September 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jimmy Kimmel is back & Jack's dilemma
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Boycotting Disney, marrying your 1st cousin & firing people
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Petty and he arms Ronget. I have a moral dilemma
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a few minutes ago. We'll have to discuss momentary early
in the day, for it really is live from Studio
C see san a dimly lit room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey
y'all today on Tuesday, we're under the tutelage of our
general manager. So many choices today. You have no idea
(00:59):
the pressures face and choosing the general manager on a
day like today where the smug Ignoramus Jimmy Kimmel comes
back to TV. You've got the whole tail and all
autism press conference yesterday, which was something else. You got
all sorts of stuff going on. But we've got to
go with this our general manager. The United Nations the
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greatest ratio of expense to productivity in the history of mankind. Yeah,
no kidding, As George Bush once called them, a meaningless
debating society, which is pretty close to true, meaningless and
incredibly expensive debating society. Yes, and what did you call Kimmel?
(01:40):
That was appropriate? Smug Ignoramus, He's smug anyway. If you're
like a Douglas Murray type, Doug is a little smug.
I've been accused of smugging this myself, But Douglas Murray's brilliant,
absolutely brilliant. If you're Neil Ferguson, you're a little smug. Okay,
(02:04):
I get it, I get it. If you're Jimmy Kimmel,
your dumb as a dog. You don't know anything about anything.
You just got a few talking points you saw on
Blue Sky. And yet he comes off like the master
of all, you know, the subtlety of thought. Hey, before
I get to my dilemma, I'll never understand why the
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late night talk shows get so much conversation at all.
I was gonna trust it off yesterdayar it really is.
It's a hangover from when those shows matter. I was
gonna try to see if Chat and GPT could come
up with me for a list of other shows that
have an audience of a million. I'll bet there are
fifty shows with an audience the same size that you've
never even heard the name, let alone watched. That would
(02:47):
be amusing yeah, I'll bet you're right, because it's like
a million people that watch each of those shows, so
whipping cares. I got bad news for you, America. Johnny
Carson is passed and will not return. Letterman still kicking,
but will not right. I don't know. If it's a
moral dilemma, if it's a courage dilemma, I don't know.
But anyway, So, there was a street person standing at
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the front door of the building when I was walking in.
If that always gets your day off to him still
there a good adrenaline soaked start. Well, he was right
at there at the front door, and I thought, I'm
gonna open the door and he's gonna follow me in?
Is it my job to push him back out? Do
I let him walk in the building where he then
has free run of the entire building? Almost certainly a
(03:29):
crazed drug addict. I mean, what am I supposed to
do here? Luckily he turned away when I went in
the door because I don't know, his dog was talking
to him or whatever, and he got distracted. But would
what would you do? Would you let him follow you in?
I mean, it's not well, you're shaping your head, Michael.
What would you do. I agree we shouldn't let him
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come in, But what would you do? Are you gonna say,
I'm sorry, sir, you can't come in Like you're in
charge of security? Do you have an appointment? I once
asked a guy who was making it clear that he
was going to follow me in because I had a
key fob and he didn't, you know, prior to the
crackadaw on, And I said, do you have a reason
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to be in the building or something like that, and
he said, yeah, I'm with the crew remodeling up on
the fourth floor. Okay, but he probably didn't look like
a crazed street person. Good point. Yeah, he was definitely scruffy,
but kind of you know, working man scruffy, right, yeah,
construction guy. I would I would I have said that
to people. Well, And he had the look of you
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could have a conversation with right. This guy had the
look of there's no conversation to be had, right. Uh, Katie,
you duck in and you hold the door closed until
it clicked. I shoulder, That magnetic thing kicks back in shoulder.
I pulled the door closed. Hang on a stiff farm.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I've been in this exact situation, and I walked around
the building to the other door just to avoid it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know, that's not a bad idea, right there, that's
not a bad I read there. I sniff arm him
right in the beer, right right, snap his head back.
I did the thing I often do when I approach
a street person. I taped. Okay, I do have my
knife with me if I end up in a fight
for my life, because that's just part of the world
we've created where you have to semi regularly wonder. I
(05:17):
wonder if I'm about to be in a fight for
my life because you get to just hang around as
a crazy person. Bums and junkies everywhere in America. You
can have this too. Vote Kevin Newsom at twenty eight
No kidding, all right, So Hanson, what would you do?
You let him follow you in or do you become
you know, I'm the cop, Hanson's cop all the way
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you've been spending all that time in a gym. Come
on now, just don't feel like report of my job
description to fight my way in the door and keep
pop and keep junkies out right, Hanson suggested a lake
kick to the back of the thigh. Oh yeah, sweeping
leg kick one of these. Yeah exactly. Oh yeah, that's
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a good maneuver. See I had to let him in
and put in a put him in a competing radio station,
so just there you go. Put him in the other studio.
I told him, here, press that button that turns the
mic on. Hef the breeze is down the hall, Go
in there and say whatever you want to those people. Ye. Yeah,
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I don't know. I probably wouldn't have let him follow
me in, just out of my own safety. But right,
so that's enough of that. Trump is speaking at the
UN today. Who knows what he will say and if
it makes any difference whatsoever. I don't think it's good
news that all these countries have joined in with there
needs to be a Palestinian state. It certainly gives Israel
(06:44):
less cover in coming days, months, and years anytime they're
trying to do anything if the whole world says, hey,
there's supposed to be a country there, right. I read
some great analysis. I wish I'd come up with this myself,
but it it made it clear that all of these
recognitions of the Palestinian state, whatever the hell that means,
(07:06):
is purely a gesture of disapproval toward Israel. It is
purely a punishment of Israel because the Macrones of the world,
the keer Starmer's whatever halfwit is in charge of Canada
right now, they know there's no Palestinian state and aren't
going to be. It is a truly and merely symbolic gesture. Yeah,
(07:29):
I'd say so. Like all the questions you had yesterday, Okay, uh,
what are the boundaries? What's the government?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What are their laws? Tell me about this Palestinian state
of yours? WHOA well, when do you suggest it starts? Well? Right, yeah,
And it's it's more than a little disturbing that world leaders,
including our feckless allies, engage in that sort of foolish
(08:01):
isn't aren't there you know, I'm asking the good folks.
Aren't there enough real problems out there without people engaging
in that sort of useless cynical symbolism. Well, part of
it is just to buy off their own Muslim populations
and their own progressive left, just to try to neutralize
that to whatever extent they can. But I tell you what,
(08:22):
you know, whether in life are in politics, you compromise
your principles to buy off you know, one constituency or
another enough and you end up putting no principles. A
little bit later, I took in a podcast yesterday with
a person who is an expert and written a book
about your mass shooters, assassin type people that do the
(08:50):
high profile, spectacular killings of themselves and others, and it's
what it's worth. I ran into the same thing. I
found it fascinating. Yeh, yeah, I'd say so. So we'll
take a look at that fits in with, you know,
some of the events that have happened in recent weeks. Absolutely. Yeah,
I'm anxious to hear your your favorite parts of it
are the most intriguing parts to you, because again I
(09:10):
thought it was super insightful. And there's one other thing
I wanted to tease. I don't remember. It was Keith
Oberman's an a hole. But that's not really new news. No,
that's not a tease. In addition to what he said
last week, Keith Oberman, he used to have a very
highly rated show on MSNBC. Okay, we'll get into that
more later. Uh. The the biggest carrier of Kimmel affiliates
(09:35):
says they're not gonna air Kimmel the Second hasn't made
a choice yet, haven't hasn't publicized that choice yet, hasn't
publicized it. That's an excellent distinction. But so we'll see
how that plays out throughout the day. Lots of stuff
on the way, Katie's headlines on the way. Next, here's
our text line four one five nine five KFTC. Holy Now,
(10:01):
I don't know if I'm stealing a headline from you, Katie.
This is breaking news. Swatting hoaxes have led Secret Service
agents as to three hundred servers capable of crippling New
York City's cell phone system. That news is just breaking.
That sounds pretty damned interesting to me. Oh boy, well
that's super great. I'm in the process of shipping all
(10:23):
my guitars to my son in case I die in
FCC prison because you failed to officially start the show. Yeah,
way to go, Jack, last segment. Yeah, thanks a lot. Trump.
The FCC is on the war path, and you jab
them in the eye. Well in a jab the junkie
in the eye, but you jabbed the FCC in the eye.
And the show. Yeah, Katie open to start a family
(10:48):
and she's going to be an FCC Chaiels. Yeah, I
think I think only I go to prison. So I
think you're on the hook, off the hook, we can
we'll justify against you. We could do it now. I'm
Jack Armstrong, He's Jo Getti on this. It is Twoday day,
September twenty third, the year twenty twenty five or Armstrong
and getting and we approve of this program. All right,
let's begin the show officially according to SEC rules. Rags
at Mark.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, Brian.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Profession No, No, I said, no, not you you're cenn
you effect this Go ahead, Brian, I want to go
back to there you go as part of the press
conference just day around tailand oh, I think in that
big announcement we'll play a little bit of that. Trump says,
don't take it. It's not worth the risk. Even if
(11:29):
RFK Junior said, well, in these specific certain sense, you
shouldn't take it, and Trump said, I don't see why
the point of taking the risk because Trump's like an
anti He doesn't take He doesn't no caffeine, no booze,
no smoking. I don't think he takes medicine either, if
he can avoid it. It's one of those people. Yeah,
he asked, McDonald's just mc donalds. Yeah, right, hell's not Yeah,
all of his advisors behind him were like, we didn't
(11:52):
say that that. No, oh boy, about the tail and
all thing. All right, but I think it'll come and go. Well,
I don't know. We can talk about it later. There
will be a fair number of women who are afraid
to take any aced of minafin product during pregnancy because
of that. Consult your doctor. Toughen out. That's what he said,
toughen out. Oh boy, it's not quite anyway. Let's figure
(12:17):
out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Katie alrighty guys, starting with The New York Times, Jimmy
Kimmel's show to return to ABC tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You, Oh, America rejoices. You know, it's like Trump lashing
out at CNN speaking of things that have no real
significance anymore. Just lash out at them. Don't like swatting a.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Mosquito speaking of CNN from CNN. US is blocking Iranian
diplomats in United States from shopping at Costco.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There you go, right, huh, that's right, you're gonna have
to pay. You can't buy in bulk, are right? All right?
You call me the Great Satan. You can't shop in
our stupendous superstores. Take that from the Washington Post.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Drone flights shut down airports in Denmark and Norway as
anxiety over Russia sores.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, like big nasty military, well piloted drones, couple of
major airports in northern Europe. Wow, I didn't know that. Okay,
that's a heck of a story from NBC.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Trump to address un AS divisions with allies deep in
over Palestinian statehood.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah. Boy, for all the attention that that's going to
get today, that question of Russia pushing NATO further and
further every day, That's that's the where the decision needs
to be made. That's where they need to get together
in corners and figure out what they're going to do.
And I still maintain that most of these statements of
solidarity with the Palestinian state are just trying to buy
(13:51):
off the Muslim populations and the progressive left in the
various countries England, France, Canada, whatever from US say today.
White House says, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Reaches deal to keep operating in the United States under
American ownership.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, it's all about the algorithm. Is the algorithm going
to be the same or Not.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
From the Washington Times, intelligence chief warns of Chinese threats
in space.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Their modernization pace is alarming. Ooh boy, what are you
trying to do to me today? Give me a heart attack.
China attacking on every front that can think of. Wake up, America,
wake up and smell the soy sauce.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
From the New York Post, Connecticut said ban first cousin marriages,
which are still legal in at least sixteen states.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You know, nobody's getting married at all or having sex,
So go ahead. Eaden's second cousins are getting married. I'm
gonna have to dig into that. Send me that story, Katie,
because I'm just curious as to why, why, now, why
did Connecticut all of a sudden to say, damn it,
that's it. Well, maybe not looking at birth rates and thinking,
(15:08):
you know, unless it's clearly a horrible idea, let's just
let's not put up any barriers the family.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Starting from study fines, college students' test scores soared after
chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
They're writing not so much. Okay, that's pretty interesting. Yeah,
I was reading about a subculture of college students. High
school students too or refuse to use it at all.
They insist on learning the old school way, and they're
taking on a hell of a challenge. They're a fairly
small minority, I guess, but they will run the world.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And finally, from the Babylon b more winning, Trump orders
bombing of ship smuggling thirty thousand kilos of pumpkin spice
into the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I had ending up for Americans against that bully. I
have it out with that flavor right now. I can't.
It's everywhere and it's driving me crazy already. Yeah, so
you mentioned in chat GPT. I was big on that
for a while and I still am. So I've got
chat GPT, Claude and Grock now that I compare every
(16:18):
question with I should get Gemini I on there and
see who I like the best. He's one of my favorite.
Pundits said they like Claude the best, so I was
trying that out. They are all subtly different. They're definitely
different around copyright stuff. Like I was doing some research
on art that I was talking to somebody about well
(16:39):
last night, and a couple of them will not give
you the image. I'm sorry, that's copyrighted. We can't show
you that. Whereas chat GPT is like, yeah, here's eight
different versions. So I'm you know, it just just shows
you how there's the rules are all over the place
on this stuff. I'm a computer. I don't need a lawyer.
I show you anything you want. Yeah. Speaking of which,
the copy shop employee you refuse to print a Charlie
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Kirk poster and got fired. Isn't that just like the
Denver baker who wouldn't make gay cupcakes or what have you.
We've had people emailing about that. I would love to
talk about that. Why it is different? Okay, cool, Well
we'll do that next and a whole bunch of other stuff.
It's going to be a pretty big news day, So
I hope you can stick around. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That campaign that you all launched pretending that you were
going to cancel Hulu while secretly racing through four seasons
of only murders in the building. I really was congratulations,
wasn't it? Wasn't it interesting to try and figure out
all the tentacles Disney has in your daily life. It's
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one thing to swear off cruises, but the Avengers.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Nah, how is.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It possible that by getting rid of one company? I
can't watch Winnie the Pooh or Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That is pretty funny when you think about now, oh,
I'm gonna boycott Disney. Oh are you if you looked
into what that means? Right? Why were they gonna boycott
Disney because canceled Kimmel? All right? Yeah, that was the
hottest story among back crowd for the last week. So
people were, so, you're gonna cancel your Hulu your Disney trip,
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not watch the Avengers or Monday Night Football or yeah,
that's his point. You got a boycott Disney, A tiny
flash in a stupid pan. You know, you probably don't
remember this. A couple of years ago, I came across
a really good comprehensive chart. I guess it was of
Disney Corporation and it's holdings, and as I was describing
(18:46):
at the time, it makes Exxon or GM look like
your corner coffee shop. It is all the stuff, you know,
lots of media stuff is John Store was pointing out
that you didn't realize hotels all in conference centers all
over the world branded Disney and many not branded Disney.
(19:10):
MANU factoring just accounting processing, just like they have their
The mouse is not a mouse he's an eight hundred
pound gorilla, giant soul crushing just calculating corporation. The fact
that they've still got the image of facts the happiest
pleasure on earth come with your smile at kids is
(19:32):
really quite an accomplishment. You almost have to admire it.
That's right. I'm a pretty big effing deal. Move out
of the way. Oh crush you. I I crushed goofy.
You don't hear much from him anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Do Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Jeez? Put his head and device. I got a follow
up on the banning marriages among first cousins in Connecticut.
Gotta follow on that story. Didn't see that coming from
one angle of the controversy. That actually what makes sense
to me. Why would you ban gay first cousins from
getting married. It's all about having kids, So I can't
(20:07):
a couple of dudes who are first cousins who fall
in love with each other a little weird, uh, decided
to get married. Why not make Thanksgiving dinner a little uncomfortable.
That's where the controversy comes in. So anyway, more on
that and a whole bunch of other stuff later. Wow. Okay, So,
speaking of controversies, I found this very interesting, particularly because
we got a couple of females asking about it. Uh.
(20:29):
You remember the Colorado bake shop who refused to make
a gag for a gay wedding, And there have been
a couple other cases like this. There was a giant
Supreme Court ruling, right and which what did they rule
that he could say no to making the cake? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah,
And I'm getting to that it was made a huge
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cause by the left who was screaming no, it's discrimination,
and what the Supreme Court decided quite correctly in my opinion,
And I don't have the decisions in front of me,
So forgive me if my paraphrasing is a little off,
actual attorneys, But if you are asking somebody to engage
in create the creative arts, an act of sell of
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expression and creation, as opposed to say, pressing go on
a copy machine, they cannot be compelled to engage in
that speech because compelled speech is as bad as censored speech.
So you cannot force me to write a song or well,
you cannot compel me to agree to write a song
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zorin mum, danmi will save New York. I won't do it.
I won't take money for it. I won't create that.
And that's good because the First Amendment protects you against
compel spe But you couldn't say I won't sell you
this cardboard to make signs, because that's a commodity. It's
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not a creative expression. So you got this case in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
one of our more amusingly named cities in America. Kalamazoo.
Here's this twenty one year old duty. He's the head
of the Kalamazoo Young Republicans. He's running errands, getting ready
for a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk. One of his stops
was at his local office depot to print a poster
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that was a picture of Charlie in black and white
and said the legendary Charlie Kirk nineteen ninety three twenty five.
And some folks there at the home depot refused to
print it, calling it propaganda. Okay, so two and a
home depot fired the employees initiative of public apology. So
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there are two levels of two questions here. One is
the first time men, sure they did, I'm sure they've
got Hey, just if somebody comes in and wants to
make just make the freaking copy and send them up
a Dorria, freaking morh, nobody cares what you think, and
concluding me, I think you are go go. So anyway,
there's two questions here. The first one is the First
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Amendment question, which I think I've more or less dealt with.
Pressing go on copy machine is not the same as
painting a portrait, writing a song, painstakingly decorating a cake,
which is an artistic expression. And the second question is,
and there are people on the left saying, oh, you conservatives,
you're defending the baker, blah blah blah. But no, are
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these poor guys you can fire from the home people. No.
The second question is does a giant corporation must they
employ jackasses? We will say, I'm not hitting go on
this printer couse, I don't like your politics. It's a
completely different question. I would suggest that a bakery that's
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not a owned and operated by the cake decorator. But
if it's some big industrial bakery, I'm working for one
of the big grocery stores that also does cake decorator.
Costco does, don't they anyway? Uh? If I'm a cake
decorator for Costco and I say, well, sorry, not going
to decorate that cake for gay fellaws. Costco has every
(24:11):
right to say, well that we do here and you
work for us, so goobye, and then you can go
ahead and start your own business where you can make
that choice. But there's a difference between making it for
yourself and making it for your employer. And you don't
want to live in a world where you know either
one of those things doesn't apply. So I couldn't. By
(24:37):
the way, you got a job at office depot. It's
not like you're the shortstop for the Yankees. You know,
there are other jobs out there. Go somewhere they love
you at. Get out of here. Well, I think in general,
I think it should be easier to fire people. Just
in general. Yeah, I don't like I don't like your attitude.
You know, you shouldn't have to like document it over
(24:59):
six months whatever. That's a that's a perfectly reasonable reason
to get rid of people don't like you just did.
It makes the workplace on front hard to work with. Yeah,
so you raise our stress and your lower product, so
you get goo bye. AnyWho. So I couldn't like just
not like it's a wedding cake. I'm not decorating at all.
I'd say, I'm not selling a wedding cake to you
(25:20):
with your gay marriage. You can't do that, right, It's
a private, little individual. I'm a one man cake shop. Yeah,
that's a commodity. It's not a creative expression. Okay, So
that's the that's because people always use the example of
not serving black people at a soda counter or whatever. Right, yeah, exactly.
Now you might pour that soda with love and dedication,
(25:40):
but it's not a creative expression. It's different. And and
again it's protecting the preciousness of free speech, which is
something of my many g hods. That's right at the top,
which is why I'm vocally harshly critical of what the
Trump administration is doing right now. I don't like it.
There needs to be it's like we've talked about, there
needs to be something called super guilty, where it's just
(26:01):
like you're so incredibly obviously guilty in so many different ways,
just like, let's skip the trial and execute I mean, right,
super guilty. There needs to be super a hole or
something like that. The sort of person who would refuse
to print some up with Charlie Kirk poster, You're just
a jerk. I don't want you around anything. I don't
want you involved in my kids little league. I don't
(26:23):
want you in my neighborhood. I just you're just an
a hole. Yes, and there are a lot of them
these days. And here's another great way to look at
what I was describing before. If that person, the aforementioned
a hole, according to mister Armstrong, were to say to
the guy printing the Charlie Kirk poster, Okay, i'll print
it for you, but I hated Charlie Kirk and I
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think your politics suck. You have a one hundred percent
ironclad First Amendment right to say that, and Home Deepost
should fire you on the spot. Yeah, because Home Depot
is not the federal government. They're your employer. Well, I
wouldn't want them as an employee. Well, switching around because
you know, too many people in an instagree with this.
(27:07):
If I work somewhere and somebody's coming in and mom
Dommy's a good idea, they got their big mom Dammy poster,
I don't get to say no, I don't like mom Dommy,
so I'm not printing your poster. I mean, it's ridiculous.
I might say he's a commedy scumbag who's going to
ruin New York. Thank you for your business. But then
when my boss came to me and said, hey, malthe mcmotherson,
(27:30):
I need you to see me in my office. Hey
did you can't come as a shock. But what about
free speech? I would say as an ignoramus, Hey, Jimmy
notes skills. How about you just do what you're told
until you develop some skills. The trained monkeys are about
a day away from being ready. Do you get my meeting?
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past the sort of person that part of your job
description is pressing print on a copier and you're making
big decisions. I mean, I mean, and I've had no
(29:15):
skilled jobs. I was sorting nails at a big hardware
store when I was a college graduate for a while.
All right, that's about a lowest skilled job as you
can and I should have had no role in making
any decisions on behalf of the corporation as a guy
who brought to the company the skill of telling a
big nail from a small nail and put them in
different piles. Yeah, literally trained monkey work, Yes, which I
(29:39):
have done myself, trust me, right, right, right? What was
I gonna say? It seemed important at the time trained
monkeys nails the constitution. You could train a monkey to
short nails, probably be better at it. Oh, I know
what I was gonna say, Well, it would certainly, you know,
if you gave it a banana every now and again
or some grapes, probably be happy as can be. The
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generation or the sort of person who is so emotional
about their political beliefs and so convinced that anybody who
would print a Charlie Kirk poster is a monster and
to be opposed is a very progressive thing. It's more
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common on the progressive side, I think than the conservative side,
although there certainly I've known plenty of fairly obligerent conservatives
who'd say what they thought, but that idea, that look,
there's somebody who disagrees with me. I can't stand it.
I just don't get that. Well, we need to move
away from that. You're talking about people on both sides.
(30:49):
How about we stop doing that. And you know what
Charlie Kirk might even say is he'd print it and say,
you know, I find this character to be divisive and
some stuff he said was like line hateful to me?
Why do you like him? And not in a attacking way,
but a curious way, even although I'd prefer you not
(31:10):
do it on company time. Here at the home depot,
the paper clips need sorting and it's Jack stay off.
Bosa's out for the season. What Nick Bosa? He's out
for this superstar San Francisco, forty first place, undefeated, forty
nine ers. He's out for the season with a torn
acl That sucks, got it. That's the worst part of
(31:32):
the NFL. I mean, the NFL has got a lot
going forward. It's the number one sport by far, But
the worst part of it is so many of the
good players get hurt. Yeah, god dang it, that sucks. Anyway,
we got email on the way and a whole bunch
of other different topics to get to. Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel
is gonna be back on the air Tonet. That's gonna
be hard to take. He's gonna be so self satisfied
(31:53):
and smug all of the apology. Did they brow beat
him into making that'll be He's not making one, right.
Do you think he'll really cry? The news was yesterday
he said he is not part of the agreement. Was
he is not going to apologize. Wow, okay, well, keep
in mind this is utterly insignificant. Okay, stay tuned. Well,
(32:17):
Fat Bear Week is back. I kind of remember this
from last year Fat Bear Week, where there some website
has a couple of fat bears and you vote on him,
and then that bear goes on to in the bracket
to face the next fat bear that people hiking. People
vote on it. Fat You remember that from last year?
I kind of was a full year ago. Yeah, or
maybe it seems more recent because didn't like last year's
(32:38):
champion croak or something. I do not know this. I
did not know this matter Fat Bear Week. We'll have
to come up with the link for that. She can
get involved. She's like, yes, here's your freedom loving quote
of the day.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
For more.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, I'll go with this one of a tree, especially
one of the long living hardwood trees is a gift
which you can make to posterity and almost no costing,
with almost no trouble. And if the tree takes root,
it will far outlive the visible effect of any of
your other actions, good or evil. It's an interesting thought.
I was walking through the forest on our big hike
(33:18):
over the weekend, and redwood forest here in northern California,
and you know, those trees are hundreds of years old.
They were growing when George Washington was president. It's just
a stunning thought, hitting things in perspective. Ye, I've heard
the planting of trees that will be enjoyed long after
you're gone as a it's a great metaphor for being
(33:41):
a good citizen. Voting for things and policies are like
planting those trees. I mean the opposite would be, I
don't know, spending your children and grandchildren into oblivion. That
would be the opposites of the good thing to do.
Oh boy, oh, I'm sorry. That was discouraging. I'm discouraged. Scourge.
Everybody's scourge. I apologize. Mailbag. Let's see mail bag at
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Armstrong and Giddy dot com is the email address. A
lot of short emails today, Sean guys that social media
is called blue Sky. I figured it was pronounced blue
sky like Rusky during the Cold War. Feels like a
better fit, and I don't think they disagree with the
implication blue sky. Let's see, this is David talking about
(34:32):
how bad network news is. Then we heard plenty about
Jackie the Bear. Joe, how'd you do at your golf tournament?
Just fine? Played fine, had a great time, solid friends,
enjoyed the beauty of Monterey, California. A too much, drank
too much, it was fantastic in the pack. Finished I'm
nearly killed by a bear. And you equate that with
how was Joe's golf round? Yes, that's correct. Let's see,
(34:55):
Sheila right. Jack was sharing with us as efforts to
get rid of his RBF and replace it with his new,
heavily practiced happy face. I do it all the time, constantly.
Now recalling how Davy Crockett famously grinned down a bar,
I'm wondering why Jack didn't just fire up his new
happy face an attempt to grin down that bar. Yeah,
it's a good question, Shield exactly. I wasn't exactly sure
(35:22):
what to do, but I was not sticking my head
out of that tent flap. No, no, no, no. I
mean a tent isn't much of a barrier, but at
least the bear doesn't know where to swing its mighty claws,
right if you're inside the tent. Yeah, what a chilling
moment on the top of my name my underwear too.
I can't fight a bear in my underwear. It's undignified.
(35:43):
Right on the topic of young Erica Kirk, do you
think missus Kirk for giving that man who shot her
husband paves the way for Utah to not see the
death penalty. No, absolutely not. I feel her near future
will be on the Vance Kirk presidential ticket. That's an
interesting thing. She may have no interest in that. John
Anonymous writes, you guys have missed the real truth between
(36:05):
Kimmel's cancelation the FTC has finally enacted his lifetime ban
from comedy as a multiple loser of more than his
share of late night jokeoffs on Armstrong and Getty Show. God,
He's gonna be hard to take and I'm not gonna
watch it tonight, but the clips are going to be
everywhere by the self satisfied media that feels like this
is a blow against Trump. All right, whatever, We got
a lot more on the way. If you miss it,
(36:26):
get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Petty and he arms Ronget. I have a moral dilemma
(00:35):
a few minutes ago. We'll have to discuss momentary early
in the day, for it really is live from Studio
C see san a dimly lit room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey
y'all today on Tuesday, we're under the tutelage of our
general manager. So many choices today. You have no idea
(00:59):
the pressures face and choosing the general manager on a
day like today where the smug Ignoramus Jimmy Kimmel comes
back to TV. You've got the whole tail and all
autism press conference yesterday, which was something else. You got
all sorts of stuff going on. But we've got to
go with this our general manager. The United Nations the
(01:20):
greatest ratio of expense to productivity in the history of mankind. Yeah,
no kidding, As George Bush once called them, a meaningless
debating society, which is pretty close to true, meaningless and
incredibly expensive debating society. Yes, and what did you call Kimmel?
(01:40):
That was appropriate? Smug Ignoramus, He's smug anyway. If you're
like a Douglas Murray type, Doug is a little smug.
I've been accused of smugging this myself, But Douglas Murray's brilliant,
absolutely brilliant. If you're Neil Ferguson, you're a little smug. Okay,
(02:04):
I get it, I get it. If you're Jimmy Kimmel,
your dumb as a dog. You don't know anything about anything.
You just got a few talking points you saw on
Blue Sky. And yet he comes off like the master
of all, you know, the subtlety of thought. Hey, before
I get to my dilemma, I'll never understand why the
(02:24):
late night talk shows get so much conversation at all.
I was gonna trust it off yesterdayar it really is.
It's a hangover from when those shows matter. I was
gonna try to see if Chat and GPT could come
up with me for a list of other shows that
have an audience of a million. I'll bet there are
fifty shows with an audience the same size that you've
never even heard the name, let alone watched. That would
(02:47):
be amusing yeah, I'll bet you're right, because it's like
a million people that watch each of those shows, so
whipping cares. I got bad news for you, America. Johnny
Carson is passed and will not return. Letterman still kicking,
but will not right. I don't know. If it's a
moral dilemma, if it's a courage dilemma, I don't know.
But anyway, So, there was a street person standing at
(03:09):
the front door of the building when I was walking in.
If that always gets your day off to him still
there a good adrenaline soaked start. Well, he was right
at there at the front door, and I thought, I'm
gonna open the door and he's gonna follow me in?
Is it my job to push him back out? Do
I let him walk in the building where he then
has free run of the entire building? Almost certainly a
(03:29):
crazed drug addict. I mean, what am I supposed to
do here? Luckily he turned away when I went in
the door because I don't know, his dog was talking
to him or whatever, and he got distracted. But would
what would you do? Would you let him follow you in?
I mean, it's not well, you're shaping your head, Michael.
What would you do. I agree we shouldn't let him
(03:49):
come in, But what would you do? Are you gonna say,
I'm sorry, sir, you can't come in Like you're in
charge of security? Do you have an appointment? I once
asked a guy who was making it clear that he
was going to follow me in because I had a
key fob and he didn't, you know, prior to the
crackadaw on, And I said, do you have a reason
(04:11):
to be in the building or something like that, and
he said, yeah, I'm with the crew remodeling up on
the fourth floor. Okay, but he probably didn't look like
a crazed street person. Good point. Yeah, he was definitely scruffy,
but kind of you know, working man scruffy, right, yeah,
construction guy. I would I would I have said that
to people. Well, And he had the look of you
(04:31):
could have a conversation with right. This guy had the
look of there's no conversation to be had, right. Uh, Katie,
you duck in and you hold the door closed until
it clicked. I shoulder, That magnetic thing kicks back in shoulder.
I pulled the door closed. Hang on a stiff farm.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I've been in this exact situation, and I walked around
the building to the other door just to avoid it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You know, that's not a bad idea, right there, that's
not a bad I read there. I sniff arm him
right in the beer, right right, snap his head back.
I did the thing I often do when I approach
a street person. I taped. Okay, I do have my
knife with me if I end up in a fight
for my life, because that's just part of the world
we've created where you have to semi regularly wonder. I
(05:17):
wonder if I'm about to be in a fight for
my life because you get to just hang around as
a crazy person. Bums and junkies everywhere in America. You
can have this too. Vote Kevin Newsom at twenty eight
No kidding, all right, So Hanson, what would you do?
You let him follow you in or do you become
you know, I'm the cop, Hanson's cop all the way
(05:41):
you've been spending all that time in a gym. Come
on now, just don't feel like report of my job
description to fight my way in the door and keep
pop and keep junkies out right, Hanson suggested a lake
kick to the back of the thigh. Oh yeah, sweeping
leg kick one of these. Yeah exactly. Oh yeah, that's
(06:02):
a good maneuver. See I had to let him in
and put in a put him in a competing radio station,
so just there you go. Put him in the other studio.
I told him, here, press that button that turns the
mic on. Hef the breeze is down the hall, Go
in there and say whatever you want to those people. Ye. Yeah,
(06:24):
I don't know. I probably wouldn't have let him follow
me in, just out of my own safety. But right,
so that's enough of that. Trump is speaking at the
UN today. Who knows what he will say and if
it makes any difference whatsoever. I don't think it's good
news that all these countries have joined in with there
needs to be a Palestinian state. It certainly gives Israel
(06:44):
less cover in coming days, months, and years anytime they're
trying to do anything if the whole world says, hey,
there's supposed to be a country there, right. I read
some great analysis. I wish I'd come up with this myself,
but it it made it clear that all of these
recognitions of the Palestinian state, whatever the hell that means,
(07:06):
is purely a gesture of disapproval toward Israel. It is
purely a punishment of Israel because the Macrones of the world,
the keer Starmer's whatever halfwit is in charge of Canada
right now, they know there's no Palestinian state and aren't
going to be. It is a truly and merely symbolic gesture. Yeah,
(07:29):
I'd say so. Like all the questions you had yesterday, Okay, uh,
what are the boundaries? What's the government?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What are their laws? Tell me about this Palestinian state
of yours? WHOA well, when do you suggest it starts? Well? Right, yeah,
And it's it's more than a little disturbing that world leaders,
including our feckless allies, engage in that sort of foolish
(08:01):
isn't aren't there you know, I'm asking the good folks.
Aren't there enough real problems out there without people engaging
in that sort of useless cynical symbolism. Well, part of
it is just to buy off their own Muslim populations
and their own progressive left, just to try to neutralize
that to whatever extent they can. But I tell you what,
(08:22):
you know, whether in life are in politics, you compromise
your principles to buy off you know, one constituency or
another enough and you end up putting no principles. A
little bit later, I took in a podcast yesterday with
a person who is an expert and written a book
about your mass shooters, assassin type people that do the
(08:50):
high profile, spectacular killings of themselves and others, and it's
what it's worth. I ran into the same thing. I
found it fascinating. Yeh, yeah, I'd say so. So we'll
take a look at that fits in with, you know,
some of the events that have happened in recent weeks. Absolutely. Yeah,
I'm anxious to hear your your favorite parts of it
are the most intriguing parts to you, because again I
(09:10):
thought it was super insightful. And there's one other thing
I wanted to tease. I don't remember. It was Keith
Oberman's an a hole. But that's not really new news. No,
that's not a tease. In addition to what he said
last week, Keith Oberman, he used to have a very
highly rated show on MSNBC. Okay, we'll get into that
more later. Uh. The the biggest carrier of Kimmel affiliates
(09:35):
says they're not gonna air Kimmel the Second hasn't made
a choice yet, haven't hasn't publicized that choice yet, hasn't
publicized it. That's an excellent distinction. But so we'll see
how that plays out throughout the day. Lots of stuff
on the way, Katie's headlines on the way. Next, here's
our text line four one five nine five KFTC. Holy Now,
(10:01):
I don't know if I'm stealing a headline from you, Katie.
This is breaking news. Swatting hoaxes have led Secret Service
agents as to three hundred servers capable of crippling New
York City's cell phone system. That news is just breaking.
That sounds pretty damned interesting to me. Oh boy, well
that's super great. I'm in the process of shipping all
(10:23):
my guitars to my son in case I die in
FCC prison because you failed to officially start the show. Yeah,
way to go, Jack, last segment. Yeah, thanks a lot. Trump.
The FCC is on the war path, and you jab
them in the eye. Well in a jab the junkie
in the eye, but you jabbed the FCC in the eye.
And the show. Yeah, Katie open to start a family
(10:48):
and she's going to be an FCC Chaiels. Yeah, I
think I think only I go to prison. So I
think you're on the hook, off the hook, we can
we'll justify against you. We could do it now. I'm
Jack Armstrong, He's Jo Getti on this. It is Twoday day,
September twenty third, the year twenty twenty five or Armstrong
and getting and we approve of this program. All right,
let's begin the show officially according to SEC rules. Rags
at Mark.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, Brian.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Profession No, No, I said, no, not you you're cenn
you effect this Go ahead, Brian, I want to go
back to there you go as part of the press
conference just day around tailand oh, I think in that
big announcement we'll play a little bit of that. Trump says,
don't take it. It's not worth the risk. Even if
(11:29):
RFK Junior said, well, in these specific certain sense, you
shouldn't take it, and Trump said, I don't see why
the point of taking the risk because Trump's like an
anti He doesn't take He doesn't no caffeine, no booze,
no smoking. I don't think he takes medicine either, if
he can avoid it. It's one of those people. Yeah,
he asked, McDonald's just mc donalds. Yeah, right, hell's not Yeah,
all of his advisors behind him were like, we didn't
(11:52):
say that that. No, oh boy, about the tail and
all thing. All right, but I think it'll come and go. Well,
I don't know. We can talk about it later. There
will be a fair number of women who are afraid
to take any aced of minafin product during pregnancy because
of that. Consult your doctor. Toughen out. That's what he said,
toughen out. Oh boy, it's not quite anyway. Let's figure
(12:17):
out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Katie alrighty guys, starting with The New York Times, Jimmy
Kimmel's show to return to ABC tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You, Oh, America rejoices. You know, it's like Trump lashing
out at CNN speaking of things that have no real
significance anymore. Just lash out at them. Don't like swatting a.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Mosquito speaking of CNN from CNN. US is blocking Iranian
diplomats in United States from shopping at Costco.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There you go, right, huh, that's right, you're gonna have
to pay. You can't buy in bulk, are right? All right?
You call me the Great Satan. You can't shop in
our stupendous superstores. Take that from the Washington Post.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Drone flights shut down airports in Denmark and Norway as
anxiety over Russia sores.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, like big nasty military, well piloted drones, couple of
major airports in northern Europe. Wow, I didn't know that. Okay,
that's a heck of a story from NBC.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Trump to address un AS divisions with allies deep in
over Palestinian statehood.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah. Boy, for all the attention that that's going to
get today, that question of Russia pushing NATO further and
further every day, That's that's the where the decision needs
to be made. That's where they need to get together
in corners and figure out what they're going to do.
And I still maintain that most of these statements of
solidarity with the Palestinian state are just trying to buy
(13:51):
off the Muslim populations and the progressive left in the
various countries England, France, Canada, whatever from US say today.
White House says, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Reaches deal to keep operating in the United States under
American ownership.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, it's all about the algorithm. Is the algorithm going
to be the same or Not.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
From the Washington Times, intelligence chief warns of Chinese threats
in space.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Their modernization pace is alarming. Ooh boy, what are you
trying to do to me today? Give me a heart attack.
China attacking on every front that can think of. Wake up, America,
wake up and smell the soy sauce.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
From the New York Post, Connecticut said ban first cousin marriages,
which are still legal in at least sixteen states.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You know, nobody's getting married at all or having sex,
So go ahead. Eaden's second cousins are getting married. I'm
gonna have to dig into that. Send me that story, Katie,
because I'm just curious as to why, why, now, why
did Connecticut all of a sudden to say, damn it,
that's it. Well, maybe not looking at birth rates and thinking,
(15:08):
you know, unless it's clearly a horrible idea, let's just
let's not put up any barriers the family.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Starting from study fines, college students' test scores soared after
chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
They're writing not so much. Okay, that's pretty interesting. Yeah,
I was reading about a subculture of college students. High
school students too or refuse to use it at all.
They insist on learning the old school way, and they're
taking on a hell of a challenge. They're a fairly
small minority, I guess, but they will run the world.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And finally, from the Babylon b more winning, Trump orders
bombing of ship smuggling thirty thousand kilos of pumpkin spice
into the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I had ending up for Americans against that bully. I
have it out with that flavor right now. I can't.
It's everywhere and it's driving me crazy already. Yeah, so
you mentioned in chat GPT. I was big on that
for a while and I still am. So I've got
chat GPT, Claude and Grock now that I compare every
(16:18):
question with I should get Gemini I on there and
see who I like the best. He's one of my favorite.
Pundits said they like Claude the best, so I was
trying that out. They are all subtly different. They're definitely
different around copyright stuff. Like I was doing some research
on art that I was talking to somebody about well
(16:39):
last night, and a couple of them will not give
you the image. I'm sorry, that's copyrighted. We can't show
you that. Whereas chat GPT is like, yeah, here's eight
different versions. So I'm you know, it just just shows
you how there's the rules are all over the place
on this stuff. I'm a computer. I don't need a lawyer.
I show you anything you want. Yeah. Speaking of which,
the copy shop employee you refuse to print a Charlie
(17:03):
Kirk poster and got fired. Isn't that just like the
Denver baker who wouldn't make gay cupcakes or what have you.
We've had people emailing about that. I would love to
talk about that. Why it is different? Okay, cool, Well
we'll do that next and a whole bunch of other stuff.
It's going to be a pretty big news day, So
I hope you can stick around. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That campaign that you all launched pretending that you were
going to cancel Hulu while secretly racing through four seasons
of only murders in the building. I really was congratulations,
wasn't it? Wasn't it interesting to try and figure out
all the tentacles Disney has in your daily life. It's
(17:46):
one thing to swear off cruises, but the Avengers.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Nah, how is.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It possible that by getting rid of one company? I
can't watch Winnie the Pooh or Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
That is pretty funny when you think about now, oh,
I'm gonna boycott Disney. Oh are you if you looked
into what that means? Right? Why were they gonna boycott
Disney because canceled Kimmel? All right? Yeah, that was the
hottest story among back crowd for the last week. So
people were, so, you're gonna cancel your Hulu your Disney trip,
(18:23):
not watch the Avengers or Monday Night Football or yeah,
that's his point. You got a boycott Disney, A tiny
flash in a stupid pan. You know, you probably don't
remember this. A couple of years ago, I came across
a really good comprehensive chart. I guess it was of
Disney Corporation and it's holdings, and as I was describing
(18:46):
at the time, it makes Exxon or GM look like
your corner coffee shop. It is all the stuff, you know,
lots of media stuff is John Store was pointing out
that you didn't realize hotels all in conference centers all
over the world branded Disney and many not branded Disney.
(19:10):
MANU factoring just accounting processing, just like they have their
The mouse is not a mouse he's an eight hundred
pound gorilla, giant soul crushing just calculating corporation. The fact
that they've still got the image of facts the happiest
pleasure on earth come with your smile at kids is
(19:32):
really quite an accomplishment. You almost have to admire it.
That's right. I'm a pretty big effing deal. Move out
of the way. Oh crush you. I I crushed goofy.
You don't hear much from him anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Do Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Jeez? Put his head and device. I got a follow
up on the banning marriages among first cousins in Connecticut.
Gotta follow on that story. Didn't see that coming from
one angle of the controversy. That actually what makes sense
to me. Why would you ban gay first cousins from
getting married. It's all about having kids, So I can't
(20:07):
a couple of dudes who are first cousins who fall
in love with each other a little weird, uh, decided
to get married. Why not make Thanksgiving dinner a little uncomfortable.
That's where the controversy comes in. So anyway, more on
that and a whole bunch of other stuff later. Wow. Okay, So,
speaking of controversies, I found this very interesting, particularly because
we got a couple of females asking about it. Uh.
(20:29):
You remember the Colorado bake shop who refused to make
a gag for a gay wedding, And there have been
a couple other cases like this. There was a giant
Supreme Court ruling, right and which what did they rule
that he could say no to making the cake? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah,
And I'm getting to that it was made a huge
(20:52):
cause by the left who was screaming no, it's discrimination,
and what the Supreme Court decided quite correctly in my opinion,
And I don't have the decisions in front of me,
So forgive me if my paraphrasing is a little off,
actual attorneys, But if you are asking somebody to engage
in create the creative arts, an act of sell of
(21:17):
expression and creation, as opposed to say, pressing go on
a copy machine, they cannot be compelled to engage in
that speech because compelled speech is as bad as censored speech.
So you cannot force me to write a song or well,
you cannot compel me to agree to write a song
(21:39):
zorin mum, danmi will save New York. I won't do it.
I won't take money for it. I won't create that.
And that's good because the First Amendment protects you against
compel spe But you couldn't say I won't sell you
this cardboard to make signs, because that's a commodity. It's
(22:00):
not a creative expression. So you got this case in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
one of our more amusingly named cities in America. Kalamazoo.
Here's this twenty one year old duty. He's the head
of the Kalamazoo Young Republicans. He's running errands, getting ready
for a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk. One of his stops
was at his local office depot to print a poster
(22:22):
that was a picture of Charlie in black and white
and said the legendary Charlie Kirk nineteen ninety three twenty five.
And some folks there at the home depot refused to
print it, calling it propaganda. Okay, so two and a
home depot fired the employees initiative of public apology. So
(22:45):
there are two levels of two questions here. One is
the first time men, sure they did, I'm sure they've
got Hey, just if somebody comes in and wants to
make just make the freaking copy and send them up
a Dorria, freaking morh, nobody cares what you think, and
concluding me, I think you are go go. So anyway,
there's two questions here. The first one is the First
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Amendment question, which I think I've more or less dealt with.
Pressing go on copy machine is not the same as
painting a portrait, writing a song, painstakingly decorating a cake,
which is an artistic expression. And the second question is,
and there are people on the left saying, oh, you conservatives,
you're defending the baker, blah blah blah. But no, are
(23:28):
these poor guys you can fire from the home people. No.
The second question is does a giant corporation must they
employ jackasses? We will say, I'm not hitting go on
this printer couse, I don't like your politics. It's a
completely different question. I would suggest that a bakery that's
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not a owned and operated by the cake decorator. But
if it's some big industrial bakery, I'm working for one
of the big grocery stores that also does cake decorator.
Costco does, don't they anyway? Uh? If I'm a cake
decorator for Costco and I say, well, sorry, not going
to decorate that cake for gay fellaws. Costco has every
(24:11):
right to say, well that we do here and you
work for us, so goobye, and then you can go
ahead and start your own business where you can make
that choice. But there's a difference between making it for
yourself and making it for your employer. And you don't
want to live in a world where you know either
one of those things doesn't apply. So I couldn't. By
(24:37):
the way, you got a job at office depot. It's
not like you're the shortstop for the Yankees. You know,
there are other jobs out there. Go somewhere they love
you at. Get out of here. Well, I think in general,
I think it should be easier to fire people. Just
in general. Yeah, I don't like I don't like your attitude.
You know, you shouldn't have to like document it over
(24:59):
six months whatever. That's a that's a perfectly reasonable reason
to get rid of people don't like you just did.
It makes the workplace on front hard to work with. Yeah,
so you raise our stress and your lower product, so
you get goo bye. AnyWho. So I couldn't like just
not like it's a wedding cake. I'm not decorating at all.
I'd say, I'm not selling a wedding cake to you
(25:20):
with your gay marriage. You can't do that, right, It's
a private, little individual. I'm a one man cake shop. Yeah,
that's a commodity. It's not a creative expression. Okay, So
that's the that's because people always use the example of
not serving black people at a soda counter or whatever. Right, yeah, exactly.
Now you might pour that soda with love and dedication,
(25:40):
but it's not a creative expression. It's different. And and
again it's protecting the preciousness of free speech, which is
something of my many g hods. That's right at the top,
which is why I'm vocally harshly critical of what the
Trump administration is doing right now. I don't like it.
There needs to be it's like we've talked about, there
needs to be something called super guilty, where it's just
(26:01):
like you're so incredibly obviously guilty in so many different ways,
just like, let's skip the trial and execute I mean, right,
super guilty. There needs to be super a hole or
something like that. The sort of person who would refuse
to print some up with Charlie Kirk poster, You're just
a jerk. I don't want you around anything. I don't
want you involved in my kids little league. I don't
(26:23):
want you in my neighborhood. I just you're just an
a hole. Yes, and there are a lot of them
these days. And here's another great way to look at
what I was describing before. If that person, the aforementioned
a hole, according to mister Armstrong, were to say to
the guy printing the Charlie Kirk poster, Okay, i'll print
it for you, but I hated Charlie Kirk and I
(26:46):
think your politics suck. You have a one hundred percent
ironclad First Amendment right to say that, and Home Deepost
should fire you on the spot. Yeah, because Home Depot
is not the federal government. They're your employer. Well, I
wouldn't want them as an employee. Well, switching around because
you know, too many people in an instagree with this.
(27:07):
If I work somewhere and somebody's coming in and mom
Dommy's a good idea, they got their big mom Dammy poster,
I don't get to say no, I don't like mom Dommy,
so I'm not printing your poster. I mean, it's ridiculous.
I might say he's a commedy scumbag who's going to
ruin New York. Thank you for your business. But then
when my boss came to me and said, hey, malthe mcmotherson,
(27:30):
I need you to see me in my office. Hey
did you can't come as a shock. But what about
free speech? I would say as an ignoramus, Hey, Jimmy
notes skills. How about you just do what you're told
until you develop some skills. The trained monkeys are about
a day away from being ready. Do you get my meeting?
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past the sort of person that part of your job
description is pressing print on a copier and you're making
big decisions. I mean, I mean, and I've had no
(29:15):
skilled jobs. I was sorting nails at a big hardware
store when I was a college graduate for a while.
All right, that's about a lowest skilled job as you
can and I should have had no role in making
any decisions on behalf of the corporation as a guy
who brought to the company the skill of telling a
big nail from a small nail and put them in
different piles. Yeah, literally trained monkey work, Yes, which I
(29:39):
have done myself, trust me, right, right, right? What was
I gonna say? It seemed important at the time trained
monkeys nails the constitution. You could train a monkey to
short nails, probably be better at it. Oh, I know
what I was gonna say, Well, it would certainly, you know,
if you gave it a banana every now and again
or some grapes, probably be happy as can be. The
(30:03):
generation or the sort of person who is so emotional
about their political beliefs and so convinced that anybody who
would print a Charlie Kirk poster is a monster and
to be opposed is a very progressive thing. It's more
(30:27):
common on the progressive side, I think than the conservative side,
although there certainly I've known plenty of fairly obligerent conservatives
who'd say what they thought, but that idea, that look,
there's somebody who disagrees with me. I can't stand it.
I just don't get that. Well, we need to move
away from that. You're talking about people on both sides.
(30:49):
How about we stop doing that. And you know what
Charlie Kirk might even say is he'd print it and say,
you know, I find this character to be divisive and
some stuff he said was like line hateful to me?
Why do you like him? And not in a attacking way,
but a curious way, even although I'd prefer you not
(31:10):
do it on company time. Here at the home depot,
the paper clips need sorting and it's Jack stay off.
Bosa's out for the season. What Nick Bosa? He's out
for this superstar San Francisco, forty first place, undefeated, forty
nine ers. He's out for the season with a torn
acl That sucks, got it. That's the worst part of
(31:32):
the NFL. I mean, the NFL has got a lot
going forward. It's the number one sport by far, But
the worst part of it is so many of the
good players get hurt. Yeah, god dang it, that sucks. Anyway,
we got email on the way and a whole bunch
of other different topics to get to. Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel
is gonna be back on the air Tonet. That's gonna
be hard to take. He's gonna be so self satisfied
(31:53):
and smug all of the apology. Did they brow beat
him into making that'll be He's not making one, right.
Do you think he'll really cry? The news was yesterday
he said he is not part of the agreement. Was
he is not going to apologize. Wow, okay, well, keep
in mind this is utterly insignificant. Okay, stay tuned. Well,
(32:17):
Fat Bear Week is back. I kind of remember this
from last year Fat Bear Week, where there some website
has a couple of fat bears and you vote on him,
and then that bear goes on to in the bracket
to face the next fat bear that people hiking. People
vote on it. Fat You remember that from last year?
I kind of was a full year ago. Yeah, or
maybe it seems more recent because didn't like last year's
(32:38):
champion croak or something. I do not know this. I
did not know this matter Fat Bear Week. We'll have
to come up with the link for that. She can
get involved. She's like, yes, here's your freedom loving quote
of the day.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
For more.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, I'll go with this one of a tree, especially
one of the long living hardwood trees is a gift
which you can make to posterity and almost no costing,
with almost no trouble. And if the tree takes root,
it will far outlive the visible effect of any of
your other actions, good or evil. It's an interesting thought.
I was walking through the forest on our big hike
(33:18):
over the weekend, and redwood forest here in northern California,
and you know, those trees are hundreds of years old.
They were growing when George Washington was president. It's just
a stunning thought, hitting things in perspective. Ye, I've heard
the planting of trees that will be enjoyed long after
you're gone as a it's a great metaphor for being
(33:41):
a good citizen. Voting for things and policies are like
planting those trees. I mean the opposite would be, I
don't know, spending your children and grandchildren into oblivion. That
would be the opposites of the good thing to do.
Oh boy, oh, I'm sorry. That was discouraging. I'm discouraged. Scourge.
Everybody's scourge. I apologize. Mailbag. Let's see mail bag at
(34:08):
Armstrong and Giddy dot com is the email address. A
lot of short emails today, Sean guys that social media
is called blue Sky. I figured it was pronounced blue
sky like Rusky during the Cold War. Feels like a
better fit, and I don't think they disagree with the
implication blue sky. Let's see, this is David talking about
(34:32):
how bad network news is. Then we heard plenty about
Jackie the Bear. Joe, how'd you do at your golf tournament?
Just fine? Played fine, had a great time, solid friends,
enjoyed the beauty of Monterey, California. A too much, drank
too much, it was fantastic in the pack. Finished I'm
nearly killed by a bear. And you equate that with
how was Joe's golf round? Yes, that's correct. Let's see,
(34:55):
Sheila right. Jack was sharing with us as efforts to
get rid of his RBF and replace it with his new,
heavily practiced happy face. I do it all the time, constantly.
Now recalling how Davy Crockett famously grinned down a bar,
I'm wondering why Jack didn't just fire up his new
happy face an attempt to grin down that bar. Yeah,
it's a good question, Shield exactly. I wasn't exactly sure
(35:22):
what to do, but I was not sticking my head
out of that tent flap. No, no, no, no. I
mean a tent isn't much of a barrier, but at
least the bear doesn't know where to swing its mighty claws,
right if you're inside the tent. Yeah, what a chilling
moment on the top of my name my underwear too.
I can't fight a bear in my underwear. It's undignified.
(35:43):
Right on the topic of young Erica Kirk, do you
think missus Kirk for giving that man who shot her
husband paves the way for Utah to not see the
death penalty. No, absolutely not. I feel her near future
will be on the Vance Kirk presidential ticket. That's an
interesting thing. She may have no interest in that. John
Anonymous writes, you guys have missed the real truth between
(36:05):
Kimmel's cancelation the FTC has finally enacted his lifetime ban
from comedy as a multiple loser of more than his
share of late night jokeoffs on Armstrong and Getty Show. God,
He's gonna be hard to take and I'm not gonna
watch it tonight, but the clips are going to be
everywhere by the self satisfied media that feels like this
is a blow against Trump. All right, whatever, We got
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