August 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of the Friday, August 29,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- How can Queers for Palestine Exist?
- Less Boozing / 1st Restaurant Music
- TEMU Spying/ Wrong Hayek
- Joe can't sleep and Covid shots for kids
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, and Jetty he.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
And newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to
be workers from the World Central Kitchen. They travel in
two cars, one marked with the flag of the Humanitarian
Organization before they're hit by IDF airstrikes.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
WCK in real time, we're able to verify that vehicle
was not connected to the organization in any way, which
means those tears for using that as a disguise for their.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Terror inside Gaza.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the
past twenty four hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Okay, So in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable
that Hamas guys were masquerading as.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Food belief guys.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
NPR considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists,
or at least that's what they're saying in this sence,
and those views are supported practically to a person by
the American left and a lot of the left in
a lot of the Western world. What the hell is
going on? To quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer
in the West, the politics of the Gaza war feature
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a strange marriage between political Islam and the twenty first
century Western left, for instance.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
This is Mumdani's crew simultaneously support making New York a
national hub for a transgender medicine and want to globalize
the intefada.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, that is a good point.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
It support, It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive
values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists
who filmed their mass murder of Jews and probably posted
the videos to telegram. And Lake in an absolutely fabulous
piece that will post I think you might get paywalled,
but maybe not, talks about how the what's called the
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red Green alliance among people who think about this sort
of thing, how it came up, and it really came up,
and yes.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
He was red in who's green here?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Reds is and communists in green, the color of Hamas
and radical Islam and various thank you for asking for
the clarification to hit for the room. Anyway, A lot
of this arose during Iran's Islamic Revolution, in nineteen seventy
eight and seventy nine, and he goes into and it's
so interesting the details of how Ayatola Komeni, who is
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in exile in France, started giving all sorts of really
carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets, and
how they're on this pr campaign to convince the West
that he's a reasonable fellow.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
In fact, he's really for democracy, and Lake is writing.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Anybody who spent ten minutes looking into Komaney knew that
he was a hardcore is Lomiest monster. You didn't even
have to try to figure it out. But the left
of American journalism, in Western journalism, and some folks like
in the Carter administration became completely convinced and touted in
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the face of all of this that no, he was
actually a really good guy. Richard Falk, a Princeton professor
of international law who met with Gomany during.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
His exile outside of Paris.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations, told
reporters that the Iotola will eventually be regarded as a
saint like this folk, the Princeton professor, And because people
were saying there were some on the right who said, look,
this guy's a reactionary and a terrorist. And he said,
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to suppose that Iotola Komani is disassembling seems almost beyond belief.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
His political style is to express his real views.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Defiantly and without apology, regardless of consequences.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Thus the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and
the bearer of crude prejudices seemed certainly and happily false.
And what is also encouraging is that as entourage of
close advisors is uniformly composed of moderate progressive individuals.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain
to me why. But is it just as simple as
the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and my
enemy is mean the United States, So somebody who doesn't
like us is good.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
To I like.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Right, There's more to it than that. But yeah, the
very short version of it is essentially, wait a minute,
you want to overthrow Western civilization. I want to overthrow
Western civilization. You want to impose Islamism, but I want
to impose Marxism. Well, I tell you what, how about
we work together and then when the civilization's overthrown will
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peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. Then, of course, like
in every revolution, they kill each other as fast as
they can.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
But there's one more factor. You got jihad in my
queer studies. You got queer studies in my jihad. Two
great tastes. It tastes great together. Oh that's beautiful anyway.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
So this brings us to the connection between something I
have been harping about for a very long time, as
has James Lindsay and other folks. If there is one
Western progressive who illuminates the emergence of the Red Green Alliance,
it is the French philosopher Michelle Fuco. Well I've mentioned
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several times in nineteen seventy eight, fou Co was absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
The peak of his influence.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
He was the post modernist who is revolutionizing universities with
his withering critique of the Western Enlightenment and values that
underpin modern liberalism. Fuko was literally anti Enlightenment, and he
is the father of all critical theory. Okay, And I
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think people have a tendency to think, all right, Getty
and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, or their conspiracy theorists.
I had a friend in high school who was Indian.
His parents had emigrated from India and they were Hindus.
And in visiting his house and hanging out with his
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family son, it became clear to me that there were
figures in Hinduism that were known and revered to billions
of people around the world, who I'd never heard of.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I would suggest to you my friends, and you are
my friends.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Fuko is that for the Neomarxists, for those who would
overthrow Western civilization. He is a godhead to them. And
you don't know his name, but trust me what I
tell you. It's incredibly important that you understand. So this
guy was incredibly influential in the universities in the seventies,
and in nineteen seventy eight he was commissioned by two
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Italian newspapers to report on the Iranian Revolution. And like
one of those you know, leftist you know, Time magazine
guys who were visiting the Soviet Union in one of
their Potempkin villages back in the forties, say or fifties,
he couldn't stop gushing about how great the Itola was
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and he was going to get rid of the oppression
of Western politics and Zabadabadu. So and this gets a
little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Fuco
was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University
of professor or Edward Sayd's Orientalism now a postcolonial ism
study Bible, which critiqued how Western imperial writers made Arabs,
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Muslims and Easterners objects in their narratives and impose their
own agenda on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist
celebrating Iyatola Komane overthrowing the Western government, even though Komane
would would execute Fuco and his company the first chance
they got.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But that was the birthplace of it cool. And until you.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get critical theory. You
don't understand what DEI is and what it's trying to accomplish.
You don't understand queer theory, radical gender theory. All the
confused adolescent girls getting their healthy breasts removed because they're
momentarily confused by you know, adolescents and puberty and the
rest of it. This is all straight back to Fuco
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and critical theory. Clearly, this theory is true in that
it is.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Happening.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I still don't get how you're not argued out of
that position very quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
If somebody says to.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You, you realize if you're in Iran, they would they
would murder you immediately. Well, yeah, so I guess I'd
better pick a different group to work with.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I mean, right, different philosophy. Here's the thing, and these
people are smart. I mean they're insane, but they're smart.
They convince you completely of their premise that Western society
what was that phrase, have made all other people objects
in their narratives and impose their own agenda on their histories.
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The key philosophy of critical theory is that there is
no objective truth there don't even.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Seek it, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
All there is is narratives, and narratives come from your culture,
and since Western culture is dominant, it has created a
narrative that says the Iyatola Komene is a monster, but
that's just because they're threatened by him, so they're racists,
they're othering him. And once you have that down to
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your bones, then you can't be argued off of it
on the basis of me saying they torture and then
kill anybody who's gay or transgender because I'm a Westerner
trying to lie to them using my narrative.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So they don't believe.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That Jihadis would murder gay people, or they think Jihadis
only murdered gay people because of the position we've put
them in.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Uh yeah, indirectly, Yeah, the first part, one hundred percent.
And or we have so dominated them and crushed their
spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways
that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the
Marxist revolution comes. I mean like excusing the crimes of
October seventh. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression.
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What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I
don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they they
just fought back against the oppressor self solution.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way
too many people to believe it.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Oh, and they're in our schools, folks, our elementary schools,
our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools.
That is one of the dominant philosophies, if not the
dominant philosophy, in our educational complex, which is why I'm
always saying it's the most important problem that faces America
bigger than China. It's the center street jihadism, thank you man,
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well post Marxism, but cultural Marxism, postmodernism, neo Marxism, whatever
you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's interesting because back then when Mitt Romney was running
for president and after nine to eleven, jihadism did seem
like the biggest problem in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And it's a problem, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
But I'm more worried about Neil Mark in the foothold
it's got in the United States and Western culture that
I am about jihatism by.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
A lot, right, right, Yeah, my final word, and folks,
I apologize in advance. I'm gonna use a bad letter
here if you think I don't know that seems kind
of paranoid. These efing people wrote efing books. Their efing
names are on the e thing spines, and the e
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f thing describe precisely what they're efing going to do,
and they're doing it precisely as they fing described.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
End of screen.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Troubling societies are brought down by their own decadence.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube
and just type in James Lindsay. He's got some unbelievable
YouTube videos about this that are so damn.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Interesting and a great place to start is for thee
hundredth time, his book with Helen pluckrowse cynical theories.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It's It's great. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah more Jack your Joe podcasts and.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Our hot links.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
The Armstrong and Getty Show that the percentage of.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
US adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen too,
fifty four percent, the.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Lowest in ninety years.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The Gallup says the poll has a margin of era
of plus or minus two.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Kamala Harris's.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at the lowest
rate in ninety years.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, wow, why variety things?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I think there are other substances available now they're legal.
Plus that this is just the trend line among younger
people than a number of different theories floated for as
to why.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Nobody's really sure it's nott rate for your health.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
But the world.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
But you compare it with where we are.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Emotionally, it seems like people are less happy, more angry.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
The world is in more turmoil than it has been
in the past.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Who you were drinking less, Well, maybe you know the
whole I'm a social drinker. Thing always seemed odd to
me as a guy who prefers to drink alone muttering angrily.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
In the dark.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
But I think for a lot of humanity, people drink
more when they're together and having fun.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Wow. Okay, that's stunning, though, I mean, I mean that's
a notable number. Yeah, oh yeah, it's astounding.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's not the This is the lowest level of this
since twenty twenty one. I mean, that's sort of stuck
waste whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But ninety years.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, okay, I have noticed my kids and I run
remember this the other day, what was the first rush
that decided we should have music playing all the time.
We were at like a chain breakfast place the other day,
I have a little breakfast there's music playing.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
The fairly decent volume, like most places. Who's the first
to decide that?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
And why? You know, there's been the tinkling piano background
music like your classy joints forever, or somebody playing in
the corner or what have you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't know. It's everywhere though. It's retails.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
The stores have pop music cranking all the time because
it makes people.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Happier, I guess, And less likely to cuss out the help.
I don't know, if you.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Go into a store, like if you're in the gap
and there's not music playing, would you be weirded out?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Would it feel kind of dead and not? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, I'm in a weird minority in the world of golf,
having a speaker in the cart, listening to music the
whole way around the golf court.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Really more guys that I know are thumbs up than down.
By Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So I haven't played golf in twenty years or something
like that, but that would have been unheard of back
when I played golf.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The idea of music bleasting out of anything.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Well, it's generally not blasting at you know, unless you're
I don't know, at a public course where nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
But it's it a reasonable volume. I don't like it,
but I'm in the minority. Huh. People want that all
the time. Huh? Is it just needing input? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music,
not as background music, but you know, you know, teach
their own generally. When I was playing golf, I love
the fact that it was just so silent out there
I know, the birds chirping and the sounds of I know,
that's like my favorite part of it. But again, I'm
in the minority. Have had to accept it. But it's
it's kind of annoying in a couple of different ways
in that you know, you maybe you're in this cart
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and the other guys are over there another cart, they're
fifty yards away, and you find what you think is
their ball there.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
And the rough. You say titleist four, and they're like,
what titleist four?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
What?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Here's a titlist four?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right here?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Is it yours?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Because you gotta talk over the music, you gotta yell
over the music, and or they're talking way louder than
they think they are, because it's sure over the music as.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You're trying to hit a shot. But again, I'm in
the minority. It's fine. It's the Armstrong and Getty show. Armstrong, Inetdy.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Arm Strong, the Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't think of this myself,
But it's a lot going on in the world these days.
A regular correspondent to JT in Livermore, California, Guys, if
China can build secret prisons within the US, they're more
like police stations with holding cells. But yeah, you know
they're going to be building drone armies here in the US,
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maybe stored on those properties they're buying next to military bases.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We hope they haven't already.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Well, right, obviously, the spring board of this is the
knowledge that Ukraine had facilities within Russia in which they
were constructing and or storing drones and waiting for the
right moment to attack. And JT helpfully sent along a
link to an article I believe we talked about at
the time. Maps showed Chinese owned farmland next to nineteen
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US military bases in alarming threat to national security.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Even if they hadn't come up with that plan prior
to what Ukraine did and what Israel just did, they
started a week ago, they're doing it now.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
The New York Post identified nineteen bases across the US
from Florida, Hawaii to Hawaii which were in close proximity
to land bought by Chinese entities and could be exploited
by spies working for the Communist nation. And if they
can be, they will be. That's you know, get that
tattooed somewhere where you can look at it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Regularly.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
If the Chinese Communists can use a capability against us,
they will use it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Just the question of when I gotta admit, if I
ever took off my shirt and someone said, what does
that to tattoos say? And I say it says if
the Chinese government can exploit the situation, they will.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's your tattoo. Yes, I just don't want to forget it, don't.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Robert Spaulding, retired US State's Air Force Brigadier general, Brigadier
general who's work focused on US general relations. Still the
post it's concerning due to the proximity of its strategic
or to our strategic location, we are a big, rich,
naive moron as a country in a lot of ways.
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Contrast that with Israel, if you will, oh, speaking of which,
on a similar theme, I was thinking of going into
this in a playful way. Uh you know, maybe I will.
All right, go ahead. What is the app Tamu's business?
Is it Timu or tamu U?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Katie? Do you know t e m U?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I've heard it both ways. I say, team o Timu. Okay,
fire enough, What is Timu's real business business? Okay, hang on,
now there's more. What is TikTok's real business. There's one
more for you. It's Shine right, that's the cheap clothing.
What is Shines real business?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I've never even heard of that one.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Or here's Pin Duo Duo. What is that app's real business?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Ah trick question.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
The answer for all of them is collecting your data.
They include a service along with that. That's why you
download the app. They are data collection and surveillance apps.
France today all Chinese, Yeah, okay, for instance Pindo, although
certainly the Chinese are not the only voracious collectors of.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Data, I mean Mark Zuckerberg Police.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
The Timu and Pin Duo Duo represent themselves as e
commerce apps that offer inexp inexpensive merchandise, but they're also
in the business of data collection. The lawsuit, filed by
Attorney General Mike Hilgers of Nebraska says, according to an
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IT security report firm report, Pin Duo Duo requests as
many as eighty three permissions, including access to biometrics, Bluetooth,
Wi Fi network information, and well obviously seventy or eighty
more things. As an aside, wi is TikTok still happening
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in America, Mister President, because they gave you a big
giant contribution to your campaign or your inauguration. Them and
their lobbyists are paying off the administration get rid of TikTok.
Congress passed the law. It's time.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Isn't there a way for since Congress did pass a
lot to force the executive to do what you're supposed
to do legally.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah, somebody's gotta like prove standing and that they've been
damaged by it and go to the courts. I guess
you'd think there'd be kind of a blanket. The law
said that and it's not happening lawsuit that you could
file an ex post mirand or corpus lawsuit or something.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't know, but crazy.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
An investigation found by Montana found that the team app
is designed to hide its collection of sensitive information from
users and from any researcher who might be investigating the
apps functionality.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's part of its programming is to hide what it
is doing.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Team will also has code that quote allows it to
reconfigure itself after being downloaded.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
What do you use TM move for? What's it? It's
a what dental hygiene? What do you use for?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You can you can buy anything on it. It's it's
like China's Amazon.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh okay, then why do we use in the United
States Because there's just a lot of cheap crap on
Super Cheap Okay yeah wow, yeah wow. They're really hoisting
us on our own petards with the whole we like
cheap crap. Okay, so we'll develop an app that can
spy on every single American in the United States who
wants to buy extra cheap crap. And uh, they're so
hungry for their cheap crap and it is crap most
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of it, that they'll allow us to spy.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
On everybody, right exactly. And and keep in mind what
I just said.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Temu has code that allows it to reconfigure itself after
you download it, so it becomes something different than you downloaded.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Blah blah blah. This is this is the part I
wanted to get to.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
The fear is that consumer products marketed on Timu are
the bait to get Americans to download an app that
gives the company and thereby the Communist party, access to
personal data, location tracking, and other sensitive information. Article seven
of the National Intelligence Law of China is.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
The Chinese communists on their own. You know, I'm tempted
to dig up that great piece we had bye was it? Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
No, no, no, no, no?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Who is the guy who wrote ah? His name is
flitted out of my head?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
An unbelievable piece quoting Chinese Intelligence Service officials on how
valuable a.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Resource TikTok is.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
It quoted them chapter and verse, quote after quote after
quote from internal memorandum and meetings where the Chinese Intelligence
services said, wow, TikTok is an unbelievable boon to what
we're doing. But anyway, here's article seven of the National
Intelligence Law of China.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with
the state intelligence work in accordance.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
With the law, and keep the secrets of the.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
National intelligence work from becoming known to the public. They
are bound by law to report anything that Chinese communists
want to know.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well, we're fools, we are, we want we freaking are.
That's very maddening, I know, don't you know? We've said enough?
When when.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
The pooh hits the fan in whatever shape or array
of flung poo results, everybody will say, how did that happen?
I don't will I be some some sort of grimly satisfied.
Now I want to just be horrified. No, just horrified
on a cheerier note. Love this, Andy Kessler, writing in
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the Journal Javier Malay's gift for Pope Leo. On June
the seventh, the new Pope, the Chicago Guy, met with
Argentine President Javier Malay at the Vatican. Malay gave the
Pope a historical document from sixteen forty two cool a
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hand woven Vicunya poncho.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Oh that's a Guargetine. Oh did you got your machine
woven vicunya?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Please throw it in the trash. You're hand woven gorgeous.
And he also gave him Friedrich Hayek's book from nineteen
eighty eight, The Fatal Conceit, The Errors of Socialism. The
book costs less than nineteen dollars on Amazon, but it
was the most valuable gift, says Kessler. And he explains
with some just fabulous quotes from the book, which I
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need to read. I've read quotes from it in my
whole life. But Hiek's fatal conceit is that quote. Man
is able to shape the world around him according to
his wishes. That is the fatal conceit of humans. It's
a hearty defense of free markets and of classical liberalism.
And Kesler mentions that his friend and colleague Matthew Henessy
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got taken to task by Vice President Van for defending
free markets on these pages. In twenty twenty five, Hayak
pounds home the point that markets are about price discovery,
wealth creation. Quote is determined not by objective physical facts
known to any one mind, but by the separate differing
information of millions, which is precipitated in prices that serve
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to guide further decisions. Catch that by buying and selling
in free markets to determined prices, you and I and
millions who are connected but only by signals resulting from
long and infinitely ramified chains of trade, we drive the economy,
and we do it better than self selecting know it alls.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Who really know nothing. And he gave that book to
the Pope.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
He did because he thinks the pope or popes tend
to lean a little too socialist.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yes, indeed, I think that was his purpose. Let me
hit you with one or two more quotes from Hayek.
This is maybe my favorite. One's initial surprise at finding
that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes,
of course, that intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
how little they really know about what they imagine they
can design. Planners are ill informed. Quote to the naive
mind that can conceive of order only is the product
of deliberate arrangement. It might seem absurd that order and
economic growth can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions,
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he notes, And he notes that the fallacy because quote
decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account
man by millions of people who don't even know.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
They're doing it. Salma Hayek for the win there, that
would be Friedrich Hayek. Hmm wrong, Hyak right, very different,
Hyak I.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Love that, Love that Jack Armstrong and Joe, the Armstrong
and Getty Show, The Armstrong and getting shot.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Right Between AJHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior and a
prominent doctors group over COVID shots for children, featuring accusations
of vaccine misinformation and influence from big drug makers, The
Academy of American Pediatrics said this week the children should
get COVID shots and boosters this year, months after the
CDC removed the COVID vaccine for healthy children and pregnant
(29:29):
women from its recommended vaccine schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
This is always presented in the news as if everybody
was getting their kids COVID shots and then getting the
booster shots, right, and then that maniac care of K
Junior said what he said, and now people aren't or
rf K Junior said a bunch of stuff about vaccines
and stuff like that that I think are probably irresponsible
(29:52):
or not necessarily true.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
But this COVID one, he's definitely right about. Let's roll
on with this report.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
The Biden administration urged children to get yet another COVID shot,
despite the lack of any political data to support the
repeat booster strategy in children.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
The Academy acknowledges its guidance. Quote differs from recent recommendations
of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC,
which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who
have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. RFK Junior responded, quote,
AAP is angry that CDC has eliminated corporate influence in
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decisions over vaccine recommendations. He included an image of large
pharmaceutical companies that have donated to the Academy's children's health programs.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Now researchers are weighing in listen to your doctor.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
It's clear that the Academy of Pediatrics recommendations are based
on very good science.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Less than a quarter, I'm surprised it's a high.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Actually, less than a quarter of adults got a booster
last year, under ten percent of children. So more than
ninety percent of children did not get the booster last
year before RFK Junior ever.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Came on the scene.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Uh So, as I've seen it now this is a
from Fox the report we're hearing now, but as I've
seen it presented in the mainstream news, it's, you know,
just another RFK junior is crazy and whatever, and all
the parents out there whose kids aren't going to get
the boosters they so desperately want, even though more than
nine out of ten parents did not get their kid.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Although even that report.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It just said, you know, that stocked with people who've
spread vaccine misinformation in the past. I would I need
to know what you're talking about, because the federal government
and the CDC and the nih and Anthony Fauci and
the President himself spread information over misinformation over and over
and over again.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's an extent. What are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I don't know. I'm just so surprised there was any
COVID in the news whatsoever. Now, you who did you
Judy got a COVID test? Is that what you said
the other day? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, she went to the doc in the box she
had a respiratory thing and uh and they said, up,
you gotta have a COVID test.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Because she mentioned the word cough.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's interesting because my doctor, surprisingly, I mean the town
I live in, but my doctor, Winnie, I hood whooping cough.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
They never even checked me for COVID and that's coughing
and all kinds of bad. Yeah. Yeah, well then, as now,
now as then. A lot of it's nonsense, inconsistent nonsense.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was there ever a kid that died from COVID who
didn't have other problems, even one in the whole country?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I'm not sure there were vanishingly small number. I don't
remember if it was none or just every death of
a child, obviously is a tragedy that was vanishing clean nobody.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, in the third biggest country on Earth.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Right, what an odd thing. We all need to keep
this in mind for the next crisis that comes along.
That you can be incredibly misled by both the media
and your government.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Yeah, so true, And it's a shame they've blown whatever
credibility they had, which leads to more crackpots getting more
attention and further clouding the water. So it's more and
more difficult to figure out what's true.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
That is the net result. Yeah, which is bad for
all of us. That sucko is what that is. So
I uh, for various reasons.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
My doctor hit me with a pregnozone prescription and it's
totally screwed up my sleep.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
I was awake for two solid hours, my mind just
racing in the middle of the night last night.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Hey damn ye, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, didn't make you a raven to
see hungry That's what I always had with pregnant zone.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
No, actually, my stomach's kind of upset right now.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
But anyway, So two things occupied my two hours of
like high speed thinking.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Number one, I wrote and rewrote and like combed through and.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Perfected the first class of a college class in basic
economics that focuses on how laws and regulations and prices
cause people to change their behavior.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Logical economics. I was going to call it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So when you're trying to sleep, you couldn't sleep, So
you came up with a curriculum for a one hundred
level college class that I will never teach. That's correct,
that's relaxing.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
The second thing I did when that was perfected was
I was working on the speech you poor teachers, and
I'm thinking mostly of Californians, but in blue states everywhere,
and if your school district does this sort of stuff,
you poor teachers who are writing us emails this week saying, yeah,
we're in our mandatory DEI training right now.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Guys, this stuff is not dead.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
It is still here, and they're being humiliated and told
that getting your work done on time is white supremacy.
Being diligent is white supremacy, and all of that just
utter garbage. And so I was like writing a speech
for you that you could stand up and say, excuse me,
I hate to interrupt this, but this is racist garbage
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and it's wasting all of our time and worse, and
here's why exactly, And then you would explain to them
briefly that DEI is not does not have anything to
do with racial harmony or anything.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
It's a tool of capture, it's a tool of takeover.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
If you have three people up for the job of boss,
and you can say one of those guys is a racist,
he will not get that authority, he will not get
that money, he will not get the good stuff. And
if you start calling everybody a racist who you don't
want to have power, and everybody's like afraid to say
that doesn't seem like racism to me, then.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
You're in power.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
DI needs to end wherever it exists, everywhere in America today.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It has nothing to do with race. It is a
Marxist technique to capture institution. Arms Strong and Getty, I'm
strong and get.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Strong in
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Armstrong and Getty.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Armstrong, and Jetty he.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
And newly released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to
be workers from the World Central Kitchen. They travel in
two cars, one marked with the flag of the Humanitarian
Organization before they're hit by IDF airstrikes.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
WCK in real time, we're able to verify that vehicle
was not connected to the organization in any way, which
means those tears for using that as a disguise for their.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Terror inside Gaza.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the
past twenty four hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Okay, So in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable
that Hamas guys were masquerading as.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Food belief guys.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
NPR considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists,
or at least that's what they're saying in this sence,
and those views are supported practically to a person by
the American left and a lot of the left in
a lot of the Western world. What the hell is
going on? To quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer
in the West, the politics of the Gaza war feature
(01:39):
a strange marriage between political Islam and the twenty first
century Western left, for instance.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
The Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
This is Mumdani's crew simultaneously support making New York a
national hub for a transgender medicine and want to globalize
the intefada.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, that is a good point.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
It support, It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive
values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists
who filmed their mass murder of Jews and probably posted
the videos to telegram. And Lake in an absolutely fabulous
piece that will post I think you might get paywalled,
but maybe not, talks about how the what's called the
(02:23):
red Green alliance among people who think about this sort
of thing, how it came up, and it really came up,
and yes.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
He was red in who's green here?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Reds is and communists in green, the color of Hamas
and radical Islam and various thank you for asking for
the clarification to hit for the room. Anyway, A lot
of this arose during Iran's Islamic Revolution, in nineteen seventy
eight and seventy nine, and he goes into and it's
so interesting the details of how Ayatola Komeni, who is
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in exile in France, started giving all sorts of really
carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets, and
how they're on this pr campaign to convince the West
that he's a reasonable fellow.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
In fact, he's really for democracy, and Lake is writing.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Anybody who spent ten minutes looking into Komaney knew that
he was a hardcore is Lomiest monster. You didn't even
have to try to figure it out. But the left
of American journalism, in Western journalism, and some folks like
in the Carter administration became completely convinced and touted in
(03:43):
the face of all of this that no, he was
actually a really good guy. Richard Falk, a Princeton professor
of international law who met with Gomany during.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
His exile outside of Paris.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations, told
reporters that the Iotola will eventually be regarded as a
saint like this folk, the Princeton professor, And because people
were saying there were some on the right who said, look,
this guy's a reactionary and a terrorist. And he said,
(04:18):
to suppose that Iotola Komani is disassembling seems almost beyond belief.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
His political style is to express his real views.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Defiantly and without apology, regardless of consequences.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Thus the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and
the bearer of crude prejudices seemed certainly and happily false.
And what is also encouraging is that as entourage of
close advisors is uniformly composed of moderate progressive individuals.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain
to me why. But is it just as simple as
the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and my
enemy is mean the United States, So somebody who doesn't
like us is good.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
To I like.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Right, There's more to it than that. But yeah, the
very short version of it is essentially, wait a minute,
you want to overthrow Western civilization. I want to overthrow
Western civilization. You want to impose Islamism, but I want
to impose Marxism. Well, I tell you what, how about
we work together and then when the civilization's overthrown will
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peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. Then, of course, like
in every revolution, they kill each other as fast as
they can.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
But there's one more factor. You got jihad in my
queer studies. You got queer studies in my jihad. Two
great tastes. It tastes great together. Oh that's beautiful anyway.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
So this brings us to the connection between something I
have been harping about for a very long time, as
has James Lindsay and other folks. If there is one
Western progressive who illuminates the emergence of the Red Green Alliance,
it is the French philosopher Michelle Fuco. Well I've mentioned
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several times in nineteen seventy eight, fou Co was absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
The peak of his influence.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
He was the post modernist who is revolutionizing universities with
his withering critique of the Western Enlightenment and values that
underpin modern liberalism. Fuko was literally anti Enlightenment, and he
is the father of all critical theory. Okay, And I
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think people have a tendency to think, all right, Getty
and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, or their conspiracy theorists.
I had a friend in high school who was Indian.
His parents had emigrated from India and they were Hindus.
And in visiting his house and hanging out with his
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family son, it became clear to me that there were
figures in Hinduism that were known and revered to billions
of people around the world, who I'd never heard of.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I would suggest to you my friends, and you are
my friends.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Fuko is that for the Neomarxists, for those who would
overthrow Western civilization. He is a godhead to them. And
you don't know his name, but trust me what I
tell you. It's incredibly important that you understand. So this
guy was incredibly influential in the universities in the seventies,
and in nineteen seventy eight he was commissioned by two
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Italian newspapers to report on the Iranian Revolution. And like
one of those you know, leftist you know, Time magazine
guys who were visiting the Soviet Union in one of
their Potempkin villages back in the forties, say or fifties,
he couldn't stop gushing about how great the Itola was
(07:44):
and he was going to get rid of the oppression
of Western politics and Zabadabadu. So and this gets a
little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Fuco
was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University
of professor or Edward Sayd's Orientalism now a postcolonial ism
study Bible, which critiqued how Western imperial writers made Arabs,
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Muslims and Easterners objects in their narratives and impose their
own agenda on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist
celebrating Iyatola Komane overthrowing the Western government, even though Komane
would would execute Fuco and his company the first chance
they got.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But that was the birthplace of it cool. And until you.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get critical theory. You
don't understand what DEI is and what it's trying to accomplish.
You don't understand queer theory, radical gender theory. All the
confused adolescent girls getting their healthy breasts removed because they're
momentarily confused by you know, adolescents and puberty and the
rest of it. This is all straight back to Fuco
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and critical theory. Clearly, this theory is true in that
it is.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Happening.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I still don't get how you're not argued out of
that position very quickly.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
If somebody says to.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You, you realize if you're in Iran, they would they
would murder you immediately. Well, yeah, so I guess I'd
better pick a different group to work with.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I mean, right, different philosophy. Here's the thing, and these
people are smart. I mean they're insane, but they're smart.
They convince you completely of their premise that Western society
what was that phrase, have made all other people objects
in their narratives and impose their own agenda on their histories.
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The key philosophy of critical theory is that there is
no objective truth there don't even.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Seek it, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
All there is is narratives, and narratives come from your culture,
and since Western culture is dominant, it has created a
narrative that says the Iyatola Komene is a monster, but
that's just because they're threatened by him, so they're racists,
they're othering him. And once you have that down to
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your bones, then you can't be argued off of it
on the basis of me saying they torture and then
kill anybody who's gay or transgender because I'm a Westerner
trying to lie to them using my narrative.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
So they don't believe.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
That Jihadis would murder gay people, or they think Jihadis
only murdered gay people because of the position we've put
them in.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Uh yeah, indirectly, Yeah, the first part, one hundred percent.
And or we have so dominated them and crushed their
spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways
that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the
Marxist revolution comes. I mean like excusing the crimes of
October seventh. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression.
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What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I
don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they they
just fought back against the oppressor self solution.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way
too many people to believe it.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Oh, and they're in our schools, folks, our elementary schools,
our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools.
That is one of the dominant philosophies, if not the
dominant philosophy, in our educational complex, which is why I'm
always saying it's the most important problem that faces America
bigger than China. It's the center street jihadism, thank you man,
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well post Marxism, but cultural Marxism, postmodernism, neo Marxism, whatever
you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's interesting because back then when Mitt Romney was running
for president and after nine to eleven, jihadism did seem
like the biggest problem in the world.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And it's a problem, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
But I'm more worried about Neil Mark in the foothold
it's got in the United States and Western culture that
I am about jihatism by.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
A lot, right, right, Yeah, my final word, and folks,
I apologize in advance. I'm gonna use a bad letter
here if you think I don't know that seems kind
of paranoid. These efing people wrote efing books. Their efing
names are on the e thing spines, and the e
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f thing describe precisely what they're efing going to do,
and they're doing it precisely as they fing described.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
End of screen.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Troubling societies are brought down by their own decadence.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube
and just type in James Lindsay. He's got some unbelievable
YouTube videos about this that are so damn.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Interesting and a great place to start is for thee
hundredth time, his book with Helen pluckrowse cynical theories.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It's It's great. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah more Jack your Joe podcasts and.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Our hot links.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
The Armstrong and Getty Show that the percentage of.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
US adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen too,
fifty four percent, the.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Lowest in ninety years.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The Gallup says the poll has a margin of era
of plus or minus two.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Kamala Harris's.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That's really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at the lowest
rate in ninety years.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, wow, why variety things?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I think there are other substances available now they're legal.
Plus that this is just the trend line among younger
people than a number of different theories floated for as
to why.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Nobody's really sure it's nott rate for your health.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
But the world.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
But you compare it with where we are.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Emotionally, it seems like people are less happy, more angry.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
The world is in more turmoil than it has been
in the past.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Who you were drinking less, Well, maybe you know the
whole I'm a social drinker. Thing always seemed odd to
me as a guy who prefers to drink alone muttering angrily.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
In the dark.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
But I think for a lot of humanity, people drink
more when they're together and having fun.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Wow. Okay, that's stunning, though, I mean, I mean that's
a notable number. Yeah, oh yeah, it's astounding.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It's not the This is the lowest level of this
since twenty twenty one. I mean, that's sort of stuck
waste whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But ninety years.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, okay, I have noticed my kids and I run
remember this the other day, what was the first rush
that decided we should have music playing all the time.
We were at like a chain breakfast place the other day,
I have a little breakfast there's music playing.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
The fairly decent volume, like most places. Who's the first
to decide that?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
And why? You know, there's been the tinkling piano background
music like your classy joints forever, or somebody playing in
the corner or what have you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't know. It's everywhere though. It's retails.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
The stores have pop music cranking all the time because
it makes people.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Happier, I guess, And less likely to cuss out the help.
I don't know, if you.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Go into a store, like if you're in the gap
and there's not music playing, would you be weirded out?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Would it feel kind of dead and not? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, I'm in a weird minority in the world of golf,
having a speaker in the cart, listening to music the
whole way around the golf court.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Really more guys that I know are thumbs up than down.
By Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
So I haven't played golf in twenty years or something
like that, but that would have been unheard of back
when I played golf.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
The idea of music bleasting out of anything.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Well, it's generally not blasting at you know, unless you're
I don't know, at a public course where nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
But it's it a reasonable volume. I don't like it,
but I'm in the minority. Huh. People want that all
the time. Huh? Is it just needing input? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music,
not as background music, but you know, you know, teach
their own generally. When I was playing golf, I love
the fact that it was just so silent out there
I know, the birds chirping and the sounds of I know,
that's like my favorite part of it. But again, I'm
in the minority. Have had to accept it. But it's
it's kind of annoying in a couple of different ways
in that you know, you maybe you're in this cart
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and the other guys are over there another cart, they're
fifty yards away, and you find what you think is
their ball there.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
And the rough. You say titleist four, and they're like,
what titleist four?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
What?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Here's a titlist four?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right here?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Is it yours?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Because you gotta talk over the music, you gotta yell
over the music, and or they're talking way louder than
they think they are, because it's sure over the music as.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You're trying to hit a shot. But again, I'm in
the minority. It's fine. It's the Armstrong and Getty show. Armstrong, Inetdy.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Arm Strong, the Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I'm slightly ashamed that I didn't think of this myself,
But it's a lot going on in the world these days.
A regular correspondent to JT in Livermore, California, Guys, if
China can build secret prisons within the US, they're more
like police stations with holding cells. But yeah, you know
they're going to be building drone armies here in the US,
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maybe stored on those properties they're buying next to military bases.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We hope they haven't already.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Well, right, obviously, the spring board of this is the
knowledge that Ukraine had facilities within Russia in which they
were constructing and or storing drones and waiting for the
right moment to attack. And JT helpfully sent along a
link to an article I believe we talked about at
the time. Maps showed Chinese owned farmland next to nineteen
(18:37):
US military bases in alarming threat to national security.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Even if they hadn't come up with that plan prior
to what Ukraine did and what Israel just did, they
started a week ago, they're doing it now.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
The New York Post identified nineteen bases across the US
from Florida, Hawaii to Hawaii which were in close proximity
to land bought by Chinese entities and could be exploited
by spies working for the Communist nation. And if they
can be, they will be. That's you know, get that
tattooed somewhere where you can look at it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Regularly.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
If the Chinese Communists can use a capability against us,
they will use it.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Just the question of when I gotta admit, if I
ever took off my shirt and someone said, what does
that to tattoos say? And I say it says if
the Chinese government can exploit the situation, they will.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's your tattoo. Yes, I just don't want to forget it, don't.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Robert Spaulding, retired US State's Air Force Brigadier general, Brigadier
general who's work focused on US general relations. Still the
post it's concerning due to the proximity of its strategic
or to our strategic location, we are a big, rich,
naive moron as a country in a lot of ways.
(19:59):
Contrast that with Israel, if you will, oh, speaking of which,
on a similar theme, I was thinking of going into
this in a playful way. Uh you know, maybe I will.
All right, go ahead. What is the app Tamu's business?
Is it Timu or tamu U?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Katie? Do you know t e m U?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I've heard it both ways. I say, team o Timu. Okay,
fire enough, What is Timu's real business business? Okay, hang on,
now there's more. What is TikTok's real business. There's one
more for you. It's Shine right, that's the cheap clothing.
What is Shines real business?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I've never even heard of that one.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Or here's Pin Duo Duo. What is that app's real business?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Ah trick question.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
The answer for all of them is collecting your data.
They include a service along with that. That's why you
download the app. They are data collection and surveillance apps.
France today all Chinese, Yeah, okay, for instance Pindo, although
certainly the Chinese are not the only voracious collectors of.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Data, I mean Mark Zuckerberg Police.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
The Timu and Pin Duo Duo represent themselves as e
commerce apps that offer inexp inexpensive merchandise, but they're also
in the business of data collection. The lawsuit, filed by
Attorney General Mike Hilgers of Nebraska says, according to an
(21:34):
IT security report firm report, Pin Duo Duo requests as
many as eighty three permissions, including access to biometrics, Bluetooth,
Wi Fi network information, and well obviously seventy or eighty
more things. As an aside, wi is TikTok still happening
(21:55):
in America, Mister President, because they gave you a big
giant contribution to your campaign or your inauguration. Them and
their lobbyists are paying off the administration get rid of TikTok.
Congress passed the law. It's time.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Isn't there a way for since Congress did pass a
lot to force the executive to do what you're supposed
to do legally.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah, somebody's gotta like prove standing and that they've been
damaged by it and go to the courts. I guess
you'd think there'd be kind of a blanket. The law
said that and it's not happening lawsuit that you could
file an ex post mirand or corpus lawsuit or something.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't know, but crazy.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
An investigation found by Montana found that the team app
is designed to hide its collection of sensitive information from
users and from any researcher who might be investigating the
apps functionality.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
That's part of its programming is to hide what it
is doing.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Team will also has code that quote allows it to
reconfigure itself after being downloaded.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
What do you use TM move for? What's it? It's
a what dental hygiene? What do you use for?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You can you can buy anything on it. It's it's
like China's Amazon.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh okay, then why do we use in the United
States Because there's just a lot of cheap crap on
Super Cheap Okay yeah wow, yeah wow. They're really hoisting
us on our own petards with the whole we like
cheap crap. Okay, so we'll develop an app that can
spy on every single American in the United States who
wants to buy extra cheap crap. And uh, they're so
hungry for their cheap crap and it is crap most
(23:40):
of it, that they'll allow us to spy.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
On everybody, right exactly. And and keep in mind what
I just said.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Temu has code that allows it to reconfigure itself after
you download it, so it becomes something different than you downloaded.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Blah blah blah. This is this is the part I
wanted to get to.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
The fear is that consumer products marketed on Timu are
the bait to get Americans to download an app that
gives the company and thereby the Communist party, access to
personal data, location tracking, and other sensitive information. Article seven
of the National Intelligence Law of China is.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
The Chinese communists on their own. You know, I'm tempted
to dig up that great piece we had bye was it? Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
No, no, no, no, no?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Who is the guy who wrote ah? His name is
flitted out of my head?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
An unbelievable piece quoting Chinese Intelligence Service officials on how
valuable a.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Resource TikTok is.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
It quoted them chapter and verse, quote after quote after
quote from internal memorandum and meetings where the Chinese Intelligence
services said, wow, TikTok is an unbelievable boon to what
we're doing. But anyway, here's article seven of the National
Intelligence Law of China.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with
the state intelligence work in accordance.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
With the law, and keep the secrets of the.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
National intelligence work from becoming known to the public. They
are bound by law to report anything that Chinese communists
want to know.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well, we're fools, we are, we want we freaking are.
That's very maddening, I know, don't you know? We've said enough?
When when.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
The pooh hits the fan in whatever shape or array
of flung poo results, everybody will say, how did that happen?
I don't will I be some some sort of grimly satisfied.
Now I want to just be horrified. No, just horrified
on a cheerier note. Love this, Andy Kessler, writing in
(25:45):
the Journal Javier Malay's gift for Pope Leo. On June
the seventh, the new Pope, the Chicago Guy, met with
Argentine President Javier Malay at the Vatican. Malay gave the
Pope a historical document from sixteen forty two cool a
(26:06):
hand woven Vicunya poncho.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Oh that's a Guargetine. Oh did you got your machine
woven vicunya?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Please throw it in the trash. You're hand woven gorgeous.
And he also gave him Friedrich Hayek's book from nineteen
eighty eight, The Fatal Conceit, The Errors of Socialism. The
book costs less than nineteen dollars on Amazon, but it
was the most valuable gift, says Kessler. And he explains
with some just fabulous quotes from the book, which I
(26:35):
need to read. I've read quotes from it in my
whole life. But Hiek's fatal conceit is that quote. Man
is able to shape the world around him according to
his wishes. That is the fatal conceit of humans. It's
a hearty defense of free markets and of classical liberalism.
And Kesler mentions that his friend and colleague Matthew Henessy
(26:58):
got taken to task by Vice President Van for defending
free markets on these pages. In twenty twenty five, Hayak
pounds home the point that markets are about price discovery,
wealth creation. Quote is determined not by objective physical facts
known to any one mind, but by the separate differing
information of millions, which is precipitated in prices that serve
(27:19):
to guide further decisions. Catch that by buying and selling
in free markets to determined prices, you and I and
millions who are connected but only by signals resulting from
long and infinitely ramified chains of trade, we drive the economy,
and we do it better than self selecting know it alls.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Who really know nothing. And he gave that book to
the Pope.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
He did because he thinks the pope or popes tend
to lean a little too socialist.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yes, indeed, I think that was his purpose. Let me
hit you with one or two more quotes from Hayek.
This is maybe my favorite. One's initial surprise at finding
that intelligent people tend to be socialists diminishes when one realizes,
of course, that intelligent people will tend to overvalue intelligence.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men
how little they really know about what they imagine they
can design. Planners are ill informed. Quote to the naive
mind that can conceive of order only is the product
of deliberate arrangement. It might seem absurd that order and
economic growth can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions,
(28:27):
he notes, And he notes that the fallacy because quote
decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account
man by millions of people who don't even know.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
They're doing it. Salma Hayek for the win there, that
would be Friedrich Hayek. Hmm wrong, Hyak right, very different,
Hyak I.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Love that, Love that Jack Armstrong and Joe, the Armstrong
and Getty Show, The Armstrong and getting shot.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Right Between AJHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior and a
prominent doctors group over COVID shots for children, featuring accusations
of vaccine misinformation and influence from big drug makers, The
Academy of American Pediatrics said this week the children should
get COVID shots and boosters this year, months after the
CDC removed the COVID vaccine for healthy children and pregnant
(29:29):
women from its recommended vaccine schedule.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
This is always presented in the news as if everybody
was getting their kids COVID shots and then getting the
booster shots, right, and then that maniac care of K
Junior said what he said, and now people aren't or
rf K Junior said a bunch of stuff about vaccines
and stuff like that that I think are probably irresponsible
(29:52):
or not necessarily true.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
But this COVID one, he's definitely right about. Let's roll
on with this report.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
The Biden administration urged children to get yet another COVID shot,
despite the lack of any political data to support the
repeat booster strategy in children.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
The Academy acknowledges its guidance. Quote differs from recent recommendations
of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC,
which was overhauled this year and replaced with individuals who
have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. RFK Junior responded, quote,
AAP is angry that CDC has eliminated corporate influence in
(30:29):
decisions over vaccine recommendations. He included an image of large
pharmaceutical companies that have donated to the Academy's children's health programs.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Now researchers are weighing in listen to your doctor.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
It's clear that the Academy of Pediatrics recommendations are based
on very good science.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Less than a quarter, I'm surprised it's a high.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Actually, less than a quarter of adults got a booster
last year, under ten percent of children. So more than
ninety percent of children did not get the booster last
year before RFK Junior ever.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Came on the scene.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Uh So, as I've seen it now this is a
from Fox the report we're hearing now, but as I've
seen it presented in the mainstream news, it's, you know,
just another RFK junior is crazy and whatever, and all
the parents out there whose kids aren't going to get
the boosters they so desperately want, even though more than
nine out of ten parents did not get their kid.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Although even that report.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It just said, you know, that stocked with people who've
spread vaccine misinformation in the past. I would I need
to know what you're talking about, because the federal government
and the CDC and the nih and Anthony Fauci and
the President himself spread information over misinformation over and over
and over again.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's an extent. What are you talking about.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I don't know. I'm just so surprised there was any
COVID in the news whatsoever. Now, you who did you
Judy got a COVID test? Is that what you said
the other day? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah, she went to the doc in the box she
had a respiratory thing and uh and they said, up,
you gotta have a COVID test.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Because she mentioned the word cough.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's interesting because my doctor, surprisingly, I mean the town
I live in, but my doctor, Winnie, I hood whooping cough.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
They never even checked me for COVID and that's coughing
and all kinds of bad. Yeah. Yeah, well then, as now,
now as then. A lot of it's nonsense, inconsistent nonsense.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was there ever a kid that died from COVID who
didn't have other problems, even one in the whole country?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I'm not sure there were vanishingly small number. I don't
remember if it was none or just every death of
a child, obviously is a tragedy that was vanishing clean nobody.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, in the third biggest country on Earth.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Right, what an odd thing. We all need to keep
this in mind for the next crisis that comes along.
That you can be incredibly misled by both the media
and your government.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Yeah, so true, And it's a shame they've blown whatever
credibility they had, which leads to more crackpots getting more
attention and further clouding the water. So it's more and
more difficult to figure out what's true.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
That is the net result. Yeah, which is bad for
all of us. That sucko is what that is. So
I uh, for various reasons.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
My doctor hit me with a pregnozone prescription and it's
totally screwed up my sleep.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Last night.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
I was awake for two solid hours, my mind just
racing in the middle of the night last night.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Hey damn ye, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, didn't make you a raven to
see hungry That's what I always had with pregnant zone.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
No, actually, my stomach's kind of upset right now.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
But anyway, So two things occupied my two hours of
like high speed thinking.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Number one, I wrote and rewrote and like combed through and.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Perfected the first class of a college class in basic
economics that focuses on how laws and regulations and prices
cause people to change their behavior.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Logical economics. I was going to call it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So when you're trying to sleep, you couldn't sleep, So
you came up with a curriculum for a one hundred
level college class that I will never teach. That's correct,
that's relaxing.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
The second thing I did when that was perfected was
I was working on the speech you poor teachers, and
I'm thinking mostly of Californians, but in blue states everywhere,
and if your school district does this sort of stuff,
you poor teachers who are writing us emails this week saying, yeah,
we're in our mandatory DEI training right now.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Guys, this stuff is not dead.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
It is still here, and they're being humiliated and told
that getting your work done on time is white supremacy.
Being diligent is white supremacy, and all of that just
utter garbage. And so I was like writing a speech
for you that you could stand up and say, excuse me,
I hate to interrupt this, but this is racist garbage
(35:06):
and it's wasting all of our time and worse, and
here's why exactly, And then you would explain to them
briefly that DEI is not does not have anything to
do with racial harmony or anything.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
It's a tool of capture, it's a tool of takeover.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
If you have three people up for the job of boss,
and you can say one of those guys is a racist,
he will not get that authority, he will not get
that money, he will not get the good stuff. And
if you start calling everybody a racist who you don't
want to have power, and everybody's like afraid to say
that doesn't seem like racism to me, then.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
You're in power.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
DI needs to end wherever it exists, everywhere in America today.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It has nothing to do with race. It is a
Marxist technique to capture institution. Arms Strong and Getty, I'm
strong and get.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Strong in
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Armstrong and Getty.
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