July 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Mac n Cheese lips & the NYC mayoral race
- The swing off, pitcher's mic & robot umpires
- The Trump/Zelensky conversation & synthetic opiates
- Trump's hand & ankles
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
and Katty and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Panera has partnered with the beauty brand Holler and Glow
to offer two lip bombs inspired by the restaurant chains
mac and Cheese and signature bread balls. Less popular, they're
broccoli and cheddar.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Breath Min's lip balm based on their macaroni and cheese.
Huh what does that even mean? Don't know mac and
cheese flavored? Does you kiss someone then you think I
am starving all of a sudden. So, Mark, any of
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you sampled any of these wares? Are you aware of this?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm just thinking you kiss a girl and you're like
macaronian cheese. Uh So, Mark Alprin writes in his Lose
letter Today, think twice if you think the mayoral race
in New York City is over for a couple of reasons.
The New York Times suddenly favorable Cuomo coverage after they
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pounded him all primary season. Maybe the New York Times
has decided it's not good for us in New York
and politically for the Democratic Party. To have this guy wins.
Now they're Booston Cuomo and it's Ron Mamdani. Yes, and
this new Harris X pole that came out that had
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Mandani at twenty six, Cuomo at twenty three. Slee, what
a twenty two? Interesting? The problem being is sleeve with
the Republican candidate. Yeah, he's the perennial Republican Okay, So
that doesn't have anything to do with the independent then,
so Adams is at thirteen. So Cuomo the scumbag, the
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skuy I mean, there's a scumbag through it through, ethically, politically, sexually,
every kind and then his politics, every manner of being.
He's a horrible human being, but he'd better be better
than Mumdani. He's trying to get a deal going that. Hey,
come like a month out, whoever's leading among independents, everybody
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else get out of the race, all right, so you
have a chance to win, so he don't split the vote,
and then Mumdanni cruises to victory. I don't know if
he can get Eric Adams to agree with that, but
if he did, obviously, because Adams is an independent too,
you add those two independent numbers together and you're at
thirty four, and you'd be in first place. Right.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I hear a lot of you. I have a psychic
connection with you, and you're like, oh, for God's sake,
he's the mayor of a city. It doesn't matter number one.
It's the most important city in America. It is probably
the most important city on Earth Earth. Secondly, just a
quick rewind, if you're killed by politics, broadly speaking, you're
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much much more likely history would tell you to be
killed by your own government than a foreign invading force
or whatever. And the twentieth century where more people were
killed by governments, and ever before it was quite a century.
Communism was unquestionably by far the leader in snuffing people
over politics, by the tens of millions.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Is, to some extent, and to what extent is the question,
to some extent embracing communism, and to some extent young
Democratic voters are shouting in the streets up with communism.
They call it by different names, but that's what they mean.
This is of enormous importance, just to see how far
this has got and if it can be stopped off,
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our young people can be reached anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
End of screen. Do you have more on the polling,
or shall we leap into face two. Nope, that's just
pretty interesting that it's that tight. I mean so within
three points.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, that's that's completely up in the air, especially
if even two of those candidates can come up with
some sort of deal. Yeah, if you've got the edge,
you know, an x amount of time before the election,
I'll drop out.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Then it's it's definitely in play.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Anyway, the great Nelly Bowls of the Free Press, doing
some very amusing writing is well on this topic, I
should say. She starts with how some Donnie mom Donnie
claimed to be both Asian and black or African American
on his application to Columbia, And it's very amusing, but
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I'll skip ahead. She writes, Zorn Mumdami is the perfect
millennial because our people know that you can't get into
college identifying as white, and even worse than white, even
more damning is that you identify his Asian. If you
identify as Asian on a college application, your sat has
to be entirely perfect. You have to have personally physically
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saved fifteen thousand orphans, and your dad needs to have
lifted the body in boldly in libraries onto a cargo
ship and delivered it to Princeton's campus. A very intellectual
reference there, historical blah blah blah. But you need to
be a miracle worker anyway, you still probably won't get in.
It's a personality fit thing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You see.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
So he would have been a fool to check the
Asian box. He goes into the details. But he's the
perfect millennial because he supports this sort of system but
then exploits it however he can, which is the key
to communism. The people at the top know how to
exploit the system or gain the system exactly anyway. Some
other choice tidbits from New York City's future mayor. Policing
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is something that does not create safety, says Zoron. He's
big on defund the police. He's big on we need
social workers not cops. Okay, great.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The end goal is seizing the means of production, he said,
that's just Marx, that's pretty communism.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Here's another quote.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up
housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership,
says Zoron. Remember that one, and remember he's a proud
democratic socialist of America and their platform does say, quote,
we fight for the abolition of capitalism. So yeah, it's
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no surprise that he's fighting for the abolition of capitalism.
Now I found this really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh did I lose it?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Gosh dang, and I've got too complicated a thingam and
jigger here.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh here it is.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So that thing about they're going to buy up housing
and have communal housing. The government's going to run housing.
This is super interesting. This is from the Free Beacon.
New York City public housing is known for dreadful living
conditions and high violent crime rates, and they describe a
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visit Hillary Clinton made to New York City housing authority
units in twenty sixteen in which he's just horrified that
hasn't stopped Zorn Mumdani from pledging to expand public housing
by targeting negligent quote unquote landlords and placing their properties
under public control. Mumdannie says the policy will turn poor
quality housing into safe homes, So you're gonna seize up
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anything he says is poor quality and put the government
in charge of it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Does he have any power to do most of these
things he wants to do as.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The mayor boy, the constitution or by laws of New
York City's mayored him.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't know. I know he has a lot of
discretion witness Giuliani and the good things he did. The
fact that that's his inclination is bad enough. But I
haven't heard much about what the mayor of New York
has done power do in terms of can you kick
out the grocery stores and make them government run as
the mayor. But here's the.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Really interesting part to me, and it's the reason I
brought this up. It's just another example of how classroom,
particularly leftist classroom theories sound great to a nineteen year
old with no life experience and certainly no business experience
and no understanding of how business works or how real
estate works. They are really great cons Communism is a
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giant con job.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Socialism is too.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But they get into our local real estate pros say,
what Donnie's talking about will make already subpar housing even
worse New York City. Let's see, I'm quoting an article
by John Levigne here. The New York City government already
acts as landlord to more than five hundred and twenty
thousand residents who live in the city's famously decrepit public housing.
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The municipal government's own New York City Housing Authority Watchdog
noted last year that the NY Housing Authority remains substantially
out of compliance with several mold and leak requirements, adding
that eighty three percent of verified mold complaints involve large
mold growth. The watchdog also deemed Housing Authority buildings quote
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out of compliance in waste management and pest control. Thomas
Sowell would be yes, I know, or Tim Sandifer or
Milton Friedman. There's no competitive pressure on the government housing
authorities to be better than anything, so they suck. They're
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the worst mold rats bugs. Oh no, you better clean
that up or you'll go out of business. Except they
can't possibly go out of business.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
One more little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Supercharging that authority will only exacerbate the problem. New York
Apartment Association CEO Kenny Burgos added, quote, the buildings that
are in the worst shape right now are co owned
by the city, and I think Mumdanni will soon learn
that these high violation counts are typically a product of
the lack of revenue to cover the cost, and not
because and he's talking about private units, not because owners
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decided to run buildings poorly. So you've got these what
he called them, negligent landlords. And this guy's saying, look,
you have fixed the prices, you've installed rent controls. You
haven't let us taken enough revenue to do the fixes
you want us to do. And Mmdonni's solution is to
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let the government take it over and run it. Good lord,
it's a great con in the classroom. Anybody who's lived
a couple of years knows, oh, that'll never happen.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So AOC invited him to d C today to try
to get more big Dems on his side. It'll be
interesting to see if the power in the Democratic Party
is able to stop him because they realize it's not
good for them nationally to have him as the poster
child for the party, or if the AOC wing, which
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is you know, highly motivated by a lot of energetic
young people, wins the day.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So, mom, Donnie had this big meeting with a bunch
of New York movers and shakers. I think it was yesterday,
maybe the day before, But he said he will discourage
the term globalize the Intifada because there are a lot
of folks there who had a lot of trouble with it,
and evidently got a huge backlash from his own side
for even saying that. But he said, no, all it
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means is that we need to everybody around the world
to stand up for the poor Palestinian people.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's all it means. Okay. Major League Baseball had its
All Star Game last night. They had their first ever
swing off, which sounds like something Diddy would do. What
is this swing off? They also used robot umpire for
the first time, the robot umpire which comes out on
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the field and waves its arms. That isn't out. You
get out of here, and then you kick sand on
its metal feet and then that was a strike. One
more word out of you. You get the thumb because
that's the way robots talk. So anyway, that and other
stuff on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Shore bird in the air to center field, headed towards
the wall.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Dead center. That's huge for the Factional.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
League swar bums.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
In the All Star Game, the swing off track look
outs top House Nationally takes the lead four to three. Unbelievable.
So new rule in the Major League All Star Game
as they continue to try to make that something people
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will watch. Or League Baseball in general, because it's been
struggling for years. Even though I love the sport, it's
just pretty slow paced by modern standards, and people seem
to really, really like lots of offense in their sports.
See the NFL. AnyWho now they have if you're tied
at the end of the night, at the end of
nine innings, instead of you just keep playing, which I
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always loved, you have a swing off and you get
your best hitters out there and try to hit home runs.
It's kind of like the home run derby at the
end of a game. And the National League prevailed over
the American League.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I've always thought that was ridiculous in sports that did it,
like soccer, all right, we're tired of playing this game.
Let's play an entirely different game, just with the same equipment.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And a hockey does it with their shootouts, which are exciting,
but you're right, it is a kind of a different
sport at that point, and not in the playoffs. Hockey
would never do that in the playoffs. Oh they don't.
I didn't know that. One other cool thing that they
did is they had the pitcher miked while he's on
the mound. In this particular instance, Clayton Kershaw, who I
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just saw pitch at Dodger Stadium a couple of weeks ago.
I had really good seats I got to he came
out and stretched on the field. I God, I thought
it was interesting because you could stretch anywhere. I don't
know why he came out and stretched right in the
Is it the only person out there on the field
rolling around pulling his head, leg behind his head and stuff.
Hey you they had him miked on the mound. Here's
just a little bit of that. What do you want, smoltzy,
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what do you want?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Cut her in?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Slider in?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Can make a mess o shortbout he's splitty break out this.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
This is so weird talking to you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I would like to have seen more of that. I'll
have to check that out. That's funny. I got it
on the DVR. I can't wait to watch it. Oh,
that's wild. And then last night they tried for the
first time something that might be a regular part of
every game starting next year. Your robot empires. So I
think it happened as early as the second inning. There
was a pitch called a and the catcher tapped to
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the top of his head, which is how you signal
any player can do this. You signal that you want
the robot umpire to take a look at it. You
get so many challenges per game. Catcher taps his head,
robot umpire says that was a strike, not a ball.
Guy gets sent to the dugout. And there were five challenges,
four successful throughout the game. So four times the umpire
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called a ball or strike and then the robot said sorry, blind,
oh you got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Wow, wow, Wow. There's no need to go with that
sort of insulting you know verbiage. But how does thank
you much much higher than it was in the regular
season so far?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't have that stat in front. How does that
make you feel as the umpire when the robots is now,
you got that one wrong. Isn't that gonna give them
the yips like it does in the NFL, where they're
all afraid to call anything because how it's gonna come out? It?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Certainly could. They're moving in the direction of only robot.
I'm sure this is a transitional period, but yeah, it could.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Give you eat the yips. God, I would think so.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Of course, last night, the umpster like it's a freaking
all Star Game. Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Did they do it quickly? Though? That's what I hate
about challenges in all sports. Oh yeah, it's very quickly
because you have an exciting play in the crowd cheers
and under review, and then you wait ten minutes and
find out, Yes, what were we cheering about? I remember
what happened?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, he did the ball contact that imaginary you know,
parallelogram or not. It's a lot simpler than did the
defensive back contact that you receive such as that that
would materially blah blah blah or was it mutual blah
blah blah blah?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Was the ball out before his knee hit the ground? Uh?
So you might. They might go all robot umpires. Interesting,
then it just be instantaneous ball or strike. I like
the idea of requesting a pitch.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
All right, Clayton, nail him right in the back, fastball,
high and tight, show the moose boss inside of the place.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Hears babe boy see him in person, right in front
of me, a Dodger staium. I realize how big these
guys are. He is a huge dude. Indeed, Uh, we
got some interesting news to get to. We probably should
that's coming up Next to You Miss a segment gets
podcast Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
President Trump flatley denying reports he asked President Zelensky whether
he could strike deeper into Russia. Trump's saying Zelensky shouldn't
target Moscow and that the US isn't plan to give
him long range missiles.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Who knows what's true and what's not there, So somehow
it leaked out yesterday with the actual transcription of the
phone call between Trump and Zolensky on July fourth, in
which Trump asks Zelensky, could you hit Moscow or Saint Petersburg,
which I don't quite understand the question, and Zelensky said, yeah,
if I had the right weapons. Well, of course, I
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don't know. It's like you're buying an airplane from somebody,
he says, can you fly to Florida? Uh, that's why
I'm here, That's what we're doing here. Well, I think
it's more like could you eat a steak for breakfast? Yeah?
If somebody gave me one? Yeah, I mean I don't
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have one, handy. I don't understand that question. But anyway,
so Trump was asked about it later because it seems
like a pretty big deal given that Biden was hardcore
no strikes into Russia and then some limited with Trump.
But we haven't been big in the United States on
pushing them going on the offense. And that would really
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be going on the offense if you start striking the
capital h and we provide them that equipment. But Trump
was asked about it and denied it and said he
didn't But whether that's true or not, who flipping notes.
I'm reading this book I keep mentioning by an author
named tol It's the third trilogy about World War Two
ending in the Pacific, because we're coming up on the
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eightieth anniversary and I just thought I would look into that.
But there's so much stuff even now in the twenty twenties,
new information that is looked at differently, and how decisions
were made, and what was known and what was true
and what was a feint and what was an argument
between It's similar to the pause and was it Hegzeth
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or Elbridge, Colby or whoever behind it or did Trump order?
Those sorts of things aren't even known about eighty years ago.
With FDR in the Pentagon then, right, it's really hard
to nail this stuff down, and context matters a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I mean, that conversation between Trump and Zelensky, if that
was in the midst of a bunch of hypotheticals, just
trying to get the idea of.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know, just each other are in the possibilities. And
that's very different than I have a plan to or
I want to help you too. Sure he denied it
pretty strongly though, Right. And then one more this, this
is some analysis on the whole fifty day pause.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Despite what President Trump says about the length of that
time being significant, he does provide a sort of quite
a lengthy period in which the Kremlin can continue to
pursue its military tactics in Ukraine without facing any immediate
consequences or any further consequences. It won't until after that
fifty day period is over that it faces tariffs or
secondary sanctions on countries that do trade in its oil.
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And if you're in Kiev right now, facing a daily,
nightly barrage of drone strikes and missile attacks, it must
seem like an eternity.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that is a common critique of a lot of
people that does fifty day pause for Putin is like,
all right, I can keep doing this for fifty more days.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Well, particularly given that really disdainful stuff that Lavrov said
the other day. I mean, that doesn't sound like goodwill
to me or good faith.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Rather, Lavrov came out and said, I was asked about
the fifty the fifty day pause, and after fifty days
you'll get hit with the big sanctions. And he said,
twenty four hours, one hundred days. We've heard it all,
fifty days whatever, right, right. The point made yesterday I
thought it was a good one. The idea that this
is showing China something or scaring China, the idea that
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we're willing to push back or supply weaponry to Ukraine,
you know, and we would do the same for Taiwan
in that China might be looking at this and saying, Wow,
they're going to use even more of their depleted Patriot
missiles to fight that war. Cool, good luck, keep it up,
keep it up, Yeah, good luck when you're taking us
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on in Taiwan. Right exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I happened to hear that commentary, and it was an
excellent point. We can expand arms in a week that
would take us three four years to replace.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Why does it take our industrial capacity?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Well, because we've been at relative peace for so long,
haven't needed this stuff. Our shipbuilding is the best and
most extreme example. It's completely atrophied as an industry. We
can hardly build ships at all.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, like the bunker Busters we dropped on Israel, A
little take a couple of years to replace those, Right,
we didn't drop them on Israel, that'd be a news story.
We dropped them on Iran. Oh, I'd misunderstood the directions. Whoops.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, sorry, that's a very dark joke, which brings me
to a broader topic.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Unless you have more on that you want to hit.
It was funny.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I was thinking about how to present this, and it
was amusing to me and a little frustrating during certain
periods of the Maga movement that traditional Republicans would be
accused of being Rhinos because they weren't sufficiently supportive of Trump,
when in fact they were like literally espousing the principles
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of the Republican Party for the last one hundred and
fifty years. I'm not a Rhino, I'm an actual Republican,
but it's just become an all purpose insult, like neocon
for instance. But a lot of the battles over foreign
whether it's the the expansive American involvement people. What would
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you call Is there a nickname for that? That's not neocon,
which has become like fascist. It just means everything I
don't like.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I don't know what to a lot of I don't
know what the term is. For the people that want
to get involved, We'll call them involvementists. On the other
side they call restrainers now, but I don't want you
to call the involvementists.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Restrainers as opposed to isolationists or somebody used a different
term for like your Elbridge Colby people, they're like selectivists.
They're like, no, we have to deal with the big
problem first. Then the big problem is China. We can't
get distracted by all these lesser theaters and get depleted
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to deal with China.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It reminds me of the chest lesson. Your son got
in the party with the gorilla, Henry. That's right, don't
deal with the two yapping dogs. Deal with the gorilla Henry.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And Elbridge Colby is saying China is the grill. So
what is conservatism in foreign policy? What does it mean
to be a conservative? A patriot?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, it's it's tough.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
There are different interpretations of what that means I came
across a domestic example of that same conundrum. And occasionally
I get hits with this stuff, and it makes me
feel bad because I just can't decide Manchester, Kentucky, which
is right like smack Dad, between Nashville and Chattanooga and Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
How far cher is it from hogs Nipple.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's uh, you can't get there from here and take
you all day, pack your lunch.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But so it's it's pois.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's in the perfect position between a bunch of boomtowns
to become a boom town itself, heavy agricultural. It's a
town of I can't remember a couple of thousand people,
that sort of thing, few thousand people and a place
I grew up, Yeah, exactly. And just in a weird twist, well,
here's here's the problem. You've got like half the town
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that is staunchly pro growth. If farmers want to sell
their farm to a developer and the developer is going
to put up a subdivision, there is no more conservative
value than property rights and the free market, absolutely, and
for instance, and it's divided into these two camps. And
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there's a weird twist where the mayor may have gotten
rubbed out. Whoa, we'll get wow twist in a second.
So there's a moratorium against development. Anti moratorium signs at
a local meeting read vote like a conservative, less government,
less rules. It ought to be fewer rules, fewer regulations,
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lower taxes. That's a pretty damn good description of conservatism.
Oh but wait a minute, the other side responds with, Historically,
conservatism is emphasized order, prudence, stewardish stewardship, a deep respect
for heritage.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's about preserving.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Traditional values and communities, not selling them off for short
term gain.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's about being more careful. True, and that's not a
bad description of conservatism either. Yeah. I don't know if
it's got to fit a definition, but I've lived in
towns where this sort of thing was going on, and
I always thought, after the fact, because this stuff almost
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always happened because there's so much money involved, didn't we
like the town? The reason we liked living here is
because it was this small, little bird without traffic and
the big walmart at the edge of town that put
everybody out of business. Now, why was everybody so excited
about this? Well?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah, and to that point, about the Walmart. These towns
are dying. A lot of these towns are dying. Young
people are moving away. There are no jobs, there's no growth,
there's no prospects, and so the pro growth people are saying, look,
this is just the way of the modern world.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Esthetically, it's sickening to me.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I just speak the words farmland being you know, plowed
to build subdivisions, and it makes my heart hurt.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I know me too. It's happening right now in the
town I live in. I'm anti growth even though it
doesn't really make sense. But the hospital where both my
kids were born, where I walked out of where they
were born in the morning and looked out over this
field and thought, wow, I'm a father now, or I'm
a father again or whatever. That field is now all
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houses and apartments as of like six months ago, And
it just makes my heart hurt. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, it's They're a range of every political philosophy. Like
in conservatism, are you a libertarian conservative or are you
a you know what? Would you read more about this
stuff these days than I do? But are you more
a birk or a I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, there's also a kind of a and I can
easily fall into this just kind of a knee jerk
to keep things the same. Sure, that doesn't really have
a strong argument other than I like the way it
is now or was. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I mean, here's a guy who speaks eloquently about this
land here. I'm attached to it one hundred percent. Generations.
His families farmed the country since the eighteen hundreds. I
don't know how much of my family's blood, sweat and
tears are in this land. And you know, you could say, well,
that's some real nice poetry there, son, but you know,
(28:37):
it's just land. Here's a guy whose family's farmed there
for generations, who's fought to build a subdivision near the
other guy's property. He's incensed by the new rules. Quote,
they took all the landowners' rights away.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's tough. If I had a chunk of land, I
actually do have a junk of land. If I had
a chunk of land that somebody wanted to buy, uh
for a hell of a lot of money to put
up houses, it'd be hard to say no. So the
mayor who.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Was pro growth, Oh, if you're a deep thinker or
a shallow thinker, you'd just like to shoot off your
mouth drop us to know what do you think of
this battle? Where do you see where do you see
yourself coming down on that question? Mail Bag at Armstrong
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tough one. Or if you prefer to text four one
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Speaker 1 (29:36):
I remember we had this conversation. So, uh, business people
tend to you know, they they you know, like Trump developers.
They like to see buildings go up and everything like that.
So Joe and I had moved to Charlotte, North Carolina
thirty years ago or whatever it was, jeez, thirty thirty
two years ago, thirty three years ago. But uh we
got there and our new boss was driving by this
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big new mall that had gone and he said, this
was just a cowfield like two years ago. Isn't this amazing?
And I was like, I like cowfields. I don't like malls.
He was so excited that it was a mall in
a giant parking lot. He thought that was cool as
a business guy and made my heart hurt that that
used to be a beautiful cow pasture.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
By the way, a memo to America. Charlotte is now gigantic.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It is a massive, important to banking and other things
metro area.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
There's no need to say North Carolina anymore. It'd be
like saying New York, New York. People know what you're
talking about. It is an important place anyway. It wouldn't
have become that if you'd hung on to all those
cow pastures.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Right right, so good or bad. Fifty three year old
former mayor was pro growth found dead in the back
seat of his car in his driveway.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation took over, confiscating evidence and quietly
closed the case.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
They're not required to release investigative material.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
The medical examiner ruled the death accidental, citing cocaine and
kratom in the mayor's heart blood plus heart disease.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
What's kratom? Is this a new drug? I don't know about?
Is that that artificial marijuana stuff k R A t
O M. Can somebody look that up? K R A
t O M in the backseat of his car.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He died of coke and whatever the hell less is
in the backseat of his car in his driveway.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Sounds suspicious to me, Katie.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Cratam is or kratim, I'm not really sure how you're
pronounce it. But it's being used to mimic opiates. Okay,
if you go into like smoke shops, you'll see all
these different brands and they say percoset, hydrocordo and oxycotton,
and it's like, if you buy that particular combination of chemicals,
it mimics whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Those pillars so similar to jencum look that up. Very similar.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Well, Plus there are various like CBD formulations that in
places where pot is still illegal, chemists have figured out
how to change the chemistry just enough that it no.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Longer is illegal.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Oh and I wonder if this craton or whatever it
is is a similar dot.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
It's not similar to jenkam And don't let.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
That and I don't do jakim kids.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, don't do that one, Katie, I already did. It's
too late. I think it's a long time.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
I will say, Jack, I'm gonna hit you dude for
a second time this week.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Okay, more on the hero.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
So that Trump's tariffs will also cause tomato prices to skyrocket.
A lot of people are concerned, so Hines put out
a new commercial to address the situation.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Well, watch this.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Hines wants all our loyal customers to know that as
the cost of tomatoes rises, will try to keep our
prices as low as possible.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're all in this together. Kind that's nice. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
Well, here's another ad, and this one's from a Hunt's Ketchup.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Check this out. Good news.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Our prices are staying put because Hunts Ketchup is and
has always been, tomato free. That's right, zero percent tomato
a hundred percent. Don't worry about it. It's so healthier
than that hot dog you're putting it on. Oh a
fun fact, that little squore to ketchup water we invented
that Hunts.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Thanks for buying is by mistake. No, okay, wow, thanks
for buying his by mistake. Oh my kids hate the
squirt of ketchup water that comes out of the bottle first.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
It's so disappointing and disgusting. Mustard too, It's terrible, it's
gross and you can shake the bottle as much as
you want, but it's hard to avoid. So I remember,
if you're of a certain age, you remember the Drudge Report.
That was the first thing I checked every morning for
like a decade. I haven't looked at it in years. Actually,
(33:48):
why is Drudge so anti Trump?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It doesn't matter what he is falling out of some
sort I don't remember AnyWho. His big story today Matt
Drudge doesn't even run it anymore? Does he? Then he
sell it doesn't matter. Yeah, he saw that. The big
story un drudged today is alarming bruise on Trump hand
and swollen ankles. Have you seen this which got a
(34:10):
picture of It looks like a bruise on his hand.
It actually looks like the bruise you can get if
they stick that needle on top to get sort of
a routine thing done if you're an old person. That
is what it looks like to me. The swollen ankles.
If this is not a doctored photo, he's sitting down.
His ankles are quite large. I don't know what's going on.
(34:31):
There could be a doctored photo, though, be very easy
to do retaining one. Yeah, yeah, it could be a
number of things. I'm not a doctor jack anyway.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yeah, so Trump's swollen ankles, Let's see if they get
some more coverage.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh yeah, go ahead. No, I was gonna say, speaking
of fluid, this very weird transition. That's one of my worst. Yeah,
just thirty, Michael. I don't have time. I don't have
time for my wordsmith three. I'm not going to s
cut it short and just spout it out. I can't
a pro a pro athlete talking about basically the meaning
(35:08):
of life or what makes you happy, or if you
think X, Y or Z is going to bring you happiness,
you might want to listen to his words. Yeah, you
don't have to be a sports fan for to be
applicable to your life. So we'll get to that in
coming hours. I hope you catch it. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
and Katty and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Panera has partnered with the beauty brand Holler and Glow
to offer two lip bombs inspired by the restaurant chains
mac and Cheese and signature bread balls. Less popular, they're
broccoli and cheddar.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Breath Min's lip balm based on their macaroni and cheese.
Huh what does that even mean? Don't know mac and
cheese flavored? Does you kiss someone then you think I
am starving all of a sudden. So, Mark, any of
(00:57):
you sampled any of these wares? Are you aware of this?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm just thinking you kiss a girl and you're like
macaronian cheese. Uh So, Mark Alprin writes in his Lose
letter Today, think twice if you think the mayoral race
in New York City is over for a couple of reasons.
The New York Times suddenly favorable Cuomo coverage after they
(01:22):
pounded him all primary season. Maybe the New York Times
has decided it's not good for us in New York
and politically for the Democratic Party. To have this guy wins.
Now they're Booston Cuomo and it's Ron Mamdani. Yes, and
this new Harris X pole that came out that had
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Mandani at twenty six, Cuomo at twenty three. Slee, what
a twenty two? Interesting? The problem being is sleeve with
the Republican candidate. Yeah, he's the perennial Republican Okay, So
that doesn't have anything to do with the independent then,
so Adams is at thirteen. So Cuomo the scumbag, the
(02:04):
skuy I mean, there's a scumbag through it through, ethically, politically, sexually,
every kind and then his politics, every manner of being.
He's a horrible human being, but he'd better be better
than Mumdani. He's trying to get a deal going that. Hey,
come like a month out, whoever's leading among independents, everybody
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else get out of the race, all right, so you
have a chance to win, so he don't split the vote,
and then Mumdanni cruises to victory. I don't know if
he can get Eric Adams to agree with that, but
if he did, obviously, because Adams is an independent too,
you add those two independent numbers together and you're at
thirty four, and you'd be in first place. Right.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I hear a lot of you. I have a psychic
connection with you, and you're like, oh, for God's sake,
he's the mayor of a city. It doesn't matter number one.
It's the most important city in America. It is probably
the most important city on Earth Earth. Secondly, just a
quick rewind, if you're killed by politics, broadly speaking, you're
(03:14):
much much more likely history would tell you to be
killed by your own government than a foreign invading force
or whatever. And the twentieth century where more people were
killed by governments, and ever before it was quite a century.
Communism was unquestionably by far the leader in snuffing people
over politics, by the tens of millions.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Okay, the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Is, to some extent, and to what extent is the question,
to some extent embracing communism, and to some extent young
Democratic voters are shouting in the streets up with communism.
They call it by different names, but that's what they mean.
This is of enormous importance, just to see how far
this has got and if it can be stopped off,
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our young people can be reached anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
End of screen. Do you have more on the polling,
or shall we leap into face two. Nope, that's just
pretty interesting that it's that tight. I mean so within
three points.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Oh yeah, that's that's completely up in the air, especially
if even two of those candidates can come up with
some sort of deal. Yeah, if you've got the edge,
you know, an x amount of time before the election,
I'll drop out.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Then it's it's definitely in play.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Anyway, the great Nelly Bowls of the Free Press, doing
some very amusing writing is well on this topic, I
should say. She starts with how some Donnie mom Donnie
claimed to be both Asian and black or African American
on his application to Columbia, And it's very amusing, but
(04:53):
I'll skip ahead. She writes, Zorn Mumdami is the perfect
millennial because our people know that you can't get into
college identifying as white, and even worse than white, even
more damning is that you identify his Asian. If you
identify as Asian on a college application, your sat has
to be entirely perfect. You have to have personally physically
(05:13):
saved fifteen thousand orphans, and your dad needs to have
lifted the body in boldly in libraries onto a cargo
ship and delivered it to Princeton's campus. A very intellectual
reference there, historical blah blah blah. But you need to
be a miracle worker anyway, you still probably won't get in.
It's a personality fit thing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You see.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
So he would have been a fool to check the
Asian box. He goes into the details. But he's the
perfect millennial because he supports this sort of system but
then exploits it however he can, which is the key
to communism. The people at the top know how to
exploit the system or gain the system exactly anyway. Some
other choice tidbits from New York City's future mayor. Policing
(05:56):
is something that does not create safety, says Zoron. He's
big on defund the police. He's big on we need
social workers not cops. Okay, great.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The end goal is seizing the means of production, he said,
that's just Marx, that's pretty communism.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Here's another quote.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up
housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership,
says Zoron. Remember that one, and remember he's a proud
democratic socialist of America and their platform does say, quote,
we fight for the abolition of capitalism. So yeah, it's
(06:37):
no surprise that he's fighting for the abolition of capitalism.
Now I found this really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh did I lose it?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Gosh dang, and I've got too complicated a thingam and
jigger here.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh here it is.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So that thing about they're going to buy up housing
and have communal housing. The government's going to run housing.
This is super interesting. This is from the Free Beacon.
New York City public housing is known for dreadful living
conditions and high violent crime rates, and they describe a
(07:12):
visit Hillary Clinton made to New York City housing authority
units in twenty sixteen in which he's just horrified that
hasn't stopped Zorn Mumdani from pledging to expand public housing
by targeting negligent quote unquote landlords and placing their properties
under public control. Mumdannie says the policy will turn poor
quality housing into safe homes, So you're gonna seize up
(07:37):
anything he says is poor quality and put the government
in charge of it.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Does he have any power to do most of these
things he wants to do as.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The mayor boy, the constitution or by laws of New
York City's mayored him.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't know. I know he has a lot of
discretion witness Giuliani and the good things he did. The
fact that that's his inclination is bad enough. But I
haven't heard much about what the mayor of New York
has done power do in terms of can you kick
out the grocery stores and make them government run as
the mayor. But here's the.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Really interesting part to me, and it's the reason I
brought this up. It's just another example of how classroom,
particularly leftist classroom theories sound great to a nineteen year
old with no life experience and certainly no business experience
and no understanding of how business works or how real
estate works. They are really great cons Communism is a
(08:32):
giant con job.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Socialism is too.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
But they get into our local real estate pros say,
what Donnie's talking about will make already subpar housing even
worse New York City. Let's see, I'm quoting an article
by John Levigne here. The New York City government already
acts as landlord to more than five hundred and twenty
thousand residents who live in the city's famously decrepit public housing.
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The municipal government's own New York City Housing Authority Watchdog
noted last year that the NY Housing Authority remains substantially
out of compliance with several mold and leak requirements, adding
that eighty three percent of verified mold complaints involve large
mold growth. The watchdog also deemed Housing Authority buildings quote
(09:17):
out of compliance in waste management and pest control. Thomas
Sowell would be yes, I know, or Tim Sandifer or
Milton Friedman. There's no competitive pressure on the government housing
authorities to be better than anything, so they suck. They're
(09:38):
the worst mold rats bugs. Oh no, you better clean
that up or you'll go out of business. Except they
can't possibly go out of business.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
One more little bit.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Supercharging that authority will only exacerbate the problem. New York
Apartment Association CEO Kenny Burgos added, quote, the buildings that
are in the worst shape right now are co owned
by the city, and I think Mumdanni will soon learn
that these high violation counts are typically a product of
the lack of revenue to cover the cost, and not
because and he's talking about private units, not because owners
(10:12):
decided to run buildings poorly. So you've got these what
he called them, negligent landlords. And this guy's saying, look,
you have fixed the prices, you've installed rent controls. You
haven't let us taken enough revenue to do the fixes
you want us to do. And Mmdonni's solution is to
(10:32):
let the government take it over and run it. Good lord,
it's a great con in the classroom. Anybody who's lived
a couple of years knows, oh, that'll never happen.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So AOC invited him to d C today to try
to get more big Dems on his side. It'll be
interesting to see if the power in the Democratic Party
is able to stop him because they realize it's not
good for them nationally to have him as the poster
child for the party, or if the AOC wing, which
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is you know, highly motivated by a lot of energetic
young people, wins the day.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
So, mom, Donnie had this big meeting with a bunch
of New York movers and shakers. I think it was yesterday,
maybe the day before, But he said he will discourage
the term globalize the Intifada because there are a lot
of folks there who had a lot of trouble with it,
and evidently got a huge backlash from his own side
for even saying that. But he said, no, all it
(11:32):
means is that we need to everybody around the world
to stand up for the poor Palestinian people.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's all it means. Okay. Major League Baseball had its
All Star Game last night. They had their first ever
swing off, which sounds like something Diddy would do. What
is this swing off? They also used robot umpire for
the first time, the robot umpire which comes out on
(12:00):
the field and waves its arms. That isn't out. You
get out of here, and then you kick sand on
its metal feet and then that was a strike. One
more word out of you. You get the thumb because
that's the way robots talk. So anyway, that and other
stuff on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Shore bird in the air to center field, headed towards
the wall.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Dead center. That's huge for the Factional.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
League swar bums.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
In the All Star Game, the swing off track look
outs top House Nationally takes the lead four to three. Unbelievable.
So new rule in the Major League All Star Game
as they continue to try to make that something people
(12:58):
will watch. Or League Baseball in general, because it's been
struggling for years. Even though I love the sport, it's
just pretty slow paced by modern standards, and people seem
to really, really like lots of offense in their sports.
See the NFL. AnyWho now they have if you're tied
at the end of the night, at the end of
nine innings, instead of you just keep playing, which I
(13:19):
always loved, you have a swing off and you get
your best hitters out there and try to hit home runs.
It's kind of like the home run derby at the
end of a game. And the National League prevailed over
the American League.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I've always thought that was ridiculous in sports that did it,
like soccer, all right, we're tired of playing this game.
Let's play an entirely different game, just with the same equipment.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And a hockey does it with their shootouts, which are exciting,
but you're right, it is a kind of a different
sport at that point, and not in the playoffs. Hockey
would never do that in the playoffs. Oh they don't.
I didn't know that. One other cool thing that they
did is they had the pitcher miked while he's on
the mound. In this particular instance, Clayton Kershaw, who I
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just saw pitch at Dodger Stadium a couple of weeks ago.
I had really good seats I got to he came
out and stretched on the field. I God, I thought
it was interesting because you could stretch anywhere. I don't
know why he came out and stretched right in the
Is it the only person out there on the field
rolling around pulling his head, leg behind his head and stuff.
Hey you they had him miked on the mound. Here's
just a little bit of that. What do you want, smoltzy,
(14:20):
what do you want?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Cut her in?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Slider in?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Can make a mess o shortbout he's splitty break out this.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
This is so weird talking to you guys.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I would like to have seen more of that. I'll
have to check that out. That's funny. I got it
on the DVR. I can't wait to watch it. Oh,
that's wild. And then last night they tried for the
first time something that might be a regular part of
every game starting next year. Your robot empires. So I
think it happened as early as the second inning. There
was a pitch called a and the catcher tapped to
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the top of his head, which is how you signal
any player can do this. You signal that you want
the robot umpire to take a look at it. You
get so many challenges per game. Catcher taps his head,
robot umpire says that was a strike, not a ball.
Guy gets sent to the dugout. And there were five challenges,
four successful throughout the game. So four times the umpire
(15:24):
called a ball or strike and then the robot said sorry, blind,
oh you got it wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Wow, wow, Wow. There's no need to go with that
sort of insulting you know verbiage. But how does thank
you much much higher than it was in the regular
season so far?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I don't have that stat in front. How does that
make you feel as the umpire when the robots is now,
you got that one wrong. Isn't that gonna give them
the yips like it does in the NFL, where they're
all afraid to call anything because how it's gonna come out? It?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Certainly could. They're moving in the direction of only robot.
I'm sure this is a transitional period, but yeah, it could.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Give you eat the yips. God, I would think so.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Of course, last night, the umpster like it's a freaking
all Star Game. Nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Did they do it quickly? Though? That's what I hate
about challenges in all sports. Oh yeah, it's very quickly
because you have an exciting play in the crowd cheers
and under review, and then you wait ten minutes and
find out, Yes, what were we cheering about? I remember
what happened?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, he did the ball contact that imaginary you know,
parallelogram or not. It's a lot simpler than did the
defensive back contact that you receive such as that that
would materially blah blah blah or was it mutual blah
blah blah blah?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Was the ball out before his knee hit the ground? Uh?
So you might. They might go all robot umpires. Interesting,
then it just be instantaneous ball or strike. I like
the idea of requesting a pitch.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
All right, Clayton, nail him right in the back, fastball,
high and tight, show the moose boss inside of the place.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Hears babe boy see him in person, right in front
of me, a Dodger staium. I realize how big these
guys are. He is a huge dude. Indeed, Uh, we
got some interesting news to get to. We probably should
that's coming up Next to You Miss a segment gets
podcast Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
President Trump flatley denying reports he asked President Zelensky whether
he could strike deeper into Russia. Trump's saying Zelensky shouldn't
target Moscow and that the US isn't plan to give
him long range missiles.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Who knows what's true and what's not there, So somehow
it leaked out yesterday with the actual transcription of the
phone call between Trump and Zolensky on July fourth, in
which Trump asks Zelensky, could you hit Moscow or Saint Petersburg,
which I don't quite understand the question, and Zelensky said, yeah,
if I had the right weapons. Well, of course, I
(17:49):
don't know. It's like you're buying an airplane from somebody,
he says, can you fly to Florida? Uh, that's why
I'm here, That's what we're doing here. Well, I think
it's more like could you eat a steak for breakfast? Yeah?
If somebody gave me one? Yeah, I mean I don't
(18:10):
have one, handy. I don't understand that question. But anyway,
so Trump was asked about it later because it seems
like a pretty big deal given that Biden was hardcore
no strikes into Russia and then some limited with Trump.
But we haven't been big in the United States on
pushing them going on the offense. And that would really
(18:31):
be going on the offense if you start striking the
capital h and we provide them that equipment. But Trump
was asked about it and denied it and said he
didn't But whether that's true or not, who flipping notes.
I'm reading this book I keep mentioning by an author
named tol It's the third trilogy about World War Two
ending in the Pacific, because we're coming up on the
(18:52):
eightieth anniversary and I just thought I would look into that.
But there's so much stuff even now in the twenty twenties,
new information that is looked at differently, and how decisions
were made, and what was known and what was true
and what was a feint and what was an argument
between It's similar to the pause and was it Hegzeth
(19:12):
or Elbridge, Colby or whoever behind it or did Trump order?
Those sorts of things aren't even known about eighty years ago.
With FDR in the Pentagon then, right, it's really hard
to nail this stuff down, and context matters a lot.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
I mean, that conversation between Trump and Zelensky, if that
was in the midst of a bunch of hypotheticals, just
trying to get the idea of.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know, just each other are in the possibilities. And
that's very different than I have a plan to or
I want to help you too. Sure he denied it
pretty strongly though, Right. And then one more this, this
is some analysis on the whole fifty day pause.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Despite what President Trump says about the length of that
time being significant, he does provide a sort of quite
a lengthy period in which the Kremlin can continue to
pursue its military tactics in Ukraine without facing any immediate
consequences or any further consequences. It won't until after that
fifty day period is over that it faces tariffs or
secondary sanctions on countries that do trade in its oil.
(20:17):
And if you're in Kiev right now, facing a daily,
nightly barrage of drone strikes and missile attacks, it must
seem like an eternity.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that is a common critique of a lot of
people that does fifty day pause for Putin is like,
all right, I can keep doing this for fifty more days.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Well, particularly given that really disdainful stuff that Lavrov said
the other day. I mean, that doesn't sound like goodwill
to me or good faith.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Rather, Lavrov came out and said, I was asked about
the fifty the fifty day pause, and after fifty days
you'll get hit with the big sanctions. And he said,
twenty four hours, one hundred days. We've heard it all,
fifty days whatever, right, right. The point made yesterday I
thought it was a good one. The idea that this
is showing China something or scaring China, the idea that
(21:09):
we're willing to push back or supply weaponry to Ukraine,
you know, and we would do the same for Taiwan
in that China might be looking at this and saying, Wow,
they're going to use even more of their depleted Patriot
missiles to fight that war. Cool, good luck, keep it up,
keep it up, Yeah, good luck when you're taking us
(21:30):
on in Taiwan. Right exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I happened to hear that commentary, and it was an
excellent point. We can expand arms in a week that
would take us three four years to replace.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Why does it take our industrial capacity?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Well, because we've been at relative peace for so long,
haven't needed this stuff. Our shipbuilding is the best and
most extreme example. It's completely atrophied as an industry. We
can hardly build ships at all.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, like the bunker Busters we dropped on Israel, A
little take a couple of years to replace those, Right,
we didn't drop them on Israel, that'd be a news story.
We dropped them on Iran. Oh, I'd misunderstood the directions. Whoops.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah, sorry, that's a very dark joke, which brings me
to a broader topic.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Unless you have more on that you want to hit.
It was funny.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I was thinking about how to present this, and it
was amusing to me and a little frustrating during certain
periods of the Maga movement that traditional Republicans would be
accused of being Rhinos because they weren't sufficiently supportive of Trump,
when in fact they were like literally espousing the principles
(22:45):
of the Republican Party for the last one hundred and
fifty years. I'm not a Rhino, I'm an actual Republican,
but it's just become an all purpose insult, like neocon
for instance. But a lot of the battles over foreign
whether it's the the expansive American involvement people. What would
(23:07):
you call Is there a nickname for that? That's not neocon,
which has become like fascist. It just means everything I
don't like.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I don't know what to a lot of I don't
know what the term is. For the people that want
to get involved, We'll call them involvementists. On the other
side they call restrainers now, but I don't want you
to call the involvementists.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Restrainers as opposed to isolationists or somebody used a different
term for like your Elbridge Colby people, they're like selectivists.
They're like, no, we have to deal with the big
problem first. Then the big problem is China. We can't
get distracted by all these lesser theaters and get depleted
(23:44):
to deal with China.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It reminds me of the chest lesson. Your son got
in the party with the gorilla, Henry. That's right, don't
deal with the two yapping dogs. Deal with the gorilla Henry.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
And Elbridge Colby is saying China is the grill. So
what is conservatism in foreign policy? What does it mean
to be a conservative? A patriot?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, it's it's tough.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
There are different interpretations of what that means I came
across a domestic example of that same conundrum. And occasionally
I get hits with this stuff, and it makes me
feel bad because I just can't decide Manchester, Kentucky, which
is right like smack Dad, between Nashville and Chattanooga and Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
How far cher is it from hogs Nipple.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
It's uh, you can't get there from here and take
you all day, pack your lunch.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But so it's it's pois.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's in the perfect position between a bunch of boomtowns
to become a boom town itself, heavy agricultural. It's a
town of I can't remember a couple of thousand people,
that sort of thing, few thousand people and a place
I grew up, Yeah, exactly. And just in a weird twist, well,
here's here's the problem. You've got like half the town
(25:08):
that is staunchly pro growth. If farmers want to sell
their farm to a developer and the developer is going
to put up a subdivision, there is no more conservative
value than property rights and the free market, absolutely, and
for instance, and it's divided into these two camps. And
(25:30):
there's a weird twist where the mayor may have gotten
rubbed out. Whoa, we'll get wow twist in a second.
So there's a moratorium against development. Anti moratorium signs at
a local meeting read vote like a conservative, less government,
less rules. It ought to be fewer rules, fewer regulations,
(25:50):
lower taxes. That's a pretty damn good description of conservatism.
Oh but wait a minute, the other side responds with, Historically,
conservatism is emphasized order, prudence, stewardish stewardship, a deep respect
for heritage.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's about preserving.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Traditional values and communities, not selling them off for short
term gain.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's about being more careful. True, and that's not a
bad description of conservatism either. Yeah. I don't know if
it's got to fit a definition, but I've lived in
towns where this sort of thing was going on, and
I always thought, after the fact, because this stuff almost
(26:36):
always happened because there's so much money involved, didn't we
like the town? The reason we liked living here is
because it was this small, little bird without traffic and
the big walmart at the edge of town that put
everybody out of business. Now, why was everybody so excited
about this? Well?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah, and to that point, about the Walmart. These towns
are dying. A lot of these towns are dying. Young
people are moving away. There are no jobs, there's no growth,
there's no prospects, and so the pro growth people are saying, look,
this is just the way of the modern world.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Esthetically, it's sickening to me.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I just speak the words farmland being you know, plowed
to build subdivisions, and it makes my heart hurt.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I know me too. It's happening right now in the
town I live in. I'm anti growth even though it
doesn't really make sense. But the hospital where both my
kids were born, where I walked out of where they
were born in the morning and looked out over this
field and thought, wow, I'm a father now, or I'm
a father again or whatever. That field is now all
(27:38):
houses and apartments as of like six months ago, And
it just makes my heart hurt. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, it's They're a range of every political philosophy. Like
in conservatism, are you a libertarian conservative or are you
a you know what? Would you read more about this
stuff these days than I do? But are you more
a birk or a I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Well, there's also a kind of a and I can
easily fall into this just kind of a knee jerk
to keep things the same. Sure, that doesn't really have
a strong argument other than I like the way it
is now or was. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I mean, here's a guy who speaks eloquently about this
land here. I'm attached to it one hundred percent. Generations.
His families farmed the country since the eighteen hundreds. I
don't know how much of my family's blood, sweat and
tears are in this land. And you know, you could say, well,
that's some real nice poetry there, son, but you know,
(28:37):
it's just land. Here's a guy whose family's farmed there
for generations, who's fought to build a subdivision near the
other guy's property. He's incensed by the new rules. Quote,
they took all the landowners' rights away.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's tough. If I had a chunk of land, I
actually do have a junk of land. If I had
a chunk of land that somebody wanted to buy, uh
for a hell of a lot of money to put
up houses, it'd be hard to say no. So the
mayor who.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Was pro growth, Oh, if you're a deep thinker or
a shallow thinker, you'd just like to shoot off your
mouth drop us to know what do you think of
this battle? Where do you see where do you see
yourself coming down on that question? Mail Bag at Armstrong
e geddy dot com is the email address. Mail bag
at Armstrong you geddy dot com because this is a
(29:28):
tough one. Or if you prefer to text four one
five two nine five KFTC one more time this four
one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
I remember we had this conversation. So, uh, business people
tend to you know, they they you know, like Trump developers.
They like to see buildings go up and everything like that.
So Joe and I had moved to Charlotte, North Carolina
thirty years ago or whatever it was, jeez, thirty thirty
two years ago, thirty three years ago. But uh we
got there and our new boss was driving by this
(29:58):
big new mall that had gone and he said, this
was just a cowfield like two years ago. Isn't this amazing?
And I was like, I like cowfields. I don't like malls.
He was so excited that it was a mall in
a giant parking lot. He thought that was cool as
a business guy and made my heart hurt that that
used to be a beautiful cow pasture.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
By the way, a memo to America. Charlotte is now gigantic.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It is a massive, important to banking and other things
metro area.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
There's no need to say North Carolina anymore. It'd be
like saying New York, New York. People know what you're
talking about. It is an important place anyway. It wouldn't
have become that if you'd hung on to all those
cow pastures.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Right right, so good or bad. Fifty three year old
former mayor was pro growth found dead in the back
seat of his car in his driveway.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation took over, confiscating evidence and quietly
closed the case.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
They're not required to release investigative material.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
The medical examiner ruled the death accidental, citing cocaine and
kratom in the mayor's heart blood plus heart disease.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
What's kratom? Is this a new drug? I don't know about?
Is that that artificial marijuana stuff k R A t
O M. Can somebody look that up? K R A
t O M in the backseat of his car.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He died of coke and whatever the hell less is
in the backseat of his car in his driveway.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Sounds suspicious to me, Katie.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Cratam is or kratim, I'm not really sure how you're
pronounce it. But it's being used to mimic opiates. Okay,
if you go into like smoke shops, you'll see all
these different brands and they say percoset, hydrocordo and oxycotton,
and it's like, if you buy that particular combination of chemicals,
it mimics whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Those pillars so similar to jencum look that up. Very similar.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Well, Plus there are various like CBD formulations that in
places where pot is still illegal, chemists have figured out
how to change the chemistry just enough that it no.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Longer is illegal.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Oh and I wonder if this craton or whatever it
is is a similar dot.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
It's not similar to jenkam And don't let.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
That and I don't do jakim kids.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, don't do that one, Katie, I already did. It's
too late. I think it's a long time.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
I will say, Jack, I'm gonna hit you dude for
a second time this week.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Okay, more on the hero.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
So that Trump's tariffs will also cause tomato prices to skyrocket.
A lot of people are concerned, so Hines put out
a new commercial to address the situation.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Well, watch this.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Hines wants all our loyal customers to know that as
the cost of tomatoes rises, will try to keep our
prices as low as possible.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're all in this together. Kind that's nice. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
Well, here's another ad, and this one's from a Hunt's Ketchup.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Check this out. Good news.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Our prices are staying put because Hunts Ketchup is and
has always been, tomato free. That's right, zero percent tomato
a hundred percent. Don't worry about it. It's so healthier
than that hot dog you're putting it on. Oh a
fun fact, that little squore to ketchup water we invented
that Hunts.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Thanks for buying is by mistake. No, okay, wow, thanks
for buying his by mistake. Oh my kids hate the
squirt of ketchup water that comes out of the bottle first.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
It's so disappointing and disgusting. Mustard too, It's terrible, it's
gross and you can shake the bottle as much as
you want, but it's hard to avoid. So I remember,
if you're of a certain age, you remember the Drudge Report.
That was the first thing I checked every morning for
like a decade. I haven't looked at it in years. Actually,
(33:48):
why is Drudge so anti Trump?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
It doesn't matter what he is falling out of some
sort I don't remember AnyWho. His big story today Matt
Drudge doesn't even run it anymore? Does he? Then he
sell it doesn't matter. Yeah, he saw that. The big
story un drudged today is alarming bruise on Trump hand
and swollen ankles. Have you seen this which got a
(34:10):
picture of It looks like a bruise on his hand.
It actually looks like the bruise you can get if
they stick that needle on top to get sort of
a routine thing done if you're an old person. That
is what it looks like to me. The swollen ankles.
If this is not a doctored photo, he's sitting down.
His ankles are quite large. I don't know what's going on.
(34:31):
There could be a doctored photo, though, be very easy
to do retaining one. Yeah, yeah, it could be a
number of things. I'm not a doctor jack anyway.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yeah, so Trump's swollen ankles, Let's see if they get
some more coverage.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh yeah, go ahead. No, I was gonna say, speaking
of fluid, this very weird transition. That's one of my worst. Yeah,
just thirty, Michael. I don't have time. I don't have
time for my wordsmith three. I'm not going to s
cut it short and just spout it out. I can't
a pro a pro athlete talking about basically the meaning
(35:08):
of life or what makes you happy, or if you
think X, Y or Z is going to bring you happiness,
you might want to listen to his words. Yeah, you
don't have to be a sports fan for to be
applicable to your life. So we'll get to that in
coming hours. I hope you catch it. Armstrong and Getty
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