She sees him dead as so despondent, she says, I'm
gonna kill myself, goes and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Gets the pills.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Executive producer Mike Hanson makes the trains run on time.
He's a practical man. What is your theory, handsome?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Similar similar theory, but involving heartbreak. So the wife has
a heart attack, perhaps due to the stress and strain
of taking care of her elderly. What next, she has
a heart attack and dies. He finds her sometime later, distraught,
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stumbles around the house, has a heart attack himself, falls
and dies.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The pork dog is stuck in the in the kennel. Yeah,
it's all about It's all about heart heart to break.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
She is just similar to the text that it makes
more sense if she goes first, because then he's on
his own as a ninety five year old, and quite
possible he would have just if you if she's gonna sell,
he dies, he doesn't know where he is, or can't
get out.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Of the house or whatever, or he discovers his wife
didda the heart attack and rushes to grab his phone,
falls and hits his head.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's it could be as simple as that. Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
She comes out of the bedroom. Dog is barking. She
puts it in the great shut up dog. She goes up, bigfoot,
standing there.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow, I don't think you're taking this serious anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We got a bunch of techs.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She seizes her chest, says, yeah, Well.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
We got a lot more news to get to and
a bunch of different things.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is the Great blackout going on?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Has anybody noticed our liberals not buying anything today? On
the Great Economic Blackout? Does anybody notice that at all?
Text four one five KFTC.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Well, guys, the ninety seventh Oscars are this Sunday. The
Best Actor nominees include Timothy Chalomey for his role as
Bob Dylan and uh Elon Musk for his role as President.
I heard that this year's Oscar gift bag contains two
hundred thousand dollars worth of item.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's right, it's one carton of eggs. So I was
just rang joke.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I was just written an interesting thing. I'm rooting for
the Bob Dylan movie for a couple of reasons, including
it's the only movie nominated movie I've seen, so you know,
make me feel better.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, I'm rooting for the transgender cartel boss pile of
steaming Wells.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I saw that one. So I was just.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Reading how because of the controversy around that, with the
star of the trans movie saying uncool things and they know,
they're really screaming toward non controversial and it's been a
big break for the Bob Dylan movie that might have,
you know, not won much in the face of because
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it's very big to give these awards to things that
fit with the political moment. See you have a trans
movie when you know, we don't know how that works.
But they might be going non controversial just to stay
out of the trouble and leaning toward the Bob Dylan movie.
That's the latest feeling in Hollywood, according to people watch
this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, yeah, I watch that movie, but I would have
to go to a movie theater, so that's gonna interfere.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Okay, here is I know some of you listening probably
already know this. I did not know this until last night.
So someone I know hipped me to the fact that. Okay,
so Macrone was in Washington, d C. Meeting with Trump
and a person says to me, of course his wife's
a dude.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Ha ha ha. I just looked at him, and.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
You don't know that, know what that Macrone's wife is
a dude. And so apparently Candae Owens, who we actually
kind of know, and others have videos showing mcrone's wife
in various situations where she looks very much like a dude.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And this person says, they're all dudes. You know. Michelle
Obama's a dude. And I said, well, I've heard those jokes.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
But and says, no, you know the Ellen video And
I said, what, So you should grab your phone, Joe
and Katie should grab your phone because I've forwarded you
the video. So when Michelle Obama was on Ellen, you know,
when you went on Ellen degenerous, you had to dance.
Everybody had to dance when they came on. If you
zoom in on Michelle Obama in her loose fitting slacks
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at least in this video that it looks like she's
got a penis.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
So that is the anyway.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
So I guess that's a big theme for a lot
of you.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What do you think that is? I'm not. I don't
think Michelle Obama's a dude, by the way, I don't.
But yes, Katie, I can tell you what I think
it is. It's ai that's fake.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Unless you have police powers, you cannot compel me to
join in this idiotic conversation.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But I respectfully abstained.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, the conversation for me isn't is mccrone's wife a
dude or Michelle Obama dude? The conversation is there are
lots and lots and lots of people who believe that
and use these videos and stuff like that for evidence.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
It definitely looks like she's she's got a thing in
this in this video.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yes, yes, that's that's that's swinging in man. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, as I said, you'd think, you know, I'm a guy,
I would wear some sort of underwear. If I was
wearing those pants, I wouldn't be uh, you know, fbing
it if.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You will, Right, it's just sensible, that's right. So what
are you asking me? Do I think Michelle Obama has
a sponse or does it look like it in the video,
or you're.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Just times that you just want to Okay, it's interesting
that there are lots of people, and again, I don't
know if it's ten thousand or ten million people that
I believe this.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I mean into I'm trying to get my arms around.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Okay, So Michelle Obama and old Lady McCrone are dudes.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Who else is a dude? All of them?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
A lot of the day, A lot of the Democrat,
high level democrats, their wives are dudes.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Why I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But but this person I was talking to, college educated person,
you know whatever, one hundred percent believes that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's not like they were laughing about it. Oh yeah,
they're all dudes. I don't know what to do with that.
I mean, if they said they're all squirrels, I would
have the same reaction.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I mean, the conversation, so the conversation actually immediately went
on their end from I don't understand why Barack Obama
just didn't run as a as a gay man married
to another man, I don't I guess maybe they didn't
think he could get elected in two thousand and eight.
With that you could now probably, but it's just surprising
me the I mean, so they immediately went to the
practicality of why they hid the fact that Michelle is
a dude. The question of whether or not she's a
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dude wasn't even there anymore. We're onto the.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Settled Yeah, that's settled science.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, that is fascinating to me and is one more
reason we should unplug the internet.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Should I post this video? Helly hilarious? Yeah, post that
video so people can check it out.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I mean, in this video, this person dancing appears to
have male parts in loose pants while they're dancing on Allan.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But you know, I think it is AI adjusted.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
I'm gonna get Katie's corner ready and I'll put it there.
So I don't put that on your hot lengths and
trash things up because I'll upset Joe and.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I hadn't heard the mccrone's wife as a dude.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Also, anyway, it fits in somehow with the Epstein stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That that crowd is very excited about the list coming out.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
It's supposed to come out yesterday, didn't Pambondi's believing the
FBI stonewalling. Wait a second, Cash, Betel's stonewalling you. That
doesn't make sense, So I don't. I don't know what's
going on with any of that, and I don't believe.
I'm all for the jokes. The jokes are funny. I've
laughed at many of them. Like Greg Gutfeld the other
day about it looks like the Obama marriage is doing okay,
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and he said, I don't know why. They just can't
settle it like men. I mean, so that's a winking.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
A nod to the crowd. Sure, and I laughed, But
I don't believe Michelle Obama's a dude. I don't at all,
not even a tiny bit.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So coming up, the Democrats are about to squeal like
spine about Medicare reform, what it is and what it's not.
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty, As I said, you'd think,
you know, I'm a guy, I would wear some sort
of underwear.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
If I was wearing those pants, I.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wouldn't be, you know, being it if you will not right,
it's just sensible, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The Armstrong and Getty show el.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Right, which har comes back to a story I told
about a marine. I was on a boat with in
Hawaii talking about the song free Falling and how he
would sing it and how hilarious it was, and everybody
it's from back in the summer.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Find the podcast. It's an annoying story. M sorry it
was brought up again. And it is no new news.
It's redundant.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's no news that the Democratic Party has no idea
what to do with itself and is wandering around in
the wilderness. And as soon as the let's be moderates
like we used to be wing gets a little momentum,
the lunatic left just cuts them off the knees and
docks them and threatens with primaries and gets rid of them.
And then Kim Strassel and the Wall Street Journalist wrote
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a great article today, great to think piece about how
you know, the moderates of the past are gone and
those of the present are just getting murdered by the
lunatic left.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And one of my favorite lines.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
From it is if if the Democrats didn't already know
the progressive agenda was a political loser, they do now
what to do with an ash heap of a political platform,
one nonetheless rigidly enforced by liberal shock troops, and no
charismatic figure with the spiner know how to lead a
change of direction, engage muscle memory, and do the easy
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fight fight fight. Thus the bizarre site of Democrats rallying
fervently in favor of government waste, fraud, and inefficiency. I
expect this to continue. Yeah, and she mentions Chuck Schumer
shout gasping, we will win, we will win, which brings
us to the next strategy.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
We're going to hear and the media, of course.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Will echo this as loudly as they possibly can, and
that is shouting about the Republicans so called Medicaid cuts.
There are no Medicaid cuts coming. Some more on that
in a minute, But keep in mind that Medicaid, which
is in great need of reform, was established to help
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the needy, poor, children, pregnant women, the elderly disabled, and
Democrats have expanded it bit by bit by bit into
a much broader entitlement for able bodied, working age adults
with lower incomes. So, not surprisingly, Medicaid spending is out
pacing even Social Security Medicare. Federal Medicaid Outlaid's outlays have
increased two hundred and seven percent since oh eight, and
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fifty one percent just since twenty nineteen, Medicaid spending is
a share of federal outlays rose to ten percent from
seven percent over the last twenty or so years. Well,
the share of Social Security and medicare remained stable. Now
the press is claiming Republicans want to gut Medicaid, but
it's not true at all. They're not proposing a cut.
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Medicaid outlays are on track to increase by two point
four trillion dollars through twenty thirty five according to the CBO,
So shaving eight hundred and eighty billion from that baseline
of increase would still amount to a one point five
trillion dollar increase in Medicaid spending.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
This is one of the older tricks in the book
of this sort of thing. We've been talking about this
for decades. If you try to slow down the increase
in spending, it is portrayed as a cut, and because
very few people pay close enough attention, it usually works.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, and she points are the editorial board, I guess
it is. The journal points out that Republicans should have
fixed the baseline increased thing, but they've lacked the nerve.
So to hit the target, Republicans just need a slow
Medicaid spending growth to about two percent annually, which follows
Biden's increasing it by nine percent a can.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You imagine wow.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But one reason is that Democrat runs states have figured
out how to scam Medicaid to finance their other spending priorities.
Quoting the Journal, one trick is imposing taxes on hospitals
and managed care insurance plans, which states then use to
spend more on Medicaid to collect more federal dollars. For
every dollar state spend on Medicaid, the Feds chip in
one to three on top of it, so the match
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is nine to one for the Obamacare expansion population, which
gives states an incentive to spend more on the healthy,
abled bodied then on the vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And so.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Like a lot of government spending, especially when the Feds
and states get into bed together, he's such an incentive
to spend as much money as humanly possible, even if
it is utterly at odds with what medicaid is supposed
to be. Democrats and Republicans joined in ninety one to
impose limits on these tax schemes.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One reason the.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
New York, for instance, received three thousand dollars plus for
each state resident in twenty twenty three. Based on the
recent federal data, federal medicaid dollars also subsidized California and
Illinois much more than the Red states because of their policies.
So when you hear that, you know Republicans are gutting medicaid,
balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and
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the sick and coughing babies.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's just not true. Well, good luck on winning net messaging.
It's a tough one. Yeah, it's so frustrating.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I remember roughly the first time I heard the expression
in politics. If you're explaining you're losing, and that is
just that is really really discouraging. Yes, i'd say, I mean,
especially because we've let the government, the federal government, grow
to such astounding size and complexity.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You can't explain anything.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I'm sorry, you can't really describe or discuss anything without explaining.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You're punishing poor people. Now you have to just how
many words was that you're punishing poor forwards, you would
have to take paragraphs to explain how I'm not punishing
poor people.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
If you liar, it's probably not that effective, But it
was satisfying.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Your husband's your wife's a dude, that's how you would reply.
So's your sister. Oh, speaking of fake narratives.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The whole the public school thing is, we've discussed many times,
is utterly corrupt K through grad school and needs to
be torn to the studs or just eliminated. But may
is out main another blue state out with their educational stats.
Their scores are plummeting, and anybody who's telling the truth says, yes,
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it's the giant influx. Well, it's keeping our kids out
of school for like the entirety of COVID because it's
a blue state. So of course you had to do
that because Trump said to open the schools. But that
and the influx of illegal immigrants. It's a Democrat dominated
sanctuary state. And the number of children who cannot speak
English fluently is sword in the last decade, and the
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scores are plunging. Only thirty three percent of children in
the fourth grade and main and proficient math twenty six percent,
are fluent in reading only twenty six percent, some of
the worst scores in the nation.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And the older kids.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
What is that sixth grade they test them again, I'm
not sure, but the older kids are even worse off
A mere twenty five percent proficient in math and twenty
six percent in reading.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
I think maybe the best strategy would be to strip
down schooling K THROUGHHD to just like STEM stuff. So
what's STEM stand for science? Technology, technology, engineering.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Engineering, and and and manliness anyway, mathematics even then you're
up against it in some cases, as we've learned, as
they got woke stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Slipping into math and everything like that.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
But I had a little thing I was going to
read the other day about how at the university level, anthropology,
sociology and one of the other one ologies are just
so incredibly woke. I mean, they're just they're so out
there crazy that they're they're definitely a net deficit to
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society and you're not freaking learning anything. And I thought
about that when I was reading joy Read's bio the
other day when we were talking about how she's leaving MSNBC.
She went to Harvard, but she was a film studies
major or something like that, and boy and all of
that sort of stuff. The other day, I was thinking,
because I've really gotten into the history of the Impressionists lately,
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and I thought I wish I had taken art history
in college.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I should take art history. Maybe I'll get a minor
in art history or something like that. Then I felt,
why would I do that?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Every bit of information I want to know about art
history is out there, either in a book or I
can watch endless YouTube videos of the smartest people on
the subject giving endless lectures about whatever I'm interested in.
There's no reason to put it in the world of
a university, all of that stuff, there's no point in it.
There's no point in paying for your kid to go
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learn art history or like a nine gazillion other.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Things that you can learn on your own. There's just
no need for it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's as if people are still carrying around a calculator
in addition to their smartphone, like the word hasn't gotten
to them that this is an utterly unnecessary redundancy. Now,
if you want to have somebody guide your learning, design
the curriculum, but again that can be found online without indoctrination.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
That can be found online too, guiding your learning and
a curriculum very easily. And it used to be kind
of funny that mentioned, because I saw one of these yesterday.
So and so college, and it's one of your top schools,
is now having a class in Beyonce in which they'll
study the artists.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And that stuff is just crap.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
I took a rock and roll history class in college,
complete waste of time and money. I had a full
time job. I can't believe it. I even showed up
to that BS. What the hell are we doing here?
I took a bowling class. What the hell I understand
it's a part of being a well rounded whatever that
went out the window a long time ago. This is
just crap. You're wasting my time. I got other things
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to do and stealing money from me.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Final statement in summary of the earlier education stuff, and
this is undeniable. The data, and it's everywhere suggests rather
strongly that as a American school systems all over the
country restructure in their struggle to educate migrant children illegal immigrants,
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mostly the children are the losers.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Of course, students are the losers.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Now, maybe that makes you sad or uncomfortable or sounds
like you're blaming brown people.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, no, no, no, let's deal with facts. I'm blaming reality.
If you have someone in your class.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
If you have two, because I've seen this, you got
a class of thirty kids, twenty eight of them speak
English to one of them speaks Chinese, when of them
speaks Spanish and the teacher doesn't speak Spanish or Chinese,
and the teacher stands up there does it in English?
Then does does their Google translator thing for Spanish and
for Chinese? How long do you suppose that takes to
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get through any damn lesson when you're doing it that way.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
But that is the way they do it. And if
you have more kids, there's even more.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I mean, you might have four different languages in your
classroom instead of just three.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's happening all across the country or now. It's insane.
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The degree to which the left establishment and the teachers'
unions will abuse the children, and I don't think that
term is misapplied to further political their political aims is sickening.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Sickening. They would they will let.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
The kids coast through school ignorant, and you know, not
coast through school at all during COVID if they preserve
their wealth and power.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
It's disgusting, you know, it would be an interesting experiment
in a parallel universe.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
How long would schools have stayed closed.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
In the bluest areas like where I am if there'd
been zero pushback, if there had been no pushback at all,
how long.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Would they have kept the schools closed? Would they still
be closed? They might be, they might be. It's so
obvious looking back at it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
The teachers' unions knew the parents and the kids were
desperate to have the schools open. If the person on
the other side of the negotiating table with you is
desperate or from you, is desperate, you've got some great
power to get all sorts of stuff. And that's what
they did, and the kids' minds and souls be damned. Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Coming up, we got a bunch of things to get to.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Major football star makes a retirements announcement if you're an
NFL fan, and some other things.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh, a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I'm I might actually watch a little of the Oscar
Sunday night. I thought I would never say that again
in my life.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wow, coding onto the dark side, folks, He's woke, woke.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Jack Conan's the host anyway, more hilarious. More on all
that coming up. Stay here, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
One one.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Where's your emergency? I've been locked in the storage unit
for about a week now, and I just now felt.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
My phone a girlfriend has outstanding words for attempted murder
and for kidnapping, no food, no waters. You know, like
I said, if we had been in the heat of
the summer or the super cold of the winter, this
would be a whole different story.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Wow. Okay, Katie, are you behind this clip? There's a
lot there.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
First I thought the guy accidentally got locked in his
storage unit for a week.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Who brought us this? Mike Hanson? Is that you? Yeah? Okay,
So what's the background on this? His girlfriend locked him
in the storage unit for a week. Indeed, Jack, his
girlfriend locked him in a storage unit for a.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Week, and his phone was with him but not handy
and he finally found it.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Well, or it be pitch dark in there? Yeah, yeah,
As as.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The chief investigating officer, there's something that doesn't quite fit here.
And then where we kidnaped him and shut him in
a storage unit and didn't take his phone from him
while he was presumably unconscious or is she a big beefy.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Gallon just overpower? And where was Gene Hackman's body and
all this it could be related. We're not ruling out
a connection. Say you're suspicious of something, yeah? Absolutely? Coming
up next, hour.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Why women love woke, a British woman columnist has nailed it.
Women are making themselves miserable, and being miserable makes them
more woke.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Stay with us a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Travis Kelcey of the Kansas City Chiefs announced he will
absolutely be.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Back next year. He plans to get in the best
shape of his life.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
He can't end his career with that taste in his mouth,
he said, So we'll see how that turns out.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I wonder if Tea Swizzle is happy with that or not.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
You said you were gonna quit. We were supposed to
go to Bali Bali, someplace fancy. I think they can
still go to bally Bally. It'll be fine. Anyboddy noticing
the big liberal walkout today?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Is that happening anywhere? I haven't gotten any texts that
people have noticed. They're supposed to.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Start at noon Eastern, so I guess it hasn't heard
yet as we are broadcasting this. So we'll see if
you're not supposed to buy any like fast food or
anything at a store, or buy any gas or do
anything if you're a liberal to show how much you
hate Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
It sounds like a good day to go shopping and
eating and buying gas to me because I'm not gonna
running in any progressive jackasses.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's funny.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
You're the umpteenth person I've heard say that today is
the day I'm always a shop extra.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Okay, so you're saying, I say the obvious, I got
no originality. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It was? Text you Sorry, that was a little quick.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I just think it's funny that that's what everybody's If
you're not, you know, a lefty, that's your reaction.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Cool, I'll go shopping. How about how about we make
you the whole weekend. Let's show those conservative jack Let's.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Let's show them by not going.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Out at all all weekend and also not saying anything.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, is there any way you could like not go
to restaurants the entire weekend and then the rest of
us could go or whatever. That'd be cool, like the
sound of that. There was one more thing I wanted
to jam and before I get to that, I'm still ill.
So there's no cold medicine that does anything. By the way,
it is all a joke. It's all a joke that
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the pharmaceutical industry is playing on all this. I don't
think there's any cold medicine that really does much of anything.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I think to the extent it has a set of
minifin the active ingredients in Thailand, all right, that helps
the rest of it's just nothing.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
No taking thailand al or ibuprofen or something like that
will help. But the general this is for severe cold
that has thailand al or ibuprofene in it, and then
fennerin or in or whatever that stuff is that the
government itself announced does nothing.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's in every one of those cold medicines.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
There is one medicine that actually does work, and I'm
trying to remember the name of it. I love it,
and but why it works is a really disgusting phrase
that I'd rather not say on the air.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's a phrase no one wants to hear. Well, it's
cold and flu season.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
I've got a cold. You know the medicine that actually works,
You've got to tell us. I'm trying to remember the
name of it. I know where it is in my
cabinet in the kitchen. But it works, Jack partly because
it thins your secretions, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
You're right?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Are are my secretions too?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Are you kidding the syrup please, you should be ashamed
of those secretions anyway. It's what is it, I'll try
to think of it. It's a cough suppressant and uh
and uh and and a four discretion thinner.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Yeah, it's Uncle Otis's secretion finner, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arms Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
President Zalinski's coming to see me on Friday. Friday morning,
and we're going to be signing really a very important
agreement for both sets, because it's really going to get
us into that country. We'll be working there, We'll have
a lot of people working there, and so in that sense,
it's very good. It's a backstop. You could say, I
don't think anybody's going to play around. If we're there
with a lot of workers and having to do with
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rare earths and other things which we need for our country,
then we appreciate it very much. And I look forward
to seeing him.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Are there areas specifically of Ukraine that you're talking about
in giving back specifically Crania.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll be talking about that. We're going to see if
we can get it back or get a lot of
it back.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
So he says he's gonna converse with Putin about getting
some of the land back.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's interesting.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
It's the first time I've heard him say that of
a Ukraine getting some of their land back. And then
also the first question was about whether or not we're
going to send troops or anything like that, and he said, no,
but we're gonna have a lot of people in there.
We're gonna have a lot of people, and I don't
think anybody will mess around us with us when we've
got you know, all these people working there.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So I don't it's.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hard to say with Trump always if that's a veiled
threat or an outright threat, or just an assumption that
if we have a whole bunch of USA dump trucks
and machinery and scientists and whatever else there, that's ours.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Right, right, or it might be red herring because sometimes
Trump throws those out. We've referred to it occasionally as
you know, you're in a negotiation and you demand an elephant,
and they yell, they they tell you we can't afford
an elephant.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
There's nowhere to put an elephant.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You say, no, got to have an element, and you
make the other side to spend a certain amount of
time and energy on getting the element, the elephant out
of the contract. You never wanted an elephant. Trump does
that too, so it's really difficult to discern what his
strategy is, which is part of his strategy.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No doubt. So you think it's possible.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I assume you're talking about he's trying to work Putin,
So you think Putin's gonna think I don't want the
United States invested heavily in Ukraine with equipment and manpower there.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That is not good.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Maybe I should give back some land or whatever to
keep that from happening.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Right, that's possible.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I was going to get into this factor a
little later, but we'll just go ahead and do it now.
The problem is, though, and often the folks on the
kind of New World Order Tucker Carlson Wright don't mention this,
Ukraine has zero interest in being under Russia's thumb. They
(03:02):
would die literally, they're doing it before they accepted that
Russia and the Soviet Union interchangeable practically with Putin in charge,
starved tens of millions of their family to death. They
have slaughtered civilians, they have systematically tortured people. They have
kidnapped tens of thousands of their children. How would Americans
(03:25):
react to a power that did that. We would fight
them until our dying day. If it took fifty generations,
and the Ukrainians feel the same way, So keep that
in mind anytime you talk about some brilliant broker ceasefire
that's going to include mineral rights or whatever. The other
factor that you really need to remember is that Putin
(03:48):
will only keep an agreement until the minute it's more
profitable to abandon it. His word is worth nothing on
the international stage.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And you can start with when Ukraine yielded its nuclear
weapons in nineteen ninety four in exchange for security guarantees
from the US, UK and Russia. Moscow explicitly promised to
respect Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and refrained from economic coercion.
And they went back on that the minute it was convenient.
In three Russia began building a dam on the tiny
(04:22):
Ukrainian island of Toslow without warning or permission. Ukraine responded
by deploying troops. Crisis diffused only after the current president
then struck a compromise with Putin on terms heavily favorable
to Moscow.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh Boy.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Moscow resorting to energy extortion to draw Kiev into its orbit.
After that, weaponized its trade with the Ukraine. In twenty thirteen,
they blocked Ukrainian exports at the border while backing a
puppet regime. There are all sorts of examples of their
agreements just falling apart again the minute it's convenient for
(04:57):
Putin to blow it up.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I gotta believe though, since France and Britain have agreed
to thirty thousand troops boots on the ground there, and
we're talking about having you know, USA man power there
to get the minerals out and also probably some sort
of backstop that remains very misty, that would be suicide
for Putin to attack that. I mean, he'd be full
(05:21):
on at war with NATO if he did that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, although you have long questioned are and
the other NATO powers commitment to actually living up to
their Article five obligations. If one are attacked, all are
attacked and we fight back. In fact, Trump is explicit
he said, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, there's a difference between I'm France and Tonia Estonia.
I don't know the name of some of these countries
gets attacked and I think, okay, do I want to
send French troops and French troops are being.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Attacked, Well, there are only like one hundred French troops
and they're wearing panties. So let's go with a country
with a real military. If we can find on Finland,
well that's so on, so on fire. Really, I don't know,
so I tell you the one thing I approached this
somewhat humbly, because nobody, including JD. Vance, probably knows exactly
(06:22):
what Trump has in mind, what he considers an acceptable outcome,
and how that squares with what he talks to Selinski
out behind the scenes. Very difficult to know where this
could go. But back to your point and then be
done with it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Is the imagine if you're a Ukrainian and your kids
were taken at gunpoint from your home and now lives
somewhere in Russia and twenty percent of your land mass
is gone and all your buildings are rubble, and you're
just supposed to accept this.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Deal, right right, It's not going to happen, can't even
mean Yeah, guerrilla warfare for decades. Who knows what shape
it'll take. But I have no idea. I usually have
a theory how these things are going to shake out.
This one is just all wild cards speak thees. I
got a theory four year right after this.
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Speaker 5 (08:10):
Run your game, okay, wife trips over space, heater drops
pills on the floor, hits her head dies. Okay, dog
dies in the grate, starves, which is horrible obviously. Oh
so Geen Jeane with dementia, sees wife doesn't know what
to do, gets confused, He's stumbling around the house. He
(08:32):
does not do anything at this point in his life.
He's ninety five years old. He gets weak, falls, hits
his head and dies.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, even the broad outlines of it, even if some
of the details aren't there, hits her head and dies,
it doesn't happen a lot deceivable.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I got a.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Friend he tripped on the curb a couple years ago.
He was like sixty and he's dead.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, he's got for a walk with his wife, fall
in the bathroom, and then very old Gene Hackman.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
I, Well, what I like about this theory is that
a weird odd event happens with the youngest healthiest one
in this one, and then you got a ninety five
year old on their own, and then anything could.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Happen, right, Yeah, And given the timetable and the mummification,
et cetera, it's entirely possible that he passed three days
after her, although if he was out of it then
he would have been getting full time care. I would
(09:39):
think otherwise you would have called the cops. They had phones.
She would have been full time care for him, and
then she was dead. Yeah, it's possible. So your money
is on truly unfortunate string of events and not foul play.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Now I don't think there's foul play, but I'm still
going with He has a heart attack in the mud room.
She sees him dead as so despondent, she says, I'm
gonna kill myself, goes and.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Gets the pills.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Executive producer Mike Hanson makes the trains run on time.
He's a practical man. What is your theory, handsome?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Similar similar theory, but involving heartbreak. So the wife has
a heart attack, perhaps due to the stress and strain
of taking care of her elderly. What next, she has
a heart attack and dies. He finds her sometime later, distraught,
(10:35):
stumbles around the house, has a heart attack himself, falls
and dies.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The pork dog is stuck in the in the kennel. Yeah,
it's all about It's all about heart heart to break.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
She is just similar to the text that it makes
more sense if she goes first, because then he's on
his own as a ninety five year old, and quite
possible he would have just if you if she's gonna sell,
he dies, he doesn't know where he is, or can't
get out.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Of the house or whatever, or he discovers his wife
didda the heart attack and rushes to grab his phone,
falls and hits his head.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That's it could be as simple as that. Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
She comes out of the bedroom. Dog is barking. She
puts it in the great shut up dog. She goes up, bigfoot,
standing there.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Wow, I don't think you're taking this serious anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We got a bunch of techs.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
She seizes her chest, says, yeah, Well.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
We got a lot more news to get to and
a bunch of different things.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is the Great blackout going on?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Has anybody noticed our liberals not buying anything today? On
the Great Economic Blackout? Does anybody notice that at all?
Text four one five KFTC.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Well, guys, the ninety seventh Oscars are this Sunday. The
Best Actor nominees include Timothy Chalomey for his role as
Bob Dylan and uh Elon Musk for his role as President.
I heard that this year's Oscar gift bag contains two
hundred thousand dollars worth of item.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's right, it's one carton of eggs. So I was
just rang joke.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I was just written an interesting thing. I'm rooting for
the Bob Dylan movie for a couple of reasons, including
it's the only movie nominated movie I've seen, so you know,
make me feel better.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, I'm rooting for the transgender cartel boss pile of
steaming Wells.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I saw that one. So I was just.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Reading how because of the controversy around that, with the
star of the trans movie saying uncool things and they know,
they're really screaming toward non controversial and it's been a
big break for the Bob Dylan movie that might have,
you know, not won much in the face of because
(12:45):
it's very big to give these awards to things that
fit with the political moment. See you have a trans
movie when you know, we don't know how that works.
But they might be going non controversial just to stay
out of the trouble and leaning toward the Bob Dylan movie.
That's the latest feeling in Hollywood, according to people watch
this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, yeah, I watch that movie, but I would have
to go to a movie theater, so that's gonna interfere.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Okay, here is I know some of you listening probably
already know this. I did not know this until last night.
So someone I know hipped me to the fact that. Okay,
so Macrone was in Washington, d C. Meeting with Trump
and a person says to me, of course his wife's
a dude.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Ha ha ha. I just looked at him, and.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
You don't know that, know what that Macrone's wife is
a dude. And so apparently Candae Owens, who we actually
kind of know, and others have videos showing mcrone's wife
in various situations where she looks very much like a dude.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And this person says, they're all dudes. You know. Michelle
Obama's a dude. And I said, well, I've heard those jokes.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
But and says, no, you know the Ellen video And
I said, what, So you should grab your phone, Joe
and Katie should grab your phone because I've forwarded you
the video. So when Michelle Obama was on Ellen, you know,
when you went on Ellen degenerous, you had to dance.
Everybody had to dance when they came on. If you
zoom in on Michelle Obama in her loose fitting slacks
(14:17):
at least in this video that it looks like she's
got a penis.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
So that is the anyway.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
So I guess that's a big theme for a lot
of you.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What do you think that is? I'm not. I don't
think Michelle Obama's a dude, by the way, I don't.
But yes, Katie, I can tell you what I think
it is. It's ai that's fake.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Unless you have police powers, you cannot compel me to
join in this idiotic conversation.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
But I respectfully abstained.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, the conversation for me isn't is mccrone's wife a
dude or Michelle Obama dude? The conversation is there are
lots and lots and lots of people who believe that
and use these videos and stuff like that for evidence.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
It definitely looks like she's she's got a thing in
this in this video.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yes, yes, that's that's that's swinging in man. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, as I said, you'd think, you know, I'm a guy,
I would wear some sort of underwear. If I was
wearing those pants, I wouldn't be uh, you know, fbing
it if.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You will, Right, it's just sensible, that's right. So what
are you asking me? Do I think Michelle Obama has
a sponse or does it look like it in the video,
or you're.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Just times that you just want to Okay, it's interesting
that there are lots of people, and again, I don't
know if it's ten thousand or ten million people that
I believe this.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I mean into I'm trying to get my arms around.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Okay, So Michelle Obama and old Lady McCrone are dudes.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Who else is a dude? All of them?
Speaker 5 (15:59):
A lot of the day, A lot of the Democrat,
high level democrats, their wives are dudes.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Why I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
But but this person I was talking to, college educated person,
you know whatever, one hundred percent believes that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's not like they were laughing about it. Oh yeah,
they're all dudes. I don't know what to do with that.
I mean, if they said they're all squirrels, I would
have the same reaction.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I mean, the conversation, so the conversation actually immediately went
on their end from I don't understand why Barack Obama
just didn't run as a as a gay man married
to another man, I don't I guess maybe they didn't
think he could get elected in two thousand and eight.
With that you could now probably, but it's just surprising
me the I mean, so they immediately went to the
practicality of why they hid the fact that Michelle is
a dude. The question of whether or not she's a
(16:48):
dude wasn't even there anymore. We're onto the.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Settled Yeah, that's settled science.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, that is fascinating to me and is one more
reason we should unplug the internet.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Should I post this video? Helly hilarious? Yeah, post that
video so people can check it out.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I mean, in this video, this person dancing appears to
have male parts in loose pants while they're dancing on Allan.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But you know, I think it is AI adjusted.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
I'm gonna get Katie's corner ready and I'll put it there.
So I don't put that on your hot lengths and
trash things up because I'll upset Joe and.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I hadn't heard the mccrone's wife as a dude.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Also, anyway, it fits in somehow with the Epstein stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That that crowd is very excited about the list coming out.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
It's supposed to come out yesterday, didn't Pambondi's believing the
FBI stonewalling. Wait a second, Cash, Betel's stonewalling you. That
doesn't make sense, So I don't. I don't know what's
going on with any of that, and I don't believe.
I'm all for the jokes. The jokes are funny. I've
laughed at many of them. Like Greg Gutfeld the other
day about it looks like the Obama marriage is doing okay,
(17:55):
and he said, I don't know why. They just can't
settle it like men. I mean, so that's a winking.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
A nod to the crowd. Sure, and I laughed, But
I don't believe Michelle Obama's a dude. I don't at all,
not even a tiny bit.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
So coming up, the Democrats are about to squeal like
spine about Medicare reform, what it is and what it's not.
Stay with us, Armstrong and Getty, As I said, you'd think,
you know, I'm a guy, I would wear some sort
of underwear.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
If I was wearing those pants, I.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Wouldn't be, you know, being it if you will not right,
it's just sensible, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The Armstrong and Getty show el.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Right, which har comes back to a story I told
about a marine. I was on a boat with in
Hawaii talking about the song free Falling and how he
would sing it and how hilarious it was, and everybody
it's from back in the summer.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Find the podcast. It's an annoying story. M sorry it
was brought up again. And it is no new news.
It's redundant.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's no news that the Democratic Party has no idea
what to do with itself and is wandering around in
the wilderness. And as soon as the let's be moderates
like we used to be wing gets a little momentum,
the lunatic left just cuts them off the knees and
docks them and threatens with primaries and gets rid of them.
And then Kim Strassel and the Wall Street Journalist wrote
(19:27):
a great article today, great to think piece about how
you know, the moderates of the past are gone and
those of the present are just getting murdered by the
lunatic left.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And one of my favorite lines.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
From it is if if the Democrats didn't already know
the progressive agenda was a political loser, they do now
what to do with an ash heap of a political platform,
one nonetheless rigidly enforced by liberal shock troops, and no
charismatic figure with the spiner know how to lead a
change of direction, engage muscle memory, and do the easy
(19:58):
fight fight fight. Thus the bizarre site of Democrats rallying
fervently in favor of government waste, fraud, and inefficiency. I
expect this to continue. Yeah, and she mentions Chuck Schumer
shout gasping, we will win, we will win, which brings
us to the next strategy.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
We're going to hear and the media, of course.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Will echo this as loudly as they possibly can, and
that is shouting about the Republicans so called Medicaid cuts.
There are no Medicaid cuts coming. Some more on that
in a minute, But keep in mind that Medicaid, which
is in great need of reform, was established to help
(20:40):
the needy, poor, children, pregnant women, the elderly disabled, and
Democrats have expanded it bit by bit by bit into
a much broader entitlement for able bodied, working age adults
with lower incomes. So, not surprisingly, Medicaid spending is out
pacing even Social Security Medicare. Federal Medicaid Outlaid's outlays have
increased two hundred and seven percent since oh eight, and
(21:02):
fifty one percent just since twenty nineteen, Medicaid spending is
a share of federal outlays rose to ten percent from
seven percent over the last twenty or so years. Well,
the share of Social Security and medicare remained stable. Now
the press is claiming Republicans want to gut Medicaid, but
it's not true at all. They're not proposing a cut.
(21:22):
Medicaid outlays are on track to increase by two point
four trillion dollars through twenty thirty five according to the CBO,
So shaving eight hundred and eighty billion from that baseline
of increase would still amount to a one point five
trillion dollar increase in Medicaid spending.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
This is one of the older tricks in the book
of this sort of thing. We've been talking about this
for decades. If you try to slow down the increase
in spending, it is portrayed as a cut, and because
very few people pay close enough attention, it usually works.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, and she points are the editorial board, I guess
it is. The journal points out that Republicans should have
fixed the baseline increased thing, but they've lacked the nerve.
So to hit the target, Republicans just need a slow
Medicaid spending growth to about two percent annually, which follows
Biden's increasing it by nine percent a can.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You imagine wow.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But one reason is that Democrat runs states have figured
out how to scam Medicaid to finance their other spending priorities.
Quoting the Journal, one trick is imposing taxes on hospitals
and managed care insurance plans, which states then use to
spend more on Medicaid to collect more federal dollars. For
every dollar state spend on Medicaid, the Feds chip in
one to three on top of it, so the match
(22:43):
is nine to one for the Obamacare expansion population, which
gives states an incentive to spend more on the healthy,
abled bodied then on the vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And so.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Like a lot of government spending, especially when the Feds
and states get into bed together, he's such an incentive
to spend as much money as humanly possible, even if
it is utterly at odds with what medicaid is supposed
to be. Democrats and Republicans joined in ninety one to
impose limits on these tax schemes.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One reason the.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
New York, for instance, received three thousand dollars plus for
each state resident in twenty twenty three. Based on the
recent federal data, federal medicaid dollars also subsidized California and
Illinois much more than the Red states because of their policies.
So when you hear that, you know Republicans are gutting medicaid,
balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and
(23:37):
the sick and coughing babies.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's just not true. Well, good luck on winning net messaging.
It's a tough one. Yeah, it's so frustrating.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I remember roughly the first time I heard the expression
in politics. If you're explaining you're losing, and that is
just that is really really discouraging. Yes, i'd say, I mean,
especially because we've let the government, the federal government, grow
to such astounding size and complexity.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You can't explain anything.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I'm sorry, you can't really describe or discuss anything without explaining.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You're punishing poor people. Now you have to just how
many words was that you're punishing poor forwards, you would
have to take paragraphs to explain how I'm not punishing
poor people.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
If you liar, it's probably not that effective, But it
was satisfying.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Your husband's your wife's a dude, that's how you would reply.
So's your sister. Oh, speaking of fake narratives.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
The whole the public school thing is, we've discussed many times,
is utterly corrupt K through grad school and needs to
be torn to the studs or just eliminated. But may
is out main another blue state out with their educational stats.
Their scores are plummeting, and anybody who's telling the truth says, yes,
(25:09):
it's the giant influx. Well, it's keeping our kids out
of school for like the entirety of COVID because it's
a blue state. So of course you had to do
that because Trump said to open the schools. But that
and the influx of illegal immigrants. It's a Democrat dominated
sanctuary state. And the number of children who cannot speak
English fluently is sword in the last decade, and the
(25:33):
scores are plunging. Only thirty three percent of children in
the fourth grade and main and proficient math twenty six percent,
are fluent in reading only twenty six percent, some of
the worst scores in the nation.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And the older kids.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
What is that sixth grade they test them again, I'm
not sure, but the older kids are even worse off
A mere twenty five percent proficient in math and twenty
six percent in reading.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
I think maybe the best strategy would be to strip
down schooling K THROUGHHD to just like STEM stuff. So
what's STEM stand for science? Technology, technology, engineering.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Engineering, and and and manliness anyway, mathematics even then you're
up against it in some cases, as we've learned, as
they got woke stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Slipping into math and everything like that.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
But I had a little thing I was going to
read the other day about how at the university level, anthropology,
sociology and one of the other one ologies are just
so incredibly woke. I mean, they're just they're so out
there crazy that they're they're definitely a net deficit to
(26:45):
society and you're not freaking learning anything. And I thought
about that when I was reading joy Read's bio the
other day when we were talking about how she's leaving MSNBC.
She went to Harvard, but she was a film studies
major or something like that, and boy and all of
that sort of stuff. The other day, I was thinking,
because I've really gotten into the history of the Impressionists lately,
(27:08):
and I thought I wish I had taken art history
in college.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I should take art history. Maybe I'll get a minor
in art history or something like that. Then I felt,
why would I do that?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Every bit of information I want to know about art
history is out there, either in a book or I
can watch endless YouTube videos of the smartest people on
the subject giving endless lectures about whatever I'm interested in.
There's no reason to put it in the world of
a university, all of that stuff, there's no point in it.
There's no point in paying for your kid to go
(27:38):
learn art history or like a nine gazillion other.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Things that you can learn on your own. There's just
no need for it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's as if people are still carrying around a calculator
in addition to their smartphone, like the word hasn't gotten
to them that this is an utterly unnecessary redundancy. Now,
if you want to have somebody guide your learning, design
the curriculum, but again that can be found online without indoctrination.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
That can be found online too, guiding your learning and
a curriculum very easily. And it used to be kind
of funny that mentioned, because I saw one of these yesterday.
So and so college, and it's one of your top schools,
is now having a class in Beyonce in which they'll
study the artists.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And that stuff is just crap.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
I took a rock and roll history class in college,
complete waste of time and money. I had a full
time job. I can't believe it. I even showed up
to that BS. What the hell are we doing here?
I took a bowling class. What the hell I understand
it's a part of being a well rounded whatever that
went out the window a long time ago. This is
just crap. You're wasting my time. I got other things
(28:42):
to do and stealing money from me.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Final statement in summary of the earlier education stuff, and
this is undeniable. The data, and it's everywhere suggests rather
strongly that as a American school systems all over the
country restructure in their struggle to educate migrant children illegal immigrants,
(29:09):
mostly the children are the losers.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Of course, students are the losers.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Now, maybe that makes you sad or uncomfortable or sounds
like you're blaming brown people.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
No, no, no, no, let's deal with facts. I'm blaming reality.
If you have someone in your class.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
If you have two, because I've seen this, you got
a class of thirty kids, twenty eight of them speak
English to one of them speaks Chinese, when of them
speaks Spanish and the teacher doesn't speak Spanish or Chinese,
and the teacher stands up there does it in English?
Then does does their Google translator thing for Spanish and
for Chinese? How long do you suppose that takes to
(29:45):
get through any damn lesson when you're doing it that way.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
But that is the way they do it. And if
you have more kids, there's even more.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I mean, you might have four different languages in your
classroom instead of just three.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's happening all across the country or now. It's insane.
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
The degree to which the left establishment and the teachers'
unions will abuse the children, and I don't think that
term is misapplied to further political their political aims is sickening.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Sickening. They would they will let.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
The kids coast through school ignorant, and you know, not
coast through school at all during COVID if they preserve
their wealth and power.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
It's disgusting, you know, it would be an interesting experiment
in a parallel universe.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
How long would schools have stayed closed.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
In the bluest areas like where I am if there'd
been zero pushback, if there had been no pushback at all,
how long.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Would they have kept the schools closed? Would they still
be closed? They might be, they might be. It's so
obvious looking back at it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
The teachers' unions knew the parents and the kids were
desperate to have the schools open. If the person on
the other side of the negotiating table with you is
desperate or from you, is desperate, you've got some great
power to get all sorts of stuff. And that's what
they did, and the kids' minds and souls be damned. Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Coming up, we got a bunch of things to get to.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Major football star makes a retirements announcement if you're an
NFL fan, and some other things.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh, a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
I'm I might actually watch a little of the Oscar
Sunday night. I thought I would never say that again
in my life.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wow, coding onto the dark side, folks, He's woke, woke.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Jack Conan's the host anyway, more hilarious. More on all
that coming up. Stay here, Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
One one.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Where's your emergency? I've been locked in the storage unit
for about a week now, and I just now felt.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
My phone a girlfriend has outstanding words for attempted murder
and for kidnapping, no food, no waters. You know, like
I said, if we had been in the heat of
the summer or the super cold of the winter, this
would be a whole different story.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Wow. Okay, Katie, are you behind this clip? There's a
lot there.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
First I thought the guy accidentally got locked in his
storage unit for a week.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Who brought us this? Mike Hanson? Is that you? Yeah? Okay,
So what's the background on this? His girlfriend locked him
in the storage unit for a week. Indeed, Jack, his
girlfriend locked him in a storage unit for a.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Week, and his phone was with him but not handy
and he finally found it.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Well, or it be pitch dark in there? Yeah, yeah,
As as.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The chief investigating officer, there's something that doesn't quite fit here.
And then where we kidnaped him and shut him in
a storage unit and didn't take his phone from him
while he was presumably unconscious or is she a big beefy.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Gallon just overpower? And where was Gene Hackman's body and
all this it could be related. We're not ruling out
a connection. Say you're suspicious of something, yeah? Absolutely? Coming
up next, hour.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Why women love woke, a British woman columnist has nailed it.
Women are making themselves miserable, and being miserable makes them
more woke.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Stay with us a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Travis Kelcey of the Kansas City Chiefs announced he will
absolutely be.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Back next year. He plans to get in the best
shape of his life.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
He can't end his career with that taste in his mouth,
he said, So we'll see how that turns out.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I wonder if Tea Swizzle is happy with that or not.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
You said you were gonna quit. We were supposed to
go to Bali Bali, someplace fancy. I think they can
still go to bally Bally. It'll be fine. Anyboddy noticing
the big liberal walkout today?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Is that happening anywhere? I haven't gotten any texts that
people have noticed. They're supposed to.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Start at noon Eastern, so I guess it hasn't heard
yet as we are broadcasting this. So we'll see if
you're not supposed to buy any like fast food or
anything at a store, or buy any gas or do
anything if you're a liberal to show how much you
hate Trump and Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
It sounds like a good day to go shopping and
eating and buying gas to me because I'm not gonna
running in any progressive jackasses.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's funny.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
You're the umpteenth person I've heard say that today is
the day I'm always a shop extra.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Okay, so you're saying, I say the obvious, I got
no originality. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It was? Text you Sorry, that was a little quick.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I just think it's funny that that's what everybody's If
you're not, you know, a lefty, that's your reaction.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Cool, I'll go shopping. How about how about we make
you the whole weekend. Let's show those conservative jack Let's.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Let's show them by not going.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Out at all all weekend and also not saying anything.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, is there any way you could like not go
to restaurants the entire weekend and then the rest of
us could go or whatever. That'd be cool, like the
sound of that. There was one more thing I wanted
to jam and before I get to that, I'm still ill.
So there's no cold medicine that does anything. By the way,
it is all a joke. It's all a joke that
(35:10):
the pharmaceutical industry is playing on all this. I don't
think there's any cold medicine that really does much of anything.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I think to the extent it has a set of
minifin the active ingredients in Thailand, all right, that helps
the rest of it's just nothing.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
No taking thailand al or ibuprofen or something like that
will help. But the general this is for severe cold
that has thailand al or ibuprofene in it, and then
fennerin or in or whatever that stuff is that the
government itself announced does nothing.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's in every one of those cold medicines.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
There is one medicine that actually does work, and I'm
trying to remember the name of it. I love it,
and but why it works is a really disgusting phrase
that I'd rather not say on the air.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's a phrase no one wants to hear. Well, it's
cold and flu season.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
I've got a cold. You know the medicine that actually works,
You've got to tell us. I'm trying to remember the
name of it. I know where it is in my
cabinet in the kitchen. But it works, Jack partly because
it thins your secretions, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
You're right?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Are are my secretions too?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Are you kidding the syrup please, you should be ashamed
of those secretions anyway. It's what is it, I'll try
to think of it. It's a cough suppressant and uh
and uh and and a four discretion thinner.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Yeah, it's Uncle Otis's secretion finner, Armstrong and Getty
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