June 8, 2026 • 35 mins
Hour four of A&G features...
- The Israel/Iran missile volleys...
- A proper take-down of Graham Platner....
- Who's responsible for our paychecks being sucked dry...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he I'm strong.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And the Iridian attacks on Israel coming after the US
military and Iran exchanged volleys of far this weekend near
to the Strait of Horn moves Sentcom saying it struck
Iranian radar site Saturday after its intercepted Iranian drones which
(00:36):
were threatening ships ran then firing missiles at US allies,
Qwait and Buchraine. But in a sign of the pressure Netanya,
who will now face domestically and from within his own government,
his far right security minister Itamar ben Gevier hosting a
Hebrew on X tonight, Tekran must burn.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What the heck has gone on? Middle East?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So middle of the day yesterday, Iran is attacking and
Hesbel is attacking Israel. Then Israel hits Iran pretty hard.
Iran strikes back. Then President Trump jumps in. I can
hit you with some of the actual verbiage of what
Trump said in the last twenty four hours, But most
of the media is still acting like the ceasefire is
in place. Trey Yanks was watching Fox earlier the day
(01:25):
he's a reporter that's in Iran or in Israel rather
for Fox. He said, the CeaseFire's over, he said, and
make no mistake, the ceasefires over. The war is back on.
I don't know if he's officially backed off of that,
but like some of his most recent tweets have says,
the IRGC says they are halting attacks on Israel. And
(01:48):
then there is the Open Source Intelligence has out a
post saying that Netan Yahoo has told everybody to stand
down on what was supposed to be an im imminent
attack on southern Lebanon. But he's saying putting a halt
to it. After Donald Trump got a hold of net
and Yahoo and said you gotta stop. I got I'm
more close to peace here, you gotta stop. And apparently
(02:12):
net Yahoo went along with it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
At least temporarily. Yeah, who knows. He's a clever devil.
He's got stuff going on behind the scenes. But yeah,
it appears both sides have said, all right, this round
is over. There's going to be no more.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're fine.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I can't believe we're going to spend another week hearing
about the soon to be achieved to peace talks or
soon to be as successful he's talks.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
According to Axios, quoting people that were listening to the
phone conversation between Trump and net and Yahoo, Trump asked
him not to respond to the Iranian missile attack ballistic
missiles fired at the capital of their country, their tiny
little country, and to wait a few days for the negotiations,
claiming that something good in terms of a deal is
close to which net Ya who kind of agreed, though
(02:58):
he reiterated his call for st against Iran. That was yesterday.
Most recent is this. Prime Minister Benjamin at Yaho of
Israel appeared to be moving to de escalate after the
pushback from President Trump, halting preparations for another attack on
Iran today.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm surprised that he's doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I am too, Honestly, as the one clip made clear,
the right wing in Israel is calling for we've got
to defeat him.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now I happen to agree with him. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I suspect that net Yahoo and Israel are just waiting
for the next provocation because it's coming, and then they'll,
excuse me respond to that with a good hard whacking.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You were in the congo over the weekend, were you
I was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I was enjoying a delicious chimp sushi buffet raw chimp.
It was more tender than you might imagine.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But I am bleeding from all of my horrified so
into the dock in the box.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
The chimba sushi was good, but I am now bleeding
from all my rrifi. Yeah, so connecting the dots, Yola,
I mentioned Friday that I had a couple of those
adulting things I had to do.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I had to go to the dock in the box
for my the thing, my infected finger. It's a good
thing I did too. It was it's it came out
of nowhere. No trauma, no nothing, just in the part
where your nail meets your your skin that's prone to
getting various infections. And sure enough, there is talk of draining.
You don't want to hear the word draining. But I'm
(04:37):
on like crazy powerful antibiotics now, like the kind where
everything else has failed. So anyway, I did that, and
then the next day because.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They did they do? Did they have any needles in here? Anything?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
No? No, no, it might not be necessary. In fact,
I don't think it is, because the antibiotic is working.
But this is like the crazy strong it's a combination
of two biotics.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I'm like, what the hell, now's the time, though, now's
the time to just let loose, do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You could get any.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Sort of disease or bad infection in your set.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Right go to the congo. Oh that's a virus. Never mind,
that's not how that works. Uh yeah, yeah, I know.
I mean, is there any bacteria that it could affect me?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
God?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You could.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You could walk through a South American brothel and just
have the time of your life, no problems.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I laugh in the face of gun area. Are you
kidding me? Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Then the next day my adulting task was because I
had let my global entry. It's like TSA when you
if you travel overseas, it all when you come back
into the country. Instead of having to wait in the
longest lines you've ever seen in your life to say no,
I have nothing to declare, Yeah I'm a freaking citizen,
look at my past or okay, great, thanks, yeah, good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
To be home.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Instead of doing that, you just go to a kiosk
and you punch a couple of buttons and you walk
back into the United SA's America. It's called the global
entry thing. It's like glorified tsa PreCheck and can get
tsa pre check out of it.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I didn't actually know what it was, but I do
know this. When I was briefly in the world of
online dating, there are a lot of women who would
say only interested in people that have global entry access
or something like that. Now I really don't know what
that is, but I don't and I'm not traveling so
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And I would just you know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You may be like a wonderful companion and I find
you sexually attractive, but if I have to wait in
line the customs, we're not together.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
There's a lot of that. That's one of the reasons
that I left the world of online dating quickly. There's
a lot of like black and white ultimatum stuff over
stuff like really that's a deal breaker for you.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I wonder if global entry is seen as some sort
of status thing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I mean, I don't know. I just got it because
I hate lines.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But so anyway, it expires after five years, and if
you renew because you're likely to become a terrorist five
yet later you decide you hate the country. No, if
you renew it, you just renew it. But I'd let
it lapse barely. I mean it was a few weeks.
But because of that, all of a sudden, you're presumed
(07:10):
to be in al Qaeda or or or or be
a Marxister. So there's a Marxists never university. But I
gotta get my passport and proof of address and drive
a couple hours to the local regional airport to the
international airport and go in person. Were the nice fellas
with uniforms, and I think they may have guns and
(07:31):
everything that the ushery in. Was there a BCS A
BCS body cavity search? Oh yeah, I insisted, yeah, absolutely.
They said we don't do that, and they said no, no, please, yeah,
let's be safe.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
This is our country we're talking about. I'm ready. I'll
give you a honey. Here here, here's one hundred dollars.
Do a body cavity search. Put your time, but.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Let's not rush through this. Huh. But so the the
nice uh Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Guy, very serious.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You got a flat jacket on and everything, sitting at
the desk. What's your name, what's your birthday? Where were
you born? I met your place of birth? Okay, you
ever been committed? Have you ever been convicted of any crime?
Ever been all the stuff that I'd already Oh, have
you ever been investigated for any crime in this or
any other country? Blah blah blah, And I've already filled
(08:27):
this out online. But they want to look you in
the eye as you give these answers. Then they fingerprint me.
You got my f and fingerprints. I gave him to
you a while ago. Here's a hint.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
They're the same.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's why fingerprints are a thing. All right, you can
have them again if you want here, they are here.
You go, I said, all right, great, click any click approve.
You'll be getting your card three and a half minutes,
three and a half minutes, two hours from my house
to go through this rig and roll. So I guess
(08:58):
the guy could look me in the eye and make
sure what I was me or well.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Studies have shown that every five years people are likely
to join al Qaida, right right, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The five year itch.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know. I've always been a a Christian, be a patriot,
But God the violent overthrow my country in the name
of Allah. You know, some days I think maybe God?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, I government, governments, the r S what my address is?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They know, trust me they know.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, no, bureaucracy, paperwork, checking boxes. All those phrases are
what they are for a reason, checking boxes.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
A Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So the number of women out there who really wanted
the global entry thing, or have your passport ready or
I don't want to date you or whatever, just okay,
that's a very common thing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah. Yeah. Did any of them mention if they're attracted to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Not see come you not see faux oysterman in general?
We've got a bit of a Graham Platinum update for you, yeah,
kind and they vote tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And boy, his fans and devotees, they don't care about
any of the allegations. He's their man well beyond. So
that's clearly a cult of personality.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Even more than that was the people who were willing
to say out loud, loud, and I've got the quotes.
I'll get to him, like old what's his name? James
Carvill said, Yeah, yeah, might be a Nazi, might be
this all sorts of a terrible person, but still better
than the alternative, Like wow, really better than a modern.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Republican islands who's barely a Republican and will vote to
impete Trump, impeach Trump, no matter the charge. She can't
wait to But you're gonna elect a woman of using drunk,
troubled Nazi.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay, because it's your party.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That is one of the greatest distillations of modern American politics.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You could you could hope for right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And I heard somebody making the National Dispatch was making
the argument, how this is trump Ism winning if you
want to describe trump Ism as you know, our side
right or wrong, no matter what. The Democrats are using
the same playbook.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
So you thought it was just awful that some Republicans
stood by Trump through no matter what. Now you're going
to do this with Graham Platiner. Okay, So I guess
that's the new law to land. That's a good place
to be.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, they just.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Called Trump a Nazi. He doesn't have a giant totent
co f on his chest, for God's sake.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Okay, So we'll get to that update that that voting
will be interesting tomorrow coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Democrat lawmakers are complaining that employers are not providing paid
leave for women on their periods, also complaining the male employees.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh boy, oh Greg, So tomorrow is election day in Maine.
You don't live in Maine probably, but it's gotten a
lot of attention because of this grand platinner dude that.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is running away with.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Gonna win the nomination for the Democratic Party to run
against Susan Collins, who has been the Senator there as
a Republican for a very long time. This Platner's got
a lot of baggage, and there was a lot of controversy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Are Democrats even really going to support this guy or not?
But they have in the elections tomorrow and he's going
to win.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Let's put the oystermen on ice over there by the
cocktail shrimp Jack for just a second. We'll get back
to him on this buffet of progressive goodness in a
mon But first I wanted to mention the fabulous Nelly
Bowles writing in the Free Press talking about Tom Steyer
in California, who spent over half a billion dollars trying
to buy himself a couple of different elections, and she
(13:13):
mentions a psychot chakra body who's a very handsome tech guy,
beautiful hair. He ran for Congress in California as another
ultra rich far left guy. She comments fascinating that some
of the richest candidates were the ones running on the
far left that he lost. The best part is that
he tanked after spending ten million dollars of his own
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money on the race, ten million to win in San Francisco,
and but he blamed the loss on the seven million
dollars of AI Crypto and a Pac money that were
put into this race.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's a quote.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
He probably didn't mean his own big money. And he
was smoked by Scott Wiener in San Francisco Supervisor County.
Chan but then she writes, I don't know why this
made me laugh so much, But here's progressive influencer Hassan
Piker on the losses, and I'm quoting. It's just effing
rich liberals who just want homo fascism in this country.
That's it. They want gay fascism. And Nelly says, but Hassan,
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the candidates who lost were the rich ones. How do
we square this, my sweet communist? And just for my
own records, what is gay fascism? Connie Chan? Is the
manifestation of homo fascism. Whatever that is is really funny
to me. Funny to me, Scott Weener, I guess really
is love to all the homo fascists. Happy pride to
(14:29):
you all. But then she gets into a Graham platinum. First,
the part about him that people love most. He put
a huge Nazi tattoo on his chest, the one that
honors only the finest concentration campguards. At this stage in
the anti Semitism cycle, it's a plus for the average voter.
Now the negatives. According to his financial disclosures, our oysterman
(14:53):
is well, let's just say he's all shell and no belly.
He's all fringe and no gills, if you know what
I mean. Wow, that's some good oyster talk. According to
last year's disclosure, he made only three thousand dollars from
his stipend town harbor master, which sounds more like a
position in a frat house. As far as his oyster farm,
(15:14):
for which he does not take a salary. His biggest
client is his mom cute, and almost all of his
income seems to come from disability checks. He said he
bought his house thanks to the VA, but it was
actually thanks to a few hundred thousand dollars from his
rich dad. I mean, the guy went to Hotchkiss, which
unless you're a Northeastern or you don't know that's like
the most expensive boarding school, I don't know, super elite.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Boarding school in the Northeast.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And he did the richest thing ever, which is to
stop going to class. He was subsequently expelled. Just because
he grew a beard and talked like a burly man
instead of gay like, does not mean he isn't still
one of us. Your oysterman's a debutant with a lemonade standad.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It's just a very very wealthy lemonade said, your mom
made the lemonade, and you're standing out there pretending to
sell it and act to like, yeah, business exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And then the fact that he had an account on Kick,
which is a platform that's been notorious for like a
child seduction and that sort of thing. And she talks
about how he's been messaging with up to six women
prior to launching his campaign, which is kind of weird
way of phrases, like some sort of quoted hits, like
he's putting up infidelity numbers in.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
The sixth range.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And his Kick account was still active three days ago.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Well, Fetterman said. John Fetterman, Senator, Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania,
said if Platner can prove all of the people he
was chatting with on kick and sending penis pics to
were adults and not minors.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He will well hear a suit every day from here
on out.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Wow, that kind of a thing to challenge another demo
who wants to be one of your colleagues.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But he held the town hall the other day. There
was not a single hard question about any of this,
just chance of don't let the bastards get you down,
and we're your family, Graham, We've got your back, stay strong,
one day at a time. Everyone has a past.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Got a couple more comments on this coming upstairs, Armstrong
and Getty quick, a couple more things about this whole
Grand Platinir situation before we get to a panacea. Oh finally,
I'm looking for a pantasy. So this is really an
(17:39):
interesting development. And I do think to a certain extent
I agree with the Dispatch that this is the trumpefication
of politics in a certain way, in that, for a
variety of reasons, we got into a state where you know,
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will ride or die with our side because our side's
better than the other side. Ultimately, so any individual they
can have all kinds of baggager say or do awful things,
but it's better than the alternative, which sometimes is true,
but didn't That's not the way we used to run politics.
So used to be like you had to have a
certain level of character you just couldn't be in the running.
(18:23):
We maybe since dispensed with that on both sides. For instance,
James Carville, who was campaign manager for Bill Clinton back
in the day, called Graham Platner and called him fed
up and compared him to Stalin Sonny Houston? Is that
the way you pronounce her name? Of the View, I
never watched the View called Platner a liar, a racist,
(18:46):
an anti Semite, and a hobophode. Yet both of them
have said they would vote for him over the modern
Republican woman. Yeah, so that's where we are currently on
that whole thing. It's interesting to me that John Fetterman,
a Democrat who might be serving alongside Graham Platner in
the Senate, at some point said of Graham Platner being
(19:10):
on Kick, that's one of your apps that you can
go on to look for sex, like Tinder or Grinder
or whatever it is for different people.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Kick is supposed to be a particularly wild one.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I guess anyway, Fetterman said that if, first of all,
he has a press conference and he says, I suppose
you guys all want to ask me about uh pete
what's he called himself? I forgot the term now or
pee hustle? You know, I suppose you guys want to
ask me about pe Hustle. And they said, what, Pa Hustle?
Don't you want to ask about pe Hustle? Who's P Hustle?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Graham Platner? Why do you call him that?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
No, that's what he calls himself, one kick, pe Hustle,
And so he only referred to him as P Hustle
through the whole time they're having the conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And he said, and he said, new Fetterman, poststroke Fetterman
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
For a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
He said, if Pa Hustle can prove that all the
people he was chatting with on kick and sending dick
picks to were adults and not miners, I'll wear a
suit every day.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wow, you know that's a heck of a thing.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
So P Hustle Graham Platner all use his official oyster
farmer name, which is, just as we just learned, is
so made up. Really it shouldn't even be part of
his description. It's it's the shorthand they.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Use for him in any news story.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oyster farmer, grand planner, oyster farmer, gleam Putner sounds like
from what you described, that's just it's like practically saying
NBA player Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I mean, it's just not a thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Really. Well, he has a little patch of water where
he or somebody raises a few oysters. He takes no salary,
His mom is his only client. I mean it's a
he's a hobbyist. Right. Anyway, I'll call me a professional golfer.
Then I won the other day on the course and
I got money. There you go, that'd be a good example. Yeah,
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and I've taken a tour, so call me tour player.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Jokey, but to show you where the Democratic Party is.
In response to Senator Fetterman challenging him to prove that
he didn't send naked pictures to women or miners, Platner
posted that Fetterman is.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
A tool of apak Ah. It's the Jews again, right
damn it. I should have known, good Lord.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Vote for Fetterman who backs Israel and is a tool
of a pack. So the worst thing you can be
is a Democrat now is not having a Nazi tattoo,
but it's being at the least a bit friendly to Israel.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So that's where we are in that whole thing.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's gonna win tomorrow, but then the knives really come out, right, Yeah,
from the republic the Democrats. Some Democrats have been training
fire on him.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I don't know. It's all confusing because we have that.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Whole New York Times story from last week that was
clearly watered down for some reason.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So what was behind that. I have no idea the
term of vaccination story. Yeah, week a practically dead version
of the story, so people think, oh, I've heard this before,
and not pay attention anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Anyway, the Republicans have been holding fire because they want
Platner as the opposition against Susan Collins, and they're going
to bring forth any appol research they've got starting tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Probably. Yeah, So that's that story. Did I have any
more on that? Maybe not.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I'm sure we'll be talking about tomorrow. It's gonna be
the biggest political story in the country tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh you know, speaking of that sort of person. I
was just reading how James Tallerico, who's the toast of
progressive Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Where is that.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He has ret He is repeatedly referring to women as
our neighbors, because that's that's like a progressive thing. Are
undocumented neighbors, are unhoused neighbors. It's a catchphrase. They use
neighbors all the time. She's referring. He's referring to women
(23:08):
as neighbors with uteruses. He won't say women. That's wacky,
neighbors with uteruses, which is bizarre.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Wasn't the belief that he would tack toward the center
once the race was started.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, you'd think.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's not tacking toward the center. That's not even tacking
toward the center of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You know, where is that?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I can't find the article, But to take my word,
I wouldn't make that up.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I couldn't. It's too strange.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I wanted to revisit this apropos of nothing out of nowhere,
just because I came across it on Twitter. We've talked
about it before. It's better around tax time. But when
is tax time? I don't know about you, but it's
tax time every day in my world.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You don't you know?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Write your check or deal with it paperwork wise, but taxes.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Getting taken out all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Milton Freeman, the great a libertarian economist from back in
the day that all Republicans and libertarians love. Milton Friedman,
what was his greatest regret? As we've said many times,
he is the guy that unfortunately invented withholding on your check.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Who was I talking to just yesterday?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
They got Yeah, I was talking to a friend yesterday,
got out of graduate school, got his first check and
was talking.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
About He said, I knew you. He said, it's not
my first job.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
This his first job that like has paid well though,
And he said, I knew you know, I know about
tax stuff like that, but I didn't know how much
it was going to be from the number that I
you know, I'm telling people I make to what.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I'm actually getting.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Withholding, the federal government discovered the perfect crime in nineteen
forty three. Make employers collect taxes before workers ever.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
See their paychecks.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
You think he earned sixty thousand per year, he actually
earned seventy five thousand per year. You hand over fifteen
thousand to the politicians without over touching it. The psychological
difference is enormous. Of course, before payroll withholding, Americans wrote
quarterly checks directly to the Treasury.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't think I knew.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
That before they withheld every quarter you wrote a check.
Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table writing a check
for four thousand dollars or forty thousand dollars or whatever
it would be, depending on how much money you make
to the irs every three months.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The pain was immediate and visceral.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens
felt the extraction in real time. With how where they
take it out ahead of time transforms this concrete loss
into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid
tax collector, and you never experienced the actual cost of
government Worse, most people celebrate their tax refor this is
(25:54):
the thing I'd bitch about every April fifteenth. Most people
celebrate their tax refunds as govern generosity, rather than recognizing
them as interest free loans they provided to politicians.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Slaps forehead.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
The Treasury collects your money throughout the years, spends it immediately,
then returns your.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Own cash and receives gratitude.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
This system enables the explosion in government spending that you
witness today, defense contractors billing six hundred and forty dollars
for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn serup, congressional salaries
for five hundred and thirty five people who rarely show
up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stopped demanding
accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped
(26:34):
to design withholdings as a wartime emergency measure, and later
called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognize that
the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for
fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands,
and the emergency justification justification disappears when the extraction mechanism
(26:57):
remains forever. I have been saying this for years long
for I thought of it before I even read this
Milton Friedman thing. I thought, imagine if people had to
sit down every year and write down the full amount
of taxes they paid, how different our country would be.
Every would be Everybody would be talking about we spent
how much on solar panels or you know, lean left,
(27:19):
maybe that fighter plane or whatever homeless program. Imagine people
would be outraged if they had to sit down and
actually write out the amount of tax. But because it's
withhold it ahead of time, you just don't feel it,
so you don't pay attention. Nothing could change our country
more I don't think than that one move.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And it's even more than you were describing, because every
buying decision you made that quarter, you'd have to think, remember, honey,
we've got to have approximately X in the bank to
write a check to the government for our taxes. So
you would think about it constantly, the proper conservative stewardship
of your tax dollars constantly. It's one of the great
(28:00):
ironies of political history that it was the great Milton
Friedman who came.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Up with this insidious idea that what's.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
So wrong everybody would know their exact tax rate. You know,
currently most people don't have the slightest idea what their
tax rate is. Yeah, everybody would know exactly what it
is and argue about what it should be. If you
had to actually sit down and write a check every quarter.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow wow, And nobody ever thinks about it, or they
think the government is so good to them because.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
They gave them a little money back.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Hi krumba, that's oh, I can't even say it's too
much irony.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I've never heard anybody run on repealing that, though, make
a big noise out of it. God, every Republican should
for sures restraint physical conservatives anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It was the gateway to gigantic metastasizing government. It was
the necessary element without which it wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'm trying to.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Think of a you know you you like metaphors for
everything I'm trying to think of I do works?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
What if uh, I like metaphor is more than a
bear likes honey.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I wonder like, how would you eat if you didn't
gain weight as you ate, but like uh, compounded through
to the end of the year and then shows up.
Then maybe a decade get hea, you only get the
extra weight at the end of a decade.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
How much difference. I don't know if that works.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
But the the idea of not being able to feel
little by little the pain of something has it makes
you react completely differently or hiding.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
It completely I mean because you or making it painless.
That that's the insidious part. You're not even you're only
dimly aware of it. When you look at your your
your past up and Let's not leave this out because
nobody knows that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Certainly progressive voters don't know that.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No this the government taxes your employer for hiring you,
a payroll tax. They have to pay tax you cost
your employer, in some cases twice what your salary is double.
You're only getting half the money because the government is
getting so much of it. I caram, I give up.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
If you didn't have what's holding, we would not have
a thirty five trillion dollar debt.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Not a chance. Nope, We'll finish strong next. Arm Strong and.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Trying to get off the hedonistic treadmill. We're armstrong in Getty.
You don't know what that means.
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Speaker 1 (30:45):
So a couple of stories from the fascinating world of beverages.
First of all, this is beverages and snacks. The Pepsi
Co is running thirty five driverless trucks in Arizona, so
many of them in Texas and Arkansas, twenty six pound
box trucks loaded with Dorito's Freedo light chips and soft drinks,
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et cetera. Heading for your local convenience store or Walmart
or whatever. No one at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Are they the Tesla version or they have their own
version or what? Uh? You know what? That's funny.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I don't remember the the architecture. It's they've got multiple
cameras plus the lidar and like multiple state of the
art things.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Does it say? Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
The medium and heavy duty box trucks are manufactured by
Yasuzu Motors collaborating with Gattek Gatik in design and production.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So I know this is happening someplaces.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I'm a little confused why Tesla has not been able
to announce we're going whatever they call it, full driverless
so you don't have to pay attention. That is not
that leap has not been made yet yet. You have
completely driverless semi trucks out there.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Which seems more dangerous to me. M.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
This is PEPSI goes up there, like you get more
leeway if there's no driver at all than if there's
a driver.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
If there's a driver there, well they got to be
paying attention sometimes. But if there's not a driver at all.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, I don't know, it's ironic, it's ridiculous. Yeah, Uh,
Pepsi goes operation using trucks outfitted with sensors and computers
from an autonomous truck company called Gatick step beyond on
pair on part, with the technical hurdles being cleared by
much smaller, lighter, driverless passenger taxis from Waymo, Tesla and others.
But they are running them in three different states right
now making deliveries, and a human being meets the truck
(32:37):
there and does the sales pitch and all, and then uh.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And unloads it if necessary. I guess I can't.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I'm not sure how it works at the very end,
but anyway, they're running those truckses well.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I thought the liability to always be the issue with driver,
with not having to pay attention when need to drive
a car. But if we surmount that hurdle, do you
think that revitalizes electric cars. If the appeal is not
I'm doing this is because I'm green, I'm doing this
sot off to my gas. If you appeel is you
get in your car and snooze, have sex, drink, whatever
you want.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
To do, I'll agree all three. If you're having a
good night, yeah, drink, have sex, fall asleep. I didn't
get to the story. I really wanted to get to crap.
Glad we have a show tomorrow. Jesus branded energy drinks?
What the these companies? Here's the key phrase. Are they
just treating Jesus like an uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse? I thought
(33:31):
that was good. Jesus is mascot for consumer products. Yuck, Jesus,
my heart's palpitating.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up their show as they always
do with final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Anyway, I went to here's your host for a final thoughts,
Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the truncated
crew this morning.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Katie on maternity leave.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Mike Langelo on vacation, Mike Hanson, what's your final thought?
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Hey, just some good vibe for my friend Kathy and
the entire O'Donnell family. She unexpectedly went in for some
surgery this morning, and just wishing her quick and speedy recovery.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Cool, all right, shout out to Kathy.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Jack have final thought for us.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Just in case this is a crime, I'll say, I
know somebody who looks much like me and drives a
very similar vehicle to me, who.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Fell asleep for a full twenty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
The other day on the way home, and it was
fine gardener, Obamma, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I know, it's awesome. Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
My final thought is just to remind you of the
phrase neighbor with uterus, the new progressive term for women,
except if you have a dick and you just say
you're a woman, then you're a woman.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Right, that's funny. That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
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Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah, we will see tomorrow. Well it'll be There'll be
a lot of news tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Whether it's the Warren i An or Platner in Maine.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
He thinks there's a last day, final moment surprise on
the whole Platiner thing.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I wonder we'll see God bless America. I'm strong and getchy.
The loco a little too much, docky dog.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
We work together and continue to work together, and to
work together.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Get out here. You more on me. I haven't said
a word, so stop yelling at me.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So let's go with your brother, slept with your wife?
What we with the Biden family and you later reconciled
with him. Would you name your next kid after him?
But I'm trying here. I don't know that I know.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty,
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he I'm strong.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And the Iridian attacks on Israel coming after the US
military and Iran exchanged volleys of far this weekend near
to the Strait of Horn moves Sentcom saying it struck
Iranian radar site Saturday after its intercepted Iranian drones which
(00:36):
were threatening ships ran then firing missiles at US allies,
Qwait and Buchraine. But in a sign of the pressure Netanya,
who will now face domestically and from within his own government,
his far right security minister Itamar ben Gevier hosting a
Hebrew on X tonight, Tekran must burn.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What the heck has gone on? Middle East?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So middle of the day yesterday, Iran is attacking and
Hesbel is attacking Israel. Then Israel hits Iran pretty hard.
Iran strikes back. Then President Trump jumps in. I can
hit you with some of the actual verbiage of what
Trump said in the last twenty four hours, But most
of the media is still acting like the ceasefire is
in place. Trey Yanks was watching Fox earlier the day
(01:25):
he's a reporter that's in Iran or in Israel rather
for Fox. He said, the CeaseFire's over, he said, and
make no mistake, the ceasefires over. The war is back on.
I don't know if he's officially backed off of that,
but like some of his most recent tweets have says,
the IRGC says they are halting attacks on Israel. And
(01:48):
then there is the Open Source Intelligence has out a
post saying that Netan Yahoo has told everybody to stand
down on what was supposed to be an im imminent
attack on southern Lebanon. But he's saying putting a halt
to it. After Donald Trump got a hold of net
and Yahoo and said you gotta stop. I got I'm
more close to peace here, you gotta stop. And apparently
(02:12):
net Yahoo went along with it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
At least temporarily. Yeah, who knows. He's a clever devil.
He's got stuff going on behind the scenes. But yeah,
it appears both sides have said, all right, this round
is over. There's going to be no more.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
We're fine.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I can't believe we're going to spend another week hearing
about the soon to be achieved to peace talks or
soon to be as successful he's talks.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
According to Axios, quoting people that were listening to the
phone conversation between Trump and net and Yahoo, Trump asked
him not to respond to the Iranian missile attack ballistic
missiles fired at the capital of their country, their tiny
little country, and to wait a few days for the negotiations,
claiming that something good in terms of a deal is
close to which net Ya who kind of agreed, though
(02:58):
he reiterated his call for st against Iran. That was yesterday.
Most recent is this. Prime Minister Benjamin at Yaho of
Israel appeared to be moving to de escalate after the
pushback from President Trump, halting preparations for another attack on
Iran today.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm surprised that he's doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I am too, Honestly, as the one clip made clear,
the right wing in Israel is calling for we've got
to defeat him.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now I happen to agree with him. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I suspect that net Yahoo and Israel are just waiting
for the next provocation because it's coming, and then they'll,
excuse me respond to that with a good hard whacking.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You were in the congo over the weekend, were you
I was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I was enjoying a delicious chimp sushi buffet raw chimp.
It was more tender than you might imagine.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
But I am bleeding from all of my horrified so
into the dock in the box.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
The chimba sushi was good, but I am now bleeding
from all my rrifi. Yeah, so connecting the dots, Yola,
I mentioned Friday that I had a couple of those
adulting things I had to do.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I had to go to the dock in the box
for my the thing, my infected finger. It's a good
thing I did too. It was it's it came out
of nowhere. No trauma, no nothing, just in the part
where your nail meets your your skin that's prone to
getting various infections. And sure enough, there is talk of draining.
You don't want to hear the word draining. But I'm
(04:37):
on like crazy powerful antibiotics now, like the kind where
everything else has failed. So anyway, I did that, and
then the next day because.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
They did they do? Did they have any needles in here? Anything?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
No? No, no, it might not be necessary. In fact,
I don't think it is, because the antibiotic is working.
But this is like the crazy strong it's a combination
of two biotics.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I'm like, what the hell, now's the time, though, now's
the time to just let loose, do whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You could get any.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Sort of disease or bad infection in your set.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Right go to the congo. Oh that's a virus. Never mind,
that's not how that works. Uh yeah, yeah, I know.
I mean, is there any bacteria that it could affect me?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
God?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
You could.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You could walk through a South American brothel and just
have the time of your life, no problems.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I laugh in the face of gun area. Are you
kidding me? Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Then the next day my adulting task was because I
had let my global entry. It's like TSA when you
if you travel overseas, it all when you come back
into the country. Instead of having to wait in the
longest lines you've ever seen in your life to say no,
I have nothing to declare, Yeah I'm a freaking citizen,
look at my past or okay, great, thanks, yeah, good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
To be home.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Instead of doing that, you just go to a kiosk
and you punch a couple of buttons and you walk
back into the United SA's America. It's called the global
entry thing. It's like glorified tsa PreCheck and can get
tsa pre check out of it.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I didn't actually know what it was, but I do
know this. When I was briefly in the world of
online dating, there are a lot of women who would
say only interested in people that have global entry access
or something like that. Now I really don't know what
that is, but I don't and I'm not traveling so
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And I would just you know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You may be like a wonderful companion and I find
you sexually attractive, but if I have to wait in
line the customs, we're not together.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
There's a lot of that. That's one of the reasons
that I left the world of online dating quickly. There's
a lot of like black and white ultimatum stuff over
stuff like really that's a deal breaker for you.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I wonder if global entry is seen as some sort
of status thing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I mean, I don't know. I just got it because
I hate lines.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But so anyway, it expires after five years, and if
you renew because you're likely to become a terrorist five
yet later you decide you hate the country. No, if
you renew it, you just renew it. But I'd let
it lapse barely. I mean it was a few weeks.
But because of that, all of a sudden, you're presumed
(07:10):
to be in al Qaeda or or or or be
a Marxister. So there's a Marxists never university. But I
gotta get my passport and proof of address and drive
a couple hours to the local regional airport to the
international airport and go in person. Were the nice fellas
with uniforms, and I think they may have guns and
(07:31):
everything that the ushery in. Was there a BCS A
BCS body cavity search? Oh yeah, I insisted, yeah, absolutely.
They said we don't do that, and they said no, no, please, yeah,
let's be safe.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
This is our country we're talking about. I'm ready. I'll
give you a honey. Here here, here's one hundred dollars.
Do a body cavity search. Put your time, but.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Let's not rush through this. Huh. But so the the
nice uh Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Guy, very serious.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You got a flat jacket on and everything, sitting at
the desk. What's your name, what's your birthday? Where were
you born? I met your place of birth? Okay, you
ever been committed? Have you ever been convicted of any crime?
Ever been all the stuff that I'd already Oh, have
you ever been investigated for any crime in this or
any other country? Blah blah blah, And I've already filled
(08:27):
this out online. But they want to look you in
the eye as you give these answers. Then they fingerprint me.
You got my f and fingerprints. I gave him to
you a while ago. Here's a hint.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
They're the same.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's why fingerprints are a thing. All right, you can
have them again if you want here, they are here.
You go, I said, all right, great, click any click approve.
You'll be getting your card three and a half minutes,
three and a half minutes, two hours from my house
to go through this rig and roll. So I guess
(08:58):
the guy could look me in the eye and make
sure what I was me or well.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Studies have shown that every five years people are likely
to join al Qaida, right right, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The five year itch.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
You know. I've always been a a Christian, be a patriot,
But God the violent overthrow my country in the name
of Allah. You know, some days I think maybe God?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, I government, governments, the r S what my address is?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They know, trust me they know.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, no, bureaucracy, paperwork, checking boxes. All those phrases are
what they are for a reason, checking boxes.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
A Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
So the number of women out there who really wanted
the global entry thing, or have your passport ready or
I don't want to date you or whatever, just okay,
that's a very common thing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah. Yeah. Did any of them mention if they're attracted to.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Not see come you not see faux oysterman in general?
We've got a bit of a Graham Platinum update for you, yeah,
kind and they vote tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And boy, his fans and devotees, they don't care about
any of the allegations. He's their man well beyond. So
that's clearly a cult of personality.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Even more than that was the people who were willing
to say out loud, loud, and I've got the quotes.
I'll get to him, like old what's his name? James
Carvill said, Yeah, yeah, might be a Nazi, might be
this all sorts of a terrible person, but still better
than the alternative, Like wow, really better than a modern.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Republican islands who's barely a Republican and will vote to
impete Trump, impeach Trump, no matter the charge. She can't
wait to But you're gonna elect a woman of using drunk,
troubled Nazi.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay, because it's your party.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That is one of the greatest distillations of modern American politics.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You could you could hope for right.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And I heard somebody making the National Dispatch was making
the argument, how this is trump Ism winning if you
want to describe trump Ism as you know, our side
right or wrong, no matter what. The Democrats are using
the same playbook.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
So you thought it was just awful that some Republicans
stood by Trump through no matter what. Now you're going
to do this with Graham Platiner. Okay, So I guess
that's the new law to land. That's a good place
to be.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, they just.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Called Trump a Nazi. He doesn't have a giant totent
co f on his chest, for God's sake.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Okay, So we'll get to that update that that voting
will be interesting tomorrow coming up.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Democrat lawmakers are complaining that employers are not providing paid
leave for women on their periods, also complaining the male employees.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh boy, oh Greg, So tomorrow is election day in Maine.
You don't live in Maine probably, but it's gotten a
lot of attention because of this grand platinner dude that.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is running away with.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Gonna win the nomination for the Democratic Party to run
against Susan Collins, who has been the Senator there as
a Republican for a very long time. This Platner's got
a lot of baggage, and there was a lot of controversy.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Are Democrats even really going to support this guy or not?
But they have in the elections tomorrow and he's going
to win.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Let's put the oystermen on ice over there by the
cocktail shrimp Jack for just a second. We'll get back
to him on this buffet of progressive goodness in a
mon But first I wanted to mention the fabulous Nelly
Bowles writing in the Free Press talking about Tom Steyer
in California, who spent over half a billion dollars trying
to buy himself a couple of different elections, and she
(13:13):
mentions a psychot chakra body who's a very handsome tech guy,
beautiful hair. He ran for Congress in California as another
ultra rich far left guy. She comments fascinating that some
of the richest candidates were the ones running on the
far left that he lost. The best part is that
he tanked after spending ten million dollars of his own
(13:34):
money on the race, ten million to win in San Francisco,
and but he blamed the loss on the seven million
dollars of AI Crypto and a Pac money that were
put into this race.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
That's a quote.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
He probably didn't mean his own big money. And he
was smoked by Scott Wiener in San Francisco Supervisor County.
Chan but then she writes, I don't know why this
made me laugh so much, But here's progressive influencer Hassan
Piker on the losses, and I'm quoting. It's just effing
rich liberals who just want homo fascism in this country.
That's it. They want gay fascism. And Nelly says, but Hassan,
(14:08):
the candidates who lost were the rich ones. How do
we square this, my sweet communist? And just for my
own records, what is gay fascism? Connie Chan? Is the
manifestation of homo fascism. Whatever that is is really funny
to me. Funny to me, Scott Weener, I guess really
is love to all the homo fascists. Happy pride to
(14:29):
you all. But then she gets into a Graham platinum. First,
the part about him that people love most. He put
a huge Nazi tattoo on his chest, the one that
honors only the finest concentration campguards. At this stage in
the anti Semitism cycle, it's a plus for the average voter.
Now the negatives. According to his financial disclosures, our oysterman
(14:53):
is well, let's just say he's all shell and no belly.
He's all fringe and no gills, if you know what
I mean. Wow, that's some good oyster talk. According to
last year's disclosure, he made only three thousand dollars from
his stipend town harbor master, which sounds more like a
position in a frat house. As far as his oyster farm,
(15:14):
for which he does not take a salary. His biggest
client is his mom cute, and almost all of his
income seems to come from disability checks. He said he
bought his house thanks to the VA, but it was
actually thanks to a few hundred thousand dollars from his
rich dad. I mean, the guy went to Hotchkiss, which
unless you're a Northeastern or you don't know that's like
the most expensive boarding school, I don't know, super elite.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Boarding school in the Northeast.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And he did the richest thing ever, which is to
stop going to class. He was subsequently expelled. Just because
he grew a beard and talked like a burly man
instead of gay like, does not mean he isn't still
one of us. Your oysterman's a debutant with a lemonade standad.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Fantastic.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It's just a very very wealthy lemonade said, your mom
made the lemonade, and you're standing out there pretending to
sell it and act to like, yeah, business exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And then the fact that he had an account on Kick,
which is a platform that's been notorious for like a
child seduction and that sort of thing. And she talks
about how he's been messaging with up to six women
prior to launching his campaign, which is kind of weird
way of phrases, like some sort of quoted hits, like
he's putting up infidelity numbers in.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
The sixth range.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And his Kick account was still active three days ago.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Well, Fetterman said. John Fetterman, Senator, Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania,
said if Platner can prove all of the people he
was chatting with on kick and sending penis pics to
were adults and not minors.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He will well hear a suit every day from here
on out.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Wow, that kind of a thing to challenge another demo
who wants to be one of your colleagues.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But he held the town hall the other day. There
was not a single hard question about any of this,
just chance of don't let the bastards get you down,
and we're your family, Graham, We've got your back, stay strong,
one day at a time. Everyone has a past.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Got a couple more comments on this coming upstairs, Armstrong
and Getty quick, a couple more things about this whole
Grand Platinir situation before we get to a panacea. Oh finally,
I'm looking for a pantasy. So this is really an
(17:39):
interesting development. And I do think to a certain extent
I agree with the Dispatch that this is the trumpefication
of politics in a certain way, in that, for a
variety of reasons, we got into a state where you know,
(18:00):
will ride or die with our side because our side's
better than the other side. Ultimately, so any individual they
can have all kinds of baggager say or do awful things,
but it's better than the alternative, which sometimes is true,
but didn't That's not the way we used to run politics.
So used to be like you had to have a
certain level of character you just couldn't be in the running.
(18:23):
We maybe since dispensed with that on both sides. For instance,
James Carville, who was campaign manager for Bill Clinton back
in the day, called Graham Platner and called him fed
up and compared him to Stalin Sonny Houston? Is that
the way you pronounce her name? Of the View, I
never watched the View called Platner a liar, a racist,
(18:46):
an anti Semite, and a hobophode. Yet both of them
have said they would vote for him over the modern
Republican woman. Yeah, so that's where we are currently on
that whole thing. It's interesting to me that John Fetterman,
a Democrat who might be serving alongside Graham Platner in
the Senate, at some point said of Graham Platner being
(19:10):
on Kick, that's one of your apps that you can
go on to look for sex, like Tinder or Grinder
or whatever it is for different people.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Kick is supposed to be a particularly wild one.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I guess anyway, Fetterman said that if, first of all,
he has a press conference and he says, I suppose
you guys all want to ask me about uh pete
what's he called himself? I forgot the term now or
pee hustle? You know, I suppose you guys want to
ask me about pe Hustle. And they said, what, Pa Hustle?
Don't you want to ask about pe Hustle? Who's P Hustle?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Graham Platner? Why do you call him that?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
No, that's what he calls himself, one kick, pe Hustle,
And so he only referred to him as P Hustle
through the whole time they're having the conversation.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And he said, and he said, new Fetterman, poststroke Fetterman
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
For a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
He said, if Pa Hustle can prove that all the
people he was chatting with on kick and sending dick
picks to were adults and not miners, I'll wear a
suit every day.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wow, you know that's a heck of a thing.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
So P Hustle Graham Platner all use his official oyster
farmer name, which is, just as we just learned, is
so made up. Really it shouldn't even be part of
his description. It's it's the shorthand they.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Use for him in any news story.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oyster farmer, grand planner, oyster farmer, gleam Putner sounds like
from what you described, that's just it's like practically saying
NBA player Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I mean, it's just not a thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Really. Well, he has a little patch of water where
he or somebody raises a few oysters. He takes no salary,
His mom is his only client. I mean it's a
he's a hobbyist. Right. Anyway, I'll call me a professional golfer.
Then I won the other day on the course and
I got money. There you go, that'd be a good example. Yeah,
(21:02):
and I've taken a tour, so call me tour player.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Jokey, but to show you where the Democratic Party is.
In response to Senator Fetterman challenging him to prove that
he didn't send naked pictures to women or miners, Platner
posted that Fetterman is.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
A tool of apak Ah. It's the Jews again, right
damn it. I should have known, good Lord.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Vote for Fetterman who backs Israel and is a tool
of a pack. So the worst thing you can be
is a Democrat now is not having a Nazi tattoo,
but it's being at the least a bit friendly to Israel.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So that's where we are in that whole thing.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's gonna win tomorrow, but then the knives really come out, right, Yeah,
from the republic the Democrats. Some Democrats have been training
fire on him.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I don't know. It's all confusing because we have that.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Whole New York Times story from last week that was
clearly watered down for some reason.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So what was behind that. I have no idea the
term of vaccination story. Yeah, week a practically dead version
of the story, so people think, oh, I've heard this before,
and not pay attention anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Anyway, the Republicans have been holding fire because they want
Platner as the opposition against Susan Collins, and they're going
to bring forth any appol research they've got starting tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Probably. Yeah, So that's that story. Did I have any
more on that? Maybe not.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I'm sure we'll be talking about tomorrow. It's gonna be
the biggest political story in the country tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh you know, speaking of that sort of person. I
was just reading how James Tallerico, who's the toast of
progressive Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Where is that.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He has ret He is repeatedly referring to women as
our neighbors, because that's that's like a progressive thing. Are
undocumented neighbors, are unhoused neighbors. It's a catchphrase. They use
neighbors all the time. She's referring. He's referring to women
(23:08):
as neighbors with uteruses. He won't say women. That's wacky,
neighbors with uteruses, which is bizarre.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Wasn't the belief that he would tack toward the center
once the race was started.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, you'd think.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's not tacking toward the center. That's not even tacking
toward the center of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You know, where is that?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I can't find the article, But to take my word,
I wouldn't make that up.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I couldn't. It's too strange.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I wanted to revisit this apropos of nothing out of nowhere,
just because I came across it on Twitter. We've talked
about it before. It's better around tax time. But when
is tax time? I don't know about you, but it's
tax time every day in my world.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You don't you know?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Write your check or deal with it paperwork wise, but taxes.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Getting taken out all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Milton Freeman, the great a libertarian economist from back in
the day that all Republicans and libertarians love. Milton Friedman,
what was his greatest regret? As we've said many times,
he is the guy that unfortunately invented withholding on your check.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Who was I talking to just yesterday?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
They got Yeah, I was talking to a friend yesterday,
got out of graduate school, got his first check and
was talking.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
About He said, I knew you. He said, it's not
my first job.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
This his first job that like has paid well though,
And he said, I knew you know, I know about
tax stuff like that, but I didn't know how much
it was going to be from the number that I
you know, I'm telling people I make to what.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I'm actually getting.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Withholding, the federal government discovered the perfect crime in nineteen
forty three. Make employers collect taxes before workers ever.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
See their paychecks.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
You think he earned sixty thousand per year, he actually
earned seventy five thousand per year. You hand over fifteen
thousand to the politicians without over touching it. The psychological
difference is enormous. Of course, before payroll withholding, Americans wrote
quarterly checks directly to the Treasury.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't think I knew.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
That before they withheld every quarter you wrote a check.
Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table writing a check
for four thousand dollars or forty thousand dollars or whatever
it would be, depending on how much money you make
to the irs every three months.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The pain was immediate and visceral.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens
felt the extraction in real time. With how where they
take it out ahead of time transforms this concrete loss
into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid
tax collector, and you never experienced the actual cost of
government Worse, most people celebrate their tax refor this is
(25:54):
the thing I'd bitch about every April fifteenth. Most people
celebrate their tax refunds as govern generosity, rather than recognizing
them as interest free loans they provided to politicians.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Slaps forehead.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
The Treasury collects your money throughout the years, spends it immediately,
then returns your.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Own cash and receives gratitude.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
This system enables the explosion in government spending that you
witness today, defense contractors billing six hundred and forty dollars
for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn serup, congressional salaries
for five hundred and thirty five people who rarely show
up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stopped demanding
accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped
(26:34):
to design withholdings as a wartime emergency measure, and later
called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognize that
the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for
fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands,
and the emergency justification justification disappears when the extraction mechanism
(26:57):
remains forever. I have been saying this for years long
for I thought of it before I even read this
Milton Friedman thing. I thought, imagine if people had to
sit down every year and write down the full amount
of taxes they paid, how different our country would be.
Every would be Everybody would be talking about we spent
how much on solar panels or you know, lean left,
(27:19):
maybe that fighter plane or whatever homeless program. Imagine people
would be outraged if they had to sit down and
actually write out the amount of tax. But because it's
withhold it ahead of time, you just don't feel it,
so you don't pay attention. Nothing could change our country
more I don't think than that one move.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
And it's even more than you were describing, because every
buying decision you made that quarter, you'd have to think, remember, honey,
we've got to have approximately X in the bank to
write a check to the government for our taxes. So
you would think about it constantly, the proper conservative stewardship
of your tax dollars constantly. It's one of the great
(28:00):
ironies of political history that it was the great Milton
Friedman who came.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Up with this insidious idea that what's.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
So wrong everybody would know their exact tax rate. You know,
currently most people don't have the slightest idea what their
tax rate is. Yeah, everybody would know exactly what it
is and argue about what it should be. If you
had to actually sit down and write a check every quarter.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Wow wow, And nobody ever thinks about it, or they
think the government is so good to them because.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
They gave them a little money back.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Hi krumba, that's oh, I can't even say it's too
much irony.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I've never heard anybody run on repealing that, though, make
a big noise out of it. God, every Republican should
for sures restraint physical conservatives anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It was the gateway to gigantic metastasizing government. It was
the necessary element without which it wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'm trying to.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Think of a you know you you like metaphors for
everything I'm trying to think of I do works?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
What if uh, I like metaphor is more than a
bear likes honey.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I wonder like, how would you eat if you didn't
gain weight as you ate, but like uh, compounded through
to the end of the year and then shows up.
Then maybe a decade get hea, you only get the
extra weight at the end of a decade.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
How much difference. I don't know if that works.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
But the the idea of not being able to feel
little by little the pain of something has it makes
you react completely differently or hiding.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
It completely I mean because you or making it painless.
That that's the insidious part. You're not even you're only
dimly aware of it. When you look at your your
your past up and Let's not leave this out because
nobody knows that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Certainly progressive voters don't know that.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
No this the government taxes your employer for hiring you,
a payroll tax. They have to pay tax you cost
your employer, in some cases twice what your salary is double.
You're only getting half the money because the government is
getting so much of it. I caram, I give up.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
If you didn't have what's holding, we would not have
a thirty five trillion dollar debt.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Not a chance. Nope, We'll finish strong next. Arm Strong and.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Trying to get off the hedonistic treadmill. We're armstrong in Getty.
You don't know what that means.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Listen to more of the show yep by a podcast
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Speaker 2 (30:43):
Subscribe you get all the stuff we do.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So a couple of stories from the fascinating world of beverages.
First of all, this is beverages and snacks. The Pepsi
Co is running thirty five driverless trucks in Arizona, so
many of them in Texas and Arkansas, twenty six pound
box trucks loaded with Dorito's Freedo light chips and soft drinks,
(31:07):
et cetera. Heading for your local convenience store or Walmart
or whatever. No one at the wheel.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Are they the Tesla version or they have their own
version or what? Uh? You know what? That's funny.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I don't remember the the architecture. It's they've got multiple
cameras plus the lidar and like multiple state of the
art things.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Does it say? Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
The medium and heavy duty box trucks are manufactured by
Yasuzu Motors collaborating with Gattek Gatik in design and production.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
So I know this is happening someplaces.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I'm a little confused why Tesla has not been able
to announce we're going whatever they call it, full driverless
so you don't have to pay attention. That is not
that leap has not been made yet yet. You have
completely driverless semi trucks out there.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Which seems more dangerous to me. M.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
This is PEPSI goes up there, like you get more
leeway if there's no driver at all than if there's
a driver.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
If there's a driver there, well they got to be
paying attention sometimes. But if there's not a driver at all.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, I don't know, it's ironic, it's ridiculous. Yeah, Uh,
Pepsi goes operation using trucks outfitted with sensors and computers
from an autonomous truck company called Gatick step beyond on
pair on part, with the technical hurdles being cleared by
much smaller, lighter, driverless passenger taxis from Waymo, Tesla and others.
But they are running them in three different states right
now making deliveries, and a human being meets the truck
(32:37):
there and does the sales pitch and all, and then uh.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And unloads it if necessary. I guess I can't.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I'm not sure how it works at the very end,
but anyway, they're running those truckses well.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I thought the liability to always be the issue with driver,
with not having to pay attention when need to drive
a car. But if we surmount that hurdle, do you
think that revitalizes electric cars. If the appeal is not
I'm doing this is because I'm green, I'm doing this
sot off to my gas. If you appeel is you
get in your car and snooze, have sex, drink, whatever
you want.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
To do, I'll agree all three. If you're having a
good night, yeah, drink, have sex, fall asleep. I didn't
get to the story. I really wanted to get to crap.
Glad we have a show tomorrow. Jesus branded energy drinks?
What the these companies? Here's the key phrase. Are they
just treating Jesus like an uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse? I thought
(33:31):
that was good. Jesus is mascot for consumer products. Yuck, Jesus,
my heart's palpitating.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up their show as they always
do with final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Anyway, I went to here's your host for a final thoughts,
Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the truncated
crew this morning.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Katie on maternity leave.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Mike Langelo on vacation, Mike Hanson, what's your final thought?
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Hey, just some good vibe for my friend Kathy and
the entire O'Donnell family. She unexpectedly went in for some
surgery this morning, and just wishing her quick and speedy recovery.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Cool, all right, shout out to Kathy.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Jack have final thought for us.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Just in case this is a crime, I'll say, I
know somebody who looks much like me and drives a
very similar vehicle to me, who.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Fell asleep for a full twenty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
The other day on the way home, and it was
fine gardener, Obamma, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I know, it's awesome. Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
My final thought is just to remind you of the
phrase neighbor with uterus, the new progressive term for women,
except if you have a dick and you just say
you're a woman, then you're a woman.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Right, that's funny. That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, Armstrong getty rabber got about other grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
So many people. Thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and giddy dot com. Many pleasures await you there.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Yeah, we will see tomorrow. Well it'll be There'll be
a lot of news tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Whether it's the Warren i An or Platner in Maine.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
He thinks there's a last day, final moment surprise on
the whole Platiner thing.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I wonder we'll see God bless America. I'm strong and getchy.
The loco a little too much, docky dog.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
We work together and continue to work together, and to
work together.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Get out here. You more on me. I haven't said
a word, so stop yelling at me.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So let's go with your brother, slept with your wife?
What we with the Biden family and you later reconciled
with him. Would you name your next kid after him?
But I'm trying here. I don't know that I know.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty,
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