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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and Jackie
and Key Armstrong and yet go from studio ce Ceo

(00:25):
Senor brand new week. What's gonna happen? Oh my gosh,
it's exciting to think about. It's gonna be awesome or
horrible or mundane, like every other week of your life,
and you wonder, what are we doing here today? We're
under the tutelage of our general manager, Telsey Gabbert, who
has serious evidence that Obama and his cold works did

(00:47):
some bad stuff and claimed some stuff that wasn't true.
It's all gonna come out soon, maybe in a double
feature with the Epstein files. Not clear to me. Yet
You're sure she's not just saying this to get back
on Trump's good side because she's not allowed in the
meetings anymore. Yeah, kind of has an odd taste to it.
I mean, did Obama and as people try to under

(01:10):
my Trump every way they could, even after the election
back in the day. Of course they did, Oh lied
like rugs. That's right, Hank Jr. But I just this
all seems a little vague and give it six weeks
and nobody will be talking about it. E maybe six days.
But here's my favorite headline I saw over the weekend.
This is from the Sunday New York Times. I took

(01:34):
my dog to a pet psychic and it improved my
dog's life. Wow, we'll get in there, sir Madam. Pet
psyche actually made the New York Times in a it
works sort of way. Yeah, pet psychic's like a real psychic,
a real psychic. Joe, did you just say that, like
a human psych a pet psycher. Your dog seems depressed? Hmm?

(01:58):
Do you play with it? Not very much these days.
We'll play with it, Mark, and it work. The psychic
completely connected with my pet. You know, that's an excellent point.
I've been mocking pet psychics like something apart from regular psychics.
But there's no difference, same thing, no difference whatsoever. Why
would a pet psychic be more ridiculous than a regular psyche.

(02:20):
That's pretty funny that I fell for that myself. Yeah,
but I admire their their balls in doing it, because
I mean, like a human being might she resents her
mother for trying to control her boyfriend something something. Dogs
don't have that stuff they got like three or four things.
Did your mother ever tell you to do things you
didn't want to do? I thought so. Did she disapprove

(02:42):
of someone you cared about very much?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
She did when I was in high school, my sophomore boyfriend. Yes, okay,
all right, you know what, the fool in their money
are soon parted. Thing that might be like one of
the laws of physics, and you just have to let
it work, similar to gravity. Other thing is I try
to avoid getting into the real news. The story that

(03:07):
has blown up so much over the last week. The
couple caught it the Coldplay concert. The interesting development on
that is they both turn out to be mega rich,
like insanely rich. Oh, he's worth fifty million dollars. She
comes from one of the richest, most prominent families in
the Boston area. She married into five billion dollar business

(03:32):
or something like that. They're both insanely rich. I don't
know why that matters, but I mean, he quit over
the weekend. He's now stepped down. But yeah, they'll both
they'll both be okay. But I think it adds a
layer of people not feeling sorry for them at all.
I loved it. I don't want to steal your thunder
about that video? Was that that you sent around or

(03:52):
was it Katie to the crew? Evidently, ballparks all over
the country now are having what they call the cold
play cam. Michael, Yeah, that's brilliant. So it's hilarious. So
they put a couple on the screen and then you're
supposed to quickly turn your back or dive under the
seat in front of you and hide. Everybody's doing the
cold play cam. That might be the most American thing

(04:13):
I've ever seen that. It's pretty funny. We may have
our faults, but we are funny people Americans. That could
last forever too. That could be a thing that just
lasts for and you have to explain to people fifteen
years from now why that's a thing. Oh that you
can either kiss or you can like dive beyond the
seats and hide. Because yeah, right back in twenty twenty five,

(04:36):
this couple, they they're both married with children. They both
have full on families too, which is so I don't know.
So there's a big acxio story out today that Trump's
very unhappy with Benjamin net Yahu for bomb and Syrian
a variety of other things. I was just listening to
a report out of Gaza that is one of the

(04:56):
most hellish spots on earth right now. Regardless of how
it got there who he thinks mostly to blame or whatever,
the reality of it is there's a lot of people
that don't have a lot of food and water, and
when they try to get it, they get shot at
by somebody, and it looks hellish, like living in hell. Yeah,

(05:16):
I would agree, it's miserable.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
If you're listening to NPR, it's all the Israelis faults.
If it fault if you listen to other people, it's
Hamas is the one, you know, taking the food, so
they're starving. There'd be plenty of food if they weren't.
Blah blah blah. You know that whole story. But man,
what a horrible situation for humanity. And I wonder what
Trump's going to do about that. Yeah, Islamism leads to
nothing but horror. By the way, you could certainly faulty

(05:41):
Israelis for a couple of aspects of this, but again,
we'll talk about it more later. I want to go
back to everybody's favorite story. At one point that astronomers
Ceo and E Byron we were just discussing. It was
caught canoodling and cold to play. He was the top
trending Google search in America. I don't doubt it. Something

(06:02):
incredibly good are incredibly bad has happened if you are
the top Google search. That's true. Good looking guy, I mean,
he could be the Golden Bachelor. He's not that old,
but he very He looks like a soap opera star
and he's ungodly wealthy. Well, and is his hot little canoodler.
There's a co canoudler. She's a cue to yourself, but

(06:25):
it's also wealthy. Yes, sir Michael, you put these people
on Dancing with the Stars. Oh oh so clearly true.
You don't need the money, you tease the new season.
You just put black over their faces and a special
surprise that will have all of America talking, and then
it's them. They come out and Dancing with the Stars.
They're a team, unlike an rcle or the you know whatever.

(06:47):
I don't watch Dancing with the Stars, some sort of
class C celebrity sea lister. They don't need the money, No,
they don't need the money, but vanity, they need the rehabilitation.
Oh yeah, right, yeah, okay, yeah, you're right. You go
on there and you're kind of the underdog, and you
dance pretty good, and America starts rooting for and you know,
so what, you blow up your families. Your kids will
get over it. Look at you dance right, and the choreographers,

(07:10):
the choreographers will mix in the whole hiding thing as
part of the dance steps you know in America will cheer,
and well, the really old people who watch network TV
at night will cheer and just love it. Right, the
hide will become a dance move like the twist or something.
It's just everybody's doing it on the good thing. Instead
of tapping, you'll be hiding. Eh oh. Speaking of popular culture,

(07:36):
at some point, I gotta get to Ben Sass, who's
one of my favorite thinkers, wrote a piece about the
end of col Bear's show. Not that that matters, but
how it's just another sign that our shared culture of
network TV is dying and soon the last vestiges of that.
Everybody knows what I'm talking about when I say the

(07:58):
Late Show that is going away, right, And times change,
and when you're older, you tend to think that it
was better the way it was before. Sometimes that's true.
I think the whole we had something we all watched
and talked about and was pretty nice.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I know.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
It felt a lot better than being at a dinner
table full of people and everybody's mentioning different shows that
nobody else has seen by them. Right, and then if
two couples end up on a show that they've both watched,
then they get to talk about it for a while.
But right, exactly, and everybody else is on the outside. Yeah,
shared experience, shared culture really matters. Is is this an

(08:42):
experiment that we're conducting here and we being humanity with
a utter lack of the sort of connection that has
bound us for millions of years. Ah? Well, should be interesting,
it'll be fun to watch. Okay, let's start the show
officially on a Monday again. Who knows what's going to
happen this week. This could be a big week for you.
Why are you get marched to your car with the

(09:03):
box all your possessions from your desk? And that's it.
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday,
July twenty first, the year twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong
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Speaker 2 (09:19):
President Obama and his leadership team, people who did not
want to accept the will of the American people and
electing Donald Trump in twenty sixteen, and therefore cooked up
this treasonous conspiracy to again try to effectively and they
did effectively launch a year's long coup against the sitting
president of the United States.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, color me very skeptical that there's going to be
any meata on this bone. If there is perfectly happy
to talk about it. But there have been several rounds
of both sides of the aisle of claiming these sorts
of things that have not panned out. I am of
two minds on this story. First, you know, I could
restate what you just did, but there's no need. And

(10:07):
I do suspect Tulsey is trying to get on the
ends with Trump instead of being on the outs as
she seems to be lately. The other aspect of this
is that the idea that Obama and company so disliked, distrusted,
hated Trump that they were trying to undermine him before, during,

(10:29):
and after the election, and even after he was inaugurated.
It feels to me, like the Joe Biden Messina story. Yeah,
we know it's it's it's unforgivable, it's awful, But it's
unless you are you know, Slate or the New York
Times or NPR. All that stuff has been pretty well known. Yeah,

(10:52):
And while the Brennans of the world were probably would
be involved, I doubt that Barack Obama was orchestrating this
at the top. And I just find that hard to believe. Well, yeah,
I don't that's funny. I don't at all. I think
he despises Trump. I'm sure he does. I don't think
he was calling his D and I in and his
various intelligence heads to fabricate a plot, though, I don't. Yeah,

(11:17):
I don't feel the need to use such dramatic language.
Old Tulsi is uh, well, she's Tulsi. I'm just saying,
on the substance of the thing, did they get together
and talk about this? Yeah, I'll bet they did. Is
that quote unquote fabricating a plot? I don't know. We

(11:38):
got other news to get you up on throughout the day.
We got headlines on the way. Uh. I have been,
as I've said, reading this book about World War two,
we're coming up on the eightieth anniversary. I'm just trying
to get ahead of it here. In a couple of weeks,
it's going to be a lot of conversation about dropping
the bomb because it'll be the eightieth anniversary, and whether

(11:59):
we should have or not, that sort of stuff. I
have a lot of info on that reading this in
depth book about the final weeks and months of World
War Two. That's gonna be a big topic. I guarantee
you here in a in just a couple of weeks
like it like happened after the Oppenheimer movie. So I
hope you can stick around if you have any comment
at any time. Here's our text line four one five

(12:21):
two nine KFTC A B fifty two bomber almost collided
with a Delta Airlines commercial flight full of people over
North Dakota yesterday. That's scary, mistakes were made. I'll get

(12:43):
into that a little bit later. Story that's getting who
knew we're still flying B fifty two's around? I mean,
that's the technology. You can look at it one of
two ways. Either that's technology that's really endured or man,
that's an antiquated aircraft. Right. Story, getting a lot of attention.
Is this off duty border patrol agent shot by an
illegal in the face, nearly died during a robbery. I

(13:08):
think it's being misconstrued a little bit in that you've
gotten illegal and a border patrol agent, but the illegal
and his partner didn't know that it is a border
patrol agent. So I don't think it's an immigration story.
I think it's a we catch people when they commit
crimes and then let them go over and over and

(13:28):
over and over again story. I think it's one of
those stories. H Yeah, I see your point. Yeah, we
should have booted his ass out of the country as well,
but sure, Yeah, but he is another one of those stories.
Guy has committed so many damned crimes of various levels
and then not been prosecuted or let go because of
no bail laws until he finally does something extra extra awful.

(13:52):
We do this all the time. There's one in California,
a new on in California we'll talk about later. That
those stories bother me more than practically anything, as a
guy out in the world trying to live his life
and protect his kids, that we catch dangerous, bad people
and then let them go to do it again based
on a bizarre political ideology. It's a cult, the woke

(14:14):
cult of criminal injustice. And you want to hear something
semi disturbing, You got the whole Mamdani thing in New
York City, right. I was just reading and we can
get into this in a bit. But socialists Democratic Socialists
of America now dominate the Portland, Oregon City Council, and
a Somali American socialist has won the backing of Minnesota

(14:38):
Democrats in the race for Minneapolis mayor. Omar Fatah, the
state senator. Samali American socialist, is running on many of
the same policies as New York mayoral candidates are on Mumdani,
including rent control and higher taxes on the wealthy. As
my Jim Buddy, my trainer, my personal trainer Dave says,

(15:00):
get what you trained for. And we have been teaching
kids this crap in schools well, the teachers and the teachers'
unions happen, so it's not a surprise that they grow
up and they vote for this garbage. But man, it's
disturbing and dangerous to see unfold. Speaking of training, here's
one of my favorite little mean thingy shower thought things.

(15:20):
I saw online. It was a woman bending over in
the street, grabbing her knees. It says, if you're ever
feeling sad, just go for a run, because then you'll
realize that your physical health is way worse than your
mental health. That's funny. My favorite story that's out there
today is Trump calling on the Washington commanders to bring

(15:42):
back the Redskins name and the Cleveland whatever they are,
to become the Cleveland Indians again. And he's demanding it.
I don't know what levers he can pull as president,
but it's hilariously Yeah. I weep the day that American
sports teams have to jump and obey the president's orders
when they become politically correct and feel like they you know,

(16:05):
you can't be the Cleveland Indians. The Redskins one's a
little harder to defend other than I don't know how
many people are being hurt by this, but the Indians
one is just dumb. There's nothing wrong with that. I
guess I don't care either way. Uh oh, it just
got thirty seconds left. Is that just a naked attempt
to distract from the Epstein thing? I don't know. He

(16:27):
says this sort of stuff every day. No matter what's
going on. That's a good point the world. Just even
as our technology gets terrifyingly smart, I feel like the
world is just getting dumber. Oh, clearly it is. Yeah,
that's that's funny that those two things that are going
on at the same time. We should discuss that or
look at that. We got a lot on the way.

(16:48):
I hope you can stay here if you missed a secment,
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
Chuck Schumer claimed defunding PBS will cause many people to
die because they won't know when and hurricanes are taking place. Yeah,
because I always get my weather from the cookie Monster.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Idiot. That's just calling that's just calling some people an
effing idiot. Is that just the logical end game of
our culture? Now, that's an effing idiot speaking of that
sort of thing, though, The defunding of BBS and NPR

(17:29):
got an interview with the lady who runs NPR. She
won doesn't think there's any bias at NPR, which is
how you get as biased as they are. I guess
is that that seems like mainstream news to you. But anyway,
I'll read from that a little bit later. Or is
she the classic Marxist who just denies, denies, denies, they
just lie. That could be I don't know. I know

(17:52):
I know some people exactly like her that actually think, no,
this is what what do you mean? This is biased
because they live in that world old Also a funny
poll I don't even know who came up with the
asking people this question. Turns out most Americans have a
positive view of castles, but a negative view of the
black plague. We'll get to that coming up. Wow, that's good.

(18:16):
That's good. I getting back to NPR briefly. Matt Tayibi
and his folks were writing about it and and it
is really really good. I wish we had unlimited time.
I'd read it to you. But he talks about the
theme of the article is that NPR and and PBS

(18:36):
to some extent treat America like it's a weird foreign
country that they really don't approve of. And and he
did a bunch of searches on their site for various themes,
including patriotism and what it came up to, came up
with his black patriotism when love of country means holding

(18:59):
it accountable. As America turns a year older, polls find
patriotism has slipped a bit. Or greatness is not a given,
you know, it's it's all critical, hyper critical. Anyway, speaking
of bad journalism, here's your crappy journalism of the Week awards.
And I suppose we could have theme music for this, Michael,
but I don't think it's necessary. We've got a couple

(19:20):
of choices. This one's getting a lot of attention. New
York Times Opinion page. I was one of Biden's border advisors.
Here how to fix Here's how to fix our immigration system.
I'm sorry, I stumbled. I was one of Biden's border advisors.
Here's how to fix our immigration system, which apparently is

(19:43):
not a joke. Right. So I was in charge of
Trump's security at Shanksville. Here's what's wrong with the Secret Service,
Iran Chernobyl. Here's what's important with nuclear safety? Good lord, unbelievable.
So that's choice number one. Choice number two is an
Axios report on the decline in border crossing since Trump

(20:09):
took office, which has gone from twenty five thousand a
month released into the country to zero. It includes the
following line and I quote, no one knows precisely why
migrant traffic along the US Mexico border has fallen so much. Wow,
no one knows now, getting back to our brief and

(20:31):
unimportant disagreement over at Catherine Mayer there at NPR, did
the person who wrote that line actually believe that that
one's hard to defend? And then finally Yuri Berliner, whose
name you might recognize. He was the guy who wrote
that brilliant essay about why he was leaving NPR. What

(20:52):
was that about a year ago or so? I don't know,
I'm old. Sometime flies and he's out with a new one,
saying essentially, NPR, you did this to yourselves. You abandon
any pretense of journalism, just went straight progressive advocacy. He
lists several of his favorite NPR headlines that when they
became a caricature of themselves, let's see which skin color

(21:15):
emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex
than you think. What black women's group finds health and
healing on bikes, but sometimes racism too. Oh boy. Bringing
diversity to Maine's nearly all white lobster fleet, because the

(21:37):
poor lobsters are really disturbed every time they get yanked
out of the water and thorough that's been the boiling water.
It's a white fella doing it. Here's a couple more
diet culture can hurt kids. This author advises parents to
reclaim the word fat. No boy as listened to a
report on NPR today about the how it's worse than

(21:58):
ever the messages were sending to young boys about how
muscular they need to be, and they were talking about
how muscular various superheroes are or whatever. While we have
an obesity epidemic, more kids are overweight and are going
to have medical complications or death because of that than
ever before, by many, many multiples ever on the planet.

(22:21):
But clearly kids are just obsessed with needing to be
muscular because of cartoon figures and toxic masculinity too. And
then Yuri's last headline, and this one I think is
perfect because it just it could stand in for every
headline on NPR. These drag artists know how to turn
climate activism into a joyful blowout. See that's the sort

(22:43):
of story every day. I say this every day. I
get in my car and I check NPR as soon
as I get my car in the parking lot, just
to see, okay, well it be a woke story today,
And like eight out of ten times, it's just full
on woke craziness like that. One yeah, well, these drag
queens help with climate change, and then the other two
times it's something way left a center, but it's never

(23:06):
anything even mainstream or certainly not leaning conservative in any
way whatsoever. I too, will flip it on occasionally, and
I usually and this, I actually say this out loud
to myself sometimes, all right, who's the victim of what? Yeah,
then I'll turn it on. Well, I'll just read the
last paragraph from this interview I think the New York
Times did with the lady that runs NPR. Remember she's

(23:27):
the one that said free speeches, we've taken it too
far or something like that. She said, no, no, she said,
she said this whole getting to the truth or being
accurate sometimes that gets in the way of what we're
trying to do here, right, right, That was the whole
advocacy journalism thing. Right. This argument about public media being

(23:49):
biased is a stalking horse. We report on soybean farmers
and LGBTQ activism. Okay, Well, anytime I hear a report
on soybean farmers, it's about how gay soybean farmers are
leading to or something like that. And how you doing
on reporting on the CAST report or the US Health Report? Her,
every report around the world that shows mutilating kids and

(24:13):
feeding them powerful hormones when they're momentarily confused because you
confuse them about their sex is a horror and unsupportable
by any scientific measure. How are you doing on reporting
that NPR? Oh, my lord, but she ends with having
non white voices and perspectives on air does not make
us woke. Covering the existence of disagreement and difference in

(24:34):
our country does not make us biased. It makes us
reflective of the complex, diverse nation we serve. Oh, I'm
so glad they got defunded. No kidding, covering is disagreeable
or she's to the point of mentally ill if she
actually believes that, and I think she probably does. But well,
how about how's that for a Mott and Bailey argument though,

(24:55):
I mean your castle in your court, or an argument
where we say you're just you're crazy, see crazy, woken progressive?
And what was that last quote from her you read?
I mean that was just that was four stars. Yeah,
Covering the existence of disagreement and difference in our country
does not make us biased. Yeah, that's what we're criticizing
you for. That's right, that's what people are pissed off about.

(25:16):
Good job, Catherine, w boy, she beat the crap out
a straw man. Let him up. He's had enough. Good lord. Well,
I just always look at it from a standpoint of
would this serve the bulk of America since it's getting
taxpayer funding. If you're not getting taxpayer funding, you have
no need to serve a bulk of America. You can
serve whoever the hell you want. But if you're getting
the bulk of America. Is my new book about obesity,

(25:37):
by the way, just a funny coincidence, coming out next week.
But like you know, looking at a bell curve, you
need to be that inside, you know, standard deviation where
you cover like ninety percent of people, and it's not
the eff almost ever in what they're covering. It's like
the little sliver on the left. Well, why would I
fund that? Well, we're not anymore, right, Michael hit it

(25:58):
for our.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
Most tricky disagreements. Seeking the truth and seeking to convince
others of the truth might not be the right place
to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth might
be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding
common ground and getting things done.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
How crazy a thing is that? To say one of
my favorite Bob Dylan songs as the Refrain. Sometimes Satan
comes in as a man of peace. Sometimes Satan comes
as a good looking blonde chick at a media company. Wow,
you think she's Satan. I think she's evil. I absolutely
think she represents and promotes that which is evil. I

(26:42):
as always seek to battle her ideas with better ideas.
And I'm not calling for anybody to hold an exorcism
of her or anything else insane, But yeah, that's evil.
That is the voice of and the message of overt
unmistakable evil. May she be damned to Hell, if there
is a hell, and I mean there's not, maybe it.

(27:02):
May she be damned to whatever is the most unpleasant option,
at least defundedive taxpayer funds. Right and again, before we
go to break, so we can get the mail bag.
If you're ever feeling sad, just go for a run.
Then you'll realize that your physical health is way worse
than your mental health. Oh my god, Oh you know.
On that theme, I was playing golf over the weekend

(27:23):
with some friends and both my partner and I just
had a horrendous front nine and it was oh, congratulations
to the great Scott Scheffler, who we were talking about
his attitude and his love of his family blah blah blah.
Last week he won the British Open by four strokes,
obliterating the field. He is unbelievable. He is the best
golfer ever since Tiger. Anyway, Oh so we are both terrible.

(27:44):
And it got to the point where we were laughing
about it. And it sucks to suck was the motto.
I suck and you know what, it sucks to suck.
And I was reminded of that, So I like that one.
In this one, the the cold Play fan who kind
of accidentally exposed that tech tycoon's affair by tweeting out

(28:09):
that video. Okay, she was criticized for it, blah blah blah,
and her blunt message is terrific. And I know you
hipsters know this already, but I like it. Play stupid games,
win stupid prizes. Oh that's a good one. That's an
FAFO sort of thing, exactly. Play stupid games, win stupid

(28:31):
prize like that. Oh wow, that is really good. Yeah.
As a as a version of you know, how did
you think this was gonna turn out? You're laying the
groundwork for this sort of disaster. Y, it's a cousin too.
You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
You know you're gonna you're gonna do that stuff. You gotta.

(28:52):
I'm not gonna like how it ends. Really good, play
stuid games, win stupid prizes. And I've done that many
times in my life, usually with the quick revelation of
how'd you think this was going to turn out? The genius? Okay,
we got mail bag on the way. Next day here,

(29:17):
Lindsey Graham did an interview on Fox last night and said,
message to putin Donald Trump is the Scottie Scheffler of
American politics, and he will put a whooping on your ass.
How about that? How about that? Tying into the news
story of the day, fretting him with a golfer. Yes,
here's your freedom, lov you. Quote of the day from
the great Thomas Sowell. The list continuing because he says

(29:41):
so many brilliant things, and because I didn't change the
theme in time today, so we'll just keep going with Thomas.
A couple of them. The first lesson of economics is scarcity.
There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those
who want it. The first lesson of politics is to
disregard the first lesson of economics. Oh good one, so true.

(30:02):
Politics is really the art of ignoring you know, virtually
all of the sciences. And on that theme of economics
and capitalism, this was one of the Soul's great arguments
about how capitalism is superior to all other systems, not
only financially but morally. Capitalism knows only one color. The

(30:25):
color is green, the color of money. All else is
necessarily subservient to it. Hence, race, gender, and ethnicity cannot
be considered within it. Or if you do, it's to
your own detriment. You'd be an idiot. If you can
do business with and profit from business with another ethnicity
or whatever, you'd be an idiot not to or not

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hire the best people, regardless of whatever. Right right, and
your bigotry will be punished. Mail bag. You can drop
us an email mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Less dive right in, Mikey, is it not funny? And
also downright concerning that Orwell's nineteen eighty four and the
movie idiocracy or coming to life at the same time. Yes,

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it's downright concerning Mike. I cry myself to sleep every
night and cry myself awake in the morning. Moving along,
I'll tell you what keeps Elon Musk up at night.
According to a tweet he had, stay tuned Up and Coming.
Regular correspondent. Frequent correspondent Sean Right. I heard Jack callously

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talking about the nine times he fell while hiking the
luxury of colonial oppression falls on a trail. I know
a group of people who would love the chance to
fall nine times on a hike, the indigenous people who
once lived on that land. Wow, here's an opportunity for
Jack to correctly atone and declare the indigenous ownership of
the land he was hiking on and declare some of

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those falls in their name. I fell in the name
of the paw Tuckwooks exactly. I would like to declare
before we get started that the land I have just
fallen on my ass on was the land of the
Pataguak Indians and blah blah blah. Now let's do what
we were going to do before we said that the

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Punchakus took this from the macawaukahs by killing all the
males and raping all the women, which is often the case.
By the way, when land was taken Veniant, we're being
enlightened over here, please, So this is from the fellow
who charmingly signs his emails Bong hits for Jesus. He said,

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did you skip the punchline on purpose? Guys? You're very
funny and good wordsmith's. But I always thought the punchline
was an integral part of the joke. I mentioned this
last week. Here's the part I read. Well, back then
a dad had three to four kids. Nowadays kids have
three to four dads. Hey, no, And the punchline I
left out is climate change is crazy. It's pretty funny,

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is it. I think it's hilarious. I don't get it.
Is it just the absurdity of it because it's got
nothing to do with it. Climate change rarely has anything
to do with whatever people are talking about. But yeah, okay,
it's used all the time. Yeah, okay, Well let's see laugh.
Uh Pwell, writes I think you pretty well covered the
taxpayer defunding of NPR and PBS. But here's one more

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way to think about it. Imagine that up till now
there had been no public funding for them. Would anybody
be making the case that we should start giving them
taxpayer money now?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Then why should we keep giving them taxpayer money? Once
a policy gets in place and puts down roots, people
begin to expect it, depend on it, defend it. However,
little sense it presently makes. Kind of like the immigration
mess that last, the one before with the joke, I'm
going to start using that more often. It's like when
we used to say, after anything bad going on, we'd
say thanks Obama, or when we saw it of wokism,

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to call everything racist. Every single point of disagreement was
because of racism, to you know, mock it away, Jess Rights,
I read it so you don't have to. A New
York Times top of the fold, number one article on
their website, big long article about how the Epstein files
probably are being suppressed because they have damning evidence against Trump.

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And as Jess puts it, because one time, when this
lady was twenty twenty years ago, she had her legs
looked at like twenty paragraphs in and it's funny, she said,
I read this so you don't have to. I read
the first thousand words, and I'm like, they're not saying anything.
This is ridiculous. Some girls said Trump looked at her

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and it made her uncomfortable twenty years ago or whatever
it was. I thought, that's it. Surely the things over right.
This is a new week. We need a new dum fish,
we need a new dumb story. Hopefully that's what you
mean by Epstein. True if you miss a segmentaror now

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we get to the podcast, We've got a lot more comings.
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty

Speaker 2 (35:12):
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