May 29, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- The necessary high speed rail & Jack might try meth
- Mexico's new president
- Putin is messing with NATO
- Final thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Taxpayer Protection Act gives voters the right to approve
or reject all new taxes.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
California business and taxpayer groups want to stop government overspending.
Their ballot proposition would require two thirds of voters to
approve any city or state tax increase.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The Taxpayer Protection Act ensures that all new taxes have
broad support from Californians by empowering voters.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But Governor Gavin Newsom, contrary to his so called campaign
for Democracy where he criticized Republicans.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Ignore the will of the people, now wants.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The California Supreme Court to deny voters a right to
vote on that proposition by preemptively killing it before it
goes on the bower.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I know, in the ungovernable Kentucky Derby, California still trails Haiti,
but it's coming up hard on the rail.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
How could you even be contemplating higher taxes in California.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, in the democracy, we got to defend democracy. The
Republicans are against democracy. Wait, you want to vote on
tax increases? If you beautiful. Next clip, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Supporters say taxpayers are done getting steamrolled by Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
What we have is essentially a two way street where
the legislative power is shared amongst these two groups, the
people on the one hand, the legislature from the other.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But that the people have the last work.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The state Supreme Court must rule in the next few weeks.
Otherwise voters in November could send a message in California
they've had enough.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, that'll be today. Well, yeah, and you got the public,
the taxpayers, and the public employee unions. You called it
the legislature, and they still pretend to be that. But
let's face reality. I thought this was interesting, and I
don't care. If this is being done for the right reasons,
they're the wrong ones. I really don't. Congressional Republicans are
demanding information from Pete boot Edge Edge Edge Edge Transportation
(02:18):
Secretary on what they call a highly questionable high speed
rail project in Kelly, Unicornya. I've heard of it, according
to a letter first obtained by ABC News, the ambitious plan,
in case you're not familiar with this, aims to build
a lengthy high speed rail corridor they would ultimately connect Sacramento,
San Francisco, La San Diego, several other cities. California verters
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first approved the initiative in a two thousand and eight
Ballotman two thousand and eight, which it's going on twenty
years old, which said it would cost eight billion dollars
or nine billion or something. Man, I should already be
right in the train, right, Oh yeah, yeah, it was
supposed to be done four years ago, I think. But
according to Ted Cruz, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee,
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and Sam Graves of Missouri in the House quote, but
the California High Speed Rail Authority still has not completed
a single segment of the system, the total estimated cost
is ballooned to one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars
in counting, and there's no expected completion date. The California
High Speed Rail Authority replied that hey, work is underway
on the first stretch from Merced to Bakersfield, that the
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overall project has created thirteen thousand jobs statewide according to
a May press release. But CRUs and Graves said the
project has faced a series of delays, blah blah blah,
isn't close to fully funded, including an extra two and
a half billion dollars still needed for the Mersed section,
the Merced to Bakersfield section for the Mercedians who are
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dreaming the beautiful dream of someday visiting Bakersfield via rail.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, by train, because you can go by car anytime
you want.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, you bet it her in a you know,
a shake of a Lambsdale. But anyway, So there's two
and a half billion dollars more needed to complete the
critical Bakersfield de Mersaid section, and that is slated for
completion some time between twenty thirty and twenty thirty three.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And that's and they always give optimistic goals. So their
optimistic goal is almost ten years from now, right, right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's beyond the joke. It's beyond the clownshow.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I guess it'll have to be more of a family reunion.
I was hoping it'd be more of a family vacation.
Now that my kids are young enough, i'd say, you
guess what we're doing this summer.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Hawaii, No, Europe. No, We're gonna ride the train from
her said to Bakersfield. Bakersfield. Yay. Right, So the lawmakers
are now demanding the Department of Transportation brief both committees
and provide documents on the status of the project, particularly
focusing on a recent federal grant of three a billion
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dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to the California High
Speed Rail Authority, said the letter quote, despite evidence to
continue to show that the California High Speed Rail project
is critical issues indicating there is no reasonable path forward
for successful completion of the project, the Biden administration continues
to dellicate substantial federal tax payer dollars to this highly questionable endeavor.
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I would say it's highly questionable. I mean, in the
same way I'm gonna light myself on fire and throw
myself into lieon enclosure at the zoo is highly questionable.
I mean it's bizarre, it's moronic, it's impossible. But you know,
if this shines enough light to kill the vampire, uh,
great good. It's the greatest failure of democracy, together with
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the Southern Border I've ever witnessed in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Speaking of Witch, there'll be a new person in charge
of Mexico very soon. Mexico is gonna get their first
chick president. I can tell you all about her coming
up in just a little bit, probably ought to know
who the president is of one of our top trading
partners and the country that is giving us so many
gang members and other great things fentanyl across the border, Chinese.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Spies, everything else, you name it. So we'll learn more.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
About this woman coming up. So I was just looking
at the calendar. Both my kids get out of school
in about a week. I am not prepared mentally, emotionally,
physically for this. I need to get some Vitamin B
twelve shots going her.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Oh at least something. Wow. I'll speaking of things that
come across the border. Maybe just a little pick me
up on those tougher.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Days, just during the summer vacation, and then I'll quit
doing whatever hardcore drug as soon as the fall comes,
because that's just wait.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
A little meth in the morning, little fentanyl at night.
I'll if you settle down to sleep, kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
A Michael Jackson plan for waking up and getting to sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You got them in various camps or classes or activities. Yeah,
some Yeah, so much work. I don't remember riggs or
set Maybe I don't think it was inking logs. I
don't feel like it was any work for my parents.
Why does it work for me? It was different. Something
was different. I would get up in the morning, eat breakfast,
and sale see at dinner. Right, I left, take my
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bike and my baseball mitt, and off I went.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I came back for dinner, and then after dinner, I
was usually doing something.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right, yeah, until it's dark. Then I'd come home again.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The world does not work that way anymore because of
gild abductions or something.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But I yeah, I think I'll dabble in meth. Many
people have successfully navigated that tightrope. Sure. Oh, I was
just reading about it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I want to take a break and tell you about
the new Mexican chick president. But I was just reading
about the ketamine in the La Times, an article about
how that is the drug for the cool you know
that killed Matthew Perry. It's expensive, but the cool goer.
I mean, it's like cocaine in the eightieses, like the
cool drug. If you're a mover and a shaker and
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a young person, go go type a living life to
it's full oft all sleep. But I'm dead type life
in the fast lane. Ketamine is the drug right now.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Apparently I'm none of those things, So I think I'll
stick with Suvignon blank. I don't know, do you smoke
it or drink it or stick it under your eye lid.
I don't really know what you do with it. Did
she amn't it into your veins? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It didn't work out for Matthew Perry. But anyway, if
you want to be cool, that's the one to take,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
If you're worried about what your kids are doing, watch
out for Keemye. We'll learn about the new Mexican president
coming up. Kind of an interesting story.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Farm Straw he.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeddie Johnny Wacter was best known for his role on
General Hospital, but police in Los Angeles are searching for
his killer after the actor was fatally shot early Saturday morning.
Wapter's mother says he was leaving a bartending shift downtown
with a female coworker when he saw someone working on
his car. She says her son asked if he was
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getting towed. According to police, the suspects who got away
were trying to steal the cars catalytic converter. Wactor was
rushed to the hospital, where he died.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Laped.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Detectives are looking for any clues to track down those killers.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Somebody murders you for your cathletic converter, which is worth
what to them?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No one.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The guy didn't even like try to fight him, right,
and he just said, hey, are you guys towing my car?
And they just shot him in the chest. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And then I saw that juxtaposed with a man hunters
on to find out who left tire marks on a
Pride mural at an intersection.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Great, yeah, that's good priority.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Let's stop the random killings anyway, not of that. Speaking
of random killings, Mexico has that problem. And I got
a new president's going to be elected on Saturday. She's
got she's so far ahead in the polls, there's no
doubt that this is going to happen. Her name is
Claudia Shinbaum Shinbaum. She's a Jewish woman and then almost
entirely Catholic country. She's got a PhD and energy engineering
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and she will become the first female prisoner in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Lady lady, lady sure her. Uh, she's in for a
sniff and oh boy, oh wow. Thing that she meets
with Joe Biden. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She promises to bring a national crime wave under control. Well,
I hope that she can, because that would help us.
Good luck with that, she splaks. She speaks fluent English,
which is helpful. The current president speaks no English.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
She lived in the Bay Area all throughout her thirties
with her first husband. She's comfortable interacting with US officials
and investors and diplomats and blah blah blah. So she
knows a lot about the United States and lived here
for a while. Organized crime groups control how much of Mexico?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
A third?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Organized crime groups control a third of the country.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wow? Can you imagine that? That makes Russia's invasion of
Ukraine look unsuccessful?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, because if you've got organized crime that runs
two blocks of your city, it's horrifying.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Sure, a third of the country. Well, and the guy
before Overdoor retriever tried to fight the cartels and bring
them under control. Oberdoor himself has gone with the hugs
not bullets policy. They've run rampant, So she's up against it.
That's a hell of a challenge.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
More than two hundred gangs extort businesses and run drug
trafficking and human smuggling routes, which has a huge effect
on the United States. How many of those two hundred
gangs now have an office open somewhere in the United States,
probably all of them, terrorizing residents and killing thousands caught
in the crossfire of the warfare in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
This is a quick aside. You're right. The Department of
Justice just put out a statement saying that the Mexican
drug cartels are operating in all fifty states, staking out
territory for drug sales and fighting off any competitors. All
fifty states. Well, we're their biggest market, so it only
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The sixth deadliest cities in the world, the top six
most deadly cities.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
In the world, are all in Mexico. That is amazing.
We have a failed narco state at our southern border,
and our border is open.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Because there are a lot of hell holes s holes,
as the former president call him around the world. You'd
think one of those cities would slide into the top six. Nope,
Mexico's got the top six.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That is some.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So this new Jewish woman who's going to be president
has defended Labrador retriever and his security strategy, calling the
war on drugs launched by Mexico's previous presidents from the
different party a disaster.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, things don't seem to have gotten better under your guy,
mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Orberd'or had curbed the operation of US law enforcement, saying
we were doing too much and being too aggressive, and
accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug charges
against various people.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh please.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He was either getting paid or was just physically afraid,
which I can't blame him.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, I figured he'd wheeled powers try to keep things
semi quiet through being passive and get through his term.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's a tough call, man. At some point, all you're
doing is signing up to be dead. If you take
on those drug cartels, and you'll be dead, and they'll
keep on keeping on. On the other hand, if nobody
ever stands up to them, they win.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah. As I've said jokingly to friends on the golf
course occasionally, the key to this shot is to not
have it. They are in an impossible situation at this point.
It's either going to be a years long militaristic blood
bath to control the cartels that will affect the whole
of society, or they keep going in the hugs not
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bullets thing until they are a completely failed narco state.
As we talked about. It was a few months ago,
but story came out that the cartels are controlling a
lot of city and county whatever the analogous thing is
in Mexico and even state governments. They have the keys
to the treasury now and they control the tax dollars
and spend them where they want. They give contracts like
you're running the city of I don't know, Mexico Town.
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You give all of the contracts to all of the
city work to cartel run businesses. So it's become a
illegal legal partnership like the mob. Like the Mafia had
going in especially the Northeast in Chicago for the longest time.
They control all sorts of legitimate businesses. So unwinding that
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would not be easy. Oh, that's the understatement of di Agno.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The craziest thing would be to be a country that
borders Mexico and you have more or less an open border.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That would be insane. Oh no, no, no, You'd have
to have a border that was fortified, like East Germany
West Germany. That be the only sane policy, right. Whoops. Man.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I used to vacation in Mexico every summer. I'd ride
my motorcycle by myself, all around that country, and it
was awesome and stopping in these little towns that were
so clean and nice and and the people were so nice.
Maybe a lot of those towns are I don't know
which parts of Mexico you can go to and you
can't go to, but I certainly wouldn't try that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now. Yeah, the cartels are getting much more bold in
the tourist areas, the hot tourist areas that used to
be that was like a written and unwritten rule between
the government and the cartels. Look, we won't mess with
you over there. Just do not f up tourism in
these places. And everybody played by those rules more or less.
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But it's getting more and more tenuous.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's what I was always counting on, is that killing
an American would be too bad for business. So I
don't know how many times I sell my kids this.
The other day, I'd be riding my motorcycle. I'd be
out in the middle of nowhere, I mean, nobody for
dozens of miles, and there'd be a couple of guys
on the highway with rifles in military uniforms, you know,
the stop sign, and I would have to stop there,
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no cars, no people, and they would I'd say some
stuff to me in Spanish. I'd make it clear that
I don't speak Spanish. Sometimes they just waved me through.
Sometimes they'd look through my bags and waved me through.
But they could have shot me there on the highway.
It would have been weeks before anybody, if ever, anybody
ever even thought of trying to figure out where I was.
I just I just counted on the fact that wasn't
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gonna happen. They are usually just like really bored looking
nineteen year olds that were in the Mexican military. But
now if that happened, now, jeez, I'd be urinating myself.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, yeah, well again, thank god the border's fortified, like
it is right right, The border is secure.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And as we heard from Charlemagne the God, it's an
issue that actually resonates in the black community in northern
Cities now and still nothing's really being done.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Right, But that sure sounds like the beginning of the
end of this sort of neglect. Well, I certainly hope.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So maybe he can work with this new woman after
he sniffs her hair and she speaks English, and I said, hey, esther,
he can tell her about how house almost burned down
and bo and all that sort of stuff and then
they can get to working on the border.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'm thinking old man Biden's going to be out of
office and I don't know, what is that seven eight months?
Then what kamala no Trump? Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Catcha armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
But Russian President Vladimir Putin is now warning NATO nations
if Ukraine uses Western supplied long range weapons in Russia,
it's their land at risk.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
They are primarily countries with small territories and dense populations,
and they should take this into account before they speak
about strikes into Russian territory.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I think this is a pretty big development.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
The NATO secretary said that Western countries hint, hint, the
United States should lift their restrictions on Ukraine using their
weaponry to.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Fire into Russia.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And even yesterday French President Emanuel McCrone said, Ukrainian forces,
you can use our weapons if you want to shoot
into Russia. The weapons we gave you arm as good
as the United States weapons which would really shoot into Russia.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you can.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And Sweden and with a couple other Great Britain have
joined in and said yeah, only Joe Biden says, yeah, well,
we wouldn't want to escalate, So let's let the one
of the worst people on earth dictate the terms here.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And those of you who have fallen for the Kremlin's
rhetoric on this whole thing and believe that it's a
territorial dispute, we have no role in it. It's not important.
Blah blah blah. All of Europe disagrees with you, from
the little countries to the huge ones, with the exception
of like Hungary, which is in the Kremlin's pocket. More
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or less, they all agree. There are a couple of
headlines have come out in last couple of days that
are cruelly underappreciated and reported New York Times. Russia steps
up convert sabotage campaign aimed at Europe. There are military
intelligence the gru IS behind arson attacks aimed at undermining
support for Ukraine's war effort, including direct our of arms
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factories and distribution points and that sort of thing. And
then this from the National Review. And this has been
reported a bit, but don't look now, but Putin is
messing with NATO in a couple of different Where is
it your Baltic states? They keep moving the buoys in
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the middle of the rivers that denote the border between Russia, say,
and Estonia, which.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Is exactly what they did with Georgia, where they were
just moving the fence overnight and you know, claiming new boundaries.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Right, but that's a pretty aggressive act. On the night
of the twenty third of May, the Russian Border Guard
removed the buoys placed in Estonian waters, which are used
to mark the shipping routes. According to the head of
the Border Guard Bureau of the East Prefecture Extonia and Russia.
Where is so, which is why we recheck the mark
of the shipping routes every spring. While before the beginning
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the war in Ukraine, the installation of buoys largely passed
by mutual agreement, then from twenty twenty three Russia does
not agree with Estonia's positions regarding the location of the
buoys and has insisted the border should be closer, and
they actually moved them in the night.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The only way you can prevail is if the other
side is scared about escalation, but so far it's our
side that's worried about escalation. Putin should be worried about
it at US escalating or NATO escalating. So rand Paul
I mentioned this earlier senator who I mostly usually agreed with,
I certainly don't on this particular topic. He tweeted out yesterday,
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our national debt sits above thirty four trillion dollars, and
instead of reducing our spending, we're borrowing money from China
to send to Ukraine. Add your name to stand with
me and rerain in wasteful spending. And then he puts
Ukraine should not be getting rich at America's expense. There
is no evidence that Ukraine is getting rich at America's
expense while all their young men are dying trying to
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save their country, well a lot of their young men anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, I just those are a bunch of false comparisons. Anyway.
I mean, stopping a new era of wars of conquest
in Europe and across the globe, I think is a
pretty decent expenditure of money. I could come up with
one hundred and fifty things that aren't. And you know,
with all due respect, yeah, China holds some US debt,
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but it's this small percentage, so that's I don't know
what he's doing. Does Rand Paul believe that or is
he a he's a politician. I think he's smart enough
to know how dumby he has to be to get elected.
It's like they used to say about Jay Leno. He
knows how bad he has to be to succeed at
the tonight show. And I'm not saying that. Like, you know,
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length and level of commitment and it's to Ukraine and
the geopolitical significance of it are not things that should
be argued about. They absolutely should be argued about. But
that sort of gross oversimplification of it, I know that
doesn't help. No. I mean, I've got I've got a
couple of stories about how utterly unsupportable and ridiculous the
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trillions we're spending on green energy are won't cause a
blip a change in climate change right overloading the grid.
Nobody wants it, and those who want it are diluded.
It's merely a trillions of dollars handout to the cronies
of the Democratic Party, so they'll always vote Democrat. But
we're not arguing about that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
That's a that's a really good example. I think you
brought this up the other day. I saw the graph
on this the estimated world electricity demand.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
In just two years.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So the number of how much electricity the world needed
in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty seve two years
from now doubles. It doubles from two years ago to
two years from now. The world's electricity demand doubles, a
lot of it because of AI electric cars, a bunch
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of different things. But how is that not getting addressed
on a constant basis. You can't just keep coming up
with all these new electricity sucks and think the planet's
gonna be better and not explain where this electricity is
gonna come.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
From or get it generated, and how are we gonna
end up with a grid that can carry it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Or you end up like California where you build up
this lie and then you're borrowing, you're buying electricity from
other states or having brownouts or whatever because you can't
keep up this just assumption that there's there's endless electricity
and it's practically free. So we just need to get
off fossil fuels. Electricity being produced by fossil fuels all
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over the world, and we're probably gonna have to use
way more fossil fuel to come anywhere close to the
amount of electricity that we are going to need an
in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Two years from now. I'm going to give you under
a graduate degree in political science in thirty seconds. You
win an election, you get the keys to the treasury.
You either invent a crisis or latch onto a real one.
You use that crisis as an excuse to funnel trillions
of dollars to your cronies, so they always vote for you.
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So you stay in power and you keep the keys
to the treasury. There you go, here's your diploma. Albert Albertson. Congratulations,
some good luck in the world. Good Betina Brown. There
you go, here's your diploma. There Betina, good luck Darling
so ya.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Then I would turn around and rip up my diploma
because this college supports genes sciences exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rest the rest of political science
is just details. Honestly, I just explained all of it
to you, I said, always bothered me. I have a
degree in political science, and I worked pretty hard at
it and had very good grades. But I have a
Bachelor of Arts, not a Bachelor of science. It's right
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there on the f and diploma political science. You want
to know why they gave me a Bachelor of Arts
because it's a phony science. It's a soft science. It
isn't science at all. It's just kind of a discussion.
What you look for patterns, and after a while you
recognize the pattern is a degree in economics, a BS
or a BA. Do you know I couldn't tell you
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that that was my minor? Effectively? Does anybody know? Dope
e academic terminology?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He's got a degree in economics? Is that a BA
or a BS. I just remember by a buddy of
mine who was getting his graduate degree at a major
university in economics. I just asked him, said, tell me
something about economics. I said to him. He said, it's
all theory. So it's kind of like your thing with
the politics. It's all just a discussion.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, you can really fit everything you need to know
in a shoebox. The rest is just right specifics.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And you go with the past and project things onto
the present with the past, and then when it doesn't
turn out that way, you think, huh h, I guess
you got a new data point.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Right exactly. It's all again. You can fit it all
inside a shoe box. Over there, they wear different hats
and they do different dances. Over there, they got different
hats on, but it's all the same different hats.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Speaking of witch, I got this question for you before
we go to break as a bald guy, I'm looking
up at the TV. Kelly Rippin her husband, now, whatever
that show is called. They have on movie director Ron Howard,
child star the sixties, child star of the seventies, then
major movie.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Director, always legendary good guy.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Always wears a ball cat, as portrayed in The Simpsons
all these years.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He's the only bald guy I think I know? Does it?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Did he just decide I hate the way I look
bald so much? I am never ever he's wearing a suit.
He even in a suit at the Oscars he wears
a hat. Did he just decide I hate the way
I look bald so much, I'm gonna wear a ball
cap all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Well, that's one way you put it. I think the
other way is I look better in a captain without one.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But nobody else does it. No, he's a man sheep.
May just wear a hat all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh that reminds me a friend who will remain nameless.
Excuse me, I'm not chuckling, I am coughing. Thanks Dr Fauci. Yeah,
we found your emails too, You lie in bastard? Or
is my friend is using pro pechia on his for baldness? Oh?
Quite effective? Oh? Really? What taking pill?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, he's really growing his hair.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
But does it grow on your head or just like
on your cheeks or on your back? Well he looks
like a chimbans are soles your feet? No, I didn't
ask him about that, but yeah, I mean it's not
like he looks like Barry Gibb in nineteen seventy eight
or anything. But he's said, yes, definitely helping.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'll be darn. I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't care enough to like even look into it
about whether or not I have air.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I really don't. You'd feel differently if he had a
lumpy head, but you've been blassed.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I would now, my red clown knows. If I could
get the right drug for that, I'd be all for it.
But I haven't had any luck with that. Yeah, I
was bashing rand Paul. I would like to praise him
on this tweet on the topic Joe just brought up.
He was responding to a Politico story that came out yesterday.
Biden's got a plan to protect science from Trump. Apparently,
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Joe Biden's trying to put in the safeguards so that
the Trump administration can't come in and deny science the
way they did during the pandemic, much of which turned
out to be true.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And Rand Paul said, and he's right about this.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
After lying their asses off to Congress, the deep state
now has the gall to prepare to protect science if
Trump wins in November, Well said Rand, no kidding. We
all know now that you lied about all of that crap,
and you're gonna put in safeguards to make sure Trump
doesn't destroy the importance of science.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And you censored people who are trying to tell the
truth and ruined them in some cases random out of
their careers, or at the very least silence them. Yeah,
now you're going to stand up for science. That is
a effing treat right there. It is galling. We will
finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Health Health the Trump's everything everything, It's the only thing.
Health is the only thing. And we all talking to
myself here, should do whatever stuff we can do to
give us the better odds of a good result, you know,
because some of it's just to roll the dice in
bad luck or whatever. The little bit that we have gird.
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However much we have control over man, we should all
all work on because health is all the freaking matters.
And that's just coming out of a weekend where I
had one kid and just a random disease and no
big deal, but constantly throwing up and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Other kid.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Uh missed school all last week because of emotional stuff.
Try to get the psychiatry right, and then me with
my motorcycle wreck all the things that I can't do
now because of my injury, that I will get over
and get back to normal.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
But it's just it's just.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
So obvious that anything you want to enjoy about life
can change very quickly with a bad health result. I know,
we all know that, or maybe you don't. If you're younger,
you might not know that. If you're younger, you haven't
run up against a bad break here or there. Anyway,
speaking of health, being not as heavy is a good
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way to have better health results. And that's why a
lot of people are into the ozembic and or or
or or you just want to look better, the most
bizarre Olympic side effect. Yet some patients turning to risky
sex and gambling and a phenomenon experts are calling pulse
control disorder because of ozempic.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow, I'll bet your five.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Hundred Like leaning out a skyscraper window, I'll bet you
five hundred dollars I can have sex with that woman?
Is that that'd be the gambling.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And the risky sex, right, the ozempic because of Sagan,
I said, And it's not me blame the ozempic exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Wouldn't that this preliminary reports as always researchers blah blah blah,
But wouldn't that be something if that turns out to
be The dopamine dubbed the happy hormone for its role
and feelings and happiness, pleasure and reward, which is being
released by the ozempic has been leading with some people
to hyper sexuality and excessive gambling.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, it's I may have seen the same reporter, a
similar one, but they were talking about how it messes
with your dopamine in your brain, your rewards and your
lusts and and the rest of it. And they think
they know in what way, but they're still kind of
finding out.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, viagra was, you know, originally what a blood pressure medicine,
something like that it was for something completely different.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Turns out, what's you.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Know, wood in the forest, and what a nice side effect?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Maybe, uh, don't laugh, Katie'll just encourage him. It's funny, though, Joe.
You have to sometimes the thirteen year old humor. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, shameful, but this wouldn't be a side effect. Anybody
wants hyper sexuality, I don't think, or becoming a gambling addict.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
But almost finish, Let's get ready.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Final thoughts with Armstrong and Getty. Here's your host for
final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Nah soothing. Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody
on the crew to wrap things up today. There is
our technical director, Michael Langelow. Lead us off. Michael, Yeah,
for my diabetes.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
They keep offering me ozempic and I keep hearing about
all these weird stories.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So I haven't touched it yet. So your doctors actually
suggested it? Yeah, they have. But I'm just doing the
natural thing, you know, good diet, lots of exercise. I'm
doing fine. Be good for the show.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
If you tried the ozempic and told us all about it,
just saying I don't trust it, okay, be healthy and natural?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Go ahead? Selfish. Hey, Katie Greener esteemed to use woman
as a final thought, Katie Michael, I don't know. This
could go another way.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
You could take it and then go off the rails
and just blame everything.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
On the ozempic. Yes, in the first major ozempic lawsuit.
Well that's true. That's something to think about. There you go,
get rich quick jack.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Final thought for us, Yeah, the jury has the case
and they're deliberating, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Got I would love to be able to watch that. Oh,
I would pay quite a bit of money.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Do I have a camera microphone and be able to
watch that going on right now? Are they like, how
can we get out of here and claim we tried?
Or are they pouring over each account diligently. I have
no idea.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I'm predicting a hung jury officially. My final thought is
if it walks like a duck and qucks like a duck,
it's probably a duck. What if it walks like a naive, dopey,
totally unprepared superpower stumbling into the future. I'm just looking
at all these stories. We're just not ready for anything
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as a country. We're not serious. We're we're so safe
and self satisfied. We're pretending that the rest of the
world doesn't exist. Yeah, we think it can't go away, right,
and it can.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other grueling four hour
work to quack so many people.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong Getty dot com.
Lot great clicks there for you.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Drops an email We will see tomorrow maybe with the
Trump Nick God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Jesus, gentlemen of America, Armstrong and Getty shoulder they are
the true heroes. Get out and hear you more on
you hit me, well, take your turtle neck and get
I'm embarrassed, I'm ashamed. They deserve our contempt. They also
deserve our mockery. That's not what I was told. And
when it's over, it is over. It is over. So
everybody chills.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Okay, thank you, every go out of the fan and
on that possibly nightmare inducing notes. Thank you all very much.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Have a terrific day. Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Taxpayer Protection Act gives voters the right to approve
or reject all new taxes.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
California business and taxpayer groups want to stop government overspending.
Their ballot proposition would require two thirds of voters to
approve any city or state tax increase.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The Taxpayer Protection Act ensures that all new taxes have
broad support from Californians by empowering voters.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
But Governor Gavin Newsom, contrary to his so called campaign
for Democracy where he criticized Republicans.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Ignore the will of the people, now wants.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
The California Supreme Court to deny voters a right to
vote on that proposition by preemptively killing it before it
goes on the bower.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I know, in the ungovernable Kentucky Derby, California still trails Haiti,
but it's coming up hard on the rail.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
How could you even be contemplating higher taxes in California.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, in the democracy, we got to defend democracy. The
Republicans are against democracy. Wait, you want to vote on
tax increases? If you beautiful. Next clip, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Supporters say taxpayers are done getting steamrolled by Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
What we have is essentially a two way street where
the legislative power is shared amongst these two groups, the
people on the one hand, the legislature from the other.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But that the people have the last work.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The state Supreme Court must rule in the next few weeks.
Otherwise voters in November could send a message in California
they've had enough.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, that'll be today. Well, yeah, and you got the public,
the taxpayers, and the public employee unions. You called it
the legislature, and they still pretend to be that. But
let's face reality. I thought this was interesting, and I
don't care. If this is being done for the right reasons,
they're the wrong ones. I really don't. Congressional Republicans are
demanding information from Pete boot Edge Edge Edge Edge Transportation
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Secretary on what they call a highly questionable high speed
rail project in Kelly, Unicornya. I've heard of it, according
to a letter first obtained by ABC News, the ambitious plan,
in case you're not familiar with this, aims to build
a lengthy high speed rail corridor they would ultimately connect Sacramento,
San Francisco, La San Diego, several other cities. California verters
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first approved the initiative in a two thousand and eight
Ballotman two thousand and eight, which it's going on twenty
years old, which said it would cost eight billion dollars
or nine billion or something. Man, I should already be
right in the train, right, Oh yeah, yeah, it was
supposed to be done four years ago, I think. But
according to Ted Cruz, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee,
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and Sam Graves of Missouri in the House quote, but
the California High Speed Rail Authority still has not completed
a single segment of the system, the total estimated cost
is ballooned to one hundred and twenty eight billion dollars
in counting, and there's no expected completion date. The California
High Speed Rail Authority replied that hey, work is underway
on the first stretch from Merced to Bakersfield, that the
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overall project has created thirteen thousand jobs statewide according to
a May press release. But CRUs and Graves said the
project has faced a series of delays, blah blah blah,
isn't close to fully funded, including an extra two and
a half billion dollars still needed for the Mersed section,
the Merced to Bakersfield section for the Mercedians who are
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dreaming the beautiful dream of someday visiting Bakersfield via rail.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, by train, because you can go by car anytime
you want.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh yeah, you bet it her in a you know,
a shake of a Lambsdale. But anyway, So there's two
and a half billion dollars more needed to complete the
critical Bakersfield de Mersaid section, and that is slated for
completion some time between twenty thirty and twenty thirty three.
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And that's and they always give optimistic goals. So their
optimistic goal is almost ten years from now, right, right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's beyond the joke. It's beyond the clownshow.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I guess it'll have to be more of a family reunion.
I was hoping it'd be more of a family vacation.
Now that my kids are young enough, i'd say, you
guess what we're doing this summer.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Hawaii, No, Europe. No, We're gonna ride the train from
her said to Bakersfield. Bakersfield. Yay. Right, So the lawmakers
are now demanding the Department of Transportation brief both committees
and provide documents on the status of the project, particularly
focusing on a recent federal grant of three a billion
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dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to the California High
Speed Rail Authority, said the letter quote, despite evidence to
continue to show that the California High Speed Rail project
is critical issues indicating there is no reasonable path forward
for successful completion of the project, the Biden administration continues
to dellicate substantial federal tax payer dollars to this highly questionable endeavor.
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I would say it's highly questionable. I mean, in the
same way I'm gonna light myself on fire and throw
myself into lieon enclosure at the zoo is highly questionable.
I mean it's bizarre, it's moronic, it's impossible. But you know,
if this shines enough light to kill the vampire, uh,
great good. It's the greatest failure of democracy, together with
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the Southern Border I've ever witnessed in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Speaking of Witch, there'll be a new person in charge
of Mexico very soon. Mexico is gonna get their first
chick president. I can tell you all about her coming
up in just a little bit, probably ought to know
who the president is of one of our top trading
partners and the country that is giving us so many
gang members and other great things fentanyl across the border, Chinese.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Spies, everything else, you name it. So we'll learn more.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
About this woman coming up. So I was just looking
at the calendar. Both my kids get out of school
in about a week. I am not prepared mentally, emotionally,
physically for this. I need to get some Vitamin B
twelve shots going her.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Oh at least something. Wow. I'll speaking of things that
come across the border. Maybe just a little pick me
up on those tougher.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Days, just during the summer vacation, and then I'll quit
doing whatever hardcore drug as soon as the fall comes,
because that's just wait.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
A little meth in the morning, little fentanyl at night.
I'll if you settle down to sleep, kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
A Michael Jackson plan for waking up and getting to sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You got them in various camps or classes or activities. Yeah,
some Yeah, so much work. I don't remember riggs or
set Maybe I don't think it was inking logs. I
don't feel like it was any work for my parents.
Why does it work for me? It was different. Something
was different. I would get up in the morning, eat breakfast,
and sale see at dinner. Right, I left, take my
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bike and my baseball mitt, and off I went.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I came back for dinner, and then after dinner, I
was usually doing something.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Right, yeah, until it's dark. Then I'd come home again.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The world does not work that way anymore because of
gild abductions or something.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But I yeah, I think I'll dabble in meth. Many
people have successfully navigated that tightrope. Sure. Oh, I was
just reading about it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I want to take a break and tell you about
the new Mexican chick president. But I was just reading
about the ketamine in the La Times, an article about
how that is the drug for the cool you know
that killed Matthew Perry. It's expensive, but the cool goer.
I mean, it's like cocaine in the eightieses, like the
cool drug. If you're a mover and a shaker and
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a young person, go go type a living life to
it's full oft all sleep. But I'm dead type life
in the fast lane. Ketamine is the drug right now.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Apparently I'm none of those things, So I think I'll
stick with Suvignon blank. I don't know, do you smoke
it or drink it or stick it under your eye lid.
I don't really know what you do with it. Did
she amn't it into your veins? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It didn't work out for Matthew Perry. But anyway, if
you want to be cool, that's the one to take,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
If you're worried about what your kids are doing, watch
out for Keemye. We'll learn about the new Mexican president
coming up. Kind of an interesting story.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Farm Straw he.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeddie Johnny Wacter was best known for his role on
General Hospital, but police in Los Angeles are searching for
his killer after the actor was fatally shot early Saturday morning.
Wapter's mother says he was leaving a bartending shift downtown
with a female coworker when he saw someone working on
his car. She says her son asked if he was
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getting towed. According to police, the suspects who got away
were trying to steal the cars catalytic converter. Wactor was
rushed to the hospital, where he died.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Laped.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Detectives are looking for any clues to track down those killers.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Somebody murders you for your cathletic converter, which is worth
what to them?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No one.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The guy didn't even like try to fight him, right,
and he just said, hey, are you guys towing my car?
And they just shot him in the chest. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And then I saw that juxtaposed with a man hunters
on to find out who left tire marks on a
Pride mural at an intersection.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Great, yeah, that's good priority.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Let's stop the random killings anyway, not of that. Speaking
of random killings, Mexico has that problem. And I got
a new president's going to be elected on Saturday. She's
got she's so far ahead in the polls, there's no
doubt that this is going to happen. Her name is
Claudia Shinbaum Shinbaum. She's a Jewish woman and then almost
entirely Catholic country. She's got a PhD and energy engineering
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and she will become the first female prisoner in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Lady lady, lady sure her. Uh, she's in for a
sniff and oh boy, oh wow. Thing that she meets
with Joe Biden. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
She promises to bring a national crime wave under control. Well,
I hope that she can, because that would help us.
Good luck with that, she splaks. She speaks fluent English,
which is helpful. The current president speaks no English.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
She lived in the Bay Area all throughout her thirties
with her first husband. She's comfortable interacting with US officials
and investors and diplomats and blah blah blah. So she
knows a lot about the United States and lived here
for a while. Organized crime groups control how much of Mexico?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
A third?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Organized crime groups control a third of the country.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wow? Can you imagine that? That makes Russia's invasion of
Ukraine look unsuccessful?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, because if you've got organized crime that runs
two blocks of your city, it's horrifying.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Sure, a third of the country. Well, and the guy
before Overdoor retriever tried to fight the cartels and bring
them under control. Oberdoor himself has gone with the hugs
not bullets policy. They've run rampant, So she's up against it.
That's a hell of a challenge.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
More than two hundred gangs extort businesses and run drug
trafficking and human smuggling routes, which has a huge effect
on the United States. How many of those two hundred
gangs now have an office open somewhere in the United States,
probably all of them, terrorizing residents and killing thousands caught
in the crossfire of the warfare in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
This is a quick aside. You're right. The Department of
Justice just put out a statement saying that the Mexican
drug cartels are operating in all fifty states, staking out
territory for drug sales and fighting off any competitors. All
fifty states. Well, we're their biggest market, so it only
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
The sixth deadliest cities in the world, the top six
most deadly cities.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
In the world, are all in Mexico. That is amazing.
We have a failed narco state at our southern border,
and our border is open.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Because there are a lot of hell holes s holes,
as the former president call him around the world. You'd
think one of those cities would slide into the top six. Nope,
Mexico's got the top six.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
That is some.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So this new Jewish woman who's going to be president
has defended Labrador retriever and his security strategy, calling the
war on drugs launched by Mexico's previous presidents from the
different party a disaster.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, things don't seem to have gotten better under your guy,
mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Orberd'or had curbed the operation of US law enforcement, saying
we were doing too much and being too aggressive, and
accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration of fabricating drug charges
against various people.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh please.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
He was either getting paid or was just physically afraid,
which I can't blame him.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, I figured he'd wheeled powers try to keep things
semi quiet through being passive and get through his term.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's a tough call, man. At some point, all you're
doing is signing up to be dead. If you take
on those drug cartels, and you'll be dead, and they'll
keep on keeping on. On the other hand, if nobody
ever stands up to them, they win.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah. As I've said jokingly to friends on the golf
course occasionally, the key to this shot is to not
have it. They are in an impossible situation at this point.
It's either going to be a years long militaristic blood
bath to control the cartels that will affect the whole
of society, or they keep going in the hugs not
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bullets thing until they are a completely failed narco state.
As we talked about. It was a few months ago,
but story came out that the cartels are controlling a
lot of city and county whatever the analogous thing is
in Mexico and even state governments. They have the keys
to the treasury now and they control the tax dollars
and spend them where they want. They give contracts like
you're running the city of I don't know, Mexico Town.
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You give all of the contracts to all of the
city work to cartel run businesses. So it's become a
illegal legal partnership like the mob. Like the Mafia had
going in especially the Northeast in Chicago for the longest time.
They control all sorts of legitimate businesses. So unwinding that
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would not be easy. Oh, that's the understatement of di Agno.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The craziest thing would be to be a country that
borders Mexico and you have more or less an open border.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That would be insane. Oh no, no, no, You'd have
to have a border that was fortified, like East Germany
West Germany. That be the only sane policy, right. Whoops. Man.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I used to vacation in Mexico every summer. I'd ride
my motorcycle by myself, all around that country, and it
was awesome and stopping in these little towns that were
so clean and nice and and the people were so nice.
Maybe a lot of those towns are I don't know
which parts of Mexico you can go to and you
can't go to, but I certainly wouldn't try that.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Now. Yeah, the cartels are getting much more bold in
the tourist areas, the hot tourist areas that used to
be that was like a written and unwritten rule between
the government and the cartels. Look, we won't mess with
you over there. Just do not f up tourism in
these places. And everybody played by those rules more or less.
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But it's getting more and more tenuous.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
That's what I was always counting on, is that killing
an American would be too bad for business. So I
don't know how many times I sell my kids this.
The other day, I'd be riding my motorcycle. I'd be
out in the middle of nowhere, I mean, nobody for
dozens of miles, and there'd be a couple of guys
on the highway with rifles in military uniforms, you know,
the stop sign, and I would have to stop there,
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no cars, no people, and they would I'd say some
stuff to me in Spanish. I'd make it clear that
I don't speak Spanish. Sometimes they just waved me through.
Sometimes they'd look through my bags and waved me through.
But they could have shot me there on the highway.
It would have been weeks before anybody, if ever, anybody
ever even thought of trying to figure out where I was.
I just I just counted on the fact that wasn't
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gonna happen. They are usually just like really bored looking
nineteen year olds that were in the Mexican military. But
now if that happened, now, jeez, I'd be urinating myself.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, yeah, well again, thank god the border's fortified, like
it is right right, The border is secure.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And as we heard from Charlemagne the God, it's an
issue that actually resonates in the black community in northern
Cities now and still nothing's really being done.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Right, But that sure sounds like the beginning of the
end of this sort of neglect. Well, I certainly hope.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So maybe he can work with this new woman after
he sniffs her hair and she speaks English, and I said, hey, esther,
he can tell her about how house almost burned down
and bo and all that sort of stuff and then
they can get to working on the border.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'm thinking old man Biden's going to be out of
office and I don't know, what is that seven eight months?
Then what kamala no Trump? Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Catcha armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
But Russian President Vladimir Putin is now warning NATO nations
if Ukraine uses Western supplied long range weapons in Russia,
it's their land at risk.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
They are primarily countries with small territories and dense populations,
and they should take this into account before they speak
about strikes into Russian territory.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I think this is a pretty big development.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
The NATO secretary said that Western countries hint, hint, the
United States should lift their restrictions on Ukraine using their
weaponry to.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Fire into Russia.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And even yesterday French President Emanuel McCrone said, Ukrainian forces,
you can use our weapons if you want to shoot
into Russia. The weapons we gave you arm as good
as the United States weapons which would really shoot into Russia.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But you can.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And Sweden and with a couple other Great Britain have
joined in and said yeah, only Joe Biden says, yeah, well,
we wouldn't want to escalate, So let's let the one
of the worst people on earth dictate the terms here.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And those of you who have fallen for the Kremlin's
rhetoric on this whole thing and believe that it's a
territorial dispute, we have no role in it. It's not important.
Blah blah blah. All of Europe disagrees with you, from
the little countries to the huge ones, with the exception
of like Hungary, which is in the Kremlin's pocket. More
(18:39):
or less, they all agree. There are a couple of
headlines have come out in last couple of days that
are cruelly underappreciated and reported New York Times. Russia steps
up convert sabotage campaign aimed at Europe. There are military
intelligence the gru IS behind arson attacks aimed at undermining
support for Ukraine's war effort, including direct our of arms
(19:01):
factories and distribution points and that sort of thing. And
then this from the National Review. And this has been
reported a bit, but don't look now, but Putin is
messing with NATO in a couple of different Where is
it your Baltic states? They keep moving the buoys in
(19:25):
the middle of the rivers that denote the border between Russia, say,
and Estonia, which.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Is exactly what they did with Georgia, where they were
just moving the fence overnight and you know, claiming new boundaries.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Right, but that's a pretty aggressive act. On the night
of the twenty third of May, the Russian Border Guard
removed the buoys placed in Estonian waters, which are used
to mark the shipping routes. According to the head of
the Border Guard Bureau of the East Prefecture Extonia and Russia.
Where is so, which is why we recheck the mark
of the shipping routes every spring. While before the beginning
(20:00):
the war in Ukraine, the installation of buoys largely passed
by mutual agreement, then from twenty twenty three Russia does
not agree with Estonia's positions regarding the location of the
buoys and has insisted the border should be closer, and
they actually moved them in the night.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The only way you can prevail is if the other
side is scared about escalation, but so far it's our
side that's worried about escalation. Putin should be worried about
it at US escalating or NATO escalating. So rand Paul
I mentioned this earlier senator who I mostly usually agreed with,
I certainly don't on this particular topic. He tweeted out yesterday,
(20:39):
our national debt sits above thirty four trillion dollars, and
instead of reducing our spending, we're borrowing money from China
to send to Ukraine. Add your name to stand with
me and rerain in wasteful spending. And then he puts
Ukraine should not be getting rich at America's expense. There
is no evidence that Ukraine is getting rich at America's
expense while all their young men are dying trying to
(21:00):
save their country, well a lot of their young men anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, I just those are a bunch of false comparisons. Anyway.
I mean, stopping a new era of wars of conquest
in Europe and across the globe, I think is a
pretty decent expenditure of money. I could come up with
one hundred and fifty things that aren't. And you know,
with all due respect, yeah, China holds some US debt,
(21:26):
but it's this small percentage, so that's I don't know
what he's doing. Does Rand Paul believe that or is
he a he's a politician. I think he's smart enough
to know how dumby he has to be to get elected.
It's like they used to say about Jay Leno. He
knows how bad he has to be to succeed at
the tonight show. And I'm not saying that. Like, you know,
(21:53):
length and level of commitment and it's to Ukraine and
the geopolitical significance of it are not things that should
be argued about. They absolutely should be argued about. But
that sort of gross oversimplification of it, I know that
doesn't help. No. I mean, I've got I've got a
couple of stories about how utterly unsupportable and ridiculous the
(22:17):
trillions we're spending on green energy are won't cause a
blip a change in climate change right overloading the grid.
Nobody wants it, and those who want it are diluded.
It's merely a trillions of dollars handout to the cronies
of the Democratic Party, so they'll always vote Democrat. But
we're not arguing about that.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
That's a that's a really good example. I think you
brought this up the other day. I saw the graph
on this the estimated world electricity demand.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
In just two years.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So the number of how much electricity the world needed
in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty seve two years
from now doubles. It doubles from two years ago to
two years from now. The world's electricity demand doubles, a
lot of it because of AI electric cars, a bunch
(23:14):
of different things. But how is that not getting addressed
on a constant basis. You can't just keep coming up
with all these new electricity sucks and think the planet's
gonna be better and not explain where this electricity is
gonna come.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
From or get it generated, and how are we gonna
end up with a grid that can carry it.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Or you end up like California where you build up
this lie and then you're borrowing, you're buying electricity from
other states or having brownouts or whatever because you can't
keep up this just assumption that there's there's endless electricity
and it's practically free. So we just need to get
off fossil fuels. Electricity being produced by fossil fuels all
(23:56):
over the world, and we're probably gonna have to use
way more fossil fuel to come anywhere close to the
amount of electricity that we are going to need an
in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Two years from now. I'm going to give you under
a graduate degree in political science in thirty seconds. You
win an election, you get the keys to the treasury.
You either invent a crisis or latch onto a real one.
You use that crisis as an excuse to funnel trillions
of dollars to your cronies, so they always vote for you.
(24:26):
So you stay in power and you keep the keys
to the treasury. There you go, here's your diploma. Albert Albertson. Congratulations,
some good luck in the world. Good Betina Brown. There
you go, here's your diploma. There Betina, good luck Darling
so ya.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Then I would turn around and rip up my diploma
because this college supports genes sciences exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rest the rest of political science
is just details. Honestly, I just explained all of it
to you, I said, always bothered me. I have a
degree in political science, and I worked pretty hard at
it and had very good grades. But I have a
Bachelor of Arts, not a Bachelor of science. It's right
(25:13):
there on the f and diploma political science. You want
to know why they gave me a Bachelor of Arts
because it's a phony science. It's a soft science. It
isn't science at all. It's just kind of a discussion.
What you look for patterns, and after a while you
recognize the pattern is a degree in economics, a BS
or a BA. Do you know I couldn't tell you
(25:34):
that that was my minor? Effectively? Does anybody know? Dope
e academic terminology?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He's got a degree in economics? Is that a BA
or a BS. I just remember by a buddy of
mine who was getting his graduate degree at a major
university in economics. I just asked him, said, tell me
something about economics. I said to him. He said, it's
all theory. So it's kind of like your thing with
the politics. It's all just a discussion.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, you can really fit everything you need to know
in a shoebox. The rest is just right specifics.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And you go with the past and project things onto
the present with the past, and then when it doesn't
turn out that way, you think, huh h, I guess
you got a new data point.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Right exactly. It's all again. You can fit it all
inside a shoe box. Over there, they wear different hats
and they do different dances. Over there, they got different
hats on, but it's all the same different hats.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Speaking of witch, I got this question for you before
we go to break as a bald guy, I'm looking
up at the TV. Kelly Rippin her husband, now, whatever
that show is called. They have on movie director Ron Howard,
child star the sixties, child star of the seventies, then
major movie.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Director, always legendary good guy.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Always wears a ball cat, as portrayed in The Simpsons
all these years.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He's the only bald guy I think I know? Does it?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Did he just decide I hate the way I look
bald so much? I am never ever he's wearing a suit.
He even in a suit at the Oscars he wears
a hat. Did he just decide I hate the way
I look bald so much, I'm gonna wear a ball
cap all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Well, that's one way you put it. I think the
other way is I look better in a captain without one.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But nobody else does it. No, he's a man sheep.
May just wear a hat all the time.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh that reminds me a friend who will remain nameless.
Excuse me, I'm not chuckling, I am coughing. Thanks Dr Fauci. Yeah,
we found your emails too, You lie in bastard? Or
is my friend is using pro pechia on his for baldness? Oh?
Quite effective? Oh? Really? What taking pill?
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, he's really growing his hair.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
But does it grow on your head or just like
on your cheeks or on your back? Well he looks
like a chimbans are soles your feet? No, I didn't
ask him about that, but yeah, I mean it's not
like he looks like Barry Gibb in nineteen seventy eight
or anything. But he's said, yes, definitely helping.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'll be darn. I don't really care.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I don't care enough to like even look into it
about whether or not I have air.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I really don't. You'd feel differently if he had a
lumpy head, but you've been blassed.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I would now, my red clown knows. If I could
get the right drug for that, I'd be all for it.
But I haven't had any luck with that. Yeah, I
was bashing rand Paul. I would like to praise him
on this tweet on the topic Joe just brought up.
He was responding to a Politico story that came out yesterday.
Biden's got a plan to protect science from Trump. Apparently,
(28:38):
Joe Biden's trying to put in the safeguards so that
the Trump administration can't come in and deny science the
way they did during the pandemic, much of which turned
out to be true.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And Rand Paul said, and he's right about this.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
After lying their asses off to Congress, the deep state
now has the gall to prepare to protect science if
Trump wins in November, Well said Rand, no kidding. We
all know now that you lied about all of that crap,
and you're gonna put in safeguards to make sure Trump
doesn't destroy the importance of science.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And you censored people who are trying to tell the
truth and ruined them in some cases random out of
their careers, or at the very least silence them. Yeah,
now you're going to stand up for science. That is
a effing treat right there. It is galling. We will
finish strong next.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Health Health the Trump's everything everything, It's the only thing.
Health is the only thing. And we all talking to
myself here, should do whatever stuff we can do to
give us the better odds of a good result, you know,
because some of it's just to roll the dice in
bad luck or whatever. The little bit that we have gird.
(29:58):
However much we have control over man, we should all
all work on because health is all the freaking matters.
And that's just coming out of a weekend where I
had one kid and just a random disease and no
big deal, but constantly throwing up and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Other kid.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Uh missed school all last week because of emotional stuff.
Try to get the psychiatry right, and then me with
my motorcycle wreck all the things that I can't do
now because of my injury, that I will get over
and get back to normal.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
But it's just it's just.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
So obvious that anything you want to enjoy about life
can change very quickly with a bad health result. I know,
we all know that, or maybe you don't. If you're younger,
you might not know that. If you're younger, you haven't
run up against a bad break here or there. Anyway,
speaking of health, being not as heavy is a good
(30:43):
way to have better health results. And that's why a
lot of people are into the ozembic and or or
or or you just want to look better, the most
bizarre Olympic side effect. Yet some patients turning to risky
sex and gambling and a phenomenon experts are calling pulse
control disorder because of ozempic.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow, I'll bet your five.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Hundred Like leaning out a skyscraper window, I'll bet you
five hundred dollars I can have sex with that woman?
Is that that'd be the gambling.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And the risky sex, right, the ozempic because of Sagan,
I said, And it's not me blame the ozempic exactly.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Wouldn't that this preliminary reports as always researchers blah blah blah,
But wouldn't that be something if that turns out to
be The dopamine dubbed the happy hormone for its role
and feelings and happiness, pleasure and reward, which is being
released by the ozempic has been leading with some people
to hyper sexuality and excessive gambling.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, it's I may have seen the same reporter, a
similar one, but they were talking about how it messes
with your dopamine in your brain, your rewards and your
lusts and and the rest of it. And they think
they know in what way, but they're still kind of
finding out.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well, viagra was, you know, originally what a blood pressure medicine,
something like that it was for something completely different.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Turns out, what's you.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Know, wood in the forest, and what a nice side effect?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Maybe, uh, don't laugh, Katie'll just encourage him. It's funny, though, Joe.
You have to sometimes the thirteen year old humor. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, shameful, but this wouldn't be a side effect. Anybody
wants hyper sexuality, I don't think, or becoming a gambling addict.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
But almost finish, Let's get ready.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Final thoughts with Armstrong and Getty. Here's your host for
final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Nah soothing. Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody
on the crew to wrap things up today. There is
our technical director, Michael Langelow. Lead us off. Michael, Yeah,
for my diabetes.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
They keep offering me ozempic and I keep hearing about
all these weird stories.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So I haven't touched it yet. So your doctors actually
suggested it? Yeah, they have. But I'm just doing the
natural thing, you know, good diet, lots of exercise. I'm
doing fine. Be good for the show.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
If you tried the ozempic and told us all about it,
just saying I don't trust it, okay, be healthy and natural?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Go ahead? Selfish. Hey, Katie Greener esteemed to use woman
as a final thought, Katie Michael, I don't know. This
could go another way.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
You could take it and then go off the rails
and just blame everything.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
On the ozempic. Yes, in the first major ozempic lawsuit.
Well that's true. That's something to think about. There you go,
get rich quick jack.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Final thought for us, Yeah, the jury has the case
and they're deliberating, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Got I would love to be able to watch that. Oh,
I would pay quite a bit of money.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Do I have a camera microphone and be able to
watch that going on right now? Are they like, how
can we get out of here and claim we tried?
Or are they pouring over each account diligently. I have
no idea.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I'm predicting a hung jury officially. My final thought is
if it walks like a duck and qucks like a duck,
it's probably a duck. What if it walks like a naive, dopey,
totally unprepared superpower stumbling into the future. I'm just looking
at all these stories. We're just not ready for anything
(34:31):
as a country. We're not serious. We're we're so safe
and self satisfied. We're pretending that the rest of the
world doesn't exist. Yeah, we think it can't go away, right,
and it can.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other grueling four hour
work to quack so many people.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Thanks a little time. Go to Armstrong Getty dot com.
Lot great clicks there for you.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Drops an email We will see tomorrow maybe with the
Trump Nick God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Jesus, gentlemen of America, Armstrong and Getty shoulder they are
the true heroes. Get out and hear you more on
you hit me, well, take your turtle neck and get
I'm embarrassed, I'm ashamed. They deserve our contempt. They also
deserve our mockery. That's not what I was told. And
when it's over, it is over. It is over. So
everybody chills.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Okay, thank you, every go out of the fan and
on that possibly nightmare inducing notes. Thank you all very much.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Have a terrific day. Armstrong and Getty
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