February 27, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- There are no original names...
- Jack on Menachem Begin's time in a Soviet gulag...
- Friends of A&G respond to today's best segment...
- An important list of euphemisms...
- Final Thoughts...
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
My daughter told me the name Ashley or Amanda or
my name is Amber our old people names, and I
never thought about it this way, but she's like, yeah,
my teacher's names are miss Erica, miss Samantha, whereas young
people names like my daughter is Scarlett, there's Charlotte's, there's Olivia,
there's Penelopes, there's Isabella's, there's Bella's, there's Ella's.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Those are young people names.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
For me, Ashley is always going to be like my
friend from elementary, so it just seems like a kid
named to me. But it's not Ashley, Amanda, Amber. All
of these names are basically the new Margaret or Barbara.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, it's interesting and obvious just as generations change. But
what were new names not old people names? Are now
old people names to the younger crowd because they have
teachers and they see grown ups with those names, and
so now those seem like old people names. And the
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younger crowd that's getting a name like eleanor were Oliver, Charlotte,
which seems like an old person named to me, that's
a young person name for them. So it's you sobbing
what's old is new, what's new is old? Yeah? Yeah,
but so we'll have a whole bunch of grandpa's named
Brandon or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Which is right right? Oh, that reminds me. I meant
to mention this to you, because this is one of
your screenes. I somehow in my life now in my
social circle with my bride have several Kirsten's, Christen's and Kirsten's.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah. Well, you know, I was slipping.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Through email during the commercial breaking came across one of them,
and uh, I was playing golf with the guy the
other day and his wife is one of those, and
I used one of them and thought, oh god, did
I just use the wrong one. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
As you know, I want a state law, or maybe
even a federal law that if your name is Kirsten, Kristen, Kirsten,
we get to call you whichever and you can't be offended.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I think that needs to be. Uh, that needs to
be on the federal level.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I feel like the agency that accepts that law
should then add a subtext that I can either put
an h at the end of syah or not. It's
not up to me to.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Remember, right, And and the whole Brandan v. Brandon thing
that I think that ought to be part of the
omnibus bill as well.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, the Kirsten Kirsten.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Kristen thing. Yeah, yeah, Hey, you're a really nice person.
I like you, My wife likes you, I like your husband.
You're terrific people. But are you a Kristen or a Kirsten?
I can't remember, And it's no disrespect. Seriously, Hey you
there you are, hey, buddy to a woman.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, gotta go with the them pronoun no.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
No, no no. Then they said to them that they
ought of Yes, no, not happening.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So I've mentioned a couple of times that I've been
on a monoch and began kick of all things. He
was Prime Minister for Israel in the seventies, one of
the founders, and was involved in the bloody fight against
the Brits to get free and establish their own state. Yeah,
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if you aren't old enougher nemember, looking in the history,
all these Jews who started Israel were at war with
the Brits, and the Brits were torturing them and hanging them,
and they were doing the same to the Brits. Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And this was when.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Through the forties. Wow, And it's actually a bit of
a to get too deep into this, but kind of
a Martin Luther King Malcolm X type situation with Ben
Gurion the first Prime Minister of Israel, who would be
play more of your Martin Luther King junior role. And
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then manocham Began, who was playing more of the by
any means necessary, Malcolm X role, who he had a
hand in blowing up the King David Hotel, which was
the BRIT's headquarters at the time, and a whole bunch
of other strikes on various British outlets to drive them out.
And eventually the British people said, it ain't worth it.
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We don't even know where Israel is on an Israel Palestine,
we don't even know where this is on a map.
Why are we having soldiers killed there? And the politics
turned against it and they pulled out and Israel got
their state in forty eight or forty nine. Anyway, monockam Began,
who prior to going to Israel and getting that going,
was a Jew in the old Soviet Union and thrown
in a concentration camp for quite a few years for
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are trying to stand up for the Jewish community. Any who.
What I'm getting to is this stuff, he writes in
The Revolt, which is one of the many books he
wrote about his It starts with his time in the
concentration camps and then getting to the land that became
Israel and fighting the Brits. It's damned interesting, but it's
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talk about being in the concentration camp. I'd never read
anything like this before. There was this climax of a
period of short days and long nights, during which I
had been accused, with absolute selemny of being one of them.
Blah blah, blah blah blah. The days had been spent
and expel blah blah blah blah. I want to skip
to the part that, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That allows them. It's pretty compelling so far.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I get you. I don't want to bog you down
with stuff I find interesting, but nobody else will. The
prisoner eventually forgets his physical surroundings and helps him formulate
a nebulous reality of his desires. Shortened his days of
imprisonment to a far greater degree than could be imagined
by those who have never experienced the joys of the
prison cell. Prison days are like a passing dream. They're
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probably the most ordered days imaginable. They're filled with expectation.
From the morning hooter. Whatoul a hooter be smoking a cigarette?
Or was that pooping? Or what is the morning beat?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I do not know what he means anyway, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
From the morning hooter at daybreak to the setting of
the sun, the prisoner's forever waiting for something. The feeling
of expectation is powerful, overwhelming, just because if it's directed
toward the simplest, the most primitive things in a man's life,
beginning with an unsatisfying meal and ending with the removal
of the sanitary pale from the cell. And he goes
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on about how he went into slow motion and life
actually had more meaning and became less stressful, and everything
slowed down, and he was able to focus on the
things that really mattered in life and ignore all the
the what you would normally would think would be the
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negatives of being, you know, isolated in a prison cell
like that. Okay, so there's that any comment on that
before I move on to the next thing. I had
never read anybody talking about that.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Really it makes sense that when you remove the economic
and the even like most relationships, that the cerebral is
what's left, I guess. But it's an intriguing song.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But him talking about the joys of imprisonment that most
people never experience or understand. I don't know if everybody
reacts this way. Maybe some people don't.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Read my mind. I was just going to say, it
could be one person out of ten is built like that,
or one out of a thousand or half, don't.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I don't have any idea, really, But he goes on
to he actually talks about the first time you find
lice on you, you're horrified, and then there are more lice,
and then you eventually just accept it and you come
to be perfectly fine with it, and they're just part
of your environment. And he talks about a bunch of
different things with that. This is what he's in solitary
confinement talking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If you give everybody like fifteen seconds to scratch now,
because I think that's a universal reaction.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Talking about his toothbrush and I hasn't brushed his teeth.
No brush will come anywhere near your teeth, and yet
you'll live and want to continue living you need a
best bed to rest on. Nonsense. You will lie on
boards on a floor, in the snow, on the earth,
and you will sleep.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
No.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Civilization is not essential. You shake it off quickly if
you're forced to. Yet, strangely enough, the less civilization in
your life, the greater your desire.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
To live, just to live, to live, to live.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Man is a vigorous animal, even when he's reduced to
semi bestial circumstances. Living like an animal, his will to
live is elemental. The one hundredth louses accepted as a neighbor.
It is no longer repulsive. It's part of your existence.
You find it hard to sleep without pajamas, nonsense. In
a matter of weeks, you'll not only learn to sleep
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in your dirty rags and your shirt, you will learn
not to undress at all, to sleep in your stinking clothes,
and to sleep very well. You can't eat without first
washing your hands. You will only be too thankful or
anything to grab hold of with your dirty hands and
put it in your mouth and enjoy a meal like
you never have. Wow, I found out that really interesting. Again,
it would be helpful to know if that's a common
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experience or not. But the idea of stripping away a
lot of the stuff that we think is so necessary
for comfort and happiness and getting to just the basics
of like sleep and eating. And I don't know, and
your own thoughts.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I guess, well, in cherishing them, Yeah, I get that,
I think, Yeah, Lord knows, I can't relate to it,
thank goodness, But yeah, I get that when life is
reduced to the bare bear minimums, you cherish those and
don't really think about the luxuries.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah. He talks about how being in a concentration camp
for all those years, the main phrase that new people
would hear was you get used to it. You'll get
used to it. You'll get used to it. And I
was thinking about that many times that's happened in my life,
where things get harder or less play and it's going
to be that way for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You do get used to it.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
And I would say, from reading this book and his experience,
you can get used to practically anything.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I would agree.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
So that's the way we're built. You just you just
get used to it. Like when you become a parent,
the schedule changes so much of your previous life and
it's and it's really really hard, but you get used
to it and it's actually better.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well, if I was gonna kick around more Darwinian terms,
i'd say you adapt, right, So one good thing, that
one thing we're really really good at is beasts is adapting.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
No matter practically, well apparently almost, no matter what.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
The stories of people finding joy and companionship and love
amidst concentration camps in Nazi Germany, for instance, are inspiring
and difficult to comprehend for most of us, but they
are legion.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Okay, So I've been thinking about this a lot since
I read it. What so what's the flip side of that?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Then?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Since I don't I don't want to live in solitary
confinement covered in lice with a bucket of pooh next
to me to you know, to get here mentally, so
would it just be complain less? Or I mean, what what? What? What? What?
What do I take away from this?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, and this is a bit of a cliche, but
appreciate the simple things the I guess people say the
little things, but they're not little, They're they're essential. Just
practice gratitude, I guess constantly, which is something I need
to be better at?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Maybe the Maybe that's always a good idea. There's no
arguing with that. Maybe the main thing is quit looking
to better meal, different car, new shoes, whatever, to get
to get some sort of meaning or satisfaction out of it.
It's it's the other direction you go. The other direction
is where that lies.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, yeah, and that's that's tough for those of us
who live an American lifestyle to like embrace because we've
been chasing the opposite so long. And I realized this
is nothing compared to me Knockem Megan's experience, for instance,
or a concentration camp. But the several months where I
had back pain that was crippling and never ending, I
became a better person in a weird way. I appreciated
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the critical stuff and my expectations were simplified in a way.
It's difficult to explain. Everything that was good was very,
very good, and I was grateful for and the bad stuff,
I thought, this is my reality. I'm not going to
let it turn me into a negative or mean person,
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like to Judy. When you're dealing with that sort of pain,
it's easy to become mean and want to take it
out on people. And I had to work very hard
not to do that. It made me a better person,
more aware of when I'm doing anything close to that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Are we conditioned by American modern twenty four century culture
to think the being comfortable is newer, nicer, faster, shinier,
more modern, or are we just built that way? All
human beings are built that way? It seems odd that
we'd be built that way, since it's been proven many
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times as what I was just reading that the happiness,
the acceptance is the other direction.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Keeping in mind that that was only conceivable like the
last inch of a one hundred mile long timeline of
human existence.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
True of evolution, Yeah, yeah, and the opportunity to have
too much better stuff to even think about it at
all is so recent evolutionarily. Yeah, it's gonna take a
while for the brain to catch up.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm gonna throw on a loincloth, live in a cave
if I can find one.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Get lousy, come to accept it. There'll be your friends.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Tell you what can we compromise on the lice? Maybe
a beetle?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Now, I can I continue to use a flush toilet?
Just give me that and I could pass on that one.
I just don't want anything, Crawley, You could go bucket,
of course, I mean, I have, but I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right Well, i'll put it. I'm not going to put
it next to me if I can avoid it. There's
that part of the deal you've got to I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Any thoughts on this text line four one five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Armstrong Andy, we'll see Armstrong and Getty show with a
study done.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
A dirty I'm happy to share with you the Starting
in August this year, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
will be tuition free.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh I fine, will.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Jumping up and down, high fives, hugs, tears, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
What's the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I don't know this.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's a significant medical school, I guess attached to one
of your colleges in New York. I can't remember exactly,
but that's an old gal who's super rich hedge fundy
husband passed on and she's a doctor, and he said,
you do whatever you want with the money when I'm gone,
and she thought, you know, I'm gonna let a bunch
of people become doctors and not have to owe tuition.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Man. I hate to be cynical, but I just oh,
here it comes folks. I've never liked these stories just
on an individual basis. It's awesome the right people, some
of them know. And if I'm gonna if we're gonna
be a phlanthrous and throw around money, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Just.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
What you don't think like a blanket gift, Like that's
a good idea. You want to interview each person, decide
whether you like exactly. Yeah, I thought she's gonna go
with you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
What about all the kids in America.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Who do have to pay tuition? But life's not a
zero sum game. Their joy is not to your touchment.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
But there's there's just I don't know. There's a lot
of people that could use help. And I'm not sure
all of those people do need help. Some of them do,
some of them don't. I just as soon give if
I'm gonna give away my money, try to figure out
who does need help.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I don't know anything about that school. Honestly, it
could be that that's heavily populated by the sort of
people who could use a hand. I don't I don't know.
But the feel good story of the day Jack has
declared to be somehow untoward, evil, disgusting. You didn't use
those words, but you handed out. I just feel like,
you know, you don't do whatever you want your money.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But I just feel like if I was gonna pick
a crowd of people that could use help, I'm not
sure people that got into some really great university is
the number one crowd for my billion dollar whatever grant.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Wow, just wow, after the philosophizing of the previous segment,
I'm not sure I follow you.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
No, I want people more lousy, more downtrodden more wow.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, yeah, speaking of follow ups to the previous segment,
Just for the record, I'm super grateful that my back
is a lot better than it was. It's like boot
camp or hell a week for a sports team or
something like that. Just because it was a really great
experience for you, it doesn't mean you want to live there.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So just for the record, Right, it's another primary day
in Michigan. Something interesting just happens, So stay tuned Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that
our government is about us, about the people. When seventy
four percent of Democrats in Michigan support it, ceasefire, yet
President Biden is not hearing us This is the way
we can use our democracy to say listen.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
So primary day in Michigan today, for the Republicans and
the Democrats, Trump's going to win big. One of the
big questions we might learned something about is how many
people listen to squad member Rashida Talib there encouraging people
them Democrats to not vote for Biden as a show
of protest, and what that means to the upcoming election.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, a ceasefire would be stupid and merely postpone Israel's
suicide assisted suicide at the hands of Hamas. I'm not
sure exactly what the criminal code I shouldn't vote is,
but you see my point. Yeah, it doesn't matter. If
the majority of people want an insane policy, it shouldn't happen. Oh,
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speaking of politics and caucuses and stuff, confusing days for
Republicans in Michigan for the blah blah blah. Today Michigan
will hold a primary election open to all registered voters
and that will oh. Then on Saturday, the second of March,
the Michigan Republican Party will hold a caucus convention. The
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primary today or sixteen delegates. The caucus will allocate another
thirty nine but that's not the worst of it. There's
confusion about where the March second Caucus convention will be
held because the Michigan Republican Party is embroiled in and
battled between rival factions that are both claiming leadership of
the organization.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Fantastic, So we got a bunch of texts about previous
discussions from this hour. Got a couple of people who
agreed with me on the whole tuition feel good story.
I don't know, but somebody said, how about junior colleges,
how about local junior colleges? Yeah, I would. I don't know.
I just feel you like, are you just trying to
help humanity? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
But more good doctors. I'm in favor of that. They
have a doctor short.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
They're already there. They're gonna find a way to pay
for it, and they're gonna be able to pay it back.
But anyway, I don't want to get sidetracked by that.
So we got a bunch of texts on a bunch
of things. As I said, So, for instance, we got
this That was an awesome segment, best part of the
show today. Thanks for doing it. About the monocabagan what
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it's like to live in solitary confinement. What really matters
in life? Followed by this text I only tune in
now and then to remind myself that it sucks.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So there you criticism.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
There you go talking about the names. What's an old
person name and what's not. It's kind of reversed in
the last couple of years. I work an alternative hippie
dippy elementary school in Santa Cruz. We had six disappointed
parents who thought they were so clever. In a class
of twenty. We have three girls named Juniper. Three twenty
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girls are named Juniper. Surely when you picked Juniper, you thought, oh,
this is gonna ah, this will raise some eyebrows. Huh,
We'll get all the credit for this.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It's a fine pine tree and a fine girl's name.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Regardless of how many kids of the class haven't, They're
like gonna have to go with like a June, a Juni,
and a Purper. I don't know much your middle name, kid.
My niece Madison. Back when she was in college she
was in a sorority. There were five Madisons. They had
to call themselves by Madison. Number one made number two.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Wow, it's like a doctor Seuss thing. Yeah, wow, wow
again just one one quick thought. People who send texts
like that and emails like that, you suck stuff. I
probably shouldn't even say this. Generally speaking, I find them
incredibly amusing. I mean, they like lightened my load.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It was particularly funny after the other one that was just,
oh well, I write the best segment than blah blah blah.
I only tune in now and then to remind myself
that it sucks. Well, you know what, it's set yourself
a what do you call it? An alarm on once
a week. You can do that now on smartphones. It
goes off. You're like, what the heck? Oh remember Armstrong
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and getting suck? You set yourself an alarm, a calendar
alert exactly. Joe Biden's going to the border Thursday? Is
he just going to stand there like an old Walmart
greeter and welcome people in? That's what you get. You
would wear the blue vest down at the border. Come
on in, welcome, Come on it in. Newark's that way, San
Francisco's that way. Can I help you with anything?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Where can I get an ice cream cone in this town?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You're gonna have to let me know if these texts
are beneath us or not. It was a legit conversation,
and I think not an unreasonable thing to say, as
we have a problem in some of the blue cities
on the West coast with people defecating on the sidewalks,
and I said I was gonna use a euphemism for that,
but I couldn't think one that was okay. And we
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got several suggestions, Oh boy, can you do you tell
me whether it's beneath us or not? To mention some
of these.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Almost certainly, yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do sel fresco, Do sell fresco.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You know what? Points for classiness I need to do
sell Fresco. Sounds like a hot new restaurant.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
This person says, I like mail a package, like I
really have to mail this package right away.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Points for delicacy, This.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
One I don't get. It's the last one. I won't
mention anymore. Oh good, No, I can't say this. Can
I say it?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Michael standard?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Would?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
What standard would you suggest we follow? It makes you grin,
you leave it in.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I might say this the rest of my life just because,
Oh if it's that strong, folks, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Those of you who aren't like the Texter who has
to occasionally remind himself that we suck. Grant us a
moment's forgiveness.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, if this is not your bag, tune out for
thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
If you're gonna say this for the rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I got to admit I'm curious torking out a moonfish?
Did you say torquing out a moonfish?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's the worst thing I've ever heard of me. No,
I know that's Idiana.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Wow. Wow, I guess you know. It's it's almost poetic
in a way. I mean, it's so obscure, right, you
know what. I'm glad you said it in an odd way.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
People who tuned in after their thirty seconds heard I'm
glad you said it in an odd way.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
So it was so bizarre.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, Johnny, it's so good esque.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I'm fairly creative too. Uh golly, ge wow, I'm utterly
at a loss where to go from there. I have,
you know, information stories.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, I want to mention. I wanted to mention this
poll that we led the show with again because I
just thought it was extraordinary. Monmouth pole out today. So
Biden's going to the border Thursday? Why Because Trump's going
to the border Thursday. Can you believe that's where we
are with these two old gentlemen. Trump's gonna go to
the border, and Biden decides he claims he didn't know
Trump was going to the border, but uh, he's going
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exactly the same day, all right. He just wanted to
combat whatever narrative was going to lead the evening news
and have because physically being somewhere near the border will accomplish. Right,
He'll give him some great insight he didn't previously have
it solidify as bona fide. He's a supporter of hawk.
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Joe Biden made the border wall popular. It has been
under fifty percent since they first started asking the question
when Trump started with his bill the Wall, Build a Wall. Well,
now it's at fifty three percent. Biden actually made the
border wall popular. When Trump left office, it was in
the low forties approval rating. Now it's fifty three percent.
So hey, Joe Biden, you let in all those illegals
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by canceling Trump policies. Now a majority of Americans say
build the dang wall. Conformity and propaganda work.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
That's why people, you know, push for them, the idea
that a wall is a bad idea. Well, the idea
that it is a good idea is self evident. Now
the arguments against it will be, well, it's imperfect, and
other people and technology you're important too, right, Yeah, exactly.
And if you have good, solid, impenetrable walls that concentrates
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the area where those things are needed, it is self
evidently a good idea.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
In some places, I buy the pushback argument. If you
build an eighteen foot wall, all you need to do
is go to home depot and get a twenty foot ladder.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Isn't a wall stupid?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Or build bridges not walls, which makes the previous argument
sound intelligent.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Oh yeah, you're torquing on a moonfish with that kind
of talk.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So anyway, now that Biden has utterly to the point
that the New York Times is excoriating him for opening
the border like he has, it's become so egregious. Now
people are saying, yeah, you know that whole wall thing,
that's a great idea. These are odd times.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah. And then how serious is the issue of a
legal immigration for the US right now? Sixty one percent
say very serious, another twenty three percent say somewhat serious.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
For a total of.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Eighty four percent. That includes a heck of a lot
of Democrats and independence, which is who you need to win.
Has listened to a polster talk about that yesterday on
how that is just kind of the un discussed, not
realized or not understood way the election works. It was
only about a third of the country that calls themselves
a Republican and only about a third Democrat. There's that
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other third that's independent. So you can't you can't just
look at your own party's numbers and think we'll win.
If you get all of them, you're not even going
to come close. And so that eighty some percent of
people concerned about the border, yeah, a lot of those
are independents. The best explanation I can come up with
for something that is electoral suicide, and it's incredibly unwise
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and dangerous and damn near treason iss for the country.
The only thing I can come up with is that
the White House is so captured by the young lefties
in their advisor's corps that they've embraced the idiotic, unicornyan
arguments of the left. I just but when you see
poll numbers like you were talking about, which are mind boggling.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I mean, would you like to be jabbed with a
hot poker? You can't get eighty six percent of people
to say no, So that's it's everybody. Once you get
that high. The only people left out are the mentally
ill and the people who don't comprehend the question. So
it's everybody trolls, right, Yeah, So what could possibly be
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motivating until you know? This week practically the Biden Whitehouse's
suicidal stance on immigration.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Because so many of these people, this is what doomed
Ron DeSantis. They think Twitter's the real world. There's so
many politicians that think Twitter's the real world or cable
news is the real world.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That must be true. It seems extraordinary to me, But
that key sure fits the lock.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, it is extraordinary. God dang it. You'd think somebody
would come and sit down with these numbers in front
of Joe Biden and a guy who's been around as
long as he has in politics, look at these numbers, say,
holy crap, this is a serious vulnerability we have.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Well right, yeah, exactly, it's practically suicidal.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
And if I come out hard on the border and
use my executive power, which I have to stop illegal immigration,
it's a huge win. Eighty four whatever it is percent
of Americans would agree with me. Screw the college left,
and they're weird. No human being is illegal crowd. I
can live without them. But that's not the way he
looks at it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I guess, well, until recently, has there been some sort
of civil war fought behind the scenes in the White
House and the sane have won. Man. I hope there
are some great tell all books about the Biden administration.
I really do.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, including his mental capacity. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Despite international pressure and fears of mass civilian casualties. Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says an offensive endo Rafa
is needed to defeat hamas well go in.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
We make our own decisions, obviously, but we'll go in
based on the idea of having also the evacuation of
the Civillians.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
With evacuated towns in Israel's north sitting vacant for four
months due to the rocket fire. Net nyahou vows to
return people to their homes.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
If this can be achieved diplomatically, fine, If not, it'll
be achieved militarily.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah. Israel goes into Rafa the way he says they're
going to go in that is that's going to be
a whole new level of holy crap.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, yeah, it is. Just it's grim. It's is grim.
This is the first time I think the world has
been able to watch something like total warfare in real time.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You could turn over the hostages and end it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, lay down your arms, recognize Israel's right to exist.
It's over. Like virtually every other territorial dispute in the
history of mankind. Point you got to settle it and
move on and let your children, you know, learn and
live lives of their choosing, develop themselves, develop the economy,
get everybody a higher standard of living, reach peace with
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your neighbors, decide the scribbles of the pastor in the past.
But no, no, not the Muslim fundamentalists, no way. Generation
after generation you send young people to die over some dispute. Anyway,
speaking of ethnic battles, I thought this was at least
interesting and amusing in kind of a disgusting sort of way.
(31:34):
A person could do a daily radio show where they
spent say, three hours a day profiling the really radical
nut jobs who are teachers in California, particularly at the
college level. Here's one that was recently featured. An unhinged
(31:56):
professor of Pan African studies at cal State University Los
Angeles has proclaimed that the Kansas City Chief Super Bowl
win is an example of white supremacy. Okay, why do
I feel like this was some right wing white supremacist
conspiracy boo, even though Patrick Mahomes is biracial, I don't know.
(32:21):
And then this was this woman who says she is
a professor of Pan American studies at cal State LA,
black Lives Matter organizer, pan Africanist hip hop scholar, daughter
of God, womanist, truth teller, mama. She was born in Oakland, California,
and her last name is Rayman, as she her father
was a white man from Germany.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yes, why would the Chiefs be white supremacist, but the
forty nine ers would not have been.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I can't even imagine. I don't know. Perhaps unsurprisingly, your father,
the German, is a self proclaimed Trotskyist communist in Union thug.
Even her grandfather was a member of the Communist Party
in Germany. But she says she on the record, she says,
virtually everything is racist. That's why I say it's a
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racist big Jesse Smollett reporter too. All of this is
just the profile of a crazy person. She's teaching our
children in schools.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
I have some final thoughts, and some people say they
are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if
you look at what's happening, I would have to say
Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts. They are
right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
That's pretty good. That is pretty good. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh man, that's almost disturbing. Let's get a final thought
from everybody on the crew. Mike Langelow, let us off
mark my words. Biden will try and outdo Trump at
the border by tackling somebody trying to go across live
on TV. Here you go, show that he's still got
They show hat or be like a six year old
child or something. Kati Green or Esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
As a final thought, Katie just want to thank you
guys for the text messages I received with unsolicited euphemisms
for taking a crap.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh yeah, don't say you guys, it was he No,
was you two talking about I'm not allowed it to
pop up and my friends disapprove, I disavow, I disavow.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Jack final thought for us talking about frozen pizza earlier,
and you had some fancy pants frozen pizza. Number of
people said they really liked Dejerno and that's my son's favorite.
Cheap and it's it's better than most of the pizzas
that I order from a pizza place that cost twice
as much.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I have one final question. You're a man who's declared
Papa John's to be your favorite pizza, are you not, sir?
Answer the question?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Those my son's taste on mine. I haven't had any
actually yet. He ate the thing.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
It's a child's pizza. In his defense, that's what he was.
Oh man, I miss Chicago style pizza. I really really do.
I gotta go out for some tonight.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I had a piece a couple of weeks ago in Chicago.
It was awesome. Armstrong in Getty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
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It's all I shed.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Bye, Get the hell out of here, go away. How
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Speaker 3 (35:28):
What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
I haven't said a word, so stop yelling at me.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
It's so, let's go with it, buying. Don Lemon's going
to be paid in a settlement for his firing from
CNN twenty four and a half million dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Okay, there's no God, let I know.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
My daughter told me the name Ashley or Amanda or
my name is Amber our old people names, and I
never thought about it this way, but she's like, yeah,
my teacher's names are miss Erica, miss Samantha, whereas young
people names like my daughter is Scarlett, there's Charlotte's, there's Olivia,
there's Penelopes, there's Isabella's, there's Bella's, there's Ella's.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Those are young people names.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
For me, Ashley is always going to be like my
friend from elementary, so it just seems like a kid
named to me. But it's not Ashley, Amanda, Amber. All
of these names are basically the new Margaret or Barbara.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, it's interesting and obvious just as generations change. But
what were new names not old people names? Are now
old people names to the younger crowd because they have
teachers and they see grown ups with those names, and
so now those seem like old people names. And the
(01:05):
younger crowd that's getting a name like eleanor were Oliver, Charlotte,
which seems like an old person named to me, that's
a young person name for them. So it's you sobbing
what's old is new, what's new is old? Yeah? Yeah,
but so we'll have a whole bunch of grandpa's named
Brandon or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Which is right right? Oh, that reminds me. I meant
to mention this to you, because this is one of
your screenes. I somehow in my life now in my
social circle with my bride have several Kirsten's, Christen's and Kirsten's.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah. Well, you know, I was slipping.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Through email during the commercial breaking came across one of them,
and uh, I was playing golf with the guy the
other day and his wife is one of those, and
I used one of them and thought, oh god, did
I just use the wrong one. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
As you know, I want a state law, or maybe
even a federal law that if your name is Kirsten, Kristen, Kirsten,
we get to call you whichever and you can't be offended.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I think that needs to be. Uh, that needs to
be on the federal level.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And I feel like the agency that accepts that law
should then add a subtext that I can either put
an h at the end of syah or not. It's
not up to me to.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Remember, right, And and the whole Brandan v. Brandon thing
that I think that ought to be part of the
omnibus bill as well.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, the Kirsten Kirsten.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Kristen thing. Yeah, yeah, Hey, you're a really nice person.
I like you, My wife likes you, I like your husband.
You're terrific people. But are you a Kristen or a Kirsten?
I can't remember, And it's no disrespect. Seriously, Hey you
there you are, hey, buddy to a woman.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, gotta go with the them pronoun no.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
No, no no. Then they said to them that they
ought of Yes, no, not happening.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So I've mentioned a couple of times that I've been
on a monoch and began kick of all things. He
was Prime Minister for Israel in the seventies, one of
the founders, and was involved in the bloody fight against
the Brits to get free and establish their own state. Yeah,
(03:34):
if you aren't old enougher nemember, looking in the history,
all these Jews who started Israel were at war with
the Brits, and the Brits were torturing them and hanging them,
and they were doing the same to the Brits. Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And this was when.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Through the forties. Wow, And it's actually a bit of
a to get too deep into this, but kind of
a Martin Luther King Malcolm X type situation with Ben
Gurion the first Prime Minister of Israel, who would be
play more of your Martin Luther King junior role. And
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then manocham Began, who was playing more of the by
any means necessary, Malcolm X role, who he had a
hand in blowing up the King David Hotel, which was
the BRIT's headquarters at the time, and a whole bunch
of other strikes on various British outlets to drive them out.
And eventually the British people said, it ain't worth it.
(04:36):
We don't even know where Israel is on an Israel Palestine,
we don't even know where this is on a map.
Why are we having soldiers killed there? And the politics
turned against it and they pulled out and Israel got
their state in forty eight or forty nine. Anyway, monockam Began,
who prior to going to Israel and getting that going,
was a Jew in the old Soviet Union and thrown
in a concentration camp for quite a few years for
(05:00):
are trying to stand up for the Jewish community. Any who.
What I'm getting to is this stuff, he writes in
The Revolt, which is one of the many books he
wrote about his It starts with his time in the
concentration camps and then getting to the land that became
Israel and fighting the Brits. It's damned interesting, but it's
(05:23):
talk about being in the concentration camp. I'd never read
anything like this before. There was this climax of a
period of short days and long nights, during which I
had been accused, with absolute selemny of being one of them.
Blah blah, blah blah blah. The days had been spent
and expel blah blah blah blah. I want to skip
to the part that, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
That allows them. It's pretty compelling so far.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I get you. I don't want to bog you down
with stuff I find interesting, but nobody else will. The
prisoner eventually forgets his physical surroundings and helps him formulate
a nebulous reality of his desires. Shortened his days of
imprisonment to a far greater degree than could be imagined
by those who have never experienced the joys of the
prison cell. Prison days are like a passing dream. They're
(06:09):
probably the most ordered days imaginable. They're filled with expectation.
From the morning hooter. Whatoul a hooter be smoking a cigarette?
Or was that pooping? Or what is the morning beat?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I do not know what he means anyway, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
From the morning hooter at daybreak to the setting of
the sun, the prisoner's forever waiting for something. The feeling
of expectation is powerful, overwhelming, just because if it's directed
toward the simplest, the most primitive things in a man's life,
beginning with an unsatisfying meal and ending with the removal
of the sanitary pale from the cell. And he goes
(06:46):
on about how he went into slow motion and life
actually had more meaning and became less stressful, and everything
slowed down, and he was able to focus on the
things that really mattered in life and ignore all the
the what you would normally would think would be the
(07:10):
negatives of being, you know, isolated in a prison cell
like that. Okay, so there's that any comment on that
before I move on to the next thing. I had
never read anybody talking about that.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Really it makes sense that when you remove the economic
and the even like most relationships, that the cerebral is
what's left, I guess. But it's an intriguing song.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But him talking about the joys of imprisonment that most
people never experience or understand. I don't know if everybody
reacts this way. Maybe some people don't.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Read my mind. I was just going to say, it
could be one person out of ten is built like that,
or one out of a thousand or half, don't.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I don't have any idea, really, But he goes on
to he actually talks about the first time you find
lice on you, you're horrified, and then there are more lice,
and then you eventually just accept it and you come
to be perfectly fine with it, and they're just part
of your environment. And he talks about a bunch of
different things with that. This is what he's in solitary
confinement talking about it.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If you give everybody like fifteen seconds to scratch now,
because I think that's a universal reaction.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Talking about his toothbrush and I hasn't brushed his teeth.
No brush will come anywhere near your teeth, and yet
you'll live and want to continue living you need a
best bed to rest on. Nonsense. You will lie on
boards on a floor, in the snow, on the earth,
and you will sleep.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
No.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Civilization is not essential. You shake it off quickly if
you're forced to. Yet, strangely enough, the less civilization in
your life, the greater your desire.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
To live, just to live, to live, to live.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Man is a vigorous animal, even when he's reduced to
semi bestial circumstances. Living like an animal, his will to
live is elemental. The one hundredth louses accepted as a neighbor.
It is no longer repulsive. It's part of your existence.
You find it hard to sleep without pajamas, nonsense. In
a matter of weeks, you'll not only learn to sleep
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in your dirty rags and your shirt, you will learn
not to undress at all, to sleep in your stinking clothes,
and to sleep very well. You can't eat without first
washing your hands. You will only be too thankful or
anything to grab hold of with your dirty hands and
put it in your mouth and enjoy a meal like
you never have. Wow, I found out that really interesting. Again,
it would be helpful to know if that's a common
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experience or not. But the idea of stripping away a
lot of the stuff that we think is so necessary
for comfort and happiness and getting to just the basics
of like sleep and eating. And I don't know, and
your own thoughts.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I guess, well, in cherishing them, Yeah, I get that,
I think, Yeah, Lord knows, I can't relate to it,
thank goodness, But yeah, I get that when life is
reduced to the bare bear minimums, you cherish those and
don't really think about the luxuries.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah. He talks about how being in a concentration camp
for all those years, the main phrase that new people
would hear was you get used to it. You'll get
used to it. You'll get used to it. And I
was thinking about that many times that's happened in my life,
where things get harder or less play and it's going
to be that way for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You do get used to it.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
And I would say, from reading this book and his experience,
you can get used to practically anything.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I would agree.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
So that's the way we're built. You just you just
get used to it. Like when you become a parent,
the schedule changes so much of your previous life and
it's and it's really really hard, but you get used
to it and it's actually better.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well, if I was gonna kick around more Darwinian terms,
i'd say you adapt, right, So one good thing, that
one thing we're really really good at is beasts is adapting.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
No matter practically, well apparently almost, no matter what.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
The stories of people finding joy and companionship and love
amidst concentration camps in Nazi Germany, for instance, are inspiring
and difficult to comprehend for most of us, but they
are legion.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Okay, So I've been thinking about this a lot since
I read it. What so what's the flip side of that?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Then?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Since I don't I don't want to live in solitary
confinement covered in lice with a bucket of pooh next
to me to you know, to get here mentally, so
would it just be complain less? Or I mean, what what? What? What? What?
What do I take away from this?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, and this is a bit of a cliche, but
appreciate the simple things the I guess people say the
little things, but they're not little, They're they're essential. Just
practice gratitude, I guess constantly, which is something I need
to be better at?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Maybe the Maybe that's always a good idea. There's no
arguing with that. Maybe the main thing is quit looking
to better meal, different car, new shoes, whatever, to get
to get some sort of meaning or satisfaction out of it.
It's it's the other direction you go. The other direction
is where that lies.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, yeah, and that's that's tough for those of us
who live an American lifestyle to like embrace because we've
been chasing the opposite so long. And I realized this
is nothing compared to me Knockem Megan's experience, for instance,
or a concentration camp. But the several months where I
had back pain that was crippling and never ending, I
became a better person in a weird way. I appreciated
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the critical stuff and my expectations were simplified in a way.
It's difficult to explain. Everything that was good was very,
very good, and I was grateful for and the bad stuff,
I thought, this is my reality. I'm not going to
let it turn me into a negative or mean person,
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like to Judy. When you're dealing with that sort of pain,
it's easy to become mean and want to take it
out on people. And I had to work very hard
not to do that. It made me a better person,
more aware of when I'm doing anything close to that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Are we conditioned by American modern twenty four century culture
to think the being comfortable is newer, nicer, faster, shinier,
more modern, or are we just built that way? All
human beings are built that way? It seems odd that
we'd be built that way, since it's been proven many
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times as what I was just reading that the happiness,
the acceptance is the other direction.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Keeping in mind that that was only conceivable like the
last inch of a one hundred mile long timeline of
human existence.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
True of evolution, Yeah, yeah, and the opportunity to have
too much better stuff to even think about it at
all is so recent evolutionarily. Yeah, it's gonna take a
while for the brain to catch up.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm gonna throw on a loincloth, live in a cave
if I can find one.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Get lousy, come to accept it. There'll be your friends.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Tell you what can we compromise on the lice? Maybe
a beetle?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Now, I can I continue to use a flush toilet?
Just give me that and I could pass on that one.
I just don't want anything, Crawley, You could go bucket,
of course, I mean, I have, but I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right Well, i'll put it. I'm not going to put
it next to me if I can avoid it. There's
that part of the deal you've got to I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Any thoughts on this text line four one five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Armstrong Andy, we'll see Armstrong and Getty show with a
study done.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
A dirty I'm happy to share with you the Starting
in August this year, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
will be tuition free.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh I fine, will.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Jumping up and down, high fives, hugs, tears, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
What's the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I don't know this.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
It's a significant medical school, I guess attached to one
of your colleges in New York. I can't remember exactly,
but that's an old gal who's super rich hedge fundy
husband passed on and she's a doctor, and he said,
you do whatever you want with the money when I'm gone,
and she thought, you know, I'm gonna let a bunch
of people become doctors and not have to owe tuition.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Man. I hate to be cynical, but I just oh,
here it comes folks. I've never liked these stories just
on an individual basis. It's awesome the right people, some
of them know. And if I'm gonna if we're gonna
be a phlanthrous and throw around money, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Just.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
What you don't think like a blanket gift, Like that's
a good idea. You want to interview each person, decide
whether you like exactly. Yeah, I thought she's gonna go
with you.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
What about all the kids in America.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Who do have to pay tuition? But life's not a
zero sum game. Their joy is not to your touchment.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
But there's there's just I don't know. There's a lot
of people that could use help. And I'm not sure
all of those people do need help. Some of them do,
some of them don't. I just as soon give if
I'm gonna give away my money, try to figure out
who does need help.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, I don't know anything about that school. Honestly, it
could be that that's heavily populated by the sort of
people who could use a hand. I don't I don't know.
But the feel good story of the day Jack has
declared to be somehow untoward, evil, disgusting. You didn't use
those words, but you handed out. I just feel like,
you know, you don't do whatever you want your money.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But I just feel like if I was gonna pick
a crowd of people that could use help, I'm not
sure people that got into some really great university is
the number one crowd for my billion dollar whatever grant.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Wow, just wow, after the philosophizing of the previous segment,
I'm not sure I follow you.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
No, I want people more lousy, more downtrodden more wow.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, yeah, speaking of follow ups to the previous segment,
Just for the record, I'm super grateful that my back
is a lot better than it was. It's like boot
camp or hell a week for a sports team or
something like that. Just because it was a really great
experience for you, it doesn't mean you want to live there.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So just for the record, Right, it's another primary day
in Michigan. Something interesting just happens, So stay tuned Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that
our government is about us, about the people. When seventy
four percent of Democrats in Michigan support it, ceasefire, yet
President Biden is not hearing us This is the way
we can use our democracy to say listen.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
So primary day in Michigan today, for the Republicans and
the Democrats, Trump's going to win big. One of the
big questions we might learned something about is how many
people listen to squad member Rashida Talib there encouraging people
them Democrats to not vote for Biden as a show
of protest, and what that means to the upcoming election.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, a ceasefire would be stupid and merely postpone Israel's
suicide assisted suicide at the hands of Hamas. I'm not
sure exactly what the criminal code I shouldn't vote is,
but you see my point. Yeah, it doesn't matter. If
the majority of people want an insane policy, it shouldn't happen. Oh,
(18:34):
speaking of politics and caucuses and stuff, confusing days for
Republicans in Michigan for the blah blah blah. Today Michigan
will hold a primary election open to all registered voters
and that will oh. Then on Saturday, the second of March,
the Michigan Republican Party will hold a caucus convention. The
(18:55):
primary today or sixteen delegates. The caucus will allocate another
thirty nine but that's not the worst of it. There's
confusion about where the March second Caucus convention will be
held because the Michigan Republican Party is embroiled in and
battled between rival factions that are both claiming leadership of
the organization.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Fantastic, So we got a bunch of texts about previous
discussions from this hour. Got a couple of people who
agreed with me on the whole tuition feel good story.
I don't know, but somebody said, how about junior colleges,
how about local junior colleges? Yeah, I would. I don't know.
I just feel you like, are you just trying to
help humanity? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
But more good doctors. I'm in favor of that. They
have a doctor short.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
They're already there. They're gonna find a way to pay
for it, and they're gonna be able to pay it back.
But anyway, I don't want to get sidetracked by that.
So we got a bunch of texts on a bunch
of things. As I said, So, for instance, we got
this That was an awesome segment, best part of the
show today. Thanks for doing it. About the monocabagan what
(19:57):
it's like to live in solitary confinement. What really matters
in life? Followed by this text I only tune in
now and then to remind myself that it sucks.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So there you criticism.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
There you go talking about the names. What's an old
person name and what's not. It's kind of reversed in
the last couple of years. I work an alternative hippie
dippy elementary school in Santa Cruz. We had six disappointed
parents who thought they were so clever. In a class
of twenty. We have three girls named Juniper. Three twenty
(20:33):
girls are named Juniper. Surely when you picked Juniper, you thought, oh,
this is gonna ah, this will raise some eyebrows. Huh,
We'll get all the credit for this.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It's a fine pine tree and a fine girl's name.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Regardless of how many kids of the class haven't, They're
like gonna have to go with like a June, a Juni,
and a Purper. I don't know much your middle name, kid.
My niece Madison. Back when she was in college she
was in a sorority. There were five Madisons. They had
to call themselves by Madison. Number one made number two.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Wow, it's like a doctor Seuss thing. Yeah, wow, wow
again just one one quick thought. People who send texts
like that and emails like that, you suck stuff. I
probably shouldn't even say this. Generally speaking, I find them
incredibly amusing. I mean, they like lightened my load.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It was particularly funny after the other one that was just,
oh well, I write the best segment than blah blah blah.
I only tune in now and then to remind myself
that it sucks. Well, you know what, it's set yourself
a what do you call it? An alarm on once
a week. You can do that now on smartphones. It
goes off. You're like, what the heck? Oh remember Armstrong
(21:50):
and getting suck? You set yourself an alarm, a calendar
alert exactly. Joe Biden's going to the border Thursday? Is
he just going to stand there like an old Walmart
greeter and welcome people in? That's what you get. You
would wear the blue vest down at the border. Come
on in, welcome, Come on it in. Newark's that way, San
Francisco's that way. Can I help you with anything?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Where can I get an ice cream cone in this town?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You're gonna have to let me know if these texts
are beneath us or not. It was a legit conversation,
and I think not an unreasonable thing to say, as
we have a problem in some of the blue cities
on the West coast with people defecating on the sidewalks,
and I said I was gonna use a euphemism for that,
but I couldn't think one that was okay. And we
(22:33):
got several suggestions, Oh boy, can you do you tell
me whether it's beneath us or not? To mention some
of these.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Almost certainly, yes, it is.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do sel fresco, Do sell fresco.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You know what? Points for classiness I need to do
sell Fresco. Sounds like a hot new restaurant.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
This person says, I like mail a package, like I
really have to mail this package right away.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Points for delicacy, This.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
One I don't get. It's the last one. I won't
mention anymore. Oh good, No, I can't say this. Can
I say it?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Michael standard?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Would?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
What standard would you suggest we follow? It makes you grin,
you leave it in.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I might say this the rest of my life just because,
Oh if it's that strong, folks, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Those of you who aren't like the Texter who has
to occasionally remind himself that we suck. Grant us a
moment's forgiveness.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, if this is not your bag, tune out for
thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
If you're gonna say this for the rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I got to admit I'm curious torking out a moonfish?
Did you say torquing out a moonfish?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
That's the worst thing I've ever heard of me. No,
I know that's Idiana.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Wow. Wow, I guess you know. It's it's almost poetic
in a way. I mean, it's so obscure, right, you
know what. I'm glad you said it in an odd way.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
People who tuned in after their thirty seconds heard I'm
glad you said it in an odd way.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
So it was so bizarre.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, Johnny, it's so good esque.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I'm fairly creative too. Uh golly, ge wow, I'm utterly
at a loss where to go from there. I have,
you know, information stories.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, I want to mention. I wanted to mention this
poll that we led the show with again because I
just thought it was extraordinary. Monmouth pole out today. So
Biden's going to the border Thursday? Why Because Trump's going
to the border Thursday. Can you believe that's where we
are with these two old gentlemen. Trump's gonna go to
the border, and Biden decides he claims he didn't know
Trump was going to the border, but uh, he's going
(24:57):
exactly the same day, all right. He just wanted to
combat whatever narrative was going to lead the evening news
and have because physically being somewhere near the border will accomplish. Right,
He'll give him some great insight he didn't previously have
it solidify as bona fide. He's a supporter of hawk.
(25:19):
Joe Biden made the border wall popular. It has been
under fifty percent since they first started asking the question
when Trump started with his bill the Wall, Build a Wall. Well,
now it's at fifty three percent. Biden actually made the
border wall popular. When Trump left office, it was in
the low forties approval rating. Now it's fifty three percent.
So hey, Joe Biden, you let in all those illegals
(25:40):
by canceling Trump policies. Now a majority of Americans say
build the dang wall. Conformity and propaganda work.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
That's why people, you know, push for them, the idea
that a wall is a bad idea. Well, the idea
that it is a good idea is self evident. Now
the arguments against it will be, well, it's imperfect, and
other people and technology you're important too, right, Yeah, exactly.
And if you have good, solid, impenetrable walls that concentrates
(26:09):
the area where those things are needed, it is self
evidently a good idea.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
In some places, I buy the pushback argument. If you
build an eighteen foot wall, all you need to do
is go to home depot and get a twenty foot ladder.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Isn't a wall stupid?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Or build bridges not walls, which makes the previous argument
sound intelligent.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Oh yeah, you're torquing on a moonfish with that kind
of talk.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So anyway, now that Biden has utterly to the point
that the New York Times is excoriating him for opening
the border like he has, it's become so egregious. Now
people are saying, yeah, you know that whole wall thing,
that's a great idea. These are odd times.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah. And then how serious is the issue of a
legal immigration for the US right now? Sixty one percent
say very serious, another twenty three percent say somewhat serious.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
For a total of.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Eighty four percent. That includes a heck of a lot
of Democrats and independence, which is who you need to win.
Has listened to a polster talk about that yesterday on
how that is just kind of the un discussed, not
realized or not understood way the election works. It was
only about a third of the country that calls themselves
a Republican and only about a third Democrat. There's that
(27:23):
other third that's independent. So you can't you can't just
look at your own party's numbers and think we'll win.
If you get all of them, you're not even going
to come close. And so that eighty some percent of
people concerned about the border, yeah, a lot of those
are independents. The best explanation I can come up with
for something that is electoral suicide, and it's incredibly unwise
(27:45):
and dangerous and damn near treason iss for the country.
The only thing I can come up with is that
the White House is so captured by the young lefties
in their advisor's corps that they've embraced the idiotic, unicornyan
arguments of the left. I just but when you see
poll numbers like you were talking about, which are mind boggling.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I mean, would you like to be jabbed with a
hot poker? You can't get eighty six percent of people
to say no, So that's it's everybody. Once you get
that high. The only people left out are the mentally
ill and the people who don't comprehend the question. So
it's everybody trolls, right, Yeah, So what could possibly be
(28:27):
motivating until you know? This week practically the Biden Whitehouse's
suicidal stance on immigration.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Because so many of these people, this is what doomed
Ron DeSantis. They think Twitter's the real world. There's so
many politicians that think Twitter's the real world or cable
news is the real world.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
That must be true. It seems extraordinary to me, But
that key sure fits the lock.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah, it is extraordinary. God dang it. You'd think somebody
would come and sit down with these numbers in front
of Joe Biden and a guy who's been around as
long as he has in politics, look at these numbers, say,
holy crap, this is a serious vulnerability we have.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Well right, yeah, exactly, it's practically suicidal.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
And if I come out hard on the border and
use my executive power, which I have to stop illegal immigration,
it's a huge win. Eighty four whatever it is percent
of Americans would agree with me. Screw the college left,
and they're weird. No human being is illegal crowd. I
can live without them. But that's not the way he
looks at it.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I guess, well, until recently, has there been some sort
of civil war fought behind the scenes in the White
House and the sane have won. Man. I hope there
are some great tell all books about the Biden administration.
I really do.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, including his mental capacity. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Despite international pressure and fears of mass civilian casualties. Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says an offensive endo Rafa
is needed to defeat hamas well go in.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
We make our own decisions, obviously, but we'll go in
based on the idea of having also the evacuation of
the Civillians.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
With evacuated towns in Israel's north sitting vacant for four
months due to the rocket fire. Net nyahou vows to
return people to their homes.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
If this can be achieved diplomatically, fine, If not, it'll
be achieved militarily.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yeah. Israel goes into Rafa the way he says they're
going to go in that is that's going to be
a whole new level of holy crap.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, yeah, it is. Just it's grim. It's is grim.
This is the first time I think the world has
been able to watch something like total warfare in real time.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You could turn over the hostages and end it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Yeah, lay down your arms, recognize Israel's right to exist.
It's over. Like virtually every other territorial dispute in the
history of mankind. Point you got to settle it and
move on and let your children, you know, learn and
live lives of their choosing, develop themselves, develop the economy,
get everybody a higher standard of living, reach peace with
(31:12):
your neighbors, decide the scribbles of the pastor in the past.
But no, no, not the Muslim fundamentalists, no way. Generation
after generation you send young people to die over some dispute. Anyway,
speaking of ethnic battles, I thought this was at least
interesting and amusing in kind of a disgusting sort of way.
(31:34):
A person could do a daily radio show where they
spent say, three hours a day profiling the really radical
nut jobs who are teachers in California, particularly at the
college level. Here's one that was recently featured. An unhinged
(31:56):
professor of Pan African studies at cal State University Los
Angeles has proclaimed that the Kansas City Chief Super Bowl
win is an example of white supremacy. Okay, why do
I feel like this was some right wing white supremacist
conspiracy boo, even though Patrick Mahomes is biracial, I don't know.
(32:21):
And then this was this woman who says she is
a professor of Pan American studies at cal State LA,
black Lives Matter organizer, pan Africanist hip hop scholar, daughter
of God, womanist, truth teller, mama. She was born in Oakland, California,
and her last name is Rayman, as she her father
was a white man from Germany.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yes, why would the Chiefs be white supremacist, but the
forty nine ers would not have been.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I can't even imagine. I don't know. Perhaps unsurprisingly, your father,
the German, is a self proclaimed Trotskyist communist in Union thug.
Even her grandfather was a member of the Communist Party
in Germany. But she says she on the record, she says,
virtually everything is racist. That's why I say it's a
(33:06):
racist big Jesse Smollett reporter too. All of this is
just the profile of a crazy person. She's teaching our
children in schools.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
I have some final thoughts, and some people say they
are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if
you look at what's happening, I would have to say
Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts. They are
right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
That's pretty good. That is pretty good. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh man, that's almost disturbing. Let's get a final thought
from everybody on the crew. Mike Langelow, let us off
mark my words. Biden will try and outdo Trump at
the border by tackling somebody trying to go across live
on TV. Here you go, show that he's still got
They show hat or be like a six year old
child or something. Kati Green or Esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
As a final thought, Katie just want to thank you
guys for the text messages I received with unsolicited euphemisms
for taking a crap.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh yeah, don't say you guys, it was he No,
was you two talking about I'm not allowed it to
pop up and my friends disapprove, I disavow, I disavow.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Jack final thought for us talking about frozen pizza earlier,
and you had some fancy pants frozen pizza. Number of
people said they really liked Dejerno and that's my son's favorite.
Cheap and it's it's better than most of the pizzas
that I order from a pizza place that cost twice
as much.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I have one final question. You're a man who's declared
Papa John's to be your favorite pizza, are you not, sir?
Answer the question?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Those my son's taste on mine. I haven't had any
actually yet. He ate the thing.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
It's a child's pizza. In his defense, that's what he was.
Oh man, I miss Chicago style pizza. I really really do.
I gotta go out for some tonight.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I had a piece a couple of weeks ago in Chicago.
It was awesome. Armstrong in Getty wrapping up another grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
I didn't know you're in Chicago. So many people, thanks
so little time got to Armstrong in getdy dot com.
We got a lot of great hobblings for you.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Pick up a T shirt, drop us a line mail
bag at Armstrong a giddy dot com. We'll see tomorrow.
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
I'm Strong and Getty. Can we get out of here? Please?
It's all I shed.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Bye, Get the hell out of here, go away. How
is the sanitary Oh?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
I haven't said a word, so stop yelling at me.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
It's so, let's go with it, buying. Don Lemon's going
to be paid in a settlement for his firing from
CNN twenty four and a half million dollars.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Okay, there's no God, let I know.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty
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