July 18, 2026 • 38 mins
Featured highlights from The Armstrong & Getty Show, as heard on the broadcast of Hour One of The Best Weekend Talk Show In America include...
- Ditching Daylight Savings Time...
- Why we need to elect senators, plus--Jack is Shorter...
- A New Dating App: Hobbies & Interests in Common???...
- The passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham...
- 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 Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Getty and now he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
A Chinese woman in Las Vegas pled guilty to marrying
at least fourteen men at the same time. When asked
if she knew what she did was wrong, she responded, I.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Do in Las Vegas. So I was there just a
couple of weeks ago when we were dragging the strip
in the classic Mustang that I rented, me and my son,
and we're going by all those little wedding chapels that
they have, and I was trying to explain to my
son about the quickie Vegas marriage. But don't have a
good explanation as a why was that ever a thing?
(01:14):
How is it still a thing? There are we probably
passed eight different tiny little some of them are drive
through wedding chapels. I would assume they're only open because
they get enough business to make it profitable. Why are
there still so many people doing the quickie Vegas wedding?
Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, I really don't. I'd be guessing. I mean, my
guess is that as a certain number of people, a
certain number of people don't want a big wedding, but
they want to have fun. They want the wedding to
be something just not the conventional, and Vegas will do
it for you with a dozen different varieties wow guests,
and they're supposed to go down to the justice of
the piece and sign and papers and walking home.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And enough people do it to keep those places open.
They're all really small, like the size of a Dutch brother.
There's coffee and there's lots of them. How many folks
are still getting the Elvis themed wedding? Like an Elvis
imitator impersonator does that? Because that was big For a minute, I.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Drove by that place. Yep, yeah, it still exists. There's
just one. Do they have some sort of some sort
of license from the estate of the King or something.
I know, you'd think the first amendment would protect faux
elvi from prosecution.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So every six months or so we change the clock
in this country, and every six months or so we
have an actual conversation about why do we do this?
And Congress voted overwhelmingly yesterday. It wasn't even close. It
was three hundred some to one hundred sum to make
daylight saving time permanent. But the bill faces an uncertain
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fate in the Senate. Why I don't understand the resistance
to this. Why I wish I were a congress person
so I could have a suggest in an amendment a
sunset clause, which is actually kind of funny if you
think about it, a sunset clause. How about we try
it for two years, and if we decide we don't
like it, we'll go back. It's not gonna be a disaster.
(03:12):
We might just decide we like the other one better.
This isn't a big deal. First of all, I don't
understand Arizona and Hawaii don't do it. There aren't stacks
of dead bodies. People don't just run around screaming because
the time didn't change. They don't know how to act.
This seem to be fine, right, to let it go
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even do it for a year, and then then everybody
will get together and say I thought it was okay.
Two thirds of the world does not do it at all,
A third of the world does. Let's try it and
see what happens. We'll either like it or not.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Putting aside here trademark mirth. What is is this uniquely
American or twenty first century or yet another example of
a very comfortable, wealthy people. We fear change. We've talked
about this with the tax code a million times. Anybody
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who would design the federal tax code as it is
right now should be permanently held in a mental institution. Okay,
our tax system is completely insane and bizarre. It's kafka esque.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And yet whenever a perfectly coherent, reasonable proposal comes along
to say, hey, how about we totally reform our tax
system and do this and said, people go crazy about
the small inconveniences, and I've heard that didn't meant to know,
we should probably stick with their court system.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This fear of.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Change, that's got to be an evolutionary thing where it's
we're alive and our kids are alive, let's not mess
with things, which is kind of the essence of conservatism. Really,
it's got to be that. At the same time, though,
the pace of change in the modern world is is dizzying.
But if we all get together to vote for some
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everybody really hesitates. Well maybe you've seen it in your
own life, your own household, but sometimes I have to
point out to myself or my kids, like you're going
to change some minor thing, and then there's the there's
the but what of this? What if that? Okay, if
we don't decide we don't like you sitting there and
me sitting there at the dinner table, we'll go back
to the old way. Nobody's right, guy, It's absolutely answerpologically right.
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It's gotta be anyway. The vote was not even close
in the House. I don't know why they are gonna
be stumbling blocks on the Senate to this major, major
thing that they do in Arizona, and tons of old
people seem to be perfectly fine with it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh that reminds me speaking of changes next door in
New Mexico, they would go, well, they all set themselves
on fire if for some reason we didn't change the clocks.
Twice a year, Dogs lying down with cats, families turning
on each other, this will not happen, but I love
the idea. Did you know I should? I should come
up with a better form of the question. When did
(06:02):
Americans start voting for their senators? Individual voters? When did
they start voting for senator? I'm going to go eighteen thirty,
nineteen thirteen? Really, Yeah, the Senate was elected by state
legislators until nineteen thirteen. From seventeen eighty nine to nineteen thirteen,
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not a single American casta ballot for the US Senate.
Then the Seventeenth Amendment, one of our worst, changed senatorial
elections to the direct popular vote following state level reforms
in the years prior. In June, a representative of Texas
proposed legislation to repeal the seventeenth Amendment, ending the direct
election of senators that's started in nineteen thirteen. As I've
(06:47):
mentioned repeatedly, I would love to see this happen.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You would, Yeah, I was just trying to noodle it
through since I haven't thought about it at all. So
in your one party states like California, it would end
the chance of any Republican being senator.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, certainly, certainly would in the current you know, state
of things.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Or the reverse in your rer read states. I'm not
trying to make this a partisan thing, so you wouldn't
have the chance to like cast a blow against the
party in charge by getting one senator from the other
party in your state or something right right, the outside
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of it would be I've lost my faith in voters.
That would be the upside.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Right right, the the original constitutional provision that the state
legislatures choose the senators. It was not only not an accident,
it was one of the least controversial questions at the
Constitutional Convention. There's no serious dissent to it. You want
to hear the reasoning. The Framers built a bicameral Congress
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in which the House would represent the people directly and
the Senate would represent states as states with their own
institutional interest in resisting federal encroachment. A senator chosen by
and answerable to a state legislator had every incentive to
defend that state's prerogatives against Washington, not be a populist
not or a Instagram fame seeker or whatever. Senator who
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needs a national fundraising operation, a national media profile, and
a national donor base to win reelection often has little
incentive to be just a fierce representative of their state.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Right. So this sort of fits into the argument that
I brought up yesterday, which was floating around online over
the weekend. There was a movement AOC might have brought
it up or somebody about how why does New York State,
which has New York City, have two senators when the
population of New York City alone is bigger than I
think it was Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota, Wyoming
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and Alaska added together, and that's ten senators. So and
the argument would be what you just said there, because
then it's going to become the federal government or big
cities making decisions for the entire country. Now, people who
live in big cities think that that makes sense for
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the rural areas, but it doesn't being a person who's
spent most of my life in rural.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Areas, right exactly. And the differing interests of the differing
parts of the country just you know, in general, it's
an ingenious design that the founders came up with, and
we've made the Senate more populist and more to quote
James Madison something or other from the people's momentary passions.
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The design is as it was originally said, a body
removed from the immediate popular passion would provide a defense
to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions,
preserving public opinion's true interest until reason, justice, and truth
can regain their authority. Meaning you know the off heard
phrase that the Senate is the saucer that cools the milk.
(10:05):
It would be a very very careful, very slow moving,
deliberative body. It would be essentially a committee of all
fifty states getting together and saying, hey, let's be fair
to everybody here. I don't have to run for reelection
in a couple of years. In fact, as long as
I represent Montana faithfully, I really don't have to worry
about reelection at all. But in the you know, in
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the interest of the people of Montana, I've got to
tell you, this scheme to drain all of our water
and send it to Los Angeles ain't good. So that's
what the Senate was supposed to be. I like it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Populism, especially in the age of the Internet, I think
is a dangerous force. Absolutely, Yeah, and then the Senate
being staggered, so you can't have a wave that really
upsets the Senate as opposed to the House where you
can where if all of a sudden there's a passion
about a war we're in, or a tax policy or whatever,
you can have a giant wave happened within two years, right,
(11:03):
which is just you know, like you said, it's really
an ingenious system as to the.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Night's accidentally building a case. Here, let me throw in
one more thing real quickly, because the president now is
the party which can rite cause wild, wild swings in policy.
And then you have senators who right now, for populist reasons,
are kind of afraid of opposing the sitting president. I'll
admit it. It's true. You see it all the time.
(11:28):
This would fix that to a large extent.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Ah, you're right in terms of the national elections thing, though,
I was reading some piece about how much more we
have that now than we used to. You run on
whether you're with Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It used
to be all my whole life what you heard on
the like Tim Russert's style, meet the press or whatever.
It was all politics are local, and that's just not
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true anymore. All politics is national, right, right, It's all
about what everybody's watching in the news and whatever hot
YouTube video or whatever, including politics, which is bitterly needs
to be local, becomes national.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Oh, I got into a conversation sort of with a
guy last night about the It was a crazy drug addict,
homeless person screaming their head off violently near a group
of people last night, and I went out and dialed
nine to one to one and the cops talked to him.
And then the cops called me back and said, uh, yeah,
we know this guy. We talked to him all the time.
(12:28):
And I mentioned to a friend of mine he said, yeah,
because they talked to him every day. Somebody calls nine
to one one every day because he's dangerous and scary,
and they come and talk to him every day, and
he's still on the street, right, And kind of got
into the whole idea, because of our whole nationalized politics,
you've got this crowd that well, to do anything about
the crime or homelessness or this or that would be
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make you a Trump person or not a Trump person,
which is a ridiculous way to look at your local school,
your local taxes, you water, your local whatever, you know,
Just like through the pandemic with masks and schools and
everything else is Trump order against it. That's the way
we ruin everything now, right, or you know.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
To put the shoe on the other foot. If some
senator had been willing to stand up to Joe Biden
and say, hey, this is a gigantic, multi trillion dollar
COVID bailout is going to cause spiraling inflation, I won't
do it.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You couldn't threaten to primary him because the people of
his state, the legislature of his state, and say, no,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I'm glad he stood up to you. That's fine. We'll
decide who our senator is. Not you pouring a bunch
of money into our elections and trying to whip up
the populace base. Blah blah blah. I like it. Probably
won't happen, but I like it.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
M I had a physical yesterday. Apparently have to have
one every so often according to your insurance or something.
I hadn't had one in a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You go to Trump's doctor, so he would declare you
the most physically fit tak show host in history.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Here's the worst thing, and I'm going to lie about
this for the rest of my life. Uh oh my height?
Oh you'd say, yeah, yeah, freaking gravity man. No, you bad.
My year old business.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Hit your dang old discs between your vertebrae, they get squashed.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
That's maddening.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
My doctor actually said, he said, call yourself what you
used to be. No, it doesn't cost anything.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Jack's gone from six foot two to four eleven. I mean,
it's really really shocking, right, I had to get rid
of all his clothes.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right, the pants I keep, I gotta like buckle
them around my neck. It's really kind of a jumpsuit.
Now I can't go on those amusement amusement rights anymore.
That's right, I'm too short for It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Shoun Jetty Shop on Shock and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Arm Strong and Eddy. The hot thing in California college
campuses is this dating app? Has it got a clever name?
I don't remember. It doesn't matter that instead of like
flipping through pictures, you fill out questionnaires of your interests
and your favorite thing. AI matches you up amazing, and
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they are claiming an astounding ninety plus percent level of
let's do a second date, which is a pretty good
measure of success if you believe the numbers. And I don't,
Although you know it's probably a pretty good system. But
my immediate reaction when I first read about this, and
I think the writer writing about it said the same thing,
is there's this funny assumption that you need to have
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like hobbies and interests, musical tastes in common and to
fall in love with.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I know, where does that come from.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I've never found that to be true.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's not even true with my male friends. Why we
become friends and enter into personal relationships doesn't seem to
have anything to do with that. Sometimes it's because you
both play golfs, but you might hate each other's music
or whatever. I mean, there's just there's some overlap, but
they just kind of accidental. It's usually not why you're close.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, and you know, I've I've been with Judy now
for forty years. We just took a couple of weeks
off to celebrate it. I remember in the early days,
I mean, we had some common interests. We met doing
quitting there. It was nineteen eighty three, believe it or not,
when we met, and we were both doing musical theater.
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She was in the cast, I was in the band.
But yond that, it's she had no interest in golf.
It plays a little now not like most of the
music I liked, had no interest in sports in general,
and I was obsessed. You know, I could go on
down the line, sure, but we hit it off as friends,
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found each other to be attractive, made each other feel safe,
and made each other laugh. And I couldn't have given
a crap whether she liked gardening or opera.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But in online dating, which I did for like six months, Uh,
if you're not into if you're not a foodie who
wants to do a stand up paddle boarding, well then
why would I want to date you? Okay, Well that
denies all your friends who are happily married, who don't
necessarily have those things in common.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Ryan, For all of human history, and anytime anybody says
that you really ought to think about it. For all
of human history, virtually all romantic connection was proximity based.
What we're trying to do is, Okay, we never brush
up against real human beings anymore. We're all on our screen.
So let's let's figure out.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Let's try to figure out what attracted people to each
other without like the circumstance where it always took place
that you rubbed it, you brushed up against them, you
were in the same room with them, you saw them
across the room, blah blah blah, or he asked you
if you knew where the number three bus ran or whatever.
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Let's remove all proximity.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
In actual contact and try to figure out how people
get and I think we've done a poor job of it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, I actually like any of those things. Whatever that's
called that speed dating thing where everybody gets together in
a room and you sit down for two minutes and
talk to each other. That seems like a way better
idea then that whatever that magic is, whether it's pheromones
or something in the brain we don't understand or whatever,
where you show interest in a person based on something
other than just looks. That makes more sense to me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I think you're right. I remember when the speed dating
thing first came out. It seemed like, well, why are
you in such a hurry? Seemed kind of silly. But yeah,
I think, compared to the online thing, is probably a
way way better idea.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I suppose we'll have to figure this out since
we don't interact with the people anymore, and it's getting
less and less.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Oh, there was a piece in the New York Times
the other day. It's okay to date your co workers.
There was somebody wrote a guest in The New York
Times about how let's be realistic. This is where like
everybody meets. It's your best opportunity to meet somebody. It's
crazy that we've decided that's a no go zone since
it's the only place you're going to meet anybody, which
I've always.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Thought was true. That's funny. That's what we've been saying before, during,
and after the whole Me Too madness.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
This is the best weekend talk show in America.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
He was a fantastic person.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
He was a man.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Who are you going to watch?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's going to be a very big thing with him.
He's going to be appreciated more now than he was
when he was living.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I think Donald Trump called into a whole bunch of
different news shows yesterday when his friend Lindsey Graham died
over the weekend and he got the news and then
telling everybody about it.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, that's weird. As discussing earlier the narrative from stupid
people for stupid people that Lindsey Graham, who originally opposed Trump,
later cowtowed to him and he became a sickle phan
and he's a hypocrite. Again, stupid analysis for stupid people.
How about this, Lindsey Graham thought his goals from America
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and what he thought was best were so sacred to
him that he would work with whoever he needed to
to make them happen because he lived for those goals.
He was a highly principled guy. The last thing he
was was unprincipled. He's practical.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, he ran against Trump originally, if you don't remember,
because he thought Trump he didn't like Trump's foreign policy
at all, and he was really worried about Trump getting
the nomination and where that would take the country because
Trump was running against all these wars. Like Lindsey Graham
was more of a hawk than me on wanting, for instance,
Iraq and Afghanistan to go on forever, it seems. But
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I agreed with him on being a hawk about Iran
and Ukraine. But he was worried that everything could get
out of hand, and like you said, so when he realized, Okay,
I guess the country's going Trump's direction, or at least
the Republican Party is I need to still be a
voice for the things that I want. So I got
to figure out a way to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And I actually saw this phrase used in one tribute
to him. My mom's family was from South Carolina, and
I was a small child when my grandmother first said
to me, or it could have been my mom quoting
my grandmother, that you draw more flies with honey than vinegar.
And of course that's not about drawing flies. Why do
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you want to draw fly? Who wants flies around them?
I've always flies in the kitchen. There are a few flies,
but not enough exactly. It's a not expression, yet it
has endured, so let's use it. And Lindsey Graham, also
of the great state of South Carolina, believe that, Look,
if you want to get stuff done, you don't do
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it being an ass. You do it by reaching out
to people and seeing how you can work with them.
So again, that whole he was a hypocrite narrative from evil,
stupid people. Forget it, it's dumb.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Anyway, I was happy to see with the respect that
he was shown by all your mainstream media over the weekend.
They presented him in a very good light on your Faces,
the Nation, your Meets the Press, your ABC's this week,
which I was happy to see that we still do that.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, Yeah, And Lindsay in particular was a real fan
of working across the aisle, even during these days. He
and Senator Blumenthal, about whom I have said very harsh things,
and he deserves them. They're working together on a new
Russian sanctions bill that actually had teeth. They've been trying
to get Trump to support it for ages and it
was finally looking like it might work. And it still
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might work. But yeah, he was working across the aisle
till his last day.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I've got a good, controversial hot take from Mark Halpern
on the role of Lindsey Graham's death in the war
in Ukraine. Counterintuitive.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They don't like to enjoy a good counterintuitive. So we
have some of Lindsay's greatest hits assembled for you. He
was very, very funny, very eloquent, sincere. You know, let's
let's start with something quick in jazzy Michael sixty five.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Mister Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us. I know
you don't mean it to be so, but you have
blood on your hands. You have a product, you have
a product that's killing people.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, that was good. I tell you what, Why don't
we just do we start the show with a show stopper, Jack.
It's his steroid to have it, and it's his greatest hits,
his hit, greatest hit. Lindsey Graham during the Judge Kavanaugh hearings,
just to reset it in case your memories are fuzzy.
At the last moment, the Democrats brought forth this blasi
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Ford woman who claimed that in high school many decades ago,
that Judge Cavanaugh was part of a group of boys
who molested her on one level or another at a
high school party where people had been drinking, and the
mem her memories were incredibly vague and a lot of
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the facts didn't fit.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
It was the opposite of the woman that came forward
against Plattner last week, where there was zero contemporary at
the time corroborated evidence.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Her friends were like, I never heard that, right, right,
there's just nothing to corroborate it. And notably because Lindsey
makes a reference to this, the Democrats didn't say, hey,
this needs to be fully investigated. They just brought it
up at the last minute to assassinate his character. Judge Cavanaugh,
you may recall and I would love to hear this again.
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He finally had had enough and abandoned his I'm going
to sit here quietly with a smile on my face
in a dignified way and take this because this is horrific.
It made the borking of a judge Borick look game.
He blasted him. He said it was disgusting and it
was wrong, and the rest of it, and then the
narrative became Calvin Owe is, he's hot headed, he doesn't
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have the temperament to be on the court. Well, they
came back from a break and Lindsey Graham had had
enough sixty Michaels.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Did you know that her staff had already recommended a
lawyer to dodnor Ford. I did not know that. Did
you know that her and her staff had this allegations
for over twenty days?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I did not know that at the time.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come
to us. What you want to do is destroy this
guy's life, Hold this seat open, and hope you went
in twenty twenty. You've said that, not me. You've got
nothing to apologize for. When you see Soda Maron keg
and tell him that Lindsay said, because I voted for them,
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I would never do to them what you've done to
this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've
been in politics. And if you really wanted to know
the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what
you've done to this guy. Are you a gang rapist? No?
(26:25):
I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy,
y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.
I hope the American people can see through this sham
that you knew about it, and.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You held it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You had no intention of protecting doctor for it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
None.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
She's as much of a victim as you are.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
God.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I hate to say it because these have been my friends,
but let me tell you, when it comes to this,
you're looking for a fair process. You came to the
wrong town at the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
My friend one of the Sunday shows credited that speech
from Lindsay Graham for rescuing Slash saving Kavanaugh's nomination.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah. Possibly, there's a lot of grand standing in the
halls of Congress and the Senate these days. It's fairly
rare that you hear somebody who is obviously completely sincere.
That was great, That was so ugly.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
He never he never wavered on his whole hawkishness in
terms of think in the United States needed to, you know,
stand up to bullies around the world. That was man.
That was the through line for him, always, even when
it was very unpopular.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I think that probably is partly because of his life
story that he was very much not the upper crust
of society. In fact, he's still in the His net
worth when he passed was like one point five million.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
They had him. I got the article in front of me,
the poorest member of Congress in terms of net worth.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Okay, this article is wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Man. Yeah, yeah, anyway, we can look into that. But
he definitely is in the bottom half of everybody in
the Congress. But he you know, he's the son of
a not very well to do a liquor store owner,
and his parents passed away when he was a teenager,
and he adopted his sister and raised her and took
care of her. He's never displayed much interest in getting rich.
(28:31):
He just cares about American foreign policy and the judiciary
and stuff like that. He's also very very funny, and
the context of the next clip sixty one, he's talking
to the Republican Jewish Coalition about the rise of anti Semitism.
And this was a while back, but note the tone.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
But I just want to make it really clear.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm in the Hitler sucks wing of their revolgan vari.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
What is this Hitler?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know anyway, Here's what I do know. You
can set in a basement with weird people and say
weird things.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's a free country, right.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
But if you ever run for office as a Republican
and you embrace this, where we're gonna beat your brains out.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Reading from this transcript with Al Franken, a former Senator
from Minnesota who was a member of Saturday Night Live,
wrote for Senator Downight Live, reporters said, would your colleagues
in the Senate tell you jokes? Al Franken said, yes,
Is that annoying? Is really annoying for a couple of them.
Is there anyone who's actually funny? Yeah? The funniest Senator
is Lindsey Graham. Really disappointing, isn't it. Al Franken said,
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that's surprising, He's very funny. Al Franken said, what's an example.
I thought this was actually pretty good when he was
running for president two th sixteen. I was next to
him in the senator's men's room and said, if I
was a Republican, I'd vote for you, and without hesitation,
Lindsay Graham said, that's my problem, which is true.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Wow, wow, Yeah, I'm anxious to hear. Well, do you
have more of the Lindsay stuff you'd like to hear?
I mean, here's an example of his hawkishness in sixty two.
For sure. Here's what I tell President Trump. Keep it
up for a few more weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Take carg Island, where all of the resources they have
to briduce, oil control that island.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let this regime down a vine.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
The result could be a grinding war of attrition.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
They talk about how far away they would be from.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Recently sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback. And
this has been amazing military operation.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
God bless the fallen.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
But it's a difference. Let me talk about troops on
the I trust the Marines, not that guy. I trust
DoD We got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island, Yojima.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
We can do this, and that might be what we're
going to do, which we'll talk about a little bit later.
I really think it's an interesting conversation, and it's not
everybody's personality that could do this around switching gears, befriending
enemies or whatever, because you want to stay in office
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to accomplish the things you want to accomplish, versus people
who do that who just want to stay in office
because they like being in office. Because there's plenty of that.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, I think maybe it's as simple as you look
at somebody and say, are they clearly purpose driven?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, for instance, I kept hearing over the weekend Lindsey
Graham found a way to always be relevant no matter
you know, where the party went. So he came in
in the big wave in ninety four with a whole
bunch of rebels that were all about throwing Newt Gingrich
out of office and a new kind of Republican party
in fighting the establishment. Next thing, you know, his best
friend is John McCain, who couldn't have been more of
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the establishment. And then we all know the Trump story.
He ran against Trump, he ends up being Trump's closest friend,
all that sort of stuff, But he stayed in irrelevant
so that he could be a hawk on foreign policy
all the way through. Where as opposed to Joe Biden,
who also always found a way to be relevant for
all those years. But I have no idea what Joe
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Biden cared about, no idea. I don't think he cared
about anything but holding onto power, enriching the Biden family. Yeah,
he had so many hundred and eighty degree reverses, not
on who he was working with or whatever, but on
some fundamental policy.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Arm Strong Hetty mail Bag drops a note mail bag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Mike writes, Guys, your
segment on Joe Biden's book was great. This was yesterday.
We just did another one. Since I commute and catch
your show on podcast form. Blah blah blah. Oh, I
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listen a lot of audio books. I wondered if there
will be an audible version of his book, preferably narrated
by himself.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Oh, that'd be tough and you'd have to rewind a
lot secondary of Afghanistan. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Let's say, just want to point out that Jack is
not supposed to go see The Odyssey if he is
pro ice, since John Leguizamo is in it and he
has stated he doesn't want pro iceed people watching these movies.
What you'll have to trade in your tickets for minions
and monsters, or maybe the end of Oak Street, unless,
of course, you really are anti ice, in which case
carry on.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Or I don't pay attention to any of these controversies
in these movies.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, an actor, can you imagine that saying I don't
want anybody who's pro ice coming to any of my movies.
People are like children, all right? Moving along Wayne. In
Beautiful Tigger to Oregon, once again, the idea of going
to hear a year round daylight saving time is being pushed.
One of you said, why don't you just try for
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a while and see how we like it.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Jack, you said, facts of dead bodies, just like the
heaven Arizona every six months.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
He points out, we've tried it at least twice, and
it was hated by the vast majorities. During World War two,
not World War eleven AOSA, the country went on daylight's
saving time for four years. My parents lived through it
and hated it, so did most of the country. So
at the end of the war we went back to
the old system. Then in the winter of seventy three
seventy four, there was a narrab oil embargo. I remember this.
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The government decided again we should go year around TST.
I was in college and hated it, so did everyone
I knew. I had to go to morning classes in
the dark, then come home in the dark. After the crisis,
the country went back to the old system.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I was alive, but I have no memory of not
changing the clocks there for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, I thought that was Was that a Carter idea?
It would have been Jerry Ford at seventy three, seventy four,
I guess. But yeah, that happened.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Even with the seventies, though, lifestyles are so much different
now than they were fifty years ago. I say, we
tried it.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
True, true, And then finally Wayne points out Arizona and
Hawaii actually stay on standard time all year. I have
no idea this, no doubt, this dumb idea will become reality, because,
like the old saying goes, those who do not learn
from history are doomed to repeat it. I'm all for
trying it Daylight saving time or standard.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Time, I don't know which. I have no idea of
information changing the clocks. That's what I'll want.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
There, you go. Let's see how about this from Richard?
When looking at the Iran conflict, where America is clearly
superior militarily. I am reminded of the War of Independence,
where England had a superior army, it lost to the
guerrilla style warfare of the colonials. It was a bloody war,
and so would a ground So would a ground war
in Iraq. Because they don't fight like we are used to.
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The citizenry believe promised who wow, there are words missing
in this. Their promised rewards in the afterlife if they
kill the enemy. I have a feeling this is voice
dictated are the Wall Street Journal and others with a
couple of articles lately that there's been a surge in
patriotism and nationalism in Iran, including people who used to
be sympathetic to the resistance.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That's what happened in the attack a country. That's what
happened with the British and the soccer match yesterday. The
Argentines kept jumping out from behind trees while the British
team was marching straight lines, and they just went round
them with the ball and scored goals.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Well, I should have paid more attention, let's see. And
then Jim sent along an article from a moderate Democrat
saying the three things the Democrats really need to do
to win elections. And this is my favorite part. The
odds of this suggestion getting adopted are the same as
blue Blue do Blue. Tarski's grade point average at Favor
(36:34):
College zero point zero. It's far more likely that the
author will receive death threats and be forced to publicly
apologize and disavow his article, or face retribution from the
DSA's red Guards. You're right, sir, you're right.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
That's from the great movie Animal House. Yes, his grade
point average was zero point zero. That's not good, fat, drunk,
and stupid. There's no way to go through life.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Son. That's that's true. That's a true fact. A couple
of messages for Jack from Julie. First, I hope Jack,
I hope Joe brought Jack a nice souvenir moose hat
or something, because that was an awfully long stretch for
him to have to do the show on his own. Second,
that he thinks he's reached Jack said, you said, you
reached an age where people are no longer annoyed by
(37:21):
his incompetence and are happy to help him figure things out.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yes, I didn't do a lot exegment on that because
it's true, and I kept pointing out to my son,
it's so funny. I now have problems with anything or
can't find something, and people are, oh my gosh, that
poor old man is lost or can't figure this out,
and people gather around to help me.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Oh my gosh, I've reached that age. Wow. But Julie suggests,
I think it's more likely that people are generally just
friendly and helpful because he's only now experiencing this, not
because he's over sixty, but because he finally worked to
ditches resting murder face.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
That's true. I do have a different face now, could
be boul could be could be the new face, no
doubt about it. The new face has helped I purposefully
changed my face. You can do it.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
A Chinese woman in Las Vegas pled guilty to marrying
at least fourteen men at the same time. When asked
if she knew what she did was wrong, she responded, I.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Do in Las Vegas. So I was there just a
couple of weeks ago when we were dragging the strip
in the classic Mustang that I rented, me and my son,
and we're going by all those little wedding chapels that
they have, and I was trying to explain to my
son about the quickie Vegas marriage. But don't have a
good explanation as a why was that ever a thing?
(01:14):
How is it still a thing? There are we probably
passed eight different tiny little some of them are drive
through wedding chapels. I would assume they're only open because
they get enough business to make it profitable. Why are
there still so many people doing the quickie Vegas wedding?
Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, I really don't. I'd be guessing. I mean, my
guess is that as a certain number of people, a
certain number of people don't want a big wedding, but
they want to have fun. They want the wedding to
be something just not the conventional, and Vegas will do
it for you with a dozen different varieties wow guests,
and they're supposed to go down to the justice of
the piece and sign and papers and walking home.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And enough people do it to keep those places open.
They're all really small, like the size of a Dutch brother.
There's coffee and there's lots of them. How many folks
are still getting the Elvis themed wedding? Like an Elvis
imitator impersonator does that? Because that was big For a minute, I.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Drove by that place. Yep, yeah, it still exists. There's
just one. Do they have some sort of some sort
of license from the estate of the King or something.
I know, you'd think the first amendment would protect faux
elvi from prosecution.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
So every six months or so we change the clock
in this country, and every six months or so we
have an actual conversation about why do we do this?
And Congress voted overwhelmingly yesterday. It wasn't even close. It
was three hundred some to one hundred sum to make
daylight saving time permanent. But the bill faces an uncertain
(02:50):
fate in the Senate. Why I don't understand the resistance
to this. Why I wish I were a congress person
so I could have a suggest in an amendment a
sunset clause, which is actually kind of funny if you
think about it, a sunset clause. How about we try
it for two years, and if we decide we don't
like it, we'll go back. It's not gonna be a disaster.
(03:12):
We might just decide we like the other one better.
This isn't a big deal. First of all, I don't
understand Arizona and Hawaii don't do it. There aren't stacks
of dead bodies. People don't just run around screaming because
the time didn't change. They don't know how to act.
This seem to be fine, right, to let it go
(03:33):
even do it for a year, and then then everybody
will get together and say I thought it was okay.
Two thirds of the world does not do it at all,
A third of the world does. Let's try it and
see what happens. We'll either like it or not.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Putting aside here trademark mirth. What is is this uniquely
American or twenty first century or yet another example of
a very comfortable, wealthy people. We fear change. We've talked
about this with the tax code a million times. Anybody
(04:09):
who would design the federal tax code as it is
right now should be permanently held in a mental institution. Okay,
our tax system is completely insane and bizarre. It's kafka esque.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And yet whenever a perfectly coherent, reasonable proposal comes along
to say, hey, how about we totally reform our tax
system and do this and said, people go crazy about
the small inconveniences, and I've heard that didn't meant to know,
we should probably stick with their court system.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This fear of.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Change, that's got to be an evolutionary thing where it's
we're alive and our kids are alive, let's not mess
with things, which is kind of the essence of conservatism. Really,
it's got to be that. At the same time, though,
the pace of change in the modern world is is dizzying.
But if we all get together to vote for some
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everybody really hesitates. Well maybe you've seen it in your
own life, your own household, but sometimes I have to
point out to myself or my kids, like you're going
to change some minor thing, and then there's the there's
the but what of this? What if that? Okay, if
we don't decide we don't like you sitting there and
me sitting there at the dinner table, we'll go back
to the old way. Nobody's right, guy, It's absolutely answerpologically right.
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It's gotta be anyway. The vote was not even close
in the House. I don't know why they are gonna
be stumbling blocks on the Senate to this major, major
thing that they do in Arizona, and tons of old
people seem to be perfectly fine with it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh that reminds me speaking of changes next door in
New Mexico, they would go, well, they all set themselves
on fire if for some reason we didn't change the clocks.
Twice a year, Dogs lying down with cats, families turning
on each other, this will not happen, but I love
the idea. Did you know I should? I should come
up with a better form of the question. When did
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Americans start voting for their senators? Individual voters? When did
they start voting for senator? I'm going to go eighteen thirty,
nineteen thirteen? Really, Yeah, the Senate was elected by state
legislators until nineteen thirteen. From seventeen eighty nine to nineteen thirteen,
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not a single American casta ballot for the US Senate.
Then the Seventeenth Amendment, one of our worst, changed senatorial
elections to the direct popular vote following state level reforms
in the years prior. In June, a representative of Texas
proposed legislation to repeal the seventeenth Amendment, ending the direct
election of senators that's started in nineteen thirteen. As I've
(06:47):
mentioned repeatedly, I would love to see this happen.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You would, Yeah, I was just trying to noodle it
through since I haven't thought about it at all. So
in your one party states like California, it would end
the chance of any Republican being senator.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, certainly, certainly would in the current you know, state
of things.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Or the reverse in your rer read states. I'm not
trying to make this a partisan thing, so you wouldn't
have the chance to like cast a blow against the
party in charge by getting one senator from the other
party in your state or something right right, the outside
(07:26):
of it would be I've lost my faith in voters.
That would be the upside.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Right right, the the original constitutional provision that the state
legislatures choose the senators. It was not only not an accident,
it was one of the least controversial questions at the
Constitutional Convention. There's no serious dissent to it. You want
to hear the reasoning. The Framers built a bicameral Congress
(07:54):
in which the House would represent the people directly and
the Senate would represent states as states with their own
institutional interest in resisting federal encroachment. A senator chosen by
and answerable to a state legislator had every incentive to
defend that state's prerogatives against Washington, not be a populist
not or a Instagram fame seeker or whatever. Senator who
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needs a national fundraising operation, a national media profile, and
a national donor base to win reelection often has little
incentive to be just a fierce representative of their state.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Right. So this sort of fits into the argument that
I brought up yesterday, which was floating around online over
the weekend. There was a movement AOC might have brought
it up or somebody about how why does New York State,
which has New York City, have two senators when the
population of New York City alone is bigger than I
think it was Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota, Wyoming
(08:52):
and Alaska added together, and that's ten senators. So and
the argument would be what you just said there, because
then it's going to become the federal government or big
cities making decisions for the entire country. Now, people who
live in big cities think that that makes sense for
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the rural areas, but it doesn't being a person who's
spent most of my life in rural.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Areas, right exactly. And the differing interests of the differing
parts of the country just you know, in general, it's
an ingenious design that the founders came up with, and
we've made the Senate more populist and more to quote
James Madison something or other from the people's momentary passions.
(09:43):
The design is as it was originally said, a body
removed from the immediate popular passion would provide a defense
to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions,
preserving public opinion's true interest until reason, justice, and truth
can regain their authority. Meaning you know the off heard
phrase that the Senate is the saucer that cools the milk.
(10:05):
It would be a very very careful, very slow moving,
deliberative body. It would be essentially a committee of all
fifty states getting together and saying, hey, let's be fair
to everybody here. I don't have to run for reelection
in a couple of years. In fact, as long as
I represent Montana faithfully, I really don't have to worry
about reelection at all. But in the you know, in
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the interest of the people of Montana, I've got to
tell you, this scheme to drain all of our water
and send it to Los Angeles ain't good. So that's
what the Senate was supposed to be. I like it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Populism, especially in the age of the Internet, I think
is a dangerous force. Absolutely, Yeah, and then the Senate
being staggered, so you can't have a wave that really
upsets the Senate as opposed to the House where you
can where if all of a sudden there's a passion
about a war we're in, or a tax policy or whatever,
you can have a giant wave happened within two years, right,
(11:03):
which is just you know, like you said, it's really
an ingenious system as to the.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Night's accidentally building a case. Here, let me throw in
one more thing real quickly, because the president now is
the party which can rite cause wild, wild swings in policy.
And then you have senators who right now, for populist reasons,
are kind of afraid of opposing the sitting president. I'll
admit it. It's true. You see it all the time.
(11:28):
This would fix that to a large extent.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Ah, you're right in terms of the national elections thing, though,
I was reading some piece about how much more we
have that now than we used to. You run on
whether you're with Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It used
to be all my whole life what you heard on
the like Tim Russert's style, meet the press or whatever.
It was all politics are local, and that's just not
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true anymore. All politics is national, right, right, It's all
about what everybody's watching in the news and whatever hot
YouTube video or whatever, including politics, which is bitterly needs
to be local, becomes national.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Oh, I got into a conversation sort of with a
guy last night about the It was a crazy drug addict,
homeless person screaming their head off violently near a group
of people last night, and I went out and dialed
nine to one to one and the cops talked to him.
And then the cops called me back and said, uh, yeah,
we know this guy. We talked to him all the time.
(12:28):
And I mentioned to a friend of mine he said, yeah,
because they talked to him every day. Somebody calls nine
to one one every day because he's dangerous and scary,
and they come and talk to him every day, and
he's still on the street, right, And kind of got
into the whole idea, because of our whole nationalized politics,
you've got this crowd that well, to do anything about
the crime or homelessness or this or that would be
(12:52):
make you a Trump person or not a Trump person,
which is a ridiculous way to look at your local school,
your local taxes, you water, your local whatever, you know,
Just like through the pandemic with masks and schools and
everything else is Trump order against it. That's the way
we ruin everything now, right, or you know.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
To put the shoe on the other foot. If some
senator had been willing to stand up to Joe Biden
and say, hey, this is a gigantic, multi trillion dollar
COVID bailout is going to cause spiraling inflation, I won't
do it.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
You couldn't threaten to primary him because the people of
his state, the legislature of his state, and say, no,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I'm glad he stood up to you. That's fine. We'll
decide who our senator is. Not you pouring a bunch
of money into our elections and trying to whip up
the populace base. Blah blah blah. I like it. Probably
won't happen, but I like it.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
M I had a physical yesterday. Apparently have to have
one every so often according to your insurance or something.
I hadn't had one in a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You go to Trump's doctor, so he would declare you
the most physically fit tak show host in history.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Here's the worst thing, and I'm going to lie about
this for the rest of my life. Uh oh my height?
Oh you'd say, yeah, yeah, freaking gravity man. No, you bad.
My year old business.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Hit your dang old discs between your vertebrae, they get squashed.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
That's maddening.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
My doctor actually said, he said, call yourself what you
used to be. No, it doesn't cost anything.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Jack's gone from six foot two to four eleven. I mean,
it's really really shocking, right, I had to get rid
of all his clothes.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right, the pants I keep, I gotta like buckle
them around my neck. It's really kind of a jumpsuit.
Now I can't go on those amusement amusement rights anymore.
That's right, I'm too short for It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Shoun Jetty Shop on Shock and.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Arm Strong and Eddy. The hot thing in California college
campuses is this dating app? Has it got a clever name?
I don't remember. It doesn't matter that instead of like
flipping through pictures, you fill out questionnaires of your interests
and your favorite thing. AI matches you up amazing, and
(15:19):
they are claiming an astounding ninety plus percent level of
let's do a second date, which is a pretty good
measure of success if you believe the numbers. And I don't,
Although you know it's probably a pretty good system. But
my immediate reaction when I first read about this, and
I think the writer writing about it said the same thing,
is there's this funny assumption that you need to have
(15:42):
like hobbies and interests, musical tastes in common and to
fall in love with.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I know, where does that come from.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I've never found that to be true.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's not even true with my male friends. Why we
become friends and enter into personal relationships doesn't seem to
have anything to do with that. Sometimes it's because you
both play golfs, but you might hate each other's music
or whatever. I mean, there's just there's some overlap, but
they just kind of accidental. It's usually not why you're close.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, and you know, I've I've been with Judy now
for forty years. We just took a couple of weeks
off to celebrate it. I remember in the early days,
I mean, we had some common interests. We met doing
quitting there. It was nineteen eighty three, believe it or not,
when we met, and we were both doing musical theater.
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She was in the cast, I was in the band.
But yond that, it's she had no interest in golf.
It plays a little now not like most of the
music I liked, had no interest in sports in general,
and I was obsessed. You know, I could go on
down the line, sure, but we hit it off as friends,
(16:56):
found each other to be attractive, made each other feel safe,
and made each other laugh. And I couldn't have given
a crap whether she liked gardening or opera.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
But in online dating, which I did for like six months, Uh,
if you're not into if you're not a foodie who
wants to do a stand up paddle boarding, well then
why would I want to date you? Okay, Well that
denies all your friends who are happily married, who don't
necessarily have those things in common.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Ryan, For all of human history, and anytime anybody says
that you really ought to think about it. For all
of human history, virtually all romantic connection was proximity based.
What we're trying to do is, Okay, we never brush
up against real human beings anymore. We're all on our screen.
So let's let's figure out.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Let's try to figure out what attracted people to each
other without like the circumstance where it always took place
that you rubbed it, you brushed up against them, you
were in the same room with them, you saw them
across the room, blah blah blah, or he asked you
if you knew where the number three bus ran or whatever.
(18:11):
Let's remove all proximity.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
In actual contact and try to figure out how people
get and I think we've done a poor job of it.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, I actually like any of those things. Whatever that's
called that speed dating thing where everybody gets together in
a room and you sit down for two minutes and
talk to each other. That seems like a way better
idea then that whatever that magic is, whether it's pheromones
or something in the brain we don't understand or whatever,
where you show interest in a person based on something
other than just looks. That makes more sense to me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I think you're right. I remember when the speed dating
thing first came out. It seemed like, well, why are
you in such a hurry? Seemed kind of silly. But yeah,
I think, compared to the online thing, is probably a
way way better idea.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I suppose we'll have to figure this out since
we don't interact with the people anymore, and it's getting
less and less.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Oh, there was a piece in the New York Times
the other day. It's okay to date your co workers.
There was somebody wrote a guest in The New York
Times about how let's be realistic. This is where like
everybody meets. It's your best opportunity to meet somebody. It's
crazy that we've decided that's a no go zone since
it's the only place you're going to meet anybody, which
I've always.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Thought was true. That's funny. That's what we've been saying before, during,
and after the whole Me Too madness.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
This is the best weekend talk show in America.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
He was a fantastic person.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
He was a man.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Who are you going to watch?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's going to be a very big thing with him.
He's going to be appreciated more now than he was
when he was living.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I think Donald Trump called into a whole bunch of
different news shows yesterday when his friend Lindsey Graham died
over the weekend and he got the news and then
telling everybody about it.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, that's weird. As discussing earlier the narrative from stupid
people for stupid people that Lindsey Graham, who originally opposed Trump,
later cowtowed to him and he became a sickle phan
and he's a hypocrite. Again, stupid analysis for stupid people.
How about this, Lindsey Graham thought his goals from America
(20:21):
and what he thought was best were so sacred to
him that he would work with whoever he needed to
to make them happen because he lived for those goals.
He was a highly principled guy. The last thing he
was was unprincipled. He's practical.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, he ran against Trump originally, if you don't remember,
because he thought Trump he didn't like Trump's foreign policy
at all, and he was really worried about Trump getting
the nomination and where that would take the country because
Trump was running against all these wars. Like Lindsey Graham
was more of a hawk than me on wanting, for instance,
Iraq and Afghanistan to go on forever, it seems. But
(21:00):
I agreed with him on being a hawk about Iran
and Ukraine. But he was worried that everything could get
out of hand, and like you said, so when he realized, Okay,
I guess the country's going Trump's direction, or at least
the Republican Party is I need to still be a
voice for the things that I want. So I got
to figure out a way to do that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And I actually saw this phrase used in one tribute
to him. My mom's family was from South Carolina, and
I was a small child when my grandmother first said
to me, or it could have been my mom quoting
my grandmother, that you draw more flies with honey than vinegar.
And of course that's not about drawing flies. Why do
(21:39):
you want to draw fly? Who wants flies around them?
I've always flies in the kitchen. There are a few flies,
but not enough exactly. It's a not expression, yet it
has endured, so let's use it. And Lindsey Graham, also
of the great state of South Carolina, believe that, Look,
if you want to get stuff done, you don't do
(22:01):
it being an ass. You do it by reaching out
to people and seeing how you can work with them.
So again, that whole he was a hypocrite narrative from evil,
stupid people. Forget it, it's dumb.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Anyway, I was happy to see with the respect that
he was shown by all your mainstream media over the weekend.
They presented him in a very good light on your Faces,
the Nation, your Meets the Press, your ABC's this week,
which I was happy to see that we still do that.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, Yeah, And Lindsay in particular was a real fan
of working across the aisle, even during these days. He
and Senator Blumenthal, about whom I have said very harsh things,
and he deserves them. They're working together on a new
Russian sanctions bill that actually had teeth. They've been trying
to get Trump to support it for ages and it
was finally looking like it might work. And it still
(22:52):
might work. But yeah, he was working across the aisle
till his last day.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I've got a good, controversial hot take from Mark Halpern
on the role of Lindsey Graham's death in the war
in Ukraine. Counterintuitive.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
They don't like to enjoy a good counterintuitive. So we
have some of Lindsay's greatest hits assembled for you. He
was very, very funny, very eloquent, sincere. You know, let's
let's start with something quick in jazzy Michael sixty five.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Mister Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us. I know
you don't mean it to be so, but you have
blood on your hands. You have a product, you have
a product that's killing people.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, that was good. I tell you what, Why don't
we just do we start the show with a show stopper, Jack.
It's his steroid to have it, and it's his greatest hits,
his hit, greatest hit. Lindsey Graham during the Judge Kavanaugh hearings,
just to reset it in case your memories are fuzzy.
At the last moment, the Democrats brought forth this blasi
(24:02):
Ford woman who claimed that in high school many decades ago,
that Judge Cavanaugh was part of a group of boys
who molested her on one level or another at a
high school party where people had been drinking, and the
mem her memories were incredibly vague and a lot of
(24:22):
the facts didn't fit.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
It was the opposite of the woman that came forward
against Plattner last week, where there was zero contemporary at
the time corroborated evidence.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Her friends were like, I never heard that, right, right,
there's just nothing to corroborate it. And notably because Lindsey
makes a reference to this, the Democrats didn't say, hey,
this needs to be fully investigated. They just brought it
up at the last minute to assassinate his character. Judge Cavanaugh,
you may recall and I would love to hear this again.
(24:54):
He finally had had enough and abandoned his I'm going
to sit here quietly with a smile on my face
in a dignified way and take this because this is horrific.
It made the borking of a judge Borick look game.
He blasted him. He said it was disgusting and it
was wrong, and the rest of it, and then the
narrative became Calvin Owe is, he's hot headed, he doesn't
(25:16):
have the temperament to be on the court. Well, they
came back from a break and Lindsey Graham had had
enough sixty Michaels.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Did you know that her staff had already recommended a
lawyer to dodnor Ford. I did not know that. Did
you know that her and her staff had this allegations
for over twenty days?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I did not know that at the time.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come
to us. What you want to do is destroy this
guy's life, Hold this seat open, and hope you went
in twenty twenty. You've said that, not me. You've got
nothing to apologize for. When you see Soda Maron keg
and tell him that Lindsay said, because I voted for them,
(26:02):
I would never do to them what you've done to
this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've
been in politics. And if you really wanted to know
the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what
you've done to this guy. Are you a gang rapist? No?
(26:25):
I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy,
y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it.
I hope the American people can see through this sham
that you knew about it, and.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You held it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You had no intention of protecting doctor for it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
None.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
She's as much of a victim as you are.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
God.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I hate to say it because these have been my friends,
but let me tell you, when it comes to this,
you're looking for a fair process. You came to the
wrong town at the wrong time.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
My friend one of the Sunday shows credited that speech
from Lindsay Graham for rescuing Slash saving Kavanaugh's nomination.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah. Possibly, there's a lot of grand standing in the
halls of Congress and the Senate these days. It's fairly
rare that you hear somebody who is obviously completely sincere.
That was great, That was so ugly.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
He never he never wavered on his whole hawkishness in
terms of think in the United States needed to, you know,
stand up to bullies around the world. That was man.
That was the through line for him, always, even when
it was very unpopular.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I think that probably is partly because of his life
story that he was very much not the upper crust
of society. In fact, he's still in the His net
worth when he passed was like one point five million.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
They had him. I got the article in front of me,
the poorest member of Congress in terms of net worth.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Okay, this article is wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Man. Yeah, yeah, anyway, we can look into that. But
he definitely is in the bottom half of everybody in
the Congress. But he you know, he's the son of
a not very well to do a liquor store owner,
and his parents passed away when he was a teenager,
and he adopted his sister and raised her and took
care of her. He's never displayed much interest in getting rich.
(28:31):
He just cares about American foreign policy and the judiciary
and stuff like that. He's also very very funny, and
the context of the next clip sixty one, he's talking
to the Republican Jewish Coalition about the rise of anti Semitism.
And this was a while back, but note the tone.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
But I just want to make it really clear.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm in the Hitler sucks wing of their revolgan vari.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
What is this Hitler?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I don't know anyway, Here's what I do know. You
can set in a basement with weird people and say
weird things.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It's a free country, right.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
But if you ever run for office as a Republican
and you embrace this, where we're gonna beat your brains out.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Reading from this transcript with Al Franken, a former Senator
from Minnesota who was a member of Saturday Night Live,
wrote for Senator Downight Live, reporters said, would your colleagues
in the Senate tell you jokes? Al Franken said, yes,
Is that annoying? Is really annoying for a couple of them.
Is there anyone who's actually funny? Yeah? The funniest Senator
is Lindsey Graham. Really disappointing, isn't it. Al Franken said,
(29:50):
that's surprising, He's very funny. Al Franken said, what's an example.
I thought this was actually pretty good when he was
running for president two th sixteen. I was next to
him in the senator's men's room and said, if I
was a Republican, I'd vote for you, and without hesitation,
Lindsay Graham said, that's my problem, which is true.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Wow, wow, Yeah, I'm anxious to hear. Well, do you
have more of the Lindsay stuff you'd like to hear?
I mean, here's an example of his hawkishness in sixty two.
For sure. Here's what I tell President Trump. Keep it
up for a few more weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Take carg Island, where all of the resources they have
to briduce, oil control that island.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let this regime down a vine.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
The result could be a grinding war of attrition.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
They talk about how far away they would be from.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Recently sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback. And
this has been amazing military operation.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
God bless the fallen.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
But it's a difference. Let me talk about troops on
the I trust the Marines, not that guy. I trust
DoD We got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island, Yojima.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
We can do this, and that might be what we're
going to do, which we'll talk about a little bit later.
I really think it's an interesting conversation, and it's not
everybody's personality that could do this around switching gears, befriending
enemies or whatever, because you want to stay in office
(31:24):
to accomplish the things you want to accomplish, versus people
who do that who just want to stay in office
because they like being in office. Because there's plenty of that.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, I think maybe it's as simple as you look
at somebody and say, are they clearly purpose driven?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Well, for instance, I kept hearing over the weekend Lindsey
Graham found a way to always be relevant no matter
you know, where the party went. So he came in
in the big wave in ninety four with a whole
bunch of rebels that were all about throwing Newt Gingrich
out of office and a new kind of Republican party
in fighting the establishment. Next thing, you know, his best
friend is John McCain, who couldn't have been more of
(32:01):
the establishment. And then we all know the Trump story.
He ran against Trump, he ends up being Trump's closest friend,
all that sort of stuff, But he stayed in irrelevant
so that he could be a hawk on foreign policy
all the way through. Where as opposed to Joe Biden,
who also always found a way to be relevant for
all those years. But I have no idea what Joe
(32:21):
Biden cared about, no idea. I don't think he cared
about anything but holding onto power, enriching the Biden family. Yeah,
he had so many hundred and eighty degree reverses, not
on who he was working with or whatever, but on
some fundamental policy.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Arm Strong Hetty mail Bag drops a note mail bag
at Armstrong and Getty dot com. Mike writes, Guys, your
segment on Joe Biden's book was great. This was yesterday.
We just did another one. Since I commute and catch
your show on podcast form. Blah blah blah. Oh, I
(32:59):
listen a lot of audio books. I wondered if there
will be an audible version of his book, preferably narrated
by himself.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Oh, that'd be tough and you'd have to rewind a
lot secondary of Afghanistan. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Let's say, just want to point out that Jack is
not supposed to go see The Odyssey if he is
pro ice, since John Leguizamo is in it and he
has stated he doesn't want pro iceed people watching these movies.
What you'll have to trade in your tickets for minions
and monsters, or maybe the end of Oak Street, unless,
of course, you really are anti ice, in which case
carry on.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Or I don't pay attention to any of these controversies
in these movies.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, an actor, can you imagine that saying I don't
want anybody who's pro ice coming to any of my movies.
People are like children, all right? Moving along Wayne. In
Beautiful Tigger to Oregon, once again, the idea of going
to hear a year round daylight saving time is being pushed.
One of you said, why don't you just try for
(34:00):
a while and see how we like it.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Jack, you said, facts of dead bodies, just like the
heaven Arizona every six months.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
He points out, we've tried it at least twice, and
it was hated by the vast majorities. During World War two,
not World War eleven AOSA, the country went on daylight's
saving time for four years. My parents lived through it
and hated it, so did most of the country. So
at the end of the war we went back to
the old system. Then in the winter of seventy three
seventy four, there was a narrab oil embargo. I remember this.
(34:26):
The government decided again we should go year around TST.
I was in college and hated it, so did everyone
I knew. I had to go to morning classes in
the dark, then come home in the dark. After the crisis,
the country went back to the old system.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I was alive, but I have no memory of not
changing the clocks there for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, I thought that was Was that a Carter idea?
It would have been Jerry Ford at seventy three, seventy four,
I guess. But yeah, that happened.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Even with the seventies, though, lifestyles are so much different
now than they were fifty years ago. I say, we
tried it.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
True, true, And then finally Wayne points out Arizona and
Hawaii actually stay on standard time all year. I have
no idea this, no doubt, this dumb idea will become reality, because,
like the old saying goes, those who do not learn
from history are doomed to repeat it. I'm all for
trying it Daylight saving time or standard.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Time, I don't know which. I have no idea of
information changing the clocks. That's what I'll want.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
There, you go. Let's see how about this from Richard?
When looking at the Iran conflict, where America is clearly
superior militarily. I am reminded of the War of Independence,
where England had a superior army, it lost to the
guerrilla style warfare of the colonials. It was a bloody war,
and so would a ground So would a ground war
in Iraq. Because they don't fight like we are used to.
(35:41):
The citizenry believe promised who wow, there are words missing
in this. Their promised rewards in the afterlife if they
kill the enemy. I have a feeling this is voice
dictated are the Wall Street Journal and others with a
couple of articles lately that there's been a surge in
patriotism and nationalism in Iran, including people who used to
be sympathetic to the resistance.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That's what happened in the attack a country. That's what
happened with the British and the soccer match yesterday. The
Argentines kept jumping out from behind trees while the British
team was marching straight lines, and they just went round
them with the ball and scored goals.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Well, I should have paid more attention, let's see. And
then Jim sent along an article from a moderate Democrat
saying the three things the Democrats really need to do
to win elections. And this is my favorite part. The
odds of this suggestion getting adopted are the same as
blue Blue do Blue. Tarski's grade point average at Favor
(36:34):
College zero point zero. It's far more likely that the
author will receive death threats and be forced to publicly
apologize and disavow his article, or face retribution from the
DSA's red Guards. You're right, sir, you're right.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
That's from the great movie Animal House. Yes, his grade
point average was zero point zero. That's not good, fat, drunk,
and stupid. There's no way to go through life.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Son. That's that's true. That's a true fact. A couple
of messages for Jack from Julie. First, I hope Jack,
I hope Joe brought Jack a nice souvenir moose hat
or something, because that was an awfully long stretch for
him to have to do the show on his own. Second,
that he thinks he's reached Jack said, you said, you
reached an age where people are no longer annoyed by
(37:21):
his incompetence and are happy to help him figure things out.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yes, I didn't do a lot exegment on that because
it's true, and I kept pointing out to my son,
it's so funny. I now have problems with anything or
can't find something, and people are, oh my gosh, that
poor old man is lost or can't figure this out,
and people gather around to help me.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Oh my gosh, I've reached that age. Wow. But Julie suggests,
I think it's more likely that people are generally just
friendly and helpful because he's only now experiencing this, not
because he's over sixty, but because he finally worked to
ditches resting murder face.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
That's true. I do have a different face now, could
be boul could be could be the new face, no
doubt about it. The new face has helped I purposefully
changed my face. You can do it.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
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